Starting from the folklore forum, making up town objects

Chapter 203 Natural Disasters and Man-Made Disasters

"Using the wrong thing?"

"Correct."

As Wang Zhibo spoke, Chen Xin gradually understood the situation.

What Wang Xiang mentioned before, calling back souls, is actually a variation of hitting the living stake.

There are two types of ancient practice of driving living people into piles. The earliest one was to drive living people, especially children, into foundations and other buildings to sacrifice their flesh to ghosts and gods.

As this behavior occurred more and more often, many people became aware of it.

Who would volunteer to be beaten to a stake?

So most of the time, people on the construction site will spend money to buy people, but there are always times when they can’t buy them. But does that mean they won’t start the construction?
So, they started stealing!

Later on, whenever someone discovered that there was a large construction project near their home, they would restrain their children, for fear that they would be caught by the people on the construction site and quietly beaten to death.

Because of this situation, the form of beating the living stake gradually changed into that of calling the soul.

Before laying the foundation, the people on the construction site would be sent out to call back the souls.

The so-called soul-calling means finding the target and taking the target's clothes, hair and other personal items. After getting the things, they will wrap those hair and other personal items in talisman paper and mix them into the foundation.

In this way, it is equivalent to driving the human soul into the foundation, and the meaning is the same.

Logically, the method of calling souls should be more secretive and easier to pass down than hitting the living stake, but calling souls disappeared faster than hitting the living stake!

Although the method of beating a person with a stake is cruel, after all, there is only one person for each person, so only one person is involved.

Calling souls is different because more people are sent out, so more things are collected. Once all these things are driven into the foundation, who knows how many people will be affected.

When the matter of soul-calling spread among the craftsmen, the society fell into panic.

Whenever someone is sick, unlucky, or encounters a major misfortune, as long as there is a construction project nearby, they will blame it on their own soul being called away.

Later, it evolved into a situation where even if there was no construction going on around the village or town, as long as there was construction going on in the next village or town, any stranger entering the village would be regarded as someone coming to call back souls.

Calling your soul is not good for you, and no one wants to be called by others, so how can you just ignore those strangers who are suspected of calling your soul?

According to Wang Zhibo, during the first five years, anyone from outside the area, whether they were beggars, travelers or even monks, would be beaten if they did anything wrong.

Many times, those who were beaten would be beaten to death.

Those who cannot be killed will be arrested and thrown into prison for interrogation.

After all, it has caused social unrest, so the government naturally has to pay attention to it.

During that period, almost no one who was reported and thrown into prison would come out unscathed. They would either have their arms or legs broken due to torture, or be beaten by other prisoners in prison.

Although this incident lasted for five years, it took a full ten years for people to forget about the soul-calling incident.

Nowadays, those who know about the soul-calling incident are all people who have studied ancient texts or read books that specifically record this incident.

Wang Zhibo is the latter.

This is calling the soul and beating the living.

Like Wangjiagou, Hejiacun is developing tourism.

Hejia Village has reached a bottleneck in its development, so it needs to build a bridge across the river and develop new tourist attractions.

However, neither beating the living nor calling the soul away is an option for them.

Once discovered, not to mention developing new projects, the entire village will be ruined.

So when the accident happened and the rumor spread that the piers were being driven into the ground, the village chief of Hejia Village became anxious. He not only had the already built bridge piers smashed to prove his mistake, but also invited fortune tellers from two nearby villages to come and see what was happening.

The purpose is to let everyone know that Hejiacun has not done anything immoral.

But when Wang Zhibo went there, he found that there were fluctuations of yin energy in those bridge piers.

Not only did he discover it, but Wang Cheng also discovered it.

However, for some unknown reason, He Laoliu of Hejia Village had not informed the village chief of this matter beforehand.

As a result, when Wang Zhibo and Wang Cheng said that there was a problem with the bridge pier, the village chief of Hejia Village was immediately pushed to the forefront.

"So, this matter actually has nothing to do with Hejia Village?"

Chen Xin asked.

“There is no subjective relationship.”

Wang Zhibo shook his head.

"They didn't mean to cause trouble. It was just a coincidence... The people in Hejia Village were planning to build a new tourist attraction. There was an ancient ruin there that was of little value. It was just a pile of stones. They would definitely have to deal with it later."

"The village chief of Hejia Village thought that the stones in the ruins could still be used, so he wanted to save some money on the stones. As a result, there was a ghost in the stones and they used it to build the bridge piers."

Chen Xin was stunned.

"The ghost's true form? Then it's fine when they move it?"

"I was also confused at first, but when I saw the stone, I guessed something."

Wang Zhibo was helpless.

"That stone was the foundation stone when the ancients built their houses. It happened to be the one at the bottom that had runes on it. If it had been left in the ruins and exposed to sunlight every day, it would have been fine. But they took it away to build a bridge."

"The stone fell into the water. Water is yin and cannot stand the light of day. So the stone gave birth to a ghost. It finally bewitched the children playing on the shore and made them jump into the water."

Chen Xin nodded and finally understood the whole story.

But then he had another doubt.

"If it is a newly born ghost, then wouldn't it be a wandering soul?"

"It's a wandering soul." Wang Zhibo knew what Chen Xin meant. "If it was just a wandering soul, the problem would have been solved at that time. The key point is the child."

"I don't know what happened, but the child who was in the water for a day didn't die. He just lost his soul."

"Lost soul?"

Chen Xin thought of Li Dazhu's child and felt something in his heart.

"You mean the child's soul is haunted by that wandering spirit?"

"You can say that, or you can say that the ghost's body trapped the child's soul." Wang Zhibo looked embarrassed.

"That's the difficulty. The child has been missing for two days. I'm afraid that if this continues, even if we can find the child's soul, the child himself will not be able to hold on... In addition, Hejia Village doesn't want to make a big deal about it, so the Public Opinion Survey Bureau didn't notify them."

"By then, the child's soul will either dissipate or become a wandering ghost."

Chen Xin suddenly realized.

"Don't you have any way to pull the child's soul out?"

Wang Zhibo shook his head.

"He Laoliu from Hejia Village said he had a way, so I didn't get involved. Although I know a method, I have only seen it and have never used it, so I am not sure."

After figuring out the situation in Hejia Village, Chen Xin talked with Wang Zhibo about many things about the Yin School.

During the conversation, Chen Xin mentioned that he had learned about organizations such as the Divine Envoy from Zong Peng's memory. Wang Zhibo had only heard of them but had never come into contact with them. He told Chen Xin that if he could avoid contact with those folk organizations, he should.

Chen Xin didn't return home until 10 o'clock in the evening.

……

The home of the village chief of Hejia Village.

"Sixth Brother, you really made me suffer. How come you didn't see that there was something wrong with the bridge pier?"

He Qingfeng pointed at He Laoliu with an annoyed look on his face.

"Qingfeng, this is my mistake. Don't worry, I will call back the soul of Weihua's child. He Weihua will stop making trouble. Let's explain the matter to everyone. I believe they will understand."

What else could He Qingfeng do after listening to He Laoliu's words?

"Then hurry up. If Wei Hua's family really makes a fuss, things will be difficult to handle."

"Got it, let's go."

He Laoliu left He Qingfeng's room with a serious look on his face.

Soon, He Laoliu returned to his home.

Standing in the yard, looking at his ordinary yard, He Laoliu smiled.

The next day, which was the third day after He Weihua's child fell into the water, He Laoliu went to He Weihua's house and waved a soul flag for half an hour.

After the incident, the child, who had been motionless, trembled for a moment and then calmed down again.

He Laoliu told He Weihua that he had successfully called back the child's soul, and the child would not wake up until the next day because he had been away from his soul for too long.

He Weihua's family thanked He Laoliu profusely, but He Laoliu just smiled.

Afterwards, the village chief He Qingfeng also came to He Weihua's home to express his condolences. He gave him 20,000 yuan, saying that it was for the child's health. He also privately guaranteed that after the new tourist area was built, He Weihua's family would have a position as office director in the park.

As a result, He Weihua stopped making trouble.

But on the fourth day when the child was in a coma, the tranquility of Hejia Village was broken by the sudden arrival of an ambulance.

The villagers who were originally preparing to rebuild the bridge stopped their work when they saw this scene and left the bridge construction site at the same time.

That afternoon, news came that the child of He Weihua had lost vital signs and died!
In the evening, the door of the village chief He Qingfeng's house was surrounded by relatives of He Weihua, and more villagers also gathered at the village chief's house to watch the fun.

After He Weihua cursed and told He Qingfeng about the position of office director, the other villagers were all in an uproar and no one of them could keep calm.

They scolded He Qingfeng for abusing his power for personal gain and using collective property to make up for the mistakes he had made.

Those who had been eyeing the new project for a long time and had spent a lot of money on entertaining guests and giving gifts also became upset and started to curse.

Finally, the matter came to an end when the police arrived.

The villagers were dispersed, but the incident in Hejia Village was not over.

The next day, someone heard that He Weihua wanted to avenge his son.

Just when everyone thought that He Weihua's revenge meant reporting something, He Qingfeng was killed that night.

The murderer is He Weihua.

All of a sudden, the entire Hejia Village and several villages surrounding it were all shocked, and the police took over the entire matter afterwards.

Wang Zhibo and Wang Cheng were also summoned for this reason.

After Wang Zhibo came back, Chen Xin went there again.

Then, he heard what Wang Zhibo said.

"There's something wrong with He Laoliu!"

"why?"

"As for the matter of summoning spirits, I feel like he deliberately let He Weihua's child die."

Chen Xin frowned.

"Why is this again?"

"I don't know."

After saying that, Wang Zhibo looked at Chen Xin.

"When will your uncle... Wang Xingping come back?"

"I don't know. He's quite busy... Do you want the Public Opinion Bureau to get involved?"

Wang Zhibo nodded.

"I'm not afraid that Mr. Wang has the ability, but I'm afraid that he has bad intentions. Since Wang Xingping can't come back, I will call the Public Opinion Bureau directly."

……

The Public Opinion Survey Bureau sent someone three days after Wang Zhibo made the phone call.

He Laoliu was taken away that morning and released in the evening.

Chen Xin found out about this when he went to Wang Zhibo's house that night.

……

(End of this chapter)