Chapter 493: Surface(1/2)
Ignoring the situation among the four coffins for the time being, Dong Ming and Qing Ran jumped up, jumped over the dim ponds, and arrived at the corridor of the inner courtyard.
The room in the inner courtyard was still quiet.
And unlike other families in the Gaomen Courtyard, the Yang family's inner courtyard only has this one in front of it.
The courtyards that should have existed on the left and right sides have all been replaced by the turbid ponds.
Pushing open the door to the courtyard in front of you, you will find a room that looks pretty neat.
Beds, tables, and places to eat and drink tea are all provided.
However... placed in the center of the entire room is a statue of the Flower Goddess.
"Um?"
Dong Ming stepped forward quickly.
But he saw that the workmanship of the statue of the Goddess of Flowers was exactly the same as the one he saw in the Flower Goddess Temple, except for the size.
"Husband."
"This place... doesn't look like the inner courtyard of a big family." Qingran couldn't help but say.
Dong Ming nodded.
Rather than saying that this is the residence of a large family, it would be better to say... this is more like a place for a layman to meditate.
In the midst of doubt, Dong Ming suddenly saw something that seemed to be pressed beneath the statue of the Goddess of Flowers.
After I stepped forward and moved it away, I found a thin volume.
After opening it, Dong Ming's expression couldn't help but change:
"This is... my mother's handwriting!"
For a moment, a feeling of tension and excitement surged into my heart.
After Dong Ming carefully checked every word, he nodded heavily:
"Yes, this is indeed my mother's word!"
In an instant, Dong Ming's eyes turned red.
When he was at home, he rarely saw his mother writing. He only saw his mother writing with his own eyes when she was teaching him simple literacy and hyphenation.
But the content on this first page is something similar to scripture but specious.
"Qingran, do you understand the meaning of this article?"
Qingran took it and looked at it, and couldn't help but said:
"Husband, this is a prayer."
"Before many major festivals, when praying in front of the corresponding gods, you need to recite the prayers first."
"It's like telling the gods that I'm going to start praying to you and making offerings to you."
"but……"
Dong Ming's eyebrows moved:
"But what?"
Qingran explained:
"This prayer looks a little weird."
"There are certain rules and regulations in Taoist prayers."
"But this article was not followed."
"Although the Flower Goddess and the Moon Goddess are only divinities spread in folk customs and have not been disclosed in Taoist divine genealogies, many temple blessings cannot write new prayers by themselves, but use templates handed down from Taoism.
"
"This... has been changed a bit so that people can't understand it."
Dong Ming took the prayer and read it carefully for a long time.
suddenly:
"etc!"
Dong Ming opened the entire prayer.
After the densely packed words were arranged on a huge piece of paper, Dong Ming's pupils shrank.
"No wonder you and I can't understand the prayer!"
"The core is not to read the prayers!"
"Qingran, look!"
"Expand it all, starting from the right to the left, and look sideways!"
"The sentence becomes smoother!"
…
"I don't know who will see what I record."
"The reason why I put it here is just to hope that the truth about Changshan County will not be buried."
"My husband and I will set off tomorrow to escape from this place."
“We can’t stay in Changshan County any longer!”
"I have lived with my mother in the Huashen Temple since I was a child."
"My mother does have some divination skills."
"Our life is not too bad."
"But...I gradually discovered that I can see some strange things..."
"I don't dare to tell anyone, let alone let those things find out that I can see them..."
"Even...even if it is shaking right in front of my eyes, I will pretend not to see it."
"It seems...that way, these things won't hurt me."
"This is an instinct. No one taught me, but I have learned it!"
"It wasn't until many years later that I learned that that kind of thing... is called a ghost!"
Just watching the first scene, Dong Ming was stunned.
Unless you are a master of calligraphy, it is difficult to imitate human handwriting.
Therefore, these are most likely the notes left by my mother.
But...according to what my mother said, there is no Yang family here!
From beginning to end, she is a woman who grew up in the Flower Temple!
Even...according to the written records, his mother...should even have been adopted by Miao Zhu at that time!
If age is used as a reference.
Then the person who adopted his mother is most likely Hong Auntie!
Because Mrs. Hong has been doing temple blessings for decades, she also has the ability to predict good and bad luck!
"One day, I saw my mother was restless."
"After asking, I learned that there are always girls of the right age disappearing on their wedding day recently."
"In a few days, he will be thrown into the street covered in blood!"
"They all seemed to have experienced torture, and there were many places on their bodies, as well as some weird holes."
"I saw the souls of these women."
"But their souls seemed to have been severely tortured, and they became speechless and confused."
"My mother obviously noticed this too."
"So, she took me and put these women into the pond of the Flower Temple in the name of the practice, and put them in coffins and talismans.
Suppression.”
"I'm very surprised by my mother's behavior."
"But the mother said that these women had been subjected to inhuman abuse during their lifetimes and were no longer able to survive."
"If you leave it alone, it will definitely turn into a ghost in wedding clothes and cause trouble to the entire Changshan County."
"The Flower Temple is the only temple in Changshan County. Even though it only cares about marriage, it can only suppress them here."
…
When Dong Ming saw the lower part, his face darkened.
"Later, for some unknown reason, the coffins of these women began to decay. Talismans and copper coins were tied to the bodies of these women, and flowers gradually began to bloom."
To be continued...