Chapter 37 Strange Sounds 6

The old man in black continued: "Listen to tell me another story. This story is called Devil Apollo. A minister named Apollo was exiled by the king to the deserted frontier for committing the felony of corruption. The days of exile have passed day by day, and there is no way to sit in the mountains. The rice around him will be eaten sooner or later. In order to survive, Apollo has to go out to beg. It was not easy to find a few families, and only got the flesh and blood of some beasts. He was very surprised why the residents here were only willing to give him meat rather than grain. What is grain?' The owner who came out of the door said doubtfully, "Poor man, we have always hunted on wild animals here, and we have never seen any food like rice!"

Apollo was quite surprised! After observing the terrain for a few days, he found that there was a big river in the distance, but the people here did not know how to use it. 'No wonder the people here are sparse and desolate! Why don't I make this place rich with my own wisdom?'

Apollo used his past experience to connect several families living here, use the little grain he has left to make seeds, lead them to open canals to divert water and reclaim wasteland. After a year of hard work, they had a bumper harvest in the autumn of the following year. They continued to work hard, and the arable land became larger and larger, and the grain became more and more.

There are many famous defectors every day. In a few years, there are three or 4,000 families here.

In order to feel the kindness of the smart Apollo to make the country prosperous, they sent three elders as representatives and asked them to convey the people's desire for Apollo to be king.

'If you want me to be the king of this country,' Apollo thought for a moment and said, 'First of all, like other countries, establish national laws, promulgate systems, build palaces, and set up ministers. The people have to pay tribute, pay taxes every year, and select beautiful women to enter the palace.' This is very reasonable!' The three elders discussed for a while and agreed to his terms. Although Apollo was smart, he was very selfish and greedy. Not long after he became king, his past corrupt habits came out again and began to force the people to pay heavy taxes, and kept building palaces to collect treasures everywhere, which made the people complain. I really shouldn't have let him be king at the beginning!' Several righteous ministers in the palace saw that the king was greedy for pleasure and indiscriminately injured innocent people, so they murdered the king and killed the people while King Apollo was hunting. Unexpectedly, Apollo became a fierce ghost after his death because of his inner resentment. He not only occupied the whole palace, but also killed all the ministers, maids and followers in the palace. In this way, he could not calm the resentment in his heart. He killed people when he saw people on the street, causing the whole country to be corpses everywhere, and the people were scared to leave home. In order to save everyone's lives, the three elders risked their lives, tied themselves up with ropes, and went to Apollo and pleaded: 'If you want to kill, kill us! King, the people are innocent!' Apollo said, "I'm not a king now. I'm a Rasha who eats human flesh and drinks human blood. For the sake of the three of you who elected me as king before, I won't kill you today. Go back quickly!' One of the elders said, "When you first came here, you made this barren land a famous land of wealth. Are you going to destroy the foundation you founded now?" Another elder also said, 'Whether you are a human or a ghost, the people will never forget your kindness to us in the past.' Seeing that Apollo had been moved, the third elder further persuaded him: 'If you kill indiscriminately, you will only leave an indelable reputation for you.' After listening to the words of the three elders, Apollo thought to himself, "If I kill people like this, I will kill them all sooner or later." At that time, if you are hungry, what should you do to satisfy your hunger? Why don't I ask them to send me a baby door-to-door every day? Isn't it killing two birds with one stone with delicious food and no need to work? Hahaha! I, Apollo, are so smart!' Thinking of this, he couldn't help laughing proudly. Therefore, Apollo told the three ministers about his treachery, and the ministers didn't know what to do for a moment. Instead of letting him kill people so unscrupulously, it's better to promise him this condition first, stabilize the cannibal Rasha with a delaying plan, and then find a way later.' Therefore, the elders agreed to Apollo's terms. Whose baby should be used as an offering on the first day? Every family with babies pushes back and down. They don't want their children to be sent as sacrifices. Everyone's idea is that they can be delayed day by day. The wife of a disciple of the Immortal Gate has just given birth to a baby. In order to understand and save others, this devout immortal disciple decided to give his child to Apollo instead of a family. That night, he looked at his tearful wife and the crying baby. With heartache, he worshipped the direction where Amitabha immortal lived and said, 'Great compassionate and saved the great spirit immortal world! I am your devout believer. Today, I put my child for Rasha to eat, just to save other people's children, but I only have such a child. How can I save so many innocent babies?' Hearing that the Wusheng Immortal Gate was the voice of his disciples praying devoutly, the Amitabha Great Immortal World Honored came to the royal palace of Apollo. Apollo was so illuminated by the dazzling light of Amitabha Immortal World Honored that he couldn't open his eyes. When he saw Amitabha Immortal Zun's extraordinary look, he thought to himself, "Isn't it the immortals invited by the people here to subdue me?" Humph!' Apollo first pretended to salute the Amitabha Great Immortal, and then took the opportunity to go to the Amitabha Great Immortal, suddenly stretched out his hands and stabbed the eyes of the Amitabha Great Immortal. At the same time, he opened his mouth to eat Amitabha Great Immortal. At this time, Apollo suddenly felt that an invisible force was released on the body of Amitabha Great Spirit Immortal. He tried his best to win, but Amitabha Great Immortal Immortal Immun still looked at peace. Apollo knew that he was not an ordinary fairy today and thought to himself, 'This fairy has infinite power. If I fight wholeheartedly, I will lose my life.' Amitabha Immortal World Honored insight into Apollo's mind. Although Apollo has done many bad things, he still has good intentions by nature. Now is the time to persuade him to go the right path. Therefore, under the compassionate words and education of the world of Amitabha Great Spirit Immortals, Apollo felt the incredible immortality and listened to the teachings of Amitabha Great Spirit Immortals. At present, he received the five precepts and became a disciple of Amitabha Great Immortals. Apollo, who changed to kindness, immediately returned the baby he was going to eat to his parents and told everyone that he would never eat human flesh from now on and rule the country with immortals. When people heard about this, they were very surprised and converted to the throne of Amitabha Great Immortal. Since then, the people of the city have returned to the life of peace and happiness.

"Listen to me tell another story. This story is called Ghost Pavilion. A long time ago, there was a man named 'Daxian'. He was upright and never believed in evil ways. For any strange thing, he had the courage to pursue the truth, instead of following others. I heard that there is a pavilion called the Rebirth Pavilion in the city, which often haunts and hurts people?' One day, Daxian asked about this rural rumor. Yes! People must not stay on the pavilion. People who stay on it will be eaten by ghosts. The person who answered was obviously very scared. I'd like to see if I can't stay? Or can't the ghost stay?' The unbelieving sage then brought a pot of wine and a piano and often went to the haunted pavilion - the Rebirth Pavilion. Good wine!' Daxian didn't bring any guards and entourage with him, and there were no ambushes downstairs. He sat alone in the pavilion, playing the piano and singing leisurely, while drinking the old wine he brought, which looked very comfortable. In the middle of the night, the wind suddenly rose, and as expected, a ghost came upstairs to talk to Daxian. Hello! What are you sitting here for?' The ghost's blood-filled eyes bulged out of his eyes, blue-faced fangs, and his ferocious face, which was very scary. Daxian calmed down and was not afraid. He looked up at the ghost and continued to play his piano, noting the ghost's question. The ghost couldn't scare Daxian, so he left sadly. After a while, the ghost came up to the pavilion with a dead and miserable head. The ghost said to Daxian, 'Do you dare to eat it?' He raised his hand and said, 'Jump!' With a sound, he threw the dead man's head in front of Daxian. Daxian picked up the dead head and replied, 'Very good! I don't have a pillow to sleep at night, so I just need it. The ghost couldn't scare Daxian, so he turned around and left. After a while, the ghost came upstairs again and said to Daxian, 'Do you dare to fight with me empty-handed?' No problem!' Before the ghost replied, Daxian stepped forward with an arrow and caught the ghost's ribs with his backhand, making him unable to move. The ghost was in a hurry and shouted repeatedly, "I want you to die!" Die!'' You're going to die, right? Daxian took the opportunity to kill the ghost.' How can ghosts be killed?' The next day, when everyone went upstairs with doubts, they suddenly found: 'It turns out that the ghost is an old fox spirit!' Since then, the ghost rumors on the upstairs of the Rebirth Pavilion have disappeared!

"Listen to me tell another story. This story is called Ghost Hotel. Please! I don't want to live.' An official of Yasha said with a frightened expression, "There are ghosts there!" Whoever lives in bad luck, I would rather spend a few more money to stay in an inn. In a room dedicated to officials on business trips, ghosts are often haunted, and anyone who stays here will definitely die. Since then, officials who have been envoy to Yacha have dared not stay in this room. At that time, there was an official from Danyang named Tang Ying. Tang should be extremely bold, strong and good at martial arts. He lived in this room when he went to Luling. Local officials came to warn him: 'This house can't live in! There are ghosts in it, and they often come out to eat people at night! Cannibal? It's good if I don't eat ghosts!" Tang Ying was not afraid at all. He asked the follower to move out and stay alone and live in it with a big knife. At night, halfway through sleep, he suddenly heard someone knocking on the door. Tang Ying asked, 'Who is it?' Someone outside the door replied, 'It was sent by the ministry.' Tang Ying opened the door and asked him to come in. The messenger put down the official document and left. After a while, someone knocked on the door, and Tang answered, 'Who is it?' The outside replied, 'It was the letter sent by the government.' Tang should open the door to let him in. The messenger dressed in black, put down the official document and left. After a while, someone knocked on the door again. Who is it?' A man and a woman outside the door replied, 'There is an official document from the county and the government.' Is it so late and there is still a letter?' Tang Ying immediately became suspicious: 'It's not the right time! Besides, the official documents of the county and the government can't arrive at the same time. There must be ghosts!' So Tang Ying took a knife to open the door. I saw a man and a woman standing outside the door, two young people dressed neatly and beautifully. Tang should let a man, a woman and two young people into the house. After sitting down, the man who claimed to be the messenger of the government spoke to Tang Ying. Before he finished speaking, the woman messenger who claimed to be the prefecture secretly jumped behind Tang Ying and attacked him. Tang should have been on guard and immediately pulled out a knife to meet him. He just hit the ghost with a knife. Seeing this, the man who claimed to be the messenger immediately got up and escaped. Tang hurriedly chased out and just under the wall outside the house. He slashed with a knife and was stabbed a few times. Tang Ying saw that the second ghost was injured and fled far away, so he stopped chasing him. He returned to the room to sleep and slept until dawn. After dawn, Tang Ying sent someone to inspect the place where the ghost was cut last night, and there were blood stains on the ground. Follow the blood stains, 'It turns out that you are doing the blame!' The one who claimed to be the governor's messenger turned out to be a male fox spirit, while the one who claimed to be a county messenger was a female fox spirit. After Tang Ying killed the two goblins, this place has never heard of ghosts again.

"Listen to me tell another story: the old tree is bleeding. There is a Taishou named Jiang Shengsheng. There is an old tree in his field. It takes about a dozen people to hold hands to hold it. The leaves are lush and the shade covers an area of six mu. Strangely, within the shade of trees, no matter what is planted, no grain can grow. Therefore, Jiang Shengsheng ordered the family to cut down the old tree. It's a pity to waste the land like this. It's better to cut down the tree as firewood so that the fields under the shade can shine the sun without being dark and wet all year round. The next day, the family went to cut down the tree and chopped it with an axe. Blood flowed from the old tree. Jia Ding was shocked and afraid to cut it again. Master! Master! That tree will bleed!' The family immediately ran home and told Shengsheng this strange situation, 'I dare not cut it again! It's terrible! It's like killing people!' Jiang Sheng heard this and said angrily, 'A little red tree pulp came out of an old tree. What's the fuss about? What are you afraid of? I'll cut it myself.' Jiang Sheng came to the old tree, lifted the axe, and cut a few axes hard, 'Alas! Bleeding again!' As expected, human blood flowed from the tree. Rise regardless of it, or continue to cut it. Suddenly, I saw that the middle of the tree was empty, like a small cave. A white-haired old man jumped out of the tree cave. He was five or six feet tall and drilled out of the tree hole and rushed straight up. Drink!' Jiang Sheng quickly cut it with the axe in his hand. The white-haired old man was hit by the axe and fell to the ground and died. What? And!' A white-haired old man died, and five or six white-haired old men jumped out of the tree hole in a row. Jiang Sheng's entourage were so scared that they lay on the ground and dared not move. What is the evil? How dare you do evil here? Watch me deal with you!' The raised face waved the axe unchanged. Before long, these scary white-haired old men all fell to the ground and died. Is this a human or a demon?' The crowd gathered around the killed white-haired old men to watch. It's not like a human, but it's not like a beast. This may be what people often say that the wooden stone will become a monster a hundred years later!'' It turned out to be the ancess of the old tree! No wonder the large fields under the shade of trees can't grow grain. After Jiang Gao cut down the old trees, in addition to a few more mu of land, he was also promoted to a senior official in the same year, and even the nearby neighbors magically flourished.