Chapter 178 Three Gods
Xiaomi, what does this mean?
Although this child is a ghost boy, he has no ill intentions toward me and is very angry. He is just a little clingy.
I would never think that the other party was here to tease me. After thinking about it for a moment, a smile appeared on my lips.
Yes, this kid is here to remind me!!!
She threw rocks at the window, but Anru did not appear.
In other words, the other party might have something extremely important, so he left temporarily and gave up monitoring me. He even said... Xiaomi's grandfather might not be in the village either.
Now is the perfect time to escape from here!
I immediately put on my clothes, picked up the Tianguan Blade, and broke out of the door.
Sure enough, Anru did not appear in front of me immediately like before.
It's just that there's nothing outside the house, and Xiaomi has already disappeared without a trace.
I sighed secretly. Maybe this child felt that she was ashamed of her grandfather for helping me, so she didn't show up. However, the opportunity was too precious. If I miss this time, I don't know when the next time will be. I can't help but do more.
After hesitating, he set off immediately and ran smoothly to the end of the village.
On the rotten wooden door, a colorful woolen thread was tied to a wooden pillar and fluttered in the wind.
This yarn is exactly the one Xiaomi and I use to play with the rope.
I couldn't help but stop here, gently holding up the yarn with my hands, stroking it in my palm, feeling a little absent-minded. Then, as if I had been summoned by some kind, my heart moved, and I turned around to look around, only to see a dilapidated building.
Behind the house, a small face was half exposed, silently peeping and watching me.
This little face was ferocious and terrifying, but when it fell into my eyes now, it was particularly heart-wrenching.
Reason tells me that the most correct choice is to turn around and leave immediately, and not to interfere with the affairs here in this life. But when it comes to this step, I always feel uncomfortable somewhere.
"Even if I can't turn the tide, at least let me do something!!"
I growled in my heart, gritted my teeth, and turned around suddenly. Xiaomi was startled by me and immediately retracted her head, but after a moment, she poked her head out again.
This time, I waved to her.
Xiaomi blinked her eyes and seemed to want to turn around and run away, but after a moment of hesitation, she finally rushed out from behind the broken house and plunged into my arms, her little head bulging back and forth on my chest.
At first, I was stiff all over, but I soon relaxed and gently rubbed and rubbed the other person's little head.
"Master, I have failed to live up to your teachings to me."
I muttered silently to myself.
He always said that yin and yang are in order, and the living can only manage the affairs of the living. Whether the dead want something or hate it, we can only suppress and pacify them, but we can never provide justice for them, because that is the following
If he breaks the rules, it may lead to unimaginable consequences. God does not allow it. The last time he agreed to the spirit's request, he broke the rules of his ancestors. Fortunately, in the end, the spirit took over all the cause and effect.
I think maybe I have some stubborn genes in my body, and I have just been punished by heaven, and now I have thoughts that I shouldn't have.
After a short silence, I gently pulled Xiaomi out of my arms, rubbed the other person's cold and green little face, remained silent for a while, and said: "Don't stay in this village anymore, go with brother, brother will send you off."
Go to a place where you can truly find relief..."
"A place of relief?"
Xiaomi tilted her head and asked softly: "Is it the palace of the three gods?"
Three gods?
My heart moved, and then I smiled and said: "Who told you that you can be liberated by going to the palace of the three gods?!"
"My grandpa said that!"
Xiaomi said without thinking: "My grandfather said that the three gods will watch us in the sky. All the sufferings we have experienced will be merciful by the three gods. One day, we will be called by the three gods.
There you can find liberation!”
Interesting belief!
I pondered for a moment and then said with a smile: "How about my brother take you out of here? Send you to Sanshen's side. In your next life, you will be born into a rich family. You will not be lonely anymore. There will be many, many children who will challenge you.
Stretch, kick the shuttlecock."
I don't know what happened here, and I don't have time to stay here for too long. My master needs me, but I know one thing very well. No matter what, Xiaomi will eventually become a lonely ghost. This is definitely not a good thing.
If possible, I would not bury the body, but only the soul, and send her to reincarnation in the underworld to seek a perfect death. Perhaps this is the only thing I can do at the moment.
"Okay, okay!"
After hearing this, Xiaomi immediately jumped up with joy, but then she pulled her face down and pushed me gently: "Forget it, brother, you'd better go. I don't want to go to Sanshen's place. I can't let go of grandpa."
, not to mention..."
I caught her hesitation and asked immediately, but Xiaomi shook her head repeatedly and told me that her grandfather told me that they couldn't leave here, and I couldn't get out without her.
I wanted to ask more questions, but Xiaomi gave me a hard push, turned around and ran away, disappearing in a few blinks.
I sighed, now that it was over, I didn't have much time left, so I had to get up and leave, following the slope to the west of the village entrance, and plunged into the deep ditch at the bottom of the mountain.
On the way, I kept thinking about what Xiaomi said.
Three gods, for most people, this is probably a very unfamiliar concept.
In Western religious beliefs, the three gods are the gods of freedom, beauty and love.
In Taoism, there is also this concept, which refers to the god of the three Dantians of the human body.
However, these two kinds of three-god beliefs are obviously quite far away from the villagers in this village. The three gods mentioned by Xiaomi can never be these two kinds of three gods.
Then, there is only the last possibility - in the folk belief in Hanzhong area, the gods of heaven, earth and mountains are collectively called the three gods!
Speaking of Hanzhong, a place with a long history of civilization, people can’t help but think of the ancient Shu Kingdom!
The belief in the Three Gods in Hanzhong was inherited from the ancient Shu Kingdom!
It was the Shu people who established the ancient Shu Kingdom. In the Shu people's beliefs, there are indeed some concepts related to the three gods, but they are very vague, because when we really trace the origins, the three gods are not the Shu people's own beliefs, but
It is related to their ancestors.
The Shu people are the result of the merger of the Ran people and the Qiang people.
The Three Gods are exactly the beliefs of the Ran people, the ancestors of the Shu people!
This is probably the earliest and most primitive belief in gods. It has been too long. After several changes in the West, it has long been blurred. Now there is only a concept left. If we really want to explain the details of this, I am afraid that
Even the most knowledgeable experts on ancient Shu in the world cannot name it.
Of course, the so-called three gods are not the focus of my attention. I have never believed that there is such a thing as a god in this world. I have seen ghosts but not gods. If it is really capable, in this world
In an age where people are good at questioning, they should have manifested themselves long ago.
What I really care about is the Ran clan who believe in the Three Gods!
I have read a very interesting solitary book. It was excavated from an ancient tomb in Sichuan. My dad bought it from a local master for 1,000 yuan. It recorded a lot of information about the Ran people.
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All I can say is that this is a very amazing nation.
They believe that the three gods have given them magical powers and become extraordinary people.
Anyone with some ability to judge will probably immediately conclude that this is definitely a method of religious propaganda.
In fact, extraordinary people really exist!!
There are a very few Ran tribe people whose body healing ability is almost abnormal. According to a single book, if an extraordinary person is stabbed several times in a battle, the wound will scab and heal the next day. Even if he dies, the body will not rot. In short
, even if you cut twice on the corpse of an extraordinary person, the wound will still heal!
The Ran people believe that the souls of all the dead extraordinary people have actually returned to the embrace of the three gods, and their bodies are still alive, so they put the corpses of all the extraordinary people together, almost becoming a museum for future generations to worship.
It can be said that Extraordinary People have a very high status among the Ran Clan, and are equivalent to the messengers of the Three Gods!
In my understanding, the so-called extraordinary people may be people with strange abilities. Such people also exist in real society.
For example, someone's body is a huge magnet that can absorb many iron objects.
Another example is that someone can retrieve objects from a distance.
It sounds incredible, but it does exist. I can only say that the world is so big that there are many wonders.
I think it may be that the genes of the Ran clan are somewhat different, so there are often one or two extraordinary people whose physical healing abilities are almost abnormal.
However, during the Western Han Dynasty, when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty took control of Western Xinjiang, the Ran people merged into the Han people and became a branch of the Han people. After two thousand years of integration, it is probably difficult to trace who has the blood of the Ran people.
, I have never heard of anyone possessing that weird ability.
However, the solitary book also records such a thing - when the Ran tribe returned to the Han, there was a small group of people, probably two to three hundred people, who were absolutely die-hards and refused to return to the Han, and were worried about the Han.
The soldiers would be disadvantageous to them, so they fled eastward and were never heard from again!
I couldn't help but have a bold idea - could it be that these villagers in Heixiazigou are descendants of the Ran people who fled back then? They eventually fled all the way to the outside of the pass and settled down in the deep mountains and old forests to survive?
This is by no means groundless. It has been two thousand years since the Ran people returned to the Han Dynasty. Two thousand years is enough to erase too much. Unless they are those with extremely firm beliefs, otherwise, after two thousand years of inheritance, their descendants will not be able to remember the three gods and continue to believe in them.
With three gods.
However, time has changed too much. It seems that the people here have forgotten most of their belief in the three gods. Now, it is as if they have formed a habit from their ancestors for generations. They continue to believe in the three gods, but they cannot say
The truth is revealed...
Just like we often talk about the Jade Emperor, how many people can actually explain the foundation of the Jade Emperor?
Unknowingly, I had followed the direction indicated by Xiaomi and Qingzhu and passed through the deep ditch under the village. In front of me was a vast jungle.
It was late winter and the snow was white, but the scene in front of me made me alert.
Thick white mist floats in the forest, with visibility less than ten meters. The fog occurs when the temperature is dozens of degrees below zero, which is huge and strange in itself. What's more, the fog seems to be alive, just floating in the jungle,
But it refused to enter the deep ditch, let alone drift into the village. It can be said that the difference is clear, as if the fog has consciousness!!
"Something's not right!"
I rubbed my arms fiercely, facing the thick fog in front of me, the hairs on my body stood up, and I felt a strong sense of uneasiness.
Chapter completed!