Guanzhong Tomb Robbery Notes

Chapter 449: Phoenix Acupuncture, Five-Colored Golden Rooster

The village security director and the basic militiamen were attracted by Yang Goudan's abnormality.

There was even a brave militiaman who took a few steps forward, ready to seize the opportunity to get close to Yang Goudan and launch a surprise attack from behind.

But Old Yu stared at his own rooster with eyes wide open.

Thumping!

The big rooster landed on Yang Goudan's raised right arm.

The tip of the claw pierced the flesh of Yang Goudan's arm and firmly grasped his arm bone.

Yang Goudan seemed not to feel the pain and did not shake off the rooster.

Still with his head tilted back, he kept making harsh hoarse sounds from his throat.

The big rooster slowly lowered its head.

He stared at Yang Goudan with his sharp blood-red eyes.

The look in his eyes was as if he was looking at a mortal enemy with whom he had a deep hatred.

Old Yu's eyelids twitched involuntarily, and the hairs on the back of his neck stood up.

He muttered to himself, "Evil spirit, there is evil spirit!"

The reason why Lao Yu said there was an evil spirit was entirely because of the big rooster.

As we all know, the most easily found materials for warding off evil spirits among the people are chicken comb blood and black dog blood.

If you encounter an ordinary evil spirit, splash the blood of a rooster's comb or a black dog on it, and the evil spirit will be scared away immediately.

If they encounter a difficult evil spirit and the Taoists cannot suppress it even with cinnabar talismans, they will use the blood of a chicken's comb or a black dog to draw talismans.

Moreover, the rooster has the ability to communicate with the sky, the earth, and ghosts.

After the rooster crows, the sun rises and the night dissipates. Therefore, the ancients believed that the rooster could reach the sky.

Chickens peck at snakes, scorpions, centipedes and other ground insects and are believed to have the ability to clear away evil spirits. Therefore, it is believed that roosters can pierce the earth.

The saying that roosters can communicate with ghosts means that the ancients regarded roosters as a medium for communicating between yin and yang and warding off evil spirits.

Roosters have been used to guide souls in funeral ceremonies since at least the Han Dynasty, and this practice has continued to this day.

In the 1990s, in some places, there was still a custom of using soul-guiding chickens during burials.

There are two common uses.

One is to use the soul-guiding chicken for funerals, and the other is to use the soul-guiding chicken to determine the tomb.

Using the soul-guiding chicken to locate a tomb is an extension of the funeral procession.

During a funeral, a rooster is often placed at the head of the coffin to serve as a guide to the soul, and then the coffin is carried to the cemetery.

The rooster was removed from the coffin only after it was lowered into the grave.

This completes the funeral ceremony of the soul-guiding chicken.

When choosing a burial site, the grave is not dug in advance, but only the approximate location of the burial is selected.

After arriving at the place, let the soul-guiding chicken fly down from the coffin first.

The place where the soul-guiding chicken landed was determined to be the location of the tomb.

People call this method "Phoenix Point Acupuncture".

After the funeral ceremony is completed, the soul-guiding chicken will be released and cannot be caught or eaten again.

All of this is said to illustrate the rooster's ability to ward off evil spirits.

But the rooster raised by Lao Yu is different from ordinary roosters.

There is an old saying that goes, "Don't raise a chicken for three years, and don't raise a dog for six years."

This sentence means that if you raise a chicken for more than three years and a dog for more than six years, they will gradually become more human-like.

Once you understand human nature, you may become a spirit.

If poultry and livestock become spirits, they will harm their owners and shorten their lifespan and fortune.

So in the past, many villagers would not raise chickens for more than three years and would not raise dogs for more than six years.

But Old Yu kept this big rooster for six years.

Because it was a big rooster, not an ordinary animal.

The cock has a bright red comb on its head, bloodshot eyes, a golden back, a green tail, a brown belly and black claws.

The whole body has five colors, symbolizing the gathering of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, and is the purest and most yang thing.

This colorful golden rooster has a ferocious temperament.

When it was two months old, it started to eat scorpions from the cracks in the wall.

After eating the scorpion, he lay on the ground motionless

At that time, Lao Yu's heart sank, thinking that such a small chicken would surely die if it ate the poisonous insects.

Just carry it into the kitchen and put it in a basin.

While preparing lunch, I boiled water, plucked the chicken and made a pot of chicken soup.

As a result, at noon, it actually stood up shakily and stumbled out of the kitchen.

From then on, the colorful golden rooster fell in love with eating poisonous insects.

Look for centipedes and scorpions as snacks in the cracks between bricks and the ground in front of and behind the house.

If they can’t find it at home, they will fly to their neighbor’s house to look for it.

When it was half a year old, it encountered a pit viper and rushed towards it excitedly, buzzing.

He pecked the viper hard at its vital point.

He pecked the viper to death in no time and then ate the snake meat with relish.

Don’t think I’m talking nonsense when you see this.

Chickens really can catch and eat snakes.

The more ferocious the chicken is, the better its ability to catch snakes.

Since then, Lao Yu has treated this colorful golden rooster like a big boss.

I hope it can ward off evil spirits and bring good luck to my family.

Now that the Five-Colored Golden Rooster treated Yang Goudan as an enemy, Lao Yu immediately realized that this matter was not simple.

In the past, although the Five-Colored Golden Rooster had a ferocious temperament, it was only effective against snakes, rats and poisonous insects.

But he never attacked anyone actively.

After a little thought, Old Yu came up with a possibility.

That means there is an evil spirit possessing Yang Goudan!

As a very yang object that can ward off evil spirits, the Five-Colored Golden Rooster has a natural hostility towards evil spirits, which is why it rushed out and actively attacked Yang Goudan!

As Lao Yu was muttering to himself about this, the colorful golden rooster stretched out its neck as fast as thunder and pecked at Yang Goudan's left eye with its hard beak.

puff!

The chicken's beak pecked through the eyelid and pierced into the eyeball.

A liquid mixed with blood flowed out from the wound on the eye.

Yang Goudan didn't make any screams, and even his cheeks didn't tremble.

It's like I don't feel any pain at all.

Pfft!

The village security director was so frightened by the scene that his legs went weak and he stumbled and fell to the ground.

The basic militiamen also moved outwards in two trembling groups.

Swish!

Yang Goudan's left arm, which was originally strangling Professor Zhang's neck, moved.

After suddenly releasing Professor Zhang's left arm, he reached out to grab the colorful golden rooster that was pulling its beak out of his eyeball.

He moves very quickly.

His left arm even left a shadow in the air.

Seeing this, the colorful golden rooster spread its wings and tried to fly away, but it was a beat too late.

Yang Goudan grabbed the chicken leg and pulled the colorful golden chicken in front of him.

Then he grabbed the chicken's head with his right hand and bent it toward his back.

Make the chicken's neck completely arched.

"Giggle!"

The colorful golden rooster let out a miserable cry and flapped its wings very hard.

But any resistance at this time was of no avail.

"Ho ho!"

Yang Goudan made a strange sound and opened his mouth to bite the chicken's neck.

laugh!

Bite through the chicken's neck in one bite.

The bright red chicken blood sprayed all over his face.

He didn't care at all. Instead, he shook his head vigorously, bit off a large piece of chicken skin with feathers attached, swallowed it into his mouth and chewed it hard.

It looked like he was eating a delicious meal.

Professor Zhang, who was closest to Yang Goudan, was so frightened when he saw this scene that his stomach churned. He bent down and started vomiting.

The village security director kept shouting "Ghost, there is a ghost" and crawled out of the yard.

The basic militiamen hated their parents for not giving them two more legs, and each of them was afraid that they would fall behind.

Old Yu also ran out.

He ran to the gate of the courtyard and looked back at Professor Zhang.

Seeing Professor Zhang reaching out to him for help, he stomped his feet hard.

He gritted his teeth and went back to help Professor Zhang up.

Click!

At this time, Yang Goudan bit off the chicken's neck and threw the headless golden chicken to the ground.

Old Yu and Professor Zhang, who were about to escape, were so frightened that they trembled all over and stood there shaking, not daring to take a step.

"Ho ho!"

Yang Goudan, with blood all over his face, looked at the two people trembling on the spot, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.

As if he was very satisfied with the two of them standing still.

Then he slowly took out the ancient jade and threw it in front of Professor Zhang, mumbling: "Tomb...life...sacrifice..."