"Haunted? How do you say this?" Li Kan asked.

Speaking of haunted, Li Kan thought of the yin and yang that were in the belt and placed in the corner, but unfortunately he couldn't take it out now.

"We were in a prosperous place and very lively at the beginning, but I don't know when it started, but there were always some strange things here. The dead black cat fell from the sky in the early morning, and the sun was in the sky at noon, and the whole yard was extremely cold. There were also women crying in the middle of the night..." The old man gave examples one by one.

"I was originally the housekeeper here, and one night I felt unwell and rested early. It just so happened that our master couldn't stand the crying in the middle of the night. He summoned everyone to go to the source of the sound to see what happened. I rested early that day, so the master didn't call me, and I didn't know." The old man said, and a look of horror suddenly appeared on his face.

"That night, the girl screamed so hard that she woke me up. When I went out, I heard that the backyard was very messy. When I arrived, everyone was sitting on the ground shaking. Our master was lying on the ground and his eyes were wide open - he was scared to death!" said the old man.

"Scare to death?" Li Kan asked with some disbelief. How terrifying is it that it can scare people to death.

"We all thought so, and everyone was frightened at that time. They couldn't tell what happened when I asked them. On the day I buried the master, I found out when I sorted out the body for him. His neck was pinched, but it was very light and I couldn't tell if I didn't look carefully. But I inferred that the master might have been strangled to death." The old man thought for a while and said.

"So later everyone like you ran away in fear. You are the only one left and want to sell the house?" Li Kan said.

"It's almost the same. Our old lady has taken action to let everyone move to other houses. I have to wait for the house to be sold and go back to report my life." The old man said.

After hearing this, Li Kan bowed and said with some admiration: "Old man, you dare to live here alone if you dare to live here alone."

"No," the old man smiled, "I don't dare to live here. I just come here to clean the front hall every day. I don't even dare to go to the backyard now."

"What's in the backyard?" Li Kan asked.

"There is a well that was blocked after something happened." The old man said.

"Is that ghost in the well?" Li Kan asked.

"I don't know, now the entire backyard is covered with a devil-exorcist talisman. No one has been to the backyard except for a devil-exorcist who has been there."

"The ghost-exorcist?" Li Kan's eyes lit up, "You guys still have ghost-exorcist? Are there Taoist priests?"

"Not necessarily, Taoist priests basically do exorcises ghosts, but those who exorcise ghosts are not necessarily all Taoist priests." said the old man.

After a pause, he said again: "I have said this young master. It is natural for you to buy it, but I still want to ask, what do you think?"

"Buy! Why don't you buy it?" Li Kan said with a smile.

"Really?" The old man thought to himself, there are really people who are greedy for cheap things and are very brave and dare to live in a haunted house.

"Of course it's true, but I'll get rid of the evil ghosts here first!" Li Kan said.

"If we had the ability to exorcise ghosts, we wouldn't have sold it so cheaply. I really can't do this for you." The old man smiled bitterly.

"I didn't say I asked you to do it. If you do it, it would be more than fifty taels. Give me a few days and I'll do it myself." Li Kan said.

"Do you want to go to the backyard to have a look?" the old man asked when he saw this.

"Don't you say the backyard is haunted? Are you not afraid?" Li Kan said with a smile.

"The sky is blue and white, with enough yang energy, and there is nothing to be afraid of when it is sealed." The old man said.

So Li Kan followed the old man into the backyard. As soon as he entered the yard, he felt different. He felt gloomy in broad daylight. There were trees and wells in the yard. A large stone slab was placed on the well. The doors were closed and the door curtains were covered with talisman paper.

Li Kan felt a smell similar to the demonic energy, but it was certainly not the demonic energy. Since the old man said that this place was haunted, it should be the demonic energy.

But who is Li Kan? He is a good boy in modern human society. He never believed in the theory of ghosts and gods before entering the workshop. Even if he has been in the demon world now, he still expressed doubts about these illusory things.

Although he had seen Taiyi Zhenren and had regenerated limbs with lotus roots for him, he still did not believe that such things as ghosts exist, or that he was not very scared now.

When I was in school, the teacher said:

The scientific community has many explanations for the phenomenon of ghosts: one is because of psychological effects, including cognitive errors caused by illusions and hallucinations; the other is psychopathological effects, that is, brain organs are damaged, resulting in forgetting, mental disorders, etc. The third may be related to environmental changes, mainly the occurrence of electromagnetic field changes. He believes that the human living space is full of electromagnetic waves. The human brain is an electrochemical organ, and bioelectric signals transmit information between brain cells. The powerful electromagnetic field will affect those signals and produce strange vision, touch and hearing. The electromagnetic field acting on the human brain can also lead to different emotions, such as fear, tension, etc. This is this emotion that causes people to see ghosts.

Science believes that ghosts are just people's imaginations and belong to idealism, especially atheists, who believe that ghosts do not really exist in reality, and ghosts only exist in people's hearts. Science takes the material world as the research object, so science disdains the theory of ghosts and gods, and regards them as superstition. For some scientists with religious beliefs, although they believe that people have souls after death, most of them also believe that the souls are natural and material, and cannot be studied by science.

Superstitious people believe that people have "souls" after death, and they are called "ghosts". Scientific research shows that ghosts only exist in people's brains. People generally have hallucinations, but most people are not aware of this, so sometimes they understand these hallucinations as ghosts. So far, no phenomenon of claimed natural force objective existence has ever appeared. Experiments have proved that ghosts are just illusions created by the mind. Because of illness, fatigue or pressure, the human brain loses its position in the body at a certain moment. Physiological medical scientists believe that the soul lives in nerve cells. Through a series of studies, the soul (consciousness) independent of the body does not exist, and without life there is no soul. Research is concluded through the transmission of information between synapses of brain nerve cells (neurons), and believes that the human soul (consciousness) is the activity of specific nerve cells in the brain.

Ghosts do not exist, at least the "ghosts" that people imagined before did not exist. The ghosts mentioned by the ancients sometimes refer to the consciousness, spirit, and psychological activities we talk about today. They are the result of physiological activities of the brain, and are the product of physical and chemical reactions. They cannot exist without the brain. Once a person dies, the brain activities terminate and consciousness are lost, and the so-called soul will disappear.

Li Kan talked to the old man for a long time, and the old man was stunned.

Then he scratched his head and said, "Although I don't know what you are talking about, I really don't feel very scared."

"What kind of tree?" Li Kan asked, pointing to the tree in the yard.

"That's a locust tree."

"Lotus Tree?" Li Kan touched his chin and remembered some stories told by the old man:

The reason why locust trees are called locust trees is because locust trees are the ghosts in the wood. Because of their heavy yin energy, they are easily possessed by ghosts. In Feng Shui, they are prohibited from planting near houses.

There are often locust trees in ancient Chinese legends.

The old locust tree among the seven fairies,

The Great Huaian Kingdom in Nanke's dream is an ant hole under the locust tree.

Ancient people also liked to choose locust tree y when they hang themselves. For example, in ancient times, locust tree was considered to represent "lu", locust tree was the ghost among the wood. In ancient times, the imperial court planted three locust trees and nine thorns. The ministers and officials sat under it, and the three locust trees were the three dukes. The "Zhou Li·Autumn Official·Chaoshi" says: "Facing three locust trees, three dukes are in their position." There is an article about "The Inscription on the Three Locust trees" written by Mr. Dongpo, which tells this allusion.

In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, Wang You, the Minister of War, wrote a good article and was also very successful in becoming an official. He believed that the descendants of the Wang family would definitely be the prime minister, so he planted three locust trees in the yard as a symbol. Later, his son Wang Dan became the prime minister, and at that time he was known as the "Sanhuai Wang Family" and built a Sanhuai Hall in Kaifeng. Look, three plants were planted and their descendants became high-ranking officials. The power of this locust tree is really great!

Another allusion is the well-known "Nan Ke Yi Meng", which is recorded in "Biography of Nan Ke Prefect" written by Li Gongzuo, a native of the Tang Dynasty. It is said that Chun Yu Fen, a native of Guangling, fell asleep under the locust tree in the yard. He had a dream and dreamed that he had arrived in the country of Dahuai'an and became a relative of the princess. He had been a prefect of Nan Ke for twenty years and was very glorious and prominent. However, due to the failure of the battle, the princess died and was sent home. Then he woke up and saw his family fighting.

When he swept the courtyard, the sun had not yet set, the wine pot was around him. He looked around and saw an ant hole under the locust tree. The Dahuaian Kingdom where he was the official in his dream turned out to be this ant hole. The southernmost branch of the locust tree was Nanke County where he was the prefect. From this, it can be seen that the locust tree has the ability to dream, no wonder it was called a wood ghost. Therefore, when Emperor Wu of Han built Shanglin Garden, his ministers offered names and fruits from afar, and among them, the locust tree was listed as a different tree and contributed more than 600. It is not unreasonable.

The locust tree is also called a ghost tree, and it cannot be cut down casually. Because the locust tree is a combination of wood and ghosts, once the wood is cut down, only ghosts will be left. There is a saying that there are locust trees in front of the house, and hundreds of ghosts will walk at night. Because there are many holes in the trunk of the locust tree, there are many superstitious sayings that it is the residence of ghosts. If you cut the locust tree and there is no place to live, you will come to you and torture you!

There is another saying that if you have a locust tree in your home, it has grown for many years and is very thick, so there are usually gods living in it. If you cut down a tree casually, you will offend the gods living in the tree. If the gods are angry, they will cause trouble to you.

I heard from the old people that if they had to cut down, they should pray to the gods first, and burn some paper money to pray to the gods, so that they could find another place to live. It is best to cut down in winter, so that the gods might leave. Of course, there are more superstitious elements in this, but in fact, in addition to these Chinese people, they also have different emotions about locust trees.

In the past, Li Kan heard many stories about gods and ghosts when he was a child. He scared him so much that he couldn't sleep every time, but the more he was afraid, the more he wanted to listen. Maybe those old people were just bad things, so how could they tell Li Kan how to tell him.

Later, when he grew up, he couldn't find the old man who told stories when he was a child, but every time he recalled these past events, he couldn't help but smile.

"Young Master? Youth?" Li Kan was just thinking about it, and the old man called him.

"You have also seen this house. What do you think?" the old man smiled. He felt that there was a chance this time.

"Ah? I bought it! I bought it! I took the house deed and land deeds to see it." Li Kan said. Isn't it just a haunted? He is not afraid, and the demon world has entered, so what else is there to be scary.

After hearing this, the old man was overjoyed and took out the house deed from his arms and gave it to Li Kan to see it.

Li Kan took it and realized that although he could communicate with these people, he did not understand the words here very well. The words here are square square characters, but he couldn't tell what they were in. Some could understand, and some didn't recognize them.

After thinking about it, Li Kan handed these things to the old man again.

The old man was anxious: "What? Young Master, are you not satisfied? You said?"

It was difficult to sell this haunted place, and the old man was reluctant to let the cooked duck fly.

"No, old man, I'm illiterate. I'm not sure if you are real. What if it's fake?" Li Kan said with a smile.

"What? Old man, I have been a human being in my life, and have you ever deceived people? You young boy don't believe me?" The old man said angrily after hearing this.

"Let's go! Come with me and ask them to confirm it for you. It doesn't matter whether you want this house today, but I must prove that these things are true to you!" The old man was so angry that he pulled Li Kan out.

The backyard calmed again, but the stone slabs on the well suddenly moved, and even the locust tree branches rose up automatically without wind...

The old man brought Li Kan to the government office aloud and was stopped by two soldiers.

"What are you doing... Huh? It's you?" Xiaobing said in surprise when he saw Li Kan.

"Why, do you know me?" Li Kan asked in confusion.

"Of course, if it weren't for you on the Internet yesterday, our town would be in tragedy." Xiaobing smiled.

"You can see how dark I looked like last night?" Li Kan asked pointing to his nose.

"Of course, I recognize you even if you turn into ashes. You are our savior. We also let us arrest the snow thief without any effort. We will reward you." The soldier smiled.

"Really? Is it a cash reward?" Li Kan said in surprise.
Chapter completed!