Jianwei County (now the junction of Yunnan and Sichuan) In the deep mountains more than ten miles east of the county town, there is a Taoist temple surrounded by mountains, which is extremely deserted. The leader of Guan’s surname is Yan, and he is a real person with profound cultivation. There is a treasure in the Taoist temple. It is a stone box more than three feet long, carved with extremely exquisite flowers, birds, insects and beasts, lifelike and ingenious. The stone chamber was locked tightly, looking integrated, with almost no gaps. If it weren't for the lock on it, it would be like a whole stone.
Yin Xi Shi Han
According to legend, this stone house was left by Wenshi Shi Zhenren Yin Xi . is the one who saw the purple qi coming from the east, and asked Laozi to pass on the "Tao Te Ching". It is said that when Master Yin Xi was about to ascend, he handed the stone letter to his disciples and warned them: "The stone letter contains talismans and should not be opened casually, otherwise there will be a big disaster." As for how this stone chamber was spread to this small Taoist temple, it is unknown. The small Taoist temple has become famous far and wide because of this Yin Zhenren stone chamber.
During the Dali period of Emperor Daizong of Tang Dynasty, Cui Jun, who was born in Qinghe Cui family, came to Jianwei County to be the prefect. Qinghe Cuishi was the first-class wealthy family at that time. This prefect Cui naturally developed a noble, arrogant and stubborn personality. Not long after he arrived at the office, he heard about this legendary treasure letter from Zhenren of Yin. Prefect Cui was quite disdainful of this and said to his subordinates with a smile: "This is just a scam of Aragaki Hiroshi ."
Aragaki Hiroshi was a famous liar during the reign of Emperor Wen of the Western Han Dynasty, and created a lot of fake auspiciousness. Taishou Cui thought that this stone knot was just a similar scam.
Cui Taishou took his hands directly to the Taoist temple and ordered Yan Taoist priest to open the stone chamber. Taoist Yan refused on the spot: "This is the stone letter left by Zhenren Yin. The real person once left a Dharma word: 'Those who open this letter will inevitably suffer a great disaster.' I hope that the lord (a respectful title for the prefect) will not violate the agreement of the immortal official."
Taishou Cui was furious when he heard this and said, "Zheng Yin has been dead for more than a thousand years. How could he leave this stone letter? I don't believe it." Taoist Yan still insisted on his own opinion and refused to unlock the lock. Cui Taishou has a stubborn personality and does what he says. Seeing that Taoist Cui refused to obey, he asked his subordinates to snatch Shi Han and violently unlock the lock.
Use a cow to unlock
But the lock is actually very firm, no matter whether it is chopped by an axe or a knife, it will not move at all. It took a long time for my subordinates to open it. Taishou Cui became even more angry. He couldn't handle any small matter well. Immediately ordered people to find dozens of cows and tied them to the lock of the stone Han with a rope, so that the cows would pull them to both sides like tug of war. Even with such a huge force, it took a long time to pull the stone Han apart.
After opening the stone chamber, I saw dozens of volumes of talismans inside. I was angry and used a giant trunk to tie the nose of the chamber, and used dozens of ox to pull the trunk and whip it away. In just half a day, the stone chamber was opened. There are dozens of talismans in it, and the runes of calligraphy and painting on cinnabar on yellow silk are still as bright as new.
Prefect Cui unfolded the scroll and looked at it, then said to Taoist Yan, "I thought there was something magical treasure in the stone chamber, it was just some talismans." So he asked someone to lock the stone chamber and took the people back in a swagger.
That night, Prefect Cui suddenly passed away, and after three days he suddenly woke up. All the officials of all sizes and big names came to visit and asked the prefect what was going on.
Prefect Cui sighed and said, "I was really ignorant before, and I didn't believe that there were gods and immortals in the world. That day, I was impulsive and rashly opened the stone letter of Zhenren Yin. Sure enough, I was caught by the officials of the underworld that night.
At the beginning, a man in purple clothes suddenly appeared in my bedroom and said, "I am the messenger of the underworld. I am ordered to summon you. You should follow me quickly, otherwise there will be even greater disasters." And. ’I felt very scared and didn’t want to go, but I followed the messenger out of the county town without realizing it.
The messenger of the underworld
walked about fifty miles away and arrived in the underworld. The chief of the underworld was actually the late Prime Minister Lu Gong (it should be the Prime Minister Lu Gong (yīn) of the Tang Dynasty).Mr. Lu asked me, "Why did you open the stone chamber of Yin Zhenren without authorization? Now God Haotian has a will to reduce your blessings and life span. ’After saying that, Mr. Lu summoned the judge to inquire about my life and death book .
The judge reported to Mr. Lu: "Premier Cui could have been the five chiefs and had a lifespan of seventeen years." Now, under the order of God, we will seize all the blessings of these five officials and reduce our lifespan of fifteen years. Now there is only two years left to live. ’After that, Mr. Lu sent someone to send me back, and I woke up. "After hearing what Cui Taishou said, his subordinates were shocked.
Sure enough, two years later, Cui Taishou died of illness and never woke up again this time.
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