In the early days of liberation, there was a Guanyin temple built against the mountain in Liandong Village. It was not very popular at ordinary times, but on the third day of the third lunar month, people from several neighboring villages would come here to worship Guanyin. The devout believers would clear away the weeds that had grown in front of and behind the temple for a year.
There were a lot of heavy rains that summer, and there were small mountain torrents and mudslides from time to time. Liu Er, who lived closest to the Guanyin Temple, went out that day and found that the Guanyin Temple was buried in the collapsed mud and rocks, and the Guanyin statue was also smashed to pieces. Only the stone under the Guanyin seat rolled to the side intact.
Liu Er saw that the black stone was relatively flat, so he took it home, intending to use it as a stool to sit on, but then he thought that it was Guanyin's seat after all, and it didn't seem right for him to sit on it. So he placed the stone at his door, thinking that if someone came to visit, he could also set out some tea.
At night, Liu Er lay in bed and prepared to go to sleep. A low "woooo" sound always lingered in his ears. No matter how he blocked his ears, the sound would get into his mind. After tossing and turning for most of the night, Liu Er finally fell asleep in a daze.
But the same thing happened on the second and third days. Every night, there was always a haunting "woohoo" sound. Even the bravest Liu Er felt a little scared.
On the fourth day, Liu Er had breakfast early and went into the firewood pile at home before it got dark. The high pile of firewood allowed Liu Er to see the situation in front of and behind the house clearly.
The sky gradually darkened, and a gust of wind blew, and the "woooo" sound rang out. Liu Er was immediately frightened and shivered. Following the sound, Liu Er gradually locked his eyes on the stone at the door of his house. As the night deepened, two places on the black stone slowly lit up, green and dim, like ghost eyes. After looking at the "ghost eyes" for less than two seconds, Liu Er screamed and fell off the pile of firewood. Then he ran like crazy.
The next day, Liu Er invited a Taoist priest and the villagers to carry the stone to the entrance of the village. They set up a fire and the Taoist priest lit the fire while chanting scriptures.
The fire had only been burning for a while when it suddenly started to rain heavily, with thunder and lightning. With a "crack", a waist-thick tree nearby was split. Everyone fled in all directions. Someone fell and kicked the stone, which rolled to Lao Wang's house at the village head.
Lao Wang is a widower, and he is usually accompanied by a vicious black dog. Everyone in the village is afraid of the black dog, and the other dogs in the village are also afraid of the black dog. Except for Lao Wang, the dog bites anyone it sees and bites the hook it sees.
When the rain stopped, the stone also stopped steadily in the yard of Lao Wang's house. Lao Wang also heard some noises and walked to the yard with his big black dog. Lao Wang looked and saw that there was suddenly a black stone in the yard. He wanted to take a closer look, and then something strange happened.
The usually ferocious black dog actually tucked its tail between its legs and refused to move closer to the stone, no matter how hard Lao Wang pulled it. Lao Wang was old, so he pushed the stone but couldn't move it, so he didn't bother with it.
Unexpectedly, at night, Lao Wang and Liu Er encountered the same thing. The stone started to make a "woohoo" sound, and the ghost eyes flashing green light made people even more panic.
Soon the news spread throughout the village and then to the town. Everyone said that there was a fierce ghost locked in the stone, and that it had been suppressed by Guanyin in the temple. So everyone started to raise money to repair the Guanyin temple, hoping to send the ghost to hell again. But it would take time to repair the Guanyin temple, and Lao Wang couldn't stand the "woohoo" sound at night, so he packed up his bags and ran to the county town to find his only son. [Ghost Stories]
Old Wang's son Xiao Wang felt strange after hearing what his father said. As a highly educated man, he knew that there were no monsters in this world, so he decided to take his friends from the geological team back to his hometown to find out what was going on.
The geological team saw that it was just an ordinary ore. After erosion and weathering, some small holes appeared, which made a sound when the wind blew. Because it was windy at night and the surroundings were very quiet, the originally weak sound was very clear. As for the "ghost eyes", they were just two slightly larger holes with trace amounts of other mineral elements, which could emit fluorescence at night.
Lao Wang scratched his hair and laughed, thinking that it was shameful to be uneducated. After sending the geological team away, Lao Wang began to explain the reason for the formation to other people in the village, but some people in the village were still afraid because the old black dog was afraid of the big rock. Lao Wang couldn't explain this because the geological team didn't explain it to him.
Later, the Guanyin Temple was repaired, and everyone moved the stone into the temple and placed it under the seat of Guanyin. After that, everyone never heard the "woooo" sound again, and never saw the "ghost eye". Because the "ghost" was suppressed, the new Guanyin Temple was full of incense every day. Lao Wang saw that everyone in the village went to the temple, so he also took the big black dog to the temple. As a result, the big black dog was not afraid of the stone and barked at the stone a few times.
One time, Xiao Wang came back to see Lao Wang, and Lao Wang told his son about his doubts. After listening, Xiao Wang asked the big black dog about his behavior and what happened. Finally, he laughed and said, "Dogs are actually very afraid of noises, such as thunder and lightning. There was a sudden thunder and lightning that day, and a big rock rolled into the house. I'm afraid the clever big black dog mistakenly thought that the sound of thunder and lightning was made by the big rock, so he became afraid of the rock. Then the rock often made noises, so the big black dog never dared to get close! This is the empathy effect!"
After listening, Lao Wang nodded, not quite understanding. In the end, Lao Wang decided not to explain this matter to the villagers, because he had never been to school and did not understand what his son meant by "empathy", and he had no way to explain it.
As a result, the news that there was an evil spirit under the Guanyin Temple in Lianhua Village spread everywhere, and the temple was visited by many people for a long time.