It's just that so many offerings and small toys, as well as those little paper figures, are they all for ghost babies? What happened to this village, and why did you worship ghost babies here? It is so strange not to bury the bones of those babies properly, I looked at those tempting candies and white-flour steamed buns, and I had to swallow dryly, but I didn't dare to reach out to take them, the stream water I drank before almost made me diarrhea and couldn't walk, and now I finally recovered, if I ate a good one, it would be in vain.

The master thought for a moment and said, "These offerings must be to worship the infant corpses in the grove, but why didn't this village bury those infant corpses, but discarded them at will. This is a bit inconsistent, which is quite puzzling, Ergou, let's go into the village and have a look! With that, Master turned around and walked towards the village in front of me, and I hurried to follow.

But when I was close to the village, I had goosebumps all over my body inexplicably, and I hit a few spirits in a row, and I quietly glanced around, it stands to reason that I am with the master, and with the master here, there should not be any sneaky people who do not open their eyes to come forward to disturb me. But why did I still feel a trace of dignified yin qi? It seems that in the corner that I can't see, there is such a pair of strange eyes, looking at me unkindly, staring at me deadly, making me uncomfortable all over my body, even from the inside out!

"Master......"

Before my words could be spoken, the master stretched out his hand to make a silent gesture, and whispered without looking back: "There is no need to say more, for the master to know in his heart." "I wanted to tell Master that there were a pair of eyes staring at me in a dark corner, but I didn't expect Master to sense an abnormality, so I was a little relieved, and I followed Master left and right quickly, for fear that something unexpected would happen if I was too far away from Master.

"Huh?" Master suddenly stopped in front of the entrance of the village, looked up at the left and right layout of this village, and said with a frown: "There are four big willow trees on the left and right, and four trees are planted in two rows at the entrance of the village in front. ”

I was stunned and asked, "Master, if that's the case, then what pattern should this belong to?" ”

Master sneered: "This is a typical 'ghost carrying a sedan chair', in feng shui, there is a saying that the front does not plant mulberry, and the back does not plant willows, the reason is precisely because these two kinds of trees are in the category of five ghost trees, and they have the ability to provoke evil things. Then this village planted four big willow trees on the left and right, perhaps it is the unintentional move of the villagers, but the unintentional move, sometimes it can change the luck and feng shui pattern of one party, the so-called ghost sedan chair, is that this village is like a sedan chair, and the big willow trees before and after the left and right, respectively, like the sedan chair man, the willow tree gathers yin, this pattern is the ghost carrying the sedan chair into the Yellow Spring! ”

Hearing this, I turned my head coldly to take a look, but when I saw a pair of blood-red eyes in the dark corner in the distance, a pair of blood-red eyes suddenly flashed, just for a moment, but it made me stiff, and when I looked over again, I couldn't see anything. Those blood-red eyes were large, like human eyes, and like the fierce eyes of some kind of animal, in short, the moment they stared at me, it made me feel cold from the head to the soles of my feet.

I wanted to open my mouth to tell Master, but I didn't know what to say, after all, it was just a moment away, maybe it was my delusion, maybe I was too nervous. Lest Master say that I am cowardly, I simply stopped talking, but I couldn't help but glance a few more times at the place where the blood-red eyes had disappeared.

As soon as I was about to enter the village, the master seemed to notice my strange appearance, and couldn't help asking, "Ergou, what are you looking at?" ”

"Uh......" I hurriedly turned my head and shook my head in surprise, "No, it's nothing......"

Master looked at me suspiciously, didn't say anything more, and then walked towards the village. As soon as we entered the village, we suddenly heard a burst of women's crying from a nearby house, and I hurriedly asked Master, "Master, did you hear that?" It seems that there are ghosts! ”

"What the hell? Don't talk nonsense! Master glared at me, pointed to the crying man not far in front of me and said, "That's obviously someone crying, don't be surprised." Well, since we are here, and we want to find a place to rest, let's go to the house in front of us, and if we can be comforted, we should do our best, and by the way, inquire about the baby corpse in the grove again! ”

It turned out to be someone crying, me, I thought it was a ghost...... Smacking my lips, I scratched the back of my head embarrassedly, hurriedly walked in front, came to the courtyard door of this house, I looked up from the outside of the courtyard wall and looked inside, only to see that this house is not small, and there are five or six houses in a row, sitting north and facing south is a series of three large houses, there are two rooms on the west side against the courtyard wall, there is one room on the east side against the courtyard wall, and the east one has a chimney, like a stove house.

But the two small houses were also lit with oil lamps, and one of the three big houses was also lit with oil lamps, and there were not only crying voices in them, but also people who seemed to be persuading them, and there were also voices of blame, which sounded chaotic. But as for what the people inside were saying, I didn't hear a word clearly, only the grumbling cry, the sound of which floated nearby, and I felt very sad.

Master frowned, dragged me back, glared at me, and said, "Don't look at it, people haven't opened the door, what are you doing lying on the courtyard wall to peep?" Or knock on the door, and walk in later to see what is going on! ”

"Oh." I answered and knocked on the door.

After a while, I heard a burst of footsteps in the courtyard, and the door was opened by a young man in his sixties, who looked at Master and me with a stunned face, and asked, "Who are you looking for?" ”

The master hurriedly clasped his fists and saluted, and said respectfully: "Old man, we are footwalkers, passing by your village, it is so late, we want to disturb some food in your house, and spend the night, I don't know if it is convenient or not?" ”

When the little old man heard this, his eyes couldn't help but light up, and he hurriedly asked, "You, are you Taoist priests?" ”

"Yes, old man, we are Taoist priests of the Maoshan faction, this is my master Yang Yuanshan, and my name is Li Ergou." I hurriedly interjected.

"Or Maoshan?" The little old man's face suddenly showed a look of joy, and he hurriedly said with a smile: "It seems that there is green smoke on our family's ancestral grave!" Just in time to invite something to the Taoist priest, I never thought that the master had already come to the door, in this case, Mr. Yang, please come in, talk in the house. Eating and lodging are available, please come in, please come in. "I didn't expect this little old man to be quite hospitable, which is really gratifying for us who have traveled south and north to see all kinds of customs.

As soon as he entered the hospital, he heard the cry of a young woman coming from the big house, so the master hurriedly asked, "Dare to ask the old man, who is the crying person inside......

The little old man invited us into the big house, and sighed softly: "That's my daughter-in-law, alas, Mr. Yang, let's talk about it in the first room." ”

When I walked in, I saw clearly that the two rooms against the wall on the west side were where the little old man and his wife lived, and the three rooms in this big house must have been lived by the son and daughter-in-law. The little old man led us into the hall of the big house, and at this time, a young man, about 30 years old, came out of the inner room of the east room, saw me and Master, and asked the little old man with a puzzled expression, "Dad, who are these two?" ”

When the little old man heard this, he immediately smiled and introduced: "Ermao, these two are the distinguished guests of our family, and they are both the high masters of the Maoshan faction!" This is Mr. Yang Yuanshan, that is Mr. Yang's apprentice Ergou, Mr. Yang, this is the little child Wang Ermao, the little old man Wang Quan, hehe! ”

When Wang Ermao heard this, he immediately greeted with a smile: "Hello Mr. Yang, hello Mr. Ergou." ”

The little old man Wang is not tall, about more than one meter and six, his body is thin, his face is full of wrinkles, but he has a kind face. And this Wang Ermao has a delicate face, a slight hint of perseverance, a decorated figure, and between his eyebrows, he is a little similar to his father Wang.

I smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Ermao can just call me Ergou, I am ashamed to be called a gentleman." By the way, Brother Ermao, why is my sister-in-law crying? Also, why hasn't your family rested late at night? As he was talking, he saw a plainly dressed old woman come out of it, who seemed to be Wang Ermao's mother, and it was the wife of the little old man Wang Quan. When he saw us, he seemed to hear our conversation outside in the inner room, and immediately greeted us with a smile and asked Ermao to pour tea for us.

The master turned his head to look at me, and said to the old woman with a wry smile: "Auntie, if you have food, please bring some to the apprentice, we have traveled a long distance for the past two days, and we have not been able to eat much." ”

When the old woman heard this, she immediately smiled kindly and said, "There is food, but Mr. Yang, don't dislike the coarse grain of our poor family, I will go and cook for you." You sit down first, old man, and you talk to Mr. Yang and them for a while. After the old woman finished smiling, she turned around and went to the stove house, to be honest, I was really hungry, but the master first remembered to ask for something to eat for me, which made my heart warm.

The old man invited us to sit down, and then he said about the difficult things in the family: "Alas, since Mr. Yang and you are here, it is also a blessing for my family, to be honest, what has happened in our village this time is about to torture us villagers crazy!" Just now, my daughter-in-law cried, in fact, in fact, it was because of that, no, my daughter-in-law has been married to our family for three years, and she finally got pregnant this year, but, but there are ghosts in our village, and the children in the village who have not yet been born, as well as the children who have just been born, the souls, are all hooked, we are also afraid, afraid that our old Wang family has no queen! No, there have been rumors in the village recently that worshipping the ghost spirit will save the child, and we are also discussing with our daughter-in-law, but the daughter-in-law doesn't want to go, so she cries in the house......"

The master frowned and asked, "What is a goblin?" Why worship? Also, why should you let your daughter-in-law go to worship to keep the baby in her belly?! ”