Chapter 261: A Demon-Infested Village
When I walked into the village, I really felt that it was cold all around, and the villagers had a sad look on their faces. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Some people looked at the two Taoist priests, one big and one small, with strange faces, and some even followed them quietly, and some opened their mouths to speak, but finally shook their heads.
Xiaochan carefully pulled the corner of Anyang's clothes, after these days of getting along, although she is still a little afraid of Anyang, it is much better than before.
"Books, scholars, let's walk around, it's so strange here."
An Yang swept her calmly: "A strange place means an unusual experience and harvest. ”
Xiaochan didn't dare to speak, pets don't talk about it for the time being, at least she has a good role as a maid, just like when she washed dishes every day in the old man's house in exchange for shelter, now she is also doing all kinds of work within her ability, except for not letting Anyang touch her, she is very obedient to everything, and she never makes Anyang angry, in order to seek Anyang's protection, and in this way he seems to be more at ease.
Not long after, an old man dressed relatively neatly and neatly came to Anyang surrounded by a group of villagers, and the gathering of so many people caused Xiaochan to panic for a while.
But An Yang saw that none of them were armed, and the old man in the lead had a friendly face, so he shouldn't have come to look for trouble.
Sure enough, although the old man led someone to block their way, he respectfully bowed his hand, forced a smile, and asked, "I don't know where the two Taoist masters came from and where are they going?" ”
An Yang, who had already made up his mind to rest here, remained silent and replied: "It's just a person who travels all over the world, the Taoist doesn't dare to say, he came from Bingzhou, two thousand miles away, and wants to visit Kunlun, I don't know what the old man has, why did he stop the way of Xia and Tong'er?" ”
The old man was shocked, and he didn't know about Bingzhou and Kunlun, but he could hear the word two thousand miles away, and then looked at Anyang carefully, because he was a modern person, and his physique was outstanding, so he couldn't see the yellow muscles and thin faces that ordinary people in this world often had on his face, and there seemed to be an indescribable bearing on his body, even the boy next to him was white, his eyes were smart, and his skin was as tender as an egg that had just been peeled.
This is no ordinary person!
The old man thought so, but bowed again, and looked up at the sky: "Since the two Taoist leaders are passing through here, it is also fate, the little old man sees that it is late, why don't you rest in this village and leave another day, how about it?" ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he looked at An Yang nervously, for fear that he would refuse, but he didn't know that this was exactly what An Yang wanted, and the two of them had been bumpy all the way for a long time, and they had long wanted to rest.
An Yang pretended to hesitate for a moment, then looked up at the sky, and then bowed back: "It's okay, then it's going to bother the old man." ”
He knew something had to happen in this village.
And that kind of experience was exactly what he lacked.
The old man turned back and said a few words, and the surrounding villagers dispersed, and it seemed that if he did not have great prestige in this village, it would be difficult to unite the whole village.
An Yang and the old man walked in front, and Xiaochan followed nervously behind her, looking at the unfamiliar environment and villagers all the way, looking extra vigilant, as if she was afraid that someone would come out and skin her to make a fox fur coat.
"The little old man's surname is Chen, Tian is the head of the village, he read for a few days when he was a child, and his name is Chen Zhongyi, the fourth in line, and now he is old, but no one has called this name for a long time."
The old man said and laughed dryly, but the sorrow hidden in his smile was obvious, and there was a faint sadness.
Not long after, the two stopped in front of a courtyard with a few thatched huts, poorly built but spacious, with cattle and horses fed in the shed next to them.
The weirdest thing is that there are still mourning couplets hanging in their courtyard, as if they have just died.
Village Chief Chen was a little embarrassed, and said: "The village is located in the wilderness, and the conditions of the cold house are not good, and the family ...... happened to have her daughter dead, and the hospitality was not good, so I asked the Taoist chief to take care of it. ”
An Yang glanced at the courtyard and asked calmly, "Is there anything the old man should ask for help with?" ”
Village Chief Chen was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly, pointed to the gate and said: "The Taoist chief is really extraordinary, if the Taoist chief is willing, go in and talk about it, go in and talk about it." ”
Anyang naturally had no reason to refuse, and stepped in.
There was a corpse covered with a white cloth in the courtyard hall, and the chest was slightly protruding, and the deceased should be a woman.
Village Chief Chen was a little cautious, after all, the home of the person who had just died was really not suitable for hospitality, and he didn't care much about Anyang's eyes, so he put his mind at ease.
After a short time, the two of them were already sitting on a wooden table, which was a table of eight immortals, without any traditional hospitality cultural etiquette, but they made a cup of coarse tea in a decent manner, which was the limit of what this deserted village could do.
Xiaochan was still nervously standing behind An Yang.
Village Chief Chen was entangled for a long time, and the first thing he said was: "Dao Chief, I'm afraid that there are monsters in our village." ”
An Yang suddenly showed interest: "Let's talk about it." ”
Village Chief Chen looked at his expression before he was relieved, Fang Cai was really afraid that he would turn around and leave, and said: "Since the Taoist chief can guess that the little old man wants to ask the Taoist chief for help, then naturally he also sees what clues, the specific little old man is not clear, but there are filthy things in this village are ......"
Before he could speak, he was interrupted by An Yang's wave: "Let's talk about the monster directly." ”
Village Chief Chen immediately nodded yes and said: "There is a hill at the west end of our village, and legend has it that under that hill is the tomb of a dignitary of the previous dynasty. The people in the village are also poor and afraid, they all think that there is some gold and silver treasure in it, and they do not listen to the dissuasion of the older generation, so they go to dig, toss for a long time, but the tomb is dug open, but there is no gold and silver treasure in it, there is no burial room in the book, but there is a bronze coffin, the villagers are disappointed, but they never expected that there is a group of rabbit cubs who do not know what is crazy, and they are frenzied to pry open the coffin. ”
An Yang interjected: "There is still no gold and silver treasure in it, right?" ”
Village Chief Chen immediately looked at him in surprise: "Dao Chief is really clever!" ”
An Yang glanced at him with a painful face, this is also a clever calculation, you can see it at a glance, if you really have gold and silver treasures, you will still be so down?
Village Chief Chen sighed, and then said: "There is really no treasure in that coffin, only a corpse, the body is not decomposed, and the eyes are still open, and the group of rabbit cubs were frightened on the spot, and ran back, and then invited the older generation to look at something only to find that the corpse was not a human at all, but like a monster!" ”
Xiaochan shuddered when she heard this, and her little body unconsciously moved closer to Anyang.
An Yang became more and more interested: "Later, you became like this here?" ”
Village Chief Chen nodded, and said with palpitations: "The strange incident happened that night, the whole village could hear the terrible screams from the side of the hill, it lasted all night, no one dared to go out half a step, the next day during the day, I organized people to go over to check the end, but found that the monster in the coffin disappeared out of thin air, some people said that the corpse had changed, some people said that it was done by wild beasts, and then people were scared, but maybe nothing strange happened for a long time." ”
"Everyone thinks that the village has returned to peace, even the little old man, but I don't know when it started, we are like no sun here, it will always be gloomy, fortunately there is nothing else, the people in the village have lived here for generations, leaving this village is equivalent to no house and land, so they continue to live, but whenever it is the season to sow grain, we here begins to be unpleasant and rainy."
"Then suddenly one day, someone found that there were monsters in the forest on the mountain behind, and the hunters who hunted were almost injured by the monsters, but fortunately they brought a hunting bow and a hunting knife, and cut off half of the monster's tail before escaping, and then gradually, there are more and more monsters in the back mountain, and the haunts are becoming more and more frequent, and the hunters have to go up the mountain to hunt together, and someone has to bring a knife soldier to call the young man to accompany him when he goes out of the village, otherwise he will be eaten by these monsters!"
An Yang frowned when he heard this, if what the old man said was true, then the monsters in this world are really powerful, not to mention blocking the sun, but also affecting the climate and weather, which is more than modern technology can do, the earth's climate control technology is still in the stage of weather forecasting, at most the use of dry ice for artificial rainfall, artificial rain or something, it is far less than this monster.
These monsters have a lot of strange abilities, and they are also unguardable, but on the contrary, they seem to lack their own force, such as the monsters in the back mountain forest, attacking a hunter was cut off by the prey, and fled in a hurry, which is simply a loss of the face of the monsters in major novels.
Even if the monsters on the mountain became more and more frequent, the hunters still dared to go up the mountain in groups.
Alas, what should he say about these monsters?
"Usually if someone passes by our village, if there is no guard, the little old man will persuade them to return the same way and bypass our village. Especially since last month, Zhang Laowu's house at the west entrance of the village has been haunted, and his daughter-in-law, mother and a pair of children have all died. Not to mention anything else, even my daughter, who also died in vain, worked as a female worker at home, and was ready to get married, but I didn't expect to die suddenly, I'm afraid that I can't get rid of those monsters, so that the little old man doesn't know where to bury it now. ”
An Yang glanced at the corpses lying horizontally in the hall, and asked suspiciously, "Then you didn't find a Taoist priest to do a Dharma or something?" ”
"I found it, I naturally found it, but it was useless to find a Taoist priest several times before and after, some cheated the money and left, some of them had a little ability, but they also said that they couldn't solve this matter, and some people said that the mountain is not a tomb, and what kind of seal to suppress demons, a Taoist priest who came recently has a very good heart, that is, the one who found the ghoul in Zhang Laowu's house, and did things on that hill at night, but unexpectedly a demon wind blew, and he died a miserable death!"
An Yang's eyes froze, but he was a little more interested.
The old man struggled for a long time, but still said: "If the Taoist chief can't do anything, then don't drown in this troubled water, don't even cause the Taoist to lose his life, after a month or two, we can only relocate the whole village, alas, I don't know what evil has been done!" ”
An Yang glanced at the old man, he didn't expect that there were such kind people in this poor mountain and bad water.
After pondering for a moment, he said: "That's it, I don't know if I can clean up this monster, stay and see for the time being, if not, it's not too late for the old man to relocate, as for now, it's also troublesome for the old man to prepare some hot water first, I and Tong'er are too dusty all the way, and I want to wash it well, even if this bit of silver is the reward for the old man." ”
Village Chief Chen looked at a white ingot of silver on the table, suddenly his eyes shrank, and he waved his hand again and again.
"This can't be done, can't be helped, never can't, the Taoist chief will subdue demons and eliminate demons in my village, and we should pay the Taoist chief, how can there be such a reason!"
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