In late February, just after the Lantern Festival, Zamao Xiaodao and I stepped on the train heading north.

The Spring Festival ticket is tight, and the friend really can't get a sleeper, but fortunately, neither of us is the kind of person who pays attention to people, and my friend gave two hard seats, so I took it, carrying simple luggage and some food on the road, and we squeezed on the train. No one sent it, Agen just woke up, a lot of things to do, and the transferred assets had to be recovered. And after Wang Shanqing has been swept away, she disappeared without a trace, and no one knows where she went.

I'm actually quite curious, wondering how this woman learned the love Gu - maybe she was really taught by the people in the next village? If I believe this, I'm really stupid. It's a pity that during the sensitive period, I didn't want to touch Agen's wounded heart, and I wanted to respect his opinion, so I had to give up and not mention it.

After the festival is the peak period of the Spring Festival, the train is crowded, it is difficult to sit down, the electric bell rings for a long time, and the scenery outside the window recedes. In the past few busy days, I have little time to communicate with Zamao, so I sat down to exchange the latest information. When I talked about the extermination of the dwarf mule, he was amazed by the vicious mark of abomination planted by the man, and looked at the blue mark in my palms that seeped into my skin, and his eyes were a little surprised. He said that he did know some similar creatures, but the dwarf mule had always been only produced in the 100,000 mountains in the southwest, and was not born, so he had never heard of it.

The world is so big, and it is really diverse, and there are no surprises.

I opened my palm, smiled, and said, although I often provoke some evil things, but everything has advantages and disadvantages, change my thinking, this hand is used to shoot ghosts, but it is also powerful.

The two of us were talking, and two girls opposite us were smiling and laughing. They were two college students, and the one on the left was good-looking, and when we came over, they ignored it and just talked in a low voice. And the one on the right who is smiling, looks average, has some small freckles on his face, and his eyes are squinted like crescents, so he has some cuteness. Miscellaneous Xiaodao is a monkey with a good rod, and immediately started talking with them, and I knew that the beautiful girl on the left is called Gu Lili, and the one on the right is called Qin Wen, both of whom are students at a university in Wuhan.

Miscellaneous Xiaodao was wearing a Taoist robe, looking like a fart of a profound Taoist person, chatted for a while, and the two girls eagerly asked him to help look at palmistry. I ignored it and closed my eyes.

There were several men sitting next to each other, and they were also a pile of makeshift piles, knocking melon seeds, and chatting.

People who go out, except for national events, most of them like to talk about strange things. There was a man with a Hunan accent, sipping a small sip of wine, and talking about such a thing. He is from the Dongting reservoir area of Yueyang, Hunan, which is a flood discharge area, and every time he "walks the dragon", they suffer a disaster there, although he is relatively close to the city, but he is also poor, so he has to come out and run around.

Let's not mention these first, let's talk about the "walking dragon" in 98.

What is a dragon? The elders often say that there are dragons in the big rivers and rivers, and when the dragon turns over, the water rises, and when the dragon moves, it floods. The catastrophic flood of 98 is still fresh in the memory of many people, and the major river basins of the Yangtze River, Songhua River, Minjiang River, and Pearl River all have flood peaks...... Not to mention this, when it came to the receding flood waters in their hometown, they heard that a python had died on the river beach outside the town of Huangsha Street, and they were all curious to see it. When I got there, everyone in the village was startled - this python was more than 20 meters long, and the letter was two meters, black all over, with scales as big as a palm, and the snake's head was the size of a water tank, looking at the eyebrows and kind eyes, and there was a bag on the top, which was a meat bag, and it looked like a horn.

There are many superstitious old people nearby who kneel down on the spot, shouting the dragon god grandfather, and some people move to the wooden platform to spread red cloth and incense candles to worship.

In the evening, a fortune teller carrying a banner came, from the east, and he told everyone that this big snake was a dragon, and if it did not shed its nine layers of skin, it was not a real dragon, and it was very violent, because it died inexplicably and tragically, and there was a yin spirit, and it would be a disaster. We want everyone to raise funds, raise money to build a temple, offer incense, and calm grievances. At that time, there were people who watched the excitement, but there were not many superstitions, and occasionally some older people responded, and there was no oil and water, so they gave up. And the big snake disappeared the next day, which was very strange.

Some people say that someone from above transported the dragon away for research, some people say that the snake resurrected itself back into the water, and some people say that there is a master who came to steal the dragon's corpse, and his hands are empty. For a while, there were different theories, and there was no accurate statement.

When he said this, others interjected to ask if there were often strange and evil things happening there.

He smiled and said that there is no need, I recently heard that the government is going to relocate, move them to a resettlement area in Haolu, and pay 100,000 yuan for each person, okay. It's a great event.

After this man said that, immediately another Lunan businessman from Shandong made fun of him, saying that he also told a story about werewolves. Others coaxed one after another, saying that if you use the plot of a Hollywood movie to fool us, you should stop it as soon as possible. The merchant was furious, and said, "I will speak, believe it or not."

He said it wasn't his experience, but the legend of his wife's family.

His wife's maiden home is in Gaomi, Shandong, Gaomi is a good place, since ancient times, it has the reputation of "granary" and "cotton township", outstanding people, Yan Ying, Zheng Xuan, Liu Yong in ancient times, is the three sages of Gaomi (Mo Yan has not yet won the Nobel Prize, even the hometown people do not know about him). His wife is from a rural area west of Gaomi, where cattle are raised and there is also a dairy farm. In 95 years, the cattle were frequently killed, and half of the cow's neck was gnawed off, and the blood was drunk, which was unbearable. The strange thing is that the people watching the field did not hear any movement at all, and none of the cattle in the shed called. This happened three times in a row, so I reported the case.

A number of policemen came, and they stayed in the cattle farm for three days.

On the third night, the wide-eyed police officers saw a furry creature walking upright and jumping into the house through the window. The creature, which is the werewolf mentioned today, stands upright with one meter eight, a black hair, the head is a wolf dog, the claws are sharp, as soon as it enters the cowshed, all the cows are frightened to lie on the ground and do not move, the werewolf is like a vegetable market to buy vegetables, pick one by one, choose one, bite down, the cow will die, it will drink blood and eat meat, very quiet. The police must have been in a hurry when they saw it, so they shot it. The werewolf was caught, but three of the policemen died.

This incident caused quite a stir, and it took a lot of effort to calm it down.

After he finished speaking, he tried to describe the viciousness of the werewolf upside down, and everyone laughed and didn't believe it, this story was made up too much, and they didn't listen to it. A Sichuan guy sitting in the front row also came to make fun, saying that he also talked about one, about the corpse mound mountain. There are ghost stories all over the world, but in China, where is the most numerous? Counting and counting, we still have to talk about Sichuan, the country of abundance. For what? Because there are so many people who have died, and there are many bones. Not to mention, just the last two times: the first is the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the population of Sichuan at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty was more than 10 million, after more than 50 years of the Yuan Dynasty, in 1282, there were only 600,000 people left, and the rest all died in the war; The second time, after three hundred years of recuperation in the Ming Dynasty, it reached more than 4 million at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but after Zhang Xianzhong, the leader of the peasant uprising advocated in the history books, he was slaughtered, and the corpses were all over the field, and later a statistic, there were only four or five hundred thousand people left.

People have died too much, and all of them have died horizontally, and it is easy to linger on their souls.

Don't talk about anything else, there is a mountain near Xudu (later changed to Fengdu), nameless, the villagers are called Bao Aozi, in 79 years when the road was built there, and as a result, three mass graves were dug out, how many people, this does not know the road, anyway, it is the white bones all over the mountains, the wild dogs are red in their eyes, and there was no one who has the Tao to preside over at that time, as a result, these ghosts are not at peace, haunted, until now, but all the people who used to travel there in the past, passed by. You have to find an acquaintance to lead the way, and you have to wear the talisman bag that Qingcheng Mountain begged for, otherwise you will hit the wall with ghosts, or you will encounter ghosts, and the yin spirit will continue to ...... Don't laugh, whoever has the courage to try it, in the bag, until now, the people who died from the ghost hitting the wall can't be counted with one hand.

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Everyone talked about the supernatural things around them, and I listened with a smile, and I didn't know whether it was true or not.

The girl named Gu Lili on the opposite side went to pour water and soak noodles to eat, and Qin Wen, who had no heart to talk to passers-by, was hot, and rummaged through the bag to find water to drink. Qin Wen didn't notice it, and asked Miscellaneous Xiaodao with a smile, saying that what they said was true? Daoist, are you really a cultivator? Are you practicing Qi or building a foundation now?

Miscellaneous Xiaodao choked on these words, didn't understand, Qin Wen said excitedly, she heard that cultivators are divided into five levels, namely Qi refining, foundation building, knotting, Yuanying, and transforming gods, each layer has ten levels, dare to ask how many layers is the first level?

Miscellaneous Xiaodao's face was black, and he didn't know what to say.

Is this kid clipped in the head?

At this time, Gu Lili came back, holding two bowls of Master Kong, and greeted us warmly, if you want to eat, they still have it in their bag. We shook our heads and said let's go to the dining car for a while. Gu Lili and Qin Wen ate it, and after eating, she went to take out the garbage again, and when she came back again, her little face turned pale. We all asked what's wrong, what's wrong? She burst into tears, saying that she had lost her purse. As soon as she turned around, we saw that the side of her red down jacket had been cut with a sharp knife, revealing white down.

This money is her tuition and living expenses, looking at the dress, Gu Lili is not a student with a good family background, a red down jacket, all styles from previous years, washed lightly. She kept crying, saying that she was still there just now, why did she lose it? When we asked what time it was, she cried and said she must have lost it when she went to instant noodles. We all comforted us, and then told the people in the carriage not to move.

It was already more than 9 o'clock in the evening, and it took ten minutes for the police to come, sleepy-eyed. After listening to Gu Lili's words, he shouted a few words and handed it over himself? No one cares, and it's so crowded here, it's not realistic to check them one by one.

He was also helpless, he just wanted to ask Gu Lili to make a confession and file the matter.

Gu Lili said that this was the hard-earned money earned by her old father last winter by smashing stones every day in the mines in the township, and if it was gone, there would be no second tuition fee, and she could not go to school, so she had to jump into the river. She cried so much that the rain brought pear blossoms, and a few men from Kan Dashan next to her were also sighing, persuading her: During the Spring Festival, there are many people, there are many thieves, gangs and gangs, in groups, these dogs who lack conscience, steal things, where will they pay you back, Zhilehe, ask for a lot of money, and get off at the next stop; If you have less money, you can do a few more votes!

When they say this, it reminds me of "There Are No Thieves in the World", and Gu Lili cried even harder!

Miscellaneous Xiaodao just made a little money, and people are also refreshed, so how much did they lose? The girl said five thousand, he was arrogant, and said it didn't matter, what is this money, don't cry and don't suffer, he will give it! After saying that, he went to rummage through the treasure bag he was carrying. My heart moved, stopped him, and said don't be here to be the master, wait, I have a way.

When I said this, everyone looked at me.