Chapter 141: Dragon Maiden Temple
The mysterious history told by Liu Mu sounds like a plot made up in fantasy. Whenever he hears it on another occasion, Gu Qi will treat this gentleman brother as a nervous path, and sneered and laughed at him for not even knowing the basic common sense of his sister in order to pick up girls.
But in the current situation, no matter how unrealistic the information is, it seems real.
In the quaint and dilapidated hut, the three of them sat opposite each other on the fabric sofa, the dim yellow light outlining the outlines of the surroundings, and their expressions were more serious than the other.
Gu Qi thought a lot about Liu Mu's words, and always felt that the things he said seemed familiar.
Those absurd and almost weird legends and the doubts left in Miao Jiang's selection of topics, as well as the dreams He Manzhou told a long time ago, constantly overlapped, and in the end, Gu Ji could hardly tell when these entangled fates were entangled with He Sheng, and whether she herself had already been trapped in it without knowing it and could not get out.
Finally, a somewhat muffled smoke voice reminded me of the thoughts of the period, and also broke the excessive silence of the moment.
"You're right, what is enshrined in the Dragon Maiden Temple is actually a goddess, right......?"
"Dragon Maiden Temple?" Gu Qi quickly grasped the point and asked in a low voice, "What is that place?"
"It's a temple in Liuzhen, just by the Dragon Girl Lake not far from the town, and it's a temple dedicated to worship in our village. It is said that it is the Dragon Lady Temple, in fact, the temple is not enshrined in the Dragon Girl, and the name is only because it is rumored that the Dragon Girl is in charge of the rain, and the worship can bless everyone with a good harvest year after year, and the wind and rain are smooth, so we just ask for a lottery. ”
Liu Nansheng took a cigarette holder in his shriveled lips, took a hard puff, and spit out another half puff of turbid cigarette.
"When it came to when the temple was first enshrined, we can't remember it anymore. It may be that the ancestors migrated to Liuzhen back then, leaving such a heritage, and the ancestors have persevered for generations. In the early years, we were extremely dry here, and there was no harvest in the years when there was little rain, but the rules of the town were there, and we could not go out, and outsiders could not come in, so we could only be self-sufficient, so we had to pray to God and worship Buddha. In fact, going back further, perhaps in an earlier time, these customs were left in the village...... Hey, but we people in Liuzhen have never thought much about it, what is going on. ”
Regarding Liu Nansheng's Northeast accent mixed with emotion, Liu Mu asked directly.
"Why can't you get out?"
"Because, this is the rule set by the ancestors," Liu Nansheng sighed, "We don't know why, it's been too long, and we can't find out the reason for it." But Liu Zhen's ancestors have persevered like this for generations, who dares not to abide by it. With the development of the times, children are inevitably exposed to some new things, their hearts are wild, and they all want to make a lot of money and see the outside world, but ......"
Speaking of this, Liu Nansheng's face became even more ugly, and the air was filled with the smell of smoke left behind by the burning of inferior tobacco.
In this brief silence, he silently placed the cigarette stick, stood up and walked to the side cabinet and poured a glass of water. As he did this, his fingers trembled, as if he were engaged in some great inner struggle, or tugging at the edge of his sanity to judge how and how far he could confess.
In this regard, Liu Mu was not in a hurry at all, he leaned lazily on the sofa with his elbows half-folded, and his beautiful peach blossom eyes looked at Liu Nansheng's every move, but he did not mean to ask.
In the silent confrontation, Liu Mu showed enough certainty, and even had the mood to gently pat the back of the iceberg beauty beside him, as if to reassure Gu Qi Don't worry, what is he afraid of?
The sudden physical contact made Gu Qi's fingertips stiffen, but Liu Mu knew the truth very well, and before Gu Qi's sharp eyes could be handed over, he took the first step to move his hand. So when Gu Qi raised his head, he only saw a smile on the corner of someone's lips that had not yet overflowed, and the little arc that was hooked was extremely beautiful, but it looked invisible.
It's as if you have taken advantage of a lot of money, and you have to demonstrate with the parties.
Gu Period: "......."
So what kind of breed is Liu Mu, and why is there such a person in the world who kicks his nose and face?
Gu Qi really couldn't figure it out, whether it was empathizing with her heart to heart at the emotional level, or analyzing specific problems from the rational level, she couldn't figure out what kind of brain circuit Liu Mu was. It is clearly on such a serious occasion, everyone often talks about the ancient inheritance and the hidden history, under the extreme seriousness, even the silence carries a certain inexplicable depression, why is Liu Mu, as the dominant rhythmist, still have the leisure to pick up girls?
It's a pity that stuck in the false identity of "girlfriend", many of Gu Qi's attitudes have been restricted.
It's not easy for her to turn her face, it's not easy to scare people, and even because of decency, she can't even ask more. Even staring at people didn't have much effect, after all, the more she reacted, the more happy Liu Mu felt, who was as naïve as a child who had succeeded in pranks, so Gu Qi's atmosphere fell into the hands of the stinky and shameless Liu.
So much so that in the end, Gu Qi could only hold back his breath and didn't say anything.
Seeing that Gu Qi was obviously very angry and couldn't help it, Liu Mu was in a good mood, stretching his two long legs and leaning lazily on the sofa. Although he was in a rather simple small house, Liu Dashao took out a very chic and complacent appearance, a little bit of being in a luxurious private room to participate in those fox friends and dog friends party.
At this time, the village chief Liu Nansheng finally reorganized his speech and sighed in a low voice.
But none of the young people who left the town got a good death, and each of them had an accident. ”
"Accident?" Gu Qi was really too lazy to look at Liu Mu's hanging appearance, Liu Nansheng just started to speak, and she immediately diverted her attention, "Uncle Liu, can you tell me in more detail?"
"Accidents, deaths, car accidents, natural disasters...... For all kinds of reasons, it is impossible to count at all. For a few months at most, or half a month at least, those children who left Liuzhen never got a good death, and they would definitely encounter terrible things. The most evil thing is that they will all come here in the end, I remember the youngest son of the Zhao family, he went to the city to work but encountered an accident, his chest cavity was pierced by a steel pipe, and I don't know how much blood flowed. We don't know much medicine, science, it stands to reason that he has long been hopeless, but he just held on to his breath and closed his eyes when he arrived in Liuzhen...... It's all predestined, born in the town, died in the town, hey. ”
The things that Liu Nansheng told were really terrifying, almost like a low-profile version of a ghost story.
However, Liu Mu did not question the authenticity of the story, and also removed those long exclamations, his eyebrows raised slightly, and he asked directly: "Why did they come back, is this also a custom in your town?"
"No, it's not a custom, it's a curse, a curse......"
Cruel scenes flashed in Liu Nansheng's mind, many things couldn't be thought about at all, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt fearful.
His voice grew more and more hoarse, and by the end of the note he was trembling almost unconcealably.
"Perhaps this is the curse left by the gods, since the people of the town were born, everyone took the initiative to sacrifice their lives to the gods. For so many years, we have tried all kinds of ways, but there is no way to escape from fate, even the soul belongs to the gods, how can we escape? It is precisely for these reasons that the people of Liuzhen cannot get out, and the people from outside cannot enter, but if they break such a tradition, they will definitely bear the wrath of the gods, but this is something that no one can afford.......
Liu Mu's fingers rubbed his chin slightly, as if he was thinking about something.
However, Gu Qi thought about Liu Nansheng's words, and his cold and beautiful eyes drooped slightly, and then he opened his mouth uncertainly: "Uncle Liu, just now on the way here, I saw black and red charms pasted on the door of your place, does the curse of the gods you said have anything to do with these things?"
This is something that Gu Qi has always wanted to ask, and since she arrived in Liuzhen, she has felt a certain sense of weirdness.
Every detail of this remote town is very uncomfortable, not only because of its isolation and dilapidation, but it is no exaggeration to say that the horror of this small village is the kind of pervasive, as if some kind of invisible power is eating away at people's reason and soul little by little, and finally pulls into the abyss of no return, completely swallowed into darkness.
Along the way, Gu Qi saw a lot of strange charms, under the white moonlight, she saw that every house she passed by had closed doors, and there were a lot of black papers on the dilapidated walls, and there seemed to be distorted symbols that were difficult for others to understand, and those handwriting seemed to be stained with blood, which formed a very conflicting contrast with the small advertisements with black letters on a white background.
The weird and distorted symbols make people shudder inexplicably, but Gu Ji feels very familiar.
She had been thinking about it carefully, and finally remembered where this familiarity came from—it was clearly the intermittent afterimage of the picture materials about Miao Jiang's topic selection that He Sheng had taken.
"Yes, that's the curse of the gods, it's the Death Charm and the Soul Locking Talisman. ”
has confessed to this extent, and Liu Nansheng has nothing to say.
"These things...... These things are also passed down from ancestors. The black spell repels evil spirits, and the blood spell enters the spirit, and it is approved as eternal life and never enters reincarnation. We believe in immortality, and when we are alive, we worship the gods wholeheartedly, sacrifice our souls, and when we die, we return to the void and continue to wait for the call of the gods, which is our fate. ”