8. Chance encounters
Under Wu Zhong's questioning, Chen Youxin finally told the matter 1510. Wu Zhong listened carefully on the side and did not show a frightened expression, which couldn't help but make Chen Youxin trust him a little more.
"I can go and see what you said, and if nothing else, I can help solve it. Wu Zhong said.
Chen Youxin hurriedly thanked him when he heard this: "Then let's go now." ”
Wu Zhong asked him to wait a while, and he came to the old man Yao Qigui and explained the situation to him. When the old man understood, he nodded, indicating that he was okay alone. Wu Zhong was relieved.
Bring a peachwood sword, some cinnabar, yellow paper. Wu Zhong followed the two and set off.
Along the way, Chen was confident and uneasy, and he didn't want to say more, and Wu Zhong didn't want to bother him many times. For nearly an hour, the three of them were almost speechless all the way.
Chen Shunfa put the two at the entrance of the village, and he went back to the city first because of something. This side is the west entrance of the village, you can see an artificial lake before entering the village, the area is not large, it is the outsiders who come here to invest, do farmhouse use, and now it is idle in winter. A few dozen meters to the east of this artificial lake, you can see a field of crops, and further east, there is a deep pit, but the area of this deep pit is larger than the area of the artificial lake, and strangely, most of the soil has been dug up, except for the middle one, which stands like a stone pillar in the middle of the deep pit.
"What's that?" Wu Zhong pointed to the pillar.
"Ah, that place. This big pit is called the West Big Pit, and the soil taken away was used to build houses in the past, and because there was a coffin in the middle of the place, no one was willing to touch the soil, and over time, that place was set aside. Chen Youxin explained.
Wu Zhong stared at the place, feeling a little strange, but he didn't say much.
Chen Youxin took Wu Zhong to the door of Chen Jiancai's house close to the east, because no one had cleaned it for a long time, the yard was very messy, and dry leaves and weeds were scattered everywhere. Wu Zhong stood at the door, looking in, but he didn't feel a trace of anger, but just like Chen Youxin said, he was so thick that he had a bloody aura, and he had the same smell of rotten flesh as Chen Youxin's body.
"What?" Chen Youxin looked at Wu Zhong.
Wu Zhong smiled and said, "It's okay, it's not a big problem." Then he took out a pile of yellow paper from the cloth bag and handed it to Chen Youxin, on which a strange spell had already been written, "After a while, you will talk about these charms, one for each family with people, just stick it on the door when you sleep, and you must tell you not to come out at night, no matter what movement is outside." ”
Chen Youxin hurriedly took the rune paper and nodded vigorously.
"This matter won't cause you any trouble, right?" Wu Zhong said, after all, the other party is the village head, and he always has to be afraid of superstition.
Chen Youxin hurriedly waved his hand: "No, no." There were not many people in the village anymore, and Jin Daochang also came a few years ago, and he also helped the village to do a ritual, and the old people still remember it. ”
"Oh, what did my master do, tell me about it. Wu Zhong was curious.
The two talked as they walked.
In his early years, Jin Daochang was also the same as now, traveling everywhere, asking immortals to visit the Tao, and whenever he encountered something strange, he would come forward to solve it, and he would not charge any fees.
A few years ago, there was also a strange incident in Chenjia Village, and it was even more terrifying than this time. Overnight, the poultry in the village died, and the next day, two more were scared to death. At this time, Jin Daochang happened to pass by, and the matter was resolved. And it was not a glorious thing for this kind of thing to happen in the village, so everyone suppressed this matter. Unexpectedly, a few years later, something strange happened.
Chen Youxin arranged Wu Zhong to his home, and at this time the meal had already been arranged, and Chen Youxin took advantage of the dawn to go out to distribute the rune paper. There are only Wu Zhong and Chen Youxin's wife Wu Shufen in the family.
Wu Shufen is a typical peasant woman, she is not very particular about dressing, but she is very clean, everything in the house is spotless, and she looks diligent at first glance.
Wu Zhong waited for Chen Youxin, and chatted with Wu Shufen when he had nothing to do: "Auntie, when we came back, we saw a coffin in the middle of the deep pit in the west of the village, what was going on?"
Wu Shufen wiped her hands with an apron, handed Wu Zhong a cup of hot tea, and when she saw him asking, she sat down and talked to him: "I don't know much over there." I'm from another village, and I saw that when I got married thirty years ago, I didn't have a deep understanding of Dakeng at that time. I also asked the head of the house, and he said that it was like that when he was young. He was mischievous when he was a child, and he went there to play with the other children in the village, but it was an empty coffin, and the coffin boards were rotten. But after all, it is a dead man's thing, and everyone respects it. ”
I see, but after so many years, how can there still be corpse gas? Year after year of sun exposure, I don't know what kind of person is lying inside.
Soon Chen Youxin came back, looking at his appearance, it must have been distributed, and the three of them sat down to eat, waiting for the evening to come.
The days in winter are always very short, and it was already dark at five o'clock in the afternoon, Wu Zhong looked at the dim sky and strolled through the streets.
Because the village chief greeted him in advance, every house closed its doors at this time, and no one came out.
Wu Zhong came to Chen Jiancai's house alone and sat in a dimly lit room. It was night, but everything around me was as clear as day. At this time, the room was covered with thick dust, animal stumps were scattered all over the ground, and dried blood stains were piled up on top of each other, and they had turned black.
Wu Zhong waited here for someone to come back. He had a hunch that this man would come back.
The hour hand pointed to the number 7, there was still no movement in the courtyard, and Wu Zhong was not in a hurry, sitting alone in the house, closing his eyes and resting. Suddenly, he opened his eyes and looked in the direction of the gate.
I saw a figure jumping around, carrying something in his hand, walking towards the room.
Wu Zhong saw clearly, the person who came should be Chen Jiancai, this strange behavior was funny, but it was so natural, and he was carrying a duck that had been dead all the time. At this moment, the two wounds on his long neck were clearly visible, and blood was really flowing from his jump.
Looking at Chen Jiancai's already stiff facial muscles, a pair of eyes were extremely lively, revealing helplessness and grief.
Chen Jiancai jumped back to the house, and when he walked in the door, he didn't find Wu Zhong in the house.
Wu Zhong couldn't wait for the other party to make any moves, and a spell immediately flew out and attached to Chen Jiancai's body, and immediately exploded with a bang, blasting the unprepared Chen Jiancai to the ground.
Chen Jiancai reacted quickly, and the moment he fell to the ground, a donkey rolled and dodged Wu Zhong's successive wooden sword attacks. The two of them flew back to the courtyard, and Chen Jiancai's chest was blurred with flesh and blood due to the sudden attack just now, but it did not affect his movements.
Wu Zhong held the long sword in his hand and stared at Chen Jiancai, beware of his attack.
Although Chen Jiancai was seriously injured from the outside, he did not feel pain, but was a little aggrieved by this sudden attack, but his throat could not make a sound. His eyes burst into tears due to his long-term grievances.
Wu Zhong saw it in his eyes and felt strange, and while secretly guarding himself, he said, "You are Chen Jiancai?"
The other party's already unrecognizable face couldn't express it, so he couldn't help but nod.
Seeing that Chen Jiancai did not make any other moves, Wu Zhong slowly relaxed his vigilance: "What is your situation now?"
Chen Jiancai couldn't express it, seeing Wu Zhong dressed as a Taoist priest at this moment, he had already regarded him as a life-saving benefactor in his heart. But the relationship that can't be spoken, is so anxious that it turns around.
Wu Zhong sensed that the other party was not hostile, and with what Chen Youxin said before, he suddenly understood the situation of Chen Jiancai in front of him.
Although he doesn't know why he is like this, he doesn't have the intention of harming people, otherwise the thing in his hands at this moment would not be a domestic animal, but a person.
Wu Zhong had no experience, and when he saw this situation, he didn't know what to do for a while. And at this moment, a bell suddenly sounded in his ears, and Wu Zhong was in a trance, and when he reacted, Chen Jiancai had disappeared.
Wu Zhong looked at the place where Chen Jiancai disappeared and was distracted.
When he returned to the village chief's house, seeing that Wu Zhong looked a little depressed, Chen Youxin knew that the matter had not been done, and after talking, it was indeed so, and he couldn't help but be disappointed.
Wu Zhong and Chen Youxin greeted each other, and one person crossed to the treetops at the head of the village, looking at the starry sky.
What did Chen Jiancai want to express? He didn't mean to hurt people, so why did he become the way he is now? Could it be that he was infected with corpse poison?
At this moment, two figures slowly walked from a distance. Wu Zhong took a closer look, and it turned out to be the empty monk and Yue Qingyu who he met in the cave that day.
Yue Qingyu lives in this vicinity, and according to the rules of Jing'an Division, every monk has the obligation to solve the non-natural disasters that occur in this area within the scope of his residence. And the generation of Chenjiacun happens to be the jurisdiction of Yue Qingyu.
That day, Yue whispered that the nearby spirits were talking about something unusual in the Chenjia Village generation, so he invited the Kongwen master to come and help check it out, not wanting to meet the stunned young man he had met by chance in this vicinity.
Wu Zhong saw the two of them walking in this direction, went down the treetops, and waved his hand at the two.
The empty monk still greeted him with a smile, and Yue whispered that he already looked cold.
"I don't want to meet Daochang Wu here, fortunately. Kong Wen was the first to speak, and Yue Qingyu also nodded.
"Are you two here for the sake of Chenjia Village?" Wu Zhong said directly.
"Daoist Wu also knows about this?" In front of Wu Zhong, Yue Qingyu spoke for the first time, her voice as crisp as a bell, but it was still cold.
"I was also commissioned to come here, and I just arrived today. Wu Zhong said.
"What did Daoist Wu find?" asked Yue in a whisper.
Wu Zhong told the two of them everything he knew, and the two of them frowned slightly when they heard it.
"It seems that this person named Chen Jiancai has been infected with corpse poison, but I don't know what caused it?" Kong Wen said, "Whispering girl, has there been zombies in this generation recently?"
Yue shook his head softly: "I haven't heard of it." ”
"That's weird. The monk whispered. "If you want to turn an ordinary person into a zombie, it is only possible to touch the corpse poison." ”
"Is there a place of extreme yin nearby?" Wu Zhong suddenly thought of the words recorded in that ancient book, and there was a high possibility of spawning zombies in the land of extreme yin.
Yue whispered and thought for a while and said, "There is a small hill not far from the north, and there is a valley on the back, which can be regarded as a shady and humid place. ”
"In that case, we might as well go and take a look, and maybe we'll find out. Kong Wen said.
The three of them agreed to use their own means and set their way towards the hill.