Chapter 174: Life and Death Defense
Following the village chief to his house, Feng Jin saw a small stone house. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Everyone in this village doesn't seem to care too much about whether their material life is good or not, as long as they have something to eat, and nothing else will be overly pursued. Feng Jin didn't know the origin of this custom, but felt that the villagers had a very comfortable life, they didn't have to work most of the time, and they set up a small stall in front of their homes every day, and they spent day after day peacefully.
As long as someone brings a treasure to the ghost market in Sandaoxing Village to trade, the villagers here can have something to eat, and this has been the case for many years.
The world outside the village has long been not so simple, and endless material desires have seduced the ambitions of many people, step by step towards the abyss of desire.
Feng Jin has seen too many examples of everything ruined by desire, and in the end they all ended up in an extremely miserable end, on the contrary, the villagers here live a comfortable life every day, and they don't seem to have any pursuits, but isn't that the biggest pursuit in life?
The village chief's house was similar to the room they had stayed in the previous night, there wasn't much in it, a table of eight immortals, surrounded by four benches, a candle on the table, and a cast-iron teapot.
At this time, Feng Jin found that there was no electricity in Sandaoxing Village, and all the lighting here relied on candles, and it was not easy to find such a backward village in this era, but he did not expect that there really existed in a small village like a paradise in the mountains on the edge of the city, living a very primitive life in the eyes of modern people.
"You can sit by yourself, there is nothing good at home, I made a pot of tea, you can taste it." The old man said.
He skillfully picked up the teapot on the table and put it into the tea leaves, Feng Jin glanced at it inadvertently, and his heart was suddenly shocked, this tea leaves were actually glowing!
Feng Jin stood up and asked respectfully, "I don't know what kind of tea the old gentleman brewed here?" This tea is known at a glance to be an extraordinary product, but the younger generation is only shallow in learning, and I failed to recognize the variety of this tea, and I asked the old gentleman to solve my doubts. ”
"Hahaha, in fact, it's nothing, I planted a few tea trees on the mountain myself, and this tea is handmade throughout the whole process, you must taste it." The old man smiled heartily.
The two looked at each other, wondering why the village chief was still serious just now, why did he become so peaceful when he returned home?
Luo Hua threw Feng Jin a look, meaning to ask him if he could speak now, and Feng Jin nodded.
"I wonder what the old gentleman told us to come here?" Luo Hua asked.
The village chief said: "I thought you wouldn't speak, let you come to my house, in fact, to protect you, this village is not as safe as it was back then, everyone began to be more wary of outsiders, you suddenly broke into the village from the outside, everyone felt that years of investment did not seem to have much effect......"
"What does that mean?" Feng Jin interjected and asked.
"In the early years, people often disappeared in the village, as I said earlier, but later they were found dead in the suburbs, and it was horrific to see. But for so many years, the murderer has not been caught, and even the shadow of the murderer has not been seen, everyone unanimously decided to raise funds to lay a trap around the village, the only way is the road you enter the village, the boundary monument of life and death is the boundary between the village and the outside world, if outsiders do not have a traffic order, they will definitely die in the trap if they cross the boundary monument of life and death without authorization. However, you entered the village unharmed, and some of you began to wonder if the line of defense that had been put up had lost its purpose......," said the old man.
Feng Jin remembered that he and Luo Hua stayed at the Boundary Monument of Life and Death for most of the day yesterday evening, and he didn't see anything else, only the fog that was constantly filling, who would have thought that both sides of the path were traps that would kill people! Fortunately, the fog obscured the view, and I couldn't see the traps hidden in the forest, and if I rushed into it out of curiosity, I felt terrible to think about the consequences.
These people in Sandaoxing Village are not ordinary people, the traps they have laid, ordinary people will definitely die, even if they have some ability, they will definitely be trapped by a series of traps, one after another, and they will eventually lose their lives.
"Did any outsiders die before because of the traps you planted?" Feng Jin asked.
"There used to be a few cases, but then there were a lot fewer of them, and in recent years, no one has been found to have died in the trap, and everyone thinks that the village is notorious, and some people who don't have the courage are afraid to come."
"That's ...... so"
Luo Hua asked, "Then we didn't find any danger when we came in this time, because we were lucky?" Or are the traps already not working? ”
"Alas, this one is not clear at the moment. My fear is that these people in the village will think that there is something wrong with the traps and send someone to check them out, but few people can remember the exact location of each trap clearly, and there is a high chance that something will happen next. The old man sighed.
The village chief's worries are not unreasonable, the villagers' defensive psychology is already very serious, and anyone who does not have a pass order to enter the village is tantamount to a monster in the village, and then they will start eating people.
"If it is really found that the trap has failed, which means that the defense line that has been built for many years has been lost, will everyone riot next?" Feng Jin asked.
"It's hard to say, it's absolutely possible to send someone to check the trap, and as for what will happen next, no one can say. And the timing of your coming is also very unlucky, if you don't come early or come at night, but you enter the village on the night of the forbidden day, and then it will be troublesome. ”
The village chief's statement made Feng Jin a little confused for a while, about the statement of the forbidden day, I had already heard the old man Xiao talk about it last night, no wonder there was another secret in it?
Feng Jin said again: "I heard Mr. Li mention the past about the forbidden day last night, I don't know if there are other undisclosed secrets in this?" ”
"That's a long story," the village chief said, taking a sip of tea, "I guess you all heard Lao Li talk about it last night, and most of them should be the same, but there is one thing he probably didn't tell you." ”
It turned out that there was really a secret in this, Feng Jin couldn't help but feel a little proud of his judgment, and Luo Hua looked curious, as if he was expecting the village chief to tell another interesting story.
But after waiting for a long time, the village chief didn't speak again, and drank tea there by himself, and the scene suddenly became cold.
"I don't know what you call the village chief?" Feng Jin only remembered this question now, he had been chatting for most of the day and had forgotten to ask, and he was scolding himself while thinking about countermeasures, this village chief looked quite amiable, if he had a good relationship with him, maybe he could save a lot of trouble, and maybe he could gather the materials for the formation here.
"Just call me Lao Qin, the ancestors of many villagers in Sandaoxing Village moved in from the outside world, and most of them escaped famine and war, and inadvertently broke into this isolated village, and since then they have taken root here. Lao Li, whom you saw last night, came to his house relatively late, his parents fled from their hometown to this place decades ago, I was the same age as him at that time, and I grew up playing with him, but unfortunately he had no children and left ......early."
Looking at the village chief's lonely expression, Feng Jin didn't know what to say, there were too many secrets in this village, and he always felt that he and Luo Hua had fallen into the pit carefully dug by others, and they got into trouble as soon as they came here, as if they wanted to restrain them to death, and it was also possible to delay the time to go back.
Feng Jin first rejected this idea, the villagers did not know that he was coming, and they did not know him, and wanted to harm two people from outside, this condition was obviously not met.
Maybe there are other possibilities, Feng Jin thought about it again, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that there were many strange things about this trip, and he couldn't help frowning. (To be continued.) )