Hua Ou and Shu Jianhua agreed, and then they all followed the village chief and the other villagers to the village on foot. When they arrived in the village, the others dispersed, and the village chief took them to the village chief's house.

The village chief's house is really spacious enough, and a small second floor is grand enough. The village chief took them to two rooms on the first floor.

The village chief opened a room and said: "The township chief and county magistrate who came to inspect above all live in my house, these two rooms are prepared for guests, and I will ask your aunt to burn the kang for you, and the men will live in one room, and the women will live in one room." If you see the window, you can rest assured that the place you just barbecued from the window. ”

Hua Ou thanked the village chief, and at this time Shu Jianhua suddenly asked, "I've been bothering you for a long time, and I still don't know your surname?" You can't just call the village chief like that, right? ”

The village chief said very boldly: "My name is Zhang Guangcai, you can call me Uncle Zhang." ”

Hua Ou called Uncle Zhang one bite at a time, and when Zhang Guangcai prepared the futon and burned the kang, Hua Qi asked, "Uncle Zhang, what is the matter with the mountain god you are talking about?" Are there still gods in this mountain? ”

"You can be quiet, you can't just talk nonsense." Zhang Guangcai said: "Actually, we can't tell whether it's a god or a ghost, anyway, every time he comes, there is a gust of wind, which is very scary." They don't eat people, they don't eat livestock and poultry, but this is not a good thing, and it has already scared several people in our village out of illness. ”

Although Hua Qi can only see ghosts and doesn't know much about ghosts, he can also understand from the description of the village chief that this old ghost is not a good thing.

Thinking of this, Hua Qi asked, "Then how long has this mountain god appeared?" Are there any legends or anything like that? Or has anyone in the village done something out of the ordinary? ”

"Hey, you little girl, why do you ask such strange things?" Zhang Guangcai asked puzzled.

This question can make Hua Ou, Gu and Shu embarrassed, you can't say that Hua Qi is born to see ghosts, right? But it was not difficult for Hua Qi, she said: "I am from the Folk Folklore Association, specializing in investigating these ghosts and gods, you can tell me, maybe your story is wonderful enough, and it can be written in a book." ”

"What folklore association? Why haven't I heard of it? You still publish books, huh? Zhang Guangcai said.

Hua Qi and his group were sighing at Hua Qi's intelligence, but they didn't expect this Zhang Guangcai to be so shrewd, and he didn't deceive him by making up nonsense, Hua Ou wanted to simply be honest, and then Hua Qi preemptively said: "We used to be mainly active in remote mountainous areas in the south, such as Miao Village, Maoshan or something. Now that the folk culture of the south has been investigated, I have returned to the northeast to investigate and investigate the folk culture of the northeast. We're here to ask about folklore and legends, and there are people who specialize in researching the gods and shamans. ”

No matter how shrewd Zhang Guangcai is, he can't stand Hua Qi's foolishness, and let alone the farmer uncle who has been farming all his life, even if there is such an association, he may not know.

After listening to Hua Qi's "professional" explanation, Zhang Guangcai said: "It's been like this for a long time, I wouldn't have understood it earlier." We, the mountain gods, have been talking about it for fifty or sixty years, and I heard about it when I was a child. When my grandfather was back, he told me that a man had fallen to his death in the mountains more than 60 years ago, and that person had become a mountain god to protect the people in the nearby village in order to prevent others from being killed. But guarding a fart, the mountain gods have been making more and more trouble in the past few years, and there are several people who have been scared to death, all of them are lies. ”

It turned out that more than 60 years ago, Zhang Guangcai's grandfather was in his twenties, and Zhang Guangcai's father had not yet been born. At that time, the folk customs were simple, and the rural people were closed-minded, and the big girl with yellow flowers would never be able to marry if she was ruined.

And this matter was publicized, and the villages in all directions knew about it, and the girl couldn't stand the gossip of others, so she found a steep place on Phoenix Mountain and jumped down and died.

The girl's parents were very sad and cursed the gossip of their descendants to die, and cursed the bastard who had spoiled their daughter never to live.

Legend has it that after the girl jumped down, she did not die, so she wrote a blood book with her last breath, saying that she would not be blind to death, and that sooner or later she would come back to take revenge.

The people in the village were very scared, so they buried the girl in a big way, and invited the monk to do things to overkill the soul, and asked the husband to find a good grave site for the girl to bury.

The girl was fine for the first few years of her death, but not in the fourth year. Whenever a villager enters the mountain alone, he will get lost, trapped in the mountain for several days, hungry, and embarrassed before he can find a way out.

Later, there were often people in the mountains, and sometimes they would see ghosts at the foot of the mountain, usually seeing a figure clearly, and it was gone in the blink of an eye. Or in the mountains, for some reason, they will scream as if they were frightened by something, and then they will run away like crazy and never come back.

The villagers suspected that the girl's ghost had come back to seek revenge, so they asked the husband to clean up the female ghost. It took several gentlemen in a row to stop this evil trend, and the haunting incident stopped for more than 30 years.

At that time, the last gentleman, the one who really saw the results, said: "If you want to quiet this female ghost, make offerings to her as a god, and from time to time offer some fruit and incense." Let that girl's resentment settle down and it will be fine. ”

The villagers did so, anyway, there were so many people in the village, and each family took turns to pay some money to buy some tribute incense and candles, and it would be fine if they went to the mountains and burned it for the girl. Because the gentleman asked the girl to be offered as a mountain god, the people in the village habitually called her the mountain god.

But after thirty or forty years, the older generation of villagers died, and the undead basically couldn't move anymore and couldn't go up the mountain anymore. The younger generation of people don't believe in this at all, and they don't take the mountain god seriously at all, and at first they can still think of incense and worship the mountain god, but after more than ten years, after now, no one has gone to burn incense and make offerings to the mountain god.

As a result, since five years ago, the mountain gods have been making trouble again, running out from time to time to scare people, and more than a dozen people in the village have been scared and sick by now. The symptoms are mild and severe, the light is dull, not talking and ignoring people, and the serious is crazy, and none of them are cured anyway.