Mei Shi welcomes the rain, and the vast is in late spring.

The sorrow is deep in the ape night, and the dream is broken in the morning of the chicken.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

The state capital was shrouded in a curtain of rain, and the sky was gray.

Since coming to the fifth lunar month, it has also entered the rainy season.

That's the case during the rainy season.

As soon as it started raining, it kept raining, raining, and it went on and on.

Tick-tock, the eaves of the water beads in a string, strung into a white beaded curtain.

It's still Hefu.

But today, four or five days have passed since the five gods were ambushed.

The large study room of the He Mansion.

The black hair is coiled into a bun, a hairpin and a jade hairpin, and a pearl gorse hairpin, a wide white mopping long skirt, eyebrows are not described, and the eldest lady with mature charm sits in the high hall, palming the internal affairs of all sizes in the whole He Mansion.

It's sunset.

The eldest lady listened to the reports of several stewards in the house, dealt with the internal affairs saved today, and took care of hundreds of people in an orderly manner.

The eldest lady is wise and virtuous.

Both talent and virtue.

After dealing with the internal affairs, the eldest lady rubbed her temples a little tiredly.

"Big lady, the old slave still has one last thing to report, madam, you want the old slave to instruct the branches in various places to find spiritual martial arts for the head of Jin'an, and the matter has already been settled. ”

"Oh, the efficiency of those people below is quite fast, it's only been less than five days since the last time Daoist Jin An and Daoist Chen drove evil spirits out of my mansion. ”

After dealing with all kinds of heart-wrenching internal affairs for a day, it was rare to encounter a big lady who was no longer a little tired about the trivial internal affairs in the house, and suddenly became interested.

The old housekeeper of the He Mansion replied respectfully: "The main reason is that this matter was ordered by the eldest lady herself, so the people below dare not be negligent. ”

After the old housekeeper finished speaking, there was hesitation on his face: "It's just ......"

"Just what?"

The eldest lady frowned in displeasure, she didn't like these people under her too much.

The old housekeeper heard the displeased tone in the eldest lady's words, and did not dare to slack off again, so he hurriedly replied with fear: "The other party is a down-and-out martial arts family, although he has retired to the rivers and lakes, but he was still hunted down by the former enemy, because his father was injured and urgently needed a hundred years of medicinal materials to heal. ”

"The other party doesn't ask for money, just a hundred-year-old healing herb......"

In addition, the other party also made some requests, saying that this spiritual martial art is their family's unique martial arts, and in order to prevent us from leaking their family's unique secrets to others, he is only willing to hand over the first half of this spiritual martial arts. The second half is related to the life and death of the family and the revival, and refuses to hand it over. ”

Is it a 100-year-old medicinal herb......

The eldest lady was silent for a moment.

Hundred-year-old medicinal materials are precious, even the most ordinary hundred-year-old medicinal materials are worth hundreds of taels of silver.

And the kind of century-old medicinal materials with healing effects are not comparable to ordinary century-old medicinal materials, which must be put on the rivers and lakes, and they may not be able to be bought for 100 gold.

However, the He family has a big business, and with the other three medicinal herb merchants, they control nearly half of the medicinal material business in the state capital.

The muffle of the eldest lady was not long.

Then she quickly settled the matter.

And when the discussion was about the purchase of century-old medicinal materials for Jin'an, the eldest lady looked around, her thin eyebrows wrinkled slightly, and looked at the old housekeeper: "I haven't seen the third lady for a day today, and the third lady secretly went to the Five Organs Taoist Temple to find the Taoist chief of Jin'an today?"

This is the family affairs of the master's family, the old housekeeper is a subordinate, how dare he talk more about the family affairs of the master's family, he lowered his head, and could only respond honestly and simply.

"Sure enough, the woman didn't stay. ”

"When the wings are stiff, they learn to fly on their own. ”

The eldest lady laughed and scolded angrily, and several stewards in the big study didn't dare to look up, wondering in their hearts that the eldest lady was really angry, or fake angry?

......

......

The Taoist temple of the five organs, which has always been deserted, has gradually become lively in the past few days.

Even the old Taoist priest had more laugh lines on his face.

Because the Taoist temple of the five organs, which has always been zero incense believers, finally began to have its own believer incense, and the incense is still very strong every day.

No way, rich people can really do whatever they want.

Miss He Fusan has been running to the Taoist temple of the five internal organs recently, and she has been running diligently, every time she buys incense with a lot of money, and even the business of the coffin shop opposite the Taoist temple has improved.

The coffin shop not only sells coffins, but also yellow paper, paper ingots, shrouds, incense sticks, candles, etc., and the Fushou shop and the coffin shop provide one-stop service.

The incense of the Taoist temple has suddenly been strong in the past few days, and there is no stock in the Taoist temple, so naturally it will revitalize the surrounding business.

So even Uncle Lin looked at Miss He Fusan very kindly.

The nearest incense believer of the Five Organs Taoist Temple is not only the third lady of He Mansion, but even the Li Escort of He Mansion has become an incense believer.

Every day, if there is nothing to do, I run to the Taoist temple.

All he thinks about is hitting evil spirits.

Then the girls and the old lady in the clothes room of He Fuhuan, as well as the two maids beside the eldest lady, also became incense believers in the Five Organs Taoist Temple.

It's just that they rarely have the opportunity to leave the house, so they come occasionally, not like the first two who run to the Five Organs Daoguan every day.

But in any case, there are now eleven incense believers in the Five Organs Taoist Temple.

Compared with the cold and deserted at the beginning, the zero incense believers have been much better.

Especially among them, there is also a rich second-generation daughter who is not bad for money.

this day.

Jin An avoided Miss He Fusan, and the old Taoist priest had just sent Miss He Fusan away with his front foot, and the big fat man Li Escort had a big belly, and his back foot ran to the Taoist Temple of the Five Organs.

"Escort Li, you go to our small Taoist temple twice in three days, don't you need to take care of the family?"

Jin An was speechless and looked at Escort Li, who had already poured himself a cup of tea and water after getting acquainted with them.

Li Guard's answer was very simple and simple, he winked at Jin An: "Who said that the guards of the He Mansion must only be confined to the He Mansion?"

"Inspecting the surrounding environment of He Mansion and investigating hidden dangers in advance is also one of the responsibilities of Ben Li's guards. ”

Faced with this brazen fishing in troubled waters, Jin An gave the other party a hehe face on the spot.

As long as you're happy.

Anyway, Hefu is not mine.

Chatting today, the old Taoist priest talked about his courage again, one spoke with his eyebrows fluttering, spit splashing, and the other listened with envy.

Jin An: "?"

God is so envious.

When the old Taoist priest finished speaking, Li Huwei's face was still full of unfinished emotion.

I can't wait to lose my current job and have a trip with the old Taoist priest.

Looking at Guard Li, who was always thinking about hitting the evil spirit once, Jin An'an moved his head, and he remembered a small detail when he met Guard Li at the beginning.

This Li guard, who is eager to hit the evil spirit once, once said that he knows a little about all kinds of folk legends and legends in the state capital.

"Escort Li, I wonder if you have ever heard of the place name Headless Village?"

Jin An asked.

"Headless Village?"

Li Huwei looked over curiously, curious why Jin An suddenly asked about this.

Li Huwei has a good memory, saying that he has heard of such a place name as Headless Village, Jin An and the old Taoist priest heard this, and their spirits immediately perked up, and Jin An couldn't wait to ask for details.

So, this Li guard, who was particularly curious and familiar with all kinds of folk legends and legends in Wuzhou Mansion, began to talk about everything he knew.

What is a headless village?

Of course, it's a village where the villagers don't have heads around their necks.

And people don't have heads.

Naturally, it is dead.

So this headless village is a place where the dead gather.

According to what Li Huwei said, the matter of this headless village has to start with a foot merchant.

It all started a few years ago.

Specifically, it happened in a few years, and there is no evidence.

There was a group of businessmen, reselling goods, earning the difference between the two places, and often went back and forth between the neighboring state capitals. And in order to avoid the bandits and bandits along the road, this group of foot merchants has their own trail to carry goods.

It's just that this trail is not easy to walk, because most of it is in the deep mountains and old forests.

But the good thing is that they are careful along the way.

Never rush to the night.

Never curious.

Don't ask what's going on along the way.

In this way, they did business as a business for a few years, but they were all right.

There is a mountain road that is the most dangerous part of the way, and you have to walk through a steep cliff.

The mountain road.

It's unusually steep indeed.

Most of the roads can only be passed by one person, and in some places you can't even step on one foot, and you can only barely let people step on half of the foot.

If a person accidentally steps into the air, it is a cliff, and there is no corpse.

And there are often falling rocks overhead.

So they named the mountain road the Hanging Road.

In the rainy season, the mountains are cold and foggy, and the hanging road is even more slippery and difficult to walk.

As the saying goes, people die for money, and birds die for food.

Even if this mountain road is difficult to walk, knowing that it is dangerous and abnormal, it may fall to pieces at any time, but in the face of the high price difference between the two places, people show enough madness in front of interests.

It's just that I often walk by the river, how can I not get my shoes wet.

The group of foot merchants finally encountered an accident, and a large number of rocks suddenly fell on the mountain that day, and they were caught off guard, and they were hit by those falling rocks and their heads were bleeding, and many people were injured.

Fortunately, they were almost finished on that part of the mountain road, and the last part of the road was wide, but no one was thrown off the cliff by falling rocks.

But even so, many people were injured.

Two of their arms had been broken by falling rocks, and they urgently needed a place to treat the wounded.

Otherwise, the arms of those two people will definitely be useless.

At this time, they saw smoke rising from the mountain, which was a family in the mountain that was making a fire for cooking. They were glad that they had met people in the mountains, and they finally had no end in the road, so they hurriedly rushed to the direction of the cooking smoke with the wounded.

When they walked to the place where the smoke was cooking, they found a village, where a farmer was carrying a hoe back to the village for dinner, and among the thatched huts where the smoke was curling, there were chickens and dogs barking, and children running around, a calm and peaceful scene.

Fortunately, the people in the village are simple, and when they saw the injured people entering the village, they not only did not exclude them, but also offered them good food and drink, and took the initiative to help them treat the wounded.

The peddlers were grateful to the villagers for their warmth, and soon they became acquainted with the hospitable villagers.

At the same time, I also learned the name of this mountain village.

This mountain village is called Taoyuan Village, they are isolated from the world, their ancestors in order to escape the war a long time ago, and then fled into the mountains, for generations to live in this deep mountain, no one has ever walked out of the mountains.

The daily living expenses are all completed by men and women weaving, and self-sufficiency.

The more the businessmen listened, the more envious they became, envious of the people in Taoyuan Village, who lived and worked in peace and contentment.

On that day, the hospitable villagers of Taoyuan Village, slaughtering chickens, pigs and fishing, entertaining with good wine and meat, celebrating the rare arrival of outsiders in the village, and inviting those foot merchants to tell them about the changes that have taken place outside.

Fortunately, the gang of foot merchants ran the rivers and lakes all the year round, hiding a dagger in their arms, a silver ticket in their insoles, and a heart of defense in their hearts, and they knew very well that they were drinking and making mistakes, so they did not covet the things in the cup, but they did not eat less meat.

A huge pig's head also made a few people quickly divide up.

As a result, the chickens and pigs had just been slaughtered last night, and the next day, the village began to slaughter chickens and pigs again, and continued to entertain the gang of foot merchants with good wine and meat.

However, not everyone in the gang of foot traders was dazed, and there were still people who were vigilant enough.

Among these people was a man named Ding Bao.

He was one of the two men whose arm had been broken by a falling rock, and because of his arm injury, he did not attend the campfire dinner in the village, and when the other merchants had returned from eating, he was surprised to hear everyone's descriptions, and then raised his own questions.

Ding Bao asked everyone, if the people in Taoyuan Village are really fleeing the war for generations, where do they get the pigs?

It is impossible to drive domestic pigs into the deep mountains, is it more credible to say that there are chickens, ducks, cats and dogs on the road, after all, wild boars are not domestic pigs, and there is a big difference between the two.

And let's not talk about driving pigs into the mountains, just in the war years, ordinary people can't even afford to eat pork. To put it mildly, there will be famine in every war, and the war will cause the people to have no intention of cultivating and growing grain, I am afraid that the people will not be hungry at that time, and everyone will be so hungry that they only eat grass roots, and even cook people's food, and where will the live pigs be driven into the mountains for you?

Ding Bao asked everyone again, if the people of Taoyuan Village really haven't gone out all this time and haven't been in contact with people from the outside world, then how do they reproduce?

During the day he had seen the people of the village, and there were a hundred of them.

If you have never been in contact with the outside world, and you have not married the outside world, then you are close relatives and reproduce.

But everyone knows that if a village is all inbred and reproduced, then it will not be long before the village will definitely die out and not exist for long.

Why do these villagers live in the village unharmed, and have been multiplying for generations?

When the group of foot merchants was told by Ding Bao, the joyful atmosphere just now also calmed down, and everyone was in a cold sweat on their backs by Ding Bao's second question.

A person who is capable of buying and selling business has a more shrewd mind than the other, which one will be a stupid person?

Otherwise, in the business field of deceitful people, I would have been eaten so much that there was not even a single bone residue left.

That night, everyone discussed, and they would leave this strange village as soon as it dawned tomorrow.

That night, the lights in the house were lit all night, and they took turns to keep watch all night, nothing happened, and a dozen people spent the night peacefully.

Next.

As soon as the dawn dawned, the gang of footmen was in a hurry to leave the village.

Originally, they didn't plan to quit, but just sneaked away.

Who knows, the villagers in Taoyuan Village actually started killing chickens and pigs again early in the morning, and they had already set up a wine banquet to warmly entertain the group of foot merchants.

Since being woken up by Ding Bao's words, no matter where the businessmen dare to continue to stay in Taoyuan Village, they all want to quit and leave.

But the villagers of Taoyuan Village are too enthusiastic.

The gang of footmen will never return.

Just when the stalemate was at a stalemate, Ding Bao in the group of foot merchants actually saw an acquaintance among the villagers of Taoyuan Village, and he immediately exclaimed in surprise: "Yang Zhi! Yang Zhi, aren't you dead?"

"Didn't you encounter robbers last year, who were killed and robbed of money, why did you end up here? Why did you become a villager in Taoyuan Village?"

I don't know.

Ding Bao's words were like waking up a person in a dream, the villager of Taoyuan Village named Yang Zhi actually fell to the ground on the spot, and the headless corpse fell straight to the ground, and died of exhaustion.

At this time, the villagers of Taoyuan Village, who were still surrounding them, also slipped their heads from their necks, and the originally lively village instantly became a desolate and dilapidated headless village.

The headless domestic pig that fell to the side also became a headless human corpse.

The gang of foot merchants was so frightened that they fled from the village in embarrassment.

When the government heard the report, there was a headless village hidden in the mountains, and immediately led troops to find the headless village. As a result, it is strange to say this time, the road is still the same road, and the location is still the same location, but no matter how you look for it this time, the government has never found Taoyuan Village.

It's as if this Taoyuan village has never existed.

The government thought that the gang of footmen were false officials and a waste of manpower and material resources in the government, so they put the gang of footmen in prison for half a year before they were released.

With the people being imprisoned in the big guy, no one cares about Taoyuan Village.

After that, the gang of traders did not dare to take this road again, and from then on they took other routes and resold their goods elsewhere.

It's just that when it comes to the rainy season of the following year, that is, the rainy season when the gang of foot merchants met Taoyuan Village last year, these foot merchants all disappeared mysteriously overnight.

There is no one in life, and no corpse in death.

So the folk gradually added a legend of Zhiwei... said that these people finally returned to Taoyuan Village, just like the person named Yang Zhi at the beginning.

Even if he dies, he can't escape the curse of Taoyuan Village.

The person named Yang Zhi was Ding Bao's leader at the beginning, he was the one who led Ding Bao into this industry, and it was also Ding Bao and other colleagues who he told the hanging road.

Therefore, according to folk legends, it is very likely that Yang Zhi also met the headless village of Taoyuan Village, and entered the headless village a year earlier than Ding Bao, so in the end, he could not escape death, and in the rainy season, he returned to the headless village inexplicably.

......

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

The gray plum rain outside the Taoist temple is still falling.

"Little brother, it's been raining non-stop, and I suddenly feel a little cold. ”

The old Taoist priest rubbed his arms together.