Talk as you go.

A group of five people gradually approached Taoyuan Village.

As you get closer to Taoyuan Village.

You can see large tracts of barren fields cultivated around the village.

These barren fields are untended by no one.

Nowadays weeds, shrubs, vines are overgrown.

The ridges and canals that were originally reclaimed have long been buried by the weeds that are high and have disappeared.

Jin An held a tiger sword in front of him to open the way.

The tiger sword swept like a sickle in his hand.

Smooth out a way.

In the middle of the night, the deep mountains and old forests were extremely quiet, only the sound of their bodies passing through the grass and the murmuring of the river not far away.

The shrubs in the deep mountains and old forests cover the sky and the moon, especially dark, not to mention the moonlight, even the starlight can't shine in, the surrounding darkness is as dark as a splash of thick ink, only the torches in their hands in Jin An act as barely illumination.

"Little brother, how do I feel that this situation is a little wrong?"

The old Taoist priest turned his head and looked around and said.

"It's not normal. Jin An's eyes were dewed.

"We were on the high cliff road, and we obviously saw people cooking on the fire here, but now, we only saw large areas of barren fields, and it was so peaceful, unusually calm. ”

Jin An said, secretly glancing at the jade wanderer walking beside him.

Yu Youzi had a normal expression on his face, and he was looking around in surprise, occasionally looking up at the direction of the stars and moon above his head, and occasionally looking at the surrounding feng shui landforms, just like coming to Taoyuan Village for the first time, and the person did not show any abnormality.

The old Taoist priest looked at Escort Li at this time, smashed his mouth, and said suspiciously: "Master Li, are you sure that there is nothing missing in the story of the headless village you told?"

"Didn't you say that after the gang of foot merchants came to Taoyuan Village, the people here were lively, the people were busy in the ridges, there were children laughing and running around on the rural dirt roads, and the chickens and dogs were crying in the countryside?"

The old Taoist priest looked around at the darkness and dead silence around them, as if they were walking in a cemetery, and continued to wonder: "The villagers of Taoyuan Village are simple and hospitable, we have all entered the boundary of Taoyuan Village for so long, and we are all about to walk through the barren fields and enter the village, why haven't we even seen a hospitable villager?"

At this time, even Yu Youzi also answered: "There is a story about the Taoyuan Village that Li Huwei said, I have also heard about the poor road, and it is indeed very different from the situation we are encountering now. ”

"New Sect Leader, could it be that this is not Taoyuan Village?"

"Is there any other place in Taoyuan Village?"

Jin An thought as he walked: "We saw the fire here on the mountain, it can't be fake, it can't be our collective hallucination, we can only continue to look for it." ”

On the next journey, after the five of them walked out of the barren field, they found that the soil and rocks under their feet began to gradually become flat and hard.

The soles of the shoes rubbed vigorously on the ground.

Rubbing away a layer of shallow soil on the surface that no one has been here all year round, revealing the rural gravel road below, it seems that they have finally walked out of the ridge area of Taoyuan Village and have walked on the dirt and stone road into Taoyuan Village.

The shrubs in front were sparse, and in the hazy moonlight, the vague dark outline of the village could already be seen.

"It seems that this is Taoyuan Village. Jin Andao.

The road was peaceful.

Not to mention the headless corpse feast.

They didn't even see the light of the cooking fires they had seen on the mountain, and the village was extremely dark and silent.

Knowing Suosuo –

In the mountains in the middle of the night, there was only the footsteps of the five people of Jin'an, and they finally came to Taoyuan Village, and it turned out that this was a desolate and abandoned dead village, and there was nothing.

Dozens of dilapidated stone houses, scattered around the perimeter, covered with damp and slippery green moss and creepers.

The stone pavement underfoot is covered with a thick layer of black skin.

From under these stone paths, a section of old tree roots broke out, and if you were not careful, you could trip people, and you thought it was a ghost stumbling in the middle of the night.

Many of the stone houses have collapsed.

A group of five people walked in this dilapidated and desolate village, looking small and cold.

Smack.

Smack.

Smack.

In the empty village, the sound of footsteps came far away, crisp, empty, and gave people a depressing feeling, walking in the deep mountains and deserted villages, like walking among the tombstones of mass graves.

"It's weird, these houses are so strange, why do they all sit east and face west, not north and south?" The old Taoist priest with old arms and legs, the worst fighting power old Taoist priest held a torch in his hand, walking in the middle of the crowd, he muttered all the way.

"There is a saying among the people, saying that the gate faces south, and the children and grandchildren are not cold, and the gate faces west, and they cry noisily. It means that the house with the gate facing west has poor lighting, and the sun cannot be seen all year round, so the house is cold and cold, and it is easy to breed poisonous snakes, millipedes and other yin-loving poisonous insects entrenched in the house. ”

"As for the west-facing gate, noisy and crying, they all say that newborn babies can see things that ordinary people can't see, so they often cry and cry. ”

"This village is not like a yang house for the living, but a yin house for the dead......

At this point, the old Taoist priest seemed to think of something, and suddenly ran into a stone house that had collapsed halfway and the door had long since disappeared.

Jin An and several people also hurriedly followed.

As a result, when I saw a few black coffins in the stone house, the atmosphere suddenly became gloomy.

Those coffins looked like they were many years old, and the coffin boards had been exposed to rain all year round, gloomy and damp, faded and rotted badly, and even the bones and rotten linen clothes inside could be faintly seen.

This discovery immediately surprised several people.

They began to randomly inspect a few nearby houses, and sure enough, there were black coffins in each house, and black coffins meant that the bodies buried were those who died in vain, those who died unjustly.

Some have three coffins in their homes.

In some homes, there were more than a dozen coffins, filling the entire room.

At first glance, the whole family is dead.

The whole Taoyuan Village is a yin village! It was really said by the old Taoist priest!

"Daoist Jin An, Daoist Chen, Daoist Yuyouzi, you come to see this coffin, why do I think the color of this coffin is more and more wrong, why does it look like it is newer than other coffins?"

Guarding Li, who was lying next to a coffin, was interested in researching and was not afraid of life at all, suddenly shouted in surprise.

In this house, there are a total of twelve coffins, there are large coffins, there are small coffins, adults are buried in the big coffin, and children are buried in the small coffin.

Because there were too many coffins, they couldn't fit in the house, and they were even stacked in two layers.

Just now, they were just hurriedly checking whether there were coffins in each house, and under the black light, they didn't notice the difference in the color of the coffins.

This time, they were reminded by Li Huwei's sharp eyes, and they noticed that the color of the coffin in front of them was really different from the color of other coffins.

With the unique discovery of this coffin, everyone began to examine all the twelve coffins in this house.

"The color of this coffin is also different. ”

"Little brother, the color of the coffin here is relatively new. ”

"Supreme Taiyi saves the suffering Tianzun, and the poor road also found a coffin with a newer color......"

Among the twelve black coffins, a small half of them were slightly newer in color than the others, and now, needless to say, everyone noticed that there was something wrong with these coffins.

"This coffin must have been added later, right?"

"Could it be that the descendants of Taoyuan Village who walked out of the mountains and came back later? Talking about a fallen leaf returning to the roots, people die and return to their hometowns, and after people die outside, they must bring their bodies back to Taoyuan Village for burial in order to rest in peace?"

Guarding Li stood beside the eerie coffin and guessed.

Escort Li looked at the so many coffins in front of him, especially the strange smell in the room, people were not nervous or taboo at all, but surrounded these coffins in thick lines.

But Jin An refuted Li Huwei's conjecture on the spot: "The black coffin can only bury people who have died, not normal deaths or deaths, only by priing open the lid of the coffin can you see what is inside." ”

After Jin An spoke, he looked at the old Taoist: "Old Dao, I know that your Tai Chi Bagua Blanket is lined with tarpaulin, and there are some incense candles in your Tai Chi Bagua Blanket." You take out some incense and candles, and we will pay homage to these deceased, and then open the coffins today to see what mysteries are hidden in these coffins. ”

The old Taoist priest said a good word, and then took out a lot of candles, incense sticks, and even a lot of yellow paper from the ordinary-looking Tai Chi Bagua Blanket like a trick.

This made Jin An think of the treasure bag......

For the process and ritual of worshiping the dead, the old Taoist priest is naturally ripe.

He asked Guard Li to find a few rocks, set up a fire pit in the gloomy house full of coffins, and then began to light the yellow paper and burn it to the souls of the dead in the room.

Then, the old Taoist priest lit a candle in the open space in front of each coffin.

In the case of a coffin stacked on top of each other, a candle is placed on the ground and a candle is placed on the coffin of the top coffin.

Then the incense sticks were lit.

In the coffin room, which was filled with a damp and musty smell, the old Taoist priest began to insert a stick of incense into the crack of each coffin.

After that, it's time to open the coffin and perform an autopsy!

The first to open the coffin were those coffins with relatively new colors, and this matter of prying the coffin was naturally Jin An and Li Huwei, two people with a few strengths.

"Daoist Jin'an, you said that we disturbed the sleep of the deceased, the moment we pushed open the lid of the coffin, would we cheat the corpse and stretch out a pair of hands from the coffin to ask for our lives?"

Li Huwei and Jin An stood on both sides of the coffin one by one, this matter of digging people's graves and digging people's coffins, he was still the first time in his life to experience, and it was natural for people to be so nervous that they began to fantasize about some bloody pictures.

Boom –

Click, click

Boom!

The lid of the coffin fell to the ground, there was no imaginary corpse, a strange smell that had been closed in the coffin for a long time gushed out, smelling some punches, Escort Li was almost washed and stumbled, and he was smoked away on the spot.

Jin An has experienced many of these scenes, and he has long been accustomed to it, he is as steady as a rock, his face does not change, he stands still, and looks curiously at the coffin, in which there is a dead and incorruptible corpse.

"There is no burial gas in this coffin, and the people in this coffin have not been buried after they died. The old Taoist priest and the jade wanderer both gathered around the coffin, each holding a torch in their hands.

The speaker is Yu Youzi.

In the coffin was the corpse of a middle-aged man, whose facial features were twisted and twisted under the flickering light of the torches.

In fact, the corpse in the coffin remained calm and motionless all the time, which was actually caused by poor vision caused by the shadow of the fire.

"There is a head, not a headless corpse, Lao Dao, I thought that the headless village was full of headless corpses. ”

The old Taoist priest held a torch in his hand and looked at the corpse in the coffin in amazement.

At this time, Escort Li, who had tied a strip of cloth around his mouth and nose, also came over to look at the corpse with a torch in his hand: "Daoist Yuyouzi, what is funeral gas, is there any difference between funeral gas and the smell of decaying corpses?"

Yu Youzi patiently explained in detail: "The mountains and rivers and the earth have their own veins, either subtle or ephemeral, or grand and thoroughfare, and in popular terms, it is the feng shui point point, looking for a good yang house and a yin house." ”

"Wood can breathe, the coffin of the burial, more or less will suck a little bit of the flow of the mountain and water, over time it will bring a little funeral gas, ordinary people can not see the funeral gas, you can smell the coffin whether there is an earthy smell to simply judge whether the coffin has been buried. Of course, this method of identification is sometimes prone to mistakes, but it is also the easiest way to justify it better than nothing. ”

Next, Jin An opened the coffins one by one, and then found that those coffins with newer colors were all dead and incorruptible corpses, some men and women, some old and some young.

"Little brother, have you noticed?" the old Taoist priest looked at Jin An.

"The villagers of Taoyuan Village fled to the mountains because they fled to the mountains to escape the war a long time ago, and rarely communicated with the outside world. ”

After the old Taoist priest said this, everyone really found such a detail.

The old Taoist priest continued to marvel and said: "Is it true that there are villagers in Taoyuan Village who later walked out of the mountains and lived outside?

"But it doesn't make sense, since they have all traveled thousands of miles back to the village, why don't they be buried and buried in the ground? Is it because the burial custom in Taoyuan Village is to put private coffins at home?

"Is it possible that the victims who strayed into Taoyuan Village in recent years, disappeared during the rainy season, and finally returned to Taoyuan Village by themselves? But this also doesn't make sense, where did they get their coffins?" the old Taoist priest said, the more he felt puzzled.

"Pry open other, older coffins and take a look. "Jin An's method is simple and crude.

Boom!

The lid of the coffin fell to the ground heavily.

The corpse in the coffin this time was an old woman, her clothes were highly decomposed, tattered and tattered into strips of cloth, which could still be seen through the style, and the linen clothes on her body were old and did not belong to the style that had been popular in Kangdingguo in recent years.

Jin An's conjecture was indeed approved by the old Taoist priest and Yu Youzi.

Speaking of such an ancient style design, they have not seen it in Kangdingguo.

They opened a few of the most obsolete coffins, all of which were old clothes, and they could basically be determined, there were two kinds of corpses in Taoyuan Village, one was the original Taoyuan Village villagers, and the other was from other villages.

"Huh, what about Escort Li?"

Jin An suddenly found that Escort Li, who had been crumbling beside him, didn't know when it would be quiet, he looked up and found Escort Li with his back to them, standing next to a new coffin with a torch in his hand, looking at the corpse in the coffin motionlessly, as if he had hit an evil spirit.

"Escort Li, what are you looking at?"

"Are you alright?"

Jin An walked over with concern.

Who knows, Escort Li, who was holding a torch in his hand, looked up at Jin An who came over with a complicated face.

"Daoist Jin An, I think I know where the bodies in these new coffins came from......"

"No wonder I said why I am so familiar, I know this person, he is from the Zhang family!"