7 Ghost Village(3)
"Who's in the village lately?" Shang Yehua picked up the tea on the wooden table and blew the hot air.
"Three women and two men. Among them, there is a woman with a special identity, who is the eldest lady of Bujiazhuang, Bu Shitao. The two men were the guards who accompanied her, they were Buwu, Buwen, and the martial artists of Bujiazhuang. Cheng Qirui replied, he sat on the other side of the wooden table, just opposite Shang Yehua.
"What about the other two women?"
"One is a little Taoist priest who catches demons in Luoyang, and the other has not been found, the shopkeeper said that her name is Yin Xinyi, but I checked the books and saw it, but there was no news about her, it was like jumping out of the cracks in the stone, and there was no trace of her in the world. I doubt ......"
"Your suspicions are right, it's her. Her Royal Highness, the princess of the snake clan, has come to our ghost village, how can we be rude. Qi Rui, go meet her. ”
Cheng Qirui nodded, got up and went out, tapping his toes, like a ghost galloping in the sky.
Shang Yehua is an old man with gray hair, no one knows how old he is, only that when the ghost village existed, he was there, and he witnessed the historical changes of the ghost village, generation after generation of villagers. He is the "reborn man" who is rumored in the ghost village, but he is an existence higher than the "reborn man".
"Reborn people" only have the memories of their previous lives, and their lifespan is the same as that of ordinary people, they will get sick and grow old, but Shang Yehua has survived for a hundred or even thousands of years with this old dragon clock, and no one knows the secret of his immortality. The villagers of the ghost village witnessed Shang Yehua's longevity, and because he lived in the ghost village more than all the villagers combined, they spontaneously elected him as the village head. Whatever was difficult to decide in the village, they would bring it to him and talk to him.
The older the age, the easier it is for things to form spirits, and some abilities that are different from ordinary things, and people are the same. Shang Yehua, who is about to become a refiner, knows anything. This includes not only all the ghost villages, but also everything in this world. As long as he wants to know, even the trivial things like how many eggs the hen of Aunt Jiang's house in the east of the village laid today, he knows it clearly.
No one knows about this except himself. He knew in his heart how dangerous it was to have such an ability, those in power would covet him, those in power would reuse him, and it would cause a lot of unnecessary trouble or killing.
When he was young, he wanted to resist fate, not to listen, not to think, what does everything in the world, rise and fall have to do with him, he just wants to be an ordinary person, he just wants to live a plain life, one house, two people and three locust trees.
He has resisted and been severely punished. Only then did he understand why he existed.
He is God's messenger and communicates God's will.
He had a hunch that what God wanted him to do was coming, and he had to be completely prepared, to take control, to cut out all uncertain existence.
And the appearance of the princess of the snake clan, whether it is a chess piece or an odd number, he needs to know.
Half-asleep and half-awake, Chanchan felt that someone was pushing her, her chest was stuffy and she couldn't breathe, she was annoyed, she took a deep breath with enough strength, but inhaled into the full lake water.
The brain was stirred and he opened his eyes. The sky was blue, the clouds were white, and a face was unrecognizable.
Her eyes widened, and her vision grew clearer. It is a man's face, with eyes like stars, a crown and a pair of peach blossom eyes.
Be...... Jiang Cheng?
He helped Chanchan up, supported her back as much as he could, and patted her palms lightly, she had just been able to suck in a lot of water.
"How did I end up here, that python?" Chanchan looked around, the surrounding environment was no longer what it used to be, she was now lying on the wet grass, with the wide and deep lake at her feet, the breeze was light and sparkling.
"I didn't know it, I woke up to find you submerged in the lake."
It's really strange that the python didn't eat itself, why did it hold on to me in the first place? Questions poured in, looking sideways at Jiang Cheng, why did he come out?
"By the way, Jiang Cheng, why have you been asleep since last night, are you not feeling well?" Chanchan stared straight at Jiang Cheng, what about his black shell? Why is it a human appearance, and his mind suddenly turned around, "You...... How did you become human? ”
Jiang Cheng took off his coat and put it on for Chanchan, although the sun was still there, but the clothes stained with moisture were always uncomfortable to wear, and replied: "That rabbit spirit has a spell on me, as long as you encounter any danger, I can sense it." I slept that day because I was injured in the last war, and I am repairing. ”
What Jiang Cheng said was half-true, the beauty did curse him, using Chanchan's essence and blood to spell, if Chanchan encountered danger, he had to stand up, if he stood by and caused the death of the spellcaster, he would have to pay for a life, in short, it was to link Chanchan's life with Jiang Cheng's life. She gives birth to him, she dies and he dies.
And the reason why he fell asleep and returned to his human form was because of the tonic effect of the thousand-year-old snake herb that he had eaten that day. The snake mushroom has a great nourishing effect on negative organisms, and it is even more useful for Jiang Cheng.
After all, he was a dragon in a real spider spirit shell.
But in the period when Chanchan was still very sensitive to the snake sesame grass disappearing, Jiang Cheng felt that it was better to talk less.
"Is this Qixiu Lake?" The water of the lake seen in front of him, under its bottomless water, is there really a white dragon resting.
"Yes." Jiang Cheng replied affirmatively. He had been here before, and he was familiar with every grass, tree, flower and fruit by the lake.
He looked at the girl beside him who was eager to try, puffed out his mouth, and took a deep breath, probably about to perform her secret "qigong" again. Not now. He grabbed Chanchan's back collar, "It's not a good time to explore, you should go back." ”
"There are not only flying dragons under this lake, but also man-eating water monsters."
Chanchan's eyes widened: "How do you know." ”
Jiang Cheng smiled: "Because I'm a monster, the spider spirit knows everything." ”
I see, it seems that the spider spirit is not only good-looking, but also knowledgeable and knowledgeable, and is a great monster.
looked at Jiang Cheng's eyes with a bit of inexplicable admiration.
On the other side of the mountain, there was a couple of people walking down the mountain, staggering.
Among them is the girl Bu Shitao who fled in the wilderness and his two guards Buwen and Buwu, and the guide Zhao walked in front.
It turned out that Bu Shitao saw the python, rolled down in a hurry, and almost fell into the cliff, but fortunately, the guide Zhao and the two boys caught up, and they escorted the girl to walk in the middle and followed the road back to the village.
When I arrived at the inn, it was already night, and the shopkeeper stretched his neck and asked, "What about the two little girls, why haven't they caught up yet?" ”
The guide Zhao lowered his eyelids and replied guiltily: "I met a python halfway, and they didn't run out." He didn't tell him about his abandonment of them, because he was afraid that he would be scolded by the shopkeeper, and that he would never find a job after such a thing. The life of the ghost village is hard, because of the "deceased", the white dragon tour of the lake and other things attract many tourists, most of the village's income comes from foreign tourists, if he loses this business, the life of the family will be affected.
The shopkeeper sighed, shook his head, and paced back slowly. Bu Shitao, who was behind the guide Zhao, also followed in and returned to his room. The two boys looked at each other and went back to their rooms.
"You said you want to ask a doctor for Miss to take a look, she must have been scared today. If there were three long and two short, we would not have nine heads enough to be cut off by Madame. ”
The man who spoke was Buwen, the smaller of the two boys, who was thin but tall, much like the pole on which the clothes were dried at home. The other man nodded in approval and said, "You're right, I didn't expect that today's incident happened so fast that we rough people didn't react, let alone Miss. We're going to ask the doctor here. ”
hit it off, and the two of them did it. Buwen is young and careful, Buwu asked him to see if the young lady's situation was spiritual, and then decide whether to ask for a doctor. When she knocked on the door, the girl's eyes were swollen like peaches, and the tears on her bright face had not yet dried.
"Little..."The clothes pole was stunned, and before it started, it was blocked by the girl's words.
"Don't bother me."
"Bang" closed the door, the wind blew through Buwen's sleeve, he stroked his nose, "It's okay, it's okay, my nose wasn't pinched." He tiptoed back to his life: "Miss closed the door with full strength, not like she was scared and collapsed." Takeko, you can relax. ”
Takeko nodded.
There was a sound of beating outside the door, and it was time to close. The shopkeeper asked Xiao Er to extinguish the red lantern next to the door plaque, clean up the table, close the door and go upstairs. Before I could walk up the stairs, there was a knock at the door.
The store "huh", there are still guests staying in the hotel so late?
The person who comes is a guest, and the inn business has no reason to push the guest out of the door. As long as there are guests, no matter how late they are, they have to welcome them, which is the business experience of the store that has been doing the red inn for decades.
Pushing open the door, it was a man in Tsing Yi. The eyebrows are picturesque, the clothes are full of snow, the eyes are like stars, and the narrow peach blossom eyes are like gurgling spring water, what a fairy-like character.
Behind the man, there was a woman's figure, and when she looked closely at her clothes, she was a little familiar.
The blue and green fine lines are good Hangzhou satin, isn't this what the Chanchan girl who went out this morning was wearing! He praised her for her beautiful clothes today.
Chanchan poked her head out from behind and greeted the store, looking at the store's shocking appearance, she was relieved. Presumably, it was her previous appearance of being entangled by a python that made everyone think that she was in a catastrophe, and when she came back, she told the store the bad news.
Nowadays, it is indeed terrifying that a person who everyone thinks is dead suddenly appears in front of him intact.
After thinking about it, Chanchan thought about it and wiped her tears, "Shopkeeper, don't you know, if I hadn't met this kind fairy, one of my lives would have been ruined in the belly of the snake." ”
She pointed at Jiang Cheng, and the tears accumulated in her eyes were even more, "That python is several times thicker than the largest pillar in your inn, and when it opens its mouth, the trees in the mountains and forests seem to have no roots, and they rise from the ground at once, blowing out several steps, which is really scary." I was entangled by it, because I thought that this life was over, and I hoped that on Huangquan Road, the underworld could cast a good baby again. Heaven does not destroy me, when I was about to die, the fairy appeared, he waved his hand lightly, the python immediately let go of me, shrunk into a circle, and he shouted again, "Evil animal, take your life!" The python immediately scurried into the woods. ”
"No, I'm not going to die, and I'm back completely."
Chanchan's narration was subdued and frustrated, and the witty words were full of witty words, which made the store's heart fluctuate, as if she was on the scene, and her back was scared into a cold sweat, the girl could save a life under the mouth of the python, it was really not easy, she comforted Chanchan and called Xiao Er to cook some hot ground. His eyes looked at the "fairy" in front of him, and after being busy, he asked for warmth, and he almost wanted to offer it directly.
He believed Chanchan's words, the previous guide Zhao said that she was entangled by a python, he was sorry, it was a living life, now, a weak woman can stand in front of him intact and talk and laugh, if there is no help from the immortals, how can she get out.
He is also a human spirit who grew up in a ghost village, and there are dragons and "deceased people" in their ghost village, compared to these, it is also possible that there are otherworldly immortals in the world.
He circled around Jiang Cheng's side, "Daxian wants to stay in a hotel?" This inn is the best condition in the ghost village, the most comfortable environment, please don't dislike it, condescend to be one night, tomorrow I will go to our village chief's house, let him arrange a mansion for Daxian. Our ghost village is not luxurious and rich, the scenery here is indeed beautiful, and it is also immortal and aura. ”
Before Jiang Cheng could say anything, he was half-pulled and half-pushed by the store and sent into the upper room. Chanchan was eating noodles, and under the concern of the store and Xiao Er, she learned that the group of people who entered the mountain, only Yin Xinyi did not come back, maybe there was an accident. Chanchan comforted the sentimental shopkeeper Jiren's own celestial phenomena, and was also a little worried about Yin Xinyi's safety, after all, she was still a partner who was talking and laughing this morning, and in the blink of an eye, Yin and Yang might be separated so that Chanchan couldn't accept it, so she had to pray that she would be safe and all right. After eating noodles and returning to the room, the inn finally fell silent.