Under the big willow tree at the entrance of Shangliang Village, there were several people chatting there, including old and young.

"Have you heard? Two more bodies floated out of the river yesterday! A young man said.

"Yes, yes, I've heard about it, it's said that the two corpses are soaked in human condition, their bodies are swollen up and down, and their facial features are rotten and can't be seen clearly......" someone next to him echoed, "It's disgusting to think about!" ”

"These two people, they must be from the two families who went up to the mountain seven days ago to beg for worship, and I said that our mountain ghost shrine in Yongxian Mountain has everything you need." A middle-aged man in his forties with sharp-beaked monkey gills said with a smile.

The young man from before said, "Sixth brother, you always say that the mountain ghost shrine is magical, if it is really as spiritual as you say, then the two families will find a living person instead of a corpse." ”

The middle-aged man knocked the young man on the head: "Nonsense, I will raise the bar with your brother!" ”

"Big brother, listen to you, it seems that there are some mountain ghosts in this mountain? What's going on? I interjected curiously.

The middle-aged man known as the sixth brother looked at me and said, "You are also a family member of those archaeologists?" ”

"yes!" I didn't deny it.

"What? Do you want to go to the mountain ghost shrine too? The sixth brother looked at me and said.

"yes, yes." I didn't want to explain too much, so I had to admit along with his words, "Big brother, other places are not for mountain gods or land, why did we build an ancestral temple for a mountain ghost here?" ”

"The mountain god doesn't care, what are you doing to build its ancestral temple?" Sixth Brother said.

"Then can you tell me about the origin of this mountain ghost shrine?" I was a little curious, so I took out a box of cigarettes and sent them around.

I lit a cigarette for the sixth brother, and he took a deep breath, spit out a smoke ring, and began to tell me about the origin of this mountain ghost shrine. "This mountain ghost shrine was built in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, and no one remembers exactly when. Before that, there was a mountain temple on this Yongxian Mountain, but later, many people in several villages near Yongxian Mountain disappeared after going up the mountain, and there were more than a dozen people. These villages organized people to go up the mountain to look for them, but a few more people disappeared. Later, the village reported to the official, but it was useless to report to the official, and there was still no one alive or dead. In order to allow these people to return safely, their families go to the mountain temple every day to burn incense and beg for worship, but what role can that play? It wasn't until one day that three merchants passing by from other places, with scattered hair, disheveled clothes, and covered in blood, broke into the village, and the village knew that it was actually a mountain ghost who was making waves in the mountains. The merchants had escaped by chance, and the three of them were left in their small caravan of fifteen men. After knowing what was in the mountains, the village organized people to go to encircle and hunt demons, and the location of the encirclement was in the mountain temple. No one knows what happened on the day of the encirclement and suppression, only that none of the thirty people who participated in the demon hunt returned, and there was no trace of them, and the mountain temple was also smashed, and there were blood stains everywhere inside and outside the temple, and there were a few stumps and broken arms left in the inconspicuous corner, and I don't know whose it was. Later, under the guidance of Mr. Yin and Yang, these villagers raised money to build another mountain ghost shrine on the site of the mountain temple, praying that the mountain ghosts would stop harming the villagers......"

"And the result?" I hurriedly asked.

The sixth brother pouted and said: "It's not that the blind man lit the lamp in vain, and the people who went up the mountain again still can't come back, so no one in the nearby village has dared to go up the mountain since then...... However, this situation only lasted until the founding of New China, and after that, some people went up the mountain one after another and did not hear of anyone's accident, and in recent years, more and more people have come to visit here...... I think the mountain ghost is pure nonsense. ”

"Sixth brother, how to explain the disappearance of these archaeologists?" Someone asked.

"I guess, I must have met a mountain ghost, or I would have come out a long time ago!" Someone replied.

"Isn't it that the bodies have already been found, although the people are dead, but there are no injuries on all of them. If you really meet a mountain ghost, how can you not get hurt? I guess I'm still trapped in the mountains and can't get out, and there is no mobile phone signal in this deep mountain and old forest, so I was unfortunately killed. Sixth Brother explained.

"Sixth brother, then what do you say that mountain ghost looks like?" The man asked.

"I haven't seen it before, how do I know what it looks like? However, it is said that except for the three merchants, no one has ever seen the true face of the mountain ghost, so the mountain ghost statue in the mountain ghost temple is also carved according to the description of the three merchants. Sixth Brother said.

"Sixth brother, a few of us haven't been to the Mountain Ghost Temple since we were young, have you ever been there?"

"You haven't been there, I've been?" The sixth brother pursed his lips and said: "You don't know, this mountain ghost shrine is a forbidden place for us here, besides, if you have a life to go or not to go back, who dares to go?" ”

"Then how do you know that the mountain ghost shrine is blessed and effective?" An old voice came from behind the crowd. Everyone followed the sound and saw that it was an old man in his sixties, with a pair of pull-up boards under his feet, and walked over in a hurry, "There are many people who come here to play, but no one dares to go to the direction of the mountain ghost temple, and no one dares to spend the night in the mountain...... What do you say to those outsiders that the mountain ghost shrine prays for blessings, this is all a shadowless thing. It's not going to happen, if something does, you'll be able to walk around without eating...... In the present afterlife, if you talk nonsense about things you don't know, it will kill people! The old man passed by without stopping, nor did he look up at the crowd, as if he were talking to himself.

"Who is this uncle?" I pointed to the old man's back and whispered to the sixth brother.

"This is the old rich man of our village, a very withdrawn and strange old man, who does not fit in with anyone, and who talks to him and ignores him. He lives in the grove outside the village, especially likes to drink, is a wine Mengzi, I heard that it is because of drinking and playing when he was young every day drunk, so he never married a daughter-in-law in his life, except for coming to the village commissary to buy things, he rarely interacts with the village people on weekdays. The sixth brother looked at the back of the old rich man and said.

After chatting with the sixth brother for a while, I found an excuse and left, and went straight to the old rich man's house. I always thought that the old man called the old rich man would know something about the sixth brother that they didn't know.

I remember someone saying that "if you ask for something, you will give it to you". I don't know if this "gift" is a polite gift or a gift "gift", but I think a gift is more practical than politeness. So I spent 200 yuan at the commissary at the entrance of the village to buy two nice bottles of Daqu and carried them to the old rich man's house.