Then, Xu Ling greeted Uncle Zhang and Wuming politely.

In her words, it's about closing the distance. in order to prepare for the next exploration work.

There are problems with this Yizhuang, the small village under the mountain, and the cemetery and even the area contained in the dragon's blood ancient banyan.

And there is a mine under the dragon's blood ancient banyan.

If there really is an underground space here, where the leylines are located, it is very likely that it is really in the area covered by the village.

People in the mountain villages don't know why they are so xenophobic.

Xu Ling can already expect that the next exploration work will definitely be affected.

When the time comes, maybe you can ask Uncle Zhang to help.

In the evening, Uncle Zhang personally cooked, made a few vegetarian dishes and invited Liu Ziang and the three of them to dine together.

As soon as she took her seat, Xu Ling smiled embarrassedly at Uncle Zhang, "It's really troublesome." We came here to spend the night, and we haven't paid yet. I'm bothering you to make us dinner. ”

Uncle Zhang smiled and waved his hand, "It's okay, I usually cook for the little dolls who come here to study, it's not a big deal." ”

After that, he took the initiative to pick up the dishes and chopsticks on the table.

The little master Wuming also picked up the dishes and chopsticks.

Then Liu Ziang and Xu Ling also picked up the white rice in front of them.

Ling'er doesn't eat these.

But out of politeness, Liu Ziang still asked Ling'er to pick up the dishes and chopsticks.

Fortunately, Ling'er just doesn't eat it, not that she can't eat it.

She also obediently ate slowly, one bite at a time.

As the saying goes, sleep is silent, food is silent.

But few families seem to be able to do it.

Now the same is true in this strange Yizhuang.

After eating a bite or two, Xu Ling was the first to speak.

"Uncle Zhang, I heard that you are teaching the children in the village under the mountain to read?"

"yes!" Uncle Zhang nodded lightly.

"In this day and age, compulsory education has become quite popular." Hearing this, Xu Ling looked puzzled, "Why don't you let the children in the village go directly to the school?" ”

"We passed through a small town on our way and it wasn't far from here. As long as you build a random road, it won't take long for the children to go to school. ”

Hearing this, Liu Ziang frowned silently and secretly.

How could he not know that Xu Ling was not asking about the child's reading at all.

Instead, he inquired in disguise why the village didn't build roads.

Of course, the crux of the matter is how the village could have locked itself off so much.

"Hey! Don't mention it! Uncle Zhang didn't speak, but Wuming on the side sighed.

"The village at the foot of the mountain has strange customs and doesn't like outsiders."

"If it weren't for the fact that official officials have been doing poverty alleviation work all these years, it is estimated that the villages at the foot of the mountain would not have access to electricity by now."

"I don't have to walk outside the world, and I have to walk for a long time every day to go to the temple for morning classes."

"yes!" Uncle Zhang also sighed, "The people in this village don't like to go out, and they don't like to communicate with people outside. ”

"Adults have lived in this village from generation to generation, and children don't go out."

"Not to mention letting the kids go out to school. Even when a traveler like you enters the village, the people in the village are not very welcome. I don't make much money. ”

The question Xu Ling wanted to ask had reached the lips of Uncle Zhang and Wuming.

As soon as the voices of the two of them fell, Xu Ling asked again, "Strange customs?" What are the strange customs in this village? ”

Liu Ziang also secretly picked.

He just wanted to talk to the villagers and said that something would happen in the village in the near future.

When exactly what happens.

But I heard the little master Wuming speak first, "There are many strange customs." ”

"Let's not talk about the common custom of xenophobia. Let's just say that in the near future, they are about to live the 'mundane life' that they have passed down through the generations. ”

Speaking of this, Wu Ming paused.

He glanced out of the room.

After making sure that there were no other people, he stretched his neck towards Liu Ziang and Xu Ling and leaned over.

and lowered his voice and said to the two of them: "Do you know that the village at the foot of the mountain has always maintained the burial method of 'immortal burial'. ”

"Immortal burial?" Hearing this, Xu Ling frowned and looked at Wuming and Liu Ziang with a strange expression.

She hadn't heard of this type of burial.

But seeing the way Wuming said this, she could also know that this so-called 'immortal burial' was not a good burial method.

As for Liu Ziang, when he heard the words 'immortal burial', his face was already very ugly.

When Xu Ling looked at him, he explained: "The so-called 'immortal burial' is actually a living burial. ”

"Buried alive?" Xu Ling was shocked!

Liu Ziang nodded with an ugly face, "This burial method originated from the Red Lotus Sect at the end of the Qing Dynasty!" It's not so much a burial method as a sacrificial one. ”

"They will choose the virtuous and virtuous and bury them in the earth while they are alive."

"And also live with secret arts. Its purpose is to hope that the buried person can be dismembered into immortals, so as to bless the safety of one party. ”

After speaking, Liu Ziang muttered in a low voice: "At the end of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Zhushen Division had already eradicated the remnants of the Red Lotus, and at the same time, it had also eliminated all the people who knew about this burial method. ”

When Liu Ziang said this, his voice was like a mosquito and a fly, so that he didn't even hear Xu Ling and Ling'er who were sitting next to him.

However, Wuming nodded his head again, and his face was already as solemn as Liu Ziang.

He sighed softly, and then continued.

"It's indeed the living burial method you said Brother Liu. It's just that the longevity burial custom in this village did not originate from the remnants of the red lotus. And it seems like it's been a long, long time. ”

As he spoke, Wu Ming looked at Uncle Zhang, who was concentrating on eating on the side.

Uncle Zhang swallowed the food in his mouth and sighed lightly: "The customs of immortal burial here have been six or seven hundred years to say the least. It is likely that it will reach the millennium. ”

"Thousands of years?" When Xu Ling heard this, he muttered, and then came to Liu Ziang's ear without a trace, and whispered to him: "The dragon blood ancient banyan tree next to the grave is almost thousands of years old. ”

Liu Ziang raised his eyebrows silently.

It seems that the method of immortal burial in this village is more or less related to the dragon's blood ancient banyan tree outside the tomb.

At the same time, after Wuming also took a bite of food, he continued: "And the secret method or something, they must not understand." ”

"They just select a few older people at a time, bury them in the ground, and bury them vertically."

"It's not!" Wuming shook his head again, "It just so happens that today is the day they hold their immortal burial. ”

"After the old man is buried today, there will be a five-day sacrifice."

After saying that, Wuming looked at Xu Ling and Liu Ziang strangely, "I remember that on the day of the immortal burial, outsiders were not welcome into the village. How did you get into the village? ”

"Maybe it's because times are different." Liu Ziang smiled casually, "Although the villagers let us enter the village, the car was detained by them. ”

"Buried alive?" But at this time, Xu Ling said with an ugly face: "According to what you said, they belong to the sacrifice of living people, which is illegal." Is there no one to take care of it? ”

"Don't the officials know? Knowing this, should it be possible to ban this method of burial? ”

"I haven't taken care of it!" Uncle Zhang said helplessly, "Although it is a sacrifice under our understanding, what they do is still a burial." ”

"And those old people who are buried alive will write a will before they die. Even if the officials want to, they can't manage it. It was ordered once before, but it didn't work. ”

"In addition, they don't do this kind of burial very often. The last time I was buried was twenty years ago. Uncle Zhang said, looking at Wuming to the side, "Twenty years ago, the last day of the villagers who came down the mountain to hold the immortal burial sacrifice happened to be the day I picked up this child on the mountain. ”