Chapter Twenty-Three: The Strange Story of the Mao Village (2)
"Dao Chief, may I ask what is going on with those paper figures?" Wang Tianhua asked after telling the story.
"Those paper figurines are sold in the Fushou store, and they are specially burned for the dead." Ai Daochang said, "Those paper figures you met tonight are there to pick up relatives. ”
"What? Kissing? "Wang Tianhua is completely confused now, happy events and funerals are completely different things, why do you still do it together?
It's unheard of, but everything that happened tonight is unbelievable, and there may be something else hidden in this matter.
"This matter is a long story, and it starts with me and my senior brother leaving Li Dazhuang a few days ago." Ai Daochang is very talkative compared to Gao Daochang.
"Daoist, please speak." Wang Tianhua sat solemnly in front of the bonfire and listened attentively.
"When we left from Li Dazhuang that day, my senior brother and I planned to go back to Zhenjiang directly, so we went south, first to Xuzhou City, but unfortunately it didn't take long to come to Mao Village."
"We've heard that the dog meat in Maocun is a must, so we wanted to come in and try it."
Daoist Ai tilted his head to look at his senior brother, but Daoist Gao didn't seem to notice, and Daoist Ai didn't care about his senior brother's reaction. So he continued: "When we first entered the village, we felt very strange, the air outside the village was normal, but once we walked into the village, we were very uncomfortable. ”
Ai Daochang frowned and said: "This feeling is like you are used to taking a bath every day, and suddenly you don't take a bath for several days and sweat a lot, and you also let you sleep in the bed with sweat." ”
Ai Daochang used a series of analogies to vividly describe the feeling of adhesion and dampness.
Wang Tianhua knows this feeling, and he has experienced this uncomfortable feeling in the past few days. Since encountering that zombie in Li Dazhuang, he has not had a chance to take a bath so far.
At this time, as soon as I heard Dao Dao Ai make such an analogy, I suddenly felt that my whole body was itchy, and I couldn't help but shrug my shoulders to rub my clothes to stop the itching.
Daoist Ai noticed Wang Tianhua's movements, and immediately knew Wang Tianhua's feelings, and he didn't just smile knowingly, and continued: "Ordinary people may also have omens if they encounter supernatural things, of course, there are many kinds of omens, but as we cultivators, our feelings will be magnified many times. So it's easier to know about the occurrence of paranormal events. ”
"So at that time, my senior brother and I were sure that something must have happened in Maocun!"
After saying that, Daoist Ai tilted his head and looked at his senior brother again, and then Daoist Gao finally nodded, indicating that it was indeed true.
"And then?" Wang Tianhua couldn't wait to ask.
"It is the duty of our cultivators to slay demons and eliminate demons and support the righteous path, so after that, it is naturally necessary to find a way to find out the situation."
"We were going to ask a few fellows at first, but when we knocked on the door, they all closed the door and stared at us very vigilantly through the cracks."
"My brother and I asked them what was going on in Maocun through the gate, but they didn't speak, just stared at us, and that kind of look was very uncomfortable."
"I've found several families in a row, this is really a good woman who can't cook without rice, even if my senior brother and I want to help them, but these villagers don't cooperate, then we can't do anything!" Ai Daochang shook his head helplessly.
"So you're going to leave and stay here for a few days?" Wang Tianhua asked.
"Of course not." Ai Daochang shook his head.
"Just when we felt that we couldn't do anything and wanted to leave, suddenly a relatively dilapidated fellow opened the door, of course, the door was ajar. I saw a small head exposed, looking left and right, and seemed to be a little scared. ”
"When he was sure that there was no danger, he opened his mouth and asked us, are you Taoist priests?"
"But my brother and I are indeed wearing these robes, and he must have seen it through the crack in the door. I replied that we were Taoist priests. ”
"Then the boy asked, "Can you get rid of the demons?"
"My senior brother and I had a general understanding when we heard this, presumably this is another thing about evil ghosts endangering the villagers, this kind of thing has happened a lot in recent years, and it is generally the bullies in the village who are unwilling to die and turn into ghosts to continue to fish in the village. Our Maoshan Taoist priests generally encounter this kind of evil ghosts, and they are directly wiped out. ”
"Through the child's words, my brother and I were sure that it was the evil ghosts that infested the township, so we also had some bottom in our hearts."
So he continued to ask if the little brother knew the ins and outs of the matter?
"Who would have thought that the children in the countryside didn't know how to ask, what kind of dragon vein?"
"Hearing such a question, my senior brother and I smiled bitterly at the time, so we had to ask where is your village chief's house?"
The child pointed in the direction and said that the largest courtyard over there was the village chief's house. It's just that as soon as he finished speaking, he was dragged in by his family. ”
"My brother and I went to the village chief's house, and the village chief's house was closed at the beginning like other villagers, but I went up and knocked on the door but there was no movement, and finally I saw a pair of eyes through the crack in the door."
"Presumably this is the village chief, and my senior brother and I have identified ourselves and our intentions. The village chief was still worried, so I used some small spells to show the village chief what I was capable of, and sure enough, after using the spell, the village chief quickly opened the gate and invited us in. ”
"But when I opened the door, I was still cautious, and I seemed to be afraid of something."
Ai Daochang is not as good at talking as Gao Daochang, he said it in detail, and even described the movements and expressions of everyone he met, Wang Tianhua listened to it very interestingly, as if he was listening to a supernatural story.
I only heard Ai Daochang continue: "When we entered the hall, the village chief was not polite to us, and immediately knelt down for us, begging me and my senior brother to save their villagers. ”
"I quickly picked him up and asked him what was going on."
The village chief sighed and said that there was an evil family in their village. Ba, when we hear the word bully, my brother and I are even more sure what is going on, if we have dealt with this kind of thing not ten times, then there must be eight times, it is just a piece of cake. But this was just what we thought at the time, and later events proved that we did underestimate the enemy. ”
"Let's not talk about that, the village chief said that there is an evil in their village. Ba, he also slaughters dogs and kills dogs on weekdays, but he often bullies the villagers, even he, the village head, has no way to take him, the bully is a foreign surname, surnamed Li, called Li Dabao, but he felt that the name Li Dabao was not majestic enough, so he changed his name to Li Taibao. ”
"Although this Li Taibao is a foreign surname, but he is irritable, and likes to make friends, he drinks and has fun with some fox friends and dog friends on weekdays, and gathers a lot of subordinates, he relies on these people to bully the villagers, and then I don't know what way to find, and I actually became a security guard in the village. official, so it was even more unscrupulous. ”
"Impose protection money, woe. harm the big in the village. Boudoir. Female, what is even more infuriating is that a year ago, she borrowed money and forced a family in the south of the village to death. ”
"The list of bad things he's done is too numerous to mention."
"At that time, the village chief was very cautious when he said this, it seems that Li Taibao's lewdness. It's very powerful! Ai Dao said angrily.
The village chief went on to say that it had happened just a few days ago.