Walking through the unique "patio" of Anhui architecture, we soon came to the main hall of the ancestral hall.

The main hall was a large place, with an incense burner on a table, and behind it was a row of ashed and cobweb-covered plaques.

The main hall can accommodate almost 50 people and does not feel crowded.

As soon as we stepped into the main hall, the people inside who had been busy looking at us were all looking at us.

To be precise, they all looked at me who was following the crazy old man!

Although my eyes swept around the main hall, just to find Master Zhou and their figures, I did not carefully observe the sight of the people in the main hall.

But my damn sense, as soon as the people in the main hall looked up, told me that their eyes were on me.

In addition to the six of us, there were four other people in the hall, three men and one woman.

The three men were all about thirty or forty years old, and it was clear from the way they dressed that they were all Taoist priests.

Only the woman, who was about the same age as the crazy old man, dressed very casually, and couldn't tell what kind of occupation she was.

I glanced around the main hall and didn't see Uncle Zhou, and a sense of loss instantly rose in my heart.

"Is that him?"

"Is that him?"

"It should be!"

“......”

The voices of the three Taoist priests came to my ears, and I had heard these words before, when the mad old man first took me out on a mission.

It's just that at the moment I was squeezed by a strong sense of loss, and I wasn't in the mood to probe the question of why they were so surprised to see me.

At this moment, the crazy old man walked up to the woman and asked casually, "What about Shen Luo and Scarlet Face?" ”

"Feel the Gu lure." The woman replied casually.

"Oh."

Listening to the conversation between the crazy old man and the woman, I suddenly had a very strange feeling, it seems that the crazy old man is a little restrained?

I looked up at the crazy old man, and found that not only was the mad old man's tone a little restrained, but even his movements were very restrained, and his hands had been looking for a position, and he didn't know how to put them.

I suddenly had the feeling that the crazy old man had seen the king of the music world that he had admired for a long time, and he was obviously in a very happy mood, but he wanted to suppress his happy feelings, and then pretend to be indifferent. It's a pity that this kind of fake reserve was immediately sold by his own hands.

I looked funny, it was the first time I'd ever seen a crazy old man like this.

And I heard several deliberately suppressed laughter, which I could distinguish, including Uncle Jiang, Li Hong, and Uncle Zhu.

The crazy old man also seemed to mean that the scene was a little embarrassing, coughed lightly twice, and then said, "That person is here, I'll tell you about this mission." ”

Speaking of this, everyone stopped laughing, and even the three Taoist priests put down the magic weapons in their hands and listened carefully.

And what the crazy old man said next made me, a person who has been cultivating for eighteen years, refresh my three views again.

This has to be said from the source, it happened 30 years ago.

As mentioned earlier, Baijia Village was originally Sunjia Village, and all the people living in it were surnamed Sun.

Later, because Sunjia Village was close to the national highway, in that era, the national highway was an important fortress for business travel. The original village chief of Sunjia Village valued this and made a commercial street at the entrance to Sunjia Village, selling some bamboo handicrafts and snacks from Sunjia Village, so that people could rest.

Coupled with Anhui's unique architectural style system, its scenery is beautiful, so that the passers-by who come to Sunjia Village to rest are full of praise, and soon, the reputation of Sunjia Village is nearby.

This decision of the village chief of Sunjia Village has to be said to be very wise, and it has also made Sunjia Village quickly become the richest village among the ten miles and eight townships.

Several villages in the vicinity of Sunjia Village also wanted to follow the example of Sunjia Village and create a commercial street for tourists to rest, but because their village was far away from the national highway and there was Sunjia Village in front of it, this method did not work at all.

So the village chiefs of several villages quickly met and planned to move the village to the side of Sunjia Village.

However, Sunjia Village is built on the mountain, and there are mountains and forests on both sides that resemble phoenix heads, and it is called "Shuangfeng Mountain" by the local villagers.

After going back and forth, the village chiefs of several villages did not discuss any results.

It wasn't until the last time that the village chiefs of several villages held a meeting at the house of the village chief Sun to negotiate, and a stranger came.

The stranger did not go to rest in the commercial street of Sunjia Village, nor did he browse the scenery, but walked straight towards the house of the village chief Sun.

Village Chief Sun's house has a small yard watered with cement, surrounded by a wooden fence, and some flowers and plants are raised. Several village chiefs met in the courtyard to negotiate.

When the foreigner arrived at the door of the door of the village chief Sun, he did not go in, but said through the wooden fence: "Just open the mountain and build a village." ”

With that, he left. Waiting for several village chiefs to react, they couldn't find the man's voice and shadow on the straight road.

Of course, this is a strange thing.

But what this man said is not unreasonable. It's just that the matter of opening the mountain is a big matter, and it is necessary to apply to the leaders of the province.

After thinking about it, several village chiefs had no other way, so they slapped the table and made a plan to open a mountain and build a village.

Of course, when these village chiefs met to discuss this matter, the village chief of the village was also among them.

Like all the villagers, Chief Sun is also a farmer. It is also because of this background that after he became the village head, the first thing he thought about was to make the villagers' lives richer.

Since Sunjia Village opened up a new area of commercial and leisure streets, and achieved remarkable results, the income of the villagers in Sunjia Village has increased significantly, and their lives have changed significantly.

Such a meeting of several village chiefs also gave Village Chief Sun the idea of bringing wealth to neighboring villages, so he approved the plan to open mountains and build villages.

So he stepped forward, and after successfully negotiating with the leaders of the city, he did what he said, and the next day he transferred a pair of mountain opening teams from the city.

Just when the opening of the mountain was going relatively well, an old man came.

This old man is one of the highest-ranking old people in Sunjia Village, he is one hundred and nine years old, and looking at the neighboring village, this old man is also the person who has lived the longest.

The old man was supported by his grandson, and when he arrived, several village chiefs were supervising the construction site and planning for the future.

At that time, the construction site personnel were busy, and no one noticed the old man. So soon, the old man was supported by his grandson to the side of the village chiefs.

The old man opened his mouth and said, "These two mountains can't be opened!" ”

Why can't it be opened? These are the words that several village chiefs asked at the same time.

Then the old man began to tell the story he had heard from his elders as a child.

It turns out that these two mountains are called "Shuangfeng Mountain", and the head of the mountain is named after the shape of a phoenix's head.

When the old man was a teenager, he heard from the elders of the clan that this was originally a wasteland with no mountains and no villages, but later, because I don't know why, evil began to rise here.

In the end, the Bodhisattva summoned two phoenixes to suppress it. Over time, the two phoenixes turned into two sacred mountains with phoenix heads, suppressing demons all year round.

If the mountain is opened, evil spirits will be released, and the whole village will not be at peace.

After listening to the old man's account, several village chiefs said that it was nonsense. Of course, this was not said in front of the old man, but he just said some good things and sent the old man away.

After the old man left, the project of opening the mountain still continued.

Just a few days later, during the construction of the mountain, the people who opened the mountain dug out the belly of a cave, and after digging it, the jars made of porcelain were neatly placed inside.

The body of the can is straight, with plump shoulders, a belly, a flat sand bottom, and a high round lid with a jewel top.

Because Anhui is close to Jiangxi, Jiangxi has a thousand-year-old porcelain capital - Jingdezhen, and Jingdezhen's porcelain is world-famous.

And among the construction workers, there are people who understand porcelain. At first glance, he knew that it was a general's jar, named after the shape of the orb's top lid that resembled a general's helmet.

According to the worker, each one was a modern porcelain and was not very valuable.

But there are hundreds of general jars, and they all seal the gaps in the top lid with wax oil, and the wax oil pours the entire top cover, which cannot be opened.

Curious, someone smashed one of the general's jars, and several bugs crawled out of those general's jars in an instant.

There are ten bugs in total, five black and white, and five gray and red. Each one is twenty or thirty centimeters long, has no feet, and looks like roundworms, but the color is much more terrifying than roundworms.

After the insects crawled out, they quickly burrowed into the soil and disappeared.

And the people present are all from the countryside, where will the countrymen be afraid of insects? No matter how horrible the color is.

It's just that the workers originally thought that these general jars were very valuable, but people who knew porcelain said that it was modern porcelain, which was not worth anything at all, so they thought that there would be something valuable in the jars, so they would seal them with wax oil.

After the break, there were only a few bugs, and in disappointment, the construction people broke up unhappily. And the discovery of the general's tank was also reported by them to several village chiefs.

The village chiefs didn't have a good idea, so they gave an order to take the hundreds of general canisters outside and break them so that the construction site could continue.

It's going to be suspended for a while at this point. Because there was no abnormal situation in the subsequent construction, it was very smooth.

Eventually, the two mountains were dug up, and the neighboring villages were moved to the side of Sunjia Village, forming an entire village group, which was finally renamed "Baijia Village".

And now, thirty years later, just a week ago, a strange thing happened in Baijia Village.

The strange thing started by a wandering Taoist priest who is proficient in feng shui.

The Taoist priest who traveled all over the world was a truly capable Taoist priest, and he came to Baijia Village, and after coming here, he realized that there was a problem with the local qi of Baijia Village.

Taoist priests are generally more sensitive than ordinary people, like when we travel now, we may care about whether the scenery is beautiful or not, whether the humanities are profound or not, and Taoist priests travel habitually to feel the earth.

What is Earth Qi? To put it mildly, the earth qi is the aura endowed by the land, mountains and rivers, and in layman's terms, it is the aura of the place.

Whether a place's earth qi is good or not, and whether there is aura or not, depends on three aspects: wind, water, and spirit.

Wind and water are good to explain, what is the spirit? Spirit really refers to animals and plants. The birds and flowers, as well as the trees and grasses, are one of the most common notices of Taoist priests.

And the Taoist priest who traveled in all directions is a person with real skills, after he came to Baijia Village, he ignored the boiling cries and the endless stream of tourists and merchants, but was the first to notice that there was a problem with the local atmosphere here.

The wind is intermittent, the water is muddy, there are not many animals, and even the common chickens, ducks and geese raised in captivity in the farmers' homes are also in a state of malaise.

This made the Taoist priest wonder, so he traveled all over Baijia Village for ten miles to see if there was a problem with the entire earth here.

However, after walking ten miles, only the land in Baijia Village had an unusual problem, and this Taoist priest had real skills, and he really found the problem!

So the Taoist priest inquired in many ways, found the current village chief of Baijia Village, and explained the reason to him.

But what kind of society was it at that time? The current village chief didn't even let the Taoist priest finish his words, so he hurried to drive him away.

The Taoist priest was also anxious, and dragged the current village chief to the foot of the mountain behind Baijia Village.

The mountain behind Baijia Village is the tomb group of the villagers of Baijia Village, that is, their ancestral tombs!

The Taoist priest didn't say a word, and asked the village chief to see one of the new graves that had already been dug by him!

The village chief was naturally angry, but although the real Taoist priest's fist and foot kung fu was used to strengthen the body, it was not something that the current village chief with a fat stomach could break free.

So the village chief could only look into the newly dug grave.

This look frightened the village chief to sit directly on the ground, unable to help himself for a long time.

The old man of the new tomb died of illness and was buried three days ago, and the village chief knew about it.

It stands to reason that the corpse should still be relatively "fresh", but the coffin is actually a pair of white bones!

There is also a small amount of flesh and blood attached to the white bones, and if you look closely, you can see that the white bones and the edges of the flesh and blood, there are some small marks. It's like a whole corpse being thrown into the wilderness and then bitten by a wild beast.

The bones were densely packed with roundworm-like bugs, which were divided into two colors, one black and white, and the other gray and red.

There were hundreds of these insects, wriggling densely on the flesh and bones of the corpses.

This scene made the village chief dumbfounded. But who is this current village chief?

He was educated in the province, and he also boasted that he was a knowledgeable and educated person unlike the villagers.

He quickly thought of an answer, and that was the corpse worm!

He had never seen a corpse worm, but he had been to the criminal investigation team to communicate, and he had heard the term corpse worm. So he quickly associated with it.

Although he was shocked, he was also angry in his heart, so he immediately stood up, pointed at the Taoist priest's nose and scolded, and loudly summoned several village names to arrest the Taoist priest and send him to the police station, accusing him of digging people's graves without permission.

The Taoist priest also tried to explain to the villagers, but among the villagers, the family of the old man who died of illness saw that it was his own grave that was dug up, and the scene got out of control on the spot.

Later, the Taoist priest was also sent to the police station by the extremely angry villagers, and was convicted and imprisoned.

And on the second night of the Taoist priest's imprisonment, around nine or ten o'clock, the current village chief of Baijia Village felt unwell, at first it was just heartache unbearable, and then he felt that all the internal organs were like an awl squeezing out of pain, and there was no blood on his face at all, and he collapsed at home without warning and died.

After the death, the village chief crawled out of the seven orifices of the corpse with several black-and-white and gray-red worms, but soon, they disappeared and did not know where they had crawled.

From the beginning of the heartache of the current village chief to the death later, the whole process was less than twenty minutes.

This is not the end of the matter.

The inexplicable death of the current village chief is a top priority for Baijia Village. But at the same time that the current village chief fell ill, more than a dozen village names in the entire Baijia Village fell ill at the same time, and they died in less than 20 minutes.

This strange thing came quickly, and people instantly remembered the last words that the Taoist priest said when he entered the police station yesterday: "You guys go quickly, there is a problem in Baijia Village!" If you don't go, you'll all die! ”

For a while, people could no longer sink into the grief of the tragic deaths of their relatives and friends, and they packed up their things one after another, and left one minute earlier if they could.

But almost when everyone was busy packing up their things, more than 200 households in the village, hundreds of people, fell ill less than half a minute apart.

Half an hour later, the village was calm, except for the occasional wind at night, which made the leaves rattle......