"If I hadn't had a dagger on me to dig through walls, I would have gone mad! Those water monkeys flood me every night and scare me...... Finally, when the water soaked the wall, I dug a hole and ran out. Δ Ω Literature Fans. "

Xie Bangui, who was squatting on the ground, got up and said, "It seems that as long as he carries a water droplet, the water monkey can't help him." Only if he is crazy or dead can the water monkey have a way to get rid of the water beads. ”

The fat man said disapprerovingly: "It's still so troublesome, just throw the rice away, and you can starve him to death in a few days." ”

Xie Bangui shook his head and said: "But all rare treasures have the effect of feeding back to the master, he doesn't eat, and he can live just by relying on the aura nourishment of the water beads, but sooner or later the water beads will be consumed." The water monkey doesn't want to ruin the water beads, right? Where's the bead? ”

Wang Sen subconsciously touched his chest and didn't speak, the fat man walked up and lifted the person up, reached out and took out an egg-sized bead from his arms and handed it to Xie Bangui.

Xie Bangui dragged the bead and said, "Is this bead the same as when you first got it?" ”

"It's different, it used to be brighter than this. I wrapped it in several layers of cloth when I first stole it. Wang Sen looked at Xie Bangui with a blank look and said, "My lord, can you return it to me in a while?" ”

"Ghost Eyes, open!" Xie Bangui didn't bother with Wang Sen, and stared at the beads and lifted the ghost eyes.

Through the skin of the bead, the ghost eye clearly saw a cloud of yin qi rotating back and forth in the center of the bead like a whirlpool. When you look closely, the whirlpool has turned into a bottomless hollow again, and a wriggling figure can be faintly seen in the hole.

"It's broken!" Xie Bangui's face changed drastically: "Wujia Village, it may be a ghost nest, let's go quickly!" ”

"What?" The tall fat man was also stunned: "What the hell is going on brother?" ”

"I'll talk about it on the road!" Xie Bangui stuffed the bead into his arms and raised his leg to leave, but Wang Sen suddenly pounced and stopped in front of Xie Bangui's feet and cried: "My lord, you can't take the water bead away, wow, don't you want my life?" ”

"Get out!" The tall fat man kicked Wang Sen out two or three feet: "If you weren't greedy for money, could you kill several people?" Lao Tzu didn't take you to prison, and you still cried bullshit. ”

"Your Excellency...... My lord...... Please! You can't do that! Give me back the beads, right? Give it back to me! Wang Sen, who couldn't get up in the muddy water, patted the ground and cried.

Xie Bangui and Gao Fatzi started their light work and rushed in the direction of Wujia Village.

The tall fat man asked as he ran, "Brother, what's wrong with you?" ”

"That's not a water bead at all, it's a soul artifact." Xie Bangui replied with a pale face: "There is a master who seals the yin qi of the water ghost into the bead, as long as the bead is pressed on the top of the dead person's head, and then a special ceremony is held, the dead person will become a ghost, and those water monkey eight achievements are made out like this." And, I doubt ......"

Xie Ban said half of the words, and the fat man was so anxious: "What do you suspect, hurry up!" ”

"I suspect that this bead can be eaten directly." Xie Bangui said in a deep voice: "It makes people instantly demonize and turn into terrifying things like demons and ghosts." ”

The two were still running, and Xiao Cai and his party had already arrived at the foot of Wujia Village. Ouyang Momo raised the Wujia Village and said, "The terrain here is so high!" How could they choose such a place to build a village? ”

"Who knows!" The master who came over with him smiled bitterly: "Maybe it's for tax evasion." According to the prefectural records, there was no one living here at all. More than ten years ago, five families came here to make a village. That's why it's called Wujia Village. ”

Xiao Cai asked: "I think that village is not small, not to mention there are more than 100 households, just the first five families settled, it is impossible to multiply such a large village in a few decades, right?" ”

The master, who was tired and half dead on the mountain road, gasped and said, "Who knows! The place here is too remote, and Wujia Village lives very high, and people can be tired half to death when they climb up and down. Those tax collectors were reluctant to come, and the tax money was sent to the yamen by himself, and over time they would collect as much as they paid. We still haven't figured out how many people there are in Wujia Village. ”

Xiao Cai asked again: "What about the mass graves under the mountain?" It was also later? ”

The master said breathlessly: "Who knows? I think it was only after the Wujia Village! There used to be no people in this place at all, who could run here to bury people? ”

"No people?" Xiao Cai glanced at the mass grave soaked in the water waves and said, "Can you be sure?" ”

"That's what the county chronicle says." The master didn't dare to call it true: "The county chronicle can be pushed up to two hundred years ago, and the records about Wujia Village in it are only in recent decades.

The master said with joy on his face as he spoke: "A few adults, there is Wujia Village in front. I went to find Rizheng to arrange accommodation. ”

Xiao Cai advised: "Don't reveal the identities of a few of us. ”

"I know, I know...... "The master finally came to his senses and trotted into the village.

After Xiao Cai entered the village, his first reaction was that Wujia Village did not welcome outsiders like them, especially the villagers looked at them with even a little hostility.

Ouyang Momo whispered, "How strange are the eyes of people they look at?" ”

"I'm afraid there are a few who still want to kill!" Li Xiaoxin sneered and pressed the poisonous hook on his waist, he was born in Dongchang, and he has always advocated "strike first to be strong", as long as he perceives the hostility of the other party, he will not hesitate to make a move. At the very least, you can protect yourself to the greatest extent possible.

Xiao Cai quietly pressed Li Xiaoxin's hand: "You can't do it, we still have something to find out." ”

As soon as Xiao Cai's words fell, the master rushed over with Li Zheng, who nodded and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, my lords...... Inclusive, inclusive. A few days ago, the rain was too heavy, and several villagers who had gone down to the river to fish did not come back. The village is holding a funeral, slack, slack...... A few adults will rest their feet first, check the population matter, and then talk about it tomorrow? ”

Xiao Cai, who was dressed as a man, smiled: "It's okay, then it's bothering." ”

"Your Excellency is serious, your words are serious, you are all nobles, usually we want to invite, but we can't please it!" Li Zheng politely arranged food and lodging for them, and was busy informing them from door to door.

After holding the lamp, Xiao Cai sat at the window and played the horse crane, and Lao Qian said while shuffling the cards: "Xiao Cai? How do you have the leisure to start a horse hoist? ”

"Idle is idle." Xiao Cai pressed the horse hoist with his palm and pretended to shuffle the cards, stretched out his fingers and scratched on the table with his nails: "Someone is watching!" ”

By the time she swiped her palm across the table again, the four words had been swept away.

Li Xiaoxin glanced out of the window as if unintentionally, and wrote in the same way as Xiao Cai: "I'll solve him." ”

Lao Qian grabbed a few cards and put them in front of him, and said with a pun: "Ma Hang has to look at his own cards, wait for the cards of the upper house, and watch the cards of the next house." ”

"Still need you to teach?" Xiao Cai glanced at Lao Qian.

After a while, Li Xiaoxin spoke: "I said Brother Cai! It's been two laps, why haven't you moved at all, so you have to fight with it? ”

Xiao Cai pushed the card in front of him and said: "Don't play, go out to the toilet and change your luck." Old Qian, I see that your position is good, how about giving it to me? ”

"No problem!" Old Qian gave up his back to the window and sat on the opposite side.

"Brother Cai, I'll go too." Ouyang Momo chased Xiao Cai and ran out. Turning to the back of the house where no one was around, he threw a puppet to the ground, and the puppet grew when it saw the wind, and in the blink of an eye, it became the size of Xiao Cai.

Xiao Cai nodded to the latter, and jumped up with his hand on the eaves. Ouyang Momo's puppet really startled the master who was in charge of serving tea and pouring water. He couldn't figure out how Xiao Cai, who was still sitting and playing cards just now, could suddenly become a wooden man with no face. Especially the wooden man's effect of drawing cards and playing cards is as natural as flowing water.

Lao Qian glanced at the master coldly and said, "Sit down and help me look at the cards." ”

"Yes, yes!" As soon as the master lowered his head slightly, he saw the fire and thunder hidden under the table by the old money, and the cold sweat on his head dripped down: "Master Qian, you have to believe the little ......"

Lao Qian quietly pushed the fire thunder on the master with his knee: "If you don't believe it, I won't let you sit down!" ”

"Yes...... master" didn't even dare to wipe the sweat: "Master Qian, you hit that red, hit that red......"

The master was still loyal to the old money watch in red, and Xiao Cai had already silently jumped to the roof of the opposite house, bypassed the secret sentry that monitored them, and sneaked towards the center of the village.

Although every house in the five villages was lit up, it was silent, as if there was no one in the village at all. Xiao Cai was puzzled, hooked the eaves of the house with his feet, fell out of the window like a gecko, and poked through the window paper with his hand to look inside.

There was an oil lamp on the table in the room, the dishes and chopsticks were thrown on the side of the table, and half of the rice in the bowl was eaten, and it seemed that the owner had suddenly gone out in a hurry. Xiao Cai looked at the situation of the three houses in a row, and when he was about to leave, he saw a copper ring the size of a basin exposed in the corner of the wall. Xiao Cai recalled that it seemed that every family had such a copper ring-shaped thing. Some were in the courtyard, some were in the corner, and one was simply under the table, and the brass rings of each house were like a lid attached to a cellar.

"Cellar? The area along the river is extremely humid and not suitable for digging cellars to store things. Why every household has a cellar. ”

Xiao Cai secretly opened the entrance to the cellar and walked down the wooden stairs. At first glance, I saw an iron cage like a cell, and a family of three people were fiddling with something around the wooden bed of the cage.

Xiao Cai, who was hiding in the dark, then turned around and looked over, only to see a person dressed as a merchant tied to the wooden bed.

The man crouched down and continued to tie the rope around the merchant's limbs. The woman took the bloody needle and thread and sewed the merchant's eyelids at once. The child was holding a spoonful of steaming wax oil, carefully dripping it onto the merchant's already sewn mouth.

The woman instructed as she sewed, "Dog, you have to be careful." The wax was not sealed tightly last time, and the soul of the man ran away. provoked the village chief to train your father for a long time, this time you have to get it badly, be careful that I pick your skin. ”

The child checked several times to make sure that there was nothing missing, and then said, "I wiped it with a shovel this time, and I made sure that I couldn't run away from his soul." ”

When the woman saw the man take out a rope from under the bed and put it around the merchant's neck, she couldn't help asking, "Father, can you do this?" ”

The man made a live buckle on the rope: "The village chief is too anxious to suffocate him." Hurry up! The man said as he pressed his knee on the merchant's chest, gritting his teeth and tightening the rope, and the merchant twitched twice before moving again.

The man was sure that the merchant was dead, so he untied the body from the bed and dragged it with a rope into the secret door at the other end of the cell. The woman walked in the direction of Xiao Cai with the child.

Xiao Cai jumped between the two of them with an arrow, cut his hands on the necks of the two, and the two of them fainted to the ground with a muffled snort.

After Xiao Cai followed the man out of a distance, slight footsteps and whispered conversations began to come from overhead. There were men and women who spoke, and there were so many of them that it seemed that the entire village had gathered above the tunnel.