Chapter 5: Causes

There is no reward for the next mission...... Thinking of these words, the corners of Bai Mei's eyebrows stretched, how rich the task rewards of the main quest are, Bai Mei has already seen it thoroughly.

Just one mission reward has almost reborn Bai Mei. And if this mission fails, it means that Bai Mei will directly lose the rewards of the two missions.

Just thinking about Bai Mei makes me feel a faint twitch in my heart, but I don't have a clue at all to suppress this ghost disaster.

Although it has been determined that Feng Laosan's death is a ghost, where the ghost is hiding, how many there are, and whether there are more powerful ghosts, all these white eyebrows are unknown.

Bidding farewell to the Feng family, Bai Mei walked alone on the streets of the town, and suddenly Bai Mei turned around suddenly, and the two sneaky men behind him had no time to hide, and they were exposed.

He walked over slowly, his white eyebrows were as pale as ice, and he held a sword scabbard and pestle on the chest of one of them: "Why follow me?"

"Back to ...... Returning to the adults, the small ones...... The younger one is the servant of the township father's family, and he is the township lord's faction...... Send us to you. Being pointed at by Bai Mei with a sword, the servant was so frightened that he even stammered when he spoke.

Xianggong ...... Frowning and recalling for a moment, Bai Mei suddenly remembered. Those townspeople once said that there were old people in the town who said that Feng Laosan died at the hands of something unclean, how did those old people know. This townsman is the oldest person in Qingshi Town, and if you ask him, he may be able to figure out the cause of this ghostly disaster.

"If that's the case, then lead the way. ”

Seeing Bai Mei agree, the two servants immediately breathed a sigh of relief, nodded and said please.

followed the two servants all the way to the most spacious mansion in Qingshi Town, and Bai Mei followed the servants to the living room of the township mansion.

In the living room, the old man who Bai Mei saw was sitting upright on a Taishi chair, his eyes slightly closed, his breathing was heavy, and he seemed to be asleep.

Smiling and asking Bai Mei to wait for a while, the servant trotted to the old man's side and gently shook the old man awake: "Master, the Taoist chief is here." ”

Woken up by the servant in a daze, the old man yawned lightly, looked at the white eyebrows waiting in the room, and smiled apologetically: "I'm sorry, people are old, and it's easy to take a nap as soon as they sit down." ”

"It doesn't matter. "Such a trivial matter, Bai Mei naturally does not care.

With the support of the servant, the old man slowly stood up, waved his hand at the servant, and motioned for him to go down: "Old man Xie Wenmao, thanks to the townspeople's affordability, he has been named a townsman." I don't know what the little Taoist is called?"

"You can call me White Eyebrow. Bai Mei replied.

"White eyebrows, okay. People live up to their name. Nodding with a smile, Xie Wenmao turned around and poured a cup of tea from the teapot on the table: "Bai Dao Chief, do you know what I asked someone to invite you for?"

"Townsman, please have something to say. Bai Mei said.

"Okay, don't worry. Handing Bai Mei a cup of tea, Xie Wenmao continued: "This time, the death of the third child of the Feng family has caused rumors to spread in the town. We are here and here, and the population is not prosperous. The formation of a town of this scale is the result of the painstaking efforts of several generations of villagers.

If something like this happens today, if it doesn't end well, a large number of townspeople will inevitably flee the town.

Therefore, I would like to ask Bai Daochang to help us solve this crisis. ”

"A few rumors, I don't think it's enough to make the townsfolk abandon their family business and flee desperately. Xie Xianggong, if you have something to say, I don't like to be circled by others. ”

For this countryman's roundabouts, it is light. Bai Mei felt a little dissatisfied, since he wanted to ask him for help, then explain the situation frankly, just be so vague and ready to fool the past, and help him solve the problem by himself, it was too simple.

"Alas, it's not that it's old...... It's really hard to talk about. With his back to Bai Mei, Xie Wenmao sighed: "That's it, for the sake of Qingshi Town, the old man might as well let the Taoist look down on him once." ”

There was a hint of haze in his voice, Xie Wenmao raised his head slightly, and his thoughts began to fall into memories:

"That was forty-three years ago, when I was a teenager. At that time, there was a great drought that had not been seen in a century, and it rained for seven or eight months without rain, and all the crops at that time were completely unharvested.

Crops are not harvested, and there is no new food supply.

Helplessly, everyone can only eat the surplus grain at home, waiting for the rain, but gradually everyone has eaten up the surplus grain at home, and if there is nothing to eat, they can only dig wild vegetables everywhere, and even gnaw grass roots.

I remember that year, the town was full of the corpses of people who had been starved to death, and almost every family had starved to death.

At that time, there was a family in the town surnamed Cui, because his family was in the rice shop business at that time, so he was nicknamed Cui landlord. In the case that there is no food in the whole town, the township prince understands in his heart that at this time, only Landlord Cui's family will have food.

After that, the townsman at that time went to Cui's house to talk to Cui's landlord, but at that time, who would think that he had too much food.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the landlord took the opportunity to raise the price of grain tenfold at once, and was only willing to sell part of it.

Although the price is ridiculously expensive, in order to save people, the townsman still gritted his teeth and bought food.

Originally, the townsman meant to use these grains to cook gruel to see if he could barely lead everyone through this difficulty. But I don't know who leaked the news, saying that Landlord Cui's family still has a lot of food.

At this time, the townspeople, who had long been hungry and red-eyed, didn't care about the regular laws, and they had the law, so they directly rushed into Landlord Cui's house and snatched the grain.

During the scramble, Cui's landlord's wife was pushed by someone and hit her head on the pillar, dying on the spot, while her son was pushed to the ground and trampled to death with serious injuries.

Food was robbed, and wives and children died. Landlord Cui went crazy and drove away the townspeople, but who would care about him in that situation.

It wasn't until Landlord Cui cut down a person with a kitchen knife that the nightmare began......

looked at the landlord Cui who was holding a kitchen knife and had scarlet eyes, and then looked at the person who fell to the ground. These townspeople, who were no longer thinking normally, were sober and confused. Suddenly, someone secretly shouted, he killed someone, we killed him, and yes, and no one knew about it......

These words are like the whispers of the devil, which suddenly open the door to evil thoughts in the hearts of everyone.

Under the siege of everyone, the landlord Cui struggled to escape from his home, but the townspeople did not intend to let him go, and chased him all the way to the wooded land outside the town.

Exhausted and with nowhere to escape, Landlord Cui looked at these people in front of him miserably, and suddenly laughed like crazy: "Take my family property and kill my wife and children." Hahaha, good!

"Today, you have ruined my family! One day, I will let you pay me back a thousand times!"

The kitchen knife in his hand slowly slashed across his neck, and under the horrified gaze of everyone, Landlord Cui cut off his head.

Landlord Cui is dead...... None of the townspeople who were frightened by the horrors of the landlord Cui before his death collected his body.

On the third day after the death of the landlord Cui, it rained...... It rained heavily, like a downpour. Along with the rain came an old monk in a white robe.

The old monk said that our town is full of resentment, and if we don't try to eliminate it, the whole town will be wiped out in four days, and there will be no chickens and dogs!

Hearing the old monk say this, the townsman at that time immediately thought of the landlord Cui and hurriedly asked for advice on the solution.

After understanding the cause of the incident, the old monk sighed, although the landlord of Nacui has the evil of greed to sit on the ground and raise the price, but the townspeople will kill it all, but it is even more inhumane.

At the request of the old monk, the townsman and his party came to the place where the landlord Cui died.

But as soon as he approached that place, all the townspeople, including the townspeople, were so frightened that they didn't dare to speak, but the old monk couldn't bear to pronounce a Buddha horn.

I saw the corpse of Landlord Cui lying aside, and the severed head was somehow helped up at this moment, facing the direction of Qingshi Town.

Facing Qingshi Town, the head of the landlord Cui was a smiling face as hideous as a ghost, I remember that I looked at the back of the crowd and was so frightened that I fainted directly.

When I woke up, I heard from the adults in the town that the body of the landlord Cui was buried in the woods by the master, and the master said: He will come back once every ten years, and after seven excesses, the resentment of the landlord Cui can be eliminated.

After that, every ten years, the master would come to Bluestone on time, sit in the woods for seven days, and then leave.

However, five years ago, when Lao Yu had just become a townsman, a young monk suddenly came to me and said that the master had been seated a month ago, and before he died, he asked him to come here and inform the townspeople here.

In order to ensure the comprehensiveness, move as soon as possible.

When I heard the news, I was shocked. But after so many years, the fear and horror of those years have long been diluted with time, and the town was already on the right track at that time, and even the woods of the year had become a place for the townspeople to collect firewood.

In my delusion, I hid it. Three years ago, the fourth decade arrived, and it was a quiet year, no different from usual.

So I thought that the resentment of the landlord Cui might have been eliminated.

It wasn't until this morning that I heard that the third elder of the Feng family had died in that wood, and the fear of more than forty years ago suddenly returned.

Maybe it's providence, we killed his family more than forty years ago, and now he's back to ask for his life......"

Fear and regret were intertwined on his withered face, Xie Wenmao raised his head and looked at Bai Mei with cloudy eyes: "Bai Daochang, I know that what we did back then was not authentic, so many years have passed, many people who have experienced this have left, and only a dozen old guys remain."

If I could, I would trade our lives for the safety of the town, please!"

As he spoke, Xie Wenmao's knees weakened, and he was about to kneel down towards Bai Mei. An arrow stepped forward, and Bai Mei supported Xie Wenmao's body with both hands: "I probably know about this matter, don't announce the specific reason first, try to make the rumors in the town not spread again, I will find a way." ”

Under Xie Wenmao's thousand thanks, Bai Mei left the township mansion. Walking on the street, Bai Mei's thoughts flashed in his heart, what Xie Wenmao said just now, Bai Mei roughly understood, but there were two points that Bai Mei was very confused

First of all, the Cui landlord in Xie Wenmao's mouth is a man, but Bai Mei met a female ghost last night, and according to Xie Wenmao, Cui Landlord has recovered three years ago because he does not have the excess of the old monk, so why is he starting to retaliate now?

Could it be two groups of people?