Chapter 8 The Drought and the Bottom of the Pool

Back to reality, Long Ruiyuan, who was in the car, listened with relish, mainly because his mother was talking, and his father said a few words from time to time to add. Long Ruiyuan actually thought that there should be ghosts and gods in the world since he was a child, because he himself had encountered some supernatural phenomena since he was a child. But after knowing his grandfather's past today, his own worldview still collapsed greatly, and he believed that his parents would not lie to him, so there were really ghosts and ghosts in this world, and what he experienced when he was a child was not necessarily fake.

"Xiao Yuan, I told you these things with your mother, maybe you won't believe it, but those things are real in real life, but don't be afraid, as the so-called people and ghosts have two different paths, those ghosts and spirits basically won't take the initiative to provoke people, because there are some gods and people in this world that ghosts dare not provoke, and they are also afraid of committing some people's taboos." Long Ruiyuan's father held the steering wheel with one hand and said mysteriously.

After speaking, he motioned to Long Ruiyuan's sister to sit next to Long Ruiyuan from the co-pilot, and after saying so much, she still needed to rush to her grandmother's side.

After the car started, it continued to move forward. My parents are still very worried about my grandmother, after all, it takes a long time to get from the city to my grandmother's house. The way home is actually the beginning of memories of the past.

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When Hawkeye and Scar held Ghost Hand on the way back, they watched Ghost Hand's lips turn purple, and his hands and feet became colder, but his forehead was very hot. The two immediately changed their minds, not planning to go to Hades to join up first, but to let Ghost Hand get better first.

The two of them put their ghost hands on the flat ground, Scar took out the liquor from his bag, tore off a small piece of clothing from himself, wrapped it, sprinkled it with white wine, and put it on his forehead. Ghost Eye plucked a clump of leaves from the side of the tree, poured the ashes of the incense burner on it, sprinkled some wine and stirred it, Scar helped the ghost hand up, and the ghost eye poured the stirred ashes of the incense burner into the mouth of the ghost hand, and after a while, the ghost hand coughed a few times and opened his eyes.

Seeing that the ghost hand was better and was able to move on his own, Scar and the two breathed a sigh of relief, and Hawkeye hurriedly told the ghost hand and Scar that Hades was still looking for the two on the other side, and the three of them hurried to find Hades.

At this time, the king of Hades has been entangled with the spirit for too long, and his physical strength has been slightly exhausted. If it is tough, in fact, Hades can clean up this ghost, but this spirit is also very intelligent, knowing that he will definitely not be able to beat this person head-on, he relies on his fast speed and familiarity with the surrounding environment, and has been harassing Hades from the side, planning to give Hades a fatal blow when Hades is physically exhausted.

Hades was already a little panicked in his heart, and it was not a way to continue like this. So I planned to go back first, find the ghost eyes and they would meet before cleaning up this spirit. Running all the way back, Hades also had to be distracted to pay attention to the ghosts behind him, and in the process of running again, Hades found that there was a reverse slope in front of him, and suddenly had a plan. Running and running, Jingmei found that the hard idea in front of him was already a little flustered, and his pace was chaotic, so he immediately accelerated to catch up.

When the spirit came to the reverse slope, because he was blocked by the slope, he didn't see that Hades was already waiting for him with a dagger at this time. When the spirit crossed the reverse slope, Hades used his legs and feet hard, jumped forward, and stabbed the dagger fiercely, just hitting the ghost. The spirit screamed, and the king of Hades was ruthless, and the dagger went in a few more points, directly nailing the spirit to the ground. Then Hades raised his big fist and punched the spirit for a while, and soon the spirit was silent.

Only at this time did the king of Hades dare to breathe loudly, and when he looked closely, it turned out that the spirit that had been entangled with him for so long was actually a drought in the mountains, only to see that this thing had a human face and blue hair, two slender arms, and the most strange thing was that there was only one hairy leg, and the height was less than one meter, but it could be seen that this thing was full of muscles and looked very strong.

There are various theories about the origin of the drought, but it is believed that it is a monster that can cause drought, and in the countryside it is believed that it was changed by a dead person within 100 days of death. The corpses of the dead who have become marls do not decompose, grass does not grow on the graves, and water seeps from the graves, and the droughts will carry water to their homes at night. It will only rain when the drought is burned.

According to the official record, according to the record of "The Laws of the Qing Dynasty, Thieves and Burials", in the ninth year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (1804), Gaomi had been dry for a long time without rain, and some people found that the grave of Li Xiande, a villager who died of illness at the beginning of the year, was damp, and it was rumored that Li became a drought after his death. The people of the villages ignored the Li family's obstruction, dug up the grave and opened the coffin, and when they saw that Li's body had not yet decomposed, they were even more convinced that Li was a drought, so they couldn't help but say that they would burn the body. The Li family took the gravediggers to court. There was no precedent to follow in this case, and in the end, Zhong Er, the leader of the Criminal Department, was sentenced to the crime of "hanging and waiting for prison" (equivalent to the current suspended death sentence) for "opening the coffin and seeing the corpse" for "opening the coffin and seeing the corpse", and the case was closed.

From these statements, it is not difficult to see that the descriptions of the drought are all negative, which can explain why the king of Hades is just accidentally disturbing his cultivation, and the king of the drought plans to refine the king of Hades to increase his own Taoism, which is just his nature. Despite this, the king of Hades still recited an ascetic mantra to teach him next to the corpse of the drought, intending to surpass this drought, and his nature is evil, and he can't be blamed all, after all, he has never stepped into humanity during the six reincarnations, and hopes to be reincarnated as a human in the future.

Speaking of this dervishe, it was met by my grandfather on the way back after a successful tomb robbery, and the ascetic said that the karma of Hades was too heavy, and if it was not remedied, it was estimated that it would attract many flying disasters in the future. At that time, I told my grandfather that I was a little bit in my heart, after all, I often dig other people's ancestral graves underground, and there are many older generations on the road, and few of them died well.

My grandfather hurriedly asked for a way to remedy it, and the dervishma taught my grandfather the mantra of death. So much so that my grandfather likes to help the villagers do heavy work, and it is estimated that he is also persuaded by ascetics, and it is good to do more good deeds.

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When Hades was still reciting the mantra, the three Scars had already come to Hades' side, looking at the corpse next to Hades, and then looking at some of the injuries on Hades' body, they knew that this thing should be very strong.

When Hades finished reciting the mantra, the four of them talked about what happened to them. It turned out that after Hades and Hawkeye went to find dry firewood, the ghost hand ran to the side to solve it because of the swelling of urine. After passing, I faintly heard my daughter-in-law's voice, and although the ghost hand found that something was wrong, he still followed the sound and walked forward.

Scar found that the ghost hand had not come back for a few minutes, and there was a miasma around him, so he shouted loudly for the ghost hand, and after no one responded, Scar realized that it was a little unusual at that time, so he chased it in the direction of the ghost hand to urinate, and the next thing was to chase all the way to the cave, and then met the eagle eye who came to find the two, and the two saw the ghost hand who was confused by the female ghost, so they hurriedly shot, and after the two worked together to repel the female ghost, they looked for Hades together.

Hades also told the three of them what happened to them here, and the three of them sighed, if they were replaced by any of the three, they would probably be cleaned up by this drought. After chatting, the four of them planned to bury the drought on the spot first, after all, they still had to be in awe of these mountain spirits. After burying it, the four of them hurried back to the place where the dog meat was roasted, because after the fire, some shallow things would not dare to approach, and it could also make the beasts in the mountains fearful.

This night, the four of them took turns to keep vigil in pairs, so that they could also take care of it, after all, what happened tonight made the four of them palpitate.

Nothing was said all night.

When the next day, when the fish belly was white, the four of them had already packed up and continued to walk through the mountains and forests, hoping to find something to find the tomb and go home early.

After a few more days, the four of them still couldn't find the tomb, and they all had plans to retreat, but when they thought of their relatives at home, they still chose to grit their teeth and insist. Fortunately, there are many wild fruits and small beasts in the mountains and forests, and there are small ponds or streams at intervals. So the four of them didn't eat and drink enough, but they couldn't find the tomb, and the four of them were not in a very good mood.

Hawkeye is the person who knows the most about the topography of feng shui among the four people, and along the way, although he found the tomb of a local ancient official, when the four of them entered, they found that they had already been taken first. Inside the tomb, except for some broken porcelain fragments, are the bone fragments of the tomb owner's own bones. After the last group of tomb robbers robbed the tomb, they didn't even cover the coffin board for the tomb owner to put it back in place.

In the past two days, the sun was shining brightly in the sky, and the water source for the four of them was about to run out. Instead of looking for ancient tombs, they went to find water. Finding water is much easier than finding a tomb, and it didn't take long to find a waterhole with a waterfall about 20 meters high above it.

After the four of them filled the water, Scar took the lead in stripping naked and jumping into the pool, so unhappy, everyone has been walking in the mountains and forests for so many days, and they haven't taken a bath for a long time, and the smell on their bodies is actually very strong, but they are all big men, and the four of them don't dislike it much. But now there is a pool of clear water in front of him, and even the most stable Hades is not so much, and he is also soaking in the pool.

Everyone chatted in a tower in the waterhole, as if they had washed away all the negative emotions of the four of them in the past few days. Suddenly, the cheers of the ghost hand attracted everyone, and they saw that the ghost hand was holding a deep green bracelet that had been broken in half. It turned out that when the ghost hand was swimming in the pool, the soles of his feet were suddenly stabbed by this thing, so he touched this thing.

The four of them knew that there must be a tomb nearby, and it was estimated that because of the cracks in the mountain, the famous objects in the tomb were washed out by the dark river or rain. Eventually, the water was washed into the pool. Now that the ghost hand has found the green bracelet, the four of them have been searching for it at the bottom of the pool. As expected, the damaged jade heng and jade bi were found from the bottom of the Tan one after another, and the most valuable of them was a small bronze figure.

In fact, when these things are found from the bottom of the pool, they are actually worth a lot of money in a relatively complete way, but the tomb is in front of them, and it must be impossible for the four of them to give up and go home directly. After the four of them packed up, they climbed the cliff where the waterfall was located from the side with passion, and followed the current to find the source. Since these broken jade artifacts were found at Tan Di, it is basically impossible to go wrong with following the flow of water, not to mention that there is an eagle eye on the side to investigate the trend of the landscape.