Chapter 2: The Tale of Doom
I thought that my grandmother would be as surprised as the third uncle and sister Bailing after hearing my experience, but to my surprise, during the whole process of my narration, my grandmother just listened quietly, and her wrinkled face never showed even a trace of surprise.
It wasn't until I had finished the narrative that my grandmother nodded calmly, which was a sign of expression.
I'm a little crazy, and my heart says grandma, even if you are well-informed and accustomed to big scenes, but grandchildren, I am the first time to experience these big battles, I don't have your ability, I almost lost my life, how about you give a little expression, even if it is a casual perfunctory compliment!
It seemed to see what I was thinking, grandma touched my head dotingly, and grinned: "Okay, okay, grandma doesn't underestimate you, to be honest, you can come out safe and sound this time, grandma is already very pleased, originally grandma still had a headache how to suppress your curse, but I didn't expect you to enter Yeling by mistake but because of a blessing in disguise, found the underworld, and sealed the curse yourself." ”
Grandma's words made me feel a little better, and when I talked about the underworld, I suddenly remembered a question, and hurriedly asked: "Grandma, did you know that there are sinkholes and hell trees in Yeling, so you let me in?" ”
Grandma was stunned by my question, shook her head, and said that the horror of Yeling was unimaginable, although she had been in it a few times, but she took a relatively safe road, and did not encounter any sinkholes, and he was going to prevent me from entering Yeling, so he let the third uncle risk rushing out of the encirclement to report to me.
I was stunned and asked in surprise: "So, those Gu worms, clothes, and traces of sacrifice outside Yeling were not deliberately left by you to lead me into Yeling?" ”
At this time, my grandmother's expression became solemn, and I told my grandmother about the suggestive traces outside Yeling, and she immediately shook her head, saying that although she had passed Yeling not long ago, she had definitely not left those things behind.
The atmosphere was suppressed for a moment, and it suddenly occurred to me that the true target of the Heavenly Witch Sect was not Yeling. Could it be that they did it?
Grandma said that it was impossible, when she fought with the three elders of the Heavenly Witch Sect, she had made a bet at that time, if she lost, the price would be to take them into Yeling, which meant that they did not know the location of Yeling.
It's not grandma, it's not the Heavenly Witch Sect, who could it be, who wants to introduce me to Yeling? At the beginning, Zhang Juming's letter led me to Fengyang, almost died, I still don't know who was behind the plot, and now, the traces outside Yeling also want to lead me to Yeling, if it weren't for the third uncle who met the Taoist priest, I was suspicious, I'm afraid I had already entered before the Yin Spirit Passage, this is another incredible place.
Judging from the current results, there are only two results that introduced me to Yeling: one is that I will go in and die inside, and there will be one less unknown reporter in the world; The second is that I have taken the womb and walked out unharmed, which is very unlikely, but if this is the case, then my curse can be suppressed, and there will be no more danger to my life in the short term.
The two outcomes represent two different motives, one is to kill me, and the other is for my good, looking for life for me. Are the people behind these things friend or foe?
Grandma touched my head and told me not to think about it, whether it is friend or foe, I will always know in the future, at least the current result is good.
I nodded, no longer entangled, thought about it, and asked the biggest question that had plagued my mind all these years.
"Grandma, I have another question, I asked you when I was a child, but you have always refused to tell me, now that I have grown up, is it time for me to let me know the truth?" Grandma's expression didn't change, she knew what I was talking about, in the past when I asked about the curse, my grandmother always looked ugly and didn't speak, but this time, she didn't.
"Hey!" Grandma sighed and said, "Xiaoyi has grown up, you're right, it's time to tell you something." ”、
I was overjoyed in my heart, I was ready to eat the closed door, but I didn't think that my grandmother had been silent about the topic for ten years, and today I actually let go. I sat upright, ready to listen to my grandmother's secrets.
To my surprise, my grandmother didn't talk about the curse directly at first, but told me a story, a story that happened a hundred years ago.
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More than 100 years ago, the ancient land was in turmoil, the imperial dynasty collapsed, and foreign invasions were in such a chaotic social background, even the mysterious Gu Miao tribe who had lived in the deep mountains and wilderness for generations was not at peace. The war dragged on, plundered countless lives, and the souls of the dead were under the influence of the war, unable to enter the shadows, and became lonely ghosts full of resentment.
However, in those years, how many pure lands could there be in this devastated land without war? The endless resentful souls have no place to return, and finally swarm into the sparsely populated primeval wasteland that has not been burned by the war, which is also the reason why there are many sneaky in the mountains and barren mountains in modern China.
Miaojiang, due to the special relationship between Miao and Han, few Han people dare to intrude, and Miao people hunt in the mountains and forests, so Miao Jiang is the only place for resentment to accumulate whether it is ecological or geographical location far from the battlefield.
With this level of relationship, what happened after that can naturally be imagined, people and ghosts compete for land, endless areas have become ghost domains, Miao people's lives are becoming more and more difficult, and they are often infested by ghosts, and their misery is not much better than that of creatures under the flames of war. The action of the resentful soul finally aroused the anger of the Miao people, and Miao Jiang is not only the Miao people, many Han people are also deeply affected by the resentful soul, the Miao people have shamans, and there are many corpse chasers and Taoist priests among the Han people, in order to eliminate the disaster of the resentful soul, the two, in less than a year, the sneakiness in most areas of Miao Xinjiang was cleared, and the disaster of the resentful soul finally dissipated.
This war between people and ghosts for land is short-lived, but countless witches have died in the process, which is also the biggest reason why the corpse chasers and wizards have almost disappeared after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
If it's just these, naturally it doesn't have a half-dime relationship with me, but what happened later made me, no, it should be said that the entire Zhang family almost came to a dead end.
I heard from my grandmother that the person who led the Miao and Han families to deal with the resentful spirits at that time had a lot to do with my ancestors. Although the scourge of resentful souls has been lifted, the masters of the Miao and Han families have also lost a lot, and what is even more terrifying is that the calamity of resentful souls, which everyone thought had been resolved at that time, broke out again two years later.
For some reason, the scale of this resentment is far greater than the first time, and the resentment of the revenant soul is also extremely terrifying. Originally, I had the experience of dealing with resentful spirits for the first time, and even if the number and horror of the second revenant were much stronger than before, it was not impossible to solve, but this time, the resentment was organized, just like an army.
After losing a large part of their strength, the Taoist priests of Miao Jiang and the corpse chasers sent a plea for help to the Buddhism of Middle Earth, and several hidden witch tribes of the Miao people were also invited. With the addition of these two forces, the second plague of resentment was finally put to rest five years later, after paying a great price.
After experiencing this catastrophe, both the masters of Miao Jiang and Middle Earth realized the seriousness of the matter, and the two plagues of resentment could never be accidental, and just a year after the second calamity of resentment subsided, all the masters who lived in Miaojiang disappeared overnight, and my ancestor was also among them.
That incident set off a huge wave in the entire Miao Xinjiang and even Middle Earth, and then there was no news of those people, until four years later, three ragged people with a man, a woman and two children came out of a Jedi called Ghost Turning Ridge in the 100,000 Great Mountains, and the events of that year showed a little clue.
The three ragged men, one insane, and the other two were none other than my ancestor and his wife. After missing for four years and reappearing, the first thing that ancestor did was to leave Miaojiang, and half a year later, he returned to Miaojiang with a group of monks and Taoists from the original generation, and entered the Ghost Ridge again.
At this point in the story, I still can't hear what it has to do with me, but the content of the story really attracts me, and I feel like I'm looking at suspense. But at this time, my grandmother stopped talking, and I couldn't help but be curious, and asked, "What happened later?" ”
Grandma glanced at me with a complicated expression, and after a while, she said slowly, "It's gone." ”
I'm a little stunned, this is gone? At least let me know what happened to my ancestors! Grandma also seemed to see what I was thinking, and sighed: "If I knew what happened later, the Zhang family would not have become what it is now." ”
Grandma's words made me even more confused, as far as I know, in Dingyan Village, our Zhang family is definitely the first family, and even the ancestral shrine in the village is also Zhang's. Besides, my uncles, the eldest uncle, now have a big family, and are quite famous in the whole place, and the third uncle has also entered the state department, and has also become the deputy director, although my father is not good, but he is also the only professor in their school. Among the four brothers, the fourth uncle is almost mixed, but such a grand occasion is already very good, how could grandma say such a thing?
Grandma sighed, a gloomy look appeared on her wrinkled face, and said slowly: "Xiaoyi, do you know, your uncles, they are not your own uncles, except for your father, alas, they are all orphans adopted by me and your grandfather......"
"What?" Grandma's words were like a thunderbolt in the sky, and my mouth opened wide.