The palanquin swayed through the side door, came to the altar, and then fell with a thud.

Everyone was stunned by this strange scene, and my eyes widened in disbelief, and I thought to myself, could it really be a mountain ghost? No, someone roared before the sedan chair entered the door just now, and it sounded exactly the same as the voice of the Taoist priest, why didn't you see anyone?

Just as I was looking, Sister Bailing's expression relaxed, looked at the sedan chair that suddenly appeared, and suddenly smiled.

"Okay, don't worry, it's all right!" She said.

"No, Sister Bailing, how could the sedan chair ...... by itself" I compared a sedan chair fluttering out of thin air, and still couldn't figure it out.

Sister Bailing smiled slightly, and pouted: "Oh, you have to ask him about this!" ”

While talking, the Taoist priest suddenly appeared next to the box at some point, startling us.

I hurriedly looked around, and saw that no one noticed our side, so I couldn't help but ask: "I'll go to your grandfather's, why are you like a ghost, and suddenly appear without any movement?" By the way, you also caused the movement on the stage? ”

The Taoist priest was sweating profusely at this time, panting heavily, rolling his eyes at me, and then replied breathlessly: "Immeasurable your master, don't talk nonsense, quickly give the Taoist master a whole saliva to drink!" ”

Because we were going to stay here for three days and three nights, we brought a lot of water and food before leaving, Yang Mengqing hurriedly turned out the kettle and handed it to him, and after the Taoist priest took it, he raised his head and poured several mouthfuls of it, and then sat down on the ground with a satisfied face.

Just when I was a little impatient, the Taoist priest finally spoke: "Damn-, this time you have to thank Lao Tzu, your team to welcome the gods had an accident and injured two, and the Taoist didn't ask about the specific situation." They had to carry both the sedan chair and the wounded, so it was late, when the Taoist met them, several people were all tired, and the sedan chair was carried by the Taoist alone, damn, almost exhausted Lao Tzu to death! ”

Hearing this, Sister Bailing and I both changed their faces, and I hurriedly asked, "What's the matter with the sedan chair?" I didn't see you just now! ”

"Hey, hey!" The Taoist priest smiled, quite proud, and asked me: "Have you forgotten that the Taoist master has a way to make people invisible!" ”

Hearing him say this, I suddenly remembered an invisibility talisman that the Taoist priest had displayed, and couldn't help but suddenly: "Oh, it turned out to be an invisibility talisman, no wonder I always felt that the sedan chair was 'floating' a little wrong, you kid was under the sedan chair at that time, right?" ”

The Taoist priest nodded, I was suddenly interested, the kind of invisibility charm of the Taoist priest is actually a kind of blinding method, similar to the illusion of ghosts covering the eyes, which can only deceive ordinary people, but where there are some Taoism, you can see through it at a glance.

However, the Taoist priest pretended to be a ghost and tossed, but it solved a big trouble for the organizers, the scene that happened just now was completely a mountain ghost manifestation in the eyes of those ordinary people, and the scene that was out of control a moment ago suddenly quieted down, especially the people who participated in the sacrifice, they fell to the ground one after another, and at the same time shouted that the mountain ghost Niangniang appeared, and no one dared to question it anymore.

The situation was brought under control, and the grandmother was re-invited to continue to preside over the sacrificial ceremony, and the Taoist priest took the opportunity to put an invisibility charm on his body and slipped into the sacrificial venue again.

Due to the Taoist priest's performance just now, this time Sister Bailing just glanced at him, and then sat down next to the barbed wire.

The portable shrine has entered, and the next step is the last link to welcome the god, open the curtain and invite the god.

To put it bluntly, it is to open the curtain of the sedan chair, and the chief priest respectfully asks the empty sedan chair three times, and then everyone worships together, and it is over. I wasn't interested in that, so I didn't pay much attention to it.

But in the next moment, the entire venue, and even the outer circle of the venue, resounded with an exclamation:

"Look, what's going on?"

"Ah, why is anyone in there?"

"Hee-hee, is that a mountain ghost?"

……

A few little girls who had crowded into us because of the doctor were chattering, but I was confused, and I hurriedly stood up and looked at the altar.

At this time, on the altar, the grandmother had already lifted the curtain of the portable chair, but in the sedan chair that should have been empty, there was a comatose person.

Although the man was dirty and his clothes were tattered, worse than a beggar, he could tell by his hair and body that it was a woman.

How could there be a woman in the welcoming shrine, and it was still such a shape?

I immediately looked at the Taoist priest suspiciously, but what I didn't expect was that the Taoist priest's face was also full of consternation, and then he scolded: "Immeasurable Amitabha, I just said that why is such a broken sedan chair so heavy, it turns out that there is a chick hidden in it, damn it, those guys are too disagreeable." ”

I also felt incredible, and glanced at the stage again, and suddenly, I felt that something was not quite right, the woman in the sedan chair, how could I look at it the more I looked, the more familiar it became?

At this time, the Taoist priest also seemed to notice some clues, and suddenly his eyes straightened, looking incredulous. Seeing this, I hurriedly asked him if he saw something?

The Taoist priest took a deep breath, pointed to the platform, and asked me, "I can't see my face, can't you still see her clothes?" ”

Hearing this, I looked at it carefully, and couldn't help but hiss, and immediately reacted to why I felt that the other party was familiar, although her clothes had been torn into rags, but the color and contours were clearly the uniforms of public safety experts!

My God, in this way, the person in the sedan chair turned out to be He Xiaoyi, who has been missing for several months!

After recognizing the person in the sedan chair as He Xiaoyi, I couldn't hold back any longer, and I couldn't wait to rush to the altar immediately to confirm her identity, but fortunately, my reason told me that if I really did this at this time, there might be a big mess.

The doctor and Yang Mengqing didn't know He Xiaoyi, so they didn't have any special reaction at this time, but when they heard that the person in the sedan chair was a female police officer who disappeared in the forest a few months ago, they were also a little surprised.

This sudden situation was beyond anyone's imagination, and the atmosphere inside and outside the venue began to be restless again.

At this moment, Sister Bailing suddenly took out a bamboo tube the size of her index finger, and after opening the wooden stopper on it, a black shell beetle the size of a soybean immediately flew out of it.

I was a little surprised to see this beetle, because I knew this beetle.

This is a kind of Gu worm called Zimu Lianxin Gu, which is recorded in the Taiye's codex.

This Gu is extremely peculiar, it can only survive in pairs, it is divided into sub-Gu and female Gu, the two people who planted this kind of Gu worm can rely on the connection between sub-Gu and female Gu to convey each other's thoughts and emotions to a certain extent, and the technique of transmitting sound into the secret in the same vein of Shenzhou Taoism is similar, or even slightly better.

The cultivation conditions of the Child-Mother Heart-Connecting Gu are very harsh, and it is also very dangerous to use, but if you just hold the Child-Mother Gu and the Mother's Gu separately, and do not plant it on yourself, you can also use the Gu worm to transmit information through some kind of secret technique, and there is no danger, but correspondingly, the effectiveness of the Child-Mother Heart-Connecting Gu is greatly weakened, and the distance of information transmission is very limited.

As soon as I saw Sister Bai Ling take out this Gu worm, I knew what she was going to do.

The one in her hand is a little smaller, it should be a Zi Gu, then there must be a female Gu in Grandma's place, Sister Bailing must want to tell Grandma what we found through Zi Mu Lianxin Gu.

Things turned out to be as I expected, as soon as Zi Gu left the bamboo tube, he immediately flew into the palm of Sister Bailing's hand, and then I saw Sister Bailing's lips moving slightly, as if she was chanting a mantra, and at the same time saw her pierce her finger with a silver needle, dripping the oozing blood into the palm of her hand.

After Zi Gu smelled the smell of blood, he immediately crawled to the blood bead and sucked up the drop of blood that was almost as big as its size in one gulp.

After doing this, Sister Bailing's expression was relaxed, and almost at the same time, the grandmother on the stage looked moved, and after glancing at us, she suddenly turned around and took the lead to bow down to He Xiaoyi in the welcoming shrine.

Grandma's behavior suddenly made the people inside and outside the venue a little confused, and the first to react was the rest of the old men who were also on the side of the altar, they saw that grandma worshipped, and hurriedly walked up to the stage and bowed down to the sedan chair.

These old people are the most respected people in the villages of this mountain ghost festival, and they all took the lead in worshipping, even if they were confused, the people from the villages in the venue still knelt down together.

After the worship, to everyone's surprise, the grandmother did not get up, but chanted the honorific name of the mountain ghost Niangniang, and started the second half of the sacrifice in advance.

While singing the praises of the miracles of mountain ghosts, she revealed He Xiaoyi's identity and attributed it to the manifestation of the mountain ghost Niangniang to save the poor people lost in the mountains and forests.

After learning the truth, the doubts of everyone in the audience all turned into gratitude and admiration for the protection of the mountain ghosts, and it was the kind of respect from the bottom of their hearts.

Seeing this, I have to admire my grandmother's wisdom, which not only skillfully resolved the turmoil caused by the welcoming shrine, but also pushed the mountain people's belief in mountain ghosts to an extreme. In this way, more power can be generated during the prayer process, and the suppression of curses will be more secure.

After several twists and turns, fortunately, there were no more problems in the subsequent links, and after the end of the incense offering and the eulogy, the time had come to noon.

According to the procedure, prayers begin in the afternoon, and no one in the festival hall can leave, even the staff in the venue.

In this way, grandma, as the main priest, will not be able to come out. He Xiaoyi in the welcoming chair was taken down by her grandmother to treat after the end of the welcoming chair, and after all the activities in the morning were completed, the next thing was the time to eat.

Since you can't come and go as you like during the festival, the participants have prepared three days' worth of dry food before entering the venue, and there is also a public toilet in the venue, so almost everything can be considered.

I was worried about He Xiaoyi, as soon as the morning activity was over, I asked Sister Bailing to inquire about the situation.

The Taoist priest slipped into the venue without permission, so he didn't dare to face his grandmother, so he stayed where he was with us, he didn't bring anything to eat, so he asked us for it, Yang Mengqing refused to give him food on the charge of leaving his post without permission, and the Taoist priest gritted his teeth angrily, but he was helpless.

Soon, Sister Bailing returned, and she brought back good news and bad news.

The good news is that although He Xiaoyi's body is weak, it is only caused by long-term malnutrition and is not life-threatening. The bad news is that He Xiaoyi's soul was bound by a mysterious force and fell into a deep sleep, that is to say, the current He Xiaoyi is a walking dead with only a body and no soul.

I never expected things to turn out like this, finally Lin Qiaoer returned to normal, He Xiaoyi had a problem again, what happened in the past few months since she disappeared? Why is it that everyone who has a relationship with me is inexplicably hurt?

I was a little devastated, and I blamed myself, I almost decided that He Xiaoyi must have something to do with me when he became like this, but Sister Bailing told me that it wasn't. She said that her grandmother had examined He Xiaoyi's body and sensed a familiar power in her.

The reason why He Xiaoyi became the current state is because this power has nothing to do with Doom Yuan, and grandma said that this power is very similar to the breath on Lan's body.

"Similar to Lan's breath, could it be ......" I suddenly thought of a possibility, and blurted out: "Mountain ghosts? ”

"I'm afraid so!" Sister Bailing nodded, and then said: "Actually, there is no specific concept and definition of mountain ghosts, it is better to say mountain spirits than mountain ghosts. Godmother said that the mountain is always there, and the mountain soul is always replaced, and the mountain ghosts of different ages are different. ”

"What does that mean?" I don't understand it.

The Taoist priest grabbed the conversation and said: "I said why are you so stupid, Bailing means that the mountain ghost is not eternal, as long as it is chosen by the mountain, it is the mountain ghost, and there will be the so-called mountain ghost breath." The mountain ghost of this generation is Lan, Kelan was taken away from here by us in order to save you from being polluted by the cursed evil qi, and the mountain here has chosen another 'mountain ghost' again, has it moved? ”

"You mean, He Xiaoyi was re-chosen by the mountains here...... Mountain ghosts? ”

"Nonsense, otherwise how can you explain the mountain ghost aura on her body?"

"But, this ...... I'm a little unable to accept the Taoist priest's statement, how could a good person suddenly become such a strange thing?

Sister Bailing patted me on the shoulder and comforted: "Xiaoyi, you don't have to worry too much, Godmother said, this time with the help of the power of prayer, you need to release Lan, as long as you can eliminate the curse and evil spirit, Lan is still the mountain ghost selected by the mountain, so naturally she will not embarrass Officer He, so the plan for the afternoon is the most important." ”

I understood what Sister Bailing meant, nodded, put these aside for the time being, and then said to the Taoist priest: "Why don't you come out first?" If something happens in a while, I'm worried that I and the doctor won't be able to control it. ”

The Taoist priest waved his hand, "It's okay, the Taoist master is in front of you, you are afraid of a hammer." ”

"It's still a wall!" The doctor, who had not spoken all this time, suddenly said this, his brow furrowed, and he seemed to be a little worried.

The Taoist priest still didn't come out after all, saying that his invisibility charm was gone, and he turned over the barbed wire in an open and honest way, if others saw it and did the same, then the order of the venue would be completely chaotic.

I really can't help this except sigh.