The old man was in a hurry, and he didn't say a word along the way, and although I had countless questions, I couldn't find a chance to talk to him, so I could only keep them down for the time being.

The ghostly aura enveloped the entire river valley basin, and the blocked thunderclouds did not dissipate, and the dull thunder could still be heard through the black air. The sky was completely obscured, but Siye was not very dark, and those black gases didn't know what they were, as if there was a faint glow radiating out.

Soon, the old man led us to a very remote alley in the town. The place had been abandoned for a long time, the doors on both sides of the alley were rusted, and weeds taller than a man protruded from the walls, and the walls were covered with all kinds of unknown vines.

I know that the people of Fengyang are very rich, after all, even if they put aside the income from stealing gold, close to the sand gold exchanged in the Fengqing River, it is enough for them to live a rich life. But I really didn't expect that there would be such a dilapidated and barren place in the magnificent Fengyang Town, it seems that no matter where it is, there are always some dilapidated things hidden behind the prosperity that are not known to the public.

Walking through a long section of the moss-covered bluestone road, there was a faint light in front of me, the light was not like the light of an electric lamp, it was very faint, but it was a bit like the light of a candle flame, I guessed that the old man should live here, because there was light in this part of the long alley.

When I got closer, I realized that they were actually two white lanterns, hanging in front of an old corniced porch, emitting a quiet light, and the lanterns were printed with the word 'dian' in black, and I felt goosebumps all over my body when I looked at them.

As I expected, the old man stopped in front of the door of the house, pushed open the old door and walked in, behind the door was a small courtyard, in the yard there was a well made of bluestone, an old locust tree, a stone table, arranged quite leisurely, at a glance the old man was a person who would enjoy. Only, why did he hang a lantern like that at the door? This is also too unlucky, could it be that someone in the family has just died?

I thought wildly, but the old man had already pushed open the door of the hall and walked in, and there was no bird for me and the Taoist priest.

The Taoist priest touched his nose, leaned up to me and muttered, "I said, are we too careless?" We don't know anything about him, and if he wears the same pants as that bullshit mayor, we follow up so stupidly, if there is a mechanism, wouldn't we be caught in the net? ”

I patted the Taoist priest and said to him, "Don't worry, if he had been with the mayor all the way, he wouldn't have saved us just now, and besides, he seems to have a relationship with the old woman in Aji Village, and with the handkerchief given by the old woman, he may be able to help us get out of here!" ”

Hearing me say this, the Taoist priest nodded and said, "If you really have this relationship, it's best, let me tell you, this old man is not ordinary, he wants to help us, and this catastrophe will be over." ”

The words of the Taoist priest reminded me, but the old man didn't seem to treat us very well. I gritted my teeth, and said in my heart, as long as I can leave this hellish place safely, even if I am willing to kiss the old man's toes, it is just a little face, and it is insignificant compared to living.

Thinking about it like this, the embarrassment of being hung aside by the old man suddenly disappeared. I straightened my chest, and as soon as I stepped into the door with my front foot, a strange face as white as paper came into view, which frightened me to the hair all over my body, and my heart panicked, and my feet suddenly became chaotic, and the other foot stumbled on the threshold, and the whole person fell into the house and ate.

The Taoist priest followed me, and when he saw me fall, he hurriedly came to help me, and I panicked, pointed to the front and shouted, "Evil ghost, evil ghost has caught up." ”

"Huh? Hell, you are big, you take a good look! The Taoist priest snorted, looked in the direction I was pointing, and immediately gave me a brain, and scolded angrily.

I fixed my mind, looked at it carefully, and couldn't help but curse, almost crying stupidly by myself. The thing that scared me down wasn't a ghast, it was a paper stab that burned the dead.

The Taoist priest helped me up, and my mouth was always happy, and I couldn't hold my face a little, so I kicked him to hide my embarrassment. It was dark inside, but there was a faint light coming in from outside the door, and I looked around and saw that the room was full of all kinds of paper supplies. What paper cows and paper horses, paper cars and paper houses, and even paper villas, there are a variety of dishes, piled up in most of the space in the hall, obviously, this is a dark goods store.

The old man walked out with an oil lamp, and the room suddenly became brighter, and the paper-tied objects became more lifelike. He lay down on a wicker chair in the corner of the room and beckoned us to sit down, but he didn't speak, just stared at me. I fidgeted and looked at the Taoist priest, trying to ask him to say something to break the deadlock, but this guy pretended not to see it, shook his head and looked around, and didn't care about me at all, and the atmosphere was a little awkward for a while.

Just when I was staring at me and was about to jump up, the old man suddenly spoke: "What is the relationship between you and the old woman?" He squinted his eyes, but did not look at me, and played with the wick with a small piece of wood, and the flame of the oil lamp flickered and danced as he played, and the shadows in the hall shook as if they were alive, including ours.

This scene makes me feel a little strange, I really don't know if there is no electricity in this house? Or he deliberately didn't turn on the light, but since he spoke, I was afraid that the slow answer would make him unhappy, and I would return to my previous embarrassment, so I was busy telling him a rough overview of what happened in Aji Village.

As I narrated, his face changed several times, especially when he heard about the Vamphimore Vine and the Hanging Grove, his eyebrows furrowed into his nostrils.

This experience was a bit tortuous, I spoke for more than ten minutes before I finished speaking, after listening to it, he pondered for a moment, suddenly slapped the table, and shouted: "No, the old woman will never let you come to me for this little thing, saying, who are you?" ”

I was taken aback by his sudden drinking, broke out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly waved my hand and said, "I don't know, it may be that Granny Lin saw my grandmother's face and asked me to ask you for help." ”

"Your grandmother?"

"Yes, my grandmother, she lives in Si Miao Village, her surname is Miao, Granny Lin and the corpse movers in the hanging corpse forest seem to know her."

The reason why I mention my grandmother is because the old woman and the corpse remover both know her, and Lin Dongyang has a relationship with the old woman, and they are of the same generation, so maybe they know each other.

As soon as I finished speaking, the old man immediately exclaimed and asked, "Si Miao Village?" The surname is Miao, could it be Miao Xiangu? ”

"My grandmother's name is Miao Fengxian, and she is the goddess in the village, as for whether it is Miao Xiangu or not, I don't know, she didn't mention it to me."

The old man's face changed completely, he looked at me with complicated eyes, and sighed: "You are actually the grandson of Miao Xiangu, no wonder there is that brand, alas, it seems that this is the will of heaven!" ”

He looked stunned, I thought it was strange, so I asked him why he said that. The old man sighed, and instead of answering my question, he asked me why I had come here, and I told him about the letter I had received from the newspaper, and showed him the picture.

The old man stared at the photograph with a more and more ugly face, and finally said something that shocked me: "I sent this letter!" ”

"Ah, you sent this letter?" I was so shocked that my mouth grew and I couldn't believe it.

He nodded, and said with a solemn expression: "That's right, I sent it myself, but I sent it thirty years ago." ”

Once again, I was so startled by his words that I was a little unsure of what he meant, and when I asked him what was the matter, the old man told me about the past.

Thirty years ago, Lin Dongyang, who had just passed the age of not being confused, did not live in Fengyang, but in Aji Village. I had guessed before that the people of Aji Village were also a branch of the Shangli people, and Lin Dongyang's words confirmed that my guess was correct, and the Shangli people of Fengyang were actually very closely related to Aji Village.

The original Shangli people lived in Ahe Village for generations, multiplied for thousands of years, Shangli was originally after Jiuli, and the Miao people of later generations have the same ancestry, Shangli people have inherited a large number of witchcraft spread by Jiuli, and the status of the great wizard who has mastered witchcraft in the clan is even higher than the patriarch.

This situation continued until a hundred years ago, when a great change that swept the whole of China changed the fate of this ethnic group.

Regarding this great change, Lin Dongyang said very vaguely, and only replaced it with the disaster of doom, which not only caused the destruction of a large number of Daomen in the Central Plains, but also affected Miaojiang. A hundred years ago, almost everyone in Shangli knew some witchcraft, the catastrophe came, the heavenly stone fell, one of them fell to Fengyang, this stone became the fuse of the Shangli split, the black witch forces in the clan were ready to move the stone tablet as a sacred stone, and used this as an excuse to participate in a war between Xuanmen and Wudao that was strictly forbidden by the great wizard at that time, resulting in countless deaths and injuries of the Shangli people.

Later, the stele became a taboo for the Li people of the Murakami people, and it was never mentioned for the next 70 years. Until thirty years ago, a sorcerer in Aji Village who had secretly learned black witchcraft harbored evil intentions and wanted to use the incident of the Divine Stone seventy years ago to promote black witchcraft, but was stopped by Old Lady Lin and the corpse movers. Annoyed and angry, the dark wizard instigated a split within the clan, and nearly one-third of the Shangli people were bewitched by it and migrated with them to Fengyang, the place where the Divine Stone was located.

Lin Dongyang moved to Fengyang at that time, but what happened in Fengyang made him see the ugly face of the black witch clearly, so he drew a line with it, but he didn't have the face to return to Fengyang, so he took root in Fengyang and opened a paper shop.

After that, strange things happened in Fengyang one after another, although he had doubts in his heart, but he had decided not to ask about the world, he didn't study it carefully, and just watched the houses around the paper shop become empty. The former neighbors disappeared one by one, Lin Dongyang finally raised his doubts, and after some inquiry, he discovered the strangeness of the elm ditch and the ghost school that was sealed.

As a fellow heir to witchcraft, he could see at a glance the hints of the witchcraft outside the school, which was a vicious black witch spell that could trap evil spirits, but it burned the ghosts and spirits all the time, making them suffer from evil qi at all times, and over time it would inevitably give birth to a terrifying existence that was difficult to resist.

At that moment, he had the idea of destroying the witch spell, but he was afraid of releasing the evil spirit in the school to cause trouble Feng Yang, and when he was entangled, he met a middle-aged man, a master of the essence channel.