109 Monk
Xiao Lingran pursed her lips and replied, "I, I just dreamed of it in my dream......" The more she spoke, the quieter she became, and she didn't seem to believe herself anymore.
"I dreamed of what had happened in this village before, and I was still the daughter of a village woman in it." She said as she took a sip of her tea.
"Tell me what's going on here, then?" Wanqing was very interested in hearing her.
"I remember that the bandits pretended to be wine sellers, and then added broken intestine grass to the wine to make the villagers and the intestines die...... The rest were brutally murdered by them......" Xiao Ling said.
"Do you remember the graves you saw today?" Xiao Lingran recalled the professional work Murong Li did at night.
"Of course, I remember, so many graves are really frightening." Wanqing also recalled.
"Actually, these graves are no one else's, they are ...... The villagers of the village. After Xiao Lingran finished speaking, she looked at Wanqing's reaction, her expression was very complicated, and Duo Jia was surprised.
"Think about it, why don't these villagers come out during the day, and at night they say they hear ghosts crying?" Xiao Lingran said, and then she came up with an idea, "Have you ever thought that in fact, they forgot that they were dead, so they stayed here to live a normal life, but they couldn't explain those weird phenomena?" โ
After Xiao Lingran finished speaking, Wanqing's expression also froze a little, as if she was seriously thinking about something.
"And those dark shadows we encountered tonight...... and the villagers who stood in place and let the black shadow slaughter them. It's like in my dream, when those bandits slaughtered the villagers......"
Xiao Lingran frowned, as if he remembered those fathers, elder villagers, brothers and mothers who died tragically.
Wanqing said, "I...... What you say doesn't make sense, after all, there are too many things in between. โ
At this time, Xiao Ling said a few words in a daze: "All the bad karma created in the past was caused by greed and hatred without beginning. Born of body, speech, and mind, I repent of all things now......"
"It's not ...... The four most famous confessions in the Huayan Sutra, why did you suddenly remember to read this? Wanqing asked puzzled.
"It's a confession, isn't it a transcendent Buddhist scripture?" Xiao Lingran asked.
"Of course not, this sentence means that all the wrong things you have done in the past are caused by your own desires, greed and hatred, and now you are beginning to repent from your body and heart and atone for all the wrong things you have done in the past." Wanqing explained to her.
"That's weird." Xiao Lingran said.
"What do you mean by that?" Wanqing is still in the clouds.
"I always asked you if you heard strange sounds, and you said you couldn't, but I heard the sound of knock knock every time it mattered. The sound sounded, and I saw something unclean, and it was this sound that I dodged the attack, and the black shadow disappeared......"
"So ......?" Wanqing asked.
"I secretly went out to take a walk tonight, but I happened to hear the monk chanting the scriptures, and these are the few words, I thought it was some kind of Buddhist scripture that transcended the dead......" Xiao Lingran told her about her experience tonight, and Wanqing was also very curious.
She asked, "Why did he read the confession for no reason, could it be that he felt some guilt in his heart?" โ
Xiao Lingran added: "The sound of knocking on the wooden fish is also knocking, right? โ
Wanqing looked at it, raised her eyebrows and said, "No wonder, I'll just say why a monk guards an empty temple, and it's still in a haunted village...... This monk ...... It's definitely not easy. โ
Xiao Lingran nodded in agreement.
"Okay, it's not too early, you have a nightmare and you've been frightened a lot, so let's rest quickly, and talk to Senior Brother Fengyun tomorrow......" Wanqing urged, and Xiao Lingran obediently got back into the bed.
On the second day, all the disciples had already gathered outside the village, except for Xiao Lingran and Wanqing, who were still asleep, and when they woke up, they found that the people next to them were gone.
"Tsk, why don't you call us." Wanqing's hair was messy, and she sat on the edge of the bed and got up.
"Alas, okay, okay, don't be angry, let's go." Xiao Lingran persuaded, after all, she had shown her face several times before, but she had not made a good impression on her fellow disciples.
When I arrived at the entrance of the village, I could see a figure, and I wanted to hide in the crowd quietly, but I was still discovered by Senior Brother Fengyun.
"Why are you here now?" Senior Brother Fengyun asked.
Xiao Lingran thought to herself, the old lady had such a terrible nightmare yesterday, do you still expect to have the energy to get up early today!
"Uh-huh, that'...... Wanqing, right! She suddenly thought of something, and grabbed Wanqing next to her, "She told me that she was not feeling well and had a stomachache!" That's why we're late. โ
"You ......" Wanqing wanted to say something, but Xiao Lingran hurriedly gave her a look.
Senior Brother Fengyun looked at Wanqing, and she immediately pretended to be in pain, "Eh, my stomach...... It hurts...... Senior Brother Fengyun, I'm really sorry for ......."
Wanqing has always been everyone's best in the hearts of others, so Senior Brother Fengyun didn't doubt it, so he said: "Okay, I know, pay attention to safety, go ahead." โ
"Wait a minute, what are we going to do now?" Xiao Lingran asked.
"You go to Murong Li, and they will assign you tasks." Senior Brother Fengyun replied.
So the two poor little sisters hurried to Murong Li's side again.
"Yo, morning." Murong Li raised his eyebrows, but in fact, it was not early, he said it on purpose.
"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and tell us what the mission is?" Xiao Lingran didn't want to talk to him at all, and said impatiently.
Murong Li was deflated and didn't want to tease her anymore, so he handed her a bundle of red thread, a bag of glutinous rice and a jar of salt water.
"No, take it. The red line is tied around the village, there can be no leakage, glutinous rice is sprinkled on the ground around the red line, and you take care of the brine yourself. He explained the task succinctly and clearly.
Then Xiao Lingran led Wanqing to go with them, they were on the west side of the village, the red line enclosed that side, and finally handed over to the people on both sides, glutinous rice was scattered everywhere, Xiao Lingran felt that it was a waste.
"That's pretty much it." Murong Li looked at the impermeable village surrounded by red lines and glutinous rice, and nodded with satisfaction.
"Now just wait for the night to fall." He said to his disciples.
It seemed that among all the people present, Xiao Lingran and Wanqing didn't know what he was going to do.
The night fell quickly, and in order to complete the task, they had eaten very early, all of which were their own dry food and wild vegetables nearby, and Xiao Lingran was hungry again after a while.
It was getting dark, and everyone was really sleepy waiting there.
"Knock, knock, knockโ" The familiar voice rang out again.
"Wanqing, did you hear that?" Xiao Lingran asked.
"Well, I hear you. It's just that the sound is so quiet, if it weren't so quiet today, I guess I wouldn't have heard it. Wanqing replied.
Sure enough, as Xiao Lingran said before, there will be this voice at every important moment.
As the sound faded, the wind blew, bringing with it a fishy smell, and a blood-colored river flowed not far away.
"Here, everyone prepare!" Senior Brother Fengyun crouched behind a large stone and whispered to the other disciples.
Suddenly, a group of figures came from the front, trampling in a pool of blood, sweeping like zombies.
The villagers who were in front stepped on the ground sprinkled with glutinous rice, like ants on a hot pot, and screamed hot.
"When will this glutinous rice be used as a weapon?" Xiao Lingran asked, looking at the picture in front of him.
Wanqing said: "I remember my father telling me that there were zombies in a village before I was born, and glutinous rice can suppress them! โ
Another group of villager zombies wanted to avoid the glutinous rice, so they spread around, but they were stopped by red threads, like braids on people, and red marks would be burned when they touched it.
"The red rope can ward off evil spirits, I know this!" A little girl next to her shouted excitedly, and stretched out her little hand, showing the little red rope that her mother wore for her.
The villagers had nowhere to escape, so they had to gather together, and while they were in the center, Senior Brother Fengyun gave an order: "Release the net-"
When the sound fell, several teenagers hiding in the shadows on both sides jumped out, and several of them pulled a large red net in their hands and threw it at the villagers. Suddenly the screams were endless......
At this time, a figure suddenly appeared among the villagers.
"That's ...... Chief! Xiao Lingran recognized it at a glance, only to see that the village chief's face was full of rotten flesh, and there was no trace of whites in his dark eyes.
What is he going to do? I saw him waving his stiff hand, trying to tear the red net, I thought that thing could be calmed, but after a while, he really tore a hole.
At this moment, I saw a black figure running over, jumping up, and jumping in front of the group of villagers.
"Hurry like a law, look at the talismanโ" I saw Murong Li holding a yellow paper talisman in one hand and pasting it on the red net, and two fingers in one hand on the tip of his nose chanting a spell.
Suddenly, the red net emitted bursts of red light, and the zombies inside were beaten and made a "crackling" sound, screaming again and again, Xiao Lingran couldn't bear to listen to it.
"Well, in a few moments, these zombies will be gone!" Murong Li clapped his hands and turned around to leave.
At this moment, a voice came from not far away.
"Let them goโ"
Everyone looked at it, it turned out to be the monk who helped them in those days, and Senior Brother Fengyun said calmly: "You are finally here." โ
The monk ignored it and ran straight towards Murong Li.
"Hey, what are you going to do?" Murong Li stopped the monk who was about to come over and open the net.
"Do you know how many innocent people will be killed by this?" Senior Brother Fengyun flew over from not far away with light skills.
The monk swallowed his saliva and said, "No, they are all good people......