Before Xiao Laodao finished speaking, the master interrupted him and said, "Let's go back now, bring some guys over and cut this tree!" ”

Xiao Laodao hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded and said: "It's okay, let's dig its original body here, no matter where it is, you should be able to feel it, and when the time comes, it will naturally come back." The two men then left the peach orchard, hurried up, and returned to the inn.

At this time, Xiao Chujiu and Xiao Shiyi were both guarding the girl's room, and there was no abnormal situation in them here, and the girl was still the same, unable to wake up.

Xiao Laodao greeted the two of them and asked them to take the guy who was digging the pit and go to the peach forest together, but the girl couldn't be guarded by anyone, Xiao Laodao and my grandfather left the little ghost monkey behind.

A few men took their fellows, left the inn, found a blacksmith shop in the town, bought two more axes, and when everything was ready, they hurried again and returned to the peach grove.

At this time, the peach forest was the same as when they left, the wind was calm, Xiao Laodao was not in a hurry to let the master and them do it, and said a few words to the peach tree before the soldiers, which roughly meant that as long as you put the soul of Miss Lan'er back, we will let you go, and the well water will not interfere with the river water in the future, otherwise, we can only attack you.

After Xiao Laodao finished speaking, the peach tree still didn't have any reaction, and when the master saw this, he was the first to pick up the shovel and dig it up. Xiao Laodao looked at it, it seemed that this trick would not work, so he greeted Xiao Chujiu and Xiao Shiyi, and then dug up.

This big peach tree, the underground rhizomes and branches on the tree are as many, and each root is deeply rooted in the soil, the grandfather and a few of them, around the tree body in a circular excavation, but where the roots are dug up, directly cut off with an axe, the severed roots, each one is bubbling blood, very bluffing.

Digging from the afternoon until it was dark, several people finally cut off all the extended collateral rhizomes and dug out the taproot, at this time, the peach tree was dug out of a five-foot-deep pit by the grandfather.

In the pit, the master looked at the taproot of the peach tree, and said to Xiao Laodao: "As long as we cut off the roots of this tree, the peach tree will not survive, and the peach blossom essence will become the master of rootlessness, even if it will not be destroyed, its power will be greatly reduced, and at that time, it will no longer be able to detain Lan'er's soul, I will do another soul-summoning ritual in Taoyuan to summon Lan'er's soul back." ”

When Xiao Laodao heard this, he sighed and said: "I knew this, what kind of incense and offerings should I burn for it......" Xiao Laodao immediately beckoned Xiao Chujiu, "Put on the axe and cut down the roots." ”

Xiao Chujiu was about to chop the roots of the tree with an axe, but the master hurriedly stopped him, "Brother Chujiu, let's come with me." ”

Xiao Laodao said: "Brother, you are not tired today, just let the ninth day come." ”

The master glanced at Xiao Laodao and said, "My father said that the foundation of bad people and the abolition of humanity will be punished by God, or I will come." ”

Xiao Laodao suddenly smiled, "Brother, are you afraid that Chu Jiu will be punished by heaven?" Jokes, even if there is a curse, we are not bad this time! As he spoke, Xiao Laodao pulled my grandfather away, and Xiao Chujiu picked up his axe and slashed at the taproot.

An axe went down and splashed the blood on Xiao Chujiu's face, but for the situation of blood coming from the roots of the tree, several people had long been accustomed to it at this time, Xiao Chujiu wiped the blood off his face and continued to chop it.

At this time, Xiao Shiyi on the top of the tree pit lit a torch and handed it to Xiao Laodao in the pit. Xiao Laodao took the torch and planned to illuminate Xiao Chujiu, but he said "Huh" in his mouth, and quickly asked Xiao Chujiu to stop, followed by Xiao Laodao squatting down, pulling the soil next to the root of the tree, and said to himself: "The color of this soil, why doesn't it look right?" ”

"What's wrong, Brother Xiao?" The grandfather next to him hurriedly asked.

Xiao Laodao waved his hand, didn't answer my grandfather, stuffed the torch in his hand to my grandfather, he picked up a shovel next to him, and dug it down the roots.

After digging a few shovels, the master heard Xiao Chujiu mutter, "Rammed earth." ”

The master turned his head to look at him, "What rammed earth?" ”

Xiao Laodao said at this time: "I didn't light the light just now, I can't see clearly, under the roots of this tree is not ordinary soil, it is a layer of rammed earth, and under this, there should be a grave." ”

"Grave?" The master glanced at Xiao Laodao in disbelief.

"That's right, it's definitely a tomb, judging from the color of the rammed earth, there are a lot of tombs in this year, and there can be a tomb with a rammed earth layer, and the people in it are either rich or expensive."

After that, Xiao Laodao continued to dig along the roots of the tree, and the master suddenly frowned, because at this time he was going to cut down the peach tree, not dig the grave, and the master hurriedly said: "Brother Xiao, it doesn't matter if there is a grave below, the most important thing for us at the moment is to cut off the taproot of this peach tree." ”

Xiao Laodao immediately responded, "Don't you think it's strange, how could this peach tree be planted on the grave, look at the roots of this tree, Bao Buqi has already fled to the tomb, dig up the grave first and take a look." ”

The master suddenly looked helpless, he originally came to cut down the peach tree, but at this time he dug a grave, you don't care where the peach tree grows.

Xiao Laodao dug down along the roots of the tree and dug two feet deep, and a white layer appeared in the soil, so I heard Xiao Laodao say at this time: "Yo, lime layer, this tomb seems not big, but it is not simple!" There was a hint of excitement in the words.

Xiao Laodao immediately beckoned Xiao Chujiu and Xiao Shiyi, take the guys, come down and dig down together!

The master still looked helpless, the three masters and apprentices, did they not be able to walk when they saw the tomb, and they had to put their business aside.

The master said coldly to Xiao Laodao: "Brother Xiao, have you forgotten what we are here for, you want to dig a grave, and it is not too late to cut down the peach tree." ”

Xiao Laodao suddenly stopped the shovel in his hand, wiped the sweat on his face, and said: "Brother, it's all at this time, haven't you seen it yet, this tomb must have something to do with this peach tree, maybe it has something to do with the peach blossom essence, the peach tree can't run, sooner or later it can be cut, now dig up the grave first." ”

When the master heard this, he immediately frowned, and said in his heart, the grave can't run yet, why don't you cut down the tree first, but dig the grave first? The master wanted to cut the roots of the tree with an axe himself, but the three masters and apprentices surrounded the roots of the tree and the water could not drain it, so the master had no way to get the axe at all.

Sighing lightly in his heart, the master threw down the axe and turned around, ignoring the three masters, and climbed to the top of the pit to rest.

While resting, while looking at the three masters and apprentices in the pit, the master complained a little in his heart, these three masters and apprentices are really tomb robbers who can't support the wall in the mud, things don't matter what they want, seeing the grave is like seeing life!

The lime layer under the rammed earth layer is extremely hard, it should be mixed with something, and the three masters and apprentices tossed for nearly half an hour, and finally cut the lime layer open.

When the master took a look, he saw that under the white ash layer, there was an arc-shaped blue brick vault, and the roots of this peach tree actually passed through the vault and penetrated into it.

At this time, Xiao Laodao greeted the two apprentices, "This is the top of the tomb, you two go up first, the bottom of the tomb is empty, stand on it and don't step on the top." ”

Xiao Chujiu and Xiao Shiyi quickly climbed out of the pit, while Xiao Laodao cautiously squatted down, and picked up the green bricks piece by piece along the place where the roots of the tree penetrated.

Just a meal, the vault was opened by Xiao Laodao A big hole, Xiao Laodao slowly stood up from the ground, took the torch inserted in the soil next to him, and took a picture down, "Sure enough, it's the tomb ......" and then said to the three of them: "You wait on it, I'll go down and take a look." After that, Xiao Laodao actually held on to the roots of the tree and jumped into the hole.

"Master, be careful!" Xiao Chujiu and Xiao Shiyi shouted at the same time but heartily.

Although the master complained in his heart at this time, when he saw Xiao Laodao jumping down so recklessly, he couldn't help but be a little worried, the tomb didn't know how deep it was, don't jump down and break it.

However, when Xiao Laodao jumped down, the grandfather understood that this tomb was pitiful, and after Xiao Laodao jumped down, the upper half of his body was still exposed on it.

Xiao Laodao smiled at the three of them: "The tomb is not very deep, and I just jumped on the coffin." After speaking, Xiao Laodao shook his waist, and the whole person got into the hole.

After a while, Xiao Laodao shouted below, "Brother, come down and take a look, have you ever seen this situation?" At this time, the master was still not very happy in his heart, but the matter had come to this point, so he could only accept it.

The master also jumped into the hole, looked down, and really just jumped on a coffin, however, the coffin didn't seem to be very strong, and there was a tremor after the master jumped up, and the master hurriedly got into it.

The space in the tomb was not large, only five feet wide and five feet high, so narrow that the wife could not raise her head in it.

Xiao Laodao pointed to my grandfather, and motioned to my grandfather to look at the coffin, and the grandfather took advantage of the torch to look at the coffin, and saw that the roots of the peach tree actually plunged directly into the coffin, at first glance, it seemed that the peach tree was born from the coffin.

Xiao Laodao asked my grandfather: "Brother, have you ever seen this situation?" ”

The master was stunned, "I haven't seen it, but this ...... Similar to my mother's encounter with evil spirits, I heard my father tell me that before he married my mother, my mother once went to the mountain with the family to worship her ancestors, picked a flower on the mountain, and kept it in her room for a few months...... Later, the patriarch took my father to the mountain and said that the flower grew from the belly of a dead man......" The grandfather said this, and looked at Xiao Lao Dao in amazement, "Is this peach tree also growing from the belly of a dead man?" ”

When Xiao Laodao heard this, he shook his head, "I didn't expect Lingtang to have such a story, but as for whether this peach tree grew out of the stomach of a dead man right now, I can only know if I open the coffin and take a look, come on, you can also take a hand, let's open the coffin and see." ”