"The people in the village are suffering from a strange disease"

The old man said to Su Ling.

Su Ling is a wandering Taoist, who travels all over the world on weekdays, subduing demons and eliminating demons for people. On this day, I came to a mountain, crossed the mountains and mountains, walked for a long time, and felt hungry and thirsty in my mouth, and suddenly found that there was a village in front of me, so I wanted to beg for saliva in the village.

However, as soon as I entered the village, I felt a little weird, the village was full of new graves, the road was full of money, but there was no living person, the crows kept crying on the dead trees, the whole village was like a huge cemetery, it seemed barren and dead, this lifeless village, although the dog days made Su Ling feel a burst of cold, this village, there must be strange.

Su Ling walked to the village, and when he passed the village, he saw a few people carrying a coffin for the funeral, so he stepped forward to ask what happened in the village!

"The people in the village have a strange disease. An old man stood up and said.

"Strange disease? Poor Dao knows a little bit about the art of Qihuang, can the old man tell me about the disease, I may be able to cure it." ”

The old man nodded and said, "The sick person is not a big problem at first, but a little blister appears on the body, but as time goes by, the blisters grow more and more, bigger and bigger, all over the body, a light touch, it will sting and unbearable, after the blister bursts, pus and blood will flow, the wound will not heal, the bleeding will not stop, and the pain is unspeakable." ”

"After a few days, the whole body of the sick person will be swollen and begin to rot, and the slightest touch of the hand will be a hole in blood. Blood continued to seep out from under the skin, and at this time, life was worse than death, and every day was like living in hell.

When the old man said this, his eyes showed deep fear: "This pain is unbearable, to this extent, the sick people often beg for death, but after death, it is not finished, after the body is parked for a day or two, the blood does not coagulate, but gushes out, like corpse water, corroding the corpse, sizzling, and finally the bones are gone, leaving only a pool of blood." ”

After hearing this, Su Ling gasped, although he traveled from south to north and saw a lot, he had never seen such a strange and terrifying disease, and said after thinking for a moment: "When did this strange disease start?"

"Since half a year ago, when there were a few people who were sick, we didn't care, just as a strange talk after dinner, but never thought that more and more people would fall ill later, every day there will be deaths, every family mourns, every household has a grave, now most of the people in the village have died, ten rooms and nine empty. ”

The old man sighed: "I also suffered from this disease a few days ago, and I am afraid that my life will not be long!"

I saw that the old man's arms were densely covered with blisters, which was very terrifying, but after careful observation, Su Ling found that those blisters were no different from ordinary blisters.

"Is it possible for the Dao Master to cure this strange disease?" the old man asked expectantly.

Su Ling shook his head, I have never seen this strange disease, so I don't know how to cure it.

The old man's eyes immediately dimmed, "It's all fate." ”

"Don't be sad, all diseases have causes, and they will never get sick for no reason, if you can find the cause, you can prescribe the right medicine, you can carefully recall what happened in the village before the villagers got sick?"

The old man pondered for a long time and shook his head, the people in the village rested from sunrise to sunset, and the life was very simple, and nothing happened.

At this time, a young man beside the old man spoke, "Could it be ...... Something to do with that woman?"

When the old man heard this, his face changed greatly, and he scolded: "Don't talk nonsense. ”

The young man wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything more.

Seeing this, Su Ling didn't want to ask more, so he said goodbye to the old man, but he didn't leave the village, this disease is very strange, there must be a reason, Su Ling wants to find out what is going on.

Su Ling walked around the village, and did not find anything suspicious, at this time it was late, the sun was setting, Su Ling was about to find a vacant room for the night, suddenly a seventeen or eight-year-old child ran head-on, accidentally bumped into him.

Behind him came a woman carrying a bowl full of water.

"I don't drink it, I don't drink it, there is a dead man's smell in that water. The child shook his head.

"What nonsense is this kid!!Who told you that the water smells of death?"

"I saw it all, and there were people dead in the well. ”

"Don't talk nonsense, come home with me. ”

The woman grabbed the child and looked at Su Ling with some vigilance in her eyes.

Su Ling stepped forward and said, "If you want to stay overnight, dare to ask if there is a vacant house in the village of the good man?"

"Recently, many people have died in the village, and there are many vacant houses, and there is one next to the big locust tree in front. ”

After a pause, the woman said again: "It's just that strange diseases are raging in the village now, and if you suffer from it, you will die, so it's better for the Taoist to stay for a long time and leave early!"

Su Ling nodded, thanked the woman, and left.

The house next to the big locust tree is quite simple, Su Ling pushed open the door, a musty smell came to his face, it seemed that no one lived for a long time, came to the back room, there was a bed, there was a dry blood stain on the bed, Su Ling remembered the strange disease, and said in his heart that this blood stain should be left after the owner died of illness.

Su Ling took off his robe and spread it on the ground, sat down cross-legged, closed his eyes and meditated, after a while, sleepiness hit, and he fell asleep in a daze, and I don't know how long it took, I suddenly heard a frightened shout outside, Su Ling hurriedly got up and came to the outside of the house.

Under the moonlight, a person was running wildly, staggering, looking back from time to time, with a panicked look on his face, as if he was avoiding something, Su Ling stepped forward quickly, stopped in front of the man, and asked what happened!

"Snake ...... Snake...... Snake ......" the man looked terrified, and repeated in his mouth.

Su Ling was dumbfounded, "What's so terrible about snakes?"

"It's not a snake...... The snake is not a snake, it is her, she is back, she is staring at me, she is going to kill me, I can't live, I can't live. ”

Su Ling saw that he was delirious and his words were confused, so he recited a mantra to calm his nerves, but to no avail, he looked closely, and found that his soul and two souls had been frightened away, and he could not recover, sighed, and was about to take him back to the house to rest, when he suddenly heard a rustling sound in the grass behind him, Su Ling came to the grass in a flash, drew his sword to remove the dead grass, but saw nothing.

Back in the room, the man curled up in the corner, trembling, "It's her, she's come for revenge, the people in the village still have to die, they all have to die, they all have to die!" He suddenly howled and cried, tears flowed down his face, "I don't want to die!"

Intuition told Su Ling that this person must know something about the strange illness in the village, but no matter how Su Ling asked, the man was silent and looked sluggish.

Su Ling had no choice but to rest, and gradually fell asleep, and when he woke up the next day, he found that the man was gone, and when he saw him again, he was already a corpse.

He was fished out of the well, his round eyes full of fear, and his face distorted with terror. The muscles and bones were broken, miserable, and there were strangulation marks on his body, as if he was entangled by something and strangled to death.

Su Ling sighed and recited the Sutra of the Dead for him.

In the early morning, Su Ling found that he was gone, knew that he was delirious, and was afraid that something would happen to him, so he searched everywhere, and suddenly heard someone shouting that someone had died in the well in the east of the village, so he hurried to go to the well, and saw that there were several villagers who were watching. Seeing him so dead, Su Ling couldn't help but think of the snake he said yesterday, and he didn't know what grievances the snake had with him or the villagers.

"Dao...... Dao Chief!"

Su Ling's chanting was suddenly interrupted, and he turned his head to see that a village of people was looking at him, with a look of fear on his face.

"Since the Taoist can chant scriptures and chant mantras, it is possible to subdue demons and eliminate demons?"

"Poor Dao knows some Taoist techniques, ordinary demons, and can be surrendered. ”

"That's fine, that's fine. The villager's panicked face showed a hint of joy, "Can you bother the Taoist chief to see if there are any demons in this well?"

"Did anything happen in this well?" Su Ling remembered yesterday the boy saying that there was a dead man's smell in the well.

"Well...... This one...... A woman once fell into a well and drowned. The villagers said in a hurry.

Su Ling saw him flickering, I don't know if what he said is true or not, came to the well, looked down, suddenly felt a burst of yin qi attacking people, hit a bowl of water, touched it with his hand, cold to the bone, concentrating on a closer look, only to see that the water was full of resentment, in this well, there are indeed ghosts.

Then he told the people of the village about this, and when the villagers heard this, they turned pale with fright, and said tremblingly: "Everyone in the village drinks the water in this well, and it must be this ghost thing that is doing something strange in the well, causing many people in the village to fall ill and die innocently, and now they have killed Jia San, and I hope that the Taoist can remove it for the heavens!"

"It is the duty of cultivators like us to subdue demons and eliminate demons, good people please rest assured, I will not stand idly by, and I will open the altar here at noon tomorrow, kill the ghosts, and do the right thing for the heavens. Su Ling said, but he had some doubts in his heart, if according to the words of the villagers, the ghost in the well is just a drowned ghost, although it can make the yin qi in the well permeate, but it will definitely not make people suffer from strange diseases, besides, what is the matter with the snake?

"Thank you, Chief. The villagers thanked him, and then invited Su Ling to rest at home, Su Ling refused, but the villagers tried their best to invite, Su Ling refused, so he had to go, and on the way chatted and learned that the villager's name was Zhong Liu, and he had a good relationship with the dead Jia San.

When he came to Zhong Liu's house, Zhong Liu was courteous and entertained, which made Su Ling have a good impression of him, but in the blink of an eye, Zhong Liu seemed very restless and did not dare to leave Su Ling for a moment, which made Su Ling very strange.

In the middle of the night, Su Ling was lying on the bed, and suddenly heard a scream from outside in a hazy sleep, and suddenly woke up, hurriedly got up and drew his sword, and came to the courtyard to take a look, and was stunned.

I saw Zhong Liu fall to the ground, trembling with fright, feces and urine flowing in his pants, and there was a colorful snake coiled in front of him, under the moonlight, the snake raised its head, swallowed the snake letter, hissed, and showed a cold light, which was very terrifying, and what was even more frightening was that the snake's head was very weird, triangular, and had a bulge, like a crown of flesh.

"It's a snake!" Su Ling blurted out, he glanced at Zhong Liu, and saw that he was not in a big problem except for his pale face, so he put his mind at ease, it is recorded in ancient books that the poison of the snake is the first mysterious poison in the world, colorless and tasteless, but it can melt gold and stone, and if you touch it, it will die, and it is extremely poisonous, if you are bitten by a snake, it will melt and ossify in an instant, and the bones of the corpse will not remain.

Zhong Liu crawled and hid behind Su Ling, and said in shock: "I...... I came out to relieve myself, but I never thought I would encounter this monster. ”

"Good people don't be afraid, there is a poor way, and you will definitely not let this monster hurt you in the slightest. Su Ling held the sword in his hand, facing this poisonous monster, without the slightest fear, the blade of the sword flashed with cold light, and the sword body flowed with fire, blooming with brilliance.

The snake stared at Su Ling, seeing that Su Ling had no fear, he was timid, and turned around to escape, but Su Ling chased after him with a sword, and chased him to the well in the east of the village, and the snake crawled into the well and disappeared. Su Ling looked at the well, and suddenly realized that the villagers were suffering from strange diseases, it turned out that this snake was the stranger, it polluted the water in the well, making the well water poisonous, although the well water contained very little snake venom, but the village people drank it for a long time, and the snake venom accumulated in the body, and it would attack over time.

It's just that this snake is transformed by a resentful spirit, and after a person dies, he must be angry and not fall into reincarnation before he can form this monster, how can it appear here? Su Ling suddenly remembered Zhong Liu's abnormal demeanor before, and said in his heart that he must have hidden something from himself.

Back at Zhong Liu's house, Zhong Liu was walking back and forth in the room, and when he saw Su Ling coming back, he hurriedly asked if he had removed the monster.

Su Ling shook his head: "That's a snake, transformed by a resentful spirit, and I can't help it for a while." ”

When Zhong Liu heard this, he was quite disappointed and begged Su Ling to get rid of the snake.

"If you want to subdue the snake, you must first eliminate its resentment, and if its resentment is not eliminated, the snake will not die. ”

After a pause, Su Ling said again: "Poor Dao will ask you again, what happened in the well?

Zhong Liu saw Su Ling asking like this, he was very weak-hearted, flickering, looking at him left and right, Su Ling was very angry, and wanted to brush his sleeves away, Zhong Liu panicked, and honestly told what happened in the well half a year ago.

When Su Ling heard this, his face turned pale, and his heart was extremely angry, but the people in this village deserved to die.

Half a year ago, there was a great drought in the village, and the well at the east end of the village was about to dry up, and the people in the village were very panicked, because it was the only well in the village, and the villagers relied on the well for drinking water, and if the well dried up, the village would be finished.

Just when the people in the village were panicking, a rumor suddenly spread in the village that as long as a child born on a lunar day was thrown into the well and sacrificed to the king of the well, the water in the well would not dry up.

At first, the villagers did not believe this rumor, but when the well water dried up day by day, the situation was critical, and the villagers had lived here for generations, and they were afraid to flee the village.

And there was a widow in the village, whose only son was born on the lunar day of the lunar year, and was chosen to sacrifice to the king of Jinglong.

The widow's husband had just died less than a year ago, and she was dependent on her young son, and she was about to lose her son at this time.

The widow cried heart-rending by the well, and then threw herself into the well with hatred and died, and her body did not float, but fell to the bottom of the well, and the villagers salvaged for many days, but found nothing.

A few days later, a heavy rain relieved the drought in the village, and the well was full of water, but when the villagers took water again, they always felt a little diaphragm, and at the bottom of the well, there were two corpses buried.

"That rumor, can it be related to you and Jia San?" Su Ling's face was very ugly, and he asked coldly.

Zhong Liu saw that Su Ling's face was solemn, and he didn't dare to deceive, and said: "It's Jia San, Jia San coveted the widow's beauty, took advantage of her widow's husband, and entered her door at night five times and wanted to do bad things, but she was kicked out of the door by the widow, and scolded him, making this matter known to everyone, making Jia San lose face, so he held a grudge and deliberately took revenge, taking advantage of the drought in the village and the panic of the people, spreading rumors. ”

"Then why does the widow's snake seek revenge on you?"

"I ......," Zhong Liu said timidly, "I had a very good relationship with Jia San, so I helped him spread rumors in the village, fueled the troubles, and took away the widow and child with my own hands and threw her into the well." ”

"No wonder you are so frightened when you see Jia San's corpse by the well, ask me for help, you have done such evil deeds, you have already expected that the widow will seek revenge against you again and kill you with her own hands to eliminate the resentment in your heart. ”

Su Ling didn't have any expression on his face, but he was already furious in his heart, this Zhong Liu first aided the abuse, killed the child, and then deceived himself, vainly trying to use his own hand to get rid of the widow's resentment and avoid revenge, it is really damned.

"I was wrong, Dao Chief, I shouldn't have helped the abuse, and I hope that Dao Chang will save my life. Zhong Liu knelt on the ground and wept bitterly and said.

"Arise, for the widow and her son died in vain, though she has a grudge in her heart, she has killed many, and she shall not create another iniquity. Tomorrow you will go and call all the villagers, and I will settle the matter. ”

Zhong Liu listened, thanked Dade, and bowed to Su Ling, but Su Ling sneered in his heart, although I am cultivating, but I am not the hypocrite, good should have good rewards, evil should have evil consequences, if evil is not punished, is it not against the way of heaven.

On the day of the erection, all the villagers gathered, Su Ling turned the widow's resentful soul into a ghost, and told the villagers in detail about the causes and consequences of revenge against the villagers, and the villagers were shocked after hearing it, and they all regretted that they should not have listened to the rumors, and then begged Su Ling to save the village and surrender the snake.

"The snake is the soul of resentment, if you want to subdue the snake, you must first eliminate its resentment, the resentment is gone, the snake will be wiped out, for the sake of now, only by throwing Zhong Liu into the well, can resolve his resentment. Su Ling glanced at Zhong Liu and said coldly.

When Zhong Liu heard this, his legs weakened in fright, and he fell to his knees and begged constantly.

If it weren't for Jia San and him making up rumors and deceiving the villagers, the widow would not have died with resentment, and the villagers would not have suffered from that strange disease, so they ignored his bitter pleas, and none of them were willing to intercede for him, but instead agreed with him.

After a while, the people tied Zhong Liu to the well and threw him into the well, and after a while, the snake floated up from the bottom of the well and swallowed Zhong Liu, and Zhong Liu was buried in the belly of the snake before he could shout.

"There is a debtor and a master, and the two people who killed your child have died, so you will dissipate your grievances and go back to reincarnation!"

The snake remained motionless, staring coldly at Su Ling, and the resentment on his body condensed, turning into a black flame.

"You demon, it's hard to want to kill all the villagers!"

Before Su Ling's words fell, the snake suddenly burst out of the well, opened its bloody mouth and rushed towards Su Ling, as fast as a bolt of lightning, rolling up gusts of yin wind.

"I don't know whether to live or die!" Su Ling shouted, he stepped on the position, and took out a charm from his arms, the spell was engraved with the word "Edict", the spell spontaneously combusted without fire, and when it burned out, Su Ling slowly spit out two words in his mouth: "The wind rises!"

In an instant, the wind was blowing, blowing the sky and the earth was dark, this wind was extraordinary, but it was born of the wind, it was a fierce wind, and it was a killing wind, which could make all things kill, and it was extremely powerful.

The wind blew away against the snake, blowing away the resentment wrapped around the snake's body, the wind was like a sharp blade, and the cut snake was dripping with blood.

After the storm, the snake was already covered in bruises and dying, and it looked at the Taoist who was walking towards it, its eyes full of fear.

Coming to the side of the snake, Su Ling bowed down and said softly: "Don't think that if I let you take revenge, I am afraid of you, don't say that it is you, it is the dragon in the sky, I can also fight, if you are obsessed again, you will be scattered and let you be wiped out." ”

When the snake heard this, he trembled with fright.

"Poor Dao is asking you once, but you are willing to abandon your resentment and enter the reincarnation of the Yin Division. Su Ling got up and asked sharply.

The snake couldn't speak, but nodded to Su Ling.

Su Ling's fingertips lit a little flame and lit it on the snake's body, burning the snake out in an instant, and a wisp of resentment flew out of the ashes and went straight into the netherworld.

After subduing the snake, the villagers were grateful to Su Ling, kowtowed and knelt down to thank them, Su Ling helped them up, and said: "The snake has been removed, and the snake venom in the well will dissipate by itself in a few days, so you need to fish out the two corpses in the well and bury them alive." ”

The villagers nodded, and then invited Su Ling to rest in the village for a few days before leaving, but Su Ling refused, "The water in the well is really unblessed." Su Ling said in his heart, he said goodbye to the villagers, and embarked on the road of cloud travel.

(End of story)

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