Sometimes I admire myself very much, and it seems that my Dead Ghost Master, who I have only met once, is right, this dragon egg is really a good thing. My physical fitness now is comparable to that of Superman in American cartoons.

I was not defeated in the round of four, and even never fell behind, after a group of enemies disarmed and surrendered, another group of enemies besieged me, but I became more and more defeated, until I reached the east and released white, and all the bullets were fired into the enemy's hinterland.

The two stewards should have told grandma about the events of the night, and at breakfast the next day, grandma was so happy that she couldn't keep her mouth shut.

Among the few of us, except for me and Zhang Kailong, the other three did not come to the hall to eat, and Gu Zhang Kailong said that he was tired and really didn't want to eat breakfast. I know where this is tired, obviously by the mountain demon.

When I thought of the mountain demon, my curiosity came out again, it was really curiosity that killed the cat!

After eating, I took the opportunity to help my grandmother go back and asked about the mountain demon again. As soon as I heard this topic, my grandmother's face changed slightly, but this time she didn't prevaricate me again.

"I don't want to tell you too much, but I'm also afraid that you won't break up if you get tangled, and now it seems that whether I say it or not, you may not stop."

Grandma sighed.

As soon as I heard this, I was overjoyed and hurriedly replied, "My good grandmother! You're such an empathetic old lady—"

Grandma said that the ancestors of our old Miao people have been trying to explore the mystery of this strange thing, for which at least hundreds of people have died, until about 300 years ago, the Miao owners of that generation made a village rule: the people of the Jade Girl Village can never investigate the mountain demons again.

In fact, they know a lot about mountain demons.

This thing moves very regularly, passing through the vicinity of the Jade Maiden Village once a year, and ending in a strange saline land on the western side of the valley. It is said that it is saline-alkali land for the sake of ease of expression, to be precise, this is a unique karst terrain of Yunnan and Guangxi in China.

According to my grandmother's description, in this canyon, almost in a symmetrical position with the Jade Girl Village, there is a strange clearing with an area of about several thousand meters, the soil and stones in this open space are reddish-brown, there are countless small peaks, each small peak is only three or four meters high, all of which are made of pieces of rock.

This is the "home" of the mountain devil.

The ancestors of Miao Village observed and counted that the mountain demon began to "act" around the winter solstice every year, and returned to "home" around the autumn equinox after circling most of the canyon, and during the period from the autumn equinox to the winter solstice, it stood on this reddish-brown land, and what is even more strange is that the mountain demon at this time seems to be asleep, and people can approach it casually.

The ancestors used this time to study the mountain demon, and they found that the mountain demon was hollow, and found a way to enter, but Grandma didn't tell me what this method was, because she didn't know either.

At that time, there were about a dozen Miao people who entered this mountain demon, and when they came out, there were three less. The faces of those who came out alive were like ashes, and when they returned to the stockade, they no longer mentioned what they saw in the mountain demons.

At that time, the Miao master (that is, the person who set the rule of not approaching the mountain demon village) was by no means an idle person, and he realized that these people must have experienced very terrible things, so he called them to the "black house" alone.

The content of their conversation is unknown to others, but the attentive people found that since this secret conversation, the village was not allowed to approach, and even mentioned the matter of the mountain demons.

Today, hundreds of years later, the strange village rules at that time have long been "invalid", but the regulations of "not mentioning, not asking, not looking, not thinking" have become the habit of the villagers in the Jade Girl Village.

When I heard the end, it dawned on me that my grandmother was reminding me: If you want to explore the secrets of the mountain demons, you can only wait until the autumn equinox.

The autumn equinox is on September 22-24 every year, which is one of the 24 solar terms in China, and this day is a day when the time of day and night is equal.

I calculated the time, it was September 15th, and if my grandmother was right, in a little more than a week, the mountain demon would "go home".

If you calculate it this way, the strange land of karst terrain is not far from the Jade Girl Village.

"Xiao Zhen - Grandma doesn't want you to get involved in these things, you know! Of the dozen or so people who entered the mountain demons back then, except for the three who died inside, the rest of the people did not have a good death, and everyone's fate was very miserable. ”

I was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked, "Did they all die in an accident?" ”

"A total of eleven people came out at that time, three of them hanged themselves in their own houses, and before hanging themselves, they also hacked their wives and children to death, and the other four people cut off their heads alive, as for the rest of the people, ......"

Grandma paused for a moment, and then said, "Among the rest of the people, two are suffocated, and in full view of everyone, without any external interference, people suddenly can't breathe......

"Isn't there another one?" I couldn't help but ask.

"There's another one, this guy is crazy and has slashed several people in the village...... And...... And he did a heinous thing, his daughter was only eleven years old that year, this is a brute! Later, he was driven out of the village by the owner of the village...... I guess I died a tragic death outside! ”

When my grandmother said this, my mind was like a lightning bolt in an instant, and another thing suddenly came to mind.

That was the first time I met Chen Laosan, and he told me and Li Xiaobai about finding treasures.

I still remember his words vividly.

He said that although some of the people who found the treasure came back alive, all of them had a strange disease, that is, they could no longer sleep. People who have experienced insomnia should know how uncomfortable it can be.

If a person does not sleep for three days, the whole mental state is on the verge of collapse, and if he sleeps for five days and five days, the person's health state will be greatly damaged, and after ten days, the person will completely collapse, and this collapse is irreparable.

The few people who came out with the treasure gradually became dry corpses, and their pain at this time was far greater than death, so they wanted to choose death, but it's a pity! At this time, they realized that death had become a non-topic topic - they couldn't die if they wanted to.

These people became the "living dead", and their whole bodies gradually became skin and bones, and after countless days and nights of sleepless crying, they finally chose to take the initiative to lie down in the coffin and sink into the Yellow River.

At that time, Chen Laosan's father and son found the coffin of a sleeping corpse before they discovered the treasure map of the parchment scroll.

According to the current clues, it is almost certain that the few people who returned with the treasure came to this valley and took those treasures from the mountain demons, from which it can be inferred that someone knows the location of the mountain devil and knows that the mountain demon hides countless treasures.

Isn't this person the villager of the Jade Girl Village who was kicked out, and who is it?

……

The two of them kept communicating for an hour and a half, and after listening to my inference, my grandmother also nodded frequently.

"Xiao Zhen, maybe everything is arranged! Your appearance may have been sent by the heavens to solve this age-old mystery! ”

I heard what my grandmother meant, and I was allowed to explore the mysteries of the mountain demons—

"Xiao Zhen, you are now the master of a village, and you should also thoroughly understand our jade girl village." Grandma's face tightened and said.

I nodded, waiting for her next step.

"Do you know why the people of our village can live a leisurely life without leaving the valley, and they still know the reason why something is happening in the outside world?"

Grandma asked me again.

"Know! Your old man is really a noble person who forgets things, didn't you say it! Leaning on Gu worms! They will convey a lot of information to you. ”

Grandma smiled, touched my forehead, and replied, "This is only one aspect, although Gu worms are powerful, they can't replace the role of people!" ”

"What is that?"

"The territory of our stockade - this valley only occupies a part, only a third!"

Yes! I exclaimed, this is almost impossible! The valley is a long and narrow valley with a tributary of the Yellow River, the Yellow River, and a pristine jungle at the other, a place known locally as a "forbidden land". Where is the turf?

Seeing my suspicions, my grandmother smiled slightly, pointed to the distance outside, and said, "Outside this valley, on the other side of the Yellow River, there are five villages, and the chiefs of these five villages are all our people. ”

I didn't understand it for a while, thinking that my grandmother had used Gu worms to control the village chiefs of the five villages, and there was naturally a look of doubt on my face.

"Silly boy, I don't understand this, in fact, your grandma and I are not as conservative as you think, these villages are built by me, they are the houses built by our Jade Girl Village, the roads are built, and then a lot of homeless people are taken in, these people have sworn that they are willing to obey our orders for generations." Grandma explained.

At first, I admired my grandmother's foresight, but when I think about it, the current generation may be grateful to Dade and regard us as life-savers, but his children and grandchildren may not think so.

Grandma is really powerful, and as soon as my idea took shape in my mind, she seemed to know.

"Don't you kid still believe in the power of our Miao Gu worms?"

When I heard this, I was stunned, and sighed: I see! Grandma's wrist was hard after all, and she really used Gu worms.

Grandma continued: "You don't have to blame Grandma for being ruthless, in fact, as long as you 'store Gu' on time, those Gu worms are not only harmless, but also help digest food!" ”

I smiled bitterly, shook my head, and asked my grandmother, "What do you mean by accumulating Gu?" ”

"Accumulating Gu is to take new Gu worms into the body, a week before the autumn equinox every year, I will send people to five villages to take a turn, and at the same time collect the taxes of the year, I will send them new Gu worms." Grandma explained.

Tax? I suddenly thought of the landlords in the old society, who exploited the tenants every year and took most of the food they had worked hard to grow for a year. At the same time, I also sighed: It turns out that grandma is a landlord's wife! Then I, Chen Xiaozhen, am a landlord.