From the outside, the cave looks like a dilapidated cave, but the traces of artificiality inside are very heavy.

I thought it would be humid and cold, but I didn't expect it to be very warm.

A simple wooden door separates Zamba's house from the outside, and inside it has a water tank, a bed, a wardrobe, and even a spotless cooking stove.

The brazier on the floor naturally doesn't have a fire this season, but since the brazier is located in the middle of the room, and there is no suitable place to stay in the room, we naturally sit in a circle.

Zampa asked Yu Nian why she still came up to the mountain after the Tibetan Festival was over?

Yu Nian didn't find out my identity, but said, "Zamba, this time we came up because we wanted to ask something." ”

Zampa Yi is an old man who is over 100 years old, and the wind, frost, rain and snow of a hundred years have left a very deep mark on her face, and behind this face, there is no sadness or joy anymore. She just nodded slowly at Yu Nian and motioned for Yu Nian to continue.

Yu Nian said, "Zamba knows, I am the umbrella holder of the Yu family in this life. For as long as I can remember, Azu has taught me how to use the Hundred Bone Umbrella and how to collect unjust souls to refine them into a Hundred Bone Umbrella. Azu said that the Yu family has a thousand-year curse, and if I can't refine the Hundred Bone Umbrella by the end of my term, everyone in the village will die with me next year. I wonder, what exactly is this curse? ”

Zamba looked at Yu Nian with cloudy eyes, took Yu Nian's hand, and rubbed it repeatedly.

"Since your Azu doesn't tell you about the reason behind this, she naturally has a reason, why are you obsessed with this?"

"Because this matter is getting more and more complicated, it was originally just a problem that could be solved by refining a hundred bone umbrellas, but with the loss of the needle and cord nails, I came step by step to the present and found that this matter was no longer under the control of the Yu family."

After Yu Nian finished speaking, he lifted the clothes on his back towards Zamba.

The Gu worms on Yu Nian's body were still slowly climbing along the tattoo, appearing and disappearing. When Zamba saw the Gu behind Yu Nian, his face finally rippled.

Yu Nian said, "At first, my back was just itchy, but then a dragon pattern gradually appeared, and then there was this Gu worm. I realized that this matter was getting more and more wrong, and now it was not just the Yu family's business. So I'm here to ask you what the curse of the Yu family is? ”

The next words of Zamba were all translated from Yu Nian, and I added a little bit of my own understanding to sort them out. The centenarian's logic is still clear, and he remembers the events of many years ago.

It was probably a long, long time ago, the Yu family and his entourage touched about 100 people and came to Qianxi as if they were taking refuge.

At that time, Zamba, who was only a teenager, was the daughter of the owner of Wayunzhai Village.

Although the area of Wayun Village is large, the actual population is very small, and there are basically some old and weak women and children. Because there was enough space in the village, Zamba's father accepted the Yu family headed by Yu Zhuo. Yu Zhuo mentioned by Zampa is Azu's mother, Yu Nian's previous umbrella holder.

Yu Zhuo was just a twenty-year-old girl back then, the same age as Yu Nian now. But although he is young, he is very respected, and the Yu family, young and old, all obey Yu Zhuo's instructions.

After settling down in Wayun Village, the Yu family took the initiative to undertake the farm work in the village, picking tea and building houses, and was very diligent, and soon became close to the people in the village.

Half a year later, a handsome young man fainted by the village, most likely lost in the heavy mountains.

It just so happened that this man was found by Yu Zhuo who was passing by, and he was taken to his home to take care of him, and he woke up three days later. The man said that he had no relatives and parents, and that he had fled the famine and came here.

The hospitable Miao naturally took him in, and Yu Zhuo fell in love with the young man for a long time, and soon held a wedding in the village. A year later, she gave birth to a daughter, Yu Nian's Azu.

But the good times didn't last long, and a few days later, on a summer night, a group of mysterious people rushed into Wayun Village, smashed and looted and burned them, washed Wayun Village in blood, and took away the Ninefold Treasure Letter guarded by Yu Zhuo at that time.

Yu Zhuo was physically exhausted because he had just finished giving birth, and suddenly there was an avalanche after a simple fight.

Zamba recalled that Yu Zhuo's blood flowed from the second floor of the stilted building to the first floor at that time. At that time, most of the people in the village were killed and injured, and everyone was busy fighting fires and dealing with the wounded, and the only one who accompanied Yu Zhuo was Zamba, who called her sister all day.

Yu Zhuo asked Zamba to look for her husband, but Zamba ran all over the village and found no trace of the man, only a note left by him - Zidang broke with Qing.

Yu Zhuo didn't say anything, just stared at the note coldly for a long time, and finally called Zanba and instructed, "You have to remember every word I say now." My Yu family is the descendant of the ancient Dian country, and when I came here, 127 people were cursed because of the jealousy of the bone girl. It is cursed that the Yu family will cease to exist after a thousand years, and all umbrella bearers will not live to be twenty-two years old. Only on the day when the whole body of the Hundred Bone Umbrella is refined into crimson can the curse be resolved. The way to refine the umbrella is not to be found, and the road lies in the heart. The hundred bone umbrella is passed on to the female and not the male, but the person I was born to cannot be the umbrella bearer, and it can not be passed on until the next generation. ”

Yu Zhuo finished explaining the last sentence at that time, and then stopped speaking.

Zamba still wanted to ask, but found that Yu Zhuo was out of breath at this time.

When the news of Yu Zhuo's death was announced, the Yu family cried. Although Zampa was not very old at that time, he also knew how important Yu Zhuo's words were to stay, so he didn't dare to slack off in the slightest, and immediately relayed it to the people of the Yu family.

So the Yu family joined forces with the whole clan to raise Azu, get married and have children. Because it was a boy, it took another generation. It wasn't until Yu Nian was born that the Hundred Bone Umbrella was passed to her again.

Speaking of the bone girl mentioned by Yu Zhuo, there is another story. This story was mentioned to Zamba when Yu Zhuo had nothing to do, and Zamba thought it was just a legendary story, but he didn't expect that the thousand-year-old curse of the Yu family was actually related to the bone girl.

According to legend, during the period of the ancient Dian Kingdom, the founders of the ancient Dian Younu and the corpse craftsman were childhood sweethearts, a pair of lovers. The identity of the ghost girl was tantamount to the existence of the belief of the people of the whole country in the ancient Dian Kingdom at that time.

Such a person is naturally not allowed to have a love for men and women.

So the two have been secretly meeting each other, but unexpectedly, this behavior was discovered by a crush in Monroe at the time.

This crush is the Bone Girl, the Bone Girl is the one of the four corpse smiths who finds the corpse, and has the special ability to judge the remaining Yang Shou of a person.

Originally, Monroe had always valued the Bone Girl very much, and even intended to leave the corpse search door under her management.

But in the jealousy of the woman, the bone girl immediately conveyed the news of Meng Luo's private meeting with the ghost girl to the then King of Dian.

When the king of Dian learned the news, he was furious and ordered someone to arrest Meng Luo directly into the palace.

But as for what the King of Dian and Meng Luo said at that time, so that such a one-sided overlord gave up his lover, no one still knows the reason.

It stands to reason that Meng Luo at that time would not be afraid of King Dian at all.

There were no more than 10,000 people in the ancient Dian Kingdom, but at that time, Meng Luo was holding a needle and nail, and he could completely control the millions of underground souls in the Central Plains. But Monroe still chose to take a step back, and did not insist on taking the ghost girl, which is really strange to say.

I suddenly thought that I had seen in the bamboo slips in Mengluo's coffin before, that Mengluo had mysteriously disappeared for a long time, and now according to speculation, it was probably around the time when he was called into the palace by the King of Dian.

When Monro returned, he learned that it was the bone girl who had told him, and he ordered the man to be put to death.

The Bone Girl never imagined that Monro would be so cruel to herself. I thought that the last moment would save the day, but I didn't expect that even if the guillotine was hanging above her head, Monroe still decided to kill it.

Before the bone girl died, she cursed the Yu family with all her strength, the umbrella holder could not live to be twenty-two years old, and the Yu family would cease to exist after a thousand years.

Originally, no one took these things to heart, until the next umbrella holder after the death of the ghost girl really did not live to die at the age of twenty-two. In the years that followed, it was all like this.

After Zamba finished speaking, Yu Nian asked, "So, the curse back then was a sentence from the bone girl before she died?" ”

Zamba nodded, these are just the stories that Yu Zhuo once said, because Zamba was very interested in these things at that time, so he wrote them all down.

But I am skeptical about this, it is said that this bone girl is only one of Monroe's subordinates, and her status is far inferior to that of the ghost, let alone Monroe. How could the ghost girl watch her own people being cursed by her?

If there is a way to break this curse, how can it be so for thousands of years?

It was not difficult for me to see from Yu Nian's expression that she was thinking the same as me at this time, and she had doubts about the true reason for the curse.

However, what Zamba said is not completely useless, there are many clues in it, and we have to carefully scrutinize it before making a conclusion.

Yu Nian thought for a moment and asked, "Zamba, I still have one more thing I want to ask, how much do you know about the reincarnation of Monroe?" ”

Zamba's expression at this time was no longer as calm and comfortable as just now, but a little more scruples.

From Yu Nian's description, I can more or less hear that the identity of Meng Luo is heavy in the hearts of people who know the four sects of corpse craftsmen.

Zampa only said that Yu Zhuo had said that after a thousand years, Monro would reunite with the pins and nails and complete his unfinished business, but no one knew what that thing was. But this is all nonsense, how can a dead person come back.

Yu Nian said directly, "Zamba, now that he's really back." ”

Yu Nian looked at me after speaking, and Zamba also looked at me in disbelief.

Finally, in a trance, two shriveled and yellowed hands grabbed my shoulders, and asked Yu Nian with a slight trembling hand, "You mean him?" Is it the reincarnation of Monroe? ”

Yu Nian nodded, and Zamba suddenly asked me in a very awkward Mandarin, "Young man, what's your name?" ”

I answered truthfully, "My name is Xiao Ding." ”