The easiest thing is to speak, but the hardest thing is the same, if you want to do something, it all depends on what one mouth says. The village chief casually subdued the old woman, and the old man, who had been smoking a stuffy cigarette, also kept whispering.

Mo Chen made a look, Fan Tong understood, approached Liu Yan's side, and asked in a careful low voice, "Uncle, what the hell is going on?" ”

Liu Yan glanced at it, the second elder of the Zhou family, and was not in a hurry to answer Fan Tong's question, but said to the village chief, "I'll take a few babies back to get something, you can arrange it here, and we'll go on the road as soon as it gets dark." ”

The village chief didn't speak, he waved his hand in response, Liu Yan waved his hand at Mo Chen and the others, and left Zhou's house with them.

It is true that Liu Yan wants to go home to get things, and he also uses this to bring Mo Chen and them out, so naturally he has something to say to them. On the way, while walking, Liu Yan explained the problem of Fang Cai Fan Tong.

Previously, Liu Yan said that the back mountain of Yongming Village was sealed with a spirit, and the sudden death of the girl this week was related to that spirit.

In fact, before, there were villagers who strayed into the back mountain, and if they really died in the back mountain, it would be nothing, but they were unlucky at that time. However, I was afraid that the girl of the Zhou family would break into the back mountain, but she died on the way back to the village.

No one can know what these trespassers have experienced, and no one has been able to come back alive, and this kind of person who died on the way back to the village saw that he had a chance to survive, but he lost his life halfway, so his resentment doubled. In addition, with the poisonous gas of the spirit on the body, the corpse will alienate at a very fast speed after death, and if it is not stopped, it will be a disaster for the village sooner or later.

"So, uncle, do you know what can be done to stop the corpse?" Fan Tong said.

Liu Yan sighed, "I know, I know, but this method ......"

When this kind of corpse mutation first appeared, there was a lot of turmoil in the village, and later some villagers invited a master, but the master only gave a solution.

In fact, if you want to really talk about this method, it is not a real method, and the thinking of the master is that the corpse mutant, who died in the hands of the spirit when he was born, is still afraid of the spirit after death. With this line of thought, the method given by the master is to raise the village to mourn the corpse, and finally send the corpse that has become completely transformed into the "tiger's mouth" - that is, the back mountain.

Mo Chen frowned, and always felt that there was something wrong with this statement, "It's not that no one who enters the back mountain can come back alive." Why do you have to go out of the whole village and go into the back mountain to deliver the corpse, so you are not afraid? ......”

Before Mo Chen's words were finished, Liu Yan waved his hand and interrupted, "This is the path pointed out by the master, as for what the reason, we don't know." After a pause, he continued, "At least one thing can be certain, and that is that after the funeral according to this method, we can really ensure that our village is safe and sound." ”

Throughout the day, Mo Chen and the three of them stayed by Liu Yan's side to help with what they could. Liu Yan seems to be very good at holding funerals, from etiquette and personnel arrangements, to what he needs, how much paper money, and where the paper money needs to be used, he knows everything clearly.

Busy time always flies, and in the blink of an eye it is evening.

Liu Yan led Mo Chen and a few, with the odds and ends that he needed to use at night, and went to Lao Zhou's house again.

At this time, the courtyard of the Zhou family was arranged into an outdoor mourning hall, but Mo Chen felt strange no matter how he looked at this decorative object.

Five bunches of fake trees made of white paper, arranged in a formation generally standing in the courtyard, Mo Chen took a closer look, I don't know who is so skillful, the paper tree is tied up, and the leaves of the tree are hand-cut into the same shape with the naked eye.

Mo Chen looked at those trees again and recognized that these fake trees were clearly made of willows.

"What are you looking at?" Hai Ting hugged his shoulders, and he came to Mo Chen's side with good letters, and followed his gaze to find around.

Mo Chen raised his hand slightly and pointed at those paper trees, "Don't you think it's strange, it's all willows." ”

Haiting took a closer look, those paper leaves were really in the shape of curved willow leaves, and then looked at the paper tree, it was indeed the appearance of a willow tree.

"What's wrong with the willows?"

Mo Chen whispered: "The ancients often said that if you don't plant mulberry before, you won't plant willow later. Know why? Hai Ting stared and pursed his lips, glancing Mo Chen up and down, as if he had something to say, but he still shook his head obediently.

Mo Chen said, "Because the willow tree belongs to the yin wood, in the past people's thoughts, it is easy to attract ghosts. Since the girl of the Zhou family died of yin and evil this week, how dare she put this willow tree next to this corpse? ”

"You're right, but you're not right!"

Suddenly, someone was talking behind them, Mo Chen and the others were all startled, and when they looked back, it turned out to be Liu Yan.

"Uncle Liu, you don't have a sound when you walk!" Hai Ting shrugged his shoulders unnaturally, looking at Mo Chen's eyes very flickering, as if he had just said something unsightly to Mo Chen.

Liu Yan smiled faintly and explained the question raised by Mo Chen, "The willow tree is yin, and it has the same attributes as ghosts, it is for this reason that there is a saying in many places in the north that willows can communicate with ghosts, so willow branches are often used to fight ghosts." ”

Mo Chen suddenly realized, "So, this willow tree is used to suppress this strange corpse?" ”

Liu Yan nodded: "This is the Five Willows Array." ”

Haiting looked at the paper-tied willow leaves with great interest, and praised, "This handiwork, tsk~~ Uncle Liu, you are really good!" Anything else! ”

Liu Yan smiled modestly, "I just know a little bit about it." ”

In the late autumn in the north, it gets dark very early, and it is not yet seven o'clock in the evening, and the sky has completely darkened. One after another, young and middle-aged villagers came to Zhou's house to wait to obey the village chief's arrangement, and the village chief was busy shuttling between the crowds, explaining two sentences here and some things there.

During this period, Fan Tong quietly asked Mo Chen, "Have you noticed that no matter how majestic the village chief is in front of others, he is always polite in front of Liu Yan, and there are many details, he still has to ask Liu Yan." ”

"You feel that way, too?" Mo Chen asked rhetorically, he had already noticed this, not so much that the host of this funeral was the village chief, but that the real behind-the-scenes operation was Liu Yancai.

Last night, Mo Chen talked to the other two people, and he always felt that Liu Yan was weird. Mo Chen was on the ghost post, and the Liu Yan he watched was obviously an atheist who believed in science. Even though he has experienced many unimaginable things, Mo Chen always believes that it is difficult to change the things in a person's bones.

This Liu Yan himself, who was dangling in front of his eyes, no matter how he tasted it, he had a feeling that he was an impostor. This Liu Yan not only looks calm and sophisticated, but also knows a lot about some strange things. In addition, there is another point, which Mo Chen has always been unable to figure out, if a person experienced something terrifying that ordinary people could not imagine when he was young, then after that incident was calmed down, in his later life, he should choose to stay away from those things that looked particularly weird.

As the saying goes, it takes ten years to be afraid of the well rope by a snake in one year, and this is the truth. Liu Yan, how could he choose to come to live in Yongming Village, where there are many strange things? This logic doesn't make sense.