Seeing Ning Yang looking at him, Hei Zhu twisted his neck slightly stiffly, and almost squeezed out an ugly smile and said: "Xiao Yang, you see that these people are carrying things, they must be going to Guxi Village, this is such a village nearby." Do you think that's good? You follow them into the village. I'm going to go back, and you can see that it's past five o'clock in the afternoon. When I get back to the town, I'm afraid it won't be until eleven or twelve o'clock in the evening. ”

Hearing Hei Zhu say this, Ning Yang was not very happy, although he also saw the fear on his face, these four people might have a problem carrying things, but they could scare such a big man as Hei Zhu that he wanted to turn his head and run away immediately, but he had to ask clearly, so he said: "Then tell me, what is the situation?" ”

Hei Zhu seemed to be really a little frightened, and looked around, it seemed to be very taboo, worried that something strange would appear in the surrounding forest to eat him, and he didn't want to say it, but it seemed that he was even more scared to follow Ning Yang to Guxi Village, so he whispered in Ning Yang's ear and said a little flustered: "Looking at the things carried by the two people in front, I feel that it may be a corpse." In Guxi Village, there is a terrifying custom of ghost marriage, which has been criticized by feudalism. Before this, I seemed to have heard that there were people in this village, and I was a little uneasy, could it be that these people are here for this? I'm worried, so ......."

Ningyang knows that people like Heizhu, although they have accepted the development of socialist modernization, still retain some feudal ideas in their minds, and they are afraid of ghosts and gods, so when they encounter the thrilling custom of ghost marriage, they are dealing with dead people, and they often make people contact ghosts, and then they are afraid of themselves, in fact, this is all about scaring themselves, although there are indeed ghosts in this world, but not all ghosts are scary, people are humane, ghosts have ghost paths, unless it involves a deep cause and effect, generally the two will not intersect.

Ning Yang was really scared when he saw Heizhu, anyway, Guxi Village was also close at hand, Heizhu was willing to go back in the forest in the dark, rather than go into the village to repair and return tomorrow, so he naturally didn't want to persuade him much, so he asked him to be careful all the way.

Hei Zhu immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and asked Ning Yang to keep a low profile after entering the village, and never touch some taboos in the village, and then turned around and climbed up the hill and entered the forest.

Ning Yang sighed slightly, but did not stop, seeing the group of people in front of him disappear from sight, he was not busy, but said to the black wolf twice, let him quietly follow behind this group of people, the black wolf came out of the bushes, followed the smell in small steps, followed these people, and turned over a small mountain range, Ning Yang had already seen that the three mountains and peaks stood proudly in front of him like three mountains, and at the foot of one of the peaks, there was a village with curling smoke, this should be Guxi Village, sure enough, Ning Yang stood on an open-air stone on this small mountain range, looked towards the village two or three kilometers away, and faintly saw that there seemed to be a family in the village, slightly at the height of the village, it seemed to be the kind of courtyard house with both walls, it should be a big family in the village, there seemed to be some red things hanging at the gate of the courtyard wall, and there was a slight breeze in the mountain, but Ning Yang still heard some slight sounds in his ears, which seemed to be suona drum music and the like, was it really guessed by Heizhu? Is there such a horrific custom as a ghost marriage being held in the village?

However, Ningyang entered Guxi Village in order to find the guide introduced to him by Cui Laodao, to enter Fulong Mountain, that is, the real Fulong Mountain in this deep mountain, Cui Laodao has been in the mountain for two or three days, Ningyang is pressed for time, and he can't care about anything else, so he and the black wolf walked down from this hillside, and down the slope, it is a forest, however, there is a winding river not far from the left of the forest, when you look at it from the mountains, the small river should originate in one of the three peaks, meandering from the village, providing the village with domestic water, And next to the river, there are also reclaimed fertile fields and land, thinking that although this place is isolated from the world, it seems that there are still some planting techniques similar to modern agriculture, it should be someone in the village who has walked out of the village and brought some planting technology here, but obviously there are still many feudal vices.

Ning Yang and the black wolf walked up the river along the side of the river, the pace was very slow, although it was now more than six o'clock in the afternoon, the mountains were dark early, a little dim and dark, but he was worried that he would go fast, and meet that group of people, but it was not good, first, carrying a dead man, although Ning Yang was a Taoist priest, he was also more taboo about these things, and tried not to pay attention to them, so as not to get into cause and effect, secondly, these four people, especially the old man with the knife, did not look like good stubble, and the two fat and thin young men did not feel like good people. Although Ning Yang is not afraid of things, he doesn't want to cause trouble, especially after half a year of imprisonment, it makes him be careful, and doing things carefully is the last word.

Soon, Ningyang saw the entrance of the village, the water in the small river was already flowing very gently, and sure enough, he could clearly hear the suona music from the village, as if he was very happy, and it was really a ghost wedding.

The so-called secret marriage is to find a spouse for the deceased.

In ancient times, the old people believed that young boys and girls died or died before the engagement, and if they did not get married, their ghosts would make the family uneasy, and there were also old people who did not choose a mate for them before they died, and they had to complete the marriage for them after death, and fulfill their responsibilities as parents. In fact, this is the sustenance of human feelings.

In addition, in ancient times, people generally believed in the so-called cemetery feng shui, believing that the appearance of a lonely grave would affect the prosperity of the descendants of the family.

Of course, in ancient times, most of the secret marriages came from rich families, and poor families never engaged in this kind of activity, nor did they have that kind of capital. The house that Ning Yang saw on the mountain, which was higher than the other houses, was a large family.

Ning Yang and the black wolf stood beside the forest in the distance at the entrance of the village, and saw some log fences around the village, surrounding the whole village, the head was sharpened, it was estimated that it was to guard against wild beasts in the mountains, at the entrance of the village, there was also a town beast stone to dare to be, used to suppress demons and evils, there were two log gates at the entrance of the village, it seemed that some villagers saw the four of them, and opened the gate for them, one of them was forty or fifty years old and ran out, in front of the fancy woman, said a few words with a smile, and then, welcomed her and the old-fashioned old man into the village, In the village, there are some forty or fifty-year-old people who ran to the entrance of the village, took out some fire paper, burned it, and inserted a few sticks of incense, which are some customs of underworld marriage.

The corpse carried in by the fat and thin young man came from the outside, if the corpse could not be put into the ground in time, it would be easy to attract lonely souls and wild ghosts, and these old people burned paper and lit incense, the purpose was to use these dark coins and incense to buy tolls for these lonely souls and wild ghosts, however, Ning Yang did not see that the corpse had any signs of incurring ghosts in the back, but this is a rule, and it naturally needs to be followed.

Ning Yang and the black wolf stood in the woods outside the village for more than ten minutes, and saw that the log gate had been closed, so they walked over slowly, and saw that there was a bell by the gate, so they took the thread and shook the bell, Ning Yang immediately heard the voice of an old man inside, and walked out of a grass and wood house less than ten meters away, but he was a little limped.

The old man came to the gate, and through the gap, he saw that he, a dusty young man, immediately opened the door, as if he wanted Ningyang to come in, but after opening the door, he saw a soil dog squatting at his feet, but he was stunned for a moment, however, the old man seemed to be very determined, and he was not too surprised, so he let Ningyang in, and then hurriedly closed the door.