Chapter 56: The Origin of the Five Opera Village (Part I)
The moment everyone opened the car door, a strange sour smell rushed straight over, making Fang Jinyuan, Officer Cheng and Peng Yongmin all wrinkle their noses. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The last time Peng Yongmin came, he had actually seen the stinky fart vinegar, but they couldn't connect the smelly soup that everyone ate at the birthday banquet to this word.
At this time, when he smelled this smell again, he immediately recalled the terrifying experience that had happened in Wuxi Village, and his face suddenly began to turn pale.
Ye Kui didn't seem to notice him like this, so he ran directly to the wooden hut, asked for 5 bowls of vinegar, found a small table in the middle of nowhere and sat down, and beckoned others to go over.
Fan Zicheng was the last to come, he came with a thermos cup in his hand, opened the thermos cup after sitting down, poured some black Chinese medicine inside into the lid of the cup and handed it to Ye Kui.
Ye Kui didn't even look at it, drank the Chinese medicine in one gulp, and returned the lid of the cup to Fan Zicheng.
Fang Jinyuan wanted to ask Ye Kui, whose facial features were so entangled in suffering, why he had to take medicine, but now didn't seem to be the time. At this time, the shopkeeper also brought five bowls of soup to them.
As soon as the five bowls were served, a sour smell suddenly came to my nose, but if I sniffed closely, I could smell a little aroma like lard and peanut oil.
Ye Kui was the first to move his chopsticks, took out a few peanuts from the thick soup and chewed them in his mouth, and the tangled expression on his face that was bitter by the Chinese medicine was soothed a little.
"I'll explain to you the origin of the Five Opera Village while I eat." Ye Kui said, motioning for everyone to move their chopsticks.
Wuxi Village was originally a bandit village, which already existed about 900 years ago.
At that time, Wuxi Village was not called Wuxi Village, these bandits harmed the surrounding people, and the contemporary imperial court government had sent many officers and soldiers to surround and suppress, this village was very strange, everyone knew its existence, how could they not find its location.
The clues of the officers and soldiers were obtained through the eyewitness evidence of the surrounding villagers, but when the large army passed, they always found nothing, and they even set fire to the mountain, but they failed to burn the bandit village out.
Moreover, there is a very strange phenomenon in this bandit village, that is, the spies sent out by the officers and soldiers have never returned. Even the marks are only present in the first paragraph, and the later paragraphs are completely lost.
Because the officers and soldiers returned many times in vain, and the bandits' affairs were also true, and when the bandits robbed, they all wore weird black skull masks, and no one knew their true faces, so over time, this piece of the village gave this bandit group a name, called the ghost bandits. The more the story spread, the more mysterious it became, and in the end, it became that this bandit group was actually a war-torn ghost, and it was impossible to find the village.
Because of this rumor, the ghost bandits also attracted many people from the religious world to exorcise the ghosts, but after entering the mountain, they couldn't find it. Not to mention the ghost bandits, even the normal lonely souls and wild ghosts are almost driven away because there are often officers and soldiers who come with extremely heavy yang energy.
The ghost bandits have been doing evil like this for nearly a hundred years, and they have not been able to eradicate them when the rulers of that year have changed.
And just after the establishment of the new government, an inconspicuous official at that time received this mess task, so this civil official named Zheng Yi personally came to the area of the haunted bandits and lived in a place called Jitou Village.
Zheng Yi's parents are both wealthy businessmen, so he was born rich and noble, and he has not experienced much poverty life. His petty official was also bought back by his parents, and his usual hobby is watching dramas, and if he watches too much, he will also like to write a few films by himself and share his happiness.
Jitou Village is actually named because the shape of the village looks like a chicken's head, and it is a very ordinary village. The villagers were very enthusiastic, and when they saw that someone from the government was coming, they immediately held a banquet and entertained Zheng Yi with the best things.
Zheng Yi came into contact with something called stinky fart vinegar for the first time at this reception banquet, although the taste and name are not very good, but it still has a unique flavor to eat, especially the delicious taste of the pig's trotters after being stewed, which made him obsessed with this strange snack.
The bumper harvest that year was not good, and the pig's trotters for Zheng Yi to eat were already the only pig in the village, which was slaughtered in order to welcome a big man like Zheng Yi, and Zheng Yi was originally from a wealthy family, but he didn't notice how poor the village was. Although the environment is not good in the village, he is also happy to be able to eat that delicious and unpleasant snack every day.
However, even if Zheng Yi wanted to enjoy it again, he remembered that he had a task with him, and he sent out six spies to search the mountain, all of them disappeared without exception, and even the bodies could not be found.
And one morning after he lived in Jitou Village for half a month, he received a notice that a nearby village was attacked by ghost bandits who had not committed a crime for nearly ten years, and the food was robbed, and the people did not die much as always, but Zheng Yi was unforgivable when such a thing happened nearby.
Zheng Yiquan took people from Jitou Village to a neighboring village called Taoyin Village to inspect the situation.
The people of Taoyin Village pointed out that the direction in which the ghost bandits fled last night was the side of Jitou Village. But Zheng Yi, who lived in Jitou Village last night, didn't hear any strange sounds at all, let alone a large group of bandits.
Zheng Yi, who looked suspicious, returned to Jitou Village again, enjoying the delicious stinky fart vinegar every day, and the villagers performed more and more skillfully according to the plays he wrote.
After Zheng Yi lived here for half a year, ghost bandits often attacked the surrounding villages, that is, their Jitou Village was not affected.
In the past six months, he has observed that the farmers in Jitou Village are very diligent, sleeping at sunrise and sunset, and after getting up, the men and women are also very disciplined. However, in this year's severe drought, no matter how much the peasants hoe the land and how they carry water down from the mountains for irrigation, it will be a drop in the bucket, and the peasants will not harvest at all.
But it's strange that even so, these farmers are doing useless work every day, and at the same time, their families seem to have plenty of food at home, and in such an environment, no one starved to death, and there is still enough to support Zheng Yi to eat pig's feet and stinky fart vinegar every day.
At first, he still thought that he was stationed nearby with officers and soldiers to avoid the attack of ghost bandits, and the troupes in the villages that he had cultivated could already go out to perform and make money, so that they could survive, but slowly, he finally began to feel a little strange.
After becoming suspicious, Zheng Yi was not sure, so he chose to sneak out of his house one night after everyone was asleep and ran to the place where the army was stationed outside the village. The team he originally brought, because Zheng Yi has always insisted on sending spies, has been reduced to half of the original number.
He quietly ambushed a few people on the side of the road behind the village into the mountain, and waited. I waited for more than a week, sneaking out every night to keep watch, and then running back to the house to sleep before dawn.
His covert actions did not attract the attention of any of the villagers, and finally on the eleventh day of his ambush, they saw that after midnight, almost every household in the village would run out of one or two figures, and all the figures quietly ran quickly towards the mountain pass of the village, and entered the mountain in the blink of an eye.
Zheng Yi immediately called for someone to follow, and when they followed into a hidden mountain col, a team of horses wearing armor, riding black war horses, and wearing black skull masks suddenly rushed out of the col, and went in one direction.
Seeing these people, after receiving the news of the attack on the village the next day, Zheng Yi had already guessed most of the identity of the ghost bandits, but he had already lost most of his men and horses at this time, and it would definitely be unrealistic to fight them directly, so he chose to report to the imperial court and send additional manpower.
Zheng Yi himself is a person who is afraid of death, and the next day he is ready to go back in person to restore his life, after all, living with a group of vicious bandits, he is not sure.
The next day, when Zheng Yi was about to leave, the villagers were very sad and held a banquet to prepare to see Zheng Yi off. And when Zheng Yi thought of the delicious stinky fart vinegar, he couldn't help the temptation in the end, anyway, he couldn't change anything in a meal time.
Unexpectedly, at the end of this meal, the ghost bandits had surrounded the entire village, and all the remaining officers and soldiers with a small number of officers and soldiers were caught.
After capturing Zheng Yi and the other officers and soldiers, the ghost bandits did not kill them immediately, but took them all to the mountain col.
After entering the mountain pass, Zheng Yi finally knew what was inside.
Inside, there were dozens of very sturdy black horses, neatly arranged in rows of ghost bandit armor and masks, axes and knives and other weapons, and cages full of livestock.
In one of the cages, Zheng Yi saw the two spies he had disappeared before, they were not in good spirits, but after seeing Zheng Yi, their eyes erupted with extreme hatred.
Just when Zheng Yi was inexplicable, the two ghost bandits caught one of the spies, slashed them directly in front of Zheng Yi, and then dragged the corpse back.
And the last spy left in the cage was already scared to the point of madness, he knelt in the cage, kowtowed desperately to Zheng Yi, and kept repeating a sentence to Zheng Yi inexplicably: "Please don't eat my ......"
At that time, Zheng Yi was still puzzled, but a few hours later, a village woman put a bowl of stinky fart vinegar in front of Zheng Yi and said to him: "Eat slowly, boil a big pot." Not enough to cook again, now there are more ingredients. ”
After speaking, the village woman pointed to the spy who was locked in the cage and kowtowed to a bloody face and had passed out.
Zheng Yi was stunned on the spot, his eyes looked at the large piece of meat floating in the bowl, and his stomach was already overturned!
When the village woman saw him, she covered her mouth and laughed, "In the past six months, a total of fifty-six spies have been sent, and you have already eaten fifty-four, and now you are afraid, is it too late?" ”
Zheng Yi finally knew why the spy begged him not to eat him at this time, but he didn't expect that all the stinky fart vinegar he had eaten in the past six months was made from the meat of his spy! All he eats is human flesh!
Speaking of this, Ye Kui picked up a piece of pig's feet that had been stewed to a very soft point from his bowl, and was looking for a place to eat. Then he suddenly found that except for Fan Zicheng, everyone else stopped and looked at him with a look of horror. He asked with a confused expression, "Why don't you eat it?" ”
The three of them waved their hands again and again, and pushed the bowl in front of them forward, Peng Yongmin reacted violently and began to gag.
"Hahaha, it's scary for you to tell that story at this time, of course they can't eat it." Then a hearty voice said.
Everyone looked back and saw that it was the owner of this stinky fart vinegar shop, who was wiping the water on his hands with a towel as he walked over.
"Friends, don't be afraid, my pork knuckle vinegar is definitely made of pork knuckles, and it is a fresh product pulled directly from the pig farm this morning. The boss was not annoyed either, and said while laughing.
"That's it! A bunch of cowards. Ye Kui, the initiator, said and took a big bite of the meat on the pig's feet.
"Alas! Little brother is so courageous! The boss applauded.
"Okay, don't eat it either, eat too much and get angry. Go on. Fan Zicheng pushed the bowl in front of Ye Kui a little away.