But see, the old locust tree near the ground, placed a shrine, and the shrine is dedicated to Lu Dongbin, a little further forward is an incense burner, the incense burner is burning, wisps of green smoke wrapped around the old locust tree pole.

The old locust tree has seven branches on the stem, and the big branches are densely packed with small branches, and the small branches are divided into a little thinner, and the thinnest branches are the leaves of the locust tree. Strangely enough, the branches of these branches are all seven.

At first, I thought it was a coincidence, and then stared at the old locust tree and counted, yes, the whole old locust tree is divided into seven large branches, and on the seven large branches, there are seven small branches, as for whether it is seven leaves, because the distance is a bit far, I can't count clearly, but, as far as I guess, it should also be seven.

At that moment, I pulled Wu Lao on the side and said, "Wu Lao, I need a locust branch with leaves." ”

He looked at me suspiciously and said, "Do you want a locust branch with leaves?"

I originally wanted to say that I wanted to count the leaves of the locust branch, but Wu Lao would definitely not be willing to say this, so I had to say to him: "I need to determine the age of this old locust tree and some knowledge through the branches." ”

When Wu Lao heard me say this, his face was bitter, and he asked me, "Can't you see it just by seeing with your eyesight?" ”

To be honest, I can see that when I looked at this locust tree just now, I had already seen that the age of this locust tree should be about one hundred and ninety years old, but I didn't say it, so I said to Wu Lao, "The kid has just entered the industry, and he hasn't done that yet." ”

The old man Wu glanced at me suspiciously, didn't say anything more, and walked straight towards the old locust tree.

Looking at his back, I looked around the old locust tree, and found that the grass and trees around the old locust tree were extraordinarily lush, but, strangely, the seemingly lush grass and trees were a little strange in color, showing dark red.

I walked to the left of the old locust tree, which was relatively empty and empty, so I squatted down and touched the dirt first, which was very rough from the point of view of the soil, and I pulled out some grass and put it in front of my nose and smelled it.

I don't know if it's my nose or what's going on, but I think the grass smells of blood.

This made me frown, if the grass smells of blood, those who come here to pray for blessings should be able to smell it, and the grass with the smell of blood is generally a symbol of bad luck in the countryside, in this case, the grass will generally be removed, not to mention that the grass grows on the edge of the old locust tree, which is even more unlucky.

Just when I flashed this thought, there was a noise from the old locust tree, and when I turned my head, I saw that it was Wu Lao arguing with a few middle-aged men in security clothes.

I smiled bitterly, when I let Wu Lao go over before, I knew that the branches and leaves of this old locust tree were not easy to pick. The reason is very simple, Du Sanniang regards this old locust tree as a feng shui tree, how can he let people pick the branches, and the reason why I let Wu Lao go over is that I want to count the leaves, and second, out of selfishness, I will take revenge on Wu Lao for not caring about the life and death of those people in the dormitory.

What surprised me was that Wu Lao didn't know what to say to those middle-aged men, and in an instant, those middle-aged men became respectful and sent Wu Lao away.

Hell alive.

I muttered, and found that Wu Lao had already walked towards me, he first handed me the locust branch in his hand, and then he kept an old face and did not speak.

I took the locust branch and counted the leaves carefully, just as I expected, there were exactly seven leaves on each thin strip of paper, which made my face sink too, and then I thought of the temperature of the grass on the edge of the locust tree, and one word flashed in my mind, seven shady trees.

I'll go, it won't really be the Seven Evil Trees!

At that moment, where did I dare to hesitate, and immediately asked Wu Lao, "How far is this locust tree from the place where the temple was built?" ”

He didn't seem to understand why I was asking, looked at me with a confused expression, and didn't speak.

I asked again, and then he spoke: "This locust tree is separated from the temple by a Niuwang village, one in the extreme south and the other in the extreme north. ”

"That's right!" I muttered, turned my head and ran towards the temple, Wu Lao asked me what I was doing in the back, and I didn't hide it from him, just said that the old locust tree was very likely to have become the Seven Acacia.

The so-called seven locust trees, in fact, is the locust tree, and the locust tree has been passed down to the present, most people think that the locust tree is an evil tree, is a ghost tree, and even has the saying that 'mulberry is not planted in front of the door, and locust is not planted behind the house', but in ancient times it is just the opposite, the locust tree symbolizes auspiciousness, auspiciousness, before the Tang Dynasty, the locust tree is regarded as a holy tree, the year of the examination is called Huaiqiu, and the child goes to Beijing to catch up with the examination called the locust, and the month of the examination is called Huaihuang.

But all of this was rewritten in the Tang Dynasty, the reasons are quite complicated, and it also involves some religious beliefs and other issues, so I will not describe it in detail, and after the locust tree was rewritten, it became two kinds of locust trees, one is the ordinary old locust tree, that is, the locust tree we usually see, and the other is the seven locust trees.

At first, the seven locust refers to the seven big branches on the stem of the locust tree, as we all know, the locust tree has very few branches, generally two to five branches, and later some carpenters found that this kind of seven locust to create things, and the ordinary locust tree is no different, so the scope of the seven locust is narrowed, and the big branch is divided into seven small branches for the seven locust.

However, it was later found that there was nothing unusual about the things created by such a locust tree, so the scope of the seven locusts was narrowed down again, and some carpenters thought that the seven locusts should be seven in both branches and leaves.

Later, some carpenters found that the things made of the Seven Acacia were indeed a bit evil, so they said to some people that the Seven Acacia was unlucky.

The Chinese folk custom is that what comes out of A's mouth will definitely be exaggerated in B's mouth, and it will be magnified countless times in C's mouth. In this way, because of the bad luck of the seven killing locust trees, the entire locust tree was misunderstood, and there was no distinction between the seven locust trees and the locust tree.

As for why the Seven Evil Acacia are evil, even now there is no conclusion. However, both carpenters and us ghost craftsmen are quite taboo about this kind of seven evil locusts.

When I told Wu Lao all this, his expression froze and he asked me, "You mean that the old locust tree is the Seven Acacia?" ”

I hummed and said, "That Du Sanniang has been worshipping the Seven Acacia for so long, and it is estimated that the Seven Acacia has an aura, I am afraid that the entire Niuwang Village will have no more peaceful days, and even..." ”

Speaking of which, I didn't dare to say any more.

Then Wu Lao asked me why I didn't say it, I glanced at him, and said in a deep voice: "It is rumored that the Seven Evil Huai Huai has become a refinement, and everyone who approaches it will die in seven days." ”