Chapter 3: Mountain Ghosts Blocking the Way (Part II)
Back to the crowd, I relayed the driver's words word for word.
"What? Haunted on that road to Yaojia Village? Hmph, could it be that this driver deliberately made up nonsense to overcharge? After I relayed what the driver said to everyone as it was, Xiao Yue immediately said with a look of contempt.
"It doesn't look like it's fake, otherwise those drivers just now wouldn't have heard that we were going to Yaojia Village and immediately ran away." Li Huiyan shook her head and said with a somewhat solemn expression.
"Could it be that there are really ghosts in this world?" Xu Hao asked by shrinking his neck.
Qin Dong and Lu Cheng, who were standing beside him, were also waiting for an answer with anticipation on their faces.
"Yes." Li Huiyan and I said at the same time.
I couldn't help but glance at Li Huiyan, it seems that there are always many unknown secrets hidden in the colonel's flower.
The theory of ghosts and gods has always been very ethereal, people who have not seen it do not believe it, and those who have seen it say it are not believed by anyone.
"My mother, why don't we go to Yaojia Village, call back to the school, and ask the school to change us again." Xu Hao seemed to be very afraid of ghosts, and when he heard my and Li Huiyan's answers, he screamed and said.
"Actually, it's nothing, the sun is strong during the day, even if there are ghosts, most of them will come out at night, it's not dark yet, as long as we set off early and rush to Yaojia Village before dark, there shouldn't be any accidents." I thought about it and said.
In the end, after discussion, everyone unanimously agreed not to eat first, and took the car to Yaojia Village before it was dark.
"You go to the car with the master and wait, I'll first find a nearby shop to sell some fragrant wax paper money, and the driver said that it may be used at that time." I said a word to the crowd and left.
I originally thought that it would be difficult to buy things like wax paper money near the busty bus station, but I didn't expect that there was a small shop selling wax paper money and paper items less than 200 meters away from the station.
"Boss, help me get some money for the wax paper." I walked into the store and said to the owner, who was sitting in the store and dozing off with boredom.
The boss looked up in a daze, and I saw his appearance clearly, an old man with white hair and a wrinkled face, who looked to be about seventy years old, and had a two-inch long goatee. The only thing that impressed me was that the old man's eyes were not as cloudy as ordinary old men, but looked unusually bright.
At this moment, I could not have imagined that this ordinary-looking little old man would have such a great impact on my life.
"Twenty bucks." The old man handed me what I wanted and said slowly.
And just as I had paid and was about to leave with my things, the old man said something behind my back, which immediately surprised me a little, and I only heard him say: "Young man, I see that your Yin Tang is blue, and I am afraid that you will hit a ghost today!" ”
"Thank you for the reminder." I turned to the old man and said to him, and then left the shop at a faster pace, ready to go to the supermarket next door to buy a bottle of water and a loaf of bread for each of us.
When I had bought everything and arrived at the parking spot that the driver had told me before, I saw that the driver had been standing there for a long time, and his car was a small gray and black van with seven seats, and the six of us plus the driver himself were just right.
As soon as I arrived at the place, before I could say a word to the people in the car, the driver urged me to get into the car, and then hurriedly stepped on the accelerator and set off.
Xiao Yue sat in the co-pilot, Xu Hao and the three of them sat in the back row, I had no choice but to sit next to Li Huiyan. After giving the bread and water to the people, I started chatting with the driver.
It turned out that the driver's surname was Chen, who was also a native of Lantian County and lived in another place called Chenjiapo.
In the past, there was no road from Lantian County to Yaojia Village, so you could only rely on foot. Later, when the collective construction of the road, many stone statues buried in the soil were dug up in a place called Ghost Yazi Mountain. Because many villagers are not highly educated, after digging up these things, they directly smashed them into rubble and filled the road. Later, an old Taoist priest who came from nowhere learned the news, and only then did he dissuade the villagers who wanted to continue to break the stone statues.
In the end, the remaining stone statues were enshrined in some cliff caves dug out by the roadside, and a stone statue was placed every ten meters, which was a full two miles.
Since then, some bizarre things have always happened on the way to Yaojia Village. First, some villagers of Yaojia Village who walked to the county seat got lost inexplicably on this road that their ancestors had walked for countless years, and later some cyclists and drivers fell off the cliff here and died.
When the haunting of Guiyazi Mountain was spread, there were fewer and fewer locals in Lantian County who were willing to go to Yaojia Village, and even some people who had a relationship with Yaojia Village had broken off contact with their relatives because of this.
"You went to Yaojia Village, shouldn't it be for the Yao family ancestral hall and the ancient tomb on the mountain behind Yaojia Village? I kindly advise you, the Yao family ancestral hall and the back mountain are even more evil than this ghost cliff mountain, you must not fight any bad ideas. The driver, Master Chen, said to us again, and there seemed to be some fear in his tone.
"Master Chen, you misunderstood, the six of us are all college students who went to Yaojiacun Primary School to do volunteer teaching activities." In order not to be misunderstood, I quickly explained, and then asked: "Master Chen, what is strange about the Yao family ancestral hall and the back mountain of Yaojia Village?" ”
"Don't ask about this, if you are willing to listen to my advice, just stay away from the Yao family ancestral hall and the back mountain."
"Look over here." Just when I wanted to continue to ask something, Xiao Yue's voice came into everyone's ears.
I turned my head to look out the window of the car and saw a lifelike stone statue almost a meter high standing in a half-meter-deep cave.
"That's the stone statue dug up by building the road before, and we've arrived at Ghost Yazi Mountain. From now on, you must not talk nonsense, in case you anger the mountain ghost grandfather, no one will be able to save you. ”
The speed of the car suddenly slowed down, almost as fast and slow as a person walking, only to hear Master Chen in the driver's seat remind us in a very serious tone.
"What are you afraid of, isn't it just ......"
"Don't talk!" Xiao Yue was about to speak with a big grin, and I quickly got up and covered her mouth.
"Originally, you mountain people are superstitious. Isn't that just some broken stone statues carved out of broken stones, how can they be so evil, it's hard to really eat me. provoked Aunt Ben and Grandma, and pushed them all down the cliff. Xiao Yue struggled to remove my hand and continued with a disapproving expression.
However, just as Xiao Yue's words fell, there was a sudden muffled bang outside the car window, and the van stopped instantly.
"Why are you so disobedient, do you want to kill everyone present?" The driver, Master Chen, turned extremely ugly and scolded Xiao Yue loudly.
All of us got out of the car and saw a one-meter-high stone statue lying in the middle of the road about two meters in front of the car, blocking the van's way.
Is there really such an evil sect? After getting out of the car, all of us looked at each other, and we didn't dare to come out, even Xiao Yue, who was not afraid of the sky and the earth before, became as well-behaved as a little sheep at this moment.
"Master Chen, it's my classmate who doesn't hold back, but what should I do now?" So far, I can only ask Master Chen for advice on how to make amends.
"Move the stone statue back to its original position first, and then take out all the wax paper money you bought before, and everyone will burn some paper money for the mountain ghost grandfather and kowtow a few times, see if you can ask for the forgiveness of the mountain ghost grandfather." Master Chen had already been frightened like a blank sheet of paper, and only after hearing my words for a long time did he speak.
Hearing this, I hurriedly took off the things I bought before and got out of the car, first moved the stone statue back to its original place with Xu Hao and the three of them, lit the incense and candles, and then distributed some paper money to everyone, because Xiao Yue was the culprit, so I gave her most of the paper money.
"Child's words are unscrupulous...... Tong Yan Wuji...... Grandpa Mountain Ghost, please be gracious...... Grandpa the mountain ghost asked for grace...... "Master Chen also took some paper money from my hand, took the lead and knelt on the ground, burning the paper money, and kept chattering in his mouth.
Woowoo...... The evening wind blew over the peaks of Ghost Yazi Mountain, and it sounded more like the cry of a ghost in everyone's ears, and everyone became nervous for a while, burning paper money even harder.
The paper money in our hands was quickly burned, and we all stood up after kowtowing to the stone statue, leaving Xiao Yue alone on the ground and burning the paper money.
"Be careful!"
Suddenly, just as all of us were focused on Xiao Yue, the stone statue that had been rearranged and stabilized by us shook a few times, and fell straight down to the place where Xiao Yue was kneeling.
After hearing the reminder, Xiao Yue raised his head and looked at the stone statue that fell head-on, his face turned pale instantly, and the whole person stayed in place.
The situation was urgent, everyone rushed forward as soon as possible, Xu Hao, Qin Dong, Lu Cheng and Master Chen were responsible for catching the fallen stone statue, and Li Huiyan and I went to pull away Xiao Yue, who had already been scared stupidly in place and didn't know what to do.
In the end, Master Chen and the others still failed to catch the stone statue, and with a bang, the stone statue slammed into the ground again. There was a faint tremor on the ground, and this time the stone statue smashed a big hole in the road, and its head was broken directly from the neck, and the bones rolled to Xiao Yue's feet.
Seeing the stone statue head that rolled to his feet impartially, Xiao Yue's already pale face was even more bloodless, and he cried loudly when he hugged Li Huiyan directly.
Sure enough, ghosts and gods are such things as better to be believed than not to be believed! I couldn't help but sigh in my heart.
"I'll return the money to you, you can find a way to go to Yaojia Village by yourself, I can't do anything." Master Chen stuffed the fare he had given him back into my hand, shook his head and said.
After Master Chen finished speaking, he got into the car directly, and after reversing in a hurry, he returned the way he came before.
"Let's go, it's not far from Yaojia Village now, we should be able to arrive before dark." Seeing that Master Chen had made up his mind, I couldn't say anything more, we couldn't make trouble ourselves, and we had to pull others along with the bad luck, so I had to say to the others helplessly.