Although I thought so, I smiled and said, "Okay, then go to sleep normally." Hurry up and eat, are you enough to burn these fires, if you don't have enough, I'll buy them again, and there is a fire shop that is also doing well, and the fire is baked in the oldest kind of earthen stove, and the taste is very special. ”

Liang Houzai also smiled: "Do you think that the amount of food for both of us is at your level?" That's enough. ”

After he said this, the three of them fell silent at the same time, eating their own things with their heads down, and there was no further communication during this time.

I wanted to finish eating and go home quickly, because the amount of food was bigger than the two of them, so usually I was the one who delayed time, and the two of them seemed to have their own agendas, so I guess they were still worried about me.

When I got back to my accommodation, I took out my notebook from my bedroom and asked the two of them to study the dreams I had recorded, and then I packed up a few clothes and went to the bathroom to take a shower.

Everything in the youth apartment is good, whether it is furniture or electrical appliances are new, the cooling efficiency of the air conditioner is also good, the only thing that makes me not very satisfied is the shower in the bathroom, I don't know if the water pressure is not enough or what, the water flow is very small, like a sparse raindrop.

While I was taking a shower, I hoped that the water flow would be bigger, but this thing didn't fulfill my intention at all, and as I washed, the water flow became smaller and smaller, and I thought, if it's really raining, I don't need to wear a raincoat when walking in such rain......

That's right, raincoat!

Thinking of this, I suddenly thought of a detail that I had previously overlooked, when the old man who appeared in my dream at that time, his coat was clinging to some red gelatinous liquid, which looked like blood mixed with grease.

And the face I saw for the first time was also stained with such liquid.

When I came out of the bathroom, Liang Houzai and Liu Shangang were still discussing something. I took the notebook from Liu Shangang's hand and recorded what I had just remembered.

Liang Houzai looked at me writing words in the notebook and frowned: "Grease like blood? ”

I said, "I don't know if it's blood, but it's probably brightly colored wax." ”

"No way, in those days, wax had not yet been invented." Liang Houzai shook his head.

In fact, he was only halfway through, and I could clearly sense that he wanted to continue to say something, but he forcibly stopped.

I looked into Liang Houzai's eyes and asked, "What era was that era?" ”

Liang Houzai: "Hehe, I just think that this curse is not just an ancient witchcraft, and the evil god must have been ...... a long time ago."

I laughed angrily at him: "Make it up, keep making it up, and see when you can round up your lies." ”

Liang Houzai stopped talking and looked at me with embarrassment.

I let out a sigh of relief and said to him, "Since the day before yesterday, I have always felt that you are hiding something from me. You know a lot about this curse, but why didn't you tell me? Afraid I can't bear it psychologically? Afraid I'll crash? Houzai, are you the first day you know me? ”

Liang Houzai also sighed, and said a little helplessly: "Actually, I don't know much about this curse. ”

"But you know something." I scrambled to say, "Say what, say whatever you know." I'm a direct victim of this curse, huh? The direct parties, at least the right to know, should always have, right? ”

Liang Houzai hesitated for a long time before he said to me: "Brother Dao, have you ever thought about why it is always my voice that appears in your dream?" ”

I nodded, "I've been thinking about this for the last few days." ”

He took a deep breath and said, "The toast in the proverb is me." ”

I couldn't help frowning: "What do you mean?" ”

Liang Houzai sat up straight and said to me very solemnly: "Do you remember the proverb that Han Jin wrote on the post, the toast who planted rice on the road is me." ”

I didn't speak, waiting for him to continue.

Liang Houzai paused, as if he was trying to sort out the language, and after a moment, he continued: "The proverb in the curse should have appeared after the Yuan Dynasty, but the content it expressed was already in the Han Dynasty, at that time, there were also many small kings in the Yelang Kingdom, that is, equivalent to the princes of the Central Plains, and the place they ruled was not large, usually a stockade, plus a population of hundreds to thousands. ”

At this time, Liu Shangang suddenly said: "Are you toast?" Doesn't that mean that these small countries are still alive and you are still the king of one of them? ”

Liang Hou glanced at him, asked him not to interrupt first, and frankly said that those small countries had already disappeared along with Yelang Country.

Later, Liang Houzai said that in fact, the original translation of this proverb into Chinese should be like this: "The head of the man on the city gate, the grain in the hand of the black king." ”

As for the specific connotation of this proverb, Liang Houzai couldn't say clearly, he just said that this proverb came from a legend that has been passed down from generation to generation among the Yelang royal family.

It is said that in the country of Yelang, there is a large village with black dogs as the totem, and there are nearly 10,000 people in it, and the owner of the village there, or the little king, is called the black king.

When the black king was young, he was a very enlightened person, he did a lot of good things in the village, and the people nearby were vying to belong to him, at that time there were monsters and beasts in the mountains, and the black king himself pulled up an army, and the soldiers trained by him were very heroic, and the black king led them to get rid of the big demons in the mountains, and the village returned to peace.

But on the night when the whole village was celebrating the killing of the big demon, the black king's temperament changed inexplicably, and even the soldiers in the army seemed to be bewitched, they rushed into every house and slaughtered the people in the village.

After the man was killed, the Black King ordered his soldiers to cut off the head and nail it to the great tree outside the city gate, which had been the sacred tree of the stockade, but was defiled with blood and resentment.

There was a man who escaped from the stockade, he came to the capital of the country of Yelang, and met the king of Yelang, and when the king heard about the tragic situation of the stockade, especially after hearing that the sacred tree was polluted, he personally led an army to fight against the black king.

But when King Yelang led his troops to the stockade, he found that all the soldiers of the Black King were dead, and the heads of the soldiers were hanging on the big wooden door of the stockade, while the Black King was holding a large handful of rice in his hand, and stood stupidly on the road leading to the gate of the village.

After that, King Yelang ordered people to cut down the sacred tree and burned all the trees and the village, but the deeds of the Black King have been handed down.

After listening to Liang Houzai's statement of this story, I asked him, "Listen to this, you are the black king?" ”

Of course, he can't be a black king, but in connection with what he said before, I can only come to this conclusion.

Liang Houzai explained: "The Black King back then was not only the owner of the big village, but also the disciple of the Yelang King, and the reason why he was asked to manage the big village was originally to let him guard the sacred tree, but no one expected that something like that would happen. The book Master gave me said that the reason why the Black King did such cruel things was because of another curse. Every disciple of King Yelang has such a curse, but no one knows when this curse will occur. ”

A disciple of King Yelang? I finally understood why Liang Houzai said that he was a toast, and his master Li Liang was the last direct descendant of King Yelang.

Liang Houzai continued: "It is said that in the whole stockade, there were a total of 11,000 people except for the Black King, except for the last one who escaped, the Black King's army had 1,000 people, the civilians in the village were 10,000, and the rice that the Black King held in his hand was also 10,000. ”

I said, "10,000, how do you count them?" ”

"I don't know." Liang Houzai shook his head and said, "That's what the book says. Brother Dao, in fact, what I'm most worried about now is not you, but myself. If Han Jin's speculation is correct, once the thousandth person who replied to the post dies, Tusi will appear, and next, there may be a large number of people who will suffer. I don't want to be an executioner like that. ”

"Alas, I was cursed in the first place," I sighed helplessly, "Why is it that you are cursed again?" It's a mess. Let me ask you, is it true that as long as the curse on my body ends, the curse on your body will not occur? ”

Liang Houzai thought for a moment and said, "Theoretically, it should be like this. ”

I asked him again, "How can I solve the curse on my body, or do I still want to kill the evil god?" It seems that this evil god is in the area of the ancient kingdom of Yelang, right? ”

Liang Houzai nodded: "It should be in that area, you can't be wrong." In the past two days, I have contacted a man named Du Kang, who should be able to help us. ”

Liu Shangang interjected: "Du Kang, isn't this the name of the wine?" ”

Liang Houzai and I ignored him and continued our conversation.

Speaking of which, I've heard the name Du Kang a few times, but I don't remember where I heard it, I guess he mentioned it when Master was chatting in the past.

I searched my mind for personal information about Du Kang, and then asked Liang Houzai: "Du Kang...... Is that the environmentalist? ”

Liang Houzai nodded immediately: "Yes, it's him." In fact, it is not quite accurate to say that he is an environmentalist, he is not so environmentally friendly in his daily life, but what he does is indeed related to environmental protection. And as far as I know, his team has been roaming the world all these years, looking for all kinds of evil gods. ”

I wondered, "Looking for an evil god?" What are you looking for? ”

Liang Houzai smiled and said, "I heard from Du Kang's apprentice that the evil god they are looking for everywhere is because the nature of the evil god has also changed due to global warming over the years. In the past, no matter how long the evil god stayed in one place, it would not affect the ecology of the neighborhood, but now, the evil god has the ability to completely disrupt the ecological balance of a large area. ”

And this kind of thing?

To be honest, I never thought that our industry would be linked to the word "environmental protection", and I didn't expect that such a silt field as an evil god would destroy the ecology.

People like Du Kang have been roaming around the country for many years because they are passionate about environmental protection. This is a good thing, but why do I always feel weird?

At this time, Liang Houzai suddenly asked me: "I heard that Du Kang's attainments in talismans are very deep. ”

I tried to think about it again, but I didn't think much of the information related to Du Kang, so I could only respond casually: "It seems to be the case." ”

After that, there was a minute-long cold scene, until Liu Shangang asked again: "Isn't Du Kang the name of the wine?" ”

Probably because Liang Houzai and I ignored him just now, his tone was a little unhappy.

Liang Houzai said to him: "Du Kang is originally a personal name, okay, he is the wine saint Du Kang." The kind of Du Kang wine you are talking about is also named after him. ”