Until Liang Houzai suddenly muttered next to me: "Why is there no farmland?" ”

Only then did I realize that the strangest thing about this village is that there is no farmland! Within a radius of several miles, there was not a single farmland.

My master took a puff of dry tobacco and said to the two of us slowly, "The soil in this place is abnormal, and I am afraid that the crops will not survive." And the people of the old Huang family don't have to rely on farming to support themselves. ”

At this time, Liang Houzai said to my master again: "If the Huang family doesn't farm, what will they eat in the Qing Dynasty?" After all, Lao Huang's family is in the mountains, and the transportation in the Qing Dynasty will be inconvenient, and it must be difficult to transport materials in. If the old Huang family is not prosperous, it is okay, just send a few people down the mountain every month to buy some daily necessities. But if there are a lot of people, it is definitely not possible not to farm. ”

My master cast an appreciative look at Liang Houzai and nodded, "It's still Houzai who thinks carefully, I haven't thought about these things before. In fact, since the Yuan Dynasty, the old Huang family has always been prosperous in the family. Now the Huang family is somewhat declining, but there are still more than 300 people. Moreover, the old Huang family has been in the rivers and lakes for so many years, and they should have a lot of ways to supply materials. ”

Liang Houzai thought for a while, and then said to my master: "Grandpa Chai, in fact, I was thinking just now that the land in Huangjiazhuang may still be normal in the Qing Dynasty, and in that era, even if there were other ways to solve the problem of material supply, they should have to cultivate it." After all, self-sufficiency is the most secure. ”

Hearing Liang Houzai say this, I felt as if he had something to say.

After a while, I heard Master ask Liang Houzai, "You mean that the land in Huangjiazhuang has only had problems in recent years?" ”

"Yes, that's what it means," Liang Houzai responded, "I think that the evil tomb discovered by the old Huang family in the early years should have had a turmoil in recent years, or in recent decades. It was the evil qi that overflowed inside, which caused the mutation of the local soil. ”

My master nodded thoughtfully, "Well, it's a possibility. ”

After saying this, my master suddenly smiled, patted Liang Houzai's back and said, "In the future, I will be relieved that you will follow you." ”

I know that the reason why Master said this is because he took a fancy to Liang Houzai's intelligence.

I turned my head and smiled at Liang Houzai, who had a very embarrassed expression, and he smiled at me innocently, and reached out to scratch his head.

My master looked at the two of us with a smile on his face.

The early morning sun slowly rises until a ray of sunlight passes through the gap in the leaves and falls on the surface of the pestle on the left side. Master looked at the area on the pestle teeth that was illuminated by the sun, smacked his lips, and said to Liang Houzai and me, "Let's go, I'll take you to see the yin and yang drums of the old Huang family." ”

As he spoke, Master descended to the top of the mountain and embarked on a path that spread northwestward.

In fact, in the strict sense of the word, it is no longer a road, the road is overgrown with weeds, and the wild growth of bushes covers almost eighty percent of the road surface. It's just that compared to the depths of the mountains and forests occupied by strange trees, this so-called road is slightly easier to walk.

My master led us all the way to the top of the West Mountain.

On the top of this mountain, there was an old locust tree that looked very stout, and my master climbed the branch and took out a hexagonal black wooden box from the small hole in the top of the trunk for a long time.

The box should be just the right size to hold a soccer ball, and the box surface is very smooth without any frills.

After Master came down from the locust tree, he first put the wooden box on the ground, and then took me and Liang Houzai together and bowed respectfully to the box three times, after which he carefully opened the lid of the box.

The box contained a double-sided tambourine the size of a football, with gold leaf on the drum and a ring of red and green jewels. However, in addition to the jewelry and gold leaf, the workmanship of the whole drum looks very rough.

Master handed the drum to Liang Houzai and me, raised an eyebrow at us, and said, "Touch it." ”

I stretched out my finger and gently touched the skin of the yin-yang drum, and I felt that the dark yellow leather surface was slightly soft, and it was a little slippery to the touch.

Master said to me, "This is human skin. Then he pointed to the drum and said, "This is the skull." ”

Seriously, since I learned that the toffee I used to snack on was made from corpse oil, I was somewhat psychologically immune to this kind of thing. At that time, I didn't feel any discomfort, and when my fingers ran over the drum, I could still feel a sense of peace coming from it.

Master said that corpse oil purified by yarrow can be said to be the cleanest thing in the world. So I think this tambourine made of skulls and human skin is probably not an evil thing.

While putting the human skin and hand bones into the box, the master said to me: "There is also a yin and yang drum like this in our door, and that one drum is even more valuable than this one of the old Huang family. There is a way, you have to remember that the human skin tambourine in the door ding's foot line, theoretically speaking, we don't sell it, but if you meet someone who is destined, you have to give the drum to others regardless of the remuneration. ”

I asked Master with some doubts, "How do I know if the other party is destined to be a person?" ”

Master smiled a little meaningfully and said, "When you meet this person, you don't need anyone to remind you, you can know that she is destined to be someone." ”

As soon as Master said this, I felt even more strange in my heart, because I always felt that Master seemed to know who that person was, but he didn't seem to want to say it too bluntly.

After putting the human skin tambourine into the wooden box, the master raised his head again and looked towards the hill where the tooth was.

Ever since he came to the back mountain, Master has often stopped to look at the mountain for a while, and each time he looks at the hill where the tooth is located. At first, I thought that Lao Huang Jiabu's ecstasy array in the mountains was the same as the ecstasy array in the bamboo forest of Jisoul Village, and he had to judge the direction every few steps, so as not to cross the road by mistake.

But after entering the mountain, you can walk all the way down unimpeded, and even if you don't care about anything, you will definitely reach the top of the mountain if you just walk along the mountain road.

In that case, why does my master always have to stop and watch?

I couldn't understand this, and finally I couldn't help but ask my master, "Master, what are you looking at?" ”

My master had been looking at the distant mountains since just now, and after I asked this, it took him a long time to come back to his senses and say to me, "I'm looking at the qi, oh, it's just using a little arithmetic to calculate what kind of qi the Qi field in the evil tomb belongs to." You also touched the crack of the tooth just now, didn't you feel that something was wrong? ”

I thought about it for a moment and replied to Master: "It's really wrong, at that time, I felt that there was some anger exuding from the broken mouth of the stone pillar, that kind of breath should only be on a living person, right?" ”

The master touched his chin and said, "That's right, it's just angry." This kind of Qi field is not unique to humans, and all living beings have this kind of aura. It is unusual that the vitality in the Evil Tomb can penetrate the thick layers of soil and spread to the ground along the tines. If I'm not mistaken, in the Evil Tomb, there should be a creature with very strong vitality. In addition, from the moment you enter the mountains and forests, there is often a faint demonic aura emitted from the soil. If the demonic energy in the soil and the vitality on the teeth come from the same thing, then things are more troublesome. ”

After a slight pause, he continued: "The ancient books of Jisoul Village say that only a great demon who has been practicing for thousands of years and has almost reached the realm of sanctification in his physical body can have such a strong demonic power and vitality at the same time. ”

I felt a little incredulous at Master's words: "Are there really any beings who live for more than a thousand years?" ”

My master pondered for a while before he said to me, "O living beings...... It is true that some of the oldest trees in the world live to be four or five thousand years old. As for animals, I haven't seen them, but I haven't seen them, but they don't necessarily don't have them. ”

I asked Master again, "If there really is a great demon in the evil tomb that has lived for thousands of years, can Master, be able to suppress it?" ”

"This kind of thing...... You don't have to think about it," Master smiled at me helplessly, and said, "Although I have never seen such a big demon, the ancient books of Jisoul Village say that once such a big demon appears, it will be a tsunami in the mountains, and 100,000 miles of mountains and rivers will turn into a quagmire. Do you remember the corpse in the tomb of the Dragon King? Comparing the corpse Jiao with such a big demon is like comparing a domestic cat with a tiger. ”

At the beginning, just to suppress the corpse Jiao in the tomb of the Dragon King, the master and the master almost used all their strength, that time, although we relied on the Fantian seal to suppress the corpse Jiao, but after all, it was luck, if there is another time, I dare not guarantee that I can still have such good luck.

Now that Uncle Shi is gone, just me and Master, let alone a big demon, I'm afraid that a corpse alone can't deal with it.

But when I think about it, I think it's incredible, if there is really such a big demon in the evil tomb, then how did the people who built this tomb keep it in the tomb? And the person who built the tomb of the dragon king was able to peel off the bones and cramps of the corpse, and even the skull could be completely peeled out, how did that person do it?

When I thought about this, another strange thought suddenly came to my mind: "Could the person who built these two tombs be the same person?" ”

I can't blame me for being cranky, after all, these two things are too unbelievable, and whoever it is, it is inevitable that they will be linked.

But I just thought about it in my heart, and I didn't say it, because I myself thought it was ridiculous.

The Master looked at the hill where the tooth was located for a while, and finally shook his head and led us down the mountain.

After descending the mountain, Master did not take us back to the Huangjia ancestral hall, but made a big circle along the path outside the mountain, and after bypassing Huangjiazhuang, we found another path and went straight to Baishuidu.