Nanhua Temple is not far from the ancestral court of Maoshan, and that person is also a little bolder, and he dares to occupy their Taoist temple under the nose of Maoshan.

Xiaoxiao and I walked for about half a day to the bottom of Nanhua Temple, this Nanhua Temple was built on a mountain called Nanhua Mountain, this Taoist Temple is one of the most ancient Taoist temples in Maoshan Mountain, because there was a famous Nanhua Taoist in the Taoist Temple before, so it has been the peak of incense.

But after the dragon vein of Nanhuaguan was occupied by the people, the incense of this Taoist temple gradually declined, and the Taoist priests left the Taoist temple one after another, and now the Taoist temple has become an abandoned Taoist temple, uninhabited.

This matter is mainly handed over to Xiaoxiao to do, I came with me just to protect her safety, and when I left, Meng Changqing explained, he said: "Too much protection is not called protection, one day, the people who are protected will be hurt because of this protection." ”

He meant to tell me not to interfere too much in Xiaoxiao's affairs, and let her do it herself.

In fact, when Meng Changqing said this, I was thinking, isn't his protection of us too much, he is a good parent, but not a perfect master. Because there are some great truths that can be said with his mouth, he can't do it himself.

There are three relatively prosperous small villages at the foot of Nanhua Mountain, and judging from the density of cultivated fields, there are about 100 people in these three villages. For the current rural area, this is a relatively large village.

After arriving in this village, Xiaoxiao did not immediately go up the mountain, and handled things in an orderly manner, saying: "Now we don't know anything about the mountain, let's go to the village first to understand the situation, and also estimate how many corpses and the characteristics of the corpses have been raised, so as to be prepared." ”

Every time she deals with business, Xiaoxiao will return the gesture, and she will always let herself look at things from an extremely rational perspective.

"There is no need for the most perfect way to deal with things, and the perfect way to do things is not necessarily the most suitable, but the most suitable way is the most perfect." I said quietly.

Xiaoxiao glanced at me and smiled slightly: "I know." ”

After saying that, I followed her into the village, and at this time the people in the village went to work in the fields, and most of the women who stayed at home were women who were cooking and people who could not move, looking at the curling smoke on the tiled house, I sighed: "In the future, it would be good if you, me, Master, and Sister Li Yan could have such a settlement." ”

As soon as he finished sighing, he saw an old woman come out of the door with a wooden bucket, go straight to the pigsty, and pour the pig food from the wooden barrel into the pig trough.

After pouring, he turned around and saw me and Xiaoxiao, and then stepped forward to ask who we were looking for.

Xiaoxiao interrupted, and then asked directly, "Have you seen a walking corpse here?" ”

Where did the old woman know what a walking corpse was, ah, I looked at Xiaoxiao and shook my head and sighed, pulled her aside, stepped forward and said, "I heard that livestock are often bitten to death in this village, is there such a thing?" ”

The old woman nodded hurriedly and said, "Yes, yes, whether it is pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep, my pigs have been bitten to death, and I am reluctant to throw them away, so I made them into cured meat and hung them on the wall." ”

When Xiaoxiao and I heard this, our hearts tightened, those things were bitten by the walking corpse, and if we ate those meats, we might be poisoned by the corpses.

"You've already eaten the meat?" I asked hurriedly.

"Not yet, it's all for the New Year, and I won't have to eat it after I eat it now."

I know this point, in rural areas, pigs are generally killed once a year, and after killing, they are made into bacon, which can be preserved for a longer time, and they are generally killed once and eaten for a year.

Knowing that we didn't eat the meat, Xiaoxiao and I relaxed, and then learned about the specific situation.

According to the old woman, the thing that bites the animal usually does not appear until about twelve o'clock in the evening, and it bites to death and does not eat meat, but only drinks blood, and the first appearance was a week ago. After two appearances, the men of the village began to guard it every night, and whenever the thing reappeared, the villagers swarmed up and prepared to beat it to death.

However, that thing seems to be in danger, and every time someone guards it, it will never step into the village, and when the people in the village are a little slack, it will come to the village to forage for food, and so it will fight guerrilla attacks with the villagers, and the villagers can't prevent it at all.

The villagers have not yet seen the true face of the thing, and their speculation is that it is a wolf or a leopard.

After the old woman finished speaking, I didn't care about this matter anymore, and handed over the rest to Xiaoxiao, Xiaoxiao stepped forward after hearing it and said, "Can you inform the people in the village and tell them not to eat the meat of the livestock that was bitten to death, it is poisonous." ”

The old woman was a little unconvinced: "Even if you are bitten to death by a wild beast, what kind of poison can it have." ”

Xiaoxiao didn't know how to explain, so she asked me for help with her eyes, but I didn't see it and ignored her eyes. Xiaoxiao angrily turned her elbow on my chest, and then explained to the old woman very lamely, it was a very simple sentence, but she took about five minutes to make sense.

After making sense, the old woman hurriedly went to inform the villagers, and Xiaoxiao and I turned around and went to Nanhuaguan.

Nanshan is not high, only more than 100 meters, and the woods on the mountain are extremely lush, indicating that the dragon qi has not been completely encroached upon, otherwise the crops of the villagers below the village will not be able to grow at all.

"There aren't many corpses here, judging by the number of livestock bitten, there are only two or three walking corpses at most." Xiaoxiao said.

I sighed and didn't say anything.

Xiaoxiao looked at me with wide eyes for a while, and when she saw that I still didn't speak, she said, "I won't talk to you anymore." ”

"Master asked me not to interfere too much with your actions, and I actually want to talk about it too." I said helplessly.

After going to the mountain Nanhua Temple walked around, this view is still relatively complete, the scale is almost the same as the Anshun Temple, but the utensils inside have been moved almost, probably the villagers under the mountain saw that the Taoist Temple had no talent to move the things inside, for their own use.

After visiting the Taoist temple, I didn't find anything, I didn't find any traces of walking corpses, and I didn't even find any corpse gas.

Judging from the precedent of the occupation of the Anshun Guan Dragon Vein where the old beggar was located, those walking corpses were not in the Taoist temple, maybe somewhere else.

Xiaoxiao has never been to Fengshan Temple, but she also understands this, and after walking around the Taoist Temple, I went all the way around, and still didn't find anything.

It's impossible to stay here, we didn't waste too much time around this temple, and since those walking corpses are going to the village to forage for food, it is more reliable for us to guard in the village than in the temple.

Back at the foot of the village was the old woman's house that she met in the afternoon, and when she knew that we were going to help catch the thing that was biting the livestock, she was a little suspicious at first, and only after learning that we were from the Taoist sect did she let go of her suspicions. This Taoist temple is on the mountain, and they should often see the Taoist priest's practice, so they will naturally be less suspicious of the Taoist priest.

There are three people in the old woman's family, one is her wife, the other is her eight-year-old grandson, her son and daughter have gone out to work, and the old couple is at home to help take care of the grandson.

Xiaoxiao was going to explain some things to the people in the village by herself, but was stopped by the old woman, and then said: "Girl, you are not familiar with the village, there are some dogs biting people in the village, so let my grandson go." ”

With that, she beckoned her little grandson to the village to gather the villagers.

In the next half hour, the villagers in the village arrived at the old woman's house one after another, during which Xiaoxiao kept organizing the language, for fear that she would not understand it for a while.

When everyone came, Xiaoxiao got up and said: "Uncles, aunts, grandparents, don't go to guard the thing that bites the livestock tonight, but you can lock up the livestock and lead the thing into the village, everyone prepares a string of firecrackers, as long as there is movement, set off firecrackers, and then Brother Ye Hai and I will rush over immediately." Speaking of this, she glanced at me and changed her words, "As soon as I hear firecrackers, I will rush over immediately, everyone must not deal with that thing without permission, and if there is any movement, enter the house and close the door immediately." ”

This was said fluently, but the villagers had many doubts and asked, "Why can't the livestock that has been bitten by that thing eat it?" What the hell is it? ”

Xiaoxiao didn't hide it from them, but said: "Nanshan Temple was originally very prosperous, but now it has declined to this point, because someone occupies the dragon vein of the Taoist Temple to raise corpses, and those who bite livestock are raised corpses, and the livestock that are bitten to death are stained with corpse poison and must not be eaten." ”

The villagers were relieved that this place was close to the Taoist temple, and they didn't reject these miraculous things very much, but just asked, "Why doesn't that thing bite?" ”

Xiaoxiao can't answer this question, and I've been struggling with this question, compared to the blood of livestock, human blood is the most aura, and it should be more popular with corpses.

"We'll find out when we catch that thing at night." Xiaoxiao gave the answer.

After that, the villagers went home according to Xiaoxiao's arrangement and prepared, and Xiaoxiao also took off her own baggage, took out some Daomen gadgets inside, and prepared.

Meng Changqing said before that Xiao Xiaotian's hands are suitable for pinching and printing talismans. I sat next to her and watched her draw for a while, and I really sighed to myself, the talismans she sketched casually were all very charming, and some of the talismans even caught up with what Meng Changqing painted.

When she drew the talisman, the old woman's little grandson kept making trouble on the side, moving this from time to time, and taking that from time to time, which was very annoying.

It took about two hours to prepare, and it was getting dark after eating at the old woman's house.

According to the time when the walking corpse appeared before, it was probably around the hour again, so in the first few hours, we were not highly nervous, but we listened to the movement outside with our ears, and as soon as there was the sound of firecrackers, we went out immediately.

By about nine o'clock in the evening, it was already dark outside, and the old woman and her wife wanted to stay with us, so they let her little grandson go to sleep first.

Most of the children cried after sleeping for less than five minutes because they were afraid, and the old woman was afraid that he would be noisy and cover the movement outside, so she went in to coax him, but the more the child cried, the more energetic she became, and she kept going. Xiaoxiao was worried that the child would be evil, so she went into the house to take a look, and came out again when she didn't find anything abnormal.

The child cried for about ten minutes, and at last the old woman took him out of bed, and threatened: "If you cry again, throw you out of the door, and let the cat take you away." ”

This is a special word used here to scare children.,If the child is disobedient.,Will use this sentence to scare him.,Ma cat is the meaning of monster.。 It's the same as the city's use of 'if you don't obey again, I'll send you outside to collect garbage.'"

But in spite of what the old woman had said, the child continued to weep, and the old woman, who had a great temper, carried the child out of the door, put him under the eaves, and came back alone, and closed the door.

This trick is really ruthless, but fortunately, my grandparents didn't treat me like this when I was a child.

This trick really works, after about half a minute after the door is closed, the child really doesn't cry, but I don't think it's right, in general, the child will cry more and more fiercely, where can it be quiet.

Hurriedly got up and opened the door to see where there were still traces of children under the eaves.