Chapter 21: The Curse of the Ghost Village
I don't know what was piled up in the door, but I fell in and brought down a pile, and my whole body hurt greatly, and the anger in my heart rushed up, and my hands were full of cold sweat. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The young man had also walked in, he had been staring at Wei Wuxing, and there seemed to be some mockery on his cold face: "You have seen too many things, so ...... Gotta die" He bit the last two words very tightly, and the whole person was like a cold snake.
Wu Xing endured the sharp pain in his body, propped his body back, he knew that he could not be this man's opponent, he was looking for a residual glimmer of life in the pressed time. Just as the young man's long stick whistled down again, Wu Xing shouted loudly: "Seven Door Tune, I know you are Seven Gate Tune." β
Seeing that his face changed immediately, Wu Xing stepped up to the collar of Wu Xing, flipped him over at once, and said sharply: "Who are you?" β
Wu Xing raised his eyebrows and looked at the person in front of him: "The demon gate array you set up has been broken. β
The young man's thin iron tongs pinched Wu Xing's jaw, and Wu Xing only felt that his whole face was about to be crushed by him. At this moment, not far behind Wu Xing, an old voice suddenly appeared. "Let him go."
Wu Xing felt that the young man's strength was loosened, and although it hurt to the extreme, he still scolded a dirty word: "Your uncle's." β
The young man's eyes immediately stared at a fire, he lifted Wu Xing up, Wu Xing felt a pain in the crook of the leg, the person had been kicked to his knees, and in front of him was a pair of legs that only belonged to the old man, that was really skin and bones, Wu Xing suddenly thought of the "dry corpse" that appeared behind the door in the mirror, Wu Xing subconsciously raised his head, it turned out that this was not a dry corpse, but an old man who was thin to the limit.
And he was looking at the lamp pendant on my chest with shocked and trance eyes. "This ...... It's ......"
My heart moved, and my heart thought about it, wouldn't it? Could it be that he is also a lamp clan? And the development of things caught Wuxing even more off guard, and the old man was shocked and suddenly knelt down towards Wuxing. Wu Xing was so frightened that he hurriedly hid to the side, and being bowed down by the elders was going to lose his life, and this person didn't know how many years older than himself.
The young man was obviously also surprised, and he hurriedly walked over to support the old man: "Master, what's wrong with you?" β
The old man's skin was like a very smooth root carving, and the next moment, to my shock, his face was filled with water vapor, and the old man not only knelt down, but also cried tears.
Wu Xing couldn't help but look at the young man, only to see the hatred in the young man's eyes, and he didn't know why his master was like this, although he was still cold, but he was also confused.
It took the old man a long time to get his mind in order, and he no longer looked at me, but looked up at the sky, and then bowed heavily. "Zehou Immortal Gong Eternal Life-"
Wei Wuxing couldn't help but shudder in his heart, he never expected that this old man would shout such a sentence. The man was speechless with astonishment.
The young man also changed his previous attitude and looked at me in shock.
Zehou Immortal Gong? That was the last name of grandpa before he died, and this old man not only knew, but also guessed that grandpa had passed away through the soul lamp on his chest? This amount of information is too large for my bank to digest.
But immediately, Wei Wuxing discovered that the truth of the matter may not be as simple as he imagined, because it was none other than Wei Wuxing's grandfather, Wei Zehou, who asked the master and apprentice to make the black lacquer coffin and the demon gate array. And through this incident, Wu Xing finally realized that the Soul Lantern Family he spied on was just a piece of ice floe in a towering iceberg.
It all started 42 years ago.
The old man in front of Wu Xing had a name called Xie Agui in Xiejia Village, but forty-two years ago, when he had not yet come to Xiejia Village, his name was Qi Baotian, and he was the only living mouth of the Qimen family who was wiped out that year. And the person who protected his life in the troubled times was Wei Zehou.
Xie Agui lived in a dark room in the Wei Mansion in Suzhou for five months, and then he was personally brought to Xiejia Village by Wei Zehou.
In terms of feng shui, Xiejia Village actually belongs to a rare treasure land for gathering spirits, and the unknown hunger curse of this village has to start from the "Qionglin School" in Sichuan Prefecture.
Qionglin School is a private school funded by the Qing government and local wealthy businessmen, recruiting civilian students who have no educational conditions in ten miles and eight townships, and are recommended by villages, townships and counties, as long as the conditions are met, they can be recruited by the school. However, due to the feudal ideology of the Qing Dynasty, the school only admitted male students. Therefore, many boys in the village have the opportunity to study in the provincial capital after the age of 12.
One year, there was a scandal at the Qionglin School, where a male student in Xiejia Village accused a student named Xie Zhen in the same village of falsifying his gender. As soon as the matter was revealed, the school immediately checked with Xie Zhen, and what shocked the school was that this Xie Zhen was not only a girl, but also survived as a boy from birth.
Why do we say survival?
It is said that when the ancestors of Xiejia Village first lived in this treasure land, the mountain god was frequently angry, and a passing master told the villagers that this was because the arrival of people destroyed the five elements of yin and yang here, and the master mentioned that if they wanted to live here, they needed to strictly control the gender balance of their offspring to ensure that the aura of the mountain was minimally damaged, so that the mountain god would bless the clansmen.
Therefore, every year in the first month of March, on the day of the Sanshan God Festival, all the children born in that year must be counted to ensure that the number of boys and girls is equal, and if they are not equal, the extra children will be sacrificed to the mountain god. If someone in the village dies, then another villager of the opposite sex will also be selected at this age to pay tribute to the mountain god. When Ah Zhen was born, it was the second day of the third month, and there was already an extra girl named Ah Xiang in the village, if Ah Zhen was a girl, then Ah Zhen and Ah Xiang would be sacrificed to the mountain god. In order to protect Ah Zhen, Ah Zhen's parents lied to the clan that the child was a boy.
Twelve-year-old Ah Zhen naturally had to be sponsored to study in the provincial capital like other boys in the village, and Ah Zhen was smart and hardworking, and she was always a proud protΓ©gΓ© of her master in the school. Ah Zhen also knows that she is different from the boys, she is afraid that her male classmates will find out her secrets, so she has been alone in the village and is very unsociable. This was jealous of other male students in the same village, and from time to time boys teamed up to bully her, and after a while, a careful boy discovered Ah Zhen's secret.
The sacrifice to the mountain god in Xiejia Village was very cruel, and the prisoners had to be hung on a flagpole and starved to death. When Zhen's gender was revealed, the tribe was furious and ordered the execution of Zhen's parents even before she was sent back to the village. When Ah Zhen returned to the village, Ah Zhen's parents had not yet died, and the patriarch tied her to the big tree next to the flagpole, so that Ah Zhen watched her parents' lives lose little by little.
In order to make amends to the mountain god, the clansmen executed Ah Zhen by skinning them alive, and Ah Xiang, who survived because Ah Zhen concealed her gender, was also starved to death by her parents. A few days later, the villagers who went to the back mountain to hunt saw with their own eyes that Ah Zhen's body had been taken away by wild wolves.
It didn't take long for a strange thing to happen in the village, where every boy over the age of 12 would get a strange disease, and their eyes and tongue would rot little by little. Some villagers have tried to take refuge away from the village, but they seem to have been cursed, and they have not escaped the fate of the 12-year-old's rotten eyes and tongue.