Chapter 153: The Girl Hanging Upside Down in a Tree
Everyone is born with a "temple king land" - that is, the land temple to which they belong, similar to each person's place of origin; After the death of a person, when the Taoist priest performs the transcendent ritual (i.e., the dojo), he will go to the land temple to which he belongs for sacrificial activities. Or the family members of the newly deceased go to the land temple and tell the deceased's name, birth date and other information, so that the land god can guide the deceased.
The god of the land belongs to the gods of the grassroots, and the land lord is the god of local administration, protecting the peace and tranquility of the township, and it belongs to the city god, and is in charge of the household registration of the deceased in the township, and is the administrative god of the prefecture.
This little old man in front of me. He was very short, less than half my size, wearing a golden cloak, looking at me with a smile on his face.
"The land is good." I saluted and said politely.
Father-in-law looked at me with a smile on his face, "Chen Xiao, what's the matter with you looking for me?" ”
I was very surprised, I didn't expect the father-in-law of the land to know my name, but it was not surprising, they had everyone's origin and information in their hands, and when I summoned him out, he already knew who I was.
I told the father-in-law of the land to look for an old blind man, who had come to our village before, and then came here, and we did not know about his situation, but the father-in-law of the land must know.
The father-in-law's face was not very good in an instant. His eyes dodged, unwilling to look me directly, "This ...... I don't know. ”
Wenwen looked aside and stomped her feet anxiously, "You are the father-in-law of the land, you don't know." Then who knows! ”
The father-in-law shook his head and waved his hand, "It's not that I don't want to help you, it's just that I'm also a local petty official, and we don't dare to touch this matter, and it's not peaceful recently." I also want to live a few days of peace, so you don't have to embarrass me. ”
The meaning of the land, I probably understand, is nothing more than that he doesn't want to get involved in right and wrong, his official position is low, and he wants to protect himself.
The father-in-law of the land, who was about to go back with his cane, stretched out his hand and pulled him to prevent him from leaving, and I said, "It's all a matter of burning eyebrows, father-in-law of the land, just tell me where the old blind man is!" ”
The father-in-law shook his head, and in an instant he fell back into the ground and disappeared.
This really stumped me, the wordless book was taken away by the old blind man, if he was really a descendant of Jiang Shang, then it was very likely that he would hand over this wordless book to King Wu of Zhou.
The consequences are certainly dire.
Things have changed, and I have to find Jiang Li.
I told Wenwen my idea, and Wenwen didn't agree at first, so it can be seen that there is no other way now, so she has to take me to Jiang Li.
After following Wenwen for a day's journey, she was in the nearest village, ready to rest.
When you enter the village. First of all, you have to walk through a large forest, walk in the woods at night, not to mention how cold your back is, I can't wait to speed up my pace and go out early.
I don't know what's going on, but as I walked, the voice of "Ahh
When I turned my head, a black shadow flapped its wings and surrounded me.
There were more and more crows behind me, and Wenwen reached out to help me chase them for a long time, but these crows seemed to be leaning behind me and refused to leave.
Crow-ridden is not a good thing. In the past, in our village, crows were generally full of yin and filth, and bad things would happen, and if a child followed by a crow, it would definitely be considered a metamorphosis, and even the door of the house would not be allowed to enter.
After walking for a while, Wenwen suddenly spoke, "Chen Xiao, why do I think that we have been revolving around here and have never walked out." ”
As soon as Wenwen said this, I noticed that something was indeed wrong with this matter.
I frowned, my heart sank, "Wenwen, what's the name of this village?" ”
"Niujia Village."
I wipe, I have a broken heart in my heart, I have heard that I have heard the old people in our village say that this village is two mountains away from our village, but the strange things in Niujia Village are all set up by listening to grandpa, I heard that Niujia Village has long been abandoned, and then suddenly a few people came to live in, but no one has ever seen them, but anyone who wants to enter Niujia Village. They have never been in, and they have come out in a daze.
Grandpa often joked, saying that he was disobedient, so he was sent to Niujia Village to stay overnight, and he talked about who was still disobedient!
It is said that at the time of communization, there was a cow-faced figure in Niujia Village, after being smashed by the Red Guards, the people in the village suddenly moved away, so it was gradually deserted, and later I heard that someone broke into Niujia Village, and some people also said that the bull-headed figure came back for revenge. So no one dared to get close there.
My heart sank, I wasn't so unlucky, I actually came to this place, it looked like a village, and I could settle down and rest.
Wenwen saw that my face was not very good, and asked me what was wrong.
Suddenly, the leaves on the tree fell with a clatter, and I looked up to see a little girl hanging upside down on the tree, looking at us with a curious expression, her face was pale and sickly.
She hung upside down on a tree, like a bat hanging dormant on a tree.
"Come back." The little girl shouted. The crows behind me flew away from behind me and circled around her.
The little girl seemed to be acting strangely, and I asked carefully, "Are you not coming home so late?" ”
She suddenly laughed happily, and her voice resounded throughout the woods like a brass bell, "Didn't you go out too?" ”
With that, she jumped straight down from the tree and stood in front of us, looking about the same age as us.
"Follow me, I'll take you out." She coldly put the sentence down and turned to walk to the other side.
Wenwen and I looked at each other, thinking that we wouldn't be able to get out anyway, so it was better to follow her and be a dead horse doctor.
After following her for nearly five minutes, he walked out of the woods, and the lights in the village were already dark. I can't see the road clearly.
She followed the little girl all the way to their house, and she told us that her mother had a strange temper and told us not to say the wrong thing, but to go to the house and rest for the night, and then talk about it tomorrow during the day.
Originally, the little girl asked Wenwen to sleep with her. In the middle of the night, Wenwen suddenly climbed into my bed, she said, "Chen Xiao, I'm not used to sleeping with others, I'll sleep with you!" ”
I groaned and put the quilt on the floor. Pointed to the ground and let Wenwen sleep.
Wenwen blushed, glared at me fiercely, ran straight to the ground, rolled up the bed and fell asleep.
At that time, I was a baby after all, so I naturally didn't understand the idea of the Qishan fox demon who had lived for thousands of years, and I grew up many years later, and I slowly understood some things.
When it was daytime, I heard a cry, and I hurried to the yard to see that a woman with a broom had beaten the little girl of the previous night viciously, scolding. "Damn little brute, eat me and drink me, you fucking brought people home, is this a hotel when the old lady is here!"
As soon as the words fell, the broom whipped the little girl, and a few red marks. Shocking. Wenwen and I were both stunned, and I hurriedly stepped forward, "Auntie, you have something to say, don't do it!" ”
I looked at the woman with a fierce face, and it was only then that I could see that she had a deep scar on her face, which looked extremely scary.
Niujia Village has never been inhabited, is my grandfather bluffing me, there is no such thing at all.
The woman looked at me with a cold expression, "Get out of my house immediately, I didn't agree to you coming in." ”
At that time, I felt like I had broken into a ghost. There is a local saying in Sichuan and Chongqing, which is 'Chuang Nima is a ghost, strange and confused!' That's how I felt.
The woman took another bottle from the house and handed it to the little girl, who took it resignedly, drank it in a big gulp, and drank it when she had finished. I noticed a trace of scarlet liquid left in the corners of her mouth.
"What did you drink?" I asked her.
She told me that she was sick and in poor health, and that this was the medicine that the eldest mother boiled for her, and that she had to drink it every day, and if she didn't drink it, she would die.
She also told me that her name is Liu Sick, and her eldest mother is not her own mother, but her adoptive mother, who has been taking her in, and Liu Sickness has been hiding in Niujia Village. The eldest mother didn't let her go out to meet people, saying that she was seen and would be taken away as a guinea pig, and she didn't know the specific reason, she was raised by the eldest mother since she was a child, and she always didn't like her when she beat the little aunt, and she was also very fierce.