The boy was no more than three or four years old, and the abscesses on the back of his hands were the size of pigeon's eggs, and his body was covered in scabs in many places.

The old man invited Cha Wenbin into the house, and there was only one kerosene lamp in the house.

The old man opened his mouth and said: "This village is no longer in charge, it used to be the first to be electrified, but now it is not even connected to electricity, and every once in a while the village entrance will come to the car to deliver some daily necessities." But it's been almost two months since anyone came, and if it goes on like this, the salt in the house will run out. ”

"No one cares about you?"

The old man shook his head and sighed again: "It's all evil, since it was blown up there, you outsiders have run away, and we have started to have plagues all over the place, who is willing to care, they all say that they want to infect the dead." ”

The old man touched the child's hair and said, "I am a handful of old people, and most of my body is in the soil, so I pity this child......"

As he spoke, the old man began to shed tears, and Cha Wenbin looked at it in his heart.

"Itchy?"

He touched the pimple and puscess, and asked the child gently.

"Itchy ......"

He looked up at his grandfather and said, "But you can't catch it, grandpa said." ”

"Old man, I see that this plague is probably caused by the things you come into contact with every day, it is likely that there is a problem with the atmosphere here, I came in front and saw that many jujube trees at the entrance of the village have died, dare to ask what the crops in the field have been like in the past two years?"

"It's not good, what you plant is what you die, you can barely grow some corn on the cob to make a mouth, and a cob can't produce a few grains of rice, if they hadn't left the land, our grandfather would have starved to death a long time ago."

In this way, Cha Wenbin has more confidence in his heart, this "Central Yellow Plague Ghost, Shi Wenye, the Spirit of the Earth, leading thousands of ghosts to do evil sores and carbuncles"

The statement can be on the right number.

The earth qi is also caused by the miasma, where does the qi come from?

Cha Wenbin guessed that it was mostly related to that incident, and the sinking of the Bagua Platform pulled the miasma that had been buried under it for an unknown number of years, and it suddenly broke apart, and the people who had lived here for a long time followed suit.

However, Cha Wenbin does not have the solution to the poison of the earth's qi, but he understands a truth: all things are mutually reinforcing, and most of the people who have been bitten by poisonous snakes in the mountains and forests in the past understand that there will be an antidote not far from the poisonous snake infested.

If you want to find a poisonous snake, it's easy to go to the place where the seven leaves and one flower grow the most.

Today's Zhuangyuan Village has long since lost its former scenery, the withered villages and dead vegetation everywhere are very easy to identify, Cha Wenbin looked at the ancestral hall where the gate was closed and crawled with weeds, and the mottled gate illuminated by the moon above his head was particularly desolate.

In the past, there were more than a dozen people alive today, and Cha Wenbin couldn't help but sigh: "How long has it been since no one has given you incense in your ancestor's ancestral hall." ”

The padlock on the door was missing, and when you pushed it, it was full of dust and cobwebs, and the central incense burner was also in tatters.

This hall once made him almost unable to go out in the past, Cha Wenbin sighed softly, took out three sticks of incense from his arms, and lit them and said: "The passing people come to pay tribute to the regular visitors who live here, the children and grandchildren are suffering, and you can't let yourself break the incense if you give some shelter." ”

Turning around, he only felt a faint sigh in his ears, which was from whom Cha Wenbin didn't care anymore.

As he walked, he said, "Dust to dust, dust to earth, and prosperity, but a handful of fine sand; Heaven and heaven, people and people, waiting to bear fruit, are already full of dregs. ”

This deceased is the deceased after all, what if it has been enshrined for thousands of years, the dynasty has changed, not to mention a village, this champion village is already in the waning mountains, and the vitality is waiting to be exhausted, what he can do is to save those who are alive.

There is a ginkgo tree in the center of the village, and it takes three people to enclose it, and in the early years, the tree was half hollowed out by insects, and then the village was afraid that the tree would fall, so he came forward to build a knee-high fence around it.

In the summer, the most big guys are here to gather in the sky and enjoy the coolness, most of them are some familiar faces in the village, and now the tree is also dead, I don't know why, when I came today, Cha Wenbin saw that there were many red and yellow strips of cloth tied on the treetops, I am afraid that those villagers hope that God can hang the curtains.

Vaguely by the moonlight, Cha Wenbin vaguely saw a figure under the tree, about twenty meters away, and he looked at it as a woman.

Now he sighed in his heart, a lot of people have died in this village in the past two years, shouldn't it be that the genius Da Hei himself encountered some messy things, he calmed himself down in his heart and walked over quietly.

When they got closer, the woman was hunched, her hair was messy, and she was barefoot, but the shadow was the old man pulling on the ground.

Cha Wenbin breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, which means that he is a living person, but who will be here?

"Girl......"

Cha Wenbin called out not far away.

When the woman heard this, she turned around, and the two of them looked at each other, good guy, or an old acquaintance, who?

Cha Wenbin immediately called out the woman's name: "Cheng Zijin! It's you! ”

Meeting this woman here has to be said to be his unexpected but in the surprise, this woman somehow fell into a kind of head called a golden wire hook, Cha Wenbin just fought hard to barely break this strange witchcraft from the Western Regions.

It's a pity that after treating her that year, the girl was still in a coma when Cha Wenbin left.

Looking at her now, Cha Wenbin's mind suddenly flashed with that thin back, his name was Ye Qiu.

As soon as the two of them sat down, they also opened up, and after Cheng Zijin woke up, Cha Wenbin and they were no longer there, and the gangster who bought her at the beginning also got a strange illness soon after, and he had to toss for three months before leaving.

At that time, the plague was rampant in the village, and Cheng Zijin couldn't go back to her parents' house, and she couldn't accommodate an outsider here.

But anyone who is labeled as a champion village can't get out of this village, and he can still run out in the early years, but he has been regarded as a plague god in these years.

This Cheng Zijin also lives alone, but she is safe, and her skin is still so white and tender, except for the traces left by working in the field.

"Then you are lucky, in fact, I also had a lot of things to ask you at that time, you were lowered by someone."

Cheng Zijin for "lowering the head"

Of course, she didn't understand, but she also said, "I don't know, there are still twelve living people in the village, and several of them are dying." ”

"The disease is contagious?"

"Contagion, it's terrible, Brother Wen Bin, you have to be careful, this village can't stay."

She was worried that Cha Wenbin was coming, but it was true that Cha Wenbin had been in contact with the child for a while in the afternoon, and now he felt a little itchy on his arm, and he couldn't help but want to reach out and scratch it at this time.

"Yikes! Here you are, look at it! ”

"What's wrong?"

Saying that, Cha Wenbin turned his head and glanced at it, this time the good guy, only to see a bright red scratch on his upper left arm, how could he not know that the skin seemed to have been scratched?

"They did the same at the beginning......"

Cha Wenbin only felt that the world was spinning, why did he get hit today, and unconsciously became this scene in a short period of time.

I heard Cheng Zijin say again: "Then there is a scab, and then suppuration, and it is not good repeatedly, people will also have a fever, many people have scratched their chests, and those who are still alive are forced to endure it." ”

As he was talking, suddenly three firecrackers "bang, bang"

It was going to explode, and the flames were like small rockets whizzing upward.

Firecrackers are set off in the middle of the night, and there is no need to think about which one is reporting the funeral.

Cheng Zijin looked in that direction and said with some sadness: "Aunt Li is afraid that she is leaving, Brother Wenbin, I have to go over and take a look, they didn't treat me as a village person before, but now there are fewer people but they are much closer." Aunt Li is a good person, her wife left a year ago, and thanks to her, she has survived until now, and finally ended her suffering. ”

I couldn't help but feel that Cha Wenbin also burst into a foul mouth: "Damn, this damn plague!" ”

There are few people, but it doesn't prevent the old man from walking decently, and she is also an outsider.

Cheng Zijin's Aunt Li's name is Li Guixiang, and when Cha Wenbin went, the old man was already lying on the wooden board, and his face was covered with several layers of yellow paper.

There were only a few people in the village, and they were all there at a glance, and the old man greeted Cha Wenbin when he saw him coming, and he had a bag of soybeans in his hand, and sighed: "Originally, I thought that I would grind some tofu when I left, but she gave her to use it first when she walked in front." ”

said that it was someone, and most of the remaining ones were also weak, with pus-filled pus-filled pus-filled bodies on their bodies, and it was difficult to find some good skin on their bodies.

A slightly older man with a cane trembling slightly was fiddling with Li Guixiang's clothes, and a few others were spreading firewood in the courtyard, and even at this point, they still adhered to the traditions of the past.

There are a lot of couplets, altars, incense and candles, and they tell them that those who have the plague must be cremated, and they can't enter the ancestral hall after death for fear of defiling their ancestors.

Cha Wenbin watched them perform their duties quietly, he knew that he should not interfere, as long as they were still busy, he would still know that he was alive...... Cheng Zijin was also busy, she fetched water and wanted to wipe the wounds on the old man's face, the old man's messy hair was combed in her hand while chanting: "Auntie, if you leave, you are going to enjoy happiness......"

I don't know how long the comb was, there were a lot of broken hair and sundries stuck in it, Cheng Zijin wanted to play with it with her hands, she wanted the old man to walk more cleanly.

However, the comb was a little worn-out, and there were some barbs on it, and one accidentally pricked her hand, and immediately her fingers were scratched, and the girl didn't care about putting it in her mouth for a while and then continued......