Chapter 3 The Green Leather Scroll
Deep in the mountains, it was dark and silent.
"Bang bang." The sound of slow footsteps shatters the silence of the night.
Wei Lai straightened up, walking stiffly, his eyes were strange and green, and his face was expressionless.
Surrounded by ancient trees, the fallen leaves accumulated all year round exude the smell of **, the whirring wind is cold and cold, and the blowing grass is like countless ghost claws, shouting and struggling upward.
When Wei Lai walked to an ancient cave, the green in his eyes disappeared strangely, and he soon came to his senses.
"Ahh Wei Lai had just regained his senses, but he fell to the ground in pain.
Wei Lai had a splitting headache, slapped his head with his hand, like a curled up, countless complicated information appeared in his brain, squeezed together like paste, and felt like it was about to explode.
In Wei Lai's mind, there was a scattered memory of a weasel, who had undergone nearly a thousand years of cultivation, knew human nature, and knew about ghosts and supernatural things. A thousand years of life is the limit, and in order to repay the kindness of Wei Lai's ancestors, the weasel helped Wei Lai get out of danger.
And the information left in Wei Lai's mind is very messy, all of them are weasels' thousands of years of chaotic memories, most of them are supernatural things of gods, demons and monsters, as well as the side of feng shui geography.
Wei Lai didn't know anything about these things, but he understood that he was almost killed by a ghost just now.
For a long time, Wei Lai's hair was unkempt, and his torn shirt was completely scrapped, but his eyes were surprisingly bright and shimmered with wisdom.
"This Huang Xian is kind, but I am not a fortune teller and feng shui, and the information left for me is not used at all, it is better to give me a treasure map to dig up a few antiques, which is also for my archaeology major." Wei Lai was shirtless and muttered a little dissatisfied.
"If you really don't have a treasure map, it's not bad to give a few ancient spring palace maps, hey, this yellow fairy is too rigid, huh? There is still a hole here, could it be ......" Wei Lai's eyes lit up, and his heart was not a treasure cave.
The outside of the ancient cave was overgrown with weeds, and the two ancient locust trees were separated from each other, and the cracked trunks were a little red, as if they were the color of blood.
The entrance of the cave is only more than one person high, about two meters wide, surrounded by blue-black stone moss, there are many collapsed stones on the ground, and a trace of cold wind blows out of the cave.
Wei Lai had the courage to walk inside, since Huang Xian had brought himself to this place, he would definitely not harm him, if there was really a treasure, he would be rich.
"If there is really a treasure, we can be regarded as nouveau riche, first clean up the car driver, and then also live the addiction of Wei Daguan and become a Ximen Qing...... Ahh "Wei Lai has already dreamed of the day when he will be rich.
The temperature inside the cave is lower, the cold wind is getting stronger, and the weeds are gradually thinning out, and even a path appears.
"Something is wrong." Wei Lai swallowed his spit, feeling that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it yet.
When he stepped on the path, Wei Lai felt that someone was watching him, as if there was a pair of eyes hidden in the darkness, and his arrival had alarmed something.
Forcibly suppressing the fear in his heart, looking at the dark cave, Wei Lai turned his heart sideways, and continued along the path for his dream of making a fortune.
Turning a corner along the path, the stone wall in the cave contains a certain mineral component, which actually emits a misty light, and the scene in the cave is much clearer.
In front of it, there are two forks in the road, one of which is a cave of the same size, and one of them is blown by the wind, with a chill to the bone.
Wei Lai hesitated, looked at the cave with the cold wind, and finally realized that something was wrong just now.
"This is a cave, how can there be wind blowing out of it, are there other cave entrances?"
Wei Lai muttered in his heart, and continued to move towards the cave where there was no wind, fortunately, the child who grew up from **, otherwise he would not have the courage to move forward at all.
At the end of the cave, which is a spacious stone room, with stone beds and chairs, and a stone table with a square stone box on top.
"Someone here?" Wei Lai's heart tightened, if there were people, there would be no treasure.
Wei Lai approached cautiously, and was relieved when he saw that the stone table was covered with thick dust.
There was nothing strange in the stone room, Wei Lai cast his eyes on the stone box on the table, and his eyes showed fiery feelings.
The most likely treasure is this stone box, Wei Lai touched the stone box, took it to the stone wall, and carefully opened the lid of the box by the light, revealing the contents inside.
"Huh?" Wei Lai looked delighted, and then became puzzled.
There were several things in the stone box, and at the top was a crystal glazed jade pendant, the size of a finger cover, oval-shaped, like a strange eye.
What made Wei Lai puzzled was that there was a drop of red liquid in this jade pendant, bright red and bewitching, as if it was blood, which was very weird.
Wei Lai took the jade pendant in his hand, and a cold touch came, which shocked his spirit, and then attracted his attention by what was under the jade pendant.
Underneath the jade pendant was a scroll and a yellowed scroll.
The scroll is blue all over and looks very shabby, but there is no sign of damage.
Wei Lai spread out the scroll, and there were dense ancient characters written on it, as many as a thousand words.
"Fortunately, it's my Wei Daguan, if someone else is blind."
Wei Lai was proud, the archaeology major was teaching ancient texts, and the blue-eyed Huang Xian had left some memories for himself, so he could barely read the content.
"During the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Liao fought in the land of Yanyun, and Song Zhen sent Yang Balang to conquer the Liao State......"
When he barely finished reading, Wei Lai was already sitting on the ground, with a shocked look on his face, looking at the scroll in his hand, he took a breath, the scroll said the history of Cloud Village, and recorded a curse about **.
During the Northern Song Dynasty, in order to recover the Yanyun region, the Song Dynasty sent troops to the Liao State several times, but they all failed. During the Song Zhenzong period, Yang Balang led the army to conquer the Liao State, and although he recovered part of the territory, the Song army also suffered heavy losses. Yang Balang decided to take a break at the foot of Yanshan Mountain, and in order to replenish his troops, he recruited local villagers as soldiers.
Yunwu Village, that is, **, was formerly known as Weijia Village, of which the Wei family is the largest household in the village, with more than a dozen households. When the conscription army arrived, clashes broke out with the army under the leadership of the village chief. The army beheaded the villagers for demonstration and planned to forcibly expropriate all the men in the village. Historically, conscription has meant that the chief does not recruit the young, and the male must be left in the family. Out of fear, the villagers betrayed the Wei family, gave up resistance, and compromised with the army.
Because the Wei family took the lead in the riot, out of punishment, the conscription chief only levied all the men of the Wei family, and the rest of the villagers levied one person per family. The women of the Wei family begged bitterly not to let the army out of the village. The conscription chief was furious and killed most of the Wei family women on the spot, and the other villagers chose to stand by for fear of implicating themselves.
And there are only six Wei family women left in the village, because the villagers betrayed the Wei family, and watched the Wei family being killed alive, no one stepped forward to plead, and even showed a happy expression in order to seek the position of village head, these six women hated the army and the villagers to the core.
That night, five women dressed in white cut blood vessels in the altar of the mountain village, and blood flowed to all corners of the altar. Due to the loss of blood, the five corpses were stiff and dry, their eyes were extremely wide, but the corners of their mouths were smiling strangely, and they were horrified and their scalps were numb. And the remaining pregnant woman, after giving birth to a baby boy, walked into the forbidden barren mountain of Cloud Village with the baby boy in her arms.
At night, the villagers clearly heard the sound of a woman crying and laughing, and the ghosts of five women were actually beating on the roof of a house, and the man died strangely in less than seven days, his eyes wide as he died, and a strange smile appeared on his face. Not only that, but when all the men in the village reached the age of 30, they would see a woman waving to a baby boy in her arms, and then they would die laughing.
When Yang Balang learned of the bloody case of forced conscription, he beheaded the conscription officer and showed it to the public, feeling ashamed of the Wei family, but the war was urgent, so he promoted the male of the Wei family to ten masters. Later, as if cursed, the Song army was mysteriously defeated, Yang Balang was captured by the Liao State, and the army scattered and fled.
Only a few men from Weijia Village survived, and one of them was a man from the Wei family. In addition, under Yang Balang, there was a warlock surnamed Zhang who was proficient in Qimen important arts, and was taken to Weijia Village due to serious injuries. At the request of the villagers, Warlock Zhang placed a spell at the altar and buried the bodies of the five women on the altar, preparing to suppress the five ghosts. However, in the middle of the spell, Zhang Warlock's injury worsened, and he had to be taken by his apprentice to the mountains to recuperate. Warlock Zhang felt that he had run out of oil and could not lift the curse himself, so he left a way to solve it.
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"Five ghosts jumping off the beam." Wei Lai's mouth was chattering, his face became even paler, and he felt that his scalp was numb.
The current Yunwu Village is called ** by the outside world, but outsiders only know that the village is very weird, but they don't know the specific situation.
Wei Lai grew up in Cloud Village and knew the secret, because the men in the village would die strangely when they reached the age of thirty. Moreover, every ten years there will be five ghosts in the village, beating on the roof of someone's house, and no matter how old he is, a man in this family will not live for seven days.
"No, there's a big problem with the account." Wei Lai calmed down and said suspiciously. "It stands to reason that this warlock had written down the method of cracking it, and that his apprentice should have given it to the villagers, but now it remains here. This was also a thousand years ago, and for such a long time, no one has ever discovered this cave? Why did the one who recorded it leave a record and not lift the curse himself? ”
Wei Lai shook his head, feeling his head swelling a little, and continued to think:
"There is only my family surname Wei in Yunwu Village, one thing is certain, the surviving Wei family male is my ancestor, which can explain why my family will not be cursed."
In Cloud Village, the Wei family is the only one who will not be cursed by the five ghosts, but only one boy is born in each generation, and there are always bizarre things around this boy, as if he has been cursed by another curse.
Among them, Wei Lai's father disappeared after having Wei Lai.
"Don't think about it, the five ghosts won't come to my house anyway, except for the strange things around me, my Wei Daguan can still live a long life."
The things recorded on the green leather scroll are a bit terrifying, and I am even more scared when I think about it, Wei Lai has also seen other people's homes being jumped by five ghosts.
Wei Lai calmed down his flustered mood, and after calming down, he looked at the yellow scroll in the stone box.
The Yellow Book is very dilapidated, and it has been preserved for thousands of years, so it is special that it can be preserved. The font on the scroll is even older, vaguely recording the art of Qimen, like the inheritance spell of Warlock Zhang.
The last page of the scroll is a record of how to break the curse of the five demons.
"The five ghosts jumping off the beam have a detailed record of how to crack it, but there are still many things to find for this curse of death at the age of thirty." Wei Lai can understand the general meaning, because these ancient characters are very difficult to understand, there is still a lot of information to be checked.
Wei Lai had been in the car for a day, and he had experienced bizarre and strange things, and he was already exhausted at this time, and his eyelids quickly drooped.
"I don't know where I am now, and it's more dangerous to go out, so it's better to stay here for the night."
Wei Lai simply spread the green leather scroll on the stone bed, and lay on it to forcibly stay awake.
There were a lot of strange things in the cave, and Wei Lai always felt that something was watching him, and he didn't dare to sleep at all.
At this moment, the glazed jade pendant in Wei Lai's hand lit up with a blue light, and the atmosphere in the cave became weird.