Chapter 51: A Strange Village with Black and White Upside Down
Zha Qiye felt that nothing could be just on the surface, I very much agreed with this point of view, so he and the smoke man and the night owl, the three of them came to Mengzhuang at night, and visited again in secret.
The result of the visit was to make the three of us gasp. I saw that the village seemed to be abandoned during the day, but at night it was brilliantly lit, the smoke was faint, and the big red lantern in front of the door was shining with a bright red light, swaying and drifting in the night.
The village was full of people, and it seemed that there was still talking and laughing from time to time, and it was so happy and peaceful. On the street, there are still a lot of chickens, ducks and geese, rolling leisurely. The appearance of Yumeso during the day and at night is completely different, as if it is not the same village.
The cigarette man looked at me suspiciously, and I didn't know how to explain it. How did the villagers who were like dead trees in the day turn into living humans at night.
My heart was full of doubts, and I motioned to the two smokers to be restless, quietly hidden in the dark, and take a closer look to see what was going on in such a strange scene?
The three of us hid behind the house and watched for a long time, and it was absolutely not wrong that the villagers in the distance were all alive, so we had to leave the village again and turn back to the camp.
But we didn't notice that at the moment when we turned to leave, all the villagers in Mengzhuang stopped their movements and looked at the entrance of the village where we had just been hiding with very strange and terrifying eyes.
After the three of us returned to the camp, the smoke man and the night owl and I went back to the camp, we will tell everyone about the strange scene we saw in the deserted village. Listening to everyone, their mouths were wide open, and they were stunned like wooden chickens.
If you hadn't experienced it with your own eyes. I would definitely think that these words are a fantasy of nonsense.
I asked Seventh Master again, "Seventh Master." What do you think of the unusual things happening in this strange village? ”
After closing the iron fan in his hand, the seventh master said, "Zombies pass through the streets and alleys during the day. It is counterintuitive for a living person to come out at night, and if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes during the day, it would have been hard to believe that there must be something strange in it. ”
After I heard what the Seventh Master said, I said in my heart: Aren't all nonsense about what you said?
The fat man couldn't help but express his opinion, he said: "I think the mausoleum keepers in the small village must be scheming zombies, and they are restrained by the sun during the day. Nothing is free. But at night, he reverts to the appearance of a normal person. Therefore, the living dead at night will be more difficult to deal with. ”
The fat man's words, like a slap on the head, immediately woke me up, and I couldn't help but admire and admire: "Okay, fat man, his brain is flexible enough, he can see things so thoroughly, and he can also see the problems behind it." ”
The fat man heard my compliments. Immediately grinned immodestly.
Zha Ling'er asked me on the side, "Brother Sven, do we have to go into that weird village during the day?" ”
I nodded to Zha Ling'er and said to everyone, "We'll be daylight tomorrow." At least go inside the village and check it out. Everyone immediately nodded in agreement.
The strange village is so close to us that I asked the night watchman to light up the cover, and it's time for the last minute. There is no room for error.
Second Master Duan still didn't come back, after dawn the next day. Still not to hear from him, I couldn't help but start to worry.
Enter the village again to explore. I decided to go with only two people, for the sake of ease of movement. And the strongest brains and the most powerful thugs in the team, visiting in such a combination form will definitely be able to get twice the result with half the effort.
I told the fat man and the seventh master that after I left with the cigarette man, we must pay careful attention to the movements around us, and we must always be vigilant.
The fat man reassured me and said, "Be careful, go and return quickly." ”
The cigarette man and I said goodbye to everyone, and then came to the front of Mengzhuang again.
Although it was daytime at this time, it was the time when the living dead and the mausoleum keepers were stiff. But the smoke man and I still chose to make an unannounced visit and try not to attract attention.
There is only one entrance to Yumeso, and when you look down from above, you don't find any exit. However, we only visit near the entrance of the village, and do not go to the depths, so we can just follow the original route and return, and we should not get lost in the labyrinthine dream village.
The cigarette man and I quietly entered the dream village and began to dodge under the eaves and walk inside.
Most small villages are low thatched huts made of wood and mud, but all the houses here are stone houses cut from heavy stones, ranging in size and even with courtyards, which is very chic.
Not long after entering the village, the smoker pointed to a short distance for me to see, and I saw that near the center of the village, there was a red-tiled ancestral hall, interspersed in the middle of the black and gray stone house, which was particularly conspicuous.
I exchanged glances with the cigarette man, and immediately walked towards the ancestral hall.
Above the double door of the ancestral hall, there is no plaque hanging, which is inevitably a little suspicious, how can there be descendants of later generations to build the ancestral hall, but do not write the name of the clan, it is really puzzling. After I looked carefully, I found that there was no trace of a plaque hanging above the vermilion lacquer gate, which shows that there was no plaque hanging on the door from the beginning. Could it be that when this place was first built, it was abandoned, so there is no plaque. Or is this ancestral hall just a show, not a real ancestral hall?
In order to prevent the sound of the gate from alarming others, the cigarette man and I had to climb over the wall to enter. The courtyard in front is not wide, and there are no trees planted, and there are only three stone shrines with single-eaves roofs and thick stone slabs, and two wings on the left and right. The ancestral hall is a typical "stone ancestral hall" from the Han Dynasty to the previous period, which shows that the history is very long, and it is by no means built in modern times.
I found that the door of the ancestral hall was wide open, and there was no plaque on the door.
In the middle of the ancestral hall, there is a table shaped like an ancient palanquin, and on the table top with a slight arc, it looks like half a bamboo tube that has been planed out and arranged side by side, and there is no spiritual card on it.
There is a stone pillar on the left and right sides of the offering table, and there is a couplet engraved on it, the left is "Haoran righteousness stands up the world", and the right is "good and evil are not in vain", which seems to have the intention of warning future generations, but it is somewhat too much of a meaning, and the atmosphere is a little too harsh. The couplets in the general ancestral hall are nothing more than "the ancestral merits and virtues are far away, and the sons and grandsons are virtuous and the world is long" or "loyalty and filial piety have the voice of the world and the world, and countless descendants and sages in ancient and modern times" and the like, implying auspicious words such as praise and praise. And the couplets in this stone shrine, in comparison, reveal the extreme edge of admonition, and they can't help but be a little aggressive.
The left and right walls in the stone shrine have many portraits carved with lines, among which the left is the green dragon and the right is the white tiger, and the left side is also engraved with the head of the snake and the body of Fuxi and Nuwa, with the sun, moon and stars on the back, the dragon stepping on the auspicious clouds, and the pattern of the fairy fluttering; The right side is also engraved with the Queen Mother of the West driving around, and the back lining is the pattern of a hundred beasts being auspicious, a hundred birds and a phoenix, and a hundred flowers blooming. The lines are very strong and powerful, and the portraits are also very simple and vivid, which seems to reveal a faint fairy spirit, as if the characters on the stone wall are alive, which is breathtaking.
In addition to the exquisite carvings, the stone shrine is empty, there is neither a plaque nor a tablet of the Immortal Sect, which is like being abandoned for more than a thousand years.
I was very interested in the stone offering table in the shape of a palanquin, so I crouched down and looked under the empty table. Suddenly, I found that on the inner floor of the bottom bar of the table, a small pinch of incense ash was scattered. I thought: Since someone has made incense here, it seems that the stone shrine here has not been abandoned for nearly a thousand years as it seems. I can't help but wonder if the desolate appearance of the stone temple was deliberately done by someone. Could it be that there is some unknowable secret here, so that it is deliberately made to look like a waste, so as to hide people's eyes and ears?
I told the man about the cigarette ash under the table, and he immediately crouched down, picked up a little of the ash from the ground with his fingers, looked at it carefully for a moment, and then leaned under his nose to smell it.
As a result, I saw a pair of eagle eyes of the smoke man, and they turned into a pair of dead fish eyes, as if he had almost fainted, so frightened that I hurriedly reached out to support him.
The cigarette man quickly lit the cigarette in his mouth, and then quickly took it out, not from his mouth and nose, but held it in his mouth and trachea for a long time, and then turned his head, avoiding the direction I was, and exhaled the smoke in his mouth.
I saw the smoke man's eyes with tears, as if he was a little fascinated, and now his eyes are charming, which is enough to make thousands of women crazy. I've never seen a pair of cold eagle eyes of a smoke man turn into innocent rabbit eyes, which really surprised me.
I was very worried and asked the cigarette man, "Little brother, are you okay?" ”
The smoke man was still in a misty look, and said to me inarticulately: "Ecstasy incense." ”
When I heard this, I was so frightened that I immediately got up from the ground and took several steps backwards, away from the smoke man's side.
"The two love don't have to be happy, but they can also be fascinated" The holy relic of the rivers and lakes is ecstasy, I didn't expect the smoke man to accidentally fall for this trick, how can it be good?
There are only two big men in the stone shrine, me and the smoke man, if you want to detoxify this poison, it is comparable to ascending to the sky. And I suddenly felt as if I was in danger, for the man had risen from the ground, staggered to my nearness, and with the thud of his arms, trapped me between him and the stone wall.
The cigarette man's face was close to me, and as a man, I had to admire the cigarette man's handsomeness and chic not like a mortal.
But the current situation is very embarrassing, I just said to the smoker who was about to speak, but his eyes were foggy, but he said to me first, "Take me away." Then he passed out in my arms.
I held the smoking man's sliding body and said in my heart: The medicinal effect of this ecstasy incense is really amazing. Now we have to bring the smoke man back to the woods, and let the seventh master and the smoke man's juniors and disciples find a way to heal them as much as possible. (To be continued......)