Chapter 10: Faith

"Stop!"

Seeing that the machete was about to fall and my head was about to be separated from my body, there was a loud shout, which was Huang Yilan's voice.

The big man's knife stopped moving, and everyone's eyes looked at Huang Yilan, who was walking quickly, at this moment he was not a little cowering and shy, but righteous and awe-inspiring, swaggering, and the same as before.

Huang Yilan walked in front of me, blocked me to face everyone, and said loudly: "Fellow villagers, since everyone believes in my ability and elects me as the village head, then I will decide on public events!" It is illegal to lynch indiscriminately, and it is even more forbidden to kill people without asking the reason, they ......"

Goatee said angrily, "It's not your turn to speak!" ”

Huang Yilan did not back down: "Old village chief, you have abdicated, now I am the village chief, and I represent the will of our whole village." I grew up watching everyone, and everyone paid for me to study outside, I will never forget this kindness, each of you is my relatives, and I will never help outsiders to harm my relatives. It is precisely because I have learned knowledge, understood the law, and seen the world that everyone believes in my ability to recommend me as the village head, so now weishenme does not listen to my advice? ”

The old village chief was very angry, his beard was shaking, but he didn't speak again, and the other villagers were surprised by Huang Yilan's change, and many people were whispering and nodding their heads.

Huang Yilan continued: "You have to speak a reason, they came to our village, they neither stole nor robbed, and they didn't do anything against morality and law, why should we kill them?" Now the world is different, there is no place in the whole world that can mess around like this, and the palace is open for people to visit......"

I sensed a strong breath fluctuation coming from inside the temple, it was a feeling of anger and uneasiness, Xiaoxue immediately said to me: "It is uneasy, because the villagers are shaken, and the faith of the villagers is the source of its liliang, no wonder it is so powerful!" ”

It dawned on me that I had asked Master before, that weishenme spirits and the like like like to cling to the statues of small temples or big trees, pretending to be gods and ghosts for people to worship. Master said that it is because they can get liliang and benefits from people's faith, which is commonly known as "receiving incense", and the more people believe in it, the more sincere their faith is, and the greater their energy.

To give a simple example, if an ordinary person is regarded as a leader, he will stimulate his potential, exert ten times more confidence, courage, wisdom, perseverance, and even do earth-shattering feats, not to mention ghosts and gods? A small thing will also think that it is a true immortal under the worship of countless people, and make a bigger movement than an immortal.

Then what is in front of you is the thing in the temple that protects these villagers with its ability, and at the same time obtains liliang from the beliefs of these villagers. The villagers are united and regard it as supreme, so it is powerful and cannot be defeated by our liliang. But if we can break the trust of the villagers in it and break the unity among the villagers, its liliang will weaken, and we will have a chance!

How can the villagers' trust in it be broken? No one wants to die, they don't want to show their ugly side, which is the foundation of their unity and faith. But is their will really like an impregnable wall, without any gaps?

I thought of the three families at the entrance of the village, the uncle who smoked dry tobacco was complained by his relatives every day, powerless to change the status quo, he silently endured in order to take care of this family, he couldn't let go of this family, for him to live is actually a huge pain, does he really want such eternal life? The young man who is trapped in love can't let go of his crush, but he misses it day after day year like this, doesn't he want to be free? The young mother with the child was heartbroken thousands and hundreds of times, if it weren't for the fact that she couldn't give up the child, she would have followed her deceased husband......

From these three families, it can already be extrapolated to the situation of the whole village, in fact, everyone is very tired and boring, but everyone has something that they can't let go, so they are persevering. If someone wakes them up, they don't want to live anymore, they will completely ignore the "gods" who protect them, and they won't embarrass us. Huang Yilan grew up here, knows every family well, as long as he comes forward to persuade him, he will definitely be able to completely dismantle this iron wall!

I was about to speak, but Xiaoxue said, "I'll tell him." ”

Yes, it's inconvenient for me to speak, otherwise the villagers will think that Huang Yilan was bewitched by me, and Xiaoxue secretly told him that it was the best.

Xiaoxue began to communicate with Huang Yilan and conveyed my meaning to him. Huang Yilan was still telling the villagers about the empty truth, she was stunned for a moment, her face showed a resolute look, and soon the conversation changed: "Fellow villagers, I know that each of your families has difficulties, and now I will solve specific problems for you to prove that I, the village chief, are capable!" Song Cuihua, you come out first. ”

A girl with big eyes and long braids walked in outside, and she looked quite standard, but her skin was a little darker. She lowered her head and played with her braids and asked, "What's the matter with me?" ”

Yilan said: "Everyone knows that you have been waiting to get married, but in fact, you know very well that your husband who has not passed through the door has been dead for many years, and it is impossible to marry you, how hard it is for you to wait like this." Brother Qingliu has always secretly liked you, so it's better for you to marry him. ”

Song Cuihua immediately turned pale, with tears in her eyes, and said angrily: "I don't want to live for a long time, and I won't marry him if I marry a pig or a dog!" After saying that, he covered his face with his hands and ran out.

Huang Qingliu is the "love saint" teenager I have seen, looking dejected: "No wonder she never looks at me squarely, after so many years, I am not as good as her fiancé who has died a long time ago, haha......"

I secretly praised it, and one sentence pierced the dreams of the two families, which can be called a double eagle!

Huang Yilan said: "Third uncle, you are most afraid of being noisy at home, so you have endured it, but in fact, your family is the noisiest one, which shows that you are a blind man fighting mosquitoes in vain!" ”

The third uncle was the old man I had seen smoking dry cigarettes, and when he heard this, his face was full of shame and despair, and he turned around and left without saying a word.

Huang Yilan walked up to the little girl and squatted down and asked, "Xiaoli, do you want to wait for your father here, or go to your father with your mother?" ”

The little girl thought for a while: "After waiting for so long and not coming back, of course I have to go to him!" ”

……

Huang Yilan knows the situation in the village well, and as long as she speaks, she will definitely hit the key point and wake up the villagers who are obsessed with self-weaving dreams. He also knows very well that the villagers are actually living in a never-ending pain, so it is better to be completely freed, which seems a bit cruel, but it is actually a kind of mercy.

At the beginning, he still said it one by one, and then he didn't care what other people's reactions were, he said whoever he saw, pointing to the most tangled place of others. Kompasu woke up at some point, whispering the Buddha's name, and his compassion was even more than before, and this peaceful and compassionate voice and breath also greatly affected the villagers, calming their anger, dissolving their depression, and awakening their kindness.

People left one by one, all of them looked bored, and the things in the temple finally came to their senses, and they looked very angry and disappointed. At first I was worried that it would hurt people in a rage, but it didn't, perhaps under the influence of Kompasu, its anger gradually disappeared, and its disappointment became heavier and heavier, and it seemed to be more disheartened than the villagers.

Suddenly, a white light rose into the sky and disappeared without a trace in an instant. Many villagers who had not left fell one after another, and all fell to the ground in the blink of an eye, only Huang Yilan was still standing, and then he ran to the crowd to find his mother, hugged his mother and cried.

Xiaoxue let out a long breath: "Great, it's finally over." ”

I couldn't help but ask, "What the hell is that?" ”

Xiao Xue said: "I don't know, it feels like a breath of qi, or a light, theoretically if a spiritual energy can be condensed but not dispersed, with spiritual sense, you can also cultivate the right path, but it is definitely a thousand times more difficult than demon cultivation, I have never encountered the light or qi of the cultivation climate." ”

Ling Fengpiao and Fei Yang Zhenfei also woke up one after another, and asked what was going on, and I briefly explained what had happened. The two of them were annoyed that they had missed the best part, and the two of them were also very curious, and asked what it was that had such ability.

Before I could explain, Kompasu suddenly said, "When we were trapped, I saw it with my eyes, it was a very big tree, it had a nice smell, it was a woman." ”

The three of us were stunned, and Ling Fengpiao hurriedly asked, "Is it a tree or a woman?" ”

Compass said very seriously: "It's a tree and a woman." ”

I was very surprised, once in our village there was a big camphor tree that became a demon, almost harmed the whole village, zuihou was killed by the thunder, there was a humanoid core inside, and there was a heart in the back that made my psychic divine wood seal. Could it be that here I met a big tree that has become a demon and can become a human? Isn't that a coincidence?

Xiaoxue said with certainty: "It's not a dryad, but it's possible to turn into a tree, or it's parasitic on a big tree, it should be not too far from here, let's look for it." ”

The four of us are still tied to the pillar, how can we go to find it?

Huang Yilan cried for a while before wiping her tears and coming back: "How can this be? weishenme they all died all of a sudden? Do you think I hurt them? ”

He was emotionally struck and somewhat incoherent. I said, "If I'm not mistaken, there was an outbreak of smallpox in this village more than 200 years ago, and many people died. These people ask the gods in this temple to bless them before they die, they are all kind people, perhaps their sincerity touched a god-like existence, it exerts its power to keep the villagers from dying, and covers up the true appearance of this place...... Now it's abandoned here and everything is back to normal. ”

Yilan silently wept, and I continued: "Actually, you yourself know very well that they are suffering from sin by living like this, but they all have knots in their hearts that they can't untie, things they can't let go, you don't hurt them, but help them get free." ”

"So why didn't I die? I'm different from others? ”

I said, "The people in here are innate and incapable of giving birth, so you must have been raised from the outside." After living for more than 200 years, the villagers here are tired of it, but they don't have the courage to change, so they take a baby from the outside and let the child come into contact with Shijie outside, hoping that he will one day change the place. That is to say, what you do is exactly what they want, what they subconsciously arrange, and this is cause and effect. ”

Huang Yilan was stunned, he needed some time to accept this huge change.