Chapter 49: The Truth Emerges (Part I)

Seeing that the village chief still had concerns, Wan Li explained in detail about Abayaban's physical features and mannerisms, including the strangely shaped snake-shaped ornament made of red coral and white beads hanging around her neck. Because he said it in too much detail, the village chief was completely convinced.

"I have great respect for your religious beliefs, but there is a problem - I have heard that Gu cultivators have to repay Gu in a certain way, and the more evil Gu is, the more they will ask for it. If Gu kills, he will also feed on people. If one day the so-called bad guys die, in order to prevent the Gu from backlashing, the Gu cultivators will worship Gu by killing innocents indiscriminately. Isn't that what you just said about the medicine ghost? Presumably the people here have suffered from this, right? Wan Li guessed based on the village chief's face, but he didn't expect the village chief to really nod, this place has really suffered from Gu poison.

"It's normal to be afraid of reprisals, but if you let this murderer go unpunished, it could have even more terrible consequences in the future, and we will protect the village." Wan Li said sincerely, "My friend is actually a very capable mage, and he will definitely be able to ensure that the people in the village are not harmed, as long as you help." Trust us. ”

The village chief was silent, he could see that he was struggling inside, he wanted to protect the village, but he was afraid that his family would be poisoned by witchcraft, and the dilemma made him difficult to choose for a while.

Wan Li understood the village chief's mentality, so he didn't urge, just waited quietly aside. After a long while, Ruan Zhan, who had not spoken, suddenly said, "I think, Abaya forbids dreams to show Xiao Xia, probably because he wants us to get rid of this person who is behind the Gu, after all, only the gods of all things have the right to decide the life and death of people, and no one can make decisions on behalf of the gods." Because she has already passed away, it is inconvenient to do it herself, so she wants our descendants to solve this matter. ”

He knew that the people in the village were very devout to their god of all things, and they also forbade to worship and believe in that Abaya, even blindly obeyed, so he persuaded the village chief in this regard.

Moreover, he himself thinks that Abaya Ban wants to tell future generations something, otherwise he will not make Xiao Xia hallucinate repeatedly. He had inspected this bamboo building, and there was no spirit remaining, nor was there any evil spirit, let alone the place where the villagers said connected yin and yang, but the legend made it mysterious. As for the hallucination, there was no trace of malice, it must have been that Abaya had foreseen something, and used the thoughts left by the witchcraft they did not understand, just like a video recorder, and the wedding dress was the switch of the video recorder.

It is said that a wizard with magical power can predict the future, Ah Bai was a famous Ya Ban back then, and he could predict that there was nothing new in the future, and there might even be some things happening right under her nose, and she was powerless to change, so she came to ask for help from future generations.

His words really had an effect on the village chief, and the old man hesitated again, looked at the sincere and innocent faces of the two, and finally decided to tell the two outsiders everything he knew.

"In our area, Abaya Ban is the most respected, and anyone in ten miles and eight towns will look for her when they have something. She is not like other powerful Taoist women who charge high fees, nor is she as unapproachable as the witch who blesses one side. Her strength is unmatched, but she never charges a penny from the villagers, and her life is very simple. Because of her high mana and good heart, when the sky was turned upside down outside the mountain, several small villages near us were still safe and sound, although they were poor, and everyone said that it was because she guarded here. People here almost believe in her as a god of all things, but soon after the liberation, she suddenly disappeared, and no one was seen alive or dead, some people said that she was punished for revealing too many heavenly secrets and protecting too many people, and some people said that she became a god, in short, no one saw her again. After her, we have never had such a high mana and so kind Ya Ban here. The village chief sighed, "Actually, I'm only sixty years old this year, and I have almost no impression of this great Yaban, but my father was also the village chief before, so I've heard too much about Abai Yaban, and the old people in the village who are still alive also know about it." ”

"Is she married?" Wanli asked.

"It is said that her abilities are natural, that is, heaven-granted, so she cannot marry a worldly man. But—" the village chief hesitated, "I heard from the elders that someone had seen a man haunt her bamboo building at night. Because she is also a Susu tribe, some people say that she is also a medicine ghost. But while she was still here, no one was killed, and she shouldn't have been a medicine ghost. ”

"So did she take in any apprentices?" Ruan Zhan asked another question.

They mainly wanted to inquire about Ah Bai's lover Sima Nan and the groom back then, because various clues showed that these two people had a fairly close relationship with the whole thing. I thought about laying the groundwork in the middle, and then inquired about the groom's situation, but I didn't expect to mention the word 'apprentice', and the village chief's face changed.

The two looked at each other, and their minds immediately focused, could it be that the root of all the problems was in Abayaban's apprentice?

"Village Chief, if it's an important situation, please tell us." Wan Li hurriedly said earnestly, "Maybe this is the key to solving the problem, if you have concerns, we can set up an enchantment so that no one from the outside world knows about our conversation today." ”

The village chief smiled bitterly and shook his head, "People are doing it, the sky is watching, and if you hide from people, you can't hide it from God." I'm not afraid, I'm just afraid of dragging down my family and the village. But—forget it, since Abaia has a dream, he will surely bless us! ”

The village chief sighed again, put on the cigarette pouch, and took a deep breath, "The two apprentices who came to Abaya Ban are a little older than me, one of them is my distant cousin, and the other is the official man of the bride of Najin Village. My cousin's name is Awu, and the groom's family is from our village, and his name is Huangshi, but we call him dumb because he didn't speak when he was a child, and the people in the village thought he was dumb. ”

Ruan Zhan and Wan Li didn't speak, because they were shocked by this fact. I didn't expect the jungle monster Ah Wu to be the cousin of the village chief, and I didn't expect the groom to be Ah Baiya's apprentice.

In fact, thinking about it, this is very reasonable, since they suspect that the groom is the person behind the scenes, and his skills are so high, he is almost a genius with Gu, and he can easily manipulate animals and plants, they can be sure that he must have been born with some kind of ability and learn from a master. Who else in this mountain forest has more magic and magical powers than a legendary, almost god-worshipped Yaban?!

"You people outside the mountain don't understand that in our place, it is not common for a child with natural ability to be regarded as a son of God, whether it is a man or a woman, they will live a long time and bless this mountain forest, and it is said that it will take hundreds of years for such a capable person to be produced." The village chief took a puff of cigarette and immersed himself in his memories, "Listening to my father, after the Abaya Ban was confirmed to have divine power and was the son of God, the people in our entire mountain were very happy, because it was our great luck that people with divine power appeared in our generation. Everyone originally thought that after the ban on Abaya, it would take hundreds of years before a new god son would appear, but they didn't expect that a new god son would appear twenty years later, and there were two of them, that is, my cousin Ah Wu and Ah Mu. ”

"How can this God-given divine power be confirmed?" Ruan Zhan asked.

"In some cases, when the Son of God is born, the local witchcraft masters will get the omen and know which family has the birth of the Son of God; Some gods will not be discovered until they grow up, and they can subdue ordinary ghosts without learning and control the primary Gu, which will be determined by the Ya Ban who is recognized as having the highest magic power, and the specific method is unknown to us mortals. ”

"How are they similar to some Tibetan customs?" Wanli muttered quietly and listened to the village chief continue.

"My cousin Awu and Ah Mu were both found to have God-given divine power when they were five years old, and it was confirmed that they were the sons of God who were Abaya Ban, and my family was so proud and happy because of a person like my cousin at that time, needless to say, Ah Wu's family was even more proud, you must know that his family has always been looked down upon by the clan. In fact, the people in the village are not bad, and they will not easily exclude others, especially people of the same race, but Dumb Daddy is a famous villain here for us, lazy and confused, angry with his parents and did not grow up, and then ran to the Burmese side to make trouble, and was almost killed by the local natives to worship the gods. Although he ran back, he was crippled, and he could no longer harm the township, but he had no strength to support, so he relied on the charity of the villagers who had been bullied by him to live, and then he picked up a crazy woman from nowhere to be his wife, which gave birth to a dumb. This child was pitiful, with such a father and mother, but he didn't talk to people at all, his eyes were so hairy that people's backs were hairy, gloomy, no one dared to approach at all, ignorant children and unkind adults sometimes bullied him, and he didn't resist. If he hadn't been seen talking to the dogs in the village, the people in the village would have thought he was mute. ”

"Talking to animals?" Ruan Zhan asked again, and only after getting the confirmation of the village chief did he understand why the people behind the scenes could easily use Gu to control animals and plants, it turned out that he was born with this amazing ability.

This reminded him of when he was a child, when he was found to have natural yin and yang eyes, able to see ghosts and play with ghosts, he was immediately isolated like a monster, and at the age of four or five, he had to face the suspicion, malice and rejection of the world alone, and everyone seemed to be disgusted, afraid and indifferent to him, and the feeling of loneliness and fear in his bones could not be expressed in words.

In an instant, he understood the dumb state of mind and felt a little sympathetic to him.

"So, when Ah Mu is considered to be the son of God, the pride of his family is needless to say. The people in the village also became kind to them because they were the sons of God, and his father even began to learn well. The village chief sighed as he spoke, "Everything is fine, but—alas, you know that Ya Ban was originally called Ban Po, that is, Ya Ban is all women, and only women can pass on the divine power of heaven to the next generation, while men cannot, so Ah Mu can marry a wife and have children." At that time, it was the time of the Cultural Revolution, to break the four olds, all the fair women had to go home to farm, but in the eyes of our villagers, their status is still very high, perhaps because of this, when the dumb took a fancy to the Miao girl in Najin Village, the Miao girl's parents were very happy to agree, regardless of whether the girl was willing or not, the result - alas! ”

"But although this incident is tragic, what can't be said?" Wan Li gradually introduced the topic, "When we inquired in the village, the old people in the village refused to speak, as if they were still very afraid, did something happen later?" ”

"That's because dumb this-this-" The village chief stammered for a long time, unable to come up with the right words to describe this man who the old people of the whole village did not dare to mention, "he took revenge on those involved in this matter with cruel means. ”

"What's going on?" Ruan Zhan frowned, knowing that the village chief was going to talk about the center of the incident.

The village chief swallowed, obviously still a little afraid, "Have you ever inquired about the bride's family?" He asked.

"Yes." Ruan Zhan replied honestly.

"How?"

"It is said that the bride's parents died one after another, and the cause of death is unknown."

"Well, that's what I said."

"That's not the case, is it?" Wanli asked.

Gu poison and witchcraft consciousness are prevalent in this area, and ordinary villagers are already very in awe of people who can use Gu poison and ordinary Taoist women with ordinary witch power, and they are even more worshipful and afraid of a god like Ah Mu. In the eyes of the local people, there will be a most powerful sorcerer in a place, who will bless the safety of one party, but if he is angry, he will also be detrimental to the whole area, and there will be disasters or plagues. If Dumb does something out of anger and humiliation, it is inevitable that everyone will work together to hide the result, so as not to provoke him to retaliate more fiercely against the village.

A person who has been insulted and treated coldly since he was a child, one day suddenly becomes a god son who is respected and feared by everyone, unless he has a super strong psychological quality, otherwise he will develop an arrogant and inoffensive personality. And Huang Shi, that is, dumb, is obviously a little more paranoid, because these changes were made when he was a child, when his mind was not yet mature, his parents were crippled and crazy, and from a psychological point of view, his personality would change even more drastically.

So, when his love and marriage are frustrated, the possibility that he will go berserk because of shame and anger is too great, almost certain!

"It was his parents who died first." The village chief shook his head, still palpitating, "Three days after that incident, his parents died, and when they died, they had a smile on their faces, as if they had seen something they wanted most, but their bodies were as stiff as wood, and their two hands kept grasping upwards until they died. Everyone knew what was going on, but they didn't dare to say it, but they didn't expect him to be so terrible that even his parents would be angry. He was very afraid of people for a few days, and he went back to the way he was when he was a child, he didn't speak, and whenever someone passed in front of him, he would stare at people's hearts. We were all very careful, and we didn't know what he was going to do, but we saw him wandering around the mountains every day until one night ten days later. That night, more than 20 people disappeared from Naman Village and Najin Village, all of whom were related to the wedding, including the bride's parents, and the educated youth was not among them because he had returned to the city. ”

"What happened that night-" Wan Li was in a hurry, and couldn't help urging, but was stopped by Ruan Zhan with his eyes, asking him to calm down and listen to the village chief.