Niujia Village is located in the most abundant place in the cool landscape and grass, so every family raises cattle, and the spring ploughing and autumn harvest are counting on the family's cattle, and the calves can also be brought to the town's cattle market to sell for money.

Because of the topography, when the urban and rural reform was carried out, only Niujia Village was left in the whole Qingliang Mountain, firstly, the town wanted to develop the county tourism of Qingliangshan, and secondly, the Qingliangshan water and soil were really good, and the villagers moved to the town, which would inevitably make Qingliangshan a barren mountain.

Yaowang Mountain has been abandoned, Qingliang Mountain as one of the famous mountains around Ancheng always have to leave one, Sun Simiao's reputation is not as famous as Lao Tzu, leaving a development of future humanities, it can be regarded as a contrast between urban and rural reform.

I met Douding's little brothers Ergui and Panpan in Niujia Village, they are the same age as Douding, twelve or thirteen years old, and after meeting and getting acquainted with each other several times, they all call me and Xiaowu brothers.

And I naturally got to know the person often mentioned in Douding's mouth, Zhang Jianzi.

Zhang Jianzi runs a barber shop in Niujia Village, and during the meeting, he will go to the town to shave his head, and he will pay six yuan for his head, and if the people in the village ask him to shave his head, it will always be one yuan.

I haven't cut my hair since I graduated, so when I heard Douding talk about Zhang Jianzi, I thought of getting a neat haircut.

Zhang Jianzi is a very humorous person, he is a handsome uncle, and when I talk to him, I always feel that his speech and demeanor are incompatible with the people of the village, or he stands out from the crowd, and I can't help but feel a sense of sympathy in my heart.

However, I didn't have a deep friendship with Zhang Jianzi, but we just talked about some interesting topics when I was fine.

The villagers of Niujia Village knew that we were people with a cool view and respected us, and some villagers wanted to invite us home for a meal, saying that they were asking the immortals and Taoists to add blessings, but we had to politely refuse.

Douding's popularity in Niujia Village is very good, some of the villagers call him a little fairy, everyone knows that Douding's master is Mr. Chang After returning to Qingliangguan, they went up the mountain to burn incense and let him see his fate.

Whether it is a Taoist temple or a temple, people go to pray to God and worship Buddha in order to seek an auspicious and peaceful, there are great virtuous people sitting in the view of the mountain will attract people to worship, which is equivalent to the mountain is no longer high, there are immortals are famous.

The incense of Qingliangguan began to flourish, and the villagers who went up the mountain to burn incense began to increase, and I still practiced according to the method taught by Mr. Chang every day, hoping that one day I could feel the existence of a trace of qi.

This went on for two months, and after two months, I still didn't feel the slightest sign of the slightest bit of Dao Qi.

I couldn't help but start to doubt myself, could it really take me three years, five years, or even ten years to cultivate a trace of Dao Qi?

One day, in the middle of the night, I heard the sound of splashing water in the pond below the mountain, and the faint sound of children's laughter.

I opened my eyes sleepily, and saw that it was still night outside the window, thinking that I was just dreaming, and the little five next to me was still asleep, but when I lay down, I found that the peeas sleeping in the innermost part were gone.

Thinking of the sound of splashing and the laughter of children, I walked out of the meditation room and came to the door of the Taoist temple.

On the stone steps of the Taoist temple under the moonlight, Douding was walking down the mountain wearing a small vest, and I shouted: "Douding, what are you doing down the mountain now?" ”

Douding seemed to hear my voice, stopped, he looked back at me, and with a puzzled look on his face, he stood on the side of the steps and peed, and then went back to the meditation room with me, and didn't say anything the whole time.

I used to hear that if a child is too withdrawn for a long time, he will have some evil behaviors, such as talking to himself in the middle of the night, or sleepwalking or something. He hadn't played like a normal child in the mountains for so many years, and he showed great interest when I told him about some of the roller coasters and Ferris wheels in the city's playgrounds, and it seemed that Xiao Wu had to take him to play.

I am a light sleeper, and the slightest movement around me can wake me up, and in the middle of the night, I heard the sound of water splashing from the bottom of the mountain again, and this time I suddenly opened my eyes, and I saw Peanding sitting up from the bed to get out of bed.

I grabbed Peewe's wrist and pulled him back to the bed, Peewee didn't resist and fell asleep after a while.

When Douding woke up the next day, he saw me holding his wrist, so he asked, "Brother Yang Hao, what are you doing with my hand?" ”

I was just about to talk about last night's incident, when the door creaked open, and Mr. Chang's face was not very good-looking, and he said, "There is a dead man under the mountain." ”

Xiao Wu heard Mr. Chang say that someone died under the mountain, and he also woke up, but we all thought that someone had died in Niujia Village, but seeing Mr. Chang's face so bad, it was obvious that something had happened.

We all got up and followed Mr. Chang down the mountain, and from a distance we saw a dead man hanging in front of the mountain gate of Qingliangguan, and Douding saw that person and immediately ran down the mountain crying.

It was Douding's little brother in Niujia Village who was hung in front of the mountain gate, Ergui.

The child's thin body was covered with visible scratches, and his expression was horrified and painful, as he must have seen something terrible before he died.

What strangled Ergui's neck was a straw rope, which was very rough and didn't seem to have much patience.

Mr. Chang put Ergui's body down, and then asked Douding to inform Ergui's family.

Soon, a group of people came to Niujia Village, Ergui's parents almost fainted crying after seeing their son's body, the villagers asked what was going on, Mr. Chang said: "Hanging on the mountain gate, the cause of death is not known for the time being." ”

"How can you hang on the mountain gate of Qingliangguan for no reason, you must have killed the child!" A villager pointed at Mr. Chang and said.

"Yes, you must have killed the child!" Other villagers also complained.

Xiao Wu laughed and said: "You can eat indiscriminately, but you can't put farts indiscriminately, your IQ is not good, we are not stupid enough to hang the killer in front of our house." ”

Xiao Wu's words made the villagers talk about it, and the villagers knew that Xiao Wu was a capable person with Mr. Chang, and the two gangsters in the village saw Xiao Wu wandering around Niujia Village alone, dressed brightly, and driving a sports car, so they moved their hearts and was beaten by Xiao Wu, and finally the villagers stopped him.

Someone in this group of villagers immediately called the police, and after the police came, they did some investigation at the scene, and made a record to our people in Qingliangguan, and after recording the confession, they took the body back.

After the police and the villagers left, Xiao Wu asked Mr. Chang, "Didn't Chang Lao see something abnormal?" ”

Chang Lao shook his head and said: "Hanging people at the door of Qingliangguan is obviously aimed at our Qingliangguan, but I don't know who it is aimed at." ”

Xiao Wu said: "It won't be the matter of the dead person in the Anseong bar, we didn't deal with it, okay?" ”

Chang Lao said: "It has nothing to do with that incident, they don't have the guts, I'm afraid it's bad if it's against Yang Hao." ”

"How?" Xiao Wu asked.

Chang Lao said: "Yang Hao is the son of Yang Sanqian and the Holy Maiden of Yaochi, his birth is highly anticipated, many people know that there are many strange people in this world who are proficient in the art of divination, if someone wants to find him, maybe they will find here." ”

"If that were the case, I should have found him many years ago." Xiao Wu said.

Chang Lao said: "The book of life and death in Yang Hao's body has not been opened before, but now it is different, and the underground dragon veins of Futu Ridge seriously interfere with the divination of some people, and over time, it will break the thoughts of some people looking for the book of life and death, and it is not impossible if it is discovered by someone with a heart now." ”

I said, "Mr. Chang don't worry, this murder is not against me, it may be against Douding."

"Me?" Peewee wiped tears with a look of confusion.

So I told Mr. Chang what happened last night, and Mr. Chang gasped and said, "According to this, the murderer of Ergui may not be a person, but some kind of spirit, which can affect the consciousness of others. ”

Xiao Wu said: "It seems that this is the case, I and Chang Lao's skills, the murderer can't hurt us, Yang Hao has a book of life and death in his body, and no spirit dares to approach, since there is a sound of water splashing, it may be a water ghost or something, look for it in the lotus pond near us to see if there is anything abnormal." ”

So I, Dou Ding, Xiao Wu and Mr. Chang looked for clues along the lotus ponds on both sides of Qingliangguan, and really let us find some clues.

Not far from the mountain gate, there is a place where lotus leaves are abundant, and many lotus leaf stems have been broken, and although the surrounding river is no longer muddy, it can still be seen that there have been traces of fighting or struggling here.

There is a lot of evil in the lotus pond, we naturally think of the things that happened to the old viewer during the Cultural Revolution, but the water ghosts at that time have been removed by the old viewer, why are they there now?

We searched for a long time in the nearby lotus pond, but we didn't find any clues, I suddenly thought that I still had a little Zhou Tian compass, so I took out the little Zhou Tian compass and dialed the pointer on the compass to a place very close to the origin.

The surrounding light and shadow dimmed in an instant, and the scene of last night was repeated, and we saw Ergui walking from the direction of Niujia Village from a distance, with scratches all over his body, and a straw rope in his hand, which he hung on the mountain gate and hung himself up.

And behind Ergui, there stood an extremely ugly-looking child.