Chapter 650: Funeral
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We were walking well on the road, but suddenly we were targeted by a peasant woman, which is a strange thing.
Maybe it was because I was chased and killed by Hong Ming and them too badly before, so when I saw this eldest sister rushing towards us, I was shocked, and I almost turned around and ran away with the pandas.
But after thinking about it, I calmed down: we didn't do anything bad, and the peasant woman is not a flood beast, what are we running?
So we stood there and waited for the eldest sister to rush over.
The eldest sister was extremely fast, and rushed in front of us in three steps and two steps. She glanced up at us, and the last pair of warm eyes stayed on Li Xuanji's body. Among us, Shu Li Xuanji's costume is the most peculiar: he is dressed in a Taoist robe, with a gourd hanging from his waist, and a peach wood sword behind his back, dressed as a master in the world.
The eldest sister of the peasant woman looked at it twice and was in awe, first bowed respectfully to Li Xuanji, and then asked in a low voice, "Dao Chief, are you the immortal on that mountain?" โ
Taoism often lives in the mountains, so the Taoist sects often come from the deep mountains and old forests. This characteristic of Taoism is widely spread among the people, especially in the early years, when the rivers and lakes saw the Taoist priest and half immortal, they often asked the last sentence to come down from the mountain, just like now applying for a job and asking about the graduate school. If you meet a famous mountain apprentice, it is even more like the current graduation of Tsinghua University and Peking University, it is a high-achieving student with a background!
Although Li Xuanji is an outcast of Maoshan, he is also orthodox in Maoshan. As soon as the peasant woman asked, Li Xuanji flicked his sleeves triumphantly, pretended to be indifferent, and said, "Poor Dao is Li Xuanji, a disciple of Maoshan Mountain." โ
This old bull nose never talks to us so in such a tone, and when he sees outsiders, he puts on a sanctimonious appearance, which is really disgraceful.
But naturally we didn't poke him, but just followed behind honestly and gave Li Xuanji a strong momentum.
As soon as the peasant woman heard that Master Li Xuanji was famous, her face instantly showed a happy expression, and she shouted excitedly: "Immortals help me!" Gods help me! โ
At this time, I suddenly noticed that the peasant woman was dressed a little darkly, her eyes were red, and she had obviously cried for a long time. According to reason, if an elder and an ordinary person die unfortunately, the family often has to wrap a black cloth to show mourning, but the eldest sister in front of her has no other clothes except for wearing a black and white shirt, which means that the deceased in her family is very likely not an elder or an equal, but a younger generation who died young.
Li Xuanji has been walking the rivers and lakes for so many years, and naturally he knows the truth in this, he glanced at it, and instantly understood what the peasant woman was looking for him to do.
He first whispered softly: "Eldest sister, your family's misfortune is deeply regrettable. But I'm sorry, Poor Dao doesn't do things in vain. โ
The so-called "doing white things" refers to a means of livelihood for Taoist priests in the rivers and lakes, which is nothing more than going to the mourning hall to play and sing, and finally escorting the coffin to be buried, with a full set of services.
In the past, the Taoist priests in the south were more complete, playing and singing were not all incomprehensible, all of them were refined, led by Suzhou and Hangzhou, and many folk musicians were actually originally Taoist priests. One of the most famous, Erhu Master A Bing, who created "Erquan Reflecting the Moon", has actually always been a Taoist priest, and Erhu is also a teacher's inheritance, which is no different from a peachwood sword and a talisman.
Now the eldest sister of the peasant woman has grabbed us, and she has taken a fancy to Li Xuanji, and she is afraid that this is all she wants. However, Li Xuanji is a Taoist priest who catches ghosts and destroys demons, and there is still a difference between a Taoist priest who cries and mourns and hangs the spirit, so he hurriedly made it clear that he would not do these things.
Unexpectedly, the peasant woman waved her hand again and again when she heard this, and said, "Immortal, you are wrong, I am not asking you to do white things, but I want you to do us a favor......"
Li Xuanji rolled his eyes and asked, "What's busy?" โ
The peasant woman did not see the outside, even when she told her what had happened to her family.
The unfortunate one who died was indeed a younger generation, a child of the eldest sister and sister's family, who was less than thirteen years old this year. Children love to go to the river to swim, which is also a habit from childhood to adulthood. Because the village is near the river, the children often play in the river, and the water is very good, even if there are one or two unfortunate feet entangled in aquatic plants, the friends can rescue in time to ensure that they do not die in the river.
Who knows that people have good fortune and misfortune, the little nephew has never had an accident in thirteen years, and he has not even choked on a mouthful of water in the river, but he suddenly disappeared when he went down to swim in the river a few days ago, and several friends who followed him said that the kung fu man disappeared in the blink of an eye. The eldest sister and her family searched for a day and a night, but they could not find it, and in the early morning of the next day, the body of the little nephew floated back from the river, and the whole person was soaked......
We listened to it creepy, and the story was quite bizarre.
After the eldest sister of the peasant woman finished speaking, she also added that no one in the family believed that the little nephew drowned herself, and they suspected that someone had either done a black hand to the little nephew, or that there were water ghosts in the river.
When I heard this, I smiled lightly and asked my eldest sister, "You have lived in this village for many years, haven't you?" Have you heard of water ghosts over the years? โ
The eldest sister nodded, saying that she had heard about it by chance, but it was all a very young thing, and in recent years, the population of the village has become more and more numerous, and there has been no water ghost.
I nodded and said, "Since you haven't been a water ghost for so many years, why do you think that your little nephew's death is related to a water ghost?" โ
The eldest sister frowned, lowered her voice and said, "First, my nephew has a good water nature, so it is impossible for him to drown himself." Second, in the past two days, there has been more than one death in the village! โ
In a word, we were shocked in our hearts. Without waiting for us to ask, the eldest sister continued to break the news, saying that there was still a family in the village, and the couple were in their forties, and they had no son and half daughter under their knees. One day, when my husband was fetching water from the well, he somehow fell into the well, which was not deep, and there was a ladder against the wall, but my husband drowned in it alive, and there was no movement at all......
In addition, there are several villagers who often go to the river to fish said that they saw a black shadow in the river by the village a few days ago, this shadow is big and long, it is not a fish or a person at all, the only possibility is a water ghost and a water demon.
We were shocked by these words, and I couldn't help but think: Could it be that all this is related to the water flies that Hong Ming is tracking?
The legendary water fly itself is a huge monster with a cunning and cruel personality, and it is likely to cause death wherever it goes. But children drowning and falling wells can still be linked to water flies? Or is there no real connection between these events, just a coincidence? I couldn't come to a conclusion for a while.
Li Xuanji quietly listened to the peasant woman's words, and asked her in confusion, since the incident had happened, what was the purpose of looking for him?
The peasant woman said sincerely, this village depends on the river for a living, and has dealt with the river at the edge of the village all her life, and now the funeral has been done in two in a row, and both are related to water, but I am afraid that I will offend a ghost in the river. The peasant woman asked Li Xuanji if she could help her see if she had offended the gods, and when the time came, she should apologize and apologize, and she should make amends, and she could not let these disasters happen again.
Li Xuanji pondered for a moment, did not rush to a conclusion, but looked up at me, waiting for me to come up with an idea.
I thought about it, anyway, I have already arrived in the village, and if I can help people, I can help them, which can be regarded as accumulating virtue and doing good. What's more, the eight achievements of the "monster" that appeared in this river are water flies, and water flies are our goals, so to investigate, it can be said that we kill two birds with one stone.
So I nodded and said, "Then Daochang Li will help others." โ
Li Xuanji smiled slightly, picked up the shelf, and said to the peasant woman's eldest sister: "Open the road ahead, and wait for the poor road to show you!" โ
The eldest sister thanked us for her kindness, bowed and nodded, and hurriedly walked in front of us, leading us to the village.
The scenery along the way is pleasant, and the Jiangxi villages are indeed beautiful.
However, the story of the eldest sister makes each of us feel uneasy, and it is indeed not a good thing for water ghosts to invade the village.
When we walked to the head of the village, we heard mourning music coming from the village, and in just a few days, there were two white incidents in the village, which was really unfortunate news.
As soon as we entered the village, before we reached the eldest sister's house, I suddenly felt a chill on the back of my neck, as if someone was staring at me.
My instincts have always been very accurate, and before this feeling disappeared, I turned around sharply, and suddenly saw a teenage girl hiding behind a stone monument not far behind, wearing a pigtail, wearing a plaid gown, and a pair of cold eyes looking at me resentfully......