It was midnight, and it was dark in the mountains and forests. Since the starlight was blocked by the branches of the tall trees, it could not shine on the mountain road in the forest, so all we could rely on was the flashlight in our hands.

We followed the old man to his house, a forest hut twenty minutes away from Tai Pit.

"Come in, sit down." The old man of the ranger is surnamed Lin Mingtao, but he is somewhat similar to the mountain forest he guards.

When we walked into the hut, Uncle Lin had already turned on the lights.

The furnishings were simple, a bed, a table, a wooden cabinet, and a nineteen-inch color television on it.

Uncle Lin took off his protective clothing, took off his protective hat, picked up a large black teacup from the table, raised his head and took a big sip, then glanced at me and Xiao Hei, and said, "Do you want to take a sip, I grew the tea leaves in the mountains myself." ”

Looking at the giant teacup that was almost the thickness of my calf, thinking that he had drunk tea with this big teacup just now, Xiao Hei and I quickly shook our heads, indicating that we were not thirsty.

Uncle Lin didn't care, put the big teacup back on the table, and sat down heavily on the wooden bed, showing a relaxed look on his old face, as if there was something in this hut that brought him a sense of security.

"You can sit down as you please, and you're welcome." He sat on the bed, looked up, and looked at me and Hei standing by the door.

It's not that we don't want to sit, it's really ...... There was no place to sit in the house......

I couldn't find a single stool or chair except for the plank bed, so we couldn't just sit on the floor.

"It's okay, uncle, let's just stand. Tell us about the origin of that ghost. "The most important thing for me is to care about this matter, otherwise we wouldn't have followed Uncle Lin back in the middle of the night.

"What the hell...... That was many years ago, I counted, I was only a teenager at the time, and now I am in my fifties. Time flies so fast......" Uncle Lin squinted his eyes and said with emotion.

In his teens, in his fifties. Let me deduce that the old man in front of me is in his sixties. In his sixties, he is still working as a forest ranger, and I don't know if he doesn't want to retire or if there is another reason.

I meditated on this question in my heart, but Xiao Hei had already asked: "Uncle, you are so old, why are you still working as a forest ranger?" ”

Uncle Lin smiled, and the wrinkles on his face piled up: "I've been a forest ranger in this mountain all my life, and I'm used to it." ”

I glanced at Xiao Hei, a little dissatisfied with his interruption, but fortunately, Uncle Lin continued to talk about the previous topic: "When I was young, I lived in a village at the foot of the mountain, and one year, a strange thing suddenly appeared in the village. ”

Speaking of this, Uncle Lin paused, and an inexplicable light flashed in the depths of his eyes: "There is a family in the village that suddenly died of poisoning one night. People ate leftover meals at their homes and tested for poisons. The poison is very common on our side, and it is a grass that grows in the mountains. That grass is called devil grass, and it can be used in medicine, but it cannot be eaten. Since almost every household in the village has the habit of picking and drying herbs, and that kind of poisonous weed is very common, every household has it, so people think that the family accidentally ate it, and no one thought that there was a terrible truth behind it......"

When I heard this, my heart moved, and I remembered something.

"The adults of the family were poisoned, but one of their daughters was lucky enough to survive. Her parents were gone, and the daughter was only a teenager, so she temporarily moved into her aunt's house. The pair of uncles and aunts who kindly took in their nieces did not expect that their kindness would bring disaster to their family. Not long after, the uncle and aunt also died, and the cause of death was the same as the previous family, the devil grass poisoned and died. And the teenage girl was once again 'lucky' to survive. If a coincidence happens once and happens twice in a short period of time, then no one believes that it is a coincidence or an accident. ”

"The murderer was the teenage girl?" I took advantage of Uncle Lin's pause to drink water and asked.

Uncle Lin squinted, waved his hand, and said, "You kid is smart, have you heard this story?" ”

"Nope." I shook my head.

"And how can you guess?"

"Did that little girl get ghosted?" I didn't answer Uncle Lin's question, but asked rhetorically.

Uncle Lin said with emotion: "You guessed it again." ”

I can guess this answer, one is because of the way Uncle Lin told it, and a discerning person can hear that there is a problem with that girl at a glance. The second is that I remembered that Wu Xiao's parents were poisoned and hospitalized for no reason, which is very similar to what happened decades ago told by Uncle Lin.

And Wu Xiao was subjected to evil ghosts.

Could it be that the poisoning and hospitalization of her parents was due to the evil spirit? But why would it do it?

Xiao Hei's expression was also shocked, and it seemed that he had also thought of this problem.

"It's just that no one in the village suspected that it was the girl's problem at that time." Uncle Lin took a big sip of tea and continued, "The people in the village suspected that someone had poisoned someone, and later the police from the police station also came to investigate, but they didn't find the murderer. ”

Xiao Hei suddenly interjected: "What about that girl later?" Her parents and aunts are dead, and she is ghosted again, what happened? ”

"That girl...... Uncle Lin was suddenly silent for a while, and said, "Although the people in the village did not suspect that she was a murderer, her relatives were unwilling to adopt her because of superstition. Because everyone said that she was a broom star, she killed her parents and aunts. Afterward...... So she came to my house. ”

"Why did you stay at your house?" Uncle Lin's thinking jumped a little fast, and Xiao Hei and I couldn't react for a while.

"Because ......," Uncle Lin smiled, "the little girl's father and my father are good friends, and my father is a village cadre, and he saw that the girl was poor and had no place to live, so he took her to our house." ”

"Uh... Uncle, did your family get that later? ......" I asked hesitantly.

"You mean poisoned?" Uncle Lin knew what I wanted to ask, and said calmly, "Almost, almost my parents were poisoned by her!" ”

I knew the whole story was going to get to the point, so I pulled myself together and listened.

"It's been so many years, but I still remember it vividly. That time, my mother cooked dinner, and our family was about to eat, when a person suddenly broke into our house and lifted the whole table of my house! My mother was very angry and asked why the man was going to flip my dinner table, and my father was even more angry and picked up the family pole and was about to beat him. Who knew that the man was not flustered at all, and said in a natural tone, 'Poor Dao saved your family's life, you don't thank you, why do you still want to beat people?' The man who came was a Taoist leader, and when he said this, my parents were stunned, and they didn't know what crazy he was talking about.

"The chief pointed to the food on the ground and said, 'If you don't believe me, you can find someone to test the food and see if there is anything else in it!' As soon as the Taoist chief said this, we all remembered the two poisoning incidents that had occurred in the village before, my father touched a handful of vegetables, put them in front of his nose and smelled them, and his face changed suddenly. Although the smell of that demon grass was very light, my dad went to smell it and smelled it immediately. I knew that the food was poisonous, and I knew that what the Taoist chief said was true, and that he was the one who saved our family, so my parents thanked the Taoist chief. Speaking of this, Uncle Lin picked up the teacup and took another sip of tea.

Xiao Hei asked, "How could that Taoist know that the food you are going to eat is poisonous, is he a murderer?" ”

Uncle Lin raised his eyelids, glared at Xiao Hei, and said loudly: "Don't talk nonsense! How could the Taoist be a murderer? ”

Xiao Hei was taken aback by Uncle Lin's excited expression, and said, "I just said it casually, why are you so excited..."

I asked, "Uncle, what happened to you?" ”

"Later...... The rest of the story is simpler. Uncle Lin said leisurely, "That Taoist chief is a master, do you know the master?" It is a person who is very high and very high! After he overturned my dining table, he pointed out in front of us that the girl had been subjected to a ghost, and said that the poison was cast by the girl after being controlled by a ghost. At that time, he waved his hand, put two talismans on the girl's body, and took the ghost away. ”

I thought to myself that I had worked so hard to exorcise the demon and let it run. The Taoist priest from decades ago waved his hand and took it away, and it seems that the other party is indeed a Taoist person.

"Uncle, since that Taoist priest has already accepted that evil ghost... So how can it come out again and harm people now? "Maybe it's because it's about Wu Xiao, so Xiao Hei cares more about the things of the year than I do.

"This has something to do with the origin of that ghost...... Uncle Lin glanced at the night outside the window, and said with emotion, "After the Taoist took that evil ghost, he wanted to destroy it, but he didn't expect the ghost to ask the Taoist for mercy." It told its origins, and instead of destroying it, the Taoist locked it up. ”

I asked curiously, "What is the origin of that ghost?" ”

Uncle Lin said: "According to what the ghost said at that time, its previous life was the descendant of a short-lived small dynasty in ancient times. ”

I was stunned and said, "Isn't this?" ”

Uncle Lin shook his head and said, "I don't know if what it said in the previous life is true or not, but the village on our side was indeed in the scope of the small dynasty that the ghost said a long time ago. And it is said that the dragon vein of that small dynasty is on our side! ”

Xiao Hei suddenly said: "I have heard about this before, and it is because of this that the village on our side is named Longtou Village and Longwei Village. ”

I was speechless.

Dragon vein? What's the point......

After thinking about it and slowly digesting this strange news, I opened my mouth and said: "Even if that ghost had any royal bloodline in his previous life, what does it have to do with it, and that Taoist priest will not dare to destroy it when he hears that it is a descendant of the royal family?" ”

"Of course it's not that simple." Uncle Lin shook his head and said, "It's not that the Dao Leader doesn't dare to destroy that evil ghost. But after listening to what the ghost said, I felt that it was too cheap to destroy it like this. So the Taoist decided to lock it up and let it never be reborn! ”

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