Aunt Qiang led Bai Xin and the three of them around several thatched huts. When I met the uncles and aunts who happened to come out, they also greeted him warmly.

Tong Jun hugged Bai Xin, followed Aunt Qiang, and walked to a dilapidated house, Aunt Qiang said: "The house is relatively dilapidated, I will wronged you tonight, don't dislike it." ”

"Aunt Qiang, you are polite, we should feel embarrassed, I hope we won't cause you trouble. Bai Xin hurriedly waved his hand and said politely.

"How come, my family is my own now, and it can be lively with you chatting with me. As she spoke, she opened the fence gate, and several chickens were chasing and running in the yard, and Aunt Qiang led the three of them through the yard and into a house made of planks and weeds. There are three rooms in total, and there is a simple square wooden table in the grass hall, and a sleeping bedroom on the left and right sides.

"My husband has gone to the market a few miles away with his things to change his things, and he has been away from home for the past two days, so you two boys will sleep in this room on the left, and I will sleep with this girl. Aunt Qiang said.

Bai Xin said gratefully, "Thank you, Aunt Qiang." My name is Bai Xin, and this is my brother, called Tong Jun. This is my sister, named Su Su. ”

"Thank you, Aunt Qiang!" Tong Jun said to Aunt Qiang with a smile. Su Su also nodded at Aunt Qiang.

"You're welcome, it's like in your own home. You sit down first, and I'll get something to eat. Aunt Qiang said and went out of the grass hall and went to the kitchen next to her to prepare dinner.

After Tong Jun saw Aunt Qiang coming out of the house, he whispered to Bai Xin: "The people in this village seem to be very enthusiastic on the surface, could it be that they pretended to deceive us?"

"No, the folk customs of this kind of small village are generally very simple, and I think it must be that the white-haired girl who has done something wrong to make people do this to her. Bai Xin said with a frown.

"But I don't think that little girl looks like a bad person. ”

Bai Xin turned to Su Su and said, "You sleep in the same room with Aunt Qiang at night, so it's inconvenient to come out." You can rest well, Tong Jun and I will go out in the middle of the night to investigate. ”

Su Su nodded. Tong Jun looked at Bai Xin and said, "You have just been injured, take a rest at night, I can go by myself." ”

Bai Xin didn't expect Tong Jun to care about himself so much, and there was a warm current in his heart, but what Tong Jun said was not wrong, his chest was still aching faintly, and he said, "It's okay." I think this village should be full of mortals, and there will be no danger. ”

After a while, Aunt Qiang brought a few dishes, but they were all pickles and the like, and the portion was not much. It was already dark, Aunt Qiang lit the lamp, and said embarrassedly: "I'm sorry for the three of you, my food is not very rich, you can only settle for it." ”

"It's okay, it's already very rich, thank you Aunt Qiang. ”

Aunt Qiang also sat down, and the four of them began to eat, but there were so few dishes, and they were all embarrassed, so they only filled a few mouthfuls hastily. Tong Jun asked tentatively, "Aunt Qiang, when we came over, we saw that the crops outside the village were all in a mess, did anything happen?"

Aunt Qiang said while eating: "Hey, this matter is too infuriating. A demon girl came out of the village, and the village was not in shape, and it was almost not collected this year!"

"Demon girl?" Bai Xin thought that it should be the white-haired girl, but he didn't expect that Aunt Qiang would not shy away from talking about this matter with outsiders, so she simply pretended not to know anything, and asked, "What demon girl?"

"It's not the second Lan in the west of the village, his girl is a demon girl!"

"Oh?"

Aunt Qiang saw that they were all interested in this matter, and the women in the village loved to say something behind their backs, so they had to talk about it endlessly at the moment: "This matter has to start from more than ten years ago, when Lan Lao Er went to the market to exchange things and came back, he actually brought back a daughter-in-law, but his daughter-in-law is okay, hard-working, and very beautiful." Don't look at Lan Lao Er is usually a wine Mengzi, he knows how to drink all day long, but this daughter-in-law is really not bad, after following Lan Lao Er, Lan Lao Er's family is well organized, originally Lan Lao Er never talks to the people in the village except for drinking, because this daughter-in-law and his Lan family have gradually moved around with the village. Although the life of Lan's second family is much better than before, Lan's second problem of drinking has not changed, and he also takes pity on his daughter-in-law and beats him all day long. Aunt Qiang looked unbearable, took a sip of water and continued: "Later, Lan Lao's daughter-in-law became pregnant, but I don't know which way she provoked the fairy, and the girl who gave birth didn't have a trace of blood, and her whole body was miserable! Everyone thought it was strange, but they didn't think much of it. Later, the baby grew up, and her hair turned out to be white!

"Just because she has white hair, so she's a witch?"

"Of course not. The expression on Aunt Qiang's face suddenly became a little hideous, completely different from the kind aunt before, and then said: "Lan Lao Er always beats his daughter-in-law and daughter, and the villagers think that their mother and daughter are strange and pitiful, so they are not bad to their mother and daughter, who knows that they not only do not repay the favor, but also come to harm us! In the past two years, children have been missing in the village, and the fields planted are always inexplicably messed up, especially when the autumn harvest is approaching, and the grains are often not harvested after a year of hard work!" At first, the village road provoked the mountain god, so it was sacrificed every month, but the situation did not improve, the child still disappeared, and the food was still destroyed. It wasn't until three days ago that a Taoist priest passed by the village and told the truth!" Aunt Qiang said angrily: "It turns out that Lan's second daughter is actually a demon girl!"

"Oh?"

"The Taoist priest said that Lan's second daughter's daughter is bloodless, not a creature of this world, but a daytime evil star, born into this world through the belly of Lan's second daughter-in-law, stealing children's spirits, destroying crops, over time, she has absorbed enough spirit, she will completely become a daytime evil star, killing the whole village. ”

"You believe it?"

"Why don't you believe it?"

"Then why did the demon girl start stealing children and destroying crops in the last two years after so many years of her birth?"

"The village chief also asked this question, and the Taoist priest said that because she was about to become an adult, the power of the Heavenly Evil Star in her body was gradually awakening, and she needed more and more children's power!

"Aunt Qiang, with all due respect, it is not difficult to know a person's age, but that doesn't mean anything. Bai Xin looked at Aunt Qiang and said.

"Of course, it's not just because of age! Yesterday morning, that Taoist priest took the villagers to the courtyard of Lan Lao'er's house, and unexpectedly turned out the skeletons of two children in the courtyard of his house!

When Bai Xin heard this, he believed a little about this demon girl, but he still felt strange and asked, "Do you know whose child it is?"

"The bones have been buried for a long time, and they have long been rotten and unrecognizable! Several families who lost their children gathered around the door of Lan Lao'er and scolded, but the children could not come back. The enchantress pretended to be pitiful and cried in the house! The people in the village were eager to beat her to death with a stick and pull out her skin. ”

"Is she still alive now?"

Although the people in the village hated it so much that their teeth hurt, they couldn't bear it for a moment. When she rushed into her house, she was stopped by the Taoist priest, who said that this cheap girl had offended the mountain god, so the mountain god would not forgive our village for killing her like this, and she would still not accept it in the future. ”

"What then?"

"Sacrifice her as a living sacrifice to the mountain god to appease the wrath of the mountain god!"

"What?" Bai Xin exclaimed incredulously, generally the person who is used as a sacrifice might as well die directly, and the soul of the person who is used as a sacrifice will always be bound after death, unable to go to another world, and destined to become a lonely ghost.

"What's surprising about this, this cheap girl has done a lot of evil, even if she is used as a living sacrifice to save the whole village, it can't make up for her previous mistakes. ”

"How to sacrifice?"

The Taoist priest said that at noon on the 15th day of the seventh month, he killed four pigs, slaughtered four sheep, and slaughtered four cattle on the mountain behind the village, and took the heads of pigs, sheep and cows, stuffed their mouths with glutinous rice, wrapped their heads with white grass, and then placed this girl in the middle of the twelve heads, and put her and the twelve heads into a large wooden barrel, and buried them at the foot of the back mountain, so as to calm the anger of the mountain god. When the time comes, that Taoist priest will also help my village practice, what a good person. ”

"Buried alive?" Su Su said a little unbearably.

"That's right. Aunt Qiang was a little unhappy when she heard that Su Su was a little sympathetic to the girl, and said, "You know how hateful she is when you see that demon girl, and the people in our village can't wait to dig a piece of meat on her body with a knife and cook it and eat it!"

Bai Xin was furious when he heard this, and he calculated and said, "July 15, isn't tomorrow July 15?"

"Yes, the whole village is looking forward to this day. ”

"Then what does this demon girl's father say?" Bai Xin asked.

"Lan Lao Er's attitude of admitting his mistakes is quite sincere, and he is from our village, although he is an alcoholic, he has not harmed anyone else in the village except for his bad temper. He didn't know that his daughter was a Daytime Demon Girl, and after he knew it, he wanted to kill his daughter more than anyone else, so the people in the village didn't bother him much. It's the mother of this demon girl, who has been crying all day long since she knew that her daughter was a demon girl, and she still doesn't admit it! After digging out the child's bones from the courtyard of Lan Lao'er's house last night, she still didn't even admit that her daughter was a demon girl! She hanged herself in her own house this morning, which is really unlucky, and I want to say that she must have committed suicide in fear of sin, and this woman of unknown origin must be in the same group as her daughter. ”

Bai Xin looked surprised. Aunt Qiang continued: "Originally, the demon girl was taken care of by Lan Lao Er, but this morning, she took advantage of her mother's suicide and Lan Lao Er was distracted, and she actually ran away! Fortunately, Lan Lao Er found out in time and was arrested! This demon girl didn't even care about her mother's death, and she still wanted to dare to run away! ”

Tong Jun and the others listened to Aunt Qiang's fierce words, talked about other topics, chatted for a while, and then went back to the house to sleep.