Chapter 18: Ancient Trees
Yuan Xing came to the old house with a familiar road, this is a brick structure of the house, my grandfather also renovated before his death, there are not many rooms but the yard is very large, Yuan Xing probably checked it, the tap water can still be used, there are a few windows that need to be repaired, the circuit needs to be checked and replaced, and other facilities are normal, as long as the weeds in the front and back yards are cleaned up, people can live.
Yuan Xing patted the dust on his hands with satisfaction, took out his mobile phone, and clicked on Lao He's micro.
The other party just sent a message: "Xiao Qin, I have asked clearly, there are five people who have the same symptoms as me since last year, two of them began to be malnourished last year, and three people started after Qingming this year, but they recovered after a period of time after losing weight." It's just me who keeps going. ”
"People who live in Silver Mountain don't have this kind of situation, right?" The fate of the line sent a message.
"Yes, including me, they all live in the city, there are men and women, but they are not very old, and they only go back to the town during the New Year's holidays." The reply over there was quick.
"What did you do out of the ordinary last year?" Yuan Xing got tired of typing and sent a voice directly.
This time, it was a long time later, and Lao He replied: "I really can't remember this." ”
All right! Yuan Xing sighed when he saw this. In the past two days, he has also checked a lot of information on the Internet, and he feels that if Lao He is not caused by a disease, he has been sucked away a lot of yang energy. I was still a little uncertain before, but after reading this information, I was sure that this must be the hand of the evil spirit, not to attack the locals, and only a few people were affected at a time, indicating that the other party was very cautious and had a high IQ. As for Lao He being targeted alone, hehe, this guy must have committed other people's taboos.
Quickly swept to the hillside behind the old mansion and opened his eyes. This location can only see a corner of Silver Mountain Town, and after observing for a long time, no black gas was found.
It seems that he is going to take a good look at this silver mountain town, thinking of this, he called home, saying that he would stay in the town at night, and then took back his mobile phone and went down the mountain, and wandered around the street with his eyes open, because of his slow walking, it took him nearly an hour to see the town, and still found nothing.
"Is it in the mountains?" He looked to the west, hesitating whether to go up the mountain now. The ancestral grave of Lao He's family is on Maotou Mountain on the west side of the town, and he can't see it clearly here because of the trees. After thinking about it, I decided to go up the mountain at dawn tomorrow, and turned around and went to the only small hotel in town.
After all, he is only a small budding new at the moment, and he has not officially contacted the evil spirits, and the Tianchan Temple has never exorcised evil spirits, and the master in the temple has not taught these in detail, and he is really not familiar with this aspect of business, and he is not sure about going up the mountain at night.
Yinshan Town is close to the urban area, but it is relatively remote, neither by the sea nor by the national highway passing through here, so most of the young people here live in the urban area, and only some old people and children are left in the local area.
It was early summer, the afternoon sun was poisoning, and there was a group of old people playing chess and cards in the shade of the big tree near the traffic management.
Such a big bald head in monk's robes was very conspicuous, and the old people soon discovered him.
"Yo, how can we have a monk here, he looks quite handsome."
"Come on, little master is sitting here, are you here to do things or to turn your fate?"
"Well, I've seen all the donors." Yuan Xing clasped his palms together and said politely: "The poor monk may live here permanently, and I hope that the elders will take care of it in the future." ”
"You're going to build a temple here?" Someone asked.
"No, the poor monk's common surname is Qin, and his home is at the foot of Dongshan."
"Are you Lao Qin's grandson?" Hearing this, an old man was surprised and stared at him for a long time: "It's really you, your name is Qin Kong, right?" He also came to my house to play when he was a child. Seeing him nodding, he was stunned: "I heard Lao Qin say that you were not admitted to graduate school, how did you become a monk in a good manner?" ”
"It's just fate." Yuan Xing is still smiling, well, you can't stop it, you can't stop it, you can't do it.
"It's really him, I didn't expect to grow so big."
There was a lot of talk in the crowd.
"I hugged it when I was a child, this is the only seedling of the old Qin family, right? It's a pity. ”
"Isn't the old Qin family the last one?"
"Don't talk nonsense, now that being a monk has become a profession, and you get paid as if you were working, and I heard that you can not only drink wine and eat meat, but also get married...... Am I right? Xiao Qin? ”
Yuanxing: "......"
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Early the next morning, Yuan Xing went up the mountain with a travel backpack on his back. Yesterday, I got a lot of information from chatting with a group of old people. For example, Yinshan Town used to be called Hejia Village, which is located on Maotou Mountain, a hundred years ago because of a mudslide, the village was gone, and the surviving people settled at the foot of the mountain and finally developed into a town.
For another example, the ruins of Hejia Village can still be found, although it is covered by mountain rocks, but the thousand-year-old locust tree at the entrance of the village is still growing, such a big tree is so easy to find, the people in the town feel that the big tree has a supernatural spirit, there are several versions of the supernatural story around this tree alone, and people are eager to take a detour on the mountain at ordinary times.
And he also talked to Lao He on the phone this morning, confirming that the ancestral tomb of the He family is indeed not far from the tree.
The thousand-year-old tree is still a locust tree, and if you want to become a monster, it is really enough for yourself to drink a pot, but this mountain must be last time, not to mention that Lao He is now tortured to the point that he is not human, but he will live in the town in the future, there is such a strange place nearby, and he can't sleep steadily.
So in addition to bread and drinking water, he also deliberately brought an ash rod that could be spliced to defend himself. After walking up the mountain for nearly half an hour, I finally found the big locust tree that required several people to hug.
The ancient tree in front of me is like a huge umbrella that is stretched out, and the round branches are covered with black and green leaves. The breeze swayed and swayed, and the sunlight was blocked, revealing only dense spots of light from between the leaves.
And under the eyes, there is a strong green, and its vitality is so strong that it almost reaches the sky.
This is about to become a refinement, right? Yuan Xing guessed in his heart, carefully circled the tree, and finally found a trace of abnormality, at the root of the northeast of the tree, a trace of black breath steamed up, and soon merged into a piece of green, very inconspicuous.
This is it, he walked a few steps forward, carefully picked up the dead branches and weeds attached to it with a stick, revealing the broken stone statue underneath, and when he saw the statue clearly, Yuan Xing couldn't help but be surprised, because this statue made into a shrine was not enshrined in the common gods of rural villages such as the land lord and the god of wealth, but a fox lying on his side, with a long tail and a lively demeanor.
"Fox, fox fairy?" A dryad, plus a fox spirit, which one did Lao He offend? Yuan Xing couldn't help but gasp and had a toothache......