"It is said that in order to save people, I lost the Soul Suppression Pagoda that day, which is a big sin, and if I don't get it right, I will lose my head. It took Sanniang a lot of effort to pull Xiaoya back from the death line. I was in a state of confusion, unable to figure out what had gone wrong, and worried about the missing person, and had not even thought about what kind of punishment I would be punished in the future. ”

"Because I lost the Soul Suppression Pagoda, in order to investigate the situation clearly, I was escorted by the soldiers to go up to Dagu Mountain again, and everyone had a tense face along the way, not daring to say more. When we first arrived at the foot of the mountain, we saw that there was a thick fog on the surface of the lake, and we knew that something bad was wrong, just like what happened to you when you went up the mountain, and the result was death and wounding. I knew that the loss of this trip was too heavy, even if I took my life, it would not be too much, so I did not defend myself, only said that everything was my own responsibility, and asked the village to do official business. ”

"I forgot to ask, but why did this fog come from?"

"I also found out after the fact." Yun Dingxiang continued, "Sanniang has seen the world, as soon as she heard that there was something different on the mountain, she immediately understood that this matter was inseparable from the case of the loss of the Soul Suppression Pagoda. She asked the patriarch for mercy, saying that this matter was very important at the moment, and that I could not be dealt with lightly, and that it would be of great use to spare my life. Everyone naturally understands that she is excusing me. ”

"'Mirage'? Isn't it just a toad? Qiangba said.

"Then how did you just make that 'mirage' obedient?" Ren Yonghai asked.

Ren Yonghai's question is exactly what I want to ask.

"Although our Heiyunzhai is a Han people, but the text and language of the transmission are very different from the outside world, I believe you have also seen that the words we use are all variant Chinese, our language is mixed with the dialects of ethnic minorities, and it has become more jerky and difficult to understand, this 'mirage' is raised in the village after all, familiar with our dialect, as long as you shout loudly, it can still stop."

"But when you fell to your knees, I thought you were praying mystically?"

Yun Dingxiang shook his head and said: "Sincerity is spiritual, to tell the truth, if this beast is disobedient, I have no choice but to kneel and pray, fortunately, it can be effective every time, and it is also blessed by the ancestors!" ”

I said in my heart that he was just crooked, not because he had mastered any special methods, but since this "mirage" was raised by Heiyun Village, and Yun Dingxiang was also his own person, and his own face had to be given a little bit, so we still have to remember it for him in the credit book.

"Old man, what about after Sanniang exonerated you?"

"Don't mention it, although Sanniang exonerates me, but this crime is too big, how can I give up, old man, I have fallen to this point today, one is to convict Yun Ding'e, and no one will take care of it in the village from now on, the second is to lose the soul control pagoda, and become an unscrupulous descendant in the village, shameless to see the ancestors and ancestors, and the third is to treat the patriarch, but he was poisoned and blinded."

"So, you're blind at this time?"

"No, no." Yun Dingxiang said to himself, "It is difficult to convince the public just by relying on Sanniang to exonerate, so Sanniang made up a reason, saying that after the loss of the Soul Suppression Pagoda, the demon beasts on Dagu Mountain will have no magic weapons to suppress them, and she asked me to catch demons on the mountain and make the merit for the crime." ”

"It sounds like you're favoring you, but I'm afraid the villagers will be able to accept this proposal."

Yun Dingxiang nodded and said: "Accept it, naturally, because the monster in the mountain is crazy, and the six relatives don't recognize it, and they don't want to be the next unlucky person, so let me do this fateful thing." ”

"But what does this have to do with the current madman village?"

Yun Dingxiang explained: "Why this mad village has become the way it is now has a direct relationship with Yun Ding'e. ”

"Yun Ding'e? What did he do? ”

"Yun Ding'e since I had an accident, it can be said that the scenery is unique, first, he sacrificed his life and forgot death, heroes save the United States, people in the village regard him as a big hero, but I still have doubts about what happened back then. Second, this white-eyed wolf was so happy, greedy for money and lustful, and got the inheritance of the patriarch, so he tried his best to cover up the truth at that time, and he suppressed me again and again, and he had to force me to the point of exhaustion before he would give up. ”

"Oh? What did he do? "I became more and more curious that the bloody drama of this brother against the wall (note 1) aroused our curiosity.

"Assigned by Sanniang, I entered the forbidden land alone, and at that time I didn't know whether Sanniang's words were true or false, because she knew my relationship with Xiaoya, so she would protect me. After entering, I searched for a day and a night, and found nothing, and just as I was letting my guard down, a thin thread suddenly hung down from the treetops, and I looked up and saw a strange white bird hanging from a branch, and a slender spider's foot growing from its belly. ”

"I'll it, isn't this strange bird the strange bird we saw on the Immortal Peak!" When Ren Yonghai heard this, his hair immediately stood on end.

"Thanks to my quick eye, I shot before it could pounce." Yun Dingxiang was nervous, but he said it quite lightly, so as to show how heroic he was back then.

"Exaggeration, old man, we've seen that thing, and we almost died in its hands."

"That's your own ability." Yun Dingxiang looked smug and continued, "I brought that strange bird back to the village, and the people in the village have never seen this strange bird with white feathers, so they have gathered around to watch. The patriarch listened to Yun Ding'e's words, and treated me very unkindly, saying that this was something that had been demonized, and suggested that he should be released. I was the first to disagree, this thing is a scourge, and now let the tiger return to the mountain to leave trouble, and it will be us who will be unlucky in the future. ”

As soon as the patriarch heard this, he picked up his cane and smashed it on my back, accusing me of losing the Soul Suppression Pagoda and annoying the mountain gods to send these monsters to find bad luck, and even the whole village called me to be dragged down. He said and smashed me several times, and in the end, it was Sanniang who interceded, and reluctantly stopped the patriarch's pursuit. ”

"Your younger brother is really vicious, as for falling into the well?"

"He is also worried that the matter will be exposed, and in the end, the bamboo basket will be empty." Yun Dingxiang lamented, "Actually, I don't blame him, who didn't have a young age, it's not impossible to turn back if he did something wrong, it's not a big deal to sacrifice me and fulfill him." ”

Later, Sanniang said that the vision that happened in the mountains was indeed related to the loss of the pagoda, and Xiaoya, the witch, was still in a coma, so she had to go to the sect to open an altar to comfort the ancestors, and give me a few days, so that I could find people and things back. If she can't find it back then, she, the witch, will be the first to remove her head to calm the wrath. ”

"The respected Sanniang swore a poisonous oath, and none of the people present dared to say a 'no'. I knew that Sanniang had done her best, so I immediately knelt in front of everyone and swore by heaven and earth that if I couldn't find the pagoda within three days, I would commit suicide to apologize. Heiyunzhai has always been a peaceful place, and the blind date neighbors are like a family, and there has never been such a bloody lawsuit. In the blink of an eye, the death of the wounded, and the venerable Wu made a poisonous oath on the spot, everyone sighed with bated breath and didn't know what to do. ”

At this time, Yun Ding'e pointed to the strange bird on the ground and said, this monster is very evil, what to leave it to do, and threatened to chop it up and feed it to the dog. As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere suddenly became lively. Everyone in Heiyun Village is a soldier, it is a large Han family who fled to escape, and has developed a belligerent custom for thousands of years, everyone immediately became excited when they heard this, and soon the old men and old ladies in the village, women and children were mobilized, beating gongs and drums to drag the strange bird with only half a life left on the stage in the square. ”

The villagers hung the strange bird on the stage, and then took out the fierce dog raised by the family, and divided the work of three times by five by two. I watched from the sidelines, and a chill ran in my heart, which was not clean enough to be eaten by the dog, and in case of an accident, the guilt was not all pushed on my head. But I just want to come to something. ”

"What? Is there really such a thing, the dogs that ate the strange birds are all dead?! "I was horrified, if it was true, but fortunately I didn't get the blood of that strange bird or anything else at the time, otherwise I don't know how I died.

"Hey, it's all fate!" Yun Dingxiang sighed and said, "Those dogs who ate strange birds should all die violently without exception. To tell you the truth, I only figured out the reason for this a few months ago. ”

"Oh? What causes it? ”

"As you said, this strange bird appeared on the fairy peak again not long ago, this is no accident, that day I met on the way, the familiar taste, I immediately remembered the things of the year, so I searched hard, and finally I found their nest, so, according to their nocturnal habits, I captured it during the day, and brought it back to reveal it only to find out that this strange bird was a parasitic monster."

"Parasitism?"

"Yes, the strange bird itself is not poisonous, there is nothing special, there is a ghost in the spider feet under its belly, I opened its belly, found that the strange bird has a huge spider parasitic in the belly, the strange bird feeds on insect eggs when it is young, the eggs hatch in the abdomen, and break out of the abdomen after hatching, but the spiders do not kill the strange birds, but depend on each other, the strange birds fly freely, can hunt large prey, spiders contain highly poisonous, and can form webs, the two are combined, and become a terrible hunting machine. Spiders survive by predatory birds that use their webs and poison to catch larger prey. ”

"His grandmother's, it's like this!" I couldn't help but curse in my heart.

"What happened then?"

"As soon as this incident came out, the villagers vented all their anger on me, and the patriarch naturally showed no mercy, so I was locked up in a cage in the village and waited for the clan rules to be dealt with. After that, I didn't know the inside story, and when I was released, Xiaoya had recovered, but the first news I heard was that she was going to marry Yun Ding'e, at that time, my whole person collapsed, I asked her why, she didn't tell me in tears, she didn't say, I can guess, this must be her to save me from making a deal with Yun Ding'e, using herself to save me. ”

"You're still not on point." Ren Yonghai urged, "What happened to the madman village later? ”

"Since then, I have become an idle person, no one cares about my life or death, and naturally no one cares about my existence, so I often escape from the village, even if I am old and live in the madman village, I still go out often, Yun Ding'e has no choice but to turn a blind eye to me. Time has come to the present, when I learned that strange things happened in the water village one after another, out of instinct, I immediately found Yun Ding'e, I told him that I suspected that the tomb robbers had stolen the ancient tombs in the village, causing someone to be infected with the poison of zombies, and told him a series of strange things and monsters, but he didn't believe it at all, I had to say that I lost the soul tower back then, and the ancestors no longer blessed it, triggering the curse, not only did not investigate the truth, but ......"

"On the contrary to what?"

"Damn Yun Ding'e demolished the chain bridge, turned the madman village into a real island, cut off the food and water in the village, and he did it to kill people."

"This ......"

"He insisted that it was the sick old man in the village who escaped, which caused such a thing." Yun Dingxiang was angry when he said this, gritted his teeth and said, "But no matter how confused this Yun Dingxiang is, it is impossible that he doesn't have any brains, I think he must know something." ”

"Where did you start with that?"

"Just from the moment he secretly instructed Tenzin to smuggle these three boxes of things here, I dare to conclude that he must be planning something!"

Exegesis:

1. Brothers on the wall: from the Book of Songs, it is a metaphor for internal strife, especially the upside down of people close to them due to discord.