When I heard the sound and turned around, a middle-aged man in a lily robe had already walked in menacingly, first smiled at a few of us, and immediately pointed at Mu Dong and scolded: "Who gave you the courage to deceive the immortal master at home?" ”

Mu Dong said without fear: "I came according to the rules of the village!" What's wrong? ”

"Fart!" The middle-aged man scolded: "The three immortal masters obviously entered the village from the east, but you sent someone to point them out the wrong way, and they entered the village from the west. ”

"I didn't send anyone to ......"

Before Mu Dong finished speaking, he was interrupted by the other party: "You didn't send people, how could they take a detour?" The ghosts and gods are coming, who doesn't want to live? But no one can break the rules! Whoever the immortal master meets is whoever he is, the immortal master has to go with us! ”

"No way!" Mu Dong ran to the edge of the courtyard and picked up an axe for chopping wood, and put on a desperate posture: "I see who dares to take away the immortal master today!" ”

I thought about it carefully, when we came to Anping Village, Tan Yue did ask for the road once, and the person who pointed the way told us that we couldn't pass the road in front of us, and we could enter the village by going around in a circle, so Tan Yue turned around and walked the side road.

What's hidden here?

I thought back to the time I had passed, and Ye Sen had already spoken: "I said what's the matter with you? It's our business to go to whose house, and it's up to you to decide? I think this little brother is pleasing to the eye, and he doesn't go anywhere else. If you get out of here as soon as possible, and if you provoke Lao Tzu, I'll whip you out. ”

The man's face changed: "This immortal master, you are always unwilling to help me, count me as a blessing." It's okay for me to ask other immortal masters for help, right? ”

"No way!" I didn't wait for Ye Sen to speak before he spoke: "If you dare to invite others, I will kill you immediately!" ”

The man's face was suddenly gloomy to the extreme: "You are too domineering, are you deliberately not giving me a way to live?" ”

The man looked cold at me, stomped his foot, turned and left.

I turned to Mu Dong and asked, "Tell me, what's going on?" ”

Only then did Mu Dong put down the axe: "The people who die every year in Anping Village are either in the east of the village or in the west of the village. Da Pai Tou begged an immortal master back then, and that person promised Da Pai Tou that as long as Anping's matter was not resolved, he would always send someone over. ”

"However, no matter who comes, it is impossible to say which side will die. The village simply set up a rule, which way the immortal master enters the village, he will take care of the affairs over there first. This year, our family is the first in the east. ”

I looked at Mu Dong and said, "The person who pointed the way, you really didn't send it?" ”

"It's not!" Mu Dong shook his head: "If it was really the person I sent out, I wouldn't have run to the village early in the morning to meet you." I'm just afraid that when you get to the entrance of the village, you will turn somewhere else. ”

I didn't see the slightest sign of fraud on Mu Dong's face: "What's the matter with us?" ”

Mu Dong smiled embarrassedly: "They said that everyone in the rivers and lakes eats this set, and only after doing enough etiquette in the rivers and lakes can you help." ”

"Nonsense." Tan Yue's face suddenly sank after laughing: "Li Xi, did you find something?" ”

"Someone wants to get a hand in the cross."

I sneered: "The other party knows our situation very well, he has thoroughly understood the personalities of several of us, and knows that after we meet Mu Dong, we will inevitably have a good impression of him, and will definitely choose to stay and help him." In this way, the person who should be protected loses the opportunity, and then the person can hire the other person, and the other party can participate in the name. ”

Ye Sen said: "You forcibly stopped that person just to prevent the other party from participating?" I'm afraid it won't be that simple, right? Xiao Dongzi, who is that person who came just now? ”

"His name is Gao Qun, and he is also a leader." Mu Dong gestured: "You see that there are no houses in the village, they are all built in rows, a total of nine rows." The first household in each row is the head of the row. ”

I carefully recalled that the houses in Anping Village really looked like bamboo rafts docked on the shore: "Are you really the head of the row?" Tell me about the ghosts and gods! ”

Mu Dong pointed outside: "Do you see that river?" That's where the head of the row was lowered in the early years. Wood coming down from the upper reaches sometimes drifts to the west and sometimes to the east of the village. Upstream logging, nine rows of people are contributing, but the wood that drifts down is the first to go to whom's house. Whoever picks up enough ten times first, can't pick it up again, and moves on to the next end. ”

"Decades ago, one night, a black log suddenly floated down the river. According to my grandfather, that kind of wood is called Shen Yin wood, which is a good material for making coffins. At that time, someone dragged Shen Yin Mu home and beat the coffin, but the day after the coffin was made, the man died. In the future, every year when it is fixed, a piece of gloomy wood will drift down from the upstream. Regardless of whether the people in the village pick it up or not, Shen Yin Wood will enter the village by itself. ”

I frowned and asked, "If Shen Yin Wood is not made into a coffin, it will also die?" ”

Mu Dong said: "It is said that even if no one touches the Shen Yin Wood, it will eventually turn into a coffin little by little. No one knows exactly how to change it. ”

I asked, "What about after the dead?" Is Shen Yin Mu still there? ”

"It's gone." Mu Dong shook his head and said, "After a person dies, he will disappear with the Shen Yin Wooden Coffin. No one knows where they went, and they will only reappear the following year. ”

I pondered, "It stands to reason that you leaders should have some mage inheritance, how can you be so afraid of ghosts and gods?" ”

Mu Dong sighed and said, "Originally, there were ten leaders in Anping Village. Ever since the ghosts and gods began to kill people, the leaders of the Nine Great Platoons have died one after another. Every year alone, no one can escape. ”

In the end, the leader of the big row, who had never asked about the world, personally took action and was seriously injured. My grandfather said that at that time, the head of the row had been vomiting blood, and he didn't stop for several days, and then he didn't know how not to vomit blood, so he kept sitting at the entrance of the village, and then later, he finally waited for someone. After the big row leader explained the matter to the man, he went up the mountain alone, saying that he was going to find the piece of wood. He left and never came back. ”

"The friends at the head of the row found a lot of immortal masters, some of them stayed in the village, some went up the mountain, and some went down the river, and they either died or never came back. The people in the village who were targeted by Shen Yinmu did not escape the catastrophe. ”

Mu Dong paused when he said this, and Tan Yue asked, "You mean that even if those warlocks died, Shen Yin Mu didn't stop killing?" ”

"Yes!" Mu Dong nodded and said, "Every year, someone must die in the village, and it has never stopped. ”

Ye Sen was also curious: "Then you didn't think about moving out of the village?" ”

"I've thought about it, but I can't move it." Mu Dong shook his head and said, "Some people have tried, but they can't leave the village for more than two months at most, as long as they exceed this period, they will definitely die." Especially in the days when Shen Yin Mu may appear, no matter where the person is, he must rush back, otherwise he will definitely die. ”

"And this kind of strange thing......" I pondered for a moment before saying, "Since there are people in the Dao to take care of them, the people in the village will also die, why did that Gao Qun pull us over just now?" ”

"Bet your life!" Mu Dong said: "My grandfather said that people who have warlocks watching may not die. This happened once. But only once. ”

I became interested: "Is that family still there?" ”

"It's still there, just at the end of the village. It's useless for you to look for him. Mu Dong shook his head and said: "That person is already frightened crazy, he won't say anything, if he hadn't been taken care of by the village, he would have starved to death." ”

Mu Dong didn't need me to ask, so he pointed out the window: "Look at the houses outside, all the places with my house are empty." The east and west sides are the easiest places to be found by Shen Yinmu, and as soon as the first family dies, the latter family will have to move over automatically. The first family who did not die moved to the end of the village. ”

Mu Dong smiled bitterly: "The person who waits for death in this house dies for the people in the village, so he can be the leader of the queue for a year, and the people in the village eat and drink well until he dies." ”

I stood up and said, "What about the rest of your family?" ”

"I'm left with my own family." Mu Dong pointed to the little girl who was eating in Zhang Luo: "She is my neighbor." ”

The little girl's eyes were red: "Originally, it wasn't Brother Dongzi's turn this year, he changed the house for my family." ”