Chapter XVII: The Sacrifice
Before dawn, several carriages were parked in front of the gate of the Bu family, and Wang Si, who was guarding in front of the carriage, yawned and asked the family next to him
"Why did Steward Tian wake us up so early today?"
"Yesterday, Steward Tian said that there was a job for us to do, and there would be a reward after we finished it."
As soon as he heard that there was a reward, Wang Si immediately stopped sleepy, and hurriedly asked
"What's the job?"
"I don't know, but Steward Tian said don't ask what you shouldn't ask when you're working, and forget what you shouldn't see, it sounds a bit infiltrating."
"Forget it, anyway, there is a reward to take, why do you care so much about him? Do you want to play a few games when you get the money? "Wang Si is a good gambler, but he has always been very unlucky, especially in the past few days, he has lost all his wages for a month, so he has been angry with refugees and beggars passing by Bufu recently.
At this time, Buhu walked over, Wang Si and the other hurriedly stopped talking, lowered their heads and respectfully shouted Tiger Master, Wang Si was more afraid of Buhu than starting Shi Ren, because he had seen Buhu practicing martial arts in the courtyard, and he broke a tree with one punch.
Buhu didn't look at the two, but said lightly
"Get in the car." Buhu got into the first carriage, and the family members present also got into the back cars, and after Wang Si entered the carriage, he found that there were two large wooden boxes and several sacks in the carriage, and he didn't know what was inside.
The carriage began to leave, and Wang Si and several other family members were crowded in the carriage, and his feet did not dare to touch the sacks, for he was afraid that there was something important in them, and he could not afford to break them, but he always smelled a strange smell in the carriage.
I don't know how long it took, the carriage finally stopped, and a family member outside opened the curtain and said to Wang Si and the others
"Master Tiger asked you to move the things off the car, and if you can't finish moving them at once, move what you can move down first."
Hearing this, several people in the carriage got busy, Wang San put a sack on his shoulder, although it was very heavy, but he could still carry it alone, after he got off the carriage, he was surprised to find that the old man of the Bu family, Bu Shiren, and his sons were also here, and it seemed that they arrived earlier than them, but what surprised him even more was that they were now under the fierce mountain.
The mountain next to Weishan County does not have a specific name, the people in the county call it the fierce mountain or the ghost mountain, Wang Si heard a lot of stories related to this mountain when he was a child, and there were also several times to see outsiders who entered the mountain, and when they came out of the mountain, they either became crazy, or were seriously injured, and some stayed in the mountain and could not come back.
"You guys carry your things up the mountain with me, and the rest will come down and move them later." After Buhu and Jiading finished speaking, they turned around and went up the mountain with the rest of the Bu family.
"The master and the tiger master are both in front, there are so many people here, it should be fine." Wang Si comforted himself in his heart and followed behind the Bu family with a sack on his back.
After entering the mountain, it was fine at first, but when he walked to the back, the mountain road became steeper and steeper, Wang Si felt a little tired, and the most terrible thing was that from time to time there would be the roar of wild beasts and some strange sounds from somewhere in the mountain, I don't know if it was an illusion, Wang Si seemed to have heard the voice of a child.
Wang Si walked for an unknown amount of time with a heavy sack on his back in this tired and frightened condition, but when he came to a wide clearing after passing through a small forest again, Buhu asked them to put their things in front.
"Whew." Wang Si put down the sack, he felt that the bones in his body were about to fall apart, he looked around, and found that this piece was nothing but a tombstone and a few large stones.
Wang Si looked at the tombstone, there were four words written on it, he still recognized a little word in the past few years in Bufu, he took a closer look and found that those four words were Liu Qiao's tomb.
"Liu Qiao, isn't it the woodcutter who went into the mountains and met a ghost and then committed suicide? How could his tomb be here? "Wang Si has naturally heard the story of Liu Qiao's encounter with a ghost, but in the story he heard, Liu Qiao committed suicide at home, how could his tomb be in this mountain?
Just when Wang Si was thinking about this, Buhu's urging voice came again
"Don't be stunned, let me go down and continue to move." The family members haven't rested for a while, and they have to go down again, even if Buhu's body comes a few more times, it's no problem, not to mention that he didn't take anything at all, it was all moved by the family, he just led the way in front, so Buhu could afford it, but the family members were miserable, but they didn't dare to complain, so they had to follow Buhu down the mountain.
Returning to the carriage again, Buhu called the coachmen and asked them to help the family carry the rest of the things up the mountain, because there were not as many things left as before, and there were more people to help, so this time the speed was much faster, and they returned to the tombstone after a while.
When waiting for the family to move things, Bu Shiren was looking at this place, he knew that there was nothing under Liu Qiao's tombstone, it was an empty tomb, and he also knew that there was another mystery in this place, after his grandfather died of illness, Bu Shiren's father had brought him and Buhu to this place many times, and told them how the ancestors of the Bu family obtained wealth and attracted disasters, and also told them how their grandfather solved the disaster, but after so many years of peace, he almost forgot this place.
"This time, our step family will definitely be able to get through it." A hint of ruthlessness flashed in Bu Shiren's eyes.
"Shi Ren, everything has been moved." At this time, Buhu also returned here, and the housekeeper behind him put down his things, and twenty-seven sacks were piled up into a small mountain.
"Well, big brother, you can take them to the grove over there to rest." Bu Shiren nodded, and when Buhu and Jiading approached the grove, he and his sons stepped forward to open the wooden boxes and sacks, only to see that the wooden boxes were full of gold, silver and jewelry, and the sacks were the corpses of those Jiading and maids newly recruited by Bufu.
Bu Shiren pushed the boxes of treasure to the tombstone, and then took out a book from his bosom, which his grandfather had left behind, and it recorded a sacrifice to the ghosts and gods.
Bu Shiren instructed his sons to place the corpses as stated in the book, and because there were many corpses, when the corpses were placed as stated in the book, several people were sweating profusely, and they were so tired that they sat on the ground, and they were not afraid of the many corpses in front of them.
"Don't sit on the ground, get on your knees, keep your head down, and don't look up whatever happens." Seeing that the corpse was arranged, Bu Shiren came over and said these words to his sons, then knelt down and kowtowed to Liu Qiao's tombstone.
Bu Huan and the other brothers also knelt down in the same way as Bu Shiren, his eyes looked at the ground, and he only heard his father's voice in front of him
"Ladies and gentlemen, these sacrifices and treasures are for you, please let go of the Bu family, in the future, our Bu family will offer sacrifices here every year.......
Not long after Bu Shiren finished saying these words, a gust of wind blew.
"Alright, it's time to get up." Bu Huan stood up after hearing Bu Shiren's voice, and he was surprised to find that the corpses and boxes of jewels that were originally all over the ground were gone.
"Dad, what about those things?"
"Those things have been taken away by Shangxian, which means that our Bu family is fine, and we can go back." Bu Shiren patted Bu Huan's shoulder and led them towards the grove.
In the grove, Bu Hu and the family members were all sitting and resting, and when they saw Bu Shiren coming over, they hurriedly got up and asked
"Shi Ren, how's it going?"
"Big brother, it's okay anymore, I'll leave the rest to you."
Buhu nodded when he heard this, and then rushed to the two housekeepers who were resting next to him, and before they could react, they were punched heavily in the chest, and the two housekeepers fell to the ground, spitting blood from their mouths, and died like this.
"Master Tiger, why are you doing this?"
Wang Si wanted to get up and run away when he saw this scene, but now his feet were soft.
Buhu didn't answer him, but pulled out the big knife on his body and slashed at the rest of the family, the others were similar to Wang Si, because they had consumed too much physical strength just now, now they didn't even have the strength to escape, and some people were hacked to death by Buhu before they could run a few steps.
Wang Si and the rest of the people saw that they couldn't run, so they had no choice but to resist, but how could they be Buhu opponents with weapons in hand and martial arts, more than a dozen family members and coachmen were all killed by Buhu after a while.