There was a boom, and there was an explosion from the village ahead, and the frightened horses, after kicking in place for a while, rushed into Caijiazhuang in a rampage posture.

Qin Ye was in a hurry and grabbed the edge of the carriage, while Liu Hanshan was thrown to Nan Jinyi's side and was dragged by Nan Jinyi's arm.

"Girl, is this horse crazy?"

The wind swept down the drizzle on Qin Ye's face, and he covered his eyes with his arms, trying to see the direction in which the horse was running. Nan Jinyi adjusted her posture and stabilized her body with the bumps of the carriage, and after confirming that the speed of the horse's gallop had slowed down slightly, she rushed out of the carriage, stepped on Qin Ye's back, and sat on the horse's back with the help of force, and under the effect of a meditation talisman, the horse finally quieted down.

After the carriage stopped, Qin Ye jumped down from the carriage, took the reins, and entered a courtyard.

Under the shelter of the fence, the wind and rain are much less.

"Nan girl, how did you do that?" Qin Ye wiped the rain on his face, and helped Liu Hanshan, who was bumpy and bumpy, out of the carriage: "I can be regarded as riding a horse for a few years, but in that posture just now, let alone descending the horse, it is not easy to keep myself from falling off the carriage." ”

"It has nothing to do with me, it's the meditation charm on the horse's back that works." Nan Jinyi swept the yellow talisman attached to the horse's back: "It's raining heavily, find a place to rest." ”

"There's a house in front, you go with our family first, and I'll tie the horse to the tree over there." Qin Ye pointed to the old locust tree not far away: "This yard is quite big, it doesn't look like an ordinary family." ”

"This is the ancestral hall of the Cai family." Nan Jinyi straightened her hair: "It was the fox who deliberately lured us over." ”

"Fox?" Qin Ye looked at the ancestral hall in front of him: "It's a stinky fox, what are you doing introducing us into the ancestral hall?" ”

"Let's go inside!" Liu Hanshan turned white and pointed to the house in front of him: "No matter what it wants to do, we will follow its thoughts." ”

The ancestral hall was pitch black, and after lighting the candles on both sides, all I saw were tablets, densely packed, and there must be hundreds. But the one on top was not the ancestor of the Cai family, but a fox carved out of wood.

Qin Ye raised his head and looked at it for a while, and said to Nan Jinyi: "The girl is well-informed, have you ever seen the fox enshrined in this ancestral ancestral hall?" ”

"That's not a fox, it's the ancestor of our Cai family." An old man walked out from behind the ancestral hall.

By the light of the candles in the ancestral hall, everyone's eyes fell on his eyes. The old man's eyes were covered with scars like spider webs, his eyelids were glued together, and he couldn't see at all, but he was able to shuttle freely in this ancestral hall, and even dragged a bench over and handed it to Liu Hanshan, who was slightly weak because of the bumps in the carriage.

The old man's name was Cai Guangzhi, the previous village chief of Caijiazhuang, and he said he knew why they came, because the same thing happens every sixty years. As for his eyes, they were pierced blind by himself, for he could not see and his mind was not troubled. As the village head, he had no ability to get Caijiazhuang out of the curse, so he felt guilty, so he could only guard the ancestral hall with a pair of blind eyes.

Qin Ye asked the old man what the curse was all about, and what was the connection with the fox enshrined in the ancestral hall and what happened in the village, and the old man sighed and talked about it.

The ancestor of the Cai family was an Orion, and he married a wife when he was nearly thirty years old, and he had a child in the second year after marriage. But no one expected that she was pregnant in October and gave birth to a dead baby with a small face.

Heartbroken, the man went to the fox temple with the child in his arms, begging the fox fairy to bring his child back from the dead.

Supposedly, this is impossible to happen, but it is strange that the day after the man made a wish to the fox fairy, the child who had already died thoroughly came back from the dead. The child is alive, but strange things happen one after another. First of all, when the man got up every day, he would find many animal footprints in the house and yard, followed by the resurrected child, after he grew teeth, he only ate raw meat and did not eat cooked food.

"This kid is a fox becoming?" Qin Ye raised his head and looked at the woodcarved fox enshrined on it.

The old man shook his head lightly: "Whether it is a fox or not, we don't know, there are very few records about this matter in the genealogy, only that in these hundreds of years, every sixty years in the Cai family, a similar child will be born, and this child, if he does not marry a woman with the mark of a fox within the specified time, will become a half-human and half-fox monster, bringing disaster to the entire village." ”

"This is outrageous!" Qin Ye said: "I believe you that the Cai family gives birth to a child who loves to eat raw meat every sixty years, but this woman with a fox mark can't give birth to one every sixty years, right?" Even if you give birth, it is impossible to meet the man of your Cai family at that time, what if you miss it? You've watched a man turn into a half-human, half-fox monster? ”

"That fox mark was given by your Cai family, right?" Nan Jinyi spoke, "There can't be so many coincidences in this world. ”

"It's not given by us, it's pointed out by the fox fairy." The old man said: "As long as the destined child is born, there will definitely be a fox knocking on the door in the village, and as long as you follow the footprints of the fox, you will definitely find the baby girl with the fox mark on her body." According to the instructions of our ancestors, we will prepare a rich dowry the next day and come to the door to ask for marriage. Hundreds of years ago, nothing went wrong. ”

"Since there has never been a mistake, how do you explain the current Caijiazhuang?" Liu Hanshan asked.

"It was my negligence." The old man said, "On that winter night nineteen years ago, my son was born. As recorded in the genealogy, he was born. Because of dystocia, my wife was in pain for three days and three nights, and finally died because of a blood collapse. The newborn child was pale and dying. I know that this is the fox fairy who chose my son, as long as I carry him to the fox temple to beg, and then wait for the fox to knock on the door when he is one year old, and set a family business for him, he can spend the rest of his life like a normal child. But I don't want to, I'm the patriarch, I want to end the curse of the Cai family for thousands of years, I buried that child in the ditch. ”

"Why do you want to be buried in that kind of place?"

"Because I don't want him to come back to life!" The old man said bitterly: "If he is buried in ordinary soil, I am afraid that he will come back from the dead and crawl out of the soil." ”

"Then he-" Qin Ye looked at the old man's eyes: "Dead?" ”

"Dead, turned into a handful of bones." The old man seemed to laugh instead of laughing, as if crying instead of crying: "When I picked him out of the ditch, he was still so small, with thin bones, about the same as my fingers. I buried him next to his mother, and I thought that all the curses and nightmares were over. ”