CHAPTER XLIV
On the way up the mountain, I passed by a lot of small grass graves, grandpa said, these are lonely graves that no one worships, after a long time, the graves are grassy, I asked grandpa, "Aren't the people who are generally buried here all the people in the village?" How can there be no one to worship? Grandpa took us to sit on a few stone piers to rest, then took out a cigarette pouch, lit the tobacco, between swallowing, his eyes always looked into the distance, and after a long time, he began to explain to us, "Young people go to the city to work, and there are some old people left in the village, with good legs and feet, they can still come up to worship during the Qingming Festival, and those with bad legs and feet can only let the grass grow on the grave." ”
After resting, we continued to set off, and after a while, we arrived at the bamboo forest, the bamboo forest is very large, grandpa said that this was planted by the ancestors at that time, because there are many bamboos, many old houses were made of bamboo at that time, and then young people went out to work, earned money, and did not want to come all the way here to cut bamboo, many new houses have been changed into brick and cement houses, slowly, there are only old people left in the village, young people who go out to work have settled down outside, rarely come back, and those who do not settle down are even more reluctant to come back.
There are a lot of new bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest, we followed the grandfather to dig three big baskets, when digging bamboo shoots, we also picked up a lot of wild eggs, at night the whole village gathered together to eat, very lively, after dinner we lit the bonfire, sang mountain songs, we gathered around the bonfire, but also danced, in such a laughing night, yesterday just here when the dissatisfaction was all gone.
In the middle of the night, there was a white mist in the courtyard again, and the same as last night, the two brothers and sisters stood on the bed of their grandparents without saying a word, crying so much that the pear blossoms were raining, and they had the same frightened expression when they left, I yawned a few times, and was about to go back to the house to continue sleeping, when suddenly Yu Wenjue appeared in front of me and stopped me, "Don't chase me?" I ignored him, went back to his room and lay down, and as soon as the quilt was covered, he came and squatted in front of me, staring at me, and didn't speak, and finally I couldn't bear it anymore, and opened my eyes and glared at him, "What do you want to do?" Yu Wenjue shrugged, "No comment." Then he got up and left.
I rolled my eyes at his back, resisted the urge to burst into foul language, got up and changed my clothes, took the rune paper and chased after him, and when I walked into the courtyard, Yu Wenjue stood at the gate of the courtyard and looked at me, holding his hands in front of his chest, raising his eyebrows at me, grinning, and seeing my panic.
"I said that you are a person, can't you say it directly if you have something to say, you have to sell it like this, you can't toss it." I walked up to him with a disgruntled expression.
Yu Wenjue smiled, didn't speak, and walked straight away, and when he saw me following behind, he began to explain slowly, "Tell you directly, I'm afraid that you will sleep with your head covered." I stopped after listening, turned around and walked back, Yu Wenjue hurriedly stopped me, "Hey, hey, I'm just kidding." ”
I clasped my hands to my chest and looked at him quietly, waiting for him to tell the truth, Yu Wenjue picked up the fan and fanned me, "Don't be angry, and listen to me slowly~" I rolled my eyes, raised my feet and prepared to leave, Yu Wenjue continued to stop me, "I said quickly." ”
"Here's the thing, the thing you are curious about is on the mountain, and the person I am looking for is also on the mountain, but without you, I can't find that person, and without me, the things you are curious about will not come to light, so we have to cooperate for a win-win situation."
I glanced at Yu Wenjue, thinking silently in my heart, what he said was indeed right, I really can't fight the one on the mountain alone, but listening to his meaning seems to want me to sacrifice myself as bait to lure the one on the mountain to come out, whether this cooperation can be win-win is not easy to say, wait until he watches the fire from the other side, wouldn't I lose my life, this transaction is more or less a loss.
"I understand what you mean, but I don't want to, you have an old grudge with me, if you wait until the last moment to come out, then I won't die." I pushed Yu Wenjue away and prepared to go back to sleep.
Yu Wenjue didn't catch up this time, just stood behind him and looked at me with his chest hugged, "I thought how powerful the apprentice Zhang Tianshi personally brought out, but it turned out to be nothing more than that, knowing that it was an evil spirit that he couldn't fight, he retreated, which really made the ghosts look down on him." ”
I clenched my fists, turned to glare at him, and walked up to him viciously, "Lead the way." ”
Today's moonlight is extraordinarily bright, you can see the road all the way up the mountain, when you go halfway up the mountain, it gradually gets foggy, Yu Wenjue said that she is afraid of startling the snake, and she wants to stay at the bottom of the mountain and wait, gave me a Jue Ling Bead, and brought me a bracelet, the beautiful name says, Jue Ling Zhu can feel the evil spirit, the bracelet can make him perceive my danger, to be honest, I believe in Jue Ling Zhu, I don't believe in the bracelet, even if it is true, it is difficult to say whether he will wait for me to be beaten and crippled.
The more I went up, the heavier the fog, and gradually the more difficult it was to see the road, the moon in the sky was also swallowed by the fog, and the little moonlight left was gone, I closed my eyes, opened the law to see the road, and slowly groped my way forward, but I accidentally stepped on the air, fell, and hit the stone in the process of rolling, and my body was also scratched by weeds, I stood up with the pain in my body, looked around, it was dark, and I couldn't help but scold Yu Wenjue in my heart, and said that if there was danger, I would come, if it wasn't for my luck, Now you can see Yama.
I touched the backpack on my body, fortunately I didn't lose it, the bag has always been equipped with a flashlight, but just now I saw that the moonlight was bright, I didn't take it out, now it can just come in handy, I turned on the flashlight to illuminate the feet and around, turned around in place, I don't know, I was startled when I saw it, this cave is simply a mass grave, where I stood, my feet and around were full of bones, I covered my mouth with my hand, so that I didn't make a sound, I removed my hand from my mouth, opened the backpack tremblingly, my hand couldn't help shaking, So I didn't get the hidden charm and the removal charm I wanted several times, and finally bit my hand, only to force myself to calm down, I put the hidden charm on my body, took a few removal charms in my hand, and slowly moved forward lightly, and finally came to a cave, the stone door at the entrance of the cave was locked, and there were a few lines of words engraved on it, which was a little unclear.
I puffed up a breath, blew off the dust on it, wiped it with my hands, and saw that it was written: Carry grievances before death, and bring grievances after death. Mo Dao is in front of him, and Mo Dao is behind him. The former dust returns to dust, and the old grudges return to the resentful spirits. Sacrifice it with white bones, and resentment will be extinguished here.
What's going on? White Bone Sacrifice Resentful Spirit? So the bones at the entrance of the cave were deliberately thrown here?