Zhou Qiao and Yang Qian decided to stay in the Tujia family for one night, Yang Qian was very curious about this kind of place, with traditional cultural buildings, simple and atmospheric houses, unique national costumes, and a mysterious color everywhere, people couldn't help but stop and watch.

Zhou Qiao took Yang Qian to walk around the village, which is different from the city in that it is far away from the hustle and bustle, quiet and leisurely, not as prosperous and lively as in the city, but also closer to nature, quiet and peaceful, full of the charm of life.

The two left the next day, and since they already knew that there was a book on witchcraft in Xiangxi,

Zhou Qiao planned to explore first, he marked ten places where his whereabouts might be, and searched them one by one with Yang Gan, and it took many days for the two of them to complete the three places, and they did not find any clues.

On this day, the two went to the fourth place, Heirong Miao Village, and when they were about to arrive, it was already evening, and in the distance, a sound of blowing and blowing came, among which there were flutes and drums, which seemed to be a wedding procession, Zhou Qiao thought: Could it be that Heirong Miao Village is holding any happy event?

Soon, the team appeared in the field of vision, and Zhou Qiao took a closer look,

A woman was carried on a sedan chair by four people, and the woman was a very beautiful girl with an apricot face, peach cheeks, eyes as bright as stars, a red dress, and golden flowers embroidered on her chest;

It's just that it's the first time I've seen Zhou Qiao in the evening, and I can't help but feel a little weird.

Soon the wedding team came to Zhou Qiao and the two, Yang Gan was supposed to go up to congratulate a few words of congratulations, but he didn't expect that just as he was about to approach, he was scolded by an old man in Miao language and walked away.

Zhou Qiao's face changed greatly after pulling Yang Qian away and asking the reason in Miao language, he actually met the "Falling Flower Cave Girl" getting married, and he didn't know how to react for a while, Yang Qian asked Zhou Qiao what the old man said, and Zhou Qiao explained to him;

In fact, there has always been a legend of the Falling Flower Cave Girl in Xiangxi, which is that there are some unmarried girls in the village, who have not found someone who can be entrusted for life at the marriageable age, and have symptoms similar to sleepwalking.

According to the local saying, this is the will of the cave god (the person who should be robbed), no one dares to touch the forbidden body of the cave god again, and the villagers and her family choose a good day and send her into the cave to marry the cave god.

In fact, most of the girls who were selected as the girls of the Falling Flower Cave were unlucky, and they were not voluntary, and the reason why their faces were so bright was that they were actually fascinated, and if you look closely, you will find that their eyes are dull, and the whole person is confused, and they are completely puppets.

Now that we have met, Zhou Qiao is not easy to manage, and it is not easy to care,

In fact, the easiest way to do this is to sign up for an identity

As long as you know the identity of his corpse chaser, this marriage is considered to be more than half yellow, because these people dare not give the girl who is contaminated with bad luck to the cave god

, but he was miserable as a troublemaker,

Those villagers and their families who believe in the Falling Flower Cave Girl will spare him, and this situation saves people for a while, but cannot save a lifetime, and if you save her, you have to protect her, and you have to be responsible for people, otherwise it is purely nosy;

When Zhou Qiao was in a dilemma, seeing that the sedan chair was about to go away, Zhou Qiao chopped his feet, picked up the soul eater bell and shook it twice

"Bell—"

"Bell—"

The sound of the copper bell was muffled by the drums, but it clearly reached the ears of the girl on the sedan chair, Zhou Qiao thought to herself that she only needed to wake up the girl on the sedan chair, if she didn't want him to help her get out, if she was still willing after she sobered up, he didn't have to be nosy.

Sure enough, as Zhou Qiao expected, the girl who heard the copper bell suddenly woke up and saw that she was on a sedan chair with a red dress, so she struggled to get off the sedan chair and escape

"Da Pei (girl), you can't move!"

The four strong men next to the sedan chair immediately rushed up and dragged the sedan chair desperately.

The girl tried her best to get rid of it, but to no avail, she was anxious and angry, tears welled up, and she looked at Zhou Qiao outside the sedan chair pleadingly:

"Help me...... Please help me! ”

"Let her go!" Zhou Qiao and Yang Qian hurriedly stopped the four of them:

"Di Yu (big brother), since she doesn't want to, you better let her go, right?"

"We are also forced to do so," a Miao village man replied with a wry smile: "This girl from the Liu family has been appointed as the bride of the cave god, and we don't want to harm her, but we must obey the will of the cave god, otherwise all of us in the village will be unlucky." ”

Another strong man also said: "We can't help it, who dares to disobey the order of the cave god?" ”

As the four strong men spoke, they began to drag the sedan chair again, ready to carry the sedan chair and continue their journey.

Zhou Qiao saw it and hurriedly dissuaded:

"Even the cave god can't force her, if she doesn't do it voluntarily, then the cave god is an evil god, I'm a corpse chaser, I will help her, please believe me once."

"Daheng (posterity): Are you really a corpse chaser?"

The four strong men looked at Zhou Qiao suspiciously, they knew that someone knew how to chase corpses and witches, and this kind of existence would not be uncommon in the Xiangxi realm, so they were very calm.

"Yes! I'm a corpse chaser. Zhou Qiao nodded in acknowledgement.

After the four of them looked at each other a few times, an old man led by him nodded, retreated to the sedan chair, and signaled the sedan chair driver to give up carrying the sedan chair: "Since you have met the corpse chaser and have been contaminated with bad luck, then this sedan chair can't stop."

After the sedan chair was put down, Yang Qian stepped forward to help the girl, she sobbed in a low voice and said to Zhou Qiao: "Thank you!" ”

Zhou Qiao smiled: "You're welcome. ”

Zhou Qiao looked at the girl surnamed Liu, and suddenly found that a faint light blue halo appeared between her eyebrows, and secretly said in his heart: "Could it be that this is the mark left by the cave god who was designated as a bride?" ’

The girl's father was the patriarch of the village, and at this time, he also rushed to hear the news.

When the girl saw her father coming, she quickly knelt on the ground and kowtowed:

"Yaba (Abba), daughter is not filial...... Please don't marry your daughter to the cave god."

Patriarch Liu hurriedly stepped forward to help his daughter: "Daipa (daughter), Abba can't help it, you are the bride designated by the cave god, if you are condemned by the cave god, how can Abba face the villagers in the village, is Abba sorry for you"

Then, he turned his head to Zhou Qiao and said, "Da Heng, you are a corpse chaser, since you have already intervened in this matter, you want to use extraordinary means, if the cave god condemns you, you can't ignore it."

"I'll do my best," Zhou Qiao nodded in agreement.

"Well," Patriarch Liu smiled, "Then please"

Zhou Qiao asked the Liu patriarch what he wanted to send the sedan chair, and knowing the approximate location, he decided to go with Yang Qian to find out first.

They searched all the way along the path, and when they had walked a mile, they came across a cave with many holes in the mountain wall, and the wind blew in through the holes, which looked deep, and there was a boulder at the top of the cave, forming an uneven mountain surface.

This mountain cave is the cave temple that Patriarch Liu and others said.