"Yang Liu is still in March, my family carries a hoe and returns with stars, and when I go home, I sleep with my mother-in-law in my arms, and I am not tired all day......"

The moon hung high in the sky, and the late summer night was a little bleak, and the weeds on the ridges were covered with a layer of hoarfrost.

Today is a good day, Chen Niu's youngest son Chen Jian not only asked for a very pleasing daughter-in-law, but also the eldest son Chen Qun's family has just added a son, which can be described as double happiness.

As soon as people are happy, they will inevitably be greedy for cups, and in the past, drinking two more cups would inevitably be blocked by the family mouth, but today is an exception, and the exception will not be every day, so he thought of it and drank a few more glasses happily.

"Let you drink less and keep singing, don't sleep at night, your daughter-in-law won't let you go to bed!"

This sentence caused a burst of laughter, Chen Niu is the most honest and hard-working man in Guiluo Village, facing the loess with his back to the sky all his life, and he has pulled his two sons up.

Now that the youngest son has finally married a family, the eldest son has fulfilled his wish to hold his grandson for many years.

Thinking of this, Chen Niuyou poured himself a large sip of wine.

"I'm Chen Niu! Happy today, hahaha, you haven't seen me, my big fat grandson, that's called a cute! ”

Happiness and happiness are all written on the face of a simple and honest man, without a trace of disguise.

"I have so many wishes in my life, even if I die tonight, I have no regrets!"

Outside the door, a woman walked in with a large clay bowl containing a chicken that had just been slaughtered today.

Flowers float on the chicken soup, shiny and shiny, poke with chopsticks, the delicious soup overflows from the chicken, tear off a piece of meat, dip it in chili noodles, and drink a mouthful of chicken soup, that taste...... Tsk tsk.

Although there are not many people in the village, after all, there are four or five tables of people, although Chen Niu is hard-working, the whole village belongs to their family with the best harvest, but to support two sons, it is still a little difficult, can put down four or five tables of wine and food, it is not easy.

The earthen wall is an earthen house, the fence is half a foot, the bamboo pole is three feet, and the cucumber is hung.

This is the case in the countryside, not for appearance, but for truth.

When the woman heard Chen Niu's words, although she knew that he was a drunken joke, she could not help but be a little angry, and came to the courtyard with a clay pot, and said to him in a slightly angry tone:

"Be in charge, on the child's happy day, say less unlucky words."

Put the chicken soup on the table, smile and go to take care of the other guests, she will really blame him, but after all, the country people, some things would rather be believed than not.

"Hahahaha, look, daughter-in-law is in charge!"

Chen Niu didn't care, just smiled.

Today he laughs all day long, and his friends ridicule him, and his son is happier to marry than he is to get married.

After three rounds of wine, five flavors of food, the guests have almost dispersed, only Chen Niu is left at such a table, and he refuses to disperse, and the groom has come to this table to toast I don't know how many glasses of wine.

"You wait for me for a while, I've drunk too much and I'm going to pee."

Chen Niu staggered to his feet, and walked towards the river at the door.

After a cup of tea, Chen Niu hadn't come back yet, and the wine on the table had already been turned into three glasses.

"Did you? Why haven't you come back yet? ”

At first, he didn't take it seriously, but after another cup of tea and a pillar of incense, Chen Niu still didn't see him.

"I'll go to him, you eat, how can I trouble you about this?"

Chen Wu stopped the guest who was about to get up to find Chen Niu, and walked alone to the river at the door.

"Ahh Boss, boss! ”

An exclamation made tonight's village, which was not very quiet, suddenly jump.

Chen Niu died, died by the river, maybe he drank a little too much, and fell into the river in a drowsy state, struggled a few times, choked a few mouthfuls of water, and died like this.

Rushed all the way non-stop, although the sun was setting, the sun still hadn't completely set, but on the other side, an arc moon had already poked its head out.

"There's a village there, and there's no second inn to come across tonight, so go find a random place to stay, and leave tomorrow morning."

Following the direction of Wei Zigeng's finger, the smoke curls in the distance, and the quiet village is hidden in the mountains, comfortable and peaceful.

Xu Yue raised his head and drank wine, but fortunately, before he left, Cheng Xi poured nearly thirty jars of wine in each of the two of them, otherwise he would have to run out of wine and food before he found the inn along the way.

"Brother Liangqiu, who said that there are many official inns?"

Liangqiu hurriedly waved his hand and practiced closed-mouth meditation.

When he was just a hundred miles out of Lingzhou, he encountered an inn, Xu Yue looked at the sky, and it was already afternoon.

"This official road is so lonely, if you don't live here, I'm afraid you can only live in Yeling Deserted Village."

Liangqiu patted his chest and said:

"Don't worry, there are many inns on the official road, and it was because I just left Lingzhou, so I traveled a hundred miles before there was an inn."

Wei Zigeng thought about it for a while, looked at Xu Yue, and then said to Liangqiu:

"Brother Liangqiu, you really don't think about what Xu Yue said? Are you sure there are a lot of official inns! ”

When I thought of Xu Yue's mouth that seemed to be open, but when I thought of the intelligence and assassination of the Liangqiu brothers and sisters in the Hades Mansion, they must have memorized the situation in various places, so they didn't think much about it.

But the more I walked, the more apprehensive I became, and after walking nearly a hundred miles, I saw that the sun was about to set, but I didn't see an inn where I could stay.

"Xu Yue's mouth, even the Hades of the underworld can't resist it!"

At this point, Wei Zigeng and the others walked towards the village at the foot of the mountain with their horses' bellies.

It is not wrong to say that Wangshan ran a dead horse.

From a distance, the village was in front of me, but I still walked nearly ten miles of mountain roads before I really walked to the entrance of the village.

The village is not big, covers an area of only dozens of acres, the stone archway at the entrance of the village is seriously weathered, and the name of the village on the stone plaque has been unreal.

Entering the village, although the smoke curls up, there is no one to be seen on the road in the village, and it is unusually quiet.

It was almost dark, and the quiet village was already out of sight. The village must not be too wealthy, and lighting an oil lamp is also a big burden for a family who only knows how to farm.

Dismounted, holding the reins, Wei Zigeng and others walked on the dark and quiet road, although the sky in late summer and early autumn will not be too early, but the village is between the mountains, Rao is dark very early.

"This village won't ......"

"Don't talk!"

Xu Yue was just about to speak, but was immediately interrupted by Wei Zigeng's words, and the atmosphere at the moment was really a little weird.

Xu Yue, who was powerless to pull this head, was just about to pick up the gourd and take a sip of wine, but at this moment he saw a little firelight, which was infinitely magnified in the dark night.

"Where is there anyone!"

Wei Zigeng and the others followed the direction of Xu Yue's finger, with surprise and doubt on their faces, looked at each other, and nodded.

When I got closer, I saw that there were many people around the firelight, all of whom had some expectation on their faces, and looked at the fire on the stone bridge and the people next to the fire.

"Sacrifice?"

Seeing the scene in front of him, Liang Qiu's painting naturally came up with this word in his mind.

For example, there are Miao people in the land of Bashu, who will be taken by the elders of the family at the beginning of their birth to take a drop of middle finger blood for the cultivation of natal Gu, which is similar to the natal object of monks.

The difference is that the realm of the monk who loses the natal object will be greatly damaged, and the most serious thing is that the foundation of the Great Dao will be shattered. And the natal Gu is related to the life of the Gu master, and the Gu dies and the person dies. I will not mention this for the time being, but I will explain it in detail later.

And the sacrificial customs are all over the place, although Dali has inherited the unification of the Great Empire for 700 years and has never enshrined any of the gods of the landscape, but it does not prevent some monks who died in a certain place because of something, after their death, they will continue to practice by absorbing the luck of mountains and rivers in the local area, and some of the successful ones are called Yin gods.

The local people are ignorant, and usually worship with incense, and this incense power is the main source of supply for the Yin God, and the corresponding worship of the Yin God needs to protect the safety of one side.

Yin soul cultivation to become a Yin God is thousands of times more difficult than ordinary people's cultivation, and the wind and rain in the human world may make their souls scatter. Therefore, every Yin God is a person who cultivates in order to obtain it before he dies, not to mention that he will respond to his requests, but the most basic thing is to ask for a smooth wind and rain, and it is not difficult to have a good harvest in the coming year.

Secretly sacrificing and offering is harmless, if it is known by the imperial court, this kind of will be divided into obscene temples, destroying temples, breaking its golden body is a trivial matter, if it is known to use live sacrifices during the worship period, I am afraid that future generations and even the nine clans will be dug out to forget it.

At this point, Wei Zigeng and the others carefully observed, and saw a young man next to the fire wearing a yellow purple robe, carrying a ridiculous peachwood sword in his hand, but on his head was wearing a glaive crown that was extremely inconsistent with the yellow purple robe.

At this moment, the young man was jumping and jumping around the fire, sometimes using the peach wood in his hand to insert a yellow talisman, muttering something in his mouth, and then sprinkling a handful of powder, a faint green firelight "poof" came out, and the people around him were all for a while, almost kneeling down and kowtowing, shouting "Fairy master." ”

This is not a sacrifice, but an exorcism.

In addition to Xu Yue's relish, he couldn't help but sigh "good skills", Wei Zigeng and Liang Qiu's brothers and sisters all had disdain on their faces, and Liang Qiu's words looked at Xu Yue's appearance, and they desperately resisted the urge to laugh.

Liangqiu painter secretly poked Xu Yue on the side, and pointed to his brother Liangqiu speaker, Xu Yue looked dazed, not knowing what he was doing in Coke.

"What are you laughing at? The master is exorcising ghosts, seriously! ”

It was quiet only in the middle of the night when there was only the sound of dry wood burning and the footsteps of the "master", and Xu Yue's words were particularly abrupt.

Suddenly, dozens of pairs of eyes turned their heads in unison and looked at them coldly, with resentment, resentment, and burning eyes in their eyes, this scene made Wei Zigeng and the others feel a chill down their spines.

Blocking people's money is like killing parents, this is the case in the market, and even more so in the rivers and lakes.