Chapter 64: The Strange Tales of the White Mountain
Folk myths and ghosts have always been a hot topic, and even if something didn't happen at all, it can be spread by people with noses and eyes.
The mass graves of Shiliba Village are located on the Baishi Mountain in the mountain village, and during the occasional war, plague, or natural disaster, due to the excessive number of deaths, people hastily bury the dead or directly discard them there, and burn them when the 'ghost fire' is lit.
Baishi Mountain has always been an ominous place, and it has been endowed with countless ghosts and strange stories, and after a long time, it has naturally become a forbidden place, and the villagers rarely go to that area, which is something that everyone knows.
However, Jiang Chang'an's family is a bit special, she doesn't know about the mass graves in Baishi Mountain, probably because her mother was picked up by Jiang Lao Er there.
The Jiang family should not let their family mention this old matter.
However, in private, there are many people who say that the Yao family is a demon and monster from the mass grave, and she has bad luck, so few people are willing to associate with her.
When Jiang Lao Er wanted to marry Yao, not only the Jiang family was opposed, but even the villagers were unhappy, who knows what the Yao family is? Will it harm the whole village?
Especially when Jiang Lao Er made trouble and didn't marry Yao's family, who didn't say that Yao's was evil, it was not good that she used her magic power to fascinate Jiang Lao Er, and in the end, Jiang Lao Er would be sucked to death?
Later, Li Shenstick came forward and calculated a hexagram for Jiang Lao Er and Yao's family, but of course there was nothing, This is just an ordinary person who had a bumpy first half of his life, but was blessed.
Coupled with Yao's low profile, after marrying into the Jiang family, he kept to himself and gave birth to two more children, and gradually people forgot what happened at the beginning.
But people who don't deal with the Jiang family will still say that the Yao family is unlucky, otherwise how could they give birth to Jiang Changan, a little fool, but are there still fewer fools in the village?
Moreover, the once little fool has now become the one who is smarter than everyone else.
Jiang Changan didn't expect that there was a mass grave, it was really quite isolated, "Is there really a ghost?" Has anyone seen it? Is that large area full of mass graves? β
"Of course there are ghosts, there are often ghost fires there, especially from July to September, I have seen them once! The blue flames were faint, beating in the air, floating around, like heroic spirits.
It's so scary that I didn't dare to go out at night for a long time, and I still feel creepy when I think about it now. β
Shen Dashun was afraid for a while, he helped his father watch the fire and boil the medicine at night, but as soon as he turned around, he saw countless ghost fires jumping on the mountain, he knocked over the medicine jar at that time, and hurriedly ran into the house to help his relatives.
Jiang Changan was dumbfounded, isn't it normal for there to be ghost fires in mass graves? If there is a corpse there.
"Ghost fire is not a ghost, doesn't the book say that there is a substance called phosphorus in the bones, its ignition point is very low, and when the temperature of the air reaches it, it can spontaneously combust."
So, what the hell is a ghost fire? And what is a ghost? Who's going to say why? Anyway, Jiang Changan has never seen it.
Shen Dashun was dumbfounded, which book did this say? Why didn't he know?
"Yes, there is a record in the miscellaneous records of the first empress." Why did the empress's codex have it? Of course, he didn't explain the reason, Li Shushen's eyes flashed slightly, and Shen Shikang was directly stunned.
The gentleman even had the empress's codex, and such a precious book was placed there in such a grand manner, but he did not know it, and never looked through the miscellaneous books.
On the contrary, Jiang Chang'an, since she was a child, she has especially liked to read her husband's books, all kinds of books, and she can still remember them, so she has learned so much knowledge and has been in the limelight in the county's assessment.
showed his ability, became famous, and quite had a set of talismans, and now he dares to unseal himself, from a fool back to a normal person, no, a smart person!
Song Fuzi just wanted to prove that there was indeed such a book, Jiang Changan was right, this kid didn't know if he had read all the books of his book, and his memory was really good.
If it weren't for Jiang Changan mentioning it, Song Fuzi wouldn't have remembered such a thing, but now that he thinks about it, it's not, ghost fire can be explained by science, oh, no, chemistry.
However, until today, as erudite as Song Fuzi, he does not know much more about chemistry.
"Impossible, right? So why does it happen that there are ghost fires only at night and not during the day? "There must be a real ghost, and the ghost can only be active at night when the yin qi is strong.
"Because the daylight is so bright that it covers the light of the phosphorus fire, of course we can't see it with the naked eye."
"No, no, there are not only ghost fires in Baishi Mountain, but there are occasional explosions over there, which are earth-shattering, and many villagers have seen it, it is a ghost with high mana fighting and carnival."
Li Sanhe said excitedly, he is the most vocal about ghosts, who made his father a god, his father said that he couldn't go to Baishi Mountain.
"My father also said that you can't go to Baishi Mountain even during the day, because the yin qi is too heavy, and children are easy to get contaminated with unclean things."
Jiang Chang'an stroked her forehead, she really can't say anything about explosions, saltpeter is one of the components of fireworks and explosives, and it is mixed with flammable objects like cotton, so it's strange if it doesn't explode.
But since explosives are a thermal weapon, since no ancestors have invented them, Jiang Changan doesn't want to say more, so as not to cause trouble.
ButγIsn't it too much to say that it's a ghost? Isn't there something boring? Saltpeter has to become a bomb on its own, and the conditions are very harsh, which looks like a trick deliberately created by some people in order to fool the villagers.
Jiang Changan became even more curious, and decided to find out, so he said in surprise, "Is there really a ghost?" You didn't lie to me? Actually, I'd love to see what the goblins look like. β
As soon as these words came out, the little classmates suddenly broke their defenses, as if the fear in their hearts had been pierced, and as soon as they leaked out, they suddenly didn't feel scared.
And, boys, most of them like to take risks, it's just a ghost, why don't you go and see what a ghost looks like?
Song Fuzi couldn't help laughing, a group of people were fooled by the little ghost's cleverness, but, "It's still early, it's okay to go and see, in this world, the sinister human heart is always much more terrifying than the invisible ghost." β
Moreover, of course, Song Fuzi had been to the extremely terrible Baishi Mountain in the mouths of the villagers, but of course, he didn't find it.
"Yes, sir." The students replied reluctantly, look, my husband asked them to go, not by themselves, and their parents will not blame themselves when they go back, right?
The White Rock Mountain is next door to the alkali salt land, it is a mountain that seems to have been smoked out of life, the whole shows the color of white ash, even the trees are dry, and the crows are startled and quacked over the heads of people.
This decadent scene turned out to be a forbidden place, right? It was also too terrifying, and the students walked together in pairs, cautiously moving forward.
Song Fuzi directly led the students to the place where there was saltpeter, in fact, that is, the stone was whiter, but there was nothing outstanding.
And Jiang Changan turned on the system scanning, good guy, this is clearly a natural saltpeter mine, big and deep, not to mention ice making, even pyrotechnics and glass are enough.
Of course, Jiang Changan only plans to make ice, and no matter how much it is, it is no longer something that her identity can contaminate.
"It's pretty clean here, I don't see any mass graves." Finally it doesn't affect her saltpeter use, right?
"Hehe, the mass grave is over there, chasing the southeast wind in summer, and the other end is just under the wind, when the ghost fire is lit, you can just burn some things, you can go and see it together."
Master Song explained with a smile, with some ill-will in his eyes.
Jiang Changan immediately used the system to scan it from afar, and then saw a few scattered white bones!
From knuckles to heads, animals and, of course, humans!
Song Wuzi is really, bad taste! It's clearly trying to scare everyone.
Jiang Changan shook his head, changed his gaze to a large number of others, and then found out!
I grass! That's a lot of jadeite rough!
(End of chapter)