Sun Tianqi eyebrows and eyes signaled to the little Taoist behind him, they picked up the fire oil in their hands, set fire to all the dug graves, and when the fire burned out, these rotten dry bones turned into bone slag, and were put into the ash jar by the Taoist according to the surname on the stone tablet.

After doing this, Sun Daoren explained: "Originally, it was most appropriate to bury it in the flesh, but the mountain is high and the road is far away, and it is really inconvenient to carry the bones and coffins. ”

It was already noon from the morning to Hutou Mountain, they dug graves and burned ashes, and it took a lot of time, it was already afternoon at this moment, and it was only an hour before the sun set.

Before Yue Guanchao could speak, Lao Ma had already interjected: "Old Daoist, but you still have to go to other mountains?" ”

"Yes, we're going to Qianyan Mountain." Sun Daqi said.

"Then, I have to persuade the old Taoist, it gets dark early in the mountains, and it will be completely dark in two hours, and the Qianyan Mountain is indeed not far from Hutou Mountain, but it is not so easy to walk to the foot of the Qianyan Mountain in half a day."

Speaking of this, he lowered his voice: "Qianyan Mountain is the boundary mountain between Guangxi and Xiangxi, the karst caves are changeable, the sinkholes are dense, there are mountain horse monkeys out to eat people at night, and we can often meet them when walking at night, we never go out at night, and we are afraid of encountering big horse monkeys." ”

"You better wait for the day and then hurry, I think, the old lady must not be so anxious to tell you to go to Qianyan Mountain, it is better to stay in the cemetery for one night now, and wait for tomorrow morning to hurry again, what do you think?"

Lao Ma's words are indeed not lying to them, they have already heard her say that there are big horse monkeys nearby when they inquired about the past with Tian Liumei, Sun Tianqi thought for a moment and nodded: "Okay, since Lao Ma you also have good intentions, I will bother you, I will borrow it here for one night tonight." ”

"Okay, I'll take you to the courtyard."

Sun Daqi asked the little Taoist priests to pick up the jar and follow the old horse back to the vicinity of the courtyard, and the grave keeper said while walking: "There is a Yizhuang in this courtyard, and there are several sets of courtyards, in addition to me, the garden keeper, there are twenty or thirty mountain guards, these people usually cut firewood and farm nearby, and wait for the main family to pull firewood and transport grain. ”

"The Hu family is prosperous, although it is said that this is the private garden of the Hu family's main sect, but if there is a clan family gone, it is also here in Yizhuang to be buried, in order to facilitate tomb sweeping and worship, more will be buried here, after a long time, this has become the Hu family's family cemetery."

As he spoke, Lao Ma had already opened two sets of courtyards: "I see that there are many of you, and the old Taoist will live with these small Taoist chiefs, as for the Hu family's Jiayong Nursing Courtyard, they will live in another set, and at night I will ask you to go to dinner, and when you sleep, you must remember to lock the door." ”

Tired from driving, Sun Tianqi also had to rest, not to mention that he was still a deceitful chicken foot Taoist, and he couldn't stay with Yue Guanchao for a long time, so he simply closed the courtyard gate completely on the grounds of meditation and practice.

Yue Guanchao also knew that these people were acting on purpose, and he didn't expose their true colors, so he took a few courtyards to live in another courtyard.

Song Siyuan walked into the main hall and looked around the courtyard to see that no one was observing, so that she could say a few words to herself: "Finally, I don't have to pretend to be a maid anymore." ”

After speaking, she opened the map of Yongming County: "According to the location of Hutou Mountain, we are at this point, not far from Qianyan Mountain but not close, tomorrow, we will be able to reach Qianyan Mountain in half a day." ”

"What I'm most worried about is how we will deal with these people after we arrive at Qianyan Mountain?"

Yue Guanchao knocked on the table and explained: "According to Mrs. Hu's meaning, these chicken foot Taoist people are extremely cunning, even if you really catch them, as long as they want to get rid of the crime, there are more ways to get rid of the crime, to catch the traitor to catch the double, to catch the thief to catch the stolen goods, and when they take out the things in the tomb, then the Hu family will dare to go over and take the people, and the people will get the stolen goods, these chicken feet Taoist people dig people's graves, and no one will say anything if they are killed on the spot." ”

"We, as long as we enter the mausoleum with them, we will do ours, they will take theirs, and we will not settle the account until we get out of the tomb of the concubine."

"I'm more worried about the wild geese than the things in the tomb."

Xu Xiake left a sentence, which aroused the curiosity of the people around him.

He continued: "Song Qianjin's sentence that the geese migrated because of food reminded me that there is a species of bar-headed goose in Shaanxi Province that does not migrate, and they do not migrate because their food is not snakes, insects, rats and ants, but grain skins. ”

"These geese eat insects and worms in spring and autumn, and after autumn and winter, they will take advantage of the busy farm to hide the ears of grain in their nests, and then use them to eat and drink during the winter, so as to survive the cold winter in the northwest."

"Brother Xu, what do you mean?"

Song Siyuan didn't know what this little Taoist priest meant.

Xu Xiake continued: "I mean, no matter what kind of wild goose it is, migrating or not migrating, it is entirely because there is nothing to eat, these geese have existed in Qianyan Mountain for thousands of years, which means that even in winter, the food produced by this Qianyan Mountain is enough to feed them. ”

"That's where the problem arises?"

He paused, and his tone became mysterious: "There is no farmland near Qianyan Mountain, and even, due to the wide distribution of karst caves, there are few terraced fields, that is to say, it is unlikely that there is anything to eat nearby, you can eat insects and berries in spring and summer, and it is also snowing here in autumn and winter. ”

When Xu Xiake said this, they already knew that there was something strange!

In the cold winter season, everything withers, and these geese should have moved south but stayed because of the abundance of food, and the results can be traced back to the process, so that thousands of geese can survive the cold winter, it must be a lot of food.

However, there are caves and sinkholes near Qianyan Mountain, which are not easy to cultivate, and it is unlikely that there will be grains, which also means that if the geese want to live, they must find food to survive the winter.

What is the abundance of food that will keep them through the winter? Everyone shuddered at the thought of this.

"Perhaps, it is the wild geese that can clear the valley? If you don't eat for a winter, you might really survive. Yue Erpao scratched his head and said.

Xu Xiake's smile was a little bitter, and he helplessly hugged the little brother's neck: "Bigu? I am a Taoist person, Bigu refers to not eating grains and any grains, and absorbing the essence of the universe by means of Taoism's special convincing, pharyngeal aid, bait, and guidance. ”

"But!"

He changed his words: "It doesn't mean that you don't eat at all, for example, you can eat balls made of sesame seeds, and you can also eat balls made of dried red dates and sweet potatoes, of course, some people will also eat a kind of green rice, and even, some people are deliberately lazy and will eat meatballs made of chicken and duck meatballs. ”

"Besides, this thing is just an emergency strategy for Taoist priests to not be able to fast, and it is not a way to ascend to immortals, the last time I Bigu was because I had no money on my body, and I went to the Song family to eat a good meal to recover my strength."

His tone became mysterious: "If you think about it, people have to eat to live, and livestock like geese have no fat for them to squander, not to mention a cold winter in Bigu, that is, three days in Bigu, they have to starve to death." ”

"I thought, there must be enough food, or is there something highly nutritious that can sustain the lives of these geese? But what is this thing? ”

"Of course, this is not the most terrifying, the most terrifying thing is why the wild geese are attracted down, and even, after being attracted, they basically can't get out of Qianyan Mountain, think about Mrs. Hu's words, could it be that there is something strange in the mountain?"

Xu Xiake's words and speculations are not alarmist, and everyone is curious about the current situation of Qianyan Mountain when they hear it.

"So, what does Brother Xu mean?"

Yue Guanchao asked.

"It's so strange, it's really weird, people can get out of Qianyan Mountain, but geese can't get out, I don't know why the specific reason for this situation is, but I think, the wild goose must be trapped by something, perhaps, there is something in Qianyan Mountain that can trap animals but can't trap living people."

Song Siyuan listened to the words of the little Taoist priest, and her eyes lit up and explained: "Perhaps, it's because of the magnetic field. ”

After a pause, she continued: "Any animal that can migrate can sense the magnetic field in its brain, and they can migrate long distances because of the perception of the magnetic field. ”

"However, if they can't sense the magnetic field, or if the magnetic field is disordered, they will lose their direction, and they will either fall behind and get lost or go missing, or they will land in a place where the magnetic field is abnormal, and only by correcting the perception in their brains again can they return to normal."

"I'm thinking?"

She looked at everyone and guessed: "Could it be, the magnetic field around Qianyan Mountain is not normal, these geese originally came here to forage for food, until they were about to fly away, only to find that they were lost, and they were trapped here, because there is no need to move here, and it is left behind, these wild geese are here, and they are like this for thousands of years." ”

"Birth, old age, sickness and death?"

Xu Xiake listened carefully to Song Siyuan's words, and suddenly realized: "Dayan was born, old, sick and died, and the corpse left behind is probably food. ”

"Geese don't eat meat, do they?"

Yue Erpao had only heard of chickens and ducks pecking at the corpses of the same kind, but he had never heard of geese eating the same kind of corpses.

Yue Qingshan pursed his pipe, his brows wrinkled together: "Not necessarily, as long as it is a bird that eats meat, whether it is eating scales, insects, snakes, worms or others, it can eat meat, chickens and ducks peck at the same kind because they have aroused their animal nature when they see blood, perhaps, these geese have no choice under hunger and cold." ”

"If you don't eat your own kind, then you must die, the animal nature of animals is actually the nature of survival, they can't have the idea of courtesy, righteousness and shame, then, eating the same kind is no different from eating insects for them, let alone a bird, even a person, in a year of famine, you have to go to the grave of the dead to cut meat and eat."

Sun Daqiao interrupted and said: "What Brother Yue said is, otherwise, how can you say that you can only know etiquette, without food, there is no difference between humans and beasts." ”

Some people died, but not completely......