During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, it was a time of natural disasters and natural disasters.

Fengyang day rain hail, granular beans are big, like a boulder smashed down, ordinary houses collapsed in an instant, but also destroyed the palace ridge of the imperial tomb.

Under the thunder, lightning passed, split the Changling Ming Tower, caused a fire to burn the Changling Ming Tower, and the fire was not extinguished for three days and three nights.

The continuous heavy rain in Changping, the accumulation of large waters, has already eroded the stone beam embankment of Chang, Tai, Kang and Zhao, causing the flood to flow like a wild horse that has escaped from the reins, overflowing without hindrance, flooding the farmland and crops, and everywhere it goes, there are all pools and mud rivers.

The floods are rampant, the farmers have no harvest, and the number of victims is increasing day by day.

But Emperor Wanli didn't say that he would open grain for disaster relief and control the victims, and he even sent eunuchs to set up mining tax envoys to loot people's wealth and plunder.

All of a sudden, the government was in turmoil, the people were miserable, the mourning was raging, and the signs of the country's demise became more and more prominent.

And in the rivers and lakes, under the calm on the surface, there is a hidden turbulence.

Just like a calm lake, just a small pebble is thrown into the lake, and the calm will be broken in an instant.

Waves, all around.

In this depressed rivers and lakes, there are many sect families, more or less hundreds of sects, but the most famous Shaolin Wudang has begun to decide not to disturb the affairs of the rivers and lakes, leaving the place to avoid disputes, and will not interact with the government, and the disciples also ignore ordinary things.

Nowadays, there is no one with the largest number of people and the widest distribution among the sects than the beggar gang.

The disciples of the beggar gang are all over the county, from the small corner of the wari to the big market imperial city, as long as you look at the past, all the beggars who hold a bamboo stick in their hands and hold a broken bowl with a corner missing are all members of the beggar gang.

Compared with the sect, the family has a relationship with the government in addition to its own heritage.

In each family, there are quite a lot of disciples with foreign and internal surnames. Every day, they often send their disciples down the mountain to travel and check, which can increase the disciples' ability and fame.

Moreover, the family often helps the government, and is very close to the government, and the bandits have contributed a lot to some tricky things, or to catch some thieves with high martial arts.

However, among the many families, the most influential ones belong to the Divine Sword Villa and the Murong family.

The Murong family has been famous in the rivers and lakes for a long time, and after the former Xianbei royal family entered the Central Plains, they settled in the suburbs of Gusu in the south of the Yangtze River, and were called Gusu Murong by the rivers and lakes.

However, Shenjian Villa is not as prestigious as the Murong family, as the so-called current affairs create heroes, and the fame of Shenjian Villa is only a matter of the past twenty years.

At that time, it coincided with the largest ceremony in the martial arts, the once every ten years martial arts conference was held, the owner of the village Xie Guanying was still an unknown boy, but in a situation that no one expected, he defeated the three masters of Shaolin Wudang Emei, and became famous in one fell swoop, and won the position of the leader of the martial arts alliance.

Since then, Excalibur Villa has had a place in the rivers and lakes.

Of course, Xie Guanying is not only strong in martial arts, but also kind-hearted, often sending disciples down the mountain to seek benefits for the people, and often giving porridge and cloth to the victims.

Today's rivers and lakes are no longer prosperous, and they are extremely depressed, just ask, do the so-called martial arts people break through the sky or drown here?

In the forty-third year of Wanli, Wanliu Village, Jiaxing, Jiangnan.

Night, three watch days.

It was a full moon, but it was obscured by dark clouds, and only the lanterns of a few large houses were hung high, and the lights were dim.

Cool breeze, biting.

The door, closed.

It was pitch black and the night was silent.

In a village, there was not a single person in the streets, and even the guard dogs had fallen asleep at the moment.

It's so quiet, so quiet that even the rustling of footsteps sounds like noise, and even the sound of the wind blowing the leaves sounds like someone is talking.

In the distance, I only heard the sentence "The weather is dry, be careful of the candle!" The silence was broken by the sound of a gong.

A very ugly, lame man is walking the streets with a big gong and a lantern.

He is honest and honest.

The lantern was broken, and a candle in the wind flickered in the wind, and his lame walk swayed and swayed, so that his shadow looked distorted.

"It's dry, watch out for the candles!"

He continued to shout without tire.

Suddenly, he heard a "bang...... The sound of "...... is like a woman's cry......

He was stunned, unsure, and looked around and didn't see anyone.

He took a few steps forward, and the cry seemed to be louder.

It was a woman's cry, he was sure, and the sound seemed to come from the Zhang Mansion of a large family.

This cry was mournful and desolate, and with such a night, Chen Laoshi only felt a little creepy.

But he is more accustomed to fighting, and the more he walks at night, the more courageous he becomes.

Curiosity haunted him, carrying a worn-out paper lantern, he didn't care about the watch, and walked towards the source of the sound with an inconvenient lameness.

A few trees were planted in Zhang's mansion, all of which withered and withered and were not cut down, and the dry and crossed branches were like a skinny hand, with slender and slender palm prints, which would turn into sharp weapons if you were not careful.

A raven stopped there, black branches, black crows.

It didn't scream, it just stopped there, and if it weren't for the glowing eyes that kept moving, I thought it was a big black leaf growing on the tree.

It was looking at Chen Laoshi with its jet-black eyes, intently.

Chen Laoshi wanted to lift the lantern to drive away the ugly crow, but it was too high, so he could only let it continue to stare at it.

The door of Zhang's Mansion is half-hidden, and the two big stone lions standing at the door, their eyes are illuminated by the red lanterns hanging high in Zhang's Mansion and look more like they have turned into red and bloody.

It was as if red eyes were staring straight at him.

Chen Laoshi swallowed.

The crying stopped at this point, Chen Laoshi looked at Zhang's mansion, and finally pushed open the door of Zhang's mansion.

The night was very dark, and I only vaguely saw a Taishi chair facing the gate, which was placed in the courtyard, and there was no light in the hall, except for Chen Laoshi's broken lantern, there was no light in other places.

A black shadow sat on the Taishi chair, what kind of appearance, I couldn't see clearly, Chen Laoshi stepped forward a few steps, lifted the lantern forward, but the chair suddenly swayed, making a chirping sound.

The quiet Zhang family lined this voice, and somehow, the eerie feeling became stronger and stronger.

Chen Laoshi squinted, the figure seemed to be the Zhang family's opinion, and he couldn't help asking, "But the head of the Zhang family?" ”

The Taishi chair continued to rock, and no one answered.

Chen Laoshi was a little bolder, took a few steps forward, and got closer, "But the head of the Zhang family?" ”

The sound of chirping gradually became quieter, and the Taishi chair suddenly stopped.

"Woohoo" –

The crow on the branch crowed, as if to foreshadow this ominous sign.

The cool wind blew, but Chen was honest and broke out in a cold sweat.

He handed over the lantern, only to see that Zhang Yi's withered yellow complexion was pale at the moment, the corners of his mouth were not bloodless, his eyes were closed, and his head was leaning sideways on the Taishi chair.

Suddenly, Zhang Yi's face bulged, several small packets suddenly swelled, swelled, until they broke, dark green liquid seeped out of the skin, slowly, an insect crawled out of the green liquid, and the eyes actually glowed green, and then two, three, many, one face was all crawling with insects.

Whew-

Suddenly, Zhang Yi opened his eyes!

A pair of eyes that were about to bulge, the whites of the eyes were bloodshot, and they were looking at him hideously!

The fire on the lantern seemed to devour him!

Frightened, Chen Laoshi shrank back suddenly, and ran back!

But before he could take two steps, he tripped over something.

He quickly turned over and wanted to get up quickly, but his feet seemed to have stepped on some round spherical thing, and when he stepped on it, he felt that the soles of his feet were hot.

And this fall, he accidentally threw the broken lantern to the ground, and as soon as he rested on the ground, Miao Xiao's fire was instantly extinguished.

In an instant, the black light was blinding, and he didn't bother to look for the lantern, so he hurriedly stood up and tried to run out by the faint red lantern light of the gate, only to find that he had been trampled on a spherical thing with his other foot!

Faintly, the spherical thing seemed to be a ball of grass.

Suddenly, a gloomy wind blew, and the branches rattled, and the crows on the branches blew up, flapping their wings back and forth.

Whew—

The wind blew the dark clouds away, and the light of the bright moon gradually shone down.

Originally, Zhang's mansion was all black and black, and nothing could be seen, but now as the dark clouds dispersed and the moonlight sprinkled on the ground, Chen honestly and clearly saw that the grass was actually black.

Black grass!

What grass is black?

He couldn't help but stretch out his hand and pull, but he didn't expect to see a woman's miserable white face!

Especially the eyes that were open, looking at him in dead silence, motionless.

He shuddered, and instantly let go of the grass that he thought was black.

Old Chen's whole body trembled, and he was even more incoherent with fright, pointing to the corpse and saying, "This, this ......"

He knew her!

This, this is the daughter of the head of the Zhang family, and she gave him two baked cakes two days ago.

He had just tripped over her, and the round thing he had accidentally stepped on was her head, and the black thing wasn't grass, it was this woman's hair!

Babbling - the wind actually blew the door of the inner hall slowly open -

Chen Laoshi looked back and saw that Zhang Yiren was sitting on the Taishi chair, but the walls and houses around him were all covered with white curtains, and clusters of white curtains shrouded them.

And this is not the most terrifying, the most terrifying is in the inner hall-

Kneeling full of corpses!

All the corpses were stiff and kneeling, motionless, facing the door, their eyes wide open, and their faces showed a terrifying expression!

Chen Laoshi's heart palpitated, but he didn't expect that suddenly a little flame suddenly appeared from the female corpse next to him, and it actually burned, hair, eyes, ears, nose, hands, and all over his body...... The more you burn, the more you burn.

The burning corpse rattled, the disgusting smell of rotting corpses filled his mouth and nose, and the spreading fire had already frightened Chen Lao, who was paralyzed on the ground, so he didn't have time to think, and he used his hands and feet to crawl, and finally escaped from Zhang's mansion...