In the past few days, I have carefully read all of Guo Mingyue's paintings, and some of them have useful information on them, and I have made special notes and put them together. Then he prepared some more things, and prepared to go to Shanhe Village again to find Zhao Donglai.

When I came back, I told Zhao Dong that the first day of next month would pass, in fact, I thought of the record in "Strange Things of Mountains and Rivers", and said casually, in fact, I regretted it a little after I came back, once a month, how can it be enough?

I can't wait to tie this Zhao Donglai to my side, and let him tell me every day what supernatural events have happened in that mountain and river village, so that I can find the connection with this black Taijimen, Jin Taizhi, Guo Mingyue, and myself as soon as possible, and solve these strange mysteries.

In fact, I have watched this "Strange Tales of Mountains and Rivers" many times without touching my head, and it is very difficult, mainly because some of the events in it are recorded very briefly, sometimes even a few words, there is no way to refer to it, and I can't associate it with a few words, and it's not a story.

For example, one of them: On January 16, 1929, Wan Lao's second daughter-in-law steamed cats, and Xu Changyi's family died.

Such a sentence is really incomprehensible.

Then after returning to Shanhe Village, the first task is to carefully make these short and ambiguous words, first connect the main events of the year 1929, and see what Jin Taezhi was doing that year.

After everything was ready, I changed into Kyoto Peng Yuyan again, and then pressed my hand on a piece of money and food, thinking about the date I had made an appointment with Zhao Donglai, and then with a thought in my heart, the light on my body flashed, and in the blink of an eye, it became the side house of the Jin family ancestral hall.

I walked to the door and opened a gap in the door to look outside, afraid that there were other people in the yard and would be frightened by my sudden appearance. saw Zhao Donglai standing in the courtyard with his hands in his sleeves, looking towards this side room.

Zhao Donglai cut his hair, shaved his beard, wore a clean suit without patches, and even the cotton shoes on his feet were newly made. The whole person's mental outlook is simply new when we last met, and even a little handsome, which can catch up with me by one-twentieth of me.

I pushed the door open directly, and Zhao Donglai immediately pulled his hands out of his sleeves and bent over me respectfully:

"Master Immortal."

Ay! Not again!

"Zhao Donglai, you are on time." I laughed.

"Back to the fairy master, I'll be waiting for it in the morning."

"From the morning to now? Waited a day? ”

"Yes, Lord Fairy."

"Then you haven't eaten all day?"

The memory of Zhao Donglai running to death from starvation last time was too deep, and even left a shadow on me, so I immediately thought that he should not starve to death again.

"Back to the fairy master, after eating in the morning, my daughter-in-law said that it is not a busy farm now, and it is enough to eat only one meal a day without starvation."

His words helped me bring back some memories of my childhood, when I was a child, it was true, generally in the slack time, in order to save food, the family only ate two meals a day, one in the morning and one in the evening.

I remember sometimes chatting with neighbors, I would ask the question of "how many meals does your family eat a day", if you say that you eat three meals, it means that the family is richer, if you say you eat two meals, then the housewife of this family will live a frugal life.

But eating one meal on this day really seems to be excessive, and the purpose of eating is just not to starve to death.

But Jiang Lianyang's family seemed to eat one meal a day before, hey, that fool, don't mention him.

"Zhao Donglai, how much rice does the family need to eat in a month?" I asked.

"Back to the fairy master, one pack is enough, I carried it to the city and exchanged it for bud rice, and changed it for four big bags, so that the whole family can eat enough."

"Then why only eat one meal?"

"My daughter-in-law said to save some food, and if she can't have it, she will eat and drink nonsense, and she sold a bag to make me a new dress, she said that I have an errand, and I need to wear better when I come out." Zhao Donglai lowered his head and pulled his clothes, shyly smiling.

"Zhao Donglai, I will come over every day in the future, and the rice does not need to be saved, and it is not replaced by bud rice, just eat white rice and eat better......"

I suddenly felt a little sad, this was the Chinese peasants at that time, and the only one I could help was Zhao Donglai's family.

I called Zhao Donglai into the side room of the ancestral hall, sat at the table, and asked him to show me what he had written.

Zhao Donglai respectfully took out a stack of paper, I was shocked when I saw the handwriting on this paper, and couldn't help but raise my head and look at Zhao Donglai: The traditional fly-headed small block written with this brush is too beautiful.

"Zhao Donglai, your handwriting is beautiful, I really can't see it."

"Back to the fairy master, I loved to read when I was a child, and then my father died, and the family had no money to read, so I practiced calligraphy every day at home when I had nothing to do, hehe."

I read a few pages, and the stories recorded in them seem to be very different from those recorded in my "Strange Tales of Mountains and Rivers", except for one difference, which reads:

During the Chinese New Year, there was a flower girl, shouting to sell flowers at the door of the local advocate Baixiao, Zhang Baixiao's house came out of a dirty mother-in-law, the head was greasy and dirty, and she wanted to buy flowers, picked eleven flowers, all of them were inserted on her head, and said that she would go in and get the money, and she would send it out. The dirty mother-in-law went in and didn't show up for a long time. The flower girl was anxious and shouted at the door, Zhang Baixiao went out to check, and listened to the flower girl, saying that there was no mother-in-law at home, and his wife died early, only himself, his son and daughter-in-law. The flower girl didn't believe it, Zhang Baixiao asked the flower girl to go in to check, and the flower girl checked inside and outside Zhang Baixiao's house, and finally found a broken brush in a pig trough in the corner of the courtyard, with eleven flowers on it, which was the flower she sold to her dirty mother-in-law. The Zhang family didn't know what was going on, and the flower girl was scared, so she threw down the flowers and left. The Zhang family didn't dare to touch the brush handle in the pig trough. Two days later, a man appeared, dressed in a flower robe, with a handsome face, and his short hair standing on end, saying that the brush was evil, and helped to take it away.

To be honest, I read the beginning of this story, thinking that this Zhao Donglai had nothing to write about, and he was a little angry when he made it up according to ancient books, but when I saw the handsome man in the flower clothes with his hair standing upright in the back, I was not calm, this was by no means something that Zhao Donglai could make up.

I'm almost sure that this man is definitely the one who took away the disgusting Dongying devil of the Zhou Lin family.

"Zhao Donglai, what day did this happen?"

I pointed to the piece of paper with this story written on it and asked Zhao Donglai.

"On the 25th of February." Zhao Donglai thought for a while.

February 25 was the day after Zhou Lin's ruler was taken away.

"This man in a flower dress, can the people in your village see him often?"

"Sometimes it comes, but it's not very common."

Sometimes he comes, it seems that this guy has really discovered some secret of this mountain and river village, and he is still worried about it. We have to find a way to curb his arrogance.

Flower clothes, it may be the more popular men's handsome type of flower shirt, the hair is standing up, presumably it is styling with mousse or something, this person is likely to be from the same era as me.

As for the use of Dongying evil arts, it can be seen that the people who came over there on the small day are also investigating the affairs of this mountain and river village?

What has attracted them for so many years? This black Tai Chi has nothing to do with them, right? Could it be......

Phoenix?!

I remember that in "The Strange Story of Mountains and Rivers", two Japanese were taken by the gendarmerie in the township, and they went to find the ancient tomb of Lian Caimo, just because they heard the rumor that Lian Caimo had gained immortality, could it be that they have been thinking about this matter until now?

After thinking about it for a long time, I couldn't analyze any way to deal with it, but at present, it is certain that they have not got what they want, so I will continue the investigation of the things recorded in "The Strange Story of Mountains and Rivers".

"Zhao Donglai, on January 16th, do you know about Wan Laoer's daughter-in-law's steamed cat?"

"I know, this, I didn't think it counted, so I didn't write it." Zhao Donglai lowered his head, as if he was very guilty.

"It's okay, you can tell me more about it now."

So, Zhao Donglai told me about the creepy steamed cat incident in this mountain and river village.

There have always been some disgusting techniques among the people of Shanhe Village, such as children who lose their souls and knock on the door frame with a rice spoon to call their souls; Embroider the enemy's birthday on the insole and step on it every day, you can make the other party unlucky; Put a basin of water on the table, go through an elaborate ritual, and then ask a five or six-year-old child to look at the water in the basin to see who has stolen or abducted people. It is said that the solution to this spell is for the person who did the bad thing to smear the sheep's blood on his face, so that the child will see a monster with a red face......

The steamed cat is also one of these ancient spells, mainly when something is lost, the steamed cat curses the person who steals the thing, and can make the other party's whole family die within three days. But the backlash is also extremely powerful, and it is said that the person who steamed the cat will also cut off his children and grandchildren to repay the cat's life.

It's a lose-lose approach, and it's only used when you're in a hurry. This method has been circulating in Shanhe Village, it is said that an old bachelor used it more than ten years ago, but many people died of famine that year, and I don't know which person died because of this steamed cat, and then the result was gone.

Come back and talk about Wan Lao's second daughter-in-law's steamed cat, the reason is that Xu Changyi's family next door to Wan Lao Er lost three chickens and a goose, which is the source of Xu Changyi's family's pocket money for oil and salt all year round.

When Xu Changyi's daughter-in-law got up early one day to feed the chickens, she found that all the chickens and geese were lost, and the chicken nest was built against the courtyard wall shared with Wan Laoer's family.

But Wan Laoer's family refused to admit it, Xu Changyi's family did not forgive, and there were several conflicts in the middle, Xu Changyi also took his son and daughter to beat Wan Lao Er half to death.

Wan Lao is nearly sixty years old, has no children and no daughters in his life, and his daughter-in-law is struggling to survive, in the eyes of the villagers, this is a desperate future, so when he encounters this kind of thing, he can only be bullied. Wan Lao Er was injured and lay on the bed, and the only cow in the family was pulled away by Xu Changyi.

Wan Lao Er lay in bed for a few days, and the cow was robbed and caught fire in a hurry, and died within a few days. Until he died, the villagers thought that this was the chicken of Xu Changyi's family that Wan Lao'er stole first, and there should be this retribution, and they all scolded him for not being unjust.

After Wan Lao's second daughter-in-law buried Wan Laoer, she went to the outer village to buy a pregnant black cat and threatened to steam the cat.

At this time, the people in Shanhe Village are not calm, some people speculate that maybe Wan Lao Er was really framed, and some people said that if it was really the chicken stolen by Wan Lao Er's family, why would they dig a hole from their side, isn't this obviously a thief who stole the chicken and blamed Wan Lao Er's family?

Someone came to persuade Wan Lao's second daughter-in-law, saying that this steamed cat has a big backlash...... Wan Lao's second daughter-in-law sneered, do you think I have offspring? Isn't it because you don't have children to be bullied on your head?

That night, the second daughter-in-law put the black cat into the steamer, and many people watched the excitement at that time, saying that the second daughter-in-law tied the four feet of the black cat and put it into the pot, just like steaming steamed buns, and said while making it: Don't blame me for your death, blame the slutty thing that stole things and framed people, I used my own life plus generations of children and grandchildren to compensate for your life, and you don't let go of the whole family of that cheap thing.

After saying that, he covered the pot and lit the fire, and listened to the cat's screams in the pot, and then seemed to break free from the rope that bound his feet, and listened to the sound of his paws grabbing the lid of the pot, and the screams became louder and louder, and finally approached the woman's miserable cry, which was mixed with a few baby cries.

Everyone who watched felt a chill in their backs and didn't dare to make a sound.

After a long time, the sound was gone, and when the second daughter-in-law opened the lid of the pot, she saw that the belly of the black cat in the pot was cracked, and the three smooth kittens were lying side by side in it. It was supposed that the cat had scratched its belly with its paws, but no one knew what the situation was.

Some of the people who watched vomited, and some were so frightened that they went home crying, saying that it was really miserable.

The day after steaming the cat, Xu Changyi's whole family was sick, his stomach was swollen, the pain was unbearable, and he couldn't see anything wrong with the doctor, and he swelled until the evening, half of the village heard the screams of the Xu family, and they had the courage to go to see it, and they saw the moment when Xu Changyi's whole family's belly swelled and their intestines flowed out.

Xu Changyi's family died.

The villagers all understood in their hearts that this was the Xu family's cow who was worried about Wan Lao Er, and deliberately made a ghost to bully him.

On the third day, Wan Lao's second daughter-in-law said that she saw a woman dressed in black with her three children asking for her life, crying madly, and hanging herself at home at night.

"Is it really Xu Changyi who framed Wan Lao Er?" I'm still a little skeptical about the steaming cat.

"Yes, then there was no one in his house, Xinli was Xu Xiangren went to his house to turn it over, three chickens and one goose were killed, and they were salted in a jar and were not willing to eat it, and the jar was hidden in the cellar of the house." Zhao Donglai said.

"Then this Xu Changyi is not a thing."

"That's it, by the way, then the man in the flower dress also came, saying that he helped the village take away the cat ghost." Zhao Donglai added.

"What?!"

It's this guy again, why did he keep an eye on these spirits in Shanhe Village? A bad premonition came to the fore.

I suddenly remembered something and was in a hurry to go back to investigate, so I made an appointment with Zhao Donglai for the next meeting and came back immediately.