When the carriage slowly walked to the gate of the village, you could see from a distance that three things the size of grinding plates were erected, blocking the way to enter the village! Huang Laohan's face changed suddenly, as if he had seen a ghost.

Lin Fengjin also saw very clearly at this time, the three grinding disc-sized things, but three very exquisite copper drums, the largest such as a pot lid, the small one is also like a large plate, very beautifully maintained, in the afterglow of the sunset, the side of the copper drum has an acute angle of the sun texture, slender like a needle.

The surface of the copper drum has a clear embossed frog pattern, these poured frogs are huge, hollow flat glue, the eyes are protruding, the four legs are erect, and the body is covered with braided ribbons, which is very delicate and luxurious.

In addition, in the center of the drum is a feathered figure dancing to the sky, and below this person is a lit bonfire, as if it was about to be burned to death.

Lin Fengjin frowned and said:

"What does that mean?"

Huang Laohan trembled, and at the same time whipped the horse's ass with a fierce whip to make it run quickly, he who originally cared for the livestock and cherished his children, but he showed unprecedented roughness and impatience!

"One drum breaks the road, two drums lock the life, and three drums break the soul!

Seeing that this Tongzhai was quickly left behind, Huang Laohan finally relieved himself a little, snatched the water hyacinth next to him and poured a steam, and then coughed violently, and only gasped after the last breath:

"There must be a plague there!!, and it's a very violent death plague!"

It turns out that in the customs of the Tong people, the bronze drum is similar to the symbol of the Central Plains Ding, and it can be called the authority of the lord of a village, which is very sacred and dignified.

Once there is a major event such as a sacrifice, a copper drum will be erected at the entrance of the stockade to show that there is a major event in the stockade, and no one can enter, if you enter without permission. It is also possible to be flogged and imprisoned.

When two copper drums are erected at the entrance of the village, it indicates that there is a fatal thing happening in the village, and this fatal thing may be to immerse the cheating man and woman in the pig cage, it may be because of the fight for water and fields, it is necessary to have a bloody fight with the rest of the village, and it may also be a rare live sacrifice! If you enter the village under such circumstances, it is very likely that you will face the fate of the intruders.

When the three-sided copper drum is erected at the entrance of the village, it means that the people here are completely desperate, and all the honor and power in the village are gone. Everything in life is completely dedicated to their frog god, Lord Braltar, in the hope that the gods will accept their offering and forgive.

But the most terrible thing is that if the gods refuse to forgive, then there will be absolutely no living creatures out of the entire stockade, otherwise it will be a blasphemy against the gods!!

Huang Laohan has to run this trade road three times a year, and he has been running for more than ten years. He has been in Fangkang County for more than 30 years, and only in recent years has he changed his career to stop, he has seen many times that a drum is broken, and he has also seen a full dozen times a second drum lock his life. However, the legendary Three Drums Broken Soul is the first time I have seen it with my own eyes!

At this time, although the sunset is still shining brightly, what falls on people is not warm. It seems to be a chill, those mysterious talks that used to be by the fire pond, and the mysterious legends in the aroma of Baogu wine. all jumped out of Huang Laohan's memory.

Although he was a lot old, he still wanted to live a few more years, and when he saw his grandson marrying a daughter-in-law, and seeing his grass house toppled down and replaced with a big brick and tiled house, he refused to be considerate of the cattle and whipped him a few times, and quickly threw away the village that had fallen into terror and weirdness.

It's dark.

Although the setting sun sank below the horizon, it still stubbornly tried to continue to resist the darkness, so there was still a red patch of ash on the western horizon.

Human beings are born with the same phototaxis as moths and other things, the only difference is that Zhilu Dao does not hurt himself while being phototaxis, so almost all the people in the carriage are looking at the red, and at the same time feel the darkness slowly and resolutely attacking.

But I don't know what Lu Dao is for, Lin Fengjin is very peculiar to hope that the darkness will come a little faster, and even he himself doesn't know when this kind of transformation will happen in Lu Dao - this kind of transformation that is contrary to the innate instinct of human beings!

This is a world without street lights and flashlights, so if you want to rush at night, then you can only lead the way by a person with a torch in front of you, even so, it is easy to cause the tragedy of a hoof of an animal stepping into a depression, and then a force click breaks, this situation is very common, so there is an idiom to describe this, that is, the horse stumbles on the front hoof

Therefore, if there is not something urgent, few caravans will rush overnight, even on the official road, and for Lin Fengjin and his party, it is estimated that they will not be able to catch it even if they want to travel overnight.

This is because although the two animals dragging the carriage are good horses selected by the Lin family, they were already exhausted in the evening before, and they were driven by Huang Laohan's life, so they were already extremely tired at this time, and even if they didn't pull the cart, they would be tired to death on the road just a few miles away.

"Can't go any further. Lin Fengjin frowned and jumped out of the carriage, and said to Huang Laohan, who was still a little frightened: "If we go on any longer, then tomorrow we will only be left with the horse on our backs." ”

"But" Huang Laohan glanced behind him in fear, the stockade was already more than ten miles away, even if it was not dark, he would never see it, not to mention this barren mountain and wild ridge that would soon be out of sight?

Lin Fengjin first took the water bladder and fed the horses, then took out two and a half large pockets from the carriage, all of which were fried soybeans, and then added a handful of salt to the pockets and handed it to the mouths of the two horses pulling the cart, and the two horses immediately snorted and ate greedily.

"Where's the nearest stockade?"

Huang Laohan swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and when he came back to his senses, he said respectfully:

"It's the one behind us. ”

Lin Fengjin frowned and waved his hand:

"That hellish place is really evil, and I don't want to look back, I mean the stockade on the road ahead. ”

Huang Laohan said with a bitter face:

"The nearest stockade is fifty-three miles long."

Lin Fengjin sighed, Ma'er's soft tongue licked his palm, and kept rolling away the fragrant fried soybeans and salt, so it was a little warm and itchy. In this case, Lin Fengjin did not make any claims, but went to ask professionals.

"Linde, what do you think we should do now?"

Lind jumped out of the carriage with great agility, and could not tell that he had broken his arm.

For Linde, the creature of horses occupies a very important place in at least a certain stage of his life: it is a means of transportation, a friend, a toy, a food, a bed, a stool, and even a dowry, he grew up on a horse, so Linde approached the two horses and touched them, and said very simply:

"If you bleed, then it would be fine to get to the next stockade before dawn, provided that the horse didn't stumble along the way, of course. When they rest, the horses will die. ”

"What if you don't bleed?" Lin Feng said solemnly.

"Eight or nine miles at most, right?" said Linde with certainty, "After all, they have dragged us for sixty miles during the day today." ”

Huang Laohan hesitated for a moment and said:

"Walk two miles ahead, there will be a fork in the road, three or five miles at the end of the fork was originally a Han village, but unfortunately it has been abandoned a few years ago, but walk along the fork in the road, there should be a temple dedicated to the local god of Kui, the last time I saw the temple, I also hid in a burst of foot rain, today to go in for a night should not be a problem. ”

The god is an evil god believed in by the local people, just like the Wong Tai Sin Temple in the north, but Lin Fengjin heard the words "there should be no problem" clearly, and said suspiciously:

"Should?"

Huang Laohan smiled bitterly:

"I went to shelter from the rain two years ago, and it was daytime, and there was a group of local Tong people who took shelter from the rain inside, and they looked very nervous and panicked, but unfortunately they refused to say anything when asked, and the rain left in a hurry as soon as it was a little bit, and it seemed to be very taboo about something. ”

Lin Fengjin glanced at Lin De, and the four guards who followed behind were silent, with thick shoulders and round waists, and smiled and said:

"Just go there, it will rain most of the night tonight, and don't talk about people at this time, even if the cattle are drenched in the rain all night, they have to lie down. ”

A group of people carried torches and trekked for nearly an hour before they arrived at the temple that Huang Laohan said. The reason why the three-mile road has gone so far is because the fork in the road leading to the temple has been abandoned into a small path, which seems to be trampled by birds and beasts, and it is really difficult to find if you don't identify it carefully.

Here the Han people and the Tong people live together, so the belief is also very complicated, this temple is quite strong, the main hall apse is a total of three in, at least it shows that its believers are still many in this vicinity, otherwise, a shrine will be sent away.

In the wilderness here, Lin Fengjin couldn't be more careful, so before entering the temple, he sniffed deeply, his brows suddenly furrowed, and he didn't want to go in, but the four fields are vast, but there is no better place to go than this. But if you stay here, I am afraid that it will not be peaceful tonight.

However, today's Lin Fengjin is not the powerless young man, at this time, the wind in the distance is also urgent, if you can look up like the daytime, you will definitely see the dark clouds in the sky gloomy and depressed. (To be continued......)