But Xiao Shan forcibly suppressed himself. Xiao Shan faintly felt that what Lao Zhuang was going to talk about must be related to that evil spirit. Xiao Shan walked all over the surrounding hills today and didn't find the "bad land", so maybe he could find clues from Lao Zhuang's story.

So Xiao Shan also stared at Lao Zhuang ruthlessly, and waited for him to speak. Lao Zhuang drank tea silently, his brows furrowed deeply, as if he was reminiscing, conceiving, and as if he didn't know where to start. For a long time, he let out a long sigh and told Xiao Shan those past events buried deep in his heart......

It all started a long time ago, when Xiangshan was surrounded by a large primeval forest, and people lived in more than a dozen villages in the area, belonging to several different ethnic groups. Herds of wild elephants live near the lake and are numerous.

At that time, the people here lived a thrifty and simple life of "working at sunrise and resting at sunset", while wild elephants, although large in size, had a gentle temperament and never attacked humans.

Humans and elephants operate in their respective territories and live in harmony without interfering with each other. Listening to Lao Zhuang talk about the scene at that time, a beautiful picture emerged in Xiaoshan's mind: people usually work hard, live a self-sufficient life, live a simple but happy life, and wild elephants are leisurely and playing in the primeval forest by the lake......

Wild elephants and people, farmland and dense forests, and turquoise lakes reflect the mountains......

Lao Zhuang continued: Later, this harmony was broken, and it was man who first attacked the wild elephants. At that time, a group of outsiders came and found the people from the village, and wanted to go into the mountains with the villagers to hunt elephants, and they bought ivory and elephant skins at a very high price. But at that time, he was sternly rejected by the old patriarch.

However, some young people in the village could not resist the temptation of money, and secretly colluded with these outsiders to secretly go into the mountains to hunt elephants. Soon they made a fortune. And the rest of the village was also red when they saw that they had made a fortune, and they joined the elephant hunting team.

By this time, the old patriarch was too old to control people's crazy behavior. These dozen or so villages became wealthy in a very short time. Wild elephants have become cash cows, cornucopias. Everyone is not engaged in farming, and the farmland is deserted. The people went into the mountains to hunt for elephants.

Whoever is ruthless in his heart will be able to catch more elephants, and whoever will get rich will get rich faster. The wild elephant herd did not resist but fled deep into the mountains, but the people continued to chase and hunt, and finally the last wild elephant was hunted. The wild elephants in Wild Elephant Lake have completely disappeared after years of hunting.

Wild elephants have disappeared, but people have disdained the former farming life of "working at sunrise and resting at sunset", and people's hearts have become cruel and irritable due to years of hunting and hunting elephants. They take pleasure in killing and honor the strong. Gradually, the people living around Elephant Mountain formed several major factions.

Each chooses the strongest, tyrannical man to be the leader. It is common to fight over a trivial matter, and the phenomenon of group fights often occurs.

And this tyrannical character seems to have been passed down from generation to generation along with the genes. In each generation of these tribes, there will be the kind of strong, tyrannical leaders who will lead everyone to fight against other tribes.

Gradually, a feud developed between the factions. This state of affairs has continued, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse. But with the arrival of a lame Taoist a hundred years ago, this vendetta has entered a white-hot state.

In the winter of that year, a lame Taoist appeared near Xiangshan. Wearing tattered Taoist robes and holding a wooden crutch. People don't know where he came from, and they don't know what he's here for, anyway, this Taoist has never left since he came.

Some people say that he is a "demon Tao", and he failed to fight with people and fled to Xiangshan to hide. This statement is more recognized by everyone, because some people have seen him use spells, which is very magical. Everyone thought that this Taoist was very mysterious and full of curiosity about him, but no one wanted to get close to him, and they were all far away from him. And so it went on for a few more years.

In the summer of that year, after a torrential rain, lightning and thunder, and several earth-shattering thunderstorms, someone saw the Taoist priest fall on the mountain road in front of the "Tanga Village". It looks like he's dying.

This "Tanga Village" is the village on the mountainside of Elephant Mountain on Wild Elephant Lake. At that time, the patriarch of "Tangjia Village" saw that this person was pitiful, so he took him to his home, and after some conditioning, this person actually came back to life.

Later, the Taoist has been living in the patriarch's house. According to later generations, this lame Taoist priest passed on his spells to the youngest son of the patriarch.

Later, the youngest son grew up, and the Taoist chief also died. The youngest son's spells have also been cultivated. He often used spells to exorcise evil spirits and cure diseases for his people. Soon after, there was another large-scale fighting between several tribes, this time on and off for several months. Several sides suffered heavy casualties.

What's even more sad is that once the old patriarch of "Tangjia Village" personally led people to charge into battle, was seriously injured, and only had one breath left when he was carried home. The youngest son took over the patriarch's place, filled with grief and anger, and vowed to avenge his father.

He began to cast spells, and not long after, there were people in other tribes who continued to die of strange diseases, and the symptoms seemed to be very painful and miserable when they were dying. More and more people are dying like this. Everyone had to spend a lot of money to go to other places and ask those strange people to crack it.

But all the methods used have not been able to crack it, and these people who have been invited have all suffered. Almost every family has a deep hatred in the sea of blood, and everyone has no other way but to fight for their lives.

In this way, many large-scale fights were triggered. This large-scale conflict reached a white-hot state during the Republic of China, and even involved villages and tribes within dozens of miles of the surrounding area. Hatred, killing, blood......

After the liberation, this situation improved only after the forced suppression of the localities. Although there are many fewer large-scale fights, this kind of hatred for generations has been deeply planted in the psychology of every family. As soon as there is a fuse, a conflict will break out in an instant. There is nothing that can be done about the local area, and this kind of feud and family hatred cannot be resolved.

The spells of the patriarch of "Tanga Village" have been passed down from generation to generation in a family way, and everyone hates and fears them. Although I haven't heard of anyone being killed by a spell for many years, everyone's fear can't be eliminated, and no one dares to go to "Tangjia Village" usually, for fear that if they are tricked, it will be painful. Therefore, Lao Zhuang did not let Xiaoshan walk through the road of "Tangjia Village".

Lao Zhuang originally had a son, but when he was 19 years old, he was passing through Xiangshan when he was in the mountains, just in time for a conflict between two villages over a land dispute, and his son was killed by mistake.

The old couple washed their faces with tears every day. Although the beater was sentenced to a heavy sentence, the deceased could not be resurrected, and such a young life was lost.

Lao Zhuang couldn't talk anymore when he talked about this, so he hid his face and cried bitterly.

After speaking, Lao Zhuang fell into deep sorrow. Xiao Shan silently drank tea and thought. This place is quiet and peaceful on the surface, but behind the scenes, there is a lot of murder. It must have something to do with the frequent aura.

Since yesterday we looked at the local terrain and found no obvious "evil earth", it means that this evil qi is not caused by the earth's qi;

But it's not like ah, the evil aura caused by many murderous people should be in pieces, and it should permeate this area at any time, and Xiao Shan should sense it as soon as he arrives here. And this evil qi is a rush to the sky, and it should be emitted from a point.

Could it be "Tangjia Village"? Could it be related to the magic practiced by the patriarch of "Tangjia Village"? It seems that Xiao Shan must visit "Tangjia Village" Xiao Shan comforted Lao Zhuang, and the conversation that night ended like this, and we went back to our rooms to sleep. But Xiao Shan can't sleep because of something in his heart.

In the middle of the night, he put on his clothes again, sat outside the bamboo building, quietly observing the direction of Xiangshan, waiting for the appearance of evil qi. But after waiting for nearly two hours, there was only the quiet mountains where the mountain breeze was blowing, and the evil qi did not appear. Xiao Shan had to return to the bamboo building and secretly decided to go directly to "Tangjia Village" tomorrow to have a look, "If you don't enter the tiger's den, you will get the tiger".

After breakfast the next day, Xiao Shan said hello to Lao Zhuang and told him that Xiao Shan was going out for a walk today, and he might not be back until dinner.

Lao Zhuang agreed absentmindedly, looking at his red and swollen eyes and sluggish spirits, he must have been sad all night last night. Xiao Shan felt guilty in his heart. It was Xiao Shan who ruthlessly uncovered the scars of the old couple, causing them deep pain, and they really couldn't help it.

Xiao Shan set off with a light travel bag on his back. After crossing the Wild Elephant Lake, we walked along the mountain road in the middle towards Tanga Village. It was close to noon and we arrived at Tanga Village.

I walked into Tangjia Village and observed that this village covers an area of not small, with more than 30 bamboo buildings distributed on the mountainside of Xiangshan.

Some bamboo buildings are clustered together, and some stand alone in the middle of the trees. Some of the villagers are busy, and some are very leisurely and idle. A stranger in Xiaoshan is very conspicuous here, and they all look at Xiaoshan curiously.

After walking around the village a few times, I didn't see anything unusual. Just felt that the villagers seemed to be very alert, Xiao Shan wanted to find someone to ask where the patriarch's home was, but he couldn't find a few people to ask.

Either they ran away from the distance when they saw Xiao Shan coming towards them, or they looked at Xiao Shan with hostility and spoke some local language to Xiao Shan that they didn't understand at all.

Xiao Shan turned around a few more times, but he also gained nothing. Also, it is indeed suspicious that a strange outsider in Xiaoshan is wandering around this remote village.

What can I do if I ask the patriarch's family? Can Xiao Shan directly find the patriarch to fight with him? Of course it won't be like that. I really don't know where to start. But I can't go around any longer.

Forget it, let's find another way. Xiao Shan walked to the top of Elephant Mountain again, and carefully observed around to see if there would be any gains. It turned out to be nothing. At this time, I felt hungry, ate two breads I brought, and returned to the old village's house the same way.

It's really depressing, this day has passed like this, and I still don't have a clue. You can't just give up, since the problem may be with the patriarch of Tangjia Village, you must find a way to get close to him. People have come up with all the solutions.

After coming back, Xiao Shan was thinking about this problem while chatting with Lao Zhuang. The topic has always revolved around the situation in the family of the patriarch of Tangjia Village.

According to Lao Zhuang, the patriarch has an eldest daughter and a younger son in his family, and the eldest daughter has long been married and lives in her mother-in-law's house and rarely returns to Tangjia Village. And his youngest son is the middle-aged son of this patriarch, and he loves him very much.

This youngest son is also very competitive, his academic performance has always been good when he was in school, and he was later admitted to the normal college, and now he has graduated and is teaching in the county's high school......

Can you start with his youngest son? After all, he is a young modernist, so he should be able to communicate better. Anyway, there is no other way now, so I can only give it a try, and go to the county seat tomorrow to find him.

The next morning, bidding farewell to Laozhuang, Xiaoshan drove more than 50 kilometers on the mountain road, and entered the county seat at noon.

The county high school was found. At this time, the school had just closed for lunch. Xiao Shan asked the master of the communication room to help Xiao Shan find Xiao Mu, a teacher who teaches Chinese (yesterday, Xiao Shan had already learned from Lao Zhuang that the family name of the patriarch of Tangjia Village was Mu). After a long time, a sturdy young man came out of the school classroom and walked towards the school gate.

looked at Xiao Shan suspiciously: "Are you looking for me?"

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