Volume 1 Spring and Autumn Chapter 41 The Source of the Plague (3)
The local customs are really the same as in the world, not only the ancestral hall must be built in the north, but also the bluestone slabs must be used to pave the ground, the walls are painted with white ash, and the priests can only burn yellow paper and light white candles. Ancestral halls generally have two entrances, one is a good hall specially used to park corpses, and the other is an incense hall used to worship ancestors.
The incense hall is on the left, the keeper is on the right, and the location of the good hall is the most righteous and largest area.
Before Di Yunfeng entered the hall, he had already used his divine sense to roughly sweep the situation here, and there were no living creatures in it.
Divine consciousness can only perceive the things in the world that have spiritual power flowing, and does not have the ability to see through the wall, otherwise...... Di Yunfeng glanced at Qin Yinglan beside him, otherwise wouldn't these girls be naked no matter how much they dressed?
"Di Shaoxia, are you doing something crooked. Qin Yinglan frowned, and was very uncomfortable with Di Yunfeng's naked eyes.
A woman's senses are often more accurate than their senses.
Di Yunfeng hurriedly retracted his gaze, coughed twice and walked into the ancestral hall first, and said, "The dawn is dawning, you can go in." ”
Qin Yinglan hurriedly followed but asked, "Why can you enter this kind of place after dawn?"
Di Yunfeng said: "Because there are people who are dying here, the yin qi is the heaviest after the third watch in the middle of the night and before the dawn of the rooster's crow, and the yang qi is greater than the yin qi after dawn, so you can go in." ”
"What if you come to a place like this in the middle of the night......? Ghosts?" Qin Yinglan seemed to be very sensitive to the flow of gods and ghosts, and when she stepped into the ancestral hall, she shivered.
Di Yunfeng said: "Ghosts, I've grown so big, I haven't slept in many mass graves, except for the occasional ghost fire, I really haven't seen it." However, in this kind of yin place for many years, it will be a long life. ”
Qin Yinglan subconsciously hid behind Di Yunfeng and continued to ask, "What is a mass grave, is it also a custom in your hometown?"
Di Yunfeng raised his eyebrows, could it be that there is no mass grave in the Zhenwu Kingdom? He said: "Mass graves, as the name suggests, mass burial graves, for example, these villagers who died horizontally, if no one receives them and sends them to the end, they will either be burned or thrown into the mass grave and buried in a pit. Of course, if it is an ordinary person who is usually kind-hearted, after death, there will be a good hall to accept it, and add a wooden coffin to the earth for peace. Most of the mass graves are buried, condemned prisoners who have been beheaded for their crimes. ”
"Where the hell is your hometown...... Why did you commit a capital crime but cut off your head?" Qin Yinglan was puzzled.
Di Yunfeng wondered, "What's the matter? Don't you cut off your head if you commit a capital crime here?"
Qin Yinglan said: "If we cultivate here to reach the Heavenly Vein, as long as the head is not destroyed, it can grow back slowly, so the law does not allow the head to be cut off, and the condemned prisoners are all broken bones and ashes." ”
"Crushing bones and scatter......ing ashes" Di Yunfeng gasped, it seems that the laws of this True Martial Kingdom are quite strict.
"Di Shaoxia, tell me about the strange things in your hometown again, I am so happy to hear it!" Qin Yinglan said excitedly. Di Yunfeng sighed lightly: "Qin Nuxia, have I forgotten the purpose of our trip?" ”
No matter how poor the village is, it will build the best good hall, after all, the ancestors are respected, and the dead are respected, which is roughly the same as the world.
The good hall was not far ahead, and before it was close, you could smell a rotting stench, there must be corpses inside, and there were quite a few of them.
"Forget it, I don't think we'd better go in, it's going to be a mess inside. Qin Yinglan covered her mouth and nose and said in disgust.
"Since you're here, you have to go in and have a look, don't you?" Di Yunfeng walked towards Shantang, there was no danger if there were no living creatures here.
Qin Yinglan hugged her shoulders and stayed in place, and said in disgust: "It's too stinky here, if you go in, you will be infected with a stench, I won't go." ”
"Then you just wait outside, and if something happens, call me out loud. Di Yunfeng instructed.
"It's you who be careful inside, and shout at me if something happens. Qin Yinglan retorted.
"That's right!" Di Yunfeng said, kicking the good halls away, a monstrous evil aura like the rotting of a dead fish came to his face, smoking people's eyes watery, he held his breath and stopped at the door for a while, and only frowned and walked in when the wind was blowing inside.
There were few coffins in the good hall, most of them were wrapped in white cloth and neatly arranged on the ground, and there were sixty-three corpses in a count. Di Yunfeng took out the butterfly knife, randomly found a corpse and opened the white cloth, leaking out the shriveled body like a salted fish, he used the knife to open the stomach of the corpse, and a sticky ointment-like filth overflowed from the knife, he hesitated for a moment, squatted down and endured the stench and actually put one hand into the corpse's chest, and pulled out all the internal organs with a forceful "bang......lala......
"Di Yunfeng, what are you doing?...... Vomit!" Qin Yinglan saw such a filthy scene when she entered the door, and couldn't help but retching at the door.
"The internal organs of these corpses are all connected. Di Yunfeng said. For verification, he opened three corpses in a row, and the internal organs he took out were all black and viscous and connected. Only then did he shake off the filth on his hand and said, "When I sailed in the Xuanhai Sea before, every time after sunset, a sea beast would jump on my boat on its own and cut open their bellies, and their internal organs were as thick and viscous as these corpses, and even the smell was exactly the same. ”
"You mean to say that they were all infected by sea beasts?" Qin Yinglan asked with a disgust.
Di Yunfeng used a knife to randomly cut the throat of a corpse, and it can be seen that the cartilage of the throat has disappeared, and it has been replaced by a kind of crimson bulging thing, like fish gills?
Di Yunfeng analyzed: "According to the decline of fish in the sea in recent years, it is very likely that the sea has been polluted by something. ”
"Baisha Town and Triangle Village are all coastal areas, and their fishing industry is also sluggish, so why is it that only Beitan Village is suffering from the plague?" Qin Yinglan asked.
Di Yunfeng said: "Maybe there was something filthy that ran onto North Beach, which caused the outbreak of the plague. If it really satisfies my guess, then it should be the source of the plague that the White Hall Master said. ”
Qin Yinglan panicked: "Then what are you waiting for? Hurry back and tell Senior Brother, how can we deal with those plague sources with our ability?"
"Don't worry, all this is just my guess, whether there really is a source of the plague remains to be investigated, maybe we can go straight to Nanyang Village to take a look, there is the greatest disaster, there should still be people alive, and as long as there are people alive, the source of the plague should also stay." After Di Yunfeng finished speaking, he picked out a complete corpse again, and walked out of the good hall on his shoulder.
Qin Yinglan exclaimed, "What are you carrying this filthy thing for, he is a corpse of the plague!"
"Rest assured, this plague will not spread through dead bodies. After walking out of the good hall, Di Yunfeng found some lamp oil from the incense hall, sprinkled all the doors and windows of the good hall, and the last fire turned the whole good hall into ashes.
Dust to dust, dust to dust. Since you can't go into the ground, then you will be cremated and ascend to heaven!
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"Di Yunfeng, aren't we going to Nanyang Village, how can you go north?" Qin Yinglan followed behind and didn't dare to approach Di Yunfeng, she covered her mouth and nose and said in disgust: "Also, what are you going to do with this foul-smelling thing?"
Di Yunfeng didn't say much, only recalled: "I remember passing by a pond when I came, not far from Hongyan Village, you are forbearing, we are almost there." ”
"What are you doing in the pond?" Qin Yinglan was puzzled.
"If I'm guessing correctly, put these plague-infected corpses in the water, and they should come back to life. Di Yunfeng was seven or eight points confident in her words, but Qin Yinglan seemed to hear a shocking joke, she couldn't help but laugh and said, "You're not confused, are you?
Di Yunfeng was silent for a moment before he said, "But if they have gills, they may turn into fish." ”