The woman woke up with her eyes open, and when she saw Yan Xiaohan, she immediately exclaimed, "It's you?!"
King Qi and his party were rare foreigners in Xishan Village. Almost the whole village came to watch the fun that day. Yan Xiaohan was particularly outstanding among them, which impressed the villagers and women even more. So the woman could still recognize him in a hurry. She was so scared that she almost cried, and she asked tremblingly, "You... came back to take revenge? It's the village chief who wants to kill you, we don't know anything!"
Fu Shen lit the fire lazily with a fire stick, and interjected, "You're trembling like this, it's not like you don't know anything."
Although Fu Shen looks handsome, his aura is too high, and he is the kind of thorn that can't be offended at first sight, but Yan Xiaohan's appearance is very deceiving, as long as he doesn't take the initiative to tear his face, he can put on a face Perfectly gentle and kind.
Seeing that Fu Shen sang his face first, Yan Xiaohan had no choice but to pretend to be red, and said comfortingly, "I got your husband from the river, don't be afraid, I'm not here to seek revenge."
After his reminder, the woman seemed to have returned to her place. She raised her sleeves and wiped her face, crawled over to help her husband up, patted his back and cleaned his nose and mouth. As she was doing it, she recalled the various experiences before she was knocked unconscious, and she couldn't help but cry out in grief.
Neither of the two said anything to stop her, and listened to her mournful cry in silence.
From last night to today, she had no idea how many times she cried, watching her husband suddenly become ill and thrown into the river by the villagers. After returning home that night, she put a belt on the beam and prepared to hang herself. Fortunately, Fu Shen kept staring at her every move in the dark, and at the critical moment, he shot her unconscious and took her away, which did not let her seek death.
Perhaps she felt kindness from their silent waiting. After a while, the woman's crying stopped. She raised her red eyes and looked at the two of them timidly. She knelt down and threw herself to the ground: "Great kindness and great virtue, I can't repay it."
Yan Xiaohan thought that she was quite reasonable, she waved her hand and said, "It's not necessary to do this. I have something I want to ask you, you can just answer the truth."
The woman said, "I know everything I can say, and I will never dare to deceive my benefactor."
Having had an experience of escaping death, the woman no longer had any attachment to Xishan Village.
There are more than 100 families in Xishan Village, most of them are from the Tian clan.
According to Ou Shi, Xishan Village is surrounded by mountains and waters. Although it is not isolated from the world, few foreigners come. About a year ago, Qiu Yebai became popular in the Jingchu area. The youngest son of a family in the village was studying in the county town, and was lured by his classmates to go to Fireworks Liuxiang to "open his eyes". Out of curiosity, he accidentally got addicted to drugs. By the time his parents realized that the young son was already addicted to drugs, it was almost impossible to quit.
That family had little wealth, and especially favored their youngest son. At first, Qiu Yebai didn't take Qiu Yebai seriously, and threatened to buy medicine for him to smoke for the rest of his life. However, as the drug addiction deepens, the demand for Qiu Yebai becomes more and more. Even in Kuangfeng County, Qiu Yebai is a rare commodity, and it may not be able to be tolerated by ordinary people, let alone peasant households. So it didn't take long for that family to be unable to provide for the youngest son. When the drug addiction broke out, the pain was unbearable, and the young son was tortured in an inhuman form. In the end, he couldn't bear it anymore. He ran out of the house on a rainy night and threw himself into the water.
Having said that, there were rumors among the villagers that the youngest son did not commit suicide, but because the family couldn't bear the burden, so they drowned him and pushed him into the river, disguised as an illusion of throwing himself into the river.
Because of this lesson, apart from the few boys who were smeared with the medicine at the beginning, the rest of the villagers dared not touch Qiu Yebai, but it did not prevent some people from being jealous of Qiu Yebai's high price and secretly planting a few plants in the front and back of the house. .
The accident happened last fall. One day, a wandering Taoist priest came to the village. He had nowhere to hide due to heavy rain on the road, so he came to the village to stay overnight. The villagers warmly welcomed him in, let him live in an empty house in the village, and served him with tea and rice.
In the middle of the night, someone in the village happened to be addicted to drugs. The situation was very tragic, and the movement was so loud that it alarmed the whole village. The Taoist priest was also awakened, and followed him out to check. When he saw a man covered in blood rolling on the ground in the heavy rain, he grabbed it and pressed several acupuncture points, and immediately knocked the man unconscious, and then he beckoned the villagers to take him home. middle.
The Taoist learned some pharmacology, and at a glance he could see that his appearance was caused by Qiu Yebai. However, the addict's family has no money to buy medicine. Although Qiuyebai is grown in the village, it takes time to make medicine. The Taoist received the kindness of the villagers and felt sympathy. A paper bag, wrapped in some fine brown powder, let them take this for now instead.
Taoists have good intentions, but since ancient times, "wealth is not exposed" and "feeling sins" are all lessons of blood.
The villagers who know the goods recognize that this is a refined "Bai Lu San" that is hard to find. At this time, there was a saying in Kwong Fung County that "one tael of autumn white and one tael of gold". They saw that the Taoist shot was Xiaobanliang Qiu Yebai, and they were sure that there was more hidden in him. Seeing the money, these people, after they all returned home, sneaked into the Taoist residence and hacked him to death with knives.
When Fu Shen heard this, he didn't know what to think, his right hand trembled suddenly.
Yan Xiaohan calmly held his hand.
The villagers found a piece of autumn night white from the Taoist body the size of a woman's fist. This piece of Qiu Yebai was worth more than the same weight of gold, and several people were overjoyed and put it away, then carried the Taoist body out of the village at night and threw it into the river.
A wandering Taoist, homeless and unemployed, no one will notice if he disappears.
That night, the villagers of Xishan Village listened silently in the dark night as the knife and axe fell, blood spattered, and the murderer shouted and laughed wildly, but no one dared to say anything to stop it.
Tonight, they are all awake, pretending to be asleep.
The rushing river swept away the dead bodies, and the bones and old things sank into the deep and dark lake bottom outside the Fox Fairy Temple.
- But the real retribution has only just begun.
The few people who got Qiu Yebai were afraid that their rash action would arouse suspicion from others. After deliberation, they decided to break the whole piece of Qiu Yebai into small pieces and sell them separately. Who would have guessed that before they could move, one of them suddenly got a strange disease. First, he continued to have a high fever, coughing, lost weight rapidly, and lost consciousness. Then, he began to have different degrees of erythema and rash on his body, and even his skin was festering. Life was better than death.
This is not over, not long after, several people involved in the attack that night all developed the same symptoms.
The villagers finally began to panic. However, committing murder and making money and killing people were heinous crimes, and the cover-up had to sit together. There was a clan elder who would invite the gods to perform a ritual in the ancestral hall and invited the ancestors of the Tian clan to be possessed. "Ancestors" said that the villagers were motivated by wealth, murdered people, died in vain, and turned into ghosts seeking their lives. This is the punishment of heaven. Those who do evil should atone for their crimes, and those who accompany the culprits need to quell their resentment.
This theory of retribution by ghosts and gods barely fooled the panicked villagers. The village chief ordered sacrifices to be prepared, and together with several villagers, they carried the sick murderers onto the float, imitating the ancient ritual of offering sacrifices to Hebo, and sent the sinners away. Throw it into the water to appease the grievances of the Taoist priest who died in vain.
After the sacrifice was over, the villagers had lingering fears, and threw the ominous piece of Qiu Yebai into the river, thinking that things should be calm now, but it didn't take long before someone else had the exact same symptoms!
The ghosts at the bottom of the river still haven't let them go.
One wrong step, one wrong step, the villagers have made more unforgivable mistakes in order to make up for their mistakes. Everyone is a grasshopper on a line, and no one wants to jump around alone.
This paradise-like village has since become an endless hell. Whenever someone develops an illness, they will be carried by the villagers to fill the river. Day after day, the river water is like a huge mouth that never gets enough, sooner or later it will swallow everyone up.
The night between heaven and earth is boundless, and only this ruined temple is lit with a precious firelight.
Fu Shen was silent for a long time. Yan Xiaohan remembered the thunder that split the statue that night. Maybe it was the guidance of God. If it wasn't for the thunder, they would go directly to Jingzhou after resting at the Fox Immortal Temple. After staying in the small village for a long time, it was impossible to discover this secret that was kept secret by the whole village.
In the legend about the Fox Immortal Temple, the fox was punished by the gods for predicting the flood, so this time, is it also a warning to let them find out the truth and avoid the coming monstrous wave
"It's not a murderous ghost at all, it's a plague. Maybe it's because the perpetrators are all smeared with that person's blood, so they get the same disease and infect other people in the village." Fu Shen said coldly, "The cycle of cause and effect, since Do not live by sin."
Yan Xiaohan asked Ou Shi, "Your husband's illness is already ineffective, and you only have to wait for one death. You should have many years to live. If this happened in Xishan Village, when the government investigates, none of them will be able to escape. But you Now that you meet the two of me, you can open up to the Internet and allow you to make a living on your own, what do you think?"
Ou Shi fell to the ground and wept: "The concubine and the husband have been married to each other. They have been in love for several years. They dare not throw it lightly.
Fu Shen looked at her pitifully, and just as he was about to make a promise, Yan Xiaohan stopped him with a look: "His disease is contagious, no matter how pitiful he is, he can't be let out alive."
He didn't lower his voice, and Ou Shi could hear it clearly. She was full of despair, but Fei Longwei, who couldn't resist the hard-hearted in the end, was forcibly dragged out of the door by Fu Shen, watching the dry wood and cloth curtains that Yan Xiaohan had brought to start the fire. After a while, thick smoke rose into the sky, and the Fox Immortal Temple turned into a sea of fire.
Ou Shi sat on the ground dumbfounded, his tears had dried up, his eyes were red, but he couldn't shed a single tear anymore.
Fu Shen casually threw a heavy purse into her arms, and said lightly, "You still have a long way to go, go to another place to live again, and one day you will forget him."
After speaking, he turned around and walked into the boundless night with Yan Xiaohan.
Ou Shi clenched the purse in his hand tightly, the golden red fire reflected in his pupils, and it took some time before he murmured, "I can't forget..."
How can you live after the catastrophe? It will only leave behind a handful of dried ashes, leaving those left behind to live in pale shadows from now on.
The author has something to say: ok, that strange disease was made up by me, don't text it, alright~