Two miles is not too far, but the road is overgrown with grass, making it more and more desolate as you walk. The closer you get to the village, the more you can feel the presence of people.
Because the acres and acres of fields overgrown with weeds have already explained everything. The people in the village have cultivated and lived here, but now, the fields are still there, but they have disappeared.
Looking at all this, I felt a little emotional and couldn't help but ask Master: "How are they doing after they leave their hometown? Will they still have their own land?"
Master said: "The country wants to see them leave. After all, if you massacre one village, you can still control the impact. But if you massacre many villages, it's hard to say."
"Yes." I nodded heavily, but looking at this place overgrown with grass, it was inevitable that I was still full of melancholy.
I have never denied my sensitivity. This is also a problem that Master has pointed out to me a long time ago. Too much emotion is not good for cultivators. But sometimes Master has to admit that perhaps such sensitive people have the strongest intentions. For people who are wise, at least their feelings are based on sincerity. After enlightenment, their mentality becomes firmer.
There are sounds of footsteps all around. When we get here, we can basically no longer see the way. People are walking in the grass. The summer sun is very strong, and the people in the sun are in a trance. In the grass Walking is definitely not a pleasant experience either.
Yang Qinhuai, the young master, couldn't bear it anymore and kept complaining: "Hey guys, how long will it take before we have a place to rest?"
No one answered him, so he just raised his feet to show me: "Chengyi, I'm not complaining. Look, my feet are not even red or swollen from the grass."
I didn't even raise my head and said directly: "This is already very happy. You are sprinkled with a secret formula of insect repellent and snake repellent. Otherwise, this guy in the grass will give you a lot of trouble."
Speaking of this, Yang Qinhuai really understood it. There were really no bugs to harass him along the way. Summer was originally the season when snakes were active, so he had never seen one like this. In fact, he thought the smell of the powder was pungent at first. Where is the nose!
"Well, haha... these things are really powerful! No wonder the masters are among the people! Chengyi, what about you? I didn't see you spraying medicine on your body?" Qinhuai quickly changed the subject.
"Me? Do you have this?" I handed him a bamboo tube. Qinhuai took it, smelled it, shook it again, and asked me a little confused.
"What is this guy? A secret weapon?"
"Well, the secret weapon is a gift I got when I was 6 or 7 years old. It is more effective than your powder." This was given to me by the snake exorcist back then. I have kept it all these years. He said that when I encounter a powerful When I was a guy, I spilled some out, but I didn't have that chance.
Speaking of this, I think of the Tomb of the Hungry Ghost. If I had brought this with me at that time, and if the candle dragon was still alive at that time, would this medicinal powder be useful
In the years that followed, my master and I also talked about the Tomb of the Hungry Ghost. The master said that the Hungry Ghost King had the characteristics of a candle dragon because he ate the candle dragon. When I thought about it, it was true. So, would this medicine powder have the characteristics of a candle dragon? it works
However, if only if, the Hungry Ghost Tomb incident has passed for a long time. I have mentioned many times what happened to the things Master asked Yang Sheng to bring to Beijing, but Master always dismissed me with a fruitless answer.
Is the matter about the Hungry Ghost Tomb finished
"We've arrived at the village. Sure enough, there is a village?" Just when I was thinking about something, Qinhuai suddenly shouted, which startled me.
I looked up, and sure enough, I turned a corner and reached the village. I could see the houses that were not too densely clustered in the distance.
Originally, it was a joy to see a bunch of houses on a lonely road, but I don't know why, but I felt an indescribable feeling when I saw this village.
It felt like looking at a static painting rather than a realistic impact because there was a lack of life.
Except for Qinhuai yelling, no one of us made a sound. We must have a strange feeling about this village. It is different from the preserved ruins of the ancient city. There are things left by the accumulation of time, but here, it is a forcibly removed A life cut off.
Now that we saw the village, it was not far away. We hurried forward and soon entered the village. There was a desolate scene everywhere, with vines covering the houses and houses squeezed out of the cracks.
Cracked, rickety door.
A trackless road that is almost submerged.
There is also an atmosphere of silence that can drive people crazy.
We kept walking until we reached a larger room. Yuan Yi shouted: "Just take a rest here, drink some water, and eat something."
As soon as he finished his words, everyone looked at my master subconsciously, but my master seemed unwilling to have anything to do with Yuan Yi. He just lowered his head and said, "Okay, I will listen to you."
Yuan Yi's face didn't look good, but fortunately, the master gave him face and he didn't have an attack.
In fact, I don't quite understand that everyone is their own Taoist priest, and this department is so loose and no one can control anyone else's life, so why bother fighting everywhere? Just like when you do something, as long as you do it seriously and complete it, why should you care about what others do? Why do you have to push others down? If you can't suppress it, will you be embarrassed at every turn? Isn't this causing trouble for yourself
Of course, I was just thinking about it. Master told me not to fight.
Since no one objected, Yuan Yi led everyone to the courtyard and opened the long-decayed door of the courtyard.
As soon as the door opened, a puff of dust rushed towards the face, which made the few people walking in front cough. Yuan Yi didn't care and stepped into the yard.
I also followed in and took a look at the yard. I felt even more uncomfortable because I saw that the previous owner had shrunk and dried up in the yard, and some unknown items were still placed in the sieve and covered with dust. The sieve has begun to rot.
I even saw a large water tank in the yard, and a basin next to the water tank, which was also covered with dust.
All of this shows how hastily the host left.
"There's no way to set foot in this yard, let's go in and sit down." Yuan Yi said to himself and stepped into the room. As soon as he entered the room, he yelled and stumbled out.
I didn't know what was going on, but when I looked up, a centipede as long as a human arm crawled out of the room, and a bat flew out after it.
"There are a lot of things like this in this room. I didn't pay attention. Once I entered, it was really..." Yuan Yi explained with an ugly face. After all, being scared by bugs and bats was a very embarrassing thing in his opinion. , although we think it’s nothing, any normal person would be scared if something suddenly jumped out while walking in this depressing village.
This is true even for Taoist priests, because Taoist priests are also ordinary people, but what they learn is different from ordinary people.
The bat was not caught, but the centipede was. Yang Sheng shouted that everything here has research value and is a clue, and he was determined not to let people kill it.
He observed the bug carefully, and the master also observed it carefully. Yang Sheng didn't see any results and was still discussing with Zhao Jingyi.
But my master couldn't help but say "Hey"!
Yang Sheng heard my master say "Huh" and couldn't help but raise his head and ask: "Master Jiang, are you also very knowledgeable about biology? I am not an entomologist, but I know a lot of insects. I really like this centipede." I don’t see anything interesting about it.”
"Yeah, I think of myself as zoology and entomology. I've also learned a lot about entomology. I don't see anything. In fact, it's not much different from ordinary centipedes, but the pattern is a bit special. I don't know if it's poisonous. Poison." Zhao Jingyi said casually.
My master trampled the centipede to death without raising his head, and then said: "I also studied biology when I was studying abroad, but I dare say that there is no record of such a centipede in the books. If you want to talk about the species, it is the most popular. The common centipede with few spines, but don’t you think something is wrong? It is possible for it to grow that big, but here in the centipede with few spines..." The master pointed to the centipede’s crushed head and first back plate and continued. : "It should be golden-red here, right? But it turned pale white. Are you wondering about this?"
Yang Sheng clapped his hands and said, "Yeah, I just can't figure this out. I just temporarily defined it as a genetic mutation. Is this correct?"
"That's right, it has mutated." Master said seriously.