Hearing Yang Xiaohui's voice, I hurriedly turned around, just in time to see Yang Xiaohui walking out from the depths of the village in the darkness. As for the black shadow who couldn't tell what it was, it came from the entrance of the village. It also stopped slowly when it saw Yang Xiaohui. We were forty or fifty paces away.
Seeing that the shadow didn't move, Wang Junhui and I breathed a sigh of relief, and then leaned towards Yang Xiaohui. Soon we gathered with Yang Xiaohui. Yang Xiaohui was wearing a black sweatshirt and his hair was fluffy. It looked quite embarrassed as if it had just emerged from the wheat straw pile.
Before I could ask Yang Xiaohui's situation, she grabbed me and said, "Come with me, don't talk."
So Wang Junhui and I followed Yang Xiaohui to the village, and the shadow gradually disappeared into the darkness, but when the shadow was about to be an hour, I vaguely saw a few child-like shadows thinking about the shadow surrounding the shadow. past.
Soon Yang Xiaohui took us to the door of her house. Her house was a red brick house. There were a lot of lentils outside the yard. The vines of the lentils covered the entire fence, which made the fence even more in the dark. Weird.
Entering Yang Xiaohui's yard, she inserted the door, and then slowly let out a breath and asked me, "Shi Yong, why are you here?"
I said, "It's not because of the story you told me, and because you haven't been to school recently, I'm worried that something has happened to you, so I called my partner to come and have a look, I didn't expect you Something really happened to the village."
Wang Junhui also asked Yang Xiaohui, "What was that thing in the street just now?"
Yang Xiaohui said: "It's the mountain god I mentioned in the story! Don't worry, it won't catch up to our house for the time being, it will only hang around near the entrance of the village, preventing us from entering the village, and at the same time tricking other people into the village. ."
I frowned and asked Yang Xiaohui, "What's going on here, doesn't it mean that the 'mountain god' was cleaned up decades ago?"
Yang Xiaohui didn't answer me directly, but while pulling me into the room, he said, "You should go into the room and ask my grandfather, he knows this best. When that master subdued the 'mountain god', my grandfather Witnessed the whole process."
From those who can hear this story firsthand, I am naturally willing, so we and Yang Xiaohui entered a room in the main room of the courtyard.
Due to the dark clouds covering the sky, the lights were turned on in the room. After we entered, we saw three people on the sofa in the living room, an old man with white hair, and two middle-aged men and women. These should be Yang Xiaohui's grandfather and parents. .
After Yang Xiaohui introduced it, it also confirmed my guess.
After entering the room, we introduced each other, especially when we talked about the post-surgical session, the Yang Xiaohui family looked at us with respect, as if they had seen a savior.
The old man sitting in the middle, one of the two protagonists of the previous story, Yang Ji'an, looked at Wang Junhui and me a few times, then looked at Wang Junhui and said, "Master, please help us in Huamu Village, if there is no one Save us, in five days, our village will become a hell on earth."
Obviously, Yang Ji'an thought that Wang Junhui was older than me and looked more mature than me, so he reversed the identity of Wang Junhui and me.
Wang Junhui is a very disciplined person, so he said to Yang Ji'an: "Uncle, I'm sorry, he is my boss, and I also follow him on tasks. Just tell him what you have."
Yang Ji'an looked a little shocked, but soon he looked at me with a hint of apology and said, "Master Shi, you and our Xiaohui are classmates. Even if you don't care about us, please take our Xiaohui out."
I have not spoken, but have repeatedly observed the expressions of the Yang family members. Their faces are full of panic and fear, as if they have already contacted the master in advance.
Seeing that I didn't say a word for a long time, Yang Xiaohui pushed my arm and said, "Shi Yong, I don't know how you behave, it would be best if you could save our Huamu Village, if not, please leave here quickly and find some Powerful people come to save us, your Taoism is so good, and your humane conduct must be better, please."
I interrupted Yang Xiaohui and said, "First, tell me in detail what happened in your village from beginning to end."
So Wang Junhui and I sat down at Yang's house and listened to Yang Ji'an tell the follow-up story of Huamu Village.
At the beginning, the person Yang Ji'an invited back to Huamu Village from the foot of the mountain was called Jiuyiren, who is Wang Junhui's master. After these Jiuyi people followed Yang Ji'an back to Huamu Village, they went to Chen Wen first.
After seeing Chen Wen, Jiuyi people said something to Chen Wen: "I can break the curse of your Huamu Village."
Chen Wen saw that Jiuyiren was dressed as a Taoist priest, and that he had some skills, so he welcomed Jiuyi and Yang Ji'an into the door.
Sitting down in the living room, after Yang Ji'an poured tea for Chen Wen and Jiuyi, he listened to the conversation between the two.
Facing the Jiuyi people, Chen Wen didn't hide it anymore, but slowly said the curse of the Chen family and Huamu Village.
And Chen Wen's first sentence made Yang Ji'an stunned.
Chen Wen's original words were: "The person who cast this poisonous curse on our Chen family and Huamu Village is not a 'mountain god', but an ancestor of our Chen family!"
When Yang Jian talked about this, Wang Junhui and I couldn't help looking at each other. Obviously, the development of the story was a bit unexpected.
The story continues. After Chen Wen said those words, the Jiuyi people also looked surprised and asked Chen Wen, "How about your ancestors want to put such a poisonous curse on your Chen family and your own village?"
Chen Wen also told a secret of the Chen family to Jiuyi and Yang Ji'an.
The Chen family is the surname of Huamu Village, because Huamu Village was originally moved here by several brothers surnamed Chen, and then settled here and developed a village.
The specific dynasty, the emperor, is no longer known. In short, it was a long time ago.
After a few brothers surnamed Chen moved here, they began to dig land in the mountains and fields, and a few people were also more industrious, so a lot of fields were soon digged here, and the brothers surnamed Chen just moved in. In the past few years, it just happened to catch up with the good weather, so the good harvest for several consecutive years has made several Chen brothers live a good life.
Then the brothers of the Chen family got married and had children here and began to reproduce.
Until more than ten generations, Huamu Village was formed here. It is said that the origin of Huamu is because a strange tree with colorful flowers grows on the top of the mountain behind the village, and this tree is also regarded as a tree by the Chen family. God tree.
I couldn't help but ask curiously, "Is this tree still there?"
Yang Ji'an shook his head and said, "Definitely not. The reason for the disappearance of the divine tree will be mentioned in the following story."
I didn't bother Yang Ji'an anymore and let him continue.
Several generations have passed in Huamu Village. Among the brothers surnamed Chen, there is a man named Chen Xiang who has shown his head. He left home and went out to do business when he was young. , and then he suddenly returned to the village with a lot of money, saying that he wanted to buy the "sacred tree" on the top of the mountain, but Chen Jungui, the patriarch of the Chen family at the time, took the lead in objecting. Chen Jungui said that the divine tree was the god who protects Huamu Village. After the god tree is dropped and removed by Chen Xiang, the feng shui of the entire Huamu Village will change greatly.
Chen Jungui's opinion was approved by all the elders in the village. In the opinion of those elders, as long as the descendants of the Chen family can farm in good weather under the protection of the divine tree, they will be fine without worrying about food or clothing. Chen Xiang's money is not needed at all.
Because the elders in the village did not agree, Chen Xiang also had no way to move the sacred tree, so he thought of the general method, that is to buy some young people in the village, he first took them to the outside world of flowers to enjoy, and then They were sent back to the village to continue their mediocre and boring farming life.
As a result, many young people were bewitched by the intoxicated fans of the outside world. At this time, Chen Xiang proposed to the village again, saying that he should pay a lot of money to buy the sacred tree, and his money would be distributed to each household in the village. It is also a large sum of money, so many young people in the village publicly expressed their support for Chen Xiang's tree purchase.
But this time, Chen Xiang still failed, because the power in the village was still in the hands of the elders, and filial piety was the first priority. At that time, the status of the elderly in the family was much higher than in this era. Among them, the oldest person is often the heaviest speaker, because the wealth control of the entire family is in his hands.
Although the young people in the village like Chen Xiang's money, they can't live without their own land, because that is the foundation of their lives, and everyone is not a fool, so after Chen Jungui took out the land to threaten those young people, those young people also Gradually, he stood back to the side of the village.
After this defeat, Chen Xiang was still unselfish. After thinking about it, he felt that the first group of people he attracted were too young and he was looking in the wrong direction. He should look for those who were about to ascend to the village's power class.
That is to say, those who are in their fifties and have a little power in their hands, some of them have coveted the position of the patriarch for a long time, so Chen Xiang selected two from these people, one is Chen Fang, the other is Chen Fang. The name is Chen Ju. These two people belong to the larger Chen family in the village. The most important thing is that these two people are short-sighted and greedy for money.
So these two people were quickly bought off by Chen Xiang. After the three people became familiar with each other, Chen Xiang encouraged Chen Ju and Chen Fang to grab the position of the patriarch, and Chen Xiang made a lot of money behind his back. , some young people also stood up to support the two men running for the patriarch, while Chen Fang and Chen Ju were older and belonged to people with some status in the family, so the older generation could not hold them down.
And it was this family dispute that brought an unprecedented disaster to Huamu Village.