In winter, farmers have little work. They either go to the port to work, or they hide in the village and make some handicrafts.
When Yin Xiu and his party followed Wei Dahong in, many eyes stood at the door of the courtyard or lying on the window sill, looking at them curiously.
"The people in our village have never seen much of the world. Although it is not far from Laomou Port, good jobs are not available to us, so we rarely go to the port. We are all porters. Some guests get off When the boat goes into the mountains, we will take them wherever it goes.
There is nothing else in Liaodong, but there are many villages with dozens or dozens of people each. Let alone the local government, sometimes you may not know who lives within a ten-mile radius.
When encountering this situation, the guests would give us a rough direction, and then we would take them there. Whether they were looking for it well or not, there would always be a local person leading them, so they would not get lost in the wilderness. , or let the wild wolves carry it away. ”
Wei Dahong patted the fire gun on his back, "Don't think that we are intercepting the road. In fact, we brought these guys mainly to prevent wolves. When we are outside, we have to leave someone to watch the fire in the middle of the night.
When the fire is on, those beasts don't dare to come forward, but if the fire goes out, wild wolves that stand as tall as a man and blind bears that are bigger than cows will smell it and come over.
These beasts are so hungry that they dare to take a bite of anything. ”
When Yin Xiu heard this, he felt even more strange, "You are so experienced, so how come you still lose animals at night?"
"If it was a beast like Blind Bear, we would have..."
"Silence!"
Wei Dahong glared at the young man behind him who spoke without knowing the importance of his words, then turned to Yin Xiu and whispered: "We suspect that those who have been visiting our village frequently recently are indeed not ordinary wolves, tigers and leopards, but Xian'er."< br>
"Xian'er?"
"Just like weasels and foxes." Hai Dongqing said.
"Shh!"
Wei Dahong complained: "This little brother, you are also a local, why don't you understand the rules? You can't mention the name of the Immortal randomly, otherwise it will be bad if you anger the Immortal family."
Hai Dongqing gave the other party a cold look and walked aside without meeting Wei Dahong.
"Our guide's temper is not very good." Yin Xiu explained.
"It doesn't matter, young people, who is not as angry as an ox?"
Wei Dahong waved his hand, "I used to fight all day long. Sometimes I would fight with others on the grain drying field. Sometimes I would lead one group of people in the village to fight another group of people. I even defeated a few bandits. , I think back then..."
"By the way, where are you taking us now?" Yin Xiu interrupted him.
"Oh, go to the ancestral hall."
Wei Dahong wiped his face, "Our clan leader should be inside. He is the oldest person here and knows the ins and outs of the matter. If he can't explain it clearly, no one can."
With that said, several people had arrived at the entrance of the ancestral hall.
For this dilapidated village, the so-called ancestral hall is just a thatched house that looks quite historical, with a plaque hanging crookedly on it.
If it weren't for the fact that Yin Xiu hadn't seen many tablets on the table when he got closer, he wouldn't have been able to connect it with the so-called Wei Ancestral Hall.
By the way, the plaque hanging on it is just a popular product that can be made at any store on the street.
If it has any value, it is purely because it has been hanging there for a long time.
Wei Tianyou, the clan leader of Weijiagou, has gray hair and is sitting inside, leaning on a cane and looking sleepy.
"The patriarch has been keeping vigil with the young people in the village these days. Elderly people tend to get sleepy if they don't get enough rest, and they can't make up for it no matter how much they sleep during the day." Wei Dahong explained.
"Understood, understood." Liu Banxian nodded.
At this time, Wei Tianyou reacted and looked at Liu Banxian, who was wearing sunglasses, "Who is this?"
"Chief, this is the master we met at the entrance of the village!" Wei Dahong said.
"What master?"
"Mr. Feng Shui!" Liu Banxian pointed at himself.
"Oh?" Wei Tianyou's eyes lit up.
"There are also two Taoist priests," he added.
"Oh." The light in Wei Tianyou's eyes dimmed again.
"What do you mean? Can't you be a Taoist priest?" Ma Xiaoyu glanced at him.
"It really doesn't work." Wei Tianyou said listlessly.
"What!?" Ma Xiaoyu raised her voice.
Yin Xiu quickly put his hands on her shoulders to comfort her.
After seeing that Ma Xiaoyu showed no signs of going berserk, he smiled at Wei Tianyou and said, "Don't worry, can you be a Taoist priest who doesn't accept money?"
"Okay!"
Wei Tianyou stood up immediately and held Liu Banxian's hand. "Master, this is what happened. Let's listen to the details..."
I don’t know when Weijiagou was established. Anyway, when Wei Tianyou was a child, his grandfather was already considered a native of this area.
So maybe the people in Weijiagou migrated here from an earlier time, and by his generation the customs and habits brought over from western Hunan have disappeared and have basically been integrated into the local customs and habits.
On a hilltop not far from Weijiagou, there is a small temple, which houses a statue of Marshal Dafeng.
It is said to be a statue, but in fact it is just a pile of soil and a few roughly shaped stones, which looks like a humanoid statue.
The reason why such a statue is erected is because it rained heavily for many days in a row.
The older generation said that it rained for three days and three nights, as if several Dongting Lake waters had fallen above their heads. Although those old men had never seen Dongting Lake, it was the largest lake they had ever heard of, so it was Just use it as an analogy.
The endless rainstorms for days finally caused flash floods.
I don’t know where it came from, but huge waves surged in at night. When many people heard the sound and got up, the flood was already so close that they couldn’t even escape.
At this moment, a silver fox appeared on the high ground in front of the village. He just stared at the mountain flood. In an instant, the flood receded and the sea was calm.
In the sky that was originally covered with dark clouds, the bright moon hung high, illuminating the surrounding areas like the sun.
All the villagers thought it was a deity appearing, and they all knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the fox, worshiped and thanked him repeatedly.
When someone had the courage to take a look at the fox's location, the fox had disappeared without knowing it.
In order to commemorate and thank the god, the villagers built a temple in the mountain, erected a statue, and offered incense all year round.
"Everyone calls him Marshal Dafeng. I even went to the temple to worship him several times when I was a child.
But later on, wars became frequent and everyone could no longer afford to eat. How could they bother to go to the temple to honor the elderly? So the temple became deserted and no one went there. ”
"That's it."
Liu Banxian touched his chin, "So, you suspect that Marshal Dafeng came to the village to cause trouble because he was angry because he didn't worship him?"
"It can only be this way."
Wei Tianyou nodded, "People in our village know the rules. If we catch yellow skins, foxes, etc., we always go far away and let them go. We have never harmed them. For no other reason than to fear that they will come back for revenge."
"The clan leader is the Huang Immortal and the Fox Immortal." Wei Dahong corrected.
"Immortal? Shit!"
Wei Tianyou said dissatisfied: "If you really have such magical powers, why don't you come to bless us with good weather? You just do some sneaky things every day, what kind of immortal are you?" Wei Dahong scratched his head in embarrassment and looked at Liu Banxian, "Master, Look at this.”
"Hmm."
Liu Banxian took out his compass and walked around the ancestral hall.
"The orientation of this ancestral hall is just right. It faces north and south, with its back facing the sun. Although it won't make you rich or successful, it will be easy to bless you with good weather, so it's not a problem with Feng Shui."
Liu Banxian walked outside and took another look.
It was now afternoon, the daylight hours in winter were short, and the sky outside was getting a little gloomy.
"Well, I can see it. There is a faint cloud in the atmosphere of your village. Something evil has indeed visited here."
"Evil thing?"
Wei Dahong's face suddenly became nervous, "Are there really those unclean things?"
"What's so strange about this?"
Wei Tianyou said angrily: "People in our village have been keeping watch like this for several days, and no one dares to sleep a wink. In the end, chickens and ducks are still thrown away. Even the big yellow dog who keeps watch died inexplicably. It's not an evil thing."
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After saying that, Wei Tianyou walked up to Liu Banxian and asked him: "Master, do you think there is any solution?"
Liu Banxian was not in a hurry to speak, and just asked him: "Have you ever seen what that thing looks like?"
Wei Tianyou thought for a while and murmured: "There are different opinions."
"There are different opinions, you mean many people have seen it?"
"Well, many people have seen it. Ergouzi said it was a white shadow, very long, like a dachshund.
Gou Sheng said that he had seen it too, it was black and a big round ball. Others say it looks like a cow or a horse, so I have different opinions. ”
"Very good." Liu Banxian nodded.
"What's good?"
"Oh, I mean you used this idiom very well. It's true that each person says it one way, so people can't tell which one is true and which one is false."
"There are still people who would tell lies about this kind of thing?" Wei Dahong asked strangely.
"Why not?"
Liu Banxian adjusted his sunglasses and said, "Some people have seen it, and naturally some people have not. This is not surprising.
There is nothing to be proud of if you have seen it, and there is nothing to lose if you have not seen it.
But this is a village, so you need to think more carefully about things. Others say they have seen it before, but you have never seen it. So is it because you are not lucky or are you lazy?
Or it could simply be that someone listened to someone else's vivid description and thus had some illusion that they had seen those things. This is not surprising.
So sometimes what people tell lies turns out to be true. It's not that someone deliberately lied, but just listened to it, and the listener thought that he had experienced it himself. ”
"Master, this is the first time I have heard such profound yet practical remarks." Wei Dahong praised.
"So he is a master and you are a farmer. Go aside and don't cause trouble!"
Wei Tianyou pushed Wei Dahong aside angrily.
"Master, please tell me, what should we do now? Do we need to do some rituals and dojos to calm down the anger of the great immortal?"
Liu Banxian had no idea for the time being, so he just continued to ask: "Have you been to Marshal Dafeng's temple?"
"I sent several young people up the mountain to look, but they all said they couldn't find it."
"Can't find it?"
"Yes, it may have collapsed due to disrepair, or it may have been buried under vegetation. After all, no one has been to that temple for many years. Even if I go there now, I'm afraid I can't remember the location."< br>
"That's it."
Liu Banxian squeezed his palms and said, "That's a bit troublesome. Let's go to the temple to see it tomorrow.
Or maybe from beginning to end, this matter has nothing to do with Marshal Gale? It's getting late now. We'll stay in the village tonight and check the situation. ”
After a pause, he added: "Maybe tonight, we can catch that thing and figure out what it is."
"Is he really that powerful?" Wei Tianyou's eyes sparkled.
"No guarantee." Liu Banxian emphasized.
"It's okay, I'll arrange a place for you to stay, Dahong!"
"Okay!"
Wei Dahong immediately walked up and looked at Yin Xiu and the others.
"Everyone, there are a few unused wing rooms in the village. Although they are not very good, they are better than clean. I will ask someone to clean them for you to live in first.
Well, then Master Liu, you can stay in one room, this girl will be in a separate room, and the other three of you can squeeze in on the big kang. How about that? ”
"No." Hai Dongqing suddenly protested.
"Although it's a bit of a squeeze, there's no problem sleeping four or five people on that big kang, little brother." Wei Dahong explained.
"No." Hai Dongqing still refused.
"Then why don't you sleep in the same room with me," Liu Banxian scratched his head, "I sleep very soundly. I don't talk in my sleep or grind my teeth. I just sleep peacefully."
Hai Dongqing still shook his head.
"Then what do you want?" Yin Xiu asked.
"I also want a separate room. I'm not used to sleeping with others." Hai Dongqing was very determined.
"Wow, you are so troublesome. Why didn't you know you had this request when you were at the dock? It would be nice to have a place for you to sleep." Liu Banxian couldn't help but shake his head.
"It's okay, it's okay."
Wei Dahong patted his chest, "I originally thought that if we arrange it this way, we can live close together so that we can take care of each other. Since this little brother likes to be quiet, I will just arrange a separate room for you."
"Sorry to trouble you." Hai Dongqing said coldly.
So several people settled in the village under Wei Dahong's arrangement.
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By midnight, the night watchmen in the village had taken turns, and there were only a few barking dogs in the village.
Naturally, Yin Xiu and the others didn't have to do night vigil work, but he couldn't get used to sleeping on this hot kang, especially when Ren Qi stuffed a lot of firewood into it.
So Yin Xiu woke up from the heat in the middle of the night and went outside to pour water under the tree.
Just when he was about to release himself, a figure suddenly appeared in the moonlight.
"Who?" Yin Xiu's hand stopped on the zipper.
"It's me, Brother Xiu."
Ma Xiaoyu's slim figure approached with a smile like a flower, "My room is a little cold, would you like to go over and squeeze in with me?" (End of Chapter)