From Jiu Shu's world

This side of the hillside is facing Xiaoping Village, there is no stone on the side, like a cliff, the shrubs are sparse here, the stones are exposed, and they are white in the moonlight.A strange black tree stood alone on the hillside, with luxuriant leaves, but the branches were very twisted, as if it had been tortured, and stretched painfully in all directions.

Before Henry Zhang and Ren Tingting reached the hillside, they stopped far away. They saw a light of fire under the tree. A man and a woman seemed to be burning something in front of the tree.

"Brother Xuan, we met these two people today..."

Chapter 186 The Thing Hanging on the Tree

These two people, Henry Zhang and Ren Tingting, have naturally met, because Henry Zhang and Ren Tingting just pulled out the grievances in their bodies not long ago.

Henry Zhang and Ren Tingting recognized the two, but they didn't make a sound, but hid them, and then saw what the two wanted to do.

The two people under the tree did not speak, and there seemed to be unspeakable sadness in the silence.The two of them knelt under the tree silently, throwing paper money one after another into the fire in front of them.

After burning the paper money for a while, the man stood up and took out a handful of incense from the basket beside him, and put it on the fire to light it.The orange-yellow light of the incense sticks swayed in the night.

He handed the incense to the woman, and said in a deep voice, "Bring incense to the second child, it's getting late."

The woman was stunned, and finally cried again, sobbing in a low voice, took the incense, and began to stick it under the tree, sobbing softly while inserting: "I'm sorry..."

The man stood up, and although he didn't say anything, he seemed to be secretly wiping away his tears. He paused for a while, then took out melons and fruits and a bowl of glutinous rice from the basket, and put them under the tree. Said: "Eat, eat, and go on the road after eating."

After setting up the sacrifices and offering incense, the man took out a wooden stick tied to the tomb drifter, and started to walk around the strange tree, chanting unknown spells in a low voice as he walked, as if some kind of transcendence According to the scriptures, women were crying while picking up the basket, grabbed the paper money from inside, and sprinkled it.

The ceremony of a man and a woman lasted for about half an hour, and it was not over until the man planted the tomb in front of the tree.He put his arm around the woman's shoulder, comforted her in a low voice, and said, "Don't cry, this is fate, we should go."

The two supported each other down the mountain, and Henry Zhang and Ren Tingting walked out of the bushes, looked at the direction they were going back, and then turned to look at the strange tree, Henry Zhang said: "Let's go and have a look. "

Henry Zhang had a clear look at the movements of the man and woman just now, and it looked like he was worshiping someone, but there was no bare tomb in this place, and this worship seemed very weird.It is even said that which family's worship will be held in the middle of the night?

The two walked quickly to the top of the hill, and came under the tree to examine carefully. There was a pile of burnt paper money ash scattered all over the ground in light yellow paper money, plus the incense and sacrifices in front of the tree, and the one The tomb fluttering in the wind is really a worship ceremony.

Henry Zhang looked around, wanting to see what else was special, Ren Tingting suddenly looked up at this moment, and in the moonlight, she suddenly saw something hanging on the tree, tied with a thick rope up.

The back of this object is facing Ren Tingting, and it is covered by leaves, so it cannot be seen clearly.She shouted to Henry Zhang: “Brother Xuan has something here.”

As she said, she took a few steps to the side, trying to see the hanging thing clearly.

After taking a look around, he finally saw the appearance of that thing clearly, it turned out to be a pale baby face.

"call"

Ren Tingting suddenly saw this thing, subconsciously took a few steps back, staggered a little, was startled, and nearly fell down.

Henry Zhang happened to be called by Ren Tingting at this time, and seeing her almost fell, he quickly supported her body and asked, "Tingting, are you okay?"

Ren Tingting stood firm and shook her head, feeling a little relieved. She was just surprised when she saw this scene suddenly, but she was not scared, so she will recover.She said, "Brother Xuan, there is a baby hanging on that tree."

Henry Zhang looked up, and sure enough, he saw a pale baby hanging from a tree, motionless and very scary.

Ren Tingting looked at the baby and asked in a deep voice, "Who are they?"

Henry Zhangdao: "Guangying, or hanging tree baby"

Ren Tingting showed a puzzled look, she had never heard of this term.

Henry Zhang explained: It is customary in some places among the people that the baby who died early will be very angry and harm the family, so he will find a tall tree on the side of the road that every passerby can see, and hang the baby on it for seven days and seven nights. Every time passers-by looked at it, the resentment was reduced by one point, and the baby was buried seven days later.

Ren Tingting showed an incredulous look, and she said, "This...how can these parents be so cruel?"

Although the baby is dead, it is still a body. How can the parents have the heart to let the baby hang on the tree for seven days and nights, exposed to the wind, rain, and sun?

Hearing this, Henry Zhang shook his head. He said that there are more cruel ones in his heart. He cannot land for seven days. Be more stable, that's called cruelty.

The couple in Xiaoping Village obviously felt very sympathetic to their child. The thick rope was tied with a very delicate knot, instead of being strangled desperately, so the damage to the baby's body was not that great.

Henry Zhang took care of Ren Tingting’s feelings, and didn’t tell her about it, but instead said: “It’s just a harmful custom. This baby died early normally. Although there is some resentment, but the baby is the most pure and will not harm the family. At most, it will become a spiritual baby. That's all. If they hang on to each other, they will be prone to accidents."

What Henry Zhang said is indeed true. As far as he knows, some minority tribes think exactly the opposite. They think that the baby is born pure, so it should not be entangled by the filth of the ground, so they build a coffin and place the baby in it. Buried on a tree , to bring the pure baby soul closer to the heaven.

Ren Tingting didn't know how to feel after hearing Henry Zhang's explanation, but Henry Zhang said at this time: "I'll let the Gu worm go up and check."

Although the hanging tree baby seemed to be the funeral custom that Henry Zhang knew, but he was careful and saw something wrong.

You must know that this strange tree is located in the back mountain, how could a passer-by come to it, if the passer-by can't see it, there is no point in hanging a baby.And even if this can be explained by the unique customs of Xiaoping Village, there are hidden problems in this midnight sacrifice and this weird dialogue.

Dixuan sent a ghost stag beetle to fly up and near the baby. There was no wound on the baby's body, and it seemed that he must have died of illness, but when the ghost stag beetle flew to the baby's eyebrows.

Henry Zhang’s complexion changed below, and Ren Tingting saw this scene and asked, “Brother Xuan, what’s the matter?”

"The situation is wrong, the baby's soul has been detained."

After Henry Zhang finished speaking, he also summoned the transformed snake, let him climb up the tree, cooperated with the ghost stag beetle to break the thick rope that bound the baby, and then brought the baby under the tree.

The baby was very peaceful, except for his pale face and slightly swollen body, it looked more like he was asleep.Henry Zhang will check carefully, especially the center of the eyebrows, which faintly has evil fluctuations. If there were no Gu insects who checked closely and sensed the fluctuations, he might have missed it.

Chapter 187 The Weird Customs of Xiaoping Village

Henry Zhang bit his fingertips, dripped a drop of his own blood on the child's eyebrows, and then chanted the spell, something seemed to stick to his fingers.

He began to pull hard, and for a full minute, with the cooperation of Henry Zhang's fingertip blood and spells, he pulled a black baby phantom from the eyebrow inch by inch.

The eyes of this baby's soul are closed tightly, but the expression is no longer the serenity of the corpse, but a distorted appearance close to suffocation.

Henry Zhang and Ren Tingting were stunned when they saw that the baby turned out to be covered with countless vine-like black strips, from hands and feet to limbs, and finally tightly wrapped around the neck, which looked like a chain.

Henry Zhang used spiritual power in his hand to untie the weird rattan, but after pulling it slightly, he discovered that the rattan was so tightly entangled with the baby, as if it had grown together.

Henry Zhang just wanted to use more power, but Ren Tingting suddenly reached out to grab Henry Zhang's hand and said, "Brother Xuan, don't, look there."

Ren Tingting looked solemn, and pointed at the baby ghost's heart, good guy, there is actually one end growing directly from the heart under the cover of the rattan, if you pull it out with all your strength, won't it also destroy the soul body?

Henry Zhang had no choice but to give up, and took out a bamboo tube to temporarily put the soul in. The soul was trapped in the body like this, I am afraid that there is really a problem behind Xiaoping Village.

Ren Tingting was thoughtful, and suddenly she had a flash of inspiration. How could the appearance of this baby tied up by vines be so similar to what Ding Fuxing described in his nightmare?

She said: "Brother Xuan, could it be that this infant spirit is causing trouble, you can see that the appearance just now is similar to Ding Fuxing's nightmare."

When Henry Zhang was reminded by Ren Tingting, he also thought of this joint, but then he shook his head again: "No, if it is really the infant spirit who resents being restrained by others, I am afraid that there are not many people who are sick in Xiaoping Village. .”

Henry Zhang paused for a while, and then said: "Besides, the baby was tied up by this weird tree vine just now, and it has been trapped in the body, and it can't get out at all."

Henry Zhang and Ren Tingting faintly grasped the clues of the matter. The nightmare in Xiaoping Village seemed to be related to the custom of hanging baby trees, but how much it was related, and why there were baby ghosts trapped in the body, it was still a fog.

Henry Zhangdao: "Let's bury this baby for the time being. There are some questions. I guess we will only know about them if we ask Brother Ding tomorrow."

Under the strange tree, it has been ten days since Henry Zhang and Ren Tingting finished burying the baby, and the crowing of chickens in Xiaoping Village has been faintly heard.

When the two of them got down the hillside and rushed back to Xiaoping Village, it was already daylight. As soon as they approached their temporary house, they saw Ding Fuxing and Ding Fusheng already waiting in the house.