From Jiu Shu's world

When they saw Henry Zhang and Ren Tingting coming in, they stood up, greeted them and said, "Doctor Zhang, Miss Ren, you are back. We brought you breakfast."

As they spoke, they welcomed Henry Zhang and Ren Tingting to the dining table, and handed the bowls and chopsticks to Henry Zhang and Ren Tingting.While serving the porridge, they smiled and said, "Breakfast is millet porridge, which is a bit simple. Forgive me, Doctor Zhang."

"Brother Fuxing, Brother Fusheng, wait a moment, we have something to ask you."

Henry Zhang stopped their movements, and then asked.

The two brothers Ding Fuxing turned their heads and saw the serious faces of Henry Zhang and Ren Tingting. Realizing that something was wrong, they put down the bowls in their hands and said, "Speak, Doctor Zhang."

Henry Zhang didn’t talk nonsense, and asked straight to the point: “What happened to the hanging baby tree and the baby on the hillside behind?”

When Ding Fuxing and Ding Fusheng heard the words, their expressions suddenly changed, and they fell silent for a long time before they said, "Dr. Zhang, have you seen everything?"

Henry Zhang nodded, and told about the encounter with a couple last night, but the ghost matter was temporarily kept secret.

"Oh, it's Ding Wang and his wife." Ding Fusheng sighed and said, "A few days ago, the second child of their family fell ill. He was afraid that he would die at home and be unclean, so he reluctantly hung the child on the tree according to the way the old man stayed behind. Come on. Poor man too."

Ding Fusheng shook his head while talking, but Ding Fuxing looked sad and said, "Oh, poor family is not like this, my boss, isn't yours the same?"

Ding Fusheng smiled miserably, with tears in his eyes. It seemed that Ding Fuxing's words touched his heart. He wiped away the tears and said, "I scared you. This is our custom, nothing else. It's just that this mountain and wild place, The child is too young, really"

During the period of the Republic of China, the probability of this baby dying prematurely was terrifying, not to mention that in this mountain village, the medical conditions and sanitation conditions were really poor, there were many poisonous snakes and monsters, and children were more likely to die young.

Henry Zhang heard something was wrong, and asked quickly: "Brother Ding, you also have children who died early? What about those who have had nightmares?"

When Henry Zhang asked, he stopped Ding Fusheng and Ding Fuxing.After being stunned for a long time, their complexion changed, and after careful consideration, there were babies who died prematurely. They asked, "Doctor Zhang, is it... those babies who did it?"

As they asked, their hands clenched on the table showed that they were not calm, and guilt arose in their hearts, thinking that this custom caused the resentment of baby ghosts.

But Henry Zhang said: "Not necessarily, but I suspect that even the custom of hanging baby trees is a scam."

The coincidence of the matter is that Henry Zhang has to doubt that every child who has a nightmare and strange disease has a child who dies prematurely, and they all use the funeral custom of hanging a baby tree, I am afraid they are all like last night like a baby.

All the clues pointed to the hanging baby tree, and Henry Zhang even suspected that these babies might not have died naturally.

So Henry Zhang also told about the tree vine trapping the baby ghost. After the two brothers heard it, they were stunned and didn't know what to say.

After a long while, Ding Fusheng asked in a crying voice, "Doctor Zhang, you...you mean these children were probably killed by ghosts?"

"I don't know, but something must be staring at the child's ghost." Henry Zhang paused, and then asked: "Brother Fusheng, do you know where these babies were buried in the end? I want to see the situation. "

The baby hanging on the tree will be re-buried after seven days and seven nights. This is the general practice of hanging the baby tree, and it is believed that the baby will have great resentment after death, so it is generally not buried in the ancestral grave.I just don't know that each family in Xiaoping Village is buried in secret or in a centralized way.

Ding Fusheng said in a deep voice, "It's buried in the valley behind the mountain. I'll take you there. I want to find out about this too."

Other families may just have a child who died young, maybe the eldest or the second child, but after all, the wife is still there, and most of them have surviving children, accompanied by family members.

But because of the premature death of his child and the nightmare, even his wife died.When I suddenly heard that something might be behind the scenes, the longing and sadness in my heart may now turn into an attachment to find out the truth.

Henry Zhang and Ren Tingting looked at each other, and then said: "It's not too late, let's go and have a look."

Chapter 188 The Valley in the Mist

Although the valley Ding Fusheng mentioned is just behind the big mountain behind Xiaoping Village, it sounds very close, but the distance is not close. The mountain road is rugged, and all kinds of trees and shrubs block the road. It still takes a lot of time.

It is a common thing that there are valleys deep in the mountains. It is said that the ancestors of this Xiaoping village planted fruit trees and herded goats in the valley when they first arrived, but I don’t know when this valley gradually became Xiaoping Village. forbidden area.

In the beginning, this valley was not a forbidden area, but a place to be avoided, just like weird places like cemeteries and mass graves.

It's hard to judge when it became such a taboo place, but it seems that it started when the first hanging tree baby was buried in that valley.

From then on, except for a few brave men, people in the village rarely went to this valley. After all, everyone thought that the baby was very angry and did not want to go to that place again.

Later, the people in the village seemed to reach a certain consensus in silence. The hanging tree babies were all buried in this valley, and no one would approach them easily except for the annual worship and burial.

However, there is one thing that really makes this valley a forbidden area. The family of Ding Bold, a sheep herder, had been herding sheep in this valley decades ago because Ding Bold did not believe in evil.

Suddenly another day, when this guy was daring to herd the sheep, there was a thick fog in the valley, and he couldn't see anything where he reached out his hand for a whole day and night.

But there is a heavy fog in this mountain, where is it easy to find people, not to mention how dangerous it is to go rashly if you can't see the mountain road clearly, let's say that the poisonous snakes and beasts hidden in the fog are all deadly.

Coupled with the rumors that came from nowhere, saying that the thick fog was caused by the hanging tree baby, it was surprising that no one dared to brave the thick fog and enter the valley to find someone.

One day and one night passed, and when the fog cleared, I dared to go in to find someone. Before I went in, I saw Ding Boldly lying not far from the mouth of the valley, his clothes were torn, his hair was messy and covered with broken leaves, and his mouth was white. foam.

Everyone hurriedly woke him up, but this Ding boldly woke up with a panicked expression, talking nonsense, he was already crazy.Everyone didn't know what to do, so they had to send him home.

I thought there was nothing wrong, but within three days, the whole family died, leaving only a bloody "sacrifice" on the wall.

For a moment, Xiaoping Village was so frightened that people didn't dare to approach the valley. Some people even wanted to move away, and they were from the older generation.

The big guy immediately slaughtered pigs and sheep to bravely go to the valley to worship. Since then, this valley has become a forbidden place. Except for worship and burial, no one has ever stepped into it.

Ding Fusheng walked all the way, talking to Henry Zhang about the valley. As for what happened that year, he heard the details from the elders in his family.

In detail, Ding boldly belonged to his grandfather's generation. He was not born when the accident happened, so he didn't know the details.

It’s just that the story is put here now, plus the hanging tree baby and the nightmare, whether it’s Henry Zhang or Ding Fusheng, they still have their own guesses in their hearts, that there is really a problem with this valley.

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The road leading to the valley has not been walked by many people for a year, and a lot of vegetation has grown horizontally and blocked it.Ding Fusheng led the way with a sharp hatchet in his hand, while cutting the grass and trees to open a path.

Henry Zhang and Ren Tingting followed behind, his ghost stag beetle was released quietly, and he followed and guarded in the bushes on both sides. This valley was different, so he had to be on guard early.

The three of us walked for a long time, and the air became more humid as we walked towards the back of the mountain. I don't know if it was because of the lush forests, or because the temperature in the mountain began to drop as the sun gradually set. In the end, the mountain road became more and more slippery. Difficult.

Finally, when the sun had completely set, the three of them arrived near the entrance of the valley.

At this time, the valley was filled with thick fog like a white cloth for some reason, and the white mist completely covered the valley, like a white abyss, or like the terrifying mouth of some unknown giant beast.

For some reason, all three of them thought about that Ding Bold story at this time. The white mist might be hiding an unknown danger.

"Brother Xuan, do you want to go in?"

Ren Tingting turned her head to look at Henry Zhang, the fog was not yet clear, and she worried that Henry Zhang would be in danger if he went in.

Henry Zhang shook his head, his brows were tightly frowned, it was only now that he felt it carefully, the fog seemed to be not an ordinary thick fog in the mountains, it actually carried a trace of undetectable evil spirit, I am afraid that something was released to cover the valley.

So Henry Zhang said: "I sent Gu worms to go in and have a look, this fog is weird, don't go in."

The fog was thick and the situation was unclear. Henry Zhang did not dare to send the main force to rush in, but released the Yin Locust from the black coffin space, which was a feed Gu insect that had not been used for a long time.

There were about a dozen Yin locusts. After coming out of Henry Zhang’s black coffin space, they scattered and flew into the mist, and began to investigate the situation towards the valley.

The three of Henry Zhang found a place where a big rock was outside the valley to rest, and then they took advantage of this rest to ingest a cloud of mist and controlled it in their hands.

He took out an exorcism talisman with his left hand and struck it, only to see that the exorcism talisman ignited spontaneously without fire, and after a bang, a cyan smoke came out of the mist, which was indeed the evil spirit he had perceived earlier.