debt repayment

It rained heavily last night, and before the cool and humid mountain wind greeted the remote mountain village, the scorching sun occupied the entire sky and evaporated the last drop of useless water on the ground.

The sunlight dyes the moss-covered low wall into a yellowish color, which is a good time to dry the goods.

Because there is no second floor in his house, Chen Jin can only drag a few three-legged low wooden benches, put them in a well-lit place in the front yard, set up a bamboo sieve, and then put pickled vegetables and grains on them to dry.

Half of the front yard was covered with a layer of golden millet. Chen Jinshi copied the trip and spread the millet flat. Her skin was slightly black, and her slender figure was wrapped in coarse cloth with broken patterns. Peugeot.

Beads of sweat rolled down her face and neck little by little, and she looked agile and capable.

It's not that she's not tired, it's that she doesn't dare to stop.

"Good sister, put some chili in the roast chicken at noon, my brother wants to eat chili!"

Behind her, came the soft and lovely voice of a child.

She took a long breath and said, "Hey, I see, don't worry!" Then she concentrated on her work, and when the front yard was done, she picked up the dustpan filled with wheat bran and ran to the backyard to feed the chickens, passing by the wall of the front yard. The two of them squeezed out a smile out of politeness.

It can't be blamed for these two people occupying the place, but it can only be blamed for the rising temperature and the dry and strong smell of livestock dung in the backyard, which directly hits people's hearts.

To be precise, the two of them are called escape from danger.

The beautiful lady in white was sitting on the bench, she was very particular about her appearance and her manners were good.

The young man's eyes fell on Xiao Daotong who called her just now, with a smile in his eyes.Compared with the handsome and handsome elder brother, the "brother" is much more mischievous, squatting at his feet with his legs spread apart, holding a thin string in his hand to lift a bird that has just emerged from the nest, and teasing it with a few grains of millet. The naughty boy pie.

"Is this stupid bird fun?"

Song Hui'an was in a good mood at this time, and there was no gloomy and melancholy in his words. He began quietly, as if sending a late spring night breeze in the shadow of a lamp, and the faintly soft and light fragrance would suffocate the listeners. drunk.

Quan Ying laughed and said: "It's fun! Brother Zhu, although this sparrow is stupid, it's small, and the flapping of its wings is so cute." As he spoke, he held the sparrow in front of him as if offering a treasure.The little sparrow felt the aura of a stranger, and it cried a few times in a daze.Song Hui'an opened his eyes slightly, stretched out his fingertips little by little, and then rubbed the soft and fluffy fur of the sparrow.

He seemed to like the touch very much, rubbed Que'er's plump breasts back and forth, and said with a low smile, "It's really cute."

Quan Ying said: "How about, why don't we raise it for fun?"

"No, it's so pitiful for the little thing to leave home." Song Hui'an gently tapped Que'er's beak, "It's comfortable to live in the mountains."

"This is too bad. Without Queer, who is Brother Zhu playing with? The big yellow dog on the road is skinny, and the cat is not familiar with it. Otherwise, Brother Zhu, you can play with me. My face is tender and smooth. Good pinch."

"Little fool, how can you compare yourself with a little beast? Don't do this in the future," Song Hui'an said with a smile, "Scratch your nose."

The two talked and laughed, and Chen Jinshi came out again with the bamboo basket on his back.

"My lords, the pigs in the backyard have no food to eat. I will go to the mountains to get some grass. I will come and go for an hour. When I come back, I will roast the chicken. Are you hungry?"

"I'm not hungry, I'm not hungry," Quan Ying said, waving her hand, "Sister, just go and do your work."

"okay."

As Chen Jinshi said, she walked through the small front yard of her house, and was about to open the door to leave, but she heard the little boy say again: "My dear sister, I want to ask you something!"

She froze for a moment.

"What's up……?"

"Good sister, when my brother and I entered the mountain, the villagers at the foot of the mountain said that you are haunted, and you have invited many monks to no avail. It is broad daylight, so you are not haunted?"

"Hi! How can there be ghosts during the day!" She slightly raised her voice, "Young master, our village has been haunted for so many years and no one has been killed. Don't be afraid!"

"Sister, I have also learned how to draw talismans and chant mantras from Master for a few years, how about I take a look at the situation?"

"Oh, let's talk!"

She said anxiously: "I'm leaving!"

"Goodbye, sister—"

Hearing the sound of footsteps fading away, the two people who stayed in the front yard silently looked at each other, tacit understanding.

The peasant woman has a problem, and a big one.

Song Hui'an said: "It's a genuine living person."

Quan Ying said: "It's still an ordinary person with completely different spells, and there are no traces of evil spirits seizing the house."

After saying that, the two cast their gazes into the room together.

"Amu, do you want to take another look?" Song Hui'an suggested.

"Yeah." Quan Ying loosened her hand and let go of the bird in her hand.

Walking into the stinking backyard, they all cover their mouths and noses even though the mahogany prosthetics they are using now don't need to breathe.

It was so stinky that the chickens let the farmer out of the coop and pecked at the rice all over the ground.In the pigsty with brick walls and straw huts to shelter from the wind and sun, there is a faint sound of animals panting.

The two walked up the steps leading to the upper hut of the pigsty, looked down, and saw the biggest boar in the whole pen having fun with his concubine Aifei, and a little black piglet tilted its head innocently when it saw them, quite simple and honest— —if you ignore the pig manure on its nose.

At a glance, this is an ordinary farmyard, full of the rustic taste of the land.

But Quan Ying knew that this was basically a perfect cover.

According to the peasant woman, the master of the family died early, and the child died young, leaving the peasant woman alone as a widow.It is reasonable to say that she lives alone, self-sufficient, food and clothing expenses are not much, a typical small household, but her pigsty is very large, and the wall is square.There are also many pigs raised, all revealing blessings.

These pigs reproduced endlessly, enough for her to eat a big bowl of meat a day, and the level of wealth was close to that of the big landlords.

Song Hui'an was used to Jingui before his death. He didn't know the suffering of farmers, but he also knew that this kind of situation was unusual in a barren remote mountain village, let alone Quan Ying, who was experienced in the world.

The widow's secret is hidden under the latrine.

It is reasonable to say that the pigsty should be under the wooden board for the excrement in the latrine, but the pig latrine is built high, and there is a layer between the latrine and the pigsty, and the bottom is made of bricks, which is very stable.

When Quan Ying was dragged by Song Hui'an last night, she didn't want to believe that there was still a corpse hidden here.

When they lifted the wooden board of the latrine, they saw the neatly arranged corpses in the lower floor. It was indeed a true mountain village ghost story.

Because of the shelter of the toilet, the light during the day is still not good.Quan Ying lit the Bright Light Talisman.At night, he was afraid that the light would disturb the peasant woman, and he couldn't see the details even if he looked in the dark. Now that he observed it carefully, he felt suspicious, and the unfathomable malice was like dense ants biting his legs, surging up his body.

No wonder he asked Song Hui'an last night what he saw with ghost eyes, but Song Hui'an didn't answer, but let him see for himself.

Due to the insufficient height of the compartment, all the corpses were placed in a cross-legged posture, next to each other, with yellow talismans written with cinnabar on their foreheads.

It would be fine to say that Chen Family Village has the custom of offering the corpses of their ancestors in the latrine, but the corpses in different degrees of decay in front of them are clearly monks wearing different Taoist uniforms!

The corpses that are placed inside are older, they have already turned into white bones, and the Taoist uniforms have rotted into rotten cloth, covered with dust and dust; the younger ones may have died for more than a month, their faces are already blurred, their brains have leaked out, and their school uniforms are stained with feces Can vaguely see the original - can not tell the name of the Xiaomen Xiaopai.

Quan Ying jumped out of the cubicle and checked the body, but found no fatal trauma.

It can't be that when these immortal disciples passed by Chenjia Village, they all died, their lives were spared, and Widow Chen had nowhere to put them, and they were afraid that the immortal sect would come and cause trouble, so they put them all under their own latrines, right?Even so, who put the yellow talisman on the corpse?

If it wasn't for this talisman to seal off the rotten smell of the corpse, it was the scorching heat and the corpse was rotten, so why would it be odorless?Why not let the neighbors notice?

This is clearly a premeditated, planned massacre trap aimed at monks.

Recalling the rumors that the ghost elephants in Chenjia Village have not retreated for a long time, and the ghost-suppressing monks have come and gone for decades, Quan Ying trembled all over, and was speechless for a while.

Seeing his anger, Song Hui'an hurriedly called out, "Amu, Amu?"

"Brother Zhu, I'm fine," Quan Ying said after taking a deep breath, "I'm afraid there are no ghosts in this ghostly place, it's all caused by people."

"When night falls, let's go to another house to see." Song Hui'an went out with him as soon as he thought about it.

But now, all that was left was to check the thought in his mind.

In the sky, Quan Ying didn't delay for a moment, and went straight to Qingyuan Hall to meet Le Min.After all, it was his territory that made a big mistake, so he wanted to ask him to make it clear.

Unexpectedly, the little boy in the Qingyuan Hall said that His Majesty Xuanwen took leave today to travel, and went to the northern realm to visit His Majesty Suzheng this morning.Because he didn't want to bother about trivial matters, His Majesty Xuanwen was rarely mischievous and sealed his divine consciousness.

Quan Ying suddenly felt a headache: "When will he come back?"

The doorway replied respectfully: "Your Majesty Zhenming, my Majesty said that this time he will use up all the official leave he has accumulated for 1 years, and it will take half a month. Xiaoxian has no way to contact him now." , how about you go to His Majesty Suzheng in person?"

This is very difficult. With a piece of divine consciousness, any token left by the divine body could not contact him. Quanying had no choice but to take advantage of Song Hui'an's inattention, and let Daotong's avatar rush back to the altar in the lobby, facing the statue of Emperor Xuanwen. look on in despair.

"Le Min? Le Min?" He whispered, "Don't pretend to be dead! I'm telling you something serious. Someone in the Southland plotted to kill the disciples of the Immortal Sect and kept it secret, do you know that?"

"Speak up! Killing Xianmen is a crime of disrespect to heaven, but you speak to me!"

However, the idol still looked back at him kindly.

Quan Ying sighed, since Le Min couldn't be contacted, let him handle the matter.

But it was said that Chen Jin's family left the house and did not go to the mountains. Instead, they went around and entered Chen Tuhu's house through the back door.

Butcher Chen was nine feet tall, with strong arms and a thick waist. He was sharpening his knife in the backyard. When he saw her come in, he dropped the knife and said, "Hey, why are you here?" , took her into his arms.The woman's heavy chest was pressed against the man's slightly round belly.

"Little hooves, in broad daylight, that's all you miss about your dear brother?"

"Don't make trouble, I have something to ask you." Chen Jinshi knocked off his big hand that was poking towards his chest, "Let's go into the room and talk."

Chen Tuhu was curious, so he followed her into the house.Chen Jin closed the door carefully, and whispered to him, "Two people came to my place last night."

"Can't lift it?" Chen Tuhu said, "Well, if you think it smells bad, I'll help you right away."

Chen Jinshi stomped her feet anxiously: "Oh! It's not this one! I want to ask you, are your 'things' all right?"

"It's easy to use."

"That's what's wrong! It's so mysterious!" Shocked and terrified, Chen Jinshi exclaimed, "Those two people, those two people, are still alive this morning!"

[The author has something to say: TIPS:

1. The latrine in this article refers to the pig latrine of the Han Dynasty, that is, the type of toilet built on the pigsty to discharge human feces into the pigsty. 】