After I died, I soared

Xi Ling easily said that he was convinced of the young man's life experience, and his credibility as a national teacher was greatly enhanced.The villagers finally felt relieved, and within a short while, one or two fell on their knees like dumplings, begging Xiling to do the end and save them, crying bitterly.

Xi Ling didn't pursue the previous disrespect, he asked the villagers to tell him the whole story in a cold voice.As soon as this was mentioned, the people who were crying just now fell silent, and they were quite taboo about this topic.

Shen Jiming sighed: "Don't say anything, how to solve it."

The gentle young man showed an unnatural look on his face, and reluctantly said: "We don't want to hide it like this, it's just that the matter is strange, and... evil, we really dare not mention it."

Shen Jiming's tone showed impatience: "You dare not mention it, but you can tie your compatriots outside like animals, use people as bait, and refuse to save them. It's really cruel."

"But he's clearly—"

"You insist that he is in collusion with Xie Chong, but you can't come up with conclusive evidence. In a village like yours, you don't need Xie Chong to take action. You just wait for your own wild suspicions and doubts. Why don't you have a day of self-destruction."

"The national teacher... doesn't know something," one of the older men said. Judging by his attire, he was probably the person in power in the village. "It's a long story."

The village head told the whole story slowly, and Shen Jiming summed it up as follows.

As Shen Jiming said, this place is surrounded by mountains and rivers, beautiful and beautiful, and it is very suitable for farming and living.After several generations of hard work, the ancestors of the villagers finally found this precious land and settled down. Due to the long history, the specific year is no longer available.According to the legend of the old man, there are nine-tailed foxes in Qingqiu Mountain. As long as people worship them devoutly, they will protect their safety for generations.The offering conditions are not tricky, clean stream water and fresh fruit are served every day, and an extra roast chicken brushed with honey is enough on the [-]th of the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Ordinary people are in awe of ghosts and gods, so naturally they dare not neglect the mountain god fox, and the sun and moon worship it devoutly.Xu is the sincerity of the villagers. Under the protection of the fox, the village has never suffered natural or man-made disasters.

According to the villagers, if it wasn't for the injured man, their village wouldn't have these strange incidents.

The man's name is Ah Fu, he was born to beat his parents hard, his father who went hunting in the mountains was killed in the womb, and his mother was killed when he was born.Although the villagers feel sorry for him, but every family has hard-to-read scriptures, and no one can spare extra energy to raise him. They can only let him grow up freely, so that Ah Fu can't speak well when he is more than ten years old, let alone understand. Human beings are sophisticated, and their minds are no different from those of wild animals in the mountains.One day, Ah Fu actually stole the offerings from Shenhu to eat. When the villagers found out, only the leg bones remained of a delicious roast chicken.

How to determine that the offering must have been stolen by Ah Fu? The villagers did not elaborate, and Shen Jiming secretly buried doubts.In short, the villagers beat Ah Fu up and forced him to kowtow in the direction of Qingqiu Mountain until his forehead bled.Ah Fu didn't struggle and make a noise, as if he admitted that the matter was his own doing.Everyone was worried for a while, and everything in the village was as usual, so they were relieved.

Unexpectedly, a few years later, that is, a few months before the two of Shen Jiming came here, things began to become unusual.

At first it was a mountain road, and the old road that had been walked for hundreds of years was filled with thick fog for no reason. The hunters in the village disappeared frequently, and few people who entered Qingqiu Mountain came out again.Orion, who was lucky enough to escape, recalled that the direction of the mountain road was completely different from before, even diametrically opposite.The mountains were not as peaceful as before, and the roars of beasts could be clearly heard deep in the forest.The fragrance of wild fruits and leaves in the forest also faded away, replaced by a fishy and sweet smell of blood.

The sudden change made the villagers panic. At first, everyone didn't think much about it. They thought that a man-eating beast came from the mountain and crashed into the mountain road and damaged the mountain road.Shenhu has spiritual consciousness, and his cultivation is unfathomable, so he will not let it do anything wrong.However, after a long time, the dense fog in the mountains did not show any sign of dissipating. On the contrary, some people in the village began to have strange dreams.Those who are recruited must have slurred speech, crooked eyes and slanted mouth. Within two days, they will be scared to death in their own dreams, so others will have no way of knowing the true content of the nightmare.The villagers died one after another, and even the village head's wife and children were not spared. As the village head, he was helpless, until someone reminded him, could it be that he offended the fox a few years ago, and now he is punished today?

Up to now, dead horses can only be treated as living horse doctors, and this statement is not unreasonable.Right now people are panicking, someone must stand up and preside over the situation. The next day, the village head gathered a group of young and strong men to tie up Ah Fu and prepare to send him into the deep mountains. Fox, your old man brought it here, and if you want to kill it, you should hang it up and listen to it.In order to prevent people from getting lost in the dense fog, the village chief ordered everyone to wrap ropes around their bodies and walk up the mountain one by one, returning immediately if there was any danger.

A group of people set off in a mighty way, and the rest of the villagers stood guard at the entrance of the village, looking forward to it from sunrise to sunset, but they never returned.

In the end, only the one who should not have come back came back.

Ah Fu's body was still wrapped with a rope, blood was splashed all over his body and face, and the smell of blood attracted many buzzing flies.His face was paler than usual, and he seemed to be frightened crazy. The village chief asked him in a trembling voice, "Why are you... where are the others?"

Ah Fu didn't answer, just murmured: "They're all dead... they're all dead. I begged him, and I told him to eat all the roast chicken, don't kill me. He said he wouldn't kill me, he said he wouldn't kill me. He...he...don't kill me, don't kill me. Don't kill me! Don't kill me!"

Ah Fu squatted down in pain, his two slender arms hugged his head tightly, looking heart-piercing.He is mentally incomplete, and he doesn't understand what he said, and now he can only cry and shout.The villagers knew that they couldn't ask any more questions, but the fact was before them that everyone who went there died, and he was the only one left alive.The villagers who lost their loved ones were in agony, and the pain, anger, and fear that had nowhere to vent poured on Ah Fu, pulling his hair, spitting, yelling, and beating. Most of Ah Fu's old injuries came from this.

It seems that things have developed to this point.A Fu stole the offerings of the Nine-Tailed Shenhu without authorization, and offended the fox, which brought disaster to the village.When the villagers arrested Ah Fu to make amends, all the villagers except him died, and only one of them was safe and sound. There was also a mention of roast chicken during the conversation, which made it more certain that the god fox was in trouble.Ah Fu probably reached some kind of agreement with Shenhu, so Shenhu spared his life, which is why the villagers insisted that he was in collusion with the monster.

The fox that has been worshiped for generations has revealed its true colors as a monster. Even if it was wrong for Ah Fu to steal the offering, it should not have cost so many innocent lives.The villagers didn't want to sit still, so they tied Ah Fu as a bait at the entrance of the village to lure the Nine-Tailed Fox to show up, catch and kill him.This method is extremely risky, but it is also the only way.Everyone has been waiting for a while, but unexpectedly, the Nine-Tailed Fox has not appeared once, but a white-haired national teacher has come.

Shen Jiming fell into deep thought. The villagers' thoughts were very simple, but he felt that it was not that simple.

Then he asked: "How can you be sure that the original offering was stolen by Ah Fu?"

The village chief opened his mouth and said frankly: "At this juncture, I don't need to slander. Ah Fu is mentally incomplete, but he is not completely ignorant. We asked him if he had moved the offerings, and he said he had. There's honey on it, so there's nothing wrong with it."

This is even more strange. Long before Ah Fu was born, the village had already had the custom of offering sacrifices. After this man was born, he was full of misfortunes.If he was greedy and stole the offerings, he should have done it a long time ago. With his mind, he couldn't bear it for so long.Not to mention the behavior of the Nine-Tailed Fox, who stole a roast chicken from it a few years ago and only thought of revenge a few years later, even if he couldn't understand the spirit beast's mind, it was too moody.Furthermore, spirit beasts are born with fairy roots, and they are so strange one by one, how could they starve themselves to the point of starvation? The offerings they asked for were not many, and they only asked for the wishes of the villagers.How could he suddenly change his temperament and bloodbath the entire village just for one chicken?

Shen Jiming didn't dare to speak nonsense, he looked at Xi Ling: "Xian... National Teacher, what do you think?"

Xiling asked back, "What do you think?"

"I think... I'm afraid there is something hidden."

Xi Ling nodded: "Indeed."

Xi Ling cast his eyes on the village head, and said slowly: "I already know what you said. From now on, no one should step into Qingqiu Mountain. Also," he took off a kit from his waist and handed it to the village head In his hands: "Go back and remove the curtain, divide the incense powder inside and sprinkle it on the threshold, it will be safe for three days."

The village head hesitated to speak: "Only three days..."

Xi Ling could see what he was thinking: "The village will be safe in one day, and three days is enough."

The man was slightly relieved, and he led everyone out and left the wooden house.Seeing that everyone was gone, Shen Jiming finally didn't need to carry the fan anymore. He held the fan in one hand, with a nervous expression on his face: "Does the Immortal Chief have a clue? Is one day really enough?"

Xi Ling didn't answer directly. He walked to the door and looked at the shadow on the ground: "I see that your complexion has been bad all the time. Are you tired?"

Shen Jiming was confused by this non-continuous conversation: "Huh? It's okay, I'm not feeling sick."

"That's right. If you lack sleep and sleep, if you don't pay attention to rest, be careful of heart palpitations. If you are tired now, you'd better take a rest during the day and follow me into the mountain at night. The real culprit of this case Easy to find but hard to catch, don't underestimate the enemy."