This year's monsters are super fierce [75]

Zeshui Village.

On the fourth day of October, the new moon is like a hook.

Outside the small courtyard of Ji Village's head, a middle-aged woman was walking around with two bulldogs.

This person is the wife of the village chief, Wang Shi. She is not walking the dog to digest food at this time, she is clearly patrolling outside the courtyard on purpose to keep watch for the three people inside, for fear that anyone will eavesdrop on her family's secrets.

Inside the house, Village Chief Ji clutched the armrest of the chair tightly, repeating the question nervously.

"Jiu Sui Taoist priest, are you sure that the old Zhou family's ancestral tomb can really conjure a drought man? This matter can't be careless. If the coffin lid is lifted, there will be an unchanged corpse inside, and I will be the village chief." It's over."

"Old Ji, don't worry. I said his family has it, and if he doesn't have it, he can change it. I said he doesn't have it, and if he has it, he can change it to normal."

Daoist Jiusui stroked his beard, he was skinny in his forties, if his face was a little fatter, he would be thankful for his kind face, but now he is as thin as a monkey with a sharp mouth.He flirted with Ji Xin, the only son of Village Chief Ji, who was beside him.

Ji Xin understood and spoke to Taoist Jiusui, and he immediately mentioned the 1000 taels of gold that he had already obtained.

"Father, what are you still hesitating about? This time I got the 1000 taels of gold. If you say that I will just leave, the three of us will go to Bianjing to settle down. You still worry about the lack of water in the village.

The Taoist priest kindly proposed a solution, the Zhou family has always been at odds with us, so there is nothing wrong with borrowing the corpse of his ancestor. "

1000 taels of gold, these five words made Village Chief Ji make up his mind that it is imperative to exhume the Zhou family ancestor's grave and flog the corpse.

This starts with the night of Mid-Autumn Festival.

On August [-]th, Ji Xin drank a few more drinks with a group of cronies, and five or six of them started a bravery competition somehow.

Everyone writes a little request, and a few people draw lots, and the task will be completed for whichever note is drawn.That night, Ji Xin dared to go to Dangshan at night to hunt a wild pheasant and come back.

If Ji Xinwen is not a martial artist, he usually lives by his name as the village chief's son.For him, it is absolutely impossible for him to go into the mountains and forests to hunt pheasants at night without the strength of Jiu Jin.

Dangshan is also called Mangdangshan.Even though Dang Mountain is not high, there are many legends there, and it is by no means a safe place.To pick one of the most famous ones, Liu Bang killed the white snake here, and later he revolted to destroy Qin.

Ji Xin didn't care how Han Gaozu hid Dangshan and later revolted. His focus was on the huge white snake in the legend.

There is a local version that says that the white snake is three or four feet long and has a body that is thicker than the mouth of a well. Most people would swallow it in one bite if they encountered it.

For example, there are such mountains and forests that seem to have been haunted by demon snakes. Unless Xu Yibailiang is tempted by silver, Ji Xin will never step into Dangshan Mountain.

However, this night Ji Xin stumbled over drunkenness.He even rushed in angrily, because someone said something that irritated him.

That cripple Zhou Hua has a good cousin-in-law who sits at home and counts money.I said Mr. Ji Dalang, once your father ceases to be the village chief, are you sure you can take his place?

How did I hear that there is another intention in the village, maybe the Liu family or the Wang family, both of which are very close to Zhou Hua?You don't even dare to enter the mountains, why would the villagers choose you as a display? '

Zhou Hua!

When Ji Xin heard the name, Jiu Jin's head became even hotter.If anyone in this life is not pleasing to his eyes, Zhou Hua is the one who is sure.

From the beginning, whether the two have blood feud or not, they have no direct intersection, but Ji Xin believes that there will always be one person alive who will overwhelm him.

Zeshui Village has not been formed for a short time. A group of people settled here to escape the war a hundred years ago.People in the village come from different places, and there is no saying that any one surname dominates.

The Ji family and the Zhou family were originally neighbors, and they were barely able to make ends meet.

Ten years ago, when Ji Xin was twelve or thirteen years old, his father became the village chief. Even though he was not a high-ranking official, he felt different immediately.Because as far back as I can remember, Ji Xin and Zhou Hua of the same age have been compared by the villagers in terms of height, appearance, academic ability, family surplus and so on.

The villagers were probably too busy talking, but they said everything about Zhou Huahao, who was gentle and good at studying and motivated, and would definitely be able to leave the small village and become a senior official in high school in the future.When it comes to Ji Xin, the word mediocrity cannot be escaped.

Ji Xin had heard this kind of talk for five or six years, and the more he looked at Zhou Hua, the more he disliked it.After Zhou Hua's parents died, he found fault with Zhou Hua from time to time to fight.

However, after a long time, Zhou Hua seems to have learned to be smart. If he can't beat him, he asks the villagers for help. Anyway, he never goes alone to places where there are few people.

Suppressing an evil fire and not venting it, the more Ji Xin endured, the more unbalanced he felt, but after his father became the village chief, those gossips finally disappeared.

He gradually became the son of the village chief's family in other people's population, and more and more playmates of the same age gathered around him. On the other hand, Zhou Hua didn't know how many years it would take to be a high school scholar.

The thing that made Ji Xin most happy happened to him. Zhou Hua broke his leg on the way to Beijing to catch the exam. It is impossible for Zhou Hua to be a high-ranking official in this life.

Holding this good news, Ji Xin waited for the result of his mother going to Wangcai Village to propose marriage to him.

He fell in love with a girl in that village, but he never expected that he would be rejected.The other party's family disliked him for his lack of ability, and he was not as good as that lame Zhou Hua.

Of course, Zhou Hua has nothing to do with the family in Wangcai Village.

However, Ji Xin made a serious note of Zhou Hua. Why did this man linger, even when he was limping, and made trouble for him? Why didn't this man fall to his death?

What made Ji Xin even more jealous was that Zhou Hua not only did not die as he wished, but met a good brother-in-law instead.The man was said to be in an antique business, and he gave Zhou Hua a sum of money every year, asking him to take care of his wife's family's ancestral grave near Dangshan Mountain and other matters.

The man in Zeshui Village donated a sum of money in the name of Zhou Hua, hoping that everyone will take care of Zhou Hua who is physically handicapped.

Why is Zhou Hua's life so good!

Ji Xin drank too much and was stimulated to enter Dangshan Mountain. Who said that he had no ability and could only rely on his father who was the village chief. Now he had to walk at night to show a few people.

This is rushing into the mountain forest full of alcohol and resentment, rushing in all the way regardless, regardless of the east, west, north, and west.

'Boom! ' Suddenly fell into the pit.This fall woke him up completely, he seemed to be facing a pair of blood-red eyes, and the shrill scream echoed in the pit in an instant, startling the animals living in the forest.

Run, get out of the pit quickly.

Ji Xin just thought of this, but he was in a hurry. He fell on the ground several times with his hands and feet, and hit his forehead directly on the pair of red eyes for the fourth time.

It was only after this collision that something was wrong, the eyeballs could not be hard.I took out the fire pocket and took a picture, there were no bloody eyes, it was clearly a pair of red gemstones.Not only that, but there was also a baby half the size of his body lying on the bottom of the pit.

At that time, Ji Xin had only one thought in his mind, since Zhou Hua's brother-in-law could make money in antique business, he could also use this treasure to make a lot of money.

1000 taels of gold is exactly the price to sell this treasure.

At the end of August, Ji Xin brokered the deal on his own. He originally wanted not to tell anyone, but the hidden Jiaozi was still discovered by his parents, and he had no choice but to briefly talk about the process.

Daoist Jiusui met when he was selling treasures. Thanks to his help, the treasure did not sell at a loss.

If you make money by yourself, and you will be able to afford food and clothing for the rest of your life, then your back will be hardened.

Ji Xin also became tough when talking to his parents, asking them to leave Zeshui Village.

Since Qingming, this broken place has attracted some evil spirits, and it has become more and more dry day by day.

This year, the villagers have to travel several miles to other places to fetch water for farming. With 1000 taels of gold, there is no need to keep it and worry about it.

Village head Ji was also moved by his son's proposal, but after living in the village for 50 to [-] years, it is inevitable that he will have feelings and leave his hometown.What's more, he is nothing outside, and he is still the village head after staying in Zeshui Village.

Therefore, Village Chief Ji wanted to wait a little longer to see if God would rain on the road in the second half of the year.He didn't want to leave a bad reputation of not being brave enough to run away when Zeshui Village became more and more dry and water-scarce.

'Father, as a son, I must be anxious about what you are anxious about.Seeing that there hasn't been any rain for several months, the villages a few miles away still have plenty of rain as usual. I think there must be something strange.

I have inquired everywhere, and it is said that which underground corpse turns white hair into a drought, and that area will become more and more dry until there is no rain.It's hard to say that we have such monsters here. '

Ji Xin's words did not make Village Chief Ji feel any easier.

There is indeed a custom of destroying bone piles in Henan and Shandong, but this kind of thing needs to open the coffin and dig the tomb. Unless it is discovered that there is a corpse that has transformed into a dry man and emerges from the coffin, who would dare to make a decision on the destruction of human bones.

To put it more seriously, the crime of opening the coffin and whipping the corpse is written in the criminal law.

If the support of most people in the village is not obtained, and the coffin is opened and found to be a normal corpse, the person whose grave was dug up will report to the government office, and the village head who made the decision will go to the prison for proper squatting.

However, perhaps in response to that sentence, money can really do whatever it wants.

Ji Xin came up with a poisonous plan.Anyway, his father and mother knew about his overnight fortune. As long as he concealed the source of the money, he said that he had started a business with others, and he was willing to use some money to bribe the villagers.

'First, everyone in the village hopes that it will rain. As long as the grave cannot be opened, most of them will not object too violently.We don't have to bribe everyone, as long as most of them support us.

Second, the prerequisite for Yamen to determine guilt is that there is no corpse change in the coffin.Daoist Jiusui is very capable, we can't find a Hanmao, so what if we make one for him. '

As for which one to choose?

Don't do what he thinks at all, it must be to dig up the ancestral grave of Zhou Hua's family.

The person Ji Xin wanted to torture the most since he got rich was Zhou Hua, but that lame man who didn't care much was in Zeshui Village, and killing him was not enough to relieve his anger.

After thinking about it, digging up someone's ancestral grave, digging out the ancestors of the Zhou family, whipping them and burning them, that would definitely make Zhou Hua vomit blood in anger.

The most critical part is to find a capable Taoist priest, and Daoist Jiusui guarantees that this will definitely be done.Not to mention a dry man, it's no problem to turn all the Zhou family's ancestral graves into corpses.

So what are you waiting for, it must be arranged as soon as possible.

Ji Xin beheaded first and then played. Taoist Jiusui said that it would take seven to seven 49 days for the corpse to change. This is because Taoist Jiusui secretly disturbed Zhou Hua's family grave at the end of August.

On the eighth day of October, the first quarter moon night.

Regardless of whether his father agrees or not, Ji Xin will dig up Zhou Hua's ancestral grave in front of the whole village.He didn't believe it anymore, this time Zhou Hua was able to save the Zhou family's ancestor's body with good luck.

Even if Zhou Hua didn't open the coffin, the coffin boards of his ancestors would not be able to bear it when the ninth day of the lunar new year came.Jumping out, the first ones to kill are their own children and grandchildren.

"Hey hey..." Ji Xin couldn't help laughing out loud as he thought about it, regardless of Village Chief Ji's unsightly expression.He exchanged a look with Daoist Jiusui, waiting for the wonderful show three days later.

On the eighth day of October, the setting sun is like blood.

Leaving the county government office, a carriage was driving on the dirt road leading to Zeshui County.

Zhu Ming was driving the carriage ahead, while Yan Buzhou was quickly flipping through the local records in the carriage.

Not only the situation of Zeshui Village in the past hundred years, but also a large pile of various records of this place from the pre-Qin period.

The land of Mangdang has to be counted earlier. According to its not far from Shangqiu, it can be guessed that it has some relationship with Yin Shang.

Yan Buzhou vaguely remembered the historical papers he read in his previous life, saying that the area around Mangdang was recorded as the "Yuan Kingdom" in oracle bone inscriptions, and the Yuan Kingdom was a vassal state of the Shang Dynasty.As for how many years she has been subordinate to, she can't remember these details clearly.

According to local legends, there were many strange stones here in ancient times called Dang.Moreover, there is plenty of water here, there are many big rivers around, and there are many big snakes in wet places.

The big snake is a python. For example, Liu Bang killed the white snake uprising, that is, he killed the big python, so this place was originally called Mangdang Mountain, but it was gradually changed to Mangdang Mountain.

In the rainy place of Mangdang, Zeshui Village has not seen rain for several months, but the surrounding villages and towns are as usual. This seemingly small-scale drought is by no means a trivial matter.

The embankment of a thousand miles is destroyed by ant nests.Will small-scale oddities of drought gradually spread if left unattended?When the situation becomes serious, it will be too late to think of countermeasures.

Zhan Zhao immediately reported the matter to Kaifeng Mansion.In the past few months, the affairs of Zeshui Village have been concealed and not reported. Leaving aside the reason that it is the furthest away from the county government, it is impossible for the county government to escape the deliberate concealment of the village chief Ji.

This time, regardless of whether the dead body in Zhou's ancestor's tomb is true or not, looking at Village Chief Ji's concealed attitude, it is not safe for three people to enter the village rashly.

On this side, Zhan Zhao quickly received an urgent official letter issued by Bao Zheng. He first went to the patrol station and asked a small team of soldiers to assist in the investigation into the village.

Zhu Ming and Yan Buzhou took a carriage to the mountain forest cemetery behind Zeshui Village. Tonight, at Haishi, the two parties must meet before they act together.

In the carriage, Yan Buzhou looked through the local chronicles to find out if there were any precedents.

Regardless of whether it has been verified or not, there is a sum of money, and it is necessary to find out whether there has been a drought with unknown or strange causes in this area.

"Mr. Yan, do you know why I doubt Han Yan's authenticity?"

Zhu Ming spoke with a worried expression, and there was no concrete evidence for some words, so he shouldn't have made random assumptions.

"The village chief didn't always have only one son, Ji Xin. If I remember correctly, in the fifth year that village chief Ji was the village chief, he had a young son, but he died of the cold.

Ji Xin is so jealous that Zhou Hua has long been excluded by him.At that time, Zhou Hua's leg was not broken, and he was preparing to go to Beijing for the exam, but he bumped into a drunk Ji Xin and listened to him talking drunk. "

Yan Buzhou flipped Fang Zhi's hand and paused, "Could it be that Ji Xin said that he killed his infant brother."

"In the drunken talk, Ji Xin said that the old man can only have one son, and no one can take the identity of the village chief's son. No one can, one will die."

Zhu Ming couldn't be [-]% sure that Ji Xin murdered his younger brother, and outsiders wanted evidence for this matter.

"It's been a long time since Zhou Hua told me half a year ago. It's been five or six years, and there's nothing to investigate. I hope Zhou Hua might as well move away. He has a stubborn temper and refuses to receive more favors from me. He said he would watch it in his hometown. The cemetery is fine."

Guarding the ancestral grave was a serious job that Zhou Hua found for himself after he broke his leg. It can also be said that he took it as a trick to prove that he is not a useless person.

The so-called revenge on a person is to take away what he cares most about.

If Ji Xin could attack his own younger brother, as long as he was given the corresponding capital, wouldn't he dare to dig someone's ancestral grave?

On the eighth day of October, the moonlight tonight is a bit eerie.

In the cemetery behind Zeshui Village, a group of people held up torches.Three or four of them surrounded Zhou Hua firmly, ignoring his yelling.

"Ji Xin, you bastard, kill people and dig up corpses."

Zhou Hua desperately wanted to struggle, but he couldn't break free from the restraint of the big guys. With red eyes, he could only shout at Ji Xin and others who were carrying a set of shovels, whips and other tools.

"In the name of the drought, blame my grandfather for the death of the dead in the drought. Tonight, as long as you dare to break the ground, I will curse you at the cost of three souls and six souls, and your Ji family will be struck by lightning." All the veins died unexpectedly!"

Ji Xin smiled coldly, and signaled to the villagers who were about to dig the grave not to be afraid, "Take a good guy, Taoist Jiusui said that there is a drought here, so we will dig it out and show it to Zhou Hua. There is still a quarter of an hour, and everyone will break the ground. When the Taoist chief opened the coffin, he saw that this kid still dared to talk nonsense.

Do you still curse?If you don't dig it, will the whole village die with you, a cripple, without water? !There was a thunderbolt, and you let the thunder hit me on the head!Come on, tell it to come—”

"Boom—boom—"

At this time, there was a real strange sound gradually.

Daoist Jiusui reacted the fastest, and immediately supported Ji Xin who was almost intimidated, "It's not the sound of thunder, but the sound of galloping horses. A group of people is coming!"