Inhuman World Front Desk Reception

On the highway out of the city, Qin Feng drove a black SUV, wearing refined thin gold-rimmed glasses, a clean white shirt with a stand-up collar, and a tie.He was buttoning the steering wheel with one hand, and with the other hand he always subconsciously wanted to undo the meticulously buttoned neckline, but Xie Qilian, who was sitting in the co-pilot, ruthlessly stopped him one second before he succeeded.

Qin Feng squinted and stared helplessly at Xie Qilian, because his appearance was too gentle and abstinent, without the majesty of the past.

Xie Qilian smoothed out the wrinkles on his neckline with a smile: "Professor Qin, concentrate on driving."

Qin Feng patted the back of his hand and replied, "Professor Xie, don't disturb the driver!"

Dai Mengyuan and Chang Pengyuan, who were disguised as students, held up their schoolbags at the same time, indicating that they could not see the front row.

I don't know how big or small this matter is, and it might be caused by the folks in the village, so in the end, I just called Chang Pengyuan, who knew it well, to help.But Qin Feng is not optimistic about the situation——

——After all, Wuchang is a ghost. Can his daughter-in-law marry a living person?

Xiacheng is an ancient cultural city with a profound cultural heritage, but this also leads to the unavoidable residual backward ideas in the surrounding villages.

But how to investigate and collect evidence is the first difficulty—according to the clues provided by Li Jiahui, the incident happened in Zhangjia Village, Nanming County, Xiacheng City, a three-hour drive from the city. The only college student in ten years.This week, her parents called her several days in a row, asking her to go back to the village to participate in the collective ceremony.

Dozens of households in the village are all surnamed Zhang. In this kind of village with a strong sense of clan, if a large number of outsiders go there rashly, they will startle the snake. They can only try their best to sneak in by disguising their identities.

The most convenient way is to pretend to have a close relationship with the person concerned and have a credible purpose of entering the village, so as not to look too much like an investigation.

Fortunately, Zhang Qianqian is a graduate student of ancient building protection. There are many hundred-year-old buildings in Zhangjia Village, which have folk culture characteristics. Zhang Qianqian has long said in the village that she wants to develop her village into a cultural heritage protection unit, so Qin Feng and Xie Qilian happened to pretend to be professors of Xiacheng University, Dai Mengyuan and Chang Pengyuan pretended to be doctoral students under the professor's lead, and followed in to protect Zhang Qianqian. By the way, they entered Zhangjia Village to investigate ancient buildings and folk customs by taking advantage of the sacrificial activities held in Zhangjia Village's ancestral hall. .

In order to confuse the real with the fake, the real student Li Jiahui, as one of the insiders, won the permission to go together.

Originally, Qin Feng was worried that this kind of old village would rather give up the declaration than to exclude outsiders from visiting at critical moments, but he did not expect that the agreement was very smooth.

On the way, Xie Qilian set up a barrier to block the front row, and inquired about Zhangjiacun's life and death records in recent years.

"Nothing unusual." Xie Qilian didn't use his mobile phone as a disguise, the handwriting in the book of life and death passed directly in front of him one by one, which really looked a little strange.

Qin Feng took a glance while driving: "Another sorcery blinds the heavens? The heavens are too miserable. The owner of the amusement park who was just thrown into the endless hell is not too high. How can he tamper with it?" Heavenly?"

"It's not easy to come to a conclusion now." Xie Qilian: "As for the method of evil cultivation, I'm an impermanent professional. Where have I learned their magic? But the reason is easy to understand. You might as well imagine the Dao of Heaven as a system that runs stably. Those evil spirits are like hackers, because of their special technical means, not how powerful their own ghosts are."

Qin Feng was surprised: "Professor Xie also studied computer science?"

"Occasionally I'm curious about new things." Xie Qilian replied truthfully, "But it's a bit difficult, I can't learn it."

"It's okay." Qin Feng said jokingly, "You don't need to know that thing, it's easy to get bald."

Three hours seems to be very fast, Qin Feng felt that after chatting casually, the car staggered to the countryside.Dai Mengyuan poked Chang Pengyuan, who was sleeping soundly, and Zhang Qianqian, who was sitting in the last row, leaned forward and began to show Qin Feng the way.

The road signs in the countryside are not perfect, and it is easy to drive on a side road without a guide.But driving all the way to the entrance of the village, Qin Feng found that the conditions of the village were actually much better than imagined.Although the road surface is all bricks, it is paved very smoothly, and there are street lights on the side of the road.There are about dozens of households in the village, but they are all big tile-roofed houses, and many of them are small western-style buildings, which are quite different from the mud houses they preconceived.

The village head led people to wait at the entrance of the village early, holding a banner saying: "Welcome the professor of Xiacheng University to come and guide us."

Seeing Qin Feng staring at a small two-story building at the entrance of the village as soon as he got out of the car, the village head hurriedly explained before introducing himself: "Professor, the exterior of that building is not yet finished, and I will arrange to have a Chinese-style building at that time." The tiles have been replaced to keep the original architectural style. The old buildings in the village have not been demolished, and no one has dared to damage the old houses left by their ancestors for expansion, especially the ancestral hall. Last year, we specially hired people to renovate according to the old paint leather What about paint brushes?"

The village head is Zhang Rui, a fat man in his 50s, with a bit of a pot belly, more like a small leader than a simple villager.As soon as they got out of the car, he could immediately tell that Qin Feng was the leader of the team. He leaned over to saddle up, and Professor Qin was long and short, calling very affectionately.

"Zhang Qianqian called back in the morning. We were really looking forward to it. A few of you will live in my house tonight, and Qianqian can take the female classmate back to her home." The village head rubbed his hands with a smile on his face. After the reception, the professors are cultural people, so don't dislike the vulgarity of our countryside. Our village is busy offering sacrifices to Lord Wuchang these two days, so we can't arrange for someone to lead the two professors to collect folk songs for the time being, please Haihan, Haihan."

The two real Wuchang grandfathers sandwiched the village head on one left and one on the right, and nodded kindly, saying that it is not strange, we are here to investigate the ritual customs in the village.

Chang Pengyuan even prepared the subject, the captain looked over, and he immediately began to explain enthusiastically to the village chief: "We are here this time to investigate the organic combination of folk ritual customs and modern social life. After all, you also know , it is very rare to organize ancestor worship and god worship in a serious way now. I hope the village head will allow us to watch and see what cultural characteristics can be deeply explored. It is like the ritual of worshiping Mazu in coastal cities, which belongs to the belief and customs culture Inheritance, maybe our Zhangjia Village can also apply for one, and then we can get subsidies from the national special fund."

"Oh, that's great." The village chief also knew what intangible cultural heritage is, and he seemed very happy. "Our Grandpa Wuchang is amazing. It would be a good thing if more people could come to worship Grandpa Wuchang."

Chang Pengyuan smiled apologetically and glanced at his boss—the last sentence was right, Grandpa Wuchang is really smart, and he can arrange for you to carry a heavy cross-country cross-country even if you don't agree with him.

It was getting late, and the group settled down at the village chief's house. The girls were going to live with Zhang Qianqian. Forcing them to live together would arouse suspicion, so Xie Qilian and Qin Feng helped them deliver things first, and checked the environment. Dai Mengyuan was there. It is a human criminal, Qin Feng is not worried at all.But just in case, Qin Feng folded a bunch of guns for Lily, and asked her to use which one to burn, which made Li Jiahui's eyes straighten.They also left a seal of impermanence on each girl, and secretly set up an enchantment around the house.

"The village looks clean on the surface." Xie Qilian said, "But cleanliness doesn't mean it's safe, it might be because it's good at hiding."

Zhang Qianqian was a little puzzled throughout the whole process, a little confused whether Qin Feng was a bodyguard or a celestial master.She also believed in ghosts and gods, and she approached Li Jiahui because she thought that Li Jiahui might be the kind of expert who hides from the world, but Li Jiahui took her directly to hire a bodyguard, so Zhang Qianqian was shaken, after all, she went to college , I feel that we still have to believe in science, where do ghosts and gods come from in the world, this must be the witches in the village collecting money.But why do these people look strange now?

Qin Feng glanced at her, and said seriously: "Student, don't worry, there is no impermanence in this world, what we just talked about is a scam gang."

Looking at his upright face, Zhang Qianqian felt that she had thought too much just now.

The dinner was eaten at the village chief's house. Qin Feng deeply experienced the feeling of a leader going to the countryside to engage in corruption. A large table was full of chicken, duck and fish, and ten Qin Feng could eat it.

"It's all produced in the village." The village chief said cheerfully, "it's Grandpa Wuchang who blesses us with good weather and everything goes smoothly. Those who go out to do business, run restaurants, and engage in breeding in the village are all very prosperous, and they are all impermanent." Grandpa's credit. Alas, it's a pity that Grandpa Wuchang wanted a new temple. Our village has never applied for a land permit, so he annoyed the old man, otherwise he wouldn't have to marry... Cough, eat, eat. "

After speaking, he enthusiastically poured meat into Qin Feng and Xie Qilian's bowls.

There is a small statue in the living room of the village chief’s house, a tall, thin porcelain-white man, smiling with unclear features, holding something that looks like a mace in his hand, and wearing a tall crown on his head. hat with the words "Get Rich at Sight".

Xie Qilian met Qin Feng's gaze, rubbed his forehead, and sighed.

Qin Feng asked: "Isn't Wuchang a pair of partners, why only one?"

The village chief waved his hands again and again: "Hei Wuchang can't make an offering. That Wuchang is fierce and specializes in seducing evil spirits. It's unlucky to make an offering."

Qin Feng: "..."

Chang Pengyuan just took a bite of the chicken leg, and almost swallowed the chicken up his nose after hearing this sentence.

The village chief was startled: "Yo, what's the matter?"

Chang Pengyuan coughed for a long time, Xie Qilian patted his back unhurriedly, and replied: "This kid is afraid of spicy food, so he can't eat it at all. Your chicken is very fragrant, but it's too spicy for him, so don't worry about him." After finishing, he took out the bottled water from his backpack and handed it to him.

Qin Feng kept silent, and made a concealed gesture. Chang Pengyuan and Dai Mengyuan immediately understood: "Yes, we are both from the south, and we are not used to chili peppers."

After finishing speaking, Dai Mengyuan tugged Li Jiahui. Li Jiahui was also very smart, and immediately said, "Oh, my face has pimples again. Let me choose something vegetarian."

The table was full of big fish and meat, so the three of them had a hard time choosing vegetables to eat, and they chewed for a long time without swallowing a mouthful.

Qin Feng and Xie Qilian ate very deliciously. Qin Feng ate half a chicken, half a elbow, and drank several big bowls of broth. Xie Qilian was gentle, although he ate meat elegantly, he was not fast. Slow, so the village chief didn't think much about it.

While the village chief was serving soup in the back kitchen, Dai Mengyuan asked in a low voice, "Old A, what's going on?"

Qin Feng frowned slightly: "Have you seen me light incense?"

Dai Mengyuan was stunned for a moment, then recalled: "You can eat this meal right away?"

It didn't take long for Qin Feng to eat the most, devouring all kinds of tempting chicken leg fat at the speed of a field march, otherwise Li Jiahui would cry after watching it for a while.

Xie Qilian explained in more detail: "There are traces of Yin Qi in the food, and if a living person eats it, there will be no immediate accidents, but Yin Qi with unknown source and purpose, if you can't eat it, don't eat it."

Qin Feng warned in a low voice: "Sleep with your head covered at night, don't go out. We also don't go out, so as not to scare the snake. Isn't it the sacrificial ceremony tomorrow? Wait for the ceremony to see if it's a human being or a ghost."

The village head came back soon, but instead of bringing soup, he led an old woman covered with ornaments.

With Qin Feng's professional sensitivity, he knew at a glance that this woman was a deceptive witch, and she didn't look like she had real cultivation.

Zhang Qianqian from this village stood up immediately, and shouted with some fear: "Hello, Aunt Bai."

Qin Feng stood up calmly, "Is this the inheritor of the belief in impermanence?"

He stretched out his hand, but the sorceress turned a blind eye, her shrewd eyes were only on the woman on the table.

The old woman wore a fake smile, her face and hands were painted white, and her long nails were dyed red. She stretched out her hand and touched Zhang Qianqian's wrist, as if feeling her pulse, and then turned her face to Li Jiahui who was sitting beside her. And Dai Mengyuan, parted their mouths and smiled.

When she smiled, I went away from Chang Pengyuan. There was no tongue in the witch's mouth, as if it had been chopped off by someone.

But apart from the absence of a tongue, Qin Feng didn't see any more special marks on her body, except for the lack of a tongue, and her body was a bit more cloudy.

The village head explained very politely: "Aunt Bai is Grandpa Bai's disciple in the human world. She can't speak normally, but at the ceremony, Grandpa Bai will give her a tongue so that she can speak ghosts and gods. Aunt Bai will preside over the fortune telling and tomorrow's ceremony."

Aunt Bai looked at Li Jiahui and Dai Mengyuan for a while, then grabbed their wrists and touched them involuntarily. The witch's hands were also cold in midsummer, and the two of them shook at the same time.

Then the sorceress let go of them, gestured to the village head, and nodded to the two girls.

The village head hurriedly said, "Okay, okay! Definitely."

Then the sorceress left on her own, and the village chief rubbed his hands again, showing an envious expression: "Aunt Bai means that although these two are foreigners, they are also good girls. Hukou, so I hope the two of you can participate in the relative selection ceremony after the sacrifice tomorrow, if Grandpa Wuchang chooses to be Wuchang Po, then it will be like ascending from the ground, and go to enjoy the blessings as a god!"

Li Jiahui opened her mouth wide and didn't reply for a long time, while Dai Mengyuan was more direct, she was looking at Qin Feng.

Qin Feng raised his hand slowly, and patted Xie Qilian on the shoulder: "Grandpa Bai Wuchang married a daughter-in-law, and even held auditions."

The author has something to say:

Someone Qin: Grandpa Wuchang, can I sign up?

Brother Xie: You decide.