Holy Bone

Chapter 161

Walk and talk.

A group of five people gradually approached Taoyuan Village.

As it gets closer to Taoyuan Village.

You can see a large area of ​​wasteland reclaimed around the village.

These barren fields are left without human care.

Now weeds, shrubs, and vines are overgrown.

The field ridges and canals that were originally reclaimed have long been buried by these tall weeds and disappeared.

Jin An opened the way ahead with the Tiger Saber in his hand.

The Husha Saber temporarily acts as a sickle in his hand.

Make a way out.

In the middle of the night, the deep mountains and old forests were extremely quiet, only the rustling sound of their figures passing through the grass, and the sound of the gurgling river not far away.

The shrubs in the deep mountains and old forests covered the sky and the moon, and it was especially dark. Not to mention the moonlight, even the stars couldn't shine in. The surrounding area was as dark as a splash of thick ink, and only the torches in Jin'an's hands acted as barely illuminated.

"Little brother, old man, why do I feel that this situation is a bit wrong?"

The old Taoist turned around and said.

"It's really not normal." Jin An murmured.

"We were on the high cliff road, and we clearly saw someone cooking here, but now, we only see a large area of ​​barren fields. It is too peaceful here, and it is abnormally peaceful."

As Jin An said, he secretly glanced at Yu Youzi who was walking beside him.

Yu Youzi had a normal expression on his face, and was looking around in surprise, occasionally looking up at the position of the stars and moon above his head, and occasionally looking at the surrounding Fengshui and landforms, as if he had come to Taoyuan Village for the first time, and he did not show any abnormalities.

The old Taoist looked at Guard Li at this moment, and asked in doubt, "Benefactor Li, are you sure that there is nothing missing in the story of Wutou Village you told?"

"Didn't you say that after the group of traveling merchants came to Taoyuan Village, people here are lively, people are busy in the ridges of the fields, children are running around laughing and laughing on the dirt roads in the countryside, and chickens and dogs are barking in the countryside?"

The old Taoist looked around at the darkness and silence, as if they were walking in a cemetery, and continued: "The villagers in Taoyuan Village are simple and hospitable, we have been in Taoyuan Village for so long, let's go After crossing the barren fields and entering the village, why haven’t I seen a hospitable villager?”

At this moment, Lian Yu Youzi also frowned and said, "I have also heard about the story about Taoyuan Village that Donor Li told me. It is indeed very different from what we are encountering now."

"New head teacher, could it be that this is not Taoyuan Village?"

"Is there another place in Taoyuan Village?"

Jin An thought while walking: "We saw fireworks here on the mountain, it can't be fake, it can't be our collective hallucinations, right? Now that everyone is here, we can only continue to search further. .”

For the next journey, the five of them walked a certain distance in the barren field, and then found that the soil and stone under their feet gradually became flat and hardened.

The soles rubbed hard on the ground.

After rubbing away a layer of shallow soil that no one had visited all year round, the rural gravel road below was exposed. It seemed that they had finally walked out of the ridges of Taoyuan Village, and had already walked on the dirt and gravel road into the village of Taoyuan Village.

The shrubs in front are sparse, and under the hazy moonlight, the vague and dark outline of the village can already be seen gradually.

"It seems that it is Taoyuan Village." Jin An said.

The road is calm.

Not to mention the feast of the headless corpse.

They didn't even see the fireworks and fires for cooking and cooking that they had seen on the mountain. The village was extremely dark and quiet.

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Stepping on the weeds, the five finally came to Taoyuan Village, but it turned out to be a desolate and abandoned dead village with nothing.

Dozens of dilapidated stone houses are scattered around, covered with wet and slippery green moss and creepers.

The stone road under his feet was covered with a thick layer of black skin.

A section of old tree roots protruded from the ground under these stone roads, and if you don't pay attention, you can trip people, and you may think it's a ghost tripping in the middle of the night.

Many stone houses have collapsed.

A group of five people walked in this dilapidated and desolate village, looking small and cold.

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In the empty village, the sound of footsteps can be heard far away, crisp, empty, and depressing. Walking in the deserted village deep in the mountains is like walking among the tombstones in mass graves.

"It's strange, these houses are so strange. Why do they face east and west instead of north and south?" The old Taoist priest with old arms and legs and the worst combat effectiveness held a torch in his hand and walked in the middle of the crowd. He walked all the way. mumble.

"There is a folk saying that if the gate faces south, the children and grandchildren will not be cold; if the gate faces west, there will be noise and tears. It means that the house with the gate facing west has poor lighting and cannot see the sun all year round, so the house is dark and cold, and it is easy to breed poisonous snakes. Millipedes and other yin-loving poisonous insects occupy the house and do not leave."

"As for the door facing the west, it is noisy and crying. It is said that newborn babies can see things that ordinary people cannot see, so they often cry."

"This village doesn't look like a mansion for the living, but rather a mansion for the dead..."

When it came to this, the old Taoist seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly ran towards a half-collapsed stone house, with the door already missing, and Jin'an and the others followed.

It turned out that there were several black coffins in the stone house, and the atmosphere suddenly became gloomy.

Those coffins looked like they had been there for many years. The coffin boards had been rained all year round, damp and moldy, discolored and rotted seriously, and the bones and rotten linen clothes inside could even be vaguely seen.

This discovery immediately surprised several people.

They casually inspected several nearby stone houses, and sure enough, black coffins were placed in each house.

The black coffin means that the buried body is a person who died violently, who died in vain, or who died unjustly.

Some families have three coffins.

In some homes, there are more than a dozen coffins, which take up the entire room.

At first glance, the whole family, old and young, were all dead.

The entire Taoyuan Village is a village of yin houses!It was really hit by the old Taoist priest!
"Daoist Jin'an, Daoist Chen, and Daoist Yuyouzi, come to see this coffin. Why do I feel that the color of this coffin is getting more and more wrong? Why does it look newer than other coffins?"

Standing next to a coffin with a torch in his hand, Li Weiwei, who was interested in studying it and was not afraid of life at all, suddenly shouted in surprise.

In this house, there are a total of twelve coffins. There are large coffins and small coffins. Adults are buried in the big coffin, and children are buried in the small coffin.

Because there were too many coffins, they couldn't fit in the house, and they were even stacked into two layers.

Just now they were only busy checking whether there were coffins in each house, under the dark lights, they didn't notice the difference in the color of the coffins.

This time, they were reminded by Li Huwei's sharp eyes that they noticed that the color of the coffin in front of them was indeed different from the other coffins.

With the unique discovery of this coffin, everyone began to check all the twelve coffins in this house.

"The color of this coffin is also different."

"Little brother, old way, the color of my coffin is relatively new."

"Supreme Taiyi rescued Ku Tianzun, Pindao also found a coffin with a newer color..."

Among the twelve black coffins, a small half of them were slightly newer than the other coffins. Now, needless to say, everyone noticed that there was something wrong with these coffins.

"These newer coffins must have been added later, right?"

"Could it be that the descendants of Taoyuan Village walked out of the mountains and came back later? It is said that fallen leaves return to their roots, and people return to their hometown after death. After a person dies outside, he must bring his body back to Taoyuan Village for burial before he can rest in peace?"

Standing beside the eerie coffin, Guard Li guessed.

Li Huwei looked at so many coffins in front of him, especially because there was a strange smell in the room, he was not nervous or taboo at all, but surrounded these coffins in amazement.

Jin An refuted Guard Li's conjecture: "The black coffin can only be buried with people who died suddenly, not at the end of a normal life or died of illness in a foreign country. Only by prying open the coffin lid can one see what's inside."

After Jin An spoke, he looked at the old Taoist priest: "Old Taoist, I know that your Taiji Bagua bag is lined with tarpaulin, and there are some incense candles in your Taiji Bagua bag. You take out some incense candles, and we will worship the dead, and then Open the coffin today to see what mysteries are hidden in these coffins."

The old Taoist said yes, and then took out a lot of candles, incense sticks, and even a lot of yellow paper from the ordinary-looking Taiji Bagua bag like a magic trick.

This reminded Jin An of the treasure bag...

The old Taoist priests are naturally familiar with the process and rituals of worshiping the dead.

He asked Guard Li to find a few rocks, set up a firepit in the dark house full of coffins, and then started to light the yellow paper to burn the dead souls in the room.

Then, the old Taoist lit a candle in the open space in front of each coffin.

If there are two stacked coffins, put a candle on the ground, and put a candle on the coffin of the top coffin.

Then lit the incense again.

In the coffin room filled with a damp, musty smell, the old Taoist began to insert a stick of incense into the coffin seam of each coffin.

After that, there will be an autopsy!
The first to open the coffins were those coffins with relatively new colors. The prying of the coffins was naturally done by Jin An and Li Huwei, two strong martial arts practitioners.

"Daoist Jin'an, you said that we disturbed the sleep of the dead, the moment we pushed the lid of the coffin, would you stretch out a pair of hands from the coffin to ask for our lives?"

Li Huwei and Jin An stood on both sides of the coffin. It was the first time in his life that he dug up a grave and dug up a coffin.

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clack clack-

Boom!
The coffin lid fell heavily, and there was no deceitful corpse as imagined. A strange smell that had been sealed in the coffin for a long time gushed out. After smelling some punches, Guard Li was almost stumbled, and he was smoked and ran away on the spot.

Jin An has experienced these scenes a lot, and he has long been accustomed to them. He stood still without changing his face, and looked curiously at a dead but not rotten corpse lying in the coffin.

"There is no burial gas in this coffin. The people in this coffin have not been buried after death." The old Taoist priest and Yu Youzi gathered around the coffin, each holding a torch in their hands.

The speaker is Yu Youzi.

Inside the coffin was the corpse of a middle-aged man. Under the flickering light of the torch, the features on his face were twisted ferociously under the flickering light.

In fact, the corpse in the coffin has been calm and motionless, which is actually a visual difference caused by the shadow of the fire.

"There is a head, not a headless corpse. I thought that there are headless corpses in the headless village."

The old Taoist held a torch in his hand and looked at the corpse in the coffin in amazement.

At this time, Guard Li, who tied a cloth strip to his mouth and nose, also came over to look at the corpse with a torch in his hand: "Master Yu Youzi, what is burial gas? Is there any difference between burial gas and the smell of rotting corpses?"

Yu Youzi patiently explained in detail: "Mountains, rivers, and land all have their own pulse conditions, whether subtle or erratic, or grand like a thoroughfare. In layman's terms, it is Fengshui acupuncture points, finding yang houses, and fixing yin houses."

"Wood can breathe, and the coffin of the burial will more or less absorb some air from the mountains and rivers, and over time it will have a bit of funeral air. Ordinary people cannot see the funeral air. You can simply smell the earthy smell in the coffin. Judging whether the coffin has been buried. Of course, this method of identification is sometimes prone to mistakes, but it is also the simplest method of identification that is better than nothing."

Next, Jin An and the others opened the coffins one by one, and found that those coffins with a newer color were full of dead but not rotten corpses, including men and women, old and young.

"Little brother, have you noticed?" The old Taoist looked at Jin An.

"The villagers of Taoyuan Village fled to the mountains a long time ago to escape the war, and rarely communicated with the outside world. Logically speaking, their clothes should be very old-fashioned. But what do I think of the old man, even opening a few coffins The clothes on his body are all in the style of Kangding Kingdom in recent years? They are not ancient at all."

After what the old Taoist said, everyone really discovered such a detail.

The old Taoist continued: "Could it be true that there are villagers from Taoyuan Village who left the mountains and lived outside? Then after they died in other places, they were brought back to Taoyuan Village to return to their roots?"

"It doesn't make sense. Since they have been brought back to the village for thousands of miles, why not give them a burial? It's because the burial custom of Taoyuan Village is to place private coffins at home? You don't think the corpse is rotten and smelly. The whole family Can't eat or sleep because of the smoke?"

"Could it be those victims who entered Taoyuan Village by mistake in recent years, disappeared during the rainy season, and finally returned to Taoyuan Village by themselves? But it doesn't make sense. Where did they get their coffins?" said the old Taoist Yue The more I feel confused.

"Pry open other coffins that are older and have a look." Jin An's method was simple and rude.

Boom!
The coffin lid fell heavily.

The corpse in the coffin this time was an old woman, her clothes were highly decayed and torn into rags, but it can still be seen from the style that the linen clothes she was wearing were old-fashioned and did not belong to the Kangding Kingdom in recent years. style.

Jin An's conjecture was indeed approved by the old Taoist priest and Yu Youzi.

Both said that they had never seen such an old style of clothes in Kangding.

Next, Jin An and the others opened several of the oldest coffins. The corpses inside were all old clothes. It is basically certain that there are two kinds of corpses in this Taoyuan Village, one is the original Taoyuan Village villagers, and the other is It's from outside the village.

"Huh? Where's Guard Li?"

Jin An suddenly noticed that Li Huwei, who had been talking non-stop by his side, didn't know when he would calm down. He looked up and found that Li Huwei was standing with his back to them, holding a torch and standing next to a new coffin, looking at the coffin motionlessly. The dead body inside seemed to have been hit by an evil spirit.

"Li Huwei, what are you looking at?"

"Are you OK?"

Jin An cared and walked over.

Unexpectedly, Guard Li, holding a torch in his hand, looked up at Jin An approaching with a complex expression.

"Daoist Jin'an, I think I know where the corpses in these new coffins come from..."

"No wonder why I said he looks so familiar. I recognize this person. He comes from the Zhang family in Lingqian Township! He is the master of the Zhang family, the father of the Zhang family. I have met Master Zhang several times!"

(End of this chapter)