Holy Bone

Chapter 384 The Great Northwest Folk Style is Sturdy!Pray for rain!

Xizhou Prefecture is not all desert Gobi, there are also green mountains and green waters, forests and grasslands, but they are all in the southern area bordering on the rainy Wuzhou Prefecture.

The climate of Xizhou Prefecture is divided into the southern part with green mountains and green waters, the eastern part where the vegetation is becoming more and more desolate, and the northwest part where there are almost no villages.

People living in the east and northwest have been suffering from wind and sand disasters and severe water shortages all year round. This has led to the concentration of most of the population in the south of Xizhou Prefecture, and the more east or northwest, the more sparsely populated the land.

However, the south with green mountains and green waters only occupies a very small part of the territory of Xizhou Prefecture, and most of Xizhou Prefecture is still dominated by the desert Gobi Desert.

The reason for such an extreme geographical difference is mainly due to the dry wind and sand blowing in from the deserts of the Western Regions, destroying forests and mountains every year, and eating away at the mountains. , sandstorms, there is no rich Kangding country.

Wuzhou Prefecture is full of mountains and mountains, and it is impossible to reach Xizhou Prefecture directly, because there are thousands of mountains in the middle, so it can only take a detour to enter Xizhou Prefecture.

The place where Jin'an and the goats entered Xizhou was not in the south where the water and grass are abundant, but in the east where water is scarce. This place is affected by desert wind and sand, and there is little rainfall all year round. Once there is drought, all the villages in the northwest, men, women and children They will collectively go out to dig graves and dry bone piles.

This is the death of the flood, and the death of the drought!
Wuzhou Prefecture is flooded with mountain torrents every year, and the adjacent Xizhou Prefecture is barren and lacks water. It is only because of the Qinling Mountains that it is separated by heaven and earth.

Jin An didn't expect that the second day he came to Xizhou Mansion, he saw the tough folk customs in the Northwest, even boys under ten years old were so aggressive that they wanted to dig graves and beat zombies.

He has a clear understanding of the tough folk customs in the Northwest.

At this time, Sun Tugen, who had already learned about the situation, brought over a few old smokers with sweat scarves on their heads, and each with a pipe.

"Lizheng, village elder, this is the Daoist Jin'an I mentioned who is different from other Central Plains people. Daoist Jin'an wants to buy some water in our village." Sun Tugen enthusiastically introduced Jin'an to those few people. A village elder with a sweat scarf on his head.

The atmosphere between the two parties was harmonious. When it came to buying water, several village elders, whose faces were deeper than the old herdsman Sun Tugen, said warmly and hospitablely: "Master Jin'an, you and Lao Tugen drank goat's milk wine together. You are an honored guest of Zishan Village, the family does not need to be so hostile, we will give you some water saved in the village, so as not to be laughed at by the neighboring villages that our people in Huangzishan Village don’t know how to treat guests.”

The water source in the Northwest is precious. Huangzishan Village has only one well water for [-] or so households. The whole village relies on this well water for survival. When the villagers put wooden barrels into the well and filled it with water, there was only half a barrel of water, and it was still muddy. Even the bottom of the wooden barrel was stained with a lot of yellow mud.

From this point of view, the well water is about to bottom out, and even the survival of the village is somewhat difficult, but the hospitable Northwesterners still send precious water.

Jin'an felt that he couldn't take this water. If he wanted it, he was afraid of his conscience. No matter if he bought it with money or was given away for nothing, he couldn't accept the life-saving water.

Seeing the hesitation on Jin An's face, Sun Tugen and several village elders mistakenly thought that Jin An was disliking the turbidity of the well water, and a few honest faces that had been hit by the northwest wind and sand showed embarrassment: "Because of the one-hundred-year-old incident half a year ago. In the big sandstorm, God has been dry for half a year without rain, and the clear river before has dried up, and now there is only this well in the village, and some water can be brought up."

"We are about to go out to dig dry bone piles. If Daoist Jin'an waits for us to come back from drilling dry bone piles, maybe it will rain again by then, and there will be clean water in the river again."

Seeing that the people in Huangzishan Village had misunderstood him, Jin An hurriedly explained: "You guys misunderstood, I didn't mean it that way, I just wanted to take away the only water left in the village for nothing because I saw that everyone was short of water. There is not much water, and I feel really sorry."

"Why don't you do this? Anyway, everyone is going to dig dry bone piles. Why don't you let me contribute with everyone. If you encounter a violent dry bone, I can help. If I don't What strength, I am embarrassed to ask everyone for this water again."

Several village elders still wanted to continue delivering water, but were rejected by Jin'an several times, and they no longer insisted. After thinking about it, they agreed to let Jin'an accompany the team to fight drought.

"Old Tugen is right. Daoist Jin'an looks at us differently from those Central Plains people." Several village elders said with emotion.

Next, the villagers of Huangzishan Village continued to set out to dig dry bone piles.

But this time was different from the previous dry bone piles. This time there was a young Taoist priest and a goat the size of a calf in the team.

Apart from expressing shock at the goat's physique at the beginning, these villagers did not take any special actions. In their perception, the Central Plains is rich, and it is normal for the Central Plains to be able to feed a sheep as big as a calf.

Drought bone piles, it's not complicated, just ask where there are newly buried corpses and unnamed tombs, usually the tomb of the owner is preferred first, because no one worships the unnamed tomb, it is easy to get upset Resentment, ran out to make trouble.

The villagers formed a mighty team and climbed up a dirt hill. According to the introduction of the village elder, this dirt hill could still grow some sparse green grass in the past, and it was also one of the few places where everyone grazing often went. If it doesn't rain, even the original sparse grass doesn't grow anymore, and now it's completely turned into a dirt mountain.

According to the villagers, this earth mountain is considered to be the best place for Fengshui in the vicinity. If someone secretly buried someone, he would definitely bury him in this mountain. There must be a new grave in this mountain.

"Daoist Jin'an, if there is a drought in your Central Plains, will you also hit the bone pile?" A village elder whose mouth was full of teeth yellowed by the drought asked Jin'an who was with the team.

Jin An looked at the men, women and children in the Northwest who were marching into the mountains to look for zombies, and said with emotion: "It's rainy in the south, and the humidity is good for corpses. It's most suitable for some corpses to hide in dark and humid caves or to hide in the dark air." Practice in cold places, but in rainy places, there are also many thunderstorms. These corpses are very cloudy and easy to attract lightning strikes. They are often killed by lightning before causing too much harm. So there are few places Drought bone piles."

"Even if you are not struck to death by lightning, the southern land is full of rain, rivers are everywhere, and the population is concentrated, so there are many Taoist monks who are good at exorcising evil spirits, Mr. Yin and Yang. Often, the dead are already before the first seven souls come back before they become evil. I was saved by Taoist priests and monks, so there is no chance to cheat the corpse."

"Of course, there are severe droughts in some places, and you will occasionally see dry bone piles, but they are rare and rare. After all, there is no shortage of Taoist monks among the people. Due to the lack of water in the Northwest, the land is sparsely populated, and the folk Taoists There are not many monks, and because of resisting foreigners all the year round, it has cultivated the folk customs in the Northwest, no matter men, women, old or young, they are all tough, and they are not afraid of the sky, the earth, the earth, and dare to fight with ghosts and gods, so the dry bone piles are more common in the Northwest."

The land in Xizhou Prefecture is poor, coupled with the vast land and sparse population, often a village is blocked and unable to communicate with the outside world. The villagers in Huangzishan Village have never seen the colorful world outside. Listening to Jin'an's introduction to the customs and customs of various places in Kangding Country , fascinated.

The villagers around Jin'an gradually became more and more surrounded, and everyone seemed to have forgotten the fact that they had to lay down dry bone piles to pray for rain.

"Daoist Jin'an, you are very knowledgeable. Your name is Bo. What is Bo... that word you Central Plains people use to describe a person who reads a lot?" Sun Tugen, an old herdsman, wrinkled his rough and rough face, and couldn't remember it. .

"Learned and knowledgeable?"

"Yes, it's because you are knowledgeable, and Daoist Jin'an, you are a cultural person who knows a lot." Sun Tugen, an old herdsman, praised.

Speaking of this, Jin An began to miss the old Taoist priest again: "These are all taught to me by an old Taoist priest who traveled all over the world. geography."

The village elders heard that Jin'an's tone was a little low, so they didn't ask any further, but dispersed the surrounding villagers, and hurriedly searched for a new grave just buried or an unnamed grave bag.

The road to find dry bone piles was not smooth. After digging several unowned tombs, only a pile of dead bones were dug out.They dug a few new graves that were newly buried within half a year, but the dead people underground were almost rotten together with the loess. Obviously, the dry bone piles could not be so shabby.

The villagers dug the newly dug grave in the sun for half a day before closing it again. Finally, they expanded the area and continued to search for dry bone piles. Then they found a single dead man by a ditch. The man had been dead for a while. The body has been dried and dehydrated into a black mummified corpse.

If this is a dry bone pile, the corpse has been exposed to the wilderness for so long, and it has been exposed to the sun for such a long time, it is estimated that even the resentment and yin energy will lose their temper after being exposed to the sun.

But the villagers still planned to beat the mummy as a bone pile.

Drying bone piles is actually to smash the limbs, head and body of the mummy, and then put it in the sun for a few days.

Seeing that the deceased was lonely and exposed to the wilderness, it was pitiful enough, and he would suffer such an innocent disaster in the end. He couldn't bear to see him die miserably in the end with no bones left, so he hurriedly stopped the villagers, and said with certainty that this person on the ground was not The dry bone pile is a poor deceased who has no one to erect a tombstone after death. If everyone is willing to believe him, he will personally find the dry bone pile for everyone.

Jin'an practiced hopeful qi.

But all resentment, death, and evil spirits can't escape his qi-watching technique, especially with the improvement of his cultivation base, his qi-watching technique is also improving.

But under his qi-watching technique, the sky is clear and cloudless.

This shows that the surrounding area is calm and there are no dry bone piles causing trouble.

Think about it too, if there is really some kind of dry bone stake, it is impossible to have auspicious clouds and auspicious omens in the blue sky this morning, but a ghostly wind and ghost clouds to cover the sun.

He also felt a little regretful that he hadn't seen the legendary dry bone pile.

But this world does not necessarily have to pray for rain to have water.

He already had other means.

I don't know if Erlang Zhenjun ordered the water talisman to be unacceptable in the northwest?

(End of this chapter)