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Chapter 590 Tan Cheng
Song Jiang saw that the other party seemed to have misunderstood them, so he quickly said with a smile, "Dude, you just came down from the mountain? Did you see a girl in her 20s and a big sister in her 40s?"

After hearing this, the man scratched his head blankly and said, "There are very few tourists here, and even fewer female tourists... But this mountain is not too big, so you shouldn't get lost."

After hearing this, Song Jiang said anxiously, "It's really hard to say... Both of them are foreigners, and they are not familiar with the environment here."

What people didn't expect was that the man was still warm-hearted. After hearing Song Jiang's words, he suggested that he could help the two of them find together. , the biggest hobby is camping around with bags...

According to Fang Jing, this hill is indeed the boundary of Jingtan Temple. It has no name. Whenever local people mention it, they will call it the back mountain of Jingtan Temple. If there is one outstanding aspect here, it should be counted here The stream in the mountain is hot, and the monks and some pilgrims in the temple often like to go to the mountain to get the stream water to make tea.

As soon as Song Jiang heard what Fang Jing said, he hurriedly asked him, "By the way, I heard that Jingtan Temple is a thousand-year-old temple. There should be many legends about it?"

Fang Jing smiled and said, "It's all said to be a legend, so of course it can't be true..."

Zhou Shiwu on the side interrupted after hearing this, "That's right... Let's hear it, but if it's a story about a scholar ghost, forget it, it's too fake."

Fang Jing immediately said to Zhou Shiwu with some amusement, "Why did the female ghost of the scholar offend you? If you want to hear more romantic stories about the legends in the past, don't you want to hear stories about the scholar and the female ghost, or the scholar and the banshee? Of course." , there are also legends and stories about punishing evil and promoting good, but none of them are as attractive as romantic..."

After hearing this, Song Jiang asked curiously, "There are also stories about scholars and female ghosts in this mountain?"

Fang Jing shook his head and said, "That's not... the legend on this mountain is just the opposite, it's the legend of a human bride and a wild ghost in the mountain."

Fang Jing's words made Song Jiang and the two of them immediately think of the woman in red that Wang Yaning saw when it was both illusion and reality, as well as the stone fish that was regarded as a token... So Song Jiang asked Fang Jing to take that woman with great interest. Tell them the legend.

The story begins thousands of years ago. At that time, the location of Jingtan Temple was still a wasteland, and there was only a small town called Tancheng within a hundred miles nearby.

People in Tancheng have to go in and out of this unknown hill in front of their homes, because their ancestors have been like this for generations, so the people in Tancheng don't think it is inconvenient, after all, this mountain is not high, and the mountain road is not considered. Difficult to walk...

But I don’t know when, some late travelers began to have accidents in the mountains one after another, and they died in various ways, some drowned in small puddles; some were crushed to death by falling branches while walking; Yes, he hanged himself in the mountains for no reason when he came back... In short, as long as the people who walk in the mountains at night at night are basically hard to return, the people in Tancheng were panicked for a while.

It stands to reason that since walking on mountain roads at night is easy to kill people, wouldn't it be better not to walk at night? !But the situation in Tancheng is a bit special. There is only one way for the people in the city to survive, and that is to raise silkworms and reel silk. Other than that, other agricultural products and daily necessities cannot be self-sufficient. They have to go over the mountains to the next door. Purchased in the town.

But the distance between the two towns is exactly one day. After all, it is impossible for some fresh seasonal vegetables to be delayed for two days on the road, otherwise they may have spoiled by the time they are transported into Tancheng... So these Whether a small business hawker goes out early and returns late or goes out late and returns early, he always has to walk at night to make a living.

At the beginning, people thought that those who had accidents must be because they were alone, so every time they wanted to go out of the city at night, they would always be in groups of three or four, and go out of the city together in gangs, but even so There are still people who are forgotten by the big guys and die tragically in the mountains...

Occasionally there are people who come back alive by chance, but their spirits are often greatly stimulated. After returning, they talk nonsense all day long, saying that there are evil spirits that eat people in the mountains, and they come out to harm people at night.In the end, the people of Tancheng couldn't stand the daily fear, so they invited a Taoist priest from outside to subdue this evil spirit entrenched in the mountain.

But I don't know if this Taoist priest's magic power is not high, or that evil ghost is too powerful. In short, the Taoist priest did not come out after entering the mountain to collect the ghosts. It was found that the Taoist priest and his two young apprentices were all hanged on an old tree in the mountain.

From then on, the evil spirits in this mountain became famous in one battle, and the ordinary Taoist priests and monks almost changed their expressions... But the people of Tancheng have to live, if this problem is not solved, then the whole town will have to move out of this place, and live elsewhere. I went to find a place to live.

It was at this time that a wandering monk came to Tancheng. After watching the sky at night, he came to a conclusion that if the people of Tancheng wanted peace, they could only negotiate with that evil ghost to see how the other party could not harm Tancheng. The people of the city, let them live a normal life.

So the monk went up the mountain again with the attitude of giving gifts first and then soldiers, and this time he brought back a piece of "good news", that is, the evil spirits in the mountain proposed that as long as the people of Tancheng sacrificed a bride to him every seven years, he would not be married. Harm to the people of Tancheng who walk at night... When the news came out, there was an uproar in Tancheng. They could accept sacrifices of pigs, cattle, sheep and horses, but it was really hard to accept sacrifices to living people.

But some things are often said to be unacceptable, but after weighing the pros and cons, the result is to agree to sacrifice. After all, it was not a trivial matter to let the whole town people leave their homes in those years, and it would take a lot of manpower and material resources It is even more immeasurable. In comparison, it took only seven years to sacrifice a woman... But the question is who is willing to be this unlucky bride?

At the beginning, someone proposed to buy a woman outside and get it back, but at that time, although human trafficking was legal, it must be illegal to buy it and kill it!Unless she wants to.But who would die voluntarily? !So someone proposed to let people who have girls of the right age come out to draw lots, and let whoever catches them go.

But some wealthy people in the city refused, so they offered to pay the family who sacrificed their daughter to compensate... In this way, the thing that no one wanted was turned into a business. Among them, it is inevitable that there will be tragedies in which some parents who are blind to money will give up their daughters for their own interests.

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