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Chapter 142: Deep Sorrowful Night of Chu Yuan, Dream of Broken Chicken Morning (5k chapter, please subscribe and ask for monthly ticket)
Meishi welcomes the rain, and the boundlessness is late spring.

Sorrowful night, dreams are broken in the morning.

wow wow wow.

The state capital was shrouded in rain, and the sky was gray.

Since coming to the fifth month of the lunar calendar, it has also entered the rainy season.

This is the rainy season.

Once it starts to rain, it keeps raining, and it rains, and it never stops.

Tick-tick-tick, water drops from the eaves formed strings, forming a white bead curtain.

It is still He Fu.

But today, it has been a few days since Wutong God was put to death.

He Fu's big study.

The black hair is tied into a bun, the hairpin is a jade hairpin, and a pearl broom hairpin is inserted. She is wearing a large white floor-length dress, with black eyebrows and a mature charm. The eldest lady is sitting in the high hall, listening to several The steward's report is summarized for one day, and he is in charge of all the internal affairs of Hefu.

It is evening now.

The Da Furen listened to the reports from several stewards in the mansion, dealt with the internal affairs accumulated today, and managed the hundreds of people in an orderly manner.

The eldest lady is Shuhui and virtuous.

Both ability and virtue.

After finishing all the internal affairs, the eldest lady rubbed her temples a little tiredly.

"Ma'am, the old slave has one last thing to report. Ma'am, you want the old slave to instruct the branch halls in various places to find spiritual martial arts for Daoist Jin'an. It has already been settled."

"Oh? The efficiency of those people below is quite fast. It's been less than five days since Daoist Jin'an and Daoist Chen exorcised evil spirits for my Hefu."

After dealing with all kinds of heart-wrenching and heart-wrenching internal affairs for a day, it is rare to meet a lady who is no longer about the trivial internal affairs of the mansion and has a slightly tired face, and she suddenly became interested.

The old butler of the He Mansion replied respectfully: "The main reason is that this matter was ordered by the eldest lady herself, so the people below dare not neglect."

After the old butler finished speaking, hesitation appeared on his face: "It's just..."

"Just what?"

The eldest lady frowned in displeasure, she didn't really like the people under her command to be hesitant.

The old butler heard the displeasure in Da Furen's words, and he didn't dare to be negligent, and hastily replied in fear and fear: "The other party is a down-and-out family of martial arts. Although they have retired, they were still chased by their former enemies. Because my father was injured, he urgently needs century-old medicinal materials to heal his injuries."

"The other party doesn't ask for money, but only a century-old healing medicine..."

"In addition, the other party also made some requests, saying that this spiritual martial art is their family's unique martial art. In order to prevent us from leaking their family's unique secrets to others, he is only willing to hand over the first half of this spiritual martial art. Next Half of it is related to the life, death and revival of the family, and I refuse to hand it over."

Century-old medicinal materials...

The eldest lady was silent for a while.

Hundred-year-old medicinal materials are precious, even the most common century-old medicinal materials are worth several hundred taels of silver.

And the century-old medicinal materials that have the effect of healing are not comparable to ordinary century-old medicinal materials. If it is put in the rivers and lakes, even a hundred gold may not be able to buy it.

However, the He family has a big business, and together with the other two medicinal material merchants, they control nearly half of the medicinal material business in the state capital. Although the century-old medicinal materials are precious, they are not without stock in the treasury.

It didn't take long for the lady to ponder.

Then she quickly settled the matter.

And after discussing about purchasing centuries-old medicinal materials for Jin'an, the eldest lady looked around, her slender brows frowned slightly, and looked at the old housekeeper: "I haven't seen Miss San all day, Miss San sneaked to the Taoist Temple of the Five Viscera to look for Daoist Jin'an again today?"

This is the family affairs of the master's family. As a servant, the old housekeeper dared to talk too much about the family affairs of the master's family. He lowered his head and could only answer honestly and simply yes.

"Sure enough, female college students are not allowed to stay."

"When the wings are hard, you can learn to fly by yourself."

The Da Furen was so angry that she laughed and cursed, and the stewards in the big study did not dare to look up, thinking in their hearts that the Da Furen was really angry?Or fake anger?

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The five internal organs Taoist temple, which has always been deserted, has gradually become lively these days.

Even the old Taoist priest had more smile lines on his face.

Because there have always been zero incense believers in the five internal organs Taoist temple, they finally started to have their own believers, and the incense is still very prosperous every day.

No way, rich people can really do whatever they want.

The third lady of the He Mansion has been running to the Taoist Temple of the Five Viscera recently, and she has been running very diligently. Every time, she spends a lot of money on incense sticks, and even the business of the coffin shop opposite the Taoist Temple has improved.

The coffin shop not only sells coffins, but also yellow paper, paper ingots, shrouds, incense sticks, candles, etc. Fushou shop and coffin shop provide one-stop service.

In the past few days, the incense in the Taoist temple has suddenly flourished, and there is no stock in the Taoist temple, so it is natural to revitalize the surrounding businesses.

So even this Uncle Lin looked at the third lady of the He Mansion with a very kind eyebrow and kind eyes.

The recent incense believers in the Wu Zang Dao Temple, not only the third lady of the He Mansion, but even the guard Li of the He Mansion have become incense believers.

Every day if I have nothing to do, I go to the Taoist temple.

All I could think about was hitting the evil spirits.

Then the girls in the Huanyi room of He Mansion, the old mother, and the two maids beside the eldest lady also became believers in the Taoist temple of the five internal organs.

It's just that they seldom have the opportunity to go out of the house, so they come here occasionally, unlike the former two who go to the Taoist temple of the five internal organs every day.

But in any case, there are now eleven incense believers in the Taoist Temple of the Five Viscera.

Compared with the cold and deserted place at the beginning, with zero incense believers, it is much better.

Especially among them is a rich second-generation daughter who is not short of money.

this day.

Jin An avoided the third lady of the He Mansion, and the old Taoist priest had just sent the third lady of the He Mansion away. The big fat man Li Huwei bumped his big belly, and then ran back to the Taoist Temple of the Five Viscera.

"Li Huwei, you go to our small Taoist temple every three days, don't He Fu need a guard house?"

Jin An was speechless looking at Li Huwei, who had become acquainted with them and poured himself a cup of tea for himself.

Li Huwei's answer was very simple and straightforward, he winked at Jin An: "Who said that the guards of the He Mansion are only confined to the He Mansion?"

"Inspecting the surroundings of the He Mansion and investigating hidden dangers in advance is also one of the duties of the guards of Ben Li."

Faced with this brazen fishing in troubled waters, Jin An gave the other party a big face on the spot.

As long as you are happy.

Anyway, He Mansion is not mine.

Chatting and chatting today, the old Taoist talked about his bravery in the past again, one talked with joy and spit, and the other was envious when he heard it, and envied why the old Taoist was always able to hit evil.

Jin An: "?"

God is so envious.

After the old Taoist finished speaking, Li Huwei still had unfinished emotions on his face.

I can't wait to throw away the job I'm holding now, and have a dream of wandering the rivers and lakes with the old Taoist priest.

Looking at Li Huwei who was always thinking about bumping into an evil spirit once, Jin An's heart skipped a beat. He remembered a small detail when he first met Li Huwei.

Li Huwei, who was eager to bump into an evil spirit once, once said that he knew [-]% of the various folk legends in the state capital.

"Guard Li, I wonder if you have heard of the place name Headless Village?"

Jin An asked.

"Headless village?"

Li Huwei looked over curiously, wondering why Jin An suddenly asked about this.

Li Huwei had a good memory, and said that he had heard of the place name Wutou Village. Jin An and the old Taoist priest were immediately refreshed when they heard the words, and Jin An couldn't wait to ask for details.

Therefore, the guard Li, who was very curious and familiar with all kinds of folk tales and legends in Wuzhou Prefecture, began to talk about everything he knew.

What is a headless village?
Of course, it is a village where the villagers have no heads around their necks.

And man has no brain.

Nature is dead.

So this headless village is a place where the dead gather.

According to what Li Huwei said, the story of the headless village had to start with a traveling businessman.

This happened many years ago.

Specifically, it happened in a few years, and there is no evidence for it.

There is a group of traveling merchants who resell goods and earn the price difference between the two places. They often travel back and forth between neighboring state capitals.In order to avoid bandits and bandits along the road, this group of traveling merchants did not take the main road, and had their own trails for carrying goods.

It's just that this trail is not easy to walk, because most of it is in the deep mountains and old forests.

But luckily they were careful along the way.

Never drive at night.

Not curious at all.

Never ask what happens along the way.

In this way, they have been in the business of traveling merchants for several years, and they have lived in peace.

Among them is a mountain road, which is the most dangerous place along the way. It has to walk through a steep cliff.

that mountain road.

Really steep.

Most of the roads can only be passed by one person, and in some places, even one sole of the foot cannot be stepped on, and only half of the sole of the foot can be barely stepped on.

If a person accidentally steps into the air, it will be a cliff of ten thousand zhang, and there will be no dead body.

And there are often falling rocks overhead.

So they named this mountain road Xuankong Road.

And when it comes to the rainy season, the mountains are very cold and there will be cold fog, which makes the hanging road even more slippery and difficult to walk.

As the saying goes, people die for money and birds die for food.

Even though this mountain road is difficult to walk, knowing that it is extremely dangerous, he may fall to pieces at any time, but in the face of the high price difference of reselling goods between the two places, people are crazy enough in front of their interests.

It's just that you can't get your shoes wet when you often walk by the river.

That group of traveling merchants finally encountered an accident. That day, there was a sudden heavy rain and a large number of falling rocks on the mountain. They were caught off guard and were beaten to death by the falling rocks, and many people were injured.

Fortunately, they were about to finish that section of the mountain road, and the last section was wide, but no one was thrown off the cliff by falling rocks.

But even so, many people were injured.

The two most seriously injured had their arms broken by falling rocks, and they urgently needed to find a place to treat the wounded.

Otherwise, the arms of those two people will definitely be crippled.

At this time, they saw smoke curling up from the mountains. It was someone in the mountains who was lighting a fire and cooking.

They were thankful that they met someone in the mountains, and finally there was no unparalleled road, so they rushed to the direction of the smoke with the wounded.

When they walked to the place where the smoke was cooking, they found a village. On the plowing field, there were farmers carrying hoes back to the village for dinner. Among the thatched huts where the smoke was curling up, there were chickens and dogs barking, and children running around. It was a peaceful and peaceful scene. .

Fortunately, the folk customs in the village are simple and honest. When they saw injured people entering the village, instead of being xenophobic, they served delicious food and drinks, and offered to help them treat the wounded.

Seeing the enthusiasm of the villagers, the group of traveling merchants were very grateful, and soon they became acquainted with this group of hospitable villagers.

At the same time, I also know the name of this mountain village.

This mountain village is called Taoyuan Village. They are isolated from the world. The ancestors fled to the deep mountains long ago to escape the war. They have lived in the deep mountains for generations, and no one has ever walked out of the mountains.

Daily living expenses are self-sufficient by men farming and women weaving.

The more those traveling merchants listened, the more envious they were, envious of Taoyuan Village for living and working in peace and contentment.

On that day, the hospitable villagers in Taoyuan Village slaughtered chickens, slaughtered pigs and fished, entertained them with good wine and meat, celebrated the rare arrival of outsiders in the village, and invited those traveling businessmen to tell them about the changes outside.

Fortunately, that group of traveling merchants have been running around the rivers and lakes all year round, with daggers hidden in their arms, silver notes hidden in the insoles, and a defensive heart hidden in their hearts. Didn't eat less.

It was a huge pig's head, and it was quickly divided among several people.

However, not everyone in the group of traveling merchants has lost their minds, and there are still some people who are still vigilant enough.

Among these people was a man named Ding Bao.

He was one of the two people whose arms were broken by falling rocks. Because of his arm injury, he did not participate in the bonfire dinner in the village. After the other traveling merchants came back from eating, he was surprised after listening to everyone's description, and then proposed own doubts.

Ding Bao asked everyone, if the people in Taoyuan Village really escaped the war for generations, where did they get the domestic pigs?

After all the wars and disasters, it is impossible to drive the pigs into the deep mountains, right?After all, wild boars are not domestic pigs. There is a big difference between the two. It is more credible to say that there are chickens, ducks, cats and dogs on the road.

And let alone driving domestic pigs into the mountains, ordinary people couldn't even afford pork in the war-torn era.To put it bluntly, there must be famine every time there is a war, and the war will cause the people to have no desire to cultivate and grow food. I am afraid that the people will not have enough to eat at that time, and everyone will only eat grass roots and even cook people for food. Where will the live pigs drive you in? In the mountains?

Ding Bao asked everyone again, if the people in Taoyuan Village have never been out or had contact with outsiders, how did they reproduce?

During the day, he saw the people in the village, and there were a hundred people in the village.

If you have never been in contact with the outside world or married to the outside world, then you are close relatives.

But everyone knows that if a village is full of inbreeding, it will not be long before the village will die and will not exist for long.

But why can these villagers live in the village safe and sound, and have been multiplying for generations?This is against common sense.

When Ding Bao said that to the group of traveling merchants, the joyous atmosphere just now calmed down, and everyone's backs were covered in cold sweat from Ding Bao's second question.

People who are capable of buying and selling are already smarter than the other, so which one is stupid?

Otherwise, as early as in the business field of intrigue and deceit, he was eaten until there was not even a bone left.

After discussing that night, everyone decided to leave this strange village as soon as the morning dawned.

That night, the lights in the house were lit all night, and everyone took turns to watch the night. Nothing happened, and more than a dozen people spent the night safely.

The next day.

As soon as the day dawned, the group of traveling merchants were anxious to leave the village.

Originally, they didn't intend to say goodbye, but just sneaked away.

Unexpectedly, the villagers in Taoyuan Village started slaughtering chickens and pigs early in the morning, and they had already set up a banquet to warmly entertain the group of traveling businessmen.

Ever since they were awakened by Ding Bao's words, the group of traveling businessmen dared to stay in Taoyuan Village, and they were anxious to say goodbye.

But the villagers of Taoyuan Village are so enthusiastic.

The group of traveling merchants couldn't resist.

When there was a stalemate, Ding Bao, one of the group of traveling merchants, actually saw an acquaintance among the villagers of Taoyuan Village. He immediately shouted in surprise: "Yang Zhi! Yang Zhi, aren't you dead?"

"Didn't you encounter robbers last year, people were killed, and you robbed money? How did you come here? How did you become a villager in Taoyuan Village?"

I don't know.

Ding Bao's words were like waking up a person in a dream. The villager of Taoyuan Village named Yang Zhi fell to the ground with his head on the spot.

At this time, the heads of the villagers of Taoyuan Village who were still surrounding them also slipped from their necks. The originally bustling village suddenly became a desolate, dilapidated headless village.

The pig's head that was originally boiled in the pot, when the boiling water boiled, the stewed human head floated out.The headless domestic pig that fell to the side also turned into a headless human corpse.

The group of traveling merchants were so frightened that their souls froze, and they fled the village in embarrassment, crying for their father and mother.

When the government heard the report that there was a headless village hidden deep in the mountains, they immediately led troops to look for the headless village.It turned out to be strange this time, the road was still the same, and the location was still the same, but no matter how hard they searched this time, the government never found the so-called Taoyuan Village.

This Taoyuan Village seems to have never appeared before.

The government thought that the group of traveling merchants reported false officials, wasting the manpower and material resources of the government, and immediately put the group of traveling merchants in prison for half a year before releasing them.

As people were imprisoned, no one cares about Taoyuan Village.

Later, that group of traveling merchants no longer dared to take this route, and since then changed to other routes to resell goods in other places.

It's just that when it came to the rainy season in the coming year, that is, the rainy season when that group of traveling merchants encountered Taoyuan Village last year, these traveling merchants were either at home, or out of town, or in the neighboring state capital... unexpectedly one by one disappeared mysteriously. People are spared.

Live without people, dead without corpses.

As a result, there gradually became a legend among the folks... saying that these people all returned to Taoyuan Village in the end.Just like the man named Yang Zhi back then, even if he died, he couldn't escape the curse of Taoyuan Village.

Taoyuan Village is a village with a curse.

The man named Yang Zhi was Ding Bao's guide, he was the one who led Ding Bao into this industry, and he was the one who told Ding Bao and other colleagues about the trade route of Xuankong Road.

Therefore, according to folklore, it is very likely that Yang Zhi also encountered Taoyuan Village, a headless village, and entered the headless village a year earlier than Ding Bao and the others, and then returned to the headless village inexplicably during the rainy season.

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wow wow wow.

The gray rainy season outside the Taoist temple is still falling.

"Little brother, it's been raining non-stop, I feel a little cold all of a sudden."

The old Taoist clasped his arms and rubbed them.

(End of this chapter)