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Chapter 178 The Story of the Two Saints

When I think of that scene, I feel numb in my heart: "They put a mask on the dead body?"

Bai Yang nodded: "It is said that in this way, the soul of the deceased can be attached to the mask, so that the wronged soul can be appeased."

"But I'm afraid another reason is to suppress those unjust souls, but anyway, this bad habit has been circulating in this remote mountain village. Hualong Village is surrounded by water, and the water gathers yin, which is why the village is full of resentment. for the sake of

What Bai Yang said is the same as what I thought. When I knew that the village put masks on the dead, I thought it was to suppress the ghosts of the dead.

"What else? What happened to the Sages of Hualong Village?" I asked.

Bai Yang said: "After the wars in the Ming Dynasty were pacified and the royal power was stabilized, two saints came to Hualong Village. They were originally a couple."

I said, "Is it the two official puppets enshrined in the temple?"

Bai Yang nodded: "Well, in the era when there was not enough to eat, these two saints came to Hualong Village and distributed food to the villagers, so that the poor villagers at that time could live a life full of food. Officials are regarded as double saints by the villagers of Hualong Village, and the women are even called Mrs. Gaoming."

With that said, I seem to be able to imagine what happened next.

According to historical records, when the early Ming Dynasty was established, the people in many places were destitute and living in dire straits.

However, that era was also relatively corrupt. Not to mention that officials distributed food to the people, even the food and grass distributed by the court would be exploited layer by layer by officials for private storage, and some places even imposed official taxes on the people.

These two saints care about the common people, and it is reasonable to be loved by Hualong Village.

"But the two saints are not ordinary people. The villagers of Hualong Village worshiped the Dragon King. It was already spread in Hualong Village at that time. After the two saints learned about it, they knew that this matter was extraordinary."

"During the sacrifice, the two of them rescued the boys and girls who sacrificed to the snake, but this also brought disaster to them. Under the secret layout of the snake and the spell cast by the snake woman, the two saints drowned in the river in a strange way. inside."

Bai Yang didn't say anything further, but my heart sank when I heard this, and I really agreed with the old saying that good people don't live long.

I asked, "Later, in order to commemorate them, did the villagers enshrine their official puppets?"

Bai Yang shook his head, gave me a strange look in his eyes, and said something that made my hair stand on end.

The moment this sentence fell into my ears, I almost gasped and felt a chill run down my spine.

"why?"

The most angry and resentful thing in the world is probably repaying virtue with resentment.

These ignorant villagers not only failed to appreciate Shuang Sheng's dedication, but repaid their kindness with revenge.

No wonder the two of them have such a big grievance? !

Bai Yang continued: "It should be bewitched by the snake lady, and the Shuangsheng heart is attached to the villagers. From their point of view, the Shuangsheng will not blame them, and there is such a vulgarity in Hualong Village."

"Hualong Village not only has this kind of bad habit, but also spends money to imprison women bought from outside for the purpose of carrying on the family line of the men in the village, and uses it as a reproductive machine. It is not uncommon for a woman to serve her husband to continue the incense. Of course... this is probably She is also a snake woman who wants to make Hualong Village prosperous so that she can find more suitable sacrifices."

Now after hearing what Bai Yang said, he hated this village from the bottom of his heart, those villagers really deserved to die.

Bai Yang was not infected by my emotions, and continued after pondering for a while: "After the death of the Shuang Sheng, accidents began to happen in the village one after another. Some people began to suffer from a strange disease, and the whole body would have corpse spots, rotten and smelly."

"The villagers in Hualong Village were terrified, so the snake lady asked the villagers to make two official puppets according to the method she said, which looked and dressed exactly like the two saints, and put them in the two village temples on the left and right of Hualong Village, so that the villagers Every year on the day when they fall into the water, incense will be offered to worship, and the incense will not be broken at ordinary times, so as to calm the resentment between the two of them."

Seeing that Bai Yang paused here, I frowned and said, "I'm afraid it's not that simple, is it?"

I scoffed at this approach from the bottom of my heart. Such ignorant and inhuman villagers are not worth saving at all.

Thinking of Chu Yuan telling me that the two official puppets actually directly sealed the ghosts of the Shuangsheng inside, in order to prevent them from being reborn forever, I guessed that it must be not simple.

Bai Yang smiled and nodded: "Of course the snake woman has no good intentions. If what she said is true, Hualong Village will not experience such terrible things later."

"The snake woman cast a spell to seal the souls of the two saints, who had not had strong resentment at the beginning, in an official doll made of centuries-old locust wood and grave soil, depicting the appearance of the two before life, and asked the villagers to enshrine the two saints under the guise of quelling resentment. people."

"Because the ghost was imprisoned in the official doll at first, the village was indeed peaceful for a while, and the villagers believed in the snake woman's words more deeply."

"But over time, if it is contaminated with incense gas, the evil energy in the body will continue to accumulate, and when it is about to erupt, it will become a burning corpse."

It may be that good and evil will be rewarded in the end, and the wicked will be punished by the wicked.

The former villagers of Hualong Village did all kinds of bad things, but after doing so many bad things, they not only brought bad consequences.

And they probably didn't know that the Dragon King enshrined for generations was a magic snake that raised them as livestock.

Although the devil snake is also very hateful, but after hearing what Bai Yang said, I feel that dealing with these stubborn villagers doesn't seem so disgusting.

"The two village temples on the left and right of Hualong Village are themselves a pool of Yin gathering. In addition, the whole village has long been full of resentment. Putting the official dolls in it will only make the ghosts of the two people stronger and stronger. The official dolls not only bear the burden of the villagers. The incense, and the resentment that devours the souls of the dismembered human flesh from generation to generation in the village all the time."

"It is precisely because of this that more than ten years ago, the two of them broke free from the shackles of the official puppets. The first thing they did after they came out was to let the whole village be buried with them. As for what happened in the village later, you also know."

What happened next should be what Grandma Liu said, the real experience of the villagers of Hualong Village back then.

When Grandma Liu told me for the first time, I felt that many of them were unreasonable. After all, it is impossible for Shuangsheng to take revenge on pious villagers like this, but the root of all this is what the villagers of Hualong Village once did. evil deeds.

It seems that at this moment, all the truth about Hualong Village is known.

I suddenly realized: "The Snake Possessed the ghosts of the two sages in the official puppet for eternity. It is also to improve the four elephants trapping the yin and locking the dragon in Hualong Village. The yang energy cannot enter, and the dead energy cannot escape. , coupled with the vulgar customs in the village, the yin and death in Hualong Village gathered to a terrifying level, in order to let the devil snake use the yin and death to break out of the seal as soon as possible."

(End of this chapter)