Li Yue’s indifferent words immediately stunned everyone present.
"What's the relationship between the two?" Daqiang said in confusion.
There are others who are equally confused.
But Yang Jian's eyes flashed with a glimmer of light at this moment.
"A stick of incense, an empty tomb... An empty tomb means that there are no evil spirits in it, which means that even if the sacrifices in front of the tomb are taken away, nothing will happen."
Yang Jian murmured in a low voice.
Following Li Yue's words, Yang Jian analyzed it bit by bit.
Suddenly a look of surprise appeared on his face;
"Can a stick of incense be exchanged for a bowl of rice here?"
Hearing Yang Jian's words, Li Yue did not answer, but just smiled.
Seeing this, Yang Jian knew that his idea was correct.
"If one stick of incense can be exchanged for a bowl of rice here, should we return to the ancient house immediately to get the other two sticks of incense?"
Yang Jian suddenly had some ideas in his mind.
"It seems reasonable to exchange the incense here for sacrifices, but after all, there is no evidence. Isn't it a bit risky to do it easily?"
Fan Xing on the side said hesitantly.
Although in legend, incense is for ghosts and rice is for humans.
It seems to be able to cope with the current funeral.
But after all, this is just what Li Yue said, and there is no definite evidence other than that.
And the current choice is related to everyone's life and death, so after listening to Fan Xing's words, everyone couldn't help but show hesitation on their faces.
Only Ding Hui and Li Yang were convinced of Li Yue's judgment.
"Although I don't need to prove it to you, since you said there is no evidence, I will give you the evidence you want."
Li Yue glanced at the suspicious people, then walked straight to the collapsed old grave and squatted down.
Everyone present naturally saw Li Yue's movements, but they had no idea what Li Yue was doing.
But it seems that Li Yue is looking for something.
"Don't you want evidence? This is the evidence."
Soon, Li Yue pointed to a location in front of the tomb and said to everyone.
After hearing Li Yue's words, everyone immediately approached Li Yue and then looked at where he pointed.
I saw a small stick stuck in the yellow soil. Although there was only a little bit left, I could still tell that it was an incense stick that had burned out.
"This is...the incense stick that Zhou Deng took from the old house earlier."
Combined with what Li Yue said just now, everyone understood instantly.
At this time, everyone no longer doubted what Li Yue said just now.
A stick of incense is exchanged for a bowl of rice!
"It turns out that the three sticks of incense in front of the coffin were prepared for the ghost feast on the fifth day." Eagle said in surprise;
"There are two sticks of incense at the old house. If you bring them over, you can take away two bowls of rice. In this way, you can take away three bowls of rice in total."
Daqiang also said:
"This funeral in the old house has been arranged from the beginning. Since three sticks of incense can take away three bowls of rice, it means that three bowls of rice are enough to meet the needs of the ghost feast on the fifth day.
In this way, we don’t need to worry about how many sacrifices to take away.”
At this moment, Ding Hui's eyes suddenly flashed with a hint of hesitation and worry;
"Don't think of this matter too simply, although you can use the few sticks of incense in the old house to exchange for sacrifices.
But don’t forget that the incense stick before was suspected to have released a fierce ghost in advance;
Once we bring the remaining two sticks of incense in exchange for sacrifices, we will release two evil ghosts at the same time.
Although I don’t know how terrifying the ghosts buried here are, I think even the owner of the old house is buried here.
It is not difficult to imagine that the evil ghosts buried under these tombs are definitely not that simple.
If the released evil spirits target us, it will be a disaster for us."
Even Li Yue couldn't help but be stunned by Ding Hui's words.
He hadn't thought of this before.
After all, Li Yue’s strength is here, and he is confident that he can cope with everything.
But if the evil ghosts buried here are really related to the Seven Guys of the Republic of China, then things are not that simple.
At this moment, Li Yue suddenly felt a sense of disobedience in his heart.
He always felt that something was wrong with this matter.
It is not difficult to see from the situation in the past few days that Zhang Dong’s arrangements are very powerful.
As long as the relevant aspects of the funeral can be completed in accordance with the corresponding procedures, even if a evil ghost appears, these people will not be attacked by the evil ghost.
It's like announcing a funeral today.
Even though there are many evil ghosts following them, they are just following them and will not have any substantial impact on them.
Even when Li Yue took the initiative to attack these ghosts, these ghosts had no other reaction.
But there is something obviously abnormal about taking away the sacrifices.
Exchanging those sticks of incense for sacrifices requires the release of evil ghosts, which is obviously inconsistent with the layout Zhang Dong made before.
"Although I have never met Zhang Dong, as a strong man who suppressed an era, there will be no such loopholes in his wisdom and experience.
Then the only explanation is that someone broke Zhang Dong's arrangement, just like Zhou Deng's previous funeral announcement was advanced, which eventually caused the old house to lose control."
Li Yue touched his chin, a thoughtful look flashed in his eyes.
Suddenly, Li Yue's eyes were fixed on the incense stick on the ground with only a section left, and a look of surprise flashed across his face.
At this point, he roughly knew why it was like this.
If all guesses are correct, then the root cause should still be Zhou Deng.
According to the layout left by Zhang Dong, they should have come here today, that is, the third day of the funeral, with the three sticks of incense in the old house, in exchange for three bowls of rice, and then dealt with the fifth
Heaven’s Ghost Banquet.
However, during the vigil the next day, Zhou Deng first advanced the funeral announcement so that the vigil and funeral announcement would come together.
Zhou Deng then came here and gave the incense that was supposed to be taken on the third day to the tomb here in advance.
In this way, the originally well-organized layout is directly disrupted.
At this time, Li Yue couldn't help but feel speechless.
I used to think that Zhou Deng was just asking for funerals to be announced in advance, but now it seems that it is more than that.
Because of Zhou Deng, the complexity of the matter far exceeded Li Yue's imagination.
"Zhou Deng's incense injection was advanced? Shouldn't he have brought the incense to this place so early?" Li Yue said softly.
Li Yue's words happened to be heard by everyone around him.
A glimmer of light suddenly flashed in Yang Jian's eyes:
"What do you mean?"
Li Yue looked deeply at Yang Jian, and then responded:
"Do you still remember that last night, when you were fighting against the evil spirits in the lobby, the two remaining sticks of incense in the back hall had been extinguished and were no longer burning.
But what Zhou Deng took away was the incense that burned the next day."
Burning incense for the next day?
The extinguished incense on the third day?
In Yang Jian's mind, it was like a flash of lightning.
He immediately understood the meaning of Li Yue's words.