Chapter 164 The truth about Taoyuan Village (revision)
Taoyuan Village after nightfall.
Sing and dance.
There were banquets and bonfires, and each family actively brought out their own goodies to hold a whole-village banquet.
Noisy people.
Naughty boys were running around in the crowd.
The whole village was very enthusiastic and even put on new clothes. It was even more lively than during the holidays.
The night is quiet and dark, and it is Hai hour.
The time of Hai also calls for calmness and tranquility.
It means that the night is already deep at this time, the living people have stopped moving, and it is time to rest and sleep. Don't run around outside and make loud noises, so as not to bring anything into the house.
But the liveliness of Taoyuan Village at this time, with singing and dancing, was contrary to the warnings of the ancestors.
Song Fangping's family.
Outside the door of the room where Jin An and the others were "sleeping", there could be heard the whispers of Song Fangping and his wife, as well as some obscure sounds.
It's just pitch black outside the door.
Song Fangping and his wife did not light the lamp.
So you can't see anything through the crack in the door.
But listening to the noise, it seemed that the couple was busy with some night activities as a couple and didn't want to be seen by outsiders.
suddenly.
There was a squeak.
In the quiet room, there was some movement, like an old, dilapidated wooden door shaft, and a sound like the moans of an old man on a sickbed.
The movement in the room of Song Fangping and his wife suddenly stopped.
In the dark room without lights, it suddenly fell into silence, and the darkness was like a big stone that oppressed people and made it suffocating.
Everything was quietly still, filled with a strange and depressing feeling.
I always feel that in the invisible darkness, there seems to be an invisible figure standing with staring eyes.
I don’t know how long this silent dark oppressive feeling lasted. Suddenly, outside the door of Jin An’s “sleeping” room, which was supposed to be deserted, there was the sound of someone walking away. The footsteps outside the door kept echoing.
Arriving at the room of Song Fangping and his wife.
When did Song Fangping silently walk to the door? How long did he lie outside the door and look into the room? No one noticed.
"Damn it, why have you been gone for so long?"
"With the way you are sharpening your guns in the face of battle, if I had to wait for you to feed me, I would have been starved to death by you. Come on, come on, come here, I can't bear it any longer."
Song Fangping's mother-in-law's angry voice came from Song Fangping's room. She scolded her man for being slow and useless, which made her unhappy.
In a dimly lit room with no lights on, Song Fangping, a woman with heavy breasts and round breasts, was sitting in front of the dressing table, applying makeup in a colorful manner.
The clothes on my body were also changed into a new set of clean clothes.
The new clothes were embroidered with floral patterns, and the style was outdated and obsolete, like an old thing from a long time ago, but she cherished it very much, and would only wear it out of the closet during major festivals such as New Year's Eve.
only.
The person reflected in the dressing mirror didn't look human at all. The woman Song Fangping didn't control the strength when combing her hair. She gently combed her hair with the wooden comb. The originally dark and thick woman's hair was pulled off by the comb. That piece of jet black hair.
The hair pulled at the scalp, tearing off most of the scalp and face, exposing the bloody muscles of abscesses.
Just like dead pork left to rot for too long, the sebum rots and loses its elasticity, and a large piece of skin and flesh can be removed with just a scratch.
At this time, Song Fangping's mother-in-law wanted to pick up her scalp and face and apply it again, but the position of the back of her head was always wrong, and her nose and face were crooked every time.
Women love beauty.
Looking at her ugly appearance in the mirror, she couldn't bear it and wanted to scratch her face.
She was so angry that she cursed and asked her man to come over and help her reattach her scalp and face.
"You mother-in-law, you have a man at home and you still dress up in such a flashy way all day long. You are trying to make other men look good all day long. On the contrary, I am busy outside all day long and I don't see you a few times. You are not afraid that I will be jealous of your man."
There were footsteps in the darkness, and behind the plump woman reflected in the dressing mirror, a tall and burly man stood. While helping his wife reattach the torn scalp and face, he scolded his wife for her indecent life.
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Song Fangping's mother-in-law was not to be outdone: "Then you come and eat me quickly. I want you to eat me every day. My whole body feels itchy every day. I feel like there are a lot of white worms crawling under my skin. How about you die?"
You eat me now and let me see if there are a lot of white worms crawling around in my body?"
Song Fangping's mother-in-law was twisting her limbs so much that she felt unbearable itching due to the two heavy lumps on her chest. She felt her body was so itchy and there were countless bugs crawling around. She turned to look at her man with watery peach blossom eyes.
She was so eager that she wanted to squeeze out the water, but her crooked face made one of her eyes grow crooked, which had no sense of beauty. And under the skin that was not firmly pressed, there were strips of white maggots worming their way in and out, looking at
Like tiny lotus holes.
"You're a watery bitch who flirts with men all day long, do you really think I don't dare to eat you?" Song Fangping's red and greedy eyes were reflected in the makeup mirror.
"You useless thing, if you want to eat, eat it quickly, Mom. My body is so itchy now. After eating, I have to go to the village banquet later. Come on, hurry up, I can't bear it anymore."
"Okay! You're a frivolous slut. Are you dressed so beautifully today just to show off to the outsiders who come to the village? Are you attracted to that young Taoist priest who has thin skin and tender meat that is delicious at first sight?"
I call you a playboy, I call you a cheater, I call you a man at home and you still miss the man outside! I will bite you bitch to pieces!"
Hoho...uh...hohoho——
Gudong Gudong——
The sound of chewing minced meat could be heard in the house.
But suddenly, the sound of eating in the room stopped.
"You useless idiot, why did you stop suddenly? Come on, come on, I'm so uncomfortable."
"Mother, I seemed to hear a movement at the door just now. There seemed to be someone standing at the door just now..."
There was a strange and cold atmosphere in the room, which was completely dark and no one could see clearly what was going on in the room. Only one door was wide open.
The dark, open doorway was empty, not even a human figure.
"Damn it, why didn't you close the door when you entered the house?"
"I'm going to close the door right now."
"You damn ghost, go and come back quickly. Don't keep me waiting for too long. I'm still waiting for you to finish eating."
"Bah, you're a filthy bitch who doesn't know how to feed you."
Song Fanping was cursing one moment, but the next moment, without any warning, Song Fanping's head suddenly popped out of the darkness. At this time, his eyes were slightly red, and there was flesh between the teeth in his mouth.
Silk strips, I don’t know if I ate too much pork head for dinner tonight.
He glanced at the door a few times.
No one was seen outside the door.
Numb, lifeless red eyes stared directly at the room opposite where Jin An and the others were sleeping. Seeing that there was no movement in the room opposite, bang, the door slammed shut.
Not long after, the sound of chewing meat came from the house again.
Ho ho ho——
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People have three fires, namely the left and right shoulders and the top of the head.
Jin An, who had the old Taoist put three drops of corpse oil on his eyebrows and shoulders to temporarily cover up the three Yanghuo of the living person, saw Song Fangping return to the house, and he could no longer see what happened between Song Fangping and his wife.
, he climbed over the wall and was discharged from the hospital instead, and started walking around Taoyuan Village.
Find out the information about Taoyuan Village.
However, only Jin An came out tonight. The others were not brought out, but stayed at Song Fangping's house just in case.
If the villagers of Taoyuan Village suddenly go crazy and want to eat people, the old Taoist priests and others can hold him back for a while if they have more people.
As he possesses the Five Thunder Evil-Slaying Talisman, a life-saving skill that can be used at the bottom of the box, it is more conducive for him to hide his whereabouts by acting alone.
Although Jin'an's three Yanghuo were temporarily covered by corpse oil, he is now a dead person in the eyes of the dead people in Taoyuan Village.
Only living people can see him.
The dead cannot see him.
But on the way to Jin'an, we should try our best to avoid the villagers of Taoyuan Village.
However, he also secretly tried to show up in front of a few lone villagers. As expected, those villagers turned a blind eye to him and walked past him.
However, Jin An walked around Taoyuan Village and found nothing. On the contrary, there were fewer and fewer people walking along the way, because most of the villagers rushed to the back of the village, where the decorations were in full swing.
A feast for the whole village.
at last.
Jin An's eyes pondered for a moment.
He also started walking towards the back of the village.
If Jin An remembers the location correctly, that's where the man and woman stand.
On the road, I met more and more villagers. These Taoyuan villagers were all wearing new clothes that they would only wear out during the holidays.
Moreover, some of these people were carrying fresh fruit baskets in their hands.
Some people were carrying a large white pig that had just been disemboweled and slaughtered. Judging from the thin skin and tender meat, the fat head and big ears, it looked like it was well-raised.
Some people, the whole family, old and young, came together to carry tables and benches, intending to dedicate them to the village to hold a banquet for the whole village.
As for Jin'an, he was walking among the villagers safely, and no one noticed a living person sneaking in among them.
The fire is raging.
In a huge open space behind the village, a huge bonfire was lit.
The flames ignited by the bonfire were as high as two stories high, and illuminated a large open space around it red. At this time, a large number of Taoyuan villagers were busy around the bonfire.
There are shouts of chefs cooking, roasting whole pigs, and roasting whole lambs.
There were villagers talking and laughing as they carried jars of wine from their homes. The wine jars were covered with soil, and it looked like they had been stored in their cellars for many years.
There was also the chatter of women in the village helping to wash vegetables and pick leaves.
There were also the sounds of naughty children chasing each other.
What a lively and busy scene.
Looking at the scene in front of me, it is estimated that in a short time, the whole village's banquet will be arranged and started.
Jin An frowned as he watched the village chefs borrow fire from the largest bonfire in the center of the clearing every time they cooked vegetables, roasted whole pigs, roasted whole lambs, roasted beggar's chickens, etc., and his brows grew tighter and tighter.
The position of the bonfire was exactly where the head sacrifices and the human skins of men and women were held.
A horrifying detail crept into Jin An's mind.
Could those firewood used as fuel for the bonfire be the densely packed and countless human heads in the head sacrifice?
So this flame is a phosphorus fire lit with dead heads? It is also commonly known as a will-o'-the-wisp?
So this table full of wine and food is...?
Jin An thought of the abnormal behavior of Song Fangping and his wife that he saw when they were at Song Fangping's home.
Looking at everything in front of me, it is obvious that the answer is ready to come out.
The origin of Taoyuan Village and the origin of all curses are related to the bonfire in front of us. This bonfire is the firewood that exists in Taoyuan Village.
In mythology, the mythical character who brings fire to the underworld is called Li.
It seems that there is also fire in the world of the dead.
"Not enough, not enough. Let the fire burn brighter."
"Today's fire is not strong enough, and it has been delayed for a long time. Today's village banquet has been delayed by one stick of incense than before. We must continue to add more firewood, otherwise the stew will not be cooked properly. Just in case someone comes to the village today
Those foreigners were not happy with their meal, and they thought it was because our Taoyuan Village was shabby. When we receive guests in Taoyuan Village, we must bring out the best."
The patriarch of Taoyuan Village stood in front of a huge burning bonfire and shouted.
The red light of the flames stained the whole body of the old patriarch with white beard and hair, black and red.
Immediately, a villager echoed: "Chief, I will add some firewood right away."
But his hands were empty, and there was no dry wood in his hand to light the fire, so he dove headlong into the bonfire, dying like a moth to the flame, intensifying the flames of the bonfire.
"Hahaha, let me add more fire. Meat that is not cooked well will not taste good."
Another villager rushed into the bonfire like a moth.
These villagers were crazy and fanatical, and they were like moths to the fire, until about ten people died, and the bonfire became more and more prosperous. The clan leader said with joy that the fire is enough, that's enough. At the same time, the aroma of minced meat beside the bonfire became stronger.
Seeing that the fire was almost done, the clan leader began to order people to go to Song Fangping's house and invite Jin'an and the others to attend the village banquet to welcome the outsiders.
Then, several villagers began to run towards Song Fangping's house. Behind those adult villagers, there were a few big kids jumping behind them to join in the fun.
Just when Jin An focused on those people, suddenly, snap!
A hand as thin as a chicken's claw grabbed Jin An's wrist.
"Taoist Master, let's go, let's go, go quickly, the people in this village are all crazy, they will not be able to bear it any longer!"
"If you don't leave, it will be too late!"
An unkempt, gray-haired, stooped old woman, dressed in rags, dirty and smelly, like a beggar and a mad woman, she held onto Jin An's wrist tremblingly.
.The person shouts anxiously in an unclear and hoarse voice, as if his throat has been injured?
Jin An looked at the old woman in front of him who looked like a crazy woman in surprise.
Can the other party see him?
Living person?
Feeling the weak body temperature coming from his wrist, like a dying candle or a burnt-out lamp, Jin An was even more stunned. How could there be a living person in Taoyuan Village, a village of the dead?
Could it be another outside intruder after them?
"Crazy?"
"What's crazy?"
"Old man, do you know anything about this Taoyuan Village?"
Jin An asked, and he felt that he was closer to the truth.
"Walk!"
"This village needs no living people!"
"We have all been deceived, we have all been deceived. Mr. Yuan and the others have deceived our entire village. He is not changing the face of our Taoyuan Village. They are taking the lives of the entire village and selfishly changing their lives."
Damn it! You took the lives of a whole village just to change one person's fate! You also innocently implicated a pair of my children. Is this your punishment for my mother?"
When the old woman, who was like a crazy beggar, said her last words, she looked in the direction of the bonfire and cried bitterly.
"Mom is wrong, take mom with you."
"After all these years, are you still unwilling to forgive my mother for the mistakes she made back then?"
"Mom has really realized her mistake. She should not have listened to the lies of outsiders. She should not have abandoned you in the first place... Please forgive me. Please don't leave me to live alone in the world, crying every day until my voice becomes hoarse.
...After so many years, why have you never forgiven my mother? Why didn’t you take my mother away, but let your mother live in pain and self-blame every day? My mother really knows that she was wrong, so please take your mother away with you..."
The old woman frantically let go of Jin An and stumbled towards the bonfire.