My eyes widened and I looked at Lu Xiaohong in even greater disbelief: "Ordinary people? How is it possible? Then what are they doing now? Why did they lure Xia Xiaobei here to do this strange thing?"
"Not every place welcomes outsiders. This is not an ordinary village. Everything in Quelong Village is not as simple as you think." Lu Xiaohong said.
Sleepy Dragon Village?
As soon as I heard this name, I felt uncomfortable for no reason.
While he was talking, there was a commotion in the ancestral hall, and all the villagers made a sound like cheering.
I turned my head and looked into the ancestral hall, and saw eight shirtless villagers lifting the red coffin with Xia Xiaobei amidst cheers.
Xia Xiaobei cried in panic, his head kept shaking, and tears rolled down in large pieces, staining the snow-white linen clothes with large light yellow stains.
Those who didn't pay attention to her crying threw a lot of rice grains at her.
Surrounded by the villagers, eight coffin bearers carried the coffin out of the ancestral hall and walked towards a small hill behind the village.
The originally bustling ancestral hall suddenly became quiet, and even the two people who were originally guarding the door followed the crowd with guns in their hands, looking around warily from time to time.
"Let's go, let's follow!" Lu Xiaohong said, pulling me down from the tree.
"Where are they going to take her?" I asked Lu Xiaohong.
"Replacement burial!" Lu Xiaohong's thin lips moved slightly, and he uttered two words coldly.
Replacement burial? What does it mean? Can it be used as a substitute for burial? Or does it mean something else?
I turned around in confusion and was about to ask Lu Xiaohong, but I saw that he had already ducked and quietly followed those people.
Following from a distance, there were trees covering the road, which made it easier to hide their whereabouts. And those people were indeed like Lu Xiaohong said. Except for the two gatekeepers who were a little more alert, the others almost didn't pay much attention to whether there was anyone behind them.
Follow.
The villagers walked for more than half an hour before reaching the foot of the hill. They placed the red coffin on the ground, knelt down and kowtowed to the coffin.
Then, a burst of fire exploded at the foot of the dark mountain, and those "crackling" firecrackers lit up, filling the air with a white smoke and a strong smell of sulfur.
"The mountain gate has opened and we are about to set off!" As soon as the sound of firecrackers stopped, an old voice echoed in the mountains and forests.
Following the sound, the villagers got up from the ground and walked toward the mountain surrounded by the coffin.
"Let's go!" Lu Xiaohong greeted me, raised his feet and ran towards the hill.
"Who are you!" An angry shout came from the mountain pass. Lu Xiaohong and I stopped, and he pulled me and quickly hid behind a big tree.
Only then did we realize that the two villagers carrying guns did not follow us, but stood guard at the intersection into the mountain...
"Is there anyone there? Did you see it wrong?" came another voice.
"Impossible, I clearly saw one shadow, not two!" the previous voice replied.
"Do you think it's possible that those things in the mountains haven't been buried for two years, and this commotion has disturbed those things?" Another voice was obviously trembling.
"Don't scare me, it will be bad luck if that's the case! Damn it, I can't take away the blessing of a good burial, we have to stay in this damn place!" complained the previous voice.
"Okay, stop talking. If those things were really there, they wouldn't do anything to us, right? I haven't seen anything happen to anyone in the past few years. We have guys in our hands, and those things shouldn't dare to get close.
" Another voice said again.
The two fell silent, looking around warily with guns in hand, and stopped talking.
"What are they talking about?" I asked Lu Xiaohong quietly with some confusion.
"Spiritual creatures in the mountains!" Lu Xiaohong replied.
"What other things are there in this mountain?" I asked curiously?
"I don't know! Anyway, I haven't seen it before!" Lu Xiaohong said.
I was worried about Xia Xiaobei, so I didn't ask any more questions and looked up at the hill.
The hill is not very high, but there is only one road to enter the mountain. There are two straight cliffs on both sides of the road. The cliffs lead directly to the top of the mountain. Although it is not very high, it is completely impossible to sneak into the mountain from there without being discovered.
possible.
"What should we do now?" I looked at the two cliffs and suddenly ran out of ideas.
"Wait!" Lu Xiaohong simply said one word, then stopped making any sound, and sat under the tree with his eyes closed to rest.
"What should I do with Xia Xiaobei? They won't do anything to her, right?" I glanced at the mountain worriedly.
"You will be a little frightened, but you won't die!" Lu Xiaohong said coldly.
I didn't say anything anymore. If it's like he said, those people are ordinary people, and if we confront them head-on, it will only make things worse.
If those people are monsters or Taoist people who are as virtuous as us, we can still fight with them, but for ordinary people, we can't fight or hurt, but it is even more difficult to deal with, just like Lu Xiao
Hong said the same thing, now we can only wait.
I don’t know how long it took, but there was a faint sound of firecrackers on the mountain. Lu Xiaohong stood up and said: "It's almost time. Let's hide first and don't be discovered!"
As he spoke, he grabbed the trunk with both hands and climbed up the tree. Halfway through the climb, he stopped again, handed his hand to me and said, "Shall I pull you?"
"No, I can climb on my own!" I said, and after he climbed up the tree, I quickly climbed up the tree.
Lu Xiaohong leaned on a thick branch and looked at me and said: "I didn't expect that you look gentle and quiet, but you can also climb trees."
"I also grew up in the countryside when I was a child!" I replied.
Lu Xiaohong nodded and said no more.
Neither of us seemed to be very talkative, so the atmosphere suddenly became a little tense.
Fortunately, the villagers soon appeared on the road at the mountain pass. There was a huge group of people, everyone looked happy and whispered to each other in low voices. Walking at the front was a very short white-haired old man who looked like he was only ten years old.
He was as tall as a child of about 18 years old, but his eyes were shining brightly and his withered face was covered with wrinkles.
When they reached the intersection, two villagers holding guns stood up straight and said: "Chief!"
The white-haired old man asked: "No one is here, right?"
Judging from the voice, it was the same person who shouted to get on the road when they entered the mountain.
"No, no, not even a ghost!" said a voice.
"Okay, let's go back and wait until early tomorrow morning to pick up the village chief at the entrance of the village!" the white-haired old man said, walking towards the village.
It wasn't until their figures completely disappeared that Lu Xiaohong jumped down from the tree with me and ran up the mountain.
This time the journey was smooth and unobstructed, with no one guarding the road. The mountain road was filled with white grains of rice and paper money that had been blown by the wind and hit Xuan'er.
The wind in the mountains is a bit strong, and it makes a whining sound when it hits the cliffs. There are not many trees in the hills, and there are large and small graves everywhere. The wreaths on the graves are blown by the wind, and occasionally there are
The bird fluttered its wings and suddenly flew up, making a sharp cry. This hill should be the cemetery of Quelong Village, but I don’t know whether it was because of my eyes or because the mountain itself was very clean. I didn’t feel anything.
Yin Qi.
We followed the traces of rice grains and paper money for about ten minutes and stopped in front of a new tomb.
Looking at the new graves, I couldn't help but be shocked. My heart was tightly gripped by despair and fear. I looked at Lu Xiaohong and asked, "Xia Xiaobei won't be buried alive by them, right?" This chapter has been completed!