Most people in Niulan Village heard the noise at night.
So during the day, the village chief asked everyone to put down their work and gather everyone together.
Niu Shun, who was a client and had seen the shadow with his own eyes, was called forward for questioning.
Niu Shun told what happened last night, and the villagers were frightened. After all, Niulan Village had never seen such a supernatural thing before, and this was the first time in his life. Could something big happen?
"Shunzi, are you sure someone didn't scare us on purpose?" Qian Xiulan looked particularly scared and kept tapping her chest with her hands, "Auntie is timid, don't make up stories to scare Auntie..."
"Everything I said is true," Niu Shun pointed to the other side, "They saw it too!"
The person he pointed at was the Yang family who followed the sound last night and saw everything.
"Is there really a ghost?" Qian Xiulan anxiously walked to the Yang family camp headed by Yang Jie and asked worriedly.
"Yang Lian!" The boy reported to him after he came back. Yang Jie didn't know whether to believe it or not, but he could hear the voice clearly.
Jia Zhengjin's transformed scholar Yanglian took a step forward, pretending to be frightened, and her voice trembled slightly: "Really, really! I heard a strange cry last night, and the young master asked me to take someone to take a look. We found Niu Shun along the way.
At the door of my house, I happened to find something guarding the door and yelling. Before I could get up, Niu Shun opened the door and shouted, scaring the monster away..."
"It can't be some kind of wild beast. Can't you see clearly at night?" Niu Bao asked.
"It can't be a wild beast at all. Although I didn't see it clearly, the thing did disappear instantly and didn't just run away." Niu Shun answered affirmatively.
"It's so scary..." Qian Xiulan turned around and held her husband's hand, "Why does this kind of monster appear in our village?"
"It's okay, it's okay!" Da Liu quickly hugged his wife, "We in Niulan Village are blessed by our ancestors, so everything will be fine..."
"I think something is a little strange." Niu Xi said, "Are there a lot of weird things happening in our village recently?"
"What should I say?" Because Niu Xi now follows Niu Shun up the mountain to "cut firewood" every day, everyone's view of him has changed slightly, and the village chief's tone of voice is not as annoying as before.
"That's right," Niu Xi thought for a moment and said, "Actually, Shunzi and I went up the mountain to cut firewood before, and we encountered a weasel on the way asking for a seal. Shunzi said it looked like a human, and the weasel left with satisfaction. At that time, I felt
Weird, nothing like this has ever happened in our village... And then there was something strange calling at the door of Shunzi's house last night..."
"Ah, by the way!" Qian Xiulan clapped her hands and pointed at Niu Xi and said, "Didn't you also go up the mountain and meet the gods and get the elixir? Otherwise, how could you cure my brother Bao?"
"So, there have been a lot of strange things happening in our village recently..." The village chief was a little worried, and turned to the two cultural figures at the scene - Wang Xu and Yang Jie, "Mr. Wang, Master Yang, regarding this matter
What do you think?"
"This..." Wang Xu touched the goatee on his chin, "As the saying goes, you can't talk about strange things and have strange powers... but strange things have happened recently. Is there really something fishy?"
Yang Jie saw Wang Xu looking over and thought for a moment: "Speaking of which, my father and I both had dreams from our ancestors the day before yesterday, telling us to go back to the old house in the village to study. But we didn't expect these changes to happen. Could it be related?"
"Oh? Did your ancestors of the Yang family tell you a dream?" Qian Xiulan came over in surprise, stared at Yang Jie and asked, "Is it true or false?"
"It's absolutely true! My father and I both dreamed about it, otherwise we wouldn't have returned to the old house at this time." Yang Jie replied, "But my ancestors asked me to go back to the old house to study hard. What does it have to do with these strange things?"
Qian Xiulan looked at Yang Jie carefully, and after a while she said, "Is it possible that your ancestors did not ask you to come back to study, but were reminding you of something?"
"Remind you what?" Hearing this, Yang Jie looked confused.
"Xiulan, what do you mean by this?" the village chief asked curiously.
Qian Xiulan turned around and saw many villagers looking at her, so she said: "What a coincidence! Look, the ancestor of Yang Jie returned to the village in a dream, and something strange appeared at the door of Shunzi's house that night...
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"Auntie, aren't you being kind?" Yang Jie's expression changed, "Do you suspect that this matter has something to do with me?"
"That's impossible to say!" Qian Xiulan looked at him seriously, "Who asked you to come back at this exact time? Such a strange thing happened again that night..."
"You woman need to talk nonsense!" A maid next to Yang Jie stood up angrily, "My young master has no idea that the sound affects his studies, and he asked Yang Lian to take people there!"
"Exactly!" Jia Zhengjin's transformed book boy Yang Lian quickly stood up, "The young master was also disturbed by strange noises at night, so he asked me to go and investigate. Besides, other things that happened before the young master came back, such as the gods he met,
And the weasel the two of them met asked for a seal."
"That makes sense!" the village chief said quickly, "Xiulan, Master Sheep has just come back, it's just a coincidence! What we should consider now is how to deal with it. This is the first time our village has encountered such a strange thing, so we must pay attention to it!"
The villagers nodded one after another.
Suddenly someone shouted loudly to Niu Xi: "Xizi, didn't you meet an immortal? Besides giving your father the elixir to cure his illness, didn't he teach you anything else?"
Niu Xi suddenly became nervous and shook his head hurriedly: "Where can I get anything else? Any elixir would be great!"
But something about Niu Shun's mother's dream and the treasure in the maze suddenly came to mind. Could it be that the maze is related to the strange events that happened recently?
Could it be that he and Shunzi opened the maze and released the monsters sealed inside? Otherwise, why would they go to find Shunzi?
Niu Shun looked at Niu Xi with doubts. He didn't know what Niu Xi was thinking, but it seemed to be related to him.
Are you worried about the maze?
He quickly winked at Niu Xi, then shook his head to tell him not to tell anyone.
Niu Xi didn't understand what Niu Shun meant either. The two communicated with each other with their eyes, but they couldn't reach a consensus.
Fortunately, I didn't mention Niu Shun's mother's dream or the maze.
"I'm really scared when I think about it..." Qian Xiulan said, "Village chief, you have to take care of me!"
The village chief said that I can take care of other things, but how can I take care of this ghost when it appears?
So he turned to the two scholars Wang Xu and Yang Jie for help.
Scholars know better and are calmer when encountering problems, so they may have some solutions.
The villagers naturally followed the village chief and turned their attention collectively to the two scholars.
Feeling the pressure, Wang Xu and Yang Jie exchanged glances, approached and discussed in a low voice for a few words, and finally reached a consensus.
"Village chief, and everyone!" Wang Xu said seriously, "This matter is too weird, and there is no introduction in the book on how to deal with it. How about this, how about just going to the county to find a monk to come and take a look?"
"There is a Taoist temple in the county. You can go there to find people." Yang Jie said. (To be continued)
