The hunter then sighed and said: "In that village, he continued, in order to repay his kindness, the descendants were willing to sacrifice thirty years of their lives in exchange for the life of that young man. The village chief said so, and the rest of the people
Kneel down on the ground and swear to God."
Having said this, the hunter sighed again, this time even heavier.
I continued: "What about the future?"
The hunter continued: "That night, a family gave birth to a boy. When the boy was born, he was smiling, and he was holding a bead in his hand. This became the dragon bead. Since then, the village has
Fading day by day, this new-born child has been doing nothing all his life. He married a wife and had no children. Moreover, he also died early. He must have been thirty years old when he died. The villagers angrily cut the man into pieces.
, I’m not relieved!”
The hunter continued with a sigh and said: "They also killed his wife alive and cut her body into pieces, put them into two coffins, and threw them into the river. They thought it was bad luck and was washed away by the river, but this did not make him happy.
The fortunes of the village have improved, and there are fewer and fewer people. Recently, there are almost no people left in the village."
At this point, I seemed to feel something. I immediately felt that I was that young man. No, I was the young man who was still exposed, the young man who was quartered, and Xiaozhen was the wife who was brutally killed, my
His head kept turning, and then he asked: "Do you have a portrait of that person?"
"How could it be possible? That was more than 10,000 years ago. People at that time didn't know how to draw pictures. They only knew some simple words. After generations of compilation, we have today's historical data. However,
It’s really hard to say whether this is true or false.”
I asked at this time: "Are rabbits mentioned in historical materials?"
The hunter was stunned after hearing this, and then his eyes widened and he said: "Yes, the man who came here likes to keep pets. Others keep cats and dogs, but he picked up a pair of rabbits and raised them until he died.
The two rabbits are still there, but it is said that both rabbits followed the coffin into the river. Later, some people said they saw the rabbit jump on the coffin and swim down the river. As for what happened in the end, no one knows
, how did you know that there were rabbits? There are not many records about rabbits. There are only a few entries in my family’s historical materials. It was my ancestors who lamented that rabbits also know how to be grateful, so they left these entries."
When he said this, I was basically sure who the people in the two coffins were. The one in Zhaocun was the young man, and the one at Jiulongmen was his wife. But there was still a question. The one in the Keiko family tomb was
The woman's appearance is the same as Xiaozhen's.
I thought in my heart, but that’s not right. Isn’t Xiaozhen the clone of the ancient demon emperor? How could it be involved here? Is there any hidden secret in it? I continued to ask: “Is there any other record about this young man?”
The hunter said: "It seems you know something. What do you want to ask?"
I asked: "Where are the Dragon Balls?"
"The people in the village regarded it as an ominous object and decided to destroy it. However, the dragon ball was burned, frozen, chopped with knives, and axes. It could not be broken no matter what. In the end, there was a legend that the dragon ball was stuffed into the mouth of a leopard to make the leopard
After swallowing it, the Ji family chased the leopard on horseback for three days, chasing the leopard for a thousand miles before returning. However, this did not reverse the decline of the village. Until today, there is no one here at all, and some are just
Graves after graves.”
The hunter sighed and said: "This is fate, no one can escape it."
I can't evaluate this matter, and I can't tell what's right or wrong. If I have to find a responsible person, it would be that the clan leader shouldn't have drank so much wine, let alone drank so much wine.
To organize a ceremony to worship ancestors.
Is it really worth it for you to exchange thirty years of the life of your descendants for the short life of a man who sacrificed his life for righteousness? Misfortune comes from the mouth. This is a typical example.
The most important thing now is the Dragon Ball. Where is it?
Afterwards, the hunter invited us to his home. He lived alone in this remote place. There was an asphalt road outside, which led to the depths of the mountain. The hunter said that these roads had only been built in the past few years.
Road, in the summer, people will go to the mountains to escape the heat, but at this time, there are basically no people coming.
Since the arrival of people, things here have become extremely complicated. People often break into Jijia Village at night, and everyone is unaware of the dangers here.
I hummed and said, "Someone will invite me to take a boat ride. In fact, it's just a coffin board, not a boat."
"It looks like a super luxurious boat to ordinary people. If you really get on it, you will be pushed down when you get into the river." The hunter continued: "It's not that these fox fairies really want to kill people, it's just that this is a big deal for them.
It's so fun. It's a game. Those who can't swim will drown. Those who can swim depend on their luck, because there are water ghosts in the water. Falling into the water at night is very dangerous. The water ghosts will still be in the water.
Catching a substitute, sometimes people fall in, and after the water ghost finds the substitute, the water ghost crawls out of the water."
The hunter arranged a clean room for us. After entering the room, I asked the hunter to sit down.
I thought for a while and asked: "Looking at the village, there are men, women, and children. You said it was the fox fairy imitating the people in the village, but the people in the village cannot live to be thirty years old, so where do the old people come from?"
"Premature aging means that in the last three years of life, a person will age rapidly until he or she dies, turning into a skin and bones."
The hunter shook his head and said: "It's too scary."
Then I asked: "By the way, the fox fairies brought out a coffin just now and said it was a sedan chair for the bride to get on. Why is this?"
"If ordinary people see this scene, they will think it is a show. Maybe you haven't noticed that the village has been hung with red lanterns. They fox fairies can't come out, so they use this method to attract people. Once a man and woman enter
, they will carry out a coffin, which is called a bridal sedan. To a person without any cultivation, it will really look like a particularly beautiful bridal sedan, but once inside, these fox fairies will close the lid of the coffin, and the coffin will be closed.
Nail it, seal it, and throw the coffin into the river."
The hunter sighed and said: "I estimate that 80% of this was learned from the previous villagers. They didn't take care of this group of fox fairies, and these fox fairies kept causing mischief."
Xiaozhen asked with confusion on her face: "What about the paper horse? Can the paper horse also be ridden?"