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The expression of the village head Lin Mao made Lin Jixuan feel something was wrong, thinking that Song Juan's death was not as simple as it appeared on the surface.

The Tianshi sub-bureau is still investigating the cause of death, and when the results come out, they will be able to determine how Song Juan died.

Therefore, Lin Jixuan put aside this doubt for the time being, and said, "By the way, is there a ancestral hall for the witch maiden? We want to go to worship first."

"Yes," the village chief said to Lin Jixuan, not surprised, "The ancestral hall is built between two peaks, and it guards Tian Zhansha over there. I'll take you there."

Linzhou thought of something, gritted his teeth and said, "Zhang Linmu must have done something to offend the witch lady to bring about this kind of disaster! Dad! I said that he must have lost his mind by running around all day long!"

He Dongyuan sounds interesting, this Linzhou looks like he has a blood feud with Zhang Linmu, and he speaks bad things about Zhang Linmu.

Lin Mao seemed to be used to Linzhou's temper, he gave him a sideways glance and didn't say anything to him, and took Lin Jixuan and He Dongyuan to the ancestral hall of the Witch Maiden.

As Lin Mao said, there is a small ancestral hall standing between the two vertical peaks, and behind it is a narrow and long mountain road, which leads to nowhere. The suppressor that suppressed the crowd.

The ancestral hall is not big, it is only built of wood and stones, and there are only one small room in total.There is a tall stone statue in the middle, the carving is not meticulous, perhaps because of years of wind and rain, the woman's face can not be seen clearly, only through the hanging picture seen at Lin Mao's house Imagine what the shrine maiden looks like.

Under the stone statue is an altar with some offerings on it. Before entering the door, Lin Jixuan noticed a piece of paper pasted on the right hand side of the door, which listed who should be on a certain day, month, and day. The family comes to offer sacrifices and offerings. I think the offerings of this witch maiden are provided collectively by the family as a unit.

Lin Jixuan said frankly: "When we came here, we saw the feng shui of Luofeng Village. It is a place of great evil. The two forces of Tianzhansha and Lianzhen Mountain make it difficult for living things to survive. But the strange thing is that Luofeng Village The mountain range where it is located is a beautiful place, why choose to build a village in this corner."

"We don't know what the witch lady thought back then, but a saying passed down from the ancestors is that this place is backed by the gate of ghosts, and the witch lady must guard here to prevent all ghosts from invading the Yang world. Now that I mentioned it, the old man said a few more words In other words, do the two celestial masters know why our village is called Luofeng Village? It is rumored that the witch maiden is actually a phoenix in the nine heavens, and was demoted to the mortal world to guard the gate of ghosts because of a crime."

Lin Jixuan: "..." He was stunned, coughed, and said, "Continue."

Lin Mao said: "Village chronicles record that the battle between Yunnan and Sichuan resulted in heavy casualties, and the refugees migrated for hundreds of miles. Among them, our ancestors hid in the mountains to escape the war. At that time, there was no food and clothing, and there was no way to survive. The rest of the dozen or so people met the witch maiden when they were at the end of the road. The witch maiden led them to reclaim the wasteland and find another way of life. Everyone knows that the witch maiden cannot do without these two vertical cutting mountains and offered to stay here to accompany the witch maiden. Later, they slowly Slowly multiply, until our generation."

"What do you mean by the ghost gate?" Lin Jixuan recalled the steepness between the two peaks, and the villagers who could survive such an obvious sky-slashing evil must have some way to resolve the Fengshui evil situation, but he went full circle , I didn't notice anything else except this ancestral hall.

The ancestral hall is located between the two peaks, and it has indeed played a role in alleviating the feng shui evil situation. Coupled with the prosperity of incense, the whole village is sincerely making offerings, nourishing the qi with qi, so that the evil situation is no longer dangerous.But he still felt that just one ancestral hall was not enough.

Lin Mao explained: "There is more than one ghost gate in this world. The gates leading to the underworld are called ghost gates. There are three ghost gates on the southwest border, and one of them is here. This is also recorded in the village chronicle, but I haven't seen it in my lifetime. I’ve seen the gate of ghosts open. I heard my grandfather mention it. His grandfather saw it once when he was a child. At that time, a monstrous black mist filled the sky between the two peaks. He was locked in the room by the adults and was not allowed to go out. The lights in the whole village were going to be extinguished. There can't be any fire, not even a faint flame. He hid in the room, the curtains were tightly drawn, but he still vaguely saw the Yin soldiers passing through the glass window under the short curtain. scene."

Lin Mao's aging face revealed a look of longing. Since he heard this story when he was a child, he wanted to see the scene that shocked his great-grandfather and remembered it all his life.

Lin Jixuan asked: "Wait, can we go between the two peaks?"

"It's better not," Lin Mao dissuaded, "the road over there is difficult to walk, the ground is covered with gravel pits, and the trees are more lush than other places. There are many barbs that cannot be seen clearly. Be careful of injury."

"Well," Lin Jixuan said, "is there any local taboo?"

Lin Mao was startled, and shook his head: "This, this is not true."

"I see."

Lin Jixuan paid homage to the witch maiden, and he and He Dongyuan returned to the village.Lin Mao took them to the nearest family where an accident occurred to check the dead bodies of livestock.

This household is a family of four. The man is fixing the broken chicken coop, and the woman is choosing vegetables beside them. They have two children, a boy and a girl, who are not very old, about four or five years old.The siblings squatted in front of the threshold and looked at Lin Jixuan and the others in a daze, as if they had never seen such a character before.

Among them, the little girl blushed, hid behind her brother, and secretly glanced at Lin Jixuan.

The man spoke in broken Mandarin without looking up: "The corpses are piled up over there, just look."

Lin Jixuan glanced at the cage, and soon saw two chickens and a duck piled up in a corner. They were isolated in a corner with wooden boards, and they died peacefully as if they were dying.

Neither of them is a veterinarian, and they have no experience in this area, so they can't figure out how the chickens and ducks died.

Lin Jixuan asked frankly: "What is the cause of death? Can you tell?"

"We probably died from a fall," the man explained, "There are no wounds on our bodies, but if we were killed by a fall, we should all be able to hear the movement, but there was no movement." He straightened up, his eyes swept coldly Lin Jixuan glanced, "Who knows who made a prank, pretending to be a ghost to scare people."

Lin Mao coughed and said, "Go to the next one."

It was a sheep that died in this family. When the family members said that they couldn’t see how it died, and when they got up early the next morning to feed the sheep and saw the sheep lying on the ground without moving, they were almost shocked.After walking four or five houses, the livestock died peacefully, without any struggle or wound, and they really lost their breath for no reason.

Lin Jixuan suddenly heard a dog barking, turned his head and saw a yellow dog tied to the door of a house opposite, he asked, "Has anything happened to the cat or dog?"

"No," the village head shook his head. "The only ones that have an accident are chickens, ducks, cattle, sheep and pigs. Everything else is fine."

"It's all sacrifices..." Lin Jixuan suddenly remembered the things on the altar. Except for the sacrifices, the other survivors in the whole village did not experience any abnormalities.

He remembered this and said to Lin Mao, "Let's go to the other side of the river to see."

"Is that the cemetery over there?" He Dongyuan asked, "where are all the corpses buried?"

"Yes, it has been a cemetery since our ancestors," Lin Mao explained, "There is also a saying. The winding and steep mountain over there is called Lianzhen Mountain. The witch lady asked us to build the cemetery here to use the shadow of the corpse. Qi blocks the evil spirit of Lianzhen Mountain."

"Then let the gate of the village face the pile of corpses?" He Dongyuan couldn't understand.

Lin Mao nodded and said, "This is a custom, so that our dead relatives can see us return safely."

Since it is a custom, it must be respected. He Dongyuan didn't say anything, but he got goosebumps when he thought of the endless mound of graves he saw when he entered the village.

He Dongyuan smacked, pushed his glasses, and asked, "Have any corpses been uncovered recently?"

"No more," Lin Mao shook his head, "Only those few days, after Zhang Linmu went to guard the grave, there was no such thing anymore."

Lin Jixuan suddenly remembered Lin Mao's words, and asked, "Did you say before that there is a newly buried corpse over there, whose is it? Song Juan's corpse is also buried there?"

"It's Song Juan's," Lin Mao explained, "We checked with the doctor and they said it was a cardiac arrest. We couldn't explain why the sudden arrest happened. Their family didn't want someone to die, so they had to go to a big hospital to find out the cause of death. Look. Since there are no wounds on the body, it is not like homicide or suicide, and the body is buried."

He paused, his eyes flickered for a moment, as if deliberately avoiding the gazes of Lin Jixuan and He Dongyuan, he said, "I don't know what happened, it happened not long after her body was buried, and all the corpses around To be dug out and exposed in broad daylight is really a crime."

While speaking, several people had already walked to the wooden bridge across the river.

This bridge is very dilapidated, and the wooden planks creaked when people walked on it. Under the wooden bridge deck, there was a torrent of water. Fortunately, two ropes were used as guardrails on both sides, and they were erected in a serious manner. Set up a wooden guardrail to prevent accidents.

He Dongyuan squinted his eyes, and when he looked closely, the density of the graves was even more exaggerated than expected. A tombstone was inserted almost half a step away, but fortunately, they were arranged in an orderly manner. confusion.

Lin Jixuan walked to a grave and said, "Turn over the soil here, it looks fresher, which family is it from?"

He glanced at the memorial tablet and was taken aback for a moment. It said "Lin Jianqiu's Tomb" on it, and asked involuntarily, "Is this... your family's?"

Lin Mao nodded: "It's my father's tomb."

"Sorry." Lin Jixuan apologized, went to another tomb to take a look, and asked, "This is... the tomb of He Pingping."

"The family where Yang died just now is the He family. This is the tomb of his second grandfather."

Lin Jixuan picked up the freshly turned soil and looked at the tombstones one by one, and gradually matched them one by one with the families whose livestock died, only one or two of them were different.

He frowned and said, "It seems that most of the graves dug are from dead animals."

"Xiao Lin and Lao Zhao's family have not been dug up," said the village head. "At first we also suspected this, but we couldn't find any other connection other than this. These families are all simple and honest families. How could it be so?" Being dug up?"

He Dongyuan thought of the state of the body being dug up, and couldn't help saying: "Maybe Song Juan died with resentment, and couldn't sleep well in the middle of the night, so she called a few old guys around to chat and smash their teeth."

Lin Mao's face suddenly turned pale, he laughed dryly and said, "Little Heavenly Master really knows how to joke."

He Dongyuan raised his eyebrows, and said paradoxically, "I'm not joking, fraudulent corpses are common, with a suffocating breath in his chest, he will cheat corpses after death, especially for corpses that have just been buried. Nine out of ten will cheat."

While speaking, a wild cat covered in pitch black jumped onto the grave next to it, like a king occupying a high ground, and uttered a crisp "meow!~" at them