Shanhai Folklore Research Institute

The three of them fell to the end of the crowd not too far away. Linwan Village has a total of more than [-] households. Gradually, this team of unknown destinations became larger and larger. Lin Mian estimated that there were about a hundred people, almost the entire The villages are all mobilized.

These people looked numb, as if walking dead, the sky had already darkened, Lin Mian really didn't understand where they were going at such a late hour.

The yellow mud road became narrower and narrower, and the team passed through the whole village and climbed up the hillside to the south. Lin Mian was in doubt.

Like the luncheon meat in a sandwich, he was sandwiched between Zhang Qing and Gouwei. The former was out of a desire to protect the weak, while the latter knew that the little assistant was not ordinary to the dean, so he had to put him in the middle. People are optimistic.

rustle.

rustle.

The withered grass on both sides of the mountain road seemed to be pushed aside by an invisible big hand, and a strange sound was found.

Lin Mian thought for a while, then quietly turned on the flashlight of her mobile phone and shook it aside, and then silently turned off the flashlight after seeing the object making the sound clearly.

"What's wrong?" Hook Wei asked strangely.

"Nothing." Assistant Lin replied calmly, "I just saw a hundred and eighty cauliflower snakes."

Hook tail: ...

Zhang Qing: ...

Can you stop saying such horrible things so calmly!

In fact, Lin Mian really didn't feel scared. The cauliflower snake is not poisonous, and from a certain point of view, it is still a pretty good food, but it is easy to make people's scalp tingle when they meet so many at once.

The rest of the road was a bit difficult for the three of them except Lin Mian. Although Zhang Qing was good at it, the premise was that he had to deal with people. He didn't even want to touch something like this greasy, smooth, and covered with scales.

As for the hook tail, Lin Mian found that his condition was not very good, he was in a trance, as if he might faint at any time.

"Brother Wei, what's wrong?" Lin Mian asked with concern.

"It's nothing." Brother Wei wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, "It's just that we met a natural enemy."

Lin Mian thought he was naturally afraid of snakes, so he didn't think too much about it. Fortunately, the crowd finally stopped, and the rustling noises disappeared at some point.

At this time, they were standing on a platform halfway up the mountain, and through the dim moonlight, they could see the blurred panorama of Linwan Village at the foot of the mountain.

"Everyone!" An old voice drew the attention of the three of them back.

It's the village chief!

Lin Mian recognized the owner of the voice. The old village chief stood hunched over at the front of the crowd and made a quiet gesture. The people who were silent before became even more silent.

There was a dead silence in the mountains and forests, which gave Lin Mian the illusion of being in a cemetery.

The village chief waved to the villagers at the front, and they came out carrying things.

Altars, joss sticks, pig heads...

Soon a small altar was set up.

"One hundred and five villagers in Linwan Village pray to the mountain god for mercy and rain!" The old village chief took the lead and knelt down.

"Pray for the mountain god to show mercy and send down rain!"

"Pray for the mountain god to show mercy and send down rain!"

In the next second, the rest of the villagers also knelt down, and only Lin Mian stood out from the crowd.

Without the crowded heads blocking his view, Lin Mian could see clearly that the altar was set up by a small pond.

"Is that the only running water left in Linwan Village?" He quietly asked Zhang Qing.

Zhang Qing nodded, a little nervous, mainly because they are too conspicuous in this way, and I wonder if they will cause resentment or even anger if they are seen by the villagers.

Assistant Lin saw his concerns, made a decisive decision, plopped, and sat down.

Gouwei gave him a thumbs up, and sat down on the ground too. Zhang Qing, who was at a loss, widened his eyes instantly. How could it be like this?

The crowd bowed to the altar three times. The old village head picked up the pig's head and put it into the spring with great respect. The pig's head floated twice on the water. Lin Mian noticed that the expressions of the surrounding villagers suddenly changed.

Worry, hope, and even a little bit of fear...

Isn't it praying to the mountain god for rain?

Why be afraid?

A trace of doubt arose in Lin Mian's heart, and the next second the pig's head suddenly sank, as if a big hand had pulled it down from under the spring's eyes.

call……

The villagers on the side were obviously relieved, and a few said repeatedly: "The mountain god has accepted the sacrifice, and it will rain soon!"

"Yeah yeah!"

"It's the third time, and it finally succeeded. I was wrong before, and I died in vain..."

"Shh, don't talk nonsense, is the mountain god something you can talk about casually?"

Lin Mian heard something was wrong in their words, so she grabbed one of the villagers and asked, "Die, what's dead?"

The villager panicked immediately, and said evasively, "I didn't say I was dead, you heard me wrong!"

Another villager recognized Lin Mian's identity, and immediately scolded: "Aren't you people from outside? How did you appear here? Are you trying to sabotage? Village chief, village chief!"

The man yelled, the old village head pushed aside the crowd, his face was squeezed together, he stared at the three of them for a while, and finally his eyes fell on the police badge on Zhang Qing's chest, lightly He snorted softly: "We are all legal citizens, and we will do our best to cooperate with the so-called investigation, but I also hope that you will not interfere with local customs."

After speaking, he waved to the villagers who were staring at him behind him: "It's too late, everyone go back to sleep!"

Only then did the crowd disperse, and Lin Mian heard someone muttering that they could finally get a good night's sleep.

"These villagers are too arrogant..." Lin Mian frowned. If it wasn't for Zhang Qing's status as a policeman, he doubted that they would be beaten.

"Linwan Village is remote, closed for a long time, and refuses to communicate with the outside world. The county also has a headache, but they have not done anything that is not legally acceptable, so they can only let it go." Zhang Qing scratched his hair.

The three of them returned to the village head's house, and the village head's wife was swiftly putting the sweet potatoes they hadn't eaten into the basket and covering them with a cloth.

Seeing her stingy appearance, the three of them were speechless, Zhang Qing frowned and said, "Didn't I give you 300 yuan for board and lodging, old man?"

The mother-in-law went to the kitchen with the basket and pretended not to hear. Lin Mian thought about it and tried to catch up. When she came back, she had two small paper bags in her hand.

Lin Mian gave one of them to Zhang Qing.

"What is this?" Zhang Qing asked strangely.

"Realgar." Realgar can repel snakes and insects. After seeing the nests of cauliflower snakes on the mountain, Lin Mian felt that even a stilted building might not be safe, so she asked the village chief's wife for some.

"Will the mother-in-law give it?" Gouwei was surprised.

"50 for two packs." Lin Mian pouted.

Gouwei was so angry that he gritted his molars: "These gangsters, when the dean comes tomorrow, they will have a good time!"

He turned his head and said to Lin Mian: "Remember to ask the dean to sign for reimbursement later."

Assistant Lin nodded vigorously.

Back in the room, Lin Mian closed the door and window, carefully sprinkled the realgar on the bottom of the wall, and then put on her clothes and lay down on the bamboo bed. After a while, there was a slight snoring sound on the other bed.

Lin Mian's biological clock hadn't reached bedtime yet. He thought for a while, took out his phone, opened the memo, and recorded the sacrificial activities he had just seen in detail, including the vague conversations of the villagers. The Vajra Gourd Baby from , liked it.

After doing this, he slowly closed his eyes.

Changed to a completely unfamiliar environment, the key is that the environment is not so friendly, Lin Mian did not sleep well, in the dimness, he seemed to hear the sound of a baby crying in the distance, which was extremely miserable.

The crying didn't last long, but it still woke Lin Mian up. There was no air conditioner in the stilted building, only a small oscillating electric fan. The room was very stuffy. He sat up and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Gouwei was still sleeping, the surroundings were silent, and the moonlight came in through the gap in the window. Lin Mian got off the bed softly, opened the window to get some air, and then the hair on the back of his neck stood up!

Under the window sill, colorful long worms were tangled together, and their scales rubbed against each other to make a slight chirping sound. The long snake letters were flying in the air, and quickly retracted when they touched the realgar powder.

A lot of money is needed for a pair of eyes that have never seen a pile of snakes!

Lin Mian closed the window, lay down again, and silently recited the 81 cooking methods of cauliflower snake, from steamed to braised to deep-fried. Fell asleep.

In the early morning of the next day, a scream pierced the tranquility of Linwan Village. Lin Mian immediately opened his eyes, jumped off the bamboo slum, and Gouwei woke up in a daze.

Lin Mianji pulled the sneakers and opened the door, and found that the group of snakes surrounding the stilted building had retreated cleanly in the middle of the night, without leaving any traces. The source of the sound catches up.

"What happened?" Zhang Qing poked his head out from the opposite room.

"I don't know." Hook Wei also looked confused.

"Let's go, follow me!" The scream was so shrill that Lin Mian had a bad premonition.

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