Changfeng has a place to return

In order not to disturb the people in the city, Liu Xian'an got up from the bed before dawn the next day, and the rest of Prince Xiao's mansion had already prepared their carriages and horses.Tong Ou and Liu Meng were both in the courtyard, each holding a stack of books in their arms, they were all strange and strange things collected from ten miles and eight villages in accordance with Liang Shu's order.Liu Meng asked in a low voice: "Commander Tong, what do you think the lord wants this thing for? I turned two pages yesterday out of boredom, and each page became bloodier and more obscene. When my mother saw me looking at this thing, she picked up the broom and beat it without saying a word, didn't even listen to the explanation, and almost stuffed it into the stove to light it."

Tong Ou said: "You are watching the bloody and obscene, but Mr. Liu is reading the rumors from the Southwest. Sometimes folk tales are not necessarily made up, you can always find some shadows of reality. Have you never heard the story of the bloody girl carrying the lamp?"

Liu Meng shook his head: "What snow girl? It doesn't snow in the southwest."

"It's blood, it's the painting you saw." Tong Ou said, "There was a young woman who poisoned her man not long after she got married, cut off his head and made it into a lantern, and carried it in her hand all day long. Walking in the mountains covered in blood."

Liu Meng's hairs stood on end when he heard it: "What kind of scholar must be able to make up the plot of this story?"

"It's not a story, it's true." Tong Ou said, "That city is called Raven City. After the woman killed her husband, she pushed the headless body into the dry well. Chaifu also ran into the blood girl in the mountains, and he recognized her as the missing woman, but because her appearance was so weird, even when he went down the mountain to report to the officials, he stated that he had run into a ghost."

But it was a real person, Tong Ou was investigating Bai Fujiao in Raven City at that time, he said: "I personally brought someone to capture her."

Liu Meng heard it in disbelief: "Is she crazy?"

"She's not crazy, she has a clear mind, and the plan to kill her husband by poisoning is also very detailed, and the knife is neatly cut, and it can be seen that she didn't hesitate when she started." Tong Ou said, "At first, everyone thought she was the same as most other husband killing cases. It was because they had been abused all the year round, and it was really unbearable, but later they found out that the couple was extremely affectionate, and neighbors testified that they never even quarreled twice."

Women kill their husbands in order to get their children back.She became pregnant shortly after her wedding, which was a great joy, but she failed to keep the child three months later.Although her husband comforted her in every possible way, the woman was still depressed. One day she went to the street to relax and met a wizard.

Liu Meng asked: "A person from Bai Fu's teaching?"

Tong Ou nodded.

Since then, the woman has believed in a cult and donated her family’s belongings to the wizard again and again. At first, it might be just a bowl of rice or a piece of meat, and later it became a penny or a piece of silver. Seeing that his wife became more and more confused, the man began to Forcibly locked him in the room, and thought about taking her back to his hometown to escape for a while, but the woman killed him on a rainy night.

"She believed the wizard's words, and felt that the child's death was entirely due to the sins of herself and her husband. At this time, the soul was being bitten and pecked by thousands of wild crows. She wanted to recall him, but she could only use her husband's head as a guide. I walk barefoot in the mountains every day, just to call the remnant soul back into my belly."

Liu Meng's face turned pale, not because of fear, but because of nausea from the bottom of his heart.Tong Ou patted him on the back and said: "In the future, when you hear more about such tragedies, you will get used to it."

Although the conversation between the two was very soft, Liu Xian'an had good ears and could still hear clearly.He turned his head and asked Liang Shu: "Raven City, if I remember correctly, should not be far from the camp of the Southwest Garrison. It is a large town with a lot of traffic, and there are even many foreigners from Nanyang. Are you so arrogant?"

"Sometimes a cult won't admit that it is a cult, and there are so many kinds of witchcraft in the Southwest, they can just put on another shell." Liang Shu said, "Propaganda doesn't need much fanfare, just open your mouth in private. , can destroy dozens of people’s homes.”

Although Liu Xian'an had never been to the Southwest before, he liked Raven City very much. The main reason was that he liked the name. Coupled with the mystery of the Southwest border, he always felt that there was a kind of magnificence in which countless jackdaws flew away amidst the green mountains at dusk.Aning didn't understand, and said: "The sunset in the deep mountains and old forests, the sky is full of crows, isn't this going to be haunted?"

Liu Xian'an pinched his mouth, it's fine, don't spoil the atmosphere.

Liang Shu said: "Okay, I'll take you to the mountains to see it then."

Liu Xian'an let go, but Ah Ning still felt very depressed, and he was right, no normal person would go to the mountains to watch crows, the young master's taste is really strange, the prince actually spoiled him.

There was still a long distance between Huaizhen City and Raven City, so Liu Xian'an lay in the carriage and went through all the words that Tong Ou had collected.It was also the first time for Liang Shu to see him read a book. He was humble at a glance, and the pages were turned with a "squeaky" sound. Liang Shu looked at it for a while, then stepped forward and covered it with his hand: "What is this page talking about? "

Without hesitation, Liu Xian'an said, "The ghost mother gave birth to a child. Liu, a rich man in Huaping Town, has a wife and a concubine, and the wife has no children and concubines have children, and the wife is jealous... um."

Liang Shu leaned over, bit his lip, and licked it again: "If you're jealous, be jealous, it's another ghost story, don't listen."

Liu Xian'an explained between the kisses that there is not a single page in this book that is not a ghost story.

Liang Shu said, "Then don't listen."

Gao Lin passed by, glanced in through the gap in the curtain, and immediately straightened his head with a solemn expression.

What is an old house on fire.

Most of the books in the car, Liu Xian'an went through all of them in three days, Liang Shu asked: "Do you want me to find some new ones?"

Liu Xian'an shook his head: "They're all similar stories with minor differences, no need, it's boring."

Liang Shu picked up his limp body, and asked, "How about doing something interesting?"

Liu Xian'an didn't want to do it either, so he crawled into the quilt on all hands and feet, rolled himself up, sleep was important.

Liang Shu found it funny, so he stopped teasing him, and just stayed by his side.Sleeping Fairy sleeps for another ten days, lazy all day long, not moving, and starts to complain of headache after lying down for a long time.Aning sat beside the coachman and listened, thinking, ah, it seems that there were not so many problems before, I thought our family was already very accustomed to the son, but I didn't expect that there would be a mountain as high as a mountain.

Liang Shu patiently helped massage his temples, Liu Xian'an found a comfortable position in his arms, and before he had time to take a nap, Aning said outside: "My lord, son, there is a village in front, it seems to be There are a lot of people holding a colorful party, shall we go around it?"

"Go around, don't disturb them." Liang Shu covered the ears of the man in his arms, wanting him to continue to sleep, but a crisp sound of rattle came from afar.

Liu Xian'an opened his eyes.

……

Like thousands of other villages in the southwest, this village has colorful bamboo buildings and tile houses.A huge bonfire was lit in the middle of the village, reflecting the warmth of the whole winter. Pheasant bacon was roasted on the fire, and wine was scattered around it. The little dolls were circling around the fire, laughing and making noise. It should have been festive and warm The picture, but because of the rattle in their little hands, it is a little more weird.

Liu Xianan said: "Exactly the same pattern."

At this time, the villagers also found this group of people, greeted them with smiles, and led them to share a bowl of wine by the campfire.

Liang Shu stretched out his hand and wrapped it around Liu Xian'an's waist calmly.

Generally, when villagers see foreigners, even if they are the most enthusiastic and forthright, they will ask where they come from and where they are going, and then pour tea and wine.Like this kind of meeting on the first day of the new year, who would lure the other party to his home for a drink without saying a word... He whispered: "Be careful."

Liu Xian'an responded, and walked forward with Liang Shu.He has participated in the colorful party in Huaizhen City, and he knows what the songs, dances and smiles that really welcome the guests should look like. They come from the heart, without any false and sincere joy.At this moment, the villagers in front of them, although they were laughing, smiled as if they were wearing a human skin mask, reflected by the dancing flames, extremely stiff.

The village head invited the two to sit by the campfire, and soon someone brought two bowls of wine.Liu Xian'an didn't drink, Liang Shu also put the wine bowl on the ground.A little doll probably thought Liu Xian'an was pretty and had been secretly looking at him, so Liu Xian'an stretched out his hand and called her to his side, grabbed a handful of candy from the plate in front of him and handed it over, and took the rattle from her hand.

Clear texture, a greasy fragrance.

It's still human skin.

He glanced at the number of rattles on the scene, and felt a chill in his heart.Originally thought that the drum stuffed into his hand in Huaizhen City could already be regarded as Bai Fujiao's most straightforward provocation to Liang Shu, but he didn't expect that the other party could be even more arrogant.There is poison in the wine bowl, he can see it, Liang Shu can see it, the people of Baifujiao should also know that Liang Shu can see it, but they still arranged for the villagers to organize this colorful party, specially guarding the road, holding rattles brightly, pouring wine brightly Poisoned wine.

Southwest often has the secret technique of refining corpses into puppets for wizards to use. Although it sounds terrifying, Liu Xian'an feels that it is far inferior to the picture he saw at this time.The villagers were neither poisoned nor bewitched, and it was because of this that it was even more creepy—the entire village, men, women, and children, were all brainwashed by the cult, singing and dancing, celebrating and jubilantly, working together, sober To poison underground, to kill consciously.

This is really more sinister than the puppets crawling out of the mass grave.

Sensing his discomfort, Liang Shu took off the water bag on his waist and handed it over: "Take a drink."

"Guest," an old woman asked him, "why don't you drink our wine?"

Liang Shu replied: "I still have to hurry, and I can't drink."

"It's coming to the colorful festival, everyone has to drink." Another villager said, "If you don't drink, you look down on us!"

"Yes, drink! Drink! Drink!"

The villagers began to shout in unison, and the little dolls, who were ignorant, followed suit, shouting hysterically and frantically, and the rattle in their hands sounded like a summer thunderstorm. The [-]-year-old boy raised his voice and said with glowing eyes: "Drink! Drink! Peel the skin and make drums!"

His mother hurriedly covered his mouth, and was covered in the noise.

"Pour the wine! Pour the wine! Pour the wine!"

The people at the scene stood up one after another, holding wine bowls and surrounded the two of them. You pushed each other and kept getting closer.

Liu Xian'an looked at the group of fanatical villagers who had been brainwashed, and moved slightly closer to Liang Shu.