Tricked by a ferocious beast into time-traveling, the story begins with fleeing famine.

Chapter 173 The Restaurant Listens to the News (Please Subscribe and Ask for a Monthly Pass)

The man surnamed Zhang looked surprised, "The remnants of Hutou Village? Wasn't Hutou Village wiped out by the garrison that our county magistrate invited to Fucheng? He is still in prison, but I heard that there are remnants outside , so he didn't beheaded immediately, those brothers who didn't come to save him from the remnants of their crimes were still in the mood to go outside to rob?

Qingfeng Town is not far from the county seat, this is a crime against the wind, isn't this a blatant provocation to the garrison? "

The man surnamed Li said: "Who's to say it's not, but depending on the route, it may be that they planned to rescue their brothers and made a vote along the way, but I didn't expect the garrison to hear the wind and bring soldiers and horses It passed, so it was too late to save people and ran away.

At the entrance of the town, I heard the guarding sergeant say that they were discovered when they arrived nearby, and those remnants were not caught. By the time they arrived at Qingfeng Town, everyone had run away. In several ways.

On the contrary, there was a team chasing westward, and brought back more than a dozen corpses from the intersection in Qi Nian Village. It looked like they should have been killed by their accomplices. "

The man surnamed Zhang looked puzzled, "Brother Zhang, what do you say? They are too busy running away, so why is there still time to fight?"

A person at the next table interjected: "Oh, that's hard to guess. If you think about it, you must know that the spoils are not evenly distributed. There is no real brotherhood between bandits. Because of loyalty? There must be something in the hands of others, so I have to come to rescue."

The man surnamed Zhang nodded thoughtfully, and the listeners at the two tables next to him also nodded along.

At this time, a chubby businessman on the right said: "Do you think those bandits who ran away will come to our county again? The garrison general went to Qingfeng Town with his troops. If those bandits came, wouldn't our county come?" Isn't it dangerous?"

Another man who was at the same table with him said: "Brother Hu, worry too much, the bandits escaped separately, how many people can come if they come over? I guess it won't make a difference.

Even if they come, our county does not have any garrison troops, there are still hundreds of soldiers defending the city, and there are also servants in the county government, plus there are many young and strong in our city, no matter what happens, we can't let a hundred thieves Did you succeed? "

The other people who heard it also nodded their heads. Really, they are a county town, not a small town, so many people can drown them with a single mouthful of saliva!
At this time, the man surnamed Li continued: "Listen to me first, there is another matter! I didn't just encounter this matter today, but also other things."

The others quickly stopped their discussions, fell silent, and focused their attention on him.

The man surnamed Li presumably likes to be noticed. Seeing everyone looking at him, he said with a proud face: "Let me tell you, I came back from the west side. When I passed by the intersection of Qi Nian Village, I met someone The earth dragon turned over!"

"Impossible, why didn't the earth dragon turn over here? If the earth dragon turned over, even if this place is far away from that side, there should be some movement."

Someone next to him questioned.

The man surnamed Li looked at the man, "Are you from another place? Otherwise, how could you not know the legend of Qi Nian Village?"

The man smiled and said: "This brother is very polite. I am indeed not from here. I came from Fucheng. I have never heard of Qi Nian Village. Please tell me about it."

The man surnamed Li smiled and waved his hands and said: "You are being polite, brother, the whole Yunling County basically knows about this Qinian Village, and it is not a secret, so I know that you are not a local.

Speaking of the Qi Nian Village, it is really mysterious. I don't know how long this village has existed. Anyway, it existed before the establishment of Yunling County. It is said that it can be traced back to before the Qin Dynasty, at least a thousand years ago.

There are dozens of families in that village. They do not do business or hunt, but rely on farming for a living, but they are richer than other villages. Even in times of disaster, no one in the village has starved to death, and they all live in stone houses. Cave dwellings are also brick houses and adobe houses.

Of course, these are not surprising. The most different place is that every three years there will be a rumbling sound at the intersection, just like the earth dragon turning over.

It's just that there is only a sound, and there is no obvious vibration, but it lasts for several days. It is really scary to listen to. At the beginning, there were still a few villages over there, and because of this, they all moved away, and there was only a village of Qi Nian left there. .

I experienced it once back then. I thought it was a large cavalry team from the imperial court passing by. I lay down on the ground and listened carefully. I felt that the ground was not shaking, but the sound was indeed coming from underground, so I felt something was wrong.

And the sound got louder as I walked towards that intersection. When I got to the intersection, the sound was already close at hand!

Out of curiosity, I asked the people in that town, and I heard that there would be such a thing every three years, because it looked like an earth dragon turning over, so I said every time this movement was an earth dragon turning over.

This ground dragon's turnaround has no effect on the surrounding villages or even Qingfeng Town, only Qi Nian Village, once this movement is over, Qi Nian Village will disappear! "

"Disappeared? The whole village disappeared?" The man who claimed to be from Fucheng was surprised.

The person next to him surnamed Zhang added: "Yes, yes, every three years, Qi Nian Village disappears for a few days and then reappears.

Ordinarily, the village is on the side of the mountain, so even if it disappeared, it should not be discovered by others, but because of this movement, it was heard and reported to the town several times, and the town was afraid that something might happen there. , and reported it to the county government.

If someone reported it, of course they would send someone to investigate. After a few visits, they found the evil place in Qi Nian Village.

If I had checked those few days at that time, I would have found that there was no village at all, it was just a piece of wasteland, and several times I delayed going there for two days, and then Qi Nian Village stood there properly, and the people who came and went here and there People will know. "

"Then what do the people in Qi Nian Village say? They should know what's going on. Brother Li said that we met again today. Is this the third year?" the man asked again.

"This time should not have come since the last time, it should have been less than two years ago, and every time it is not this season, it is usually the hottest time in summer.

As for the inexplicable reappearance of the village after it disappeared, the people in the village didn't seem to know what was going on.

The county magistrate personally inquired, and the villagers there couldn't tell what was going on, but they knew that every three years there would be a few days of particularly bad weather, either heavy rain or strong winds, which prevented them from going out.

They set those few days as fasting days, and stayed at home obediently. After that, they would be fine. As for the disappearance of the village, they didn't know. "

"It's true. I went to see it out of curiosity. There is nothing different about the village. Except that the houses are built of stones, the villagers are no different from those in other places.

At the beginning, it was rumored that there were ghosts there, and the previous county magistrate took Taoist monks there to exorcise ghosts and supernatural powers. After a lot of research, there was no result. It was three years later, and it still happened. Again. "

said a man in his fifties with a goatee.

A skinny man said in a low voice mysteriously: "You said that rumbling sound, maybe it's not some kind of earth dragon turned over, but the door of ghosts was closed, and they were taken to the underworld..."

"Hey~ Don't talk about this, my hairs are standing on end."

"That's right, don't be scary at night!"

The people next to him said one after another.

The skinny man had no choice but to shut his mouth and stop talking.

Qingyan was even more curious by what they said, and kept thinking in her heart, don't stop, hurry up and continue talking!

She looked around and really wanted to have a discussion with them, but as a little girl, she was too embarrassed to join the conversation of a group of old men. If there were women among them, she could go up to strike up a conversation and ask people.

In Qingyan's anticipation, they finally continued to talk about this topic.

"Let me tell you, I actually know better than you. My third cousin married the brother-in-law of the village chief. Of course, she has passed away now, but when she was alive, every year on the second day of the new year I will still come back to my mother's house.

Those of us younger generations met when we went to pay New Year's greetings, and we often asked curiously about the Qi Nian Village, why does it disappear every three years?Guess what my third cousin said? "

Everyone was excited to listen, but their appetites were whetted, and they hurriedly urged: "What did you say? Oh, don't be foolish, tell me quickly!"

Seeing that everyone was aroused by him, the man smiled deeper and said mysteriously: "My third cousin said that every three years, there would always be days of heavy rain and strong wind in the summer of that year. Or there is heavy fog, anyway, it is not easy to leave the village.

Everyone stays in the village. If there is heavy fog, they should go to work in the fields. Those who should weave at home weave at home. If there is a strong wind and heavy rain, it will be more troublesome. They can only stay in the house. Three days, otherwise the villagers would not be able to bear it.

There was nothing strange about it, as long as those few days passed and the weather improved, they could leave the village.

However, the village head would take a few respected old people in the village to worship at a place every year. This was what she told her man once he drank too much, but her man didn't know where to worship.

Anyway, I go there every summer, and it is very grand, and every time there are three sacrifices and six rituals.

There is also a strange phenomenon in Qi Nian Village, that is, the village will marry women from outside, but the women in Qi Nian Village never marry outside.

Moreover, it is said that the daughters-in-law who married in from outside in their village gave birth to mostly boys, and very few gave birth to girls. Finally, there were a few, so they were reluctant to marry outside, for fear of suffering outside.

But my third cousin told me that as far as she knew, there were quite a few girls in the village who married into the family of the patriarch or the village head.

Although the two families are living well in the village, as long as the daughters-in-law of the two families are married to the village, basically they will not live to be 40 years old, and they will die in their 30s at most. "

"According to what you say, is there any secret in it?"

The man continued: "That's not the case. Those daughters-in-laws don't stay out. The family conditions of the patriarch and the village head are better. They live better than other daughters-in-law in the village, and they wear good clothes. I smile every day when I see people.

If life is not good, it must be a look of sorrow, people in the village can't see it, my third cousin said that the two generations of daughters-in-law she has seen at least seem to be doing well, but they are all in their 30s just die.

The village head's wife accidentally slipped and fell on the edge of the well and died when she was fetching water with her husband in winter.

At that time, her man was next to her, and there were other people by the well. When she was rescued, her head was already covered with blood, and she was gone before she was sent to the town.

Then the second is the daughter-in-law of the patriarch's family. She also died of illness when she was in her 30s. There is nothing strange about it. The wind and cold, and then went away without being cured.

Then there is the current generation of daughter-in-laws, who are considered grand-daughters-in-law, and are now 27 or years old. "

Then I heard the person next to me who said that the gate of hell was closed just now interrupted again: "Could it be that all the women in the village are cursed, and they can't live to be 40 years old?
There are a lot of people in that village, and they all have sons, but so few have daughters. It's okay if there are only one or two households. I heard that Qi Nian Village is a big village. There are dozens of families and hundreds of people. girls. "

This time, everyone did not refute him, and they faintly agreed with him. Several people also thought about it, including Qingyan and Chouchou.

Qingyan sent a voice transmission to Chouchou: "Do you think it's possible what that man said? I think it's a little possible that he said before that he was able to pass through the underworld.

You said it was a formation before, but the formation is not necessarily a ghost gate leading to the underworld, is it?Didn't you say that the village is in the catacombs? That's impossible. The village is the entrance to the underworld?

There is also the fact that there are only boys and few girls. It may be a blessing to put it elsewhere. After all, many places are eager to have all sons, which is a strong labor.

But here in Qi Nian Village, it’s really a bit like a curse, especially the fact that girls can’t live past 40 years old. Although the average age of ancient people is indeed not high, 40 years old is considered an old man, but there are still many people who live past 40 years old. .

There are also those who are 70 to 90 years old and eight to years old. Although there are few, it cannot be said that there are no such people, otherwise there would not be so many four generations and five generations under one roof.

Moreover, there are only a few girls in each generation in the village, and they are still raised with good food and drink. If they die in their 30s, or are they the same in every generation, then there is a problem.

If I hadn't been a little scared and didn't know what was going on there, I would have gone back there to investigate. "

(End of this chapter)