The years of reselling the haunted house

"Why do you need to seal the corpse gas in your body?"

"There are so many corpses, if the corpse gas is released. The corpse gas will not be scattered outside the village, and they will all gather in the village. Will the people in the village still be alive?"

Wang Po patiently explained to me, and from her tone, it gave me a sense of security and trust.

Wang Po gave me a completely different feeling from that Xu Meilu, Xu Meilu looked kindly, but she was targeting me everywhere, and her actions did not match her appearance at all.But Wang Po is different, although she looks bad, but whether it is the tone of speech or the way she feels, it will make you believe her from the heart.

This is a feeling that can only be understood and cannot be expressed in words. I have this feeling.

Wang Po went on to say: "My place is very safe now, as long as you return to your residence before dawn tomorrow. They dare not enter your yard, so as long as you don't admit that you have come out, nothing will happen."

"But... Senior, among them, it seems that some of them know that I have come out and are hiding here." I didn't know how to address Wang Po, so I called Senior according to the title of Jianghu.

Wang Po waved her hand: "Your grandfather and I are not a few years apart. You can just call me Grandma Wang. Those people are at odds with each other and have their own secrets. As long as you don't let the five of them find out together, it should be fine."

"Oh, Grandma Wang, why is everyone in this village surnamed Xu, but your surname is Wang? Are there any people with other surnames in this village?"

Knowing that I am safe now, I am no longer nervous, so I raised all the questions in my heart.

Wang Po pointed to the corpses: "It's not because of this, people from the Xu family would not do such dirty work. This is why they can still give me some face. Without me, no one will take care of these corpses. I'm afraid something big will happen."

I thought of the mummified monkey in the altar at the door, and knew that caring for the corpse was easy to say, but in fact there must be many ways and sayings.

Wang Po took out a few steamed buns from the basket and handed them to me: "Are you hungry? You should eat as little as possible of the rice they invite you to eat."

It really made Wang Po say that I didn't try to eat these few meals as little as possible, but that I couldn't eat them at all.This group of people started to eat like wind and clouds, and the fat man and I couldn't even eat a quarter of our meals.

Chapter 326

"Grandma Wang, you said that Xu Changhe and the others were lying to me by asking me to unseal my grandfather's seal. What's going on? And... what is the relationship between my grandfather and this Shoushantun? I really want to know... "

Wang Po glanced at me: "Shoushan never mentioned the place of Shoushantun to you? Didn't he tell you about his youth?"

I shook my head: "I've been following Grandpa since I can remember, and he never mentioned this to me..."

Wang Po nodded: "That's because he doesn't want you to get involved, but I don't understand, he doesn't want you to get involved, why do you still come here?"

When communicating with Wang Po, she felt like a family member to me.This feeling cannot be given to me by Xu Changhe and others, so I don't need to hide anything from Wang Po.

I took out the map that my third uncle gave me, and said, "I have no choice. I was entangled by a poisonous insect called a poisonous silkworm. My third uncle gave me this sheepskin map, saying It was left by my grandfather, who said that when the Li family members encountered a crisis, they could come here to avoid disaster. After I came here, I did not see those poisonous silkworms again. It seems that the purpose of coming here to avoid disaster must be to achieve gone."

Wang Po took the map, looked at it, and gave it back to me: "It seems that everything is God's will. Your grandfather didn't want you to get involved, but you finally came because of this reason. Your third uncle is right. , this Shoushantun has a very special geographical location and can be said to be isolated from the world. Ordinary people can't find it without guidance, and people here can't go out. People here are getting old gradually, and no newborns are born. Over time , There is an old and dead spirit here. It is said that this is a village of living people, but the living people cannot find it here, and it is said that this is a ghost village, and it is not registered in the underworld. This is a place where there is neither yin nor yang, neither human nor ghost , can be regarded as a three-way zone. So if you encounter danger, it must be no problem to hide here."

After listening to Wang Po's introduction, I realized the reason why I can avoid disaster when I come here.It seems that Wang Po really knows a lot of things, and I may really be able to find out some secrets from her.

I couldn't wait to ask: "Grandma Wang, Xu Changhe said that there is a curse in this village, as long as the people in it go out, they will die miserably. Grandpa left Shoushantun just to find a way to break the curse. To make you believe him I can still come back, so I set up a clay sculpture kneeling with hands tied behind my back in the ancestral hall. The people who guard Shantun only need to go to worship on the 15th day of every month, and my grandfather will suffer. Is this true?"

Wang Po nodded: "In this matter, Xu Changhe did not lie to you. Most of what he said is true."

I asked inexplicably: "Then why did you say that he was lying to me by asking me to lift my grandfather's seal?"

Wang Po shook her head: "Did he tell you that there is a wisp of your grandfather's remnant soul sealed in that clay sculpture, as long as you use your blood, you can break the seal and release your grandfather's soul. At that time, your grandfather's soul will gather together , you can go to reincarnation?"

"Yes." I nodded repeatedly.That's exactly what Xu Changhe said at the time.

Wang Po smiled bitterly: "There is indeed a remnant soul of your grandfather inside. But as long as you drip your blood into the clay statue, not only will the seal not be lifted, but even your soul will be trapped in the clay statue. Then you It’s going to be hard to get away.”

"They...why did they do this to me? Didn't my grandfather save the whole village? So, my grandfather is the benefactor of Shoushantun, but they want to kill me?" I was startled and asked quickly.

Wang Po leaned to the window, looked at the sky outside through the window, turned around and said: "There is still time, I will tell you everything I know. As for how far you can do it, we can only do our best." Listen to the destiny. Do you know how your grandfather saved the entire Shoushantun back then?"

I shook my head, I just heard Xu Changhe and others mentioned these things several times, but they didn't mention the details, so I don't know anything about the details of this incident.

Wang Po stood at the window, looking at the moon in the sky outside, as if she was muttering to herself, or telling me.

I listened quietly from behind.

Wang Po said slowly: "The villagers in Shoushan Village didn't originally live here. They used to live on the other side of the mountain, and the original village was called Kaoshan Village. At that time, your grandfather was still a young man in his 20s. , but he is not from the village, but a Taoist priest passing by."

I was taken aback when I heard this: "Grandma Wang, you said my grandpa is a Taoist priest?"

Wang Po nodded: "Yes, I can still clearly remember the picture of your grandfather wearing a white Taoist robe and passing the village. At that time, although your grandfather was young, he had the demeanor of a fairy .”

I couldn't believe my ears.I also clearly remember that when my third uncle ran away from home, when he came back he was dressed in tattered Taoist robes and became a half-hearted Taoist priest.At that time, because he became a Taoist priest, he almost pissed grandpa to death, and kicked third uncle out of the house with a stick.In this way, the third uncle had to go to the town to set up a fortune-telling stall for a living.

If grandpa used to be a Taoist priest, why would he not let third uncle become a Taoist priest?

But I didn't ask Po Wang this question again, I guess she can't answer it.

Chapter 327 The Plague

This is the first time I've heard people talk about my grandfather's youth, so it sounds very serious.According to Wang Po, this Xu Changhe turned out to be a go-getter back then, and he was the one who took the lead in arresting Grandpa.And when I first came here, he actually said that he was my grandfather's sworn brother. He harmed my grandfather so much, how could it be possible for my grandfather to become sworn brothers with him.He's such a liar that he doesn't bat an eye.

"Then what happened then?" I asked.

Wang Po continued: "Your grandfather just shouted that the village was going to be in trouble, but someone asked him what the trouble was, and he refused to say it. He just asked the villagers to leave the backing village collectively and go out to hide for a while before coming back. How can people believe that even though the life in Guashantun was not rich at that time, but the mountains depended on the mountains and the water to eat water, with the mountains on the back and a river leading to the village below, so they lived comfortably. Just a few words from your grandfather , how could it be possible to leave? As a result, we only found out later that the reason why your grandfather refused to reveal the specific disaster was because he was afraid of leaking the secret. So that the disaster that came later was far more terrifying than what your grandfather said .Your grandfather also felt guilty about this for a long time, saying that even if the heavenly secret was leaked at that time, it would be worth it if it could exchange for the lives of the villagers."

I snorted coldly when I heard this: "I think even if grandpa told the villagers at that time, they would not believe it."

Wang Po nodded: "That's true. At that time, your grandfather was a Taoist priest. If anyone dared to believe what he said, he would be implicated too. But your grandfather didn't think so. He always thought it was his fault that led to it. the tragedy that followed."

"Then what happened afterwards?"

I think that if this Wang Po can write novels, she must be a master of foreshadowing. After talking for so long, she has been laying the groundwork, but she has never entered the theme, which made my heart itch.

Wang Po was not in a hurry, and continued: "Your grandfather was locked up, but even so, your grandfather still yelled loudly to convince the villagers to leave the village to seek refuge. As a result, the more he shouted, the more he was beaten. The more ruthless..."

Hearing this, I felt inexplicably sad. Although I knew that my grandfather was only in his 20s at the time, I still couldn't bear the thought of him being beaten.

"There's no way around that. With the environment and background at that time, even if your grandfather was beaten to death, there was no one to justify him. Later, I felt sorry for him, so I secretly sent him some food. Your grandfather told me He leaked a little information and asked me to notify people to evacuate quickly. He said that within five days, many people in the village would die. It doesn’t look like a lunatic. In addition, the body has been beaten like that, and I still can’t forget it. There must be a basis for it. So I was dubious and persuaded my parents and some close relatives to move out of the village secretly. This is also my thanks Because of your grandfather, they were all spared in the end because of this."

I looked at Wang Po and said, "Grandma Wang, I want to thank you for bringing food to my grandpa. Are you the only one who believed in my grandpa?"

Wang Po waved her hand: "These things are insignificant to what your grandfather has done. On the third day after your grandfather was locked up, accidents happened one after another in the village. Sure enough, many people fell ill, and they couldn't afford it. Even if In this way, the villagers did not connect this matter with your grandfather. Until two days later, almost all the villagers fell ill. By the morning of the fifth day, Kaoshantun had undergone a huge change almost overnight , many people in the village crawled onto the street, struggling in pain, and they were covered with black spots. In broad daylight, the sky was very overcast, just like at night. Not only that, but all the flowers, plants and trees in the village withered and died , Livestock, etc. are all dying strangely, mosquitoes and flies are flying around, and the rotten smell of dead animals can be smelled everywhere."

Wang Po spoke calmly, but I was terrified when I heard it, and hurriedly asked: "This...is this a plague?"

Wang Po shook her head: "I don't know, no one knows. That scene is the same as what your grandfather told me. I guess your grandfather opened his eyes. He has seen this scene before. This is a kind of omen. So your grandfather He came here to inform us, but unfortunately no one listened to him."

"Then... the whole village is dead?"

In fact, I know that not all the people in the village will die, because at least there are still people like Shoushantun left, but I still can't help asking.Because according to Wang Po, none of the people in the village will survive, but they don't know what happened afterwards.

When Wang Po told these things, her tone and expression were always calm, which may be related to her age and experience.But when she was talking about this, she finally took a deep breath, as if she had made up her mind, and said: "The villagers who got sick later suffered from splitting headaches, loss of vision, and weakness in limbs. Moreover, their abdomens also began to swell later. , as big as a ball, and as small as a fruit. Their skin is gradually turning purple, and the people who get the disease first, the darker the color. When the color turns dark purple, it starts to fester. People are not dead yet, and there are a lot of maggots I started to drill back and forth in the festered skin. Back then, it was no different from hell on earth..."

Wang Po's complexion is very ugly, probably because she thought of the backing village 50 years ago, and she still has lingering fears.

She calmed down and continued: "At that time, most of the people in the village had collapsed, but the situation ranged from mild to severe. The lightest ones were the few people headed by Xu Changhe. I only found out later that it was their body Their hostility saved them. They burned, smashed and looted everywhere, and they were full of hostility. When the disaster came, they were much lighter than other people. But even so, they shouldn't last long. Just in At this time, this group of people actually came up with a way to set fire to those patients to prevent the further spread of the disaster. I still remember that night, when the Mao Moon appeared in the sky, Xu Changhe and others wore masks and gathered the villagers in the If there is an open space, people will be set on fire. Those who are sick have lost their ability to resist and can only be at the mercy of them, and a bigger man-made disaster will happen.”

I nodded: "It seems that they regarded this disaster as a plague. But this method is a bit too vicious. Grandma Wang, were you okay at that time?"

Wang Po shook her head: "Before the incident, your grandfather taught me a way to pick a lot of dew-stained willow leaves. Every two hours, I took a piece of it under my tongue. The so-called plague, I believed your grandfather's words, and I was able to survive. But this method can only prevent, but not cure."

Chapter 328 The Walking Dead

Hearing Wang Po talking about the past 50 years ago, this Xu Changhe was really a scumbag when he was young.

In order to prevent the plague, he even personally burned those sick folks to death.No matter what the purpose is, this kind of courage and ruthlessness are beyond the reach of ordinary people.

Wang Po then began to narrate: "At that time, I saw that things were getting worse and worse. I had no choice but to secretly go and release your grandfather. Your grandfather rushed to the open space in the village immediately. He shouted loudly, It is said that there is still a way to remedy it, and you must not set fire to people. This is not a plague. Once people are burned, the matter will become more serious, and it will also affect several surrounding villages. The consequences are unimaginable. It was not until this time that people realized that, What your grandfather said is true, so I regret it so much, I regret not listening to your grandfather's words."

I nodded: "Later, grandpa figured out a way to save the people in the village, right?"

"That's right. Your grandpa is very capable. He asked someone to set up a big pot at the entrance of the village, and spent a day and a night to draw a lot of talismans. Then he asked the villagers who were able to move to pick talismans in the surrounding forest. A lot of weird herbal medicines, and finally boiled the talisman paper together with those herbs in the cauldron, and let the sick villagers take it. As a result, this method really relieved the symptoms of those villagers, and the festered skin also healed. Healing slowly. But because your grandfather was locked up, this method was used too late, and half of the villagers were still not rescued. But fortunately, half of the people were rescued. Your grandfather said that this village has been abandoned. Although this disaster If it is solved, there will be a greater disaster. This is a catastrophe, and it must be experienced. If you want to save your life, you need to move immediately. Later, your grandfather left Kaoshantun with a village and arrived at the current place. "

Hearing this, I was very puzzled, why did Kaoshantun have to have such a doom?

Seeing my puzzlement, Wang Po explained: "Later, when all the living villagers came to Shoushantun with your grandfather, your grandfather revealed the reason. The reason was that Xu Ershu. He was not called Xu Ershu, but Xu Youzhi. He once met a red fox Dujie in the surrounding woods. The fur of the red fox. Fortunately, the red fox survived the catastrophe, but the fur on his body was stripped off. So the red fox held a grudge, and tried to make the whole village suffer disaster, with the purpose of destroying the entire backing village.”

I was very resentful in my heart, it seems that this Xu Ershu is not a fuel-efficient lamp.This catastrophe turned out to be caused by him.

"Not long after we moved, the mountain next to the entire village collapsed, and the rocks slanted down, razing the entire backing village to the ground. If we hadn't left there, we would have been smashed into meatloaf. So, it's you Grandpa saved our entire village. This new village is named after your grandfather, Shoushantun. The villagers also regard your grandfather as a god."

"So that's what happened, what about my grandfather's statue and the curse?"

"What Xu Changhe told you is basically the truth. There is only one thing, he lied to you. Do you know what the clay of that statue is made of?" Wang Po asked.

I was stunned: "What is it mixed with? Since it is mud, it is nothing more than mixing soil and water."

Wang Po shook her head: "No. The raw material for making clay statues is blood mud. That is to say, blood mud was made from the soil of Shoushantun and the blood of all the old and young in the village. Later, this blood mud was used to mold the statue."

"Blood... blood mud? Why do you want to do this?"

Wang Po explained: "This is also your grandfather's painstaking efforts. In fact, the catastrophe in the mountain village back then was due to the number of days, and it should have happened. People should have died a long time ago. So the fates of the people in the village have been picked up. And this Shoushantun was carefully found by your grandfather. As I said before, this is a no-care zone. So you can live here. But People here, once they leave the village, they will encounter the underworld, which is why they die suddenly when they leave the village. This is the curse your grandfather said to them."

"What happened to the blood mud?"

"Didn't you notice that the faces and skin of the people in the village are very white?" Wang Po asked back.

I nodded: "I have discovered this problem. I thought that the lack of sunshine here all year round caused them to look like this. Could there be other reasons here?"

Wang Po smiled: "Of course there is a reason. Every time they pay homage to your grandfather's clay sculpture, part of their blood will be lost. When the body's blood shortage reaches a certain level, their lives will end, but their bodies will be destroyed. Manipulated by ghosts. The five people you saw, including Xu Changhe, are...they are bodies driven by ghosts."

"Wh... what? Ghost control, so they are dead? Grandma Wang, are you kidding? How could they be dead? Although they are a little old, they are indeed still alive. Didn't you see them just now?" Are they?"

Wang Po waved her hand: "Listen to me. The place of Shoushantun is too special. As I said just now, this place does not belong to the yang world, nor does it belong to the underworld. Therefore, people who live here will not die in principle. But When the blood loss reaches a certain level, their physical bodies will die and their bodies will be replaced by souls. This kind of body dominated by souls does not look much different from normal people in appearance, but there is a difference in essence Yes. Because a normal person not only has a body, but also blood. Blood is the most important medium for fusing the soul and the body. And this kind of body dominated by the soul does not have blood."

"You mean, Xu Changhe and his group don't have blood in their bodies? Isn't that just a walking dead?"

When I heard Wang Po say this, I was sweating all over my body.Because I already believed what Wang Po said.The reason is that that group of people behaved differently during the day and at night. During the day, they were sluggish, but at night they were alive and well, and they kept sucking the essence of the moon, so that Fatty and I even suspected that they were ghosts.

There is another place that makes us suspicious, and that is the performance of this group of people at the dinner table.They are like reincarnated starving ghosts, eating scary, not like normal people at all.I know that since ghosts belong to the ghost world, they are very attached to fireworks in the world.So those human foods are also very attractive to ghosts.

All kinds of signs showed that Xu Changhe and the others were walking corpses combined with ghosts and flesh bodies.

Chapter 329 Five Elements Stone

I asked timidly, "What if I dripped blood on the statue during the day?"

Wang Po said: "Then the seal of the statue will be released. Your grandfather's remnant soul will indeed merge with his overall soul, but when the time comes, your soul will be sucked into the statue to replace your grandfather's remnant soul. If the statue lacks the guardianship of your grandfather's remnant soul, the people in the village will wantonly eat the mud tire, and the blood on their bodies will be replenished. At that time, they will be resurrected in another way. Because of this People who are resurrected in this way can walk out of the village. But they are different from normal people, they must feed on blood, and they will become a kind of vampire. At that time, the animals and humans outside may suffer.”

After listening to Wang Po, I felt a little scared.If Pang Dahai hadn't arrived in time, I'm afraid I've done something wrong.There are not hundreds of people in the village, but dozens of them. These dozens of people have all turned into vampires. What kind of chaos is there when they go out?

"So, my grandfather made statues out of blood mud to keep these villagers from becoming vampires?"

Wang Po nodded: "That's not the case, but I'm the only one who knows the inside story. In fact, your grandfather's purpose at that time was not like this. He just wanted these people to pay homage to the statue, and the blood on their bodies would gradually be sucked into the clay statue. Like, at that time, when the blood on the body is reduced to a certain level, these people will die naturally. When all the people in the village die naturally, the statue will be destroyed, and his own soul can return to itself It's just that he didn't expect that due to the particularity of the geography here, after the blood of these people is emptied, they will become a combination of soul and body, and they can still act and live like normal people in this derived monster form. And when the statue is molded, it can only last for 50 years. After 50 years, the statue will lose its function."

I was taken aback: "Isn't it 50 years now?"

Wang Po shook her head: "To be precise, it is 49 years, eleven months and eight days."

"That is to say, in less than a month, the statue will be destroyed and those people will become vampires?"

Wang Po nodded again: "That's right. But they don't even want to wait for twenty days. They let you eat the eggs from the blood spring, but they won't kill you. It's just that they can use the Gu worm to take your blood , the purpose is also to unlock the seal of the statue."

Speaking of which, I did know the secrets I didn't know before, but more questions arose.

Since their goals are the same, why did that Xu Dongyang remind me in private not to let me eat the blood spring eggs?Could it be related to the five strange black stones on my body?

Thinking of this, I hurriedly took out the remaining three stones on my body and handed them to Wang Po: "Grandma Wang, what are these things used for?"

Wang Po took the three and a half stones, looked closely at the candle, and gave them back to me: "I know, back then your grandpa didn't expect you to encounter poisonous silkworms, but I still left them for you." I bought a sheepskin map. So these few stones are the real purpose of your grandfather asking you to come here. These three are wood stone, water stone and fire stone, but there should be three more, gold stone and earth stone. The earth and five stones are collectively called the Five Elements Stone."

"Five Elements Stone? Is the strange symbol on the stone the symbol of the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, earth?"

"That's right. It's a secret rune, and I recognize it."

"Then what is the use of the Five Elements Stone?"

"About the use of the Five Elements Stone, one is to represent your identity and prove that you are a descendant of the Li family, because your grandfather would not give these stones to outsiders. If you come back with the Five Elements Stone, it will be considered as your honor." Grandpa's promise."

I nodded. When I first entered the village, Xu Changhe did verify with the stones on his body and the stones I gave him.

Wang Po went on to say: "The second use is that your grandfather made a promise at that time that the Five Elements Stones are five stones, and each stone is divided into two. The five stones of gold, wood, water, fire, earth, Xu Changhe and other five people hold half of each stone." When your grandfather, or your grandpa's descendants come back, you will give half of it to one of them. Then this person can hold a whole piece of Five Elements Stone. Be the first to get the complete Five Elements Stone There should be some benefits for those who are in this position, but I don't know what the benefits are."

"Then shall I give this stone to one of them?"

Wang Po glared at me: "Are you stupid or what? Your grandfather's arrangement is just a way to restrain them. As long as you don't hand over the Five Elements Stone in your hand, they won't be able to treat each other like that." Heart together, as long as they each have their own selfishness, they can restrain each other and protect you better."

After hearing what Wang Po said, my mind was even more confused. If it was true what Wang Po said, then what a game of chess grandpa played at that time.Even my return to Shoushantun was planned.

"Of course, the Five Elements Stone also has the biggest function. You have to remember that this is the purpose of your grandfather arranging you to come back here. It is also the only way to solve the troubles in Shoushantun."

"Oh? What is that?"

I listened quietly, but saw that Wang Po was stunned, and with a shake of her hand, the crutch in her hand came out of her hand and flew straight out of the window.

This yizhuang may also be a temporary structure. There is no glass on the windows, but paper paste.It has been in disrepair for a long time, and the window paper has been messed up.The crutch flew out and directly penetrated the window paper, as if it hit something outside.

At the same time, Wang Po walked quickly and rushed out from the door.I was the only one left in the room in a daze.