Uncle Jiu's Senior Brother

Hua Maguai sent her here and then returned to the county town. Lu Li and Queqiao Shao had to travel the rest of the way.

The two of them walked around the Tusi City, and Lu Li discovered something.

The overall Feng Shui pattern of Tusi City is that of thousands of horses returning to the capital. Because it is located among the peaks, the peaks look like running horses, and the running direction is Tusi City.

This represents absolute power, which shows that the chieftain who chose to build the city was definitely a man of great talent and strategy.

Although he later lost power, the fact that his descendants were able to enjoy power and wealth for hundreds of years shows the power of feng shui.

Finally, the two came to the most likely place where Tusi Baibizi's tomb was located, Mengdong River.

Before coming to Xiangxi, Lu Li had paid special attention to this river. Mengdong River starts from Mengbi Village, where there is a hole with water flowing out of the hole, so it is called Mengdong River by the locals.

It is more than 100 kilometers long and is known as "Ninety-nine and eight bends lead to a roadless area, while five five pools lead to a narrow strip of sky."

Moreover, there are many secret places here. It is the birthplace of various mysterious rumors in Xiangxi and is the mother river of Yong County.

Lu Li and the other person walked slowly along the river as the night deepened.

The rushing river creates a gloomy atmosphere against the dark surroundings.

Lu Li heard that Partridge Whistle's breathing was heavier than usual, which showed how nervous he was.

The river was very long and seemed to have no end, and the water was flowing deeper and faster.

Just as Lu Li was wondering if he had taken the wrong path, a rustling sound came from the bushes on the shore.

"who!"

Partridge Whistle took out the long knife from his waist, and Lu Li picked up a branch and threw it out.

With a whoosh, a branch shot out.

"Snapped"

There was a sound of tiles breaking, and Partridge Whistle thought he had hit a rock, but Lu Li's expression relaxed.

Because he knew he was in the right place.

Lu Li and Partridge Whistle came to the place where the sound came from, only to see a branch stuck in a stone.

The stone is about one person tall.

When Partridge Whistle brought the torch closer, he saw that it was not a stone but a stone statue. The tip of the branch had been deeply inserted into the chest of the statue.

Because Lu Li shot out his arrows with great force, the damaged parts of the stone statue were slowly cracking as the two of them watched.

"Wow"

Broken to the ground.

"This is?"

Partridge Whistle quickly retreated several steps.

I saw many insects crawling out of the broken stones. These insects had brown and black patterns on their back shells and two strange tentacles on their heads.

As the beetle crawled out, an indescribable stench came out.

The beetles seemed to sense the presence of someone in front of them. A hundred years of hunger aroused their instincts and they crawled straight towards the two people.

"These are carrion-eating bugs. Don't get any contact with their feces. It may be poisonous."

Partridge Whistle held a torch and roasted the ground to prevent the corpse-eating bugs from approaching, while Lu Li released his aura to press down on these little bugs.

The corpse-eating insects were overwhelmed by the momentum and could only lie on the ground. A closer look revealed a green line wherever they crawled.

That is the feces discharged from the tail of the cadaver beetle. It smells terrible and is highly toxic and corrupt.

At this time, Partridge Whistle came forward and suppressed his nausea. The smell was really too stinky.

"These stone statues have living people tied up inside them, and then special corpse-eating insects are poured into them to let them lay eggs in the living people's bodies. Finally, they are sealed with lime and suffocated to death. The corpses become the ovaries for the corpse-eating insects to hatch."

Partridge Whistle's face turned pale, thinking that the person being punished would feel thousands of tiny insects crawling in his body while he was still alive, which would definitely not be a pleasant experience.

"Such cruel punishments were only seen in ancient times. The presence of such stone statues indicates that this place must be near a tomb."

As expected of him, Partridge Whistle inherited two great tomb-robbing traditions and quickly figured out the key point.

"Hehehe, woooo ...

"get out!"

Lu Li shouted, and Partridge Whistle also became alert.

On a raised rock in the distance, a man wearing dark ethnic minority clothing and bowing his head stood.

The sounds of crying and laughing came from here.

It looks particularly eerie in this dark environment.

The crying and laughing voice sounded again, "What is this?" Partridge Whistle felt the hairs on his back stand up.

"This is a vengeful spirit. If someone was tortured in life and died miserably, this thing would form. It is formed from resentment, but it has no consciousness."

Lu Li casually took out a yellow talisman and said, "Quick!"

The yellow talisman flew past at a high speed and stuck to the man's back, emitting a golden light, and the man's figure slowly disappeared.

"It seems that we are not far from the White Nosed Tusi Tomb. These stone statues are probably working slaves who were brought out by the change of terrain."

"The land around here should also be contaminated by corpse-eating bugs. They will drag the corpses into the soil to lay eggs."

Lu Li was quite resistant to this inhumane burial practice.

Especially the use of witchcraft in burials, if exposed to the air, will bring countless bad consequences.

The two men stayed here for one night. At daybreak, after walking for another half an hour, they saw a mountain village built by the river.

There were people everywhere in the village and smoke rising from cooking fires, so it was obvious that it was not abandoned.

Seeing outsiders coming, everyone became alert and obviously rarely communicated with the outside world.

An old man came out with a cane and said, "We don't welcome outsiders here, please go away."

It would be nice if they could speak Chinese. Partridge Whistle stepped forward and said, "We are herb collectors going up the mountain. We passed by the village and wanted to rest for a while. I wonder if it's okay."

The old man still refused, and at this time Lu Li seemed to have discovered something.

He said to the old man, "Old man, do people in your village often get sick? Do children have difficulty surviving? When they get sick, they get fever and red rashes on their bodies. They itch unbearably and eventually rot and smell terrible."

The old man's expression changed after hearing this, "How do you know this?"

Lu Li smiled confidently and said, "I am a Taoist priest. I can read faces and naturally I can heal diseases. I can tell all this from you. In a few years, the population of your village will only get smaller and smaller."

After hearing this, the old man said something to the villagers behind him, some of whom looked quite excited.

Finally, the old man came over and said, "We agree that you can enter the village. Please, Master Wizard, save our village."

Lu Li explained helplessly: "I am a Taoist priest, a person who practices Taoism, not a wizard."

"They are all the same, they are all people who can communicate with gods." The old man remained persistent.

Not wanting to explain to the old man any more, the two of them walked into the village.

Through communicating with the old man, Lu Li learned that this was a Tujia village and that the people had migrated here hundreds of years ago.

When we first arrived, it was also a large village with tens of thousands of people.

But later, the disease that Lu Li mentioned appeared, and the population gradually decreased.

Now there are only about a thousand people left.

Lu Li thought that in a few decades, it would be good if there were only a hundred people left.

Lu Li asked the old patriarch to prepare black dog blood, pig treasure, peony, rhubarb, tripterygium wilfordii, and quinceanera mixed with cinnabar.

Then he took out an insect repellent talisman, lit it and threw it into the pot. He then had someone cook it in a big pot and distribute it to the people in the village to drink.

At first, people in the village didn't dare to drink it. The old patriarch drank a bowl himself and started vomiting.

There were white insect eggs wriggling in the things that were vomited out, which made people's hair stand on end.

But after a while, the old patriarch's breathing calmed down and he felt relaxed all over.

Seeing this, the villagers also picked up the medicine and drank it, and the sound of vomiting could be heard throughout the village.

Lu Li quickly held his breath, and some people who had already started to get sick also got better after drinking it.

"Thank you, Master Priest. It's you who saved our village." The old patriarch used the highest etiquette of the Tujia people.

Lu Li used his magical power to help the old man up from a distance, and the old man suddenly didn't dare to look at Lu Li directly.

"This medicine can only save you temporarily, not forever. After a while, those bugs will once again inhabit the bodies of the people in your village."

The old man looked anxious, "What should we do? Our village has been here for hundreds of years. It is impossible for us to move away."

"I have a plan. Old Patriarch, go find four flat bluestones of the same size and I'll tell you what to do."

Partridge Whistle quietly walked behind Lu Li, pulled the corner of his clothes, and pointed in the direction of a village building.

Lu Li turned around and saw that there was a totem painted on the house, which was actually a white snake.

It is rumored that White Nose is the reincarnation of the white snake spirit. This means that this village is related to White Nose.