Royal Demon Group

"Is there a word on my face?" Yang Qiankun touched his face and said doubtfully.

Well, it's smooth, no stubble, no acne, in good condition.

When he came out, he saw the bumpkin, the bumpkin didn't recognize him at a glance, and he didn't recognize the bumpkin at a glance, until Su Su said: "Uncle, this is Yang Qiankun."

The uncle was so excited to go up and hug Yang Qiankun, Yang Qiankun looked dazed by his hug, his glasses were a little crooked, the man let go and said, "Oh, big boy, the change has changed a lot."

Yang Qiankun recognized this fluent dialect, it was the dialect of his hometown.

Yang Qiankun pushed the black-rimmed glasses on his face, squinted his eyes and thought for a while, then patted his head.

"Ah! Uncle Wang!"

"It's been a few years since I called you last time, wow, oops, let me sit down for a while."

"This way, this way."

Wang Guoqing is from Yang Qiankun's hometown. I met him when I went back a few years ago. He only stayed for half a day before leaving. It is rare that he has a good memory and can still remember.

The two spoke the same dialect, Yang Qiankun was very enthusiastic about this elder whom he had met several years ago, this Uncle Wang was not polite to him, he picked up a drink and gulped it down, then started talking again.

"Pinch Nana and call the goose to drop, Zamen Village Grawa... This year... scratch the turtle..."

Jiang Nan and the others couldn't quite understand what Uncle Wang was saying in a voice full of emotion, body movements and crackling language. They only knew that Uncle Wang spoke extremely fast, with some excitement and surprise.

Yang Qiankun was also talking to Wang Guoqing in dialect. Finally, Wang Guoqing attached his rough and dark hands to Yang Qiankun's. The conversation between the two finally came to an end, but they still talked for another twenty minutes.

Wang Guoqing drank a bottle of drink, and now he wants to go to the bathroom after finishing talking.

He asked, "Where is the hut?"

Yang Qiankun told him in dialect that if you walk a certain distance behind the curtain, you can see it when you turn a corner.

When Wang Guoqing turned and walked towards the curtain, Yang Qiankun suddenly saw something on his back, something like tiny black tentacles wriggling.

"Uncle Wang, wait a moment."

When Yang Qiankun took advantage of Wang Guoqing's stop, the spiritual power flowed through his fingertips, flowing to Wang Guoqing's back like a line, and the thing came out, a small black thing with a small spike on top of its head It looks like a hat, with two small tentacles on it, sitting on Wang Guoqing's shoulder.

Jiang Nan, Su Suchu and Xiang Lun both saw it, and Jiang Nan couldn't help saying: "What is this?"

"Elder son, come back and say something, come back and say that the goose is in a hurry." Wang Guoqing turned around and said.

Following the rotation of Wang Guoqing's shoulders, Yang Qiankun and the others saw the front of the thing, with pointed fangs, black eyeballs, red surroundings, two holes in the nose, and the small pointed hat on the head. , from the front, it looks like a black and white impermanent hat, the tentacles on the hat are a bit redundant, and the body has limbs, hanging limply underneath.

With its appearance, Jiang Nan managed to think of the Smurf, although the Smurf is much cuter than this thing.

Yang Qiankun stimulated it with spiritual power, and the thing fled quickly. Jiang Nan watched it fly towards him.

"Damn!" That thing flew over and ran on his back!Jiang Nan touched for a long time but found nothing.

"It's nothing, Uncle Wang, you go." Yang Qiankun said to Wang Guoqing, and Wang Guoqing hurried inside.

"It ran up my back, what is this?" Jiang Nan made a bitter face.

When Li Tianzhe saw the movement here, he stopped swiping his phone and came over here.

"Who is that person?" Li Tianzhe asked.

"My hometown, relative." Yang Qiankun said.

Yang Qiankun forced the thing out of Jiang Nan's back again, and Jiang Nan could see it as soon as he turned his head. He always felt that this thing was weird, and it couldn't be looking at him.

"Jiang Nan, he's looking at you!" Li Tianzhe unscrupulously repaired the knife, successfully making Jiang Nan tremble.

"What??"

Li Tianzhe lifted the thing from Jiang Nan's shoulder, squeezed it, and the little Smurf-like thing fell apart.

"This is the first time I've seen such a small and harmless monster, what level is it?" Su Su said.

"Harmless? As long as it's a demon, it's harmful. It's not that ghosts are good or bad. Remember this clearly. Don't become overwhelmed when you see a cuter one, Fairy Su." Li Tianzhe said.

"Although it's cute compared to other monsters, it's really not cute." Jiang Nan gave a very pertinent evaluation.

"It can't even reach the first level." Yang Qiankun said with a straight face. This thing can also be called a demon, but it is lower than the first level, but how can it have a head and four limbs? , the higher the level of the demon, the more likely it is to have a head and four limbs. What's going on with this thing?

Also, the thing sitting on Wang Guoqing's body couldn't even reach the spiritual power of a first-order demon spirit, so he didn't feel it at first, but the spiritual power was very pure. Generally, the higher the spiritual rank, the purer the spiritual power of the demon spirit , the stronger the spiritual power, but this thing is obviously against the rules.

"This person is from your hometown. Has something happened to your hometown?"

"There are some things that asked me to get rid of ghosts. Uncle Wang talked a lot with me just now. I understand a little bit. I thought it was these superstitions. I just went back and did a ritual to give them peace of mind. Now it seems that I have to do it again." Understand carefully."

"Well, if it's a demon spirit, we're going there."

"I will ask Uncle Wang for more details." Yang Qiankun said.

After Wang Guoqing came out of the toilet, he said that he was hungry and sleepy, Yang Qiankun took him to have a meal, and in line with the principle of saving room fees, Yang Qiankun took him back to his place of residence.

Yang Qiankun promised that Wang Guoqing would go back to help, but he needed some time to prepare to deal with the affairs here, so Wang Guoqing went back first.

A few days later, when New Year's Eve was getting closer, Li Tianzhe received a call from Yang Qiankun. "Brother Zhe, I need help."

When Li Tianzhe sat on the bus for the third time, his head was a little dizzy, and he remembered telling Zhong Qi before leaving that he would go back before New Year's Eve.

It’s the time of Spring Festival travel, and the train tickets have been bought. Yang Qiankun’s hometown is a small city, and there is no airport, so he can only transfer from Liucheng to City A, then from City A to City J, and finally take the bus to the side of City J There is still a long way to go in Pinggu County.

They took the bus the night before, and the extensive snowfall slowed down their journey a lot. They didn't get on the last bus until noon the next day.

Li Tianzhe leaned against the window, looking at the environment outside as if it was full of fog, but it is also possible that the windows are not very clean, there is snow all the way, when you reach the place where people live, you can see that the snow has been shoveled to the sides, and the road is exposed Two black asphalt roads.

He was a little confused, and couldn't remember how he started. Yang Qiankun asked him to come to his hometown. His hometown should be an area next to the south district and the east district. People eradicated it in time, so he came to help him.

They got off the car at a place with a stop sign. While waiting for the car, one after another large trucks passed by, bringing up waves of dust. Li Tianzhe suspected that he would have tuberculosis, so he finally sat bumpily A bus, and got off at a stop sign.

Li Tianzhe, who was about to be turned into a fool, felt a little desperate in his heart.

Next to the asphalt road is a dirt road. The soil is compacted and there are a lot of stones on it. They walked for a while, and a car came behind. It was a vegetable trailer, which seemed to have come back from selling vegetables in the town. .

The sound of the car was rumbling loudly, and the car stopped every time the wheels rolled. The driver was a middle-aged man wearing a worn-out felt hat.

The vegetable cart seemed to start braking as soon as it passed them. Perhaps the brakes were not working well, and it stopped after passing them for a certain distance.

The people in the car turned around and yelled at them, "Ai----, hurry up, run."

What the man spoke was neither a decent dialect nor a decent Mandarin. It was always inconvenient to sell vegetables in the town with a dialect, so this kind of self-taught Mandarin became a mix of dialects that people could understand.

"Wait a minute." Li Tianzhe followed Yang Qiankun, ran a little distance, and hitched a ride with the vegetable farmer.

The cart is full of rotten vegetable leaves, which are cabbage. The vegetables that farmers eat in winter are mainly potatoes and cabbage. There are not many kinds of vegetables that can be sold. The vegetable farmer probably just sold out and left a few. The cabbage was in the car, and Li Tianzhe could smell the cabbage smell if he smelled it carefully.

Staying with Chinese cabbage, Li Tianzhe tore a few cabbage leaves to play boredly, listening to the conversation between Yang Qiankun and the vegetable farmer.

"Boy, where are you going?"

"Let's go to Shimiao Village, which village are you from?"

"I'm from Nanju Village next to Shimiao Village. Oh boy, how did you go to Shimiao Village? What are you doing there?"

"The village in my hometown, what's going on there?"

"That village was originally called a "short-lived village". Later, the villagers moved out a lot, and there were not many families left. It is not very peaceful now. It is said that someone provoked the saint, the saint If you personally come down and kill someone, the witches in the village can't do anything about it."

The wind was blowing, and the voice could not be gathered together. When the uncle spoke, he tilted his head and almost roared to them.

"Uncle, what is a saint?" Li Tianzhe listened, why does this involve a saint?What is this saint?It can't be a person, it can be connected with the temple.

"There is a Zijin Temple on the mountain next to Shimiao Village, and there are a pair of saintess statues inside, to bless the weather with good weather." The uncle replied.

Sure enough, it was connected with the temple, and a person died. It sounds a bit like a criminal case of pretending to be a god and a devil to kill someone with a knife.

"Aren't these feudal superstitions?" Li Tianzhe whispered to Yang Qiankun.

"It's a bit like it, but it's true that there are demons."

"Then it might be a personal demon again." This thing is a headache.

"Uncle, this saint is just a statue, how can she still kill people? Besides, isn't she the one who protects the name of the village?" Yang Qiankun asked. He had heard the story of the saint when he was a child, but he only knew that the saint I don't know much about how it came here, only that there is a pair of saintess statues, and there are quite a lot of twins in their village.

"Don't believe it. Everyone has seen it. Maybe they offended the saint, and the saint will punish her." The uncle said, and seeing that he had reached the intersection again, he braked the car and traveled another distance. distance.

"I'll turn this way and go back. If you can go that way, you'll be in Shimiao Village in about ten minutes."

"Okay, thank you, uncle."

Li Tianzhe and the others grabbed their bags and jumped out of the car, thanking the uncle.

"What's the matter, what's the matter, let's go, it will be completely dark in a while." The uncle waved his hand boldly, pulled the brake with his hand, and stepped on the accelerator, the car rumbled and swayed slowly and left.

While walking along the path, Li Tian covered his clothes again, and asked Yang Qiankun: "Why is this Shimiao Village called Changshou Village? How did it come here?"

"In the early decades, almost everyone in the village could not live to be 50 years old, and they would end up in their 40s. When I was young, my parents moved away, and I hardly have any impression of the village, but my grandma still lives there. So I went back a few times. My parents wanted to take my grandma out of the village, but grandma didn’t leave. I heard the nickname Short Life Village when they were arguing. The story of ghosts and ghosts is nothing to put it bluntly, and there may not be any reason."

Yang Qiankun said a lot, but in fact he didn't know much, that is, he knew about the same as the names of other villages.

"Then how old is your grandma?"

"It's more than 70, it's almost [-]. Once a person gets old, age doesn't seem to be very important."

Li Tianzhe thinks Yang Qiankun's words are also reasonable. When people are getting old, if they don't remember their age, others may not be so clear. The important thing is the body. For example, when you see an old man for the first time , you will assess his physical condition, and then see if his physical condition and age match.

"Your grandma, is that witch?" Li Tianzhe asked.

"Well, how did you guess that?"

"Isn't that a good guess?"

"...It's a good guess."

Yang Qiankun walked on this small road, and he felt a sense of familiarity. Although this road has changed a little, it is still that small road. When he was visiting grandma with his parents, he came out to play by himself, and caught a tortoise on the road. .

When he was a child, toads were no different from frogs in his eyes, and he would always grab toads and go back to his grandma, telling him it was a frog and asking her to make fried bullfrogs for him to eat.

When they reached the entrance of the village, it was completely dark, and the whole village was completely dark. There was a light bulb hanging on the electric pole at the head of the village, and the electric current was buzzing. Died.

No one came out from the whole village. I don't know if it's because of the cold winter or because of the recent hauntings. In short, it feels like a deserted mountain village.

Li Tianzhe frowned, and complained, "Is there really someone living here?"

It seems that there are quite a lot of houses, no matter what, there are a hundred families, but they feel that these houses are not lively. Li Tianzhe saw a house with broken glass, probably no one lives there.

"Yes, that house is Uncle Wang's house." Yang Qiankun pointed to a house, a piece of dirt on the outer wall of that house was missing, and the rest of the house was relatively new.The windows are framed with wooden strips and inlaid with transparent glass. They are all old-fashioned, and they can be seen for decades.

There was indeed a dim light inside.

Turning around several turns, the structure of their village is rather chaotic, much worse than the previous Gutong Village. Although the location of Gutong Village is very remote, the structure of the village is still very clear. The houses on both sides of the street are a little messy, but it doesn't matter.

This Shimiao Village is more general, the direction of the house is messy, and the height is uneven. Yang Qiankun took Li Tianzhe to the outside of Kuai Village, and saw a small earthen house on the edge of the village. After opening a mouth, by the moonlight, I saw several cracks in the wall.

Some of the panes of the windows had broken glass and were pasted with paper. Where the paper was pasted, there was a faint yellow light core. It was the kind of old-fashioned light bulb, not the current energy-saving lamps, let alone LED lights.

Li Tianzhe really wasn't in the mood to look at other scenery anymore. There was a pile of wood outside the wall. He almost didn't trip over when he was walking, so he asked tremblingly, "This place, where your grandma lives?"

"Ah."

"This house is so strong..."

"It's a century-old house, don't look at it like this, it's warm in winter and cool in summer."

Yang Qiankun said so, and started to knock on the door. He knocked on the door and yelled for about ten minutes before he heard a "squeak" from inside. Li Tianzhe looked in from the low wall, faintly Joyo saw a trembling old man open the door of the main room, and it took a long time before he heard the sound of the door bolt rattling inside.

Li Tianzhe could imagine the old man walking step by step.

The door that was about to be scrapped shook several times, and finally swung open to both sides.An old man emerged from the middle of the two doors. The old man was wearing a gray padded jacket, his thinning hair was tied into a small bone at the back, and he wore a pair of reading glasses on his face. On the glasses, a blackened metal anti-skid chain was connected to the back of the ears.

Yang Qiankun yelled loudly: "Grandma! Me!"