The morning mist shrouded the valley. Lu Shen walked out of the lush woods and saw the village in the mist. Liu Feng from behind said: "That is Heishui Village."
"Let's go there." Lu Shen walked on the mud path, and soon he came to the entrance of the village. There were miserable wailing sounds in front of him, and a group of people were surrounding the entrance of the village.
Outside the entrance of the village was a vegetable field, and the green vegetables were trampled by the crowd. Lu Shen came to the back of the crowd and saw clearly the scene in the crowd.
On the damp old door panel, curled up was a half-clothed female body, wearing a wedding dress made of bright red paper, with purple strangulation marks on her neck.
She was about eighteen or nineteen years old, and her delicate cheeks were covered with scars, as if she had been cruelly ravaged. She hugged her knees with her hands and curled up, and her dilated pupils still showed fear.
The wedding dress made of paper was damp and softened, and could not cover her body. Lu was silent for a moment, pushed away the talking crowd, took off his coat, and covered the girl's stiff body.
At this time, someone in the crowd looked at Lu Chen and asked, "May I ask who you are?"
"We are from the imperial court, and we are here to solve the official problem of Gui Gong." Lu Chen took out the Zhiguai Si waist badge and asked in a deep voice: "Where is your village chief?"
The old man with a crutch, a stooped back and some gray hair nodded and said: "I have met you all, I am the village chief, Li Shuiniu."
Hearing that they were here to deal with the Gui Groom's official duties, the surrounding villagers instead of being happy, instead pointed at them and gradually dispersed, as if they were afraid of something.
Seeing Lu Shen's confusion, Li Shui Niu quickly explained: "I hope you guys can forgive me. That sneaky groom is vicious and vicious. The villagers are afraid of him like a tiger and are afraid of being implicated."
"I don't think we can solve this tricky groom." Liu Feng sneered and looked at the villagers who seemed to be fleeing. "This is not the first time we have encountered this situation."
Lu Chen looked at the body and asked, "What's her name? If there are no relatives to collect the body, why let her lie here?"
"Alas, the little girl's name is Li Xiuxiu, and she belongs to Li Dahu's family." Li Shui Niu shook his head and sighed: "They don't want the girl because they think the girl was insulted by the tricky groom."
Ding Yu suddenly became angry, "Being insulted is the result she wants. If she is insulted, she is no longer their daughter?!"
"In the final analysis, she's just a girl." Li Shui Niu looked embarrassed, unable to refute Ding Yu, so he could only explain helplessly.
Lu Chen continued to ask: "When did this happen?"
Li Shui Niu pursed his lips, looked around, and then lowered his voice, "She was taken away at midnight last night, and her body was found at the entrance of the village this morning."
Hearing the time of midnight last night, Lu Chen's eyes became sharp. If they had arrived last night, wouldn't she have had to die?
"Take me to Li Dahu's house and tell me about the strange groom." Lu Chen wrapped the female body in clothes and held it in his arms.
Li Shui Niu pursed his lips and hesitated for a long time, "I fell asleep last night and didn't find any clues. You can ask other people in the village."
Xu Yan pondered: "Village chief, do you refuse to provide information?"
"It's unfair, sir. The little boy really doesn't know." Li Shui Niu quickly knelt down and said with tears in his eyes: "Even if you kill me, I really don't know."
Xu Yan was suddenly speechless. The village chief's voice was so loud that many people in the village had already looked over.
"Tell me the location of Li Dahu's house, and we will go to the village to have a look." Lu Chen said coldly, and then looked at Xu Yan, "You go to the house of the person who has had trouble to find out information."
The village chief quickly pointed out the direction, and Lu Shen did not stop and walked towards Li Dahu's home. As for Xu Yan and the other three, they dispersed to the homes where the accident had occurred.
Heishui Village is small, with an estimated sixty or seventy people. The muddy roadside is filled with mud houses made of stone and mud.
Walking through the village, the sound of mourning and music could be heard endlessly, paper money was covered with paper money, and Lu Shen saw coffins placed in nine households.
When he arrived at Li Dahu's house, he knocked on the door, but no one responded, but he could hear the quarrel inside the house.
"Li Dahu, that is your biological daughter, how can you bear to watch her suffer outside?" The woman's miserable voice was filled with anger.
Then came the man's roar, "The water that the married daughter threw away has been taken away by the deceitful groom!"
Then I heard someone coming to the door and gently pulling the door bolt to open the door. The man became furious and said, "Little bastard, what are you going to do?!"
The person who opened the door was pulled back. Lu Chen took a step back, turned his heels suddenly, kicked the wooden door open, and walked in among the debris in the sky.
The scene in the room came into view. The angry man was dragging a boy of fifteen or sixteen years old, and the woman was holding her heart and choking.
When Li Dahu saw Lu Chen holding the body, his expression suddenly changed, he picked up the hatchet and rushed over, "Don't let her in, I don't have this daughter..."
Dang!
Before he finished speaking, a black knife was placed on his neck, wiping out shallow blood marks. Lu Chen slapped his face with the knife, "Is there any problem with burying her?"
Li Dahu's eyes were unfocused, and the hatchet clattered to the ground. Then he came to his senses and knelt down, "No, no problem. Please spare my life."
It was only then that the woman in the corner came forward, hugged her child, and burst into tears.
Instructing Li Dahu to buy longevity materials, Lu Chen sat cross-legged in the room. About a quarter of an hour later, Xu Yan and the others found him.
None of them looked good, and Xu Yan said in a deep voice, "I don't know what's going on with these people. They all keep silent when it comes to the Guilty Bridegroom."
"They are all scared. Someone wanted to sue the government and let people from the Yamen come and kill the bridegroom." The barefoot boy in the corner spoke slowly.
"Then that family was all killed. From then on, no one dared to talk about the Guilty Bridegroom, so naturally they didn't dare to reveal the news to you."
The young man was wearing a worn-out brown shorts and his skin was bronze. He stared at Lu Chen and said, "Thank you for taking my sister home. I can tell you everything I know."
Lu Chen looked at the young man and asked, "Aren't you afraid of the tricky groom?"
"I'm afraid, but I want revenge even more." Li Tian clenched his fists and suppressed his anger. "I wanted to stop him last night, but my father tied him up at home."
"Then let's talk about what happened last night." Lu Chen straightened his back.
"The time when the strange groom appears is always at midnight. Whichever house the sedan stops at, the girl from that house is chosen."
Li Tian said solemnly: "At first he would come back every three days, but starting from the day before yesterday, he came every night."
"In other words, he will appear again tonight..." Lu Chen thought for a while and then asked: "Is this strange groom a resentful spirit or an entity? What's so special about him?"
"I can't tell the difference, but every time he appears, he controls paper figures to carry sedans, beats gongs and drums, and rides a paper horse."
Ding Yu pondered for a while and said: "It can control the paper man with special means, and its strength is no less than the seventh level of blood accumulation. I'm afraid this thing will be difficult to deal with."
At this time, Lu Chen asked, "Can the Zhenshi only be used to defend against the invasion of the treacherous realm?"
"The Calming Stone has a suppressive effect on the weird, but there are many ways to avoid it, such as tempting ordinary people to destroy the Calming Stone, or using special means to avoid it."
Liu Feng explained and said with a heavy look: "The town's town stone has been contaminated. It is the work of the evil cult."
Lu Chen took out the dry food and ate it, "While there is still time, everyone should have a good rest. There may be a big battle at night."
In the following time, Li Dahu bought a shroud, asked his wife to dress his daughter and put it in the coffin. When evening came, an accident happened.
Bang... Holding the door frame with his blood-stained hands, Ding Yu gasped and walked in with injuries all over his body, "I wanted to check around, but found that the entire village was blocked by fog."
She fell to her knees, her arms were covered with dense tooth marks, and there were insects crawling under her skin. "I was trapped in the mist, and someone attacked me. My strength is about the seventh level of blood."
She cut her palm open, and a large number of black bugs emerged from the wound, which were then burned clean by bloody flames.
"There are at least two weird things, hurry up and recover." Lu Chen came outside the door and saw the sky was dim and a full moon was hanging on the head.
[Source: Lu Chen]
[Martial Arts: Powerful Tiger Demon Fist (5/13), Concentration Technique (4/7)]
[Source species: 2 points]
The remaining 2 points of source seeds were originally kept as backup just in case. Lu Chen thought about it and said silently in his mind, "Add more."
[Source: Lu Chen]
[Martial Arts: Powerful Tiger Demon Fist (7/13), Concentration Technique (4/7)]
[Source species: 0 points]
"It's really going to rain..." Lu Chen's eyes became sharp, looking at the wind-swept mountain forest, the temperature in the mountains dropped extremely.
