Lu Yun frowned.
Why would such a dying man be elected as the patriarch?
Woof woof woof!
At this time, a big yellow dog ran out of nowhere and barked at them with a very fierce expression.
Liu Wangzhi looked amused and asked Li Shouchang: "Is your dog ferocious? If I touch it, will it bite me?"
Li Shouchang grinned and said, "My dog is honest and doesn't bite. You can pet it however you want."
"That's good."
Liu Wangzhi reached out to stroke the dog's head with confidence, but the big yellow dog suddenly opened its mouth and bit it.
"I go!"
Liu Wangzhi was unable to dodge for a moment and was about to be bitten.
It was too late, but it was too late. Lu Yun grabbed the dog's head.
"Thank you, Mr. Lu, thank you, Mr. Lu!"
Liu Wangzhi escaped unharmed. He nodded and bowed his thanks to Lu Yun, then glared at Li Shouchang angrily and shouted, "Didn't you say that your dog doesn't bite?"
Li Shouchang said timidly: "But this dog is not from my family."
Lu Yun had a smile on his lips, but the suspicion in his eyes only deepened.
Liu Wangzhi said bitterly: "Is there something wrong with this old man's head?"
The middle-aged man murmured: "I'm really sorry, Lord, our new clan leader, he, he..."
He looked at Li Shouchang hesitantly, but in the end he didn't say anything after the word 'him'.
However, a naughty boy boldly ran up and said with a smile: "Master Chang is a fool. If you argue with a fool, you are also a fool, hahaha..."
"What a naughty boy!" Liu Wangzhi was furious.
As the head of Fuyun Township, no one dared to treat him like this.
He wanted to teach these bad boys a lesson, but Lu Yun didn't say anything and he didn't dare.
Seeing Liu Wangzhi's embarrassment, the middle-aged man waved his sleeves and shouted, "Children, go and play."
The urchins immediately ran away laughing.
Liu Wangzhi dusted off his sleeves and said in a deep voice with official authority: "Li Shouchang, the head of the Li clan, listen up. I am Liu Wangzhi, the head of Fuyun Township. This gentleman is Eunuch Lu, the deacon of Xichang. Let's go to your clan to investigate. Mystery, there is a tenant named Li Erniu in your clan, where is he at this time?"
West, West Factory...
Li Shouchang subconsciously looked at the middle-aged man next to him. The middle-aged man said with a smile on his face: "Are the two officials here for Er Niu? What a coincidence. Er Niu went somewhere yesterday, and after coming back he became Silly and silly, I actually ran into the mountains at night and haven’t come back yet..."
Liu Wangzhi shouted: "Nonsense!"
Lu Yun raised his hand to stop him, and then stared at Li Shouchang with a gloomy expression.
"Master, I, I..."
Li Shouchang was so frightened that he knelt down. Seeing this, the middle-aged man also knelt down quickly.
"Say it." Lu Yun said calmly.
But to his surprise, regarding the whereabouts of Li Erniu, Li Shouchang and others killed him and said that he was lost in the mountains last night.
The momentum was somewhat solidified for a while.
The owner of the suffering could not be found.
Weird!
Lu Yun looked at the old people squatting by the wall to bask in the sun. Their faces were dull and dull.
There's something weird that can't be described.
The only normal thing is that the children here are jumping around like most children of the same age.
"Sir, look, this..." Liu Wangzhi looked at Lu Yun with a troubled expression.
"Forget it." Lu Yun said calmly.
What?
never mind!
For a moment, Liu Wangzhi doubted whether he had heard wrongly.
The next moment, a scene that shocked him appeared.
Lu Yun's eyes suddenly became like a furnace, and he seemed to be able to feel a burning sensation even standing close.
"Huh, it's true!"
He discovered what made those children normal.
It turned out that those urchins all had a copper coin hanging on a red thread around their necks.
As for the others...
snort!
Lu Yun said: "Li Shouchang, please take our family to visit your Li family's ancestral hall. Since our family is here, we should go and express our condolences."
"this……"
Li Shouchang looked at each other and seemed a little reluctant.
This is obviously unreasonable!
According to local customs, when someone in the family dies, others should be welcomed to express their condolences.
In particular, big families pay attention to pomp and circumstance. The more people who come to express their condolences, the more pomp and circumstance they will have.
Some people even want to save face and find someone to pretend to be a high-ranking official or celebrity.
There was once a rich man who played a big trick and actually found someone to pretend to be a relative of the emperor to express condolences to his dead father. As a result, the incident came to light, and it didn't take long for relatives to come to express their condolences to the whole family.
But the Li family was different. Count Daqian like Lu Yun said that he wanted to pay homage to Li Wangfu. Not only were the two unhappy, but they refused with a haha.
There must be something wrong with this!
"What if our family says we must go?" Lu Yun took a step forward, his face cold.
"Master..."
Li Shouchang looked at the middle-aged man next to him in embarrassment, and the middle-aged man said: "Since you want to come, sir, then come. I believe that the former patriarch will be very happy that he is alive in heaven."
"please!"
Lu Yun and the two followed the middle-aged man and walked inside.
Li Shouchang had difficulty with his legs and feet, so he walked slowly behind.
But for some reason, Lu Yun glanced at the copper coins hanging on those naughty boys, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
I didn't expect that little girl to be here.
Li's ancestral hall is a large stone house.
Pushing open the door, directly in front is a stone Buddha that is two people tall.
According to the custom here, a tablet should be placed under the big Buddha, but this ancestral hall has a unique style. There are incense burners and tributes in front of the big Buddha, but there is no tablet.
Instead, there was a large red-lacquered coffin placed on a bench in the room, and an exquisite paper bridge was placed between the door and the coffin.
This is called the Shengtian Bridge in folklore. It connects two ends, one is a coffin in the world of heaven, and the other is a coffin in the underworld.
At the end of the Shengtian Bridge is the coffin mouth, and between the two is placed a bronze bell with an ancient shape and a simple temperament.
This is the soul-calling bell. After the first seven souls return, the soul-calling bell can recall the soul of the deceased, and cross the Shengtian Bridge to return to the Yangshi to have a look.
There was a young woman with a slightly protruding belly who was tending to the evergreen lamp. She was startled when she saw several people suddenly pushing the door open and entering.
"Two, two, clan leader, why are you here?"
By now, Lu Yun had completely figured out what happened to the Li family's house.
Although the layout of the above ancestral halls seems to be local folk legends at first glance, if you look closely, it seems that there are some discrepancies with the legends.
Plus the talismans plastered all over the wall.
When viewed from a distance, the talismans look like a skull.
This is a formation!
Moreover, it is also an evil formation that allows people to retain their breath after death, and then transfer this trace of pure energy into the body of the baby in the woman's womb.
Thus living the second life!
But this is not without cost. It is very difficult to maintain a trace of immortality, and it requires a lot of energy to maintain.
This is why the elders in the village, including the clan leader, look confused and confused.
They have lost their energy!
