When Wang Xiaotai once again stood on the bridge in front of the Zhou Ancestral Hall, she looked down at the pale faces soaked in the black water flowing in the river.
The last time I came here, I just felt someone calling me, but I didn't know what it was. I was bitten by these resentments and dragged into the river.
But now Wang Xiaotai already knows that these are the "ghosts" who died in the tiger attack in Dacheng Village.
It's just that unlike Aunt Zhou, they have completely lost their consciousness, worked for the tiger, and become the demon tiger's puppet.
He stared at the strangers who got in by mistake, trying to drag them into the water again.
"How many people have been killed by these beasts!" Wang Fuyao was so angry that he almost gritted his teeth.
"After killing so many people, no wonder there is so much resentment."
The God of Light said, "If we don't completely eliminate the evil spirits inside, I'm afraid these souls will be imprisoned in this town forever and will never have peace."
"You were really lucky to get out of here last time." Jinbeijing also knew that the situation here was serious and could not be solved by Wang Xiaotai and Changsheng at that time.
"But this time, with me here, Empress Fuyao, your luck has come!
"Let's see how I can defeat the evil spirits with one sword and restore the clear sky to this place!"
Jin Beijing pulled out his golden long sword, shouted loudly, opened the closed door of Zhou's ancestral hall, and rushed in with the leader!
Rushing through the door, you will find the patio, walking in will be the Xiangtang, and further inside will be the worship hall, and then the sleeping hall.
This is the structure of the ancestral hall that Wang Xiaotai has seen before.
But the moment they crossed the threshold, the entire ancestral hall suddenly disappeared from sight, and what lay before them was a vast wilderness.
There are endless golden rice fields in the wilderness, and there is a small village not far away. You can even hear the intermittent barking of dogs and the occasional sound of insects, which makes it a scene of pastoral fertility.
Looking at it, it looks vaguely like Dacheng Village.
But haven’t they already entered the village?
Although there was a lot of resentment outside just now, the clear blue sky was still up, and there was still some time before nightfall.
But after entering the ancestral hall, it suddenly became dark.
"It seems that the owner of this grudge field wants us to go in and have a look. He will only show up after the grudge field is broken." Guangshen said.
They walked towards the village, and it looked like it was indeed Dacheng Village.
Every house in Dacheng Village is brightly lit, but no one is seen.
After walking in, I realized that it wasn't that there were no people around, but that everyone seemed to have gathered in one place. The closer I got to the village, the louder the people's voices became.
It sounded like a group of people arguing loudly.
"This woman is a monster!"
"Kill her!"
"Kill her to avenge our children!"
"Xiaoyu, why are you standing still! Say something quickly!"
Rather than saying it was a quarrel, it would be more appropriate to call it a one-sided rebuke.
The people of the village formed a circle in an open space and judged the woman kneeling in the middle of the crowd.
She was a rather beautiful woman with a good face and fair skin. Her black hair was simply pulled into a bun. She was not wearing any jewelry. Even though she was tied up with a rope and was kneeling on the ground, she was neatly dressed and could not hide her splendor.
The woman lowered her head, unable to see her expression clearly.
Hearing someone calling his name, a gentle man in blue shirt stepped out from the crowd, looking embarrassed, "Everyone, Hu Xia is my wife after all. Even if I make a big mistake, how can I abandon her?" regardless of?
"The child is silent and her strange power is causing confusion. Why don't we just drive her out of the village and never come back? Why... kill her?"
"What wife! Such a temptress should be burned alive!"
"You are also a teacher, why can't you understand this?"
The man named Xiaoyu looked like a frail scholar at first glance. He had a handsome appearance, eight feet tall and a long body. He seemed to have the bearing of a great man. He was also polite and polite in his speech and was convincingly elegant.
But this method obviously did not convince the people in the village.
The more they scolded, the more fierce they became. From their scoldings, Wang Xiaotai and the others also knew the general situation here.
The woman kneeling on the ground is named Hu Xia. She is the wife of Zhou Xiaoyu, the teacher in the village, who brought her back from abroad a few years ago. The couple both look good and speak elegantly, and everyone in the village likes them.
They called Zhou Xiaoyu sir and Hu Xia sir and madam. Except that Hu Xia didn't like to talk and didn't like the inside, there was nothing special about the couple.
But something strange happened in the village some time ago.
I don’t know since when, children in the village have been missing, and even the bodies can’t be found.
No one can be seen alive, and no body can be seen dead.
The villagers were worried that there was a wolf in the mountains, so they locked their children in their homes and refused to let them go out.
But no matter how closely you watch, with just one oversight, even just a turn, the child who was fine just now will disappear.
When the child was lost, the iron lock on the door of the house was not moved at all, and the doors of the house were all locked.
Where has the child gone?
It was useless to go to the government. Without money, the policemen were too lazy to come to such a remote place to manage such trivial matters.
Everyone said it was a monster causing trouble and eating children.
Then the villagers discovered another strange thing, which happened at Zhou Xiaoyu's house.
The past few years were drought years, and the harvest was not good. The whole village was about to go to other places to beg for food.
But Zhou Xiaoyu's family never ran out of food.
Zhou Xiaoyu, a teacher, could not lift his hands or shoulders, and no one paid him tuition during the famine years, but he was still fair and fair and had not lost any weight.
When asked about Zhou Xiaoyu, Zhou Xiaoyu just smiled and said that he didn't know where the meat came from, but his wife Hu Xia's family is an ancestral hunter, and the family craftsmanship has not been discontinued. She often goes to the mountains to hunt to supplement the family income.
I guess it was the meat that Hu Xia hunted for him.
Neighbors of the Zhou family also said that they could always smell the smell of meat coming from the Zhou family, but they didn't know what kind of meat it was.
They all said that they had never seen such a fragrance before. It was so captivating and unforgettable that they probably didn't know.
Together, some men in the village quietly followed Hu Xia after she went up the mountain.
This was a big deal. They saw with their own eyes that Hu Xia transformed into a tiger, roaring in the mountains and forests, and the animals retreated.
The people who went up the mountain did not dare to say a word, returned to the village tremblingly, and told the village chief about the incident.
Several people rushed to the city overnight to invite a Taoist priest to eliminate evil spirits, and bought cinnabar, dog blood, copper coins, glutinous rice and other items. Then they took the Taoist priest back to the village and prepared to catch the monster.
No one dared to tell Zhou Xiaoyu about this. Everyone was worried that he would be deceived by the demon and protect the demon tiger.
But when everyone aggressively blocked the door of Zhou Xiaoyu's house, the man unexpectedly did not resist. Instead, he opened the door obediently and allowed the villagers to tie up his wife Hu Xia.
The Taoist priest brought a yellow talisman and stuck it on Zhou Xiaoyu's forehead. He became even more obedient. Without saying a single unnecessary word, he obediently followed the villagers to judge the poor wife he had been with.
After catching Hu Xia, everyone felt relieved.
As for why it was so easy to catch her?
Who cares? It's probably because the Taoist priest is very powerful.
However, everyone was faced with a dilemma as to how to deal with Hu Xia. Should she burn her to ashes, behead her in public, or force Hu Xia to reveal her true form first and peel off her skin and bones?
Some people say that the price of tiger bone wine outside is extremely high now, and the bones of the tiger demon should be sold at a higher price.
People always have endless ways of hurting their own kind, not to mention heretics who are inhuman and inhuman.
"It must be this witch. She can't give birth to a child, so she wants to capture my Xiaoyong to replenish her body!"
While everyone was arguing, a stone as big as a fist was thrown on Hu Xia's forehead. Hu Xia shook it, leaving a trail of blood on her forehead, but she still knelt on the ground with her head lowered, neither crying out in pain nor moaning.
Everyone was even surprised that the blood she shed was also red, just like human beings.
The crowd was furious.
More rocks hit Hu Xia hard. What they threw was not only the rocks, but also the resentment of losing their children and the fear of the unknown.
Go to hell, you damn heretics.
Go to hell, damn witch.
Wang Fuyao's eyes flashed, and he put his hand on the hilt of his sword. He took a step forward to stop this, but was stopped by Wang Xiaotai.
"It's useless. This is a reconstruction of the past in the field of resentment. They are all things that have already happened and cannot be changed."
Wang Xiaotai lowered her eyes and whispered, "All we have to do is find out the resentful spirit of the suffering owner, help her transcend, and reach bliss as soon as possible.
“We cannot be fooled by recurring illusions like the field of resentment.
“We cannot change what has happened, we can only comfort the souls who are suffering now.
"Right?"
Wang Fuyao looked into Wang Xiaomo's eyes and gently held her cold hand, "Xiaomo, what if this is the Jinghe River?
"Don't you care about them either?
"We can't be the kind of people who retreat when faced with a grudge or a ghost!
"Then, isn't this place just like the Jinghe River back then?"
Among the crowd, visible parts of Hu Xia's face, neck and arms were more or less covered in blood and mottled bruises.
But she still knelt there with her head lowered and her hands down, her back straight and motionless.
Like a piece of wood, like a dummy, like a puppet.
"Being beaten like this and still motionless, he is indeed a monster!"
Someone spat on Hu Xia's body with a look of disdain.
"Hahahahahaha!"
With her head lowered, Hu Xia's body suddenly trembled continuously. Finally, as if she heard something very funny, she laughed loudly at the dirt ground mixed with her own blood and the villagers' saliva.
"Zhou Xiaoyu, Zhou Xiaoyu, Zhou Xiaoyu! You are really..."
Hu Xia kept shouting Zhou Xiaoyu's name, and at an extremely slow speed, as if she was trying to break free from some restraints, she raised her head one after another, raised her still bleeding face, and looked straight at He caught Zhou Xiaoyu behind the crowd.
After meeting Zhou Xiaoyu's eyes, Hu Xia grinned happily, revealing her bloody teeth.
"My perfect husband!"
Seeing my sincerity that this chapter is quite fat, I can just add another chapter today (). I swear I am definitely not crazy about watching panda videos! ()
I will try my best to update twice this month. Next month, for the sake of the quality of the article and the author’s health, I will resume single updates at first. T^T. Zelda is coming out in May! Try to finish it as soon as possible so that you can concentrate on playing the game╮(╯▽╰)╭.
Thanks to classmate Yuri Nakai for the tip!
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