"First, let's talk about why I am a storyteller in Shuizhai." Yun Dingxiang said, "This story must be told from more than forty years ago. At that time, I was still a young boy in my early twenties. Let me tell you
Now that I'm about the same age, I have a sweetheart, but unfortunately, she was chosen to be a witch. A witch cannot get married and have children, so she has to spend all day at home chanting sutras, cultivating gu, and praying for the village."
"In the village, we all rely on voodoo insects to cure diseases and relieve pain. If you are not careful, the voodoo creatures will bite you back. These two tricks of mine were made useless by the voodoo creatures when I was exorcising diseases for the clan leader. Have you tried the eyeballs?
What does it feel like to be bitten by poisonous insects? Haha, I can’t forget it to this day. I still wake up in fear from time to time at night.”
"Can't there be someone else?"
"Change? In Heiyun Village, everyone's life is not our own, and we can't make the decision ourselves." Yun Dingxiang sighed and continued to tell me about the past. He said that although he could not stay with his beloved forever,
But as long as two people have each other in their hearts, they can live happily even if they can't get married and have children. Until that sacrifice forty years ago, all the peace was broken by one person.
"Heiyun Village is full of Han people, and our sacrifices are no different from those outside. According to the ritual practice, the sacred team will deliver the tokens enshrined in the ancestral hall from the village to the ancestral hall in Dagushan, and the next day the shamans will
He returned the tokens to the village alone. Along the way, all the villagers cheered along the street and offered tea and rice to the god team. The god team had a rice bag master who was responsible for collecting the tributes, and there were two gongs and drums.
The waiters helped carry the rice bags, and a young girl dressed as a fairy sang and danced along the way to chant the great achievements of the lake god, while a shaman dressed in red and green followed the team to sweep away the bad luck along the way."
I don't know why after listening to Yun Dingxiang's description, I suddenly thought of those superstitious activities in the countryside, such as dancing with the gods. But seeing the serious look on his face, I couldn't say this directly, so I had to secretly hide it in my stomach.
Yun Dingxiang rubbed his waist and continued: "The Divine Team set out from the village all the way. Everything went smoothly at first, but when we crossed the bridge, the situation suddenly changed. Normally, if you want to go to Dagushan from the village, you must
Walking on that chain bridge, I believe you have also seen that the chain bridge has been demolished a few years ago."
"Why burn down the bridge?" I asked.
Yun Dingxiang waved his hand and said, "Don't be impatient. I will tell you about this."
"Then you continue."
"The chain bridge can only be used on days to worship the gods. The person responsible for looking after the suspension bridge is an old widower. The old man has no children and has never found a wife in his life. The patriarch saw that he was pitiful, so he assigned him such a job to avoid
Someone passed by during a non-sacrificial time."
"I was also in the team that day. When we arrived at the bridge, there was no sign of the old widower. The place he was guarding was desolate, and he was almost alone on weekdays. When I saw that there was no one guarding the bridge, I was the first to rush in.
I entered his hut, but I didn’t expect that the hut was already empty, and there was not even a trace of a ghost. As soon as I saw such an accident, I was dumbfounded. Fortunately, the leading rice bag master was an old master. He brought
A few of us young people searched the area, but still couldn't find his shadow."
"Because we were worried about missing the chosen moment, we didn't delve into his disappearance and hurried up the mountain. Because we were looking for someone, it was delayed a little bit. By the time we arrived at the ancestral hall, the sun had already set.
I knew something was wrong. The elders of the clan once told me that the pagoda enshrined in the ancestral hall is from the soul-suppressing pagoda. If this thing encounters the essence of the yin and moon, it will attract monsters and ghosts and attract some ominous things. The leader, Master Mibao, was deeply moved.
Knowing how powerful it was, when I walked to the entrance of the ancestral hall, he suddenly stopped. I just thought he was tired. Unexpectedly, Master Mibao's face turned pale and he was sweating profusely and said that his feet
Can’t move anymore.”
"I stepped forward to help him, but I saw the rice bag master suddenly slammed the rice bag on his shoulder to the ground. Everyone turned pale with fright when they saw the rice scattered on the ground. They only saw the white rice that everyone was offering during the day.
I don’t know when all the fragrant tea turned moldy and black, giving off a dead air.”
"Everyone enter the ancestral hall! No one is allowed to come out before dawn!" Master Mibao gave the order, and everyone trembled. Without saying a word, they rushed in through the door and rushed into the ancestral hall in the valley.
But that wizard, Yun Dingxiang's lover, said that there was nothing he could do to withdraw.
She took out a Nuo drum. Among many ethnic minorities in the southwest, it is not a coincidence that drum and voodoo have the same pronunciation. It is because pharmacists often have to use drum sounds to help expel insects and voodoo. The witches in Heiyun Village even use Nuo.
The ability to play Gu.
I personally have had some experience with the magic of poisonous poison, but listening to Yun Dingxiang's face-to-face talk, an indescribable chill ran down my spine.
"However, she had just entered the industry at that time. At first, she just planned to break the evil spirit in the bag of rice. Unexpectedly, the more she beat the drum and sang Nuo, the more the rice grains turned black, and finally emitted a rotten smell similar to a corpse.
Stink.”
"Master Mibao is a man who has seen the world. He tore open his trouser legs, pointed at his withered and blackened calf, and said that there was a master behind the scenes, and his goal must be the soul-suppressing pagoda. He wanted us to take the pagoda with us.
I hid in the ancestral hall and was not allowed to come out no matter what happened outside. I didn't want to leave my beloved and run away, so I insisted on staying and fighting. Unexpectedly, before I finished speaking, my heart suddenly twitched, and it hurt as if someone was there.
It was like stabbing my bones with an awl. The rice bag master shouted loudly, took out a handful of new rice from his arms and hit me on the head viciously. I trembled all over and fell to the ground, knowing that this was my last chance and had no choice but to
I left the two of them cruelly and threw myself into the ancestral hall...Hey, every time I think of this, my heart, my heart..."
I saw that Yun Dingxiang's breathing was not smooth when he talked about the sad part, and I was afraid that Yun Dingxiang would pass him by in one breath, so I hurriedly handed him water and tea, and comforted him harmoniously: "Don't be sad, they both sacrificed their precious lives to
Peace to everyone, I believe they have spirits in heaven..."
Yun Dingxiang said lightly: "Who told you that they are dead? Death is a waste of time. She...she would be worse off than dead in the end!"
"How...how did this happen?" I looked confused.
"I crawled into the ancestral hall. Others were trembling with fear and hiding under the tablet table, not daring to move. There was a strong wind outside the house. Although I was worried about the people outside, I had to finish the business at hand first.
.In accordance with the ritual of sacrificing the gods, I placed the box containing the soul-suppressing pagoda on the memorial tablet table. I also gathered several other poor people who had lost their souls in one place, and repeatedly told them not to do it no matter what they heard or saw later.
Open the door."
"One of the women was outspoken. She asked me what would happen if I opened the door. Unexpectedly, the strong man who was beating the gong went up to her and slapped her in the face without saying a word. The woman was slapped unexpectedly.
, her appearance suddenly changed. A trace of blood oozed from the corner of her mouth, tears welled up in her eyes, and she cried and shouted to leave. I grabbed her, but she unexpectedly scratched me hard in turn, woman.
They were all tigers. They went crazy, either barking or clawing. I asked her to make a long and thick gash on my face, but she dared not let go. I told her that this donkey calf was ignorant and I would call the clan leader when I got back to the village.
I used family methods to clean it up. But she refused to listen and said in a long voice that she was leaving now. I had no choice but to call another person to come up and help and tied her up with a rope."
"There were things knocking on the door constantly outside the house, and sometimes I seemed to hear someone shouting at the door. That night seemed real and illusory. In the end, I could hardly tell what was reality and what was hallucination, so I had to put the four
At the same time, each person was tied with a rope to the pillar of the ancestral hall. By the time I stayed up until the middle of the night, I was going crazy and wanted to go out and fight to the death with the invisible devil."
"Then what is outside the house? You didn't figure it out until the end?"
"Of course I know, someone is doing it!" Yun Dingxiang sighed.
"What happened next? How did you escape from the trap of that mysterious master?"
"Didn't I say before that a person who shouldn't be there was involved in this matter."
"Who?"
Yun Dingxiang coughed, "I was already desperate and ready to fight out to fight for life and death, but suddenly there was a burst of light flashing through the dark night, shining straight in through the crack of the door of the ancestral hall. I saw that the light was getting stronger and stronger.
Then I heard the door of the ancestral hall creaking, and it was slowly pushed open from the outside. My heart tightened, and I quickly loosened the rope and picked up the hatchet. Unexpectedly, standing outside the door was an imposing young man. He held up the knife with one hand.
My best friend holds a hatchet in one hand. It was he who saved a few of us at the critical moment."
"Young man? Are you so capable at such a young age?"
Yun Dingxiang shook his head and said: "What ability does he have? Like me, we are both unlearned and incompetent."
I was puzzled, "He broke such a powerful trap by himself. Why isn't he powerful?"
"Do you know who he is? He is my good brother, Yun Ding'e!"
"What? Yun Ding'e?"
"Yes, this kid actually followed our team all the way to the ancestral hall. He is not a member of the sacred team. According to the rules, he cannot come to Dagushan. But he couldn't restrain his curiosity and followed us.
Got it!"
"What happened next?"
"What happened next is a humiliation that I will never forget in my life!" Yun Dingxiang gritted his teeth and said, "My good brother saved a group of us by himself, but according to the clan rules, if he trespassed into the forbidden area, once
If he was convicted, he would be killed with a rod. In order to protect him, I had to bear the responsibility of the crime alone. I said that before entering the mountain, I had a stomachache, so I changed my identity with him."
"What happened next?"
"You can imagine what happened next. Although the people in the village tried their best to plead for me, they could only get me a life sentence, but I could not escape the punishment of death. From then on, I became a useless person in the village, and everyone regarded me as a human being.
Disaster, avoid me. I know that I have no place in Heiyun Village. If it weren’t for the people I love here, I would..."
"Um...didn't your brother intercede for you?"
"Hahaha, he? This Yun Ding'e has been a bad person since he was a child. After I rescued him, not only did he not feel grateful, but he won the favor of the clan leader by virtue of his merits in saving people, and the position of clan leader was reserved for him early.
However, he is still not satisfied, actually - unexpectedly!"
"What's up with him?"
"He actually wants to take away my heart!"
"What?" I know what Yun Dingxiang's pet peeve is even if I don't tell him. Isn't it the sweetheart he longs for day and night? "This plot is so bloody. His own brother wants to fight for love? It's unbelievable!"
"Didn't you say that wizards can't marry?"
"Haha, but he is the heir to the clan leader, what else can't he do? In order to be with Xiaoya, Yun Ding'e made up countless excuses, saying that he wanted to get rid of the curse in the village, so he only married a witch.
Only then can the curse be removed.”
"Whoever controls public opinion controls the right to speak." Hearing this, I also sneered at this Yun Ding'e.
Chapter completed!