"Sister Qi has great confidence in you, but she can't guarantee whether you can successfully complete this operation. So for the past few days, the brothers from Faqiumen have been lurking at various arteries in and out of here to prevent you from encountering any danger.
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According to her, Si Weiqi and the others were well prepared to ensure my safety, but I did not take the route they had planned in advance, so I was a step late. The main reason for this was because I followed the mark left by Xu Qian
Looking for it, I took a lot of wrongdoings.
After searching according to Xu Qian's instructions, Cheng Yiyun discovered the location of this place. When she continued to search along the way, she discovered this village and met the lama dozens of miles away.
"Just last night, I led seven brothers into a strange forest by mistake, only to find the bodies of our brothers from another team not far away. They were all dead and had missing limbs."
"Is this so?" I became a little worried.
"At that time, I only heard strange whistling sounds in the forest, and the trees were shaking. Before I had time to prepare for defense, a group of terrifying mountain howls suddenly appeared. They were tall, ferocious, and quick-moving."
In this way, the people led by Cheng Yiyun came face to face with the man-eating Shanxiao.
"Lin Kun, it's really terrible. I have never encountered such a situation. All my people died and I was the only one left to escape." Cheng Yiyun still felt frightened when she recalled it.
"You are the only one left?" I asked. "The blood stains on your legs..."
Her eyes were moist and she said: "The blood of my brothers dyed the forest red... Without their cover, I would not have been able to escape."
Cheng Yiyun began to sob.
"Don't you have any guns?"
"It doesn't work! There are too many of those monsters, and the gun can't withstand their rapid attacks."
"It's strange, I didn't encounter any monsters on the way here." I wondered.
"Maybe it's because you are alone and we are a team of people. You move very little when you walk. If there are many people, it is easy for them to catch your breath. So when I ran away alone, I avoided those mountain roars."
"Okay, luckily you're okay." I hugged Cheng Yiyun and buried her with my chest.
"By the way, when you came to this village, the villagers didn't attack you?"
Cheng Yiyun shook her head, "I'm not as reckless as you. This place is very weird. I didn't alert them. I observed them in secret for a few days and found that they were very unfriendly, and the whole village was arrogant."
It was already dawn, and the morning glow in the eastern sky was blood red. A few thick gray clouds slowly spread over the tops of the mountains. The eastern sky was mixed with gray and red, like a blood-soaked shroud.
The village is unusually quiet.
I got up in the morning and went to find the way out. I circled around the village, looked around, and quickly bought two horses, some dry food and money before my identity was exposed.
Suddenly, a stench of rotten pus and rotten meat came from the West Village.
"What the smell, it's so stinky!" I walked over and took a look, and I was so disgusted that I almost vomited out last year's New Year's Eve dinner.
I saw an open space at the head of the West Village. There were iron ropes set up between a dozen locust trees, and seven or eight shaved pigs were hung upside down on them. There was a corresponding big bucket under each pig. It was like a corpse dump.
Hanging the corpse and drying it in the hot sun reminds people of Mussolini's corpse in Milan Square.
The corpse oil fell drop by drop into the bucket below, becoming thick and rancid and congealed into a paste.
"Corpse oil?" I was frightened for a while, "What are these villagers doing with this disgusting thing?"
"Is there another sect?
Are you going to teach a ceremony?" I stepped forward.
At noon, the villagers came in groups carrying sacks and shouting in donkey carts to go into the mountains. I followed them halfway and said, "They are going to barter? This means that people from the Yi caravan are coming." So I was excited.
Get up, as long as you find a way out, you can go out.
At this time, the old witch walked toward me with a limp on crutches and said, "Holy envoy, I don't know the will of the living Buddha..."
I didn't have the time to respond, so I didn't even look back and said, "Why do you make your own decisions without reporting to me? Look at the good things you have done! How can I declare the decree?"
"This..." The old lady was speechless for a moment, "The old slave is waiting for the Holy Envoy at the Lama Temple."
"Go away!" I walked quickly back to the courtyard, opened the door, and saw Zhuoma and Cheng Yiyun chatting.
"Dolma?"
"Brother, I've brought you lunch!"
"Thank you Dolma."
"Big brother... this is the last time I will bring you food." Zhuoma lowered her head, with tears in her melancholy eyes.
"What's wrong? Is it your parents..."
"No. My mother died when I was a child, and my father went into the mountains to cut firewood last year and was eaten by mountain monkeys."
"How could this happen?" I felt very uncomfortable in my heart, "I'm sorry Zhuoma. Thanks to you these days, I will definitely come back to see you when my brother leaves here."
Zhuoma shook her head, "No need."
"What's wrong?" I noticed Zhuoma's abnormality.
"Brother, I'm going back." Zhuoma said with a tearful voice.
"Dolma, brother will take you home."
"No!" Zhuoma turned around and ran away. Just as she was leaving the hospital, she suddenly stopped and turned back to look at me sadly, as if she had something to say, but she hesitated.
I felt bad, so I rushed out the door to catch up with Dolma, took her hand, and asked: "Dolma, is someone trying to bully you? Don't be afraid, my brother is here."
"Brother... I will marry Eunuch Yin tomorrow."
"They married you to an old man?"
"I heard what the village chief said last night, saying that three years have passed and it's time to pay homage to Eunuch Yin..."
"Sacrifice? That Eunuch Yin is dead?" I said in shock.
"Every three years in our village, we marry a girl to Father-in-law Yin, but the village keeps the girl secret until the night before the wedding. She will not know about it. My father once said that this is because he is afraid that the girl will hang herself... No
People are willing to marry Eunuch Yin."
"Don't be afraid Zhuoma, don't go home today, stay here and let me see who dares to break in!"
"Brother...it's useless. My sister is still in their hands. If I don't go, they will marry my sister to Eunuch Yin."
"Another Yin marriage!" I couldn't believe my ears. "Why are people in this place so keen on Yin marriage? What good does it do to them?!"
I was so angry that I comforted Dolma and said, "Dolma, listen to my brother and don't go back. I will find a way to save your sister."
"But..." Zhuoma was anxious.
"That's it!" I held Zhuoma's hand and led her back to the wooden house. "Yiyun, take good care of Zhuoma. Those villagers seem to be out bartering today. I will try to find out their way out of the village."
"Brother, dad said that there is no way out of the village."
"Dolma, there must be a way out of the village!" I smiled, "Don't worry, I have my own way. Once I find the Yi caravan and get two horses, we can leave here."
…
With a look of anger on my face
Angry, he broke into Hunchback's house and shouted: "Go and call that Ban Bo!"
The hunchbacked old man and the black-faced village woman were startled. Seeing my sullen expression, they had no choice but to obey and said, "As you command."
When the old witch arrived, I pointed at her and yelled: "You have such a big deal, why do you want to marry under the ghost again? Why don't you report to me, do you still see me as a holy messenger in your eyes? This is simply not allowed by Buddhist principles.
."
"The Holy Envoy calms down. The Holy Envoy does not know that Eunuch Yin has become an Earth Immortal, and the village must marry a virgin girl every three years to worship him. Otherwise, the Earth Immortal will become angry and the village will be destroyed."
"Nonsense!"
"Holy envoy, you have followed the lama for so long, don't you know this?" The old witch glared at me sideways.
"You bastard! How dare you question me! You still don't know what my magic power is?" I punched through the wall.
"Holy Messenger, calm down!" The old witch knelt down quickly.
At this moment, there was a commotion outside.
"Someone, it's bad! Xiaoya jumped into the river!!"
"Someone is coming!!"
The camp was blown up outside the village.
Not long after, several men carried a female corpse into the room, "Banbo, village chief, Zhuoma's sister Xiaoya jumped into the river last night when she heard that she and her sister were going to be married together in a secret marriage..."
It turns out that these hateful villagers are not only marrying Dolma, but even her sister is marrying in secret. It is simply unreasonable. Are they so keen on this matter that they regard it as a career?
The hunchbacked old man puffed on his dry cigarette and said, "Oh... the little girl who was only fifteen years old is gone like this? What a pity, hehe."
The female corpse looked to be fourteen or fifteen years old. She was soaked all over, her hair was messy, her face was pale, her eyeballs were swollen and protruding from her eyelids, and her abdomen was bulging with water.
"Huh? Where is Dolma?" the hunchbacked old man asked.
"I don't know, I haven't seen anyone since noon."
"Go find it quickly!"
"How dare you!" I picked up the old man and shouted, "If you dare to touch Dolma, I will destroy your village!"
"Holy Messenger, calm down!" The old witch hugged my leg, "If you don't marry, then you don't marry..."
I put down the old man and asked, "Where are the Yi caravans?"
Everyone looked at each other and said in surprise: "Holy envoy, the Yi caravan has not come back since the year before last. Don't you know?"
“Then where do you barter?”
"Don't you know the Cave of the Holy King in Dapeng Golden Wing Mountain?"
"Dapeng Golden Wing Mountain Holy King's Cave?" I secretly remembered the name in my heart, "I am going back to rest, you are not allowed to step into the small courtyard, do you understand?"
"yes……"
It was almost dusk, and it was getting dark early in the mountains.
At the head of Dongcun Village, hundreds of villagers returned home with their loads. The sacks that were empty and flat when they left the village were now filled to the brim. They were struggling to drag a long sack with a limp face, giggling weirdly from time to time.
I looked in the direction of Dongshan and saw the majestic mountains. "Is there a county or small town to the east?"
The measles-faced limp dragged the sack into the courtyard of his house, looked around sternly, and when no one was following him, he closed the wooden door. I felt strange, "What are these rogue people doing? When they left the village, the sacks were empty."
So, what did they use to barter with others? They didn't bring anything with them at all, and now they are all returning home with a full load."
"There is only one possibility, they are robbing houses!" I walked around to the back wall of Lame's house and climbed in.
There was just a wooden house in the courtyard, with an old-fashioned courtyard and papered wooden windows. The lame leg had already dragged the sack into the room and closed the door.
Chapter completed!