Chapter 130: Flowing Water (5) Family Reunion in the Mountain Village. …
It was also the first time that the children in the village met a "big baby" like Wang Xue who was playing tricks on them.
They stared at each other for a while, and more than half of the children hopped along the bluestone streets like rabbits to go home.
When they came out again, the children were holding their own gifts in their hands.
There were food such as rice candy and fruit cookies, toys such as glass marbles, slingshots, spinning tops, and iron rings, all of which were spoils of the game, as well as silver bracelets, jade rabbits, agarwood beads, etc. from the little brothers and sisters, and some even secretly took the insects raised by their parents.
They surrounded Wang Xue and carefully gave her the treasures in their hands to express their serious intention to make friends.
Even when the elders of the village saw the valuable silver and jade ornaments, they did not stop these behaviors, and even defended the children in the village. They knew very little
about the truth. The childhood of the children in the village was still very beautiful, and they didn't know much about the truth. They were taught to be polite, not crazy, and were all cute cubs. Adult villagers seem to have hard work, but these hardships can make their physical fitness better than ordinary people.
The premise is to abide by the survival rules of the village.
Wang Xue's arrogance did not last long. She soon played with the children. Whether it was skipping rope to avoid kicking shuttlecocks, or slingshots to avoid sandbags, she was always the best game king.
"..."
No wonder they like her so much.
Ye Mo looked at the sunny smile on the face of the "big baby", which was exactly the same as the faces of the small children. Childishness is rare, and it makes people laugh happily with them unconsciously.
On the flower bridge, the villagers prepared a very rich lunch. The chefs were a couple with the best cooking skills in the village.
It was a treat.
They worked together to make fragrant and delicious colorful flower rice, as well as crispy and tender fried baba, and salty and spicy, fragrant and delicious pig's feet, ribs and beef offal, all of which were the results of the village's own planting, breeding and hunting.
There are also a few live insect feasts. The villagers are reluctant to eat these insects. They are prepared for children and guests. Some are poisonous, some are not. Their effect is to strengthen the body. After a period of time, they may be excreted from the body.
Although these insects are alive and kicking, the children still catch them without hesitation and put them into their mouths. It is worthy of being a Miao village. Some girls have been playing with poisonous things since they were one month old.
Ye Mo & Wang Xue: "..."
These insects have a higher effect on the root bones than the physique. Wang Xue heard the prompt from the system when she was knocking the insects: [Detection of the survivor Wang Xueqin's breakthrough in strength attribute value, strength attribute +1] × 2.
Of course, whether it is the Miao people or the Shui people, living by the water, fish is always indispensable on the food menu.
The pot for cooking fish is an oversized bronze tripod with two handles. This tripod has been a kitchen utensil since ancient times. There are inscriptions on it. The Cultural Relics Law stipulates that bronze utensils as cultural relics are prohibited from being traded.
So they just use it. The bottom of the tripod is filled with homemade charcoal. The charcoal fire is fierce, but there is little smoke and smell. After a while, the copper lid on top emits bursts of hot steam.
At the same time, the sour and spicy smell of thick red oil in the double-handled bronze tripod floats throughout the flower bridge.
The fish just caught in the stream has been cleaned up, and the bones and dirt are skillfully removed, and put into the boiling pot of red oil and sour and spicy. The sour and spicy smell hits your nose and makes you drool.
Ye Mo is a person who likes spicy and sour food. She finally tasted the Miao village food that Wang Xue had mentioned. The spicy and sour taste permeated the delicate fish meat just right. It really lived up to its reputation.
No matter if there were worms, no matter if it was sugar-coated, no matter if the tableware would damage cultural relics, eating was the first priority.
...
After eating and drinking enough, the villagers led the children who were reluctant to leave the child king Wang Xue out of the flower bridge and went out to play by themselves.
Only then did Mo Shenpo carefully introduce Wang Xue and Ye Mo to the respected elders in the village and some young girls and boys. They were not cultural relic dealers, but their nobles.
"I'm sorry, I hid a lot of things from you before, it's my fault."
"I told you, Snow Wawa is a good person!"
"Granny Mo also made mistakes one day, many people in the village really like Snow Wawa."
Wang Xue received a lot of apologies, and also learned that apart from the private issues of the Gu, the other families in the village were really interacting with her, and they were not trying to spy or have other purposes.
The village's spies had enough Gu insects. Gu insects hid in the lower floors of high-rise buildings during the day and crawled out at night. It was hard to guard against them. Watson's medicine bag also fainted a lot of Gu insects.
Wang Xue:
"..."
Mo the witch also talked about the current situation in the village.
When the elders heard that the ghost cluster phenomenon in the village had become very serious, and there were more people than ghosts, they frowned.
Fortunately, some solutions to suppress yin and preserve yang have been written in the water book.
Peach wood, wine, and chicken blood vine are easy to talk about. There is really no shortage of copper coins, red sandalwood, jade, etc. in the village. There are even some Taoist magic weapons, such as compasses, dust whisks, jade gourds, incense burners, Sanqing bells, Ruyi, etc., which are really not available to buy in nearby towns.
The ghost masters in the village who were surrounded and suppressed because of ghost magic were mainly evil, which was also considered Taoist. They were kept in the village forever, and their things were placed in the warehouse of the village and gathered dust for hundreds of years.
The wealth in the village has accumulated for thousands of years, but it is often only inflows and not outflows. It is not only the fortune-teller’s family that has national treasures in the kitchen cabinet, but many families have them. In addition to RMB, they are very rich.
As for the topic of solving the Yin Land, the elders of the village were very excited when they heard this. Only by being trapped in one place for many years can they realize their longing for freedom.
Even if the supernatural powers recover and the forbidden techniques become powerful again, they are not willing to rely on forbidden techniques to trap themselves for thousands of years.
The elders expressed their gratitude in a simple and rich way, and they all gave them the most delicious, drinkable and fun things, the most powerful mother and baby insects, and various types of fine jade and porcelain.
"There is nothing good in the village, don't be disgusted. No matter what you need, we will fully cooperate."
Mo Shenpo called two young people, the girl's name was Gan Lan and the boy's name was Wulangda.
The children in the village cannot go to high school or university, but those with talent can learn the dragon language, and the rest can learn the Shui language. Even though the ghost master was a thing of the past, there are still more than a dozen elders and young people who know more water characters than Mo Shenpo.
These two young people are two of them.
Let them follow Wang Xue and Ye Mo, first to help, and second to expand their knowledge.
The Yin Land can be unlocked, but that doesn't mean they have to give up the Water Book. They can still use the ghost-controlling technique. The Water Book is no weaker than Taoist magic in catching ghosts and exorcising evil spirits.
Ye Mo and Wang Xue looked at some precious gifts that were hard to refuse: "..."
Their purpose was really not this.
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The method to unlock the Yin Land is related to the three forbidden areas of the mountain village.
The forbidden areas are located at the foot of the mountain, the middle of the mountain, and the top of the mountain. If you draw the coordinates of their core points on a two-dimensional map, you will find that they are a very accurate equilateral triangle.
Ye Mo first called Watson and asked him to check the information of the Shui and Miao peoples, not just the Miao people.
Then, after preparing an excuse, he asked Manager Xie for a long emergency leave to ensure that their project progressed faster than the one next door. Then, together with Wang Xue, Gan Lan, and Wu Langda, they started to explore the nearest forbidden area.
The so-called forbidden area was the cemetery built in the village.
The forbidden area on the top of the mountain was built on the north side opposite the village. There should have been dense jungle here, but there were only rows of barren graves, neatly arranged.
In order not to expose the water tribe, the tombstone was on the inner side of the tomb, and the front was blocked by a tomb door made of three stones.
The people buried here are all from the village. The core area is the tombs of hundreds of ghost masters. Their death is a sacrifice of life energy. If you look closely, you will find that their tombs are arranged in the Bagua Jiugong formation.
The tombs surrounding the ghost masters are arranged according to the twenty-eight constellations. They are also people who voluntarily sacrifice their lives to the village. Further out are the tombs of a few people who married into the village, as well as the tombs of those who died in recent years. They have the heart to sacrifice, but not the ability.
There were no dead souls in the forbidden area here before. It was not until the last ghost master died and there was no one to preside over the sacrifice that the dead souls appeared. Some of the dead souls in the village floated away from here.
Even so, Ye Mo and Wang Xue still lit a stick of incense and bowed to the ghost masters who had disappeared long ago. This was a kind of respect for the people in the village.
Ganlan and Ulanda prepared their shovels and other tools, intending to help the people of Poyin Formation dig their own ancestral tombs. This was a helpless act.
"Where do we dig?"
"Not for the time being."
But Ye Mo just found a relatively flat place, spread a piece of white cloth, sat cross-legged, and closed his eyes to rest.
The two were dumbfounded: "?"
Wang Xue made a chaotic gesture, squeezed her right eye, and raised her chin: "Telekinesis, do you understand?"
Ganlan and Ulanda showed admiring eyes: "What kind of divine power is telekinesis?"
Wang Xue:
"...Superpower?"
Unable to explain clearly, she began to tell Ganlan and Ulanda stories, from the East to the West, from ancient times to the present.
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On the other side, Ye Mo was using mental power to scan the ancestral tombs of the village.
Because it was a sacrifice, the tomb was empty and there were not many valuable burial objects. There was a stone coffin in the middle, and inside the coffin were copper-colored dried corpses dressed in gorgeous clothes, some of which were already decaying.
Unable to protect the soul, they tried their best to preserve the body.
Ye Mo opened his eyes and read and studied the black ghost book carved on the stone from the witch Mo, while practicing.
The sun set, the moon emerged from the dark clouds, and the sky quickly darkened.
Wang Xue shivered, because there were many undead souls transferred from the village in the empty tomb. In order to have two more companions, she took out the undead tester, while Gan Lan and Wulangda were dripping blood with great interest.
"Grandma!"
"Grandma!"
"..."
A family reunion drama in a mountain village.
Wang Xue hid beside Ye Mo, watching these things helplessly, feeling that she seemed to have done something stupid.
Ye Mo:
"Is it a good thing?"