Chapter 74 Wedding and mourning (5) (1)
Because the program wants to create a relaxed and enjoyable feeling of friends traveling together by car, no means of transportation other than tourist minibuses were considered when traveling to the destination.
But this also involves another problem - the destination, Jiazifen Village, is located in the south, some distance away from Binhai City. Not only does it take five or six hours to complete the nearly 500-kilometer journey, but some of the roads in between are closed due to the recent heavy rains and loose mountains caused by the flood season, resulting in the need to take detours in many places along the way and take the nearby country roads and small roads instead.
The terrain to the south is mountainous and rainy, with typhoons and flood seasons every summer, so many small roads are built along the mountains and wind around them, with complex terrain.
With the relatively easy-to-travel road blocked, the program crew's convoy had no choice but to go through the mountains, which was not only dangerous but also took more time than originally planned.
After receiving the news of the road closure, Zhang Wubing looked at the re-planned route and felt bitter.
It will be two or three hours later than the expected time to arrive at the farm house... The sun sets early in autumn, and if we calculate based on the sunset time at the destination, it will probably be dark by the time we arrive.
Moreover, the original plan was to have the guests arrive before dinner time, so as to create a sense of urgency for the guests to quickly find ingredients in the mountains to make dinner. With a natural time limit, the program will look more compact and interesting, and naturally create laughter and tension to attract the audience.
But now, this plan may have to be changed.
Zhang Wubing sat in the director's car and thought, and felt like his head was going bald.
The guests' car also gradually became dull from the initial excitement. The long journey was very exhausting, and the guests began to feel tired from sitting for a long time. The same scenery that kept passing by outside the car window also gradually made people's vision tired.
The guests gradually lost their energy and fell asleep one after another, with only a few guests still chatting. Therefore, Zhang Wubing also decided to adjust the angle of the live broadcast main screen, with half of it facing the car window.
When Yan Shixun received the message from Zhang Wubing, he was in good spirits, unlike the others who were tired just after a nap.
Yan Shixun lazily stood up from his seat. Due to the limited height of the car, he could only half stretch his body to loosen up his muscles and bones that were a little stiff after sleeping.
As he stretched his arms higher, the hem of his clothes was pulled up, revealing his beautiful and slender waist.
Ye Li's eyelashes trembled, and he lowered his eyes expressionlessly.
Yan Shixun felt a little puzzled. He felt that he had slept very comfortably. He did not feel the discomfort he usually felt after falling asleep while sitting. Moreover, he slept until the end and did not fall to one side and be woken up by the car window.
Could it be that the seat adjustment was just right this time?
However, Yan Shixun only had a slight doubt and put the matter aside.
"Brother Yan, because a large section of the road ahead is completely blocked, we can only go up the mountain and take the winding mountain road. The mountain road is narrow, so we must remind the guests not to run around in the car to prevent the center of gravity of the vehicle from changing and making the driver unstable."
Zhang Wubing's voice came from the phone: "After passing this section of mountain road, we will cross the highway again. When we get off the toll booth, we will see the highway leading to our destination. We will arrive soon."
Yan Shixun stood in front of the tourist minibus, his long arms casually resting on the seat back, his tall body half supported, and he leisurely looked at the guests sleeping in a ball in the back, and sneered at Zhang Wubing's words.
"Don't worry, they are all fast asleep and won't run around. But you can plan a journey that can last for several hours. It's been four hours and we haven't arrived yet. Zhang Dabing, have you ever taken a long journey by car before?"
Zhang Wubing coughed awkwardly, looked at the live broadcast main screen on the tablet in his hand, and said awkwardly: "Brother Yan, you are right next to the main screen, the audience can hear you. Please save face for the child."
However, Zhang Wubing had indeed not expected that long car journeys would be tiring: "My dad never let me travel far before. Even if I did, it was arranged by my dad's secretary, and I would just fly. At that time, I thought car rides were quite comfortable. I didn't expect it to be so tiring now."
"Also, route planning was supposed to be done by the director's assistant, but for some reason, I clearly remember hiring an assistant, but I just can't remember where he went..."
So can he be blamed for this? Wow, it was clearly the assistant director's fault. But what was the assistant director called? He seemed to have forgotten what the assistant director looked like. Strange, did he really hire an assistant director?
At Yan Shixun's cold snort, Zhang Wubing's voice became smaller and smaller, and finally he sobbed pitifully, not daring to face Yan Shixun and quickly hung up the phone.
Yan Shixun glanced at the tablet and saw that it was full of "Hahahaha" comments mocking Zhang Wubing, and there were also comments expressing curiosity about the scenery outside the car window, urging him to quickly adjust the angle of the live broadcast main screen.
At the current angle of the main screen, most of it was aimed at the guests. Only occasionally, with a few bumps, could one see the scenery outside the car window. It was all lush and green, with a fresh and tender feeling as if it had just been rained on. Seeing it made one feel relaxed and happy, and even the eyes felt much more comfortable.
After Yan Shixun adjusted the live broadcast main screen according to the angle designed by Zhang Wubing, he felt a noticeable "click" from the wheel and it shook violently.
The scenery outside was just right, and the road signs were completely invisible. It seemed that we had turned from the highway to the rural road, which was not so smooth and was very bumpy.
Many guests were also awakened by this.
Lu Xingxing, who had stayed up all night before participating in the show, slept the deepest, lying flat on the long seat in the last row of the car.
So when the car was bumpy, Lu Xingxing, who was sleeping in the bumpiest area of the vehicle, was caught off his seat without any preparation. With a dull thump, he fell hard on the carpeted floor of the car.
This startled several guests and woke them up from their drowsiness. They quickly turned around to look.
Then they saw Lu Xingxing sleeping with marks of the car cushion on his face, messy hair, and a dazed look on his face, stuck in the gap between two rows of seats, struggling hard with his limbs facing upwards.
One of the guests couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Yan Shixun laughed softly, raised his arm to support his head, and kept his body slightly sideways to avoid the direction Lu Xingxing was rushing towards. He said leisurely: "We have only met a few times, and you are so solemn? Lu Xingxing, you are so polite."
Lu Xingxing, who was originally dazed by the fall, blinked, and his brain, which had been a mess from sleep, slowly returned to normal and he realized what Yan Shixun meant.
Then his face turned red because of his current situation, and dark because of anger. His face turned red and black as he gritted his teeth: "Yan, Shi, Xun!"
Yan Shixun didn't care about Lu Xingxing's tone at all, and replied lazily: "Yeah, I'm here."
Lu Xingxing: “…………”
I'm saying something ruthless to you! Please act a little bit scared, don't act like I'm saying hello to you! Are you not scared at all?
There wasn't even a trace of emotion on Yan Shixun's handsome face: Are you afraid of a crab?
Lu Xingxing tried hard to raise his head above the back of the chair, wanting Yan Shixun to see his murderous gaze. At the same time, he tried harder and harder to paddle his limbs in the air, looking like a crab with its shell turned upside down trying to turn over, pitiful and funny.
The variety show host was immediately amused and burst into laughter. The other guests also burst into laughter after being stunned for a moment, and they were all laughing so hard that they fell over, in a scene of great joy.
The variety show star raised his hand to wipe away the tears from his laughter: "Oh my god, this is really the arrival of the God of Variety Show. I didn't expect Xingxing to be so talented in comedy at such a young age."
The audience in front of the main screen also noticed the poor Lu Xingxing who was stuck in the gap because the guests collectively looked back.
[??? Is this a comedian? Oh my god, I can’t stop laughing, hahaha, how can he be so funny.]
[噗，请问他和燕哥是相爱相杀吗？怎么觉得这个叫路星星的，好像对燕哥有奇怪的情绪啊？又想揍燕哥又害怕的那种。但燕哥面对他就完全像是成年人逗小孩，长手往小孩头上一放，就悠悠闲闲的看着小孩拼命扑腾着小短手的感觉。 ]
[What was said before is so vivid that I can almost picture it. It really is like that! Hahaha, how did this person get stuck in the gap? It's so funny.]
[Xingxing! Xingxing, what are you doing, Xingxing! You are the leading independent musician of the younger generation. Have you forgotten how cool you used to be? Have you forgotten the scene where you said disdainfully that no one can make music as good as you? Have you forgotten the time in the independent musician competition where you made all your opponents lose their minds? No, I will never admit that this person who is flailing like a crab is my Xingxing! Woohoo, where did my big, handsome and domineering Xingxing go? Who is this idiot?]
[…Facts have proven that few people can continue to show off in front of Brother Yan. Did he just want to say something harsh to Brother Yan? Brother Yan always stays the same in the face of change, but he punched into cotton. Miserable.]
[Eh? I know this guy. Didn’t I hear voices on a show a few days ago? My family used their connections to find a master from Haiyun Temple to help me. It was him. He’s amazing. My elders are convinced and say he’s a talented person. Why did he come to participate in the show? Or is he an independent musician? I was confused? ? ? ]
[I also... I also found a master to help me a few days ago, but it was over the phone. Now that you mention it, I remember that this person named Lu Xingxing has the same voice as that master.]
[No, please give people like me who believe in science a chance to live! My worldview is in danger and will collapse at any time. How come one by one, these guests participating in the show are all masters! First it was Brother Yan, then Lu Xingxing, my God, is this show poisonous? Even masters are doing buy one get one free? ]
[Before that, I will tell you one more thing. Do you know Haiyun Temple? It is one of the several major Taoist temples in China, the largest Taoist temple in the entire central and southern regions, and the official cooperative Taoist temple of Binhai City. These two masters are not only true masters, but also related to Haiyun Temple, especially Mr. Yan Shixun, who has a very high seniority in Haiyun Temple. Many wealthy businessmen and celebrities who offer money to invite the Taoist priests of Haiyun Temple have to pay respectfully in front of Mr. Yan Shixun. They are all Mr. Yan Shixun's junior brothers or even nephews. There are also some Taoist priests in Haiyun Temple who are the grandsons of Mr. Yan Shixun's junior nephews.]
[What??? Brother Yan looks very young, only in his twenties, how come he is so senior? Is this true? You must be lying to us.]
[It seems to be true. Isn't Haiyun Temple very effective? For making wishes, drawing lots and fortune telling, people from other places who come to Binhai City for tourism are advised to go to Haiyun Temple to draw lots. I went there two days ago, and I really met Brother Yan! I thought I saw it wrong, but the Taoist priest who was guarding the lottery booth and interpreting the lots for tourists stood up and bowed to Brother Yan, and asked if his uncle wanted to try it. Then Brother Yan refused, saying that he didn't tell fortunes for people, and the same goes for interpreting lots. Oh my God! That was Brother Yan! That cool look, only Brother Yan could do it. ]
[Seeing that some sisters shared, I couldn’t hold back. I am from Binhai University. I went to Haiyun Temple with my teachers and classmates to do a social practice survey, but I actually saw Brother Yan! And the abbot of Haiyun Temple who received us greeted us and said to the room, "Junior Brother Yan, I will be back later." I looked? Hey, it’s Brother Yan! I shouted excitedly, and Brother Yan even paid attention to me, telling me to study hard and not to chase stars, especially like him. Wow, I thought Brother Yan would be a fierce and cool guy when I watched the show, but I didn’t expect that Brother Yan in real life is so gentle. Love it, Brother Yan is my idol! ]
[??? What? Please don’t sway me anymore. I finally believed in science again because of Brother Yan, but now you guys are saying this and I am wavering again. Woohoo, how can there be a Taoist who persuades people to believe in science every day, and even says that the statues of gods are electronic figures and ghosts are the refraction of light? This is unreasonable!]
[Pfft, I think Brother Yan would be so angry if he saw this comment. I met one of my fans, so I took the opportunity to persuade her not to chase stars, so that my popularity can be reduced a little, so that I can be eliminated last next time. As a result, the fans' enthusiasm rose even more! Good man, the Oats are quite rebellious. ]
[Am I the only one paying attention to the scenery outside the car window? It's really beautiful. I admit that I have always been a city kid and have never seen the beauty of the mountains, but this is too beautiful! It's like a documentary, so beautiful, what kind of place is this? I want to go there too.]
[Oh my god, it really is, so beautiful. The leaves outside are as green as emerald green, they look fake. I also live in the mountains, but I have never seen such a beautiful view, it is so unusual.]
[When I was camping at Wild Wolf Peak before, I felt that the Wild Wolf Peak I saw through the camera was vast. But this place has a different kind of beauty, so beautiful that it seems unreal, making people doubt whether this is really a beautiful scenery that can exist in the world? There is a sense of unreality, as if it was carved by humans and placed here. You can only look at it, but not touch it. Once you touch it, the dream is shattered.]
Not only were the audience in front of the screen marveling at the beautiful scenery outside the car, but the guests in the car, without the barrier of the camera, were experiencing the beautiful scenery more immersively and comprehensively than the audience, and were stunned by this fairyland-like place and its beauty.
The convoy has already driven onto the winding mountain road. The road is narrow and winding, and the convoy's high-end tourist minibuses are very wide, so the drivers have to drive carefully and at a low speed, slowly going uphill.
Because there had just been a heavy rain, the humidity in the mountains was extremely high. The mountains were surrounded by mountains, forming a concave basin in the middle. The moisture could not dissipate, so it gathered in the mountains and formed thick fog.
As the car gradually gained altitude as it climbed the winding road, the fog covered the road under the wheels, turning it into a vast expanse of white, making it seem as if the car was driving above the clouds.
On the other side of the mountain, if the car is not too close to the mountain wall, you can clearly see the clouds and mist floating around, and the green trees half-hidden in the mist. Just like the special effects of the heavenly palace made in the past, the fairy pavilions and towers are hidden behind the clouds, and the grass is as green as tourmaline, as if it were carved by nature.
The fog in the mountains flows slowly, making it difficult to tell whether one is on earth or in heaven.
Bai Shuang, who was sitting on the side of the cliff, held his breath and murmured blankly: "It's so beautiful..."
The person next to him also looked as if he was attracted by the scene, breathing very lightly, afraid of disturbing the silence: "Is this real..."
Lu Xingxing, who had finally crawled out from the gap between the seats with a red face, was about to rush out to find Yan Shixun angrily when he heard Yan Shixun's voice faintly.
"Don't move."
"The car is on a mountain road, the road is narrow, stay in your seat and don't move around."
The strange thing was that although Yan Shixun's voice was not gentle, Lu Xingxing was miraculously soothed by this cold calmness. It was like a bucket of cold water poured over his head, calming him down from his previous anger and looking at Yan Shixun.
Yan Shixun's slender body stood at the front of the car, straight as a pine tree, his muscles tensed. He was no longer as leisurely as he was when he was chatting and joking with others before, but his aura became incredibly sharp.
He faced everyone, turned his head to look at the thick fog flowing outside the car window, his brows tightly furrowed and his expression serious.
Unlike other people who were intoxicated and amazed when seeing the beautiful scenery, Yan Shixun seemed to have seen something dangerous and was very alert.
Lu Xingxing looked at Yan Shixun like this and remembered what his master had said to him before.
"When I first entered Haiyun Temple, I had the honor of meeting Master Chengyun. He was a rare genius. Even though he was kind to the world, he still had his own pride. My master, including the abbot and the Taoist priest, all thought that Master Chengyun would not accept a disciple."
At that time, Taoist Song Yi said to Lu Xingxing with a look of reminiscence and emotion in his eyes: "However, the proud Monk Chengyun took the child he picked up from the market as his disciple more than ten years ago. He was the only one who was both his last disciple and his personal disciple. He taught that disciple all his skills."
As the disciple of Taoist Song Yi, Lu Xingxing knew very well how important closed disciples and direct disciples were to a Taoist priest, especially one who had attained enlightenment.
The current abbot of Haiyun Temple is the direct disciple of the previous generation, and Chengyun Layman is the last disciple, the youngest but also the most talented disciple. The brothers were amazed, "A little spiritual light is a talisman, and the world's ink and red are wasted", the talent that Daozu said actually exists.
"Mr. Chengyun cares a lot about this disciple. He had been traveling around for decades, but he made an exception and returned to Haiyun Temple. He brought his disciple to meet the senior brothers and Taoist priests in Haiyun Temple, hoping to ask them to help his disciple read his fortune."
Taoist Song Yi smiled bitterly and shook his head at Lu Xingxing: "It was also at that time that I first saw the legendary evil ghost in the bones. There are not many people with such bones in history, and most of them died early. If they are ghosts, how can they be human? They are in conflict with heaven and earth, and living is going against heaven. Of course, it is precisely because of the danger of this bone structure that anyone who can survive and enter the door will become a person with extremely high talent, a top figure in suppressing ghosts and exorcising evil spirits. In the past, they could even become the founder of a school and create their own school."
"Of course, no one knows how talented a person with the evil spirit in his bones is. This is because no one has ever managed to survive to adulthood, let alone join a sect to practice. But Yan Shixun did it."
Under Lu Xingxing's stunned gaze, Taoist Song Yi looked distant, as if he was lost in past memories, and said, "Master Chengyun originally brought this disciple back because when Master Chengyun picked him up, he was nine years old, which happened to be the first big hurdle in his life, the death calamity of the Wusheng Sect. Master Chengyun wanted to gather the strength of all the Taoists in Haiyun Temple to help this disciple survive."
“Even if this disciple is very strong and manages to live to the age of nine, the heaven and earth will not allow him to continue living. He must correct his mistakes in time before reaching the number of ten, the perfect number. Logically speaking, he should die that year, and that is also the divination that Master Chengyun gave him.”
"However, he survived. He survived the catastrophe that was supposed to happen, and he managed to fight his way out of the deadly situation with his own destiny, and entered the ten great perfections. From then on, he had ghosts and gods in his destiny, and he became a miracle between heaven and earth. As long as he lives, he is rebelling against the fate of heaven and earth, going against the will of heaven, and can even change the established trajectory of the human world."
"No one knows what the upper limit of Yan Shixun is. Even my master can only guess that Yan Shixun may have already stepped out of the Three Realms. Being a human, a ghost, or a god, everything is possible. The fate plate can no longer restrain him..."
Lu Xingxing could no longer remember what Taoist Song Yi said afterwards.
He only remembered that the talent he had always been proud of was nothing in front of Yan Shixun. It was Yan Shixun! When he watched the live broadcast, he had a preconceived notion that he was a charlatan who happened to have some strength. But he didn't expect that he was not even as good as the person he had been looking down on.
Although the master's original intention was to comfort himself after being scolded by his grandmaster, he didn't know that this was a bigger blow to him.
That's why he used divination to figure out Yan Shixun's residence, and went to find Yan Shixun to compete with him to prove that he was no worse than Yan Shixun.
However, he didn't expect that before he found Yan Shixun, he was chased by an evil ghost in human form and had to flee in a panic. He was then rescued by Yan Shixun.
...This makes him look even more frustrated.
Lu Xingxing looked at Yan Shixun with complicated eyes, but she also became alert because of Yan Shixun's vigilance.
Even if he refused to admit it, Yan Shixun seemed to be stronger than him. In other words, Yan Shixun would discover many things that he had not noticed, and now Yan Shixun looked so alert...
Lu Xingxing also followed Yan Shixun's gaze, but he saw nothing except the mist flowing like white clouds in the mountains and the green color that appeared from time to time.
But he refused to admit defeat, and gritted his teeth and vowed to see something from it. He just didn't believe that if Yan Shixun could see it, why couldn't he!
The thick fog dispersed and gathered again, and Lu Xingxing's face changed drastically: "This, this, this..."
"It is surrounded by shade on all sides. It should be a place where wealth and luck gather. However, due to the obstruction of high mountains, it never sees the sun all year round and has become a very gloomy place. I don't know what happened and the luck and vitality disappeared, so that there is fog everywhere in the mountains. This fog is not just because of the rain. If you look at it at other times, there is still fog everywhere and no human figures or sounds. The luck that should have nurtured people has all been transferred to non-human things, which makes the trees green and emerald, as if they are fake."
A calm and magnetic male voice came from the side, which scared Lu Xingxing.
Because he was concentrating on going outside the car and not paying attention to his surroundings, the sudden sound scared Lu Xingxing so much that he jumped up in his seat. However, as soon as he stood up, a bony hand grabbed his shoulder and pressed him down with such force that he could not resist.
"Sit down. Do you have ADHD? Why do you always want to stand up?"
Yan Shixun frowned slightly, looking at Lu Xingxing with a puzzled look in his eyes, and then continued what he had just said and stated his own conclusion: "If someone builds a tomb in a place like this, it will dissipate all the spiritual energy that is originally left in the body of the living when they are about to die, and all of it will become extremely negative and heavy corpse qi. When it is a cloudy month or cloudy day, or when there is a solar eclipse, the graves buried there will be prone to corpses rising."
I don't know whether it was formed accidentally by nature or by human beings, but this place should have been a place where good fortune gathered. People buried here would have prosperous descendants. Although they might not become high-ranking officials, they could still be rich and prosperous.
This place is also considered to be a perfect place for Feng Shui. In addition, according to the region, there is a custom of clan ancestral tombs here. If the people living nearby invite a Feng Shui master to look at the Feng Shui and calculate the location of the ancestral tomb, then this place will easily be selected as someone's ancestral tomb.
But after the Feng Shui here was broken, the master-servant position was completely reversed. The trees and mountains that were supposed to deliver luck to the people buried in the tombs became the dominant ones, absorbing the luck of the dead bodies buried in the tombs and the descendants of those people. The ancestral tombs that enjoyed the support became servants, not only delivering luck to the surroundings, but also absorbing the Yin Qi from the nearby trees and mountains, becoming the Yin hiding place of the entire mountain land nearby.
If there were no people buried there, or only one or two people, it would be fine. The most frightening thing is that there really is a clan's ancestral grave underneath...
While everyone was marveling at the beautiful scenery in the mountains, Yan Shixun frowned and looked at the clouds outside the car window, trying to take advantage of the gaps in the fog to see clearly what was hidden underneath.
"When did you come here?"
Although Lu Xingxing was not as strong as Yan Shixun and was forcibly pressed into the seat, he was so frightened that his heart was still pounding. He couldn't help but stare at Yan Shixun, half complaining and half embarrassed after being frightened: "Don't you make any sound when you walk? How come you are like a ghost? I saw you standing in front the moment before, and you suddenly appeared behind someone. Who are you trying to scare to death?"
Yan Shixun's eyes were as dark as the night, as if he was in serious contemplation, as if he had thought of some dangerous situation, and his eyes were as sharp as a knife. Seeing this, Lu Xingxing trembled all over, inexplicably frightened, and the sound of her complaints became smaller and smaller.
After a while, Yan Shixun's gaze shifted slightly from outside the car window to Lu Xingxing who was sitting next to the window.
It turned out that he had been looking outside and was not targeting Lu Xingxing.
This realization made Lu Xingxing breathe a sigh of relief.
However, Yan Shixun seemed to have discovered something interesting, and asked thoughtfully, "Could it be... were you afraid just now?"
Lu Xingxing swore that he definitely saw a smile in Yan Shixun's eyes! Yan Shixun was definitely laughing at him!
"No!" Lu Xingxing choked for a moment, turned his head and said firmly: "I am a registered Taoist priest in Haiyun Temple, what should I be afraid of. You, an informal and unregistered half-baked person, are not afraid, so why should I be afraid?"
Yan Shixun smiled and thought it was interesting that Master Song, who was such a serious man, had such a lively disciple.
But then he stretched out his arm, grabbed Lu Xingxing's collar and lifted him out from the car window.
Lu Xingxing: “???”
"Make room. Since you can't see anything, leave the window to me." Yan Shixun's tone sounded polite, but his actions were tough, leaving no room for Lu Xingxing to resist.
Lu Xingxing was furious, but he couldn't do anything to Yan Shixun. In his heart, he actually felt that Yan Shixun was right. If he really didn't see what Yan Shixun saw, he might as well give up his seat to Yan Shixun.
But...why did the man in front of him look at him with such a scary look? Did he do anything?
Lu Xingxing felt an extremely cold gaze falling on him, so cold that he shivered. He looked subconsciously and saw Ye Li standing in the front.
Although the light in the car was sufficient, Ye Li stood in the shadow, his whole body was shrouded in darkness, and his stern and handsome face was also icy. It was hard to tell whether his expression was angry or just dark because of the shadow.
Lu Xingxing originally wanted to glare back, but his soul reacted before him, causing him to shrink silently to the other side away from Yan Shixun.
The next moment, that cold feeling disappeared.
Lu Xingxing:?
…
After crossing two mountains and coming down from the winding mountain road, before the road meets the highway, a large platform was deliberately reserved as a small service area during construction, which can be used as a temporary parking place for vehicles to avoid danger when there are many vehicles on the opposite side. Gas stations and toilets are also provided for passing vehicles.
Yan Shixun also called Zhang Wubing early and told him to let the convoy stop temporarily after exiting the Panshan Highway.
"What's wrong, Brother Yan? Are you tired?" Zhang Wubing ran over and asked curiously, but soon he came up with what he thought was the correct answer: "But that's right, it's been several hours, I have to go to the toilet. I see there is a gas station here, so let's fill up the gas."
As he spoke, Zhang Wubing temporarily turned the main screen to the scenery and asked the guests to get out of the car and stretch their muscles.
"Which village is this? How far is it from the destination?" Yan Shixun asked suddenly.
Hearing Yan Shixun's voice, Zhang Wubing hurried back to the tour guide car and frantically took out the tour guide introduction book that he had prepared before the show started.
——Although he didn't dare to give the lyrics to Brother Yan. He felt that even if he gave it to him, Brother Yan would just throw it away and go to sleep, and would not introduce it to the camera.
"It seems that there were people around here before, but now there are no people anymore. Maybe the whole village moved away? I see that seven or eight villages here are from the same clan. This clan with the surname Yang seems to have a great influence in the local area. Many people from these villages marry into nearby villages, and the intermarriage has lasted for many years. There are probably a dozen villages nearby with people with the surname Yang, all from this clan. The local county annals have records of this. The Yang clan and the Yang clan ancestral hall are important parts of the folk culture around here."
Zhang Wubing flipped through the folklore introductions he had collected and sorted out before, and said to Yan Shixun, "The Jiazifen Village we are going to this time is only a part of the Yang clan. Judging from its geographical location, it seems to be the most marginal place."
"Yang..." Yan Shixun repeated in a low voice.
He remembered what the breakfast shop owner had told him before, that decades ago the boss and his wife fled from a village in the south, heading north, and only dared to stop in Binhai City because there were many villages nearby that were of the same clan, and they were afraid they would be caught and taken back.
The boss and his wife belong to the same clan, but from different villages, and have the same surname within five generations of mourning.
Last name: Yang.
Yan Shixun stopped talking and stood at the very edge of the platform, looking down into the valley, trying to see through the thick fog to see if there was a grave mound underneath.
Zhang Wubing's words reminded him that since all the villages nearby were the Yang clan's villages, with a large population and the custom of ancestral tombs, then if this was really the Yang clan's ancestral tomb, or just a cemetery for a branch of the village, the number of corpses buried underneath would be so large that it would be difficult to handle.
Once it exists but is not dealt with, even if there is no problem at present, when it comes to a cloudy month, when the whole moon blocks the sun, and the time, place and people are all right, there is a high possibility that corpses will rise here.
However, through the flowing thick fog, even with his excellent power, Yan Shixun could only see a white expanse below, but could not clearly see whether there were any grave mounds or similar traces.
"Brother Yan, we have to leave quickly. It will be dark soon and the road conditions will be complicated and difficult to travel."
After commanding the convoy to refuel, Zhang Wubing came over and said, "There is no village nearby. We can't spend the night in the mountains."
Yan Shixun nodded absentmindedly. After all the guests except him got on the car, he withdrew his gaze from below and turned around to get on the car.
Ye Li's cold eyes glanced indifferently at the thick fog outside the car window, and his peripheral vision passed through the gradually expanding white dots in the fog.
Those slender white creatures suddenly froze and trembled in fear, not daring to move forward.
The vehicles started and the convoy set off again.
The guests became active again.
Only Yan Shixun had a frown on his face, looking behind the car as it moved, until he completely drove out of the country road and could no longer see the basin surrounded by mountains.
“Woo! Woo—!”
In the silent and deserted forest, a vulture spread its huge wings and circled out from the thick fog. It landed on the roof of the gas station where the convoy had just stopped. It folded its black and mottled wings and stared at the convoy's retreating shadows with its all-white eyes.
In the thick fog, countless rustling sounds were heard, like the sound of bones hitting the ground and rubbing against wood.
A pale, fleshless hand suddenly stretched out from under the cliff and grabbed the soil at the edge of the road.
Then, a head with only bones left slowly emerged from the edge of the horizon, breaking through the thick fog.
White, slender maggots twisted and fell from the black eye sockets of the skull, where only bones were left. They landed on the ground and were quickly crushed by the bony feet that climbed up.
On the side of the cliff, countless white bones clung to the rocks, grabbing the cliff with their hand bones that had rotted away and were devoid of flesh and blood, and climbing up.
They were all pale skeletons blending into the thick white fog, making it impossible to tell where the fog was and where the bones were.
And in the basin under the cliff, which was completely covered by white fog, there were swaying white bones everywhere.
They stretched their finger bones upwards desperately and opened and closed their jaws, making "click" and "click" sounds, as if they wanted to scream and wail something anxiously, but because they had lost their vocal cords and flesh, they could only open their teeth weakly and silently complain to the world.
There were also incomplete corpses crawling in the mud, with headless bones looking around in a daze.
One by one, the skeletons successfully climbed up the cliff and staggered along the mountain road in the gradually darkening sky. White maggots fell from their bodies.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com