Chapter 119: There is a jujube tree in the village, the evil chapter

Chapter 119: There is a jujube tree in the village, the evil chapter

Chapter 119: There is a Date Tree in the Village, Evil Spirits (No. , asking for monthly tickets!)
The eldest lady, Xia Weiyin, immediately tried to block the news, but there were spies arranged by other aristocratic families within the Li family, so how could it be blocked?
Soon, a Thousand Miles Sound Token contacted her. It was from the Xia family, her brother Xia Chuming, with whom she had a good relationship when they were young. Xia Chuming asked her indirectly whether it was true that her brother-in-law had been captured, and whether she needed the Xia family's help.

Xia Weiyin knew that many people were watching the Li family's every move in Xinxiang Province, but she didn't expect that even her own family was watching.

She responded tactfully, but soon someone else contacted her through the Thousand Mile Voice Talisman. They were Xijing's sisters, from the Zhang family.

Xia Weiyin was extremely busy, but she also knew that the news could no longer be blocked.

She used the Thousand Mile Sound Talisman to contact the Li family in Quanzhou.

"The Quanzhou Li family was probably the last among the big families to know that Li Xiaozheng was petrified by the Ming treasure ship." She thought helplessly.

Gongzhou, Feixian County, Xinglong Town.

Chen Shi did not take the wooden carriage. Instead, he followed the scholar in blue on foot and asked about the origin of the evil spirit.

It was Ding Ding's first time to encounter such an exorcism, and she was very excited. She listened carefully and kept asking for details.

The compass that controls the direction of the wooden cart was held in Gou Zi's hand. Hei Guo controlled the direction of the wooden cart and followed them.

The scholar in blue felt something was wrong. He looked around but didn't find anything wrong. He continued, "This evil spirit was the godmother who became evil. It was originally the sacred tree of the village. For some reason, it became an evil spirit and started to make trouble. At first, the godmother came to us in a dream and said that she wanted to watch a play. So our village invited a troupe of actors. On the night of the performance, the godmother said it was not good, so she chopped off the heads of the troupe."

Chen Shi and Ding Ding were shocked.

"Take off the head?"

Ding Ding stuttered and asked, "How did you pick it?"

"Just wrap a branch around your neck and lift it gently, and it will come down."

The blue-clad scholar must have studied for a few years but failed the exam. There are many such people in the countryside. He spoke with a literary tone, saying, "I am not very knowledgeable, so I can't tell what kind of magic the godmother used. I only saw that the people in the troupe were dead, but their heads were still alive. Their faces were painted in all kinds of colors, and they were still the faces of the actors and actresses. They were hung on the tree and shouted that they wanted to watch the show. The villagers under the stage were all scared and fled in all directions, and some of their heads were chopped off."

Chen Shi and Ding Ding looked at each other and saw the horror in each other's eyes.

These twenty taels of silver are not so easy to earn.

It is rare for a godmother to become a demon, but it does happen occasionally.

When his grandfather was alive, Chen Shi followed his grandfather around selling talismans to exorcise evil spirits. He had experienced something similar before. In one village, the godmother turned into a demon and killed everyone in the village.

At that time, Chen Shi was sitting in the wooden cart, leaning on the edge of the cart and looking out. His grandfather walked towards the godmother.

To this day, Chen Shi still remembers the situation clearly.

The old lady was dressed in black, with a hunched back. Black energy was surrounding her like thick smoke rising into the sky. The ground around her was cracked, the trees were dead, and the village was silent. Only some white skeletons were worshipping the old lady in black.

Chen Shi didn't understand anything at that time. He saw his grandfather walk over and kill the old lady in black with a talisman. He thought the old lady in black was nothing special, just an ordinary evil spirit.

But now that I think about it, the power of the old lady in black must be extraordinary. After people die, they turn into skeletons and think they are still alive, worshiping the old lady in black and collecting incense.

This level of strength has already surpassed the scope of ordinary evil and is close to the devil, far beyond what the ghost bride can compare to.

Of course, the territory she controlled was only the size of a village, far less than the demon's hundred-mile territory.

Because everyone in that village had died, my grandfather did it for free. When he came back, he told him that he had wasted a talisman and did not charge him any money.

Grandpa also said that this old lady was probably a wood or snake spirit that had absorbed the moonlight all year round. In the past, because of people worshipping her, the incense contained extraordinary power and hidden divinity, which suppressed the mysterious power in the moonlight. Now that there are fewer people worshipping her, she can no longer be suppressed, so she has become evil.

If it were ancient stone statues, buildings, treasures or the like, this situation would rarely occur because they would not actively absorb the moonlight.

"Have the number of people in your village decreased recently?" Chen Shi asked.

The scholar in blue shook his head and said, "Our village is called Sanhe Village. It was formed by the merger of three villages. The population has not decreased, but increased a lot. It is now almost as big as a town."

Chen Shi frowned.

This situation in Sanhe Village is generally due to a sharp decline in population, resulting in a lack of incense and worship, which in turn led to the godmother being unable to suppress the mysterious power of Yuehua. However, Sanhe Village is the result of the merger of three villages, which obviously does not meet the conditions for a sharp decline in incense and worship.

They arrived outside Sanhe Village. Heiguo came to the wooden cart, holding the compass in his mouth, put his two front legs on the ground, and sat obediently beside the cart.

The scholar in blue looked at it for some unknown reason, then looked away, mocking himself in his heart: "I am surprised by something I have never seen before."

Chen Shi looked around Sanhe Village and saw that the roads in this village were quite developed. A post road ran through the village. It seemed that there had been a post station here in the past, and the village was developed from the post station.

The post station in Xiniuzhou was also built with the help of the godmother. Officials and their families who traveled here would stay overnight. Without the protection of the godmother, they would be disturbed by evil spirits.

This village is already as big as a town, with hundreds of households and densely packed houses, probably a population of one or two thousand.

Chen Shi looked into the distance and saw that the town was shrouded in green air, like a cloud formed by the smell of incense.

They walked into Sanhe Village. Hei Guo took out the compass again and controlled the wooden cart. The wooden cart made a squeaking sound, which was quite harsh in this quiet village.

"It's time to oil the car's wheels." Chen Shi broke the silence and said.

He was startled by his own voice, which seemed particularly loud, hollow and echoing in this quiet village.

Ding Ding was a little nervous. She took off the blue pipa bag on her back, held it in her arms, and looked around nervously, fearing that something would jump out and scare her.

Chen Shi looked to both sides and saw that the doors of every household on both sides of the road were open. Some of them had a small palm-sized incense burner in front of their doorsteps, with a few incense sticks inserted in it. The fragrance rose up and merged into the green air. Those who didn't have an incense burner would pile up a handful of soil in front of their doorsteps, with a few incense sticks inserted in the soil.

Behind the threshold, there is often an old woman kneeling on the ground with her hands clasped together, looking very pious.

Some were women, or had one or two children with them, kneeling straight with their hands clasped together.

Behind some of the thresholds are men or old men, kowtow- ing one after another.

The strange thing is that they all wore hats, regardless of gender, age or status.

The hat is black, very high and longer than the head.

They didn't speak, and their faces and clothes seemed to have lost color and turned black and white through the green mist.

"Are these hats to prevent their godmother from chopping off their heads?" Ding Ding whispered.

"Squeak. Squeak."

The wheels were still making strange noises, and Chen Shi was frightened by the sound. He stopped the car, squatted down, and looked down to check. He saw something flash by under the car, but the speed was too fast and he could not see it clearly.

The smoke is so thick here that it feels like night time and you can't see very far.

As the wooden cart moved forward, the squeaking sound disappeared and was replaced by a creaking sound.

Chen Shi looked down again. There was something small in the green incense smoke approaching the wooden cart. When he looked down, it ran away like a flash. "Hei Guo, pay attention to your surroundings. There's something wrong with this smoke."

Chen Shi gave an order, took the compass from Hei Guo's claws, and controlled the wooden cart himself.

Hei Guo quickly resumed walking on all fours, looking around vigilantly.

They continued to move forward, gradually going deeper into the center of Sanhe Village, but saw a huge shadow gradually emerging from the green smoke. It was tall, with branches like a dragon or python extending in all directions. It was a big tree.

There was a light of fire in front of the big tree that penetrated the fog and came into their eyes, but the smoke was too heavy and they could only see a hazy light dancing.

The sound of trumpets and suonas came, ticking, playing various instruments, and then there was singing, in the tone of opera.

As we got closer, the big tree gradually became clear, but it was still a little blurry. Then we heard people cheering and the applause was like thunder.

Some voices also shouted: "I don't sing well, get off, get off!"

Gradually, more and more people started to make a noise, shouting, "Get off, get off!"

Chen Shi, Ding Ding and others walked closer and closer, and saw many people of different heights under the big tree, looking up at the stage in front of them.

In front of the jujube tree, facing the direction of Chen Shi and the others, there was a theater. Downstairs was where the male, female, and chou actors changed their clothes and prepared to go on stage. Candles were lit and the doors and windows were covered with cloth, so one could only vaguely see a few scattered flames. Occasionally, a few spots of light were blocked by people, probably because the characters inside blocked the light.

Upstairs is the stage, on which the characters are dressed neatly. Some have flags on their backs, some are dressed up gorgeously, and there are clowns jumping around. Under the curtains on both sides is the troupe's band, with trumpets, shengs, drums, gongs, cymbals, flutes, pipa, erhu, gaohu and so on.

The one who was called off the stage was a young actor, wearing a black top scholar's hat with a big red flower stuck on one side. He was a little overwhelmed by the booing voices, and stood on the stage with a terrified look on his face, and it looked like he was about to cry from fear.

In the audience, more people were shouting for this young man to get off the stage.

Chen Shi noticed that the audience in the audience seemed a little strange.

The spectators in the front row are of normal height.

The first row is as tall as a child, the back row is half a head taller than the front row, the third row is half a head taller than the second row, and the fourth row is half a head taller than the third row!
The rows of spectators became taller and taller as they moved toward the back, and by the time they reached the end, the spectators were already more than ten feet tall!
They are tall and thin, as if they only grew taller but not wider, with thin arms, legs and bodies, very thin necks and big heads.

Ding Ding tightened the Pipa in her arms, shrank her neck, and said in surprise: "So many people! Do all the people in the village like to watch the show so much?"

As soon as she said this, the people who were making a fuss suddenly fell silent, as if they were frozen in place.

Ding Ding was startled, but saw that the spectators, whether in the front row or the back row, were slowly turning their heads and looking at her.

They turned their heads and their bodies disappeared.

Those bodies seemed to be made up of the scent of incense. It was fine if their necks didn't move, but as soon as they moved, the scent of incense dissipated, leaving only the heads hanging in the air and turning backwards.

All eyes fell on Ding Ding.

Above, leaves rustled.

Chen Shi looked carefully at this time and saw that these heads were all wearing tall black hats with a long stem connected to the back of the hats.

These heads, like the dates grown on the jujube tree, are hung neatly under the tree.

They looked at Ding Ding without saying a word.

The scholar in blue looked terrified and quietly made a gesture to Ding Ding to keep quiet, indicating that she should not make any sound while watching the show.

The stage gradually became quiet. All the male and female roles stopped and stood on the stage, feeling a little overwhelmed.

Chen Shi greeted the jujubes and said, "We are from the opera troupe. We are sorry for disturbing you by making such noises. Please continue singing on the stage. Let us dress up!"

The troupe on the stage hurriedly played some musical instruments and sang, and the male and female characters also started dancing.

"After hearing what Xue Liang said, all my pride disappeared!"

“Humanity is not created by nature. No one can change it in the slightest.”

"I am inferior to her and she is young, she is hungry and cold while I am spoiled..."

……

Below the stage, countless heads slowly turned around and continued watching the show.

Green smoke gathered under their necks and gradually took the shape of their bodies, some tall and some short.

Ding Ding breathed a sigh of relief, and the scholar in blue clothes quickly led them off the stage.

"puff!"

The young man on the stage suddenly had a branch entangled around his neck, and his head was pulled out. It flew into the air and fell to the stage. He became one of the audience and kept cheering for the opera on the stage.

If other people started to make a fuss, he would join in the fun and shout curses.

As for his headless body, it shook and fell down.

Chen Shi controlled the wooden cart to the bottom of the stage and opened the door. Several girls inside were looking around in fear. He quickly pulled them in and quickly closed the door.

One of the girls complained bitterly, "How did you get in? If you don't sing well here, you'll lose your head. Several of our brothers have died, and the troupe leader also had his head snapped off... Which troupe are you from? Why are there only three of you? And there's a dog. Can dogs sing?"

Chen Shi ignored them, stopped the wooden cart, and with a loud noise, swept all the rouge and powder off the dressing table, whispering, "Black pot!"

The black pot stepped forward and was stabbed by him, drawing out the black dog blood.

Chen Shi ground cinnabar and wrote talismans with great swiftness on the dressing table.

Seeing this, the girls widened their eyes and looked at him in surprise.

At this time, a man came down the stairs and said in a low voice, "Let's go on stage! Let's go on stage! Are you guys ready?"

The girls hurriedly put on their crowns and were about to go upstairs. The waiter glanced at them and said, "There is a missing pipa... You, you! Come up!"

Ding Ding was startled: "Me?"

"Yes, you! Hurry up!"

Ding Ding was nervous. She opened the blue cloth bag, took out the pipa, and followed the girl onto the stage.

"Draw faster!" She turned and said to Chen Shi.

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