Chapter 248 Building a Village
Chapter 248 Building a Village
Before daybreak, the villagers of Huilong Village got up early to boil water.
The women began to boil water and cook, half of them started to load furniture into the car, and the other half checked the dead bodies in the village.
Huilong Village is not big, but there are still four or five hundred dead bodies.
These corpses were now tied together with iron chains, with "corpse talismans" pasted on their foreheads. They were divided into two rows at the entrance of the village and guarded by the able-bodied men in the village.
These four or five hundred dead bodies are the property of the village, but the most valuable are the eight black coffins in the well and the mummies in the black coffins.
At this time, all the mummies were pushed onto the cart, and the cart was tied to the shoulders of the corpses one by one.
After the villagers finished their meal, Old Man Ran led the way. Following an order, a strong man whipped the ground with a whip and shouted, "Zombies, hurry up, living people, get out of the way!"
Then we heard Old Man Ran ringing the bell in his hand. As he moved forward, hundreds of corpses mechanically followed him and took a step forward.
As the more than four hundred zombies moved, the ropes connecting the several black coffins instantly straightened.
As the iron chain was pulled, the wheels carrying eight black coffins rolled, and a group of people and corpses began to move on the road with a creaking sound.
For the villagers, Huilong Village is where their ancestors have lived for thousands of years.
Every blade of grass and every tree in the surroundings was very familiar to them. On the contrary, they had only heard of Wuliang Mountain but had never been there.
In particular, a group of people are both looking forward to and worried about the future.
But going to Wuliang Mountain was something that everyone in the village had already agreed on, and it could not be changed in any way.
Although everyone was reluctant to leave, they also knew that for their future livelihood, Huilong Village was no longer suitable for living.
Because it was inconvenient to fly with a family and a dead body, and the mountain was steep, the group agreed to walk for two days and two nights, but it took three days to reach the outskirts of Wuliang Mountain.
"We will reach Black Stone Village in half a day. Once we get there, we can have a good rest for the night. I will then take Fellow Daoist Tian to meet my brother-in-law."
After resting for a while in the forest, Old Man Ran said something to Tian Lin.
Tian Lin nodded, but he was a little confused. When he was on his way, he asked Old Man Ran:
"This Wuliang Mountain is a clan of the Xiangxi Clan. Logically, there are many people who are attached to the Wu family, so there must be many corpse drivers or merchants coming and going around.
But now it seems that this is not the case at all.”
Old Man Ran heard this and said, "It's probably because of the recent heavy fog that makes it unsuitable for corpse drivers to enter or leave Wuliang Mountain. There is another reason, that is, the old patriarch has passed away, and the people in each village must observe mourning as usual, and it must be forty-nine days.
The reason why I chose to come to Wuliang Mountain in these few days is because these days are the time when the mourning period is over."
Of course, the normal mourning period is more than forty-nine days, but the circumstances vary from place to place, and the mourning periods for people of different identities are also different.
But without exception, people are not allowed to go out during the mourning period.
After hearing Old Man Ran's explanation, Tian Lin nodded.
When night fell, the group finally saw the location of Heishan Village.
The villager of Heishan Village is a cultivator in the late stage of foundation building. He knows Old Man Ran and is very familiar with Old Man Ran's brother-in-law.
His status was naturally higher than that of Old Man Ran, but slightly lower than that of Old Man Ran's brother-in-law. So for the sake of Old Man Ran's brother-in-law, he was quite polite to Old Man Ran. "Fellow Daoist Ran, please rest here tonight. I will send someone to deliver a letter to Deacon Wu later."
Muramasa had the room cleaned and the dead bodies and mummies of the Huilong villagers placed in place. He then prepared some wine for Tian Lin and Old Man Ran to drink.
During the meal, he knew Tian Lin's purpose and said, "Fellow Daoist Tian's matter is not a big deal. Deacon Wu will definitely be able to help you with it."
Old Man Ran asked the village chief, "Before I came here, I heard my brother-in-law ask me to find a place to stay. I don't know which village or village it is, or how many corpse-keeping wells there are?"
Muramasa said: “Speaking of this, I have to congratulate you, Brother Ran.
We in Wuliang Mountain are preparing to relocate a village to the lower reaches of the Dongliang River. The area in the lower reaches of the Dongliang River is extremely yin, and more than ten corpse-raising wells can be dug. These corpse-raising wells may not be easy to raise walking corpses, but raising mummies is easy. "
After hearing this, Old Man Ran was overjoyed, but he also asked in confusion: "Then, if my guess is correct, there are already seven or eight villages in Wuliang Mountain? In the past few years, there has been no expansion of the village, why -"
"Why do we want to expand the village this time?"
Muramasa understood what Old Man Ran meant and explained with a smile:
"Fellow Daoist Ran is right. Wuliang Mountain has not expanded its village for hundreds of years. The reason why the village is expanded today is indeed because of the old patriarch."
Old Man Ran looked at Muramasa in confusion, and heard Muramasa say, "Fellow Daoist, you may not know that after our old patriarch passed away a month ago, he wrote to the Xiangxi Sect, explaining that he would be sent to the Xiangxi Sect by the zombies, and the elders of the Xiangxi Sect agreed.
After the old patriarch passed away, each family set up a spirit tablet for him, and asked zombies to carry the coffin into the sect. Unexpectedly, when the zombies were carrying the old patriarch halfway, a female elder from the Daodao Sect blocked their way.
When he said this, both he and Old Man Ran looked at Tian Lin.
Tian Lin couldn't play dumb at this time, and said, "Yes, that is Elder Gao from our sect. Because of this incident, Elder Gao has also been locked up in the sect and cannot go out."
In fact, Elder Gao was put in solitary confinement not to give an explanation to the Wu family.
In the eyes of the Wending Sect, what is the Wu family?
Even when Elder Gao was planning to steal the coffin of the old patriarch of the Wu family, no one reported it to the Wendao Sect.
"Yes, it was Elder Gao from your sect who blocked the way, causing the coffin of my old master to fall to the ground. Since Fellow Daoist Ran is a corpse driver, you must know that after the coffin is lifted, it must not fall to the ground. Once it falls to the ground, it will definitely take root."
Old Man Ran nodded solemnly and said:
"Yes, since the coffin has already left the ground, it can only land on the ground when it is buried. In other words, once it lands on the ground, it must be buried in time and sealed with earth and suppressed with a stone tablet. Otherwise, the body will leave the ground and cause trouble everywhere."
At this point, Old Man Ran suddenly paused and said:
"But this matter should have been resolved, right? As far as I know, the body and coffin of the old patriarch were taken away by Elder Fang of Xiangxi Sect. Could it be that Elder Fang failed to resolve this matter?"
“Although the elders of your sect were persuaded to leave by Elder Fang, when Elder Fang was leaving with the zombies, coffins, and zombies, he unexpectedly ran into the silent monk.
The silent monk injured Elder Fang, took away Elder Fang's token and other things, and disguised himself as Elder Fang.
These things are nothing. After all, although Elder Fang was injured, he has now been rescued by the sect, and Monk Wusheng has also surrendered.
But the difficulty lies in that after two catastrophes, when the old patriarch’s body was about to reach Xiangxi Sect, not only was the red coffin overturned, but the body had already turned into a zombie and ran out of it. "
Old Man Ran was speechless for a moment. After a while, he had a bad feeling: "What does this have to do with my village building?"
(End of this chapter)