Li Jinghao.
"Is it just a coincidence? After all, the surname Li is a big one. " Wei Dong said.
Kexun stood up and said, "go and ask. Maybe the old man can provide something."
They ran to the old man's yard.
Entering the room and knocking on the inner door, the old man looked up at the two people with muddy dead eyes: "what's the matter?"
"Let me ask, who is the man who died?" Ke Xun came to the point.
"Why don't you know? Who are you? " The old man's tone was suddenly alert, and his two stone like eyes suddenly moved, and slowly appeared a strange and ferocious look.
Ke Xun was surprised and quickly pointed to the linen strip with the word of curse on his waist to show it to the old man: "I'm here to help. You see, I haven't studied since I was a child. I can't remember what anyone said to me because of my bad brain. After helping for two days, he suddenly forgot who died. Thinking that it was a little disrespectful to the dead, he came to ask you quickly. ”
the old man stared at Ke Xun with dead eyes for a long time, and then he finally opened his mouth: "it's Pockmarked Li's family that's dead. It's pity that there's no one in his family. It's necessary for us, the villagers, to help us."
Abnormal children are called strange. Rural people in the countryside love to have some humble names in order to support them.
Kexun asked again, "how did strange people die?"
The old man gave him a gloomy look: "it's not easy to live to such a big age as that."
Wei Dong thought of the topic he had just talked with Ke Xun and asked, "what's the relationship between his father and his mother?"
Old man: "husband and wife."
Weidong:
Ke Xun turned his eyes: "is there anyone in the village who has a grudge against Pockmarked Li's family?"
Think of Mu Yi Ran said that the three locust trees and cypress coffin curse.
The old man stares at him darkly: "everybody is the country fellow, can have what enmity."
"Who beat that strange coffin?" Kexun was watched by the old man with goose bumps all over his body.
The old man looked strange: "his mother is afraid that no one will be in charge of strange things after she died. Before she died, she asked people to give them a good job in advance."
This is strange. Ke Xun didn't understand, unless the strange father and mother didn't know that the pure cypress wooden coffin had been struck by the sky and was used by the strange monster by mistake.
"Do you know when the three locust trees next to his house were planted?" Asked Ke Xun.
The old man's face was even more strange. The color of his face was gray with the speed visible to the naked eye. A pair of turbid eyes were covered with ferocity and ferocity. His two eyeballs protruded vigorously, and his shriveled mouth was torn open, revealing his toothless black and red gums and stinky mouth. He said, "what locust tree, no locust tree. Who are you? How dare you break into Lijia village. For thousands of years, Lijia village has not allowed outsiders to enter. You, die, die, die -- "
with that, the mouth became wider and wider, just like a bottomless black hole, and rushed towards Kexun and Weidong!
"Run!" With a roar, Ke Xun grabbed Wei Dong, who was scared to stay on the spot, and ran away.
They rushed out of the yard without looking back. Weidong had never run so fast in his life. Under Kexun's pull, he felt that his legs were no longer legs. Six out of ten feet could not touch the ground, and half of them were swaying in the air.
I can't make trouble with my legs any more. I fell to the ground with a hungry dog.
When he raised his face with a mouthful of dirt, he saw a few more feet in his sight. Then he saw Kexun's feet strode to the front of the first two feet. Through the distance between the toes, Weidong calculated that Ke Xun's pursed lips could almost chew on Mu Yi Ran's face.
"Report big man, someone wants to eat us." Ke Xun looked for comfort and hugging.
The boss gave him a cold eye to let him know.
"What's going on?" Asked the doctor.
Kexun looked back and saw that the old man had not caught up with him. He told the story briefly, and then asked the men, "do you have any clues?"
"We..." The doctor looked a little complicated. "I have a very shocking discovery."
After Mu Yi Ran and Ke Xun separated, they first went to the village and found the village head's home.
The head of a village is the head of a village. Generally speaking, the place where he lives should be the largest and best house in the whole village, so people quickly find the target.
However, there is no one in the village head's house, and there is dust everywhere. It seems that no one has lived in the house for a long time.
Mu Yiran found a genealogy and village annals in the room of the village head's house as a small ancestral hall.
Sure enough, all the villagers in this village are of the same ancestry. Their ancestors once served as the royal family's Zongzhu in the Warring States period.
It is said that Zhuzong can master ghosts and gods. Its magic skills and witchcraft can only be passed on to one's own family, not to outsiders.
Therefore, the ancestors of the Li family made clan rules. Their descendants would live here forever, and they could not leave, branch, intermarry with other surnames, or engage in private intercourse with the outside world.Throughout the whole genealogy, both husband and daughter-in-law are surnamed Li.
In the whole village, there was no one of them.
“…… Their ancestors are crazy, "Wei Dong wiped his mouth and was surprised," is this to encourage close relatives to get married? "
"Witchcraft is a kind of twisted, evil and unreasonable existence." Mu Yi Ran coldly said, "we don't have to worry about whether their clan rules conform to the legal principles. We just need to know that this village, like a lost land, has always been in a closed state and has no contact with the outside world."
Kexun interface: "then the problem comes."
Mu Yi Ran looked at the people and said, "combined with what happened to Kexun just now, since this village is disconnected from the outside world and resists outsiders from entering, who painted this painting itself? How did this painting spread out? "
The crowd was stunned and their eyes flashed in unison.
Ke Xun raised his hand: "big man, is there any name of Li Jinghao in the genealogy?"
Mu Yi Ran looked at him: "No
Kexun scratched his head: "is that a coincidence?"
Mu Yi Ran's eyes moved: "it's not obvious that many painters have a former name, or they give themselves a name that has been on the stage after becoming famous."
Wei Dong cut in: "this is not easy to do, who knows who will give themselves a name later."
"Since it is known that the painter is Li Jinghao," Mu Yiran said, "the first problem has been solved. The second problem is how the painting was handed down, or how did Li Jinghao enter the village, draw the painting, and then take it out."
"If Li Jinghao is from this village, it's not surprising that he can draw this painting," the doctor said. "But the village stipulates that the villagers are not allowed to communicate with the outside world or leave the village, so it is impossible to explain how the painting flowed out."
"The last discovery," Mu Yiran said to Kexun and Weidong, "we went all over the houses in the village, and we didn't see any living people."
"What, what do you mean?" Weidong shivers.
"All the houses are covered with dust of different thickness," the doctor said. "It can be seen that no one has lived in these houses for a long time, but we have not found any bodies or coffins in these houses."
"In these dwellings, what we see most," Mu Yi Ran's eyes are meaningful, "is the memorial tablet."
Ke Xun raised his eyebrows: "do you mean these villagers are dead?"
Mu Yi Ran nodded slightly: "it is speculated that we have checked according to the names on the genealogy. The names on the tablets are all on the genealogy."
Kexun felt his chin and thought, "has there ever been an epidemic in this village? Or a natural disaster? Otherwise, how could so many people die? "
Mu Yi Ran said lightly: "the dust in the houses is different, which shows that these people did not die at the same time."
The doctor nodded: "it should be a few years or more or more years in succession to die."
Wei Dong said: "this is not because of the close relatives marriage, so life is not long."
Mu Yi Ran's eye tail slightly picked: "more probably, these people are all cursed to death?"
When they heard this, they were all surprised.
Kexun responded first: "so you mean that the three locust trees next to the strange family are not only cursed by the strange family, but The whole Lijia village? "
"I think so." Mu Yi nodded.
Wei Dong said: "who has such a big hatred? A curse on a village."
But why did the old man say that there was no locust tree? Although he later went crazy biting people when he disagreed, I don't think what he said was like playing tricks and not telling us. "
Mu Yi Ran drooped his eyes and pondered. Suddenly he took his foot out and left. Everyone looked at each other and hurriedly followed him.
Once again, he came to the three old locust trees outside the strange family yard. Mu Yi Ran looked up at the faces on the trees.
Kexun also looked at them, and saw that these faces seemed to be more protruding than in the morning. The whole face with the head was almost detached from the tree trunk. Only the back of the head was slightly connected with the bark, which was like a huge tree tumor hanging on the tree. It looked very disgusting.
"Have you found that," Kexun touched Mu Yiran with his elbow, "these faces seem to have gender. Do you think this face looks like a mother? There's another one. It's still bearded. The one on the top looks like a seven or eight year old boy. Look over there. Under the old lady's face is a baby's face, both men and women, old and young. "
"Well." He was not surprised, but he had already discovered it.
"Suddenly, I had an idea," said Kexun, while wandering his eyes between the faces. "If you say these faces, will they be..."
"The faces of all the dead villagers." Mu Yi was indifferent.
Kexun reached for a grimace at the root of the tree Liu Yufei. "
Mu Yi Ran's eyes followed the direction of his fingers, and saw that the face looked like a new growth, with gray color. Unlike other faces, the color had darkened to black gray.The facial features of this grimace are very similar to Liu Yufei, and even in the position behind the top of the brain, there is a small braided bark.
Its facial features are extremely distorted, maintaining the painful expression of Liu Yufei when he died miserably. However, there is endless resentment in the pain. In the dark eye socket, it seems that there are two invisible eyes. The hatred is extremely vicious, and they stare at Mu Yiran and Ke Xun.
Mu Yi Ran and the two eye sockets looked at each other for a moment, not moved at all. Instead, he walked around the tree and found the faces of the five people who died before Liu Yufei.
"So these three trees are not planted." Mu Yi Ran said, "in the painting, it is just an image, not a real tree."
"No wonder the old man said there was no tree," said Kexun. "Speaking of the old man, why hasn't he been cursed to death? Is he alone in the village? "
"Go and have a look."
Mu Yi Ran said that he was about to leave, and was grabbed by Ke Xun's arm: "that old man has gone crazy. You are not looking for death now."
Zhang Maolin next to him said, "yes, it's important to find the seal before it's dark."
Mu Yi Ran glanced at the direction where the old man lived and said faintly, "I have a conjecture about the old man's identity."
Li Jinghao.
"Is it just a coincidence? After all, the surname Li is a big one. " Wei Dong said.
Kexun stood up and said, "go and ask. Maybe the old man can provide something."
They ran to the old man's yard.
Entering the room and knocking on the inner door, the old man looked up at the two people with muddy dead eyes: "what's the matter?"
"Let me ask, who is the man who died?" Ke Xun came to the point.
"Why don't you know? Who are you? " The old man's tone was suddenly alert, and his two stone like eyes suddenly moved, and slowly appeared a strange and ferocious look.
Ke Xun was surprised and quickly pointed to the linen strip with the word of curse on his waist to show it to the old man: "I'm here to help. You see, I haven't studied since I was a child. I can't remember what anyone said to me because of my bad brain. After helping for two days, he suddenly forgot who died. Thinking that it was a little disrespectful to the dead, he came to ask you quickly. ”
the old man stared at Ke Xun with dead eyes for a long time, and then he finally opened his mouth: "it's Pockmarked Li's family that's dead. It's pity that there's no one in his family. It's necessary for us, the villagers, to help us."
Abnormal children are called strange. Rural people in the countryside love to have some humble names in order to support them.
Kexun asked again, "how did strange people die?"
The old man gave him a gloomy look: "it's not easy to live to such a big age as that."
Wei Dong thought of the topic he had just talked with Ke Xun and asked, "what's the relationship between his father and his mother?"
Old man: "husband and wife."
Weidong:
Ke Xun turned his eyes: "is there anyone in the village who has a grudge against Pockmarked Li's family?"
Think of Mu Yi Ran said that the three locust trees and cypress coffin curse.
The old man stares at him darkly: "everybody is the country fellow, can have what enmity."
"Who beat that strange coffin?" Kexun was watched by the old man with goose bumps all over his body.
The old man looked strange: "his mother is afraid that no one will be in charge of strange things after she died. Before she died, she asked people to give them a good job in advance."
This is strange. Ke Xun didn't understand, unless the strange father and mother didn't know that the pure cypress wooden coffin had been struck by the sky and was used by the strange monster by mistake.
"Do you know when the three locust trees next to his house were planted?" Asked Ke Xun.
The old man's face was even more strange. The color of his face was gray with the speed visible to the naked eye. A pair of turbid eyes were covered with ferocity and ferocity. His two eyeballs protruded vigorously, and his shriveled mouth was torn open, revealing his toothless black and red gums and stinky mouth. He said, "what locust tree, no locust tree. Who are you? How dare you break into Lijia village. For thousands of years, Lijia village has not allowed outsiders to enter. You, die, die, die -- "
with that, the mouth became wider and wider, just like a bottomless black hole, and rushed towards Kexun and Weidong!
"Run!" With a roar, Ke Xun grabbed Wei Dong, who was scared to stay on the spot, and ran away.
They rushed out of the yard without looking back. Weidong had never run so fast in his life. Under Kexun's pull, he felt that his legs were no longer legs. Six out of ten feet could not touch the ground, and half of them were swaying in the air.
I can't make trouble with my legs any more. I fell to the ground with a hungry dog.
When he raised his face with a mouthful of dirt, he saw a few more feet in his sight. Then he saw Kexun's feet strode to the front of the first two feet. Through the distance between the toes, Weidong calculated that Ke Xun's pursed lips could almost chew on Mu Yi Ran's face.
"Report big man, someone wants to eat us." Ke Xun looked for comfort and hugging.
The boss gave him a cold eye to let him know.
"What's going on?" Asked the doctor.
Kexun looked back and saw that the old man had not caught up with him. He told the story briefly, and then asked the men, "do you have any clues?"
"We..." The doctor looked a little complicated. "I have a very shocking discovery."
After Mu Yi Ran and Ke Xun separated, they first went to the village and found the village head's home.
The head of a village is the head of a village. Generally speaking, the place where he lives should be the largest and best house in the whole village, so people quickly find the target.
However, there is no one in the village head's house, and there is dust everywhere. It seems that no one has lived in the house for a long time.
Mu Yiran found a genealogy and village annals in the room of the village head's house as a small ancestral hall.
Sure enough, all the villagers in this village are of the same ancestry. Their ancestors once served as the royal family's Zongzhu in the Warring States period.
It is said that Zhuzong can master ghosts and gods. Its magic skills and witchcraft can only be passed on to one's own family, not to outsiders.
Therefore, the ancestors of the Li family made clan rules. Their descendants would live here forever, and they could not leave, branch, intermarry with other surnames, or engage in private intercourse with the outside world.Throughout the whole genealogy, both husband and daughter-in-law are surnamed Li.
In the whole village, there was no one of them.
“…… Their ancestors are crazy, "Wei Dong wiped his mouth and was surprised," is this to encourage close relatives to get married? "
"Witchcraft is a kind of twisted, evil and unreasonable existence." Mu Yi Ran coldly said, "we don't have to worry about whether their clan rules conform to the legal principles. We just need to know that this village, like a lost land, has always been in a closed state and has no contact with the outside world."
Kexun interface: "then the problem comes."
Mu Yi Ran looked at the people and said, "combined with what happened to Kexun just now, since this village is disconnected from the outside world and resists outsiders from entering, who painted this painting itself? How did this painting spread out? "
The crowd was stunned and their eyes flashed in unison.
Ke Xun raised his hand: "big man, is there any name of Li Jinghao in the genealogy?"
Mu Yi Ran looked at him: "No
Kexun scratched his head: "is that a coincidence?"
Mu Yi Ran's eyes moved: "it's not obvious that many painters have a former name, or they give themselves a name that has been on the stage after becoming famous."
Wei Dong cut in: "this is not easy to do, who knows who will give themselves a name later."
"Since it is known that the painter is Li Jinghao," Mu Yiran said, "the first problem has been solved. The second problem is how the painting was handed down, or how did Li Jinghao enter the village, draw the painting, and then take it out."
"If Li Jinghao is from this village, it's not surprising that he can draw this painting," the doctor said. "But the village stipulates that the villagers are not allowed to communicate with the outside world or leave the village, so it is impossible to explain how the painting flowed out."
"The last discovery," Mu Yiran said to Kexun and Weidong, "we went all over the houses in the village, and we didn't see any living people."
"What, what do you mean?" Weidong shivers.
"All the houses are covered with dust of different thickness," the doctor said. "It can be seen that no one has lived in these houses for a long time, but we have not found any bodies or coffins in these houses."
"In these dwellings, what we see most," Mu Yi Ran's eyes are meaningful, "is the memorial tablet."
Ke Xun raised his eyebrows: "do you mean these villagers are dead?"
Mu Yi Ran nodded slightly: "it is speculated that we have checked according to the names on the genealogy. The names on the tablets are all on the genealogy."
Kexun felt his chin and thought, "has there ever been an epidemic in this village? Or a natural disaster? Otherwise, how could so many people die? "
Mu Yi Ran said lightly: "the dust in the houses is different, which shows that these people did not die at the same time."
The doctor nodded: "it should be a few years or more or more years in succession to die."
Wei Dong said: "this is not because of the close relatives marriage, so life is not long."
Mu Yi Ran's eye tail slightly picked: "more probably, these people are all cursed to death?"
When they heard this, they were all surprised.
Kexun responded first: "so you mean that the three locust trees next to the strange family are not only cursed by the strange family, but The whole Lijia village? "
"I think so." Mu Yi nodded.
Wei Dong said: "who has such a big hatred? A curse on a village."
But why did the old man say that there was no locust tree? Although he later went crazy biting people when he disagreed, I don't think what he said was like playing tricks and not telling us. "
Mu Yi Ran drooped his eyes and pondered. Suddenly he took his foot out and left. Everyone looked at each other and hurriedly followed him.
Once again, he came to the three old locust trees outside the strange family yard. Mu Yi Ran looked up at the faces on the trees.
Kexun also looked at them, and saw that these faces seemed to be more protruding than in the morning. The whole face with the head was almost detached from the tree trunk. Only the back of the head was slightly connected with the bark, which was like a huge tree tumor hanging on the tree. It looked very disgusting.
"Have you found that," Kexun touched Mu Yiran with his elbow, "these faces seem to have gender. Do you think this face looks like a mother? There's another one. It's still bearded. The one on the top looks like a seven or eight year old boy. Look over there. Under the old lady's face is a baby's face, both men and women, old and young. "
"Well." He was not surprised, but he had already discovered it.
"Suddenly, I had an idea," said Kexun, while wandering his eyes between the faces. "If you say these faces, will they be..."
"The faces of all the dead villagers." Mu Yi was indifferent.
Kexun reached for a grimace at the root of the tree Liu Yufei. "
Mu Yi Ran's eyes followed the direction of his fingers, and saw that the face looked like a new growth, with gray color. Unlike other faces, the color had darkened to black gray.The facial features of this grimace are very similar to Liu Yufei, and even in the position behind the top of the brain, there is a small braided bark.
Its facial features are extremely distorted, maintaining the painful expression of Liu Yufei when he died miserably. However, there is endless resentment in the pain. In the dark eye socket, it seems that there are two invisible eyes. The hatred is extremely vicious, and they stare at Mu Yiran and Ke Xun.
Mu Yi Ran and the two eye sockets looked at each other for a moment, not moved at all. Instead, he walked around the tree and found the faces of the five people who died before Liu Yufei.
"So these three trees are not planted." Mu Yi Ran said, "in the painting, it is just an image, not a real tree."
"No wonder the old man said there was no tree," said Kexun. "Speaking of the old man, why hasn't he been cursed to death? Is he alone in the village? "
"Go and have a look."
Mu Yi Ran said that he was about to leave, and was grabbed by Ke Xun's arm: "that old man has gone crazy. You are not looking for death now."
Zhang Maolin next to him said, "yes, it's important to find the seal before it's dark."
Mu Yi Ran glanced at the direction where the old man lived and said faintly, "I have a conjecture about the old man's identity."
