After taking a long breath, I began to speed up my pace unconsciously. Following the direction pointed by Hu Xiangu, I walked less than 50 meters and saw a large area of graves in front of me! There were countless graves, arranged in a mess on the ground. I shone the flashlight forward and saw endless graves buried one by one in the woods. All the graves had one thing in common, that is, new graves without tombstones!
I was completely dumbfounded. There were only one or two hundred households in Zhang's shop. How could so many people die at once? Could it be that the Hundred Days Red was not sent back? Did everyone die of poisoning? But alcohol can relieve toxins, so so many people would not die at once!
At this moment, I walked in the pile of graves like a lost soul. I really couldn't believe that all this was true. For a forest ranger, how to survive in the mountains is a very easy thing. What's more, the evil master of the Nine Chrysanthemum School has been injured by my earth fire, so Chen Tiebao will not be harmed at all.
I even felt that someone must have played a big joke on me. After all, how could so many lives be lost? So, I turned around and walked towards the village, but my heart was completely panicked. According to my previous memory, I gradually ran!
I silently prayed in my heart, Lao Chen, Si Ya, Xiao Mei, Xiao Lan, and everyone, don't die!
The emotions were too excited and I lost my judgment. The mountain road was uneven. I fell several times. Finally, I entered the village, but at this moment I was completely stupid!
The Zhang family shop in front of me became a **, and the whole village was dark.
Except for the absence of people, the Zhang family shop has not changed at all. It is still the common large tiled house in the northeastern countryside, with high courtyard walls, corn and peppers on the roofs of every household, but all of this is dispersed by the smell of rot and mold in the air.
I feel as if time has stopped. Why did he die? Is it because the Hundred Days Red was not delivered in time? An indescribable feeling of regret came over me. If I could have accompanied Chen Tiebao to get the Hundred Days Red at that time, all this might not have happened!
At this moment, I really thought that it was my own behavior that killed hundreds of people in Zhang's shop! However, not long after, we found a strange place.
To be precise, it should have been discovered by Hu Xiangu. As I stood there like a lost soul, Gao Hu and Hu Xiangu chased me. Gao Hu hurriedly asked me what happened, but Hu Xiangu said on the side: "All dead."
"Who died?" Gao Hu asked again.
Hu Xiangu closed her eyes and said after a while: "Everyone in the village is dead. The grievance here is very strong."
Her words gave me a start. Injustice? People who died of illness will not have grievances. I was originally a Taoist priest, and I can naturally distinguish between grievances and resentment. I took a long breath and took out two talismans, one for "washing away grievances" and one for "resolving grievances."
As soon as the two pieces of talisman paper were thrown, the talisman paper for "clearing injustice" turned into ashes in the blink of an eye!
I was stunned at that time, because only those who died unjustly or died unclearly, who did not suffer any torture before death, and even died before they had time to generate resentment, the negative energy generated by such people can be called "injustice".
The difference between the two negative energies is: resentment can hurt people, but injustice cannot.
I clenched my fists and gritted my teeth and said: "Injustice, the whole village died in vain!"
Suddenly, Hu Xiangu said: "Follow me." She walked quickly, Gao Hu and I followed her closely, and when we arrived at the centralized water supply well in the village square, she suddenly said: "The corpse gas under the water in this well is very heavy."
Hu Xiangu's nose made me trust her very much. In order to find out the truth, I touched the rope for drawing water and prepared to jump down. Gao Hu suddenly stopped me and said, "Dabao, don't mess around. You don't know how deep this well is. Let me do it. I'm better than you."
I shook my head and said, "No, the body must remain intact before death, otherwise it's impossible to search the soul."
He sighed and said nothing more, just told me to be careful.
I held the rope tightly and let Gao Hu slowly lower me down like drawing water. The lower I went, the heavier the stench of the rotting body became. I resisted the urge to vomit several times. Finally, the rope stopped moving. I took a flashlight and shone it at the wellhead. I saw a mass of objects floating on the moonlit water. I couldn't see what it was, but the smell was coming from it.
When I looked carefully, there was a mass of black hair next to the floating object!
My heart suddenly tightened, and sadness covered the feeling of vomiting. If you have never seen death in person, you will never understand the sadness brought to us when a life disappears.
Because even if you raise a kitten or puppy well, its death will touch your heartstrings, not to mention that they are the people I tried my best to save. One by one, fresh lives have left this world. The complicated feelings are hard to express in words.
I didn't feel disgusted when I tied the rotten body with a rope, but suddenly, a copper coin appeared in my sight!
I felt a buzz in my head, and I was shouting in my heart, she is Si Ya! It's that cute little girl, but she is dead! And the way Chen Xiaomei looked when we parted, I closed my eyes and thought of her kissing my forehead and telling the girl's thoughts. All kinds of memories rushed through my heart like a flood.
The sadness was hard to suppress, and I couldn't help but shed tears. The suppressed anger made me roar in the well! Gao Hu felt what happened, so he quickly pulled the rope. When I got out of the well, I was already in tears. The body of Si Ya in front of me was soaked in the well water and I couldn't see what it looked like. But my hand was tightly holding the copper coin I gave her!
Suddenly, Si Ya's clear voice came to my mind like a movie, "Big brother, I like you, but I'm too young."
"Big brother, what is the world outside like? Are the buildings there as tall as the village chief's tiled house?"
"The sea? How big is the sea?"
I half-knelt on the ground, covering my face with one hand. The oppression in my chest made me very painful. Suddenly, I felt that this emotion touched the taboo brought to me by the Taoist robe. The pain of skinning and breaking bones came with it. I gritted my teeth and didn't say a word.
The Taoist robe locked the cause and effect between me and Jiang Shiyu, and at the same time, it also cut off my other earthly causes and effects, because if I want to become an immortal, I must get rid of the earthly world.
Have you ever read the Legend of the White Snake? White Snake was born from the sperm of the white dragon combined with the essence of heaven and earth. Later, she followed the Golden Mercy Mother to practice. However, during the Peach Banquet, the Queen Mother saw that she had a mortal world, so she was sent down to the mortal world to marry Xu Xian. When she was done with the mortal world, she could attain enlightenment. As for Fahai, he was just the fate of White Snake.
Now, my situation is the same. There are too many mortal world causes and conditions involved. I can't swing my sword to cut off the mortal world. If I can't cut off the mortal world, I can't become an immortal.
However, in my heart, if I am afraid to be a human, what's the point of becoming an immortal!
So, I fought against the pain brought to me by the Taoist robe in my heart, but I found another feature. If it didn't involve Jiang Shiyu, the pain of the Taoist robe was not unbearable.
Hu Xiangu examined the body for a long time. Suddenly, she touched Si Ya's swollen forehead with her hand and closed her eyes. After about half a minute, Hu Xiangu said, "She was very frightened before she died. It's just that it's been a long time. I can't restore the scene before her death. I only know that the child was scared to enter the wellhead to avoid it, and finally fell to death by accident."
Fear! Avoid!
These two words are telling me that the whole village was killed! I stood up immediately, enduring the pain brought to me by the Taoist robe. It seemed that a crisp shattering sound came from my mind, and then the pain disappeared!
From this, I understood the role of the Taoist robe. It blocked my original heart and prevented me from planting all kinds of mortal karma. Now I have self-blame and feelings for the destruction of the village by Zhangjiapu, so this karma began to be deeply planted.
I took a long breath and asked, "Aunt, can you calculate the approximate time of death?"
Hu Xiangu touched it and said, "No, unless we ask a coroner to do a test."
At this time, Gao Hu came over. He carefully looked at the body and calculated the time of swelling. According to his professional point of view, death should be between one and a half months and two months.
At that time, I should still be in the cave. At night in Zhang's shop, I finally knew why it was so quiet. The injustice of the whole village made insects dare not come here. I smoked several cigarettes in a row. I sat next to Si Ya's body, like talking to a little sister, telling some strange things I saw outside during this period.
As for Gao Hu, he entered the village. He checked from house to house, trying to find some useful clues. Hu Xiangu sat with me until dawn. Without saying a word, I rolled up Si Ya's body with a quilt and dug a pit to bury it in the soil.
I turned my head and looked at Hu Xiangu beside me, and said solemnly: "Aunt, I want to avenge them!" Hu Xiangu was silent for a while, sighed and said: "Dabao, you have your mission, and you don't know who the murderer is. Everything is determined by heaven. If someone does so many evil things, he will definitely be punished." "No, aunt." I said surprisingly calmly: "The Jiujiu faction is cruel and ruthless, but it has continued for thousands of years. They can use other creatures to replace the cause and effect and be punished, but they can live safely in the world and do evil. Although your God will take some people's lives, he does not punish them all to death. So in this world, good people die every day, but bad people are still alive!" "But after death, they will still be punished." Hu Xiangu continued. I don't know why, after the death of the Zhang family shop, my mind has changed a little, because Chen Tiebao may be guilty, but Si Ya is not guilty, and the whole village may be guilty, but Chen Xiaomei is not guilty! Even though everyone has killed someone, Si Ya and their friends have never killed anyone.
After taking a long breath, I said solemnly: "Aunt, you have lived for a long time, so tell me, since the net of heaven is vast, why did she have to die even though she was innocent!"
"Everything is fate. Every day, there are people who survive a disaster, or die suddenly, die of old age, die of illness, and some people die just after they are born. For thousands of years, birth, old age, sickness, death, natural disasters and calamities are all fate." said Hu Xiangu lightly.
I don't know why, but when I heard Hu Xiangu's words, I actually laughed.
Yes, I really laughed. Hundreds of lives were killed inexplicably. Can all this be attributed to fate? Since God can punish evil spirits for doing evil and make the earth immortals unable to work, why doesn't he send down thunder to punish those who do evil?
If this is really the case, I want to find out the truth, ask the ancestors, or ask God, who can tell me why all this happened?
The sun gradually rose, looking at the dazzling sunlight, at this moment, I, who had never doubted the way of heaven before, also doubted my own "way" for the first time. Good is rewarded with good, evil is rewarded with evil, if I am neither evil nor good, why should I be rewarded?
So, I slowly turned my head and said: "Aunt, the death of nearly 200 lives in Chenjiagou is fate, and if the people of Jiuzhou die, it may also be fate!"
Hu Xiangu put her hands behind her back, and I couldn't see what she was thinking. But suddenly, a shout in the distance caught my attention, and Gao Hu's voice came: "I found a living person! Come quickly!"