Drawing cards can't save the weird world

In the past, Linshui Town did not have a cemetery. Since people discovered that the corpses buried on the flat ground near the water would disappear, they began to bury them in Gaogang.

And sometimes people cannot be buried immediately after death, for example, the time is not good, and the coffin needs to be stopped.

Before, they set up mourning halls on their own, but now they don't. So a small Yizhuang was built on that high hill.

It is said to be Yizhuang, and half of it can be regarded as a cemetery. Because the cemetery is only five or six hundred meters away from Yizhuang.

Zhao Hao rode a donkey to the high hill, which was about fifty or sixty meters high, with ten floors. Looking down, you can see that Linshui Town is in the inner circle of a big bend of the Yao River, and there are many small rivers that fork through the town or surround it. There are even tributaries near this high hill...

It can be said that Linshui Town is in the arms of Yaohe. No wonder there is no place to run once there is a water demon.

When the idiot saw the place, he jumped off the donkey and ran to knock on the door.

In the simple and simple courtyard, the courtyard wall is only as high as one person, and Zhao Hao can exceed the height of the wall with his hand. The courtyard door is also very simple, just two thin wooden boards spliced ​​together, the paint has peeled off, and the door god is also out of shape.

The idiot knocked for a long time before the door creaked open.

A thin, dark, not tall man with a bit of white stubble, about fifty years old, looked at the idiot with sharp eyes and vigilance.

Idiot is an idiot after all, he smiled silly. The man seemed to know the idiot, and after staring at him for three seconds, he locked his gaze on Zhao Hao.

He stared at Zhao Hao, but asked the idiot: "Idiot, what are you doing here? Who is this person? He is not from the town!"

Zhao Hao has changed into the town's regular clothes at this time, just like the gowns of the Republic of China period. But this person is still sure at a glance that Zhao Hao is not from the town.

The idiot looked up at the old man: "Brother Zhao is amazing, he killed a water demon!"

The old man looked down at the idiot, and he didn't know whether it was disdain or pity, and he snorted coldly: "Hmph, killing one water demon is powerful? What do I say if I kill so many?"

The idiot opened his mouth halfway and didn't know how to answer. He paused and shouted: "Brother Zhao beat the water demon to death in the water!"

The old man gave the idiot a hard look, "Fart! The water monster has great power underwater, it's as slippery as a loach, and it can't even be touched! No one can escape being caught in the water." The water monster is scourge!"

The idiot still said in a daze: "I saw it! I saw Brother Zhao hit him... Besides, didn't you just survive the water demon in the water? They call you the River God~ "

The old man seemed to remember something unbearable, his eyelids trembled slightly, and finally he snorted coldly: "God's fart! You hurry up! I don't welcome anyone here!" He was about to close the door.

At this time, Zhao Hao had already dismounted from the donkey and walked up to him. He stretched out his hand to support the door panel, "Wait a minute, old man..."

The old man tried hard with his hands, but the door panel seemed to be pinched by a mountain and remained motionless.

He glanced at Zhao Hao with a little surprise: "He has the strength to die."

"Old man, please don't blame me. I'm here to ask you something about the water demon. I plan to get rid of the demon!"

The old man's lips trembled, but in the end he didn't say anything, but relaxed his hand to close the door.

"Exorcising demons... is another desperate person. Come in...don't call me old man, it sounds unpleasant. My name is Guo Jiu..."

...

Zhao Hao entered the small courtyard and found a dead chicken was missing in the courtyard. The blood had been drained away, but the chicken-killing knife was placed aside, the blood on the knife hadn't been wiped off, and there was actually a small bowl in front of the knife, with millet in it and three sticks of incense stuck in it. The incense is just half burnt...

The strangest thing is that the knife is actually a chi-long boning knife!

Good guy, it's really a sledgehammer to kill a chicken!

Zhao Hao instinctively felt strange, there was something wrong here!

That Guo Jiu seemed to see that Zhao Hao paid more attention to the fragrance of the knife, and asked with drooping eyelids, "Curious?"

Then without waiting for Zhao Hao to answer, he continued: "This is the bell. This knife is a bloodletting knife handed down by three generations of butchers in the town. I don't know how many animals have been slaughtered. I kill chickens every day to worship it. I hope one day I can use it..."

If it wasn't for Zhao Hao's two months of supernatural common sense and Taoist knowledge with Uncle Tie, he really wouldn't know what a bell is.

The bell is used to sacrifice blood to the bell for killing animals in ancient times. Provocation, name sacrifice, blood sacrifice also.

It is recorded in "Mencius King Hui of Liang":

The king was sitting in the upper hall, and there was a man leading a cow to pass the lower hall. When the king saw it, he said, "What's the matter with the ox?" ’ Confrontation: “The bell will be used for provocation.”

The king said: 'Give it up! I can't bear it, and if I am innocent, I will die. '

He said to each other: "How about abolishing the bell and bell?" ’ Said: ‘Why can it be abolished? Change it with sheep! '

It is said that King Hui of Liang saw that the cow was trembling because it was about to be killed, so he felt compassion, so he replaced the cow with a sheep to fight the bell.

Let alone how innocent the sheep are, the main reason is that the behavior of provoking the bell has a very long history in ancient China.

This is the most primitive method of blood sacrifice!

Of course, since the original blood is bloody, it is naturally harmful. Mencius also said later: Therefore, the gentleman stays away from the kitchen.

Not to mention doing too much of this kind of thing, even if you see it too much, you will have problems due to too much blood.

So, this Guo Jiu is actually offering a blood sacrifice to this butcher's knife?

Zhao Hao turned on his demon-hunting senses, and found that Guo Jiu didn't have psychic energy fluctuations, but the luck on his head was very strange, like he had never seen before. It was like a cloud, but a big piece was missing. Zai Zaiwai looked like he was dying!

This is not a good sign!

But... Zhao Hao remembered that he had secretly checked the luck of Linshui Town with the method of gazing just now, and the luck over the entire town was like dark clouds that kept turbulent but reunited, as if they were gestating something.

This situation is likely to be a catastrophe!

But the color of this luck doesn't quite match, it's an auspicious warm yellow!

This is inconsistent with Zhao Hao's generalization during this period. Why such a mixed look?

Linshui town is like this, how can there be no eggs under the overturned nest? It would be strange if Guo Jiu could do well!

In fact, Zhao Hao has quietly observed many people since yesterday.

Most people are worse than Guo Jiu, they belong to the kind of situation that may die at any time!

So now Linshui Town looks quite peaceful, but Zhao Hao never dares to take it lightly.

Standing at the door, Guo Jiu didn't know what to think of, but suddenly smiled, a bleak smile.

"Since you are an outsider, come in. Let me tell you... I hope it will be useful."

...

To be honest, Zhao Hao felt a little strange about Guo Jiu's attitude and words.

What is an outsider?

Does he know that he is from the outside world? Does he know this is a strange place?

Could it be that he is the legendary task guide NPC?

Guo Jiu first told the story of how he planned to kill the water monster in the town together with some other young people who were not used to the harm of the water monster in the early years.

Zhao Hao also heard some old people in the town say a similar version before, and it's not bad.

It's just that those dozen or so people ended up miserable and died miserably. In the end, only Guo Jiu survived.

It is said that he has the best water quality in the entire Linshui Town, and he once lurked underwater for two hours without breathing!

He was the only one who escaped with his life after being dragged into the water by the water demon.

But Zhao Hao felt a little skeptical about this. No matter how good Guo Jiu's water skills were, Zhao Hao, the water monster, had seen it before, and his strength underwater was much stronger than himself. How could he, an ordinary person, escape from the water demon?

More than a dozen strong men exterminated the demon, and finally he was the only one left. The way of those people's death is still unclear, Zhao Hao can't help but be suspicious.

But never expected that Guo Jiu actually took out a set of clothes from a hidden package!

A modern set of kids pajamas!