Chapter 5 Holy Spring Village
He Weican said that Shengquan Village is located in the west of the Youmiao Mountain, with a population of about 100.
The conditions proposed by the Bai clan back then were very simple: they claimed that their ancestors fled and could not escape from the world. Now, a hundred years later, the village has a scarce population and most of its close relatives, so they need to marry outsiders.
The entire village of Shengquan Village is extremely closed. Except for the direct Bai family, other villagers rarely contact the outside world.
The terrifying mountain it is located in is steep and does not belong to the development and tourist area. The mountain is covered with miasma and wild beasts are rampant. Even in that era when bandits are rampant, no one dares to offend Shengquan Village.
In addition to a few old hunters' live maps, many outsiders have come to explore and are trapped for a few days.
Although he was finally rescued, most of them were in a daze and talked nonsense, saying that they had seen many terrifying ghosts chasing themselves in the fog.
"After that being said, I always think these are stories about adults saying to scare children. How could there be a living person sacrifice in such a developed modern society?"
He Weican smiled and said that the legend of the ceremony may be fake, but the marriage is true.
The Bai family respects women, from the head of the patriarch to the manager, all of them are women. Whenever the bloodline of the direct line reaches the age of marriage, Shengquan Village will propose marriage with the outside village.
"By the way, my dad mentioned it a while ago. This year, Shengquan Village designated a family named Su in our village and asked his second son Su Wende to be his son-in-law."
He Weican said happily: "That guy was my childhood playmate. I was so happy to know this. I told me that the Bai family is rich and the Bai family is also very beautiful. The guy's wedding is scheduled to be three days later. Last month, he also sent me a message reminding me to come back for a wedding. But recently he has been doing his duty and hasn't sent me much. When I go back, I insist on talking to him..."
"It's a long time. Brother Li, you don't know that the marriage customs in Shengquan Village are not ordinary. I heard that someone was sent to pick up the groom there, and he had to set out from home in the middle of the night..."
In fact, what He Weican was talking about later, Li Taiyuan no longer took it seriously.
He responded perfunctorily, but his eyes never left the direction of Youmiao Mountain.
Combined with what He Weican just said, I am afraid that what I see in my dreams will be real.
Shengquan Village is indeed using the means of sacrificing living people to suppress the resentful spirits, but now the ceremony is about to expire and the seal is loose, causing the resentment in the mountains to spread.
There are still two months left before the Zhongyuan Festival. If remedial measures are not taken to continue to let go, the situation will probably worsen. At that time, it will not be the low-level wandering souls on the roadside.
Li Taiyuan believes that once a large-scale supernatural incident breaks out, it will completely become a place of nothingness.
It seems that I have been here right this trip.
While He Weican was not paying attention, he quietly took out his cell phone to contact Liao Huarong and informed the other party of all the information he had found so far.
Half an hour later, Liao Huarong replied that District 3 had received the information provided by him and is now urgently collecting information about the Holy Spring Village of Youmiaoshan; if the situation is true, Chen Bin will take people here to meet with Li Taiyuan as soon as possible.
As a partner, Liao Huarong should have gone there together.
But he received news from his daughter on the way to the airport. For some personal reasons, he couldn't arrive this time.
Li Taiyuan didn't care and said that he could handle the matter here. Just like before, Liao Huarong sternly scolded him and warned the other party not to act rashly during this period, and to wait until Chen Bin comes.
Liao Huarong looks taciturn on the surface. After getting along for a long time, he realized that he is an old mother and always has endless thoughts.
Li Taiyuan didn't want to have too many arguments with him. She responded to a few words and put down her phone, and asked He Weican about some things about Shengquan Village.
However, He Weican said that he had been sent to study outside since he was a child, and the anecdotes he just said were also heard from the older generation.
He didn't know much about Shengquan Village himself. If Li Taiyuan was really interested, he could go home and ask his father.
Seeing that he could not get any valuable information, Li Taiyuan stopped asking more questions and instead talked to He Weican about the topic of getting married in Shengquan Village just now.
The two of them talked all the way, and before they knew it, the bus stopped at a relatively open intersection.
"Brother Li, get off the car."
He Weican stood up and said with a smile that his hometown Yuhe Village is located halfway up the mountain, and it is still seven or eight kilometers away. The next stop of the bus is the scenic spot. The village cannot drive in, so they need to hike.
For Li Taiyuan, who had been bored in the car for a long time, this was not a bad thing.
I slept all the way, and now my body is not as uncomfortable as in the morning. After getting off the car, he stretched comfortably, thinking that the air in the deep mountains was much fresher than that in the city.
He Weican hasn't been home for a long time. He was so timid that he felt very moved in his heart, and kept telling Li Taiyuan about every bit of Yuhe Village along the way.
"Brother Li, look, our village is ahead! Behind the terraced fields is the crabapple forest. When I was a child, I often went up the mountain to pick and eat it."
He Weican's eyes lit up and he quickly pointed to the place and said, "I still remember that when I was a child, my elders always warned us children not to go to the back mountain. Don't look at the beautiful scenery during the day now, but at night, it's completely different."
Following the direction the other party pointed, Li Taiyuan saw more than a hundred families sitting on the green steps on the mountainside. The mountain behind the village is covered with layers of green terraces, shining brightly under the sunlight, making the entire mountain look like a pagoda.
Putting aside Feng Shui, the environment in Yuhe Village is indeed very beautiful.
The houses are all white walls and gray tiles, green trees are shaded, smoke is curling, and turbulent streams are surrounding the village.
The mountains and forests and sea of clouds, terraces and cottages, rammed earth and green tiles can show the unique beauty of the countryside without unnecessary decoration. The century-old houses that carry the lives of authentic mountain people in the mountains have not been destroyed in construction and development, and still retain the most primitive and simplicity.
The two of them left not long after, but it suddenly started raining in the mountains on sunny day and day.
"This is how my hometown is, it's wet and rainy."
He Weican was prepared, so he took out an umbrella from his bag and handed it to Li Taiyuan, and said in a low voice: "It is said that when the rainy season comes, the number of people who die suddenly in the village will suddenly increase. I remember one year it rained and more than a dozen people died in a row. They all alarmed the government at that time, but unfortunately they sent people to investigate for more than half a month, but they did not find out why."
"It sounds really weird. It seems that there are many mysteries in your village."
Seeing that He Weican was quite interested, Li Taiyuan took the opportunity to ask for the doubts in his heart: "By the way, I heard from the boss's wife that you seemed to have had a special experience in that mountain when you were a child. Can you tell me if you are?"
He heard the other party ask this, He Weican, who was originally smiling, shivered as if he was electrocuted, and his face gradually became strange.
He Weican didn't want to mention that matter, but he couldn't resist Li Taiyuan's soft and hard work all the way.
"It's a long story, I still remember clearly that it was a New Year's Eve night."
Chapter completed!