Aggrieved Fish Sprite: 27|The land of a village
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"Who?"
A man with his head wrapped in linen yelled at this side. The child in front of Moli was frightened. He hugged the cloth bag tightly, and went into a narrow alley next to him without turning his head.
Suddenly many people appeared on the empty streets.
Some of them wear linen and wear filial piety, and some have incense ash all over their faces, which looks very strange.
"Go fast, outsiders are not allowed to enter Qinghu Town."
The townspeople shouted loudly, with hostile eyes, as if they were going to surround Moli and Meng Qi.
When I changed to another person, seeing this situation, I naturally turned around in a panic and ran out of the town. Although there are no warm houses and no shops selling hot food outside the town, it is better than losing your life.
The townspeople seem to be very accustomed to intimidating others. When they found that the two Moli had no intention to escape, they became annoyed. Several men unexpectedly picked up the wooden sticks, bamboo poles and other things placed by the side of the road, aggressively The ground rushed over.
"Go away! This is not where you came from!"
Moli wears heavy, windproof clothes. This is a common attire for travellers, but Meng Qi next to him is very eye-catching. It is a big winter, a brown single robe. The sleeves and hem are very long. It's not the dress that ordinary people would have.
This made the townspeople hesitate. They whispered to each other, talking about the two people in a very accented dialect.
Mo Li can only understand a general idea, and some of them are talking about Meng Qi's appearance.
"...He was born such a handsome man, he must be a rich man, maybe a man from the government."
Speaking of the government, these townspeople immediately became angry, and they couldn't help but say that they came up with a push: "Qinghu Town has no lackeys from the government, get out!"
As a result, the pusher didn't push, but he stumbled into a ball.
In the chaos, a tambourine rang suddenly.
A group of people in white clothes came here very arrogantly. The first one was a fairly handsome man, but there was a blue mole on his forehead, which destroyed the Yushu Linfengzhi he tried so hard to pretend. appearance.
"It is the lord of incense!"
"The incense master is coming!"
The townspeople beamed with joy, quickly dispersed to give way, and then bowed their heads and clasped their hands to the man and the group reverently, muttering words in their mouths.
"Holy lotus altar?"
Moli has only seen such a gang that pretends to be a ghost. Seeing the group of people led by the incense master, holding gongs and drums, ringing the bells, grabbing the incense ash and throwing them away, the shelves are full, really like him. Sacred lotus altar congregation seen in Zhushan County.
"It should be, I haven't dealt with them, I'm not very familiar with them."
Meng Qi said indifferently that his appearance as an outsider is completely different from when he was just outside the town.
Sometimes, this kind of posture is obviously necessary. The sacred lotus altar incense master looked at Meng Qi suspiciously, did not act rashly, but took the countermeasures of courtesy first and then soldiers. He bowed his hand here and asked loudly: "Who are the two people, what are you doing in Qinghu Town?"
Mo Li turned his head subconsciously and found that Meng Qi didn't mean anything to say anything. He didn't know when he took a step back and stood behind him as if he was headed by himself.
The incense master was very surprised. He had regarded Moli as an entourage before and ignored the past. Now he has to look at it again. It's a pity that Moli is not like Meng Qi. The thick outer robe has a collar that can be used as a hood, which can block most of the face when erected. The incense lord can't see the appearance of Moli at all.
"We got lost here, just want to find a place to rest temporarily and leave the next day."
Mo Li said, but his eyes fell on the townspeople.
These people seem to be strong, full of energy, and have no sickness. What happened to the kid who ran away and said that there are many people in the town who are sick?
Sacred lotus altar has been so swaggering in the market. I am afraid that the people here have been deceived by them. Although Moli does not understand why people believe the rhetoric of the holy lotus altar, Master Li once said that many people can’t even eat food, who If they can keep them alive, they will follow who they are. Such believers are the most troublesome.
The incense master of the sacred lotus altar stared at the ink carp for a while, and then smiled and said without a smile: "Recently, the town is doing a way to get rid of evil, so outsiders should not stay here to avoid being infected with evil. Those who go up here, the light one gets sick, the severe one is killed. I don’t think the two of you want to die here for no reason. It’s better to leave as soon as possible."
"It seems ominous when I look at Qinghu Town. Do you use this ritual to exorcise evil spirits or recruit ghosts?" Meng Qi sneered.
The incense master sternly said: "It's hard to persuade **** ghosts, if you insist on staying here, the chaotic graves outside the town don't lack two pits."
After speaking, I took the people away in the prayers of the townspeople.
When the incense master was far away, the town residents turned their heads and stared at Mo Li and Meng Qi, and they slowly dispersed.
Moli took out a small gourd from his rucksack, poured out two pills, and stuffed one into Meng Qi.
"This is?"
"Just in case." Moli swallowed a pill by himself, and then explained, "I suspect that Qinghu Town is sometimes infected. Although the incense owner's entourage kept spreading incense ash, I still smelled some medicinal materials. Smell."
Meng Qi rubbed his jaw and said with some surprise: "I think the people in this town are full of energy, unlike the epidemic situation."
"Go to the drug store in town first." Mo Li made a decision.
Qinghu Town is very large, and it is about to catch up with the county seat of Zhushan County. The long street is connected with alleys and the roads are intricate.
There are dilapidated brick houses everywhere, some are covered with thick straw on the roof, some walls are covered with yellow mud, and some front doors are covered with weeds, making these houses crowded next to each other. It looks very desolate.
Moli frowned all the way. He felt that Qinghu Town should have been a town where many people lived, and it was very lively.
There are restaurants and tea houses in the town, but now the doors and windows are locked, and the paint on the window lattices is peeling off.
Moli approached a cloth shop beside the street where there was no signboard. A thick layer of ash accumulated on the threshold. The original door was missing, and it was clear that the inside was empty.
There are faint deep traces of heavy objects being dragged on the ground. That location was supposed to be the counter where the goods were placed.
Moli wiped the gray from the wall with a calm face, and saw a dark brown spot.
"Blood."
Meng Qi, who followed him, walked to the wall with great interest and gestured: "The blood splattered from this direction is probably such a tall man. His head was hit. The one who killed him It is not a knife that should be used, even if it is a knife, it is very blunt, and the blood drop does not fly out a clear arc."
"...Have you seen a lot?"
"I remember that on the day the previous dynasty fell, blood was everywhere in Taijing's magnificent palace, and everyone was running for their lives. The stern soldiers under Lu Zhang killed people when they saw them. There are traces left on the stone wall, countless traces." Meng Qi seemed to be reminiscing, and as if sighing, Moli found that he was actually normal, not the appearance of an illness.
"Where are you? Also running for your life?"
"Me?" Meng Qi looked dazed, and he murmured, "I seem to be just watching. It feels weird, doctor. I watched the fall of a dynasty with my own eyes and saw the hussar general Lu Zhang Huangpao was added, but no one could see me...The palace burned by flames, thick smoke hovering, I was like that smoke, invisible and invisible, without joy or sorrow..."
Mo Li stared at him closely, and suddenly a ridiculous thought appeared in his heart.
Without waiting for him to continue guessing, Meng Qi was shocked, as if he had awakened suddenly.
"Doctor, did I just say something?" Meng Qi asked suspiciously.
"...Nothing. The shops on this street are gone. Something must have happened in Qinghu Town. There should have been many people living in the town."
Moli came out of this cloth shop and found the same abandoned medicine shop at the end of the street.
"Half of the town is empty."
Walking out of this deserted street, you can see a building with a high foundation in the distance, like a temple. The wind brings a strong smell of incense, which is a little choking.
"That's probably where the Holy Lotus Altar pretended to be a ghost."
Although the townspeople are full of malice towards them, the two martial arts masters want to spy on the temple, so they don't need to show up at all.
Climbing the wall and building beams.
There is no plaque in front of the temple. The enshrined in it is the Lord Purple Star, whom the Holy Lotus Altar believes in. The statue is very rough. It can be said to be the Lord Purple Star or the gods of other temples. They all have faces like a full moon. Long eyebrows drag and hang.
"Why is this **** holding a pig in his hand?" Meng Qi asked in confusion.
Mo Lei identified the statue of Mr. Ziwei Xing, and then discovered that this thing with a face as big as a potted nose may not be a pig, because the pig’s mouth does not have a beard.
"No, that's a dragon..."
Meng Qi fell into silence after hearing the sound. After a while, he said with difficulty: "I have never seen such an ugly dragon."
The congregation of the Holy Lotus Altar was busy adding fire to the incense burner in the temple. The townspeople seemed to be unable to enter the temple and could only worship in the open space outside the door. They muttered obsessively, and there was no one else in the temple, let alone the incense master.
"Go and find the child we met." Moli made a decisive decision. It was impossible to inquire about the situation from the townspeople. Only the people here know what happened in Qinghu Town.
"How to find?"
"The child’s cloth bag contained herbs, and they were all taken from this temple...maybe they were stolen. There is no drug store in the town, no doctors, and no patients. You said the child stole What does the medicine do?"
"Medicines can only be used to cure diseases." Meng Qi snapped his fingers and said with certainty, "Whether you run away when you see people or steal medicine, you may be hiding your illness and want to cure it secretly. Couldn’t the Holy Lotus Altar know that there is a patient at home?"
Mo Li shook his head and said: "I don't know about this, but I know that he didn't take enough medicine, so I must find a way to steal it. Let's wait where we met the child."
In a narrow alley, a child stretched his head out, he looked around, then tiptoedly hid in the shadow of the eaves.
He had just walked a few steps, and suddenly one hand picked him up.
The child was so scared that he yelled, but he covered his mouth in time and looked at the person in front of him with a pale face.
"The reaction was quick." Meng Qi raised his eyebrows, looked at the thin child, and said somewhat unexpectedly, "Yes, it saves me the time of dumb acupuncture points."
The child's eyes lit up, he looked at Meng Qi baffledly, and asked in a low voice: "You, do you know martial arts? Are you great? Are they the heroes in the script?"
"Don't care about any heroes, what you need now is a doctor." Meng Qi grabbed the child's thin arm and stuffed it with Moli.
Moli gave the child a pulse naturally, and then touched his head.
"It's okay, I don't have a fever."
The child twisted uncomfortably and looked at Mo Li and whispered: "You are a doctor, can you help Uncle Lin treat the illness?"
"Where is Uncle Lin you said?" Moli realized that this person might be more ill, otherwise he would not let a child steal the herbs.
The child points to the direction outside the town.
"Why don't you live in town?"
"...I will die if I am found." The child said cautiously, "The incense master said that he was sick with evil spirits. You must bow down sincerely. If it doesn't get better, please ask Mr. Ziweixing to cast down the fire to get rid of the evil spirits. Up."