Chapter 24 Chapter Seven Night Break into the Dragon Palace

Visiting the third wife's house, I learned from her that there is a hidden cave next to the pine forest. The villagers call it "Dragon Palace", and a statue of the Dragon King is enshrined in it.Young women in the village go to the Dragon Palace every year to worship the Dragon King and drink the underground river water in the cave.I suspected that the strange illnesses suffered by the villagers were related to the river water, and it was necessary to investigate in the Dragon Palace, so I wanted to ask the exact location of the Sanpo Dragon Palace. However, the third wife seemed to be in trouble for my question, the wrinkles on her face were so wrinkled that she could kill a fly: "Dragon Palace has never allowed men to enter, and no outsiders have ever entered..." She obviously didn't want us to go to Dragon Palace. I'm afraid it will harass the so-called Dragon King!

I persuaded: "Third woman, people in your village go to worship the Dragon King every year, but why doesn't the Dragon King drive away the mountain ghosts for you? Instead of waiting for the Dragon King to bless you, why don't you take the initiative to investigate inside, maybe you can catch the mountain ghosts?" ghost." She was silent for a moment, and sighed: "Well, anyway, I won't tell you, you can find it with a little more time." Then she told us the exact location of the cave, and repeatedly told us to catch the mountain ghost as soon as possible live.

When I was about to leave, I found a middle-aged man sneaking in outside the door to peek at us, so I rushed out and caught him.Who knew that as soon as I grabbed him, he would yell, "The mountain ghost wants to catch me, help! The mountain ghost wants to catch me, help..." He kept repeating this sentence, squatting on the ground with his head in his hands, and his body He huddled into a ball, and his body was still shaking unceasingly. The third wife came out hurriedly with her crutches, if Zidie hadn't helped her, she would definitely have fallen.She came over and took a look at the middle-aged man, then pushed me away and grabbed his arm, and said anxiously: "Don't scare him, he was frightened by the mountain ghost, as soon as he saw someone rushing towards him But, or if someone catches him, he will keep barking."

I let go of my hand in doubt, and he stopped barking as expected, but he was still shaking on the ground. After a while, he poked his head out to glance at us, and then smiled silly at us.I took a serious look at him. He was probably in his forties, and his whole body was dirty, especially his hands, which were almost completely covered in mud.Although there was a lot of mud on his face, I could still see his face clearly, as if I had seen him somewhere before, but I couldn't remember it for a while.Because the third wife said that he was scared crazy by the mountain ghost, so I wanted to know about his situation, but no matter what I asked him, he would just smile silly.

"He won't answer you." The third wife said and waved at him, "Xiwen, go find a place to play by yourself, don't come here to make trouble with the third wife, go quickly." He smirked as if he had no intention of leaving.The third woman said again: "You greedy cat, you want to beg for food from the third woman again, don't you?" He still had a smirk on his face.The third wife returned to the house with her crutches and brought him an apple. He immediately took it with a pair of black hands, and then ran away.The third wife looked at the distant figure and said, "This greedy cat knows how to eat."

After he disappeared from our sight, I asked the third wife: "Who is he?" "His name is Xiwen. He is from our village. He was a very smart young man, but he was frightened crazy by the mountain ghost." The third woman looked at the direction Xiwen left and shook her head repeatedly. "Has he ever seen a mountain ghost? Do you know what happened at that time?" I asked again. "That's true, oh, speaking of which, he was the first to discover the mountain ghost..." The third wife invited us into the house again, and told us about Xiwen—— Xiwen is a poor child. He has an older brother named Dawen. The two brothers are twins and are the sons of Fucai.There used to be no hospital in our village, not even a health station. Mrs. Fucai lost a lot of blood and died when she gave birth to them.Fucai raised them both as a father and a mother, but he also died when they were fifteen or sixteen years old.

The two brothers are very smart, and they have always been the first and second in school, but after Fucai died, they depended on each other, so they had to make a living on their own, and could no longer study.But in a place like ours, if you don’t study, you won’t get ahead, so Xiwen asked his brother to continue studying, and find work to earn money for his brother to complete his studies. Seeing that Xiwen is so sensible, everyone in the village will help him if they can, and they will turn to him first if they need someone to do something.At that time, people in the village began to know that rosin could make money, so in summer, when rosin could be cut, people had to take turns to watch the night in the pine forest to prevent outsiders from stealing rosin.Every time he was looking for someone to watch the night, the village head would look for him first, but he didn't expect that this would actually harm him.

In the first few years, Xiwen did a good job. He never came to watch the night and never tried to be stolen and cut the rosin. Once, he caught a thief who stole the rosin.No one expected that such a thing would happen later. On the night of the accident, Ah Quan and Xiwen were supposed to watch the night together, but Quan's sister-in-law was going to have a baby that night.Although it was the second child, the first was a girl, so Ah Quan was still very nervous. He said hello to Xiwen and ran home, leaving Xiwen alone to watch the night. In the middle of the night, Xiwen suddenly ran back to the village, covered in mud, and knocked on doors from house to house, shouting that there were mountain ghosts in the pine forest.Everyone thought he said that someone had stolen the rosin, so they asked the men in the village to enter the pine forest with a torch.Everyone searched in the pine forest, but the thief did not find it, but found that a new grave had been dug up.

It turned out that the person lying in the new grave was Xiulan. She had paid homage to Jianjun three months ago, but after a few quarrels between the young couple, she couldn't see it for a while and drank the whole bottle of pesticide.On the night of the accident, she had only been buried for two or three days, what a crime! When everyone found that Xiulan's grave had been dug up, her body was lying on the top of the grave, her clothes were torn, her body was covered in mud, and her eyes were still open.The corpse must have been raped, everyone was very angry when they saw it, especially Xiulan's family members were even more angry and cursed.So, everyone divided into several groups and searched the entire pine forest, but they couldn't find anything until dawn.

There was no way to find it, so everyone had to go back to the village to find Xiwen, and asked him if he had seen what the traitor looked like.But Xiwen just kept saying that the mountain ghost wanted to catch him, and it was only then that everyone realized that he was crazy. When Xiwen went crazy, Dawen was still doing an internship outside, and the internship was almost over.His college tuition was borrowed from people in the village, and Xiwen saved every penny of his daily life and sent it to him.If you let him know that something happened to his brother, he will run back to take care of him, and he may not be able to get his graduation certificate.Everyone saw how pitiful the two brothers were without parents, so they hid it from him and took turns taking care of Xiwen until he came back from graduation...

"Xiwen's brother is a doctor in the hospital?" I finally remembered that there was a doctor in the hospital who looked very similar to him. "Well, Dawen works as a dentist in the hospital. In fact, before the construction of this hospital is completed, he has already seen the dentist with us. Although the conditions were a bit poor at that time, his skills are quite good. I used to let The teeth he filled are very strong, but it is a pity that he is old and has lost all his teeth." The third woman sighed, and there was not a single tooth in her slightly opened mouth. Xiwen was the first person to discover the mountain ghost. If he could learn about the situation at that time, it would definitely be of great help to the investigation.It's a pity that this place is remote, otherwise I could ask Xiaona for help and use hypnotism to let him tell the situation at that time. Originally, I wanted to find the Dragon Cave to get the underground river water before the sun went down, so that I could take it for testing tomorrow.But it took a lot of time to ask the third wife about Xiwen, and it was already night when I left her house. The rural area is different from the city. When it gets dark, the lights are blind, and I almost can't even find my way.Even so, in order to avoid extra trips, I decided to go to the Dragon Cave right now. Anyway, the so-called Dragon King can't eat people. To put it bluntly, the so-called Dragon Palace is just a different kind of temple. The third wife told me the location of the Dragon Cave in detail. I thought it would be easy to find, but it was not easy to find.I searched with Zidie for an hour at the edge of the pine forest with a powerful flashlight, and finally found the hidden entrance of the dragon cave in a place overgrown with weeds.In fact, the entrance of the Dragon Cave is quite large. Although it is not too high, it should be no problem to stuff two Hummers side by side.However, such a large hole is covered by more than half of the chaotic vegetation, otherwise we wouldn't have to find it so hard. I took a flashlight into the cave and found that it seemed to be a karst cave. The cave extended down and there was a relatively flat road on the ground.This road should have been opened up by the villagers, otherwise the ritual of three steps and one kneeling is performed on the uneven stone, and the fear is that you will see King Yama before you reach the Dragon King.A strange thought flashed in my mind, judging by the width of this road, maybe five or six young women could kneel and walk side by side. If I followed them, I could see a row of hips raised Ups and downs, the scene should be spectacular!Too bad I didn't get to see it. After entering the Dragon Cave, my first feeling was "black".Although the outside of the cave is also very dark, there is still a glimmer of light from the bright moon and stars after all, while the inside of the cave is a completely dark world. The beams of powerful flashlights are as small as fluorescent lights here.The light of the torch illuminates a small area in the cave, and the colorful and strangely shaped stalactites are displayed in front of my eyes. However, the cave is much drier than I imagined, and there is no sound of dripping water, maybe because of the season. Zidie suddenly leaned towards me, almost walking side by side with me.Since the chest attack incident in the afternoon, she has deliberately kept a distance from me. The reason why she is approaching me at this moment is probably because she is afraid in her heart!Being in a dark cave, anyone will instinctively feel fear. Darkness is one of the sources of fear, and the underground is also the source of fear.Because most of the things related to the underground are not good things, and besides snakes, insects, rats and ants, what are circling in my mind at the moment are rotten corpses. "Do you think there will be zombies jumping out here?" I said to Zidie in a strange way. "You, you are crazy, there are no zombies in this world." She even stuttered, I don't believe that she is not afraid of zombies jumping out suddenly. Since she is afraid, I might as well frighten her a bit, just to frustrate her.I suddenly pointed to the place beside her nervously, and exclaimed in surprise: "There seems to be something moving there!" "Wow!" She yelled, leaned on me, hugged my arms tightly, and buried her face in my chest.It feels so good to sink your arms deep into the soft chest, I wish time could stop at this moment forever.But this is impossible, she is only intimidated by me because she didn't react for a while, and she will soon find out that something is wrong.In order not to be accused of being a pervert, I had to expose the lie myself before she realized that I was scaring her.So, when she timidly wanted to look back at the place I was pointing at, I immediately shone it with a flashlight, and said first: "It turned out to be a mountain mouse, and it ran quite fast, which shocked me a lot. " She looked around and breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that there was nothing strange.Her mind is actually quite flexible. As soon as the sense of fear subsided, she immediately realized the problem, let go of my arm, and asked me like a question: "Is there really a mountain mouse? Why didn't I hear that there was a mountain mouse?" cry." Rats generally scream when they are frightened, as people do when they are frightened, and if there is a mountain rat in the place I am pointing at, it will surely be frightened and run away screaming when the flashlight shines on it.However, neither of us listened to any animal calls. "Maybe it's not another small animal! It runs very fast, and I didn't see it clearly. Let's hurry up and get water from the Dragon River!" Acting skills are very important if you don't want to be slapped.Although my acting skills are not as good as Fa Ge Xing Ye, but in this dark environment, it is not difficult to fool a little girl.Although she stared at me suspiciously, which made me shudder, I put on a sanctimonious appearance, and finally I got away with it. When walking on, Zidie seemed to want to keep a distance from me, but she didn't dare to stay too far away from me, and walked side by side with me.Maybe she thinks being with me, a pervert in human skin, is much better than meeting a zombie! Although the floor of the cave is relatively flat, the roof of the cave is undulating, and the lower part can easily touch the head.I suddenly wondered whether the ritual of three steps and one prayer would be to avoid bumping heads so easily.Many traditions or rules that have been handed down from the past, although full of superstitious interpretations, actually have some truth.For example, the legend of the water ghost, to put it bluntly, just advises people to be careful about drowning. When I was thinking about the legend, I suddenly heard Zidie yelling "Be careful". It was too late to say it, but then it was too late. There was a sound of "bang", and a string of twinkling gold stars appeared in front of my eyes—I touched it. It's over. Ouch, the stalactites stretching down from the top of the cave are as hard as a hammer, almost piercing my head, and it hurt so much that I crouched down with my head in my arms.Zi Die stretched out her soft and smooth hands, rubbed my forehead a few times, and scolded with concern: "I told you to be careful, but you still touch it, you're so stupid! Are you okay?" "Fortunately, I didn't damage my head, and it still works." I smiled bitterly, and took a look at the surrounding situation by the way.This place is much narrower than the entrance of the cave, and the stalactites are in the middle. If you want to move on, you can only bend down to avoid it. "It'll be fine if it breaks, at least there won't be any wild mice running out of nowhere." She opened her beautiful eyes wide and looked at me, as if she regarded me as a prisoner.I think she must have figured it out, I just deliberately frightened her, but there is no evidence to expose me. For my own safety, I had to change the subject immediately, and then said generously: "If my head is really broken, I can only rely on you to catch the mountain ghost!" "That can't be done, even if your head is going to be broken, it won't be broken until you catch the mountain ghost. Give me the flashlight..." She said and took the flashlight from my hand, "I'll go ahead, just follow me, I'm afraid you'll really break your head." I smiled helplessly, this time was quite embarrassing, embarrassing! After pulling me up, she bent over to avoid the stalactites that had just greeted my head.However, when she straightened her waist again, she let out a terrified scream.I hurriedly bent down to move forward, and a horrible picture appeared in front of my eyes—under the strong light of the flashlight, there was a human head suspended in the air in the dark cave! It was a rotten human head, and the facial features could no longer be distinguished, but the loose long hair let me know that she was a woman, maybe a villager who had been desecrated by mountain ghosts after death, a soul full of resentment... I think, we probably What the hell!