I am King Gou

The child's complexion was yellowish, his cheeks were stained with streaks of gray, and he was dirty. There was a velvet flower tied on his head, but he was a little girl with good facial features.

She looked at the spiritual fruit, showing hesitation, as if she wanted to lean in but didn't dare.

Seeing this, the Sanxiu patiently coaxed a few more words before the little girl slowly moved to his side and stretched out her hand to pick up the spiritual fruit.

Sanxiu shook his hand, avoided her, and said, "Tell me first, is there any special rumor in your village?"

The little girl hesitated before saying, "Yes."

"What is it?" Sanxiu was overjoyed and asked hastily.

"Grandpa said that if the brothers of the village chief's family don't marry again, it will be bad." The little girl bit her lip, "So let us all stay at home obediently, and he has to help save the dowry."

marry a wife?

bride price?

Sanxiu frowned. He followed the ancestors of Woqiu and the four elders of the Xiao family. He entered the village later. He didn't hear much about the happy event in the village.

After thinking about it for a while, I felt that I had no clue, so I continued to ask: "What else?"

"Anything else?" The little girl stared blankly at the spirit fruit in his hand, and said dully, "I don't know yet."

Seemingly aware of the gloomy expression on Sanxiu's face, not far away, several companions of the little girl mustered up their courage and said, "There is another ballad, Grandpa said it was handed down by the ancestors, do you want to listen to it?"

Sanxiu immediately said, "Say it!"

The children nodded, waved the willow branches in their hands, and sang in unison: "Yang Liu is alive, spin the top."

As soon as the words fell, Sanxiu suddenly became dizzy, "Pa", he was hit hard on the back, and there was a burning pain.

Sanxiu was shocked, and when he stumbled, he looked around, and was surprised to find that he turned into a spinning top? ? ?

Surrounded by children who were still terrified just now, they waved willow branches in their hands, laughing and pulling them down.

The crisp nursery rhyme continues: "Yangliu Erqing, let the clock go."

"Yang Liuer dies, kick the shuttlecock."

"Willow sprouts, pull them out. Note"

After a while, several children worked together to gather up the scattered repairs scattered all over the ground and pile them under the willow tree.

The roots of the willow tree squirmed for a while, and soon devoured all the flesh and bones, and the courtyard quickly returned to its original calm.

Xiao Zhongtao kicked open a door, revealing the simple inner room. In the room, a mortal woman dressed as a young woman in her twenties stood up from the spinning wheel in fright.

The woman's complexion was sallow, but her eyebrows and eyes were faintly beautiful, and she looked at them with trepidation, not daring to breathe.

Xiao Zhongtao didn't pay any attention to her, and went straight forward, smashing open all the boxes, tables, chairs, beds, digging the ground inch by inch, and inspecting the four walls of the roof. "How dare you break into my house?"

Xiao Zhongtao smiled coldly and said, "Find something, you"

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly felt a blockage in his throat, and soon, his limbs became sore and limp, as if he was sucked out of all his strength by something, and his mana was silent, and he couldn't mobilize it even after all kinds of struggles. Together with the accompanying casual cultivators during the foundation establishment period, they were all lifted up by invisible forces, and blood flowed

Down below, the mortal woman sighed slightly when she saw this scene, then sat back and continued to weave.

The blood soaked the spinning thread, and the original tooth-white homespun cloth gradually turned crimson red. The woman looked at it, and gradually stretched her brows, revealing a look of joy.

At the same time, the Patriarch Woqiu was standing in front of an old man, his eyes wide open, his expression terrified, and there was a sound of "ho ho" in his throat, but no matter how frightened he was, the invisible force would still Little by little it was lifted into the air

Azusa Village.

Village East.

A dilapidated house stood alone, hundreds of feet away from the nearest private house.

The villagers who led the way sent them to the door, then took their leave.

The crowd couldn't stay, so they turned their heads and looked at the house in front of them.

It can be seen from this place that it was built with great care and occupies a vast area.

It's just that there is no grass inside or outside, and there is no vegetation.

Qiao Ciguang led the way into the yard and looked around, but found nothing abnormal except for the coldness and coldness caused by no one living there all year round.

She then told everyone: "Don't make noise in the village, don't force your way into the empty door, don't attack the villagers, don't wear red at night, and don't wear hairpins during the day."

"This is a taboo in the village. Everyone must keep it in mind. Don't violate it unless it is absolutely necessary."

A group of people responded one after another.

Immediately afterwards, Qiao Ciguang called several junior sisters and Shi Wanli aside, and said via voice transmission: "What do you think of this Zi Village?"

There are four people from the same sect who went to the island with her this time, Ruan Zhi, Zhang Jing, Chu Hanbei, and Zhong Shizhu, all of whom are at the alchemy stage.

Hearing this, Ruan Zhi immediately said, "The most suspicious thing now is the funeral in the village."

"On the way here just now, the senior sister asked many times who died and how, but the villager kept talking about other things and refused to say anything."

"Senior Sister, something is very wrong with this village. Maybe the villagers we saw just now are not living people at all, but sneaky people in disguise?" said a female cultivator with a double snail bun and a cyan skirt.

This is Zhang Jing.

"That's right! Sister, should we try it out?" Chu Hanbei, a female cultivator in a cloud bun and a light yellow shirt and turquoise skirt, also said, "If these villagers are not alive at all, then we will come A fight against demons and Dao can also solve the root cause of this village's treachery."

Zhong Shizhu, who hadn't spoken all this time, nodded lightly: "This floating island is related to Yousu Tomb, and Yousu Tomb is a place where ghosts inhabit, and they hate everything about the living. And these villagers are all mortals with no cultivation base. Now, according to common sense, how could they survive on the floating island?"

Listening to the opinions expressed by the junior sisters, Qiao Ciguang's face remained unchanged. Several junior sisters suspected that there was something wrong with the villagers in the village. She was like this at the beginning, but

Thinking of this, Qiao Ciguang turned to Shi Wanli: "Lord Shi, what do you think?"

Shi Wanli frowned, thought for a moment, and then said: "There must be something wrong with this village! But those villagers, it's hard to draw a conclusion yet."

"After all, whether the villagers are alive or not is not the most important thing."

"The most important thing is, are they kind to us or are they malicious?"

"We are not demons heretics. If the situation of the villagers is different, but there is no malice towards us, it would be a breach of integrity and go against your and my Dao heart."

"Judging from the contact so far, they took the initiative to tell us the rules of the village."

"Next, we'd better verify whether these rules are true or not."

"If the rules are true, it means that no matter how these villagers survived on the island, and whether they are still alive or not, they are not enemies."

"Otherwise, don't say anything, and wait for us to break the taboo, wouldn't it be good?"

"If the rules are false, let's make a plan."

Hearing this, Qiao Ciguang nodded slightly: "That's right! That's exactly the reason. However, based on my experience, there are some evil and cunning, and the words are mixed with truth and falsehood, which is very confusing. So next, we still have to be careful. "

The note is from the scenery of the imperial capital.