The Dharma Sea of ​​the Green Snake

Chapter 3 At the Foot of Wei Mountain
Xinkang Town is a small town located at the foot of Weishan Mountain, and it is also the largest town in Shiliba Township.

Due to the limitations of this era and the underdeveloped transportation, every April and Ninth Day, that is, the six days of the fourth, ninth, fourteenth, nineteenth, 24th, and 29th of each month, a large number of neighbors will come spontaneously. Go to market in Xinkang Town.

So when Pei Wende walked on the township roads and official roads, what he saw was the pictures of people from all over the world carrying burdens, pushing carts, and taking their surplus things to the market to buy and sell.

"Thank you, junior."

After helping an old man push the cart up the slope, Pei Wende smiled and declined the plan to continue walking with him, and turned his gaze to a certain direction behind him.

"what?"

It seemed to be a family of three who came here from a nearby small village to go to the market.

But judging from their attire, they don't seem to be ordinary civilians.

After all, in this day and age, it is good for ordinary people to have clothes to wear. People who dress as well as the family of three, even if they are not landlords and gentry, their births are not much different.

And people like this seldom appear in the market, let alone carry burdens and push carts with the people from all over the world.

"The young! The young!"

Just when Pei Wende was in a daze, the old man whom he had helped before suddenly came up to him and pulled him with a slightly serious expression.

"Don't look at that family, stay away from them."

Although the old man had deliberately lowered the volume, the child in the family of three seemed to have heard his words, and the old man trembled in fright when he glanced over.

"Go, junior, hurry up."

Seeing this situation, the old man didn't say any more, he forcibly pulled Pei Wende and walked forward at a faster pace.

After a while, until the family of three could no longer see the backs of the two, the old man let out a long sigh of relief, and the nervous look on his face dissipated.

"Old man? What's going on?"

Silently glanced at the old man who seemed relieved, Pei Wende finally couldn't help asking.

"Is there anything strange about that family just now?"

No wonder Pei Wende was so surprised, it was because the old man's behavior was really too strange.

Although the three members of the previous family were out of tune with the people around them in terms of dress, they were not exaggerated to the point where they needed to be avoided, right?
"Young student, I seldom go out when I see you."

Hearing this, the old man gradually slowed down the speed of his cart while explaining in a low voice with earnestness.

"Even if the family of three is not Xie Chong, they must be inseparable from Xie Chong. There is a high probability that they are some kind of Xie Chong's 'ghosts'."

"what?"

This time Pei Wende was really full of question marks, did he really have the talent of crow's mouth?
Before going down the mountain, I said I wanted to meet monsters, but immediately after going down the mountain, I ran into evil spirits. Isn't this a bit too coincidental?

"Xiaosheng, you carefully recall the shoes worn by the family of three, are they very clean?"

After being reminded by the old man, Pei Wende realized that the shoes worn by the family of three were indeed clean, as clean as if they were newly bought.

"But... what does this have to do with them being evil?"

Humbly asking the old man for advice, Wen Wende felt that this might be related to the "not peaceful" that his master said to him before going down the mountain.

"Except for the main road built by the government in the nearby ten miles and eight towns, which road is not the mountain road or township road built in my own village."

Seemingly satisfied with Pei Wende's young man's attitude, the old man couldn't help but continued to explain,

"It's good enough that these mountain roads and country roads can be passed by people. It is impossible to maintain and repair them all the year round like the official ones."

"Walking all the way like you and me, even if the shoes are not broken, there must be some dirt, right?"

As soon as these words came out, Pei Wende suddenly realized what he had overlooked.

"That family of three...haven't walked the country road?"

Ancient China is not comparable to the modern society of the 21st century. These days, if you travel far away without taking the country roads or mountain roads, it is impossible to travel ten miles around.

In fact, even those official roads built and maintained by officials are rarely as clean as the concrete and asphalt roads of the 21st century.

In this way, the family of three who had walked such a long distance without any dirt on their shoes looked a little weird.

"That's right, the three members of that family are not from the nearby village at all, but 'ghosts' on this road deliberately arranged by Xie Chong!"

The tone was unusually firm, as if the old man who was afraid that Pei Wende would not believe him continued to explain.

"If you don't believe me, come back later and look again. This family of three must still be walking on this road."

Looking at the swearing old man, Pei Wende raised his eyebrows slightly.

"So that's the case, then which evil 'ghost' are you?"

As soon as these words came out, the face of the old man opposite Pei Wende suddenly changed, and then he reacted instantly and forced a smile.

"Ahem, junior, what are you talking about?"

"The little old man is just an ordinary farmer, how could he be a 'ghost'?"

As he spoke, the old man patted the cart he was pushing, as if to prove to Pei Wende that he was not lying.

"Old man, a real farmer can't walk for such a long time without breaking a sweat!"

The corner of his mouth cracked slightly, and Pei Wende smiled and pointed out some details of the old man's poor disguise.

"Also, in these days and years, real farmers don't push their own rice out to market in hot weather."

"What's more, do you think I can't see that the pedestrians around are avoiding you on purpose?"

"Just like you pointed out that the family of three are 'ghosts', when I was pushing the cart for you, I noticed that those people seemed to be saying something to me."

To be honest, Pei Wende didn't think of anything at first.

It wasn't until the old man revealed that the family of three were "ghosts" disguised as market goers, that Pei Wende realized what the hesitant expressions of nearby pedestrians really meant.

The only thing that puzzled Pei Wende was that he hadn't encountered any serious monsters for more than ten years after he was reincarnated in this era, but today he ran into two groups of monsters as soon as he came down the mountain.

Is this just a coincidence?
Or is there something happening in this area that I don't know about?
"Ahem, the younger generation is just kidding. If the little old man is really a 'ghost', how could he point out the identities of the family of three?"

Hearing that the "ghost" disguised as a human being opposite him was still sophistrying, Pei Wende, who was much more courageous than ordinary people, just asked back with a half-smile tone.

"Maybe you want to eat alone?"

"After all, although I don't know what a real monster looks like, I still know that the legendary evil ghosts like to eat people."

"Coincidentally, I happen to belong to the kind of guy with more vigorous blood, maybe it suits the appetite of you 'ghosts'?"

—Recommendation ticket—/—Monthly ticket—

(End of this chapter)