Judgement

Chapter 180: The Fish of Hollow

Chapter 180: The Fish of Hollow

Chen Mengsheng looked at Hulu Town, which was as bright as day outside, and said to Shangguan Yanran: "Junior Sister, you and elder brother can stay in this abandoned house and take care of them. I'll go out and have a look at the town ### What's going on, why is it?" Light up the lights together?"

Xiang Xiaotian said casually: "Brother, you are really rare and strange. Of course, the lights should be lit when it gets dark. What's the fuss about it? Maybe it's the rules of their town..." Xiang Xiaotian was talking. I heard the intermittent sound of beating gongs and drums outside, and the sound of beating drums immediately aroused the endless beating of drums from every household in the town.

Xiang Xiaotian scolded in great displeasure: "Hey, the people in this place pretend to be dead during the day, but they all become night owls at night. Are they just going to sing a big show? Brother, I'll go with you to see them What are you doing in town?"

Shangguan Yanran knew that keeping Xiang Xiaotian bored in the room would only make her more uncomfortable, besides, having him with her senior brother was also a useful helper.He smiled and said: "Brother, let Brother Xiang go with you. I am here, and I will take good care of everyone. If sister Qi Ying loses a hair, you can only ask Brother Xiang, and you can go there with confidence." Let's go." Shangguan Yanran specially said the three words Miss Qi Ying very loudly, and Qi Ying, who was still drinking fish soup, blushed like a cloud and bowed her head in silence.Even if Shangguan Yanran's skills are a few small thieves, it is of course not a problem.The wound on Qi Ying's body will heal in just two days.Lihua and the others are protected by Shangguan Yanran, so there shouldn't be any trouble.

Chen Mengsheng nodded and went out of the house with Xiang Xiaotian to the town. From a distance, he saw a man walking and beating a big drum with a cane in his hand.From house to house, they beat drums outside the houses with lights on, and they would not leave until there was a response from the drums in the house.The drums had no rhythm at all, just random beating.

Xiang Xiaotian whispered: "Brother, everyone in the town is sick, and they don't know what they are going to do if they don't sleep at night?" Chen Mengsheng shook his head in confusion and walked quickly towards the person who was beating the drum. He came right in front of that man, and when the man raised his head, Chen Mengsheng was startled.Chen Mengsheng has seen many ugly people, but he has never seen such a scary person.The face was covered by a large black ringworm, and the circles of thin scales were bloody and bloody, making people shudder when they saw it...

The man also saw Chen Mengsheng, a stranger, tremblingly throwing down the big drum, turning around while leaning on a cane with his sleeves on his face, and staggering to leave in a hurry.Xiang Xiaotian yelled: "Hey, you ugly monster, don't run away. What kind of drums are you playing in the middle of the night? If you don't explain to me clearly, I won't let you go back today." Xiang Xiaotian opened a pair of drums. The big hand blocked the way of the man, and the man was so weak that he sat down on the ground in panic.

Chen Mengsheng stepped forward and picked up the big drum on the ground and said, "My little brother sees that you are not very old, why are you so weak?"

"I... I... Sigh. You foreigners, you better get out of here quickly, don't lose your life in vain. We can't leave, you will be like me if you stay in Hulu Town..." Then The man said softly to Chen Mengsheng.

"Fart, I just don't believe it. What do you mean if you stay here, you will become like you?" Xiang Xiaotian scolded with staring eyes.

Not long after the man's drum stopped, someone from the town opened the door and came out to look around.Xiang Xiaotian turned around and saw that the people who had come out of several rooms had black ringworm the size of which almost covered most of their faces, and stood there stunned.Xiang Xiaotian pointed at the crowd and shouted: "What's wrong with you all? You all look like evil spirits, what happened to Hulu Town?"

Chen Mengsheng pulled Xiang Xiaotian over and made a bow to everyone: "We are people passing by here, and we have no malicious intentions. It's just that we are very puzzled by Hulu Town and hope to let you know. If there is any difficulty, the two of us, brothers, will take action." Help."

A white-haired old man walked out from the crowd and said timidly: "You guys have been wandering around Hulu Town during the day, why don't you leave? We dare not come out to meet you when we see you with this face, old man I just advise you to leave quickly to save your life. Too many people have died in this town, so don’t ask any more questions. If you are alive to survive tonight, go on a boat, and wait until you also have black ringworm on your face. It's too late."

Xiang Xiaotian said angrily: "Old man, how can you curse people like this? How do you know that we can't survive tonight?"

Chen Mengsheng also frowned and said: "Old man, although we are foreigners, we are not afraid of things. I see that your words are flickering, and there seems to be something unspeakable, but I don't know why."

The old man said to the man sitting on the ground: "Little Qingzi, you continue to beat the drums. Everyone go back, maybe these foreigners can really solve the curse on the town. You two come with me Let’s talk after we enter the house.” The old man seemed to be very respected in Hulu Town, and the people who followed him all returned to their houses after what the old man said.Chen Mengsheng and Xiang Xiaotian followed the old man into the big tile-roofed house in the north in bewilderment, and the man on the ground called Xiaoqingzi got up and continued to beat his big drum, and there was an echoing drum sound in the town... …

Xiang Xiaotian entered the big tile house with severe cold on his back and spine, and there were seven or eight spiritual tablets in the huge hall.There was a little girl of sixteen or seventeen who was looking at Chen Mengsheng and Xiang Xiaotian in fear. The little girl had a graceful figure but was tarnished by the black ringworm on her face.The old man called out: "Chunni, go and make some refreshments."

Chen Mengsheng hurriedly waved his hands and said, "Girl, don't worry, we just ate. The old man should tell us what happened in the town!"

The old man let out a long sigh and said: "Old man, my surname is Kuru, and everyone in the town cares about me. You don't know something, sir. There used to be 180 families in Hulu Town, with thousands of people, but now you must be the same. I saw that there are less than 300 people left alive. I am the patriarch of Hulu Town, old man, and I have two sons. I watched them start their own families and spread their branches and leaves. Unexpectedly, in just half a year, they all became The spirit card was offered. Only the old man and the youngest granddaughter Chunni were left alone to survive..."

Xiang Xiaotian asked anxiously, "Did they get killed by some wicked person?"

Kurokuro shook his head with tears in his eyes, went to the altar, lit three sticks of incense in the incense burner and said, "It wasn't someone who killed him, but a strange fish that disturbed the town." Xiang Xiaotian frowned almost They were screwed together, and they patted the table and looked at Chen Mengsheng.

Chen Mengsheng asked: "Old man, what kind of strange fish can kill so many people? Please forgive our ignorance, what is the reason for this incident?"

After finishing his visit, Kurojiu said, "Most people in Hulu Town live by catching fish in the Yangtze River, and only a few people still cultivate land. In May and June last year, the Yangtze River reached the fish season, and it was the Yangtze River When the anchovy returns to give birth, people in the town, regardless of gender, age or age, go to the river valley to catch the anchovy. There are three fresh shad, puffer fish, and anchovy in the Yangtze River. Especially the anchovy that enters the river in early spring, the fish body Plump, delicate, and soft as cotton. If you catch a catty of anchovy and sell it in Anqing Prefecture, it will cost dozens of taels of silver, but you never thought that there were very few anchovy during the fish season last year. In the town The boys rowed to the upper reaches and cast a group of nets. They didn’t want to see that the nets they cast would be ten to nine broken. They didn’t know what’s weird at the bottom of the river. My eldest son, Kurohiro, led someone to carry a harpoon down. I didn’t expect that the dozen or so fishermen would never come up again after getting into the water...” The old man’s little granddaughter was sobbing softly beside him, she must be the daughter of Kurahiro.

Chen Mengsheng comforted him and said, "What kind of fish is that in the water? It was so fierce that it killed more than a dozen people in a row."

Kuroko said dejectedly: "I don't know what kind of fish it is, and the people in the town who have been fishing all their lives don't know that strange fish. When the strange fish came out of the river through the water, it overturned three or four fishing boats. That fish has a head bigger than this room, and under the head are ten bodies several feet in length, and it barks like a dog..."

"Ah..." Chen Mengsheng exclaimed in surprise, "That's the fish of He Luo, why did this fierce fish end up in the Yangtze River!?"

Xiang Xiaotian asked anxiously: "Brother, what is He Yu? What kind of thing is that? Have you seen it?" The grandparents and grandchildren in the room stopped crying and looked at Chen Mengsheng blankly.

"The He Luo fish usually grows in the Qiaoming Mountains in the north and flows westward into the Yellow River. The He Luo fish has one head but ten bodies. It makes a sound like a dog barking. People who eat its meat can heal carbuncles. disease. But this fish has a very strong temper and can't bear the slightest loss. If it is harassed, it will be revenged. It is a strange fish in the water. It is a hundred times more ferocious than the roaring beast of the younger sister. The people in Calabash Town disturbed He Luozhi Fish, it will definitely come to seek revenge."

Kuojiu nodded repeatedly when he heard Chen Mengsheng's words: "Sir, what you said is indeed true. Since then, there has been no peace in Hulu Town. At first, chickens, ducks and livestock disappeared for no reason, and later it was the town. The people in the village crushed it up and threw it into the river. Many people wanted to kill that strange fish, but dozens of boats couldn’t do anything to it. The strange fish could sink the boat as soon as it turned over.”

Xiang Xiaotian scolded: "What a beast, how dare you be so arrogant, take me to meet it!"

Kurojiu cried and said, "It's because of our plan to kill it that it has come to where it is today. There is a blacksmith in Calabash Town, and his son is only seven or eight years old, and he is also eaten by the strange fish. He does not distinguish between day and night. They made a ten-foot-long iron cage, drove the cattle into the iron cage, set up a trap and placed it on the riverside. Until the third night, there was a deafening sound of dogs barking in the town. Everyone in the town rushed to the place. I just saw the strange fish caught by the iron cage by the riverside. Dozens of mouths have been killed by the strange fish in the town. They all hated it and gritted their teeth. People pulled the iron cage to the center of the town to expose it to the sun. After two full days in the sun, the strange fish spit out a ball of black gas and died. The blacksmith took the lead in cutting up the strange fish. Every household ate the strange fish to relieve their hatred. But the blacksmith and his wife both He was hanged at home, and those who ate the strange fish had black ringworm on their faces within three days, and the itching and pain really made life worse than death..."

Chen Mengsheng asked again: "The blacksmith was hanged to death, did the family report and investigate?"

"Why haven't we checked it? The old man of Anqing Mansion came here by boat to investigate the case, and the seven or eight yamen servants he brought were also hanged in the house. The fishing boats parked by the river in the town don't know how to return. Everything was burned down overnight, and those who tried to escape from the town would float their corpses on the river. Strange things would happen again and again in the town at midnight. Alas, a few days ago, my house was fine during the day, but at night the whole family Except that Chunni and I were slaughtered. That's why the town beat drums to cheer us up through the long night..."

Chen Mengsheng thought for a while and said, "Old man, how did you and Chunni escape this disaster?..."