Qingyan Village is more than ten miles away from where we are staying. We can reach the place before dark by using the secret technique of magic.

Qingyan Village can actually be regarded as the outskirts of the God Buried Snow Mountain. If we ignore the obstacles, we can reach the God Buried Snow Mountain directly from the back of Qingyan Village.

The route Lao Liu drew for me was to stop at Qingyan Village, then go around the snow mountain border and rush to the next place. This was equivalent to asking me to circle most of the way around the snow mountain border and then enter the snow mountain.

I didn't understand what Lao Liu wanted to do, but Lao Liu repeatedly told me to stay in these fixed places, so I had no choice but to go there first.

The further we walked into the mountains, the more we felt something was wrong.

Feng Ruoxing couldn't help but said: "I heard the mountaineers said that there is a place where dead people live in the mountains. Is the place we are going to a dead people's village?"

I have also heard such legends:

In addition to horse fairies, there are also several hidden dragon and crouching tiger businesses in the Northeast, and mountain driving is one of them.

There are sorcerers hidden among the mountaineers, but they don't take the business on the magic road. They just rely on their skills to dig ginseng and collect herbs in remote mountains and forests. Only under special circumstances will they help acquaintances find people on the mountain, or

Send the dead down the mountain.

Among the legends of mountaineers, there are many legends about people who strayed into ghost villages.

The so-called ghost village may be a village spontaneously formed by ghosts trapped in the mountains.

Maybe he was trapped to death by evil spirits and disappeared into a small village in the mountains.

Or, a barren tomb in the mountains.

It is even possible that the mountain spirits are building villages and living like humans.

In short, it is a place where a living person can enter and never come out again.

When driving away mountain people, the way to judge whether you are going to the village of the dead is to look at the road.

In inaccessible places, there are generally no roads. The so-called mountain roads on the ground are just places washed away by mountains and rivers.

On those trails carved by mountains and rivers, some plants will grow until the rainy season. However, the places where ghosts often walk are barren of grass, because the ground is soaked with the Yin energy brought by ghosts, and weeds cannot grow.

The mountain road below us is exactly like this!

Feng Ruoxing said as he walked: "Have you ever told me, Lao Liu, where Qingyan Village is?"

I responded: "According to the information Lao Liu gave me, it should be a ghost village that disappeared overnight."

"A long time ago, Qingyan Village relied on traveling to the mountains to trade with the outside world. Things would be handed over to regular customers at a fixed time every month."

The term "old customer" in the Northeast does not mean regular customers or familiar customers. It means people who harvest ginseng and skins outside the mountains all year round. These people have unique vision, have a wide range of friends, and have deep friendships with the mountaineers.

Some regular customers who are familiar with the relationship will even give a deposit in advance to order Laoshan Ginseng.

In this kind of transaction, it may take several years before you can get old wild ginseng from the mountaineers. Both parties to the transaction rely on their reputation.

Business in the mountains is indispensable for both mountaineers and regular customers.

The legend of Qingyan Village originated from an old customer.

One year, an old customer from outside the mountain came to Qingyan Village and negotiated a deal with them.

At first, the village chief did not agree to take over the old customer's business. The old customer was not in a hurry, so he settled in Qingyan Village and got close to the people of Qingyan Village.

If this family is short of money or if that family doesn't have enough money, he can get it in time.

The people in the mountains were very simple-minded, and every one of them felt embarrassed and felt that they owed someone a favor, but the village chief refused to agree to the old customer's deal.

The villagers could only give the mountain goods to the old customers as compensation. The old customers didn't refuse, they took the goods as soon as they were given. In a blink of an eye, they cooked the mountain goods and served wine to treat the villagers to a meal.

Over time, the old guest became more and more familiar with the villagers. In addition, he traveled all over the country and gained extensive knowledge. When the villagers encountered difficulties, they all came to him for advice. The old guest's prestige in the village became higher and higher. Surprisingly, it was

The second village chief.

The village chief saw this in his eyes, but said nothing and did not even see the face of the old guest.

Until one day, the village chief's son accidentally beat someone to death at the foot of the mountain. The old guest came down the mountain to protect the person without saying a word, and spent money like running water, and finally the village chief's son was saved.

A great kindness is hard to repay!

Everyone thought that the village chief was definitely going to take over the old customer's business, but unexpectedly the village chief killed the old customer and took his head to the Yamen to surrender.

Just when no one thought that the village chief would come back, a friend of the old guest ran to the Yamen and took out a handwritten letter from the old guest and gave it to the county magistrate.

The county magistrate released the village chief that day!

People in the yamen said that there was only half of the letter, and the other half was given to the county magistrate before the old guest entered the mountain. The two halves of the letter were paired together, and the content was: the old guest himself asked the village chief to kill him and not hold anyone accountable.

, any responsibility.

Feng Ruoxing couldn't help but ask after hearing what I said: "So, has the old guest settled everything? It's hard to repay a great favor, and a great enmity can be purchased and sold in one go. If you add the two things together, the village will be in trouble."
Chapter completed!