Chapter 351.
Winter.
The sky, which had been obscured by gloom for three consecutive days, dropped dots of frosty snow.
The rice-grain sized snow smashed down on the roof tiles, constantly emitting crackling sounds, making people truly feel the onset of the bitter winter.
The weather at this time was already very cold, and the water surface of the small river at the east end of Dada Village had formed a thin layer of ice.
The north wind whistled across the deserted fields, and the distant tops of the mountains were already snow-capped.
However, on this day when everything is silent, Daitian Village’s Houtu Temple is particularly lively, bustling with people’s voices.
The temple was abuzz with incense, and nine large cauldrons of astonishing size were set up outside.
The roaring flames licked the black bottom of the pots, and in the pots, diced pork was tossed up and down in the boiling water, mixing well with all kinds of spices.
The air was filled with a mouth-watering aroma.
Every year at the beginning of winter, it is the day of sacrifice for the ten miles of villages.
Villagers gather together to offer incense and sacrifices to the Goddess of the Earth, who protects the people of the land, and to pray for a good harvest and stability in the coming year.
Of course, while sacrificing to the gods, they should not starve their own stomachs, and the meat soup boiled in these nine cauldrons is a delicacy for all to share.
It is called “Sacrificial Soup”.
One cauldron can distribute two hundred bowls of sacrificial soup.
What’s different from previous years is that this year’s sacrificial soup has a particularly large portion of meat.
The meat used was still first-order demonic beast meat!
Originally, the person who presided over the festival was Temple Bishop Xu, but after she was captured, the position of Temple Bishop has been left vacant.
Therefore, this year, three elders from the village were to preside over it.
After the sacrificial ceremony was completed, one of the Elders scooped up a large bowl of sacrificial soup from the cauldron and cupped it with both hands in front of Wang Chen, saying respectfully, “Please eat, my lord.”
“My lord, please eat!”
Thousands of villagers inside and outside the Hou Tu Temple saluted Wang Duan in unison.
This was the highest etiquette on the day of the festival, representing that all of them were convinced of Wang Duan, the village chief, and held him in high esteem!
Wang Chuan took the sacrificial spoon and raised it high: “To Heaven!”
Then he puts it down again: “Thank you, Earth!”
Then he drank the soup in one gulp!
He wasn’t afraid of scalding and thought the flavor was pretty good.
After Wang Chen finished the bowl of sacrificial soup, a feast began.
Hundreds of villagers lined up in front of the nine cauldrons, happily sharing the steaming meat soup.
In addition to a large bowl of sacrificial soup with sufficient quantity and ingredients, each family was also given thirty pounds of wild boar meat.
Just in the past half a month, Wang Dust had taken the Dada Village’s guards into the mountains to hunt and captured a large number of demonic beasts and returned.
The seven to eight hundred pound long-tusked wild boar could be divided into more than three hundred pounds of fine meat and hundreds of pounds of fatty oil, and the escort team had hunted as many as a hundred of them before and after.
If they were evenly distributed to the village, a household would be able to get more than a hundred pounds!
After the new season’s fall grain was put into storage, Dada Village’s public treasury was full like never before.
And as the founder of the Escort Guard, as well as the maker of various systems, Wang Dust’s prestige in the village had greatly increased.
Now, he was considered to have earned his name!
Next, the entire village entered into a cat winter mode.
A few days later, a flurry of snow covered the entire village, and people began to live in deep seclusion.
Only the boys of the guards, who stepped on the thick snow to patrol back and forth every day.
They also became the most unique existence in Dada Village.
“Village Chief!”
On this day, Wang Dust was shabu-shabuing beast meat hot pot at home when someone suddenly knocked on the door of the village main house.
The person who came was none other than the captain of the guards, Xiao Hong, who had a tense and grave expression on his face, and after saluting, he couldn’t wait to say to Wang Duan “My lord, something’s wrong!”
The one in trouble was a yellow family in the village.
Wang Dust followed Xiao Hong to this family’s home, and when he entered, he saw two corpses lying in the courtyard.
The dead were an old couple, lying on their backs in the snow, with the fearful look of the dying lingering on their faces.
Wang Duan noticed that on their necks, there were black finger marks.
Like being strangled alive.
Then to the inner room, there were two other bodies on the bed and on the ground, a five or six year old child and a young woman.
The two died in almost the same way as the old couple.
“This is this family’s neighbor, Chen Laowu.”
Xiao Hong brought in a middle-aged man and introduced, “He was the one who found out about this family’s accident.”
The middle-aged man was terrified and couldn’t raise his head at all in front of Wang Dust.
Wang Dust asked, “Are all the people in this family dead?”
Chen Laowu hurriedly shook his head, “Huang Ze wasn’t there.”
This family has a total of five people, the dead are grandparents, daughter-in-law and grandson, as the backbone of the family Huang Ze disappeared.
Xiao Hong said, “I have asked people to look for it, I suspect ……”
He wanted to say something.
Wang Duan let Chen Laowu go out first, then asked Xiao Hong, “Do you suspect that this family has been victimized by an evil spirit?”
Xiao Hong nodded, “Yes.”
“You suspected correctly.”
Wang Dust sighed, “This family was victimized by an evil spirit, Huang Ze was possessed by an evil spirit in all probability and then killed his parents, wife and children with his own hands.”
This was truly a human tragedy!
This was the most detestable thing about evil spirits, they usually had no seven emotions and six desires, nor did they have the slightest bit of humanity to speak of.
Those who were bent over by an evil spirit and invaded their soul consciousness would be able to do anything!
Xiao Hong’s heart flinched, “Then I have to tell my brothers to be careful.”
Evil Sneaks were not wild boars that could be easily shot with a Demon Hunting Bow, they were extremely strange and difficult to deal with, and they harmed people in a myriad of ways, many times leaving people defenseless.
Wang Dust probed his hand and touched out a large stack of talismans from his storage bag, “This is the evil-breaking talisman I refined, sticking on one’s own essence blood can inspire it, so you can send them all out.”
Xiao Hong didn’t expect that Wang Chen still had the ability to refine talismans and hastily took it, “Thank you, Your Honor.”
Wang Dust waved his hand, “This is nothing, let everyone be more vigilant to guard against another attack by evil spirits, right ……”
He then asked Xiao Hong, “What is the relationship between this Huang Ze and Huang Deqi?”
The answer was a dipping relationship, the relationships within the big surnames were intricate and complicated, with countless ties to each other.
Xiao Hong thought for a moment and replied, “The two should not have a direct bloodline relationship, I remember as if Huang Ze had once given Huang Deqi a job, but then withdrew.”
Wang Dust nodded.
This was most likely the source of the calamity.
He didn’t expect that after Huang Deqi had been captured for so long, there was still something on the Dada Village side that implicated this Master Huang.
Wang Dust asked Xiao Hong to arrange all four corpses in the courtyard.
“Dust to dust, earth to earth, the dead souls return to the thick earth ……”
He took out the talisman of the past life and the talisman of warding off evil and began to transcend these poor people.
So that their souls could return to the thick earth and no longer be used by evil spirits to commit unforgivable mistakes.
The wood has been turned into a boat, and the water has been covered!
In such a situation, Wang Chen decided to deal with this matter personally.