Square inch by Kyushu

Gu An sat in front of the window and waited for a full night, until the oil lamp ran out and the tea was as light as water, but Li Muge did not come back.

At this time, the east is white, the sky is faintly visible, and a round of red sun is about to rise.

He secretly thought something was wrong, and immediately went out to Ji Yiran's residence, hoping to find them there.

But God didn't follow people's wishes, and he didn't see the slightest trace of the two of them at Ji Yiran's place.

Therefore, An Dan frowned slightly, and searched the village earnestly without giving up, and the result was the same.

Finally, he stopped at the entrance of the village, his face uncertain.

Looking coldly into the depths of the dense forest outside the village, a bad premonition welled up in his heart.

Standing in front of Gu'an, the village chief looked at his nose and heart, and suddenly felt that this scholar, who was usually serious but polite, suddenly seemed to be possessed by Yama today, and he was so horrified that he couldn't breathe.

Gu'an masked Frost straight to the point: "What kind of grievance does your village have with that black-robed man?"

"This... is actually nothing..." The village chief looked around and began to evade.

"The General Zhen Guo of the State of Xi disappeared here for no reason. Do you think the Xi State Council will not pursue it?" Gu An raised his eyebrows, his eyes turned cold, and the village chief was shocked immediately.

He never thought that this person would be so aggressive when he got angry, and it was overwhelming him right now.

"Based on Li Wuming's status and reputation in the country, I don't think the black-robed man can deal with you, the Xi's army has already razed this place to the ground."

"I'm afraid it's better to be razed to the ground than now." At some time, Xiang Jiufu stood at the door, his hair was all gray after the pain of bereavement.

"Uncle Fu, why are you here?" When the village chief saw Xiang Jiufu, his tone was a little guilty, his expression flickered, and he became obviously more panicked.

"Because I conspired with General Li to take down the monster that has tortured our village for decades, my family was ruined. Are you going to keep watching with cold eyes, and then continue to live on?" At this point, Xiang Jiufu burst into tears.

"Uncle Fu, you...you are an old man in the village, you should know that this matter affects the lives of the whole village, how... how can it be done?" The village chief was so anxious that he was incoherent and at a loss what to do.

At this time, many villagers suddenly appeared behind Xiang Jiufu, and only one of them said, "Goat boy, although you are the village chief, you have to abide by the last wishes of your father and the old people who died in the previous generation, but we are the ones who are alive now." , We don’t want to live in this kind of life where people are neither human nor ghost.”

"Yeah, a life of fear and fear, the threat of poisonous insects, rats and ants, the bondage of not leaving the village for life, and, at any time, the possibility of watching my own flesh and blood being sucked and skinned but powerless...I...I" a 20-something The year-old woman complained tearfully, the silk handkerchief in her hand was almost shattered.

Thinking of the tragedy of the past few days and the suffering of many years, the village chief pursed his lower lip tightly, but there was a trace of hesitation on his face.

In fact, it's not that he doesn't want to change this kind of life, it's just that he doesn't know how to change this kind of life.Instead of taking everyone to take risks, he would rather choose to persuade everyone to be tolerant, numb and accept.

At least in this way, they will live longer, and the village where their ancestors lived for generations will be passed on longer.His responsibilities can also be lighter, lighter.

Therefore, he is a cowardly and selfish person.

From beginning to end, do not seek merit but seek no faults!

At this time, an old man who was nearly seventy years old was supported and walked out of the crowd tremblingly.Clearing his throat, he said slowly, "It's time to change."

"Old man, why are you here?" The village chief ran over immediately when he saw the face of the visitor change.

"If I don't come, can you agree?" The old man patted the head of the village head lovingly: "I know that these years, it's not easy for you. In the past, our village didn't have the ability to solve the current predicament, but now the outside is here. People help us, we have to know what is good or bad about God."

The village chief looked at the old man and everyone, was silent for a while, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "In that case, let's give it a go."

As soon as his words fell, everyone echoed him.

Looking at this situation, his tense mood for many years suddenly became relieved.

Gu An stood alone among the villagers, always expressionless.

For him, there is simply no time now to be part of their excitement and unity.What he needs is the race against time and the truth of everything.

So he walked up to the old man and said lightly: "Old man, I wonder if you can provide me with some clues about the man in black."

The old man nodded, seeing his extraordinary demeanor, he nodded unconsciously.

"Come with me, let me tell you about the old things decades ago." The old man walked into the house first, and was helped to sit on the armchair, so Gu An walked up to him and squatted down.Be all ears.

"Those who witnessed that incident back then are the only ones left alive. I really don't want to recall that tragedy over the years, so this is the first time I've talked about the incident... "The old man's voice was trembling and slow, with memories of the past mixed with sighs about fate.

It is said that it was decades ago, the world was still under the Daxiang Dynasty, the troubled times had not yet come, and Qilian Village was not called Qilian Village.He was still a teenager at that time, and his life had just begun, with a long road ahead, full of unknowns and novelties.

That year, a man and a woman came to Murakami.

Speaking of the man and woman, the old man's muddy eyes flashed, and the depths of his eyes revealed infinite nostalgia and yearning.

In this way, the old man gradually reverted to a young man, because the peerless beauty of the pair of bi-bi men has been deeply imprinted in his mind.

The old man said that he had never seen such beautiful people. They just stood there, and the beautiful scenery of the surrounding mountains and rivers was suddenly overshadowed. All the villagers were stunned. A dozen face-to-face encounters were also stumbling, and I couldn't hold back a word for a long time.

But the two of them didn't mind the impoliteness of us mountain scumbags, they always greeted each other with smiles, the man's smile was as gentle as jade, and he had a natural grace.Although the woman doesn't smile, she speaks like spring water, which is refreshing, and her peerless appearance is like a banished fairy.

Living in the mountains, although we have little knowledge, we also know that these two people are absolutely extraordinary, and they must have a lot of background.So the whole village entertained them hospitablely, and the village chief was extremely considerate before and after running.

But the two of them are approachable. They not only help us with some farm work, but also teach us some powerful things-the man teaches the young people Kung Fu, and the woman teaches the children to read and write. After several months of getting along, everyone gradually puts it down. Strange, life is like a family.Later we learned that the man's name was Changting and the woman's name was Qilian.

"These two characters are 'Qilian' in Qilian Village? "Gu An frowned when he heard this, and asked.

The old man squinted his eyes and nodded, sighed again and shook his head.The complex mood is self-evident.

Probably the happiness that comes down from heaven often has a deadline, and most things in the world lack consummation.

Soon, the woman named Qilian appeared less and less in front of everyone. When I saw her occasionally, she always stood under the moon wearing a long cloak. Her back was still as graceful as a fairy, but she was engraved with deep sorrow. .

Once when he got up at night, he happened to see Qilian, so he ran over excitedly to say hello.Qilian was startled, wrapped her cloak tightly, and ran back. Through the gap between the hats, he saw her face was pale like a ghost, the blue blood vessels under the skin were clearly visible, her eyes were dark yellow and her lips were blood red. He was so scared that he immediately collapsed on the ground, seriously ill three days.

After that day, he found that the man named Chang Ting smiled less and less, spent more and more time in a daze of silence, spent less and less time going out, and the two quarreled more and more in the house. Occasionally, the woman's low sips and the man's suppressed sobs could be heard from the two's residence.

Later, various households in the village began to lose their livestock for no reason. The village chief said that wolves had come from the mountains, and asked everyone to keep a close watch on the door and deal with it cautiously.He also comforted everyone by saying that it doesn't matter if the livestock is lost, the key is that people are fine.

Such a strange phenomenon continued until the first baby was lost in the village.

It was the little grandson of Mrs. Wang's family who had just been born, and disappeared suddenly in less than a month.Mrs. Wang's family panicked at the time, fearing that they would be taken away by wolves, so the whole village began to search all over the mountains and plains, and finally found the baby boy with only skin and bones at the entrance of a mountain stream-it turned out that the baby was full of life. It was like a blood-soaked skin bag, drooping in the swaddling clothes his grandmother sewed for him, being eaten by insects and ants.

Sister-in-law Wang passed out at that time, and the father of the child was almost stunned on the spot. Several villagers had already started to vomit, and more people only felt chills on their backs.

Because they believed that this was definitely not the work of wild wolves, the cicadas sang in the mountains, and it was clearly the midsummer heat, but the chattering of teeth began to spread in the team.

Later, people disappeared one after another in the village, most of them were children, which made the people in the village panic. It was in these days of constant panic that someone said that Changting and his wife were very suspicious. For such a big event, I didn't see a single person, and I was a completely different person from when I first came here.

The seed of doubt, once planted, is sure to germinate and grow to maturity in the right soil.

The more strange behaviors of Chang Ting and Qi Lian are the catalyst for this seed.

At the beginning, everyone was just jealous, and then as the situation deteriorated, it turned into fear, and finally the extreme fear turned into anger.

Until, one day, the undercurrent finally turned into a river tide, pouring back to the source overwhelmingly.

Lao Li said that he would never forget the day when the whole village broke into the house of Changge and his wife and saw Qilian lying on the ground like crazy and writhing all over her body. Her skin that was originally white as snow became like cicada wings. It was thin and transparent, and the blue-red blood vessels under the skin were clearly visible, criss-crossing and forming terrifying lines. She kept spitting out a blood-red tongue, and her turbid yellow eyes were full of bloodthirsty cruelty.It's like a snake getting into a human body.

The crowds of villagers who had been in a rage all shrank back at this moment, shouting turned into panting, questioning turned into murmuring, only the hiss of Qilian choked in her throat became clearer and clearer.

The narrow room was left open, and Chang Ting knelt in the middle of the empty space, desperately hugging Qi Lian and comforting her softly, even though the other party tore a large piece of blood on his wrist, he still had a gentle and loving expression on his face.

"Murderer!" "Monster!" "It's her, eating people!"...I don't know who yelled the first sentence, and then endless accusations began one after another.

When the fear reaches its peak and the anger returns again, there is only one lead and one explosive point.

The men in the village gripped the hoes and shovels in their hands again, and began to throw at Qilian. The women cursed and cried, and threw stones, eggs, needles and threads at Qilian.

While protecting Qilian with his body, Chang Ting waved his sleeves to deflect the approaching attack.But days of torment had exhausted him physically and mentally, and Qilian's limbs tightened more and more tightly on him, making his movements even more sluggish.

Blood dripped all over his body. It turned out that he would die in her hands in the end.

In the end, Changting didn't die, it was Qilian who died, but it was Changting who went crazy.

When Changting was strangled by Qilian and passed out, Qilian swam to the villagers with flesh and blood between her lips and teeth.

Recalling that when we first met, she was like a banished fairy, but at this moment she is a hungry ghost from hell.The villagers were bitten to death one by one by her, and the whole village was like a purgatory on earth.

When people face disasters, they will always be divided because of fear at first, but they will also unite because of fear in the end. When more and more people fall, more people will make up.

Although Qilian has become a demon, she can't do anything alone.

When Chang Ting woke up, the first thing he saw was the raging fire outside the house. In the fire light, there were faint white shadows swaying, gradually wilting with the hissing sound of pain.

He shook off the rope on his body, kicked over the wooden door, rushed into the flames madly, and rescued Qilian before she was burned to ashes, but she had been burned extensively and was dying.

Changting wrapped Qilian, who was covered in pus, in his clothes, as if lying in his arms was not some ugly monster, but a treasure in the world.

The villagers wanted to go over and throw Qilian into the fire.But he was so frightened by Changting's eyes that he didn't even dare to move half a step.

When the old man said this, there was a hint of retreat in his expression.

He will never forget the look in his eyes under the firelight, with a world-shattering anger and hatred engraved into the bone marrow, his eyes weeping with blood, he became a demon instantly!

He thought that night, if Changting hadn't stubbornly wanted to rescue Qilian and carried her to find a doctor, the village would have ceased to exist that night.

When the villagers thought that the catastrophe was over and the village had returned to calm, Changting came back. He brought a stone carving to the entrance of the village, on which the word "Qilian" was written in dark red.

And the village obelisk of "Xiangjia Village" was also instantly turned into powder under his blow, replaced by the square stone carving.

At that time, a voice full of resentment from the Changting Pavilion came faintly, the voice was not loud but could spread to every corner of the village: "From now on, this place will be called Qilian Village, and everyone in the village belongs to Qilian. , cheating!"

Later, there lived a "man in black robe" outside the village, who raised a terrifying giant python and poisonous substances. All those who tried to leave the village were either killed by the knife or sent to Shekou.

So no one dared to go out of the village.

During this period, Xiangguo's army came several times, claiming to arrest Changting, but they returned without success each time.

Afterwards, the barbarians invaded, Xiangguo was destroyed, and the last hope of the villagers was completely cut off.Since then, the village has been shrouded in shadows.

Memories end here, but the story continues.

Is it an epic love or a bloody fate?Therefore, I don't want to make more comments.I only know that I have watched other people's joys and sorrows.

He knew what was in his mind, and immediately stood up and said goodbye.

Seeing this, the village chief hurriedly followed, went outside the house and shouted: "Master, please stay."

Gu An stopped, turned his head and raised his eyebrows: "What's the matter?"

The village chief scratched his head in embarrassment, and said, "I... I hope to follow the old master and do my part for it."

Gu An knew that as the village head, although his qualifications were not considered highly respected in the village, he always had a responsibility on his shoulders, so he nodded and moved on.

Seeing this, the village head was overjoyed and followed Gu An's pace.