Song Jiang saw that the other party seemed to have misunderstood them, so he quickly smiled and said, "Brother, you just came down from the mountain? Did you see a girl in her twenties and a sister in her forties?"

After hearing this, the man scratched his head in confusion and said, "There are very few tourists here, and even fewer female tourists... But this hilltop is not too big, so you shouldn't get lost."

Song Jiang said anxiously after hearing this, "It's really hard to say... Both of them are outsiders and not familiar with the environment here."

What people didn't expect was that the man was still very warm-hearted. After listening to Song Jiang's words, he suggested that he could help the two of them look for him together. Song Jiang naturally wanted to ask for it. When the three of them chatted on the road, they learned that the man's name was Fang Jing, a local.

, my biggest hobby is camping around with my bag on my back...

According to Fang Jing, this small hill is indeed the boundary of Jingtan Temple. It has no name. When locals mention this place, they will call it the hill behind Jingtan Temple. If there is one outstanding aspect here, it should be this one.

There is a stream in the mountain, and monks in the temple and some pilgrims often like to go up to the mountain to get water from the stream to make tea.

As soon as Song Jiang heard what Fang Jing said, he quickly asked him, "By the way, I heard that Jingtan Temple is a thousand-year-old temple. There should be many legends about this place, right?"

Fang Jinghou smiled and said, "It's all said to be a legend, so naturally it can't be taken seriously..."

Zhou Shiwu, who was on the side, interrupted after hearing this, "That's right... Let's hear it, but forget it if it's a story about a scholar and a ghost. Once you hear it, you'll know it's too fake."

Fang Jing suddenly said to Zhou Shiwu in a funny tone, "Why did the scholar and the female ghost offend you? If you want to hear more romantic stories about the past legends, wouldn't they be stories about scholars and female ghosts, scholars and banshee, etc. Of course

, there are also legendary stories about punishing evil and promoting good, but they are not as attractive as romantic stories..."

Song Jiang was a little curious and said, "There are also stories about scholars and female ghosts in this mountain?"

Fang Jing shook his head and said, "That's not true...the legend on this mountain is quite the opposite. It's the legend of a human bride and a wild ghost in the mountain."

Fang Jing's words made Song and Jiang instantly think of the woman in red that Wang Yaning had seen when she was dreaming, and the stone fish that was used as a token... So Song Jiang asked Fang Jing to bring that one with great interest.

Tell them the legend.

The story begins thousands of years ago. At that time, the location of Jingtan Temple was still a wasteland, and there was only a small town called Tancheng within a hundred miles nearby.

The people in Tancheng have to go in and out through this unknown hill in front of their homes. Because their ancestors have done this for generations, the people in Tancheng do not find it inconvenient. After all, the mountain is not high and the mountain road is not considered.

Difficult to walk...

But I don’t know when, some travelers who returned late began to have accidents in the mountains one after another, and they died in various ways, including drowning in small puddles; some being hit by falling branches while walking; and some taking a good breath before going out.

However, when he came back, he was hanged in the mountains for no reason... In short, in the end, as long as people walked in the mountains at night, it was almost impossible to return, which made the people of Tan City panic for a while.

It stands to reason that since walking on mountain roads at night can easily lead to death, then why not walk at night? But the situation in Tan City is a bit special. There is only one way for the people in the city to survive, and that is to raise silkworms and reel silk.

We cannot be self-sufficient in other agricultural products and daily necessities, so we have to go over the mountains to the next town to purchase goods.

But the distance between the two towns is exactly one day. After all, some fresh seasonal vegetables cannot be delayed for two days on the road, otherwise they may have already spoiled by the time they are transported to Tancheng... So these

Whether a small businessman or hawker goes out early and comes back late or goes out late and comes back early, he still has to walk at night to earn a living.

At first, people thought that those who had the accident must be alone, so every time they wanted to walk out of the city at night, they would always go into groups and go out of the city together in groups. But even so, it didn't happen.

There are still people who were forgotten by everyone and died miserably in the mountains...

Occasionally, there are people who are lucky enough to come back alive, but their spirits are often greatly stimulated. After returning, they talk nonsense all day long, saying that there are man-eating ghosts in the mountains who come out to harm people at night. In the end, Tan Cheng

The people couldn't bear the fear every day, so they invited a Taoist priest from outside to subdue this evil spirit entrenched in the mountains.

But I don’t know whether it was because the Taoist priest’s magic power was not high, or because the evil ghost was too powerful. In short, the Taoist priest went into the mountain to collect the ghosts and never came out again. After daybreak, some people braved the courage to go into the mountain to look for someone, but they ended up

The Taoist priest and his two young disciples were found hanging from an old tree in the mountain.

From then on, the evil ghost in the mountain became famous after the battle, and the ordinary Taoist priests and monks almost changed their expressions after hearing it... But the people of Tan City have to live. If this problem is not solved, then the whole town will have to move away from this place.

Gone to find a place to settle down.

It was at this time that a wandering monk came to Tancheng. After observing the sky at night, he came to the conclusion that if the people of Tancheng wanted peace, they could only negotiate with the evil ghost to see how the other party could avoid harming Tancheng.

the people in the city and let them live a normal life.

So the monk went up the mountain again with the attitude of being polite first and then fighting. This time he lived up to expectations and brought back a "good news", that is, the evil ghost in the mountain proposed that as long as the people of Tancheng sacrificed a bride to him every seven years, he would not

To harm the people of Tancheng who were walking at night... As soon as this news came out, Tancheng was in an uproar. They could accept the sacrifice of pigs, cattle, sheep and horses, but it was really hard to accept the sacrifice of human beings.

But some things are often said to be unacceptable, but after weighing the pros and cons, the result is to agree to sacrifice. After all, in those years, it was not a trivial matter to let the entire town leave their homes where they lived, and it required a lot of manpower and material resources.

It is even more immeasurable. In comparison, it takes seven years to sacrifice a woman is nothing at all... But the question is who is willing to be this unlucky bride?

At first, someone suggested buying a woman from outside and bringing her back. But at that time, although human trafficking was legal, it was definitely illegal to buy and kill her! Unless she wanted to. But who would die voluntarily?!

So someone else suggested that people with girls of suitable age at home should come out to draw lots, and whoever they caught would be allowed to go.

But some wealthy people in the city naturally refused, so they offered to pay the family who sacrificed their daughter to compensate... In this way, something that no one wanted was turned into a business.

Among them, it is inevitable that some tragedies will occur where parents who are greedy for money give up their own daughters for profit.

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