Daming's Bizarre Story: Painted Skin

Yang Xueshi then asked him a question: "Do you believe that the dead can be resurrected?"

Zhao Ran felt his tongue was a little dry: "Does this have something to do with the things in the urn coffin?"

Yang Xueshi continued: "The soldiers accidentally broke one of the urn coffins, and the corpse inside rolled out. One of the soldiers saw the corpse wrapped in gold patterns, and mistakenly thought it was Gu Yao. The corpse of a nobleman, so he became greedy for money."

Zhao Ran asked cautiously: "The corpse inside..."

"The corpse inside is shriveled and dehydrated, like rotting bones, but it is still alive, and its hands are even more fleshy. The finger bones are slender and covered with scales. They are not like ordinary people, but more like aliens, such as Chuanshan Shangren in the alien waiting Bijia. The corpse rolled out of the shroud and wounded people violently. The sergeants slashed with their knives in panic, but the other carrion bones were broken in response to the knife, but the hands were as hard as iron. In a blink of an eye, a team All the soldiers who entered the cave died of broken throats, and only the captain ran out. The soldiers behind sealed the entrance of the cave and burned it with oil for three full days before turning the corpse into ashes."

"What about the other urn coffins?" Zhao Ran asked.

Yang Xueshi sighed, "When I got the news and rushed to the cave, the soldiers had already burned all the corpses in the other urn coffins."

Zhao Ran murmured: "Is it all burned?"

"They're all burned, but..." Yang Xueshi paused before saying, "There are nine urn coffins in the cave, eight of them contain corpses, and one is empty."

Clearly and inexplicably, he felt his heart beating violently: "Do you think one of them was really revived inside, and then left the cave by itself?"

Yang Xueshi said: "When we first entered the cave, the sergeants found traces of someone's life, who would have stayed in such a strange place for a long time, besides the deep cave coffin, rotten bones, old, but the shroud The gold pattern on the top is very new. I think there may be two people who left, one was resurrected, and the other was to resurrect them."

Zhao Ran was startled in his heart: "Then what exactly did you take?"

"Many patterns are engraved in the cave. In fact, these patterns are a sacrificial oration, and the script used is the Dingwen of the Western Zhou Dynasty. I happen to understand this kind of writing." Yang Xueshi raised his chin slightly as he spoke. His chin is smooth and delicate, like a jade carving. , Zhaoran suddenly thought of Jiuru again, and felt that Jiuru might look like this if he was in this posture, and felt a little itchy in his heart.

He coughed lightly and turned his face away: "You wrote it down and then destroyed the mural."

This can explain why Yang Xueshi was secretly followed.

"Almost so."

"This sacrificial text mentions the process of resurrecting aliens, so you want to destroy this sacrificial text?"

Yang Xueshi pursed his lips and said, "I can only tell you so much."

Zhao Ran sneered: "Then why don't you tell me at all?"

Yang Xueshi hesitated before saying again: "I can only tell you that if what is said in the sacrificial text is true, then all of us will face an unprecedented catastrophe."

Zhaoran thought that it would be perfect if a catastrophe happened in the jellyfish's dream, and it would be best to scare her away when she saw Jiuru in the future.

"Zhu Rong is a member of the national teacher. I'm afraid he mistakenly thought that what I obtained was the Sutra of General Taiyin's Resurrection, so he sent his soldiers to track me down."

"What do you want to tell me these things?" Zhao Ran asked in confusion.

Yang Xueshi pursed his thin lips again, and said, "I need your help."

Zhao Ran said, "What can I help you with?"

"According to the sacrificial text, the things hidden in the nearby Dang Fishing Village will come to the world on May 12th, the [-]th year of Chenghua, and the world will change color at that time."

Zhao Ran raised his head and looked at the night sky, the full moon in the night sky outside was about to be full, and said, "That's two days away."

"That's right, it's only two days."

"Then what are you doing here? Aren't you going to Dang Fishing Village?"

"Although Dangyu Village is just a village, the patriarch's surname is Zhao, who was originally from Fengyang." Seeing that Zhaoran's eyes were wide open, Yang Xueshi seemed puzzled, so he had to explain, "The Taizu of this dynasty once ate alms alms for a hundred years before the dragon. The family meal (note: I was a beggar), their family had a meal with the current Taizu, and the Taizu remembered his kindness and gave the Zhao family a Danshu Iron Certificate."

Zhaoran thought "Oh!" No wonder Yang Xueshi couldn't put on official airs anymore.

"Although Dang Fishing Village is only a fishing village, even if the government officials pass by here, they dare not make mistakes. Most of the royal family's ships pass by here, and most of them will send people to pay a visit."

Zhao Ran's eyes lit up, and he heard Yang Xueshi say: "It just so happens that Jingyuan Hou has a boat passing by here. I originally wanted to meet Zhao patriarch in the name of the son-in-law Wang Zeng, but the son-in-law is troubled by this."

"Why?"

"The son-in-law Wang Zeng paid an imperial edict to pay a visit to the Zhao family, but was intercepted and sued by an ordinary woman among the disciples."

The villagers stopped the son-in-law on the way and sued Mrs. Zhao. This matter must have been known to everyone, so why didn't the man in black know that Wang Zeng's boat had arrived, but Zhao Ran asked, "Who is she suing?"

"Sue Zhao Tianci, the only son of the Zhao family."

"What is the complaint?"

Yang Xueshi paused and said: "She sued Zhao Tianci for rape and murder, and the person she killed...was her brother."

Zhao Ran was silent for a long time: "Then how did her brother die?"

"She and her elder brother are foreigners. They fled to Zhao Village. Their original name was Su Jing. After they lived in Dangyu Village, they changed their surname to Zhao and called Zhao Jing. Three years ago, Zhao Jing was smashed by villagers trying to rape another family. The woman of the villager's family, the Zhao clan imprisoned him in the ancestral hall that night, intending to turn him away to see the officials at dawn, but they didn't know that after dawn, Zhao Jing disappeared without a trace. The villagers in Dangyu Village always thought that Zhao Jing was Fearing the crime, she fled. But Zhao Jing’s younger sister never believed it, but no one paid any attention to her. Recently, a villager got drunk and fell into a dry well, and found Zhao Jing’s body.”

"I've been missing for three years, so I've probably been dead for three years. How can the people of Zhao Village recognize that this is Zhao Jing's body?"

"Zhao Jing died in a very miserable state, withered and skinny, as if he had been tortured for a long time before he was thrown into the well and died miserably. The strange thing is that after his death, his appearance was still intact, so the villagers only took a look at him. recognize him."

Yang Xueshi said: "According to Zhao Jing's younger sister, Zhao Tianci has been trying to entangle her elder brother in every possible way. Because her elder brother is ashamed to speak to others, and because he cares about the unmarried younger sister at home, he has been patient all the time. I just hope that I can get married as soon as possible so as to get rid of Zhao Tianci's dirty thoughts. As for the rape case, it was Zhao Tianci's conspiracy. That night her brother was supposed to meet with the woman to discuss the marriage. How could it explode? Rape and other things happened, and her brother disappeared after that, he must have been imprisoned by Zhao Tianci until he was tortured to death."

Zhao Ran said: "It sounds reasonable, why didn't she report to the government?"

"This woman has a very strong temperament, but she also understands that even if she brings this case to the magistrate, she will probably reprimand her for a strange talk first, and if she does not do it, she will be convicted of a false accusation, which is indecent, so she chose Intercept the Prince Consort halfway and file a complaint."

"The son-in-law Wang Zeng probably didn't want to be involved in a rape and murder case for no reason, but it's a pity that you, the censor, are nearby." Zhao Ran interjected, of course Wang Zeng didn't want to be involved, so he met Yang Xueshi at night, But Yang Xueshi deliberately approached Dang Fishing Village and would not let him get away easily.

After Zhao Ran figured this out, he asked, "Tell me about this, what do you think? Get rid of Zhao Tianci's wrongdoing?"

"Of course it's best to get rid of the crime, so that Zhao can fully cooperate with me."

"How is Zhao Tianci? Humble and respectful?"

"On the contrary, Zhao Tianci is a bohemian, a playboy."

Zhao Ran couldn't help being silent, Yang Xueshi seemed to know that it was difficult for others, so he said: "If you can't get rid of the crime, then you have to try to find out the real reason and force the Zhao family to cooperate with us."

Yang Xueshi glanced at Zhao Ran: "This matter is not suitable for the government to handle, and they will definitely not be able to find out the reason in a short period of time, but I have a good eye for seeing things just now, and you are a person who is interested in this field. What I think is to be more transparent than others..."

Zhaoran didn't understand what Yang Xueshi meant when he said that you are a person who likes that aspect, but after thinking about it, his face turned green, and he stretched his face and said: "I am a person who likes that aspect, could it be that I have helped Mr. Yang, Is Master Yang trying to satisfy my hobbies?"

Yang Xueshi's complexion turned pale and turned red: "This is a major matter, how can we talk about it in lewd words."

Zhao Ran snorted: "This important matter is also your important matter, what does it have to do with me? You haven't even said anything transparently, I have never met you before, that is, I saw you are beautiful, so I touched a few, I touched you and reminded you of being followed, so I owe nothing to you, so why should I listen to your instructions?"

Yang Xueshi held back for a long time, and then made a long bow: "If a knight dares to help Xueshi, in the future, except for immoral things, if the knight needs anything, I will die."

Zhao Ran glanced at him and thought, what kind of morality and immorality should be added to owe favors, but in the end, he would have followed this matter to take a look at it. It is very likely that Dang Fishing Village was the one he followed just now. The village that the big man passes by, and secondly follow Wang Zeng, so that he can know what Yinli's nightmare is?

"Forget it, anyway, I'm idle as a villager, so I'll go over with you and have a look." Zhao Ran pretended to be involuntary and said.

There was not much joy on Yang Xueshi's face, he just bowed his body and said: "A chivalrous man has such a heart, this is because God has the virtue of being good at life."

Zhaoran is the one who wants to help and work hard, but this person talks about the virtue of good life from heaven, which is really not flattering.

"Chevaliers, please come in, let me tell you about the Zhao clan." Yang Xueshi spread out a pen and paper.

Zhao Ran leisurely said: "You really let me in, maybe I'm a flower picker."

Yang Xueshi's back was visibly stiff, and he jumped out of the window, saying: "Write it on paper, stick it in the window, and I will come and pick it up."

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Here is close to the port, there are many tourists traveling from south to north, and naturally there are many people on the way to death. He still doesn't know where the jellyfish will be in this dream, so he thinks that tomorrow he will go to Dangyu Village with his own It's better to look easy.

Zhaoran left the inn, ran along the road for a while, and sure enough, he found a Yizhuang.

Yizhuang is not entirely a place to put corpses, but more of a place to house clansmen, raise orphans and help the poor.

Although it's early summer, it's still a little bit chilly at night, the guards of Yizhuang were drinking in the gatehouse, they obviously threw a stone in, and one of them came out from the gatehouse and shouted: "Who, who's outside? "

A few people in the room said: "There are a lot of wild cats this spring and summer, don't worry about it."

Only then did Zhao Ran turn over the courtyard wall and walk towards the back hall.

Through the wind lanterns in the porch, you can see about a dozen coffins stored in this manor, and some of them seem to have been stored for some years.

As long as the corpse rotted, the skin would be useless, so Zhaoran went straight to the newest coffin without any hesitation, opened the coffin, saw the corpse lying inside, and couldn't help being speechless.