soul repair

Bursts of rotting corpse air wafted from a distance, causing passers-by to look sideways at it, and they all held their noses and looked at the man in apricot-colored clothes.The man hurried forward indifferently, the sack on his back was full of the smell of corpses. Suddenly, a man in a thick black Taoist robe stood in front of him.

In the scorching summer, Guan Lingdao was sweating all over his body, but Ji Qingyan's fair face was clean, not even oily.Guan Lingdao wiped his sweat and put the sack on the ground, his face remained the same as usual: "Master Sangong, I found his brother's body."

Ji Qingyan opened the sack, revealing a mutilated head, the wound seemed to be bitten by a wild animal, and the body had already festered badly.He looked at it quietly for a moment: "Where did you find it?"

"In the deep mountains thirty miles away, there was an ax beside me, and a tree next to it was cut in half. It was like being bitten to death by a wolf while cutting down the tree—I was full of stench, and there was something here. No place to take a shower?"

Song Guzhui and Shi knocking sound rushed over from behind at this time, but Guan Lingdao had already started to take off his clothes. He unbuttoned the blood-stained apricot-colored coat and pulled the white collar.Ji Qingyan watched Guan Lingdao take off his shirt, revealing his white chest, and the veins on his temples could not help but twitch slightly: "Put on your clothes, otherwise you will be punished according to the rules of the house."

Disciples of the Shangqing should dress dignifiedly, especially in front of the Palace Master, otherwise it would be disrespectful.

Guan Lingdao was covered in the smell of rotting corpses, and he couldn't help feeling bitter. He said with a smile, "I've carried this corpse for an hour or two, and the smell is already unbearable. I'm going to take a bath first."

He was holding his clothes and was about to go to the creek more than ten feet away. Ji Qingyan glanced at the people in the nearby Red Sandalwood Palace, and the branch in his hand suddenly flew up and wrapped around Guan Lingdao's wrist smartly: "There are people outside, go to the backyard Find a place where there is no one to wash."

Guan Lingdao wrapped his clothes tightly, and smiled as he walked: "The third princess is really kind to people. I don't want to show such a beautiful body to others."

"..." Ji Qingyan's veins began to twitch violently again.

Where can a man be so good?

Shi Knocking and Song Guzhui squatted down to look at the corpse carefully.Ji Qingyan briefly repeated Guan Lingdao's words, and the stone knocking sound murmured: "The tooth marks don't look like wolf bites. There is enough food in the deep mountains in summer, and the wolves won't come out casually. Besides, the wolves here The wolves are all Jing wolves, much bigger than this, and the tooth marks don't look like they were left by wolves, but rather like dogs."

Ji Qingyan remained silent.

It was not killed by a wolf, but by a dog, and the body was discarded in the barren hills in such a state. Mo Boxian's death was not clear, and the fact that he was killed by someone can be confirmed.

Ji Qingyan said: "Let Mo Zhongxian come out and have a look."

They are standing on the side of the road outside the town now, and there are many people around the entrance of the town in the distance, talking in low voices.Ji Qingyan looked back inadvertently, and there was a thin young man standing at the door, his eyes wide open, his face half green and half white, looking at the corpse on the ground: "That's my brother."

Before he finished speaking, he staggered and walked over quickly, and knelt down in front of the corpse, but he didn't speak or cry, he just quietly touched the bitten head: "What bitten you to death?"

The voice trembled slightly, but no emotion could be heard, and it was strangely calm.

"Dog." Shi knocking sound picked up a few dark hairs from the body, "one of them has black hairs."

Mo Zhongxian didn't ask Song Guzhui to help him take revenge like yesterday, he held the corpse's hand tightly, stopped talking to other people, and with a slap, tears fell on the corpse.At this time, no one could say anything, Mo Zhongxian hugged the rotten corpse, lowered his head, his shoulders twitched slightly, and tears fell silently.

When Mo Boxian was bitten into such a state when he died, he must have suffered a lot. The scene was really unbearable to watch. Not only did Ji Qingyan and others not make a sound, even the people who watched the excitement in the distance became quiet. I heard Mo Zhongxian sobbing softly.

At this time, Guan Lingdao had washed up and walked out from the backyard. He changed into the clean clothes he carried with him, dressed in warm apricot, stood beside the stone knocking sound, and returned to his usual virtue.

After crying for an unknown amount of time, Mo Zhongxian's eyes were swollen and he said hoarsely, "I want to carry my brother into the house, and I want to stay with him for a while."

The corpse smelled so bad, it must be unbearable to put it in the room, Song Guzhui helped him carry the corpse into the room, Mo Zhongxian closed and locked the door casually: "Everyone please feel free, I will be alone with my brother for a while. "

Everyone present felt that Mo Boxian deserved to die, even Song Guzhui would not pity his brother.In their view, Mo Boxian wanted to use the power of the Shangqing Palace to force the marriage, and no one would regret his death.At this moment, no one can understand his mood, and no one pities them, only himself.The elder brother died, in the eyes of outsiders, it was self-inflicted.

At this time, some of the disciples who went out to find someone had come back one after another, and they didn't dare to talk about anything, they just stood by and waited.

Guan Lingdao pressed his voice and said to Shi Knocking, "What should we do now?"

"I don't know, wait for your order." Shi Knocking suddenly remembered something, and asked, "How do you know that his brother was left in a place where wolves haunt?"

Guan Lingdao smiled without changing his face: "I guess, didn't you say that you may have faked the accident? There are no bandits and refugees around here, so what else could happen besides wild animals?"

This was barely plausible, Shi Knocking Sheng didn't think about it any more, and said with a smile: "You have made meritorious service just after entering the Shangqing Palace, and the Lord of the Third Palace will definitely reward you."

Guan Lingdao thought it would be fine if he didn't kill me, what else would he reward?

Thinking of this, he involuntarily glanced at Ji Qingyan who was resting with his eyes closed.He couldn't figure out what exactly Ji Qingyan was doing in the mountains behind that night, in the middle of the night, just to take a bath?

Unknowingly thinking more, suddenly, Ji Qingyan opened his eyes as if he realized something, and cast his eyes on him instantly.Guan Lingdao couldn't dodge in time, and was caught by him. He couldn't react for a while, so he coughed lightly and smiled.

Ji Qingyan was silent for a while, then said: "Guan Lingdao comes with me."

Guan Lingdao didn't expect Ji Qingyan to call him, and he couldn't shirk, so he had to walk over obediently, still smiling: "Third Princess, do you have something to say?"

Ji Qingyan walked slowly towards the deserted place, Guan Lingdao didn't know what was wrong with him at all, and couldn't see through Ji Qingyan's expression, he felt a little uneasy, so he had to follow him: "The third princess told me to come, What's the matter?"

Ji Qingyan stopped in a secluded place, turned around, and looked at him expressionlessly: "What do you want to ask, you can ask now."

Guan Lingdao was dumbfounded for a moment, then smiled quickly: "Why were you in the mountains that night?"

"I'm patrolling the mountains." Ji Qingyan didn't change his face.

Guan Lingdao shut his mouth, and when Ji Qingyan said that he was patrolling the mountains, everyone would believe that he was patrolling the mountains. Even if he took a bath while patrolling the mountains, it was not worth making a fuss about.On the contrary, no matter how sincere Guan Lingdao was, he was not as credible as Ji Qingyan's lying just because of his face full of peach blossoms.

Ji Qingyan asked again: "What about you? Why are you wandering around in the mountains late at night?"

Guan Lingdao held his breath and said, "I'll go and watch you take a bath."

Ji Qingyan immediately turned his head to look at him, there was no change on his face, but Guan Lingdao somehow felt that Ji Qingyan's veins seemed to be throbbing again.

After a long time, Ji Qingyan finally said: "You go."

"Yes." Guan Lingdao was a little surprised.What do you mean, leave it at that?

Seeing that there was no movement from him, Ji Qingyan said: "You want to stay and let me torture you about what you were doing that night?"

Guan Lingdao turned around and left.

At sunset, Mo Zhongxian's door finally opened, and the boy came out covered in blood with his head down.The room smelled like a slaughterhouse, but Mo Zhongxian's expression was unexpectedly calm, and he carried Mo Boxian's body to the open space in the backyard with difficulty and half dragged.

Song Guzhui wanted someone to help him, but Mo Zhongxian insisted on refusing, so he took a shovel and dug the soil on the ground without saying a word.Everyone watched quietly, when one of the disciples flicked his finger, there was a sudden explosion on the ground, and the pit in front of Mo Zhongxian was blown deeper.He was startled, fell to the ground and looked up at the surroundings, his face turned pale: "Everyone, why don't you go to another place, I want to bury my brother."

Song Guzhui ordered that disciple to back down, and told the rest to go forward.The disciples quietly listened to the sound of digging in the backyard, a little impatient, and whispered: "What can he do in a matter that we can do in half a moment? He has to dig it himself."

After tossing around three o'clock, Mo Boxian's body finally fell into the ground. Mo Zhongxian was covered in rotten mud, kneeling in front of the grave without saying a word, tears falling down again, and said softly: "Brother, You have treated me well since I was a child. When others bully me, you always protect me and get beaten for me. Now everyone thinks you deserve it, and everyone thinks you deserve it. I will not go to them for help. Your hatred I will report it myself. How much suffering you suffered before you died, I will return it to the Bai family. "

After finishing speaking, he wiped his eyes, walked out of the backyard slowly, and came to Song Guzhui in front of everyone: "I'm going to take a bath, sleep for a night, and leave here with you tomorrow."

Song Guzhui felt a little surprised: "No more revenge?"

"I won't report it anymore. When is the time to repay the grievance? It was originally my brother's fault. Since the Miss Bai family has no intentions of him, he shouldn't be wishful thinking. This is what he deserves." Mo Zhongxian's voice was a little cold, "I I'm afraid my brother was bitten to death by his family's dog, so I just need to report it to the government, and leave everything to the government."

Ji Qingyan and Song Guzhui glanced at each other.

It's really great that the matter can be resolved like this, it went so smoothly that it's unbelievable, Song Guzhui frowned and said: "Since you want to report to the government, you still need to dig up your brother's body."

Mo Zhongxian waved his hand: "Let's report it to the government tomorrow. If they want to see my brother's body, they can just dig it out. It's late tonight, so I'll go to sleep first."

Song Guzhui felt that something was wrong with Mo Zhongxian's whole body, he seemed too calm, but he couldn't say anything, and asked, "Are you really okay?"

"It's okay, my brother deserves his death, he deserves it." Mo Zhongxian raised his head as he spoke, "Everyone has been running around for my affairs for days, I am grateful, I will clean up my brother's things tonight, and I will follow the report tomorrow You go."

Song Guzhui didn't know how to respond, Mo Zhongxian went back to the room with his head down, and locked the door.

The people around were all silent, and the disciples who complained about Mo Zhongxian's troubles along the way just now were also silent. In the silence, the red sandalwood envoy who had been silent since two days ago came over: "Tomorrow He followed us."

These words were like stabbing a hornet's nest. At this moment, none of the disciples could bear it. Although they didn't dare to speak, they were all aggrieved.Ji Qingyan remained silent, the atmosphere became more and more tense.

Seeing that this posture might lead to a fight here, Shi Knocking sound hurriedly said: "In the past two days we searched for the corpse and investigated the cause of death, but the Red Sandalwood Palace did not help. Although the old palace master said that once someone who listened to the soul was found, he would definitely Send it to the Central Plains because there are too many soul cultivators in the Central Plains, which is more urgent than here. But there are also a lot of soul cultivators in the southeastern region, so we have to keep him for a year or so. The palace lord discusses—"

Halfway through the speech, the sound of the stone knocking stopped suddenly, and an extremely sharp object touched his throat, which was the spike on the top of the red sandalwood chain.Half of the face of the red sandalwood envoy was covered by a mask, so he couldn't see his expression clearly, and his voice was still unsteady: "If you didn't care about his brother's marriage, his brother wouldn't have died, and there wouldn't have been so many troubles. There was something wrong with the Shangqing Palace First, those who listen to the soul should be managed by the Red Sandalwood Palace."

Shi Knocking's throat was punctured, he was sweating all over, his face was pale, Guan Lingdao gently pulled his arm back and pulled him away.

Ji Qingyan still remained silent, Song Guzhui understood what he meant, and said: "The third palace lord just brought someone to deal with brother Mo Zhongxian's matter, and the old palace lord should discuss with the Red Sandalwood Palace. Go back and don't care about the rest."

In other words, bringing people back is where the accusation lies, even if a fight is started for this, there will be no ambiguity.

After finishing speaking, he continued: "Besides, it's late at night, and Mo Zhongxian and the surrounding townspeople are already asleep. If you have anything to do, you might as well talk about it tomorrow."

This is indeed not a place to start a war. It violates the laws of the fairy world. The red sandalwood envoy pondered for a moment and took a few steps back: "Then we will talk about it tomorrow."

The situation eased immediately, and the people from Shangqing Palace and Red Sandalwood Palace returned to their resting places, took a short rest, and recharged their batteries.Guan Lingdao only felt that the words and deeds of the red sandalwood envoy were a little weird, but he couldn't tell what was going on, so he knocked on the stone and said, "These people seem to have no emotions when they talk and do things."

"I heard that the early years were not the present, but only recently." Shi Knocking sound sat down on a flat stone, "Maybe it's because he practiced the art of being ruthless and cold."

Guan Lingdao frowned, and said with a small smile, "I think my princess is following the path of a cold and celestial being, and the one from the Red Sandalwood Palace is really nothing."

Ji Qingyan's face was slightly blue, his eyes turned to the other side, as if he didn't hear anything, he turned and left.The stone knocking sound couldn't help having a headache, and he closed his eyes and meditated: "If you want to offend the third palace master, it's your business, don't bring me into trouble."

"Okay." Guan Lingdao smiled and lay down on the ground next to him. The fatigue from the past few days hit him, his eyelids clenched, and he fell asleep unknowingly.

It was not clear how long it had been, but Guan Lingdao was in a daze of sleep when a shrill scream suddenly came from afar.