Record of Yin and Yang

Gu Jiu slept very comfortably this time, was woken up by Shao Yi halfway and drank a bowl of medicine, and then slept from day to midnight.When she woke up, Gu Jiu felt that her cold was almost gone.

Huddled in the warm blanket, Gu Jiu stretched his whole body comfortably, touched his little brother who was lying on his shoulder, and then turned to look at Shao Yi.Shao Yi closed his eyes, but Gu Jiu knew from the sound of his breathing that he was definitely not asleep.

Gu Jiu leaned towards Shao Yi, "Brother, has the rain stopped outside?"

Sure enough, Shao Yi didn't sleep. He opened his eyes and looked at the top of the bed for a while, then said, "Stop."

After answering, Gu Jiu didn't speak, and the room became quiet.Gu Jiu couldn't sleep for a while, he put his hands on his head, thought for a while and said, "There are only a few markers left in Wuxi County, I forgot the name of the next city."

Shao Yi said: "Yongping County."

"Is there a Wuxi County University?"

"No."

The two brothers were talking, although Gu Jiu was the one who asked the questions, but Shao Yi answered every question.In the past two days, it is wrong to say that the two are in a cold war. It should be said that it is awkward. After asking and answering, the two seem to have returned to the normal mode of getting along and communicating before.

However, the unconscious smile on the corners of Gu Jiu's lips and the avoidance in Shao Yi's eyes both indicated that there had been an insignificant change between the two of them, and they were only waiting for a certain opportunity to catalyze it and then germinate.

While the road was still dry, Gu Jiu stayed in the inn for another two days. It wasn't until after the cold recovered that the two of them checked out of the room and caught up with the donkey cart to get into a new busy schedule.

After a few days, Gu Jiu and Shao Yi cleaned up the last few markers and set off for Yongping County.

When they were about to arrive at Yongping County, Gu Jiu, who was sitting next to Shao Yi and looking at the scenery, caught a glimpse of a figure standing on the bank of the small river on the right, but before he could take a closer look, the man suddenly appeared in his sight Jumped down.

"Someone threw himself into the river!" Gu Jiu exclaimed in surprise, and before Shao Yi stopped, he jumped into the donkey cart and ran over there quickly.

As he ran closer, Gu Jiu saw a woman on the river surface struggling to heave up and down in the water.

The woman is not far from the shore, but the water is deep, and she can catch her by stretching her hand a little.But Gu Jiu didn't know how to swim, so he didn't dare to go down the river rashly and didn't dare to reach out casually. He took out the mahogany sword on his back and handed it to her, urging, "Quick, grab this sword, and I'll pull you up."

The woman whimpered while choking on the water, turned a blind eye to Gu Jiu's help, and instead floated a little far away by the current, so Gu Jiu's sword couldn't reach her now.

Seeing that the woman was about to sink to the bottom of the water, fortunately Shao Yi came at this time, Shao Yi threw off the black whip in his hand, wrapped it around the woman's hand slapping on the water surface, then dragged the woman out of the water, and successfully dragged her to the shore.

The woman was lying on the bank completely soaked and coughing desperately, but instead of the joy of the rest of her life, she cried in despair, then got up and stumbled, and was about to jump into the river again.

Obviously looking for death.

In this way, Gu Jiu and the others didn't see it, it's fine, since they saw it, they couldn't really watch her die, they just stopped her first.Seeing that the other party was a woman, Gu Jiu fortunately comforted and enlightened her.

Shao Yi didn't have the patience to do this kind of thing, he said directly: "A person who commits suicide like you will go to hell after death, without the chance of reincarnation, and if you die by drowning, your soul consciousness will be bound even more. At the bottom of the cold river, forever and ever."

Gu Jiu also echoed, "Yeah, you think you're free after you die? It's just the beginning of another pain."

Just as they were persuading them, heart-piercing shouts suddenly came from behind them. Gu Jiu and the others turned their heads, and saw a group of more than a dozen people running this way in a panic.

"Qiaoer! What are you doing! Let go of my Qiaoer!" A woman yelled at Gu Jiu and the others while running.

Gu Jiu got up quickly, and backed away tacitly with Shao Yi who put away the black whip, away from the woman.

When the woman saw the woman, her crying, which had gradually weakened, became louder again, and her voice was desperate: "Mother!"

"Qiaoer!" The woman hugged the girl, and they cried bitterly together.

As for the other men and women who followed, they all stared at Gu Jiu and Shao Yi vigilantly.

Gu Jiu explained: "She committed suicide by jumping into the river just now, and we rescued her. But she really doesn't want to live anymore, and wants to jump into the water."

When these people heard this, their expressions became a little pale.

One of the young men stood up and said, "Thank you two benefactors for saving your life."

Gu Jiu waved his hand. In the scene just now, it is normal for these people to show vigilance and hostility based on their first judgment.Now that the woman's family has come, Gu Jiu and the others can leave in peace. He put the mahogany sword in his hand back into the scabbard, straightened his backpack, and bid farewell to the young man.

But as soon as he turned around, the young man hurriedly stopped them again, pointed at Gu Jiu's waist, and asked, "Do you two look like ordinary people?"

Gu Jiu looked down at the cloth bag with the charms on his waist, and said with a smile, "We are wandering Taoist priests."

The sound fell, including a group of people standing beside them all looked at Gu Jiu and the others in amazement.

The young man was pleasantly surprised: "The two are really priests, can they catch ghosts?"

Gu Jiu glanced at the woman and said, "Yes."

When the woman's mother heard this, she rushed over and grabbed Gu Jiu's arms, begging, "Master Daoist, are you really good at catching ghosts? Then please save my Qiaoer, she is being entangled by a male ghost." , forcing her to marry him!"

"Haunted by ghosts?" When encountering such a thing, Gu Jiu's expression naturally became serious.

The young man said: "Yes, I am Qiaoer's fiancé, my name is Fan Yongzhen, that ghost not only haunts Qiaoer, but also wants to harm me and my family."

They asked Gu Jiu and Shao Yi for help, and invited them to go back together. On the way, Fan Yongzhen told Gu Jiu about the male ghost.

Qiaoer's full name is Fang Biqiao, and she is a villager in the nearby Hushang Village. Fan Yongzhen is also from the same village and is a scholar.Although Qiao'er is a rural girl, her father is a scholar, and she has been literate and sensible since she was a child.Her father was Fan Yongzhen's teacher. She and Fan Yongzhen were childhood sweethearts and had a marriage contract since childhood.

Just last month, on the night before Qiao'er and Fan Yongzhen's wedding, Fang's house suddenly had a ghost. The ghost was a thin man with a blood hole in his forehead. Qiaoer married Fan Yongzhen and set a date, threatening to ask Qiaoer to prepare her wedding dress and dowry before then and marry him on that day.

After disturbing the Fang family, the male ghost went to Fan Yongzhen's house again, and also ruined Fan's wedding arrangements completely, threatening to take Fan Yongzhen's life if he dared to marry Fang Biqiao.

Fan Yongzhen and Fang Biqiao have a very close relationship, so naturally they will not compromise just because of a threat from the male ghost.

On the second day after the incident, Fang and Fan's family went to find a famous witch nearby to drive out the ghost, but the witch was frightened away by the male ghost and fell seriously ill when she returned.

In the next few days, the male ghost would appear every night, always waiting for an opportunity to approach Fang Biqiao and use frivolous words to her, and sometimes even touch her hands. After Fang Biqiao resisted hysterically, he would go to Fan's house to vent his resentment For the Fan family, the entire Fan family did not dare to stay in the village any longer, and chose to temporarily live with relatives in other villages.However, Fang Biqiao was approached by male ghosts several times, and fell ill in fright. Fan Yongzhen ran all over the surrounding Taoist temples, and finally found two useful Taoist symbols, which can prevent male ghosts from approaching, but they did not. There is no way to subdue the male ghost.

The situation seemed to be deadlocked, but the male ghost couldn't get close to Fang Biqiao, instead he would sit on the bed and watch her quietly, or express his love to Fang Biqiao.No matter how many people Fang Biqiao changed to live with, the other party could always find her. Fang Biqiao didn't dare to sleep at night. Being tortured like this, Fang Biqiao soon broke down emotionally, and was stopped by her family several times when she wanted to die.

Seeing that there were only three days left before the date set by the male ghost, and today when the two families were discussing how to deal with the male ghost, Fang Biqiao slipped out of the house while they were unawares, ran here and jumped into the river to commit suicide. It wasn't that Gu Jiu and the others just passed by, Fang Biqiao had already turned into a water ghost.

Fang's family, Gu Jiu took a sip of the tea Fang's father poured, and asked, "Do you know that male ghost?"

Fang's father shook his head: "I don't know, and I haven't seen it before."

Gu Jiu tapped the table with her fingertips, with a thoughtful expression on her face.

The male ghost had confessed his love to Fang Biqiao many times, and Gu Jiu focused on what the male ghost had said in the confession from Fan Yongzhen's narration just now.The male ghost seemed to be a little delirious, and when he poured out his love, he said things here and there. The information they got was not enough for them to piece together his image before he was alive, but what is certain is that although the male ghost appeared suddenly, he looked like It's because he has liked Fang Biqiao for a long time, so at least this male ghost didn't float here from other places, and after a glimpse, he fell in love with Fang Biqiao at first sight and then forced him temporarily.

If he liked Fang Biqiao when he was a ghost, he wouldn't be able to watch Fang Biqiao get ready for the wedding, let alone wait until the day before the wedding to start sabotaging.Therefore, Gu Jiu prefers that Fang Biqiao didn't know him at all before he was alive, but he should have often appeared near his circle of life. He was in the middle of a secret love and reverie for Fang Biqiao, and Fang Biqiao was going to get married. The news, he came to destroy it in a hurry after he suddenly learned about it.

It has been more than a month since the male ghost appeared.

Gu Jiu asked: "In the past two months, have any men of the same age passed away nearby?"

Fan Yongzhen said: "I've never heard of it."

"Go out and inquire carefully." Gu Jiu said.

Afterwards, Gu Jiu took out the ink fountain, mixed the cinnabar into it, cooperated with Shao Yi, and flicked the cinnabar thread on several hidden places in Fang's house. With the cinnabar thread, unless he was so powerful that Shao Yi couldn't deal with it, Otherwise, this male ghost will not even try to enter the house tonight.