Record of Yin and Yang

Gu Jiu moved a stool and sat down casually, pinching his younger brother's front paws, "Stop barking, you can't hear it outside."

The two were suddenly suffocated.

Shao Yi looked at the man: "You are Yuan Peng? Where is Yuan Bo?"

As soon as Yuan Peng heard Yuan Bo's name, his face was full of resentment, "You, what do you want to do to him? He is dead, why can't you let him go, and insist on pushing him out to make those people feel ashamed Relief?!"

After a pause, Gu Jiu said, "Is Yuan Bo dead?"

"He died a long time ago." When mentioning his son, Yuan Peng couldn't hide his sadness. "The temperature on his body is rising every day, and no one can survive it. Just like this slowly..."

"My poor son!" Madam Yuan cried as she clutched her handkerchief.

Hearing the miserable crying, honestly, Gu Jiu didn't feel sympathetic. Yuan Bo committed many evils, and his death is no exaggeration, it is the retribution he deserves.However, judging from the news that the young man inquired before, people outside always thought that Yuan Bo was still alive. Although he was sick, he was carefully taken care of by the people of the county guard's mansion. He did not expect that he was dead.However, Yuan Bo also died of illness. According to the treatment of people who died of illness in the city, they should be burned and buried immediately after death, but according to Yuan Peng's opinion, Yuan Bo's body is still there.

Gu Jiu asked: "The body is not burned? Can we see it?"

Seeing the anger on Yuan Peng's face again, he hurriedly said, "Don't worry, we didn't come here to vent our anger, we came here specially for this plague incident."

"Then what's the matter with my son's corpse!"

Gu Jiudao: "Yuan Bo is the source of the plague, of course it has nothing to do with his corpse."

Shao Yi was not as patient as Gu Jiu, the sword in his hand was sent forward, and when it was sent to Yuan Peng's neck, a little blade was exposed, and the sharp blade just stuck to Yuan Peng's neck, Shao Yi said: "Don't let me see I will kill you right away, you have been doing harm to Shangyang County for many years, and you just happen to be doing justice for the sky."

Yuan Peng's calves trembled, and he looked at Shao Yi with fear in his eyes. After Shao Yi put the cold sword blade on his neck, Yuan Peng gritted his teeth and compromised: "You can watch it if you want, but I'm just such a son. , No matter how evil he did in life, death is the most important thing, I just ask you to see it and don't take the corpse away."

Gu Jiu got up and was about to open the door to go out, but Yuan Peng just turned around in the room, went to the bed and squatted down, pulled his hand down, and pulled out a long object wrapped in cloth.

Gu Jiu and Shao Yi looked at each other, this couldn't be Yuan Bo.

With trembling hands, Yuan Peng opened the cloth layer by layer. When the last layer was pulled away, Yuan Peng quickly turned his head, as if he couldn't bear to watch.But when Gu Jiu saw the appearance of Yuan Bo's body, and then looked at Yuan Peng's expression, it seemed to be fear.

I saw a hideous mummy wrapped in the cloth, but it was different from the mummy excavated by archeology in Gu Jiu's impression.This mummy seemed to have evaporated all the water and blood in the body, leaving only a layer of hard skin wrapped around the bones, as if a layer of crumpled human skin was wrapped on a skeleton frame.I don't know whether it was because he was too scared when he died or because he wanted to take a big breath, his mouth was wide open, and his eyes were also wide open.

Gu Jiu asked Yuan Peng, and learned that Yuan Bo had been dead for more than ten days, but his body had never changed. Even though it is winter, this situation is very strange. Yuan Bo's death is very scary. But this is what really scares Yuan Peng.

In fact, with Yuan Bo like this, if the corpses are really sent out to be burned by the people, it may cause even greater panic. Otherwise, most of the managers who always put the overall situation first, seeing the people crazy and desperate, in order to appease them, Even if it is a living person, I am afraid that it would have been pushed out to let them vent their anger, so how can we wait for them to watch slowly here.

They were also sick, but in Gu Jiu's eyes, those corpses were no different from those who died of illness. The reason why Yuan Bo became like this was nothing but the curse of the dead.As for the person who cursed, I can't tell, it may be the little widow, the young monk, or the people in this city.

Without asking anything from Yuan Bo, Gu Jiu thought that Yuan Bo had done evil several times, and Yuan Peng had let him go, so he probed, "Master Yuan, do you know that a monk came to the city half a month ago, and he had many times with Yuan Bo?" There was a conflict..."

Yuan Peng's expression changed suddenly.

"It seems that my lord knows." Gu Jiuming understood, and he sat down again, "I won't lie to my lord, we are both Taoists, the plague in your city is not caused by humans, but by ghosts."

"Ghost?!" Yuan Peng glanced at Yuan Bo's body, and couldn't help but take two steps back to the side.

Madam Yuan, who had been weeping in a low voice, also trembled, she forgot to cry, her eyes swollen to the size of walnuts were full of panic.

Gu Jiu stared at Yuan Peng and Mrs. Yuan for half a minute, "Actually, you two don't need to be so afraid, don't you know that ghosts are afraid of evil people? Mr. Yuan has been an official for many years, and there must be many souls who died wronged by you. They If I could come to you for revenge, I'm afraid you would have died long ago."

Anyone who is an official will be involved with the fate of the country. The fate of the country is a righteousness. An official has a righteousness, and ordinary ghosts dare not approach. This is why Gu Jiu and the others have been hunting ghosts for many years, but they rarely meet people from the government for help. reason.Yuan Peng is Yuan Bo's father. If Yuan Bo restrained the little widow more, the little widow would not die.For everyone who died under Yuan Bo's hands, Yuan Peng was one of the murderers.After the plague broke out for so long, Yuan Peng and Mrs. Yuan were still doing well, not because their bodies were good enough, but because their hearts were cruel and evil enough.

Yuan Peng immediately relaxed after hearing what Gu Jiu said.

Gu Jiu smiled, "But good and evil will be rewarded in the end, you guys, it's coming soon."

When Gu Jiu took a closer look just now, he found wisps of black energy on the two of them, which came from the same source as the hostile energy in the sky, constantly eroding them, and in a few days at most, the two of them would also fall ill.At most, before they died, he and Shao Yi would eliminate the source of the plague so that they would not die.

Yuan Peng was horrified, "The ghost you're talking about is that little monk?"

"It's too much, the Guangwan clan who was forced to death by your son is, and so is the little monk." Under Yuan Peng's pale and pale expression, Gu Jiu said: "Tell me, what did you do to the little monk? The monks who cared for him made such a murderous outburst."

Yuan Peng was a little dazed and aggrieved: "He died before I, we could do anything."

"How did he die?" Gu Jiu asked.

Yuan Peng said: "He died suddenly. That day, he, he came to report to the officials and sued my son for forcing the Guangwan family to death. I invited him in first, and then locked him in the prison. I was going to wait for my son to return and hand him over to him." As a result, my son didn’t come back until noon the next day, and when he went to the prison, the little monk was lying in the cell, already dead.”

The clue was broken again, Gu Jiu scratched her hair, "If you want to survive, don't lie to me."

Knowing that he was about to get sick, Yuan Peng immediately wanted to cry, "What I said is true, he died suddenly, and the jailers thought he was lying on the ground sleeping, his body was in good condition. We were at a loss as to how he died. .”

"Where's his body?" Gu Jiu asked.

"The mass grave outside the city..."

The bodies of prisoners who were beheaded were usually taken back by their family members. Those without family members were usually wrapped in a straw mat and thrown out, and most of them were fed to wild dogs.The little monk was also a stranger who came from elsewhere. He died in prison, and in the end he could only get a straw mat.

"Why don't you want to do something good." Gu Jiu got up depressed, "Let's go."

"Master Daoist, what should we do?" Yuan Peng followed Gu Jiu, begging and asking.

Gu Jiuxiao rolled her eyes, "Don't worry, I won't die."

After leaving the door, Shao Yi withdrew from the Lost Formation, and quickly left with Gu Jiu. Yuan Peng and Mrs. Yuan shouted to the Taoist priest to chase after them. Two officers and soldiers guarding not far away immediately came over and shouted at them, warning They can't run around and stay in the house honestly.

Gu Jiu, who had concealed her figure and hadn't gone far, heard it, and twitched her lips, "It turns out that this 'heavily guarded guard' is not protecting, but really guarding."

From this point of view, Yuan Peng, a city guard, can be restricted in his actions, and his rights should also be emptied.This plague incident was caused by Yuan Bo, and the people in the city complained a lot. When the crisis in the city is resolved, even if Yuan Peng and his wife will not die from the plague, but when the crisis in the city is resolved, those who united to take Yuan Peng off this time may not be able to. will make it easier for them.

From this point of view, there is a deep intention behind the isolation of Yuan Peng and his wife in the county guard's mansion, and it will be used as an excuse in the future. The future fate of Yuan Peng and his wife may be worse than death.

Leaving the Sheriff's Mansion, Gu Jiu and Shao Yi stood in the dark and empty street, feeling a little unsure of what to do next.

They didn't intend to look for the young monk's body. They had been dead for more than ten days, and they might not find the corpse that had been gnawed beyond recognition when they went out. Moreover, good thoughts and evil thoughts were not the real soul body, and it would not work to use the bones to find evil thoughts.However, since good thoughts are saving all living beings in the city, evil thoughts must also be raging in the city to do evil.

Gu Jiu took out a traction incense and said, "Try with the incense and see if you can find it."

Shao Yi nodded, and pointed out that he drew a few circles around his body, drawing out a very thin wisp of hostility, which wrapped around the incense stick for a few times, and then ignited the incense head and hostility at the same time, and the smoke came out, and the incense stick The smoke was wrapped in hostility and divided into more than [-] strands that were even thinner, and drifted slowly in different directions.

Gu Jiu patted his chest: "The hostility you have attracted is not much thicker than a strand of hair, yet you have split it into so many strands."

These are the suffocation that floats around in the city. They are born from the dead people. Even if the suffocation of ordinary people is harmful, it will not have much effect on the human body.The phantom is also composed of hostility, but the source of this hostility comes from evil thoughts, so although they are both hostile, they are incomparable.The former was absorbed by the phantom, and then spit out by the phantom, which added a trace of the great malice carried by the phantom itself.

With so many strands of silk thread, Gu Jiu and the others were not sure which one was the source of the evil thoughts, so they had to hold the traction incense and search for them one by one.