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The three of them understood, no wonder there was crying, but the funeral on this rainy day was really a pain for the coffins who carried the coffin.

Ulanda nodded, and told the coachman, "Get over to the side."

It is said that the dead are the most important, and it is reasonable to meet the funeral team on the road to give way to show respect. The coachman obviously understands this reason well, pulling the coir raincoat on his body, pulling the reins and driving the horse to the roadside to stop. Down.

The two carriages in the back saw that the carriage in front was like this, so they followed them to the side of the road.

After the car stopped, the coachman suddenly gave a suspicious "Hey" sound, Wu Landa heard this sound, and asked strangely: "What's the matter?"

The coachman's tone became a little weird, hesitatingly said: "This funeral...seems to be more than one family."

At this time, the group of people was getting closer and closer to the carriage, Ulanda opened the curtain again, and the three of them finally saw these people clearly amidst the howling.

The soul-inducing flag is in front, and the Mingjing is behind. A group of people wear linen and mourning, mourning and crying.

The paper money flying in the air quickly fell again under the heavy rain, sticking to the muddy ground wetly, and blending into the mud after being stepped on by shoes and boots.

These are almost the same as the ordinary funeral procession, which should not attract attention, but what is strange is that there is more than one coffin in this long line.

Ji Qinglin watched them approaching step by step, counting silently in his heart: one, two, three, four...

After counting, he couldn't help being a little shocked. There were as many as eight coffins in the funeral procession.

Ji Qinglin and Xie Wuyi exchanged a look, obviously both of them found it strange.

Folk weddings and funerals are all important events, with many rituals and rigorous procedures.

Especially for funeral ceremonies, the details are more complicated, and the requirements for each step are very strict.

I've heard of people going to Beijing to go to Beijing for exams and drinking and visiting brothels together, but I haven't heard of people going to funerals and calling friends to get together.

The funeral procession moved slowly in the torrential rain. The country road was already dusty, but when it was poured by the rain, the ground was immediately covered with mud. They wrapped the boots of the passers-by, and stained the hem of the mourning clothes with mud marks.

Seeing that the pedestrians were about to pass by their carriage, Ji Qinglin's eyes fell on a person at the end of the line.

Although the man was in the funeral procession, he didn't have much grief on his face, and he was different from others, he wore a bamboo hat on top of his filial piety hat, and a coir raincoat on top of his filial piety uniform, one could tell who he was Those who died were not close relatives, perhaps only distant relatives came here because of etiquette.

Ji Qinglin put down the white hair in his hand, lifted the curtain and jumped out of the car.

When the man saw him, he was slightly taken aback, as if he didn't expect that someone would leave the comfortable compartment and jump into the heavy rain instead.

Seeing Ji Qinglin walking towards him, he showed a trace of vigilance, obviously he didn't understand Ji Qinglin's plan.

Just as Ji Qinglin took two steps forward, he suddenly felt as if the rain had stopped on his head. When he looked up, he realized that the top of his head was already tightly covered by a wide umbrella.

Turning his head, he saw that he had followed him out of the car without changing his mind. At this time, he was holding the umbrella handle with one hand, and raised his chin to signal him to continue walking.

Ji Qinglin smiled at him, and walked up to the man with him.

Ji Qinglin bowed his hands to the man, nodded and said, "Sorry, can I stay for a while? I have something I want to inquire about."

The man looked at the team that was still moving forward slowly, and found that no one noticed him, so he nodded and stopped.

Seeing his cooperation, Ji Qinglin cut straight to the point and said, "May I ask, why are there so many coffins in your funeral procession?"

Hearing this question, the man smiled wryly, wiped the rain from his cheeks and said, "Since you have been all the way to Qinan, you must know about the plague, right?"

Ji Qinglin nodded.

The man said helplessly: "This plague has spread so far, and there are not one or two people waiting to be buried every day. If the funeral is staggered according to the previous etiquette, I don't know when it will be. You also know that Qi is hot and humid, and the body is not suitable for death." It has been placed for too long, so although it is not polite, it can only be done like this."

Ji Qinglin understood, and continued to ask: "So, these deceased all passed away due to the epidemic?"

Hearing this question, the man showed a hint of embarrassment on his face, Ji Qinglin was puzzled, so he listened to him and said: "Actually... it can't be regarded as death."

He seemed a little ashamed to speak, hesitated for a moment, but still said truthfully: "They are still breathing, but their sanity is gone, and many parts of their bodies have even rotted to expose their flesh and blood, making the house extremely smelly, so... It had to be buried in the ground early.”

Ji Qinglin was startled, feeling a little heavy in his heart, but he didn't say any more, just nodded and said: "Thank you."

Seeing that he didn't intend to continue questioning, the man nodded slightly to leave, and quickly followed the team ahead.

Ji Qinglin stood in place and looked at the long queue, and was about to turn around and return to the car, but suddenly caught a glimpse of the jade pendant on his waist.

He lowered his head, and before he had time to be surprised, he watched the jade pendant flash again, once again...

This time, Yupei flickered eight times before calming down.

Ji Qinglin raised his head in shock, looking at the funeral procession that was drifting away.

Eight times...eight coffins.

Is this a coincidence?

He turned his head to look at Xie Wuyi in disbelief, and seeing that Wuyi frowned slightly, then turned around, changed the umbrella to the other hand and said, "Go back to the car first."

Ji Qinglin didn't say any more, after the two returned to the car, Ulanda hurriedly asked: "Why are you going down to stop him?"

Ji Qinglin explained the simultaneous funeral of several households, and mentioned the flickering of the jade pendant. Ulanda was a little surprised, and said: "So, the flickering of the jade pendant is indeed related to the art of sealing the soul?"

Ji Qinglin thought for a while, and said: "My guess is the same, but what I'm curious about is why the jade pendant only flashed once in the previous two times, but it flashed eight times this time?"

Ulanda said: "It's not surprising, is it? If there is indeed a connection between the two, the eight coffins, the eight soul-sealed people, and the jade pendants flashed eight times, isn't it just right?"

Ji Qinglin shook his head, and gave a brief account of the water pavilion in Lingfang Garden that day.

That day in Lingfang Garden, the corpses of the soul-sealed people almost filled the entire water pavilion, plus the two people in the underwater secret room, there were more than ten soul-sealed people there.

If the number of times the water mirror flickers is really related to the number of soul-sealed people, then why did the water mirror only flash once in Lingfang Garden?

Hearing what he said, Ulanda also felt that it was quite reasonable, and fell silent immediately.

Xie Wuyi recalled it for a moment, and said, "No, there was indeed only one person who was sealed in the water pavilion that day."

Ji Qinglin was startled, and looked at him suspiciously.

Xie Wuyi said: "Once the pine needles are pulled out, it is no longer considered a 'sealed soul'."

Although he spoke briefly, Ji Qinglin suddenly understood.

Although the corpses on the upper floor of the water pavilion had been sealed, at least one of the pine needles on their bodies had been pulled out during the fighting before they were sent to Lingfang Garden.

Although there were two people lying in the underwater secret room, one of them was not about to die. He died immediately after being touched by the pine needles, and his soul was not sealed.

Only the other person who tried the technique who was still alive was the real "soul-sealed person".

Ji Qinglin nodded slowly, and said: "So the flickering of the jade pendant is indeed related to the technique of sealing the soul, and the number of flickering depends on the number of people around who are in the process of sealing the soul."

Xie Wuyi said: "Yes."

Ji Qinglin looked down at Shui Jing, and thoughtfully said: "The soul of the sealed person will shatter as the body rots, and the shattered soul will disperse into spiritual energy, so the jade pendant flickers, could it be because of it?" Perceived these auras?"

Ulanda curled her lips and thought for a while, then shook her head and said: "Although your idea sounds reasonable, there is spiritual energy everywhere in this world, why does the jade pendant have no reaction on weekdays, but why does it happen that the soul of the soul-sealed person splits out?" Does your aura react?"

Ji Qinglin nodded in agreement, but added: "I've thought about this too, but it's not impossible if I insist on explaining it. I have two guesses for the time being. The first one may be the aura and ordinary spirit formed after the split of the soul element. The aura is different, but there is no basis for this speculation, so let's not go into it for the time being. The second guess is that the aura emitted when the soul sealing technique splits the soul element is more... conspicuous."

"Conspicuous?" Ulanda obviously failed to understand this description, and asked, "What do you mean?"

Ji Qinglin thought about it for a while, and then found a suitable wording, and said: "This is like breathing in the cold winter months. If you exhale slowly, your eyes will not be visible, but if you exhale suddenly, you will be able to breathe." I saw a cloud of white mist."

As soon as this remark came out, Ulanda understood his meaning almost immediately, and joked with a smile: "Then, this carp's eyesight is not very good, it can't see ordinary spiritual energy, it can only see this kind of big group Is there a big ball coming out?"

Ji Qinglin was also amused by his words, lowered his head and patted the jade pendant, and said narrowly, "Shui Jing, do you hear me? Ulanda said that you have bad eyesight, and next time he reincarnates, you can pretend you can't find him." His reincarnation."

After saying this, when Ji Qinglin raised his head again, he saw Ulanda staring at him without blinking, his eyes were dull, as if he had lost his soul.

Ji Qinglin was taken aback, thinking that he had said something wrong, and asked nervously, "Ulanda?"

Ulanda came back to his senses in an instant, blinked and said with a dry smile: "Your expression and tone of making fun of people are exactly the same as his..."

The more he spoke, the lower his voice became, until the last few words sounded like mosquitoes. Ji Qinglin couldn't hear clearly, so he stretched his head closer and asked, "With whom?"

Ulanda quickly raised his eyes to take a look at Xie Wuyi, Ji Qinglin followed his gaze and turned his head to look, and happened to meet Xie Wuyi's eyes, and saw a flash of imperceptible emotion in his eyes, and then turned his head Looking out the window, avoiding Ji Qinglin's gaze.

Ji Qinglin blinked inexplicably, then turned to look at Ulanda.

Ulanda seemed to realize that he had made a slip of the tongue, frowned annoyedly, and hurriedly made up for it with a smile: "Well, the Nanshan Mountain is just ahead, and the mountain road is bumpy and the carriage cannot pass. Pack up your things quickly, and bring everything you need with you." superior."

Ji Qinglin looked at Ulanda's flustered and embarrassed look, and heard the abrupt gag, and immediately realized that he should have mentioned someone, and this person seemed very unusual to Xie Wuyi.

Thinking of this, Ji Qinglin instantly had the answer in his mind.

Water Mirror God Venerable.

Ji Qinglin didn't expose Ulanda's cover-up, he stretched out his hand and hugged the white hair beside him, and while stroking it, he said with a smile following Ulanda's words: "There's nothing to clean up, the oil is in the back few cars Come on, we will help move it when the time comes."

Ulanda nodded with a sneer, and echoed absent-mindedly: "Yes, it is also."

As Ulanda said, they were not far from the foot of Nanshan Mountain at this time, and the sound of heavy rain pouring outside the window gradually diminished and turned into light rain.

When the car stopped, there were almost no traces of the road around, and there were weeds everywhere.