ghost

Qishan Village is located at the foot of Taihe Mountain. There is only one bus going to the village. The transportation is not very convenient, but Qishan Village is not considered a poor village.The village is full of two or three-story buildings with their own yards.There is a small river passing through the village, which divides the building into two large areas. The man surnamed Liu who sold it to the shop owner, Monkey's Paw, lives in the area west of the small river.

The aisle of the Qishan village building is not spacious, and it is not convenient for Fang Xia and the others to drive in the commercial vehicle. At the suggestion of the shop owner, Geng Chaolin parked the car in the village's grain drying field, and the group got out of the car and walked in.

It was already past ten o'clock in the morning, and the sun was already high. When I walked to the corridor of the upstairs room, there were not many shadows that could block the sun.Fortunately, the house surnamed Liu is not too far from the sun-drying field. Go inside and walk through three rows of buildings, then turn right and go in.

The shop owner led Fang Xia and his party into the front yard of a house, and saw a tall and strong man with shirtless arms and bare feet washing a muddy hoe with the water from the water pipe at the door. Not long after returning from the field.

"Hey, Liu San!" The shopkeeper shouted when he saw him.

"Boss Zhang?" The shirtless man turned around and shouted in surprise.

Um?Boss Zhang?Didn't Zhang Qian go home?Where did Boss Zhang come from?Fang Xia looked at the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper noticed it and tugged at the corner of his clothes. Fang Xia explained, "My name is Zhang Qiao."

Fang Xia suddenly realized that the shop owner had the same surname as Zhang Qian, and suddenly felt that he had a subtle sense of fate by selling the monkey paw to Zhang Qian.

Well, Zhang Qian probably didn't want such a bad fate.

The store advocated going across the bridge and explained to Liu San why they came here.

Liu San put down the hoe in his hand, turned off the faucet, and conveniently picked up the short-sleeved shirt from the chair in the corridor and put it on.

"You want to know the origin of that jade claw?" Liu San stroked the still wet thorn on the top of his head, opened his mouth and began to blow, "That jade claw is a treasure handed down by my ancestors. It was born in the palace hundreds of years ago. Something. Have you heard of the five-clawed golden dragon? That claw is the jade claw on a five-clawed jade dragon ornament. Later our ancestors..."

"By chance, your ancestors got the claws that fell from the five-clawed jade dragon in the palace, and then your family passed it down from generation to generation as a family heirloom." Fang Xia asked Liu San to make up a story.

"Yes! That's it!" Liu San patted his thigh and echoed.

"This jade claw is not only a hidden treasure of the imperial palace, but also an antique with a history of at least a hundred years. It is very valuable, but it came into your hands and was sold by your unworthy descendant." Fang Xia continued slowly.

"Ah yes! Ah bah! No!" Liu San glared at Fang Xia, "What are you talking about? I, I didn't mean to sell it, I didn't... it wasn't because I was in a hurry, yes! I was in a hurry Money is..."

"Liu San!" Zhang Qiao, who was stupefied by Liu San's bragging posture, finally came to his senses, and quickly stopped, "Oh, Liu San, what are you talking about? Didn't you get it by accident? And those are not jade claws at all, they are human bones!"

"Ah?" Liu San was dumbfounded.

"And it's still a trick to attract evil!"

Liu San's face turned pale.

"These are masters, I want to ask you about the origin of that human bone, please speak up!" Zhang Qiao said again.

"I thought it was Boss Zhang's customer who wanted to buy that jade claw..." Liu San explained in a low voice, and quickly confessed, "I picked up that jade claw from the side of the road when I came out from the foot of Taihe Mountain. The city didn’t say it was going to measure something before, and the road to Mount Taihe was closed. I went up that day to see if the roadblock had been removed, but on the way back, I saw that... paw, anyway, I don’t know who it is. I think it's very delicate, so I asked Boss Zhang to hold my eyes, maybe I can sell it for a little money..."

Zhang Qiao glared at him.

Liu San shrank his neck guiltily, "I didn't know it was a human bone, and I didn't kill anyone..."

"When did you pick up that paw?" Fang Xia stepped forward, staring at Liu San and asked.

"Probably more than two months ago..." Liu San thought for a while and added, "A few days at the end of May."

Fang Xia unconsciously clenched the hand by his side.

His master died in Taihe Mountain, and the magic weapon of Ghost Sect appeared on the roadside from Taihe Mountain; the time when he received the news of his master's death was also at the end of May, and the time when the magic weapon of Ghost Sect was discovered was also at the end of May. end of may.This is no longer his unfounded association before, but a true coincidence.

—a chilling coincidence.

But this coincidence alone does not mean that his master died at the hands of the ghost sect. It can only be said that people from the ghost sect also appeared in Mount Taihe before and after his master passed away.

After returning to Geng's house, Fang Xia went to find Geng Yizong.It was precisely because Geng Yizong entered the mountain without authorization that his master followed him into the mountain.And when his master was killed, he was with this person.When his senior brother found them, the master, who was still alive at the time, did not identify Geng Yizong, so he ruled out Geng Yizong's suspicion.But Geng Yizong was still the only person present when his master was assassinated. Fang Xia wanted to investigate the murderer who assassinated his master, so naturally he had to ask this person for questioning first.

However, Geng Yizong never mentioned the appearance of people from Guizongmen from the beginning to the end.

According to Geng Yizong, he saw another master invited by the leader of City D to go up the mountain, and he followed him after seeing him acting suspiciously.That master was not from the Ghost Sect, and among the corpses carried out from the mountain at the end was that master.As for when his master was assassinated, he felt the movement of someone using a spell, but that was definitely not the move of the ghost sect. Twenty years ago, the Geng family took action against the remnants of the Guizong sect. Geng Yizong was one of those Geng family members at that time.Therefore, he is no stranger to the ghost sect's spells.

But it also appeared in Taihe Mountain, the timing was too coincidental, so Fang Xia had to care about it.

Geng Chongzhi asked Liu San some more details, and when Liu San returned the money for selling Zhangqiao's monkey paw, the group walked back along the original road.

Fang Xia and Fu Jin followed behind as usual.

[You can start to check from the ghost sect first. ] Fu Jin turned his head to look at the absent-minded Fang Xia, and suggested, [The Geng family is also closely investigating the matter of the Ghost Sect. You should be able to get a lot of news related to the Ghost Sect from the Geng family. ]

"Yeah." Fang Xia nodded, "I'll ask Geng Zhongzhi later."

As Fang Xia spoke, he raised his head slightly, looked over the shoulders of Geng Chaolin and Geng Lijie, and looked at Geng Chongzhi who was walking in the front.As soon as his eyes fell on Geng Zhongzhi, he saw a man walking towards him out of the corner of his eye.

The man was dressed in ordinary clothes, with a pair of sunglasses on the bridge of his nose, and a black peaked cap on his head with the brim pressed down extremely low.

Seeing that man, Fang Xia unconsciously thought of the qualities that the wandering boy had said about him.

Men, sunglasses and masks.

It's a man with sunglasses, but no mask, but an extra hat.It doesn't look like a person from this village.

They walked in the aisle of the upstairs room, the aisle was narrow, only the width of a car, Geng Zhongzhi, who was walking in the middle of the road, leaned to the side of the road, leaving a way for the oncoming man to go.

The man raised his hand and pressed the peaked cap, and when he passed by Geng Zhongzhi, he suddenly got into trouble, snatched the box containing the monkey's paw from Geng Zhongzhi's hand, turned around and ran away.

The man was athletic, and quickly ran into the small corridor between the front and back buildings.

After Geng Chongzhi was stunned for a moment, he quickly came back to his senses and immediately shouted, "Chaolin! Lijie!"

Geng Chaolin and Geng Lijie immediately rushed forward, quickly passed Zhang Qiao and Geng Chongzhi, and turned into the small passage ahead one after the other.

Fang Xia also followed quickly.

The person who can snatch the monkey's paw by hand, excluding the possibility of ordinary robbers, can only be a member of the ghost sect trying to get the monkey's paw back.The possibility of the former is extremely small, and the possibility of the latter is extremely high. Chances are, Fang Xia can be sure that the man is a member of the Ghost Sect.

Soon, Fang Xia's almost certain guess was confirmed.

The man ran at the front, followed by Geng Chaolin and Geng Lijie, and Fang Xia chased after them.Fang Xiasao saw the shoulders of the man running in front shrugged, and then several black shadows flew out of his hands and flew towards the corner of the back door of a house.

They were a few little ghosts. They were dormant in the shadows. When Geng Chaolin and Geng Lijie ran over, they stretched out their hands to grab them. A few transparent hands passed through the ankles of the two of them, and the two of them staggered. The man distanced himself a little.

"What?!" Geng Lijie called out.

Those little ghosts also moved their hands on Fang Xia, Fang Xia quickly dodged sideways, and Fu Jin, who was following behind him, waved his hand, and those little ghosts were blown out of the shadow area by a gust of wind. Screaming, jumping and running into the shadows.

"It's the kid who is tripping you, be careful." Fang Xia jumped over the two of them, chased the man, and turned right into another passageway ahead.

In this kind of self-built building, several households are arranged in a row, and a few households are separated from each other. There will be aisles between the buildings and the left and right sides of the buildings. The places that are not the main roads are alleys that only allow one person to pass through.There is also a passage between the front and back buildings, but because several households will build walls to enclose their own yards, the passage between the front and rear buildings is also very narrow.

Dense self-built houses, criss-crossing small corridors, if you don't have a special understanding of this building, you know which house is which, and it is very easy to get lost in it.Of course, it is also very easy to lose face.

Fang Xia is very familiar with this kind of game of chasing people in alleys. He chases after the man closely, preventing him from pulling him away.Geng Chaolin and Geng Lijie, who were following behind him, were separated by some small tricks of the man, and after turning around, they were already thrown out of sight.

The man running in front suddenly turned sideways and climbed over the low wall of a house without warning, and then diverted to run from the yard of the house.Fang Xia ran a little too far, but still reacted very quickly with one hand on the low wall, crossed the low wall, and chased after the man in front.

After the man passed the three low walls, the wall of the third house was raised high, the brick wall was higher than the chest, and iron fences were added on it, so it was not easy to climb in.The man paused, turned his head and wanted to get out from the main entrance of the yard.

However, during his pause, Fang Xia had already reached out and grabbed his collar, and pulled it back suddenly.The man turned around and punched Fang Xia in the face.Fang Xia grabbed his punching hand with one hand, and at the same time let go of his back collar hand, and punched him in the face mercilessly.

The fist hit the man's face, making a weird clicking sound, and the touch was also very strange, as if hitting something that was padded with human skin, and it hit firmly, but there was no real feeling of impact.

The man took two steps back holding the box, the sunglasses fell off the bridge of his nose, revealing a pair of lifeless eyes.

Fang Xia was dumbfounded, staring at the man in a daze.

What made him stunned was not the man's lifeless eyes, but the side face hit by his fist, which turned into paper-like wrinkles—did he disfigure him with one punch?

[Puppetry. ] Fu Jin said.

Just as Fang Xia was about to ask Fu Jin what puppetry is, he saw the man turn around, climb up the high wall behind him with one hand, kick his foot on the wall, and he jumped up the wall with ease, as light as if he had no weight.Then he climbed over the iron fence on the wall and fell into the courtyard of that family.

"stop!"

There was no one in that house, and the gate of the fence was closed. Fang Xia looked around, and was about to jump up the low wall next to the high fence. Taking advantage of the shortened height of the low wall, he climbed over the high fence with the iron fence, but Fu Jin called out to stop him.

[I come. ]

As soon as Fu Jin finished speaking, the figure had already passed through the wall.

The author has something to say:

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Fang Xia: A punch that wrinkled a person's face, I'm simply the champion of boxing!No, God of Fist!

Fu Jin: Well, very powerful.