Guanqingzhai

Jiang Lu pursed his lips, he swallowed with difficulty, then looked at Hu Yue and said, "Brother Hu...do you believe that there are really ghosts in this world who take their lives?"

Hu Yue took the lantern from Jiang Lu's hand and said: "As long as there are desires in this world, there will be no less innocent souls."

Jiang Lu said: "I may have encountered a ghost. At that time, I was standing outside the mountain gate. I just poked my head in out of curiosity. I found that there was only one Buddhist hall in this temple, and the sound of chanting came from both sides. It came from the side hall. I don’t know why I had to go inside by accident. There was no incense in the incense burner, but there was a strange fragrance. There were no Buddha statues in the incense hall on the right, only rows of paper bundles People, those paper-stitched people were all hung on the beams of the house. The heads of the paper-stitched people were covered by a white cloth, and their faces could not be seen clearly. I didn’t listen to my instructions, so I went backwards into the wing room on the left. That’s how I entered the folk prescription. The moment I entered the door, I felt as if someone was passing me by. There was only one monk in the room, namely The Chi Jing you saw today, his face changed drastically when he saw me, I thought he hated me for disturbing his salvation, but then I found out that he was afraid..."

Hu Yue said, "Why are you afraid?"

Jiang Lu said: "Because I destroyed his salvation... This temple is not an ordinary temple, but a temple of stealing lives. Ghosts cannot be reincarnated, so they have to find someone to replace them. As the name implies, the temple of stealing lives is stealing lives. They found those corpses of people who have just died, and then resurrected from the dead."

Hu Yue said, "What does that have to do with you?"

Jiang Lu covered his face and said: "Master Chi Jing said that because there are other souls in the temple who cannot be reincarnated, they are waiting for me to occupy my body after death. Generally, such a situation will not wait too long, seven to seven 49 days After that. I'm hopeless."

Hu Yue was silent for a long time, and he said: "Stealing life? Hmm...can you take me to the temple of stealing life once?"

Jiang Lu said: "How is this possible? Don't you be afraid..."

Hu Yue sighed and said, "Actually, you didn't invite me here just to drink a pot of water."

Jiang Lu was at a loss for words for a moment, and Hu Yue said flatly: "That monk named Chi Jing must have said something else to you."

Jiang Lu was eager to speak, but Hu Yue shook his hand and said, "But I know what's going on with your current situation."

Jiang Lu lowered his hands, and he said: "Yes, I am really ashamed to say anything, but Brother Hu, you can rest assured, I will not..."

Hu Yue waved his hands and said with interest: "How come, Brother Jiang, you should tell me, as for what happens to me next, it has nothing to do with you, maybe I can help you The way to get along and save your life."

Jiang Lu looked at Hu Yue who was looking at him like a child playing games. He looked at Hu Yue with a complicated expression, held Hu Yue's hand without saying a word, and only said thank you softly after a long time. .

Chu Jue interrupted Hu Yue's narration, he said: "You let him hold your hand?"

Hu Yue corrected: "It was he who pulled me." He looked at Chu Jue's expression that seemed to be catching rape, and added; "To show gratitude."

Hu Yue wanted to continue talking, but found that his hand had been pinched by Chu Jue at some point. He twitched the corner of his eyes and looked at Chu Jue, while Chu Jue had an expression of you continue and I listen.

Hu Yue sighed and had no choice but to continue narrating.

At that time, Hu Yue and Jiang Lu rushed to the weird temple at the foot of Jikan Mountain in the outskirts of the city on the second day of their meeting.That mountain didn't exist originally, but it is said that there needs to be a mountain pressing down on the northeast corner to make the Feng Shui of the entire imperial city work.Otherwise, the dragon's veins will be washed by the Ming River closest to here.

So this mountain was moved from Qiuyong Mountain in the south.However, after a hundred years, this Jikan Mountain, which was originally valued by the royal family, did not know when it started to lose vegetation. Since then, the livestock farmers within three miles have also declined and died one after another.Then this place was abandoned by the royal family, and the so-called Fengshui township theory was also denied by the royal family.This place has become a barren mountain, and in recent decades it has become a mass grave.

Although it was noon, there was no warmth there, and it was extremely gloomy. Occasionally, crows could be heard.The dead branches criss-cross, and this appearance does not have the scenery of early summer at all.It was as if all signs of life had been sucked away.

Jiang Lu led Hu Yue through the path of mass burials based on his memory, and finally found the small temple behind a pile of rubble at the foot of the mountain. It turned out that it was a temple, and the dead wood and rocks around it made the temple that didn't look like a temple even more hidden.

Hu Yue looked up at the gate, but there was no plaque on the gate.He was just about to step in.Jiang Lu blocked him, and Jiang Lu said with a determined face: "Brother Hu, this matter has nothing to do with you. You should go back!"

Hu Yue interrupted him. He pulled out the fan from his waist, pointed to the door and said, "Hey. To be honest, there is something I want in this temple."

Hu Yue pushed Jiang Lu's arm away, and just when he was about to enter, the door seemed to be aware of it, and it was closed without anyone there.Jiang Lu froze in place, Hu Yue realized that something was wrong, grabbed Jiang Lu, and suddenly stretched out a hand from the door, but Hu Yue was faster, and directly pulled Jiang Lu to his side, and here In an instant, the strange hand retracted into the door, and then the door closed.

As soon as the door was closed, there was a cry-like sound from inside. The sound was very shrill, and then there was a terrifying knock on the door. Jiang Lu was shaking like a sieve. He looked at Hu Yue in fear, and he didn't even ask a question. not come out.

Hu Yue's expression was no longer joking, he stared at the gate intently, he grabbed Jiang Lu, approached him and said: "Brother Jiang, you must listen to me now, time is tight and I don't have time to talk to you in detail, but I want What I told you is that you are running eastward now, don’t stop no matter what, you can’t stop until you see trees. Don’t worry about me, don’t come back.”

Jiang Lu pulled Hu Yue's sleeve, Hu Yue shook off him, pushed him and shouted: "Run! Run!"

Jiang Lu ran away. He heard a loud noise from the door behind him, and then a strange wind rushed out. The wind was so cold that Jiang Lu could only take a last look at Hu Yue. At this time, Hu Yue had already rushed into the temple. He only remembered the last words Hu Yue said to him, so he ran towards the east.

But the strange wind behind him didn't stop at all, several times Jiang Lu felt that he was about to be sucked back.But he felt that the place Hu Yue took last time was very warm, and Jiang Lu escaped several times, as if there was a divine help in the dark.

He ran until his vision gradually became blurred, but Jiang Lu still gritted his teeth and ran wildly for a long time in fear and panic, when suddenly he was caught by a branch and fell down in the grass.His face and hands were cut by weeds, and he looked up at the sky, only to find that the strange wind had disappeared, but the ecology here was the opposite of that near the Temple of Stealing Life.Weeds are overgrown here, although it is very barren, but the temperature in early summer has returned, and the sound of birdsong can still be heard.It's just that the abundance of weeds is very different from that in other areas.

Panting for breath, he got up and began to call Hu Yue's name, but there was no sign of Hu Yue here, and he was extremely frightened and uneasy, but he couldn't just leave his companions and run away.He struggled for a long time, thinking that he was a dying person, but now because of his greed for life and fear of death, his friend's whereabouts were unknown.There is not much time left, but I have to spend it in guilt and anxiety, thinking about it, I feel a rush of blood in my heart.

He leaned under the big tree for a while, and after he stabilized his mind, he started to run back.

Jiang Lu is a careful person. He found that the grass and trees along the road are getting rarer and rarer, but they have a very strange similarity, that is, no matter how few trees are, they all grow in one direction. That is the direction where the Stealing Life Temple is located.It seemed to be attracted by something, but the trees didn't grow at all after walking for a long time.And after that, there are rocks, no grass, and more and more stones, but these stones are very strange, because all the colors are gray and white, like lime.And very crispy.With a little effort, the stone broke into small pieces.

Jiang Lu didn't see Hu Yue until he reached the entrance of the Temple of Stealing Life.He bravely entered the temple alone, but he didn't expect that the scene inside the temple was exactly the same as when he first came here. There were three incense halls, and the incense burners in the temple hadn't had any incense for a long time.In such a temple, the weird monk sat crookedly on the futon. He looked up at Jiang Lu and smiled and said, "I didn't expect Mr. Jiang to come back. God's will..."

There was panic in Jiang Lu's eyes, but he still said: "Master, you said that I want to find someone to replace me. You said that Hu Yue is not suitable. After I go back, I wanted to find another person, but I really can't bear to wait like this." The disaster is passed on to others. If it is really the sky that wants to kill me, it is my fate, and I can do nothing, but I only ask the master to let Hu Yue go, he has nothing to do with this matter."

Chi Jing was laughing all the time, very weirdly, and he said, "It doesn't matter to him, if I knew you were looking for him, I would never let you find someone, hey, greedy, greedy. "

Jiang Lu said: "Then that's the case, please let the master let Hu Yue go."

Chi Jing smiled speculatively: "Let him go? Let him go out and grab my baby? Now that he knows about it, he has no chance of survival. Otherwise, I will die."

When Jiang Lu heard that Hu Yue had lost his life, anger and regret rushed straight to his forehead. He was no longer afraid, and rushed up to grab Chi Jing's neck.But he didn't expect Chi Jing to be very light, and he lifted him up with a light lift.

Jiang Lu opened his eyes wide, and he realized that the monk was actually an empty shell, just like those paper figures, he was just one of them.But a few days ago, he was still in the flesh, Jiang Lu was suspicious and afraid, but he didn't let go when he thought of Hu Yue, and he raised his hand to hit him.

Chi Jing snorted coldly, and he put his hand on Jiang Lu's hand, and then Jiang Lu felt that the skin on his hand began to dry and crack, and even bleed, but the blood was immediately sucked away by Chi Jing's hand, and the dryness became more and more severe. It became more and more serious, and soon moved to the arm, and a sharp pain made Jiang Lu let go of his strength.But Chi Jing didn't let him go, Jiang Lu gritted his teeth and pushed Chi Jing away, clutching his arms and kept going back, staggering and falling to the ground.He covered his arms and looked at Chi Jing. Chi Jing slowly approached Jiang Lu. He stretched out a hand to approach Jiang Lu's head. From here on his forehead the skin was cracked and bleeding.Just when Chi Jing's hand was about to get close to Jiang Lu, a fan opened Chi Jing's arm. Jiang Lu looked up and found Hu Yue standing between the two of them. There has been a change, there are strange textures on the left side of his face, like bloodstains, but the enchanting texture makes him look even more alluring, he smiled slightly and said: "Master, it seems that he can't wait any longer. But my friend is not yet ready."

Chi Jing stared at Hu Yue for a long time.He began to laugh loudly and said, "So that's it. It seems that I really underestimated you. I have another suggestion. This thing can be divided into two, you and I are half. Why be greedy?"

Jiang Lu opened his eyes and looked at Hu Yue in front of him. He felt that this person was too strange, and he didn't know him at all after getting along for so many times.Who the hell is he?What exactly is in their mouth?

Hu Yue showed him his usual smile, and he said, "Don't be afraid, Brother Jiang. I'm not going to share with a dead spirit. But now you have to make a choice."

Jiang Lu drooled, and Hu Yue said very calmly, "Do you want to die now, or choose to die ten years later?"

Jiang Lu looked at him, and he said, "What do you mean?"

Hu Yue pointed to the monk and said: "He lied to you. This guy actually lives by absorbing the earth's energy. There is no such thing as a ghost stealing his life. He can do this because of the presence of Shi Lingzi. He can be attached to a person or a humanoid object. In fact, there is no stealing life temple at all. He just treats you as a container. When your yang energy is exhausted, he will be you, and you may be just a lot of paper in the side hall. It’s just one of the people who stabbed people. Master, you have been waiting for a long time with this kind of deception.”

While Hu Yue was talking, he observed the situation in the temple. The three of them maintained such a subtle silence. In the end, it was Chi Jing who spoke first: "Then don't you also want Shi Lingzi? It can also absorb the aura of heaven and earth. Don't think I can't see it, you are the same as me."

Hu Yue sneered, and said, "Would you believe me if I said that I have a better way to use Shi Lingzi?"

Chi Jing pulled her stiff smile and said, "It seems that you know a lot."