Mismarried

Chapter 44

After hearing these words, Lu Zhile was in a big circle, and when he was watching Da Geng leading people towards this direction, Shi Qi suddenly said urgently: "Xiao Le!"

Lu Zhile understood his worry, and comforted him: "Seventeen, don't do anything, let's go and see what's going on."

"Okay..." Seventeen said reluctantly.

Da Geng walked up to Lu Zhile, raised his hand slightly, and the people behind him wanted to arrest Lu Zhile, Lu Zhile hurriedly stood up, waved his hands and said, "Hey, don't do anything, I will go by myself."

Da Geng glanced at the old father on the altar, the latter nodded, Da Geng waved for people to step back, and made a gesture of please.

Lu Zhile breathed a sigh of relief, first glanced back at Guo Zhengyang, signaled with his eyes that he was fine, and then followed Da Geng and his party.

Walking out of the square to the stone wall behind the altar, Da Geng handed Lu Zhile a black cloth strip and said, "Please cooperate with the rules in the village."

In fact, Lu Zhile wanted to say that this black cloth strip is nothing to him, after all, he has two living ancestors in his body now, but he still took the black cloth strip and covered his eyes.

"Grab the stick and follow me." Da Geng handed him a stick with a thick wrist, and Lu Zhile grabbed it.

A familiar voice sounded, Lu Zhile listened intently for a moment, and heard the sound of the stone wall opening to both sides. Wu Ling came out from here just now, but after thinking about it, did you not see Wu Ling going back from here just now?

Da Geng didn't give him more time to think, so with a sudden pull, Lu Zhile followed his steps and walked forward. Just a few steps away, there was the same booming sound behind him. It should be that the gate of Shibi closed again. up.Suddenly, Lu Zhile felt the temperature of his whole body drop suddenly, and he, who was only wearing a thin sweater, shivered suddenly.

He took a deep breath, and was about to ask Seventeen to apply some spiritual power on the black cloth so that he could see what the hell it was, when Seventeen said, "Xiao Le, there is a formation on this cloth, I can't solve it."

...... A piece of rags is still setting up the formation, it is obvious that he already knows that he has spiritual power.Lu Zhile asked again: "What about brother? Can't brother solve it too?"

Zhefeng said: "This cloth uses the blood of living people as the eyes of the formation. If I forcefully break the formation, that person will undoubtedly die."

Tsk, what the hell is not human, just a broken road, is this necessary?Lu Zhile thought to himself.

Zhefeng said again: "Xiaoyue, don't worry, I have a way to let you see the outside scene, but...do you really want to see it?"

Zhefeng rarely spoke in such a tone, which made him even more curious, so he said: "Look!"

"Okay." After Zhefeng finished speaking, he squeezed out the Heavenly Soul from Lu Zhile's body with his spiritual power.

The soul of the sky left the body, and Lu Zhile instantly felt half heavy and half light. The heavy part was still walking on the narrow path, and the light part was the soul body leaping in midair.

The road was dim and lightless, but the vision of the soul body was not limited by the light, even if there was no light, he could still see the narrow cave clearly.

As soon as he saw the horrifying scene on both sides of the path, he knew why Zhefeng said that just now. In the shady black hole, there were dense white bones standing on both sides of the narrow path, some of which were hung with the clothes he wore when he was alive. Clothes, but due to the age, have been oxidized and decayed.

After walking for a while, Lu Zhile found that these bones seemed to be arranged according to the time of death, because the bones on both sides of the road gradually evolved into dead bodies with skin and flesh. The whole process of life can be seen in this dense cave.

But this is just a process that seems to explain the withering of life, but it has buried hundreds of lives.Lu Zhile's soul body does not need to breathe, but the breathing on the chest is a lot heavier because of this, and there is infinite skylight across the stone wall a few feet thick. Unfortunately, they died quietly, if it weren't for Lu Zhile It happened to be able to see these, and no one may never know that there is such a hell on earth under the beautiful Tianling Village.

Out of season, Lu Zhile chuckled.

"Xiao Le..." Shi Qi could feel what he was thinking in his heart, and wanted to comfort him, but he couldn't find any suitable words, because he also felt very uncomfortable after knowing the truth.

"We are so stupid." Lu Zhile said.

Obviously, from the costumes worn by the scarecrows at the entrance of the village, it can be seen that they are not the so-called villagers at all, but none of them dared to make bold guesses about innocent people, and now, the facts have been clearly laid out. In front of them, needless to say, the wandering spirits above the hill should also belong to these people.

But now there is still a question - where did the spiritual consciousness of those wandering souls go?

When Da Geng was in a trance, Da Geng suddenly stopped in front of him. Lu Zhile looked around and saw a statue with a height of more than ten meters inlaid on the stone wall in the cave. At this time, Da Geng took the wooden stick in his hand Pass it to the person beside him, and he walks to the incense table in front of the statue.Seeing this, Lu Zhile's soul floated with him in front of the statue, and after examining it carefully for a while, Lu Zhile found that this statue was the same as the godless stone statue in the ruined temple. people.

There was a set of incense candles on the incense table. Da Geng picked up three incense sticks. As soon as they were lit, Lu Zhile smelled a strong smell of death and stench. He frowned and was about to back away, but he suddenly found a person whom he had entered from inside. Ignore the problem when you get to the cave!That's right, the air in the cave is thin, and there are so many rotting dead bodies and bones hidden in it, how could there be no smell of corpses accumulated over the years?

It turned out that it wasn't that there was nothing, but that it had been refined into incense candles.Not only that, but Lu Zhile also remembered that he had never seen any ashes during the journey. Combined with the pale joss stick in Da Geng's hand, it is not difficult to guess that all the ashes should be refined into sacrifices for the stone statues. up.

Unexpectedly, this stone statue was actually a wild god, Lu Zhile muttered to himself.Just after muttering, a dark mist suddenly hit. Before Lu Zhile could react, the soul body had already returned to the body.

With a bang, the mist hit the place where Lu Zhile was standing just now, stirring up dust all over the sky.Da Geng turned his head when he heard the sound, "Who?!" He said, turning his head to look at the villagers and Lu Zhile who was covered with black cloth.

"No one." One of the villagers replied.

Lu Zhile couldn't see Da Geng's expression, but heard Zhefeng say, "Xiaoyue, are you okay?"

"It's okay, Ye..." Lu Zhile was just about to say that Ye Luzi's greatness is really small, but when the words reached his mouth, he turned a corner, "Ye Luzi's dog has a pretty temper." Qiao Erdeng's expression seemed to say: Come on, come on, hit me!

Zhefeng smiled and said, "Naughty."

I don't know who they were afraid of, anyway, the stone statue didn't attack again, and after Da Geng finished worshiping, the group continued to move forward.After walking for another 5 minutes, Lu Zhile felt that he had walked out of the cold cave, and could even feel the warm sunshine streaming down his body.

Da Geng, who was leading the way, stopped suddenly, and Lu Zhile guessed that he must have arrived.

Sure enough, Da Geng said in the next second: "Okay, it's here, you can take off the cloth."

Lu Zhile took off the strip of cloth, and slowly opened it after getting used to the strong light. He half-closed his eyes and looked around at the place in front of him. It wasn't the usual style of stilted buildings in the village, but an ordinary low house, like an ordinary The house where the Orion lives in the mountains is not decorated with any flowers and green plants, and some are just hung with... bacon?

Lu Zhile was a little confused.Da Geng said: "Go in, Master Wu Ling is waiting for you."

Lu Zhile: "......"

Wu Ling's taste is quite special.

Pushing open the gate of the fenced courtyard, Lu Zhile looked back at Da Geng, and saw that they had no intention of going in, but stood guard in front of the gate like pines and cypresses, so Lu Zhile kept walking forward, maybe this small courtyard It is full of life breath, so his defense against witch spirits has also been reduced a lot.

Walking through the courtyard, walking up two stone steps, and standing in front of a wooden door, Lu Zhile raised his hand and knocked on the door. After waiting for a while, a childish voice came from behind the wooden door, "Come in."

Little Wu Ling?Lu Zhile guessed like this, and gently pushed open the wooden door. As the wooden door opened wide, the blocked sunlight flooded the room impatiently, and also illuminated the old man sitting cross-legged in the main hall. The old man had white hair tied on top of his head, and his stature was stooped and short, not as tall as Wu Ling at all.

When he was thinking about it, the old man suddenly turned around. He was sitting cross-legged, but when he turned around, he didn't need to stand up first, but turned around while maintaining the posture of sitting cross-legged.Seeing this, Lu Zhile was startled for a moment, but not because of the old man's weird behavior, because Wu Ling itself possesses spiritual power, so it is not surprising to manipulate his body like this.To his surprise, the old man's face turned out to be that of a young man.

and!I seem to have seen this face somewhere before!

The old man could see what he was thinking, he smiled and said, "Do you think you saw me somewhere?" The old man's voice also matched the youthful tone of his face.

Lu Zhile had the illusion of being laid out in the sun, and nodded after a long while, "Dare to ask...where have I met...you?"

The old man replied: "Behind a tree trunk."

Behind the trunk?Lu Zhile thought for a moment, and then showed a suddenly realized expression: "You are that ghost!"

The old man nodded, "Yes, I am that ghost."

Lu Zhile felt that the old man was sneaking on him, so he said bluntly: "Tell me, what did you invite me to do?" He didn't use the word 'grab' because he felt that the old man asked him for something, otherwise why would he be here? How about secretly observing him on the first day of entering the village instead of directly hurting him?

The old man just smiled at his sudden change of attitude, "Please do me a favor."

Lu Zhile didn't ask why he could help, but said, "Why should I help you?"

"I'll help you too." The old man had a smile on his lips, as if he was looking at a prey that was about to get his hands.

Lu Zhile was disdainful, "I don't need your help, but you..." Lu Zhile sat down on the wooden chair firmly, "You have to show an attitude when asking for help, you say yes. "

The old man didn't care about his arrogance, and said: "No one can save the person who is bleeding from seven orifices today except me." Before Lu Zhile could refuse, the old man said again: "Including the soul in your body."

Lu Zhile didn't believe it, and secretly asked Zhefeng, "Brother, can you save me?"

Zhefeng said: "It can be saved, but it may not be completely saved. After all, I don't know what kind of medicinal powder they sprinkled."

Lu Zhile cursed inwardly, "Tell me, what can I do for you, let me tell you first, I'm stupid, lazy and obsessed with cleanliness, I can't do anything well, you better not make things difficult for me."

"Simple," said the old man, "just kill me."

Lu Zhile said: "Aren't you already dead?"

"I'm dead, but I'm not completely dead. I need you to let me die a little bit." The old man said.

"Not dead?" Lu Zhile was confused by what he said, and with a twist of his fingertips, spiritual power shot out from his fingertips and flew straight into the old man's body. After a moment, he frowned and said, "Who are you married to?" Got a soul contract?"

A soul bond, as the name suggests, is bound together with the souls of others in the form of a contract.

The old man was silent for a while, and finally said in a deep thought: "The land god of Tianling Village..."

It turned out that the wild Taoist priest who came to the stockade to steal corpses 300 years ago was this old man. At that time, his family was poor and ugly, and he had nothing to do, so he could not get a wife. It happened that year he heard some ways to raise ghosts. He thought, if he could raise a little ghost, then he would secretly raise a female ghost, so that he could be a wife at home.

Later, I heard that Tianling Village has good geomantic omen, and wherever the geomantic omen is good, there will always be good corpses with spiritual orifices. Such quality corpses are most suitable for raising little ghosts, so he immediately decided to go to Tianling Village to steal corpses. His development was also as he wished, he successfully stole the female corpse, but there is always an accident, after stealing the female corpse, he was immediately followed by the ghosts of the entire cemetery.

How could he be serious about catching ghosts like a Taoist priest of Ye Guanzi, so he had to abandon the corpse and run away, but of course a heavy living person could not run away from the light soul body, so it is conceivable that he did not escape, but later Perhaps his desire to survive was too strong, so he summoned the land god of that land, and the land god made a promise of "if you are willing to form a bond with me, I will save your life".

Making such a request to a dying person is like giving a glass of water to a traveler who has been walking in the desert for several days. No matter whether there is poison in it, the person will just drink it up.

Therefore, he formed a soul contract with the land god in this way.

After listening, Lu Zhile said: "The living can't form a pact with gods and ghosts. You will already be dead at that time, don't you know?"

The old man laughed at himself: "Life and death are but a blink of an eye, how would I know."

"Then what do you mean by asking me to kill you now?" Lu Zhile asked.

"Didn't you see everything on the way here?" The old man asked, "Aren't you angry with so many innocent dead people?"

Lu Zhile thought for a while, and said, "The wild thing in that cave is the land god who made a pact with you?"

The old man nodded.Lu Zhile asked again, "So you also fed the spiritual consciousness of those dead people to wild things?"

The old man said: "Spiritual knowledge is tasteless. He never eats spiritual knowledge. The spiritual knowledge you mentioned has been fed into the soul well."

"Fuck!" Lu Zhile scolded: "You guys are so fucking useless! If a person's death doesn't count, even if they don't let go of their spiritual consciousness, then they are all fucking innocent people! Have you ever thought that there are still people here? Wait for them to go home!"

The old man closed his eyes, "I just know that someone is waiting for them to go home, so I can't put the spiritual consciousness back."

Lu Zhile squinted her eyes and looked at him, her back molars were biting painfully.

The old man opened his eyes, "You don't have to look at me like that, I didn't ask you to kill me to shatter my soul," the old man looked at the clear sky outside the door, "I just want to get rid of this world, and then Take my soul to the eighteenth level of purgatory to redeem my sins..." Existing in the world is not living, and the eighteenth level of purgatory is not dead. The heart is like an evil spirit. Everywhere is hell. Only when you are liberated can you see the world .

Lu Zhile asked: "What is the Soul Well?"

The old man said: "Jihun Well has existed since ancient times. People say that Tianlingzhai has spirits. In fact, it is not Tianlingzhai that has spirits, but the well, because it is that well that nourishes this land, and that well The souls of passers-by are used to support the people on this land, so the old people here live a long life. To put it bluntly, those old people live the life of others. Oh, by the way, now that it’s said, don’t bother You should seal that well too." After speaking, he closed his eyes again under the warm sun.

Lu Zhile frowned and stared at him, and asked after a while: "If you hadn't met me, would you have continued to do evil?"

"Silly boy, in this world, there are many questions that are unnecessary to ask, because you will never get the answer you want," the old man said desolately: "So, let's do it directly."

Lu Zhile took a deep breath, looked up at the little Wu Ling, who offered a lacquered red staff and a jade vial with both hands, and said, "Thank you."

Lu Zhile didn't understand why the little witch spirit wanted to thank him at first, but he didn't understand until he burned the lacquered staff and the old man, and saw the little witch spirit's soul floating out.It turned out that the old man had already stripped his remaining pure soul from the original body.

The soul floated up to Lu Zhile, and said, "Son, I have lived for more than 300 years, and I have seen selfish people like crucian carp crossing the river, including myself. Do you know that it really hurts to have a soul cut?" , but in order to be a clean person in the next life, I still cut it off.”

"Why are you telling me these things?" Lu Zhile was not interested in listening to the final cleansing and confession of a wicked ghost.

"I want to thank you. There are people in this world who are selfish and hypocritical, but there are also people who have cut their souls for love." He stretched out a transparent finger and pointed at the red mole at the corner of Lu Zhile's eye. "I have lived in the ugliness of human nature all my life. Thank you for allowing me to see the last beauty."

Lu Zhile felt that he was talking nonsense, but he still couldn't help asking: "What does it mean that someone cut his soul for love?"

"Silly boy, didn't I just say that there are many questions that are unnecessary to ask." After speaking, the transparent soul body disappeared.

However, Lu Zhile fell into a fluster. Inexplicably, he felt that the corners of his eyes that were touched by that person were still faintly burning. Moreover, Lu Zhile was not a fool, and that person could tell at a glance that there was something in him that did not belong to him. He even deliberately said such a meaningful sentence, he had to guess about Shi Qi, and he asked, "Shi Qi, where did you come from?"

"I don't know." Shi Qi understood Lu Zhile's panic, but he really didn't know where he came from.

"I don't know if I don't think about it!" Lu Zhile suddenly raised his voice, and when he thought of the sentence that the soul-cutting was really painful, he wanted to get angry, "You have been awake for 14 years, why have you been awake until now?" Still can't remember anything?"

"But I really can't remember..." Shi Qi was terrified by Lu Zhile's sudden anger, and even his tone of voice unconsciously became crying.

Why is there a lonely soul sleeping in his body?Why can't this lonely soul be driven out of the body?Lu Zhile has been thinking about these two questions for 14 years, but he has not been able to come up with an answer. Why should he make things difficult for Shi Qi?

Lu Zhile didn't dare to think about it anymore, he took a deep breath, and then slowly let out the anger accumulated in his heart, and said softly: "Little Shiqi, I was emotionally unstable just now, I apologize to you, I'm sorry, don't cry, okay?"

"Does Xiao Le not like Shi Qi anymore..." If Shi Qi had a real body, he must be crying.

"I like it. Xiao Le likes Shi Qi the most. Don't cry, okay?" Lu Zhile coaxed patiently.

Shiqi was still crying, but Zhefeng said inappropriately: "No, Xiaoyue likes me the most."

Seventeen's cries stopped abruptly.

Lu Zhile: "......"

Most afraid of the air suddenly quiet.

The next second, Seventeen shouted angrily and fiercely: "Who are you! Get out, okay?"

Zhefeng was unmoved.Lu Zhile's temple hurts, "Ten...seventeen..."

"Xiao Le!" Seventeen cried, "I don't like him, we don't want him anymore, okay?"

Lu Zhile's brain hurts: "...Why don't you think I'm dead, or you two argue on your own and don't take me with you, okay?"

Coming out of Wu Ling's small courtyard, Lu Zhile followed Da Geng to the stilted building of the patriarch. As soon as he entered the door, he saw that the spacious hall was full of people, most of them were directors, producers and a few of the film crew. The relevant staff, including Guo Zhengyang, got up as soon as he saw Lu Zhile and asked, "How are you, are you okay?"

"It's okay." Lu Zhile answered while watching Da Geng walk over to the patriarch and leaned over to speak, probably to tell him the news of Lord Wu Ling's death. He saw that the expression on the patriarch's face was not as painful as he imagined, but there was something kind of relief.

Then, the patriarch got up on crutches, walked up to Lu Zhile and bowed slightly, Lu Zhile couldn't bear such a heavy gift, so he stretched out his hand to help him up, and said: "Patriarch, can we talk about it if we have something to say? But don't be so hard on me."

The patriarch patted Lu Zhile's hand with his hands that were as dry as tree bark, "You are really our Tianling Village's great benefactor."

Lu Zhile smiled, "I'm just sending away a witch spirit, why should he thank me, you should thank me too."

The patriarch sighed, "It's not just Wu Ling that you sent away, you also helped us get rid of a big cancer in Tian Ling Village, of course I have to thank you."

"Oh?" Lu Zhile glanced at the villagers behind him, "How do you say that?"

The patriarch was old and spoke very slowly, but Lu Zhile still listened patiently.

It turned out that the lacquered ghost rolling stick was the medium through which the land god and the witch spirit formed a bond, and there was no so-called land god in Tianlingzhai. .

After his death, his resentment persisted, and it happened that a lot of yin energy had gathered in the well at the east end of the village, so he went into the well to nourish his soul. When the people attacked, he could only snatch the living soul of the passerby. The man tasted the marrow and tasted it. As time passed, he was no longer satisfied with only devouring the living soul, so he entrusted him to the patriarch at that time as the land god. He had a dream and told him that if the village built a temple for him and worshiped it often, he would bless the villagers to live a long life.

The mission of a patriarch is the entire village. After hearing this, he not only did not become suspicious, but even started to call the villagers to build the earth temple the next day. However, after he built the earth temple, the so-called land The gods began to ask for tribute again. The patriarch at that time naturally refused, but it was easier to ask the gods than to give them away. The man bluntly said that if he didn’t do so, he would eat a villager every day. Naturally, there is no need to say more about which is more important, so the patriarch agreed.

But when the sky is bright and bright, one will be punished by the gods for taking the life of others, and the curse of Tian Lingzhai is that the birth rate of babies is extremely low, and they are either stillborn or difficult to survive, but as long as they survive, they can be punished by the "land god". bless.But even so, there are still many children who die in Tianling Village every year, so this matter has become the heart of many old people. They feel that it is better to leave this opportunity to the new generation of children and grandchildren than to live on their own.

After hearing these words, everyone except the villager was deeply moved.Lu Zhile didn't know what to say for a while, he heard too many shocking truths today.At this time, Director Li was annoyed: "Since my people helped you, shouldn't you also hand over our actors now!"

It was about the actor who was bleeding from all seven orifices.Hearing this, Lu Zhile quickly took out the small jade-colored bottle, and said, "Patriarch, Wu Ling left me this bottle of medicine, you know how to use it, right?"

The patriarch hesitated for a while before taking the bottle of medicine, turned around and said something in dialect, and then an old woman staggered in. The patriarch handed the jade vial to the old woman, who took the medicine and nodded before turning around and leaving.

The patriarch said to Lu Zhile: "Don't worry, the young man just bled a little, nothing serious, just wake up and he'll be fine."

Lu Zhile thanked him, and was about to ask something more, but was preempted by another voice, "Patriarch, should you explain why his seven orifices are bleeding?"

Lu Zhile followed the prestige, and saw Qin Chao who was leaning against the wall pillar, and he saw that the funeral was not too big.