After being dressed as the evil god

Liu Si and Ding Wang died.The news quickly spread throughout the city. Han Sheng escaped unharmed, but only injured one leg.

But before the funeral of Liu Ding's family, the Zhuang family went out first.

"Yue Niang," Zhuang Hai sat in front of the tombstone and slowly lit the joss sticks, "I took their lives and made a sacrifice for you. No one knows about you, you are still clean and innocent."

The newly fallen stone tablet turned up fresh soil marks on the left and right, which set off the desolate autumn grass in the distance. Zhuang Hai was silent for a long time, and his voice was already hoarse when he spoke again: "You can close your eyes now."

Suddenly he couldn't speak any more, and buried his head in his chest: "Why...why didn't you think about it..."

The autumn wind blew over the weeds, melting a suppressed whimper.

The transparent girl stood beside Zhuang Hai, stretched out her hand but could only pass through his shoulder in vain.

elder brother……

After a long time, Zhuang Hai raised his head again, with a resolute expression on his face.

He walked into the city.He pressed Yueniang's coffin and never mourned, just for revenge.

Now that he has killed Liu Si and Ding Wang, there are traces of crossbow arrows on their bodies, not to mention Han Sheng is still there, this matter cannot be concealed.When he was begging Wu Hou to help him take revenge, he bought the crossbow as a second-hand preparation.Liu Si and Ding Wang are dead, but the result is different whether they died in the hands of Wuhou or him. The laws of the world can't control the gods, but they can control him.

He is ready.

When Zhuang Hai returned home, the white paper lantern was fluttering in the wind. He sat on the chair, exhaled slowly, and closed his eyes.

elder brother……

"……elder brother……"

Zhuang Hai opened his eyes, only to see a familiar slim figure standing at the door, with his back turned to him.

"Yueniang!" Zhuang Hai smiled and got up and walked over, completely forgetting that Yueniang was dead, "What are you doing standing there? Come in!"

Yueniang didn't turn around, she was still standing there: "Brother, don't worry."

"What am I worried about?" Zhuang Haila turned around, "Why do you keep turning your back to people? Today's makeup is messed up?"

Yue Niang followed his strength and turned around, revealing a beautiful face full of smiles.

Zhuang Hai was taken aback, and then smiled again: "Why did you cover your face with embroidery work?"

Although the beautiful face had soft eyes and a smile on the lips, it didn't move. Looking closely, it was clearly the beautiful face embroidered by Zhang.

Zhuang Hai stretched out his hand to pick it off, but Yueniang held her down: "...Brother, don't worry about those people, Marquis Wu took it over, and no one will know that you did it."

"Which people? What's the matter?" Zhuang Hai frowned, and suddenly had a bad feeling, "Yue Niang, what's wrong with you? Let me see you?"

Yueniang's hands on the beauty's face trembled, and she slowly moved away: "Brother...what did you see?" Zhuang Hai uncovered the embroidery work, and saw Yueniang's gentle face wrinkled like With a sorrowful expression, he breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "Look at you, isn't this all right? Why are you scaring me?"

But Yueniang burst into tears.

Zhuang Hai was in a hurry: "What's wrong? Who bullied you? Don't cry?"

Yueniang looked at him with tears in her eyes: "I... I'm leaving. I'm at Marquis Wu's place now, and I'm doing well. Don't worry."

"Don't..." Zhuang Hai stretched out his hand to grab her, but Yueniang had already stepped back, and disappeared without a trace.

Zhuang Hai felt a pain in his chest, and suddenly opened his eyes, he was still sitting on the chair, there was no one at the door, only white paper lanterns shaking in the autumn wind.

He pressed his chest and his lips trembled twice.Is it a dream?

But until the next day, when Liu Jiangcheng and Zhu Kangning took him to eat the pot together, no one came to him.The store was steaming, and people were discussing the latest excitement. Although Liu Ding and his family invited Taoist priests from Xingfeng Temple, they still failed to save their lives, and Han Sheng, the only one who survived, was very concerned about all of this. Keep silent.

People take this for granted, but that's Marquis Wu!So what about Xingfeng Temple?In these nearby places, how can they live comfortably under the leadership of Marquis Wu?Who can change what Marquis Wu has decided?

The waiter at the door is still smiling and sharing the fried chestnuts with sugar, each one is hot and soft, and stuffed in his bosom, it is so hot that his heart is ironed, and the autumn chill is removed.

Zhuang Hai raised his foot and walked towards Old Man Yu who was selling chestnuts.

"What are you doing?" Zhu Kangning asked.

Zhuang Hai waved his hand: "I'll pay homage to Marquis Wu."

……

The long wind comes from afar, and it falls to the outskirts.

This is already beyond the scope of several towns protected by Marquis Wu, and has come to the border of Xingfeng Guan's protected place.

Standing at this junction, I can even see the difference between the two sides.

The evil spirit is also shrouded, and the evil spirit under Xingfeng Temple is diffused. These evil spirits are born due to the catastrophe and the panic and misery of all living beings.But within the jurisdiction of Marquis Wu, those evil spirits are condensed.They were refined by partial and evil methods, and they were shrouded majestically over the entire jurisdiction, like a ferocious beast, and no other evil spirit dared to corrode where it was entrenched.

The actions of Marquis Wu and Xingfeng Temple cannot be said to be good or evil, right or wrong, they are just two different choices.Marquis Wu has the heart to take care of him, and Xingfeng Temple takes care of himself alone. The latter's rescue of the people under his jurisdiction is limited to the situation that does not affect himself. It is roughly like labor in the world. Heart.As for more evil deeds, it is difficult to protect oneself in the catastrophe, so let's clear the door.

Li Chiluo appeared, looked away from the sky above Marquis Wu's jurisdiction, and turned to the Qing Qi on the other side.That is the breath of Xingfengguan.

There were three people who came to settle the cause and effect with Marquis Wu. One was an old Taoist who had fought against Marquis Wu hundreds of years ago, and a boy who had been killed by Marquis Wu in his previous life and reincarnated. But it was the last young Taoist priest.Of the three, he was the only one whose age really matched his appearance.

This young Taoist priest has only practiced for a short time, but his edict can cause trouble for Marquis Wu.This is not because of how talented he is, but because of the royal air in him.He has the blood of the Liang royal family.

Although the laws of the world cannot control practitioners, as a god who protects a place, it is inevitable to have a relationship with the people of the place, which will have a cause and effect with the mortal monarch, and the imperial edict of the king will naturally follow. It has a certain influence on the gods of this place. If the gods use the incense here, the influence will be even greater.

Just like how the Lord of the State of Lu targeted the God of Huai Shui more than 2000 years ago, but the God of Huai Shui was the god of heaven and earth, he was not subject to incense, nor did he protect all living beings, so the Lord of the State of Lu's edict had no effect on him.

Now the three of them have returned to Xingfeng Temple, Xiao Daotong looked unhappy, the old Taoist couldn't see any joy or anger, he only said to the young Taoist priest whose breath was still uneven: "Longevity, go back and rest first."

longevity.This is his name, but not his Dao name. There are many names like this in the mortal world, such as Longevity, Medicine Master, Qubing, and Qiji, all of which are wishes for his children to be healthy and live a long life.Just on a slightly bustling street, if you shout "Longevity!" without adding your surname, maybe four or five people will look back.

Li Chi's eyes fell away, this young Taoist priest has no Taoist name, only Changshou, but no surname.More precisely, his surname has been obscured.

On him, there is a clean energy of Xingfeng Temple, which is inconspicuous, and every person in Xingfeng Temple has some clean energy more or less, this is their common luck.But the clear air on Changshou's body is not as simple as it appears on the surface. It not only conceals his surname, but also conceals most of his royal aura, only a little bit remains, as if Liang Wang didn't know how much Like distant relatives separated from previous generations.

But Lichi could see clearly that such royal air was probably at least the blood relative of the current King Liang within two generations.However, Changshou didn't seem to know about it at all. Li Chi looked along the causal line on his body, and the end of the causal line led to Liang King's Capital, which was obscured by the even greater royal aura in the King's Capital.

Li Chi raised his finger and slapped it in the air, the world is like a harp, and cause and effect are like strings.

After dialing, he didn't turn into the wind again, but stood in the road, walking slowly forward, as if waiting for something.

……

On the outskirts, there is a long and winding path that connects the two towns, and also connects the boundary between Marquis Wu and Xingfengguan.

There was the sound of rattling oxen's hooves, and an ox cart was driving on the country road, heading for Xingfeng City under the jurisdiction of Xingfeng Temple.

The driver was a skinny old man with rough and dark skin, his hand holding the whip was rough and strong, covered with calluses and scars, he raised his hand to urge the cow to go fast.

There were two children sitting in the back, a boy about [-] or [-] years old, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, strong and strong, and the other was a thin-cheeked little girl, with a sallow complexion and a sickly look, looking sick and weak.Both children were wrapped in thick jackets, and their gazes were fixed on the car or on the road, not both sides of the road.

It was late autumn at this time, but the woods on the left and right sides of the road were still green, casting deep shadows on the ground, making it hard to see what was deep inside.The muddy light at dusk elongated these shadows again, and slowly drowned them towards the road in the middle.

If you look carefully at the edge of the forest under the shadows, you can see dots of white, which are scattered bones, and some dirty gray things fluttering in the wind, which are torn clothes.

In this world, many people died of starvation, but they fed the wild dogs in the forest.Once these wild dogs tasted people, it was hard to forget them. At the beginning, they still remembered being afraid. When they saw someone lying on the side of the road, no matter whether they had breath or not, they dragged them into the woods to chew, and then they ate too much. With resentment and unwilling human flesh, the eyes of these wild dogs turned scarlet little by little, and their courage became more and more courageous. When they saw pedestrians walking alone on the road, they dared to pounce on them and bite them.

It was almost dusk at this time, and there was no one else on the road, only the sound of ox carts driving.

Suddenly, two "croaks" crows sounded from the edge of the forest, and the boy lost his mind and subconsciously followed the sound.The little girl next to him suddenly coughed violently, and the cough brought the boy back to his senses. He hurriedly patted the little girl's back, and then reached out to take medicine from his pocket: "Sister, how are you?"

The little girl coughed for a while, then calmed down slowly, pushed away his hand holding the medicine, shook her head and said, "It's okay, I'll just wash it up, and it will be fine gradually. This medicine is not easy to pick up, so save it."

The old man driving the car sullenly said in a deep voice, "I came back a bit late today, just in time for the turn of day and night, don't look around, Da Gong, watch your sister."

"Hey, Dad!" Da Luo hurriedly responded, and took out a small knife from under his thigh to hold it.The small knife was still in the cowhide sheath, but Da Luo slowly calmed down, took the little girl with the other hand, and let the crows on both sides reappear, without turning his eyes away.

Over time, too many people have died tragically in this forest, and it has gradually become a place where ghosts and demons run rampant.In order to guard against wild dogs, people gathered together when walking this path, but later ghosts began to lure people into the forest, so no one dared to look around when walking this path.

The old man was driving the ox cart, and he just stared at the road ahead without saying a word, urging the ox to move fast, and he must find the next place to stay before sunset.

but……

"Shut! Shout!"

The bullock cart stopped suddenly.

The old man put his hands in his arms and looked ahead vigilantly.

In the middle of the road ahead, a young man in a dark green robe and carrying a piano bag was standing. After seeing them, he was walking over.

The old man withdrew his hand from his bosom, holding a carving knife: "Stop!"

Li Chi's footsteps were fixed, and he said with a smile: "Old man, don't be nervous, I'm just a tourist, passing by here, wanting to take a ride."

The old man stared at him for a long while, and rubbed his fingers back and forth against the edge of the carving knife, before saying in a calm voice, "Come here."

Li Chi smiled and said, "Thank you very much."

The two children didn't dare to look at the side of the road, and only stared at him when he came over, but the old man kept staring at him, seeing that he sat securely at the back of the cart, not approaching the two children, Only then did he put the carving knife in his arms back into his bosom, turned around and started the car again.

The two children were staring at the road and the car before, but now they have something new to look at, so they couldn't help but stare at Lichi together, looking at his invisible dark green robe and the piano bag on his knees, although they were vigilant, But also inevitably curious.

Li Chi smiled at them, Da Luo couldn't help but subconsciously returned a smiling face, but the little girl looked exhausted, after watching for a while, she closed her eyes and rested, holding her brother tightly with one hand.

The bullock cart was moving steadily and fast, but the sky was getting darker and darker, and the crows sounded again from the woods on both sides, and the sound became more and more dense, disturbing the mind.

The little girl's face turned pale again, and she seemed to be unable to cough now, but was short of breath, and her other hand had already been pinched into the boy's flesh.Da Luo didn't care about the pain, he was even trying to feel the pain so that his attention would not be distracted by the crows.

"Hey! Hey!" The old man flicked one whip after another in the air, urging the cow to hoof quickly.

The shadows in the forest have grown longer and longer, almost covering half of the road.The crows were gradually mixed with the howling of wild dogs, and the sound of wind came from the forest, like whining.

Da Luo's face was also pale, his pupils were a little dizzy, but he didn't dare to close his eyes, and kept staring at Li Chi.

The old cow pulling the cart was restless, causing the car body to shake.

"Zha!" The old man suddenly spat out a roar from his chest, bright as a thunderclap exploded out of thin air.

The chaotic sounds in the woods were suppressed at once, and the road was quiet for a moment, but under the shade of the trees, pairs of oily green or scarlet eyes lit up.

Da Luo was swayed by the car, his eyes glanced to the side, and suddenly he saw a few pairs of will-o'-the-wisp eyes, and a chill rushed to the top: "Yes, yes!"

"Brother! Don't look!" The little girl pinched his hand tightly, and her fingernails made several semicircular marks on his hand.

Daluo regained his senses, and then he let out a breath slowly and settled down.He looked at Lichi again, and felt strange again, no matter the noise in the woods just now, or his father's loud shout just now, this young man who was blocking the way to get a ride didn't change a bit.He just sat in the back of the car so peacefully, without even hitting a single one.

A thought flashed in his mind, and he suddenly asked loudly: "You took our car, you just want to get to the place safely with us, right?"

"Da Luo!" The old man shouted loudly to stop, but it was too late, Da Luo's words had already been asked.

He was silent for a while, let out a long breath amidst the rattling hooves of the ox cart, put his hand on his bosom again, and asked, "If you ask now, just ask, that's fine, the old man also wants to ask this half-dao Passengers in the car, can we walk this way safely?"

Li Chi seemed startled by their question, and suddenly laughed: "Of course, this journey will be passed safely!"

As soon as his words fell, the old man seemed to be shaken, and replied loudly: "Okay!" He swung his whip and urged the bullock cart to continue running forward.

In the last light of twilight, the shadows on the road grew longer, and there seemed to be commotion under the woods again.Li Chi opened the piano bag, and with a flick of his finger, the sound of the piano appeared and scattered around, instantly calming down the restless forest.

The sallow-faced little girl let out a sigh of relief, opened her eyes, and quietly looked at Lichi.

Under the support of Qin Yin, the ox cart drove quickly, and finally reached a place to settle in front of the ox cart under the long shadow of the forest.It was a small temple built on the side of the road, with the words "Wanyinggong Temple" written on it.

It looks like I will be staying here temporarily tonight, the old man and Da Luo are fine, but the little girl's face is a little pale.

In the Wanyinggong Temple, the worshipers are not the orthodox gods, but the homeless ghosts. This is a Yin temple.They couldn't make it to the city gate today. Although it's not good to stay in the Yin Temple, it's better than staying outside.Ghosts, even dead people, their minds are no different from human beings, good or bad.But these homeless and lonely ghosts got this temple that can be supported because of the kindness of the living people, and they still have some kindness towards the living people.

They took their luggage and walked into the temple, Li Chi followed leisurely and also went in.

The old man who went in first has turned around, staring at Lichi with piercing eyes: "We have picked you up, please let us stay here safely for one night."

As soon as the words were finished, the hitchhiker who was carrying the zither burst into laughter. The little girl pulled the old man by the corner of his clothes and said in a low voice, "Father, this guest is not a gentleman."

The so-called Youyinggong is another name for lonely ghosts with no one to worship.

The old man was stunned: "Huh?"

Li Chi smiled for a while: "Old man, don't you think I'm that lonely soul who died on the side of the road, and I want to take your car to find a home?"

He strode into the temple, patted the piano bag and said with a smile: "I really only have the piano here, not my own corpse."

The old man stood there in embarrassment, and panicked: "I thought...but here, don't dare to talk nonsense!" This is the Wanyinggong Temple, and many of the sojourners in it are lonely souls who died on the side of the road. Say they are unlucky?What if anyone sounds unhappy, so that you are also "unlucky"?

Li Chi didn't care, said it's okay, and walked in to find a place to sit down.

The old man remembered that his few zither sounds had determined the forests on both sides, so he lost his thoughts of persuasion. He untied the ox from the cart, fed a few handfuls of fodder, tied it to the gate of the temple, and lit a fire when he was done. Come, try to find out about the situation in Lichi.

But I only learned that the hitchhiker whom I met by chance was named Li Quan and was traveling around.It's not easy for the old man to ask again, but he only believes half of what he said.

Which ordinary person can travel alone in this season?Walking alone on that road at dusk?Just looking at what he met along the way with his two children, he knew that the person in front of him must not be an ordinary person, otherwise he would not have mistaken him for a lonely ghost who wanted to take advantage of their lives up.

But looking at it like this, the guest didn't seem to have any malicious intentions, so the old man let go of half of his heart and baked pancakes to share.

After eating, it was completely dark, and the vicinity of the Wanyinggong Temple was very quiet. There were no terrible dogs barking and crows, only a few insects and wind, but the sound of the night wind was also normal, unlike The sobbing and sobbing that I met on the road before was shocking.

The firewood crackled softly in the fire.The cow tethered to the door slowly flicked its tail, also looking at ease.

The two children couldn't hold on any longer, and fell asleep leaning against each other, but the old man didn't sleep. He was holding a small carving knife, and was carving a small puppet by the light of the fire.

The light of a general bonfire is not stable, and it is easy to hurt the eyes if it dangles, and it is easy to be damaged. Nothing hot.

Li Chi looked at the fire, and many Yinggongs in this temple were squatting beside the fire, using their ghostly aura to stabilize the fire, staring at the little puppet carved in the old man's hand with great avidity.

The old man couldn't see these Yinggongs, but he didn't notice anything wrong with the light of the fire, and he kept engrossing himself in carving the puppets.The puppet was a bit special, holding a small oil lamp in its hand.

The old man's workmanship was not very good, and the carved portrait was a bit mechanical, but after he finished the last cut, the carved wooden oil lamp suddenly lit up, as if it had really been lit.But the old man couldn't see all this. He put the puppet on the platform, and made a row with many puppets on it.

As soon as the puppet was put on it, seven or eight of you Yinggong rushed over and fought each other to claim the ownership of the puppet. In the end, five of them squeezed into the small puppet!

The few who didn't squeeze in were very unwilling, and squatted back beside the fire, staring at the old man greedily.

The old man didn't know anything, rubbed his eyes after finishing all this, sat wearily by the fire, raised his eyes and saw that Li Chi was still open, and asked again: "Aren't you sleeping?"

Li Chi shook his head and smiled, "I'm not sleepy."

The old man saw that he was planning to watch the night, and said, "Then let's talk. I'm awake too."

He yawned and sighed: "This time, I originally thought about whether I could send these two children to Dunxi City, but I didn't catch up with the quota."

Dunxi City is the city near here in the jurisdiction of Wuhou.

The old man didn't mind if Lichi responded, and he rambled on: "It's a hard time now, everyone wants to go there, and the people there are doing well, everyone can see it. It's a pity that no one is accepted there, so many refugees flocked there earlier, but they all came back after a short while."

"There's nothing you can do if you don't come back. The city gate is closed, and no one is allowed in. At the beginning, some people stayed outside, hoping to get some porridge, but the porridge did, but Marquis Wu didn't accept it." These people, at night, these people were all dragged away by wild dogs and monsters."

"So there was no way, those people fled back again, but they were still dead when they came back, either they were bitten to death or they were starved to death. The restrictions were relaxed a bit at the back, and some people were admitted every once in a while, and the number of places was limited. , whether you can go in or not depends on your luck." The old man rubbed his arms a little coldly, and sighed, "This is the fourth time for me, and I still can't make it."

"My husband is good at eating, and he seems to be doing well. Why do we have to go to Dunxi City?" Li Chi picked up a piece of firewood, and slowly poked the fire twice.

You Yinggong, who had gathered around the fire just now, was pushed away by him, and walked aside aggrieved.Only then did the flames sway again and emit heat.

The old man subconsciously moved towards the fire, looked at the two sleeping sons and daughters, his eyes softened: "I have a craft, but it's not easy to pass on this craft!"

All the eyes of Mr. Ying in the temple looked over, and Lichi turned on the fire again, and the light of the fire became brighter, driving away the chill around him.

"How?" Li Chi asked.

"My craft... my craft... hey!" The old man grinned and sighed, "Didn't I mistake my husband before? This is mainly because I experienced such a thing when I was young."

"Tell me." Li Chi said again.

"That was when I was young. I learned carpentry. One day I had to walk at night, so I drank a few sips of wine to strengthen my courage. On the road, I met a pedestrian who was also walking at night. He asked me about the destination and invited me Let's go together. Back then it wasn't as chaotic as it is now, and I didn't think too much about it. It's better for two people to walk together than alone, so I agreed..."

"After I hadn't been walking for a long time, there was a sudden gust of wind, which blew my lantern sideways. The candle flame burned the lantern skin, and it lit up all of a sudden, and it was all gone after a while. The man said that he still had the lantern with him. Take a spare lantern, take out another lantern from your body and light it for me. I don’t see anything wrong with him at all.” As he spoke, the old man stared at the bonfire for a while, Li Chi didn’t urge him, and waited Then he came back to his senses and continued to speak slowly.

"After the strange wind, I was actually a little flustered, but the man comforted me and said that the journey would be safe and sound. It's strange to say that, after he said that, I felt at ease and went with him all the way. Talking and laughing, I arrived at a place where I could rest before I knew it."

"When I got to the place, I was about to return his lantern and thank him, but he thanked me in return."

"I asked him 'Why?' Guess what he answered?" The old man raised his head and asked Lichi while talking.

Li Chi laughed but said nothing, the old man patted his leg: "Hey, you must know!"

"He told me that he was not a living person, unfortunately he died there, and no one collected his bones, and he was trapped there and could not go home. He saw me on the road, so he used my vitality to walk, so as to return to the temple in his hometown."

When the old man said this, the expression on his face twisted, a little scared and a little complacent: "I was young at the time, and I had just drank wine, and I was very courageous, so I was not very scared, but chatted with him. stand up."

"He saw that I was not afraid and was very happy, so he taught me a lot of things, such as the roar on the road, the luck method and the roar method, he taught me. He also told me that people like him Although the situation is not common, it is not rare. If you encounter it, don’t be too afraid. Just pretend that you don’t know, or you can find a way to get the promise. They will walk home with the breath of the living, as long as the promise is alive If people can be safe, nothing will happen along the way. Even if there are other things that want to harm people, they will definitely try their best to stop them to keep them safe. Just don't force them. Bad things."

Speaking of this, the old man couldn't help but looked up at Lichi again.He had told the story to the two children before, and Da Luo had been thinking about it with him. At that time, he was frightened by the movement on the left and right, so he asked Li Chi such a question.

Lichi only smiled, and didn't take it seriously. The old man continued: "He also told me that he just wanted to go back to his hometown and didn't want to harm anyone, so he took the initiative to give me a promise so that I don't have to be afraid. But he burned me Lanterns, and took me astray, so I gave me a handicraft as compensation."

The old man looked down at the carving knife in his hand, and said with a complicated expression: "He taught me to carve a doll, and I learned it all night..."

This kind of puppet seems to be an excellent host for ghosts. The wooden lamp can bring them a real warm feeling, expel the cold and darkness of death, and make them calm their grievances faster and re-enter the cycle of reincarnation .

"Actually, that night, I wasn't afraid at all. I was half drunk and half unbelievable. I took the new lantern from that man and touched his hand. His hand was warm, and the brightness of the lantern was Warm, how can the ghost be warm?"

"At dawn, he said he couldn't stay outside anymore, and he disappeared in a flash. I was sleepy at first, but he woke me up suddenly. I turned my head to look at the lantern last night, so what? Lantern? It’s clearly an urn! When I walked out of the temple, I was even more stupid. I didn’t know the surroundings at all. I asked someone for directions, and then I realized that at that moment last night, I ran to a place [-] miles away! "

"That's when I believed what he said, and after thinking about it, I learned what he taught me. Because of this craft, I gradually started a dead man's business..." The old man smiled wryly and shook his head, "At the beginning I just feel that there is one more way to make money. My craft is mediocre, and I can’t earn much by being a carpenter. The property of the Lord, or who is calculating me behind my back, how should I avoid it, and then as a reward, please ask me to carve a statue for them, with their names engraved on the wooden statue, so that it belongs to them residence."

"Sometimes I don't get paid. Every time I pass by such a temple, I engrave a statue without writing my name on it, and count it as accumulating merit."

Li Chi's gaze shifted to the stage, most of those statues were indeed holding lamps in their hands, the earliest ones were already very old, and the lamps on them were about to go out, so they could barely be given to Ying Gong.And the Yinggongs in this temple, no matter whether there are statues attached to them or not, looked at the old man with gentle eyes, but those few guys who didn't squeeze in had a bit of greed in their eyes .

"But now this year is getting more and more chaotic, and this has become my life-saving craft." The old man said, his brows slowly knit together, "I don't know about other things, but at least it's here, The dead are more trustworthy than the living, they didn't lie to me, and they paid me first before asking me to carve the statue, because of this, I can bring my two children to eat and clothe, but..."

Following the old man's narration, these You Yinggongs gathered again to listen to the story, but they kept a distance very carefully, not letting their ghostly aura disturb the living.

Li Chi ignored them and continued to listen to the old man's story.

"But doing this kind of dead business will affect yourself and your family to some extent..." The old man said hesitantly, but with conviction, he moved his eyes to the two sleeping children, "I I have been with my wife for more than 20 years before I had my first child. This child did not cry when it was born, and it was useless to pat it. The little face was blue from holding back, and I thought it would not survive."

"In the end, someone suddenly knocked on the gong outside, and the loud sound made the boy cry in shock. He breathed in and breathed out, and he was alive. So we named it Dagong."

The old man's eyes shifted to the little girl again: "Two years later, I got a small drum again. There is no problem with the small drum, but my wife is gone. I carved a statue for her, but I don't know if she got in or not." , she never entrusted me with a dream..."

The old man took out a small wooden figurine from his bosom. It was a strong and smiling woman, holding a lamp in her hand. Even her nails were carved out with great care. The layer is smooth and smooth, but there is no soul attached to it. The old man's daughter-in-law should have been reincarnated not long after.

He held the wooden statue in a daze for a while, and then looked at Xiaogu: "Xiaogu also suffered a lot. She seemed to be fine when she was born, but later found out that the yang energy in her body was too weak. She didn't care too much about those existences. If you become sharper, you will aim at it if you are not careful, and then you will get sick, and tormenting me is the next best thing, but the child suffers!"

"I don't want to do this job anymore. Xiaogu is my daughter-in-law's life-saving child for me. She is like this. She might go one day. How can I bear it? But this kind of thing... this kind of thing... ...How can I let it go?!" The old man suddenly said sadly, "Every time they come to me on their own initiative, I don't want to do it! But they will toss the child! How can I refuse?!"

When the old man said that he didn't want to do it, those Yinggongs around him had changed their colors, and their eyes were gathering over one by one, their bluish faces were dull and uncertain, and some eyes had already fallen on the two children.

Lichi poked the fire twice unhurriedly with his hands, splashing out a few sparks, but in the eyes of these You Yinggong who got too close, the sparks turned into a monstrous sea of ​​flames Come over, one by one screamed and hid away.

"At this time, I realized that I am not doing business in this matter, and the initiative in this matter has never been with me! But I admit it! I can admit it, and I remember the benefits they brought me, but how about Xiaogu? What to do? What about Da Luo? This will kill Xiao Gu, I can’t let Da Luo do like me!”

"So I want to send them into Dunxi City. In Dunxi City, they can live without me, but outside, they can only rely on me, and I can only rely on this." The old man clenched his hands Holding the carving knife tightly, "When you arrive in Dunxi City, you can still ask Wu Hou. Xingfeng Guan can't cure the small drum, but maybe Wu Hou can?"

"But this is the fourth time, and I still haven't been able to send them both in."

He looked at Lichi expectantly: "Mr. Li, you are a person with great ability, can you help them? I don't ask for anything else, I just ask you to save Xiaogu and bring her and Daluo into the town. In the west city, don’t let them learn this again. You can take anything from me, and if you like my skills, I can tell you all about them. I have used this carving knife for nearly 40 years , I don’t know how many statues have been carved, and some gods have been born, which can ward off evil spirits, and you can also take them, as long as you let me watch them enter Dunxi City safely."

Da Gong, who was sleeping beside him, suddenly jumped up and said in a panic, "Father! Father! We want to be together! You can't be separated from us!"

Xiao Gu also opened her eyes, she didn't say anything, she just looked at the old man with big black eyes, which made him feel sour.

The old man did not expect to be heard by the two children.he originally