Doe

Invited by Yu Fuchun, Jiang Ruoxu went to Yu Mansion to see Mrs. Yu's illness.Lifting the curtain and entering the back room, Mrs. Yu was lying on the bed, her face was sallow and haggard, and her eyes were sunken deeply, as if she was skinny.Yu Fuchun stood aside and wiped away tears, and helped her up together with the maid.She sat up, with her back sunken deeply, even through the plain white silk dress, she could still see the edge of her spine.As if there was a big centipede straddling her back, she was as thin as a ghost.

When Jiang Ruoxu checked her pulse, he didn't need to guess, he knew who made Mrs. Yu into such a situation.He sighed in his heart, in the final analysis, all debts must be repaid, and all grievances must be paid.

He asked Yu Fuchun to wait outside, took out a pile of flannel, and slowly unfolded it on the platform.

"Madam, forgive me for being blunt, that child is already merciful. You know the temperament of senior Baili. If he finds out what happened back then, not only your Yu family, but the entire Jiangzuo will face disaster."

Mrs. Yu's eyes were dull and empty. After a long time, a line of muddy tears flowed from the corner of her eyes.

Jiang Ruoxu couldn't bear it, and finally shook his head, "Forget it, I can't do much, and I will pull out a silver needle for you to relieve your pain a little. Apart from that, I'm sorry I can't do anything."

After the diagnosis, Jiang Ruoxu put away the flannel, got up and left.As soon as he left, Mrs. Yu's eyes darkened inch by inch, and in the dark pools of her eyes, her eyes were as vicious as a python.

Yu Fuchun led Jiang Ruoxu to drink tea in the front hall, the pea fragrance from Gusu, Jiang Ruoxu thought about it for a long time, every time he came back to Pei Zhen's Living Water Xiaozhu, the sweet fragrance in the tea room made him linger.In the front hall, there is a portrait hanging in front of the hall.Seeing the portrait, Jiang Ruoxu froze in place.

"Da Lang," Jiang Ruoxu grabbed Yu Fuchun's wrist, "Who is painted in this portrait?"

"It's the late father." Yu Fuchun thought of Yu Lianhai, and his heart filled with sorrow, "The old man went deep into the ghost country when he was twenty-one, and now there is only his portrait in his prime at home."

The egg-sized white face came to mind again, and Jiang Ruoxu's skinny fingers trembled like chicken feet.He finally knew why that face was so familiar, because it was exactly the same as Yu Lianhai when he was young.Time has passed so long, he and Yu Lianhai had met each other more than 20 years ago, no wonder he only felt familiar, but couldn't remember who it was anyway.

How strange, why is there a little person exactly like him in Yu Lianhai's body?That person's face was no bigger than a palm, so it wasn't Yu Lianhai himself.What exactly is that?

This monster can not only imitate human voices, but also transform into people they are familiar with.No, you have to tell Baili Jueming and Pei Zhen with a heart lock.

Just turning around to leave, Jiang Ruoxu suddenly lost his center of gravity and rolled down the steps when he stepped on a step.

Everyone was shocked and shouted: "Jiang Tianshi! Jiang Tianshi!"

Frightened, Yu Fuchun helped Jiang Ruoxu up, and the octogenarian leaned in his arms, his expression ashen as withered grass and dead wood.The Jiang family of Yuejun served Baochen Mountain for more than five hundred years, and his generation is the sixth generation.When he was eight years old, his father took him into the mountains of Baochen Mountain.The wind and smoke were as clean as a ribbon, and he kowtowed to the Tsing Yi Grandmaster amidst the falling leaves.From then on, he knew that he would serve the Great Master and Baochen Mountain for life.

He looked at the bright sky in a courtyard, and a relieved smile appeared on his old face.

"At the age of Dragon Snake, I know I will die. Great Master, Ruoxu has completed all your instructions."

He closed his eyes and lost his voice completely.

For the next road, let those children... go on their own.

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On the tenth day of their westward journey to the edge of the ghost country, they found the bonfire left by Xie Cenguan, as well as several stacks of spell remnants, several bundles of crossbow arrows, and a horse that had starved to death.There are traces of camping on the ground, and Xie Cenguan once rested here.Comparing the map and observing the surrounding terrain, they are not far from the border of the ghost country.After leaving the ghost country, it only takes four days to travel quickly to reach West Nanda.West Nanda is dangerous and unpredictable, Xie Cenguan must have streamlined his equipment here and decided to abandon his horse and walk.This makes it easier to hide and not be discovered by ghosts.

Pei Zhen made the same decision as Xie Cenguan. Everyone abandoned their horses, distributed the golden arrows and dry rations evenly, each had a burden, discarded the supplies that could not be carried, put a fast-moving talisman on his leg, and set off westward.According to Ying Bushi, it took Xie Cenguan [-] days to travel from Ghost Country to West Nanda.It took them about the same time as Xie Cenguan, and after another four to five days of trekking, they would enter West Nanda.

The closer he got to Xi Nanda, the more gloomy Baili Jueming felt.Like a dense cloud covering his heart, he always felt that there was something waiting for him in that place.

All the way west, the surrounding scenery has not changed much.In the dense jungle scene, the Wangtian tree is tens of feet high, covering the sky and the sun, and you can't see the crown of the tree when you look up from the bottom.The pole vines are thicker than the wrist, hanging from the trees and extending in all directions. Sometimes the ground is muddy, so they walk on the vines.Logically speaking, there must be a lot of insects and ants in such a lush forest, but they didn't even hear a bird singing along the way.It seems that apart from these silent trees and vines, and the strange flowers blooming in the grass under the trees, there is no living thing.

At the beginning of the break, everyone still had something to talk about, but as the time went on, the team became more and more silent.They had exhausted all they could say, and on the seventh day after leaving the bonfire at Xie Cen Pass, they did not see anything related to West Nanda.The time difference is widening, and everyone has a bad feeling in their hearts.Getting lost in the ghost domain means death, and getting lost in the ghost country means not being reborn.

The way to judge whether you have left the ghost country is very simple, just look at the sky.It is always night in the ghost country, and you can see the sun if you leave the ghost country.The Baili Jue Ming recorded that there was daylight in Xi'an Tuo, and if they entered Xi'an Tuo, they would definitely be able to see the light of the sky.They trekked for a full ten days, not to mention the sun, and even the stars could not be seen.The surroundings are forever shrouded in pitch black night, and the gigantic gnarled and ferocious trees are like ghosts, standing silently in the darkness.

Ten days, this time is too long, they must be caught in some weird spell.

Everyone stopped moving forward, camped on the spot, sat around to speculate on the reasons, and then eliminated them one by one.

The first is the ghost hitting the wall.This is not the reason why I didn't see the fluorescent cinnabar engraved earlier along the way.

The second is that the route was wrong, and they went astray.Returning to the bonfire at Xie Cenguan by the same route, he took out the compass to correct the route, and walked for another ten days, but he still couldn't get out.

Then there is only one last reason left - the ghost mother is making trouble.

Baili Jueming was so angry that his forehead hurt, he stood up and looked around, the night was dense, like a big iron cage covering their heads.The ghost mother must have followed them, but they couldn't see where she was.He walked around the camp and said, "I know you're following us. That's right, your son is in my heart. What kind of grievances do you two have? Can you wait until I'm done?"

No one responded, Ghost Attendant and Pei Zhen stood by the bonfire, looking at Baili Cassia.

Baili Jueming was very impatient, and said angrily, "Do you have any interest in trapping us? Come out, master will call the villain out as well, and you two can talk."

Still no response.

Baili Jueming was upset, and if he encountered ghosts nearby, he would draw his knife and chop them to make them regret not reincarnating.Now this female ghost haunts her like a ghost, Baili Jueming doesn't know where to cut even if she draws her knife.Where the hell is she?Baili cassia lingers around, the grass and leaves are intertwined, and there are shadows in the darkness.

Suddenly, he saw a figure behind a pole vine ten feet away.

Most of the shadow's body was hidden behind the vines, revealing a lonely little head, as if peeping at Baili Cassia.

Your grandfather's, finally found you.

The ghost mother is extremely fast, and it takes a surprise to catch her.

Baili Jueming pretended not to notice the ghost mother, and went back to the campfire and said, "It's so boring here, I'm going for a walk."

"Senior..." Pei Zhen disagreed, but before he got up, Baili Jueming had already stepped into the woods.

After Baili Cassia entered the forest, the rest of the people sat quietly around the campfire.Sometimes there is a chat or a few words, but everyone is not a talkative person, and they are silent most of the time.Baili Jueming's kung fu is very strong, there are not many ghosts who can deal with him, they are not very worried, they just wait quietly for him to come back.Looking at the bonfire, Pei Zhen thought with a headache, Master didn't follow the rules, something would go wrong sooner or later, and he had to teach him a good lesson.

After sitting for a while, the sound of footsteps came from the direction where Baili Cassia disappeared.The sound of footsteps stayed not far away and did not sound again.Pei Zhen opened his eyes and looked there.A figure stood in the bushes half a person's height, looking at him.It was too dark to see his appearance clearly, but he was familiar with the outline of Shizun, and the tall figure was Shizun at first glance.

Pei Zhen was quite helpless, Master sometimes behaved like a child, and it was not unusual for him to make some strange movements.

He said patiently: "Senior, this place is dangerous, it's better not to walk around casually. If you are bored, how about I play chess with you?" He laid out the chessboard, "Are you black?"

Baili Jueming couldn't come out, so he hid in the grass and said, "Daughter-in-law, come here."

The people and ghosts around the campfire opened their eyes silently, and all of them looked over.

Pei Zhen was stunned, this was the first time Master called him like that.To be honest, Pei Zhen was caught off guard a little suddenly.

"Senior," Pei Zhen asked with a smile, "what did you call me just now?"

"Daughter-in-law." Baili Jueming replied, waving at him.

Not only was there no joy, but a strange feeling came to my heart. Pei Zhen squinted his eyes, and with his hands behind his back, he made a gesture to the first day of the junior high school.The figure in the grass was exactly the same as the master in terms of figure, outline and voice, but how could the master call him that?That awkward guy would at most call his wife in his heart, and if he wanted to say it, he would rather be a pig that can only squawk and whine.

On the first day of junior high school, he left his body and entered the grass in the form of a ghost.

"Come here." Baili Jueming said again.

Pei Zhen smiled, "You called me wrong, you should call me Husband. Come on, call 'Husband' and I will listen."

The figure in the grass fell silent.

The ghost came back to his senses, Chu looked solemn, and said: "Mr. Lang, it is indeed Senior Baili."

how come?Pei Zhen was startled for a moment, his thoughts flashed like lightning, and he suddenly understood something.

"Daughter-in-law," the figure in the grass repeated again, with the same tone as before, "come here."

Repeatedly saying the same thing, the symptoms are exactly the same as Xie Cenguan.Pei Zhen frowned and said, "Have you been tricked?"

Even the master who claims to be invincible in the world has been tricked, what kind of weird technique is this?

Mu Zhishen suddenly pressed his shoulder and said in a deep voice, "His posture is very strange."

Baili Jueming was slowly waving to them, Pei Zhen focused his attention, and in the dim light, he saw the master waving with the back of his hand in horror.Elderly people in mountain villages often teach their children and grandchildren not to pay attention to people waving with the back of their hands on the way to the market, let alone give them a ride, because such people are generally not alive.The old man's lesson is very reasonable, the body is stiff, the ghost's movements are uncoordinated, walking, sitting and lying are different from ordinary people.It is the wisdom that people have accumulated over time to judge the living and the living.

But the master is nourished by the six-petal lotus heart, and his body is as soft as an ordinary person's. How could he look like this?

"Outflank him?" Mu Zhishen supported the knife, "I'll be on your left, you'll be on your right, and the ghost attendant will surround you."

"Add me," Yu Tingqiu also drew his sword, "I attract you head-on, and you sneak attack."

The tactics are very reasonable, but... Pei Zhen looked gloomy, picked out a torch from the bonfire, and threw it into the grass.

The darkness receded immediately, the outline of the figure became clear, and everyone saw the beckoning man.He was indeed exactly the same as Baili Jueming, with the same fair face, and even the little canine teeth were lifelike.But with the flames, his face quickly turned black and discolored, twisted and deformed, the whole face melted like wax, and it was muddy and muddy.That thing let out a strange cry, violently sprang up, and rushed over like a tiger or a leopard.