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The river is slightly choppy, and the green willows are fluttering.

Mu Yun stood by the fence alone and calmed down, Qi finally brought the River God not far away, and whispered.

"Hey. My brother is very stupid and wise. He wanted to be an official before but failed, and now he is a little crazy. Don't worry about him, just chat with me about family affairs. Look at how hard you have been these years. I am I can understand you very well, you tell me, it’s good to relieve the boredom.”

Qi Zhong put one hand on the man's shoulder, as if he was thinking of him.

After hearing this, He Bo nodded, and said simply: "You said that I've lost my heart. Please, I'll just tell you."

"Oh right, then wait for me first, I'll go and talk to my silly brother."

Seeing someone take the bait, Qi Zhong pinches the corner of his mouth and smiles, and returns to Mu Yun's side to collude.

"Brother Yun. I know you have a clean sleeve and a dignified upright spirit, but this is someone else's territory, so we can't teach him a lesson. Besides, we still have something to ask him. Please calm down and wait until we are successful. Go to Mount Jiugai and visit him for a copy."

In fact, Mu Yun calmed down a long time ago, and has been waiting for the opportunity to cooperate with each other.The two whispered a few words hastily, and Qi Zhong smiled and turned to look at He Bo.

"Brother, why don't you talk about the head of the class, I think she looks like she has lost her soul, how can she be the next river god?" Qi Zhong asked curiously.

He Bo raised his head proudly, and his tone was quite confident: "You don't need to worry about that. I took her memory, that's why she is so rigid. When she becomes the God of the River, I will return the memory to her, and it will recover naturally. It's alive."

"So, you have all her past memories in your hands?" Qi Zhong showed a look of admiration for him.

"No, it's in this little bottle."

He Bo accepted his tone very much, and took out a small jade bottle on his own initiative.

"May I see it?"

Qi Zhong looked surprised, and motioned to Mu Yun while talking.

"no.

Before he could blurt out the words, He Bo was knocked out by Mu Yun who quickly moved behind him, and let go of the jade bottle in his hand.

Slowly put down his hands, and supported He Bo with some guilt, Mu Yun scolded himself in his heart, this kind of sneak attack from behind cannot be repeated.

Seeing his self-reproach, Qi Zhong had no choice but to laugh: "Hey, you just knocked him out, not killed him, so why are you so guilty?"

"Go, go back and find out the truth."

As he said, Qi finally held the jade bottle tightly in his palm, and created the illusion of Chu Yan's memory through shared thoughts. The two searched according to the important nodes of the time axis, and finally landed on the last fragment.

A few years ago, at Jia Hai's home.

Chu Yan was locked in a room, looking at the sky outside the wall, crying helplessly.There was a sound of opening the door, and she turned around vigilantly, and found that it was Jia Hai, the youngest son of the Jia family, who was smiling all over his face, with malicious intentions.

"Hey, beauty, you've woken up, the flowers I've been waiting for for the past few days are all gone."

"Why did you keep me here? What the hell did you do?"

Chu Yan backed away, not wanting to see this person's disgusting face.

"Beauty, but I rescued you from the fire, you must repay my life-saving grace."

"You're so kind. Where's the theater building? Where's the people inside? Do you think I don't know anything? Tell me! Did you set the fire?"

Although Chu Yan was trapped in Jia's mansion, there is no impenetrable wall in the world. The reactions and discussions of those servants have long confirmed her guess.

"Hmph, now that I know, I might as well tell you that I burned the theater building, and everyone inside died, and your old friend, who was so stupid as to rush in when he saw it was on fire, is a pity that he didn't know. He was rescued by my people, and it is estimated that he has been burned to ashes now."

Jia Hai arrogantly admitted that he thought these tricks were clever, so he opened his mouth.

"Oh, beauty, if you hadn't been choked by the smoke and been in a coma for so long, I would have taken you in a long time ago. But don't worry, people outside will not know what's going on, and they will all say that I am a hero to save the beauty. The name is also accepted, and the person is also wanted."

"Snapped--"

Chu Yan's beating hands couldn't stop shaking, her eyes were blood red, and she was so angry that her heart almost fell into her stomach.

"You dare to hit me? Bitch."

Jia Hai didn't expect Chu Yan to slap him across the face with her nose up.

Roaring impulsively: "Let me tell you, no one in Liuxi Town dares to take care of my affairs. You'd better be honest and stay here. I will tell my father in a few days to let you fill in the house."

"You are dreaming, and I will die as you wish."

"Hmph, who cares whether you want it or not, anyway, everyone in the town knows that I saved you, and you know how to reciprocate your kindness, no one will doubt it. Hahaha."

Jia Hai's words made Chu Yan completely desperate, and even death could not justify her name.

"Look at her, don't let her run away."

With hands behind his back, Jia Hai left triumphantly, and ordered the servants to lock the doors and windows.

……

Chu Yan didn't eat or drink for two days, Jia Hai threw things around angrily, and scolded the servant who had advised him before catching him.

"Look at your bad idea, it's okay now, this bitch doesn't eat, I marry a dead man to come in?"

The little servant bumped against the door, nosebleeds profusely, and he said aggrievedly: "Master, this matter is really not my fault, who asked you to tell her the truth."

The little servant cried in his heart, why is this pig so stupid, threatening people is not like that.

"You, you dare to talk back, I will kill you."

Jia Hai was so angry that his whole body was shaking, he wanted to grab the vase on the table and smash it at him.

The boy didn't know where to run, and closed his eyes in fear.Before the vase fell, someone announced from outside.

"Master, Master, there is a beggar looking for you outside the door."

Jia Hai stopped his movements, and said impatiently: "Hurry up and leave, my family is not a bank, looking for me? You expect me to give him some money."

"But he said that his name is Yang Zhan, and that you were looking for him before, and that he also knew Team Leader Chu."

The servant who informed him had finished speaking, but Jia Hai hadn't reacted yet, and said angrily, "Yang Zhan? Do I know such a person? Beat him away, a beggar, and talk nonsense for a long time."

The boy who was about to be beaten turned his eyes away, and hurriedly called the servant who had notified him: "Don't chase him away, bring him in quickly."

"You are so fucking looking for death, you dare to disobey my meaning?"

Jia Hai kicked up, staring with small eyes.

"Oh, no, no. Master, listen to me, this person is probably the old friend of the class leader. You searched for him everywhere before, but now he came to the door by himself, isn't it just right to avenge last time? ."

After such an explanation, Jia Hai used his brain and said excitedly: "Yes! It's that kid, good job, bring him in and beat him to death."

"No, that's not right. The young master can't be beaten to death, this kid is still useful."

The little servant was about to die of distress, so he quickly persuaded him.

"Why? Are you with him?" Jia Hai narrowed his eyes and roared ferociously.

"Master, this guy named Yang Zhan knows Team Leader Chu, and now she doesn't eat or drink, so it's really easy to use this kid to trick him." The servant reminded.

"But wasn't he burned to death? Why did Yang Zhan run out again?"

"Well, I heard that the government did save a man that day, but he was burned half to death. I don't know if he survived. Maybe it was that kid."

"Well, that makes sense."

Jia Hai nodded, and spat again: "A cheap life is a cheap life, and such a big fire didn't burn him to death."

After a while, a limping man in black and tattered clothes, covering his face with a rag, was brought into the mansion.

Jia Hai gave him a disgusted look, and snorted coldly, "Take off the cloth, it's broad daylight, what the hell are you pretending to be?"

Yang Zhan didn't move, but asked coldly, "Where is Chu Yan?"

"Yo, dare to challenge?"

Jia Hai couldn't understand his attitude, and kicked him over, viciously: "Poor boy, you are a scholar who is useless, you don't know how to live or die."

The little servant was afraid of killing someone, so he quickly persuaded him: "Young master, young master, it is still useful for us to keep him."

"Come here, pull the cloth off his head, I want to see what kind of little boy he is."

Jia Hai stepped back and sat on the deformed chair.

The servants controlled Yang Zhan's hands, and lifted the sackcloth, revealing a face that had been burnt to death, with black and red cracked scars all over, the left side of the chin was even more horribly exposed, and the eyes seemed to be burnt by the smoke. There was a layer of gray fog.At first glance, it looks like a ghost.

"Cover, cover."

Jia Hai was startled, his eyes dodged.

Yang Zhan got up slowly, and continued to say in a cold voice: "Let Chu Yan go, and I will let you handle it."

"Joke. Chu Yan will soon be my concubine, how could I let her go." Jia Hai satirized him triumphantly.

The boy thought about it for a while, came up with an idea, leaned into Jia Hai's ear and said something, and saw him showing a sinister smile.

"However, if you can do this well, I can show mercy and fulfill you, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl."

Yang Zhan waited for the boy to finish talking about Jia Hai's request, hesitated for a while, and finally nodded slowly.

In the evening, when Chu Yan received the food, she found a note on the table. She opened it and saw that it was Yang Zhan's handwriting. She knew that he was still alive. She was excited for a moment, her eyes filled with tears, and she held the letter and read it again and again.

At this time, Jia Hai brought the boy in.

"How is it? Beauty, are you willing to eat now? You are happy that your old friend is alive."

Chu Yan put away the letter and stared at Jia Hai coldly.

"What are you staring at me for? I said before that he died just to scare you and to make you give up, but this kid actually came to my door and asked me to let you go. Seeing how pitiful you are, I agreed."

"Will you be so kind?"

Chu Yan sneered, not paying attention to him at all.

The little servant hurried forward and persuaded: "Master Chu, don't think too much, this time our young master is really showing kindness, and is going to help you and that scholar, but, if you want to marry you, let it go Yes, now that it’s taken back, Jia’s reputation is not good, so you’d better stay in the mansion for a few days, and then we’ll let you go and fly away with him on the day of your wedding.”

"Hmph, I only believe that dogs can't change eating shit." Chu Yan snorted coldly.

Jia Hai heard this, and was about to lose his temper when the boy stopped him again: "Master Chu, you don't believe us, don't you believe what the scholar said? You read the contents of the letter, right?"

Hearing this, Chu Yan was indeed shaken, and Yang Zhan did leave a message in the letter, saying that he was asked to pretend to marry Jia Hai first, and then he would meet him outside, and the handwriting was also correct.

But why did Jia Hai suddenly change his mind and really follow the good?Or did Yang Zhan promise him something?Right now there is no other way to go, if Yang Zhan hadn't lived in this world, she could have died, but now that Yang Zhan is alive, she can't die, so she can only promise Jia Hai, a despicable villain first.

After thinking for a long time, Chu Yan picked up the bowl and chopsticks, and began to eat numbly.

Seeing this, Jia Hai was very happy, withdrew, and praised the young man for his wonderful plan.

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The day when the Fuji offered sacrifices to the mountain god was the day when the youngest son of the Jia family was taking a concubine. The town was full of gongs and drums, and outside the mountain was also the drums of the Shenya Shrine.

Qi Zhong and the two followed Chu Yan all the time, and they didn't go to the spirit-supporting team to watch the fun like last time.But in the end, because of Chu Yan, he escaped from Jia's mansion and rushed to the spirit-supporting ceremony outside the mountain.The two leads eventually coincide.

On the mountain, the ghost went up the mountain step by step with difficulty. The shining knife was inserted into his shoulder, and then stuffed into his cheek. The knife was not pulled out, and the blood could not flow out, but the pain was so painful that the pores of his whole body were trembling.

When a wound started to bleed, he panicked and shook his hands in a hurry, trying to get some incense ash out of his rags and cover the wound to stop the bleeding, but there was none, not enough, he thought it was the first wound to bleed , In fact, he was bleeding from every wound, he kept plastering it to stop, it had already been repeated mechanically, and he couldn't see when it would end.

The top of the mountain has arrived, the end has arrived, and the knife is pierced all over his body.He fell to the ground, panting slightly, he was not dead, he was still conscious, but the priest thought he was dead, after praying three times, he began to clean the knife on his body, and pulled it out vigorously.

He didn't die, but he didn't even have the strength to scream pain until his body was covered with flesh and blood, every inch of his body was separated from his soul, leaving only countless blood holes, hideous in front of Shan Mei's eyes, making them salivate endlessly.

"Chu... Yan..." The last weak call made Qi Zhong and the two of them clarify his identity.

Only then did I realize that Jia Hai's request was to ask Yang Zhan to be a ghost body. If he survived, he would send Chu Yan away, and if he didn't, he would also send Chu Yan away, but this was a scam from beginning to end.

At the end of the day, he would rather believe in the deception, and ended up being put to death.

Qi Zhong and the two stood quietly under the stage of the sacrificial ceremony, sighing and mourning for them.

The crowd dispersed, the crows neighed, the ancient willows were dark, and only the sacrificial altar remained, with a dead man lying in the middle, his face turned upside down, his face festered.

When Chu Yan arrived, it was already a land of no one.

She covered her mouth, her heart ached to death, she couldn't believe that the man lying there with ragged clothes and being burned like a ghost was the one who used to stutter when confessing to her, often wrote poems to her, and watched with her The ambitious scholar of fireworks.

"Yang... woo...Yang Zhan, woo..."

Chu Yan didn't dare to touch any inch of his skin, because there were blood holes all over his body, and even a breeze would cause a trace of pain.

She collapsed suddenly, crying heart-piercingly, but she couldn't get back her fresh life, but the yin energy in the ancient Liu Zhong was about to move. They had long been greedy for this moment on the way to help the spirit, eating the soul of this person, absorbing enough resentment.

In an instant, the clear sky disappeared, and only clusters of ghosts appeared, circling around Yang Zhan beside Chu Yan.He is a sacrificial offering, unable to be reincarnated or reincarnated, and can only be offered as food to the evil spirits in the mountains.

"Those things don't look like simple demons." Qi Zhong looked up into the sky, feeling weird, and felt that the shadows of evil spirits that appeared for no reason seemed to have been encountered in the desert last time.

"The number is huge, and they are extremely ferocious. They are not evil spirits, but charming spirits." Mu Yun said in one word.

"Oh no--."

With a loud scream, Chu Yan watched those ghosts tore off Yang Zhan's body and circled him into the sky, turning him into nothingness.

"Strange, since this scholar has been eaten as a sacrifice, then the shadow we saw later is not him?" Qi Zhong asked.

Mu Yun explained his doubts: "There are records in ancient books that ghosts become gods when they get upright qi, gods when they get pure qi, Buddhas when they get ethereal qi, and mandrills and charms when they get evil and wicked qi."【[-]】

The evil ghosts and spirits in the air swirled around, not satisfying the contribution of one sacrifice. They had already set their sights on Chu Yan, and were about to strangle her together. She was so sad that she fell unconscious on the ground.How could the scholar's soul have the heart to kill the one he loved, and for a moment, he was full of resentment, and turned back against the evil spirits, and was forced to become a ghost.

"If this kind of evil spirit has enough resentment and no fear, even the Immortal Da Luo won't be able to deal with him for a while." Qi Zhong said in astonishment after reading the whole story.

Mu Yun agreed with his statement: "Obsession is often more obvious than physical strength. But the end of living with evil spirits may be wiped out."

"Hey, poor man." Qi Zhong sighed.

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[[-]] The analysis of this passage comes from the article on house ghosts in the unit chapter of "Ye Yu Qiu Lan Lu".