Twilight Cloud Returns

Xue Lian said that he was woken up by a cold wind in the middle of the night.

The coolness of the bluestone slab penetrated into his bone marrow through his official uniform.

He rubbed his forehead, stood up staggeringly from the ground, and saw the surrounding environment clearly - isn't this the most bustling street in Yangzhou City?

It's just that the hustle and bustle at that time made the emptiness and loneliness even more contrasting.

Xue Liandao was wondering why he was here, when he suddenly found Zhao Darong and Liang Cai lying in front of him.

He hurried forward to wake them up, "Master Zhao, Brother Liang!"

The two of them also stood there in a daze for no apparent reason, and it took a while to recover.

Surrounded by death-like silence, chilling.Liang Cai reminded: "It's not suitable to stay here for a long time, let's go back home quickly."

Xue Liandao's head hit the ground like a woodpecker pecking at a tree. Zhao Dayong wanted to draw out the long whip at the back of his waist, but found it was empty.

The three of them headed in the direction of the Governor's Mansion, but the further they went, the more desolate the surrounding area became, until a tall city gate appeared in front of it, with Yangzhou engraved on it.

Xue Lian said strangely: "How did we get to the city gate?"

As soon as the words fell, a sad and ethereal female voice suddenly sang around them: "Cuifeng Mingpan is worn on the head, like a blood-red robe on the body, and the flowers and candles are burnt out to give birth to white hair. When will Wang Lang return... "

The shrill and shrill voice continued to surround them, and they suddenly got goosebumps all over their bodies.

Even Zhao Darong, who was extremely arrogant just now, couldn't help feeling chills on the back of his neck, and said in a trembling voice, "Let's go back quickly..."

After only three or two steps, they felt that something floated over their backs, and they felt as if a pair of invisible hands were holding their ankles under their feet, making them unable to move.

Zhao Darong was sweating all over his body, and he looked back in a strange way, only to see a female corpse in a red wedding dress with disheveled hair hanging in the air, and the gauze skirt with bright red embroidered shoes falling on the tip of his nose, which made people frightened.

Zhao Darong screamed immediately, and ran away, but tripped over a small stone under his feet, and continued to run, rolling and crawling.

Liang Cai and Xue Liandao closed their eyes tightly, not daring to turn their heads, as if they were frozen in place, the hem of their official uniforms trembled, and the sweat dripped from their foreheads...

She continued to sing in a sad and frightening voice: "Cuifeng Mingpan is worn on the head, like a blood-red dress, and the flowers and candles are burned to white hair. When will Wang Lang return..."

Liang Cai dragged Xue Liandao, and ran forward suddenly, the female ghost chased after him, giggling from time to time, as if the two were her playthings.

The three of them ran like desperate dogs, and finally hid behind a house.They exhausted all the strength in their bodies and gasped for air on the spot.

Xue Liandao supported the cart beside him, panting, "It seems...it seems to be gone..."

Zhao Darong looked out boldly, the streets were empty, not to mention female ghosts, not even a living thing!

He breathed a sigh of relief and collapsed on the ground in relief...

Liang Cai squatted on the stone steps and panicked, "What's going on here!"

Xue Liandao was so frightened that his face was as pale as white wax, and he said incoherently: "I've run into a ghost... They're here to seek revenge... I've run into a ghost... They're here to seek revenge..."

Zhao Darong was disturbed by his nagging, and snapped, "Shut up!"

Xue Liandao suddenly became obediently silent.

There are only a few stars in the moonless sky, barely shining on the ground, giving a little light to the feet.

The three of them were about to leave this ghostly place, and there seemed to be more than a dozen people fleeing frantically in front of them, the leader asked anxiously, "How did you get to this city gate?"

It turned out to be a human, not a ghost.

The three of them let go of their hanging hearts.

One of them said with sharp eyes: "The second master, there is someone in front!"

Zhang Qing had the courage to lead a group of bandits forward, and happened to collide with the three of them.

Xue Liandao's memory of these thieves was still fresh, and it was he who used his family as a coercion to force the thieves to sign and make false confessions.

How could a prisoner who was supposed to be waiting in prison to be executed appear here?

Not to mention that Xue Liandao and others don't know, even Zhang Qing and his group are confused - they are sleeping soundly in the prison, and when they wake up, they will be in this place where they can't get out of the wall.

However, this is the only weird thing tonight?

The city gate suddenly and slowly opened, and the heavy iron sound slid across the stone slabs, and the creaking sound seemed terrifying in this atmosphere.

There was thick fog outside the door, and it was hard to see who opened it.

The dense fog came out, like a pair of invisible ghost hands, gradually enveloping everyone...

A person came in from outside the city. He was holding a white paper lantern, but red light was dancing inside.Immediately afterwards, he put his hands on his shoulders, and a person followed behind him.

Like a string of beads, they floated in from outside the city, draped end to end on the shoulders of the person in front.

Li Gusheng tremblingly said: "He...they have no feet..."

Only then did everyone realize that these "people" were two feet above the ground.

Someone stammered: "This is the gate of hell is wide open...Hundred ghosts travel at night..."

They looked over the city gate again, and the clearly visible two characters "Yangzhou" turned into three big characters "Ghost Gate Gate" at some point!

Li Gusheng collapsed on the ground, his seven souls lost his six souls in fright.

It wasn't until the last ghost came in through the city gate that the city gate was gradually closed.

However, Xue Liandao still had a fresh memory of the last ghost. He was dressed in blue-gray linen clothes, and he would never forget those eyes that were like copper bells.

That ghost...it was the young male corpse he had seen in the morgue during the day!

At this moment, all his memories flooded into his mind, those ghosts in front were clearly the nameless corpses thrown into mass graves during the day!

Xue Liandao immediately sat down on the cold stone floor, "It is...the people who died in the mine, they turned into ghosts and came to us..."

"The last one was wearing a blue-gray linen shirt. I saw him in the morgue during the day, and the government servants obviously threw him in the mass grave..."

Xue Lian's face was ashamed, and he spoke these words intermittently.

Zhang Qing also stammered, "Cheat...the corpse..."

The group of ghosts seemed to smell the breath of strangers, and the leader with the white paper lanterns quickly changed direction and floated towards their hiding place.

Li Gusheng saw their faces, blood and tears covered their ferocious faces, he cried out in fright: "They are coming towards us..." Zhao Darong and Liang Caili felt strange, and everyone fled back.

Terrifyingly, that resentful female voice sounded again, unexpectedly appearing above their heads, blocking their way.

A gust of wind blew up the hair that covered her face, and the half-burned face was vividly reflected in everyone's eyes.

Some timid bandits fainted in shock, and some still had steamy urine bubbling from their crotches...

Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhao Darong quickly ran in the opposite direction, but the row of ghosts behind him was already lined up, blocking the street completely.

The man holding the white paper lantern raised his head, revealing the true face of Mount Lu.

Xue Liandao was even more horrified: "Yang...Yang Ren!"

Zhao Darong and Liang Cai had dealt with him in the capital, so they were familiar with his appearance.

Yang Ren, who was obviously dead, came back as a ghost to take revenge at this moment.

The two huddled together in the corner, and the sound of the upper and lower teeth colliding together because of fear was clearly audible.

Yang Ren looked down at the three of them from a high position, and said with a paradoxical smile: "Wait, I'll pay my life..."

There is a red-clothed female ghost in front, and an evil ghost blocking the way in the back. There is no possibility of survival!

Zhang Qing knelt on the ground with a plop, and kowtowed heavily on the stone slab one after another. The stuttering problem brought about by his mother's womb seemed to be cured in an instant, and he begged for mercy fluently: "Grandfathers, I don't know you grandpas, please forgive me. The grandpas spared the villain's life, and when the villain's life is over, they will serve tea and water, wash clothes and take a bath for the grandpas below, and the grandpas will tell you to go east and never go west..."

The rest of the bandits also knocked their heads on the ground, crying and begging for mercy.

He only heard the blue-gray cloth-shirted man's body say word by word: "You guys have made false confessions, which has prevented us from redressing our grievances. Therefore, we must die."

Li Gusheng, who was kowtowing desperately on the ground, suddenly realized, and he immediately argued: "I beg you, grandpa, to find out...it's not our intention to frame..."

He suddenly pointed to Xue Liandao, who was timid at the side, and said convincingly: "It's him! Yangzhou Inspector Xue Liandao forced us to write down the confession. If we don't sign it, he will send someone to kill our parents, wife and children!"

The rest of the bandits echoed: "Grandfathers, the villain was also threatened by him. He didn't intend to perjure the evidence. I beg Grandpa to let the villain go!"

The sharp eyes of the male corpse fell on Xue Liandao, who was so frightened that he fell to his knees with a "bang" and shied away: "Grandpa, I don't know anything! It's them! Yin Liangcai of Jingzhao Mansion in the capital city Zhao Darong, the doctor of Guanglu Temple, instructed me!"

In order to survive, Xue Liandao simply vomited the truth: "I was ordered by Rong Pingju to build weapons for him in a private iron mine in Yangzhou, but unexpectedly there was a mine disaster. The matter was exposed, and the imperial court also sent the prince to investigate. We have no choice but to spread rumors, poison Yang Ren, and put everything on him. This kind of vicious plan was made by Zhao Dayong. From the beginning to the end, I was instigated by the two of them. I beg Grandpa to investigate..."

Xue Liandao immediately kowtowed vigorously to Yang Ren, crying until his nose burst into tears, "Grandpa Yang, I know my mistake, I really know my mistake, please let me go..."

Zhao Darong, who was at the side, saw that Xue Liandao had picked himself clean and blamed him for all the crimes. He became angry and said, "You can stay out of the murder of the young man? You and I discussed using the local Superstitious about the legend of yin soldiers making excuses, secretly dispatching Zong Yuan and his party to make them make news of yin soldiers making excuses in Blind Mountain, so that the bandits will believe it and assassinate the young master..."

The two confessed all the evil things they had done, and kowtowed one by one, their foreheads were covered with blood, begging these ghost grandpas to forgive them.

Yang Renshuo threw out a few confessions from his cuffs, which clearly recorded the crimes they committed.

Zhang Qing and others found the one that belonged to them, bit their thumbs to bleed without hesitation, and signed on it.

Xue Liandao also signed, leaving only Zhao Darong and Liang Cai.

Yang Ren floated in front of them, his bloody face was still brooding over their poisoning of him, and he put the confession in front of them.

Zhao Darong was so frightened that he was dumbfounded. He trembled and was about to press his thumbprint when a voice suddenly came from the air: "My lord, please don't sign!"

It was Zong Yuan who came.

Followed by Yun Ying, he landed on the roof with Zong Yuan, fighting equally.

The appearance of the two of them suddenly awakened the frightened Zhao Darong, and he immediately understood the current situation - all ghosts walking in the night are fucking farting!This must be an elaborate scam!

He got up unexpectedly and pushed down the body of the man in the blue-gray cloth shirt. The man fell to the ground and couldn't help crying out in pain.

Zhao Darong sneered and said, "It turns out that ghosts are also afraid of pain!"

A word to wake up the dreamer!

Only then did Xue Liandao come back to his senses, and he stretched out his hand to take back the confession.

Yang Ren didn't give him this chance at all, he turned around and avoided.

Seeing the truth was revealed, all the "ghosts" ran away one after another, even the scariest female ghost in red just lifted her skirt and ran all the way.

At this time, Yun Chuxiu's attendants appeared and surrounded everyone.

Zhao Darong and Liang Cai had sharp swords on their necks, and they did not dare to act rashly again.

Yun Chuxiu and Chu Mohen walked out of the dwelling on one side, Yun Chuxiu applauded and said to Xue Lian, "What Master Xue said just now is really wonderful!"

His gaze passed over Xue Liandao, and then fell on Zhao Darong and Liang Cai who were restrained, and asked knowingly: "Master Liang, Mr. Zhao, you two are officials in the capital, why did you leave Beijing and come to Yangzhou without authorization?"