Daming prepares the emperor

Another torrential rain.

Wuchang City seems to have had a little more rain this year.

Zou Pusheng raised a bamboo mat above his head to keep out the rain, and ran back to the roof in a panic. He was meditating just now, and he didn't pay attention to observing the sky and feng shui, so he was soaked through.

"Ugh--"

He stood on the porch, looked up at the gloomy sky, and the white rain that was like silk threads, sighed, wiped the muddy water under his feet on the ground, put the cushion aside, and was about to open the door and go in.

The rain divides the inside and outside of the house into two worlds, but neither of them can make Zou Pusheng happy. Although the inside of the house is dry, he can change into clean clothes and make a cup of hot tea to make him more comfortable, but this only increases his melancholy.

He couldn't escape.

He knew that he was forced to hide here, and he also felt that he was trapped here, and he couldn't escape if he wanted to. There were always people watching him outside, and this house was a prison at all.

He changed his wet clothes, thinking that it has been many days since Chen Youliang led the army eastward, how is the battle going?Will Brother Fu get what he wants...

It's ridiculous to say that he really hoped that Zhu Yuanzhang would win.

At least this one will not reuse evil cultivators.

The room was still unfurnished, with simple bookshelves, tables, chairs, and beds. Zou Pusheng walked to the table, opened the drawer, took out a candle, lit it and stuck it aside, staring at the faint light it emitted in a daze.

The events of the past appeared before his eyes like a revolving lantern.

After a long time, when he noticed some dark water at the door, he suddenly came back to his senses and realized that he had forgotten to close the door, so he gave a wry smile and walked over.

At this time, the sky became darker and the rain became heavier. Although it was still afternoon, it was covered by dark clouds and there was no light.When Zou Pusheng came in, he probably left the door bolt on the ground, so he had to bend down to pick it up now, otherwise the door wouldn't be able to close securely.

Just when he squatted down and his hand was about to touch the wooden bar, a blood-red, wet and sticky thing suddenly hung down from the roof and stretched out towards his neck.

The speed of this thing is very slow, it is obviously moving in the air, but it seems to be swimming in some dense liquid, like a poisonous snake, moving gently, and crookedly approaching him.

The smell of rot and blood gradually wafted in the air.

Zou Pusheng didn't seem to notice, grabbed the latch and stood up.

When he raised his head to bolt the door, the thing was retracted at a speed that was completely absent before, and it was coiled on the beam again.

After the wooden strips were stuck on the door, the wind finally couldn't get in, and it couldn't blow any rain, so the room was much warmer.

Zou Pusheng went back to the table, rubbed the ink, spread out a piece of paper, and began to write the article. The expression on his face was suddenly pained, relieved, and nostalgic, as if he was writing a letter to an old friend.

The blood-red strip waited for a while, and this time it snaked down the wall. After touching the ground, it crawled on the ground until it reached the corner of the table——

Snapped.

A lantern falls over the candle.

Zou Pusheng put down the pen in his hand, and the ink on the brush was not exhausted, and a mark was drawn on the table.

"If you have anything to say, just say it."

Long Tiao was stunned for a moment, and it took him a long time to realize that he had discovered himself, so he shrank quickly and returned to the roof.

After a while, a female ghost slowly floated down from the beam, dragging a foot-long tongue, and walked slowly to the center of the room.

This tongue is blood red, and it is a long strip. It turns out that the thing that was hanging down and crawling on the ground just now is this thing!

This is a hanged ghost, that is, a hanged ghost.

Although her hair is disheveled, her face is livid, her mouth is wide open, and she is wearing a white dress that exudes yin, but through these terrifying appearances, people can still recognize that this ghost should be a girl.

She was still a young girl when she died, so she had the youthful appearance of a young girl.

Seeing such a terrifying scene, Zou Pusheng still looked calm, and asked with a frown, "Who are you? What are you doing here?"

The girl saluted stiffly, but her long tongue didn't affect her speech: "Little girl Wu, I'm here to ask you something."

"Ask me? Go away! I have nothing to help you."

This is the truth. It is difficult for Zou Pusheng himself to leave this cage. His every move is monitored. This time it is a ghost, so it is difficult to find out. If it is a living person, I am afraid that the spies would have arrested him long ago.

The girl said: "It's Gao Bailing's business."

Zou Pusheng hesitated, and after a moment of silence, he still said: "His affairs... I may not be able to take care of it."

The hanged ghost was very persistent, and continued: "I don't ask you to kill him and beat him, but I just ask you to wait."

"I wait? What else can I wait for? Wait for him to come back and kill me?" Zou Pusheng laughed at himself.

The hanged ghost said: "He can't kill you, because he's almost dying himself!"

Regardless of Zou Pusheng's surprised expression, the girl narrated on her own: "My little girl was originally a lonely ghost, but I met Gao Bailing by accident. He told my little girl that as long as you follow him, you will have a chance to be reincarnated and be a new person without dissipating in the world." Between heaven and earth..."

Zou Pusheng frowned and said, "How can this happen? How can there be a theory of reincarnation in this world? The folklore is not..."

Regardless of etiquette, the girl interrupted him, as if she was in a hurry, and said: "The little girl thought the same way, but she couldn't bear her belief—she wanted me to be reincarnated, so she followed him. He is still very polite, like a weak scholar, after a long time, he will show his true nature, forcibly made a ghost contract with me and my sister, and began to enslave us two."

When she said these words, her tone was indifferent, as if she was talking about other people's stories. Only when she talked about her sister, did she look like a living person, as if she had never died, with emotions.

"He enslaves us to do bad things for him, to coax other ghosts to come for him, or to send letters to some sinful evil ways and monsters-we have to do it. But just a few days ago! The little girl suddenly found herself You can move."

This hanged ghost was originally placed in a wooden box by Gao Bailing, hidden in the ground. She was in the box, unable to move, hear, see, and unconscious. Only come out when you need her.

But when the lightning struck Gao Bailing, she was able to float out of the box by herself for the first time, and judged the condition of the "master" based on this.

Zou Pusheng clenched his cuffs: "You mean——he's dead?"

The girl said: "He is not dead yet, although he is not dead yet, he is almost dead."

"Since he has been seriously injured, what you want to do, you can do it yourself, why bother to come to me?"

"My lord doesn't know. He has eighty, if not one hundred, magic spells. Although he is weak now, as long as it takes a while, it will be as if nothing happened."

Zou Pusheng turned pale with shock, and then felt a burst of anger welling up in his heart, and he was so angry that he almost couldn't stand still. In his knowledge, the way to quickly replenish his anger was either to eat human flesh alive, or to take away his luck.

"What are you asking me to wait for?"

The female ghost's words are well-founded, but Zou Pusheng still can't fully believe her. Humans and ghosts have different ways, even if they are alive, they have to plot against each other. People's hearts are terrible, let alone this resentful ghost in front of him?

"The little girl has nothing else, only this one thing is her own."

The girl avoided talking about it, as if she had something else to say, she took out a rope from her sleeve, and wanted to pass it to Zou Pusheng, but she was afraid that it would dirty his hands and make him hate it, so she no longer promised her. request, so he solemnly placed the rope on the ground.

"This is... This is the rope used by the little girl to hang herself. Although it is nothing special, it can be regarded as a magical weapon after following the little girl for so many years. If the husband has any enemies, just put the rope in his house, and within three days , he will be able to hang himself at the door of his own house.”

Zou Pusheng couldn't help but smile bitterly, his heart seemed to be covered by cowhide, sadness couldn't come out, happiness couldn't get in, and even the corners of his mouth couldn't move freely.

The use of this rope was spoken out of the girl's mouth, with a bit of innocence and absurdity, as if all the enemies in the world just need to be killed, and people's hatred will be wiped out. They don't know that death can solve the ugliness of people.

But this happened to be her only thing, her only thing, and it was the thing that ended her life.

This ghost was still young when he died, it can be said that he was a child...

Zou Pusheng knew that he had committed an old problem, and his heart softened again.

He had no choice but to smile reluctantly, with a helpless and weird arc on the corner of his mouth.

After the girl put down the rope, she knelt down on the ground, knocked her head on the ground, her messy hair spread out, completely covering her terrifying face.

"My little girl's sister... my sister is a childbirth ghost."

The female ghost's voice was not pleasant, hoarse and sluggish, as if someone was scratching a stone, but her voice was so soft and soft, telling a story from a long time ago.

"My sister married a good family, a landowner in the village. She bore three children to that damned man, all daughters."

"Her mother-in-law said that if she couldn't have another boy, she would ask her son to divorce her and drive her out of the house. So my sister desperately searched for homemade prescriptions, took a lot of medicine, and then finally tried again. pregnant."

"The wandering Taoist came and said it was a boy this time."

Zou Pusheng's hands trembled.

"Maybe I took too much medicine. On the day of delivery, my sister had a difficult delivery. I couldn't get into the landlord's house, so I had to climb on a tree in the yard next door to his house."

"She yelled for pain. She yelled for a day and a night, but she still didn't give birth."

"At dawn the next day, her mother-in-law brought back a whip from the sorceress, drove her into the yard, made her lie on the millstone, and started beating her."

"After a dozen lashes, my sister's voice became low. After dozens of lashes, she stopped shouting."

"The little girl knows that my sister is dead."

"The baby was born on the ground, born quickly, and slid out limply. It was a boy indeed. But dead."

"The little girl saw the whole process from the tree."

"They didn't bury my sister, they rolled her up on a bamboo mat and threw her into the mountains."

Zou Pusheng couldn't help interrupting her—it wasn't that he didn't want to or was impatient to listen, but that he couldn't bear to listen any longer, but when he spoke, he realized that his voice was so dry: "So, you, Just hanged yourself?"

The girl was silent for a moment, and finally changed her tone slightly, raised her voice a lot, and said, "No. How could that be? How could it be possible? How could it be so simple?"

"The little girl went home and took a kitchen knife. Taking advantage of the darkness, she jumped from that tree into their yard, killed them all, chopped them up, and threw them all into the well."

"After the little girl found her sister's body, she hanged herself next to her."

"My daughter said this because she knows that her husband is famous for his kindness. Although my daughter has committed an unforgivable crime, I still want to ask my husband for help."

I have to say that she did do her homework before coming here. If she simply begged Zou Pusheng to have a half chance of success, then it has increased to [-]% now.

The hanged ghost raised her head, her black hair stuck to her face, like water weeds wrapped around a piece of wood, she hung her tongue to one side, and said slowly: "My little girl has something to tell you, please be careful."

"please say."

"Gao Bailing has secretly detained many wild ghosts. He has an unknown method to turn the newly dead and innocent people into ghosts, and he has gathered them all in one city."

Turn ordinary people into ghosts?

Zou Pusheng seemed to have been hit hard with a hammer, his whole heart trembled violently, and he immediately asked, "Where is that city?"

"My little girl doesn't know where that place is, but I only know its name is Fengdu. There are many ghosts in this city, about tens of thousands. Gao Bailing may use it to do so, please take precautions."

"... Tell me, what do you want me to do?"

The hanged ghost kowtowed again, and respectfully said: "My little girl begs sir, after Gao Bailing returns, if he waits for the opportunity when he is weak..."

Zou Pusheng interrupted her and said, "Naturally, I will do it without you telling me. What this person has done is harmful to nature and justice. If there is a chance, I will kill him with my own hands!"

Judging from these words, the hanged ghost is very smart. She said at the beginning that she didn't want Zou Pusheng to kill him and beat him. It wouldn't make Zou Pusheng reject her just because of that.

After all, their purpose is the same.

The girl said gratefully: "I wish you a bright future, sir! Although Gao Bailing didn't know about my daughter's visit this time, as long as he recovers, he can regain control of her. Before he was seriously injured, my daughter You can't even die, now that you have the chance, you must die, and you won't expose your husband!"

"This, this..." Zou Pusheng hurriedly said, "There is no other way?"

"No. My little girl has been waiting for this day for a long time."

"Then do you have anything else to say?"

The hanged ghost hesitated for a long time, until the candle was a bit short, and finally said: "My little girl's elder sister should be dead. But, maybe there is a half chance, she didn't..."

"Just tell me! Just tell me! Tell me what she is like!"

"She is a stupid woman. She won't eat other people's children if she steals them. She will only raise them well and send them back in the end. She, she is the easiest to treat other monsters. If they call her sister, She will think that she is a little girl who can even give away her heart and lungs."

Zou Pusheng memorized them one by one, and asked, "Is there any more?"

The hanged ghost said: "My sister always hangs all kinds of silk and satin ropes in the room."

"Silk?"

The girl seemed a little shy, but the tears couldn't stop falling on her face, and she put on a smile that seemed to be happy but also desperate, wiped it with her sleeve, and said in a low voice: "My sister saw the rope of the little girl, and she missed it. I thought my little girl... likes ropes, so I used to buy some and hang them in the house."

Zou Pusheng opened his mouth in astonishment, licked his lips, and wanted to say something, but he didn't say it in the end.

As for the hanged ghost, as soon as she finished saying this, she kowtowed a few times, turned into smoke, floated out of the door lightly, broke into the rain, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

After a long, long time, the candle made a light sound and was completely extinguished, and the room was dark again.

Knowing that she must have died, Zou Pusheng couldn't help but let out a long, long sigh, stepped forward, bent down, and picked up the rope on the ground.

"Her sister..."

The raindrops outside the window hit the stage, still crackling.

The middle-aged scribe in the room sat all night, regained his energy at dawn, opened the window, took a deep breath of fresh air, and began to think about how to deal a severe blow to Gao Bailing when he was unprepared.

His mind has not been so active for a long time. After Chen Youliang ascended the throne, Zou Pusheng was actually very decadent. He was once disappointed with human nature and felt guilty for his own incompetence, but now, he was stimulated by the anger in his heart, and his hope was ignited like never before. .

He hoped that Chen Youliang would come back quickly, and he also hoped that Gao Bailing would come back quickly!