Be a national teacher in Liaozhai Fanwen
Chapter 39 The Faceless Village Woman
Ruan Tao led the two of them back slowly, a thin layer of sweat formed on his forehead due to tension: "Heh, heh! Miss, I don't recognize my relatives..."
"We are not related to the girl, nor are we there." Wang Mang said respectfully, "My cousin is from Shangjing, and has never set foot in Shangjun. I also came to Shangjun this year, and I have never seen the girl before." .”
Hearing this, Ruan Tao glanced at the people around him indiscriminately.
It suddenly occurred to him that the monk from Jingshui Temple had also said before that Liu Zhaopo was appreciated by the king.
It's just that Wang Xiang lives in Beijing for a long time?How could he be so involved with Shangjun?
Did he know that Liu Zhao was transformed by a snake demon?
Or, when did Wang Mang come to Shangjun?Why come to Shang County?Did you become friends with Liu Zhao because you felt that this person had lived for so long and you were curious?
Now this ghost lady said she had seen him again?
Ruan Tao knew that he looked somewhat similar to Wang Mang, and everyone said so, so since the person the girl saw could not be him, it could only be Wang Xiang in front of her.
Ruan Tao frowned slightly, but he couldn't describe the relationship at this moment.
"Never seen?"
I saw the girl's neck crooked.
"Click" sound.
The head is broken.
She still stood upright, catching her head that fell from her neck with both hands, and the steps on her head made a crisp sound.
The next second, her hand put her head in front of Ruan Tao and the others, the corolla on the broken head was crooked, it squinted, grinned and let out a sharp laugh: "You lied to me! !! Hahahahaha!! You lied to me!!!"
In the next second, black venomous insects began to gushe out frantically from the fractured neck of the upright body!
Gu poisonous insects gushed out from the cut of the carrion on her neck like water, and the surrounding corpses also began to roar!
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!"
The head hugged by the body began to laugh crazily, with a very sharp and piercing voice.
Horrible shrill laughter echoed in the deserted valley, mixed with the wind, it sounded like crying.
Under the dim green corpse candle light, this mountain temple instantly became a real purgatory!
The horrifying scene in front of him made Wang Mang wish he could faint directly.
Du Zimei has done things with Ruan Tao a few times. Although he was terrified of this kind of thing, his reaction was much smaller than that of Wang Mang who saw such a terrifying and unimaginable scene for the first time.
Seeing Wang Mang's face turned as white as paper, Du Zimei hurriedly stepped forward to hold the other's hand: "Brother Ju Jun! Are you okay?"
"No, no problem." Wang Mang tried his best to keep himself calm, he knew that the more he got to this kind of time, the more he could not panic.
Seeing the venomous insects rushing towards them like water, Ruan Tao pulled out his whisk from Du Zimei's baggage.
He wrapped the silver wire of the whisk around his palm and pulled it!
In an instant, the skin on the palm was cut, and the blood stained the silver-white whiskers bright red. Ruan Tao waved the blood-stained whisk, and shouted, "Get up!"
In an instant, the dark green fox fire erected a barrier in front of them and the poisonous insects.
The poisonous poisonous insects trying to crawl towards them were "cracked" by the fox fire, and the whole mountain temple was filled with the smell of burnt meat.
Seeing this, Wang Mang couldn't help exclaiming: "I'm going?! Brother Ji Zhen, are you really a fairy?"
With no ignition point and no combustibles, this person can conjure fire out of thin air?
"Ji Zhen, your cultivation has improved a lot!" Du Zimei also sighed.
He has known Ruan Tao for so long, and he has seen Ruan Tao's level before, but he doesn't expect this person to be able to recruit such a strong Fox Yan so easily and skillfully now!
Ji Zhen usually looks carefree, lazy, and out of tune, so she must have put in a lot of effort behind her back, right?
It is really impressive!
"Now is not the time to put on a top hat for me." Ruan Tao stared nervously at the ghost lady on the other side of Hu Yan, how could the other party be burned away by just a fire?
The smell of burnt meat accompanied by the smell of burning and dripping corpse wax made the three of them feel nauseous.
The sleepy little fox in his arms was raised by Li Jinzun and Yugui, and the place where he walked, sat and lay was scented with aroma again and again, so he couldn't bear the smell even more.
So even though he wasn't fully awake yet, his four paws also started kicking unconsciously!
Ruan Tao frowned, turned around and asked the two people behind him, "Are there any sachets, sachets, etc.?"
"What? Are you planning to curry favor with this aunt and let her let us go?" Du Zimei said, tied the purse around her waist, and handed it to Ruan Tao.
Ruan Tao stuffed the purse into his bosom, and the little fox in his bosom really settled down a lot.
Tsk!squeamish!
Looking at the little fox in his arms, Ruan Tao felt a little disgusted.
Seeing that the poisonous Gu insects are useless to the few people in front of her, the insects in the ghost lady's neck no longer spread out, leaving only the light yellow corpse water dripping drop by drop.
The half-rotten head held in his hand tilted, and he looked at Ruan Tao with a somewhat inquisitive look.
"Demon?" Her voice hangs slightly upwards to express her doubts.
Then, two drops of blood dripped out of her pair of white eyes in an instant: "Ha! The little fox demon is trying to provoke me!?"
The ghost children walking around instantly ran away!
Ruan Tao's little paper people tried to stop him thousands of times, but they were instantly torn to pieces by the sharp claws and fangs of the ghost boy!
After that, the group of walking corpses rushed towards them, the fox fire was burning on their bodies, they howled and wanted to climb over the fox fire, and rushed towards Ruan Tao and others.
"Brother Ji Zhen!" Wang Mang shouted in shock.
"Get up!" Ruan Tao waved the Buddha dust in his hand, and Hu Yan's momentum became even stronger!
However, they still couldn't stop the advancing ghoul boys. Some of them fell in the fox flames, and the rest stepped on the corpses of their companions and rushed towards Ruan Tao and the others.
It was only then that Ruan Tao realized that they really obeyed this ghost lady.
But why?
This is completely unreasonable!In addition to obeying the orders of ghosts, walking ghouls really obey other ghosts?
Unheard of!
And this is the mountain temple, even though it has been abandoned now, it is not surprising that there are ghosts and demons hiding here, but with such a large number of walking corpses, isn't it too arrogant to surround the three of them here and try to kill them? !
At this time, Ruan Tao caught a glimpse of the unrecognizable mountain god statue on the altar table, and he looked at the mottled murals surrounded by dark green fox flames.
He was shocked!
What kind of god is worshiped in this temple?
"Ji Zhen?!"
At this moment, Du Zimei screamed, and a ghost boy hugged his leg.
Guitongzi was covered in bruises, and half of his body was already rotten. The intestines that fell out of his small stomach just landed on Du Zimei's plum blossom silver satin boots.
He opened his mouth, revealing bloodshot fangs, and smiled at Du Zimei.
Even though Du Zimei had seen the world, the scene in front of him was enough to blind him!
While calling Ruan Tao, he tried to throw the ghost boy hanging from his lap, but it was in vain.
I saw that ghost boy opened his mouth full of fangs, about to bite Du Zimei's leg!
"Ji Zhen!!!"
At the very moment, Ruan Tao took out a beeswax bead from his bosom and shot it at the ghost boy who was clinging to his legs!
"Da!" A sound hit Ghost Boy on the forehead.
The ghost boy let go of the pain, and then sat on the ground and began to cry loudly.
At this time, more and more ghost boys and walking corpses stepped on the corpses of their companions and stepped over Fox Yan, and the ghost lady was standing at the other end of Fox Yan, holding her rotten head and watching quietly. .
"Brother Ji Zhen! No way! Can you make the fire bigger?" Wang Mang said.
Ruan Tao tried his best to protect the two people around him, and said, "No way! It's okay if the fire burns on me, but you can't touch it."
"This is the fox flame, the demon fire. When it burns on the body, it directly burns on the soul, and the damage to the soul cannot be recovered!" Ruan Tao said seriously.
It can range from being stupid to being a walking dead.
"Then what should we do now?" Wang Mang said, "Otherwise, brother Ji Zhen, you take the eldest son and escape first?! Now the safety of the eldest son is the most important thing!"
The ghost lady on the other side of Hu Yan seemed to hear that they wanted to die together, and started giggling.
Her laughter is like the voice of an opera singer on the stage laughing out loud, and the screams of ghost children around her make people feel like they are in purgatory!
Ruan Tao's eyes dimmed in an instant. He was clearly at the end of his rope, but he challenged the ghost lady on the other side of Huyan, "Sister, don't be too happy!"
As he spoke, he threw the fox-shaped talisman in his sleeve into the fox flame in front of him——
All of a sudden, trees and silver flowers, stars like rain.
The walking ghouls let out a terrified roar and retreated towards the ghost lady.
Ruan Tao's eyelashes trembled, sure enough!
After the fiery trees and silver flowers passed, a menacingly beautiful man appeared in front of Ruan Tao and the others.
Ruan Tao breathed a sigh of relief immediately, and Du Zimei smiled in surprise: "Senior Fox!"
Wang Mang looked at the person who suddenly appeared in front of him, and was even more surprised than when he watched Ruan Tao ignite the fire out of thin air.
"This, this is?" He tugged on Du Zimei's sleeve beside him and said.
Du Zimei introduced in a low voice: "This is the fox senior who subdued the snake demon and became attached to Brother Ruan Tao."
"Fox?" Wang Mang asked incredulously, "Is he really turned into a fox?"
Du Zimei nodded.
As if hearing Wang Mang's doubts, in order to prove his identity and just to demonstrate to the ghost lady in front of him, the red fox tail behind Hu Chang bloomed like petals.
eight? !
The ghost lady put the head in her arms back on her neck.
"It's this ghost that makes you helpless?" Hu Chang turned her head and looked at Ruan Tao who was casually looking behind her with a pair of beautiful eyes.
"Senior, please help!" Ruan Tao smiled helplessly.
"Hu Chang?"
The ghost lady said with some doubts.
Hearing this, several people including Hu Chang himself were stunned.
Ruan Tao and the three looked at each other, and Hu Chang waved his sleeves to disperse the fox fire in front of him, and carefully looked at the ghost lady in front of him.
Finally, he was a little surprised and said: "Zhou Youling? You haven't lost your soul yet?"
**
In the prefect's yamen, the usually deserted and quiet prison was rarely lively today.
The few Lang officials who were on duty outside watched the group of nobles who went in, and couldn't help complaining in a low voice:
"Why do these high-ranking officials stay up all day and run to our place?"
"That's right! Even if you want to come to inspect, why don't you come in broad daylight? Why are you going to the prison for nothing at this time?"
It even delayed their drinking. They were lucky to be on duty at night. On weekdays, the brothers could get together to play two cards and have a few cups of wine. The night passed, and they would go home to sleep as soon as the shift changed tomorrow. Dajue, but I don't think there is anything.
Today, for some reason, this group of nobles from central Beijing all came to their prison, which they couldn't even find in ordinary times, making them relax a little bit, and they couldn't even drink a glass of wine.
"Hey! You don't understand now, do you?" At this moment, one of the older officials said, "Do you know who was imprisoned here a while ago?"
"Who?"
"Great Luo Jinxian!" said the elder Lang Guan seriously.
"Where does this... come from?" The two young officials looked at each other in blank dismay.
"Hey!" The elder Lang Guan waved at the two of them, and the two young Lang Guan came over knowingly.
Just listening, the elder Lang Guan lowered his voice and said: "Do you remember what happened in Jingshui Temple a few months ago?"
"It's such a big fuss, so I naturally remember it!"
"You guys are young, you don't know the way, but the one who caused the accident, Ruan Guanyin, was locked up here a few days ago!" said the elder Lang Guan.
"Huh? What happened to the Avalokitesvara incident? How can the gods be imprisoned?" The two young officials were shocked.
Ruan Guanyin and the others have heard about this. They have heard that Xunliu Village in the west of the city is planning to invite his image to the township village this Hungry Ghost Festival. How can such a rare living god be imprisoned?
"Our Qin law is strict, and we are always gods in the sky. If you break the Qin law, you should be arrested." The elder Lang Guan shook his head, "But of course the gods can't be caught."
As he said that, he looked around for a while, and then said: "Just after dinner, Lao Zhao, who was on patrol, found that Guanyin disappeared without a sound!"
"It's gone?! This...then where did he go?"
The elder Lang Guan shook his head: "How do we know about the gods?"
"Our Qin prison is surrounded by three floors inside and three floors outside. Even though our brothers relax occasionally, there are still so many guards inside! How could he disappear without saying anything?" A small Lang officer asked.
"It's been said that they are gods, and it's hard for gods to control their affairs. If we can figure it out, we will all be gods!" I lit it and took two puffs.
The prison in Shangjun is fairly clean. Although there are no pickles like rats and insects, there will be more or less damp at night.
Zhao Gao led a group of people to stand on the aisle of the prison, and the empty and quiet prison suddenly became crowded.
"Ruan Tao was originally detained in this cell." Langguan Lao Zhao held a torch in his hand and a key on his waist, and stood with his head bowed at the door of Ruan Tao's cell.
The flame on the torch swayed with Lao Zhao's slightly trembling hands, and Lao Zhao wanted to cry but had no tears in his heart. It was so easy for him to rely on his father's military achievements accumulated in previous battles to fill this door.
Originally, he didn't expect to be a butcher for an official and become rich and powerful. He just wanted to have a job and live comfortably for the rest of his life. Who would have expected such a big event to happen today, involving several big shots from central Beijing.
I don't know if he can go to eat a bowl of wontons outside the Yamen tomorrow morning.
"Your lords have seen that this Ruan Tao was originally locked in this prison, but now he is nowhere to be seen. It must be a sorcery!" Zhao Gao said, his voice became a little harsh because of the height, like a piercing ear. The torn rice paper is hurting people's ears.
Looking at the empty cell, Zhao Gao's teeth itch with hatred.
Now that the eldest son's whereabouts are still unknown, if His Majesty asks for a crime, he can only take Ruan Jizhen out. When the eldest son disappeared, he was alone by his side. This is a relationship that cannot be lost no matter what.
It's just that a living person is not as convenient as a dead person to talk to. He originally planned to let this person die quietly in prison today, and then he will be charged with "suicide in fear of crime". The eldest son's matter is at most a crime of negligence. .
Even if His Majesty wanted to blame him, it would be nothing more than a few slaps and a few downgrades. Ruan Tao, a dead man, was responsible for major matters, and the rest were trivial matters.
Unexpectedly, the little eunuch who was sent out to handle errands came back and said that Ruan Jizhen was gone!
A well-endowed living person just disappeared out of thin air!Is this kid really good at witchcraft?
Zhao Gao's eyes darkened, if so, he would have to die even more!
"Might Eunuch Zhao have been having nightmares recently?" Kong Ming smiled, "When did Eunuch Zhao catch Ruan Tao? Ruan Tao went to the Western Regions with his father's students the day before yesterday, doesn't Eunuch Zhao know?"
Hearing this, everyone was stunned.
Zhao Gao was stunned for a moment, then sneered, "Master Zhuge is telling a joke?"
Kong Ming curled his mouth faintly. At this time, he was wearing a lotus-colored robe, which was unmatched in the world. He only heard him say slowly: "Master Zhao is really confused. When did Ruan Tao be imprisoned in the prison of the prefect's yamen?" prisoner?"
As he spoke, he took out a few letters from his bosom, and said, "Ruan Tao and his father's student, Mr. Wen, traveled to the Western Regions with the caravan sent by Zigong the day before yesterday, and now we have arrived in Suiye."
"After learning that his cousin came to visit him in Shangjun, he also sent a letter to apologize to Sizong, saying that he is now in the Western Regions, and he will not be able to return to Shangjun for a while, so that Sizong and Shu Ye must still win the championship. Stay a little longer and wait for him to come back and reunite."
Zhao Gao looked at the letter in his hand, what was written in the letter was indeed as Kong Ming said, but whether it was Ruan Jizhen's handwriting would have to be discussed separately, and he had never seen Ruan Jizhen's handwriting.
Zhao Gao laughed: "Master Zhuge, you are using Zhao and you adults as three-year-old babies? Ruan Jizhen is closely related to the disappearance of the eldest son, and our family personally escorted him! Now that she escaped through magic, Zhuge Not only are adults in no hurry to arrest the suspect, but they protect him in every possible way."
As he said that, Zhao Gao's face turned cold: "My lord, is it possible that you know something about Mr. Chang's disappearance, so you can protect the suspect in every possible way?"
Faced with Zhao Gao's pressing step by step, Kong Ming just smiled faintly: "Master Zhao misunderstood, the eldest son is missing, Liang feels as anxious as boiling oil every day, but Eunuch Zhao is really chaotic because of concern. Hysteria."
As he spoke, he raised his voice slightly: "Lord Wu."
"Here!" The Wu Taishou behind him responded.
I saw Prefect Wu walking forward, dragging a dossier in his hand.
Kong Ming raised his chin at him, and said, "Show Eunuch Zhao, when did Ruan Tao ever exist in this prison."
Zhao Gao was taken aback, reached out and took the dossier in Wu Taishou's hand, and flipped through it.
"Ruan Tao was indeed imprisoned, but that happened a few months ago." Prefect Wu said calmly, "And that incident was just a misunderstanding, because I think this kid was accused of going to the yamen many times when he first came to Shangjun. , It was too sharp to write, so I deliberately wanted to teach him a lesson and make him calm down, but he was bailed out after half a day."
"Ruan Tao has no record of going in and out of the prefect's yamen in the past few days, Eunuch Zhao may have made a mistake." After saying that, the prefect Wu retreated again, his eyelids never trembling from the beginning to the end.
But the torch in Lao Zhao's hand, who was standing by the prison door, trembled more and more, as the saying goes, gods fight and mortals suffer.
With the atmosphere in front of him, with him being a small person here, he might be silenced just because he heard some unheard words and went out.
Old Zhao raised his head and wanted to cry, but there were still half an hour before the shift shift. Can we change shift today?It's unlikely that he will stand on guard all night tonight, right?Mother!
"Ha! Hahahaha..." Zhao Gao flipped through two pages, then threw the dossier on the ground indifferently.
He smiled, but his eyes were bloodthirsty, and his bright red mouth curved sinisterly. He looked straight at Kong Ming and said, "Master Zhuge can enjoy this sage in the world at such a young age, it really is a well-deserved reputation."
Ruan Tao was not convicted, and when Ruan Tao was to be imprisoned, the group of boys, including Wang Xiang, disagreed, saying that there was no sufficient evidence.
In the end, both of them took a step back, and temporarily locked Ruan Tao in the prison, and the follow-up will be determined after the eldest son is found.
As a result, the procedures for Ruan Tao's imprisonment were naturally not complete, and the procedures were complete, so his name was naturally not on the file.
Now, they want to say to death that Ruan Tao followed his father's students to the Western Regions, so the red mouth and white teeth can only be said by them.
Zhao Gao stared straight at Kong Ming in front of him, seeing that these boys were determined to protect Ruan Jizhen.
He didn't understand, who wrote those rumors in Beijing, they all knew it in their hearts.
Ruan Jizhen is just a little-known sorcerer. Although she is definitely a descendant of the Ruan family's direct lineage at most, she is born of her parents Ye He, so she cannot be seen in the public eye.
Kong Ming and the others protected this kid so much, and it was only at the behest of the eldest son to rule out personal friendship.
In this way, what does their eldest son want?Really spoiled by His Majesty.The smile on the corner of Zhao Gao's mouth collapsed slightly.
Just when Zigong and the others breathed a sigh of relief, they saw the man in the veiled hat who was standing among the disciples in Zhuoling Pavilion and stepped forward.
Ruan Ji raised his eyebrows. He had noticed this person since just now, and he didn't know if he was pretending to be mysterious or why he didn't show his face.
He looked up at Zhao Gao, keenly caught the slightly raised corners of Zhao Gao's lips, Ruan Ji frowned slightly, and looked at the people around him.
Ji Kang listened to him, and said in a low voice: "I noticed this man just now, when I came in, I deliberately lagged behind by two steps."
"What's different about this man?" Ruan Ji asked in a low voice.
"Scent." Ji Kang said.
"fragrant?"
"The scent I've never smelled before, it doesn't look like something from the Great Qin Dynasty, and it doesn't look like the scent from the Western Regions." Ji Kang said, "It smells cold and sweaty."
"There are a lot of strange people in Zhuoling Pavilion, so I don't know what this is." Ruan Ji smiled lightly, and the corners of his mouth curled up.
The light in the prison was dim, and I saw the man wearing a light gauze veil like a ghost, directly passed through the solid wooden prison pillars, and stood lightly in the prison.
"I—" Old Zhao, the guard holding the torch at the door, almost screamed out, and then swallowed the words desperately in his throat.
Be good!It is said that Zhuo Ling Pavilion is a place where immortals gather, and today he, Lao Zhao, has seen the world.
This person can actually pass through walls? !
Seeing this, Zigong and the others were also surprised, and their hearts couldn't help but hang up again, wondering what kind of tricks this old Zhao Gao was playing again.
I saw the man with a light gauze, raised his foot and lightly kicked the dry and soft straw pile in the prison, and then stretched out a pale and slender hand from the veiled cap.
A drop of blood dripped from his fingertip, and the moment the blood dripped on the ground, a ray of golden light suddenly appeared.
Seeing this, everyone couldn't help but gasp.
Zi Gong gently tugged at Kong Ming's sleeve, and Kong Ming patted his hand to signal him to stay calm.
He looked at Zhao Gao seriously, Zhao Gao looked at the people in the prison, the smile on the corner of his mouth became more and more smug, a group of little bastards fighting with him?Still young!
After the golden light passed, I saw a few words outlined in a piece of ashes on the ground - "Girl's Tomb in the East of the City".
Everyone couldn't see anything outside the prison, and the person in the prison raised his hand slightly and pointed at the lock, only to hear a click, and the lock fell down amidst everyone's surprised eyes.
Zi Gong looked at Kong Ming in disbelief: "Who is this man?"
As far as he knew, most of the people in Zhuo Ling Pavilion were mediocre people, and there were also a lot of swindlers mixed in, otherwise His Majesty would not have been so angry and ordered to kill more than half of them.
Even though under Wang Xiang's rectification, there are no more swindlers in Zhuo Ling Pavilion, but it's really hard to say how capable they are, otherwise His Majesty's Longevity Pill has not been refined for so many years.
This was Zigong's impression of Zhuo Lingge, he never imagined that there would be such a person who could point and break locks.He also wore a hood to cover his face.
Kong Ming didn't have much expression on his face, he still just smiled faintly: "Eunuch Zhao is indeed a man who has been around His Majesty for many years, and such a genius can be won over."
"Come in." The prisoner said, it was a young man's voice as clear as a mountain stream.
Zigong was a little surprised, it sounded like he was only in his twenties, could someone with such ability be so young?
Who is this person?
Zhao Gao walked to the door, opened the cell door and said, "My lords, please."
Everyone entered the prison one after another, and they all saw the writing on the ground clearly.
Li Taibai and the others looked at each other, everyone in Zhuoling Pavilion began to whisper, and the jailer standing at the door of the prison with a torch was shaking so much that his legs were almost unsteady.
Zhao Gao looked at the writing on the ground and asked, "Is that monster here?"
"Yes." said the boy in the veiled hat.
"My lord, what is the origin of this monster?" A Zhuo Ling Pavilion man with a long beard asked, "Why didn't I understand it?"
Afterwards, the young man bent down and picked up a small tuft of red hair from the ground, and said slowly, "The fox in the mountains."
Everyone was shocked!
Zhao Gao waved his sleeves and said, "Go to the east of the city immediately and arrest this monster!!"
The moon is sparse, and a silver belt passes through the night sky. Under the moonlight, the whole mountain looks exquisite and lovely. No one would have guessed that there is a ghost hidden here.
Fortunately, the ghost lady and Hu Chang once knew each other, and even though Hu Chang had been abandoned for nearly 100 years, her cultivation level increased greatly after swallowing Liu Zhaoneidan. It is natural for the ghost lady to fight against mountain elves like Hu Chang To fall into the wind.
Besides, there are many beautiful men in the world, so there is no need to fight Hu Chang, a fox who has been cultivated for thousands of years, for a captive man whom he has never met before.
Therefore, in the end she sold Hu Chang a favor and released Ruan Tao and his party.
Before leaving, she said something very inexplicable to Ruan Tao: "Little Lang, how is your waist?"
After all, she didn't say anything when Ruan Tao asked her what she meant, she just smiled blindly, and the ghosts in the whole temple turned into green smoke and dispersed.
At this time, Ruan Tao and his party had already reached the foot of the mountain, and walked back along the way they came, in a hurry.
In his arms is Fusu, the young master who has turned into a fox. If they can't get to the city within an hour and can't rent a car, they probably have to carry the eldest son who is more than eight feet long back to the Zhao residence.
The little fox in his arms was sleeping soundly, kicking Ruan Tao's front with his paws from time to time, Ruan Tao was afraid that when the time came, the fox would suddenly change back to his slender and straight appearance and crush him immobilized.
He thought of what the ghost lady said when she left, and he was confused and confused.
"She has lived for too many years. There are not many goblins and ghosts who can speak for so many years. The only ones who can talk to her are the group of walking corpses who can only roar. So it's not surprising that she talks upside down. Don't take it to heart. Seeing that Ruan Tao was pondering Zhou Youling's words all the way, Chang Hu explained.
"Then is the story about the Western Region monk she said true?" Wang Mang was a little curious. What happened tonight, the ghost lady just now and the demon fox in front of him, all shattered his previous worldview.
He knows that there are such strange things in this world, but he has never dealt with evil spirits and ghosts face-to-face for so many years. He never thought that he would encounter such exciting things within a few days after he came to Shangjun.
Thinking of this, Wang Mang couldn't help turning his head to look at Ruan Tao, with a slight smile on his lips.
The moon is full and the fireflies are faint.
Wang Mang raised his eyebrows, it seems that he came to Shangjun this time at the right time.
Hu Chang gave him a slanted glance, obviously not wanting to talk to him very much, and said in a rather cold tone, "It is said that Prime Minister Wang and Liu Zhao are on good terms, why? Prime Minister Wang doesn't know about the matter in Shangjun?"
The night wind blew over the temples of several people, and the atmosphere suddenly became a little awkward.
It has been rumored that "Monk Jingchen" is favored by Wang Xiang, and Jingshui Temple has always used this as a signboard, and many pilgrims come to Jingshui Temple to offer incense in Wang Mang's name.
But later Ruan Tao asked Wang Mang when it was time, and Wang Mang explained that friendship was not counted. He had never been to Shangjun before. Zhao passed several letters.
He once had a friend who came to Shangjun on errands, or someone who was passing through Shangjun, so he asked him to help him visit Liu Zhao several times. It was all just his curiosity. demon.
But Chang Hu hated Liu Zhao to the bone!Therefore, he has no good looks towards anyone related to Liu Zhao.
Although their surname "Hu" doesn't hold grudges against the "Huang" family next door, they are not considered big-hearted people.
Just now he wanted to give Wang Mang directly to the ghost lady, everything related to Liu Zhao disappeared in this world as well.
In the end, Ruan Tao let him go because of the face of this baby, so what kind of face do you expect from him now?
If it was someone else, although they might not be annoyed by such a cold reception, they would definitely be stunned for a while, but Wang Mang didn't seem to care.
He just smiled and said: "I am an ordinary person, how can what I see and hear compare with the fairy family?"
Hu Chang snorted coldly, glanced at Ruan Tao beside him, and finally said in Ruan Tao's face: "That monk... I can't explain clearly, I was imprisoned by Liu Zhao in the Guanyin statue for nearly a hundred years, Zhou Youling This incident was only heard from the juniors in the mountains after it came out recently."
"How?" Ruan Tao asked.
Hu Chang said slowly: "Just now you also saw that Zhou Youling is the fierce ghost of Hong Sha and mother and son Sha, and this is the greatest of all evils. Although her morality is far inferior to mine, if I hadn't swallowed Liu Zhao's insides Dan, absolutely can't compete with it, this is the power of Li Gui."
"The more powerful the ghost, the heavier the resentment. When the ghost is alive, it is a person whose life cannot be more miserable." Hu Chang's voice echoed faintly in the wilderness, saying pity words on his mouth, but his tone was very indifferent .
"Look at her, she got married with a big belly, and died on the same day. The child in her belly was obviously enough to live for a month, but she was suffocated to death in her belly, and she couldn't do anything."
Ruan Tao's eyes darkened. His master once said that everything in the world has its own destiny, and ghosts are clearly a great evil in the world, but no one can control them. The way of heaven allows them to wantonly kill people's lives. Why? ?
He didn't understand at the time, obviously wandering souls would be detained by the errands, why did the errants leave the ghosts alone?
His master said: "The way of heaven pays attention to the reincarnation of cause and effect, and ghosts often live a bleak life before they are alive, and what's more, they don't live a life that can be regarded as a human being at all, so they have a lot of resentment, which cannot be vented when they are alive, and they always have resentment when they die. Resentment, revenge, revenge, and the result of revenge, just in line with cause and effect, can go to reincarnation."
"Some ghosts will chase their enemies and claim their lives for several generations, but the resentment will eventually dissipate."
That ghost lady has stayed in the world for hundreds of years, even if there is a conflict between the red sha and the mother-child sha, I don't know what she has experienced during her lifetime.
"The reason why Zhou Youling stayed in the world for so many years and her grievances persisted is not due to unrevenged vengeance. In fact, the group of people who harmed her in the past have been gnawed to death by her long ago." Hu Chang said, "But She still has no intention of reincarnation."
"Why?" Du Zimei asked puzzled, "The so-called grievance has its head and its debtor. Since she has avenged her revenge, her resentment should naturally disappear, so why doesn't her resentment disappear?"
Hu Chang glanced at him indifferently, his attitude towards Du Zimei was much better than towards Wang Mang.
"Ghosts stay in the world because of resentment. In fact, it is more accurate to say that they stay in the world because of some strong obsession. Resentment is a kind of obsession. Most of the obsessions of ghosts are hatred towards strangers. , so it is often said that ghosts cannot reincarnate because of resentment. But Zhou Youling's obsession is not just resentment."
"It's not resentment?" Du Zimei rubbed her chin and thought, "I look at her, she should be about the same age as me and Ji Zhen when she died. In [-], it was the time when the girl was as beautiful as a flower. What persistence could she have at this time?" read?"
Hu Chang sneered: "Young man, you are still young, and you have such a good appearance, such a good birth, and such a rare talent, so you don't understand that there are many unsatisfactory things in life!"
"At such a young age, she died tragically with her child on the day she got married..." Ruan Taochang sighed, she was only a child herself.
"So, this ghost lady died when she was married, so why did she have a full-term child in her womb?" Wang Mang said sharply, "How can a girl marry with a full-term body?"
"This is Zhou Youling's obsession." Hu Chang didn't even want to look at Wang Mang, rolled her eyes and said, "Why did she get pregnant, why did she get married when the child was about to be full-term, and why did she die on the day of her wedding? Only she knows it. But her obsession, besides the hatred for the stranger who killed her back then, is her two children who have never seen the sky."
"Two children?!"
Ruan Tao's voice couldn't help raising his voice, the little fox in his arms trembled in shock, he quickly patted it to comfort him, he didn't expect to carry the eldest son who was more than eight feet back when he carried it.
The little fox in his arms stopped moving, and he lowered his voice: "But, there is clearly only one ghost baby we saw just now!"
Hu Chang's eyes stopped for a second on Fusu who was in Ruan Tao's arms, and then said: "There are two, a pair of twins."
"Basically speaking, the baby spirit will not leave its mother." Ruan Tao wondered, "especially after the mother also turned into a ghost."
"We are not related to the girl, nor are we there." Wang Mang said respectfully, "My cousin is from Shangjing, and has never set foot in Shangjun. I also came to Shangjun this year, and I have never seen the girl before." .”
Hearing this, Ruan Tao glanced at the people around him indiscriminately.
It suddenly occurred to him that the monk from Jingshui Temple had also said before that Liu Zhaopo was appreciated by the king.
It's just that Wang Xiang lives in Beijing for a long time?How could he be so involved with Shangjun?
Did he know that Liu Zhao was transformed by a snake demon?
Or, when did Wang Mang come to Shangjun?Why come to Shang County?Did you become friends with Liu Zhao because you felt that this person had lived for so long and you were curious?
Now this ghost lady said she had seen him again?
Ruan Tao knew that he looked somewhat similar to Wang Mang, and everyone said so, so since the person the girl saw could not be him, it could only be Wang Xiang in front of her.
Ruan Tao frowned slightly, but he couldn't describe the relationship at this moment.
"Never seen?"
I saw the girl's neck crooked.
"Click" sound.
The head is broken.
She still stood upright, catching her head that fell from her neck with both hands, and the steps on her head made a crisp sound.
The next second, her hand put her head in front of Ruan Tao and the others, the corolla on the broken head was crooked, it squinted, grinned and let out a sharp laugh: "You lied to me! !! Hahahahaha!! You lied to me!!!"
In the next second, black venomous insects began to gushe out frantically from the fractured neck of the upright body!
Gu poisonous insects gushed out from the cut of the carrion on her neck like water, and the surrounding corpses also began to roar!
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!"
The head hugged by the body began to laugh crazily, with a very sharp and piercing voice.
Horrible shrill laughter echoed in the deserted valley, mixed with the wind, it sounded like crying.
Under the dim green corpse candle light, this mountain temple instantly became a real purgatory!
The horrifying scene in front of him made Wang Mang wish he could faint directly.
Du Zimei has done things with Ruan Tao a few times. Although he was terrified of this kind of thing, his reaction was much smaller than that of Wang Mang who saw such a terrifying and unimaginable scene for the first time.
Seeing Wang Mang's face turned as white as paper, Du Zimei hurriedly stepped forward to hold the other's hand: "Brother Ju Jun! Are you okay?"
"No, no problem." Wang Mang tried his best to keep himself calm, he knew that the more he got to this kind of time, the more he could not panic.
Seeing the venomous insects rushing towards them like water, Ruan Tao pulled out his whisk from Du Zimei's baggage.
He wrapped the silver wire of the whisk around his palm and pulled it!
In an instant, the skin on the palm was cut, and the blood stained the silver-white whiskers bright red. Ruan Tao waved the blood-stained whisk, and shouted, "Get up!"
In an instant, the dark green fox fire erected a barrier in front of them and the poisonous insects.
The poisonous poisonous insects trying to crawl towards them were "cracked" by the fox fire, and the whole mountain temple was filled with the smell of burnt meat.
Seeing this, Wang Mang couldn't help exclaiming: "I'm going?! Brother Ji Zhen, are you really a fairy?"
With no ignition point and no combustibles, this person can conjure fire out of thin air?
"Ji Zhen, your cultivation has improved a lot!" Du Zimei also sighed.
He has known Ruan Tao for so long, and he has seen Ruan Tao's level before, but he doesn't expect this person to be able to recruit such a strong Fox Yan so easily and skillfully now!
Ji Zhen usually looks carefree, lazy, and out of tune, so she must have put in a lot of effort behind her back, right?
It is really impressive!
"Now is not the time to put on a top hat for me." Ruan Tao stared nervously at the ghost lady on the other side of Hu Yan, how could the other party be burned away by just a fire?
The smell of burnt meat accompanied by the smell of burning and dripping corpse wax made the three of them feel nauseous.
The sleepy little fox in his arms was raised by Li Jinzun and Yugui, and the place where he walked, sat and lay was scented with aroma again and again, so he couldn't bear the smell even more.
So even though he wasn't fully awake yet, his four paws also started kicking unconsciously!
Ruan Tao frowned, turned around and asked the two people behind him, "Are there any sachets, sachets, etc.?"
"What? Are you planning to curry favor with this aunt and let her let us go?" Du Zimei said, tied the purse around her waist, and handed it to Ruan Tao.
Ruan Tao stuffed the purse into his bosom, and the little fox in his bosom really settled down a lot.
Tsk!squeamish!
Looking at the little fox in his arms, Ruan Tao felt a little disgusted.
Seeing that the poisonous Gu insects are useless to the few people in front of her, the insects in the ghost lady's neck no longer spread out, leaving only the light yellow corpse water dripping drop by drop.
The half-rotten head held in his hand tilted, and he looked at Ruan Tao with a somewhat inquisitive look.
"Demon?" Her voice hangs slightly upwards to express her doubts.
Then, two drops of blood dripped out of her pair of white eyes in an instant: "Ha! The little fox demon is trying to provoke me!?"
The ghost children walking around instantly ran away!
Ruan Tao's little paper people tried to stop him thousands of times, but they were instantly torn to pieces by the sharp claws and fangs of the ghost boy!
After that, the group of walking corpses rushed towards them, the fox fire was burning on their bodies, they howled and wanted to climb over the fox fire, and rushed towards Ruan Tao and others.
"Brother Ji Zhen!" Wang Mang shouted in shock.
"Get up!" Ruan Tao waved the Buddha dust in his hand, and Hu Yan's momentum became even stronger!
However, they still couldn't stop the advancing ghoul boys. Some of them fell in the fox flames, and the rest stepped on the corpses of their companions and rushed towards Ruan Tao and the others.
It was only then that Ruan Tao realized that they really obeyed this ghost lady.
But why?
This is completely unreasonable!In addition to obeying the orders of ghosts, walking ghouls really obey other ghosts?
Unheard of!
And this is the mountain temple, even though it has been abandoned now, it is not surprising that there are ghosts and demons hiding here, but with such a large number of walking corpses, isn't it too arrogant to surround the three of them here and try to kill them? !
At this time, Ruan Tao caught a glimpse of the unrecognizable mountain god statue on the altar table, and he looked at the mottled murals surrounded by dark green fox flames.
He was shocked!
What kind of god is worshiped in this temple?
"Ji Zhen?!"
At this moment, Du Zimei screamed, and a ghost boy hugged his leg.
Guitongzi was covered in bruises, and half of his body was already rotten. The intestines that fell out of his small stomach just landed on Du Zimei's plum blossom silver satin boots.
He opened his mouth, revealing bloodshot fangs, and smiled at Du Zimei.
Even though Du Zimei had seen the world, the scene in front of him was enough to blind him!
While calling Ruan Tao, he tried to throw the ghost boy hanging from his lap, but it was in vain.
I saw that ghost boy opened his mouth full of fangs, about to bite Du Zimei's leg!
"Ji Zhen!!!"
At the very moment, Ruan Tao took out a beeswax bead from his bosom and shot it at the ghost boy who was clinging to his legs!
"Da!" A sound hit Ghost Boy on the forehead.
The ghost boy let go of the pain, and then sat on the ground and began to cry loudly.
At this time, more and more ghost boys and walking corpses stepped on the corpses of their companions and stepped over Fox Yan, and the ghost lady was standing at the other end of Fox Yan, holding her rotten head and watching quietly. .
"Brother Ji Zhen! No way! Can you make the fire bigger?" Wang Mang said.
Ruan Tao tried his best to protect the two people around him, and said, "No way! It's okay if the fire burns on me, but you can't touch it."
"This is the fox flame, the demon fire. When it burns on the body, it directly burns on the soul, and the damage to the soul cannot be recovered!" Ruan Tao said seriously.
It can range from being stupid to being a walking dead.
"Then what should we do now?" Wang Mang said, "Otherwise, brother Ji Zhen, you take the eldest son and escape first?! Now the safety of the eldest son is the most important thing!"
The ghost lady on the other side of Hu Yan seemed to hear that they wanted to die together, and started giggling.
Her laughter is like the voice of an opera singer on the stage laughing out loud, and the screams of ghost children around her make people feel like they are in purgatory!
Ruan Tao's eyes dimmed in an instant. He was clearly at the end of his rope, but he challenged the ghost lady on the other side of Huyan, "Sister, don't be too happy!"
As he spoke, he threw the fox-shaped talisman in his sleeve into the fox flame in front of him——
All of a sudden, trees and silver flowers, stars like rain.
The walking ghouls let out a terrified roar and retreated towards the ghost lady.
Ruan Tao's eyelashes trembled, sure enough!
After the fiery trees and silver flowers passed, a menacingly beautiful man appeared in front of Ruan Tao and the others.
Ruan Tao breathed a sigh of relief immediately, and Du Zimei smiled in surprise: "Senior Fox!"
Wang Mang looked at the person who suddenly appeared in front of him, and was even more surprised than when he watched Ruan Tao ignite the fire out of thin air.
"This, this is?" He tugged on Du Zimei's sleeve beside him and said.
Du Zimei introduced in a low voice: "This is the fox senior who subdued the snake demon and became attached to Brother Ruan Tao."
"Fox?" Wang Mang asked incredulously, "Is he really turned into a fox?"
Du Zimei nodded.
As if hearing Wang Mang's doubts, in order to prove his identity and just to demonstrate to the ghost lady in front of him, the red fox tail behind Hu Chang bloomed like petals.
eight? !
The ghost lady put the head in her arms back on her neck.
"It's this ghost that makes you helpless?" Hu Chang turned her head and looked at Ruan Tao who was casually looking behind her with a pair of beautiful eyes.
"Senior, please help!" Ruan Tao smiled helplessly.
"Hu Chang?"
The ghost lady said with some doubts.
Hearing this, several people including Hu Chang himself were stunned.
Ruan Tao and the three looked at each other, and Hu Chang waved his sleeves to disperse the fox fire in front of him, and carefully looked at the ghost lady in front of him.
Finally, he was a little surprised and said: "Zhou Youling? You haven't lost your soul yet?"
**
In the prefect's yamen, the usually deserted and quiet prison was rarely lively today.
The few Lang officials who were on duty outside watched the group of nobles who went in, and couldn't help complaining in a low voice:
"Why do these high-ranking officials stay up all day and run to our place?"
"That's right! Even if you want to come to inspect, why don't you come in broad daylight? Why are you going to the prison for nothing at this time?"
It even delayed their drinking. They were lucky to be on duty at night. On weekdays, the brothers could get together to play two cards and have a few cups of wine. The night passed, and they would go home to sleep as soon as the shift changed tomorrow. Dajue, but I don't think there is anything.
Today, for some reason, this group of nobles from central Beijing all came to their prison, which they couldn't even find in ordinary times, making them relax a little bit, and they couldn't even drink a glass of wine.
"Hey! You don't understand now, do you?" At this moment, one of the older officials said, "Do you know who was imprisoned here a while ago?"
"Who?"
"Great Luo Jinxian!" said the elder Lang Guan seriously.
"Where does this... come from?" The two young officials looked at each other in blank dismay.
"Hey!" The elder Lang Guan waved at the two of them, and the two young Lang Guan came over knowingly.
Just listening, the elder Lang Guan lowered his voice and said: "Do you remember what happened in Jingshui Temple a few months ago?"
"It's such a big fuss, so I naturally remember it!"
"You guys are young, you don't know the way, but the one who caused the accident, Ruan Guanyin, was locked up here a few days ago!" said the elder Lang Guan.
"Huh? What happened to the Avalokitesvara incident? How can the gods be imprisoned?" The two young officials were shocked.
Ruan Guanyin and the others have heard about this. They have heard that Xunliu Village in the west of the city is planning to invite his image to the township village this Hungry Ghost Festival. How can such a rare living god be imprisoned?
"Our Qin law is strict, and we are always gods in the sky. If you break the Qin law, you should be arrested." The elder Lang Guan shook his head, "But of course the gods can't be caught."
As he said that, he looked around for a while, and then said: "Just after dinner, Lao Zhao, who was on patrol, found that Guanyin disappeared without a sound!"
"It's gone?! This...then where did he go?"
The elder Lang Guan shook his head: "How do we know about the gods?"
"Our Qin prison is surrounded by three floors inside and three floors outside. Even though our brothers relax occasionally, there are still so many guards inside! How could he disappear without saying anything?" A small Lang officer asked.
"It's been said that they are gods, and it's hard for gods to control their affairs. If we can figure it out, we will all be gods!" I lit it and took two puffs.
The prison in Shangjun is fairly clean. Although there are no pickles like rats and insects, there will be more or less damp at night.
Zhao Gao led a group of people to stand on the aisle of the prison, and the empty and quiet prison suddenly became crowded.
"Ruan Tao was originally detained in this cell." Langguan Lao Zhao held a torch in his hand and a key on his waist, and stood with his head bowed at the door of Ruan Tao's cell.
The flame on the torch swayed with Lao Zhao's slightly trembling hands, and Lao Zhao wanted to cry but had no tears in his heart. It was so easy for him to rely on his father's military achievements accumulated in previous battles to fill this door.
Originally, he didn't expect to be a butcher for an official and become rich and powerful. He just wanted to have a job and live comfortably for the rest of his life. Who would have expected such a big event to happen today, involving several big shots from central Beijing.
I don't know if he can go to eat a bowl of wontons outside the Yamen tomorrow morning.
"Your lords have seen that this Ruan Tao was originally locked in this prison, but now he is nowhere to be seen. It must be a sorcery!" Zhao Gao said, his voice became a little harsh because of the height, like a piercing ear. The torn rice paper is hurting people's ears.
Looking at the empty cell, Zhao Gao's teeth itch with hatred.
Now that the eldest son's whereabouts are still unknown, if His Majesty asks for a crime, he can only take Ruan Jizhen out. When the eldest son disappeared, he was alone by his side. This is a relationship that cannot be lost no matter what.
It's just that a living person is not as convenient as a dead person to talk to. He originally planned to let this person die quietly in prison today, and then he will be charged with "suicide in fear of crime". The eldest son's matter is at most a crime of negligence. .
Even if His Majesty wanted to blame him, it would be nothing more than a few slaps and a few downgrades. Ruan Tao, a dead man, was responsible for major matters, and the rest were trivial matters.
Unexpectedly, the little eunuch who was sent out to handle errands came back and said that Ruan Jizhen was gone!
A well-endowed living person just disappeared out of thin air!Is this kid really good at witchcraft?
Zhao Gao's eyes darkened, if so, he would have to die even more!
"Might Eunuch Zhao have been having nightmares recently?" Kong Ming smiled, "When did Eunuch Zhao catch Ruan Tao? Ruan Tao went to the Western Regions with his father's students the day before yesterday, doesn't Eunuch Zhao know?"
Hearing this, everyone was stunned.
Zhao Gao was stunned for a moment, then sneered, "Master Zhuge is telling a joke?"
Kong Ming curled his mouth faintly. At this time, he was wearing a lotus-colored robe, which was unmatched in the world. He only heard him say slowly: "Master Zhao is really confused. When did Ruan Tao be imprisoned in the prison of the prefect's yamen?" prisoner?"
As he spoke, he took out a few letters from his bosom, and said, "Ruan Tao and his father's student, Mr. Wen, traveled to the Western Regions with the caravan sent by Zigong the day before yesterday, and now we have arrived in Suiye."
"After learning that his cousin came to visit him in Shangjun, he also sent a letter to apologize to Sizong, saying that he is now in the Western Regions, and he will not be able to return to Shangjun for a while, so that Sizong and Shu Ye must still win the championship. Stay a little longer and wait for him to come back and reunite."
Zhao Gao looked at the letter in his hand, what was written in the letter was indeed as Kong Ming said, but whether it was Ruan Jizhen's handwriting would have to be discussed separately, and he had never seen Ruan Jizhen's handwriting.
Zhao Gao laughed: "Master Zhuge, you are using Zhao and you adults as three-year-old babies? Ruan Jizhen is closely related to the disappearance of the eldest son, and our family personally escorted him! Now that she escaped through magic, Zhuge Not only are adults in no hurry to arrest the suspect, but they protect him in every possible way."
As he said that, Zhao Gao's face turned cold: "My lord, is it possible that you know something about Mr. Chang's disappearance, so you can protect the suspect in every possible way?"
Faced with Zhao Gao's pressing step by step, Kong Ming just smiled faintly: "Master Zhao misunderstood, the eldest son is missing, Liang feels as anxious as boiling oil every day, but Eunuch Zhao is really chaotic because of concern. Hysteria."
As he spoke, he raised his voice slightly: "Lord Wu."
"Here!" The Wu Taishou behind him responded.
I saw Prefect Wu walking forward, dragging a dossier in his hand.
Kong Ming raised his chin at him, and said, "Show Eunuch Zhao, when did Ruan Tao ever exist in this prison."
Zhao Gao was taken aback, reached out and took the dossier in Wu Taishou's hand, and flipped through it.
"Ruan Tao was indeed imprisoned, but that happened a few months ago." Prefect Wu said calmly, "And that incident was just a misunderstanding, because I think this kid was accused of going to the yamen many times when he first came to Shangjun. , It was too sharp to write, so I deliberately wanted to teach him a lesson and make him calm down, but he was bailed out after half a day."
"Ruan Tao has no record of going in and out of the prefect's yamen in the past few days, Eunuch Zhao may have made a mistake." After saying that, the prefect Wu retreated again, his eyelids never trembling from the beginning to the end.
But the torch in Lao Zhao's hand, who was standing by the prison door, trembled more and more, as the saying goes, gods fight and mortals suffer.
With the atmosphere in front of him, with him being a small person here, he might be silenced just because he heard some unheard words and went out.
Old Zhao raised his head and wanted to cry, but there were still half an hour before the shift shift. Can we change shift today?It's unlikely that he will stand on guard all night tonight, right?Mother!
"Ha! Hahahaha..." Zhao Gao flipped through two pages, then threw the dossier on the ground indifferently.
He smiled, but his eyes were bloodthirsty, and his bright red mouth curved sinisterly. He looked straight at Kong Ming and said, "Master Zhuge can enjoy this sage in the world at such a young age, it really is a well-deserved reputation."
Ruan Tao was not convicted, and when Ruan Tao was to be imprisoned, the group of boys, including Wang Xiang, disagreed, saying that there was no sufficient evidence.
In the end, both of them took a step back, and temporarily locked Ruan Tao in the prison, and the follow-up will be determined after the eldest son is found.
As a result, the procedures for Ruan Tao's imprisonment were naturally not complete, and the procedures were complete, so his name was naturally not on the file.
Now, they want to say to death that Ruan Tao followed his father's students to the Western Regions, so the red mouth and white teeth can only be said by them.
Zhao Gao stared straight at Kong Ming in front of him, seeing that these boys were determined to protect Ruan Jizhen.
He didn't understand, who wrote those rumors in Beijing, they all knew it in their hearts.
Ruan Jizhen is just a little-known sorcerer. Although she is definitely a descendant of the Ruan family's direct lineage at most, she is born of her parents Ye He, so she cannot be seen in the public eye.
Kong Ming and the others protected this kid so much, and it was only at the behest of the eldest son to rule out personal friendship.
In this way, what does their eldest son want?Really spoiled by His Majesty.The smile on the corner of Zhao Gao's mouth collapsed slightly.
Just when Zigong and the others breathed a sigh of relief, they saw the man in the veiled hat who was standing among the disciples in Zhuoling Pavilion and stepped forward.
Ruan Ji raised his eyebrows. He had noticed this person since just now, and he didn't know if he was pretending to be mysterious or why he didn't show his face.
He looked up at Zhao Gao, keenly caught the slightly raised corners of Zhao Gao's lips, Ruan Ji frowned slightly, and looked at the people around him.
Ji Kang listened to him, and said in a low voice: "I noticed this man just now, when I came in, I deliberately lagged behind by two steps."
"What's different about this man?" Ruan Ji asked in a low voice.
"Scent." Ji Kang said.
"fragrant?"
"The scent I've never smelled before, it doesn't look like something from the Great Qin Dynasty, and it doesn't look like the scent from the Western Regions." Ji Kang said, "It smells cold and sweaty."
"There are a lot of strange people in Zhuoling Pavilion, so I don't know what this is." Ruan Ji smiled lightly, and the corners of his mouth curled up.
The light in the prison was dim, and I saw the man wearing a light gauze veil like a ghost, directly passed through the solid wooden prison pillars, and stood lightly in the prison.
"I—" Old Zhao, the guard holding the torch at the door, almost screamed out, and then swallowed the words desperately in his throat.
Be good!It is said that Zhuo Ling Pavilion is a place where immortals gather, and today he, Lao Zhao, has seen the world.
This person can actually pass through walls? !
Seeing this, Zigong and the others were also surprised, and their hearts couldn't help but hang up again, wondering what kind of tricks this old Zhao Gao was playing again.
I saw the man with a light gauze, raised his foot and lightly kicked the dry and soft straw pile in the prison, and then stretched out a pale and slender hand from the veiled cap.
A drop of blood dripped from his fingertip, and the moment the blood dripped on the ground, a ray of golden light suddenly appeared.
Seeing this, everyone couldn't help but gasp.
Zi Gong gently tugged at Kong Ming's sleeve, and Kong Ming patted his hand to signal him to stay calm.
He looked at Zhao Gao seriously, Zhao Gao looked at the people in the prison, the smile on the corner of his mouth became more and more smug, a group of little bastards fighting with him?Still young!
After the golden light passed, I saw a few words outlined in a piece of ashes on the ground - "Girl's Tomb in the East of the City".
Everyone couldn't see anything outside the prison, and the person in the prison raised his hand slightly and pointed at the lock, only to hear a click, and the lock fell down amidst everyone's surprised eyes.
Zi Gong looked at Kong Ming in disbelief: "Who is this man?"
As far as he knew, most of the people in Zhuo Ling Pavilion were mediocre people, and there were also a lot of swindlers mixed in, otherwise His Majesty would not have been so angry and ordered to kill more than half of them.
Even though under Wang Xiang's rectification, there are no more swindlers in Zhuo Ling Pavilion, but it's really hard to say how capable they are, otherwise His Majesty's Longevity Pill has not been refined for so many years.
This was Zigong's impression of Zhuo Lingge, he never imagined that there would be such a person who could point and break locks.He also wore a hood to cover his face.
Kong Ming didn't have much expression on his face, he still just smiled faintly: "Eunuch Zhao is indeed a man who has been around His Majesty for many years, and such a genius can be won over."
"Come in." The prisoner said, it was a young man's voice as clear as a mountain stream.
Zigong was a little surprised, it sounded like he was only in his twenties, could someone with such ability be so young?
Who is this person?
Zhao Gao walked to the door, opened the cell door and said, "My lords, please."
Everyone entered the prison one after another, and they all saw the writing on the ground clearly.
Li Taibai and the others looked at each other, everyone in Zhuoling Pavilion began to whisper, and the jailer standing at the door of the prison with a torch was shaking so much that his legs were almost unsteady.
Zhao Gao looked at the writing on the ground and asked, "Is that monster here?"
"Yes." said the boy in the veiled hat.
"My lord, what is the origin of this monster?" A Zhuo Ling Pavilion man with a long beard asked, "Why didn't I understand it?"
Afterwards, the young man bent down and picked up a small tuft of red hair from the ground, and said slowly, "The fox in the mountains."
Everyone was shocked!
Zhao Gao waved his sleeves and said, "Go to the east of the city immediately and arrest this monster!!"
The moon is sparse, and a silver belt passes through the night sky. Under the moonlight, the whole mountain looks exquisite and lovely. No one would have guessed that there is a ghost hidden here.
Fortunately, the ghost lady and Hu Chang once knew each other, and even though Hu Chang had been abandoned for nearly 100 years, her cultivation level increased greatly after swallowing Liu Zhaoneidan. It is natural for the ghost lady to fight against mountain elves like Hu Chang To fall into the wind.
Besides, there are many beautiful men in the world, so there is no need to fight Hu Chang, a fox who has been cultivated for thousands of years, for a captive man whom he has never met before.
Therefore, in the end she sold Hu Chang a favor and released Ruan Tao and his party.
Before leaving, she said something very inexplicable to Ruan Tao: "Little Lang, how is your waist?"
After all, she didn't say anything when Ruan Tao asked her what she meant, she just smiled blindly, and the ghosts in the whole temple turned into green smoke and dispersed.
At this time, Ruan Tao and his party had already reached the foot of the mountain, and walked back along the way they came, in a hurry.
In his arms is Fusu, the young master who has turned into a fox. If they can't get to the city within an hour and can't rent a car, they probably have to carry the eldest son who is more than eight feet long back to the Zhao residence.
The little fox in his arms was sleeping soundly, kicking Ruan Tao's front with his paws from time to time, Ruan Tao was afraid that when the time came, the fox would suddenly change back to his slender and straight appearance and crush him immobilized.
He thought of what the ghost lady said when she left, and he was confused and confused.
"She has lived for too many years. There are not many goblins and ghosts who can speak for so many years. The only ones who can talk to her are the group of walking corpses who can only roar. So it's not surprising that she talks upside down. Don't take it to heart. Seeing that Ruan Tao was pondering Zhou Youling's words all the way, Chang Hu explained.
"Then is the story about the Western Region monk she said true?" Wang Mang was a little curious. What happened tonight, the ghost lady just now and the demon fox in front of him, all shattered his previous worldview.
He knows that there are such strange things in this world, but he has never dealt with evil spirits and ghosts face-to-face for so many years. He never thought that he would encounter such exciting things within a few days after he came to Shangjun.
Thinking of this, Wang Mang couldn't help turning his head to look at Ruan Tao, with a slight smile on his lips.
The moon is full and the fireflies are faint.
Wang Mang raised his eyebrows, it seems that he came to Shangjun this time at the right time.
Hu Chang gave him a slanted glance, obviously not wanting to talk to him very much, and said in a rather cold tone, "It is said that Prime Minister Wang and Liu Zhao are on good terms, why? Prime Minister Wang doesn't know about the matter in Shangjun?"
The night wind blew over the temples of several people, and the atmosphere suddenly became a little awkward.
It has been rumored that "Monk Jingchen" is favored by Wang Xiang, and Jingshui Temple has always used this as a signboard, and many pilgrims come to Jingshui Temple to offer incense in Wang Mang's name.
But later Ruan Tao asked Wang Mang when it was time, and Wang Mang explained that friendship was not counted. He had never been to Shangjun before. Zhao passed several letters.
He once had a friend who came to Shangjun on errands, or someone who was passing through Shangjun, so he asked him to help him visit Liu Zhao several times. It was all just his curiosity. demon.
But Chang Hu hated Liu Zhao to the bone!Therefore, he has no good looks towards anyone related to Liu Zhao.
Although their surname "Hu" doesn't hold grudges against the "Huang" family next door, they are not considered big-hearted people.
Just now he wanted to give Wang Mang directly to the ghost lady, everything related to Liu Zhao disappeared in this world as well.
In the end, Ruan Tao let him go because of the face of this baby, so what kind of face do you expect from him now?
If it was someone else, although they might not be annoyed by such a cold reception, they would definitely be stunned for a while, but Wang Mang didn't seem to care.
He just smiled and said: "I am an ordinary person, how can what I see and hear compare with the fairy family?"
Hu Chang snorted coldly, glanced at Ruan Tao beside him, and finally said in Ruan Tao's face: "That monk... I can't explain clearly, I was imprisoned by Liu Zhao in the Guanyin statue for nearly a hundred years, Zhou Youling This incident was only heard from the juniors in the mountains after it came out recently."
"How?" Ruan Tao asked.
Hu Chang said slowly: "Just now you also saw that Zhou Youling is the fierce ghost of Hong Sha and mother and son Sha, and this is the greatest of all evils. Although her morality is far inferior to mine, if I hadn't swallowed Liu Zhao's insides Dan, absolutely can't compete with it, this is the power of Li Gui."
"The more powerful the ghost, the heavier the resentment. When the ghost is alive, it is a person whose life cannot be more miserable." Hu Chang's voice echoed faintly in the wilderness, saying pity words on his mouth, but his tone was very indifferent .
"Look at her, she got married with a big belly, and died on the same day. The child in her belly was obviously enough to live for a month, but she was suffocated to death in her belly, and she couldn't do anything."
Ruan Tao's eyes darkened. His master once said that everything in the world has its own destiny, and ghosts are clearly a great evil in the world, but no one can control them. The way of heaven allows them to wantonly kill people's lives. Why? ?
He didn't understand at the time, obviously wandering souls would be detained by the errands, why did the errants leave the ghosts alone?
His master said: "The way of heaven pays attention to the reincarnation of cause and effect, and ghosts often live a bleak life before they are alive, and what's more, they don't live a life that can be regarded as a human being at all, so they have a lot of resentment, which cannot be vented when they are alive, and they always have resentment when they die. Resentment, revenge, revenge, and the result of revenge, just in line with cause and effect, can go to reincarnation."
"Some ghosts will chase their enemies and claim their lives for several generations, but the resentment will eventually dissipate."
That ghost lady has stayed in the world for hundreds of years, even if there is a conflict between the red sha and the mother-child sha, I don't know what she has experienced during her lifetime.
"The reason why Zhou Youling stayed in the world for so many years and her grievances persisted is not due to unrevenged vengeance. In fact, the group of people who harmed her in the past have been gnawed to death by her long ago." Hu Chang said, "But She still has no intention of reincarnation."
"Why?" Du Zimei asked puzzled, "The so-called grievance has its head and its debtor. Since she has avenged her revenge, her resentment should naturally disappear, so why doesn't her resentment disappear?"
Hu Chang glanced at him indifferently, his attitude towards Du Zimei was much better than towards Wang Mang.
"Ghosts stay in the world because of resentment. In fact, it is more accurate to say that they stay in the world because of some strong obsession. Resentment is a kind of obsession. Most of the obsessions of ghosts are hatred towards strangers. , so it is often said that ghosts cannot reincarnate because of resentment. But Zhou Youling's obsession is not just resentment."
"It's not resentment?" Du Zimei rubbed her chin and thought, "I look at her, she should be about the same age as me and Ji Zhen when she died. In [-], it was the time when the girl was as beautiful as a flower. What persistence could she have at this time?" read?"
Hu Chang sneered: "Young man, you are still young, and you have such a good appearance, such a good birth, and such a rare talent, so you don't understand that there are many unsatisfactory things in life!"
"At such a young age, she died tragically with her child on the day she got married..." Ruan Taochang sighed, she was only a child herself.
"So, this ghost lady died when she was married, so why did she have a full-term child in her womb?" Wang Mang said sharply, "How can a girl marry with a full-term body?"
"This is Zhou Youling's obsession." Hu Chang didn't even want to look at Wang Mang, rolled her eyes and said, "Why did she get pregnant, why did she get married when the child was about to be full-term, and why did she die on the day of her wedding? Only she knows it. But her obsession, besides the hatred for the stranger who killed her back then, is her two children who have never seen the sky."
"Two children?!"
Ruan Tao's voice couldn't help raising his voice, the little fox in his arms trembled in shock, he quickly patted it to comfort him, he didn't expect to carry the eldest son who was more than eight feet back when he carried it.
The little fox in his arms stopped moving, and he lowered his voice: "But, there is clearly only one ghost baby we saw just now!"
Hu Chang's eyes stopped for a second on Fusu who was in Ruan Tao's arms, and then said: "There are two, a pair of twins."
"Basically speaking, the baby spirit will not leave its mother." Ruan Tao wondered, "especially after the mother also turned into a ghost."
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