Floating like a dream · Chasing the heart

The Taoist said that he didn't need to use foreign objects to cast spells, but he was very smart. Zhanying stared at the long sword that was carried behind Lu Xuechen's back, and said angrily: "What kind of Taoist priest are you? Walk the rivers and lakes with a sword, keep the sword, and once it comes out, sweep the streets full of little daughters-in-law and big girls, not leaving a blade of grass!"

"My sword is used to slay demons and eliminate evil spirits, and I won't attack good people." Daoist Lu didn't understand Mr. Ying's dirty words.

"Okay, okay! You have noble sentiments, and you are awesome!" Zhanying curled his lips, who was picking fat and thin in his house in the afternoon, without rolling his eyes?Now it was time to pick up Joe again.

The bodhisattva in the flesh knows that he has given up his body to cross people, and the stinky Taoist priest is so serious that he can't even change his face when he is struck by thunder!

Zhan Ying was bored, and stopped talking along the way, but glanced to his side from time to time.

Not to mention, if you don't look at the unshakable cold expression, don't think about the unique hobbies that are superior to others, this Taoist priest is really good.He Zhanying feels that he is also a dragon and phoenix among people, and there are probably few in the whole capital who can catch up, but this one is the kind that will glow by itself when thrown into a cesspit, especially his eyes, maybe because he has dragon energy on his body Relationship, it looks brighter and brighter at night, and the stars in the sky are less than half a point.The curled eyelashes fluttered slightly by the wind, which made people feel itchy in the heart, and wanted to hold those glowing eyeballs in the palm of their hands and take care of them carefully.

The nose tube is also straight, just like a human being, it has a rigidity that can't be bent, which makes the red lips underneath moist and moist, and the more you look at it, the more you can't move your eyes.

"Stop!" Lu Xuechen suddenly said.

Zhan Yingzheng was fascinated by the sight, and was taken aback suddenly. He thought he was noticed by the other party because he didn't control his eyes, and became angry from embarrassment.Following the Taoist priest's line of sight, he found an old man burning paper money by the side of the road.

It is estimated that someone in this family just died, and he ran out in the middle of the night to pay homage to the dead.But it’s not right, if it’s clear that you can burn paper in front of the grave to pay homage to the dead, why did you run to this deserted road where you can’t see the front and back?

The Taoist priest had already stepped up and softly asked the old man who buried his head in throwing paper money into the fire, "Old man, may I ask who died in the family?"

The old man raised his head, his wrinkled and withered old face in the firelight, looked at the two of them, then lowered his head and continued to burn the paper money. "The little old man is just a rough messenger to light the fire in the restaurant, so he doesn't have any family."

It turned out that the old man was the pyrotechnician of the Wangchun Building in the city. Although Zhanying had never been in the Wangchun Building, he had heard of it after walking around the streets for many years, and some of the more beautiful ones in it could be called names.

He was the only one in the old man's house, and he had worked in Wangchun Building for more than ten years. He was taken care of by a kind young lady in the restaurant, but just yesterday, the young lady went out and never went back.The old man searched the city for a whole day but couldn't find anyone, and then thought of the recent cases of missing persons and murders in the city, he was panicked, so he secretly ran to the suburbs to burn a piece of paper for peace of mind.

"That child's life is miserable. He was sold to a restaurant when he was ten years old. It's rare that the child doesn't dislike the little old man's filth. Good boy... who knows..."

Zhanying said: "It's only one day, and it may not necessarily be an accident." Jing Zhaoyin's time limit for accepting disappearance cases is [-] days, and he doesn't see anyone for a day. Maybe something happened and he stayed out overnight. Or get lost.

The old man sighed sadly, "The little old man is also guessing. Recently, there have been rumors in the city that there is a madness. Young men are often missing and killed. It is said that ghosts have caused the trouble, and the child is handsome, so there is no guarantee that he will not bump into something when he walks at night. ·····Before he left, the child told me that he would be back in less than three or five hours, and asked me to keep an eye on him, so as not to be discovered by the bustard, and to bring me medicine when he came back. He promised the little old man that he would never If you break your promise, how can you not return for no reason?"

"Would you elope with someone then?" Zhan Ying asked.

Lu Xuechen gave him a cool look.

Zhan Ying turned a blind eye to this fact. This fact is very common in the world. Every lady has eloped with a poor scholar, not to mention the "hardworking people" who are forced to greet and send to the brothel every day?But there was a sweet talker who said two touching words of love, and the one who packed up and left without thinking.

Taoist priests are high above the ground and don't know the sufferings of the world, so he doesn't argue with him.

The old man's hunched body slowly stood up, sighed and shook his head, "The little old man knows better than anyone else what kind of temperament that child is. I haven't had anyone close to me in these years, so how could he suddenly elope with someone? Besides, his contract of prostitution is still tight." In the hands of the old bustard, he has to hide wherever he goes, he is weak and can't do such things at all." Then he lowered his voice, wiped his tears and said, "It's all my fault that this old bone dragged him down. ······In order to treat me, such a timid child would secretly go out to pick up private work, if he does not go out, he will not disappear without reason, and now his life and death are unknown······The little old man is looking forward to it It would be better if he really eloped with someone..."

Zhan Ying's heart was moved when he heard it, and he quickly asked, "Are you talking about the top card in your restaurant, Liu Ye?"

As expected, the old man's eyes widened. "Master, do you know Xiao Yezi?" He said, grabbing Zhanying's sleeve excitedly, "Master, met Xiao Yezi? When? Where? Is he still alive?"

Zhan Ying pulled back his sleeves, scratched his head, and secretly glanced at the Taoist priest next to him, thinking, if he was looking straight at Xiao Yezi last night when Xiao Yezi was doing private work next door to the Taoist priest, would he die? Involuntarily evoked the Taoist priest's memory, and then forced him to ask what his intentions were?

However, thinking about it this way, the person who was busy with private work last night did not show any signs of elopement. Could it be that the black-faced man was too fierce and kept the child from getting out of bed?

"Master?" Seeing that Zhan Ying was in a daze, the old man called again impatiently.

"Ah, oh, I remembered." Zhanying pretended to slap his forehead, "I did seem to see him yesterday, but I'm not sure if he's still there..." He looked at it while talking Taoist, deliberating whether to tell the truth.

The Taoist priest would have misunderstood it, thinking that he was talking nonsense to appease the old man, implying that he helped to collude the confession.Lu Xuechen couldn't tell a lie by nature, seeing Zhanying squeaking and glaring at him, he asked the old man if he knew Liu Ye's date of birth.

The old man was suspicious at first, and he couldn't help being surprised when he saw the Taoist priest's elegant and refined attire, "Are you a Taoist priest?" Thinking that some good people can calculate good or bad luck based on the horoscope of a person's birthday, as if they had caught a life-saving straw, he hurriedly pulled the willow leaves The horoscope of his birthday was reported.

Lu Xuechen counted with his fingers, his face darkened.

Zhan Ying didn't even need to ask, he could tell by his expression that the result was not good.Lu Xuechen asked the old man again, "I don't know why the old man chose to burn paper here?"

The old man was anxious about the result, so he blurted out his answer: "The little old man also heard the rumors in the city, saying that the recent disappearance case was caused by ghosts in the cemetery here, so he came here half-believing." He asked again: "How is it? Did the Taoist priest figure it out? Is Xiao Yezi still alive and not eaten by ghosts?"

Lu Xuechen didn't answer, just glanced in the direction of the old man's finger, turned his head and said to the old man: "In the wilderness, it's unsafe late at night, the old man should go back as soon as possible."

The old man has been rolling in Fengyuechang for so many years, and he is considered a good person who can read people's eyes. The Taoist's words have come to this point, and the result is clear, and two lines of clear tears flowed out of the cloudy old eyes.After reading aloud on the spot, watching the paper money burnt out, he staggered away.

Seeing the old man walking away, Zhan Ying leaned over to Lu Xuechen and asked in a low voice, "Is he really dead?"

Lu Xuechen nodded, looking at the deserted cemetery in the distance, wondering what he was thinking.

To say that the willow leaves are unlucky enough, they were sold to a restaurant at a young age and were humiliated by thousands of people, so they kindly went out to pick up a private job to help the widowed old man get medicine and cure diseases, but encountered an accident halfway, and got married My little life, it must have suffered some evil in the previous life to end up in such a miserable end in this life.After such a comparison, Zhanying suddenly felt that he had been soaked in a honeypot all these years.

"Go and have a look." Lu Xuechen raised his foot and walked towards the barren cemetery.

Zhanying knew a little about that cemetery. They were buried with the corpses of unowned soldiers brought back from the battlefield in the early years. They only built a grave and erected a monument. There was no name on the monument, so naturally no one sacrificed it. Bye, many years have passed, and the untended cemetery has become a mass grave.

In broad daylight, it looks gloomy and desolate from a distance. If there is nothing to do, who will lean there?Passing through here in and out of the city must be far away, so as not to be contaminated with bad luck.

Zhanying would pass by here occasionally, but mostly during the day, and before nightfall, he would be locked up at home by his master and his old man's gate, and he was not allowed to go out, so he didn't pay much attention to anything unusual here.

Seeing that Lu Xuechen was about to investigate, he raised his head and asked, "Do you suspect Sha?"

Lu Xuechen pursed his lips, "Not necessarily, maybe it's Sha, maybe it's not, you'll have to see it to find out."

The so-called evil refers to the evil spirits and fierce ghosts. Some of them are too angry, and they will continue to take revenge on those who harmed them during their lifetime, and what's more, they will kill innocent people everywhere. the meaning of.Some indiscriminately suck human energy to fill their own resentment.

Zhan Ying knew another possibility that Lu Xuechen didn't mention, the demon.

Monsters are transformed by the cultivation of living creatures, some rely on their own intensive cultivation, and those who have the opportunity to be enlightened can even be ranked among the immortals.There are also those who follow the ways of evil spirits and improve their cultivation by absorbing the energy and soul of living people. Most of these people fall into the way of demons in the end.

Judging from the two corpses he had seen before, the above two possibilities could not be ruled out.The Taoist probably figured out something, so he said it was not certain.

Zhanying followed behind and Xu Xu said: "As far as I'm concerned, you don't even need to look at it. The willow leaves were clearly picking up guests at the Welcome Inn. How could they come to the wilderness outside the city for no reason afterwards? What if something in the cemetery caused trouble?" Most of them are killing people like you and me who are wandering outside in the middle of the night without anything to do. The city is very popular. If it weren't for the very ferocious ghosts, they wouldn't easily run into the city to make trouble. The cemetery does look a little ghostly to me, but at most it is Walking corpses or mediocre ghosts."

Lu Xuechen was as careful as a hair, and instantly grasped the key point in his words, "How do you know that he was picking up guests at the inn last night?"