White Bone Monkey King

Speaking of this, we have to mention three more people.

Li Yan did not know the true identities of these three people. He only knew that these three people were like him, working in the spice shop. They took advantage of the convenience of entering and exiting the spice shop and transporting spices to help people smuggle things that could not be seen in the light.

The difference was that these three people had more experience than him, so they were exposed to more secrets than him.

At the time of Yin that day, as usual, after purchasing the Nanyang spices needed by the store, he did not return to Penglai Inn immediately, but parked the carriage at the designated location according to the instructions.

It was a very deep alley, just enough for only one carriage to pass at a time, and there was no room to turn around. It was dark all around. Except for the high brick walls on both sides and the occasional coughs that came and went, it was so quiet that you could only hear your nervous heartbeat.

There is only one disease in this world that is incurable, and that is poverty.

Li Yan was so poor at the bottom of society that he finally got a chance to make a fortune. Even though he would be so scared that his heartbeat accelerated and his palms sweated every time he came to this place to receive the goods, he would still follow the instructions and drive a carriage to receive the goods.

That day, he parked the carriage as usual, got off the carriage, and dared not even light a torch. He went deep into the alley in the dark and waited for a cup of tea. He heard a few night owls and returned the same way after receiving the instructions.

The night owl's cry was their contact signal, which meant that the goods had been loaded and could be taken on the road.

If he followed the previous process, he could only come alone when he came and leave alone. The delivery location and the reward were left directly on the car by the owner, and the two parties did not meet.

But the situation was different that night.

Before he got close, he saw two blurry figures sitting in the carriage in the scattered moonlight shining in the alley, looming like ghosts.

Li Yan was immediately frightened and felt that his heartbeat was about to stop and his scalp was cold.

After calming down for a while, he gritted his teeth and went forward to check the situation carefully.

He knew very well that if he abandoned the carriage and ran away alone, not only would the powerful cargo owner not let him go, but Li Dajin would not let him go after returning to Penglai Inn.

So no matter how nervous and scared he was, he had to go there.

Seeing Li Yan, the figure sitting in the carriage seemed to have been impatient for a long time, and said in an irritable tone: "What's the matter? Why did you make us wait so long? Get on the road early and don't miss our delivery time."

Hearing the other party's impatient voice, Li Yan was not angry, but instead breathed a sigh of relief and showed a happy face. As long as they were alive, everything would be easy to deal with.

Although he was curious about why there were two more people escorting the carriage today, Li Yan didn't ask too much. Adhering to the cautious principle of "not looking too much and not asking too much", he got on the car silently and prepared to drive away.

There were too many strange things today. In the past, copper coins were pressed on the notes with the delivery location written on them. Today, there were only two hundred coins on the carriage, and no notes were left.

The taller of the two people escorting the car said coldly: "Today's delivery is not easy to go, so we will lead the way."

There are two people escorting the car here, not three.

Because there is another person in the car.

But Li Yan only found out about this later.

Li Yan only knows how to get things done for money, and does not ask about other details. He took the money and drove away.

It is strange to say that the carriage started with some difficulty. The cargo loaded today is particularly heavy. The colt pulling the carriage did not pull it even a few times at the beginning.

Li Yan whipped the horse whip harder and frowned unhappily, saying: "Why is the cargo so heavy this time?"

"I have to pay more for this order."

"I have to feed the horse more hay when I go back, so that my boss won't find out."

The other party was very generous and threw Li Yan a hundred dollars directly, and was too lazy to bargain, as if in their eyes, anything that could be solved with money was a small matter.

Li Yan was blinded by money. It was the first time that he could earn three hundred dollars in one trip. One hundred dollars is 1,200 copper coins, which is one or two taels of silver.

To earn three taels of silver in one night is unthinkable for ordinary people.

At this time, something even stranger happened. The carriage that was very heavy and motionless before was immediately pulled by the colt after Li Yan received the money.

Li Yan wondered if there was a stone blocking the wheel just now? He wanted to look back at the back of the carriage, but the alley was too narrow, just enough for a carriage to pass, and the environment was dark, so naturally he couldn't see anything.

He didn't take it too seriously, and his mind was on the heavy three taels of money in his arms.

Not long after the carriage left, Li Yan vaguely heard footsteps behind the carriage, as if someone was following them?

Because he was not alone transporting goods tonight, and there were two living people sitting beside him, Li Yan muttered that he usually didn't even see a stray dog ​​in this alley, why are there so many people in this alley tonight...

Because the alley was narrow, the left and right sides were blocked by high brick walls, Li Yan planned to lift the small curtain of the carriage to check who was following the carriage.

The carriage of the freight carriage has a small window at the driver's position, which is convenient for checking the cargo in the carriage to see if it has overturned or been damaged.

Although there is a curtain at the end of the carriage to block the dust on the road, there is a small gap between the curtains, and you can still see the situation behind the carriage if you look closely.

When Li Yan said this, his voice suddenly stopped, and his body trembled with fear, as if he recalled an extremely terrifying scene, his face was full of fear, and he looked lost.

Fatty Li had experience in dealing with this kind of situation. He just cracked a few big-eared melon seeds and pulled them down. People have the most fragile skin, and the burning pain coming from their cheeks, all the three souls and seven souls were immediately withdrawn.

Fatty Li was so merciless that Li Yan's cheek was swollen and black and blue.

But no one pitied Li Yan.

The current situation can only be said to be that this person deserves it.

Li Yan, who had withdrawn all his three souls and seven souls, began to continue speaking stumblingly...

Hearing footsteps following the car, just when Li Yan was about to lift the small curtain to check, a cold hand suddenly grabbed his raised wrist. The hand was colder than ice and he couldn't feel it at all. body temperature.

Li Yan was pinched in pain and wanted to pull his hand away, but he couldn't. Instead, the force on his wrist continued to increase.

The person who pinched his wrist was the taller one of the two escorting the car. The other person said in a hoarse and low voice: "Don't look back, don't go back, focus on your journey."

It looked like he was afraid of being heard by the people following the carriage.

Li Yan was startled by the other party's face. The other party's face was frighteningly pale at the moment, like a dead person who had just been fished out of the river. There was fear in his eyes, and he was actually more nervous and scared than him.

Seeing the two people escorting the car with the same nervous and fearful expressions, Li Yan was also frightened and shivered. He was infected by the other person's fearful expression and was scared to death. His mind was full of random thoughts along the way, even how to get to the destination. do not remember.

When he came back to his senses, the carriage had stopped. The two people escorting the carriage walked to the back of the carriage and screamed like night owls. A man jumped out of the carriage. Only then did Li Yan realize that there was another person in the carriage.

The opponent held the Five Emperors Copper Coin Sword in one hand and a small incense burner in the other. The small incense burner lit a stick of incense. Most of the incense had been burned, leaving only the last bit.

The third man's voice sounded like he was thirty years old, and he was the oldest among the three. Although the other man was not wearing a robe, the two magical weapons in his hand had revealed his identity.

Judging from the other party's voice, he was probably just like them. He was a young Taoist priest from some Taoist temple who secretly came out to make a fortune without telling the disciples.

The third person got off the carriage and scolded the two people escorting the carriage, asking them to hurry up and move the things on the carriage. The time was coming soon.

"We didn't expect that that kid was so greedy and cowardly than a dog. He was scared to death along the way and wasted our time." The two escorting the car explained in a low voice.

But the third person didn't listen to the explanation at all and scolded the two for their incompetence.

The two people escorting the car looked very afraid of the third person and did not dare to refute.

The confused Li Yan came back to his senses at this moment. When he heard the word "hour", he subconsciously looked at the incense burner and incense stick held by the third person.

Just from this glance, the third person immediately sensed it and turned back to look at the carriage.

The moment their eyes met, Li Yan felt as if he had been hit hard on the back of the head by a hammer, and his head exploded. He quickly lowered his head in fear, not daring to look around anymore.

After another scolding, the third person began to instruct the two escorting people to move the things out of the car.

Although it was dark and there were no lights around, with just a few moonlight, Li Yan could vaguely see that what was lifted out of the car was a sack.

The sack was about the height of a person, with both ends tied up with hemp ropes. It was very heavy to carry, and it seemed difficult for two people to lift it one at a time.

Li Yan later figured out that the sack that was as tall as a person should contain a dead person...

Li Yan did not see where the three of them ended up, because after the two escorts carried the goods, they let him leave alone and did not take his carriage back.

He experienced too much that day. After Li Yan returned to Penglai Inn, he fell seriously ill that day. In his sleep, he dreamed more than once of being chased by footsteps in a dark alley...

When Li Dajin heard this, he became very angry. He stepped forward and kicked Li Yan several times angrily, scolding Li Yan for being a wolf. He was kind enough to give Li Yan two days off that day so that Li Yan could have a good rest. As a result, Li Yan was To repay him like this, he did so many dirty things behind his back.

Li Yan was beaten and scolded so much that he did not dare to fight back, so he cried and huddled in the corner.

If he hadn't been stopped by Fatty Li, Li Yan would have been beaten half to death by Li Dajin.

After calming down Li Yan's emotions, Jin An asked Li Yan to continue talking. It must not be that simple to scare a person who is afraid of poverty but not death.

really.

Bigger trouble is yet to come.

After that incident, Li Yan fell seriously ill and did not go to purchase Nanyang spices for several days. Li Dajin made temporary arrangements for others.

Later, Li Yan recovered and continued to purchase Nanyang spices. The mysterious owner seemed to have disappeared overnight and could not be found for a month.

After a month of recovery, Li Yan had long forgotten all the previous nightmares. He just wanted to continue taking jobs, helping people transport goods, save enough money to return to his hometown as soon as possible, and then buy a restaurant and become the shopkeeper himself, which can be regarded as a glorious return to his hometown. , Guangzong Yaozu.

About a month and a half later, the other party contacted Li Yan again. However, for two or three months in a row, he helped smuggle some spices and resold them at both ends. He could only earn a pound of money per trip. He only made enough by shipping goods two or three times a month. Three ounces of money.

Earning two or three tons of money a month is already a huge fortune for other ordinary people, and they have so much money that they don't know how to spend it.

But for Li Yan, who is used to making windfalls, especially after earning three ounces of money in one trip, how can he be satisfied with earning only one ounce of money in one trip.

His appetite was so greedy that he could no longer satisfy his appetite for just a handful of money per trip.

The turning point came one night.

That night, he helped the other party smuggle goods again. When he saw the two people who escorted the car last time, Li Yan was delighted.

Sure enough, it lived up to Li Yan's expectations. This time the other party was still very generous, giving Li Yan three shillings at a time. The other party still had the same impatient tone and asked Li Yan to just deliver the goods to the destination honestly like last time.

There was an episode during which the two people escorting the car seemed to have a disagreement. They avoided Li Yan and argued quietly for a while. The tall man looked down on the timid Li Yan...

In the end, a consensus was reached and Li Yan was retained.

Strange things happened frequently on this trip, and bursts of crying came from the carriage. The crying was so chilling that it was terrifying, as if there was a person lying on the back, and the person was crying in the ear, and his body was cold and cold.

Li Yan was startled and wanted to turn his head to look at his back, but two people in the escort car held down his arms at the same time. Both of them looked extremely ugly and shook their heads at him stiffly. Their mouths were closed tightly and they did not dare to express themselves. Take a breath.

Seeing the two people's stiff movements, Li Yan in the dark alley could not help but think of the paper-pricked man he had seen when passing by the Fu Shou store during the day.

This trip was the same as last time. After arriving at the destination, a third person got out of the carriage, holding the same Five Emperors copper coin sword and incense burner, with a stick of incense burning in the burner.

The third person looked up at the night, then looked down at the burning speed of the incense in the incense burner, and nodded slightly, as if he was satisfied with this trip.

Seeing the third person nodding with satisfaction, the tall man escorting the car took out another sling of money and gave it to Li Yan as an extra reward. Li Yan's eyes widened when he saw the money and he was ecstatic.

The goods transported this time were still sacks as tall as one person. The two people escorting the truck carried them one by one and followed the third person and disappeared into the night, leaving Li Yan to go back first.

…

Because of his satisfaction with this trip, Li Yan received more and more big jobs, which increased to four or five times a month. Sometimes he was helping to transport a man-made sack, and he was paid three ounces per trip;

Occasionally, if you help transport two sacks as tall as a man, the reward can increase to six ounces.

Strange things happened every time they went there. The strangest one was when thick fog rose around them. They kept circling in the alley and couldn't get out.

Finally, the third person who had been practicing in the carriage was alarmed.

The man cut his fingertips with the Five Emperors Copper Coin Sword, drew two yellow talismans with the blood on his fingertips, tore off pieces of clothing, stuffed the yellow talismans into the pieces of clothing, and then tied the horse's eyes before they walked out. .

After returning that time, Li Yan fell seriously ill again. He kept circling in circles in his sleep and fell asleep for a day and a night. It was not until the sound of a rooster crowing the next day that he woke up from his dream.

Perhaps even the cargo owner knows that it is too difficult to transport two sacks at a time. Most of them are one sack, and occasionally two sacks are shipped at the same time.

Li Yan's greedy appetite has been cultivated. He knows that something is wrong, but he can no longer bear the money coming in as quickly as gold falls from the sky. He just wants to earn enough money to buy a restaurant as soon as possible, and then quit his job early and go back to his hometown to spend the rest of his life. .

Six days ago, Li Yan helped the other party transport goods again. After this experience, Li Yan finally realized that he had been helping people smuggle dead people! Because this time it was no longer a sack, but a black coffin!

Li Yan was so frightened that tears ran down his nose, and his pupils shrank in fear: "When they lifted the coffin from the car, I panicked, and several sacks that I had helped smuggle in over the past few months... turned out to be... It’s a corpse, a corpse, a body bag!”

"Uncle, you must save me. We saw something we shouldn't have seen. We are all going to die. They said we are all going to die. They told me to run as far as I can and don't go back to the capital!"

Li Yan went crazy at the critical moment. Fatty Li became anxious and slapped him a dozen times: "Who are they?"

"Are they the three people responsible for escorting the car together?"

"Why did they run away because you saw the coffin?"

His face was severely swollen from being slapped, but he still couldn't hide his frightened pale face: "It's not because I saw the coffin!"

"The coffin was too heavy and they couldn't lift it, so they asked me to carry the coffin together... Four people carried the coffin, which just means that everyone is going to die! Everyone is going to die! Everyone is going to die!"

Li Yan's eyes were bloodshot and bloodshot, as if he was crazy.

Suddenly, Jin An took action. He raised his index finger and pointed at the sunken life palace between Li Yan's eyebrows. He saw that all the black energy erupting from Li Yan's eyebrows was pulled out by him.

These black energies are twisted and floating in the void, and they are vaguely visible as a black talisman.

The old Taoist priest exclaimed: "It's a poisonous heart curse!"

Jin An squeezed his palm, and Yang Fire rose from his palm. He crushed the poisonous heart curse on the spot and disappeared.

"You dare to harm people in front of me even with your shameful tricks." Jin An snorted coldly.

It's just that although Li Yan was rescued by him, his eyes were stupid and his mouth was drooling, and he had become an idiot.

Jin An raised his eyebrows and looked slightly gloomy.

Deputy Commander Sun was surprised: "Sir, Commander, has this greedy man become an idiot?"

Jin An's voice was cold: "The evil cultivator hiding behind made Li Yan drink the Poisonous Heart Charm Water and swear a poisonous oath from the very beginning. Once he violates the oath and reveals the secret, he will be forever doomed and his soul will be scattered."

"Although I just prevented the Poisonous Heart Curse from harming people, the other party was very cunning and did not plant enough Poisonous Heart Curse. They actually took away Li Yan's soul as a double insurance. As soon as the other party sensed the Poisonous Heart Curse erupting, he already knew The Dongchuang Incident shattered Li Yan's soul. Once a person's soul is incomplete, he will be confused and stupid, like a walking zombie. "

The old Taoist priest saw that Jin Anxin was regretful, and sighed and comforted: "It's hard to talk to the damn ghost. He has been dealing with monsters and monsters all day long for more than a year, and the evil wind has already taken hold of him. He is terminally ill, and he is a damned ghost. If you save his life today, it is like snatching someone away from the devil. You have done what you can, so don’t think too much. "

Fatty Li heard this and cursed angrily: "The most important witness turned into an idiot, and the clues were interrupted! We haven't had time to ask who the other three people are!"

"We haven't had time to ask where the body was dumped, what we saw in the end, and why we were all massacred!"

"Asshole, if we don't catch these evil cultivators as soon as possible, we may not know how many innocent people will suffer!"

Jin An snorted: "The clue may not be broken!"

"I want to see how many cow ghosts and snake gods are hidden in this spice shop. No matter how deep they are hidden, they will be dug out even if they dig three feet into the ground! Tonight, the gods will kill the gods, and the ghosts will kill the ghosts. I am going to go on a killing spree. , clear the world!”