Qingguan Nightmare Shadow

Chapter 31

Hearing the sound, Yunli and Su Tong walked into Qian Cheng's house in unison.

The ground is in a mess and there is nowhere to stay.The bed placed on the table was laid on the ground together, and the whole space was like a post-disaster scene.Yun Li used his feet to poke the broken pieces of pottery from the wine jar, and said, "It really doesn't look like a living place, it's like a pig shed or a dog's kennel."

Si Ming Xiaoxian dragged out the drooping bed sheet from the doghouse in the pig shed, and wrapped up the soft corpse with a complicated expression.At this time, Gan Chengjia seemed to be frantic, shaking to break away from the two neighbors who cut his hands back.There seemed to be something hot in his heart, and that hot thing was cutting his throat, forcing him to make a guttural sound like a beast.

He seemed to want to stop Siming Xiaoxian from taking the corpse away.

No matter how you look at Gan Chengjia, there is something wrong with him.Yun Li pointed to his head and said to Su Tong, "Is there something wrong with him?"

Su Tong said seriously: "Probably not."

Yunli thought about it for a second, and felt that the butcher should have mentioned some mental obstacles in the Cheng family in the previous conversation; recalling the butcher's description, the Cheng family was just a normal person who suddenly behaved strangely.Yun Li cut off his thoughts on this aspect, and asked a neighbor behind Qian Cheng's back, "Does he live alone?"

The neighbor whispered: "His wife died early, but left behind a daughter."

Yunli played back the pictures of Gan Cheng's house in his mind, and asked again: "How old is his daughter and where did she go?"

The neighbor said in a gossip tone: "His girl is 26, she is not married yet, and she takes care of her father wholeheartedly. Cough cough, we all say that the two of them... Hey, not long ago, a place moved seven or eight miles away. Xinhu, I heard that they are two brothers, neither married. I don’t know if Gan Chengjia is trying to prove something, he doesn’t know each other very well, but the new brother asked someone to match him once, and he married his daughter gone."

Yunli thought: 26?

The neighbor poked his head into Qian Cheng's house and said, "He's a bachelor and no one is looking after him. Look how he's doing! He's alone and doesn't know how to clean up. Let's see what he has done to the house. It’s like that!” According to him, the reason why the house was in chaos was because the Cheng family “didn’t know how to tidy up.” But the Cheng family was not a one- or two-year-old child, and even if the house was messy, it would take away the usual mess. Put the things you need on the table, how can you throw them on the ground?

Xiaoxian Si Ming struggled to carry the corpse, and interrupted Yunli's thinking: "Mr. Yunli, let's go." He felt that if he didn't leave, the vicious dog of the Gan Cheng family would rush up and bite people recklessly .

Before leaving, Su Tong asked Gan Cheng's neighbors if there were any vacant houses nearby.One person said that there was a small house by the river for women to take a bath, but in fact, everyone would solve the problem of bathing in their courtyard dam, and the small house was abandoned.After obtaining consent, the three of them took the body to the river far away from the residents.

Si Ming Xiaoxian opened the black curtain, put the corpse into the room, then withdrew again, fanning the dust brought out from the room with his hands.

"Mr. Su," Siming Xiaoxian said while coughing, "This guy looks like an ordinary corpse, without the breath of ghosts, monsters, or spiritual power or fairy power. What can he do if he invites him out?"

Su Tong said succinctly: "The first seven, return to the soul, and plant ash."

Siming Xiaoxian: "Well, what do you mean?"

Yunli heard that what Su Tong said was a folk method, as long as it was an ordinary person in the Xia Kingdom, probably no one would not know this method.And Xiaoxian Si Ming didn't write many life books, so it's normal to have some ignorance of ordinary people's knowledge.Yunli expanded on what Su Tong said: "The soul of the deceased will return to the residence of the living in the first seven days. People sprinkle plant ash in the house, and when the soul returns, the plant ash will leave traces. Some Sometimes, the dead will also communicate with the living through the traces on the plant ash, or convey some meanings that have not been spoken in time."

"But this house is not its former residence, how could it come back? Mr. Yunli, Mr. Su, how do we know if its first seven days have passed?" Si Ming Xiaoxian asked.

Yunli said: "This man was skinned and his flesh was shredded. He died a miserable death. It is probably turning into a wronged soul, trying its best to seek justice and revenge. We need to know where it came from and give everyone an explanation. This way of inviting him back can be regarded as pointing out a way for it to complain."

Siming Xiaoxian said: "What if it thinks about it and goes directly to reincarnation?"

Yun Li glanced at him, and said rudely: "I let you die like this, do you have such a good mentality, rushing to reincarnate?"

Si Ming Xiaoxian scratched her head for a few times, and then helped Yunli and Su Tong to straighten the corpse, showing a sense of ritual.

The neighbors of Gan Cheng's family thought about the progress here, and came in twos and threes to check on the situation.Yunli and Si Ming Xiaoxian were not as good at talking as Su Tong, so they hid nearby and burned the ashes, and Su Tong repeatedly advised those people not to worry, go home and wait.By the time the three of them had spread plant ash in the house, and the last group of people were finally persuaded to go back, it was already dark.

Soon, a few scattered stars appeared in the sky.Si Ming Xiaoxian yawned: "Mr. Yunli, there is no movement." His exaggerated yawn also infected Yunli, and Yunli was a little sleepy, so he said casually: "Just wait."

Yun Li leaned against the outer wall of the house, closed his eyes and meditated, and changed several positions in a row, feeling uncomfortable, so he grabbed Si Ming Xiaoxian and used his back as a cushion.Helplessly, Si Ming Xiaoxian dozed off, and often nodded violently, which made Yunli feel refreshed.After waking up for a while, Yunli was still sleepy; he saw that Su Tong had been paying attention to the ground covered with plant ash, as if he was not tired at all, and then realized that Su Tong was "handier" than Siming Xiaoxian, so he arrested him to replace him. Xiaoxian Siming who will not fall.

Su Tong's body temperature seems to be slightly higher than others.Yunli was a little surprised at first by the temperature that came out through the fabric of his clothes, and then inexplicably felt a sense of warmth in summer that he only experienced in winter.Leaning against Su Tong, he tilted his head to secretly look at the other's face, but he could only see a star of eyelashes protruding from his face, flickering from time to time.

Su Tong let Yunli's back lean against her own, and did not move or speak.Yun Li leaned on his body that rose and fell steadily with the rhythm of breathing, and gradually became more sleepy, and unexpectedly fell asleep at some point.He vaguely dreamed some fragments mixed with green light. When a woman's face was slowly revealed in the green light, a voice from the real world suddenly woke him up.

"What's over there?"

"There seems to be something moving over there... um, no, it's a person."

Yunli recognized it for a while, and recognized that the former voice belonged to Su Tong, and the latter voice belonged to Si Ming Xiaoxian.

He woke up and suddenly realized that he was not standing but sitting.Su Tong dutifully served him as a pillow and sat down with him.It doesn't matter if the sleeping posture is not beautiful, the important thing is that he hugged Su Tong's arm when he was in a daze, and put his head on it comfortably.

Yun Li stood up, patted Su Tong on the head as a "thank you", said dryly, "Good boy", then followed the eyes of Su Tong and Si Ming Xiaoxian: "It's so late, besides us Who doesn't sleep in the middle of the night..." Before he finished speaking, a limping black figure jumped into his field of vision immediately, causing him to blurt out: "Gan Chengjia?"

Si Ming Xiaoxian half gritted her teeth and half sighed, "I think Qian Cheng's family is here to make trouble!"

Yun Li turned on the green light, rolled his eyes and said, "Boom him back."

Xiaoxian Siming summoned up his courage, stopped the temporary Siming Jun who was about to hit someone with the anger of getting up, and said: "Mr. Yunli, it's not good if you beat people up."

Yunli: "Didn't you see that he was crippled?"

Si Ming Xiaoxian resisted the pressure and said: "Uh, Mr. Yunli, let Mr. Su come."

Yun Li picked up Su Tong's hand, poured some celestial power into it to test it out, and said, "Master Su, has your spiritual power reached level three? If you haven't reached level three, it won't hurt to hit someone." After that, he did The action of pulling up the sleeves means going into battle in person.Si Ming Xiaoxian meant "a gentleman does not move his hands but speaks", and asked Su Tong to persuade him with good words, but Yunli misunderstood, thinking that Su Tong's spiritual power was not strong and he could not teach others.

On the other side, Gan Chengjia suddenly accelerated his speed.Although he was limping, he ran extremely fast with a wooden stick, almost jumping to the hut where the corpse was placed.He quickly slipped through the gap between Yunli and the three of them, poked down the curtain with a wooden stick, and was about to lift his foot to step on the ash.

Yunli and Si Ming Xiaoxian dragged the Gan Cheng family back, and heard the Gan Cheng family muttering: "What kind of wild thing is this! You actually want to call it back! You actually want to call it back..."

Yun Li heard something: "Do you recognize it?"

Gan Chengjia: "I don't know! But it came to my house, and now it has finally left. You called it here, do you want it to come back and kill me!"

rustling.

Before everyone had time to connect and think about Gan Chengjia's various unreasonable words and deeds, a slight friction sound suddenly sounded.

Si Ming Xiaoxian: "Mr. Yunli, Mr. Su, did I hear you right?"

rustle.

As if responding to Si Ming Xiaoxian's words, the voice was a little clearer.

Distracted by that voice, Yunli and Si Ming Xiaoxian couldn't help loosening their hands.Gan Chengjia saw the opportunity to push the two of them away, plunged into the house, and trampled the flat grass, trees and ashes into a mess.For a while, the ground was full of footprints of one and a half groups of lame people, with irregular dots left by wooden sticks interspersed among the footprints.

The ground is ruined, and it's useless to regret or careless.The three of them let Gan Cheng's family mess around inside, and only pricked up their ears to pay attention to the sound just now.Helplessly, Gan Cheng's curse was too loud, and his negligible voice was completely covered up.Yun Li's anger rose, and then the dark fire turned into an open fire, and then he slapped Gan Chengjia with a fast, accurate and ruthless green light.

Gan Chengjia covered his face and gave the three of them a glance, guessing that the young man who beat him would not really do anything to him, so he dragged his "three legs" and swaggered back.A few steps away, he turned his head and spat again: "Don't want to come back!"

The rustling sound was gone.

"Stop!" Yun Li said suddenly.

The painful green light had a deterrent effect. Hearing the sound, Gan Chengjia stopped obediently, turned his head and blushed, and said, "What are you doing!"

Si Ming Xiaoxian stood up and said: "The things we have worked so hard to guard for so long were ruined by your madness. How can you apologize to us, Mr. Yunli?"

Gan Chengjia: "It's a wild ghost, just drive it away, check what!"

The main reason why Yunli came to Mang County, Huzhou was to meet Su Tong.He didn't pay much attention to the ins and outs of this corpse, but such a disgusting strange thing like Gan Chengjia successfully aroused his interest.Just drive away the wild ghosts?What does it mean that he closed the gate a few days ago and did not allow wizards to enter, and Su Tong and Si Ming Xiaoxian from Yunjue Academy to enter?

Wait, he's focusing on something else now.

Yunli said to Si Ming Xiaoxian and Gan Chengjia: "I'm not talking about this...here, what is it that is wrapped around your wrist?" Gan Chengjia had something wrapped around his wrist, even though it was blocked by his sleeve Nine points, but the exposed one point was still seen by Yunli.Hearing this, Gan Chengjia seemed to want to prevaricate, but he couldn't seem to make up a smooth lie, so he froze for a while.

Xiaoxian Siming stepped forward with great interest, and pulled Gan Chengjia's sleeves, then his eyes lit up, and he reported: "The spell... should be... for exorcising ghosts."

Gan Chengjia withdrew his hand and took a step back.

A charm is a sign of a wizard.

Si Ming Xiaoxian asked forcefully, "Don't you trust wizards?"

Yun Li wanted to go to take a closer look, but Su Tong suddenly whispered in his ear, "Let him go first."

Yun Li was stunned for a moment, then after listening to Su Tong's words, he said to Si Ming Xiaoxian: "He was in a hurry to go to the doctor, I think this man was frightened and stupid, and he went to ask the wizard's spell in private, but he pretended to be noble and didn't want to People know that he believes in Yin people." Hearing this, Gan Chengjia glanced at Yunli suspiciously, but couldn't care too much, and walked away on crutches.

When Gan Cheng's family was far away, Si Ming Xiaoxian asked suspiciously: "Mr. Yunli, why did you let him go?"

Yunli: "I still have to listen to what Mr. Su has to say."

Su Tong said: "The soul of the corpse just came back and left a clue." His words passed across Yunli's back like chills, and Yunli calmed down and said, "The voice just now is the soul of the corpse. It was sent out while walking, but the soul □ Chengjia’s spell drove it away, which makes sense...but what is the 'clue' you mentioned?"

Su Tong: "Footprints."

footprint?

But so many footprints on the plant ash were all stepped on by the Gan Cheng family.

Su Tong continued: "Some footprints are not from Gan Cheng's family." He pointed out, guiding Yunli and Si Ming Xiaoxian to pay attention to the footprints in the innermost part of the house.However, these footprints were no different from those near the door, and Yun Li didn't see any clues.Su Tong said: "The route of the Gan Cheng family is from the outside to the inside, but those few footprints are obviously from the inside to the outside. Moreover, those few footprints were formed at the same time as the real footprints formed when the Qian Cheng family walked. "

Si Ming Xiaoxian said in horror: "At the same time? Mr. Su, did you see it with your own eyes?"

Su Tong nodded.

In other words, just now, a ghost and Gan Chengjia were playing the game "Let's make footprints" together.

Si Ming Xiaoxian: "Then the dead man was lame just like the Gan Cheng family, and they both wore the same shoes? Uh, are they brothers?"

Su Tong shook his head and said, "He has no brothers. I think the ghost is saying that its death is related to the Gan Cheng family."

The three of them were silent for a moment, then Yun Li said in a deep voice, "He was killed by the Gan Cheng family."

Declarative tone.

Without waiting for anyone to ask questions, Yun Li said again: "I don't know that the butcher who came to Yunjue Academy to report the crime told you is different from what he told me. Do you remember that he said that what he saw at that time was a hanging There is a skeleton of loose flesh and blood, but now, the corpse is almost a pile of mud, and the shape of the skeleton cannot be seen at all... So, where did most of the bones of the corpse go?"

The answer is almost self-evident.Gan Cheng's house was locked for several days, and he put the corpse that broke into the house in the courtyard dam, and did not deal with it.

Siming Xiaoxian said: "Uh, why is he collecting bones?"

Yun Li guessed, "Maybe... it's for commemoration."

Siming Xiaoxian: "Mr. Yunli, what do you say?"

Yunli said: "The daughter of the Gan Cheng family who just married has died, and the Gan Cheng family knew who killed their daughter, so they killed people to avenge their daughter, and took the bones to bear the grudge." Si Ming Xiaoxian stared straight-eyed: " Mr. Yunli, how did you deduce that his daughter is dead?"

Su Tong said lightly: "Embroidered cloth ball."

Yun Li smiled, and said casually: "That's right. Mr. Su, you and I really understand each other." After joking a bit, he said seriously: "It turns out Mr. Su also noticed the hair on the head of Gan Cheng's bed. Cloth balls. His house is in a mess, everything he wears is piled up on the floor, but there is only one worn-out cloth ball placed on the bed, what does that mean?"

Siming Xiaoxian: "What do you mean?"

Yunli: "The cloth ball is a child's toy, and the daughter of the Gan Cheng family is already 26 years old."

Su Tong went further: "He dug through and found something from his daughter's childhood, and mourned it."

His daughter was murdered, and Gan Cheng's family was extremely sad. They rummaged through boxes and cabinets at home to find their daughter's childhood objects in order to find some comfort.Moreover, driven by grief and indignation, he skinned and shredded the flesh, and took the life of the enemy... These connections seem to make sense.

Si Ming Xiaoxian: "But the butcher said that the corpse came to the door by himself."

"Wizard." Yun Li said.

Gan Chengjia probably didn't do it himself, he invited a wizard.

Speaking of this, Yun Li used Su Tong as a demonstration prop, wrapped his arms around his neck, "hanged" on him and said, "Imagine Mr. Su is the wizard who sacrificed the invisibility spell, and I am that corpse... Su Son, take a few steps... Hey, I'm not heavy, why are you walking so slowly... Come on, stop. Isn't my appearance the same as that described by the butcher as "walking with slanted shoulders and floating" ?”

Afterwards, Gan Chengjia felt uneasy, and asked for an exorcism charm by the way.

Si Ming Xiaoxian said vigorously: "Mr. Yunli, Mr. Su, let's go and copy the family name Gan!"

Yunli: "No, go to his son-in-law first."