It's actually getting late.
At this point in time, it is Yunxiao's morning class time.
Pei Jing was about to leave as soon as he came back.
The sky was grey, and frost and fog condensed on the grass and trees beside the road, adding a bit of dampness and coldness.
Chu Junyu didn't seem to care that he didn't come home last night. But Pei Jing told him seriously what happened in the old man's house in Yunlan Mountain Range.
"I went back with Xu Jing later, and we found that there was something fishy about the mirrors in the old man's room. The mirrors were placed opposite the windows and doors to prevent ghosts from coming in. The old man's grandson was enlightened by a senior monk when he was young, and his eyes were psychic, so he was more sensitive to ghosts than other people."
"But he still died. The mirror on the eaves was broken, and ghosts came out from underground. There were not many people in his family, and only two people could enter his room at that time. So I guess the child must have been killed by someone around him, most likely his second uncle."
"Either they are bewitched by demons, or they are blinded by greed."
Pei Jing was walking on the road. He picked up a piece of dogtail grass and shook it in his hand. He followed Chu Junyu and told him about his discovery.
"Then that night, I went into the forest and really saw the ghost. It looked ferocious, with faces all over its body. No wonder it was afraid of mirrors. I guess it was afraid of scaring itself. I couldn't beat it, but I met a noble man who saved my life and allowed me to get down the mountain safely. I was so scared that I almost thought I was going to be eaten by the monster."
He talked all the way, and Chu Junyu made a calm comment: "You are very lucky."
Pei Jing threw away the grass in his hand, walked over, and put his arm around Chu Junyu's shoulder in a friendly manner: "But this matter is not over yet. The old man's second son will be back next month. How about you come with me to catch him? I'm afraid there are ghosts in him and I can't beat him."
The moment he approached, Chu Junyu paused.
The young man was full of vigor and his breath was as clean as the green grass in a stream.
His eyes fell on Pei Jing's face, "Why?"
Pei Jing said it as a matter of course: "Because we have a good relationship."
The sky was grey and the roads in the fields were muddy. At the turn of spring and summer, the evening rain fell. A man wearing a straw raincoat sat in front of a carriage, returning home from thousands of miles away.
As the carriage approached the village, it gradually slowed down. The man in the straw raincoat held his breath when passing through a field. The field had long been deserted. Because of a mysterious death there, the villagers deliberately avoided it and it was now overgrown with weeds. The hole formed by the boy being buried upside down in the mud had been filled with a scarecrow by a wandering immortal, who said it was for the soul of the dead.
In fact, he knew in his heart that it was a lie, and he had invited the immortal with his own money. The function of the scarecrow was not to ferry the dead, but to suppress the ghost of the child, so that he could not be reborn and could not come out to seek revenge on him.
It’s just his eyes that always see things he shouldn’t see.
After parking the carriage outside the house, he called out "Dad", but the old man didn't answer him. The man took off his raincoat, revealing a ferocious face, and went into the yard. After searching for a long time, he still couldn't hear the old man's voice. He immediately muttered to himself with a contemptuous tone: "Going to the city to sell wood again? How much money can this old man make by working so hard? What a waste of time."
He had been driving for a whole day and was thirsty and sleepy. He went into the kitchen and buried his head in the water tank to drink water. Halfway through the drink, he felt something soft touching his face. He opened his eyes and saw that the inner wall of the tank was covered with moss, so the water looked turbid. And now, at the bottom of this turbid tank, a female corpse was stuffed with a twisted body. The corpse's bulging black eyes stared at him, and her face was swollen. After looking at her for a long time, her expression had a resentful look.
The man screamed in fear and coughed up a mouthful of water, almost choking. But he had done so many evil things that he was no longer afraid of ghosts, so he took a brick from the narrator's stove.
He pinched his head and smashed the water tank. The water tank was broken, and the ghost girl in the tank disappeared. He raised his head and exhaled deeply.
Wiping his face with his sleeve, the man said, "What bad luck. You are the only one who wants to take my life? You are dreaming."
After he finished drinking the water, his eyes twitched and he felt exhausted. He dragged his feet towards the house. The old man was not there, and he was not busy dealing with the group of women in the carriage.
After returning to the room and taking off his shoes, the man lay down on the bed and fell into a deep sleep. He slept until night fell. When night fell, the atmosphere of the house changed immediately. The moonlight through the paper window was bloody.
The man dreamed about his older brother.
My eldest brother was crushed by the wood and his waist was broken. His whole body was broken into two parts, so his appearance was distorted in the dream. When he was alive, he was stupid and stupid. He didn't understand even after he died. When I asked him, he looked honest and said, "Why did you kill my son?"
The man was too lazy to disguise himself in his dream, and smiled contemptuously: "That little bastard can live so long because he is lucky. What else are you dissatisfied with? I have had enough of the poor life in this mountain valley. I finally found a way to make a fortune. Whoever stands in my way will die."
The eldest brother started crying like a coward.
At this time, his sister-in-law's wronged ghost also appeared. Compared with the cowardly elder brother, his sister-in-law was a shrew when she was alive, and she was extremely cruel as a ghost. Her eyes were bloodshot, her nails were blue and black, and she rushed over: "Give me back my son's life!"
It was just a dream after all, and it couldn't hurt him at all. But the feeling of being suffocated by the evil ghost was very clear. He twitched on the bed and woke up suddenly, sweating all over.
When he woke up, the light in the room was flickering. His throat was dry again, and suddenly he felt a chill on his back. After he accidentally entered a forest in the Yunlan Mountains and made a deal with the female ghost, he was rarely haunted by ghosts. What happened today
He got out of bed. He heard the sound of sharp nails scratching the window, and when he looked closely, he saw countless blood-red women's arms on the paper window, as if they were blocked outside and couldn't get in. The man looked back belatedly, and saw a mirror hanging on his wall, reflecting a faint white light. It was the mirror that the nephew insisted on putting in every room.
If the female ghost had not made the request later, he would not have known that the mirror had the function of warding off evil spirits.
"You can't blame me. You can only blame yourself because your eyes will cause trouble sooner or later."
When his nephew told him that there was a woman behind his back, he knew that he could not keep him. He lowered his head, put on his shoes, and muttered, "I have sacrificed both of my wives, so killing you is nothing."
The moment he bent over, something fell from the sky and shattered on the ground with a sound. He looked forward in a daze. It was a mirror. The mirror fell from the roof and reflected something red. Cold sweat oozed from his forehead and his back felt cold.
Look up.
On the eaves, a female ghost in red clothes was crawling on all fours, her black hair covering her face. She lowered her head, and gave him a weird smile with her mouth that was cracked to her ears.
In the middle of the night, the man let out a scream like a pig being slaughtered!
All the wronged souls in the Yunlan Mountains, which had no intelligence but still held hatred, gathered here and poured into the man's room like a tide, devouring him. The whole house was stained red with blood.
Outside the house, Pei Jing, Chu Junyu and the old man walked out slowly.
The old man looked at the blood gushing out in front of him with a dull expression, and there was no emotion in his dry eyes.
Pei Jing said: "Your second son has a vicious heart, and this is what he deserves."
The old man aged ten years in an instant. He closed his eyes, tears slowly seeping from the corners of his eyes: "He had evil intentions when he was a child, and he did nothing when he grew up, and became addicted to gambling. I wondered where he would get the money to pay off so much debt... ... It turns out... ... Oh."
The old man trembled and said, "I just feel sorry for my grandson."
Pei Jing didn't say anything.
After the second son was eaten, the resentment of the wronged soul seemed to be resolved. The sky turned white in the east, the sun appeared, and the women and babies turned into dust one by one.
The second brother's room was turned upside down, revealing an entrance.
Walking inside, there was a cellar. The cellar was extremely smelly, dirty and dark. A group of pregnant women were piled together in white, with dishevelled hair and dirty faces. They were all dead, but the things in their stomachs were still moving. Pei Jing closed his eyes and cut open the belly of a woman with a sword.
In an instant, a one-meter-long green worm crawled out from inside. It was probably the mother Gu that Ji Wuduan mentioned.
At the old man's instruction, Pei Jing burned down the house, hoping that the women who had been tortured could be reincarnated peacefully and no longer wander around as evil ghosts.
After being rescued, the kidnapped girls in the carriage were terrified and knelt down crying and kowtowed repeatedly to express their gratitude. Pei Jing had not cared about worldly affairs for many years. He gave them some silver, took them to the town and left.
It rained for several days in a row. On the way back to Yunxiao, I passed by the place where the child died.
Pei Jing walked into the field and pulled out the scarecrow. In the blue-gray rain, the soul of a well-behaved boy slowly emerged from the hole. He was born with incomplete seven souls and six spirits, and even after being enlightened by Wusheng, he still retained some stupidity and ignorance.
The boy's hands and feet were very short and white, and he looked very small. His big, dark, bright eyes stared at Pei Jing without blinking, not knowing what to do. He even died without any resentment.
Pei Jing could see a golden Buddha light between his eyebrows. He should have been blessed with a long life, but he had provoked a demon.
The boy froze in place.
Pei Jing chuckled and pointed his finger at the boy's forehead.
In a voice that only the two of them could hear, he whispered, "Go."
The boy blinked in confusion, a white light merged into his brow, and suddenly he understood something. He bowed respectfully to Pei Jing. His footsteps involuntarily walked towards a place. His figure slowly disappeared in the green mist.
On the way, Pei Jing was thoughtful: "That old man had been doing good deeds all his life, but in the end, it was ruined by his second son. I really don't understand, their family are all kind people, how could they raise such a beast."
Chu Junyu smiled coldly with a hint of sarcasm: "Maybe some people are evil by nature."
The author has something to say: I will find a love line for a while~~