The shadows of the trees swayed, and the crows flew.
The wailing of ghosts pierced into human ears, and then a few red lanterns lit up in the distance, wafting in the wind.
Lu Minzheng felt it was novel, and Mr. Jin Shui said beside him, "Actually, the ghost fire is blue. Anyone who has heard the script should know... oops!"
He suddenly screamed, and the ghost fires in the distance were frightened to a halt.
Mr. Jin Shui was sweating like rain, clutching his right leg, so painful that he could not speak.
The ink carp used internal force to stimulate the affected part of Mr. Jin Shui's right leg just now, and the effect was immediate, the congestion quickly disappeared, and he could walk down the ground immediately, but he might not be able to walk steadily.
- It's not because the injury is bad, but because the pain remains, which makes people feel that they don't dare to exert force.
In Mr. Jin Shui's sense, the pain was like a long needle slamming into the bone marrow, and it stirred twice inside.
"I'm sorry, the road here is rough and difficult. If you leave it alone, the bumps of the carriage will aggravate your injury." Mo Li sent another breath of spiritual energy, this time to relieve the stiff muscles.
The meridians were stimulated, and the scholar's right leg instinctively bounced.
Mo Li was already prepared, and after avoiding it, he raised his hand steadily to support the person.
On the contrary, Mr. Jin Shui was at a loss, grabbing his hands, and blurted out a panicked shout.
Only halfway through the shouting, my feet had already landed firmly on the ground. Apart from the faint pain, my ankles and soles seemed to have recovered. Mr. Jin Shui knew some medical skills, so it was even more incredible. He didn't see the silver needle in Mo Li's hand at all, but his feet were really healed. When he looked up, he saw Lu Min looking at him strangely.
"You scared the ghosts away."
Just imagine that in this desolate field, a person screamed suddenly, followed by the second sound, which stopped abruptly, and there was no movement at all—a distance away, who knows what happened here
Murdered
Encountered a wolf
The person who pretended to be a ghost was frightened and dared not approach any more.
Seeing that the red lanterns suddenly went out, Lu Min let out a regretful sigh.
After sighing, he realized that something was wrong, and immediately said sternly: "Guo... Sure enough, there are bandits gathered here, and they dare to pretend to be a ghost in front of Zhuhou Temple, it's really abominable!"
The second prince thought that Meng Qi must be very angry, and the place where the deceased was buried became a barren ridge, the ground was a mess, and no one could bear it! Meng Qi's face was expressionless, and Lu Min was even more panicked, worried that Meng Guoshi would break out.
Just as he was worried, someone suddenly bumped into him.
Ha, this is simply dozing up and someone handing a pillow!
Lu Min looked at the dark place with hope, Mo Li didn't know what he was thinking, and thought that the second prince had been in the palace for a long time, and it was rare to see people pretending to be ghosts.
"… "
One couldn't help but worry about the Yongchen Emperor in the palace at the moment.
Mo Li quickly woke up and was secretly surprised at the same time.
The former crown prince, the current Yongchen Emperor, seems to always make people involuntarily stand by his side, help him think about problems, and trouble him with headaches.
This is not Lu Yu's own ability, but because of his bad situation.
The more you understand, the more you can't help but want to find a way out, just like someone who is good at chess seeing an endgame.
"Bang, bang..."
Mo Li's thoughts were interrupted by a dull crashing sound.
This movement from a distance sounds like a very heavy cloth bag constantly hitting the ground, very regular, at first it was a cloth bag, and then it became several, the sounds came one after another, with a wonderful rhythm.
The heart seemed to be beating violently along with it.
Mr. Jin Shui was the first to feel unwell. He opened his mouth wide, his face flushed, and the whole person fell into an inexplicable panic.
Even if I suspect that someone is doing something wrong in the dark, but listening to this dull and rhythmic voice and looking at the desolate appearance around me, I can't help panicking, and I even have the illusion that my heart is broken.
"Interesting." Meng Qi raised his eyebrows slightly.
This kind of rhythm like the beat of a drum can match the beating of the heart, followed by more and more urgent, but it is within the range that people can bear. Although it is not fatal, it is not easy.
Mo Li and Meng Qi have internal strength and will not be affected, and the other two will not have such good luck.
Mo Li even heard a few angry curses coming from the place where the red lanterns were floating. These people dressed in black and carrying lanterns and pretending to be ghost fires did not seem to be in the same group as the cloth bags.
In an abandoned Zhuhou Temple, how come there are several groups of people pretending to be ghosts
Mo Li was very puzzled, and after looking at Meng Qi, he found that Meng Guoshi didn't know what was going on.
"Boom!"
The sound of the cloth bag was louder, indicating that they were getting closer.
Mr. Jin Shui was almost out of breath, then his pupils contracted and tremblingly pointed at the dark shadow of the tree, only to see a tall and stiff figure jumping and jumping out.
As expected, he was dressed like a sackcloth, covering his head and face, so he couldn't see anything clearly.
His arms were stretched out straight, his legs were also straight and not bent when he jumped up, and Mr. Jin Shui's eyes were about to fall out, just because this dress was very similar to the Xiangxi corpse in the storyteller.
When a person died in a foreign land, relatives would pay the corpse to ring the bell to perform surgery, and travel in the wild while it was dark, unable to cross the village or cross the river. Paper money is thrown along the way, and the dead body will jump and walk, the body will be stiff, and every step will step on the paper money cut out of yellow watch paper.
Now there is no paper money on the ground, and I haven't heard the bell of the corpse driver... Could it be a corpse fraud
Although I know that there are people here who are pretending to be ghosts, it is still scary to see such a group of cloth bags slowly approaching in an inhuman posture.
When a normal person jumps forward continuously, it is impossible to maintain the limbs rigid without bending at all.
Mr. Jin Shui tried his best to keep calm, trying to identify whether these "corpses" had wooden sticks tied to their hands and feet. It is said that the expulsion of corpses from Xiangxi was a scam, and the corpses were all pretending to be people.
As a result, a gust of wind blew, and the sackcloth he was covering floated up, and he could clearly see his bare arms, with nothing tied inside.
Mr. Jin Shui shouted and wanted to run.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Mo Li slapped the backhand, and Mr. Jin Shui, whose heart was about to jump out of his cavity, fainted.
Lu Min looked at the cloth bags jumping in front of him, and at Mr. Jin Shui, who was leaning against a tree by the ink carp, and waved his hands desperately: "No, no, the doctor is merciful, I won't run or call. , don't knock me out."
Ink carp: "… "
Just a little bit! What stunned, not under such a heavy hand!
Mo Li was about to get rid of the cluttered cloth bags, but Meng Qi held his hand down as soon as he raised his hand.
Doctor Mo has an inexplicable look on his face. If he doesn't make a move at this time, should he wait for the cloth bag to jump in front of him
- That's right, that's it.
With a mocking smile, Meng Qi looked at these "corpses" whose limbs were stiff and could only bounce like a monkey show.
The dull sound of bang dong dong seemed to hit people's hearts, and Lu Min had to cover his ears tightly.
Closer, closer.
The walking corpses surrounded the carriage, and the straight outstretched arm almost poked Meng Qi.
Then the scene fell into an embarrassing silence.
The people surrounded by intimidation neither ran nor screamed, just stood there watching the corpse with great interest.
The walking corpses are also very embarrassed. They have never encountered such a situation. Usually, after scaring away pedestrians, they can loot their belongings.
Robbery is different from killing people. If people die often, the government will come to clean them up. How will everyone live
After the dead silence continued for a while, the walking corpse felt that this was not good, and quickly covered up and jumped in place a few times.
The dull sound that originally matched the strange rhythm was broken, and the thumping sound became chaotic.
Realizing that some of the bad walking corpses stopped, and some tried to adjust, the result became more ridiculous, and returned to reality from the chilling ghostly atmosphere, as if a group of rabbits were fooling around.
"Hahaha!" Lu Min laughed unceremoniously.
This time, he couldn't pretend at all. The leader of the walking corpse threw off his robe angrily, pulled out the knife hidden under his clothes, and threatened in a vicious voice, "Hand over all the money!"
Immediately after that, all the cloth bags underwent a major transformation, and all of them were either short knives or iron rods in their hands.
It was terribly dark, and everyone was wearing an airtight black cloth robe in order to pretend to be a walking corpse, so the vision was very blurred. At this moment, I saw the poor dagger, and suddenly found that the person on the opposite side seemed a little unusual.
Meng Qi was able to scare others with just one face.
Even people who have never seen anything in the world will instinctively feel bad and suspect that they have kicked an iron plate.
"Which way are you from?" The walking corpse leader's face was very strange, with prominent cheekbones, and the corners of his mouth crooked when he spoke.
At this moment, he was vigorously fighting, holding a sinister aura, and opening his mouth was a set of incisions, "What kind of incense did he burn, and which Buddha did he worship? The brothers all came out to eat, take some road money, and don't touch people's lives. ."
Mo Li was surprised by the man's sudden retreat, and then looked at the other side's line of sight, and it turned out that the carriage on his side was exposed.
The front section of the road was filled with all kinds of gravel, and there were mud holes all over.
The two horses had clear mud spots on their legs, and the hulls and wheels were completely free of mud, which was weird, unless the carriage was flying over and the wheels didn't touch the ground at all.
Those who dare to pretend to be ghosts usually don't believe in ghosts themselves, so flying is impossible, and the only possibility is to be carried over. These people pretending to be walking corpses can be said to be half of Jianghu people. They learned the wicked work of chasing corpses in Xiangxi, and used this to make money, but if they fought hard, they would shrink.
The head of the crooked mouth is very afraid that he will provoke hard ideas.
The kind of young chivalrous who came from famous families, those people who encounter robbery and seek money, often cut off without saying a word and act the way for heaven.
The leader of the crooked mouth looked at Meng Qi and Mo Li, and felt that the two were young and good-looking, and they were probably the kind of young people who came from a martial arts family and started to show their talents, so their mouths softened.
"Boss, why are you being polite to them..."
"shut up!"
The head of the crooked mouth stopped, he squeezed out a smile and said to Meng Qi, "If you give face and send a little money, the brothers will help you. To be honest, there are not only people looking for money near Zhuhou Temple. In our family, there are no powerful people, but there are quite a lot of white pigeon immortals. Often pretending to be lost business travelers or women, weeping and crying to win sympathy to walk with passers-by, and when they arrive in a town dozens of miles away, they swarm up and identify the other party for abducting women. , I have to drag them to see the official, forcing people to lose money. Although they have martial arts skills, they don’t want to go a long way, so they have to deal with a few liars! Our brothers are in the Zhuhou Temple, and they have a lot of prestige. There are still some, we are escorted by us, keeping those who are young and dare not get close."
Meng Qi raised his eyebrows and said, "According to what you said, isn't this neighborhood a liar's nest?"
The head of the crooked mouth froze for a while, but he was still reluctant to give up.
As more and more people suffer, people who often run business will no longer pass by here, only some uninformed foreigners stray here, and poor scholars who are penniless.
There are too many sheep and few sheep, and Rao is the leader of the crooked mouth who occupies the best position. Maybe he has not been able to eat enough for a long time. Today, I heard that there were two horses and a car coming in. Everyone was very happy. Seeing that the rut came from the dock, it was probably a pedantic scholar who wanted to visit the Zhuhou Temple.
It doesn't matter if you have money or not, as long as you scare away two horses, you can eat meat!
As a result, horse meat could not be counted on at all, and the head of the crooked mouth was not reconciled. He exerted his natural instinct of squeezing out a tael of oil from a stone, and used a three-inch tongue to persuade Meng Qi to give him some road money.
The little abacus in the leader's heart rattled. What trouble do those young Yingjie from the famous and upright do not want to get involved in? Isn't it a lawsuit or collaborating with government officials to catch fast and deceive people? If you cause trouble for the teacher, can you still have good fruit to eat when you go back
Seeing the person pretending to be a corpse babble and ask for money in different ways, Lu Min was furious.
"What kind of liar? Dare to come one, Ben... I will beat one up! I don't think it's troublesome, and I don't think my hand hurts!"
The head of the crooked mouth was very surprised, the master did not say a word, why did a driver speak
However, Meng Qi was not prepared to give them face.
"Your wicked method is from Xiangxi to drive corpses out." Meng Qi's face sank, and he shouted, "Tell me, why are you pretending to be a ghost here to scare people?"
The crooked mouth leader took a step back and looked alert.
Seeing that the situation was not good, one of his men quietly retreated and wanted to run.
"Ah!" The fleeing man fell to the ground in shock.
Everyone turned their heads in unison, and was shocked to find that Mo Li, who was in the other direction just now, was blocking the way of a runaway at some point.
The impulsive guy picked up the iron stick and rushed over, but a gust of wind caused him to turn around in a foolish half circle, and when he stopped, he found himself back to the original position.
This strange phenomenon shocked them.
Fortunately, these people were brave and knowledgeable, so they didn't shout about ghosts without shame.
The leader of the crooked mouth realized that the origin of Meng Qi Mo Li might be different from what he thought. He desperately thought of a way to get out, but Meng Qi didn't give him a chance to come up with lies. picked up.
The sound of instilling internal force appeared in the ear like a thunderbolt.
"Where is your old nest? Where are you hiding in the daytime, is it Zhuhou Temple?"