When we got back to Tang Danian's house, his wife and Xiaoli cooked a meal for us. There was no unusual movement in Zeng Laojin's house, and the black energy in the house seemed to be weakening, so we asked them to come over for dinner. After everyone had eaten, Dong Xuejuan, Zeng Laojin and his wife took their three children, as well as Professor Fan and his three apprentices, and took them all back to Lanzhou in two cars.
Shen Bing and I said we needed to continue observing the activities at Zeng Laojin's house and the cemetery, and we would stay here for another day before leaving. Of course, the second Hades stayed with us. This child only smiled when he was with Pippi and Zeng Laojin's two grandsons. Once they left, he became silent and autistic.
The main purpose of our staying here is not the cemetery, but the jade pendant from Zeng Laojin's family, and to find Lao Yan and Lao Qian at night and get the information we want.
After everyone left, we sat on chairs around the stove and slept for a few hours. When we woke up, it was dark. Tang Danian and his wife cooked dinner for us. After dinner, we said we wanted to go to the cemetery to take a look. Tang Danian wanted to come with us, but I said you should stay at home, otherwise your ancestors would suddenly jump out and we would not be able to protect you.
When Tang Danian heard this, he was so scared that he didn't dare to come.
After bringing the second Hades out of here, we really went to the cemetery first, but we were very cautious. We circled and hid behind a big tree far away, watching the cemetery for any abnormalities. After waiting for a while, I didn't see anyone appear, and I was worried. If the people from the Gate of Life and Death don't come, the old man's matter will have to be handled by my buddy.
I was a little impatient, so I used the soul-collecting spell to force Old Yan and Old Qian out. But I didn't expect that the two old bastards didn't show up, but a large number of wandering ghosts came. I had no choice but to dismiss them, make a spell, and chant the spell to call Ru Yu, the dead woman, over.
She had tied a ghost rope around her wrist that was specially made for her by her buddy. It would come at her call at any time. No matter where she was, she would chant a spell and a ghost would appear before her eyes within a minute.
Shen Bing was afraid of scaring the Second Hell King, so she hugged her in her arms and let her bury her face in her chest. I was so envious, I really wanted to switch places with the Second Hell King.
Today is the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, and the moon is big and round. Ru Yu looks haggard in the moonlight. Anyway, this ghost woman is often depressed, and there seems to be nothing wrong with this behavior.
"I am so grateful to you for saving Pipi's life. Last night, while trying to protect him, I was severely beaten by the snow demon and almost lost my soul." When Ru Yu said this, she coughed a few times and spat out a mouthful of black blood.
I took out a porcelain bottle from my bag, which contained some bottles of ghost medicine that I had taken from the store when I left Shangcheng Town this time. I picked out some powder from it and gave it to her. The dead woman knew at a glance that it was for her to heal her wounds, so she hurriedly took it with both hands, thanked her a few times, swallowed the powder, and went to have her tooth extracted.
"No need to give us the ghost tooth. Just tell us who you are working for in the underworld, and that's it." I waved my hand and said to her.
"I'm not quite sure who I'm working for. I only know that an old ghost named Yan often assigns tasks to me. He is new here. Previously, a man named Long passed on orders to me, but later I heard that the man named Long was transferred to the Reincarnation Management Office, so the man named Yan was in charge of me." Ru Yu answered truthfully, and she looked sincere, not like she was lying.
But this answer surprised Shen Bing and me. The old ghost surnamed Yan she mentioned was probably Old Yan, right? And this Long made us think of him even more. After Shen Bing and I looked at each other, I told her the features of Old Yan and Long Shaohui, and Ru Yu said they were the two of them.
Oh my god, these two bastards who were in cahoots with each other in the human world are still colluding with each other in the underworld, doing no good. No wonder Old Yan became a ghost messenger, this should be the road paved by Long Shaohui who died in Huangshan Yixiantian a long time ago. This group of bastards are the traitors in the underworld!
"Don't you know who is above the man with the surname Yan and the man with the surname Long?" I asked.
Ru Yu shook her head: "It is impossible for a wild ghost like me who has no achievements to know who is above me."
What she called fame and honor was her official status. She only worked for the officials, but she had no fame and honor, and she only got some benefits from the higher-ups. Ruyu said that otherwise it would never be her husband and son's turn to reincarnate, and that was because she was doing things for them. Later, she heard that her son was destined to have a short life in the next life because he did not accumulate virtue in his previous life. In this life, he was transferred to Lanzhou, but it was said that he would not live past the age of ten, so after her dead husband died, she ran to Lanzhou to secretly protect Pipi.
I was silent for a while after hearing this. The death date written in the Book of Life and Death cannot be changed. In fact, we had already seen some clues about Pipi's fate. Because the note on the tail of the deceased fish did not mention what the child would do when he grew up, we guessed at that time that he would have a short life in this life.
Although it is possible to change one's fate against the will of heaven, I don't know how to break this fate with the authentic Taoist method. And Zhang Yunfeng changed his fate against the will of heaven in order to increase his lifespan, which caused harm to so many people. Alas, it can be seen that changing one's fate against the will of heaven is not something that can be done by the righteous way. And those with evil intentions did not get what they wanted in the end, but instead damaged their virtues and were punished by heaven, and could not even reach the realm of the dead.
Ruyu also told us what she had done for the underworld over the years. In fact, she not only helped the Gate of Life and Death to pass messages, but also helped Zhao Chengshi to pass messages. For example, when we were reincarnated in the hospital, it was Ruyu who told Zhao Chengshi about this through the Wangxiangtai. Shen Bing and I couldn't help but wonder. In the Death Valley, we saw that Zhao Chengshi and Boss Gu were irreconcilable. They were not in the same group at all. How could this traitor in the underworld help two groups of people who were so hostile to each other at the same time
In fact, these things are not completely incomprehensible. This is very similar to the methods used by ancient emperors. Take Kang Xi of the Qing Dynasty for example. He was not unaware of the fierce party struggles among his subordinates, but he turned a blind eye and allowed the two factions to fight each other. He was a wise emperor in history, so why would he do such a foolish thing? The answer is simple. If the subordinates were united, they might rebel and he would lose his throne. In this way, the two factions would fight each other and undermine each other, and there would be no crisis of power. This is also his brilliance.
I guess that in order to prevent the Life and Death Sect from becoming too powerful in the world, the traitors in the underworld deliberately cultivated Zhao Chengshi's power to contain them. Although Zhao Chengshi is dead, I think the traitors in the underworld will cultivate another force to oppose the Life and Death Sect. Thinking of this, I suddenly understood why the Life and Death Sect was in internal strife. This must be the masterpiece of the traitors in the underworld!
But Ruyu was only responsible for delivering some messages, and the messages were all sealed in a "ghost scroll", that is, a bamboo slip from the underworld, which she could not see. So she had never seen what Yingwu of the Gate of Life and Death looked like, and she didn't know who the leader of the rebellion was. Because the ghost scroll was delivered to Liu Datou, the reincarnation of Guicun's dead husband, she had nothing to do with it.
Ruyu was talking when she suddenly shut her mouth and said to us in a low voice, "Someone is coming!"
I thought to myself, maybe they are from the Gate of Life and Death, they are so patient, coming only now. As expected, I turned around and saw a slender figure among the two black shadows, who looked very much like Dai Tou Ji.