Zhang Wenfeng noticed that the yin energy in this place was too strong, so he didn't say anything and followed Wu Youde up Xihe Mountain and around to the southeast slope.
What comes into view is the hillside full of gray and white rocks, shrubs and trees, occasionally hiding a few incomplete stone tablets and graves.
Various faded and broken hanging paper strings are still floating on the branches of the shrubs.
The wind tore the paper and made a rattling sound.
Under the big sun, ordinary people will definitely feel anxious.
Wu Youde pointed to the gray stone with a few pools of dried blood in front of him and said: "The two foreign men died here. The nearby rocks and trees have traces of slashing and stabbing with swords. They were trapped before. There are so many people on this rocky slope in the middle of the mountain. They kept walking all night and couldn’t get out no matter how hard they walked.”
Zhang Wenfeng scanned carefully.
Under the piles of rocks, weeds, and shrubs, there are many plants with dark green leaves and dark green stems that are more than a foot tall.
A solitary black-red flower bud as big as an egg hangs half way from the branch, which is very eye-catching.
The surveyor looked at the crime scene, settled along the gap on the hillside, continued walking up, and asked: "Old Wu, you have been to Xihe Mountain several times. Didn't you find anything wrong here?"
Wu Youde looked around, suddenly remembered something, and said with a smile: "Sir, do you mean that there is too much yin energy here?"
As a scattered Taoist priest, he could naturally see such obvious things. When Master Zhang nodded slightly, he explained:
"This hilltop is close to the town, and it is a gravel hill. It is difficult to cultivate. I don't know since what age, this place has been used as a mass grave. The floating corpses that were drowned in the river were dragged here and buried directly. Over the years, This is what happened here.
Very few people usually go up the mountain, and only at the end of autumn, when winter is approaching, do nearby villagers come to collect herbs. It is said that this place produces some medicinal herbs such as Aconite and Qianjinba, which are of good quality and can be sold at a good price. The villagers always work together in groups of three or two and do not dare to go up the mountain alone. "
Zhang Wenfeng pointed to a drunken flower and asked, "Is anyone picking this?"
Wu Youde had a look of discomfort on his face and said: "When I came here the day before yesterday, I saw a lot of these things. I asked the local guide who led the way. They said this is called 'Ghost Eye Flower', which is a dead man's flower and is poisonous." , unlucky, no one picked it.”
He also saw Master Zhang finding a ghost-eyed flower from the captured thief, and asked in a low voice: "Sir, is there something wrong with this flower?"
Zhang Wenfeng knew that the ghost-eyed flower was somewhat similar to the intoxicating flower with its petals closed, but the shape of the petals, the core in the middle, the number of petals, etc. were very different, and the smell was also different. The ghost-eyed flower gave off a faint rancid smell.
He did not answer Lao Wu's question and asked: "Was there anything weird here before? Like it was haunted or something."
"Yes, every two or three years, there will always be one or two ghosts, which scare the nearby villagers and dare not go up the mountain to collect medicine."
"Oh, how did you solve it later?"
"Every time there is a haunting, the Taoist priests from Qingshui Temple are invited to come and perform rituals to collect the ghosts. It has always been smooth, but this time, even the Taoist priests from Qingshui Temple were trapped on the mountain for a night. It was impossible to evacuate, so the town asked Report it to Daolu Branch."
"How far is Qingshui Temple from here? What is its scale?"
Zhang Wenfeng continued to ask questions.
He stopped and saw a grasshopper growing in the grass in front of him. Its stems and leaves had withered.
There is a dark green drooping Buddleia flower growing next to it, which is almost two feet tall. It is nearly half taller than the ordinary Buddleia flower, and its stem is nearly twice as thick as the others. It looks particularly strong, and its buds are slightly larger than a baby's fist.
He used his spiritual eyes to look at it, and saw that the Intoxicating Heart Flower was emitting a faint black-red light.
This is an intoxicating flower.
The Intoxicating Heart Flower is relatively rare. It grows on sunny slopes with heavy yin and has requirements on soil quality. However, once it mutates into a spiritual plant, the mature Infatuated Heart Flower can produce the Intoxicating Heart Flower. The fruit can be used as medicine to refine elixirs and is very valuable. It's expensive.
He had some doubts that such a large area of Intoxication Flower was not an accidental wild thing?
The maturity period of the Intoxicating Flower Lingzhi is exactly three years.
And it's such a coincidence that this place is haunted every two or three years.
Wu Youde looked at Mr. Zhang who reached out to pinch the withered stems and leaves, and said: "Qingshui Temple is in Xihezhou Town to the northwest. It is about ten miles away from here. It is of average size. There seem to be five Taoist priests."
"Oh. How many days has it been since there was a ghost attack here?"
"It seems like six or seven days..."
Before they finished speaking, the two of them looked at the turning road down the mountain, and saw a man dressed as a traveler running towards them.
"Sir, it's not good, the thief was snatched away, and Mr. Che was also injured."
Hearing You Xi's call, Zhang Wenfeng shouted: "Let's go! Go back to town!"
That man had a drunken heart, and his companions were so courageous that they broke into the office in broad daylight, injured Che Sheng, and robbed the thief. This was a self-inflicted crime. I'm afraid those people were inseparable from the case.
The donkey was walking around on the sunny hillside. When it heard the visitor's greeting, it spread its hooves and jumped diagonally.
This place made it uncomfortable to stay, the air smelled bad, and it felt even weirder.
After reaching the foot of the mountain, the donkey no longer had the eerie feeling of being spied on by someone in the dark. It was a really weird place.
"What's wrong? Is there a ghost chasing you from behind?"
Zhang Wenfeng saw the donkey turning his head frequently and said a joke.
"It seems like there really is a ghost. When I'm walking on the hillside, I always feel like something is 'looking' at me. It's so eerie and chills my spine. I can't find where the thing is?"
The donkey didn't hide his words, he ran very fast on his feet and kept talking incessantly.
Zhang Wenfeng paused and then sent a message: "Take care of things in the town first and come back when you have time. That thing didn't spy on me. It probably wanted to scare you to death and run away from the hillside, so that we can chase you away... …That’s right!”
"What's wrong? Master, you're not talking well now. You always say half-sentences. In the words of an old lame man, it's very uncomfortable to tell you to shit in the middle and then take it back again..."
"It's good not to learn, but to learn some nonsense."
Zhang Wenfeng scolded the donkey and explained via voice transmission: "I noticed a ghost aura. I originally wanted to look around and look for it, but you helped me find it in advance. Let's come back later and think of a way to catch the hiding end." Get up ghost."
"Okay, okay, if you dare to scare me, I'll put it in a frying pan if you catch it."
"..."
Rushing back to the town, Zhang Wenfeng didn't notice that the idle people in the town were talking about what happened to the town hall. What he heard occasionally was that Xiheshan ghosts were beating the wall. Some guys were so idle that they were betting on how much money they would lose if they dared to go to Xiheshan for one night. etc.
Walking into the gate of the red courtyard, Xiangqi, Li Zheng, and three other tourists were all there.
After Wu Youde introduced him and greeted him hurriedly, Zhang Wenfeng walked into a house with a strong smell of medicine. Che Sheng was naked and naked, with a very ugly face. The wound had been cleaned and the golden sore medicine was applied. There were two of them. The town doctor was bandaging the wounds on his waist and abdomen.
"Master Zhang, this subordinate has neglected his duty..."
Seeing Zhang Wenfeng and Wu Youde come in, Che Sheng stood up and apologized.
Zhang Wenfeng waved his hand: "Sit down and heal your wounds first. Don't open the wounds. Tell me slowly, what's going on?"
"Yes, thank you for your understanding!"
Che Sheng waited for the doctor to go out after wrapping up his injuries and tell him what had happened.
He also didn't expect that someone would dare to go to the office to rob someone in broad daylight. After checking the thief's body, including whether there was poison in his mouth, he restored the thief's mandible. He just asked a few words, but the torture tools were not used. A masked man climbed over the wall from the back of the yard and broke in through the window.
He only blocked two moves before being stabbed once and kicked out. He couldn't get up for a while. Zhong Youxi, who accompanied the interrogation, was punched to the point of death and was unable to resist.
Zhang Wenfeng was silent for a while and asked, "Is the person coming here a monk in the Huaqi Realm?"
"Probably, he is extremely fast... just like when you captured the thief, so fast that your eyes can't keep up."
Che Sheng gave an example. He raised his head and glanced at Mr. Zhang's face, but could not see any change in his expression.
What happened to him was either big or small. He hoped that Mr. Zhang could help him say a few words to Dean Wu, but he didn't know how to ask for help.
"Monk!"
Zhang Wenfeng shook his head secretly. There were actually more monks in the county who were not registered and did not want to be subject to jurisdiction than those who were registered. This discovery made him wary.
Most of the monks who are not under the jurisdiction have no awe or have other motives.
The intoxicating flower in Xihe Mountain is not an ownerless thing, but involves the monk who suddenly appeared.
Things are getting more complicated and troublesome.
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