After hearing this, Zhao Sanshui remained silent for a while. He kept rubbing his left hand on the edge of the table, unable to tell what he was thinking.
"Brother Zhao, what worries do you have?" The grim-faced Taoist priest waited for a moment and finally couldn't help but said: "Although you and I have just met each other for the first time, I am definitely not a money-grubbing person. If Brother Zhao doesn't believe me, I am here." I swear in the name of my ancestor - I won’t take away any of the bright weapons in Dou, I only want Old Mrs. Qi’s life.”
"Same goes for me."
"Brother Zhao, you are a bit..." Meng Qingyao looked displeased: "We have dealt with each other a lot. When have I ever owed you anything? As for the Taoist Priest and the others, can we make an oath?"
Zhao Sanshui sighed softly and replied: "It's not that I doubt Brother Meng... or the two of you, it's really because of the things in that bucket, no one will be unmoved!"
"What is it that makes everyone tempted?" The Taoist priest with a grimace said disdainfully: "Is it mountains of gold and silver or Fucha's women?"
Zhao Laojin laughed when he heard this: "The Taoist priest really made you guess. The baby in that bucket is really a girl!"
"ah?"
"Alive." Zhao Sanshui said calmly.
"What do you two mean?" He Siniang frowned and said, "Does it mean that there is a living woman in that ancient tomb?"
"That's right~ I've lived in a bucket for hundreds of years, and I'm still alive and kicking when I come out. Do you think it's strange?"
"What on earth is going on?" The grim-faced Taoist priest straightened his body: "Such a bizarre news, do you two mind telling me about it?"
Zhao Sanshui nodded: "Now that I have told you, I have no intention of avoiding it. And when you understand this matter, you will understand why so many sects flocked here."
The story begins at the ferry in Gaoping Town.
The ferry in Gaoping Town is called "Taian Ferry". This Tai'an Ferry is very strange. What's so strange about it? It was not built on a stable part of the river, but rather bizarrely, it was built on a section of the river where the river was turbulent.
Rapid ferrying is a taboo in shipping.
This is not over yet. More than a hundred feet away from Tai'an Crossing, there is a reef along the river bank, about twenty feet high. Because it looks like a head, it is called "Ghost Head Reef" by the locals.
Guitou Reef has always been a very taboo place for local people. It is said that from the direction of the river, there is a faint mouth on the front of Guitou Reef, which is located just near the waterline. Whenever the river water rises and falls, bursts of noise will be heard from the Guitou Reef. The whimpering sounds seemed like there was an entrance to the underworld, and countless dead souls were escaping from their cages.
The Fukou Ancient Tomb that has been causing a lot of noise recently is actually on the Guitou Reef side.
Behind Guitou Reef are steep and continuous rocks along the river. The river water laps the shore all year round and is very slippery. In addition, there are many ghost stories derived from Guitou Reef, so it is almost a forbidden area with very few people. Get involved.
However, very few does not mean that there is none. There will always be some people in the world who are full and full, and do inexplicable things for some inexplicable purpose.
This overfed person in Gaoping Town is Jiang Sanwan, so named because he eats three large bowls of rice every meal.
Jiang Sanwan is in his thirties and has a good family background. However, because his parents died early, there is no one in the family to make the decision, so he is not married yet.
Moreover, Jiang Sanwan has a very ugly appearance, coupled with his idle character, he looks like a gangster. He has no friends in the town. He just wanders around all day. When he meets a decent woman with a good family, he will tolerate it. He kept teasing him, causing the neighbors to roll their eyes and curse when talking about him.
More than half a month ago, Jiang Sanwan went out to do his street work as usual after breakfast, and then accidentally heard a news from the townspeople, saying that there was a cave entrance not far from Guitou Reef. It was originally hidden under the water level, but due to the drought, the water level decreased, so it was unknown when it emerged from the water.
The two townspeople looked mysterious and mysterious, and said that there seemed to be the sound of a woman singing a cappella from deep inside the cave entrance.
When it came to women, Jiang Sanwan was immediately attracted to her, and that night, under the bright moonlight, he went to Guitou Reef alone.
Zhao Sanshui paused as he spoke, and then sighed: "This man is really courageous. He actually dares to go to the forbidden area mentioned by the townspeople alone at night."
"What happens after you go?" The three grim-faced Taoist priests were all fascinated.
Zhao Sanshui shook his head: "No one knows what happened that night, but...but the next day, there was an extra woman in the Jiang family's house."
"Ah?!" He Siniang said in surprise: "Isn't that woman the one Boss Zhao said..."
"Yes, a woman who has lived for hundreds of years. I heard that this woman seems to have been born around the time of the new dynasty."
"Born at the turn of the Han Dynasty..." The grim-faced Taoist priest pinched his fingers and calculated: "It must have been more than four hundred years ago. Is this possible? People are still alive?!"
"It's absolutely true. Most of the townspeople in the town have seen that woman and... burned her to death with their own hands."
"People were burned to death? Why?"
"East Qinzhou has encountered a severe drought that has not been seen in a century this year. The residents in the surrounding areas are already panic-stricken. However, this 'strange' woman appeared at this time. Naturally, people associated it with an ominous sign from the sky, so it became very popular." A few days ago, angry townspeople broke into Jiang's house, teamed up to snatch the woman away, and then set up a fire near Tai'andu and burned her directly to worship the heaven."
"Oh my God! Burning people to death in broad daylight, is there any royal law?"
"Pfft! The king's law?" Zhao Laojin couldn't hold back his laughter: "Is He Siniang a gangster? The sky is high and the emperor is far away. Are you talking about the king's law with the unruly people, or are you in the realm of the barbarians?"
"I'm happy!" He Siniang looked away angrily. This Zhao Laojin was not only straightforward, but also choked with words. If she hadn't asked for something from him, she really wanted to go up and slap him twice.
"Grumpy, I like it!"
"Brother, please stop saying a few words, huh? Where were we just talking?"
"That woman was burned to death." The grim-faced Taoist priest replied: "But I am a little curious. Jiang Sanwan has been kidnapped into the house by a woman as his wife. Will he let the townspeople snatch him away?"
"There was no way, because when the townspeople broke into Jiang's house, he was already crazy."
"Crazy... is it the kind of crazy that Pindao thinks? Or is he driven crazy by the townspeople?"
"He went crazy before, that is, within a few days after he came back from Guitou Reef and when the townspeople came to visit him, but no one knows the specific day."
"He doesn't have any servants at home? Didn't Brother Zhao say that Jiang Sanwan's family is pretty good?"
"Even a good family cannot withstand his corruption. Now the Jiang family actually doesn't have much foundation."
"This is so damned." The Taoist Priest with a grimace pondered and thought, and after a moment he said: "In other words, that woman has long been turned into ashes, and the only person who knows her details has gone crazy, so Zhao Brothers, what else are you looking for?"
