"Master just takes care of the outside business, how can I be bothered by these household matters?"
Zhuzhou had no choice but to sit aside in silence, tapping his knee impatiently with one hand.
"In front and back, there are almost ten people."
Yun Kong didn't say anything, and pondered quietly for a while before asking: "Did any new residents enter your house three years ago?"
"No, it happened more and more after the strange disease happened." After thinking about it, she added, "That's when Ningxiang came in."
"It's not the people who came later..." Yun Kong thought.
"Do you have anything else to ask, Taoist Master?" Madam urged, implying that it was very late.
"If you don't mind the trouble, madam, could you please write down the names, genders, ages and dates of death of all the deceased?"
"This..." Madam looked confused.
"With these names, poor Taoists can be saved for them, so that their ghosts will not leave and the family will be uneasy, which will affect Master Yu's business."
After hearing this, the lady immediately agreed: "It's not difficult. I'll check the family's accounts and see who bought the coffin on which day."
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Yun Kong, who was extremely tired, fell asleep in a daze, and kept having nightmares. He thought he woke up several times, but found that he was still in the dream.
When Ningxiang died, a hand touched him. He felt exhausted on the spot, as if a piece of his body had been dug out. The red coal fire in the room could not warm his body at all, nor could it fill his body. The lost part.
In his sleep, he saw a person standing next to the bed. His face was as thin as a skeleton. This thinness reminded people of Ningxiang's death.
"Is it the seducer? Am I going to die?" Yun Kong couldn't help but have ominous thoughts, imagining that he would be included in the list of the dead in Yu Mansion.
The seducer beside the bed held his hand, and he felt a warmth coming from his palm, like an empty bottle being filled with warm water. He immediately felt much more comfortable, and the brazier became too stuffy.
The seductress-like figure disappeared, disappearing behind the red light of the coal fire.
Yun Kong was sweating all over his body. He was so exhausted that he didn't even want to wipe the sweat away, so he fell into a deep sleep.
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In the cemetery outside the city gate, residents and passers-by for hundreds of years are buried, and the tombstones are scattered in a messy manner.
Since the Qin Dynasty destroyed the Wei Dynasty, the Yellow River has flooded several times, Kaifeng City has been almost completely destroyed several times, and the tombstones have been washed away. Therefore, the cemetery is filled with people from one generation to the next, regardless of seniority.
The new tomb was much farther from the city gate, and there were more crows noisily arguing about how to divide the food.
Yunkong stepped on the wet mud, and the corners of his eyes lingered on the dead baby at his feet. The intestines of the dead baby had been hollowed out, and the lovely fat meat had long been eaten by the crows, and it was scattered into a pile of debris. .
Yun Kong continued to count steps and followed the instructions on the note to find Mo Lan's tomb.
Mo Lan was the first deceased that Mrs. Yu said.
When he found the half-rotted wooden sign, he didn't dare to deduce the remaining writing on it.
The paint on the wooden sign has almost peeled off, but the words "Gao Men Liu" at the beginning can still be distinguished.
"Gaomen..." Yun Kong murmured in his heart, his brows couldn't help but wrinkle.
"That's right, it's Gao Lu." A voice from behind said firmly.
The voice was very familiar. Yun Kong immediately recognized who it was and turned around and said, "Chi Chengzi, are you finally here?"
"I've been here for a long time."
Within two years, Chi Chengzi had grown hair on his head. His eyebrows were sparse and he had a little beard. His long hair was not tied into a bun, but was tied into a ponytail. His face was still as thin as a skeleton.
Yun Kong thought of the seducer beside the bed last night and suddenly realized: "Were you the one who saved me last night?"
Chi Chengzi nodded and admitted: "It's me."
Yunkong was surprised and happy. She wanted to ask him why he appeared in Yu Mansion, but what he asked instead was: "Where did you go after we were separated that year?"
Chi Chengzi shook his head: "I didn't see you after I came out of the cave."
"I was captured by officers and soldiers."
"I see. No wonder there was a military camp nearby at that time." Chi Chengzi said, "That's strange! We entered the cave from Juqu Mountain, but the place we came out of was Chang Mountain. Is it the same for you?"
"I want to ask you too! Why exactly? The exit that Sister Jian pointed out to us was actually not the place where we came in, right?"
"It seems that maybe there is a path to the cave in the cave, not a path to the world." Suddenly, Chi Chengzi couldn't help but smile and said excitedly, "Mei Jian is still waiting for me, until this matter is resolved. , next year the entrance to the mountain stream will be opened, and I will go back."
Chi Chengzi has really changed.
In the past, he wandered around the world and acted erratically.
I remember that he once had no eyebrows, no eyelashes, no hair on his face, and no hair on his face.
He grew his hair and beard, suddenly felt refreshed, and his cold eyes became full of hope.
Because now, there is already a beloved woman in his heart.
Yunkong was very happy to see him again, but his mysterious appearance made Yunkong feel strange.
He even suspected that Chi Chengzi was the murderer just now.
"Let's talk about the Dongtian thing later," Yunkong pointed to Molan's wooden tomb plaque: "Many servants have died in Yufu now. This one was the first one to die three years ago. If this is Gao Lu Gao Lu’s wife... Gao Lu is a member of the Yu family, but I haven’t seen him yet. I’m afraid he married this wife in the Yu family.”
"Mo Lan was originally a maid of the Yu family. It was obviously the Yu family who arranged for her to marry Gao Lu."
"Does Gao Lu have something to do with this matter?"
"Those who make mistakes are easy to make mistakes again." Chi Chengzi's eyes suddenly showed murderous intent: "Twenty years ago, he stole my master's sword skills and I disabled his martial arts. Today, twenty years later, I want to take him away." life."
"Do you think those people... were harmed by him?"
"I know he did it." Then he said, "You know it too."
"I?"
"When he killed Ningxiang last night, he touched you."
Yun Kong was shocked: "How do you know?"
What Yun Kong wants to ask is, how did Chi Chengzi know that someone had touched him? How did you know that person was Gao Lu?
"Because I saw it with my own eyes," Chi Chengzi raised his chin: "I arrived at Yu Mansion a few steps ahead of you, and I have been living there for a month."
Although Chi Chengzi behaved strangely and was always gloomy, he never told a lie to Yun Kong.
"I don't understand. You saw it with your own eyes, but Gao Lu didn't know you were by his side?"
"I'll let you understand right away." Chi Chengzi took a few steps back and spread his arms: "Look, I'm here."
Yun Kong looked at him intently, for fear of missing something.
"Then, I disappeared." As soon as Chi Chengzi finished speaking, his body slowly disappeared.
His figure faded in the air, getting lighter and lighter, revealing the messy graves behind him.
If he hadn't known about it in advance, Yun Kong would have thought he was encountering a ghost in broad daylight.
Yun Kong put his right hand around the corner of his mouth and whispered: "Chichengzi, have you learned the invisibility technique?"
"No," Chi Chengzi's voice sounded, and Yunkong saw him. It turned out that he had never left his original position, "I am not invisible, I am just hiding my energy."
"What is hidden energy?"
"The meridians all over my body have been opened by Master, and I can freely control my own Qi. As long as I hide this Qi, the surrounding creatures will not feel my presence."
Yun Kong thought thoughtfully: I remember that once, my master’s broken shoes turned into a tree.
That time, when a large group of "gu" caught up, the master imagined himself as a tree.
When his mind completely believed that he was a tree, the Qi in his body also changed its characteristics, and his whole body exuded the breath of a tree, causing the Gu group to mistake it for a tree and turn its direction.
"The five senses can sense the Qi around me," Chichengzi said. "The eyes can see the tangible Qi, and the ears can hear the sound Qi. Once I close the acupuncture points all over my body to prevent my Qi from being felt by others, others will not be able to see me. , can’t hear me, can’t smell me.”
"Has no one noticed you when you were in and out of Yufu?"
"Only Gao Lu almost discovered me."
Yun Kong was surprised and asked: "Is Gao Lu that powerful?"
"He has also learned the art of controlling air, and his techniques are very skillful." Chi Chengzi's face darkened: "He is actually a very smart person. When he was my master's servant, we always despised him..."
"What is his origin?"
"Master only said that he was a picked-up child and did not disclose the rest."
"He is really amazing," Yun Kong said with lingering fear, "He only touched me once last night, and I felt like I was about to die. It's a shame that I still have the power to practice quietly, let alone other people who haven't practiced?"
