Late at night, there was light rain in the sky.
Outside Liangcheng, on the small road out of the city, the old horse pulling the cart was groaning and stumbling.
The moonlight filtered through the leaves and fell on the face of the old man driving the carriage, reflecting a bit of panic that was beyond words.
Inside the car, a candlelight shines through the curtains, shaking from time to time with the bumps of the carriage. A figure can be vaguely seen holding a candle in the car and reading at night.
On both sides of the path, the sound of insects was endless.
Only the sound of wheels rolling over the soil broke the harmony in the forest.
The old man driving the carriage swallowed, and cautiously stuck his head out to look behind the carriage. After just a confused glance, he quickly looked away in fear.
"Still...still there." The old man subconsciously touched his forehead, which was already covered with fine sweat.
The old man was talking about the young man dressed as a scholar following the carriage.
The young man was about in his early twenties, wearing a faded green and ink gown, and holding a folding fan in his hand.
The folding fan was obviously not opened, but the young man was pretending to swing it and looking left and right from time to time.
This pose does not look like a scholar on a late night journey, but rather like a scholar and poet out for an outing.
He was carrying a cloth package behind him and a simple long sword slung around his waist. The red sword spikes flickered as he walked, giving him a sense of agility.
The old man didn't dare to think about the young man's appearance anymore. He turned to look at the car behind him and asked in a low voice: "Miss, that man has already followed us all the way."
After a while, a calm female voice sounded in the carriage.
"Maybe we're on the same road."
"Miss, that man has followed you since the day when you and I entered the city." The old man's voice was low, but there was anxiety in his tone, "We have been traveling for a whole day! In these barren mountains and ridges, there is no way to reach the village. Don't leave the store, if that person has malicious intentions..."
"Then stop and wait for a while. If we are just traveling together, you might as well give him a ride."
"What if not?"
The young lady didn't respond, as if she was too lazy to pay attention to the coachman's inquiry, or she didn't know what to do.
The carriage stopped.
In just a few breaths, the young man behind came to the carriage.
He paused, first glanced at the tense coachman, and then his eyes fell on the small window of the carriage.
The young man's eyes reflected the candlelight through the car window and seemed to shine brightly.
With a faint smile on his lips, he asked:
"Why don't you leave?"
"This young master, I haven't asked for advice yet..."
"I'm in Lin Ji, Qingyang County."
"Master Lin."
There was another moment of silence.
The young lady in the carriage said: "Young Master Lin has followed you all the way. Where are you going, sir? If you are going the same way, you might as well go with my master and servant. It is a lonely road, but there are many companions to talk to."
"We're not on the same road." Lin Ji shook his head.
"Then why does the young master keep following behind? Could it be that he has malicious intentions?" The young lady's tone became more severe, "The laws of the Great Qin Dynasty are strict and the young master has a dignified appearance. He shouldn't be so unwise."
Lin Ji was obviously a little surprised when he heard what the young lady said. The smile on his face was a little thicker, but it quickly faded.
"Miss, what's your surname?"
"Excuse me, my surname is Luo."
"Miss Luo is going to the capital, right? Her surname is Luo... She should be a descendant of Luo Xuanyi, the prime minister of the dynasty, and the eldest lady of the Luo Mansion?"
Lin Ji looked at the word 'Luo' on the carriage and chuckled: "Miss Luo, don't worry, I'm not a bad person, I just happen to be going to the capital."
In the carriage, Miss Luo frowned slightly and put down the rolled-up book in her hand.
"Then when I asked the young master if he was traveling the same way, why did the young master deny it?"
Lin Ji did not answer, but stretched out his hand and said, "Miss, do you have any personal tokens that you want to take back to the capital?"
"Token?" Miss Luo didn't know why, she just felt that Lin Ji was a little confused.
But with this thought in her mind, she subconsciously took off a small sachet from her waist and handed it out through the car window.
"This is the sachet my mother made for me. I have never left this sachet since I was a child."
After handing over the sachet, Miss Luo came to her senses as to why she had given something personal to a stranger.
After Lin Ji took the sachet, he unfolded the folding fan in his hand and swayed one by one. However, he ignored Miss Luo and directly crossed the carriage and continued forward along the path.
The driver, who was already so frightened that the hair on his body stood up, only stared at this moment and said: "Miss, that... that person's fan..."
"What's wrong with the fan?" Miss Luo was puzzled.
"The white fan has the word 'cut' in it!"
Miss Luo's expression froze.
"Jian Tiansi?"
The reputation of Supervisor Tiansi is even better than that of government officials among the people.
The troubles caused by demons and ghosts are a thousand times scarier than the villains who rob homes and homes.
Lin Ji's figure disappeared in the distance.
But just when Miss Luo was about to give instructions to set off, an erratic voice sounded in the ears of the master and servant again.
"Although they are all going to the capital, people and ghosts take different paths, so how can they be considered to be on the same road?"
The master and servant were stunned on the spot.
"Humans and ghosts... have different paths?" Miss Luo muttered a few words, seeming to understand something.
Looking back, the tired old horse and the driver had disappeared.
She picked up the bronze mirror in the carriage, but she couldn't see her appearance in the mirror.
"Am I...am I...dead?"
...
"A month ago, the eldest lady of the Luo family in the capital came to Liangcheng to visit relatives, but she didn't expect to encounter a gangster on the way."
"The guards of the Luo family's motorcade all died miserably in order to protect them, but they also forcibly escorted Miss Luo to a place less than a mile outside Liangcheng... It's a pity that they couldn't spare the manpower to go to Liangcheng to ask for help. In the end, they fell short and were killed. The bad guys are catching up."
"According to what the Yamen official said, Miss Luo committed suicide because she was desperate and didn't want to fall into the hands of the bad guys."
Lin Ji was walking alone on the path in the forest. The folding fan in his hand was opened and placed above his head to block the rain, but the smile just now was no longer visible on his face.
"Ghosts after death think they are still alive and want to return to the capital." Lin Ji shook his head secretly, "If no one points it out, after arriving in the capital, the ghosts will be shocked by the monstrous dragon energy before entering the city. His soul was so shattered that he even lost the chance to be reincarnated."
Today's Great Qin Dynasty is just when the new king has just ascended the throne and the dragon's veins are tumbling.
The capital is the place where the country's dragon energy gathers. Ordinary monsters, ghosts, ghosts, and monsters can't even get close to it, let alone enter the city.
Lin Ji rubbed the sachet in his hand.
"If it were normal, a kid like this who has never harmed anyone would be let go... But in today's world, a lonely ghost without any cultivation, even if it is taken by the monsters in the mountains and made into a ghost, It’s all considered lucky.”
Lin Ji thought again of the case files he had seen in the Liangcheng Supervisory Office not long ago.
In the demonic way of killing people and refining their souls, they need to burn the ghosts who have not yet lost consciousness with spiritual fire for seven or forty-nine days, in order to obtain a little bit of soul energy that is better than nothing.
Even the toughest ascetic monk may not be able to bear such pain.
In addition, there is the Ghost King City outside Liang City. There are often ghosts and ghosts under the Ghost King wandering around at night, either catching lonely ghosts or killing pedestrians, and then arresting lonely ghosts.
As for what he was going to do after he was taken back, Lin Ji didn't know and didn't want to know.
But it's not always a good thing.
"So, it's better to be reincarnated, at least you don't have to suffer anymore after death. Life is only a few decades, but if you become a ghost and are caught by others, that is the real torture."
Lin Ji took out a small book from his arms. On the cover of the book were written the words "Cause and Effect Book".
Turning to a blank page, I made two random gestures with my fingertips.
A line of small words suddenly appeared.
'Miss Luo Family's Sachet in Beijing'
In an instant, Lin Ji felt vaguely that something was wrapped around him.
He knew very well that this was Miss Luo's cause and effect, and this cause and effect could only be resolved after returning the sachet.
After the cause and effect recorded in the cause and effect book is resolved, Lin Ji will receive some mysterious and mysterious blessings.
Is it the blessing of heaven, or is it something else?
Lin Ji couldn't figure it out, maybe it was something like merit.
Anyway, this book of karma has been by his side since he came to this world.
Moreover, after he used the Book of Cause and Effect to complete the cause and effect he took over, there was no bottleneck in his cultivation, and his journey was smooth and his progress was extremely fast.
In his early twenties, he already had the strength to open up the spiritual realm in the third realm. This was not a speed that could be explained by talent.
In addition, every time he completes the cause and effect for others, he will get good luck the next day.
It can range from enlightenment through cultivation to picking up heavenly and earthly treasures; to rare delicacies found in accidents, or simply picking up money on the road.
Although most of the time, gifts from cause and effect are better than nothing for Lin Ji.
But this gift of completing karma for others has never been absent.
"After I go to the capital to report my work, when I leave, I will go to Luo's house and return this sachet."
Putting this matter aside for the moment, Lin Ji saw a mountain temple ahead.
It happened that the rain in the forest was getting heavier and heavier, so this was a good place to take shelter from the rain.
He walked a little faster, almost jogging, and arrived in front of the temple. There were lights flickering in the temple, and the sound of conversation could be heard.
"They are pedestrians like me who are traveling at night and are taking shelter here from the rain."
Thinking in his mind, Lin Ji bowed his hands at the temple gate.
"It's raining heavily in the forest. Please make a place for me to shelter for a while. We'll leave as soon as the rain stops."
While talking, Lin Ji had already stepped into the mountain temple with one foot.
But when he saw the scene in the temple, a bitter smile appeared on his face.
"This is a lucky coincidence."
"Everyone, how about pretending that I have never been here?"
