"Qi Jingzhi, do you still remember why I gave you this name?"
"Students, remember! Qi Jing means solemn respect. Master named me Jing Zhi to encourage students to be sincere and respectful, to respect Heaven and the Patriarch, to behave in an upright manner, and to respect me without any shame!"
Facing Master Meng's sharp gaze like a knife, the young man answered solemnly, as if a ball of fire was beating in his eyes.
He looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar teacher in front of him and felt that all the thoughts in his heart were clearly visible under the other person's gaze and could no longer be concealed.
Qi Jingzhi didn't want to cover it up either.
He gritted his teeth and said: "The yamen officer Chen Er used the tiger hunter to coerce him into asking for bribes. My grandpa and I have no money at home. How can we feed him? We are looking at a situation where the whole family is ruined! I tested it and found that he was acting on his own initiative. , had no accomplices, so he simply stabbed him to death and buried him in the mountains!"
Master Meng's expression did not change when he heard this, and his eyes were still sharp and cold, pointing directly at people's hearts: "Is what you said true?"
"Every word is true, no lies! The student's knife head is stained with blood, and he feels no guilt!"
Qi Jingzhi replied categorically: "I did this alone, and I didn't know anything about it from beginning to end."
"There is still some responsibility!"
Master Meng sneered and pressed the young man's shoulders: "You come with me!"
The next moment, Qi Jingzhi felt a strong force coming from his shoulders, and he was almost lifted off the ground.
This kind of strength is not much different from that of Jinyun messenger Dong Mao.
Master Meng lifted his feet and walked away. He was still pacing, but he was as fast as a normal person running.
Qi Jingzhi was surprised, but he didn't dare to struggle at all. He quickly followed suit and finally ran away.
In just a moment, the two of them had arrived outside the Meng family private school.
Master Meng dragged Qi Jingzhi into the courtyard gate and said to the dozen or so Meng boys who were sitting neatly in the room: "I have something to do today and I have half a day off. You can go as soon as possible!"
A group of children looked at each other for a while, with surprises on their faces. They stood up hurriedly, saluted to Master Meng, and ran out the door after me.
On normal days, these children would inevitably be scolded and even slapped on the hand, but today, although Master Meng had a cold face the whole time, he said nothing.
After the children had all left, the door of the private school suddenly closed automatically without any wind and slammed shut.
Master Meng pointed to the bamboo cage in the young man's hand, and then went into the house by himself.
Qi Jingzhi looked at the other person's back as he walked into the house, feeling suddenly uneasy for no reason.
Even if he has no guilt in his heart, killing is killing and breaking the law is breaking the law!
Facing Dong Mao, who was shouting and killing, Qi Jingzhi could still be as stone-hearted and calm-faced. But when he walked into this private school and faced his beloved teacher since childhood, the fifteen-year-old boy seemed to have changed again. The child who once practiced writing stroke by stroke.
"What are you still doing?" Master Meng urged in the room.
Qi Jingzhi composed himself, put down the bamboo cage against the courtyard wall, and walked in quickly.
Master Meng was already sitting behind the desk. He ignored the young man. Instead, he looked up at the beams and asked in a majestic tone that the young man had never heard before: "Where is Riyou?"
Almost as soon as he finished speaking, a voice responded in the air: "Yes! I have seen the company in my humble position!"
Qi Jingzhi was startled. He raised his head and looked around, only to see that the sky above the beams was empty and there was nothing.
Master Meng asked again: "Has the spirit of the dead returned to Xiaosong Mountain recently?"
After he asked this question, he suddenly turned to Qi Jingzhi, his expression solemn and his eyes as bright as lightning.
The young man was startled, and then he answered with great happiness: "It happened yesterday morning, on the low slope outside the mountain pass to the east of Shanqian Village."
The voice in the air was silent for a while, and then sounded again: "Reporting to the company, the heads of the Second Department of Rapid Reporting and Picketing and all the officials of the Yin and Yang Department have all asked, and no dead souls returned to Shanqian Village yesterday."
After hearing the reply, Master Meng pondered for a moment and then said: "There is no mountain god in Xiaosong Mountain right now. The God's Mansion in the Underworld has been abandoned for a long time. There is only an old mandrill left to guard the door. The spirits of the newly deceased are all under the control of the City God. . Go and see if the old mandrill is still there? Are there any abnormalities in the Huangquan from Xiaosongshan to Yinsi in this county? Are there any ghosts breeding and wandering along the way that have not been apprehended? "
"The company will wait a moment, I will go and see you immediately."
After that, the voice fell silent again.
"That's strange... Chen Er has a lot of misdeeds. Even I have heard about it. He must have a lot of karma. He died suddenly again, and his soul must be in the underworld to await trial. Now he is missing?"
After saying that, Master Meng looked at Qi Jingzhi again, with a puzzled look on his face: "Although you have the aura of blood evil, you don't have any signs of being haunted by undead evil spirits. I guess Chen Er has not turned into a ghost to haunt you. "
When Qi Jingzhi met the other party's gaze, he felt that he was facing two bright lamps lighting up the dark room, illuminating himself brightly both inside and outside, as if all his thoughts were invisible.
The next moment, he heard the Master from the Yang World and the God of the Underworld asked solemnly and solemnly: "Chen Er has never done anything evil, but you said before that ghosts and gods are face to face and there is no way to avoid it. It shows that there are still some sneaky and sinister ways." You are hiding something from me... tell me!"
"It's not that the student intentionally deceived, it was just that he was in a hurry and didn't report it in time."
Qi Jingzhi explained, and then said: "After I killed Chen Er, I saw a skeleton exposed in the wilderness. I couldn't bear it, so I buried it together."
"Unexpectedly, that night, a faceless man who claimed to be a spiritual soul came. He kept saying that he wanted to repay the great kindness of convergence. As long as I offered my spiritual blood and blood, he would help me fulfill all my wishes. He also said that he would have Chen Er's dead soul. Proper cooking will completely eliminate future troubles..."
The young man did not mention the small bronze mirror. They all said that the common man was not guilty and was guilty of possessing the jade. Before he truly understood the value of the mirror and his current situation, naturally the fewer people knew about it, the better, even if it was a teacher he trusted very much. also the same.
Hearing this, Master Meng paused for a moment, and then said with a bit of annoyance: "Why didn't you tell me about such an important matter when I ordered Riyou to go investigate just now? It was a waste of a lot of my time!"
Although he said this, his expression became obviously much more relaxed, and he was no longer as solemn and dignified as before.
The originally gloomy and majestic atmosphere in the house, like a court trial, suddenly disappeared.
Qi Jingzhi suddenly felt relaxed, as if the invisible shackles had been removed.
With a smile on his face, he said politely: "Master drives ghosts and gods and orders and prohibitions. How majestic it is. How dare students interrupt..."
Master Meng glared at the young man and said angrily: "Don't do this! After all, this is a master-disciple affair. I know you have always been proud and arrogant, and you hate flattering others. Who do you want to show such an attitude now?" look?"
Qi Jing was startled, quickly put away his smile, bowed and said: "Master, please teach me a lesson!"
"I have a few words to tell you."
Master Meng stood up from his seat, walked around the room for two steps, looked sideways at the young man and said, "You have also seen that although I have a yang body, I have become a yin official. I am the yin and yang official under the seat of the city god of this county." The god in charge of Si. The laws of the human world and the laws of the underworld seem to be similar, but in fact they are distinct, so your murder...is not my business!"
Qi Jingzhi secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, but his face was still solemn and did not show any abnormality.
Seeing this, Master Meng snorted, and said with admiration and sarcasm: "You have a character that can make things happen, but it's hard to say whether you are loyal or treacherous."
He didn't wait for the young man to respond, then changed the subject and said: "Today you asked Lu Ao first and then the ghosts and gods. I think the root cause is this spirit. Tell me, it has promised you all kinds of benefits. Are you tempted? "
