Holy Bone

Chapter 149 The Invitation of Master Shanneng (6k chapter, please subscribe and ask for a monthly ticket)
This time, Mr. He still answered Jin'an's questions.

This matter had to be mentioned the day before the disappearance of the group of antique dealers.

The group of antique dealers agreed to the He family and agreed to take action against the He family to eliminate harm in Lingqian Township.

But that Mrs. Zhang who stole children to eat.

But it can hide well.

Mr. Yuan, one of the antique dealers, has been unable to catch Mrs. Zhang.

So, Mr. Yuan went to the He family again.

They asked Zhang who she hated the most in her life?
You don't need to ask about this matter, the "uncle" sold the eldest lady directly, saying that there is no one in Zhang's life that he hates more than the eldest lady.

Then he explained in detail the family ugliness of the He family and the conflict between Mrs. Zhang and the eldest lady.

After listening to Mr. Yuan, he made a request, saying that the ghost in Mrs. Zhang's stomach seemed to have given birth to a little spirit. He knew in advance that an exorcist would expel it, so he is hiding now.

Now there is only one way to force Mrs. Zhang to show up.

That is to find out the person Zhang hates the most, who is eager to eat his flesh and drink his blood, and then lead the snake out of the hole.

Since Da Furen is the person Zhang shi hates the most, she can only use Da Furen as bait to lure Zhang shi out.

Then, Mr. Yuan asked the He family who had the eldest lady's birth date, hair, old clothes, nails and other body and hair things?

……

When Da Furen heard this, her face was as cold as frost.

If He Liangchou is still here now, it is estimated that the eldest lady has already had a fit, and she directly let her "good uncle" step into the coffin earlier.

Mr. He continued to talk.

Because Lingqian Township is located in a remote area, far away from the prefectural city, the lady seldom returns to Lingqian Township. She only returns to Lingqian Township on important days such as festivals and ancestor worship ceremonies.

Therefore, there is no hair, nails, or old clothes of the eldest lady in He Jiazu's house.

As for the date of birth, the lady has been married to the He family for too long, who still remembers the date of birth 20 years ago, even the family tree does not have the date of birth of the lady.

Because the eldest lady is an outsider married into the He family, in the man's genealogy, it is a vassal written under the husband's name, with only a simple name and no date of birth.

The bad habit of men superior to women in the countryside indirectly saved the eldest lady from disaster.

Since Mrs. Zhang can't do it, she can only settle for the next best thing. If you want to say that Zhang's second most hated person is none other than the whole He family.

And among so many members of the He family, the person who hates the most is naturally He Liangchou who is heartless and divorced his wife.

He Liangchou was shooting himself in the foot.

Do not live by sin.

In order to get rid of the ghosts in Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Zhang's stomach as soon as possible, and because Mr. Yuan said that there is no danger, He Liangchou couldn't care less about anything, so he turned himself upside down and gave everything he had to those antique dealers .

I just want him to be safe as soon as possible.

And the day after the group of antique dealers got He Liangchou's birth date, hair, nails, etc., those people disappeared in Lingqian Township inexplicably.

But following the disappearance of the group of antique dealers, and the premature stillbirth of pregnant women in Lingqian Township, it also subsided.

So everyone in Lingqian Township is guessing whether the exorcism has been successfully exorcised?

At that time, Lingqian Township was immersed in joy, and even the He family temporarily put aside the fact that the antique dealer asked He Liangchou for his birth date, nails, hair, etc. for a while.

If it hadn't been brought up by the old Taoist priest today, they haven't thought of it yet.

The old men of the He family have now seen the ability of the old Taoist priest, and feel that the Taoist priest in front of him is definitely better than that Mr. Yuan.Therefore, they all regarded the old Taoist priest as an expert, respected him as a guest of honor, and humbly asked for advice on how to save their elder brother He Liangchou?

As the saying goes, at fifty one knows the destiny, and at sixty one listens to one's ears.

The older a person is, the more he believes in the metaphysics of Fengshui, Yin and Yang, fortune-telling, and physiognomy of old Taoist priests.

The old Taoist is not really a narrow-minded caring person. He has nothing to hide and tells everything he knows.

"According to my old guess, there are only two possibilities for these people to take away the birth date, body, hair and skin."

"One is really for the purpose of slaying demons."

"Secondly, these antique dealers have enmity with the He family..."

Before the old Taoist could finish speaking, he was immediately interrupted. An old man from the He family shouted that it was impossible!
The He family has always been kind and kind to others. In the past few drought years, they even opened a warehouse to release grain to many villagers in Lingqian Township. It is absolutely impossible for them to be hostile.

At this time, Mr. He scolded and told his third brother to shut up, not to be rude, and then apologized to the old Taoist priest and asked the old Taoist priest to continue talking.

The old Taoist didn't react too much. Instead, taking advantage of the interruption, he secretly took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and then continued to shake his head and continue talking: "Old Taoist, I guess that this group of antique dealers has something to do with the He family. Qiu, I believe everyone who is in charge of the He family has seen that the eldest wife and uncle are the best proof that these people are clearly here to rob the He family's fortune. It is not necessarily that the people in the He family's ancestral house have offended That group of people may also be some business enemy that Master He Guihe offended when he was doing business abroad."

"The eldest lady is in charge of all the internal affairs of the He family. If the eldest lady is in chaos, the He family's ancestral house and the backyard of the He mansion will catch fire, which will deal a big blow to He Guihe's business. These antique dealers wanted the eldest lady's birthday at first. , it is probably for this purpose. Fortunately, Da Furen's birth date is well kept and not easily leaked."

"Those people see that Da Furen's side is not going to work, so they can only settle for the next best thing, and turn their targets to other high-level members of the He family."

At this time, Jin An and the eldest lady all looked at the old Taoist priest.

Both of them felt that it was the most correct thing to bring the old Taoist priest (Chen Daochang) along this time.

Otherwise, no one of those antique dealers would be able to discover the real intention of repairing the plank road and secretly hiding the warehouse.

Especially the eldest lady, with a look of surprise on her face.

The old Taoist's deep concealment convinced all the He family members present.

However, the old Taoist priest has a rigorous personality, otherwise he would not have been able to travel all over the world for so many years and still be able to stay intact.

After the old Taoist said so much, he finally added: "Of course, these are all my personal conjectures."

"What's the real situation? You have to find the antique dealers to find out the truth. It doesn't rule out that the antique merchants are really dedicated to eliminating harm for the people. There is indeed a way to find Zhang who steals children's food to exorcise evil spirits."

This high-level family meeting of the He family lasted for half an hour. After learning about all the changes in the Zhang family in detail, Jin An took the old Taoist priest and Jian Jian out of the study for the time being.

Because the next thing is mainly to talk about some internal affairs of the He family, which are all lengthy and mundane, and Jin An has no interest in mixing them, so he made an excuse, saying that he would go to the Zhang family's big village and check to see if there are any other missing clues , left the study early.

Guard Li did not follow them.

After all, Guard Li still has to stay to protect the personal safety of the eldest lady.

Hearing that Jin An and the others were going to investigate the Zhang family's Dazhuangzi, Mr. He also appointed a bloodline of the He family to act as a temporary guide for Jin An and the others.

"I have met several Taoist priests. My name is He Yiming, and I am He Gui's uncle. If the Taoist priests have anything they want to know, or want to go to Lingqian Township to investigate, I can guide the Taoist priests. "

"I grew up in Lingqian Township since I was a child, and I know everything about the surroundings of Lingqian Township."

The visitor was a Confucian scholar in his 30s with a short beard.

Uh.

30-year-old uncle?

Speaking of the seniority rankings in the countryside, Jin An somewhat misses his 80-year-old distant nephew, who is in the same class as junior high school and high school, and always likes to take care of his squad leader sister-in-law.

After a brief self-introduction, Jin An learned that this 30-year-old uncle is a teacher in Lingqian Township.

Although he obtained fame in his early years, he resigned from office and went back to the countryside to become a teacher because of his unyielding character of scholars, and he was not used to the black and white of the court, and there were many parties.

At least children don't have so many cities.

Recently, because of a series of strange incidents in the Zhang family, people in Lingqian Township were in a state of panic, and the children stopped coming to the private school, so He Yiming, who happened to be idle, offered to be a guide for Jin'an and others.

Jin An was impressed by the pure literati mind of his uncle, He Yiming. These days, there are not many people who do not strive for fame, fortune, glory and wealth.

There are very few people with pure nature like Uncle He Yiming.

The group had a harmonious atmosphere along the way, talking and laughing, but it was a pity that Lingqian Township was not popular and there were no places to play, so after the group left He Jiazu's house, they went straight to Zhang Family's Dazhuangzi.

When they arrived at Zhangjiazhuangzi, they saw that the gate of Zhangjiazhuangzi's house had been sealed again.

Several Xiangyongs were standing at the gate of the house on duty.

Jin An thought about it, it seems that the eminent monk from Bailong Temple has left...

As a private school teacher, He Yiming is also a household name in Lingqian Township, so after He Yiming came forward to chat for a few words, the fellows from Lingqian Township tore off the seal and let them in.

However, according to the procedures in the yamen, it is still possible to be accompanied by a villager.

Speaking of which, Jin An had already seen the general situation of Zhang Family's Dazhuangzi when he was halfway up the mountain.

Therefore, Jin'an has a general understanding of the layout of the Zhang family's grand village.

After he entered Dazhuangzi, he first went to the kitchen.

There are two kitchens in Zhangjia Dazhuangzi, one is the east kitchen and the other is the west kitchen.

As in-laws of the He family and the Zhang family, He Yiming has been to the Zhang family's big village several times. According to He Yiming's explanation, the east kitchen of the Zhang family is in charge of the Zhang family's food, while the west kitchen is in charge of cooking for the servants.

Zhangjia Dazhuangzi is a big courtyard with three entrances.

In normal times, this place should have been bustling with dozens of people.

But now it is empty, a desolate, desolate scene.

The courtyard covered with fallen leaves, flower beds overgrown with weeds, bare dead branches, many wing rooms are covered with dust and covered with layers of cobwebs, and there is no one in Nuo Da’s village, empty and desolate, cold deserted.

This is not what a Yangzhai should look like.

Not at all popular.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a gloomy yin house.

There were even holes in many door frames, windows and doors, and a lot of stones fell in the yard. Jin An guessed that these stones should be the villagers venting their inner anger by throwing stones at Zhangjiazhuangzi.

"Ms. Zhang had an abnormality at the beginning, and was found by the servants to steal food in the kitchen in the middle of the night, and killed all the chickens raised in the chicken coop. I don't know if it happened in the east kitchen or the west kitchen?"

Jin An turned his head to look at the Xiangyong who accompanied him all the way.

Xiang Yong replied: "Master Zhang, Mrs. Zhang was discovered by a few servants in the West Kitchen that night."

So, a group of people came to the west kitchen.

But the place is clean and there is no blood stain. After all, the incident happened for too long. Even if there were traces, they would have been cleaned up by the Zhang family long ago.

Nowadays, there is not a single animal in the chicken pens and pigpens where the livestock are raised. I don’t know if they were eaten by the ghosts in Mrs. Zhang’s stomach whose appetite is getting bigger day by day, or they were divided up by the greed of the people...

The Xiangyong seemed to have seen the purpose of Jin An's trip. Seeing that Jin An had been checking the kitchen and the chicken coop, he couldn't help but said at last, "Master Shanneng who came from Bailong Temple just now has come to the Zhang family. Zhuangzi has seen it, and even Master Shanneng of Bailong Temple said that there is no abnormality found in Zhangjia Dazhuangzi."

The implication of this Xiangyong is that he looks down on Jin'an and the old Taoist priest, saying that they are looking for trouble for nothing, and it is unnecessary.

After all, when it comes to Bailong Temple, it is the number one temple in Fucheng.

The reputation of Bailong Temple has spread throughout the prefecture, and everyone knows that Bailong Temple is the number one Buddhist temple in the prefecture.

Even the eminent monks of the Bailong Temple said that Zhang Family's Da Zhuangzi couldn't see anything abnormal, so there must be nothing wrong with this Zhang Family's Da Zhuangzi.

"It seems that Mr. Yuan, one of the merchants who came to Lingqian Township to collect antiques, is really capable. Since that Mr. Yuan promised to get rid of the scourge for our Lingqian Township, no fetus has died in Lingqian Township. gone."

"Even if the Dazhuangzi of this family really hid something unclean, it must have been exorcised by Mr. Yuan and the others."

Xiang Yong said with sincere admiration, looking up to him.

But Jin An seemed to be talking to Xiangyong, as if he had never heard of it. Next, he continued to check the Zhang family's big village one by one.

It is also strange to say.

If all the dozens of members of Zhang's family were fed into Zhang's stomach, how could there be no blood stains of struggle?

Mrs. Zhang killed the chickens in the chicken coop, eating them all over her face, and there was blood all over the floor.

The blood volume of the human body is more than ten to twenty times that of poultry. If you want to kill a person, you will inevitably bleed all over the place.And if you want to kill dozens of people, the amount of bleeding is not something that you can hide if you want to hide it, even if you wash it with water, it can't be washed away.

Ke Nuoda is a big village of the Zhang family, with dozens of wing rooms, and every house is clean without blood stains.

The disappearance of this family is a bit...too abrupt!
In the end, the sky was getting darker and darker. Xiang Yong didn't want to stay in the deserted Zhangjiazhuangzi at night. Under Xiangyong's urging several times, the group of people walked out of Zhangjiazhuangzi.

boom!
The door of Zhang's house was closed, and those Xiangyongs re-attached the seal and left in a hurry.

It was obvious that these people didn't want to be on duty after nightfall in this uninhabited mansion that was more eerie than a shady mansion.

When Jin An walked out of Zhangjia Dazhuangzi, with the last ray of blood on his back, the old Taoist couldn't help asking Jin An: "Little brother, old Taoist, I saw you frowning when I saw you starting from Zhangjiaxi's kitchen. When you check a place, little brother, your brows are even more furrowed, even after you walk out of Zhang's house, your brows haven't been loosened yet. Did you find anything, little brother?"

Jin An shook his head.

"Didn't find it?"

"Then why are you frowning all the time, little brother?"

The old Taoist became even more curious.

Jin An groaned all the way, as if he was thinking about something. When the old Taoist waited so hard that he couldn't help but want to ask Jin An again, Jin An finally spoke at this moment: "As early as before, when the convoy passed by the gate of Zhang's house, , I have used the qi-watching technique on the Zhang family a long time ago, and as a result, under my qi-watching technique, the Zhang family is clean, without any yin, evil, or dead energy."

"According to common sense, if a place has experienced death or evil, then this place should be entangled with death or yin qi."

Jin An pondered, and continued: "In order to clear up my doubts, I entered the Zhang Family's Dazhuangzi just now, and used the Qi Watching technique to carefully inspect every place in the Zhangjia Dazhuangzi. This house is indeed too clean. , not even yin or death. It is as clean as dozens of members of the Zhang family were eaten overnight by ghosts in Zhang's stomach, but not even a drop of blood remains."

"It is precisely because the Zhang family is too clean, so there must be a demon if something goes wrong."

"I have two guesses in my mind..."

When Jin An said this, his voice paused slightly.

He glanced at He Yiming beside him.

Jin An intentionally avoided He Yiming, and whispered to the old Taoist: "One of the conjectures is that the Zhang family has never had any troubles, and the Zhang family has never been pregnant with ghosts. Someone is secretly pretending to be a ghost."

"As for the purpose, it is likely to be aimed at the eldest lady, or at the He family."

"As for another conjecture..."

"The Zhangjiazhuangzi was deliberately cleaned, and all traces were deliberately erased. I didn't want outsiders to discover the real secret hidden in the Zhangjiazhuangzi and Zhang's body. This secret may involve so much that the other party would not hesitate to do so. It took a lot of trouble, and all traces must be erased."

"And the person with the biggest problem here is the group of antique dealers who lived in Zhang's house for three nights."

"There are three days left for them to clean up the traces, enough to erase everything."

It's not that Jin An didn't trust He Yiming, and deliberately avoided He Yiming.

But being in a different place, he had to be careful in everything, he couldn't trust all outsiders except the old Taoist priest and Jian Jian.

After listening to Jin An's analysis, the old Taoist blinked at Jin An, also avoiding He Yiming, and said in a low voice: "Actually, back then in He Jiazu's house, the old Taoist still had a sentence to say..."

"That group of antique dealers should have come for Da Furen. It is estimated that their plan at the beginning was to plant a ghost in Da Furen's belly. But it is a pity that Da Furen is auspicious, and there is a feng shui bureau in Hefu who has been instructed by an expert. , and finally turned the bad luck into good fortune."

"But I dare not say this in front of Da Furen. After all, this kind of thing is a bit inappropriate for women who value chastity the most. Besides, I have seen Da Furen's face, Da Fu Gong Fenglong, Migrating to Gong Fenglong, this is a prosperous nobleman who will continue to flourish, and it seems that there will be a few catastrophes in a short time, but in the end, all dangers will be turned into good luck."

"Perhaps it is because the lady has a dignified appearance that she caused the murderous disaster. For example, if a ghost fetus is planted in the lady's belly, the ghost fetus will grow into a more powerful ghost fetus if it takes the lives of the noble lady. .”

"It's like living in a sycamore tree, and a pheasant can become a phoenix."

"It's just that they didn't figure it out. The feng shui bureau of He Mansion is not simple. It not only saved the life of the eldest lady, but the evil spirit worshiped the Wutong God and finally devoured Zhang's family. The chicken coop became a pheasant, a little bastard in shallow water."

"This is called losing your wife and losing your army."

"In the end, you, my little brother, came forward and directly took the Wutong God's seat out of the latrine and burned it, so that they didn't even have a chance to re-turn the cards."

The old Taoist priest and Jin An, two cunning old foxes and little foxes, looked at each other with meaningful eyes.

They have already seen the truth behind this matter thoroughly.

"Go, why did I find it from the latrine and burn it? There is a grievance and a debtor. The Wutong God's seat is obviously the old Taoist priest who you proposed to burn with lychee branches."

Jin An felt that the old Taoist's words were ambiguous.

The old Taoist straightened his waist, and defended himself in a dignified manner: "How could it be that I, the old Taoist, burned it? I was just a suggestion, just an opinion. In the end, it was the latrine that Guard Li climbed, and the beams of the latrine that he dug out, too. Li Huwei personally found the Wutong God Tablet made of lychees and branches."

Jin An deeply agreed: "Yes, there is an injustice and a debtor. All of this was done by Li Huwei."

The old Taoist also added: "Guard Li is upright and not afraid of dragons and tigers. He is a role model for my generation and everyone respects him."

Poor Guard Li.

Just such a muddleheaded scapegoat.

However, although it seems to be close to the truth, there are more problems in front of us.

Where did Mrs. Zhang go?
Where are those antique dealers now?

Has the Zhang family fallen into the hands of those antique dealers, and what is the truth that the other party is trying to erase in the Zhang family?
"Little brother, just now that Xiangyong was in a hurry to go down to the yamen, and hurried us to leave Zhang's house. After nightfall, do you want to sneak into Zhang's house again at night to see if there is anything unusual about Zhang's house at night?" the old Taoist said. As if thinking of something, he asked in a low voice.

Jin An shook his head: "I've finished watching everything I should have seen during the day."

"If there is any clue, after so many days, it will no longer exist."

……

The popularity of Lingqian Township is now sluggish, and few people can be seen on the street, and even if they occasionally see a few sparse figures, they all leave in a hurry.

So Jin'an's plan to go for a walk and appreciate the customs and customs of other places can only be in vain.

Finally, go straight home.

Return to He's ancestral home.

However, just as Jin An, the old Taoist and others returned to the He family's ancestral house, they saw someone unexpected.

An old monk with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, wearing a Buddhist cassock, so rosy and bloody that he doesn't look old at all, was waiting at the He family's ancestral house.

The old monk had been waiting for them for a long time.

This person is the eminent monk of Bailong Temple and Master Shanneng invited by the county government from Fucheng.

And behind Master Shanneng, there are still several government servants standing.

"Two Taoist priests, this is Master Shanneng, an eminent monk from Bailong Temple. It happened that the two Taoist priests had just left the He family, and Master Shanneng happened to come to visit the two Taoist priests in person. My family notified the two priests, but was finally dissuaded by Master Shanneng, who has been waiting for some time."

Seeing Jin An and the old Taoist priest come back, the old man of the He family hurriedly stood up to welcome them to their seats.

The eldest lady was also present, nodding towards the two of them.

"I don't know why Master Shanneng came to see us specially?" Jin An looked at the eminent monk of Bailong Temple in front of him curiously.

Master Shanneng glanced at the group of Taoist priests, one old and one young, in surprise. It was unexpected that Jin An was the leader, and it was the youngest Jin An who asked him.

But fortunately, Master Shanneng, as an eminent monk, has a high concentration in meditation. After singing the Buddha's name, he chatted and laughed as usual. He first asked Jin An if he had found anything in Zhang's house?
Jin An shook his head.

Master Shanneng seemed to have known this would happen, so he explained the purpose of this trip: "Since we are all searching for no clues in the underworld, the poor monk plans to take advantage of those innocent fetuses who died tragically, and go to the underworld to find out the whereabouts of the real murderer. His whereabouts."

"I wonder if the two priests are willing to go to the underworld together to find the real culprit and Mrs. Zhang?"

(End of this chapter)