Holy Bone

Chapter 273 The dead man hanging on the horns
Tonight, this rainy night, is destined not to be peaceful.

Just like this rain.

When you don't come, it's calm.

When it comes, it is urgent and fierce.

Just when Jin An and the old Taoist priest were doing deeds for Zhao Ping, who was still in the coffin, suddenly, there was a loud noise in the dark night.

Boom!
It sounded like a heavy object stomping on the ground.

Seeing the legs of the stool on which the coffin was placed shake, the old Taoist thought that the dead man in the coffin was about to cheat, and he screamed, "Little brother is not good, Zhao Pingfa won't do what we do, he will definitely cheat tonight." corpse!
After shouting anxiously, the old Taoist grabbed a stack of yellow talismans on the yellow cloth ritual table and lit them, then threw them into an earthenware bowl filled with Sanyang wine. The yellow talismans mixed with Sanyang wine turned into talisman water, and the old Taoist drank vigorously. He took a mouthful of talisman water and sprayed it into the coffin.

Good guy.

The old Taoist has a lot of talismans.

Even this Zhao Pingfa is really unlucky today, he will not be able to live in the next burial, encounters frequent unlucky things, and at night, he will be wrongly sprayed by the old Taoist priest.

"Old Daoist, it wasn't Zhao Pingfa who cheated on the corpse, it was outside, and the movement came from outside the Taoist temple." Jin An speechlessly glanced at the old Taoist priest, and looked at the corpse of Zhao Pingfa in the coffin with sympathy sprayed by the old Taoist priest. This Zhao Pingfa He has a really good temper, so he didn't cheat the corpse to pinch the old Taoist priest.

"This movement is transmitted to the Taoist temple. There can still be such a big movement. The ground is shaking. This movement is definitely not small."

"Something must have happened somewhere in Fucheng."

Jin An put down the paper money in his hand.

I easily jumped on the roof and looked far away, but in the rainy night of Fucheng, it was dark, surrounded by hazy building outlines under the rain, and there was only darkness in the distance.

It was the sudden movement and the shaking of the ground that woke up some people who were not asleep. In the rainy night, they saw the lights of the houses being lit sporadically.

suddenly.

Jin An gasped in surprise. On a rainy night, a place suddenly lit up with many torches, surrounding the place.

Judging from the situation, it seems that he has been in ambush for a long time.

After seeing clearly where that direction was, Jin An's eyes were full of interest. If he remembered correctly, wasn't that place the direction of the Stone Niu left in the world by the senior corpse exorcist?

call out!
Just as Jin An was thinking about it, a loud arrow shot high into the sky, and then exploded in the sky, like a round of rising sun lighting up the night sky during the day, which was extremely eye-catching.

This sounding arrow was like a signal. In the city, the sound of a large number of troops marching quickly began to be heard.

Under the dark rain, the gates of the city were wide open, and strings of fires were shining like fire dragons, illuminating the night, and they were rapidly gathering in one direction from outside the city.

look in that direction.

It was heading towards Shi Niu, the square where Xiangjian was.

Jin An's expression changed.

To be able to act so blatantly in the city, and to easily mobilize such a team of people, you don't need to think about it. Only the imperial army and captains stationed in the barracks outside the city have such great ability.

"Old Daoist, the captain seems to be making a big move tonight. You and Paijian stay in the Taoist temple and guard Zhao Pingfa's body so that nothing happens to Zhao Pingfa's body. I'll go over and see what's going on."

With the mentality of watching the excitement, Jin An's body jumped quickly in the dark night, and quickly moved away. In just a few blinks, he disappeared in the thick darkness.

The closer you get to the square, the more noise you hear.

It seems that during the day a butcher saw the stone cow come back to life. The ordinary yamen servants in the yamen didn't pay much attention to it, but the captain paid enough attention.

The captain sent people to hide near the stone cow in the square, and he planned to mobilize the army urgently to go to the stone cow in the square.

Because Jin An took a shortcut and jumped quickly from the roof, he rushed to the square before the garrison outside the city.

wow wow wow-

The rain washed the ground, and a large puddle of blood flowed out on the ground. Tick-tick, scarlet blood mixed with rainwater dripped down. On the tall, mighty, majestic and desolate stone ox with two tall horns, the chest pierced through. hangs a dead man face up.

It was a half-hundred old man dressed in ordinary people's linen clothes. The old man was completely dead, and his face was frightened, as if he had seen some extremely horrific scene before he was alive.

His death was miserable, his chest was pierced, his heart and lungs were torn by stone horns, his head and limbs drooped weakly after death, the air and blood in the alveoli flowed backwards along the drooping head, and foam poured out from his mouth and nasal cavity The same blood stained the sackcloth and the stagnant water on the ground red.

On the ground under the corpse's feet, a large stack of yellow talisman papers, more than a dozen coffin nails, a Taoist mirror, and a golden iron rod were scattered.

Good guy.

Jin An took a closer look at the golden iron rod. It turned out to be a devil-subduing rod made of pure gold. Gold can ward off evil spirits. Since ancient times, monks have been enshrining golden Buddhas in temples to ward off evil spirits.

Such a big golden demon stick, weighing ten to twenty catties, Jin An dared to take off the head and let the square stone cow step on it like a blind eye.

Jin An pondered, this demon-subduing stick should be the same as the golden coffin in Wutou Village, it is a gold-plated magic weapon for suppressing evil.

After all, who would really run around with so much gold every day, why would a practitioner with his head pinned to his waistband deal with stinking corpses, ghosts, and filth all day long?The whole ascetic is as bitter haha.

With so much gold, buy a few big houses in big cities for the elderly, buy more than a dozen shops, buy more than 1000 acres of fertile land, and finally marry a ten-room wife with twenty rooms, and every day there are little beauties and maids. Doesn't he enjoy a corrupt life?
obviously.

The old man in front of him, who was dressed in ordinary clothes and deliberately did not want to attract attention, was a capable person hidden among the people.

As for why this person appeared at Shi Niu in the square at night?

No need to guess.

It must be running for the stone cow.

Jin An felt that there should be a butcher passing the stone ox in the square during the day, and seeing the news that the stone ox came back to life, he didn't know who leaked it, which attracted the attention of interested people.

Even the captain saw some clues and sent people to ambush nearby. It is impossible for others to be so stupid that they couldn't see the clues of this stone cow.

only……

Looking at the corpse hanging upside down on the horns, this scene is a bit intriguing.

Was it the captain who killed them?
Or... the stone cow really came back to life?Has this stone bull changed from a dead thing of stone to a living thing with spirit?

If it's the latter...

Thinking of the sound of heavy objects hitting the ground that he heard in the Taoist temple before, Jin An couldn't help frowning.

With the passage of Dongtian Fudi about to be born, all kinds of moths are starting to catch up.

……

……

The square was very lively at this time.

Jin'an saw dozens of iron cavalry guards holding torches, surrounding the stone cow. His eyes swept over these people, and he also noticed the captain.

And beside the captain, there were two familiar figures from behind.

It's the hilarious pair of mourners.

The younger brother wears a long pointed hat with the words "I'm catching you" written on it, and holds a mourning stick.

The elder brother wears a long pointed hat with the words "you are here" written on it, and holds a soul-strike stick.

Jin An was not surprised to see this pair of mourning brothers here. This time, so many folk exorcists responded to the call of Mr. Fu Yin and went down to Yinyijiang to calm the Dragon King. I went to be an official.

Some people like to be free and unrestrained.

There are also people who are tired of running around and like to be an official, wanting to change their destiny and leave a rich blessing for future generations.

There are also people who yearn for great wealth.

Everyone has aspirations.

It's like Jin'an went to Jiangping Dragon King in Yinyi this time, and he went to the group of antique dealers. He has no interest in being a small sesame official.

"The mourner brothers do have some skills, and they are not bad-hearted. It is a good prospect to follow a captain like a captain who treats his subordinates like brothers and loves soldiers like his sons."

Jin An sincerely wished the weeping brothers to follow the good general Du Wei and have a bright future and become a high-ranking official.

Well.

Just because of the old Taoist priest, he saved the mourning brothers many times.

In the future, he will be a privileged person in the court if he hangs around in Fucheng. Thinking about it this way, Jin'an is immediately happy, and will ask the old Taoist priest to show the pair of brothers some other day and how their official luck is.

tick-

tick-

Blood was still dripping from the corpse.

The blood on the ground continued to expand.

As the blood in the body dries up, the blood flow rate slowly slows down, coagulates, and turns into a slow drip.

square.

The captain refused the umbrella and coir raincoat offered by his subordinates. Drenched in the rain, he stood in front of the stone cow with his hands behind his back. Like Jin An who was hiding in the distance, he carefully looked at the stone cow in front of him with a solemn expression.

The stone ox is still the stone ox.

Posture has not changed.

It's as if it hasn't moved for more than ten years, maintaining the same posture for more than ten years——

The cow's head is slightly lowered, the thick horns are slightly tilted to the sky, and the front hooves are raised, as if something is being carried on the body, which is as heavy as a thousand jun, and the momentum is both majestic and vicissitudes, sad and lonely.

The stone ox was carved so lifelike by stonemasons that the texture of each tendon muscle is clearly visible.

vivid.

Ingenious workmanship.

The captain was drenched in the rain, staring at Gao Shiniu, the two people in front of him with a blank face... It is said that eyes are the psychological world, eyes can see through a person, he seems to want to see through this whether the stone cow in front of him is alive or not things?

But it's a dead thing that doesn't move.

Never moved.

In fact, the dead man hanging on the horn in front of him was not killed by the captain. He didn't even see how this man died, and neither did the subordinates who were ambushing nearby.

He sat in the rear, closed his eyes, rested his mind, and recharged his energy. When he heard the loud noise in the night, he got up and came to the window, and he saw a dead man hanging on the horns of the bull.

Ask the other subordinates who were ambushing by the window, but none of them can tell how the man died.

So many pairs of eyes.

Unexpectedly, no one saw how the man walked into the square, how he approached the stone ox, and how he died on the horn.

Everything is too sudden.

It's so bizarre.

It reveals the treachery and grotesque far beyond ordinary people's comprehension.

"Brother, why is General Duwei standing still and staring at a dead object in the rain?" At this time, the brother of the mourner who had a lot of questions quietly asked the elder brother beside him.

The elder brother of the mourner glared at his younger brother: "We are already officials, how many times have I told you that we must speak with culture and connotation, and we can no longer speak indiscriminately. What is a captain? The general is staring blankly, and his words are uneducated!"

"Haven't you heard the saying that scholars often say, 'Looking at the mountain is not a mountain, looking at the water is not water, if the mountain is not high, there will be immortals, and if the water is not deep, there will be dragons singing'."

"Do you think the general captain is looking at the rain? Wrong, in fact, the general captain is looking at the stone cow. Do you think the general captain is looking at the stone cow? It is a big mistake. The general captain is not looking at the stone cow, but the stone cow." It was the Sanxiu Immortal who failed the Corpse Dissection Immortal over ten years ago."

"Why do you think this stone ox is so famous? It is not the stone ox that is famous, but the immortal hidden behind the stone ox. This stone ox has an immortal, so it is famous all over the world."

"?"

In the rain, with his hands behind his back in the rain, the captain stared at the stone cow with a bit of tingling eyes, and the veins on his forehead twitched.

Other cavalry guards around: "..."

The younger brother of the mourner didn't notice the strange atmosphere of the other people around him, looked at his elder brother with bright eyes, and said excitedly: "Brother, I understand what you mean, you want to tell me that we are crying for this stone cow, A fairy who can cry out a dead corpse!"

Under the dreary rainy night.

There began to be mournful mournful cries.

Crying at night made the people around feel flustered and couldn't sleep at night. The men were so frightened that they hugged their wives to warm the bed, and the men without wives held back their urine, and their bodies became colder and colder.

Tread-tap-

The armor collided.

The torches illuminated the night sky like a long dragon, and groups of troops with strict military discipline finally marched from outside the city to the square, surrounded the square with murderous intent, unsheathed their weapons, and waited for the surroundings under the dark night.

Then the leader of the team dismounted and came in front of General Duwei, because Jin An could not hear the content of the conversation between the captain and him because it was far away. Move the corpse.

It's just that the corpse was hanging tightly on the horn, and the sternum bone and the horn were firmly stuck. In the end, it was a strong cavalry master, and several people joined hands to move the dead man hanging on the horn.

At this time, Jin An was staring at the direction of the stone ox in the square. He was very curious, would the stone ox come alive and hurt people?

Just when Jin An'an was paying attention to the direction of Shi Niu in the square, suddenly!

Jin An seemed to have noticed something, and turned his eyes solemnly. It was a dark, cold rainy night, and on another roof two or three feet away from him, there was an extra scholar silently at some point.

The scholar appeared silently.

Just like it suddenly appeared.

The scholar was weak, with a sallow and thin face. At first, Jin An thought he was a ghost, but this man was not afraid of the yang energy in him, and Jin An sensed the yang energy of a living person in the scholar.

But something is wrong with this scholar.

The muscles on the face and the body are losing weight at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the three yang fires on the body are rapidly weakening. Jin An took a closer look before noticing that there was a mass of wriggling on the back of the scholar. thing.

It was a skinned human face!
Jin An's eyes froze, but it was too late when he wanted to save the scholar.

The scholar didn't have much yang energy at all, but the last bit of yang energy was absorbed by the wriggling human skin face behind him, and he died suddenly as skinny as a stick.

When the scholar died, the human face squirmed onto the scholar's face, and the human face replaced the scholar's facial features.

The scholar is being stalked.

The "resurrected" skin and flesh were filled again, and the Yin Qi was soaring, and even Jin An felt a sense of threat that his skin was slightly cold.

He noticed Jin An's gaze, turned his head with a stiff neck, and the scholar who had been face-changed gave Jin An a wicked smile showing pale teeth.

When Jin An looked at the scholar, his back felt cold.

His hand was like lightning, and he grabbed at the back. Hot inner energy was bubbling up in his hand. The pagoda's aura was attached to his palm, and the palm with the black flames of the amulet in his hand crushed a person who was running along the roof tiles and tried to get on him. leather face.

Avenue induction!

Yinde one hundred!
And just after Jin An squeezed out the human face that was trying to sneak up on him from behind, on the roofs, walls, window sills... in the surrounding darkness, in various invisible dark corners, another piece of paper crawled out. Human skin and human faces, they flew back to the scholar who was possessed by the evil spirit in a sinister manner.

(End of this chapter)