strayed into fairy mountain

Chapter 13 [Ghosts Available]

Since passing through that night, Zhang Jingxu awakened her cultivation ability, and the night in Zhangjia Village was no longer foggy, but a peaceful and peaceful night sky.

For example, standing at the edge of the village and looking up at the sky, you can see the sky full of stars, and a round of bright and clear moon, sprinkled with cold brilliance.

Such a place is suitable for mortals to live in. They don't have to worry about the danger at night, making people feel safe from the bottom of their hearts.

"This is my village, you wait at the entrance of the village first, I will go into the village to get some things, and we will continue on our way after returning..."

Zhang Jingxu put down a word, then raised her feet and walked towards the village, suddenly remembered something, turned her head back quickly, and solemnly said:
"Remember, don't run around! Although the fog here has dissipated, the range only reaches the edge of the village. If you walk around carelessly, you will enter the fog outside if you are not careful."

In fact, he didn’t need to tell you this. The yamen servants were obviously very cautious, and they all held their knives in their hands, and they repeatedly agreed: “Don’t worry about Catcher Zhang, we promise not to go anywhere, we will wait for you at the entrance of the village, and we will never walk around indiscriminately.” .”

Zhang Jingxu felt relieved, nodded and said, "That's fine."

Li San approached him and asked in a low voice: "Uncle Zhang, do you want my nephew to accompany you into the village? If the things you are carrying are too heavy, I can help you. For example, I will be responsible for carrying weapons and so on. Let you You can save some energy..."

This kid is really smart. He guessed that Zhang Jingxu was worried about the danger of investigating the case tonight, so he decided to go home temporarily and prepare some extra means to expand his strength.

But the kid's guess was not accurate, thinking that Zhang Jingxu wanted to go back to get a weapon or a magic weapon. If he went back to get a magic weapon, he couldn't help much, but if he wanted to get a weapon, he wanted to help carry it.

The desire to be effective is evident.

However, Zhang Jingxu pondered for a while, then shook his head with a smile, and said: "What I want to get home is not a weapon, so I don't need your help for the time being. You wait here with them. Uncle, I will be there soon." can come back."

After speaking, he finally raised his foot again and walked along the entrance of the village.

After entering the village, he went straight all the way, as if he was going home, but soon changed direction, and went all the way west, going straight to the west of the village.

Fortunately, it was nighttime, and the people in Zhangjia Village were sleeping soundly, otherwise, if people saw where Zhang Jingxu was going, they would definitely make a fuss.

The reason is very simple, the west end of the village is a cemetery, and all the dead people in Zhangjia Village have been buried here for dozens or hundreds of years.

Some tombs are recent, some are old, and some are even hundreds of years old, giving off a desolate and cold atmosphere.

This is because the tomb has existed for too long, so it will naturally breed yin qi. Although it will not breed evil spirits that harm people, living people will definitely consume yang qi when they come here.

This side of the world is very special, people's yang energy is very important, once it is consumed too much, it will cause a serious illness at the least.

If you are a little unlucky, you will be attacked by evil spirits immediately.

Therefore, the living are determined not to enter the tomb at night.

But Zhang Jingxu was very strange, he went straight to this cemetery all the way, walked through the tombs, and finally stopped at a certain tomb.

This is obviously a new tomb, the soil on the tomb is very fresh, and a brand new tombstone is erected on the front of the tomb.

The common people have always been poor and poor, and most of the families of the deceased had no money to erect monuments. However, this new tomb not only has a monument, but also a relatively rare stone monument. For the poor people, stone monuments are not cheap things...

……

In the dark night, Zhang Jingxu stood in front of the grave, his eyes fell on the stone tablet, and he stretched out his hand to gently stroke the words on the tablet.

The text of this stele consists of eight characters:

【Protecting the village righteous ghost - the tomb of Zhang Gui】

There is another line of small characters below, detailing the origin of this tomb:
[Yunguo calendar, in 800 years, the night watchmen of our village collected the bones of the dead, accepted the lonely souls back to the village, and buried them beside their mother's tomb, and the wandering souls returned here]

[Although he died with injustice, his grievances turned into ghosts, but he never harmed the villagers, but guarded him silently for 50 years]

【Benefits to the whole village people, spend the night peacefully for 50 years】

[In view of this, the villagers are grateful for his protection, so the whole village raised funds to contribute, add soil to make graves and erect stone monuments, to commemorate and thank him]

[From now on, our village has righteous ghosts who protect the village. During festivals and Qingming festivals, the whole village will come to sweep and add soil, and offer tribute as mourning]

The annotations in small characters on these inscriptions explain the origin of this tomb.

It turned out that this was the tomb of the wronged soul Zhang Gui.

……

At this time, the night was getting darker, and it was almost the middle of the night, Zhang Jingxu didn't want to procrastinate any longer, and began to call out to the tomb.

He patted the stone tablet lightly with the palm of his hand, as if using an agreed technique, and knocked three times in a row, with a gentle tone:
"Nephew Zhang Gui, are you at home?"

"Uncle, I have something to ask you..."

The next moment, there seemed to be a breeze above the grave, which turned into a small cyclone, whirling around.

The next moment, a figure flashed in front of the grave.

Zhang Gui's face was full of kindness, and he appeared in front of Zhang Jingxu.

"Uncle, it's you who came! My nephew, Zhang Gui, salutes you."

If he hadn't died, he would have been a good boy.

After saluting respectfully, without waiting for Zhang Jingxu to speak, he hurriedly said again: "Uncle, this is a land of tombs, if you stay for too long, your yang energy will be depleted. Let's leave here before we talk, okay?"

Zhang Jingxu was very pleased, nodded and said: "Alright!"

One person and one ghost set off directly, crossing the cemetery and heading out.

Soon after arriving outside the cemetery, he stood still. Zhang Gui first raised his eyes to look at the quiet village not far away, and said softly: "This kind of tranquility is really good. The villagers sleep peacefully."

Zhang Jingxu also glanced at the village, and said in a gentle voice, "It's thanks to your protection that you can live in such a safe life."

Zhang Gui pursed his lips shyly, with a shy smile on his face, but his brows were filled with joy, obviously happy after being praised by his elders.

But although the child was happy, he didn't forget the business because of it, but seemed quite urgent, and asked Zhang Jingxu anxiously: "Uncle, you are looking for me late at night, is there anything you need to do?"

Zhang Jingxu exhaled lightly, nodded and said: "There is indeed something that needs your help. Uncle, I am the head arrester of the county government, and I just took over an errand today..."

He paused for a while, then elaborated: "Although this matter is a matter of investigation, it is vaguely related to evil spirits harming people, and the yamen servants under my command are all ordinary people, so it is impossible for evil spirits to appear. The power of resistance..."

He stopped talking again, and said with a wry smile: "Even uncle, I don't have much power at the moment! Although I have awakened the ability of cultivation, I still don't know how to deal with evil spirits."

Devil!

Zhang Gui's expression was obviously frozen!
But he wasn't afraid or trying to shirk, but asked for details in a serious tone, and said, "Uncle, why do you think there will be evil spirits?"

Zhang Jingxu pondered for a while, and said slowly: "For five consecutive days, five people died. However, after investigation, the officials in the yamen said that these five people died normally."

"But the yamen servant under my command secretly told me that the deaths of these five people were all strange."

After that, I will describe the situation in Sunjiazhuang outside the city in detail.

Grandparents have made tofu for generations.

No one is willing to take a bite.

However, remnants of tofu were found in the mouths of the five dead people.

After explaining in detail, Zhang Jingxu let out a breath slowly, and pondered: "Either someone poisoned and coaxed the five dead to eat tofu, or it involved evil spirits and used ghost obsession to harm people... …Uncle, I tend to prefer the latter item, after all, the continuous death of people is too abnormal.”

Zhang Gui nodded and said, "It's really abnormal, it's not like ordinary people poisoning people. My nephew also thinks that uncle's speculation is correct, and it's very likely that evil spirits are involved in this matter."

As he spoke, he took a deep breath, and said with a very solemn expression: "If it is really an evil spirit, it must be extraordinary. It can kill five people in a row. This evil spirit is very ferocious."

Zhang Jingxu quickly asked: "How dangerous do you think this evil spirit is?"

Zhang Gui hesitated, and said with uncertainty: "According to the normal situation, if a ghost wants to forcibly harm someone, it will be counterattacked. Even the three fires of the most ordinary people can burn the ghost and die together..."

"So, ghosts generally don't harm people forcibly, but use ghostly obsession to coax the victim into various behaviors."

"But even so, ghost energy is consumed when ghosts harm people, and when the ghost energy is exhausted to the point of weakness, it will lose the ability to charm the mind."

"If the ghost energy is depleted too badly, the ghost will even dissipate directly [zhan], which is tantamount to the death of the ghost and become another more miserable existence."

"So even if the evil spirits harm people, they will keep a certain limit. Most of them will not attack one after another, and finally cause their own ghost energy to dissipate."

"Unless the ghost's hostility is strong enough, it has become fierce to a certain extent, and the ghost energy is extremely strong, so it doesn't care about harming people."

"This kind of ghost can no longer be regarded as an evil ghost, but should be called a fierce ghost. It is very fierce and extremely fierce."

Zhang Jingxu listened thoughtfully, and his face gradually became serious: "In this case, isn't it possible for us to face a fierce ghost?"

Zhang Gui's expression was equally serious, he nodded and said, "If you can kill five people in a row, you can indeed be regarded as a fierce ghost."

Zhang Jingxu took a deep breath, and was a little hard to make a decision for a while.

If there really is such a ferocious ghost, should this investigation continue?

……

After a long time, he finally made up his mind, his eyes showed determination, and his tone was extremely firm: "I will feel uneasy if I let the evil spirits harm others, and if this matter can be resolved, there will be merits and virtues from heaven to reward me. And if this merit can be obtained, it is extremely important to me."

Without any hesitation, Zhang Gui immediately said, "Uncle, my nephew will help you. Even if the ghost is fierce, I will do my best..."

This is really a kind junior.

After he promised to help, he was even worried that Zhang Jingxu would refuse, so he rushed forward without hesitation, and the illusory figure disappeared without a trace.

There was only one extremely firm sentence that resounded clearly in Zhang Jingxu's ears: "Uncle, I have attached to the corner of your clothes. Now you have merits to protect you from being disturbed by my ghost energy, but the time should not be too long." Otherwise, it will be unavoidable to consume yang energy. And I also have depletion, and the ghost energy will be offset by your yang energy..."

Immediately after this sentence, there was an urgent urging: "So, uncle, let's set off quickly! The sooner we arrive at the place, the more my nephew can retain a bit of ghost spirit. If there are really fierce ghosts at that time, I will give you a little more time." Divide the ghost energy, and you will have more desperate strength."

Zhang Jingxu felt extremely gratified to see such a kind nephew.

Now that Zhang Gui has decided to help, and has already attached to his clothes corner, then really can't delay time, and should hurry to help Zhang Gui save his ghost energy.

Zhang Jingxu no longer hesitated, raised her feet as if running, and went straight to the outside of the village, and soon gathered with the yamen servants.

Next, rush all the way to the destination, tofu Sunjiazhuang.

So what if there are fierce ghosts?
(End of this chapter)