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Chapter 195: Traces of the Sick Ghost (May Monthly Ticket 5 plus more)

In the dim morning light, carriages and horses travel westward.

Three tall horses were in front, and a small donkey cart was chasing behind. Sangque was pulling the reins, and Xiachan was sitting beside them, wearing a furry fox fur cloak, holding a hot roasted sweet potato, and eating until his face was covered in black dust.

Yu Da got up early and roasted the sweet potatoes for Sangque and Xiachan, and delivered them specially to their door, along with some ingredients commonly used in exorcism and witchcraft. He reminded Sangque not to try to be the first and to be careful on the road.

Xuan Yu felt cold, so he lay in the carriage with his paws tucked into his pockets. He also got a snow-white cushion made of fox fur from He Buning, and lay on it, which made Xuan Yu's fur look even darker and more shiny.

Under the fox fur cushion was a small mahogany box, which contained the contents that Hua Qianmian had secretly sent this morning. Ten kilograms of glutinous rice had been sold and packaged for one thousand taels, and Sang Que received six hundred taels.

Ten kilograms of glutinous rice cost less than fifty yuan, but it was exchanged for six hundred taels in the Gui Dynasty, which was definitely a huge profit.

Hua Qianmian knew that she was going on a business trip, so he exchanged the six hundred taels for silver notes of various denominations, as well as silver ingots and copper coins, so that she could use them conveniently.

Of course, all this money belongs to Xia Chan. Even though she has already passed the four-day period of financial loss today, this money will still belong to Xia Chan in the future, so as to prevent any possible disaster.

Sang Que had appointed Xia Chan as the financial manager of their small family this morning. Xia Chan knew that this was a very important position, so she was very happy and felt responsible. She assured Sang Que that she would manage the family's money well.

The box is wrapped with Xia Chan's hair, so no one can get the money without going through her.

In addition, Sang Que also received next month's salary in advance, five strings of coins per month for copper and ten strings of coins per month for silver.

Sang Que suddenly regretted that she had only said to donate five strings of cash to the temple. Why did she insist on donating all of next month's salary? Now that she has been promoted and given a raise, she can't keep the money.

To get to Fengning City, one has to pass through Bailong County. The first day was uneventful, so they spent the night at the post station. On the second day, when they passed a fork in the road, Sangque asked Xiaoliu to drive the donkey cart, and she rode Xiaoliu's horse, rushing to Baoguang Temple to fulfill her vow.

They kept going all the way and finally caught up with He Buning and his companions in the middle of the night. They rested for two hours at the post station.

At this point, Sang Que no longer had any unresolved hidden dangers such as curses and vows. The only thing left was the gap between her level and the heart lamp that needed to be made up. This balance could be achieved quickly as long as she dealt with the strange case and made the people recognize her identity as Yin You.

When traveling at night, all kinds of evil spirits came to the door. Sang Que let Yin Tong out for a stroll, letting Yin Tong deal with these evil spirits and complete the hexagram of the evil spirit money.

After completing the task, she put on the Night Walker Mask, and the evil spirits were frightened by the mask and did not attack again.

Unfortunately, the Golden Boy is now imprisoned in the bronze mirror, and she can no longer grab the rope. Although that thing is of low level, it is still very useful at critical moments.

Her current merit points are not enough to exchange for an item of the same level and effect, and the Evil Suppression Bureau has a rule that all captured ghosts must be handed over to the Evil Ghost Bureau and cannot be kept privately. Ghost catchers can apply to use the items used to imprison ghosts in the Evil Suppression Bureau, which does not require any cost.

The next day, when they passed through Bailong County, they did not go in, but met Qin Ze who had been waiting for them at the intersection.

Qin Ze is a corpse retriever and is good at handling strange cases related to water. Before New Year's Eve, he will be stationed in Bailong County to deal with any anomalies in the lake area.

Seeing Qin Ze again, Sang Que sat on the shaft of the donkey cart and nodded to him from a distance.

It was a cold day, and even though he was wearing a cotton-padded jacket, he was still dripping wet all over. He shivered in the cold wind, and the grass leaves in his mouth kept shaking. The small wooden sword hanging on his waist was polished by him until it shined shiny.

"Captain He, this is a list of unsolved mysteries in the area around Bailong County and the lake area over the past six months. They have been sorted by severity as you instructed in your previous letter."

Qin Ze handed He Buning a booklet, and He Buning asked as he flipped through it, "Is there any unusual movement in Pinghu Village?"

Qin Ze shook his head. "No, everything is normal. I went to see it a few days ago. During the Cold Clothes Festival and the Winter Solstice, several villages around Pinghu held a temple fair to worship the Qingjiang Envoy. I believe that the Qingjiang Envoy will soon be revived and protect the villages in Pinghu again. And Qiao Ying's family is also doing fine."

He Buning nodded, and when he turned to the last page, his expression suddenly changed, as if he had discovered something. He turned back and read it again, focusing on a few strange cases.

“Why aren’t these cases put together? They all involved sudden death without cause, and the corpses metamorphosed after death. There was one every few days. Didn’t you find that the places where the accidents occurred were connected?” He Buning was able to become a captain in just six years. Not only was he strong, but he was also smart, especially his sensitivity to strange cases, which was far beyond that of ordinary people.

Qin Ze stretched his head and looked through the strange cases pointed out by He Buning. If you look at them individually, it is very common to encounter evil spirits and die suddenly for no reason, and then have the corpses turn into corpses. Because the places where they happened are all different, no one pays special attention to them.

But at this moment, He Bu Ning said, Qin Ze recalled the map, his eyes widened, "These cases are all from Maple Ridge all the way to Fengning City."

He Buning glanced at Sang Que, "Last time when we captured Qu Tianhe in the Maple Ridge Bandit Camp, he released a sick ghost that could kill people just by coughing. Qu Tianhe has been raising corpses. People killed by the sick ghost will turn into corpses, which also fits his characteristics. Bring me the map."

Hearing the sound, Xiaoliu hurriedly took out the map scroll from the horseback bag, and together with Xiaowu, opened it in front of He Buning.

Sangque also got off the donkey cart and walked over to check.

He Buning compared the locations where the strange cases occurred and moved his finger continuously towards Fengning City. Finally, it landed on Shikeng Village at the foot of the mountain, thirty miles outside Fengning City.

Xiao Liu shuddered all over, "Boss, the stones for the reconstruction of Fengning City were transported from Shikeng Village. There are not only villagers there, but also many stone-mining laborers and craftsmen, at least five or six hundred people."

Xiao Wu also looked solemn. "The sick ghost can kill people with just a cough. If they are not prepared, these people will die in an instant. After they transform into corpses, they will probably go to Fengning City. Moreover, from the place where the latest sick ghost murder occurred to Shikeng Village, there is a Meishu Village in between. I am afraid..."

"Qin Ze, immediately have someone re-check these places where people have died and make sure the bodies are handled properly so as not to summon more plague ghosts."

"it is good!"

"Xiaowu, Xiaoliu, and Sanger, let's get going immediately and go to Meishu Village first!"

Why not just give an order and everyone take action.

Three horses were running wildly in front, and the black donkey was pulling the cart and chasing it desperately, running so fast that the cart was about to fly.

They did not stop at the post station but continued on their way. Xiaoliu and Xiaowu carried dry food and water with them. The three of them had long been accustomed to eating on horseback.

Sang Que and Xuan Yu were almost vomiting from the shaking of the donkey cart and could not eat at all. Xia Chan, on the other hand, sat there as steady as a rock, eating, drinking, and sleeping as he pleased, without any delay at all.

Originally, to get from Bailong County to Meishu Village, one had to cross the lake area, and it would take a normal caravan or escort company about seven days to drive. However, they traveled for days, only resting when the horses could no longer hold on. It took them four days to reach the nearest post station to Meishu Village.

Feng shui masters were involved in the site selection and construction of all the post stations in the Xuan Dynasty. Except for special periods such as the passage of ghost soldiers and the night parade of hundreds of ghosts, evil spirits generally would not approach the post stations.

After resting for a night at the post station to recuperate, they continued their journey early the next morning. Just after noon, they arrived outside Meishu Village.

Before entering the village, the black donkey pulling the cart suddenly stopped, turned around and tried to run away, ignoring Sangque pulling on the reins.

"careful!"

Sang Que immediately became alert because she knew something was wrong with the black donkey. As soon as she finished speaking, two people suddenly jumped out from the woods nearby, roaring like wild beasts.

It looks like a zombie, but more flexible than a zombie, and its body is covered with smelly, festering wounds.

If Sangque was not mistaken, these villagers had become slaves of the sick ghost.

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　　(End of this chapter)