I have a weird dynasty

Chapter 80 Ming Mansion (asking for monthly ticket)

At night, in the inn guest room.

When Sang Que lost consciousness briefly and regained consciousness, she felt a burning pain in her arm. She couldn't move as she was tightly entangled by Xia Chan's hair.

The tables and chairs in the room were tilted, the steamed buns on the ground were rotting, and the cold evil fog was slowly dissipating.

"It's me, Xiaochan, let me go."

Hearing Sangque's voice, Xia Chan, who was squatting in the corner of the room, holding Xuanyu and being on guard, burst into tears.

"elder sister--"

Just now, Sang Que gave her body to Yin Tong, wanting Yin Tong to write down what the ceremony of her advancement was. She deliberately asked Xia Chan to watch by the side for fear that something might go wrong.

The Yin Tong has no tongue and cannot speak after possessing a person. Sang Que had told Xia Chan about this in advance.

After Sang Que got up, he first comforted Xia Chan, and then he bandaged the wound on his arm while looking at the bloodstains on the ground.

Yin Tong wrote a few words with her blood.

Monks, Taoists, and officials.

It was the same things she wrote in her diary last time. It was obvious that Yin Tong harbored deep resentment towards these three people.

The advancement ceremony of Yin Tong must be related to these three people. The monk and the Taoist priest are easy to understand, but this official... maybe he is an official from the Exorcism Bureau.

Yin Tong once destroyed a city, and it might have been the combined efforts of the three families that finally seriously injured and dismembered her, so Yin Tong was very obsessed with revenge.

Sang Que frowned, feeling very embarrassed. "Let's go and see, there will always be a way."

After a simple tidying up, Sang Que asked Xuan Yu, the night owl, to stay in the house to watch the night. She and Xia Chan went to rest first as they had to travel again tomorrow.

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The next morning, the original fleeing team split into two groups. Most of them chose to stay. There were only fifteen people willing to go with Kou Yushan, including Kou Yushan himself.

Before dawn, Kou Yushan gathered all those who were willing to leave into the lobby of the inn and prepared to leave.

On the Heishan Village side, there are Kou Yushan, Liu Tianyou, Shouhou, He Baosheng's family of four, as well as Zhao Ruihu and his wife, and the two brothers Song Quancai and Song Quanfu.

Mr. and Mrs. Zhao Ruihu are the parents of Zhao Tiancong who was taken away by the water ghost. They have an eldest daughter who was married to Dongyang County together with some girls of marriageable age from other villages through a matchmaker in the county.

This kind of collective wedding takes place every year. The Evil Suppression Division has a special team of officers to escort the bridal party. Zhao Ruihu and his wife were ready to go and join their daughter.

The brothers Song Quancai and Song Quanfu are members of the Heishan Village guard team. Their parents are old and did not leave Heishan Village with them.

The two brothers and the skinny monkey are the three largest bachelors in Heishan Village. Although the county government will force a marriage for those who are not married after they are 18, the population is scarce and they cannot get a spot without finding a way, so they remain bachelors until they are in their twenties.

There is also a couple and a brother and sister in Shihe Village, both of whom are young.

When Sangque saw these people, he realized that only these free-spirited, young and energetic people were willing to leave their homeland and take risks to venture out into the world.

The main reason why others are unwilling to leave, besides being tied down by their relatives, is fear.

It took a whole day to drive from the post station to Dongyang County. They didn't have a horse-drawn carriage, only Sangque's donkey cart, so they had to run all the way.

There is also the dangerous mountain road in Cuiyun Mountain in the middle. It would be considered fast if we can reach Dongyang County before midnight tonight.

So most people are unwilling to take risks. It is too dangerous to stay in the mountains after dark.

He Buning only paid them for two days. If they wanted to stay longer, they would just have to spend some money themselves. In a few days, someone from the government would come to make arrangements.

Kou Yushan said to everyone, "Take this opportunity to check your belongings again and try to only bring a little water, food, and money to lighten the burden."

Everyone had a small bag that looked light and a large rooster wrapped in cloth and slung around their waist like a cross-body bag.

Black dog blood is expensive, while rooster blood is cheap. If you encounter something unclean in the forest, killing the chicken and taking its blood immediately can be considered a means of defense.

In addition, roosters can also be used as food.

There were seven people in total, including the women and a child named He Shouan. The black donkey cart could only carry four adults and one child at most. If there were more, it would not be able to run. Sang Que was in good physical condition, so she decided to run together, while the other women took turns riding in the cart.

Seeing everyone's nervousness, the skinny monkey smiled and said, "Our old village chief observed the sky at night and said that the stars are bright and there are no clouds in the sky. It must be a sunny day today, and it is suitable for traveling. It will be bright before the morning hour, and it will be dark at least after the evening hour of the dog. There are more than seven hours left, and we may arrive early."

"Let's hope so." said Shi Yong, a dark and honest man from Shihe Village. After everyone was ready, as soon as the rooster crowed, everyone set out immediately.

Just like the day before, everyone basically did not stop except for drinking water and going to the toilet, and tried to move as fast as possible.

On the way, they met two people riding tall horses galloping towards the post station. They seemed to be from the government or the evil-suppression bureau. Apart from them, there were no other travelers like them.

When encountering places with heavy yin energy such as woods and streams, the mulberry bird will lag behind the crowd, secretly spread the evil fog, hunt down low-level evil spirits roaming around, and replenish the power of the evil spirit money.

No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat. The idea her mother gave her about the door would require a lot of evil power to fully verify.

The two most important ones are whether there is a time limit between opening the door twice and the issue of movement.

The time limit is related to whether she can use opening the door as a means of saving her life, and the mobility problem can solve her big troubles in the future.

If she wanted to go to Wangshan City, it would take more than 40 days by car from Dongyang County to Wangshan City.

My mother raised a question. There are doors on the carriage. She goes home by opening the door of the carriage, but the carriage is always moving. When she comes back next time, should she go back to the moving carriage or go back to the place where the door was originally opened?

If she could get back into the carriage, it would mean that the door was opened according to the door's position mark. She could hire an escort agency to transport a door or an empty box to Wangshan City, and she wouldn't have to stay here every day and travel boringly.

Sangque is looking forward to this.

We were all young and strong, so we were moving very fast. We had originally expected to reach Cuiyun Mountain after four in the afternoon, but just after three o'clock we saw a low mountain rising from the horizon. The mountain was dark green, surrounded by clouds and mist, and the forest at the foot of the mountain was lush and green.

There is an official road in the forest. As long as you follow the official road around the foot of the mountain, you can see the county seat of Dongyang County when you come out of the woods.

The sun was scorching and the cicadas were chirping at their utmost. Kou Yushan asked everyone to rest for a while outside the woods, eat something and drink some water, and prepare to cross the forest in one breath without stopping.

If it were in a normal world, with dense forests and gurgling streams, it would be a cool place where you could walk around, stop and enjoy the scenery.

But in the Gui Dynasty, where the sun is blocked by trees and there are many streams, there are dangers everywhere and one cannot stay there for long.

Before entering the woods, Kou Yushan placed a few stones under a tree, faced the direction of the mountain, knelt on the ground and prayed with his hands clasped together.

"Goddess Wu, I beg the mountain ghost to bless us and wish us a safe passage through Cuiyun Mountain."

Sangque keenly discovered that everyone seemed very nervous about entering Cuiyun Mountain, which must be related to the Ming’s Winery mentioned by Shouhou before.

But everyone had a tacit agreement not to mention the matter, and Sang Que had no way of finding out more information.

After eating and drinking, the group continued on their journey. After running for more than an hour, Kou Yushan slowed down and asked everyone to take it easy.

Rumble!
There was a muffled thunder, and everyone looked up in surprise, and then looked at the skinny monkey.

The skinny monkey said anxiously, "Why are you looking at me? The old village chief said it won't rain today!"

Sang Que's heart also skipped a beat. The rain came without any warning and was extremely ominous, which reminded her of her mother's reminder.

The wind was howling and shaking the trees in the forest. A heavy rain was about to come.

Kou Yushan's face was as gloomy as water. "The terrain here is low, not suitable for hiding from the rain. Let's go forward and see how fast we can go!"

Everyone ran faster and raindrops quickly fell from the woods.

He Shouan, who was on the donkey cart, shrank into Qin Fangru's arms in fear, fearing that the water ghost would come to claim his life again.

Liu Tianyou was weak and was driving the donkey cart in front. At this moment, he began to recite the poems of sages to give himself courage. He would do this whenever there was any disturbance along the way. This made Sang Que feel that the sages in this world also had a certain power to deal with evil spirits.

A fork in the road appeared ahead, and the skinny monkey's eyes lit up and he immediately shouted to Kou Yushan.

"The rain has already started. We have no time to make arrangements. Now we can only hide in the abandoned Ming family mansion on the other side of the road for a while."

Kou Yushan hesitated for a moment, and seeing that the rain was getting heavier, he could only call everyone and turn onto the fork in the road.

After walking up for a while, an abandoned old house hidden in the weeds came into view.

Broken stone walls and withered old trees are intertwined, crows gather in flocks, making hoarse calls, and under the rain, the moss on the walls exudes a rotten and damp smell. The eerie and terrifying atmosphere makes people stay away and their scalps numb.

In front of the old house, tattered red lanterns swayed in the wind and rain. An old plaque entangled by vines was hung with faded red flowers and red cloth, and below it were two large gold-plated characters with peeling paint.

Mingfu!