Kaifeng Monster

Chapter 42
Duanmu Cui was angry, and for a while, he slowly closed his eyes, slowly suppressed his anger, and when he opened his eyes again, he smiled instead of anger, which was strangely charming.

Zhan Zhao immediately felt something was wrong.

"Do you like blushing that much?" Duanmucui said with a rare gentle tone, "I can make you blush for the rest of your life, do you want to try?"

"No need." Zhan Zhao's scalp tingled.

"Try it." Duanmucui smiled more and more charmingly, "Isn't your official uniform red, it can be seen that red matches you very well, with two blush flying on your face, I don't know how many girls will be fascinated .”

"Don't trouble Miss Duanmu anymore." Zhan Zhao gritted his teeth with hatred.

"No trouble." Duanmucui smiled harmlessly, "It's just a matter of raising your hand."

While speaking, he suddenly raised his right hand.

Zhan Zhao's reaction was not slow, and with a beautiful little grabbing hand, Duanmucui's hand was intercepted.

Fang held Duanmucui's hand, and frowned: "Why is it so cold?"

Duanmucui was stunned for a moment, then withdrew her hands, cupped them to her mouth, breathed, rubbed her hands together and said, "It's so cold."

Zhan Zhao knew that she was always afraid of the cold, and that she was wearing so little clothes. Although he was eager to talk to her for a while, he still couldn't help urging her to go back to the room: "Go back quickly, and rest early."

Duanmucui shook her head: "I have something to do with you, but I haven't said anything yet, what are you doing when you go back?"

Zhan Zhao took off his outer shirt and put it on for her: "What's the matter?"

"About Wen Gu Weiyu." Duanmucui tightened his outer shirt, "Actually... I shouldn't have kept it from you."

So I put together my guesses about the God of Plague and Wen Gu Weiyu.

Zhan Zhao's brows became more and more wrinkled, and the anger in his eyes gradually blazed.

"I knew you were going to be angry." Duanmucui lowered her head and clenched her shirt unconsciously with both hands, "You must say something that being a god is so shameless, such a lifeless creature... I don't know if these words have rang in my head How many times. If you are angry, just scold in your heart, and don't say it... How can I say that I am a god of Yingzhou like Wen Gu Weiyu, and if you scold him, I will not be as glorious... "

Zhan Zhao remained silent, before saying after a long time: "I don't say anything."

Duanmucui heaved a sigh of relief, turned his face to look at the candlelight on the table, and said after a long time: "But after sending out so many letter butterflies, we couldn't find Wen Gu Weiyu. I'm really...very upset."

Zhan Zhao pondered for a moment, then comforted her and said, "You don't have to worry, it might be a good thing if you can't find Wen Gu Weiyu."

Duanmucui was surprised: "How come?"

"At least, he didn't continue to do evil in the world."

Duanmucui said nothing, then shook his head: "Can you believe that he just killed for the sake of killing, and stopped after doing such a cruel thing? I don't believe it, he must be planning a bigger conspiracy."

"You really can't find Wen Gu Weiyu?"

"I can't find it." As soon as this matter was mentioned, Duanmucui's mood fell to the bottom.

"Among the Three Realms, is there any place that Xindie cannot reach?"

"No..." Duanmucui shook his head and paused as if thinking of something, "But strictly speaking, there is actually one."

"where?"

"The Way of the Underworld."

Although he doesn't know what the underworld is, Zhan Zhao still can't help guessing: "Is it possible that Wen Gu Weiyu is hiding there?"

"Impossible." Before Zhan Zhao finished speaking, Duanmucui shook his head.

"So sure?" Zhan Zhao couldn't believe it, "Things in the world don't have to be so absolute, Duanmu, if..."

"There is no if." Duanmucui obviously couldn't listen to Cheng Zhao's words, "Zhan Zhao, the possibility of Wen Guwei being able to enter the underworld is as small as you being able to have children."

Zhan Zhao didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "You're making things difficult for me, Duanmu."

In the early morning of the second day, Gongsun Ce came to Zhan Zhao to discuss the excavation in Xuanping Zhiyin, and said that shopkeeper Li had already assembled a manpower, and he just went to the deserted Yizhuang in the southern suburbs after breakfast.After Zhan Zhao finished tidying up, he wanted to go downstairs with Gongsun Ce, but Gongsun Ce stopped him instead, hesitated for a while before saying, "Guard Zhan, Miss Duanmu, let her go more."

Seeing that Zhan Zhao was puzzled, Gongsun Ce went on and on and explained that the girl's family is inevitably thin-skinned, and Zhan Zhao took the initiative to bow his head and give in for a while. Naturally, one must be broad-minded and not to be fussy, and then he seemed to realize that the wording of haggling was inappropriate, and added that he was not fussing about Zhi Zhan Zhao, but just used it as a comparison.

Zhan Zhao couldn't help laughing, only then did he realize that Gongsun Ce was trying to make peace with what happened last night.

While talking, the front door opened with a squeak, but Duanmucui came out with her head bowed and her hair curled up, and the two jasper pendants flickered by her ears, very playful.

Gongsun Ce immediately became nervous.

"Guard Zhan, you go down to have dinner first." While speaking, he pushed Zhan Zhao downstairs, "I'll tell Miss Duanmu, I think she's almost gone after a night, but you're stuck here Bad thing. In short, everything is up to me, you can rest assured that I will handle things..."

He was still impassioned and insisted on his commitment, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw Duanmucui approaching. Gongsun Ce cried out inwardly, wishing that there was no sack cabinet or something to put Zhan Zhao in——

Duanmucui has already said, "Zhan Zhao."

Gongsun Ce murmured in his heart: This tone sounds... quite peaceful.

"I only found out that the hem of the skirt was torn in the morning, and I didn't bother to mend it. I've been back and forth in the past two days, and it's so dirty. Have you brought any money, I want to buy a few to deal with it."

"There should be a clothes shop in the city, but I don't know if it will be open to welcome guests. It's business today, so I'll go with you."

"Let's say it first, there is no money to pay you back."

"If you talk like that, no one will lend it to you."

"So I only borrow from you."

The two laughed at Yan Yan, went downstairs side by side, and left Gongsun Ce on the ground.On the way, he ran into shopkeeper Li. Seeing the two men who were at war last night, it was calm and rainy today. He felt that Monk Zhang Er was confused, and he was stunned for a long time before he came up to look for Gongsun Ce.

"That..." After all, he was very curious and couldn't help asking, "After all, he is a young man, and his anger comes and goes quickly, so... then... we shook hands and made peace? It must be the master who made peace?"

Gongsun Ce suddenly became angry.

"What's none of my business? I don't know anything. In the future, don't ask me for these two people's affairs. I don't care if you ask me."

He flicked his sleeves and walked away.

The deserted Yizhuang in the southern suburbs was formerly a mass grave, and dating back a hundred years ago, it was a promiscuous nunnery.The shabby aunt's lust grew wildly, and she cheated many good people's children. Later, she was found by her enemies, and iron chains and copper locked the front door and the backyard. She poured boiling oil on the wall, and a fire started, and the flames filled the sky.The rescuers couldn't get close, and the people inside had nowhere to escape. They screamed miserably and shook the door like crazy. The fire finally went out.

The neighbors from Zuojin were able to enter the door. Not to mention the living beings were found, not even the bones were found. The walls and doors were covered with twisted and hideous human figures - some knowledgeable people said that they were from the nunnery. The person ran to a dead end and was burned on the wall by the fire behind him. His bones were melted, but the struggle and hopelessness at the last moment before death left an image.What is even more embarrassing is that, without exception, the arms of each human figure are desperately clasping upwards—perhaps, the closer the death is to the elbow, the more ruthless the desire to survive.

After the fire, in the dead of night, nearby residents could always vaguely hear some strange noises.Listening carefully, the voice clearly came from the abandoned nunnery.

Crack...crack...crack...longer and shorter, this is the sound of knocking on the door.

Help me... help me... a tiny, slow, groaning cry for help.

Also in the courtyard, the bucket hanging from the head of the well suddenly fell into the well, causing the sound of splashing water; the earthen pot filled with water fell to the ground with a crisp sound.

Trembling and trembling, Sosuo covered his head with the quilt, thinking that he was being haunted by a nightmare.

When I got up at dawn, I realized that there was a wet water mark on the ground, meandering, extending towards the abandoned place.

Older people said that it was the resentment trapped in the nunnery, and they were still thinking about splashing water to put out the fire.

If things go on like this, who can stand it?So in twos and threes, in twos and threes, they moved away from the southern suburbs.

Later, when the world was in troubled times and the situation was precarious, the area around the southern suburbs became a mass grave.Every night, there are dense bones and wildfires, and the people in the city are talking about it.

After the founding of the Song Dynasty, Xuanpinghe County was reorganized, and this area was also heavily repaired and built as a Yizhuang.

It's just that I still have a taboo in my heart, and the old man who guarded the village for a year hanged in the village for no reason, and the rumors about the southern suburbs became more and more evil.Later, Xuanping County raised another Yizhuang in Beicheng, and this Yizhuang in the southern suburbs was naturally abandoned.If Duanmucui hadn't indicated that he wanted to dig in Xuanping Zhiyin, no one would have thought of this deserted place in the southern suburbs.

It was about three poles high in the sun, and when Zhan Zhao and Duanmucui arrived, the excavation of the pit in Yizhuang had already reached a depth of half a foot underground.Zhan Zhao glanced briefly, and found that most of the men who shoveled the shovels in the village were the men who caught the cat demon in the streets and alleys that night. The group seemed to be the tacit leader of the people in Xuanping.Shopkeeper Li also jumped from a small restaurant shopkeeper to a messenger and liaison officer, running around to convey instructions, and his sense of self-identity skyrocketed, not to mention how beautiful he was.

Duanmucui reckoned that the digging would not be three feet three feet deep, so she stood by the side and watched for a while, feeling bored, so she wandered outside to enjoy the scenery.After a while, Gongsun Ce came out and said to Duanmucui: "Yesterday, when we said we were going to choose a land of the most yin, shopkeeper Li talked about how evil this Yizhuang is. Now it seems that the people in the city are really afraid of Yizhuang--I think Many people wear peach charms to ward off evil spirits."

Duan Mucui shook his head and said: "It must be rumors, I just checked carefully, the inside of this Yizhuang is surprisingly clean, and there is absolutely no ghost to be found in a radius of ten miles."

Gongsun Ce wondered, "Really? They spread the word so well, they actually created something out of nothing?"

Duanmucui also found it difficult to understand: "Many people died in this city. Although the hostility was strong, the ghost aura was not heavy. Not only was it not heavy, but it was also extremely clean-could they all be taken away? When did Black and White Wuchang become so diligent? ?”

Gongsun Ce has no friendship with Black and White Impermanence, and it is not easy to express opinions on whether people are diligent or not. Duanmu Cui suddenly changed the subject: "Mr. Gongsun, according to what you said yesterday, after Xiao Qinghua left, there will be no more Appeared?"

Gongsun Ce didn't expect Duanmucui to mention Xiao Qinghua suddenly, he was taken aback for a moment before nodding his head: "Yes, it is very annoyed at Zhan Weiwei."

"It's all spirits that were collected randomly," Duanmu Cui murmured, "it's hard to imagine that it still misses me so much."

"Little Qinghua is also a ghost?"

"Of course." Duanmucui laughed, "They're all harmless little spirits, with no magic power and no knowledge. I thought they would disperse after I left."

"How could it be?" Gongsun Ce was puzzled, "After getting along for a long time and developing a friendship, you will naturally think about it. Didn't you think about others when you were in Yingzhou?"

"That was a long time ago."

Duanmucui's voice softened, and suddenly there was a lot of indescribable emotion in his eyes: "Mr. Gongsun, do you miss someone, even though you have worked hard, but you are still happy in your heart?"

Gongsun Ce hesitated for a moment, nodded and said, "Yes."

"Then, I was thinking about it too." The corners of Duanmucui's beautiful lips slightly raised, obviously looking up at Gongsun Ce, but his eyes seemed to fall on a place too far away, "I don't know how he is living now. OK."

"He... is it?" Gongsun Ce probing.

"I don't know you, Mr. He is my old friend in Xiqi." Recalling the old things in Xiqi, Duanmucui couldn't help smiling, "The father of Shishi was besieged by the merchant army, and I broke out alone in the middle of the night to find reinforcements, and I ran into him leading the army in the middle of the night. He didn't believe that I was the female general next to Shangfu, and he laughed at me, and I was knocked off the horse. Later, I showed the general order and recruited his soldiers... After that, Shangfu kept laughing at him as General Dugu, who was a general , Soldiers and horses have been taken in by others, isn’t it lonely and lonely.”

Duanmucui was talking to herself, completely oblivious to Gongsun Ce's shock.

"Father Shang... Could it be Jiang Shang, Jiang Ziya? The Jiang Ziya known as 'Taigong Wang'?"

Duanmucui nodded.

I knew that Duanmucui must have a great origin, but when he was really connected with such a long-standing dynasty, Gongsun Ce was still shocked.

"King Wu defeated Zhou, Fengming Qishan, Jiang Ziya..." Gongsun Ce murmured, "Rough calculation, there are also..."

"It's 2000." Duanmucui said.

"Yes," Gongsun Ce was amazed, "Taigongwang is respected as the master of hundreds of schools, the first king of Qi, and his descendants Qi Huangong and nine princes, how majestic. Not to mention far away, let's put our Great Song Dynasty nearby, the first emperor once Canonize him as King Zhaolie Wucheng."

"Those are all false names." Duanmucui shook his head slowly, "Whether it's the masters of the Hundred Families or the princes of the Nine Heroes, don't they end up in a bleak end? I can see the rise and fall of the Qi Kingdom. You can't blame the ambition of the wolf surnamed Tian, ​​and the descendants of Shangfu are not up to the mark."

Gongsun Ce was silent. According to historical records, the Qi State was destroyed by the Qin State in 221 BC, but strictly speaking, after the Tian family replaced Qi in 386 BC, the Qi State was no longer in the hands of the descendants of the Taigong.Since Duanmucui called Jiang Ziya Shangfu, she naturally took special care of Jiang's descendants, and it was expected that she would be dissatisfied with Tian Qi.

"The old friend you mentioned just now," Gongsun Ce said after thinking, "is he also a general? You knocked him down in two or three hits, so he might not be very good at fighting..."

"No, no, he's very good at martial arts." Duanmucui quickly explained, "I fought him privately later, but I couldn't gain the upper hand, and I don't know why he let me in the first time."

When I said this, I suddenly thought of that night, the moon was shining like water, the man was wearing a cloak, wearing a helmet, and the bronze dagger in his hand was pointing obliquely at her, quite amused: "I heard that Duanmucui is the only brave girl beside the prime minister Warlord, how could it be possible for you to be like you, a gust of wind can sweep you away..."

Even after 2000 years of sun, moon and sky, the corners of his lips still couldn't stop showing a flamboyant smile that was the same as that night: "Then you try, can a gust of wind blow me away."

"That friend of yours... he didn't become a god?"

Duanmucui's smile gradually faded away, and she slowly shook her head and said, "No, conferring a god is not that easy... Even if it's me, I don't have it on the list of conferring gods... Shangfu abandoned the god position in the upper realm to protect me wholeheartedly Dengxian... As for him, I don't know how many lives he has been in..."

Then, maybe he will be reborn in this world, will we meet again?If we do meet, will Miss Duanmu recognize her?
When Gongsun Ce was thinking, he suddenly heard footsteps coming from behind, and when he turned his head to look, it was Zhan Zhao.

"It's almost ready inside." Zhan Zhao smiled, "According to what you said, there are dozens of urns in the village, and they are also filled with water... Duanmu, when will you do it?"

"Let's do it now." Duanmucui looked in the direction of Yizhuang, "Let them all stay away from it, and their bodies will never be able to bear it together."

"Then you..." Zhan Zhao hesitated.

"You guys also avoid it, just go about your own business. After this side is finished, I'll go find you."

Watching everyone go away, Duanmucui turned around and closed the door of Yizhuang.

According to her instructions yesterday, a three-foot-three-foot-deep earth pit has been dug in the courtyard of the village, and spades and shovels are scattered here and there around the pit.A little farther away, dozens of urns are lined up in three rows, and the overflowing clear water is flush with the mouth of the vats.

Duanmucui walked around the edge of the pit, and the soil around the edge was a little loose, and when he stepped a little harder, clods of soil kept rolling down.

"It's not too difficult to think about." Duanmucui pouted, and glanced at the bottom of the pit indifferently, "It's just going to burn for a long time, it's boring." The place suddenly boiled up and down like boiling water, and then quickly spread in all directions.After a while, there was a bang, the loess on the bottom surface collapsed in all directions, and a huge black mist column sprayed out, before Duanmucui could react, it knocked her to the ground.

(End of this chapter)