Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 140 The Black Bones and the Coffin

Ye Chen was taken aback by Bai Canghai's expression, his eyes were bloodshot, his face was pale, and the most important thing was the unconcealable pain in the depths of his eyes, which shocked Ye Chen.In just over a day, what happened to him and what kind of blows did he receive to make him, who is as sharp as a sword and as strong as a stone, become like this.

Ye Chen has his own affairs and has been in a hurry, but this time is not the time to drink.

"You go out first, and I will take you to the island later." The tavern owner said.

Ye Chen saluted him slightly, nodded at Bai Canghai, and walked out of the tavern.

Boom!
As soon as Ye Chen walked out of the tavern, he heard an extremely slight sound of a heavy object falling to the ground that ordinary people could not even hear coming from inside the tavern. To be precise, it came from the underground of the tavern.Ye Chen thought to himself that there should be a cellar or basement in the tavern.Maybe it was the tavern owner who threw the hundred taels of gold into it just now.

The water of Slender West Lake is as green as blue.

It's a pity that it is autumn now, and there are no weeping willows by the lake, but there is a fast boat.

"This boat has not been used for two months. I thought it would never be used again, but I didn't expect it to be used again today. I hope there is still time." The owner of the tavern said with a little emotion.

Ye Chen was a little puzzled when he heard this, and followed the owner of the tavern onto the boat.

I don't know when the ship has prepared a meal for one person.The food was still steaming, obviously it had just been put on the table.The tavern owner never left Ye Chen's sight, so it can be seen that there are other people besides the special-looking tavern owner in front of him.

Ye Chen didn't think this meal was prepared for himself.So he didn't touch it, and he didn't ask.

The water is rippling, reflecting the sunset in the sky, and the scenery by the Slender West Lake is picturesque.

The cabin was very peaceful, because after the tavern owner finished the previous sentence, he closed his mouth and became the same as Ye Chen, without saying a word.

When the boat approached Dokdo, the sunset had already faded, and the twilight was getting thicker.

Ye Chen turned his head and looked at the two bustling streets of Yangzhou City behind the tavern, which had gradually disappeared into the thick twilight, like a faded picture, with a strange feeling.

In fact, it was Ye Chen who felt that the Dokdo in front of him was a bit strange, and his expression was normal, but he began to carefully recall everything he had just experienced in his mind, not letting go of any details.

After a while, an idea flashed in Ye Chen's mind. He remembered what the owner of the tavern said before: This boat has not been used for more than two months.

Ye Chen saw it very clearly just now, and there were no other boats around. Even Kou Yuzhu heard the news that only one boat could go to Dokdo Island where the ghost doctor was. No one dares to violate it, or those who violate it are already dead.

It is said to be Dokdo, but it is actually a small mountain in the lake. The courtyard Ye Chen saw from a distance on the opposite lake bank is located halfway up the mountain.

Although the setting sun has disappeared, the maple leaves on the hillside are still gorgeous.

The evening wind is filled with the fragrance of dry leaves and a fragrance from distant mountains.

There is a small stone path in the middle of the maple forest.

Ye Chen suddenly felt a kind of comfort and tranquility in his heart that he had never experienced since he came to this era.He suddenly thought of a poem: "The stone path is slanted in the cold mountain far away, and there are people in the depths of the white clouds. I love to sit in the maple forest at night when parking, and the frost leaves are as red as the flowers in February."

The owner of the tavern got off the boat with Ye Chen, and the former carefully carried the meals.Sure enough, those meals were not prepared for those who took the boat.

The owner of the tavern walked very slowly, and it became slower and slower, as if there was something at the end of his steps that he didn't want to see or was afraid of.Ye Chen suddenly remembered that the boat seemed to be moving very slowly just now.

But no matter how slow they walked, there would always be a time when they finished walking, and soon a magnificent and ancient house built on the hillside appeared in front of the two of them.

The owner of the tavern suddenly said: "It is said that this house was built 200 years ago, and it has not changed a bit. It used to have a good name, it was called Shouhuzhai."

There was also some emotion in his voice: "But in the past few years, people who really know Yangzhou have called him a ghost house."

Ye Chen listened quietly, he had been looking forward to the owner of the tavern next to him being able to speak, so that he could hear some news or secrets from it.

As night fell, on the other side of the lake, faint lights lit up on the streets of Yangzhou City.But Dokdo was dark.Fortunately, there is more than half of the moon tonight, and the sky is very clear, and we can still see things on the island.

The owner of the tavern sighed deeply, then led Ye Chen into the yard, and entered one of the rooms close to the mountain wall.There is even no wall on the other side of the house, and the mountain wall is used as the inner wall.

As soon as Ye Chen walked to the front of this room, he felt a gloomy chill from his back down to the bottom of his feet.

Ye Chen is certainly not a timid person.

His boldness was described by his friends and classmates as "bold and bold" in later generations.The most important thing is that he comes from a later life, believes in science and does not believe in ghosts and gods, so he is not afraid of anything related to ghosts and gods in this world.

But when Ye Chen walked into this room led by Huo Zhezi, the owner of the tavern, he himself felt as if cold sweat had already flowed out from the soles of his feet.

The light from the fire pocket was dimmer than candlelight. Under the light of this fire, the room looked like the inside of a tomb.

It was as if he had entered a tomb when he entered the room.

There should be a coffin in the tomb.

Soon Ye Chen will know that there is really a coffin in this room.

Everything in the room was covered with a black scarf, making it look even more gloomy and desolate.

But what really made Ye Chen palpitate was that it was facing the door, but was clinging to the mountain wall, covered with a large black cloth, a long and square thing.The black cloth was so large that it even covered the entire ground.

Ye Chen suddenly had an indescribable chill in his heart, from his heart to the soles of his feet.He longed to ask, but he could not speak.

There was a trace of fear in the eyes of the owner of the tavern, and he walked up with the food, and something seemed to be crushed under his feet, making a crisp sound.He suddenly lifted the black cloth, revealing a coffin.

This is an old coffin that looks at least ten years old, and the coffin has no lid.

The coffin didn't surprise Ye Chen, because he had thought of it before.What surprised him was the dozen or so skeletons next to the coffin, which had just been covered by a black cloth and were now exposed to his eyes.

That's right!It is a dozen human skeletons, and it is also a black skeleton.Ye Chen participated in the Northern Han Dynasty's Northern Expedition in the Song Dynasty, and saw the mountains of corpses and blood on the battlefield when Jinyang City was captured. Although these skeletons shocked him and made him extremely vigilant, they did not scare him.But then his face changed, he became a little pale, even fearful.

Because he could see from the color of the dozens of skeletons that these skeletons were not very old, and the longest one was only a little over a year.And the most important thing is that all the skeletons are clean, without any rotten flesh, but there are traces of gnawing.

Could it be that other than the ghost doctor, are there any carnivores on the island?
Ye Chen had a vague guess in his heart.At this moment, a piercing, hoarse, and unpleasant laughter suddenly came from the coffin.

The laughter was very small at first, but in the end it became louder and full of ecstasy.

When the tavern owner heard the long laugh, his face changed, and he threw the basket containing the food in his hand into the coffin.

Seeing that the basket was about to tilt, and poured out the food, suddenly a hand stretched out from the coffin, dragged the basket firmly, and then sank.

The whole process was extremely fast and disappeared in a flash, but Ye Chen could see clearly that it was a real skinny hand.

Then, the sound of eating came from inside the coffin, and Ye Chen could hear that the person eating in the coffin was eating quickly, anxiously, and happily.Because the period was mixed with sighs of satisfaction.

Not long after, the basket containing the meals was thrown out of the coffin.Then a person stood up in the coffin.

The man was very short, less than five feet.

This person is very thin, so thin that his chest and abdomen collapse, his limbs are as thin as sticks, his body has no muscle or fat, and the bony bones are covered with a thin layer of skin, especially the deep-set eye sockets that look like two A black hole, plus his pupils are green, and there is even a faint green light flickering, the overall feeling is extremely terrifying.

This person also looked very old, so old that his hair had fallen out and his teeth had fallen out.

This person was wearing a piece of clothing of indistinguishable material, which was already tattered and hung on his body like strands of fluff.

Except for the thin skin that has lost its elasticity and luster, there seems to be no difference between this person and the dozens of bones next to the coffin, so if he is thrown into these bones, or if he closes his eyes and does not move , no one would think he was alive.

Sitting in the coffin with such a person who looks like a ghost or a corpse, this scene is extremely weird and terrifying.

Although Ye Chen had expected it earlier, his heart skipped a beat and he instinctively took three steps back.If he could make a sound at this time, he would definitely not be able to help but exclaim.If Han Keer had come today, he might have fainted from fright right now.

At this moment, in the darkness, a sword suddenly flashed in from the only window in this room, a person!

First there is a sword, and then the person holding the sword. The sword's sprint is as fast as lightning, and the person's movements are as vigorous as an eagle.

The target of this sword is not Ye Chen, nor the owner of the tavern, but the man who just stood up in the coffin.

Ye Chen had already guessed that the person in the coffin was the ghost doctor, even though he knew that the person might have eaten human flesh for more than a year.But he still didn't want the ghost doctor to die like this.

(End of this chapter)