Holy Bone

Chapter 4 A County Called Chang

The moonlight in the mountains is sparse and desolate.

far apart.

Looking at the vast and desolate wilderness.

Jin An mixed feelings of loneliness and homesickness, a little sad from the heart, and sighed softly.

see you.

He heads towards the basin at the foot of the mountain.

Bend over and fold your fists.

The Taoist frowned: "Why do you worship a man-eating temple when you have nothing to do?"

Jin An: "The murdered father and son were honest and kind people during their lifetime. Even after they died, they never thought of killing me, nor did they want to take me as a ghost. Instead, they woke me up from my sleep several times and reminded me that there were ghosts in the temple. , tell me to run away."

"So I don't worship the ghosts and gods enshrined in the temple, but the father and son Wang Tiegen. I thank them for their life-saving grace. It can be said that they saved me twice in total."

"If there is a chance, I hope to have the opportunity to return to this place in the future to collect their corpses and send them back to the village, so that their family can be reunited without being a lonely ghost."

"Good people don't deserve to suffer."

Jin An said at the end with a heavy tone.

After the rain, the moon is so low that it seems to be close at hand.

Gu Yue hangs in the air.

Under the old pine tree stood two figures, one old and one young.

The elders were wearing five-color Taoist robes, and on their feet were a pair of blue and white ten-square shoes.

The age is about forty.

Although the five-color robe is old, it has been starched and washed to some white, but it is clean and tidy without wrinkles. It can be seen that its owner must cherish this robe very much, and even if it is very old, he is still reluctant to throw it away.

This is a pure and good Taoist priest who cherishes the feathers.

The other was an even stranger youth.

Thin skin and tender meat, white skin and white teeth, just in his early twenties.

Stay short.

He looks like a handsome scholar from a businessman's official family, and a little monk who has just returned from secular life. It feels a bit nondescript.

"Someone's here." The Taoist priest suddenly said a word that broke the silence of Shanyue.

Jin An looked around blankly, the sky and the earth were vast, and in the dark night, except for the vague outlines of rolling hills, he couldn't see anything.

The Taoist priest raised his hand and pointed in a direction at the foot of the mountain, like a fairy under the moon who was pointing and lost his way: ""Guang Ping You Said Synesthesia Record" has a door of 'looking for breath', which is called the primordial spirit of scholars. Because scholars read for the purpose of showing merit and honoring their ancestors, the articles they have read will shine with every word and radiance, radiating from the readers' eyes, like colorful clouds, like a vast scenery. Therefore, ancient people often describe poetry. Can become immortal, and literature can become sanctified."

"Just like Shixian and Wenxian, who are first-class talents, their light can go straight to the sky and fight against the stars."

"Even a young scholar can emit a faint light like a small oil lamp, reflecting on the doors and windows, helping talents to be diligent and sensitive."

"One mile away from the official road at the foot of the mountain, the light on the man's body is nearly zhang high, so I said that someone came, and at least the people who came were Jinshi or Tanhua with great fame."

Jin An was shocked.

He looked back at the mountains that were still as deep as ink, and the dark night gave him black eyes, so that he could see nothing in the dark night.

The longer he felt in this world.

The physics teacher's coffin board can't hold back anymore.

Jin An moved.

Eyes full of anticipation, he asked, "Master, how many feet and inches do you think I am?"

As a person who is in the explosion of knowledge and the Internet is full of dogs, how can golden scales be a thing in the pool, and the books that have been read must be more salt than the ancients have eaten. ?

Unexpectedly, when Jin An turned to look at the position of the Taoist priest beside him, there was no one there...

Only under the old pine tree behind him, there is only the remains of a blood-stained Taoist priest who abandoned the corpse in the wilderness.

The Taoist priest's body was incomplete, and the lower body had been lost. Only the upper body of the five-color Taoist robe was stained with blood, as if it had been torn in two by some powerful monster. The Taoist priest leaned on the old pine tree but his hands were tied together. Yin, the person walked very peacefully, with no expression of pain on his face.

The strange thing is that such a strong bloody smell did not attract the peeping of jackals and beasts... Maybe it has something to do with handprints?
The frosty white moonlight shone on the face of Jin An, who was in the old forest in the deep mountains, and looked a little pale.

Wild mountains.

Tigers roar and apes cry.

They are all haunted by ghosts.

What's wrong with me... Jin An is cold again.

……

Two days later in the evening and dusk.

After a spring thunder, as Qingming gradually approaches, the weather begins to warm up. Today is a sunny day.

There is a county on the bank of Yinyi River.

It was a county called Chang.

Chang County is very lively, with a lot of voices, there are the sounds of children running around, shouting, and the sounds of vendors and pawns.

"Break a big stone in my chest, sell my body to bury my sister..."

"Candied haws, crisp and sweet, candied haws with sticks..."

"Ancestral craftsmanship, can be big or small, thick or long candy kneader~"

"Mother, mother, I want to lick the dog! I want to lick the dog!"

"No, mother, I'm going to lick the dog!"

Some urchins pointed to the candy man stand by the roadside, crying and rolling on the ground.

There are ordinary people in linen clothes without decorations on the streets where people are woven.
There are also rich young ladies with spotless jade belts or pink plum-colored snow fox padded coats;

Of course, those who have been licking blood with knives all year round are also indispensable.

These rivers and lakes are full of fleshy faces, full of vigor and blood, and all of them are full of tendons. Whenever they glance at those rich young ladies with thin skin and tender flesh, they are not good at all, as if they are picking out big fat people to be slaughtered. sheep.

At this time, it was getting dark and night, and there were already many people sitting in the restaurants, restaurants and cafes on the roadside.One of them has green bamboo flags hanging in front of the door and reads 'Xu Ji Tea House', and most of the seats on the first floor are full. Among these people are literati in long gowns, staff members in outer clothes, and businessmen with female family members... I sip the tenderest new tea picked before Qingming, while listening to the storyteller talk about the latest happenings in Changxian County.

There is a folk saying that tea was as expensive as gold before the Ming Dynasty.

It is said that this tea was picked from the tea before the Qingming Festival.Even some of the best new teas require young girls to pick with fragrant words in order to retain the original pure fragrance, which is not affordable for ordinary people.

Snapped!
With the gavel in Mr. Storyteller's book, he began to tell the story slowly.

"The day before yesterday, there was a strange case in our Chang County called 'Lei Gong's Splitting the Corpse Case'. Just when this matter was finalized, a carriage suddenly came to the village at night."

"There are three people in the carriage driving the night road. They are a coachman, a scholar, and a son. The three want to stay overnight in the village. One of the sons is eight feet tall and eight feet wide, with a stern body. In the process of killing people in the village, he even scolds the villagers for being ignorant and superstitious."

"It looks like the case of 'Lei Gong splitting the corpse', but the case in the case is actually hidden. After the son solved the case, another major case involving the state affairs of the imperial court was accidentally involved! A corpse is actually covered with a case in the case. , is jaw-dropping!"

"If you want to know the details of this case..."

"Let's listen to the old man, I will slowly say for all the spectators..."

"By the way, there is a secluded village ten miles away in the southwest corner of Chang County called Shangpan Village. What I want to talk about today is a bizarre case that happened in Shangpan Village the day before yesterday."

"There is a woman in Shangpan Village called Mrs. Li, and her husband Li Cailiang. Although the two are not very rich, but the husband and wife are of one mind and work hard and endure hardships. They are considered to have a small wealth, and they have no worries about food and clothing, and they have a son under their knees."

"At the end of the day, when the day's farming was over, Li Cailiang and his wife, as usual, went home to cook and prepare dinner, but Li Cailiang didn't go home immediately, but led the old water buffalo in the field to rush Send it to a family in the same village before dark, so as not to miss the time for planting and transplanting rice in the spring."

"In various villages, it is very common for several families or a village to raise a cow together."

"But just as Li Cailiang was about to return home after paying off the cattle, something strange happened..."

(End of this chapter)