I'm just an ordinary Taoist priest

Chapter 246 Dry Well
"Master Xian, can you save them first?"

The old woman led the way for a few steps, looked at the clan elders behind who supported each other, panted three times at every step, rested at every step at five steps, and paralyzed at every ten steps, and begged with some fear.

Gu Yao also turned around and looked at them, frowning slightly: "This is not a magic spell, it's just that the minor illnesses and pains that existed in their bodies have occurred due to accidents, and if they are fatal, it is just a little pain. Let a doctor take a look, and rest for a few more days."

That's what he said, but Gu Yao still adjusted their luck back to normal, so as not to have to go back for a few days.

"It's useless for them to cast spells. The bad habit will not disappear just because of me. If I really use the curse, it will kill the woman instead. Maybe I will leave with the front foot, and they will take revenge on the woman with the back foot , after all, in this era, clans are bigger than men than married women, so if you want to eliminate that kind of love, you have to grind it from the root."

"Forget it, let's go and see the strange thing they said first. If you treat the symptoms but not the root cause, then help these innocent women first."

Gu Yao couldn't help but pressed the center of his eyebrows, it was really troublesome.

It is said that a priest wants to travel in the world and see all kinds of things in the world. I just went out and encountered this incident. It is very troublesome. Just worry about it, it is time-consuming and inefficient.

Ugh.
When he sighed, those clan elders already felt a lot lighter, stood up hastily, and ran around them to lead the way.

After running and fleeing, after half an hour, they came to a small village.

A circle of bamboo fences surrounds the entire village. The land inside is flat and the houses look like houses.

On the ground, there are still many men wearing thin clothes who are plowing the fields, and there are children around ten years old running around in the field, and they seem to be having a good time.

The elders who were leading the race, those in the fields, those on the road, and those sitting on the threshold nodded their heads and said nothing. They brought Gu Yao and the others to the ancestral hall in the middle of the village as fast as they could. The man with his wife left and went home.

There are fewer people coming and going here, quiet and deep, the surrounding houses are vacant, and they are cleaned every day, and they are also the cleanest. Since no newborns were born in the village, they have invited many Taoists and monks one after another. live here.

In addition, most of the fields in the village have been sold to the city's gentlemen. They come here several times a year. On the one hand, the whole family comes to enjoy the joy of traveling, and on the other hand, they come to collect rent and live here.

Seeing that they stopped, Jing Yin whispered to Gu Yao: "There are probably three other women in the village who are working with injuries, and they should have been photographed not long ago."

Gu Yao nodded, he also noticed.

"Master Xian, do you live here?" The old woman exchanged glances with the clan elders and walked slowly over.

Gu Yao looked up at the door plaque of the ancestral hall: "Don't worry, tell me about the strange things in this village."

"This"

Is this guy really planning to take care of it, or is he asking for money?

A group of people looked at each other and opened the gate of the ancestral hall: "Xianjia, please come inside."

Gu Yao and his group followed in, and a few old people stood guard at the door, closing the door after they all went in.

"It's been five or six years, and we don't know what to say." The old woman said hesitantly.

Everyone else was a little afraid of Gu Yao.

Gu Yao said: "Just talk about what happened in the village five years ago, and find out the source, such as whether you encountered any monsters, rats, snakes, yellow skins, etc., or a new well was dug, and the graves of the ancestors were moved. kind."

Jing Yin added: "In short, you can talk about what happened in the village before and after the strange incident happened."

As soon as the old woman opened her mouth, the gate of the ancestral hall opened again. The two old men walked in with cloth bags, put the bags in front of Gu Yao and his group, and silently retreated behind them.

Gu Yao was a little puzzled. Seeing that the old woman had stopped talking, she walked over and opened two cloth bags for a glance.

Hey, one is full of copper coins, and there are some bracelets, finger rings and other things, and the other is grain, dried fish, dried meat, etc., and there is a cloth bag hidden in it. Gu Yao opened it and looked at it, it was salt.

I thought I was a bandit, and I came to the village to ask for money! Gu Yao tied up the cloth bag and walked back to his original position. Before he could speak, he saw that the complexions of this group of people turned paler and yellower. , and started to sweat.

I'm afraid I thought I was too little, so Gu Yao hurriedly said, "I'm an official of Jingye Division, and I don't accept bribes. I came here to solve your problems, and I'll talk about things quickly."

As soon as these words came out, the gradually suppressed air relaxed a lot, and the faces of the group of old people also recovered, and one of them hurriedly shouted: "Long live the fairy officials!"

"Long live!"

"Long live!"

"Stop, stop, stop, don't shout this slogan, it sounds like I'm rebelling, just call me Daoist priest or an adult." Gu Yao had a headache, and urged them to talk about business.

"Yes, yes, long live my lord!"

Gu Yao: "."

The atmosphere became active at the moment, and each of the group of people chattered and supplemented each other, forming a chaotic mess.

While talking, this group of people can still quarrel, accusing each other of having a bad head and remembering everything wrong.

Gu Yao's head got bigger when he heard it.

These people are talking about trivial things, the biggest thing is that wild boars broke into the village and destroyed the crops.

But the wild boar that came in was also hunted and killed by Jing Yesi's people, so Jing Yesi's people wouldn't be like this. Killing a wild boar can't kill them clean.

Besides, he doesn't think wild boars have the ability to abort women.

"Is there nothing else unusual? Has anyone come here?" Gu Yao interjected.

After a short period of silence, the old woman remembered something: "My lord, I remembered something, but I don't know if it counts as a monster or not?"

"Say."

The old woman cleared her throat and said, "Five years ago, Master Wang came to collect our village's cemetery, which was in the valley to the east, but he assured us that he just liked the size of the place and planned to treat it as their grave in the future." family’s ancestral grave, and promised not to touch our ancestral grave, so we agreed.”

"Later, Mrs. Wang was buried there for about five years."

"Who is Master Wang?"

One person added: "Oh, even the wealthy businessman in Huhe City, he also confiscated most of the fields in our village."

Another person interjected, "Master Wang started collecting our land almost seven years ago. He is a very good man and treats us very well. The price he collected is high and the rent is low."

"However, in recent years, the rent has become higher and higher."

The group sighed in unison.

Gu Yao remembered what they said earlier that the rent collectors in the next room would also come to live, so he took advantage of the opportunity to ask.

"Master Wang himself will also come, but he usually brings a large group of servants by himself, and often brings a Taoist priest who can refine elixir. The Taoist priest also has great supernatural powers. He was cured directly."

"It's just that I have never seen Master Wang bring his wife and concubines here, and occasionally he brings his eldest son here once or twice."

A bunch of people replenish a bunch.

Gu Yao and Jingyin exchanged glances, and said via voice transmission: "It should be this Lord Wang and the ancestral tomb."

"So do I."

Gu Yao asked, "Why didn't you say this before?"

"It's normal for Mr. Wang to come. Since seven years ago, he has been here often, but it has been less in the past two years."

"That's it." Gu Yao said to the clan elder who looked the strongest and fastest-legged: "Can you take me to see the ancestral graveyard that Master Wang bought?"

"It's not impossible." The clan elders were a little hesitant, mainly because they felt uncomfortable looking at other people's ancestral graves, especially this Lord Wang, who was also a big creditor in their village, and he was considered a good person in his normal behavior.

If Master Wang is evil because of this incident, will the rent increase in the future?
Seeing his appearance, Gu Yao chuckled lightly: "If it was really him who did it, this is to kill off your whole family, are you still hesitating?"

"Your Excellency said yes, what you said is yes, this way please." The clan elder nodded as if waking up from a dream.

"Don't follow, just stay in the village." Gu Yao called out the others, followed the elder, and went straight to the west.

After leaving the village, after walking for about two miles, I saw a row of low mountains, like stars arching the moon, with a small valley in the middle.

"This is a blessed place." Gu Yao has always been good at Fengshui, but he can also see that this place is really good.

"Yes, yes, that is, the location is remote, there is no road passing by, and it is too far from the city." The clan elder smiled and nodded, leading them into the valley.

There are also railings on the outskirts of the valley. When you walk a few steps in, what you see is a tall and sharp bamboo fence, densely packed, like a city wall, even the wind must be kept out.

"The one in here should be made by Master Wang."

The clan elder stretched out his hand to grab the bamboo fence, trying to pull a passage, but just as he held it, he felt a pain in his hand. It turned out that the bamboo fence inside was covered with small thorns. There were many small holes oozing blood.

"There are a lot of weirdness."

But the more there are, the more it means there is something weird in it.

Gu Yao took his hand to look at it, healed it smoothly and raised his hand to point at the bamboo fence.

With a scoff, a large fence fell down, revealing a large mound of graves inside.

"These are our ancestors. Master Wang really didn't move. Maybe he misunderstood Master Wang."

The clan elder led a few people in, talking while walking, feeling uneasy again.

Walking around in the valley, there are about a hundred and twenty graves, all of which belong to their village.

"Didn't you say that Grandpa Wang was buried here? Why didn't you see the tombstone? Could it be that he was buried in your coffin?"

Gu Yao asked as he walked.

The clan elder wiped the sweat from his forehead: "That's impossible, Mr. Wang is a rich man, how could he do such a thing."

In the innermost part, I saw an abandoned barren well, which was sealed with flat stone slabs.

"There is still a well in this land, do you dare to drink this water?"

Gu Yao approached and stroked the stone slab. Ever since he experienced what happened to the Zhao family, he saw the well sealed by the stone slab, and he was a little worried that there were resentful spirits below.

"That's impossible. This well is very old. Although there is water, we didn't dare to drink it or tap it. It was sealed when I was a child. It must have been 50 years ago." The clan elder sneered.

"Year 50?"

Gu Yao reached out and touched the back of the slate, and the corner of his mouth curled up after feeling the fresh scratches: "The scratches are very new, more than five years old, it seems that the weirdness is here."

Let the clan elders and Die Er, who has always played the role of the silent tail, step back. Gu Yao grabbed the stone slab with all his strength, mustered all his strength, and with the huge suction force, he took the slate away from the well and threw it aside.

The moment the stone slab was moved away, a dull and unlucky tornado rose from the well and went straight to the sky.

After the bad luck cleared away, Gu Yao went to the well, lit two golden lights, and threw them into the dark well.

"I didn't feel any water vapor. This well must be a dry well. You can't use fire qi, so as not to cause any accidents." Gu Yao pressed the fire in Jingyin's hand and said.

With the falling golden light, Gu Yao and the others poked their heads, barely able to see what was in the well.

There was a big bright red coffin, and the red birthday characters on the coffin surface were lifelike. There were four thin silk threads connecting the four corners of the coffin to the wall, making the coffin suspend in mid-air.

At the bottom of the well, as Gu Yao said, it was dry without a drop of water stains. Holding the last light of the golden light before it fell to the ground and went out, Gu Yao saw that there seemed to be a coffin at the bottom, but it was half buried in the soil.

"I seem to see a coffin lid in the ground?" Jing Yin raised his head after the golden light went out and he couldn't see anything clearly.

Gu Yao nodded: "The two coffins, I just don't know which one belongs to Mrs. Wang."

"What about the other one? It can't be Master Wang or his son, right?" Jing Yin said.

Gu Yao shrugged: "I'm not sure, or it might belong to that Taoist priest."

"However. Master Shitai, can't you see in the dark?"

Gu Yao asked curiously. He just remembered that he could see in the dark. The golden light he threw just now was just a habit of ordinary human beings for a long time. In addition, the bad luck in this well would also block his vision.

Jing Yin stiffened: "It seems to be possible."

She looked at Die'er who was still looking down into the well, and confirmed it: "Yes, it really can."

Gu Yao grinned and said: "Then trouble the mistress and bring up the two coffins below."

"Why not Die Er?"

"Die'er is just a delicate and frail little female ghost. Master, you are a true Bodhisattva who can carry mountains."

Shizune grunted and told them to scatter and plunge into the darkness.

A moment later, the mouth of the well exploded suddenly, and two coffins flew out one after the other, and were dragged by Gu Yaoyun's energy and placed on the ground.

Glancing at the red coffin, Gu Yao locked his eyes on the other black coffin.

This black coffin is a bit smaller, but what is even more peculiar is that the four corners of this coffin are all locked with bright red chains.

He squatted down, Gu Yao clicked on a huge red lock, pulled off the blood-red iron chain, watched the iron chain stretching into the well, and shouted: "Master, did you find anything at the bottom of the well?" ? Or is there an accident? Do you need my help?"

After the sound reverberated for a while, two red and yellow fruits flew out from the bottom of the well and smashed out in front of Gu Yao. Jing Yin only flew out, standing in front of Gu Yao, patting the dust on his body with a dark complexion.

"There are two of these things hidden in the coffin below."

Gu Yao looked at it carefully, and found that the fruit was like a baby that hadn't made a sound yet, its surface was folded, its facial features were slightly distorted, and its hands and legs were glued together.

Can't help being surprised: "This is ginseng fruit?!"

This thing really looks like the rumored ginseng fruit of Zhongzhen Yuanzi, but
Without a hint of fairy charm, it reveals a disgusting feeling from beginning to end.

Jing Yin's face was stiff, and he didn't ask what ginseng fruit was. He just looked coldly at the clan elder who was hiding far away and said, "It seems that those children who died unexpectedly have something to do with it."

(End of this chapter)