chewing dragon

Chapter 134
Hearing this, Qi Jingzhi couldn't help laughing: "Brother, you are really open-minded. When you encounter such weird things, you are still in the mood to joke. I want to teach Brother Wei that I see that your whole body is very healthy. A living person, as for becoming a god... I think there is no such cheap good thing in the world!"

"Hey, so what if you are not open-minded? There are many mysterious and unpredictable things in this world. Brother Yu has heard a lot of them in Beijing, and he knows that hiding is impossible, and it is useless to hesitate."

Wei Yingdian sighed, and then laughed at himself: "Actually, I just figured this out just now, fortunately brother Yu was still a doctor in the Ministry of Rites, and he always claimed to be optimistic about his destiny, so I didn't expect that once something related to himself, he would not be able to understand it. Shinto has always been precious, even if the king of the country has the constitution in his mouth, he will not grant it easily. Even the evil gods who are not popular in the countryside are raised by countless foolish men and women. How can an old woman do it? "

Speaking of this, Wei Yingdian hesitated for a moment, and then said softly: "To tell you the truth, brother Yu was sacrificed in his dream last night, and saw the old woman standing alone, with a sad expression and a sincere heart, and I felt a kindness in my heart. Compassionate heart, wake up only thought it was just a dream, feel lost, don't think there really is such a house, such an old woman here, if I don't go and see it with my own eyes, my heart will not be at ease!"

Immediately afterwards, the former doctor of the Great Qi Rites actually bowed his hands to one of Qi Jing, and said with emotion: "The world is dangerous and life is difficult, my brother is kind and cherishes himself, Brother Yu, let's take a step ahead!"

After finishing speaking, he turned around and strode out of the inn, followed by the young servant of the Wei family who was standing quietly by the side.

Qi Jingzhi looked at Wei Yingdian's back in surprise, and felt that this person was really different. He was panicked a moment ago, staring his eyes like he was eating people, but he calmed down in a blink of an eye, and he even developed courage. Going to find out.

He immediately followed out, caught up with Wei Yingdian a few steps, and advised: "Brother Wei, the good or bad luck of this trip is unpredictable, and it is really too risky. If you really want to go, as you are, you can go to the county seat of Yunxiang first to find The town demons in the county will come to help, or pray at the Town God's Temple, if your soul was taken out by some evil spirit last night, the underworld will definitely respond when they hear about it."

Wei Yingdian kept walking, shook his head and said: "Since that Zao woman is well-known far and wide, I guess she is not evil, and her intention of offering sacrifices is very sincere, and she has no intention of harming me, so there is no need to make a fuss about it."

Qi Jingzhi nodded, and said leisurely: "Then let me accompany you to the stage! Speaking of which, Brother Wei was not the only one who had dates to eat last night!"

Wei Yingdian was overjoyed at first when he heard the words, then he was taken aback for a moment, and finally remembered Qi Jingzhi's bag of jujubes: "If you don't mention it, I forgot, where did my brother get the jujubes?"

Qi Jingzhi shook his head: "I'm also confused, I'd better go to that Zao's house first and then talk about it."

While speaking, the three of them left the inn, hired a bullock cart in the town, and meandered towards the Qu'a Houhu Lake.

Qi Jingzhi sat on the rickety ox cart, quietly watching the scenery of the water village along the way, which was very different from Songling County, and it was quite pleasant.

Wei Yingdian obviously had something on his mind, but he still kept his spirits up, pointed Yan Lan along the way, and didn't forget to ask the coachman what was wrong. It's a pity that he didn't find out much about Zao's affairs, but he was full of rumors about the otter girl.

While Qi Jingzhi laughed secretly, he couldn't help feeling the strangeness of the world.Wei Yingdian only talked about the fate of being on the same boat yesterday, he didn't want to go on the same boat with this old man again today.

After a few miles, a sparkling lake loomed in front of them.

A long embankment with no end is surrounded by the shore of the lake, and not far from the embankment is a neat house with white walls and black tiles.

The two jujube trees in the courtyard are towering, and the red jujube trees hang all over the branches. Looking from a distance, the red clouds are like fire, and the wind carries the fragrance of jujube and wine.

Qi Jingzhi could see clearly that the dates on the tree were exactly the same as those in the bag.

Wei Yingdian was already impatient, so he jumped off the bullock cart and hurried to the front of the courtyard. After trying his luck, he knocked on the courtyard door.

Unexpectedly, the courtyard door was only ajar, Wei Yingdian opened it when he knocked on it, and he just glanced inward before he froze in place.

Qi Jingzhi stood beside Wei Yingdian, looked up into the courtyard, and saw an incense table standing under the two jujube trees.

There is an incense burner on the incense table, and the incense burner inside the burner is already cold. There is a porcelain plate in front of the burner, and inside the plate are neatly stacked red dates.

Needless to say, this is where the jujube set up a sacrifice and the doctor received the food last night.

Wei Yingdian finally came to his senses, instead of walking towards the courtyard, he took a deep breath and asked loudly, "Is Zao at home?"

As soon as he finished speaking, someone from the main room with the door closed also answered, it sounded old and hoarse: "My family doesn't sell dates, if the customers get hungry and thirsty on the way, just go and pick some to satisfy their hunger."

Hearing this, Wei Yingdian's expression changed again, and he asked again: "I'm not here to buy dates, how dare I ask the old man who was the person who sacrificed last night?"

As soon as this remark came out, the inside and outside of the main room were silent for a while, and then there was only a creak, and an old woman with curly skin and white hair and a hunchback came out, raised her head and squinted her eyes, and looked suspiciously at the few people at the courtyard door. Uninvited guest.

Seeing the other person's face clearly, Wei Yingdian first nodded heavily at Qi Jingzhi, then bowed deeply to Zaoyu, and said in a loud voice: "These two jujube trees in your house hang like clouds, and their fragrance floats for ten miles. The gluttons are so excited, this is the brazenness to come to the door."

He paused, and then said sincerely: "I am ashamed to say that I have worked in the Rites Department of Central Beijing, and I have a little knowledge of sacrificial rituals, but I am ignorant and ignorant. I have never heard of jujube as a sacrifice." It’s just a matter of quality, so I’m taking the liberty to ask for advice, please forgive me for the abruptness!”

After listening to it quietly, Zaoyu said slowly: "The old woman is just a country woman, so she doesn't know any sacrifice rituals. Yesterday was my deceased husband's memorial day. Because the family was poor and had no money to buy wine and meat, I had to put some The jujubes produced by the family are just enshrined to him!"

Speaking of this, the old woman looked up at the jujube trees in the courtyard, with a faint sadness in her expression: "Speaking of which, the two jujube trees were planted by the deceased husband himself before he was alive, but it is a pity that they did not wait for the fruit. Just let go, and 31 years have passed in the blink of an eye."

From the moment he saw this house from a distance, Qi Jingzhi secretly opened his spiritual aperture, and focused his attention to sense the flow and changes of the surrounding spiritual energy. Except for the gathering of wood energy around the two jujube trees and the rather fresh breath, he did not find anything unusual .

Since Zaoyu opened the door and came out, he shifted his gaze from the two jujube trees to the other party, and the other party was indeed just an old woman in her dying years.

However, Qi Jingzhi was keenly aware that when the jujube woman looked at the jujube tree and mentioned her dead husband, the breath of the two jujube trees fluctuated suddenly, just like a raindrop falling into the lake, arousing a circle of insignificant emotions Tiny ripples.

But before Qi Jingzhi could sense it carefully, Wei Yingdian's aura suddenly rose and fell violently, interrupting his search for the source of the abnormal movement of the jujube tree.

It's not that Wei Yingdian, the former doctor of the Ministry of Rites, has hidden cultivation, but that when he heard the words "31 years", his mood was suddenly disturbed, and the blood in his body also rose and fell.

"Yesterday 31 years ago..."

Wei Yingdian's tone of voice had a hint of trill: "Dare to ask if the date of your husband's death is...is it..."

He muttered for a long while before uttering the year, month, day, and hour.

After hearing this, Zao Er felt a little hesitant on her face, and finally couldn't help asking: "How did the guest know?"

Hearing this, Wei Yingdian turned pale, shook his head and did not answer.

He stared blankly at Zao'er for a long while, then suddenly woke up again, and looked away at the young swordsman beside him.

Qi Jingzhi was very thoughtful, seeing Wei Yingdian's appearance, he couldn't guess what he said just now should be his birthday, the day when the old woman's deceased husband died was the day when Wei Yingdian was born!
Thinking of this, the young man couldn't help but the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, and he exclaimed in a low voice: "If it's what Brother Wei thought, the person who planted this jujube tree back then must be a living sage who has no evil karma and a clean heart!"

Wei Yingdian was taken aback for a moment, and quickly lowered his voice and asked, "What do you mean, brother?"

"Brother Wei, as far as I know..."

Qi Jingzhi just started, but stopped suddenly, shook his head with a smile and said: "It's just an unformed idea, I don't know if it's right or not, Brother Wei doesn't need to care. Today's matter is too shocking, how to deal with it, It's up to brother to decide for himself!"

In fact, the young man originally wanted to say that the undead need to wash away their karma in the world of mortals before they can break free and fly into reincarnation. Zao's deceased husband just died, and your brother fell to the ground. This connection is too tight.

But he thought about it again, the matter of his reincarnation was just hearsay, and he didn't know the details.Furthermore, you can't think that others can't do it if you can't be a spotless and spotless sage, right?

In short, it's better not to speak hastily about things you don't understand.

Wei Yingdian's mood has been disturbed for a long time, seeing that the young man refused to speak, and he didn't want to investigate further, he stretched out his hand to grope all over his body for a while, and took out a lot of scattered silver.

He turned back and stared at his servant again, and scolded, "What are you doing standing there stupidly? Why don't you give me all the money you have on you!"

Just looking at the young man's age, one can tell that he is not the kind of confidant who grew up with his master, and he probably doesn't know Wei Yingdian's birth date.

The boy was confused at first, but now he was even more confused, but he didn't dare to disobey his master's will, and honestly emptied the last copper coin on his body.

Wei Yingdian gathered the money together, held it in both hands and handed it to Zao, apologetically saying: "I came out in a hurry today, I only have these..."

Zao's eyes looked at Wei Yingdian with surprise and suspicion, and she even showed a trace of vigilance: "This guest, the old lady said before that if you are hungry and thirsty on the road, you can just pick a few dates from the tree and eat it. The two trees of jujubes have already been ordered and will not be sold outside."

She paused, and her tone became more firm: "Not only are the dates not for sale, but these two date trees were planted by my late husband, so they cannot be sold!"

Wei Yingdian shook his head quickly: "I don't buy dates, let alone trees, but I can't help but feel admiration for seeing the old man who is lonely and helpless, but he can pity me and other passers-by. To decline!"

Jujube woman became more and more puzzled when she heard the words.

She stepped forward and approached the gate of the courtyard, carefully looked at Wei Yingdian for a moment, convinced that she didn't know him, then slowly shook her head and said, "You guest is so strange, a few dates are not worth anything, but you have to give so many for no reason Give me the money, but the old lady can't take it!"

One of the two wanted to give life and death, and the other refused to refuse. After a stalemate for a long time, Wei Yingdian suddenly stepped into the courtyard, put all the money in his hand on the incense table, and then bent down, stood in front of the incense burner and bowed three times. bye.

Seeing this, Zao's complexion suddenly changed, and she hesitated and asked tremblingly: "You are?"

At this moment, a sweet and soft voice suddenly came from outside the courtyard wall leaning on the lake embankment: "Grandma Zao, I'm here to beat jujubes again!"

Before the words fell, let alone Zao's promise, a long wet bamboo pole was higher than the courtyard wall, and lightly hit the branch of the jujube tree extending outside the courtyard wall.

As soon as the pole fell, a dozen of the biggest and reddest jujubes immediately fell off that jujube branch, and then heard the sound, some fell into the water, and some fell on the wooden board.

When everyone looked up at the swaying jujube tree branches, Qi Jingzhi suddenly turned his head, his eyes shining brightly, as if piercing through the courtyard wall.

He backed out of the courtyard gate calmly, walked around the outside of the courtyard wall towards the lake embankment, and only after he turned the corner, he saw a small boat without a canopy floating under the jujube branches by the lake.

On the small boat stood a beautiful young woman, holding up a pole pole for punting to beat dates.

The woman's clothes are very thin, they can't even be called clothes, they are just surrounded by a few big green leaves, when she lifts the pole to hit dates, it is inevitable that she will be happy, and the white flowers will dazzle people's eyes.

When she saw Qi Jingzhi, her eyes lit up immediately, she couldn't control the strength in her hands, and when she went down with the pole, the jujubes fell like rain on her head, causing her to keep jumping to avoid the impact, and the big green leaves on her body were either deformed and shifted, or simply fell down.

"Oh, I just made new clothes today!" The woman's already sweet and soft voice was a little more coquettish and charming.

While pouting about her clothes, she twisted her waist and swayed generously, showing her figure to Qi Jingzhi to her heart's content.

Qi Jingzhi's eyes and ears were covered with a layer of haze, and the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up, teasingly said: "Your new clothes are really not strong."

The young woman, who was already almost naked, smiled sweetly: "Little brother, don't you hear that the lotus clothes come and go quickly? It's good that the clothes are beautiful enough. If they are too strong, they will be troublesome to take off, right? "

The smile on Qi Jingzhi's face grew stronger. He heard and saw that the woman in front of him was just a phantom. Standing below was a small black-haired beast that was only half a person tall and wet all over, and was squeaking at him. Screaming and scratching their heads.

He looked away and saw that besides the dozens of jujubes that had just fallen, there were also many small emerald green fruits piled up on the boat. He couldn't help asking curiously: "What are these on your boat?"

While taking back the jujube pole, the woman laughed and said, "This is Hu Ling. The skin is thin, the meat is tender, sweet and juicy. Brother, do you want to try it?"

She twisted her delicate body, stretched out her white and tender slender arms, and pointed to the large green leaves on the lake in the distance. She spoke softly and softly: "Let's go there by boat, and I peeled the green leaves by myself. Give it to my little brother!"

Qi Jingzhi shook his head, and asked curiously again: "I see that you don't have bloody aura on your body, so you can see that you have never hurt anyone's life. It is obviously the body of an otter. Why do you like to lure human men to make peace with you so much?"

The woman's face changed drastically when she heard the words, and her fear was beyond words.

She fixed Qi Jingzhi's eyes, then screamed and jumped into the lake, disappearing almost in the blink of an eye.

Qi Jingzhi couldn't help being stunned when he saw this, he had never seen such a timid and naive spirit, who obviously hadn't been heartless to seduce him before, and he really didn't have any vision and defense.

He shook his head, turned around and walked back to the courtyard gate, and saw that the gate had been closed again, and Wei Yingdian, master and servant, were standing outside the gate waiting for him.

This trip to Zao'er's house was completely different from what he had imagined when he came, and he never encountered any danger.

"Did you tell the old man your guess?" Qi Jingzhi couldn't help asking.

"After all, it's just a guess! Even if there is reincarnation in this world, once the body dies, the former will be abandoned!"

Wei Yingdian shook his head, with a complex expression on his face: "People and ghosts are different, how can there be a husband and wife for a hundred years?"

Qi Jingzhi nodded, thinking of the kid who delivered dates last night, he immediately asked again: "Brother Wei, have you ever thought that this might be a trick, whether it's illusions or drugs, it's just for you to deceive such a pure-hearted and honest person?" people!"

Hearing these words, Wei Yingdian was silent for a while, and after a long time, he uttered a sentence: "Whether it is true or not, who can tell for sure?"

(End of this chapter)