chewing dragon

Chapter 34 The Aftermath
The shadow of the sun is slanting to the west, and Shanqian Village is already in sight.

Qi Jingzhi stopped at the edge of the forest, turned his head to look at Old Mandrill and said with a smile: "Senior, the front is my home. Thank you for this journey, if you follow me, you can go home with me, and find a doctor tomorrow to see the leg injury , it’s not too late to go back to the mountain.”

Old Mandrill looked at the little smoke rising from the kitchen in the distance, and shook his head resolutely.

It raised its hand and plucked a bunch of hair as white as frost and snow from the back of its head, and handed it to the young man with a warm smile in front of him.

Although Qi Jingzhi didn't understand why, he still took it.

Old man grinned as if smiling, pointed to the torch in the boy's hand, and beat his chest again.

Qi Jingzhi thought for a while, then suddenly said: "If you throw this hair into the fire, senior will know, come and meet me?"

Old Mandrill nodded immediately, grinning wider.

"Thank you, senior, for your generosity!"

Qi Jingzhi's expression became serious, and he put away his vellus carefully.

He hesitated a little, and begged, "Can this junior give some to Grandpa? He is old, and if he encounters danger in the mountains, please ask senior to take care of him for a while. This junior is very grateful!"

Old Mandrill nodded again, then used both hands together, turning around without hesitation and heading for the depths of the mountain forest.

Qi Jingzhi handed the torch to Jiao Yulang who was at the side, and bowed to Lao Mandrill's back to the end.

Jiao Yulang's face was full of envy, and he said sincerely: "Brother is really lucky! With this senior taking care of him, isn't the huge Xiaosong Mountain free to come and go, do you want any good things?"

"What nice thing do you want?"

Qi Jingzhi straightened up, looked at the little boy who was sticking up like brown sugar, and said angrily: "It's better not to do such immoral things as digging graves. You must know that there are gods standing three feet above your head."

Jiao Yulang looked up at the sky, and smiled lazily: "The gods of Daqi don't care about such trivial matters, as long as we don't dig the tombs of the nobles of the dynasty or the ancestral graves of ghosts and gods. Besides, practitioners have their own privileges." , unless they turn into evil spirits after death, even the most unpopular warlocks, as long as they are powerful to a certain extent, they will not be able to comment on them."

Qi Jingzhi was surprised, and asked as he walked towards home: "Digging a grave is an unforgivable crime that can range from betrothal to death by hanging. Yin house, don’t ghosts and spirits care about it?”

"The tomb is a yin house in the eyes of the living, but in the eyes of ghosts and gods, unless it is stagnated by gloomy and filthy qi and transformed into evil spirits, it is still a thing in the world."

Jiao Yulang followed quickly, shaking his head and said, "Brother, just imagine, the ghosts and gods in Daqi are sealed by the king. Could it be that after the death of the king, the tomb where the corpse lives will be ruled by ghosts and gods instead?"

Hearing this, Qi Jingzhi immediately reacted.

He has long learned from Lu Yunzi and Mencius that the duty of ghosts and gods in the underworld is to dissolve the karma of the world on the undead and the turbid and gloomy aura on the ghosts, so as to cleanse the universe and prevent the disorder of yin and yang.Conversely, as long as it does not involve karma and turbidity, it is not under the jurisdiction of the Yin Division.

"I think it's wrong. But if a cultivator dies, how can he not be under the jurisdiction of the underworld?"

"Hey, my brother is very intelligent and good at everything. It's just that he has only practiced for a while, and he can't turn around for a while. He always has a little naive air."

Jiao Yulang explained with a smile: "Cultivators have strong souls and lively spirits. They have other places to go besides reincarnation. Maybe they will be sealed as gods when they turn around, and they will be colleagues with ghosts and gods. It's not certain who will control who. .”

"Even if you don't become ghosts and gods, whoever has someone above them or has some self-preservation power, who is willing to be at the mercy of the underworld? If the underworld dares to stretch their claws at the practitioner, they will have to do it first if they don't go back. What kind of mess is it going to be?"

Qi Jing was stunned, and immediately shook his head and laughed at himself: "That's right, it's said that chivalrous men use martial arts to break the law. Practitioners are far better than ordinary martial artists. They will only be more contemptuous and rebellious. In vain I thought I read a few books. But I don’t know that what I read is just rote books, and I don’t know how to use what I have learned.”

Jiao Yulang didn't care at all: "Actually, it's nothing. After a long time, my brother will get rid of the original thoughts of mortals, and he will naturally figure it out. Then again, ordinary people can't live, and even kill officials." What about the rebels, let alone the monks of other people? The Yin Division is not as strong as the Demon Town Academy in the face of those practitioners with an orderly inheritance and a solid background."

As the saying goes, those who are masters are teachers, and when Jiao Yulang preached a few words in the tone of someone who has experienced it, Qi Jingzhi didn't think it was disobedient at all, but thoughtful.

At this moment, a dog barking suddenly came from not far away.

Qi Jingzhi followed the sound and saw his old yellow dog galloping towards him.

Behind the old yellow dog, in the dim light of the sky, there is another tall and familiar figure striding forward.

The young man's heart immediately soared, and the wind was blowing under his feet, and he shouted loudly while running: "Grandpa, I'm back!"

Jiao Yulang, who was a little ghost, had never seen the elder brother of the Qi family look like this. He stared blankly at the young man running far away, and then reacted suddenly, and rushed to follow.

After a while, Qi Jingzhi had already run up to the old man Qi, before he could speak, he saw a few people not far behind his grandfather.

When Qi Jingzhi looked at it, his heart skipped a beat.

These few people were all dressed up as yamen servants, and the head of the shop was the head of the patrol shop wearing official uniform and wearing a waist knife.

Shanqian Village is just a small place with a population of only a hundred households, and the roads to get in and out are even more inconvenient. Even if it is the season of paying food and taxes every year, people from the village are only sent down. I have never seen so many officials, let alone patrolling the capital. Be there in person.

Qi Jingzhi immediately became vigilant, and asked in a low voice: "Grandfather, who are they?"

The old man Qi turned his back to several officials, put away the joy on his face, and gave his grandson a deep look.

He patted the young man's shoulder heavily, and his voice was very loud: "There is a servant named Chen in the county government. He has been missing for many days, and he has not been seen alive or dead! Some people say that before his accident, he was in the The county has spoken to you? Now Wandutou is personally investigating the case, and he brought the messengers here yesterday, and today he is still refusing to leave even now."

"No one alive, no dead body? That means you haven't found it yet?"

Qi Jingzhi's heart immediately relaxed, and he pretended to be puzzled and asked, "Which Mr. Chen?"

"It's Chen Er!"

While the grandfather and grandson were talking, the police officer had already brought someone over, and said in a deep voice, "You are Qi Jingzhi? After many people identified him, the day before Chen Er's disappearance, he was at the Xu Family Restaurant on the West Street of the county seat. Stopped you in front of the square gate, and the two of you whispered for a long time."

This Wandutou was in his forties, with a square face, a full beard, and a pair of sharp-edged characters.

He looked at Qi Jingzhi up and down while speaking, but his tone gradually weakened after he spoke.

Just because the young man in front of him, bathed in the sunset light, was covered in blood, and the two fox furs, one red and one white, hung around his waist, and there was even a colorful tiger skin on his back, which was several times bigger than the head of ordinary people. The head of the tiger in Quan'er was drooping on the boy's back, with tiger eyes looking up to the sky and sharp teeth.

The so-called death of a tiger never fails, the ferocious aura coming from the tiger's head almost knocked Wandu's head back.

His body leaned back obviously. Fortunately, he seemed to have some kung fu in his body. He reacted in time to stabilize his lower body, and he stood firmly on the spot with his feet. Finally, he didn't make a fool of himself on the spot.

Even so, this Dutou's pair of tricks are also staring round, the eyeballs almost squeezed the corners of the eyes,

The few yamen servants who followed behind him were even more unbearable, and all of them retreated hastily, with a series of exclamations from their mouths.

"If you go back to the adults, I will be Qi Jingzhi."

Under the setting sun, the young man raised his head slightly, and the smile on his face was as bright as the sunset: "Second Master Chen, I remember!"

　In the future, the update will be changed to two consecutive chapters, and the time is tentatively set at 11:[-] every day.

　　
　
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