Folk custom: At the beginning of the wedding, the bride takes off her painted skin

Chapter 142 Young Yan Kuan, the price ghost and the juice that finally got his hands on rice! 【[-]-in-[-]】

Li Daoxuan was not talking nonsense, but under his dead eyes, Yan Kuan's eyes and head were glowing with a strange red.

Although it is not strong, it is like a dense air.

As the female ghost on the roadside disappeared, Li Daoxuan found that the pollution on Yan Kuan's head had also faded.

He took a few deep breaths and shook his head again before he finally regained his composure.

"Indeed, something was wrong just now. It wasn't her..."

Li Daoxuan glanced at him and said: "Although I don't know how you were contaminated, I think you will be in danger after entering."

"fine."

Yan Kuan shook his head, "No matter how dangerous it is, I will go."

As soon as these words came out, Li Daoxuan stopped trying to persuade him.

Everyone has the right to choose their own life. If you can persuade someone, it is for the sake of being a friend.

[In the troubled times of the Five Turbidities, a pig butcher walking in Shanshui City encountered a mountain of mass graves. The ghost mist in front of you will have a hint of domain effect, and your survival points will be +6 (green). 】

This ghost mist actually has a hint of field effect...

Just when Li Daoxuan wanted to add a dot, text appeared on the panel again.

[There is no one to ask in the mountain of mass graves, and I kneel down in front of the cave of ten thousand ghosts to look for someone. In this secular world, the Graveyard Mountain is a very special area. Ghosts gather here and the fog is everywhere. It is a paradise for ghosts and evil spirits.

There are many ghosts fighting here, so you can always pick up all kinds of materials and dirt here.

But at the same time, the ghosts here are far more ferocious than those in other places. 】

So, this is a dangerous copy?

Li Daoxuan changed it into a statement that was easier for him to understand. A place where danger and opportunity coexist. If you are not in a hurry to find juice to eat, you can stay here for a while.

While thinking about it, the two of them stepped into the mountain of mass graves together.

As soon as he entered, the ghost mist invaded. These strands of ghost mist were like cold and smooth little hands, constantly touching the exposed skin.

It makes one feel a chill in the back.

Li Daoxuan moved his body a little, and the energy and blood in his body became active, and the feeling disappeared.

But that was not the case for Yan Kuan. As soon as he came into contact with the ghost mist, he shuddered and said, "It's so cold in here."

Graveyard Mountain was right in front of us, and the sinister wind kept blowing, blowing away some of the ghost mist, but then more ghost mist poured in from the side.

You can still vaguely see the paper money blown by the wind.

Behind the paper money, there are still a few cunning ghosts who are constantly fighting for it.

When Yan Kuan saw this, he couldn't help but take out his vulgar weapon, the peach wood sword wrapped with intestines.

"I was not allowed to come on the day she was buried, but afterwards my mother secretly told me the location of her grave. It was on the south side of the mass grave mountain. There was an old willow tree in front of her grave."

Li Daoxuan nodded but did not move forward.

"I'm just curious. Her tomb is in Graveyard Mountain... a place where even you, a seven-liquid grain eater, are a little afraid to come in. How did her family know that there was something wrong with her here?"

Before he came to the Graveyard Mountain, Li Daoxuan didn't know what was going on here, but now that he is here.

He also noticed something abnormal.

This mass grave mountain is definitely not a place that ordinary people can set foot in.

"This……"

Yan Kuan also woke up with a start and raised his head suddenly.

Li Daoxuan looked at him with a look of hatred, "Go away quickly, something happened at your house!"

"Yes, yes, hurry up."

After that, the two of them turned around and left without any hesitation.

Fortunately, both of them had just stepped into the Tomb Mountain, and the ghost mist didn't spread out, so they walked out of the area shrouded in the ghost mist very easily.

"Huh... I'm really out of my mind. Fortunately, City Master Li came with you."

Yan Kuan wiped his face and said, "Let's go, our Yanjia Village is over here."

Li Dao

Not far away, Yan Kuan himself discovered something unusual.

"Normally, there are a lot of people on this road. City Lord Li, don't look at this small stone road, but it is an important passage connecting our villages in Yanjiawan."

But now, many places on this stone road are covered with stone moss.

Apparently no one has been gone for a long time.

Li Daoxuan asked again: "How did your family contact you at that time?"

Yan Kuan replied: "They wrote a letter and sent it to the Cui family. The Cui family then took the letter to Shenwu City and handed it over to me."

"That's no wonder. This ghost's spirituality is probably quite high."

Li Daoxuan quickened his pace, and at the same time he vaguely guessed something.

After passing this stone road, we finally returned to the muddy field path. The beach on the roadside was full of water, and we could even see small swimming fish, shrimps and crabs in it.

"Our village is ahead."

Li Daoxuan looked in the direction of Yan Kuan's finger.

Houses made of bamboo are supported by bamboos driven deep into the ground, hanging over the muddy tidal flats.

It was here that the weather became very hot.

The mist sticks to the body with sweat, making it uncomfortable.

There were faint sounds of people talking and laughing in the village, as well as the sound of children laughing and playing, which made Yan Kuan let out a long sigh of relief.

"It seems we are overthinking it, so that's fine. That's fine."

Li Daoxuan squinted his eyes and looked around, then looked away, "Don't be too happy too early."

"Huh? What's wrong?"

"Don't the people in your village eat dinner?"

After Li Daoxuan explained, he was already walking in front of Yan Kuan.

And after thinking for a moment, he realized that it was already evening when the two of them came over.

Logically speaking, it's time to make dinner.

But looking around, no one in the village had a fire.

It is understandable that a family should not eat, but it is impossible for every household to not eat.

Yan Kuan's peace of mind just now was raised again, and he followed closely.

The closer we got to the village, the louder the voices became. The setting sun in the evening filtered through the river mist and sprinkled the village like a layer of golden gauze.

It was very beautiful, and seemed completely opposite to the scene I saw on the Tomb Mountain before.

"This is my second uncle's house at the entrance of the village."

"I'll go take a look."

At the door of every house, there were steps made of bamboo. Yan Kuan walked up the stairs in two or three steps. Before he could open the door, an old man on crutches walked out of the house next to him.

Seeing this, he shouted: "Who are you! What are you doing in my house?!"

Yan Kuan opened his mouth and said in a slightly crying voice: "Second uncle, it's me, Kuan'er, I'm back."

"Kuaner?"

The old man frowned, looked at Yan Kuan up and down, and raised the crutch in his hand with difficulty, as if to strike: "Fuck your mother, Kuan'er just left me not long ago."

"Besides, Kuan'er is so young, how can he be like you and almost look as old as me!"

"I……"

Yan Kuan didn't know what to say or what was going on.

He could only turn his gaze to Li Daoxuan, with a hint of inquiry in his eyes.

"Didn't you realize that he is dead?"

Li Daoxuan still has the ability to decide between life and death, well... mainly because the dead man's eyes are full of blood.

This was a sign of contamination, so Li Daoxuan paid special attention to it for a while.

It was because of this that he discovered that this man was dead.

"What...dead, dead?"

Yan Kuan looked closely and soon discovered something strange... There were actually corpse spots on his second uncle's body.

The old man also heard what Li Daoxuan and the two were talking about, and he cursed angrily: "You are just dead. Your whole family is dead. Get out of here. If you don't get out, I will call for help."

"Go, go, let's get out."

Yan Kuan hurriedly came down from the door of his house.

"Let's go, let's look elsewhere."

Li Daoxuan was holding a butcher's knife, which frightened the old man who wanted to come down.

The main reason is that Li Daoxuan hasn't found any abnormalities yet. It would be a bit wasteful to directly search for filth.

It's better to see for yourself first.

After passing these houses, Yan Kuan picked another bamboo house and went in, saying that this was his aunt's house.

But as soon as he entered, he was kicked out, and the answer he got was the same.

The man who came out was already dead, and they all said that it was impossible for Yan Kuan to grow so old. They said that they met Yan Kuan this morning, and he was still a young man of eighteen or nineteen years old.

Look at his devastated look.

Li Daoxuan finally spoke.

"There's something I don't know if you can accept, but as far as I can tell, it's most likely the truth about your village."

Yan Kuan raised his head, took a deep breath and slapped himself again, "City Master Li, you are not a child anymore, there is nothing that is unacceptable."

"Everyone in your village should be dead, and there is something supernatural that has blocked their memories for decades."

"That is to say, they all lived when you were eighteen or nineteen years old. And as expected, there is still a you active in this village. As expected, that you is a ghost."

Li Daoxuan expressed his guess.

Although it is a bit outrageous, in this world where supernatural beings and ghosts coexist, it is not too outrageous.

Yan Kuan nodded, "That makes sense."

Li Daoxuan continued: "You are a ghost, and the other party tried their best to call you back from Shenwu City, so...you should be able to guess what happened."

"is her!"

There was a hint of surprise in Yan Kuan's eyes, but it was also accompanied by deep regret.

"Of course, this is just my guess. She probably already knew that we were back, but she didn't take action. We can take a look first."

As they spoke, the two walked along the stone path in the center of the house, which was also made of stones. After not walking far, they saw several shirtless children gathered around a small puddle.

They are all holding a silk thread in their hands and fishing for crabs.

There are already two or three crab pots on the side.

The exposed backs of these children were also covered with corpse spots, and some places had even begun to fester.

Apparently, they were all dead too.

Still dead for a long time.

At the door of the bamboo house on the side, a naked child knelt in front of a woman, crying "Mother".

But that woman was extremely stubborn and believed that she was not even married yet, so how could she have a child.

Yan Kuan couldn't stand anymore and said hurriedly: "City Master Li, I have to go back first to see how my parents are doing."

"it is good."

After saying that, Yan Kuan almost ran away, flying on the stone road.

Li Daoxuan strolled leisurely, looking at the houses on both sides, but his steps did not slow down at all.

Within a few minutes, Yan Kuan stopped in front of a rather luxurious bamboo house. It is said to be luxurious because this bamboo house occupies a large area, and the bamboo used is better than the ones next to it. Every bamboo is dark and shiny.

When he arrived at the door of his house, Yan Kuan was a little afraid to step forward.

Near nostalgia is more timid.

He was also afraid that when he came to the house, he would see something he couldn't accept, so he said to Li Daoxuan here: "When I left, this bamboo house was similar to other people's houses."

"I made this in Shenwu City and asked others to take it home and rebuild it again after I made money."

"Originally, I wanted them to move to Shanshui City, but they couldn't abandon this ancestral land, so I had people renovate it for them."

Maybe I heard someone talking outside, and there were footsteps inside the bamboo house.

Yan Kuan didn't dare to speak anymore, he just lowered his head, but raised his eyes to look at the door.

What came out was an old woman with silver hair.

She was already very old, and her vision was a little blurry. She struggled to open her eyes to see the two people standing at the door.

Then he asked in an extremely difficult dialect: "Who are you two looking for?"

The moment he heard the voice, Yan Kuan couldn't hold it in any longer. He knelt down on his knees and kowtowed heavily, shouting in a crying voice:

"Mom, Kuan'er, I'm back..."

At this moment, the bearded man whom Li Daoxuan had met for the first time burst into tears.

Li Daoxuan didn't know what was behind his kneeling. Maybe it was the regret of being ignorant when he was young.

There is also a debt to my parents for not being filial in these decades.

It is also full of longing for my parents.

"Kuan...Kuan'er?"

When the old woman heard this voice, she originally had the salted fish in her hand, but now she threw the salted fish away and came down from the door of the house tremblingly.

He stretched out his hands covered with corpse spots, held Yan Kuan's head, and slowly pulled him up.

"You are Kuan'er... No, you are not Kuan'er. He was still at home this morning... You are really Kuan'er."

The old woman looked at Yan Kuan's face, which was already starting to get wrinkles, and muttered.

Li Daoxuan folded his arms on his chest and just stood watching the show.

He suddenly said: "He is Yan Kuan, but he is Yan Kuan thirty years later."

Although the old woman was blind, she had a sharp ear. She heard Li Daoxuan's words clearly and had no doubts.

She reached out and touched Yan Kuan's wrinkled face and said, "You are really Kuan'er."

"I must have suffered a lot in the past thirty years."

Yan Kuan could clearly smell the putrid smell coming from his mother's body at the tip of his nose, but he didn't feel any disgust at all and hugged her directly.

"It's not bitter. The child doesn't suffer at all outside."

"I just miss you guys a little."

The old woman just hugged him like she did when she was young, and patted his back gently, "If you feel homesick, just go home."

"Mom and dad are always here, always here..."

The more the old woman spoke, the softer her voice became.

When Li Daoxuan saw this scene, his eyes were rarely wet.

He also thought about the past.

I also thought of a sentence, a very real sentence, "There are [-] words in the world, but the word love is the most hurtful."

Whether it is love, family or friendship, it has always been like this.

But now was not the time to sigh. He wiped his face and cheered up again.

Because as Yan Kuan knelt down, the old woman in front of him finally froze on the spot, and then the look in his eyes quickly passed away, and her whole body turned into a corpse and fell down.

Yan Kuan hurriedly reached out to pull it, but what he touched was a mass of rotten flesh.

"mother!"

he shouted loudly.

But as the body fell on the steps, it began to rot rapidly. In just a few breaths, only a withered skeleton was left.

Like dry bones in a grave.

Seeing Yan Kuan still reaching out, Li Daoxuan said: "Aren't you afraid that you will lose your bones?"

Only then did Yan Kuan stop.

Li Daoxuan looked around and found that the village seemed to have been blown by the passing wind, and everything that was originally brand-new was fading away.

Become decayed and broken.

It seems to have been abandoned for several years.

The change came too fast. When Li Daoxuan looked away, he found that someone had been standing at the door of Yan Kuan's house.

Also Yan Kuan.

But it was Yan Kuan when he was young. He looked handsome, like a handsome young man. He was wearing a short coat, and his exposed arms were tanned and full of tendons. He looked very energetic and young.

"See if that's you."

As soon as Li Daoxuan spoke, Yan Kuan quickly raised his head and looked up.

With just one glance, he froze on the spot.

Because Yan Kuan saw himself, a person who lived thirty years ago, standing in front of him now, lifelike.

"you……"

Yan Kuan was about to speak, but the man threw away his arms and walked away.

The pace was very fast, not at the speed of ordinary people. In just a few breaths, he disappeared around the corner.

"Follow."

Li Daoxuan didn't talk nonsense at all.

He could tell that this ghost seemed to want to take them somewhere.

The two followed closely, and soon they left the village from the south and continued southward along a narrow stone road.

The setting sun shines on the river.

The waves sparkled with gold.

Yan Kuan walked faster and faster, "I know, I know where he is taking me."

Li Daoxuan also guessed that if the ghost behind this was really Yan Kuan's fiancée back then, then the destination of their trip would probably be the bank of the Yiluo River...

Liu Ling likes that place where she can walk alone.

The two of them walked faster and faster until they finished walking the gravel road on the beach, stepped over a pile of rocks, and finally arrived at the sandy beach beside the Drago River.

At this point, Li Daoxuan stopped.

Because on the sand by the river, there were two people sitting with their backs to him... to be precise, they should be two ghosts.

Or maybe it's a ghost.

A young man and woman.

The female ghost was wearing a green dress, and the man led Li Daoxuan and the others, the young version of Yan Kuan.

The two of them sat shoulder to shoulder, very much in love.

Li Daoxuan looked at Yan Kuan next to him again. His lips were trembling, and he wanted to shout but didn't know what to shout.

Li Daoxuan stopped.

But he walked forward step by step, his pace was very slow, and a deep depression was formed in the sand when he stepped on it.

He didn't stop until he got behind the young man and woman.

The young man and woman also made no move.

Immediately afterwards, the figure of the young Yan Kuan became lighter and lighter until he disappeared.

The female ghost also turned around, with a beautiful face and exquisite facial features.

Seeing the figure that had appeared in his dreams countless times, countless words flashed through Yan Kuan's mind, but no matter how many words came to his lips, he didn't know which one to say.

Finally, Liu Ling said, "Let's take a walk?"

"it is good."

Yan Kuan nodded.

She stood up, the setting sun shone on her body, and she had no shadow.

The two of them walked side by side on the sand by the river without holding hands.

This was the first time Li Daoxuan encountered such a ghost. It was rare that he could watch the show without having to do anything, so he folded his sleeves and sat down, leaning on the rocks by the river, looking at the backs of the man and the ghost.

No words were spoken at first.

But later, as soon as the female ghost opened her mouth, Yan Kuan quickly lowered her head and began to listen carefully without saying a few words.

The two of them laughed.

Yan Kuan also gradually relaxed, and the two chatted while walking.

The evening breeze by the river took away their voices, sent them into the river, and brought them into the night.

When they arrived at Li Daoxuan's side, they could no longer hear clearly what they were talking about. They could only vaguely hear the girl's silvery laughter.

One person and one ghost walked a long way, then turned back and followed the path they had taken.

Or maybe it’s a road that has been walked countless times, step by step.

During this time, the female ghost seemed to be no longer a ghost, but she was just the same as before, walking and jumping around when she felt excited.

Yan Kuan also seemed to have forgotten everything in the village, and devoted himself wholeheartedly to the conversation with her.

One person and one ghost walked slower and slower. They seemed to know that when this journey was over, it was time to return to reality.

But no matter how slowly we walk, the road will eventually end.

When the setting sun completely set over the river, and when the crescent moon on the horizon was once again hidden in the clouds, they finally returned to where they started.

Liu Ling turned her head, the smile on her face not diminishing. She glanced at Li Daoxuan and then at Yan Kuan.

"Is this your good friend? He's so handsome, much prettier than you."

Li Daoxuan also stood up and said with a smile: "I am Yan Kuan's friend."

"Yes, he is my friend and the Lord of Hand Witch City. I am able to come back this time thanks to him."

"So that's how it is..."

After hearing this, Liu Ling looked at Li Daoxuan again, and her eyes turned completely black, pitch black.

But in the blink of an eye, she returned to normal again, and she said with a smile:

"You're here for the juice, right? Don't worry, I have this."

After saying that, she turned around and there was a small purse in her hand. The purse was sewn by the shroud ghost. She didn't come closer and just threw it over.

Li Daoxuan reached out and took it. Before he could check it, text popped up on the panel.

[After much hardship, you finally got the "juicy rice" you lacked from the "price ghost" in front of you. At this point, the materials you lacked in "Defying Domain" have finally been completely completed, and your survival points +20 (green). 】

[Greedy pig-killer, go and brew your ingredients and complete the first step in your control of the field! 】

Li Daoxuan raised his hand and added a little more. He looked at the female ghost named "Price Ghost" in front of him again.

He never disclosed it to Liu Ling.

He also believed that Yan Kuan would not talk to Liu Ling about this, so...how did she know that she needed to "juice with rice"?

Liu Ling continued: "If you want to find Tian Cai, go to a place called..."

The more Liu Ling spoke, the paler her face became.

It seemed that she would have to pay a heavy price to pry into this.

(End of this chapter)