The eldest lady has no taboos in what she does

Chapter 23 Qixia Temple

Gu Mengyin pulled up a stool with missing corners and sat down, grabbed a handful of melon seeds and cracked them idly, "Tell your story, and if I'm satisfied, I might be able to reward you with a painless salvation."

When the female ghost heard that there was hope, she did not dare to lie.

"I don't know how I got into that man's hands. I just know that I have to listen to him, otherwise I will lose my mind. A month ago, he asked me to capture the boys and girls born in the yin and yin months. I will hide in this ruined temple after I come here."

"Where were those children taken?"

The female ghost shook her head, "I don't know. I'm only responsible for catching. After catching me, he will take me back. I don't know where he sends people."

"Then why did you kill him today? You sucked his soul."

"No, no, I didn't. Yes, today he asked me to steal the child again. I didn't want to go, so I got into an argument with him. During the argument, I pushed him onto the mahogany sword, and he became like that. I'm afraid of corpses. When he was discovered, he was thrown into the well.”

Gu Mengyin spat out the melon seed rinds in her mouth and stood up. Tao Mujian couldn't let a normal person become a dried corpse immediately after death, unless there was something wrong with that person before.

Gu Mengyin took out a purse from her body and opened it, "Come in."

"Tao, Taoist Master, please show mercy and allow me to be reincarnated."

Gu Mengyin sneered, "You have done so many bad things and still want to be reincarnated, come in."

The female ghost didn't dare to talk nonsense and put it into her purse obediently.

As soon as the female ghost disappeared, the ruined temple returned to its previous appearance.

Gu Mengyin pushed open the door of the ruined temple and returned to the antique shop.

Gu Wenque and the others had already summoned the officials, and it happened to be Wang Captou who came.

The shopkeeper's body has been fished out by officials.

When Wang Captou looked at the corpse, his brows twisted into the character "Sichuan".

This corpse didn't look like it had just died, not to mention it was still soaked in water. Normally, a corpse soaked in water shouldn't look like this.

"What are you doing here?" Wang Captou called Gu Wenbin and asked about the situation.

Gu Wenque explained everything clearly.

Mr. Wang's brows furrowed even more, "You mean, you saw this man and bought something from him yesterday?"

"That's right, today we found out that we were deceived by him, and we wanted to come to settle the score with him, but he was already dead when we came."

Wang Captou looked at the corpse again. If what Gu Wenbin said was true, then the corpse had only been dead for a day at most. How could it be like this?

"Miss."

After Gu Mengyin came in, she walked directly to the body.

Wang Captou saw how powerful Gu Mengyin was today. Seeing that she was here, he couldn't help but ask, "Does Miss Gu think there is anything wrong with this corpse?"

Gu Mengyin glanced at the corpse and said, "Of course something is wrong. This person has been dead for almost a month."

"What? He's been dead for almost a month?" Wang Captou asked again as if he was unsure, "Miss, are you saying that this person has been dead for almost a month?"

"Correct."

"Then, didn't Mr. Gu say that he saw him yesterday?"

"The person I saw yesterday may not be him."

Wang Captou was confused, "If it's not him, is he still a ghost?"

Gu Mengyin raised her eyebrows, "Yes."

"This is impossible. There are no ghosts and ghosts in this world. The corpse became like this in a short period of time. It may also be caused by the influence of certain drugs. It is not convenient for you to stay here for a long time, so you should leave as soon as possible. ." Wang Captou looked unbelieving.

"Grandma, let's go first." Gu Wenbin pulled Gu Mengyin. If he got involved in this kind of thing, he would only get himself into trouble.

"Yeah." After seeing the corpse, there was really no need to stay here.

Gu Mengyin arrived at the front hall, her eyes quickly scanned around the hall, and finally settled on a black box.

She stepped forward and put the box into the Qiankun bag without the official noticing.

The carriage quickly reached the lively neighborhood, but not long after, the carriage stopped.

Gu Wenbin was in a bad mood. He pulled the car curtain angrily and asked, "What's going on? Why did the car stop?"

"Third Young Master, the road ahead is blocked." "It's really unlucky. Even if I was cheated out of 500 taels for nothing, the road is still blocked." Gu Wenbin angrily jumped off the carriage and squeezed into the crowd.

Gu Mengyin and the others also got off the carriage.

It turned out that the imperial court issued an obituary notice.

"Anyone who can catch the thief stealing children or provide clues will be rewarded a thousand taels."

"Look, isn't this the chance to earn back the money?"

"Grandma, where are we going to catch the thief?" Gu Wenbin didn't think the money was easy to make at all.

Gu Mengyin said noncommittally, "Go back first."

"Oh."

Back at Gu Mansion, Gu Mengyin took out the brocade box from the antique shop.

"Auntie, what is this?"

The brocade box was opened, and inside was a bone.

"The bones that cover the human and heavenly spirits."

"What, what..."

Gu Wenbin was so frightened that he took several steps back. Why did his great-aunt have so many things in her hands that could attract people?

Gu Wenque was not afraid, "Auntie, what's the use of this thing?"

"When a person dies, take out his spiritual bones and seal them with a spell to control the soul of the deceased."

Gu Mengyin looked at Gu Wenque, "Go and help me find out something. Where did the shopkeeper go and who did he meet a month ago."

"Okay, I'll go check it out right now."

In the dead of night, Gu Mengyin turned off the lights and released the female ghost from her purse.

The female ghost saw Gu Mengyin and knelt down tremblingly, "Taoist Master, please spare my life."

Gu Mengyin looked at her with cold eyes, "Do you know that you are a ghost that was refined after death?"

The female ghost shook her head in astonishment, "I, I don't know. I only know that I am dead and I have to be obedient. I don't know anything else."

"If you want to refine a fierce ghost, you must use raw blood as a guide. Come here."

The female ghost stood up obediently.

Gu Mengyin put a piece of talisman paper on her forehead.

A wave of heat hit her violently, and the female ghost felt that her soul was being torn apart so hard that she screamed loudly in pain.

The black mist emanating from her body became thicker and thicker, and all the black mist condensed into a drop of blood.

Gu Mengyin took out a tracking charm and absorbed the drop of blood.

The moment the blood was absorbed, the female ghost suddenly fell to the ground, and her soul gradually became thinner.

"Taoist Priest, save, save me, I, I can't lose my mind yet."

Gu Mengyin lowered her eyes and stared at her, then flew out a soul-fixing talisman. The soul-fixing talisman instantly surrounded the female ghost and put it into her purse.

Early the next morning.

Gu Mengyin had just finished breakfast when Gu Wenque came.

"Grandma, I found out that the shopkeeper is a taciturn person and likes to stay in the shop without much social interaction. But more than 20 days ago, he went out of the city. It seemed that he went to Qixia Temple. When he came back After that, I had less contact with people.”

The reason why Gu Wenque was able to inquire so quickly was because he happened to be next door to the store. He usually likes to inquire about other people's affairs when business is not good, otherwise he wouldn't be able to understand them so well.

"It's Qixia Temple again." Cai Yue also visited Qixia Temple before her transformation.

Gu Mengyin didn't believe there were such coincidences in the world.

"Auntie, there won't be any problems in Qixia Temple, right?"

Without waiting for Gu Mengyin to reply, Gu Wenque slapped his thigh suddenly, "Oh no, my mother said she would take the seventh brother and eighth sister to Qixia Temple to pray with Master Huiling today."

(End of this chapter)