Qingling Punishing Heart

Chapter 6 Ghosts are dead people (second update)

People outside the temple heard a call, and suddenly turned their heads one after another, only to see a woman limping through the crowd.

Many people know her, and she was considered a generation of beauty when she was young.It's a pity that her youngest son died, and she became lame after attempting suicide, so she had to become Su Ji's nanny.

The time has passed, she is now old and pale, her makeup is very sloppy, and a few strands of hair are scattered on her forehead.Every time she passed by a person, she would hold that person's hand tightly, and begged with dull eyes:

"I beg you... let that child go... this child is born to suffer..."

The nanny's breathing was chaotic and rapid, her long and narrow eyes were full of tears, and she looked around dejectedly.

"thump!"

She suddenly knelt on the ground and tore off the white cloth covering the bamboo basket, only to see two pieces of silver shells inside.These two pieces of silver shells are all her property, and they were exchanged for all the dowry.

"Give it to you! Give it all to you! Please let him live!"

Hearing the mournful pleas, the people all lowered their heads.The people standing in front of her stepped back in unison to make way for her to the temple gate.

A heat wave came slowly, and the nanny slowly raised her head.The flames made her face red, and her dilated pupils reflected a sea of ​​flames, and she saw that the entire temple had been mercilessly devoured by the fire!
The nanny finally couldn't hold back her pain and howled loudly. Her crying was like the mournful cry of an old bird, cutting people's hearts inch by inch.

At this time, a fat man came over, knelt down on his knees, and sighed mournfully:
"Death is like a lamp going out! Why don't I feel sorry for my brother!"

"……you are?"

The fat man burst into tears immediately, crying more sadly than the nanny, but no tears flowed from his eyes.

"My name is Wang Laoqian, and I'm Su Ji's best brother." As he spoke, he stuffed the silver shells in the basket into his pocket, sobbing deliberately: "I'll take this little money first, so I can hire someone to replace my brother." Collect the corpse."

After Wang Laoqian finished speaking, he got up and patted his bulging pocket, wiped his greasy face with both hands, and walked away.

After he left, the people who watched coldly also walked down the star-picking platform one after another, leaving only the nanny lying in front of the temple gate, watching the raging fire burn for a whole night.

In the afternoon of the next day, Wang Laoqian didn't come, but some fellows from Yan Wangchoutang came instead.

Four charred corpses were carried out from the ruins by the hands. The corpses were burnt beyond recognition, and even the nanny could not recognize which one was Su Ji.She lay down next to the four charred corpses and cried for three whole days and three nights, regretting even her bowels, only regretting that she drove away the barefoot Taoist priest.

At that time, including Su Ji's nanny, most people in Chaoge City didn't know how the fire in Tongtian Temple started.People who came back from the cemetery outside the city that day said that the four people in the temple had offended the gods and were burned to death by the sky fire.

This is obviously not the truth, but it is more reassuring than the truth.

Since the day of the Tongtian Temple fire, some people have had four ghosts living in their hearts.They claim to come to take revenge on those who killed them.People hope that gods can resist evil spirits, so they make up such a self-deceiving story.

Time flies, winter goes to spring.

Accompanied by the melting ice and snow and the resurrection of all things, the vengeful ghost arrived as promised!

There are constant rumors of ghosts in Chaoge, and many big business owners have been harassed.The Su Mansion made several investigations, but they had no clue.The Tongtian Temple, which was originally deserted, has since become a ghost temple that no one dares to go to.

One night in the dead of night, the owl stood on a dry tree branch and screamed strangely, and the strange cry echoed for a long time in the cemetery of Zhaxingtai.The temple door was half-closed, and it was pitch black inside.

With a creak, the temple door slowly opened.

A stranger in a blue satin robe walked in.

He lit a torch to illuminate the surroundings, and he saw that the inside was densely covered with cobwebs, blackened torch heads piled up in the corner, broken altars, lamp oil jars, and nothing else.

I'm afraid even ghosts would not want to come to this kind of place, but this stranger came in anyway.

He found a dry flat ground behind the stone statue of the leader of Tongtian, and fell sideways, apparently intending to spend the night here.He slept very soundly, like sleeping on a big soft bed.

After an unknown amount of time, there was a sudden sound of stone slabs rubbing against each other in the darkness.

Behind the stranger, a loose bluestone slab moved strangely, and a square gap appeared in the ground.Four shadows crawled out from the pitch-black ground through the gap, and one of them dragged a long rope.

The sleeping stranger seemed completely unaware that four pairs of eyes were staring at him!
Suddenly, four black shadows pressed the stranger to the ground, and a rope tied his feet together!
When the stranger suddenly woke up, he found himself hung upside down on the beams of the roof, with four ghosts standing in front of him!
The first ghost had an ugly face and a ferocious expression. On the top of its head was a tumor shaped like a snake crown, with purple blood vessels protruding from it, like patterns on ceramics;

The second ghost is old and old, with dull eyes, wearing a black rag, skinny and skinny, like a living starving ghost;

The third ghost looked like a cowardly ghost.He only dared to look at people from under his eyebrows, his legs were trembling unceasingly, as if he was not the outsider who was being hung up.

Finally, look at the fourth ghost. In comparison, he looks the closest to a human.Although he was dressed in rags, he had a handsome and handsome face, with smiling eyes, but there was a faint evil in the smile, and his expression was always drunk. He was holding a dirty wine gourd in his hand, obviously an alcoholic.

This alcoholic is like the leader of the other ghosts.He staggered up to the stranger and asked coldly:
"You're not timid, haven't you heard that this place is haunted?"

The stranger Lang Lang replied:
"I've heard of haunted ghosts, but this is the first time I've heard of poor ghosts. I wanted to see and see, but I never thought that there are no ghosts here, but there are four poor people."

The three ghosts looked at each other, only the alcoholic sneered while drinking:

"The poor person is you! You will know later that my ghost is not only not pitiful, but hateful! Hateful! Since I let you see the faces of the four of us, it means that it is impossible for you to get out alive!"

The stranger was not afraid, and said with a smile:
"Although the big households in the city have been disturbed by you, they have never heard of anyone being killed. It can be seen that you only want money, not your life!" Extraordinary..."

"Kill who?" asked the drunkard.

"your selves!"

"Own?"

"Everyone in the city knows that the Tongtian Temple was burned down, four people were burned to death, and four more ghosts have been added since then!"

After the outsider finished speaking, Gui Gui trembled and said slightly: "We are not those four ghosts...the four ghosts who were burned to death...all buried...under the Star Picking Stage...the people of Chaoge...but I have seen four corpses with my own eyes..."

"Did you forget where is the place under the Star Reaching Platform? It is not difficult to find four corpses from the cemetery."

After the stranger said that, the four ghosts were stunned. Even the drunkard stopped drinking or laughing. He just looked the stranger up and down and said:
"Your accent doesn't sound like a native. What do you do?"

"I'm a wandering businessman. As long as you let me go, I'd like to offer 1000 yuan in gold shells as a thank you."

The four ghosts felt itchy, and the one with the tumor immediately wanted to let people go.

"Don't listen to him farting!" The drunkard stopped him and said, "This kid doesn't even blink his eyelids when he talks. There are so many golden shells, the devil would sleep here!"

The stranger looked at the drunkard and recited aloud:
"There is a saying that those who practice medicine cannot heal themselves, those who practice the sword die from the sword, and those who are passionate die from love. I guess the brother who is drinking is the passionate third son of the Su family, Su Ji!"

The drunkard put down his wine gourd, shook his head and said, "Su Ji is a dead man whose bones are buried in yellow sand, and I am a living ghost who lingers in the world. I belong to the Su family when I live, but I am not a ghost of the Su family when I die. I have no father, only three Ghost brothers: Hungry ghosts, perverted ghosts, cowardly ghosts. Today we don’t want your money, but your life!”

The stranger sighed:
"You don't want money, but I can give you a benefit, which is comparable to 1000 yuan in gold shells."

"What's the benefit?" Tuozigui asked hastily.

The stranger suddenly paused word for word, and said seriously:

"I can help you achieve enlightenment and immortality!"

Become a fairy?

The drunkard was startled suddenly, as if he hadn't heard this word for a long time.

Are there really fairies in this world?
If so, why has he never been seen coming to the world?Why is there still killing and love and hatred in the world?

There is also the so-called "Day of Heaven", which seems to be a mysterious and unpredictable "bureau".Ordinary people who asked about cultivation, either died unexpectedly, or became a pawn of fate.

The drunkard took a sip of his wine and shook his head disapprovingly.

At this moment, the old hungry ghost, who had always been dumbfounded, ran out of the temple gate like crazy!The other three ghosts quickly chased after him, grabbed his tattered black robe, and dragged him back abruptly.

"Quick! Kill him!"

The usually taciturn hungry ghost suddenly yelled heart-piercingly!
This was the second sentence the drunkard heard from the mouth of the hungry ghost in his lifetime.He frowned, looked at the other two ghosts, and asked:

"Do you think that kid in Tsing Yi should be killed?"

"Kill!" The tumor ghost said decisively: "My father never speaks lightly. He said kill, so this guy must be a monster!"

Hearing the word "monster", a bunch of light blue fox fur suddenly flashed in the drunkard's mind inexplicably.

"No way, absolutely no way!" The coward hid behind the drunkard in fright, tugged at the drunkard's sleeve and said, "The man who said he can help us cultivate must be a god!"

The drunkard shook off the coward who was pulling his sleeve, and said helplessly:
"One said he was a demon, one said he was a fairy. Two said to kill, and one said not to kill. It seems that I have to decide in the end."

After the drunkard finished speaking, he turned and walked back to the stranger, sizing him up like an animal while drinking comfortably.When the outsider saw the wine gourd in the drunkard's hand, a strange light suddenly flashed in his eyes, and he said:

"It doesn't matter if you want to kill me, but can you ask for a drink before you die?"

There was a hint of a smile on the corner of the alcoholic's mouth, remembering that when he was waiting to die on the day of the fire, he also wanted to beg for a drink.He held the wine gourd in front of the stranger and said:
"You can drink, but you can only drink upside down, don't let me let you down!"

Before the drunkard finished speaking, the stranger had already grabbed the wine gourd and drank it upside down.He gulped down the half gourd wine in one gulp.

The drunkard's eyes stared straight, and he was speechless for a moment.As a senior alcoholic, he was familiar with the strange posture of drinking, but he had never seen anyone who could drink upside down.

Everyone knows that "people go to high places, and water flows to low places." You have to drink upside down without choking to death, and you have to get all over your face. Those who can do it must have real skills!

The stranger wiped his mouth and asked, "Is this Magu of ten years?"

The drunkard laughed again.As soon as he heard this sentence, he was sure that the stranger was also a drunkard.To him, if such an alcoholic kills one, there will be one less confidant in this world.

Why should a drunkard embarrass a drunkard?

Besides, it's too late for him to admire an alcoholic who can drink upside down, so why would he be willing to kill him?

At this time, the outsider's eyes were closed and he remained motionless, as if saying: "Listen and respect."

In the mind of a drunkard, anyone who knows how to drink and is not afraid of death can be regarded as a hero.He cut the rope, let the stranger down, and said:

"You go. We don't embarrass you, and you don't embarrass us."

After the drunkard finished speaking, he planned to observe his reaction first, and if he found any clues, he would secretly follow behind him.

However, what he never expected was that the stranger patted the dust on his body in a leisurely manner, and he was not in a hurry to leave.He waved to the four ghosts around him, gathered them together, and spoke mysteriously.

These words made a drunkard forget to drink, a pervert to forget women, and a hungry ghost to forget to eat. Even the most cautious and cautious ghost thinks his words are worth a try. !
(End of this chapter)