Chapter 305
305 I’ll help your father rest in peace
The ancestral teachings of the southern border, don’t go out at night.
Iron head obediently followed his instructions.
He had no choice.
The southern border had been a land of demons and evil since ancient times. Witchcraft, evil spirits, seventy-two barbarians, and all kinds of strange monastic spirits had never been cut off.
And because of the power struggle between the Imperial court and the aristocratic families, the Imperial court of Heluo city had little control over this land, and Chaotian que didn’t have much of a presence here.
In addition, most of the land was barren, there were few cities, and the population was sparse.
Therefore, the people who lived on this land had long developed the habit of living cautiously, such as not walking at night, not taking any dangerous places, and so on.
Gou.
He cherished his life, so it was not shameful.
But iron head didn’t expect that when he was obediently sleeping at home, something would actually come knocking on his door.
Du, du, du.
The urgent knocking on the door sounded again.
The wind outside the window, the sound of tree branches shaking, and the roars of the distant mountain beasts could not cover this small Dudu sound.
Iron head curled up in the quilt, not even daring to show his toes. He only propped himself up with a small gap, and sized up the door with his eyes, shivering.
There had been a knock on the door for a while.
However, no one in the village would visit someone at night. Even if there was an urgent matter, they had to make a sound, right?
Although iron head was a brawny man who was eight feet tall, he was extremely timid. He was afraid that if he made a sound, he would expose the fact that there was someone in the room, so he waited quietly.
The thing outside seemed to be very patient as it knocked on the door without a word.
Du, du, du.
Du, du, du.
It rang for about an hour before it stopped.
Iron head heaved a sigh of relief. It seemed that his patience had won.
Before his heart could fall from his throat, he suddenly heard a fierce ” Bang Bang Bang “!
The thing outside had used its body to knock against the door!
The small door of iron head’s house immediately creaked in grief.
My door!
Iron head’s heart ached, and he couldn’t help but shout,”Who are you?”
There was a sudden silence.
A moment later, an extremely hoarse and low voice replied.
“I’m your father, Yingluo.”
“I’m your grandfather!” Iron head was furious.
Even a man made of mud would have some anger. I respected you for being an evil spirit, so I was polite to you. Why are you still scolding me?
The voice of “iron doll Zhenzhen” rang out again,”I’m really your father Zhenzhen.”
Eh?
Iron head was stunned.
Although the voice was muffled, it did sound like his father’s voice. In particular, only his father would call him “iron doll” in such an intimate way.
When he heard that the person outside was his own father, the iron-headed boy was even more afraid.
“Father, Zhenzhen!” He asked in a trembling voice. don’t scare me. I personally buried you three months ago.
It was quiet outside again.
it seems that the ‘father’ outside isn’t very smart, ” iron head thought. Although his father’s brain wasn’t very good in the past, he didn’t need to think for so long just to say a sentence.
A moment later, a dull reply came from outside, ” “Father misses you, Yingluo.”
“Oh my God!”
Iron head grinned and almost cried. It was unknown if he was scared or touched.
When he heard this from outside, another voice came,”iron doll, do you miss your mother?” Why don’t I run?”
“No, no, no!” Iron head hurriedly shouted,”no, I also miss you two elders, but it’s the middle of the night. I’ll go to your grave tomorrow morning to see you and burn joss paper for you.” Yingluo, why don’t you go back and rest tonight?”
“I’m worried about you, Yingluo.” The voice outside said, ” “Do you have a wife yet?”
Iron head had a headache.
Good fellow, the new year is coming, and you’ve crawled out just to urge me to get married?
You’ve only been gone for three months, and I’m already married. Are you happy or unhappy?
He couldn’t help but plead, ” father, I’ve just finished your funeral. How can I have the time to do my wedding? this isn’t how good things come about, right? ”
This time, no sound came back. After a while, iron head tried to call out again, ” “Dad?”
There was no response.
It seemed that he had already left.
“Hu-”
Iron head finally let out a breath.
When he calmed down, he remembered the various benefits his father had brought him when he was alive. Even after his death, his father still thought of him.
However, she didn’t even dare to open the door to look at him.
She always asked for more from him but never thanked him. It was only when she grew up that she understood his difficulties, Yingluo.
Her eyes couldn’t help but tear up.
He secretly gritted his teeth and thought that if his father came back again, he would open the door and hug him no matter what.
Otherwise, he would be ashamed of being his son!
Then, he heard a series of clattering sounds outside the door.
Iron head’s shoulders trembled, and he immediately shrank back into the blanket, throwing all the warmth he had just had to the back of his mind.
“Father, what’s the matter now?” he wailed.
Immediately.
He heard a young man’s voice outside the door.
“Eh?” “Are the people from the southern border all so polite?” the voice asked in surprise.
Then, another voice that was slightly older said, ” in the South, there are different winds and customs for five miles. I think some countryside places pay attention to calling strangers ‘father’? ”
“That’s really polite.”
“How should we address them?”
“When in Rome, do as the Romans do.”
“Then seventh young master, you go first.”
“Good fellow, old du, why didn’t you come first?”
“Seventh young master, you have many fathers. You don’t need one or two more.”
“What are you saying?”
“It’s not a burden to have a father.”
“……”
Listening to the lively conversation outside the door, it didn’t seem to be an evil spirit, and it definitely wasn’t his father. Iron head stuck his head out again and asked,”Who are you people?”
“Hello,” he said.
A gentle and pleasant voice rang out again. Just from the two words, one could tell that this person must be extremely handsome.
we are Taoists from the deyun temple of the Hangzhou Prefecture. We are on our way to the southern border to collect medicinal herbs. We are passing by a treasure land and would like to stay the night. I wonder if you can do us a favor? ”
Lodging?
Taoist priest?
When iron head heard that they were staying overnight, he wanted to tell them to go to another house and that he didn’t have anything to entertain them. However, when he thought about how he was a Taoist priest, the words stopped at the tip of his tongue.
After a pause, he stood up and said,”wait a moment.”
He put on his clothes and walked over. He peeked through the crack of the door and saw the color of the Daoist robe. Then, he opened the door with relief.
“Ah!”
As soon as he opened the door, iron head couldn’t help but cover his eyes with his hands.
It was so eye piercing!
Of the three people outside the door, the one on the left was a long-armed black-faced Taoist priest. He looked like he had experienced many vicissitudes of life. The one on the right was a rich young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes. He wore a slightly worried expression.
The one in the middle was the most impressive. He was wearing the same Daoist robe as the black-faced Daoist priest, but the clothes seemed so fitting and neat on him. His face was even more handsome.
He was so handsome that iron head couldn’t open his eyes for a long time!
He squinted his eyes to get used to it for a while before he could barely look at the little Daoist’s face. He stretched out his hand to let the three people in.
These three people were none other than the ten-mile slope of Yuhang Town, the deyun temple, the head of the temple Yu Qi ‘an’s first and last disciple, Li Chu, and Li Chu’s first and last disciple, du Lanke.
This time, he came to the southern border to accompany Wang longqi on a journey to save his father.
According to Yu Qi ‘an, the red string on Wang longqi’s father’s wrist was not a simple mark, but a curse.
Although priest cen had some understanding of the “man-eating medicine,” his understanding was not thorough. This red line was not the mark of the medicine Beauty’s killing, but the means. As long as the red line grew on his wrist, it would be the moment of the curse.
It was useless no matter how many xiuzhe guarded it. The person cursed would still die.
As the saying goes, the person who tied the bell must untie the bell. The only way to break the curse was to find the source of the curse, which was the medicine beauty who had cast the curse that day.
Even though it had been a few days, they still had to return to the village where they had collected the herbs to investigate.
Thus, the three of them set off immediately. By the time they arrived at the village, the sky had already turned dark. After crossing a tall Montenegro in front of them, they would reach the village they were heading to.
If he flipped over, he might not be able to get anything at night. The three of them discussed and decided to stay in the village for the night. They would cross the mountain the next day.
This led to the current scene.
Iron head LED the three people into the room and sat down. He poured three bowls of water and said at the same time, ” “I happen to have an empty room at home, but it’s a little small. If the three of you don’t mind, you can rest there later.”
“Little brother, it’s good that you don’t mind.” Du Lanke nodded with a smile and asked,”Do you know where Shanbei village is?”
“Shanbei village,” Iron head raised his hand and pointed. you will be able to see it at a glance if you follow the main road in the village and cross the Montenegro. Are the three of you going to collect the herbs? ”
“Yup,” Dulanke nodded, but he didn’t tell them about the curse.
“Then I’d advise you not to go.” Iron head was also a warm-hearted person, so he immediately reminded him, ” “A few days ago, there was a group of medicine buyers. After they passed by our village, they also went to Shanbei village. Later, I heard that something happened over there, so there shouldn’t be any medicine for him to collect now.”
“Oh?” Li Chu looked up at him. do you know what happened to them in Shanbei village? ”
Although Wang longqi’s father had already told him the general story, listening from another perspective might help him investigate the origin of the medicine beauty.
I heard. It’s something related to the evils. Iron head lowered his voice and said mysteriously,”I do know a little, but I can’t tell you now.”
“Why?” Wang longqi asked.
“The rule here is that after dark, we can’t talk about strange things.” it’s said that it’s a highly-skilled evil, ” iron head said carefully. once someone mentions its name or talks about it, it can hear it even from hundreds of miles away and will come looking for you!
Li Chu blinked.
Was there such a good thing?
Didn’t that mean that he didn’t have to move at all and could wait for the evil to come by just by listening to stories?
“If that’s the case …” He said to iron head,”Then I’ll have to trouble you to start your lecture.”
“You might not have heard of the name ‘little Daoist li’. There has not been a single evil that could survive a single sword strike from him.” Wang longqi said, ” if there’s evil here, we can lure him here and let him kill you.
“That’s right.” Du Lanke nodded and said, ” my master’s nickname is ‘the Central Plains woman’s worry’, no, the ghost’s worry. You don’t have to worry about him.
“This bi an …”
Iron head was still a little hesitant. After all, it was inevitable for people in the Jianghu to blow the whistle three times and six times. This little Daoist was young, so it was barely believable to say that he was a genius with a high cultivation.
There had never been an evil that could survive a single strike from him.
This was too exaggerated.
Only a fool would believe such words, right?
However, thinking that he still needed their help, he finally said, ”
“Alright, then I’ll tell you.”
Iron head went over to close the door first, then came back and explained in an extremely low voice.
“First, there was a man called hei Zhu in Shanbei village. He married a wife and died soon after. It was said that he was an alcoholic and often hit his wife, so his wife found an opportunity to cook him alive. After that, she ran to the house of a second aunt in the same village and hid there.”
“Originally, no one noticed it. Who knew that a few days ago, a group of medicinal customers went over. There was an old Daoist among them who happened to see hei Zhu’s grave on the mountain and said that it was the work of some ‘medicine beauty’. The group of people discussed for a long time and finally decided that the woman hiding in second aunt’s house was an evil spirit, so second aunt took them home.”
“The moment the old Daoist saw the woman, he used a talisman and a sword to kill her. However, after killing her, he realized that she was not an evil spirit, but a human! It’s a pity that such a beautiful little lady was killed by that cow nose.”
“What?”
Hearing this, the three of them exclaimed in surprise.
This was completely different from what Wang longqi’s father had told him!
It was difficult to discover a demon’s transformation, and if they waited for it to reveal its demonic aura, it was easy to lose the opportunity. Therefore, there had been precedents of killing good people by mistake.
But why did Wang longqi’s father lie?
Or were the villagers of Shanbei village lying to the outside world?
The candlelight was dim, so iron head didn’t notice their expressions. He continued,
“Things have become chaotic. The second aunt stopped the old Daoist and asked him to pay for his wife. The group of customers who received the medicine were all rich people, so they paid him a hundred taels of silver to keep the peace and left.”
logically speaking, that wife wasn’t his in the first place. He was the one who hid the suspect and earned a hundred taels of silver for nothing. You don’t know how envious the villagers are.
“But the next day, he was found dead on the mountain!”
“And his death was extremely miserable, his flesh and blood were all shattered. When she went to his house to take a look, the hundred taels of silver had also disappeared. Therefore, the villagers believed that someone was coveting his wealth and dragged him to the mountain in the middle of the night to kill him and take away the silver.”
not many people knew about it that day. It was probably done by the people in the village!
now, the people in Shanbei village are starting to suspect each other. If we don’t find out who did it, then everyone is a suspect.
“Our two villages are not far from each other, and many people have relatives, so the news came here very quickly. After the surrounding villages heard about it, they didn’t dare to interact with the people of Shanbei village.”
After iron head finished speaking, he shook his head and sighed.
“A hundred taels of silver is not a small amount, but how much can it be? Why was it worth it to be so ruthless? AI!”
Li Chu and the other two looked at each other, feeling that something was amiss.
But as for the inside story, he would have to go to Shanbei village and ask.
After telling them the story they wanted to hear, they chatted for a while before iron head said,”Seeing that the two of you have profound cultivation, I actually have a favor to ask of you, but I don’t know if it’s convenient.”
He was slightly embarrassed because there weren’t many xiuzhe that he could come into contact with in the countryside and he couldn’t afford a large sum of money. He was quite embarrassed to ask them to do things for him.
“Feel free to speak,” Li Chu replied with a gentle smile.
“It’s like this, my father passed away a few months ago,” iron head said.”But just now, before you came, someone knocked on the door and said that he was my father and that he had returned! And his voice and tone were very similar! Although I didn’t dare to open the door, I’m almost certain that it’s my father!”
“But how can the dead be resurrected! This is clearly an evil spirit!” “That’s why I’d like to ask you to help me see what’s going on,” iron head begged.
“Also, if Yingluo really became a ghost, he would most likely be a good ghost. I hope you don’t harm his body, it’s best if you can make him repent and return to his grave.”
Iron head reminded him.
In the simple mindset of the countryside, they still hoped that their loved ones could leave an intact corpse after death. What he was most worried about was that these xiuzhe would act violently and directly ferry his father.
That was why he emphasized on keeping the corpse intact.
“Resurrection?” Elder du frowned again. this is strange. I heard that there were many evil spirits in the southern border, and I was suspicious. Now I’m sure.
“But we are in a hurry to go to Shanbei village. We can’t delay. If it’s to kill an evil, it’s still easy, but to investigate this kind of thing, if it’s a little complicated, who knows how long it will take to finish it?”
Wang longqi turned around and whispered to the two.
“His father is dead, but my father can still save Qianqian.”
“How about this?” Li Chu pondered for a while and said, ” old du, you stay here and investigate this matter. Tomorrow, I will go to Shanbei village with Wang longqi.
“Alright,” he said. Du Lanke replied.
In his opinion, this was his master’s recognition of his ability to take charge. As a new disciple in his forties, he was very happy.
“Ah?”
Iron head was a little suspicious.
Although this Daoist priest looked older, between a master and a disciple, the master was definitely more reliable. He heard that the little Daoist was leaving and only left his old disciple here. He didn’t know the inside story and couldn’t help but feel that the other party was just perfunctory with him.
Du Lanke could see his concern, so he patted his chest and said, ”
“Little brother, don’t worry. There’s nothing to be afraid of. Although I’m the youngest disciple in our deyun monastery, I’m still a disciple. However, when I was in shenluo city, I had been the head of the temple for more than ten years. I can be considered a famous ruthless man in the South of shenluo city! He’s also the main attacker in the several battles to eradicate the evil in the city.”
“Oh, really?” Only then did iron head reveal an honest smile. then I’ll have to trouble you, Daoist priest.
“Don’t worry.” Old du continued: ” just now at the entrance of your village, our team encountered a walking corpse. It might want to harm your villagers. I was the one who killed it.
“I’ll use the sword control technique to cut open his stomach, and then I’ll call back my sword and behead him.”
but I’ve always been meticulous. I was worried that its Yin Qi wouldn’t be extinguished, so I shot another fire sect talisman at it and burned it to ashes!
“Haha, not even a corpse is left.”
“The village entrance?” Iron head blinked. isn’t that very close to my house? ”
“Yes, it’s not far from your house.” Old du touched his chin. the undead seemed to come from the direction of your house.
but it’s not important. he waved his hand again. it’s already gone anyway.
“Let’s think about how to help your father rest in peace.”