Chapter Seventy-Nine: Revisiting the General's Mansion
The women, including Ah Chun, were shocked by the reverent and respectful call of the great monk.
Then there was a long silence in the center of the hall, and the old monk folded his hands and muttered something in his mouth.
After this, I didn't see anything out of the ordinary, until the door of the main hall was pushed open, and a mysterious man in a white robe held a gong in his hand.
Between the moments, he knocked a few times, and a few deafening gongs sounded, and the girls who had just closed their eyes opened their eyes faintly, and slowly stood up upright as if they had just woken up from a big dream.
In the whole process, except for the sound of Suosuo's movements, all the girls did not make a sound, and the whole process was just silent, silent.
"Amitabha, most of the pure yin qi has been collected, it is normal for donors to feel tired at first, and they only need to go home to recuperate for a few days to recover as before!"
The great monk opened his mouth to instruct, but the mysterious man in the white robe did not say a word the whole time, he held the gong and drum in his hand, and stood at the door like a stone statue.
I followed Ah Chun's sister's team back to the Imperial City, and the group of people in white didn't have any strange behaviors along the way.
The girls who entered the city gradually regained their original instincts, laughing, scolding, and slapping and scattering home.
The atmosphere in the city has unexpectedly returned to its pre-fog appearance since the 'purification puja', with the shouts of the market and the laughter and scolding of various tea shops and taverns.
And Sister Ah Chun is also like a nobody, jumping up and down to find me to go shopping.
As for my neighbors, the Imperial City later sent an adult to investigate the case, and concluded that it was a robber who had killed someone, and also caught the man who was called a criminal.
I didn't expect that the person was actually a woman, and she was not one of the people I climbed on the wall that day and peeked at the neighborhood to carry away a few of the neighbor's children.
Because this woman has only one foot, and none of the people I have seen that day are walking abnormally.
Later, when someone from the government took me for questioning, the lord politely invited me to sit down for tea, and told me in a 1510 way that the woman who confessed her guilt was a spy from a neighboring country who had been temporarily arrested as a scapegoat.
As for why this was done, the reason is very simple, to appease the restless people.
I can probably understand the intentions of the government, but I am very unhappy with the fact that they let the real murderer escape.
The errand boy quietly stuffed me with a bag of silver, saying that it was a congratulatory gift for me and Ah Chun, and I was shaken when I looked at the bulging bag of money.
When I came out of the government, a few men with shovels and tools in their hands, saying that the adults had arranged for me to repair the broken wall behind my house.
I was going to refuse, not because I felt a bad conscience because I had received the money from the adults, but because I really didn't want anyone to see my dilapidated hut.
There was also the eaves of the house where the mother's little bell was hung.
Later, I relied on a few men to repair the wall, and I also re-hung a copper bell under the eaves behind the house, but I could never replace my mother's one.
It's only been two days, and just when I thought everything around me was back on track, something strange happened.
There have been women missing in the city for several days, all of all ages, some of whom have even reached the age of old people.
And at this time, there were faint rumors in the market that His Royal Highness King Chen, who had defected, gathered troops and displayed them more than 20 miles east of the imperial city.
At the time of internal and external troubles, His Royal Highness Yanyue, the prince of the General's Mansion, appeared on the stage, and the emperor first granted him a military talisman and asked him to lead his troops to quell the rebels.
Later, it actually developed to the point that the emperor even handed over half of the government affairs to the general's palace for review.
For a while, the people in the imperial city were panicked, whether it was for the missing woman or His Royal Highness King Chen, who was gathering troops outside.
In order to appease the people, the national teacher specially prepared mugwort leaf medicine sachets and peach wood ornaments for the people in the city, and distributed them in the wooden shed outside the general's mansion.
It is said that it is something that can drive away ghosts and evil spirits and keep peace, but among the people, everyone understands the usefulness of these things, and the 'purification puja' prepared by the national teacher last time has achieved remarkable results.
The people were not suspicious, for a while, they all thought that the woman's disappearance was because of ghosts, and for a while, the queue in front of the general's mansion to receive the medicine bag and peach wood never stopped.
I spared my life very much, and I rushed to get two pairs early, one of which I gave to Sister Ah Chun.
Originally, I thought that after the medicine bag and the peach wood, the imperial city might be peaceful and peaceful again, even for a moment.
But this kind of thing did not stop, the woman's disappearance continued, until today, Sister Ah Chun came to me with a solemn expression.
As soon as we met, she begged me to be married to her, and I couldn't accept it for a while, so there was a scene that only adults came to see......
Brother Lang spoke with emotion about all the things that had happened in the Imperial City during our absence, although his words invisibly revealed a trace of human weakness.
But for his daring to Ah Chun, this ghost still felt very moved.
"Ahem," Yexun cleared his throat dryly, and Brother Lang didn't speak until he was fine, since he opened his mouth under our 'coercion and temptation'.
The chatterbox is like a surging river, which is called an impassioned and inspiring ghost's heart.
Especially the 'purification puja' that he said about the national teacher gathering the girls to perform, I couldn't really see it, it's my regret!
"So why are you so surprised to see the red marks on Ah Chun's shoulders?" After hearing so many strange things, Ye Xun's attention was still able to stay at the beginning.
I admire this guy too!
But then again, yes, Longgo didn't mention the description of the red stain in his answer, so how did he know that the red stain would be terrifying, and that the reaction would be so strong when he first saw it?
"I ......" Longgo frowned with a serious and contemplative look, obviously ignoring this detail.
"So you're lying?" I glanced at Yexun, and my eyes swept to Brother Lang, who bowed his head, reminding Yexun that this person was strange.
"Not so, two adults. Ah Chun stretched out his hand and unconsciously straightened his clothes, and looked at me and Yexun with a pleading look.
"It's me, it's me who told Brother Lang that I once went to deliver oranges to Miss Fang on West Street, and it was she who quietly asked me if there were any disgusting red marks on my body. ”
"She's so decent, why would she suddenly ask you this, besides, shouldn't women be very ashamed to talk about these things?" I questioned.
"Because, because," Ah Chun looked weak, and her voice became smaller and smaller, "Miss Fang wants to get rid of me and do her a favor......"