Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Ghost Lady (Part II)
The ghost woman saw that my face was wrinkled, and she didn't have the heart to listen to her story, so I guess she also thought that I was worried about Zhu Yiyi's safety, so I had such an expression.
"Don't worry, the woman who is with you is all right, she is just lost in my mind and wandering the streets. Today I want to dig out the woman's heart and eat it, but the white feather fan in her hand can fan away my yin soul mana, and it was dusk when I met you, and my yin qi had been damaged when I appeared in the daytime, so I thought about coming to bewitch you first, but I didn't expect to meet a Taoist priest with clear spring blood. β
As I expected, the ghost woman saw my worries and told the truth.
Since Zhu Yiyi is fine, my hanging heart has also been relaxed, to be honest, I am not so worried about Zhu Yiyi, but something happened to her and I am still alive, after all, it is not good to explain to Uncle Zhu's family. In order to find Zhu Yiyi as soon as possible and send the ghost woman away, I casually responded to the ghost woman, we are willing to listen to her story.
"Murderer, if you really want to listen to the ghost tell you a story, you won't be afraid of herβ’β’β’β’β’β’"
I waved my hand and motioned for Lu Zhiqi not to interject, but he shrugged his shoulders knowingly and hid behind me.
The ghost woman staggered two steps and began to tell her story.
"Twenty-four years ago, there was a famine in our village, and many people died of starvation in the village. In order to survive, my only son and I begged all the way from Jinling to Moyang Town, 24 years ago Moyang was still quite rich, and the rain was also abundant, some big families in the town took pity on our mother, not only gave us food every day, but also gave us a lot of old clothes to keep out the cold. My son is not willing to be a beggar he wants to beg a daughter-in-law, born is also diligent, he started to help the people in the town to do some rough work, in exchange for three meals a day, and then the days are getting better and better, the people in the town in addition to giving food, but also give my son extra wages, slowly we are no longer a foreigner, fully integrated into the life of Moyang Town, also have their own residence.
"Is that the restaurant?"
I regret my interjection, because even if I am a ghost, I should be patient to listen to her story.
"Yes, it's the restaurant where my son and I lived when we were alive. The ghost woman replied to me.
"And then?"
Actually, I'm starting to get a little interested in her story now.
"I thought that I could live peacefully with my son, and I also praised a sum of money with my son's hardship, because my wife died early, and I also wanted to tell him about his family, but after all, the family was poor, and no girl was willing to marry him. But my wife was not convinced, so I asked neighbors everywhere to help introduce the girl to my son on a blind date, but I never got my wish. Until one day, it was the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and my wife will always remember this day, a Taoist in a yellow robe came to the door, and he said that the reason why my son couldn't find his daughter-in-law was that there was something wrong with his heart, and he had to dig out his heart and change it to find his daughter-in-law.
"Change your heart? What the fuck is this fake Taoist priest, isn't it a lie?"
I couldn't help but blurt out the anger in my heart, and inadvertently glanced at Lu Zhiqi.
"What do you see I'm doing? I, Lu Zhiqi, pretend to be a Taoist priest and only cheat people out of money, and never take people's lives. Lu Zhiqi may have been stung by my words and explained to everyone.
After seeing that we were arguing, the ghost woman continued to preach: "My son naturally didn't believe the words of the Taoist, but I was anxious to find a family for my son, so I listened to the slander of the ghost Taoist. At night, I put sleeping pills in my son's food, and after eating it, my son fell asleep, and that night I saw the Taoist priest with my own eyes, put his hand into my son's chest and dug out his heart!"
"It's all me! I listened to the slander of that ghost Taoist priest, and finally killed my son!"
The ghost woman looked a little manic in her words, although her body was weak, but the black ghost qi was soaring at the moment, and the frightened Lu Zhiqi hid all her body behind my back.
"The old man is not in a hurry, and he will speak slowly. I comforted the ghost woman.
"After my son's heart was dug out by that man, he did conjure up a heart out of thin air and put it back for my son. The next day my son woke up without any abnormalities and went out to work as usual. When I came home from work at night, many girls came to my house to marry him, and I really thought it was the result of the Taoist priest's change of heart. But it wasn't until the third day after my son's change of heart that I heard the truth from a woman who loved my son. In fact, I also know that the reason why my son can be pursued by many admirers has a great relationship with his heart. So that night, after my son fell asleep, I secretly lurked in his room, wanting to see what kind of heart my son had that could attract women from all over the town of Moyang. But this sight completely woke my wife from the dream, and my son's heart jumped out of his chest at night, but my son fell in a pool of blood, covered with corpse spots! At that moment, I completely understood that I was deceived by the Taoist priest, and now my son is no longer my son, and my son is dead. I was not convinced, so I went that night to look for the trace of the man, and the man stood and waited in front of my house as if he had known that I was going to look for him. After we met, I asked him why he wanted to kill my son, and guess what he said?
The ghost woman's strength rose again, and she looked at me in a trembling voice and asked.
"What did he say?" I asked with some sympathy for the ghost.
"He said that he exchanged the heart of a thousand-year-old fox demon for my son's heart, and in the future, all the women in Moyang will only love my son. And my son's heart, which is a rare filial piety in a hundred years, was sent into the ancient ghost cave by the demon road, and lied to me that the guard of the ghost cave wanted this heart. β
The ghost woman angrily squeezed the bamboo stick in her hand and chopped the floor hard.
Eternal ghost cave!
When the ghost woman mentioned the words "eternal ghost cave" in her words, everyone present was happy! But at this moment, we formed a tacit understanding that we had never had before, and did not directly ask the ghost woman about the ancient ghost cave.
"How can a hateful demon take a person's life?" I said, digressing the subject.
"Hmph, I know that my son is dead, and now he is alive as a monster, and I can't let him poison the children of the people of Moyang. I wanted to fight with that man, but I knew that my wife was not his opponent, and if I wanted to kill him, I only became a murderous ghost, I picked up a kitchen knife that night, cut off my son's head with my own hands, and dug out the heart of the thousand-year-old fox demon, cut my body with a knife, and in the last breath, put the heart of the thousand-year-old fox demon on my chest, so far I turned into a powerful ghost who can confuse the world, and vowed to kill the Taoist priests in the world. The ghost woman stared at me viciously again.
"Old man, although I am a cultivator, I am by no means a demon who harms people. β
I saw that the ghost's anger soared again, and I wanted to use words to ease the atmosphere, so I said this.
"Hmph, I'm not defeated by the yin soul you summoned today, it doesn't matter if you scatter my ghost, but don't lie to my wife, you said that you are not a harmful demon, so why do you have a dusty breath on your body. The ghost woman stared at me viciously and roared.
"Dust-breaking demon road?"
"Old man, you said that it was the Dust Breaking Demon Dao that took your son's heart?" I hurriedly asked.
"If it weren't for the demon path, who else?"
The ghost woman once again chopped the bamboo stick in her hand to the ground.
"To tell you the truth, I am not the same enemy as Po Chen, and I came here this time to go to the Ancient Ghost Cave to find the Netherworld Blood Axe, the purpose is to lead out the demon Dao and break the dust. β
I took the opportunity to throw out the matter of the Eternal Ghost Cave, and such a conversation was a thousand times better than if I asked him directly, at least she would not refuse.
"Wangu Ghost Cave? The Ancient Ghost Cave under the Shima Yadu Bridge in this town? Hmph, you also said that you have nothing to do with Broken Dust, there are very few people in the world who know about Moyang Ghost Cave, if it wasn't for the Broken Dust Demon Dao to inform you, how could you possibly know? Stinky Taoist priest returned my son's life!"
The ghost woman, who is surging with her spirit, has shot at me again.
Before everyone could react, the ghost woman ran towards me again with her claws outstretched, intending to cut my throat.
"Whoosh" Several spells flew towards the ghost woman, a cool breeze mixed with a powerful Dao qi blew behind her, Zuo Yingqiu and Xu Siqing looked at the spells flying in the sky, and instinctively hit back and dodged.
There were only me and Lu Zhiqi and three ghosts in the room, I didn't cast a spell, and Lu Zhiqi didn't move, who else could it be? Who has such a powerful Dao method, and this Dao method must be above me? Could it be a masked old man?