Qiu Niang exclaimed: "This, this is the legendary Ghost Gate?"

The white-furred girl chuckled and said, "It's not wrong for you to say that. We heard about Wu Jiaho and came to see the situation, but we met you soon after entering the door. ”

Qiu Niang nodded as if she didn't understand, and suddenly shook her head again: "No, since these are powerful ghosts, why can't you two be found?" Also, I've lived around here for many years, why haven't I heard of such a big event as an epidemic three years ago?"

The girl in white fur looked at her deeply: "We have restrained our breath, and in the eyes of these ghosts, we are like dead wood and stones, and naturally we will not feel our existence." If they had to protect you, they wouldn't have been able to find us at this moment. As for the epidemic more than three years ago...... "Qiu Niang somehow felt that there was a little compassion in her eyes, which was the open-mindedness and compassion that could see through the world. This girl, obviously looks younger than her, how can she have such vicissitudes of life?

“…… It is true that millions of people have been killed by epidemics on this continent. He and I also treated patients with epidemics back then. The white-furred girl glanced at the man in black, her eyes were full of longing, but he didn't bow his head, just stared into the distance and strode forward.

The location where they traveled was a large wasteland behind the Wu family. The weeds here are still withered in early spring, but they are nearly two feet high, and it seems that no one has approached them for years. The white-furred girl sighed, stretched out her hand and flicked it, and an invisible wind blew by, and the weeds on the entire wasteland suddenly fell down, revealing what was hidden in it.

Qiu Niang timidly glanced inside. I couldn't help choking: there were a few white bones in the wasteland, and many holes were dug in the ground, thinking that the wild beasts could not find food in winter. Ran here to come out of Hori. She swept her gaze, and saw a crooked wooden sign standing on the ground in front of her, with several large characters engraved on it, and the words smashed into her heart like a hammer:

Wu Jiahoard's 430 people are buried here!

The white-furred girl said softly: "This mass grave is the one where the villagers who were lucky enough to escape after the epidemic picked up the bones of Wu Jiaho and buried them here. ”

Qiu Niang opened her mouth, not knowing what to say. There was a vague glimmer of hope in my heart that the last glimmer of hope was broken. After a long time, she heard her astringent voice: "Young grandmother, can you take me to the official?" These two nobles have great powers. Maybe there's a way to find her sweetheart.

As a result, the white-furred girl narrowed her eyes slightly and said, "You must find him before you are willing to die, right?"

Qiu Niang wept and nodded.

The man in black standing on the side frowned and said, "Do you really want to take her to find a husband......?"

"It's nearby anyway. At your and my feet. It's only two quarters of an hour away. Are you going or not going?" the white-furred girl glanced at him vigorously, "Don't forget that you are still in the period of reparation!"

A slight smile appeared on his face, and even the stern lines softened a lot. He couldn't help but touch his nose and said, "Okay, it doesn't matter if it's horizontal or vertical." Leaning over to her ear and whispering, "I was too reckless before, but now I feel better?"

Her white and tender cheeks suddenly turned red, and she said viciously: "Get out!"

As he spoke, the powerful ghosts in the Wu family's hoards also followed. The white-furred girl said, "These guys can't keep up with us. They have come with you, and it seems that they are determined to succeed you. ”

Qiu Niang said with a white face: "What kind of hatred do I have with them?!"

The man in black didn't answer. As soon as he looked up at the sky, a slender hand reached out next to him and pressed him: "Let me try the newly learned trick of Xingyun Buyu." ”

Qiu Niang saw that the girl with white fur had a strange trick in her hand, and her mouth moved slightly, as if she was silently reciting a prayer. The words she read were very short, and the red lips had just stopped, Qiu Niang felt that the woman beside her had a subtle momentum gradually escaping, pure and pure, although her person was still standing here, but in Qiu Niang's feelings, it seemed to gradually merge with the whole world.

She didn't know that it was the other party who used his know-how and his own strength to pull the heaven and earth qi. If the Heavenly Master asks for rain, it is to open the altar, but for the two people in front of him, it is just a trivial matter.

Soon a strong wind swept over the three of them, and dark clouds formed overhead at some point. After a while, there was a faint glint of light in the clouds, and a dull thunderclap sounded.

The man in black spread out his right hand, revealing a small ball of light in his palm, but the size of a ball, it was full of golden light, which made people dare not look directly, and it was more dazzling than the noon sun. Qiu Niang couldn't help but take two steps back, and for some reason she was subconsciously afraid of this golden ball. Fortunately, the golden ball only stayed for a while, and then flew vertically into the sky, and soon stuffed into the large dark clouds above the Wu family.

The whole cloud suddenly turned into a color like gold and jade, like the morning glow at sunrise, which was even more magnificent against the background of the dark and gloomy sky. Then the sky began to thunder and lightning. After a dozen breaths, torrential rain fell from the sky.

It's early spring, and the dripping water turns into ice, and it is common sense that it can't rain, and it should be hail or snowflakes that fall. Qiu Niang watched the raindrops fall from the sky in amazement, and in the dim sky, she could still see that the raindrops were actually mixed with thin gold threads like cow hair, and disappeared without a trace after entering the soil.

If you are here, you will be shocked by the magnificent spectacle of the golden rain on this day.

She stood in the light curtain and would not be doused by the heavy rain, so she did not know that the rain was actually warm and warm. However, the many evil spirits that were rushing towards them outside the light curtain were naturally doused all over their faces, and the next moment they howled miserably, and the part that was poured also emitted a trace of white steam, and then quickly melted and dissipated, as if it was hydrochloric acid instead of golden rain poured on it.

In just these few breaths, there are already dozens of powerful ghosts who have eaten this golden rain and poured it down, turning into nothingness. When they disappear, they leave a faint wisp of black smoke in their place, which quickly disappears into the ground.

Qiu Niang's eyes widened, and she said in a daze: "This, this is?"

"This is the power of purification. The white-furred girl sighed lightly and said, "These devils only have hatred in their eyes. has lost his mind, and the nine horses can't turn back, so they can only purify it with divine power. lest there be further harm in the future. ”

There is a clever ghost with a flexible mind, and he can't please it, so he only hates to look at Qiu Niang a few times, and then turns around and flees to Wu's hoard, wanting to use the dilapidated house to cover this seemingly gentle, but actually fatal rain. But the stagnant water on the ground also had the power to purify, and they only ran a few steps, like ash in flames. Slowly fell to the ground, and then was purified by the rain little by little, until it was no longer visible.

It is said to be purifying. In fact, it is extermination. The last ghost disappeared, and the golden rain in the sky just finished the last drop. The rain is harvested and the clouds disperse.

The wasteland in front of me is still a wasteland, and there is nothing left. The evil ghosts that just made the noise and shook the sky disappeared invisibly. If it weren't for the water on the ground, it would quickly condense into thin ice. Qiu Niang really thought that what she had experienced was nothing more than a nightmare.

The white-furred girl turned to her: "Between you and your husband." But what are the tokens? Otherwise, it will be difficult to find. ”

"The exchanged tokens were all pressed at the bottom of the box and were not brought out. Qiu Niang bit her lip and thought about it, before she said: "After marriage, I made a concentric rope for myself and the official and put it on my wrist. Rolling up his sleeves, a thin red rope was tied to his white wrist, and the end of the rope was braided into two wishful knots. Entangled, very good-looking.

The white-furred girl smiled. The buckle of this red rope was very familiar, she had seen it earlier. Even so, it was easy to find Qiu Niang's husband all of a sudden.

She took out a small jade boat from her bosom and threw it, and before it hit the ground, it had been transformed into a flying boat capable of carrying at least four or five people, and it was suspended two feet above the ground in a balanced manner.

"Come on. ”

The boat flew off the ground, moving fast and steady. How could Qiu Niang not know that she had met a first-class immortal figure at this time? She only dared to move to the position under the white fur girl, and sat quietly, but her eyes kept looking out of the boat. Such a feeling of looking down on the vast earth, she has never experienced it as a mortal, and she can't help but be stupid when she looks at it at the moment.

With the jade boat on board, the speed of this trip was many times faster than the ox cart she had ridden. She snorted for a long time before she spoke: "I don't know the surnames of the two benefactors? After the little woman gets out of trouble, she will set up an immortal tablet for the two of them......

"My surname is Ning. The girl in white fur smiled and narrowed her apricot eyes slightly, and glanced at the man next to her, "This is my ......" Suddenly stuck in the middle of the words, how to introduce it, the Taoist couple?

"I'm her husband. Changtian glanced at her, and suddenly said to Qiu Niang, "Where did your husband and wife originally live?"

Qiu Niang opened her mouth when she heard this, but she couldn't spit out a word. At this time, she realized that she didn't remember the location of her in-laws' house!

Until now, she can remember all kinds of sweet love and details of her behavior with officials after marriage, but she doesn't remember which county she married into, and she doesn't remember what her in-laws look like!

What the hell is going on?!

Ning Xiaoxian looked at her pale face and said to Changtian: "It's really a good question, she doesn't even remember this." ”

He snorted softly: "That's you, indiscriminately kind." ”

"Luckily, I did my homework before I left. Once she smiled proudly, she had a bit of childlike innocence, her eyes swept over the ground, and the jade boat slowly descended.

In front of me, there is a small county town sleeping quietly in the dark.

The streets were deserted, and the night was dark, with only a few houses still lit up. Qiu Niang walked down with them and found that this was a completely unfamiliar place, so she couldn't help but look around: "This is here?"

Ning Xiaoxian said slowly: "This is Tu Xinxiang." It is sixty-seven miles southeast of Wujiaho and only ten miles away from Songjiang City. Well, the person you're looking for is right here. ”

"The official is here?" Qiu Niang was first overjoyed, and then said curiously, "How could he be in this place where we have never been before?"

"Your official, but you make cakes?"

Qiu Niang nodded with joy, and her eyes lit up.

"It is not difficult to find a cause and effect for this matter. Ning Xiaoxian sighed, took Changtian's hand, and walked away.

Her gait was not hurried, but her speed was fast, and Qiu Niang could barely keep up with it by trotting all the way.

This run has run all over the small half of the county, and the road is getting more and more deviant.

When the first two finally stopped, the panting Qiu Niang found herself being led to the front of a house.

The house is small and unremarkable, with a maximum of three rooms. The roof was covered with sun-dried and braided reeds, which were hunted in the cold wind, if not pressed by weights. It's already flown away. The small yard is separated by a fence.

The life of this family must be poor, but two small red lanterns are also hung under the eaves at this time, swaying gently in the wind, giving people a little warmth.

After all, it's the New Year.

Qiu Niang's eyes were fixed on the red lantern. Poor families like this have no money left over to buy lanterns, and they basically rely on their own handmade zuò. This pair of lanterns looks different from other homes, not round or square. It's actually a pentagonal one.

"The officials really live here. She muttered, as if overjoyed, "the shape of the lanterns...... I've been with him with a lantern before. I had one more horn than others, and I was laughed at by him at the time. "Walked forward uncontrollably.

Ning Xiaoxian stretched out his arm to block her, shook his head at her, and then flicked his fingers. The small stone that was clasped in the palm of his hand was bounced out. There was a thud under the windowsill of this house.

In the dead of night, the movement is especially loud. The big yellow dog in the yard immediately rushed out and barked twice vigorously.

The occupants of it awoke at once, and after a short time the lights were turned on in the house, and a young man came out with a sleepy eye carrying an oil lamp and a cotton jacket.

Qiu Niang recognized him at a glance.

"Official!" she burst into tears, unable to hold back any longer. Strode forward, trying to throw herself into his arms and weep bitterly.

Why did he obviously overturn at the same time as himself. But she was unscathed, but she could appear in the county town sixty miles away? At this moment, she had no time to think about it.

However, she stopped only halfway through her steps, for the room suddenly sounded the sound of a baby's angry cry.

In this house, there are children?

Looking at her family officials again, it was clear that their eyes had swept away from her, but they did not stop at all, as if they were ignoring. She paused in a daze, not knowing what had happened.

At this time, a young and confused female voice came from the room: "Amin, what's going on outside?"

Ah Ming looked left and right again to confirm, and then calmed the yellow dog in the courtyard. "It's okay, nothing, you sleep in peace. ”

It's strange, there is no ghost shadow here, why is this dog still barking?

Thinking of the word ghost, he shivered excitedly, and suddenly felt that it was even colder in all directions, and the chill was refreshing, as if it was useless to wear any cotton clothes on his body.

This early spring weather is really evil. He grunted and turned back to the warmth of the room.

The door closed in front of Qiu Niang, less than a slap away from her pale face.

Her body trembled involuntarily, and it took a long time before she slowly turned around, looked at the two of them and screamed, "He, he can't see me? Why! Why are there other women and children here?" He, he ......, "Did he find another woman?" But they had only been separated for a long time, and where did that child come from?

The exhaustion that came in the middle of the night, and the pain of being betrayed by her lover finally knocked her down. Her voice was terrible, her fingernails were digging deep into her palms, and her eyes were shining with red light.

Ning Xiaoxian spoke, and she was obviously ten zhang away from her, but her voice came clearly into Qiu Niang's ears:

"Three years ago, on the third day of the first lunar month, Wu Shuisheng, a farmer from Wu's family, rescued a woman from the wilderness. At that time, the woman was thrown into a ditch, her head was covered in blood, her body was bruised and bruised, and she had fainted from the cold. Wu Jiaho's people thought that the blue spots on her body were the result of frostbite, so they naturally rescued her with kindness. When the woman woke up, the first thing she said was, 'Where is the official in my family?' She called herself Qiu Niang, and said that her official name was Yanming, and that she was a cake maker, and the whole family depended on this for a living. ”

More than three years ago, Qiu Niang was stunned when she heard it, and her mind was blank. That's it...... But why didn't she know, and why did it sound familiar, as if she had experienced it herself?

"The villagers of Wu Jiaho didn't expect that saving such a weak woman who was powerless would lead the most terrible demon to the door - the plague. Ning Xiaoxian walked over slowly, sighing in his mouth, "When the plague ravaged the mainland, the southwest of Nanbu Continent was the hardest hit area, especially the rural transportation was inconvenient, so the antidote was also the latest to arrive, almost more than a year later than the large city. I don't know how many of them died. But Wu Jiachu was used to being isolated from the world, and he didn't know the horror of this epidemic. This woman had only been in Wu's hoard for two days, and she was the first to infect the epidemic. It is Wu Shuisheng's family. ”

Qiu Niang saw her jaw-dropping wolf bèi appearance from her clear eyes. "By the way, Wu Shuisheng is after you just entered the village. The father of the two children he saw - that's why he hated you so much, if he hadn't rescued you from the wilderness, Wu Jiachu would still be alive and well - and then the epidemic swept through the whole of Wu Jiachu with an unstoppable force, and within five days almost everyone was infected, except for two villagers who saw that the situation was not good and escaped. ”

"Them. ...... they all ended up?" Qiu Niang choked, tears sliding from the corners of her eyes, and she was heartbroken for some reason. The red light in his eyes slowly faded.

"You've seen that mass grave, too. Ning Xiaoxian said lightly, "That sign is written incorrectly, in fact, it is not only the four hundred and thirty people of the Wu family who are buried there, but there is also a person whose bones are buried there." That man is—"

"You. ”

"Because your bones are there. That's why your soul will subconsciously return again and again. She looked at Qiu Niang, who was sitting on the ground. continued: "You are the source of the Wu family's hoarding disease. The two who escaped from the village did not dare to go back until the antidote to the epidemic was also delivered to the township and county level, and then they went home to collect the bodies of the villagers. It is from their mouths that other people know the whole story. ”

Qiu Niang slowly raised her head, her eyes had become big and hollow: "I have long been dead, I died three years ago......?" I can't go on.

Ning Xiaoxian finished speaking on her behalf: "You are also a resentful ghost." It's just that you are different from the powerful ghosts of the Wu family, they are bent on finding you and torturing you. Out of the suffering that you are implicated in, and you, you are full of desire to find your own official. ”

She paused, and a look of sympathy finally appeared in her eyes: "So every year on the third day of the first lunar month, you will appear in the ice ditch of the wilderness, asking passers-by for help, sometimes they can see, sometimes they can't. But no matter what method you use, you will eventually go into the Wu family to ask for help, and then be repeatedly tortured by the group of evil ghosts you killed with your own hands until the rooster crows until dawn. This qiē vanished until the third day of the next first lunar month, and so on, and so on, and so on. ”

"This is the third year. If it weren't for the two of us, we would have gone there to test ...... The anomaly of the earth's qi will not save you from this predicament. ”

Her voice was not loud, but it was like thunder, which exploded Qiu Niang's thoughts almost to a standstill. It turns out that she herself has long been a demon, what kind of wolves are she afraid of, what are you afraid of Wu Jiahoard, she died three years ago!

She said again and again: "But I don't understand, this qiē is so real, how can he ...... an official?"

"You're so obsessed that you can't see anything but what you're pursuing. Ning Xiaoxian shook his head, "You don't remember the location of your in-laws' family and your original residence, because you contracted the epidemic a month after you got married. Your in-laws took advantage of the fact that your officials were out on business, and found someone to wrap you in a three-layer padded jacket, take you to a carriage, and throw you into the wasteland. You were dying then, and then there was a series of tragedies that followed...... On the day you died, did you ever ride with your husband in an ox cart? ”

She said word by word: "You subconsciously want to avoid such a tragic past, so you can't remember the appearance of your in-laws in your mind anyway, you can't remember where the new house is, and all you can remember is the happy past with your family officials." If you think about it now, don't you really remember them?"

She talked eloquently, and the voice came into Qiu Niang's ears, and it was like an invisible barrier in her mind, which shattered with a "snap". The tide of memories rolled over and overwhelmed her at once.

She remembered that she was the daughter of the Lin family in Xilin Village, and she married a small trader in Xiushui Village on the second day of the lunar month. After marriage, Lang is in love with a concubine and has always been happy. But on the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, after she came back from outside, she suddenly felt weak, had a high fever that did not go away, and small red spots appeared on her body, which then slowly expanded into bruising and purple ecchymosis.

She has been living alone with her husband in a small courtyard since she got married. The husband went out two days ago, and when her in-laws saw that she couldn't come to ask for peace for a few mornings in a row, she felt strange in her heart, so she went to Lang Zhong to take a look, but came to a conclusion that everyone outside was talking about: the plague!

At this time, there is only one way to deal with epidemic patients: to fend for themselves. (To be continued......)

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