Volume 2 Plane Battles Chapter 314 Gluttony in Dreams
Subsequently, Cui Baihan told the villagers the true face of the demon and said that he wanted to help get rid of the demon! The villager was very happy and said: The demon has killed many people, making the people in the village panic, if the son can get rid of the demon, I and the villagers will be grateful!
Cui Baihan asked the villager to gather people, take shovels and tools, and come to the place where he encountered the ghost car bird yesterday. After all the big guys arrived, they were about to do it, but they saw a corpse on the ground from a distance!
Cui Baihan took a closer look and saw that it was the person who showed him the way yesterday. I saw that his eyes had been pecked away by the ghost car bird, and he looked very terrifying and cautious!
The people of the village were shocked and said: It's Jin Mazi! He died here like this?
Cui Baihan told the villager about the way he showed him yesterday, and the villager said: What is the land temple here, this Jin Mazi is a good gambler, I heard yesterday that he lost a lot of money, presumably he deliberately hurt you!
Presumably he deliberately let you go this way, and he followed. When you are killed by demons, he will take your money! Unexpectedly, he will trap himself, and he really deserves it.....!
Cui Baihan knew that the footsteps and screams he heard yesterday turned out to be this Jin Mazi!
At this time, Cui Baihan was busy letting people dig around here. After a while, a dry bone was dug up! The dry bone was very abnormal, and there were wisps of black gas wrapped around it!
Cui Baihan asked people to put it in the sun, and the dry bones made a sizzling sound, as if they were fried in a pan of oil! The black gas on it gradually dissipated under the sunlight, and in less than half an hour, it had disappeared completely.
At this time, a Taoist came from a distance, standing in front of Cui Baihan and smiling at it. Cui Baihan looked at the figure of this person, how did he feel very familiar! Then he looked at it and blurted out: You are the old beggar.....!
The person who came was Luo Hongzi, who was dressed as an old beggar, he calculated the time, and appeared in front of Cui Baihan at this time.
Luo Hongzi said "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable" to Cui Baihan, and then said: Cui Gongzi don't be surprised! In fact, Poor Dao just calculated that you have a calamity, so he came to the rescue. I just want you to see this evil thing clearly, so I'm just secretly observing and protecting you!
I hope that Cui Gongzi will not mind! The rest of the matter will be handed over to Poor Dao to deal with. After saying this, Luo Hongzi immediately opened the altar. I saw that there were no more dry bones of black gas on the ground, and they completely revealed their pre-death appearance!
Looking at the figure, the dry bones were obviously the appearance of an adult woman. There was also a rusty dagger stuck above the dry bones! Apparently killed. On the top of the boneless head, there is a rather ornate hairpin.
Everyone picked up the hairpin and looked at it, and there was a line of very small handwriting engraved on the hairpin. Among the people, only Cui Baihan knew how to read, so everyone handed him the hairpin and asked him to read it to everyone.
Cui Baihan took the hairpin and took a look, only to see that it was engraved with the words "Huangfu Zhenshi". Everyone was puzzled, what did this Huangfu Zhen mean?
Luo Hongzi explained: Huangfu Zhen's family is the family's surname Huang, and Zhen's is the woman's name. At this time, a villager blurted out as if he suddenly remembered something: Lord Huang in Shangshui, didn't he lose the eldest lady in the house a few years ago?
The eldest lady's name seems to be called "Zhen Niang"! Everyone echoed: Yes, yes! This should be Master Huang's thousand catties. I didn't expect to be missing for several years, but I actually died here.....
I don't know who killed him? It's really pitiful! Everyone is talking about it. Then someone went to inform Lord Huang, and when Lord Huang came, he looked at his daughter's bones and cried! He vowed to arrest the murderer and avenge his daughter.
Although he has returned to his hometown, many high-ranking officials in the court and the central government are still in the hands of him, and his prestige and influence are still there! Therefore, the local government officials did not dare to slack off and immediately organized people to investigate the matter.
In less than half a day, the real murderer was found out according to the dagger inserted in Huang Zhenniang's body! It turned out that the real murderer turned out to be Huang Zhenniang's husband, and Huang Zhenniang's husband wanted to marry a woman in the Qinglou because he fell in love with him.
But after Huang Zhenniang found out about this, she was furious! and even swept the husband out of the house for a time. After all, it was the husband who came to the door, and the Huang family was powerful, and the husband finally crawled back to the Huang family like a dog to beg for Huang Zhenniang's forgiveness!
Huang Zhenniang forgave the husband and wife under the love of the husband and wife, but since then, the husband's freedom has been restricted everywhere. Who would have thought that the husband would hold a grudge from then on, and he buried the seeds of hatred deep in his heart!
In the end, one day, I found an excellent opportunity! When this Huang Zhenniang went out on a trip, she secretly took away the entourage and then killed her.
He was buried in a mass grave, and lied to the outside world that his wife was missing! However, what he did not expect was that after Huang Zhenniang was killed, her resentment was unsettled, and her resentment accumulated over time! Finally, she turned into a demon and caused countless harms.
It was done very cleverly, so it fooled everyone. If it weren't for Cui Baihan cutting off the demon by "mistake" this time, and by the way, this matter was also pulled out, this murderer might still be able to get away with it!
Na Huang felt very guilty about the victim! Although this incident was not done by his daughter, it was related to her daughter after all. He showed mercy to the family of the victim! and was also grateful to Cui Baihan, after all, if there was no Cui Baihan, how could his daughter get revenge!
So he asked Cui Baihan about his final whereabouts, and not only gave Cui Baihan a large sum of money, but also directly asked him to send Cui Baihan to the land of Beijing!
After Cui Baihan went to Beijing to take the exam, on the day he came out of the list, he actually topped the high school list! Coupled with the support of Huang's former subordinate protégés, he has also made steady progress since then.
After this matter was over, Luo Hongzi returned to the Netherworld Mansion to report on his work, because Luo Hongzi's performance was excellent this time, so he was personally commended by King Qin Guang! The rights have been greatly increased!
The chief patrol is not only the impermanence that can be patrolled everywhere to inspect, but also the impermanence of some ordinary people can be mobilized if necessary. Similar to the governor patrol in the Yang court!
said that Cui Baihan was prosperous in the capital, and everything was going well. One day, he had a strange dream! In the dream, a voice said to him: There is a painting hanging in the incense hall of the house of He Lingyun, the lord of Shangshu, and you can take it home and drip blood to worship, which will bless you with prosperous official fortune and soaring.
That's what a man who can't see clearly said to him in a dream! When he woke up, he didn't take it seriously at first. It was not until the evening that an edict came from the capital that made him feel that this dream was not simple! The court ordered him to be responsible for raiding the home of He Lingyun, the greedy official Shangshu.
This He Lingyun is a scholar of the household department, who loves money as his life on weekdays, and often engages in bribery and perversion of the law to enrich his own pockets! Because he does not know how to restrain himself, he is finally arrested and imprisoned. Now he is going to have his family property confiscated again, but I don't know how this errand will fall on the head of his little Lang Zhongling!
This matter is really incomprehensible! As soon as it was dawn on the second day, Cui Baihan came to He Lingyun's house with his servants. I saw that the door of the vermilion lacquer was hung with a golden silk nanmu plaque, and two golden characters of "He Fu" were written on it, which was extraordinarily magnificent.
And the house is extremely luxurious! There are countless exquisite utensils and antiques, and Cui Baihan is dazzled. Cui Baihan found a number of wooden boxes in He Lingyun's room, and when they opened it, they were full of white flowers and silver, and it was roughly estimated that there were tens of thousands of taels!
This made Cui Baihan speechless, and at the same time a little sad! Thinking back to his year's income, it was only a hundred taels of silver.
When he searched He Lingyun's incense hall, Cui Baihan suddenly remembered the dream from yesterday. A thought in my heart is about to move, although I have just become an official, I can be regarded as fulfilling my duties, and I have never been corrupt!
But if this goes on like this for a long time, the officials and petty officials will be low, and their sleeves will be breezy..... If what is said in the dream is true, wouldn't it be possible to soar with this?
Thinking of this, Cui Baihan left the errand and walked into the incense hall alone. It was a little dark in the incense hall, and there was an incense case in front of the door, and above the incense case, there was indeed a painting.
Cui Baihan was very pleased, so he approached the front to take a closer look. It was an ancient painting, and the scroll was so old that it had turned yellow! There was a monster on it, and it was very lifelike and very realistic. The monster has a sheep body and a human face, a mouth with tiger teeth, claws like human hands, and eyes under its armpits, which is very terrifying!
Looking out of the door and seeing that there was no one, Cui Baihan took off the painting, rolled it up and hid it in his arms. As if nothing had happened, he walked out. After raiding the house, Cui Baihan went home, opened the scroll, and put it on the table.
According to the man in the dream, he pricked his finger with a needle and dripped blood on the painting! The strange thing is that there is no blood on the painting, and the color is the same!
Cui Baihan hung the painting in the room, dripping blood every day to worship, burning incense and worshipping. I hope that he can bless his high-ranking officials! Within three months, a decree came. Because he was an honest official, coupled with his meritorious work in copying his family, and his ability to do things, he was ordered to replace He Lingyun and serve as the secretary of the household department.
Cui Baihan was overjoyed, he never thought that this painting would be so effective! Offering sacrifices, he became more and more pious. Cui Baihan has been on the rise since then, and within a year, he was promoted to three levels in a row, and finally became a feudal official!
However, Cui Baihan's state of mind has somehow gradually changed, and he is no longer willing to live in poverty in the past, but indulges in drunkenness.
Since then, he has begun to spend extravagantly, and his greed has gradually risen, and he is out of control!
It was as if a voice was urging him to take more, take more! More taels of silver, more money! He looked at the mountains of silver taels in the storehouse, but he felt in his heart that it was far from enough!
He wants to take all the silver taels in the world into his own pocket.
The ancient painting on the wall, on which the monster's eyes turned scarlet, showed a greedy and cunning look.
Now the greed in Cui Baihan's heart is irrepressible, he seems to have lost his mind, and he only thinks about getting more silver!
However, he often walks by the river, how can he not get his shoes wet? Cui Baihan is greedy and famous, and has long been targeted by the imperial court. Not long after, when the East Window Incident occurred, Cui Baihan was arrested and imprisoned! When his house was raided, more than hundreds of thousands of taels of silver and countless precious calligraphy and paintings were found.
The Son of Heaven was furious, sentenced him to death, and beheaded him on the next day.
After learning that he had been sentenced to death in prison, Cui Baihan wept bitterly and regretted that he should not have been in the first place! He was born in poverty, knew the suffering of the people, and had always hated corruption. self-denial, but how did he gradually become a person he hated!
Now the greed is so great that even I feel terrible! How can I be so ..... depraved?
He suddenly remembered the painting, and since he had offered blood to the painting, he had become more and more greedy! It was as if a voice in his heart was constantly encouraging and tempting him. So much so that he is insatiable and unable to extricate himself!
Everything originated from that painting, although he made himself rise to prominence and soared, but he also harmed himself! Cui Baihan suddenly woke up at this time, but it was already too late.
On the first day, Cui Baihan was escorted to the execution ground. The executioner gave the order, and the executioner slashed it with a swing of his sword. Cui Baihan screamed and lost consciousness.
When he woke up, Cui Baihan found himself lying on the bed. Hurriedly got up and touched his neck, his head was still there. After thinking about it for a while, I realized that I had just had a bizarre dream!
Cui Baihan let out a long sigh and sat up. Suddenly I noticed that there seemed to be something under my body, and when I felt it, it was a gossip mirror. But at this time, it was already broken, and it was densely packed with cracks, and Cui Baihan was very heartbroken!
He recalled that this gossip mirror was still given to him by an old beggar, to be precise, a Taoist named Luo Hongzi, on his way to the exam. This mirror also saved one of his lives at the time.....
This mirror is said to be able to drive away evil spirits and protect the lord from robbery, but it was inadvertently crushed by himself! Alas..... Creation!
Shaking his head, Cui Baihan no longer felt sleepy. When he saw that it was dawn, he got up and went to the yamen after eating. In the evening, Cui Baihan suddenly noticed that something was wrong, and what he had experienced that day seemed to have happened.....
There was a sense of déjà vu! Just as he was thinking, there was a knock at the door. When I opened the door, I saw that it was an errand servant, who had come with official documents. When he opened it, Cui Baihan was stunned! Because it said: There is an order in the court to raid the home ..... of the greedy official He Lingyun!
Cui Baihan suddenly understood that what he was experiencing now had already appeared in his dream! Although he didn't know how he could have such a dream, he vaguely felt that it was related to the talisman gossip mirror! He must not repeat the mistake of the dream.
On the second day, Cui Baihan really found the painting from He Lingyun's house. But instead of taking it home, it was burned to ashes. This kind of demon painting, left in the world, is also harmful!
Since then, he no longer thinks about high-ranking officials or soaring prosperity, but is content and happy, and devotes himself to the people! He has done a lot of good things for the people under his jurisdiction, and is quite loved by the people. Although he was not promoted after all, he also lived a comfortable life, free of disasters and difficulties!
After he was old, Cui Baihan resigned from his official position and lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests! With mountains and rivers as his companions, he was at ease! When he saw Luo Hongzi again, they talked very happily! In the midst of the chat, he told him about the strange dream and the demon painting he had in the past.
Luo Hongzi said: That painting should be old, has become a climate, and has given birth to spiritual consciousness! The monster depicted in the demon painting is gluttonous, greedy, and likes to eat people's essence and blood. It is especially good to eat the essence and blood of people who are greedy! Therefore, it often charms people's hearts and tempts people's hearts to be greedy.
It should be lured to you by a dream, but fortunately you have the protective gossip mirror I gave you to protect yourself from the robbery! Turning into a dream makes you awake, otherwise you will be in danger! However, the protective gossip mirror is also shattered, and it is really a successful retreat!
After a few more days, Cui Baihan's soul followed Luo Hongzi to the netherworld. Reincarnation, reincarnation as a human being!
In a blink of an eye, it is the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, and the moon is round as if it is fake! In this kind of happy moment for the whole family, it is also a good day for the spirits to come out and do activities!
Luo Hongzi has been in ambush for a long time outside the ancient temple in this barren mountain range! But for some reason, the goblin he had been monitoring for a long time still did not appear. Luo Hongzi couldn't help but feel sleepy, and fell asleep unconsciously.....
However, it was said that on this day, there was a small official of the imperial court who accidentally got lost because he was rushing home to reunite with his family! At this moment, the sky is getting late, the sun is setting and the moon is rising, and the mountain road is rugged and difficult to walk. Before he got out of the mountain, he was trapped in this barren mountain and wilderness! When he was walking, he suddenly found an ancient temple in front of him.
Although there was no light, he didn't dare to stay in the mountains all the way, so he had to wear the stars and the moon to hurry. At this moment, he was already exhausted, and it was just time for him to rest.
Although today is the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, the weather is not beautiful! It coincides with the cloudy sky, and there are dark clouds covering the moon from time to time. The moonlight flickered brightly and dimly, the shadows of the trees were mottled, and the teeth and claws were dancing, which was very terrifying!
This person's name is Cao Xijin, although he is a court official, but he is just an ordinary clerical job! Usually he is timid by nature, but now he walks in the middle of the night in this barren mountain and wilderness, trembling, walking on thin ice!
As Cao Xijin walked, he faintly heard the sound of a woman crying, and he was immediately frightened! He endured his fear and took a few steps forward, but the cry became clearer and clearer. Looking forward by the moonlight, I saw a woman sitting on a rock, sobbing quietly.
But I saw that the woman's face was like a peach blossom, her skin was like a bright moon, and she was extremely beautiful!
In the middle of the night, in the barren mountains and mountains, how could there be a woman here, could it be that the spirits in the mountains were turned into? Cao Xijin thought of this, and his heart was terrified, so he did not dare to step forward.
The woman saw Cao Xijin and said: The little girl is from Zhangjia Village under the mountain, and she went to relatives with her father. When I passed through this mountain, I unexpectedly encountered a jackal in the mountain, and my father died! I broke my foot on the way to escape, and I was trapped here for two days and two nights, and I hope that my son will rescue me!
Cao Xijin was skeptical at first, but when he saw that the woman was sincere, it didn't seem to be false! and when he saw that she was so pitiful, he couldn't help but feel compassion! Then, at the request of the woman, she wanted to carry her to the ancient temple not far away.
Thank you for the child's life-saving grace, there is nothing to repay, the little girl is willing to make a promise with her body! The woman lay on Cao Xijin's back, hugged Cao Xijin's neck, and said softly next to Cao Xijin's ear. Soft voice, charming heart! Between gasps, the breath is like a .....!
Cao Xijin couldn't help but feel sorry for himself, but then he was ashamed! He recited "Amitabha Buddha" silently in his heart to restrain his mind. Raise..... What a gesture..... Foot hanging..... Hanging teeth, big girl..... Isn't it ..... It doesn't have to be like this!" Cao Xijin stammered.
The woman complained: Isn't it..... Childe dislikes the little girl's ugly face?
The girl said and laughed, the girl looked like a flower and a moon, and Fang Tao was a plum, but she didn't want to take advantage of the danger of others! Cao Xijin stabilized her emotions for a while, and replied without stammering at all.
That..... What if I like to let my son take advantage of the danger of others? The woman's voice is like a string, and it is very beautiful! He teased Cao Xijin with words, but Cao Xijin seemed to be deaf to an old monk.
Seeing this, the woman seemed to be a little annoyed, and opened her mouth to sigh at Cao Xijin. Cao Xijin suddenly felt a burst of faint fragrance coming, so he couldn't help but feel a burst of confusion, and under the rippling heart, his heart was a little unbearable!
He shook his head vigorously, and suddenly felt a little sober! He hurriedly put the woman down, took out the water from his own bag, and poured himself several large mouthfuls, but he still felt parched! Distraught.....
In the wilderness, you and I are alone, don't you want to do something?
Cao Xijin was so frightened that he stepped back again and again and said: "Aunt...... The woman's willow eyebrows were upside down, and she scolded angrily: You .....!
At this moment, I suddenly heard a burst of laughter, and three people came out of the shadows. One of them also quipped: Little sister, you planted it this time! hahaha.....
You guys..... Who are you?" Cao Xijin looked at the three people who suddenly appeared, and asked suspiciously.
And the three of them had hideous faces, and they couldn't stop smiling around Cao Xijin! One of them laughed and said, "Who are we?" Actually, ..... We are not human!
Seeing such a scene, fools know that it is dangerous! Cao Xijin was shocked, knowing that he was afraid that he had met a monster in the mountains, so he ran away.
Don't go, don't leave the little girl! The woman before deliberately frightened him at this time. Cao Xijin looked back and was immediately frightened! I saw that the woman's skin, which was as white as jade before, suddenly became wrinkled, like tree bark!
She spread her five fingers, like dead branches, and grabbed at herself. Cao Xijin was so frightened that his face turned pale, his feet slipped, and he accidentally fell to the ground.
The spirits laughed loudly at this time, and when they had laughed enough, they surrounded them! It seemed that they had to play with Cao Xijin before they were ready to kill or eat him.