After the fox demon left, the scholar stood up, looked at Liu Yue'e and said, "The girl is really a kind person, thank you girl, let's go." ”

Liu Yue'e nodded slightly and returned to the jade.

The scholar walked towards the hill and saw a bright light, which seemed to come from a private house, and the scholar walked quickly to the bright light, came to the door, and wanted to knock on the door, "Bang Bang Bang"... The scholar said: "Is anyone there? Xiaosheng wants to find someone, passing by here, seeing that the night is dark, I want to spend the night, I don't know if it's possible?"

Soon the door was opened, and I saw an old man, who had a childish face and was in good spirits, giving people a sense of fairy wind and bones. The old man looked the scholar up and down with his piercing eyes, and then said, "Come in."

The scholar made a gesture, followed the old man into the courtyard, and closed the door. The scholar looked around the courtyard (it would be more appropriate to say that it was more a dojo than a private house), and soon came to the house, and the old man looked at the scholar and said, "Young man, have you had a meal?"

Hearing the old man's words, I remembered that I had walked the mountain road for nearly a day, and I hadn't eaten yet, and my body, which had not yet felt hungry, suddenly made a "gurgling" sound, and my face was slightly red, and I felt a little embarrassed.

The old man smiled slightly and said, "It seems that I haven't eaten yet, just right, the old man hasn't eaten yet, let's eat together, sit down." As he spoke, he walked towards another room, which seemed to be the kitchen.

After the old man left, the scholar looked around the house, which was no different from the outside, all covered with charms, and a peachwood sword hanging on the wall.

After a while, the old man came back with a few dishes in his hand, and the scholar hurried forward to help, and the two quickly brought all the food in the kitchen to the table. The old man seemed to be in a very good mood today, and asked, "Young man, do you like to drink?

The scholar was not easy to refuse, and thought of asking the old man about Uncle Qiao, so he replied: "Then thank the old man for his kindness."

During the meal, the old man said: "Young man, the old man has seen the figure of the old man in you (for a while)".

The scholar said: "Old man, old man, Xiaosheng wants to ask you about someone, Uncle Qiao, you can know, the original Jinling Village." ”

The old man was slightly shocked, looked at the scholar with wide eyes, and after a while, said, "Young man, what are you looking for Uncle Qiao?"

The scholar said: "There is a distant relative, who passed through Jinling Village before, and there is no news after that, about twenty years ago, I want to ask Uncle Qiao what happened in Jinling Village, but what is your impression of Liu Chen?"

The old man's original puzzled face also showed a painful expression, "Liu Chen, Liu Chen, yes, it's him, the originally quiet Jinling Village, after he came, everything ,...has changed."

The scholar reacted that the old man in front of him was Uncle Qiao, "Old man, you are Uncle Qiao, please tell me, what happened in Jinling Village, where is Liu Chen now?"

Uncle Qiao came back to his senses, grabbed the scholar's hand and asked, "Twenty years ago, you should have been a child at that time, how did you know this?"

The scholar wanted to break away but couldn't, Uncle Qiao had a lot of strength. Reluctantly gave up, and said: "Uncle Qiao, I didn't deceive you in my late life, I really came here to find Jinling and Liuchen." You may not believe it when you say it,... (Told Uncle Qiao what happened in the ancient temple and inn one by one)... , but these are facts, there is no deception, please tell the late life. After speaking, he took out the jade, held it in his palm, and silently recited the name of "Liu Yue".

The jade glowed bright red, and there was a burst of green smoke, and there was a young woman in the room, and this woman was none other than 'Liu Yue'e'.

After Uncle Qiao saw it, he was really a little frightened, and his body involuntarily leaned towards the wall where the peachwood sword was hung. Seeing that there was no movement, Uncle Qiao calmed down and looked Liu Yue'e up and down, (although more than 20 years have passed, when Uncle Qiao saw Liu Yue'e, he quickly determined that I had seen her, she was Liu Chen's daughter) and said: "I see, I see." ”

Liu Yue'e saluted and said, "Grandpa, the little woman has nothing else to think about, she just wants to find her father's traces, grandpa, can you tell us?"

After thinking for a while, Uncle Qiao said: "Although all this is because of your father, you can't blame your father entirely, okay, I'll tell you everything that the old man knows." ”

Uncle Qiao said: "When I was young, I was a hunter, and I had a good relationship with Mr. Qian, a big family in the village, and I had some dealings, so I knew some things. Twenty years ago, a group of people passed by Jinling Village, Master Qian was very hospitable, so he stayed with them, and then one night there were bandits in the village, but this Jinling Village has been safe and sound, and I haven't heard of bandits nearby. ”

Uncle Qiao sighed and continued: "At that time, the old man was eating wine in the Qian Mansion and met Master Qian, who told me what happened (......) , and entrusted my family to me, asking me to take me away from Qianfu and away from Jinling Village. Just about to go out, the gang of bandits came to the Qian Mansion, and when the old man sent the family members of the old man out of Jinling Village, and then returned to the Qian Mansion, the entire Qian Mansion was already bleeding all over the place, and the gangsters had disappeared, and the body of the old man Qian was found in the main house, and the throat was sealed with a sword. When they were at a loss, the villagers who were still in the village came to Qianfu, and everyone began to look for anyone who was still alive. A person who was still alive was found in a thatched house, and she was hiding in the thatched house at that time, so she escaped, according to her: "Not long after I left, Master Qian told Liu Chen to leave quickly." ””

Liu Yue'e said at this time: "My father and I left the Qian Mansion, and it didn't take long for us to catch up, and then my father and I got separated. ”

Uncle Qiao said: "This matter did not end like this, when it was dawn, someone went to the city to report to the official, and after two days, he returned to Jinling Village with the yacha, and the yacha probably understood the situation, and they were ready to go back to resume their lives." At this time, a hunter returned to the village from the mountains, and when he came back, he was shocked and told the officials what had happened: "That day, he was hunting in the mountains, and when he passed through a valley, he saw several corpses dressed in black, which had just died, and the death was so terrible that his throat was about to be bitten off, and there were several slender holes in his body, so frightened that the villain immediately ran back to the village."

Later, the yacha led the village hunters to the valley, but there was not a single body to be found, and the yacha suspected that he had lied, but the expression did not look like a lie, and what happened later proved that he was not lying. ”

Uncle Qiao took a sip of wine and continued: "On the night of returning to the village, there was a tragedy in the village, and the appearance of the deceased was exactly the same as what the hunter said. The next day, when everyone went to Yizhuang again, the body that was originally placed on the mat had disappeared, and everyone was busy looking around, but they didn't find it, and at this moment, someone found the night watchman of Yizhuang in a coffin. The night watchman was brought out, and when he saw that everyone was there, he became a little bolder, and said: "Last night, after you were gone, at first it was safe and sound, but as soon as the time came, there were some strange noises outside the village, and I went out to look, and it was too dark, and I did not dare to go too far, so I came back, and when I returned to the house, suddenly I saw the hand of the corpse on the mat stretched straight up, one, two, (the sheet that had covered him had fallen to the ground) He actually stood up and walked around, as if he was looking for something, so frightened that I just hid, and then I didn't know, after so many years of vigil, it was the first time I encountered a corpse, that person must have died very strangely, right?"

After hearing this, everyone hurriedly left Yizhuang, mobilized the villagers to start looking around, but still failed to find the body in the village, but someone found a suspected person floating on the surface of the lake outside the village, and quickly salvaged it, due to the long-term immersion in the lake water, it has been a little rotten and stinky, but it can still see two clear holes in its throat, it is a stranger who was bitten on the neck and died of sucking up the essence and blood.

At this time, someone ran over and said, "Everyone, the county lord has come to the village."

Everyone came back to their senses and carried the corpse back to the village, and when they came to the village, they heard that "the village chief is receiving adults", so they carried the corpse over and waited outside the door.

After a while, the lord and the village chief came out, and the yacha led the lord to the corpse and said, "My lord, some time ago, someone reported that the village was tragically looted by gangsters, and the subordinates have conducted a preliminary investigation, which is true. Later, a hunter said that several dead bodies were found in a valley, and from his description, his subordinates thought that it was likely to be the work of this group, and then took people to check, but found nothing, and then there was another murder in the village, and the death of the deceased was extremely special, and it was very different from what Orion had depicted before. Look, my lord, this body is very similar to the previous deceased's death. ”

The adult came to the corpse and looked closer, and the yacha said: "My lord, there is another thing that is quite strange, and my subordinates don't know whether to talk about it or not. ”

Humane: "But it doesn't hurt to say it."

Yacha said: "My lord, the previous corpse is gone, and I can't find it, according to the night watchman in Yizhuang, "the corpse has risen." ”

The village chief also came to the corpse with a crutch, looked at it, shook his head, and sighed again: "My lord, I'm afraid this corpse is not clean, so let's burn it quickly." ”

The adult thought for a moment and said, "Village chief, this government can't just destroy the evidence in handling the case, not to mention that this is a homicide case, and it must be investigated clearly." Come on, carry this corpse to Yizhuang for me, and Master Ben will personally investigate it tonight."

Everyone carried the body to Yizhuang with the adults, and then the village chief grabbed me and told me: "Hurry up to 'Aoshan', it's too late to be late..."

At this time, the Taoist chief looked around, pinched his fingers and said: "There are evil spirits everywhere here, I'm afraid there are many evil things here, poor Dao has been fighting with them all his life." "With that, the cloth altar is in battle.

Then the Taoist handed me a bag and opened it, and there were some charms inside, a peachwood sword and a bottle of liquid that I don't know what it was... Let me protect myself, and said to me: "As soon as it gets dark, those evil things will come out to move, and since the village is no longer inhabited, you and I will go separately and go to fetch fire oil to surround this village. ”

After sprinkling fire oil around the village, he met with the Taoist chief at the entrance of the village, and it was already night. Quickly came to the altar, on the way to have heard a little "sparse" noisy sound, at this time the sound was even worse, soon with the sound of "bang" a heavy object impact, the surroundings fell silent all of a sudden, "bang" "bang"... The voice came from the direction of Yizhuang, the sound was getting closer and closer, and soon several black shadows came to the front of the altar, all of them were blue-faced fangs, and one of them was (Uncle Qiao stared at Liu Yue'e at this time) Your father 'Liu Chen'...

(The corpse is also called the walking corpse.) "Walking corpse" – refers to a person who gets up after death and goes around and endangers the living. Some wicked or hungry people die with regret that the rest of their sins are not finished, so they die and raise their bodies to complete the remnants of their sinful lives or seek unobtained food. However, it must be in a state where its body is intact. ）