Section 5 The Beggars with Two Swords
Once upon a time, there was a county town named Luofeng. The www.biquge.info flat terrain, abundant water sources, pleasant climate, and the county order are diligent and honest, and the people's lives are very rich. One year, a beggar came to this county, the beggar was very ordinary, but this beggar was different, he was born with a tall horse, carrying a double sword, it is said that he was behind the gate, but somehow, he fell here, leaving only the family heirloom double sword to witness the glory of the family. Since this beggar came to Luofeng County, he lived a life of begging and helping people to do short-term labor in the whole county, and traveled almost all the places in the county, one year he went to a village called Lihua Village west of the county seat, but soon after in Lihua Village, the beggar died of wind and cold.
When the beggar died, Ewha Village gathered everyone to discuss the beggar's funeral. However, according to local customs, no one's land can accept outsiders for burial, and the month of the beggar's death is not right. In the end, the village chief proposed that the beggar be kept out of the ground, and everyone raised money to buy a coffin and place the beggar on a big locust tree at the end of the village. The crowd had no other good ideas, so they agreed to the village chief's proposal. When everything was arranged, but what about the beggar's double sword? Divide it, it was not enough for everyone to share, and finally, for the sake of fairness, with the consent of everyone, the double sword was put into the beggar's coffin as a burial object.
The beggars were settled, and people's lives continued, after all, the earth would not stop turning without anyone. A year has passed, and the beggar has faded from people's memory, and if he hadn't passed by the big locust tree where the beggars were placed, probably no one would have remembered the beggar. But when people forget about beggars, strange things appear, first of all, many villages around the county will lose chickens every night, and gradually cattle, sheep, and animals also die inexplicably, without exception, all of them have lost their blood, but there is nothing wrong with Lihua Village. This incident is very alarming to everyone, but no one knows what the reason is, and some people suspect that it is a ghost or a zombie, but no one has witnessed it with their own eyes, so everyone lives tremblingly for a while, and every night they turn off the lights and go to bed early. But the strange thing did not disappear because everyone went to bed early, but intensified, until one day, people began to die.
This matter finally attracted the attention of the county magistrate, and when he saw the headless corpse in the county hall that had lost all his blood as if it were a dry corpse, the county magistrate felt inexplicably angry. He immediately ordered the whole county to be strictly investigated, and once the murderer was caught, he would be severely punished. When everyone heard that the county order had investigated the matter, they were all inexplicably relieved. But it backfired, on the same night, two young people died in the county seat, without exception the head was cut off, and the whole body lost blood, the county order heard this, he was almost mad, he felt that the killer provoked him, he urged the head to increase the strength of manpower, and strive to solve the case in ten days, otherwise the crime of catching the head will be punished. But things did not get better, people began to die more and more, the county fell into almost a total panic, many people began to flee Luofeng, and the county magistrate also punished the crime of headhunting in a fit of rage.
In the face of the deteriorating situation, the county magistrate was worried, and now the whole county is in a panic, seeing people fleeing their homes one after another, as a parent official, he feels very painful, and in desperation, he decided to issue a notice to reward the master to solve the case. The next morning, the county magistrate ordered the notice to be posted on the city gate, and when everyone saw that the bounty on the notice was as high as 1,000 taels of silver, they were eager to try, after all, as the saying goes, there must be brave men under the reward, but despite this, more and more people are dying every night.
At this time, there was a man named Zhang Jiang in the west of the city, who had lived in poverty, and he felt that he couldn't live anymore. He thought that he wouldn't be able to live his life anyway, and he would be starved to death if he continued like this, so why not fight, if he solved the case, he would be able to live a good life. And Zhang Jiang has the same idea, there is also a Mr. Yin and Yang, he is also poor and only himself is left, Mr. Yin and Yang feels that this matter is strange, according to his experience, he feels that this is not done by people, it should be done by zombies or ghosts. Coincidentally, they went to receive the notice of the day at the same time, but when Mr. Yin Yang arrived at the gate of the city, he happened to find that Zhang Jiang had received the notice. So Mr. Yin Yang quietly followed Zhang Jiang to the house. When they arrived at Zhang Jiang's house, Mr. Yin Yang explained his intentions and his own thoughts, and although Zhang Jiang received the notice, he was also at a loss, so the two of them decided to cooperate to solve the case. Through Mr. Yin and Yang's observation and questioning of Zhang Jiang's eight characters, Mr. Yin Yang was overjoyed, because Zhang Jiang's five big and three coarse, and he was born with great yang, and the most important thing is that he is bold, he is not afraid of heaven and earth, and he just belongs to the ghost nemesis.
On the same day, Mr. Yin Yang said to Zhang Jiang: "I will seal you with a charm tonight, and when it is quiet in the dead of night, you will stay behind the city gate to see who will enter the city tonight and when they will leave the city, but you must remember that no matter what you see, or who asks you, don't gnaw, don't move, just watch." Remember what I say, or you'll be in danger of your life." That night, Zhang Jiang, who had been sealed by Mr. Yin Yang with a charm, quietly stayed in a small corner behind the city gate in the dead of night. Zhang Jiang was naturally bold, and in the face of the task given to him by Mr. Yin Yang, he not only did not feel a trace of fear, but felt very excited. He waited and waited, but nothing happened, he was very disappointed, thinking that maybe there would be no harvest tonight, just when he was relaxing, he suddenly heard the city gate opened, he suddenly cheered up, he also wanted to know who entered the city at this time, could it be the murderer?
I saw that it was a big man who entered the city, he suddenly turned around and stared at the place where Zhang Jiang was hiding after entering the city, Zhang Jiang was startled, he thought he was discovered, and he was so frightened that he didn't even dare to breathe, just when Zhang Jiang was about to escape, the big man suddenly turned around and walked towards the city, although he didn't see the face of the big man clearly, but he saw the big man carrying a double sword. When the big man left, Zhang Jiang often took a breath. At this time, Zhang Jiang was also wondering, is this big man a murderer? He really wanted to follow and take a look, but when he thought of Mr. Yin Yang's words, he couldn't help it again. In the corner, Zhang Jiang felt that time was very long, his thoughts were flying, he was eager to find the murderer, and he was even more thinking about his life after getting the bounty. I don't know how long it took, Dahan came back, and Zhang Jiang saw Dahan eating something from a distance, and when he walked in, he saw Dahan holding two bloody human heads in his arms eating. Although Zhang Jiang was very bold, in the face of such a scene, Zhang Jiang was still scared into a cold sweat. This time, the big man did not stop in front of him, and went away while eating people's heads. It wasn't until Dahan was far away that Zhang Jiang staggered home.
The next day, Zhang Jiang truthfully told Mr. Yin Yang what he had seen and heard that night. After hearing this, Mr. Yin Yang pondered for a while and asked, "Did you hear him breathing that night, did he make a sound when he walked?" After listening to this, Mr. Yin Yang already had the answer in his heart. So that night, he asked Zhang Jiang to continue to squat at the gate of the city, but this time when the Han went out of the city, Zhang Jiang followed the Han from a distance according to what Mr. Yin Yang said, wanting to see where the Han would go. Out of the city, Dahan has been walking towards the west, I don't know how far he has gone, how many villages he has passed, Zhang Jiang has been following Dahan from afar, but when it was about to dawn, Zhang Jiang suddenly found that he had lost Dahan, and he was also lost, and he didn't know where he was, until dawn asked, he didn't know that he was in Lihua Village.
After returning to his residence, Zhang Jiang told Mr. Yin Yang about his tracking route. After Mr. Yin and Yang listened, he asked Zhang Jiang to take him to go through the route again and made detailed measurements and calculations along the way, after arriving at Lihua Village, Mr. Yin Yang asked a villager in Lihua Village if he had seen a person carrying a double sword, and the villager replied: "I have not seen a person carrying a double sword, but a year ago a beggar came to the village with a double sword, but he died and was placed on the big locust tree in the west of the village", hearing this, Mr. Yin and Yang asked the villagers to take him to see.
When they arrived under the big locust tree, although it was daytime, Mr. Yin Yang and Zhang Jiang still felt a little cold. I saw that the branches of the big locust tree were luxuriant, and the body of the locust tree could only be held by five or six young men, and the beggar's coffin was placed on the largest branch of the big locust tree. Seeing this, Mr. Yin Yang was even more sure of his guess, but he was still not sure.
After returning to Zhang Jiang's house, Mr. Yin Yang said to Zhang Jiang: "Success or failure is here tonight, but you have to take a certain risk, if you succeed, the two of us will get rich, if you fail, the two of us may die." Are you willing to take the risk?" Zhang Jiang replied without hesitation: "Anyway, I have nothing, what am I afraid of, if I die, maybe I will be a rich man in the next life." Mr. Yin Yang was also infected by Zhang Jiang's courage not to be afraid of death, and he also abandoned the last trace of doubt and said to Zhang Jiang: "Now you go find some black dog blood, help me write a charm, I will go to the city gate with you tonight, and after the Han enters the city, we will hurry up and post the charm along the road, and leave the future to me." After a day of preparation, Mr. Yin and Yang prepared everything and put everything he could use, including the equipment for ignition. They waited quietly that night with a nervous mood, and as soon as the Han entered the city, they began to paste charms along the route of the day, until they reached the bottom of the big locust tree, and when they reached the big locust tree, Mr. Yin and Yang woke up the village chief overnight and told the village chief of his speculation and asked for the village chief's help. After hearing this, the village chief was also very surprised, because almost all places in the county had accidents, but they were fine in Lihua Village, and then thought of what Mr. Yin and Yang said, he also believed it a little, after all, he heard that some zombies and ghosts would not harm the local people near him. So the village chief gathered a large number of young people, and according to Mr. Yin and Yang's instructions, prepared a large pile of firewood under the big locust tree, and dug a trap on the road.
When Dahan left the city, he suddenly found that his way back was covered with charms, and Dahan immediately screamed in a hurry, and he was at a loss. He rushed forward angrily, only to see a sudden bright light knock him to the ground, and he failed to do so several times in succession. In the end, the big man stayed where he was for a while, suddenly threw his head, and began to bow down to the charms, saying that it was strange that after the big man knelt down, these charms no longer stopped the big man, so the big man knelt down and walked forward. Time passed slowly, and Dahan became more and more anxious, but if he didn't bow down, he couldn't walk. It turned out that Mr. Yin Yang had long known that only by kneeling down to these charms could he not be harmed by the charms, and all zombies and ghosts were the most afraid of rooster crows. Therefore, Mr. Yin and Yang calculated all this during the day, but the only thing he was worried about was that he was not 100% sure that the murderer was a beggar zombie. In this way, Mr. Yin and Yang waited patiently and hard, just when the day was about to dawn, they saw a person in the distance kneeling down step by step, and then Mr. Yin and Yang put down the hanging heart, and then Mr. Yin and Yang hurriedly let everyone hide it, and he held a peach wood sword in his left hand, and a Yin and Yang seal in his right hand waited on the road that the Han must pass. When they got closer, when the big man saw Mr. Yin and Yang, he let out a strange cry, his eyes showed a fierce light and showed two long teeth, which frightened the village chief and others, they recognized that the big man was the beggar who died a year ago, but how could they never think that the beggar had become a zombie? At this time, when the big man knelt down and bowed to the charm in front of him, he pounced on Mr. Yin and Yang with a fierce light, but unfortunately he just fell into the trap. As soon as he climbed up, he was beaten down by Mr. Yin and Yang with a Yin and Yang seal, and when he climbed up the second time, he was cut down by Mr. Yin and Yang with a sword. When he was about to get up for the third time, suddenly the chickens in the village crowed, and the beggar zombies suddenly rolled into the trap and remained motionless, so Mr. Yin and Yang hurriedly asked everyone to burn the prepared firewood along with the coffin.
Mr. Yin Yang and Zhang Jiang did harm to everyone, they became the great heroes of the county, and the county magistrate also generously gave them a bounty, and each of them also gave an extra 200 taels of silver to reward their heroic deeds.