Chapter 19: Turning Back

Hexagram Liao repeated again, "Remember to wash it." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info" Then I went to turn over the burden of ginger koji and took the osmanthus sugar steamed new chestnut flour cake to eat.

Jiang Qu used the spoon to shovel the mud, and the mud on the grave was almost flattened, and the top of the spoon touched some hard object, he thought it was touching the coffin, so he acted carefully so as not to damage the coffin. It wasn't until I dug up all the soil next to the hard object that I realized it was a stone.

Lian Yu said, "Why are there stones next to the coffin to get in the way?" ā€

Jiang Qu put down the spoon and used his hands to cut open the soil around the stone instead, Sima Luming also squatted down to help, and the two of them worked together to lift the stone out of the pit.

Sima Luming found that something seemed to be carved on the stone, and he patted the soil off. Changsheng's eyes were familiar, "Isn't this Shi Dadang." ā€

Qian Ruyue also came over to take a closer look, "It's very similar to the one on Taihua Mountain, but the one on Taihua Mountain is engraved with one of the "Kaiyuan Daozang", this piece ...... Cousin, do you see what's engraved on it? "It's a mess, and it looks like a carved picture with words on it.

Sima Luming shook his head, this stone should have been buried in the ground for a long time, and some of the things carved on the stone had been smoothed out and blurred and difficult to identify.

Lian Yu said, "I've heard that the funeral customs are different everywhere, this can't be the custom of your imperial capital." ā€

Jiang Qu said, "How can there be such a custom." ā€

This stone dare is used to suppress evil towns, as he said in Taihua Mountain, the position of the place is also to be picky. And the grave is regarded as the dead man's house, and the feng shui level is chosen to be buried, one is to hope that future generations will protect the relatives who are still alive. The second is to hope that the deceased rest in peace.

Everything related to death is mostly unlucky. If you dare to press a stone near the coffin, it is not the same as suppressing the yin qi and pressing the yin house.

Jiang Qu made an analogy, "Would you like someone to press your house with a big stone?" ā€

Lian Yu snorted, "You're cursing me to lie in the coffin." ā€

Jiang Qu can be sure now, "This acupuncture site has really been moved." ā€

Qian Ruyue said, "Then you have to ask, either someone has a grudge against your family and wants to trick you, or your lady has a grudge against someone and wants to take revenge on her after her death, otherwise who will move her acupoint site without anything." ā€

Birds don't come to this kind of place, and if Jiang Qu didn't come to worship, they would definitely not stay in this kind of ghost place. Others will never be full, and they have nothing to do, so they come to move other people's graves.

Jiang Qu didn't think so, "Youzhao is everyone's best girl, and if you don't go out of the door, you can't have any enemies." ā€

Qian Ruyue guessed randomly, "That is, your family has a feud with someone." Your father is an official, and he will inevitably have grudges, maybe it was done by someone with the surname Qiu, and maybe there are other enemies besides the surname Qiu. ā€

Sima Lu said, "If you take revenge, you will dig up the grave directly, and it will not be more direct to expose the corpses in the wilderness." "No matter what Lu Youzhao said, she is the nominal daughter-in-law of the Jiang family, and she always comes to worship on her birthday and death, once someone comes, won't she find that the location of the tomb has been moved.

How could anyone retaliate, and deliberately dug up the body and buried it again, only slightly changing the position, but making the grave exactly the same as the original.

Jiang Qu picked up the spoon and continued to dig, just waiting for the coffin to appear. Sima Luming opened the lid of the coffin.

Lu Youzhao died for a long time, because the body was transported back to the imperial capital for a long time, Jiang Xianyue put ice in the coffin to preserve the body. But after falling into the ground, no ice was put in, and it stands to reason that her body should have begun to decompose.

Qian Ruyue stared at Lu Youzhao, who was lying peacefully in the coffin, and said in surprise, "How can this be." "This corpse seems to be the same as when it was first transported to Jiang's Mansion.

The funeral items and jewelry were all placed in the coffin, Lu Youzhao pillowed on a porcelain pillow, and before the burial, Mrs. Jiang also specially found someone to dress her up and apply fat powder. I don't know, I thought it was a living person lying inside.

Lianyu's face changed, "People are dead and rotten, that's nature, if it goes against nature, something must be wrong." ā€

Qian Ruyue didn't know why, she felt a little scary when she saw Lu Youzhao dead and not rotten, she looked at Jiang Qu and said, "You also drank the ash flush water from her fingernails and her fever." "It's disgusting.

Sima Lu said, "Give me a handkerchief." ā€

Changsheng took out a strip from his arms that was supposed to be handed to him, but Qian Ruyue deliberately knocked her away and handed over the silk handkerchief she had embroidered.

Sima Luming took the silk handkerchief and said offended to the corpse. jumped into the coffin and wiped Lu Youzhao's face with a silk handkerchief. Qian Ruyue thought that he was asking for a handkerchief to wipe his hands. Who knew that he was going to wipe the corpse, Qian Ruyue was distressed, even if she washed this silk handkerchief, she didn't want it.

Sima Luming wiped all the rouge gouache on Lu Youzhao's face, and saw that her face was pale blue.

Jiang Qu said, "It wasn't like this before she was buried. "If Lu Youzhao's complexion was so weird before putting on makeup, then my father and mother must know that there was something wrong with the corpse, and it would be impossible to let the coffin be covered.

Jiang Qu also stepped into the coffin, took Lu Youzhao's hand and looked at her nails, Lu Youzhao's nails were painted with Danko, but only part of it was wiped off, but the roots of the nails were still the original transparent color.

Jiang Qu thought to himself that his mother couldn't be so careless, and he didn't even apply Danko completely.

Lianyu boldly guessed, "Her nails can't be still growing after death." "I think that's the only way to explain why there is only a part of the Danko on the nails.

When Qian Ruyue heard this, she took two steps back and distanced herself from the coffin, "She shouldn't be a zombie, all the grass and trees around here are dead." Master once said that one of the ancestors of this heaven and earth is not a drought that can cause a great drought, and the land is thousands of miles away. ā€

Legend has it that when the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou fought, Chiyou invited the wind and rain master to rain heavily, and the Yellow Emperor found the Heavenly Maiden in order to respond to the battle, and the divine power of the Lu is to make the wind and rain dissipate. After the war, Lu lost his divine power and could only stay in the world. Because he was cursed by Chiyou, he and the generals under the Yellow Emperor, Houqing and Yinggou, became zombies.

Lianyu stared at the corpse for a while, and was not sure if this was a corpse, "But you and I have never seen zombies, but we have just captured a few little demons, how can you assert that you are not proficient." ā€

She couldn't assert it, but he hadn't heard what it was called just in case, and said in fear, "You yourself say that it's unnatural for her to die without rotting, burn her body, otherwise she will become a dry fish, almost become a demon, you can slay the dragon and make the sky dry, and you can extradite the plague god ......"

"Plague God ......" Changsheng muttered to himself, scratching his head.

Jiang Qu interrupted Qian Ruyue and said, "Youzhao has been dead for less than a year, it stands to reason that even if you want to become a zombie, you will first turn into a white zombie who is full of white hair, afraid of light and fire, and at least you have to suck the essence for hundreds of years to have the ability to extradite the plague god you said." ā€

Qian Ruyue said, "You seem to know everything on weekdays, and you talk in a clear manner." But the feng shui treasures you said have become poor mountains and bad waters, and I think your skills are also boasting. ā€

Jiang Qu didn't think much about burning Lu Youzhao's corpse, he felt guilty about Lu Youzhao and didn't want to keep her corpse alive. "I didn't know if I was going to burn the corpse, what if I guessed wrong? Destroying people's entire corpses for no reason is also detrimental to yin morality. You say you want to burn, do you do it? ā€

Qian Ruyue was silent.

Lianyu proposed, "Let's go back to Jiang's mansion and tell Uncle Jiang about this matter and see what he will do." ā€

Changsheng said, "What about Miss Lu's corpse? ā€

Jiang Qu covered the coffin back, "If it's necessary, I can only wait until I return home and then call a carriage to transport it." He picked up the spoon of the hexagram, and everyone turned back to the imperial capital again.

The garden of Jiang's Mansion is surprisingly quiet, the food used to worship the moon last night, and the lanterns hanging on the branches, should all be cleaned up at this time. I don't know where people are hiding and lazy, so they just throw things away and ignore them. Jiang Li had just come out of the lower room, and when he saw Jiang Qu and them going and returning, he said, "Why are you back again!" ā€

Jiang Qu saw that Jiang Li was obviously in the mansion, but Jiang Xianyue lied to him in the morning, and suddenly realized that there was something hidden from him at home, "Dad said that someone in the palace asked you to go to divination." Why are you here? ā€

"I just got back." Jiang Li's face was tired, and there was no fat powder on his face, so he didn't look like he had just come back from going out.

Do you want to continue to lie to him," I didn't think much of it when my dad told me in the morning. But now I think of the mothers in the palace who are pampered, and most of them don't sleep until the sun and don't get up, which lady asked you to enter the palace for divination? ā€

"You don't know what I said." Jiang Li diverted the topic and said, "How did you promise your father and mother what you promised me when you left home, saying that you want to learn back your skills." If you don't go back to Kunlun Mountain to continue cultivating, if you don't make any progress, it will be a loss of face for your ancestors, so don't come back to see us. ā€

Jiang Qu really didn't bother to go around in circles with her again, so he asked directly, "Seventh sister, what is the matter, we are a family, can't you tell me something?" If you don't say it, I won't leave. He threw the burden on the ground, and simply sat on the ground and crossed his legs, indicating that he was serious, and if she didn't say anything, he would stay at home and not go back.

Jiang Li frowned, this Jiang Qu is pretending to be a handsome boy to the maid in the house, and he is playing a scoundrel to his sister. "Why are you so disobedient? Daddy didn't do this for your own good, there was a plague in the imperial capital, you insisted on staying, do you still want to be infected! ā€

Jiang Qu was surprised, "Plague! ā€

Jiang Li sighed, his father and mother just wanted to confess to him and told him that he might not be willing to leave his family and go by himself, so he wanted to hide it from him, but now it's okay, it's been in vain for his father and mother's hard work.

Jiang Li said, "The maid that Miss Gu saved last night, when the doctor came to diagnose and treat her, she said that she was just dizzy and nauseated, and kept sneezing. The doctor thought she was catching a cold at night, so he prescribed her some medicine. The result was last night...... You can also see that the symptoms are not just ordinary cold, and the doctor carefully judged the symptoms, and secretly told me that the maid may have contracted the plague. ā€

The plague is contagious, and she is so confused that she doesn't know how to deal with it, so she can only keep quiet and let people go into the palace to find her father.

Qian Ruyue shouted, "Look, I'll just say that there is something wrong with Lu Youzhao's corpse, maybe it was the corpse that recruited it." You don't want to burn your body yet. ā€

Jiang Li wondered, "What happened to Guan Youzhao's corpse?" ā€

Changsheng told them about digging up Lu Youzhao's grave and seeing Lu Youzhao's corpse dead and not rotting. Qian Ruyue added again, "I think she is about to become a dry man." ā€

Jiang Li shook his head, "It's impossible, if you want to change the corpse, you have to talk about the right time and place, do you think that any piece of land can raise zombies, if this is the case, there are already more zombies in the suburbs than people." The cave site of Youzhao was picked by my father himself, it was a blessed land, how could it be possible to raise zombies. ā€

"The cave site has been moved." Jiang Qu was uneasy, "Sister, what about Dad?" Tell him about this. ā€

Jiang Li said, "Dad is drawing talismans, and I don't know if I can get rid of the plague." ā€

Sima Luming pondered, "I remember that Miss Nalu also died of the plague. ā€

Jiang Li nodded, "Yes, but the body was only transported back after the person died." "It's impossible for people to die, and the plague will be contagious.

Jiang Qu hurried to the study and told Lu Youzhao about it. After listening to their descriptions, Jiang Xianyue asked someone to prepare a carriage and rushed to the suburbs to check. Jiang Qu also wanted to follow, but Jiang Xianyue asked them all to stay in the mansion.

However, at night, Jiang Xianyue came back and told them that Lu Youzhao's body was missing-

It's gone? Changsheng remembered that when they left, they were afraid that the corpses would be exposed to the sun and rain, so they covered the coffin and spread a thin layer of soil on it before leaving. She thought of the valuable burial objects, "Did someone steal the jewelry from the coffin?" ā€

Jiang Xianyue said, "The gold and silver for the funeral are all there, it doesn't look like someone is interested in getting rich." "He has already called someone to report to the official and let the yamen help pay attention to it, but in this kind of case, the government is not sure whether the body can be recovered.

Qian Ruyue said, "Don't you need to think about it, she must have crawled out of the coffin by herself." ā€

Jiang Qu pursed his lips, he said that it is impossible for a corpse to be transformed, especially to become a dry fish, in less than a hundred years. "Yes, you said in front of her grave that you would burn the body, and it is estimated that she crawled out of the coffin by herself, and she will settle accounts with you tonight."

Everyone is guessing who will steal a dead body.

At this time, a letter came in from the house, and reported, "My lord, a cat came in with this letter in its mouth just now, and I went forward to catch it." It dropped the letter and slipped away, and it had the adult's name on it. ā€

Jiang Xianyue opened the letter, Jiang Qu leaned his head to look, the words on the letter were crooked, and it took a long time to identify them, it was written, "Return my Neidan, return your corpse." ā€

Jiang Li was puzzled, "Neidan?" What Neidan? ā€

Changsheng heard the man say that the letter was sent by a cat, and remembered that when he was in Mao's mansion, Mrs. Mao said that she would come back to seek revenge on them. She guessed, "Could it be Mrs. Mao?" ā€

Sima Luming looked at the hexagram Liao, the hexagram Liao ate the steamed new chestnut flour cake with osmanthus sugar and ate his mouth full of crumbs, Changsheng helped him wipe his mouth, the hexagram Liao patted his bulging little belly, and coughed with satisfaction. Sima Lu said, "You mean the cat demon who was swallowed by the hexagram?" ā€

Changsheng is not very sure, but they have not been in the imperial capital for a long time, and they have not formed any grudges with other people, the only thing that can be associated with cats and Neidan is the case in Maofu.

Jiang Qu analyzed, "It's possible, that goblin knows that it can't beat us, so he has been waiting for the opportunity." ā€

Maybe since they left Jiang Mansion, the cat demon secretly followed them. It's just that they are really not careful enough to do things, and it may be that they didn't notice it because the monster lost Neidan and lost its demonic energy.

Lian Yu said, "Just a sentence written in the letter? Is there anything else. "If it's really that cat demon who did it, the purpose is to go back to Nedan, and there will always be a trading address.

Jiang Qu stared at the small line in the lower right corner of the letter, and it was really difficult to read the word, "Jiaoxi? "What is Jiaoxi?

"Do you know how to read?" Qian Ruyue snatched the letter, but also stared at the small line, first reversed it to recognize it, and after finding that it was completely unrecognizable, she turned the letter around and looked at it. "What the hell? Didn't the cat demon be generous and generous, and rewarded Gu Changsheng with a silver ingot, and he didn't know how to spend money to find someone who knew how to write for her. ā€

Sima Luming said calmly, "Where is the address is secondary, the first thing to consider is that Neidan has been swallowed by the hexagram, how to take it out." "You can't disembowel.

Jiang Qu didn't have a problem, turned his head to look at Jiang Xianyue, hoping that his father would be well-informed and give him an idea.

Jiang Xianyue said, "If the demon has been cultivating for many years, her inner pill will not be so easily dissolved. It must still be in the belly of this little god, but I haven't encountered this kind of situation, and I haven't seen it in a book, if the god swallows the demon's inner dan, how to get rid of it. ā€

Jiang Qu thought to himself that although the physical structure of gods and humans was different, he saw that the hexagram was the same as them, and he was eating, drinking, and Lazar, and the child just couldn't restrain his greed. Other gods enjoy incense, but hexagram Liao doesn't like incense, only loves food, and of course he will run to the thatched house if he eats too much.

"If you let him eat more and drink more water, I don't know if it will be useful to sit on the toilet a few times."

Changsheng said, "I've already tried this method. "God and demon are different after all, she is afraid that Neidan will be rejected in the body of Hexagram Liao, these days I have paid more attention, Jiangfu Chef's cooking skills are good, Hexagram Liao ate a little more, and the number of times she went to the thatched house was more, but she didn't see Neidan discharged.

Lian Yu said, "Could it be that the Neidan is too big to pull out?" ā€