Chapter 167: My King
This time, it was Old Man He who answered Jin An's question.
It had to be told the day before the antique dealer disappeared.
The group of antique dealers promised the He family and agreed to take action against the He family to eliminate harm for Lingqian Township.
But the Zhang family who stole the child's food.
But it's very hiding.
Mr. Yuan in that gang of antique dealers has never been able to catch Zhang.
So, Mr. Yuan found the He family again.
They asked who Zhang hated the most in his life?
You don't need to ask about it, the "uncle" directly sold the eldest lady, saying that the person Zhang hated the most in his life was the eldest lady.
He explained in detail the ugliness of the He family, the contradiction between the Zhang family and the eldest lady.
Then Mr. Yuan made a request, saying that the ghost fetus in Zhang's stomach seemed to have given birth to a lot of spiritual intelligence, and he knew in advance that there was an exorcist who wanted to expel it, so he was hiding now.
Now there is only one way to force Zhang to show up.
That is to find out the person Zhang hates the most, eager to eat his flesh and drink his blood, and then lure the snake out of the hole.
Since the eldest lady is the person that the Zhang family hates the most, then the eldest lady can only be used as bait to lure the Zhang family out.
Mr. Yuan asked the He family who had the eldest lady's birthday, hair, old clothes, nails and other body hair and skin things.
When the eldest lady heard this, her face sank like frost.
It was the first time Jin An had seen the eldest lady with such a serious look.
If He Liangchou is still here now, it is estimated that the eldest lady has already had a direct seizure, and directly let He Liangchou step into the coffin with two feet in advance.
Old Man He continued.
Because Lingqian Township is located in a remote area, far away from the city, the eldest lady rarely returns to Lingqian Township, and only on important days such as New Year's festivals and ancestor worship ceremonies, she will return to Lingqian Township, so there is no hair, nails, old clothes or anything in the ancestral house of the He family.
As for the eight characters of the birthday, the eldest lady has been married into the He family for too long, who still remembers the eight characters of the birthday twenty years ago.
Even the family tree can't find the birth date of the eldest lady.
Because the eldest lady is an outsider who married into the He family, in the man's genealogy, it is a vassal written in the name of the husband, only a simple name, and there is no birth date.
The bad habit of male superiority and inferiority of women in the countryside indirectly allowed the eldest lady to escape.
Since the eldest lady can't do it, she can only retreat to the second, and the second most hated person in the Zhang family is the whole family of the He family.
And among so many people in the He family, the person who hates him first is naturally He Liangchou, who divorced his wife ruthlessly.
He Liangchou can be regarded as lifting a stone to shoot himself in the foot.
You cannot live if you have done your own iniquity.
As soon as he heard that there was no danger, in order to exorcise the evil spirits of the Zhang family and the ghost fetus in Zhang's stomach as soon as possible, he couldn't care about anything, and directly turned himself around and gave everything to the antique dealers.
I just want to keep him safe as soon as possible.
And the day after the gang of antique dealers got He Liangchou's birthday, hair, nails and other items, those people disappeared inexplicably in Lingqian Township.
But the disappearance of the gang of antique dealers, as well as the premature stillbirth of pregnant women in Lingqian Township, have also subsided.
Therefore, the people in Lingqian Township are speculating, will it be that they have successfully exorcised evil spirits?
And in the silence of joy, the He family also temporarily forgot about the antique dealer looking for He Liangchou for his birthday, nails, hair and other things.
If it weren't for the fact that the old Taoist priest brought it up again today, they wouldn't have thought of it for the time being.
The old men of the He family, now they have all seen the ability of the old Taoist, and they feel that the Taoist in front of them is definitely above that Mr. Yuan, and they all regard the old Taoist priest as a master.
Fifty knows the destiny of heaven, and sixty is obedient.
The older a person gets, the more he believes in the old Taoist priest's metaphysical techniques of feng shui, yin and yang, fortune telling, and physiognomy.
The old Taoist priest is not really a narrow-minded person who does not save him when he sees death, he has nothing to hide and says everything he knows.
"According to my old guess, the reason why these people take away the eight characters of birth and the hair and skin of the body is nothing more than two possibilities. ”
"First, it's really to kill demons. ”
"Second, these antique dealers have a grudge against the He family......
Before the old Taoist priest finished speaking, he was immediately interrupted, and an old man of the He family shouted that it was impossible!
The He family has always been kind and kind to others, and in the past few drought years, they have also opened warehouses to release grain to help many villagers in Lingqian Township, and it is absolutely impossible to make enemies with others.
At this time, Old Man He scolded, asked his third brother to shut up, he couldn't lose his manners, and then apologized to the old Taoist priest and let the old Taoist continue to talk.
The old Taoist priest didn't react much, he took advantage of the gap to drink tea to moisten his throat, and continued to shake his head and continue to speak: "Old Dao, the reason why I guess that this group of antique dealers has a grudge against the He family, I believe that all the people in charge of the He family have seen it, and He Liangchou is the best proof that these people are clearly here to rob the fortune of the He family." It is not necessarily that the people in the ancestral house of the He family offended that group of people, but it may also be that Master He Gui He offended the enemy of which business when he was doing business abroad. ”
"The eldest lady is in charge of all the internal affairs of the He family, and if the eldest lady is in chaos, the ancestral house of the He family and the backyard of the He family will catch fire, which will deal a big blow to the business of He Gui and Master He. These antique dealers wanted the birthday of the eldest lady in the first place, and it was probably for this purpose. Fortunately, the eldest lady's birthday was well kept and was not easily leaked. ”
"Those people saw that the eldest lady's side would not work, so they could only retreat to the next best thing, and turned their target to He Liangchou, one of the high-level leaders of the He family, and wanted to use the hands of He Gui He's uncle's uncle to make the He family's backyard catch fire and hit He Gui He in the business field. ”
At this time, Jin An and the eldest lady all looked at the old Taoist priest in unison.
Both of them felt that it was the most correct thing to bring the old Taoist priest (Chen Daochang) this time.
Otherwise, the true intentions of the dark Chen Cang of that group of antique dealers would have been missed from the side.
Especially the eldest lady, there was a surprised look on her face.
The old Taoist priest's deep hiding was impressed by what family members were in the place.
However, the old Taoist priest is a rigorous character, otherwise he would not have been able to travel south and north for so many years, and he would still be able to live intact.
After the old Taoist priest said so much, he finally added: "Of course, these are my personal conjectures. ”
"What is the real situation, we have to find that group of antique dealers to know the truth, and it is not ruled out that the gang of antique dealers is really dedicated to eliminating harm for the people, and there is indeed a way to find the Zhang family who stole the children to eat. ”
This high-level family meeting of the He family lasted for another half an hour, and after learning more about all the changes in the Zhang family, Jin An temporarily left the study with the old Taoist priest and sharpening the sword.
Because the next thing is mainly to talk about some things within the He family, which are all lengthy and mundane things, Jin An is not interested in knowing this, so he casually made an excuse, saying that he went to Zhangjia Da Zhuangzi to check if there were any other clues, and left the study in advance.
Escort Li didn't leave with them.
After all, Escort Li still had to stay to protect the personal safety of the eldest lady.
Hearing that Jin An and they were going to investigate the Zhang family's big Zhuangzi, Old Man He assigned a He family lineage to act as a temporary guide for Jin An.
"I've seen a few Taoist chiefs, my name is He Yiming, and I am He Gui's uncle. If there is anything you want to know, or if you want to go to Lingqian Township to investigate, I can lead the way for several Taoist leaders. ”
"I grew up in Lingqian Township since I was a child, and I know everything around Lingqian Township well. ”
The visitor was a Confucian man in his thirties with a small short beard.
Belch.
Thirty-year-old uncle?
Speaking of his thirty-year-old uncle, Jin An misses his eighty-year-old niece a little, who is in the same class as junior high school and high school, and always likes to take care of his class leader's little aunt.
After a brief self-introduction, Jin An learned that this thirty-year-old uncle was the only teacher in Lingqian Township.
Although he won fame in the early years, because of the scholar's unbending character, he was not used to seeing the black, black and white of the court, and there were many parties, so he simply resigned and returned to the countryside to become a teacher.
At least there aren't so many cities for children.
Recently, because of the successive strange things that happened in the Zhang family, Lingqian Township was tossed into panic, and the children stopped coming to the private school to attend classes, so He Yiming, who happened to have nothing to do, offered to be a guide for Jin An and others.
Jin An was impressed by the pure literati mind of his uncle He Yiming, and there were not many people who did not strive for fame and fortune and glory and wealth in these years.
There are very few people with pure temperament like Uncle He Yiming.
The atmosphere of the group was harmonious along the way, talking and laughing, but it is a pity that Lingqian Township is now in a depression in popularity, and there is nothing to play, so after the group left the ancestral house of the He family, they went straight to the big Zhuangzi of the Zhang family.
When they arrived at Zhang's Zhuangzi, they saw that the door of Zhang's Zhuangzi's house had been resealed.
There are several villagers standing guard at the door of the house.
Jin An looked at it, it seemed that the senior monk from the White Dragon Temple had left......
He Yiming, as a private school teacher, is also a household name in Lingqian Township, so after He Yiming came forward to talk a few words, the villagers of Lingqian Township tore off the seal and let a few people go in.
However, according to the Yali process, it is still necessary to be accompanied by a villager to give in.
Speaking of which, the general situation of Zhangjiada Zhuangzi has been roughly seen by Jin An when he was halfway up the mountain before.
Therefore, Jin An has a general understanding of the layout of Zhangjiada Zhuangzi.
After he entered the big village, he first went to the kitchen.
In Zhangjiada Zhuangzi, there are two kitchens, one is the east kitchen and the other is the west kitchen.
He Yiming has some understanding of the Zhang family's big Zhuangzi, according to He Yiming's introduction, the east kitchen is responsible for the Zhang family's diet, while the west kitchen is responsible for cooking for the next people.
Zhangjiada Zhuangzi is a three-entry courtyard.
In normal times, this place should have been lively with dozens of people.
But now it is empty, desolate, desolate.
The courtyard covered with fallen leaves but no one cleaned it, the overgrown flower beds, the bare dead branches, many of the side houses have been covered with dust and cobwebs, and there is no one left, empty and desolate, deserted.
This is what a yang house should look like.
Not popular at all.
It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a gloomy house.
There were even many door frames, doors and windows that were smashed out of holes by stones, and there were also a lot of stones in the yard, and Jin An guessed that these stones should be thrown by the villagers to vent their anger in their hearts and to the big Zhuangzi of the Zhang family.
"Zhang's abnormality at the beginning, was found by his subordinates to enter the kitchen in the middle of the night to steal food, and also bit all the chickens raised in the chicken pen to death, I don't know if it happened in the east kitchen or the west kitchen?"
Jin An turned his head to look at the villager who had been with him all the way.
Xiang Yong replied: "Dao Chief, Zhang's was in the West Kitchen that night and was discovered by several subordinates. ”
So, the group came to the western kitchen.
But this place is clean and clean, and there is no blood, after all, the incident has been too long, even if there are traces, it has already been cleaned up by the Zhang family.
There is not a single livestock in the chicken pen and pig pen where the livestock are raised, and I don't know if it was eaten by the ghost fetus in Zhang's belly, whose appetite is growing day by day, or whether it was divided by people's greed......
That Xiang Yong seemed to see the purpose of Jin An and the others' trip, and saw that Jin An had been inspecting the kitchen and chicken pen, and finally couldn't help but speak: "The master of Shanneng from Bailong Temple just now has come to Zhangjiada Zhuangzi to see it, and even the Shanneng master of Bailong Temple said that there was no abnormality found in Zhangjiada Zhuangzi. ”
The implication of this Xiangyong is that he looks down on Jin An and the old Taoist.
After all, speaking of the White Dragon Temple, it is the first temple in Fucheng.
The prestige of the White Dragon Temple has spread throughout the state capital, and everyone knows that the White Dragon Temple is the first Buddhist temple in the city.
Even the senior monks of Bailong Temple said that the Zhangjia Zhuangzi couldn't see the abnormality, so there must be no problem with this Zhangjia Zhuangzi.
"It seems that Mr. Yuan in that group of antique dealers is a person with great ability, since that Mr. Yuan promised to get rid of the scourge for our Lingqian Township, there has been no fetus death in Lingqian Township. ”
"Even if this big Zhuangzi of the Zhang family really hides something unclean, he has already been exorcised by Mr. Yuan and them. ”
Xiang Yong said with sincere admiration, and admired it.
But Jin An was like saying something to Xiang Yong, as if he hadn't heard it, and then, he continued to inspect the Zhang family's big Zhuangzi one by one.
It's also a strange thing.
Dozens of people in the Zhang family, if they really all entered the mouth and stomach of the ghost fetus in Zhang's belly, how could they not even have a blood stain of struggle?
Zhang's bite to death of the chickens in the chicken pen, they can eat all over their faces, and the ground is full of blood.
And the amount of blood in the human body is more than one or twenty times that of poultry, and if you want to kill one person, the blood will flow all over the place, and you have to kill dozens of people, and the amount of blood shed is not that you can hide it if you want to, and you can't wash it off with water.
Kenuo is a big Zhang family Zhuangzi, there are dozens of side rooms, each house is clean and clean, there is no blood residue.
This family disappeared somewhat... It's too abrupt!
In the end, the sky became darker and darker, and Xiang Yong didn't want to stay in the deserted Zhangjia Zhuangzi at night.
Bang!
The door of Zhang's house was closed, and after the villagers re-affixed the seals, they left in a hurry.
Obviously, these people don't want to be on duty after nightfall, and this unmanned village is even more eerie than the Yin House.
When Jin An walked out of the Zhangjia Zhuangzi, the last wisp of residual sun blood was dragged on his back, and the old Taoist priest couldn't help but ask Jin An: "Little brother, I saw that you started from the kitchen of Zhangjiaxi, so I frowned. And every time you check a place, your brows are a little tighter, little brother, and even after walking out of Zhang's house now, your brows have not relaxed. Little brother, have you discovered anything?"
Jin An shook his head.
"Didn't find it?"
"Then little brother, why do you keep frowning?"
The old Taoist priest was even more curious.
Jin An groaned all the way, as if he was thinking about something, when the old Taoist priest waited like a monkey and couldn't help but want to ask Jin An again, Jin An finally spoke at this time: "As early as when the convoy passed by the door of Zhang's house, I had already performed the Qi Hope Technique on the Zhang family, and as a result, the Zhang family was clean and clean under my Qi Lookout Technique, without any yin, evil, and dead qi. ”
"According to common sense, if a place has had a dead person, or an evil spirit, then the place should have dead qi entanglement or yin qi remnants. ”
Jin An groaned and continued: "In order to eliminate the doubts in my heart, I entered the Zhangjia Zhuangzi just now, and I used the Qi Hope Technique to carefully inspect every place in the Zhangjia Zhuangzi, this Zhang's house is indeed too clean, not even yin qi and dead qi. It's like dozens of people in the Zhang family were eaten by the ghost fetus in Zhang's stomach overnight, but there was not even a drop of blood left. ”
"It is precisely because the Zhang family is too clean that there must be demons when things go wrong. ”
"I have two conjectures in my mind for the time being......"
When Jin An said this, his voice paused slightly.
He glanced at He Yiming beside him.
Jin An deliberately avoided He Yiming, and whispered to the old Taoist priest: "One of the conjectures is that the Zhang family has never been evil, and the Zhang family has never been pregnant with a ghost, and someone is secretly pretending to be a ghost. ”
"As for the purpose, it's probably for the eldest lady, or for the He family. ”
"As for the other conjecture......"
"The Zhangjia Zhuangzi was deliberately cleaned and all traces were deliberately erased, not wanting outsiders to discover the real secrets hidden in the Zhangjia Zhuangzi and the Zhang family. This secret is likely to involve a lot of things, so big that the other party must erase all traces at such a great cost. ”
"And the most problematic person here is the group of antique dealers who lived in Zhang's house for three nights. ”
"Three days were left for them to clean up the traces, which was enough to erase everything. ”
It's not that Jin Anxin is not He Yiming, and deliberately avoids He Yiming.
But he is in a different place, and he has to be careful in everything, he can't trust all outsiders except for the old Taoist priest and the sword.
After listening to Jin An's analysis, the old Taoist priest winked at Jin An, also avoiding He Yiming, and said in a low voice: "Actually, in the He family's ancestral house, the old Taoist still has a sentence that has not been finished......
"That group of antique dealers should be here for the eldest lady, and it is estimated that their initial plan was to plant a ghost fetus in the eldest lady's belly. But it's a pity that the eldest lady is auspicious, and the mansion has been helped by the feng shui bureau under the guidance of the masters, and finally turned evil into good fortune. ”
"But I didn't dare to say it in front of the eldest lady, after all, this matter is a little inappropriate for the most chaste women. And I have seen the face of the eldest lady, the eldest lady is rich in the palace, and the migration palace is prosperous, this is the noble face in the thriving, and it will continue to soar, and it seems that it will be robbed several times in a short time, but in the end, it can turn evil into good fortune. ”
"Maybe it's because the eldest lady has a noble face, so it will cause a killing disaster, such as planting a ghost fetus in the belly of the eldest lady, and the ghost fetus will take the life of the eldest lady's nobles, and you can grow into a more powerful ghost fetus. ”
"It's like living in a sycamore tree, and a pheasant can become a phoenix. ”
"It's just that they didn't calculate it, the Feng Shui Bureau of He Mansion is not simple, not only saved the life of the eldest lady, but the evil and obscene Wutong God finally devoured the Zhang family, and the sycamore wood did not live, but it became a fallen pheasant in the chicken coop, and the king of shallow water. ”
"This is called losing the lady and breaking the soldiers. ”
"In the end, you came forward by the little brother, and directly found the Wutong God Seat from the toilet and burned it, so that they didn't even have a chance to flop again. ”
The old Taoist priest and Jin An, the two treacherous and cunning old foxes, and the little fox, looked at each other with meaning in their eyes.
They had already seen the truth behind this matter thoroughly.
"Go, what do you mean that I found out from the latrine and burned it, there is a debtor and a master, and the Wutong God Divine Position is obviously the old Taoist priest You proposed to burn it with lychee branches. ”
Jin An felt that the old Taoist priest's words were ambiguous.
The old Taoist priest smiled: "Then how can it be that I burned it, I just proposed, just to make an opinion." In the end, it was the thatched toilet that Li Huwei climbed, and the thatched toilet beams were dug up, and it was also the Wutong Divine Seat that Li Huwei personally found to burn with lychee branches. ”
Jin An deeply agreed: "Yes, there is a debtor who is wronged, and all this was done by Li Huwei." ”
The old Taoist priest also added: "Li Huwei is upright, not afraid of the tiger's den in Longtan, my generation is a model, and thousands of people admire him." ”
Poor Lee Guard.
just carried a big black cauldron in such a daze.
It's just that, although it seems to be close to the truth, there are more problems in front of us.
Where the hell did Zhang go?
Where are those antique dealers now?
Has the Zhang family fallen into the hands of that group of antique dealers, and what is the truth that the other party wants to erase in the Zhang family?
"Little brother, just now that Xiangyong was in a hurry to get out of the office, in a hurry to drive us out of Zhang's house, after nightfall, do you want to sneak into Zhang's house again at night to see if there is anything abnormal in Zhang's house at night?" the old Taoist priest proposed.
Jin An shook his head: "I have finished reading everything I should have seen during the day." ”
"If there were any clues, after so many days, they would have long since ceased to exist. ”
......
Now Lingqian Township is in a depression of popularity, and few people can be seen on the street, even if they occasionally see a few sparse figures, they all leave in a hurry.
Therefore, Jin An's plan to take a walk and appreciate the customs of other places can only be disappointed.
Finally, go straight home.
Return to the ancestral home of the He family.
However, just when Jin An, the old Taoist priest and others had just returned to the He family's ancestral home, they saw an unexpected person.
An old monk with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, a Buddhist robe, ruddy blood and not showing old age, is waiting for the ancestral house of the He family.
I have been waiting for them for a long time.
This person is the senior monk of Bailong Temple invited by the county government from Fucheng, Master Shanneng.
And behind Master Shanneng, there are several officials.
"The two Taoist masters, this is the senior monk Shanneng Master from the White Dragon Temple, the two Taoist masters just left the He family, and the Shanneng Master personally visited the two Taoist masters. Originally, I wanted to order someone to go to Zhang's house to inform the two Taoist masters, but I was dissuaded by Master Shanneng, who had been waiting for some hours. ”
Seeing Jin An and the old Taoist priest coming back, the old man of the He family hurriedly got up to welcome the two of them to their seats.
The eldest lady was also present, nodding to the two of them.
"I don't know why Master Shanneng came to find us?" Jin An looked at the white dragon temple monk in front of him curiously at a close distance.
Master Shanneng was surprised to glance at the combination of an old man and a young Taoist in front of him, and he didn't expect that it was actually Jin An as the leader, and it was actually the youngest Jin An who asked him.
But fortunately, as a senior monk, Master Shanneng has a very high spiritual cultivation, and after singing a Buddha horn, the expression on his face returned to calm, and he first asked Jin An if he could find anything in the Zhang family?
Jin An shook his head.
Master Shanneng seemed to have known that this would be the case, so he said the intention of this trip: "Since we have all found no clues in the yang world, the poor monk plans to use those innocent and tragic fetuses to go to the underworld to find the whereabouts of the real murderer and the whereabouts of the Zhang family in the underworld. ”
"I wonder if the two Taoist leaders are willing to go down to the underworld together to find the real murderer and the Zhang family?"