"Duan Cheng, how far are we from Nandu?" Yang Muyun rode on the horse and looked into the distance.

"My lord, we have already passed Hezhou, and there is Wujiang Town in front of us. There are only more than 100 miles left from the southern capital. Duan Xiaoqi replied.

"Wujiang? Is it the Wujiang that Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, killed himself? ”

"Yes, sir. There is also an overlord temple on the Phoenix Mountain in the south of the town, I heard that it is the place where King Xiang was defeated and killed himself, do you want to go and pay your respects? ”

"Another day! There was enough time delayed on the road, and it couldn't affect Lord Shen's return journey anymore. ”

Yang Muyun galloped on horseback, and Duan Xiaoqi led more than ten people to follow closely on horseback. Along the way, Yang Muyun didn't want to follow the team slowly, and always liked to rush ahead. Duan Xiaoqi, as his personal guard, naturally had to guard him at any time.

When Yang Muyun rode past a small hill, he saw a group of vultures hovering above, "quack-" and refused to leave for a long time.

Yang Muyun's heart moved, and he rode his horse to gallop up the small hill.

On the hill lay a strange dried corpse, the body was grayish-black, with shriveled skin and deep-set eyes, emitting a disgusting stench of corpses. What's even more strange is that vultures like to eat carrion the most, but they hover in the sky and do not come down to peck at them.

Yang Muyun jumped off his horse and circled around the dried corpse, carefully examining the traces around him. At this time, Xiaoqi also led his subordinates up the hill, and when they saw this dried corpse, they couldn't help but gasp, and the cold hairs on their bodies stood on end. It's bad enough to see a corpse in broad daylight, but their Lord Yang seems to be quite interested in this corpse.

"My lord, this looks like a murder, it's better to report it to the local government and let them come here to investigate." Duan Xiaoqi got down from his horse and persuaded.

"The local government can't handle this case." Yang Muyun glanced up at him, pulled out the waist knife from his waist, and slashed the shriveled skin of the dried corpse with a "boom-" sound. The outer skin was turned over, revealing a white flower inside, and when you looked closely, it was all round, white and dead bugs. Duan Xiaoqi and the others felt that their scalps were about to crack, and goosebumps fell all over their bodies. One of them bent over and vomited.

Yang Muyun turned a deaf ear to the reactions of others, and said to himself: "There are no traces of others stepping on it around, so how did this dried corpse come from?" He stroked his chin and pondered.

"Ghost—" one of them cried out in horror.

Yang Muyun glared at him: "Shut up!" Blue sky and 100 days, where did the ghost come from? ”

Duan Xiaoqi had followed him through the haunting incident of the ancient mansion in the deep mountains, and finally confirmed that it was nothing more than the Guanyin Sect people pretending to be ghosts. I know that this adult is very bold and never believes in the so-called ghosts and gods. Then he said: "My lord, no one has moved this dried corpse, there are only two possibilities, one is that it flew here by itself, and the second is that it came here by itself." ”

"Corpses can fly and go, isn't that still a ghost?" One of them shouted.

"Shut up, talk nonsense in front of adults, and be careful with me in your mouth." Duan Xiaoqi scolded.

"It's impossible to fly, it's not impossible to get here." Yang Muyun's words frightened all his subordinates' hair on end.

Yang Muyun glanced at their reactions and said with a smile: "This should be a corpse control technique, what kind of means is used, I'm afraid you can only find the person who performs this technique." ”

"My lord, what now?" Duan Xiaoqi asked.

"Go back to Nandu!" Yang Muyun threw the knife back to Duan Xiaoqi, jumped onto the horse, and quickly hit the horse away.

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In a palace in the imperial city of Fengyang Mansion in the central capital, Zhu Xiyuan was forcing a palace maid to change into her clothes and dress up like her.

"Your Royal Highness, please spare the slaves! The slave and maid were really afraid. A young maiden of her age pleaded with pity.

"If you don't obey, I'll order someone to drag you out and beat you to death!" Zhu Xiyuan threatened.

"Princess......" The little palace maid was so frightened that she couldn't even speak.

"Actually, it's not a big deal, Princess Ben just wants to make a joke with Brother Wang. Don't be afraid, you pretend to be this princess and stay here obediently, don't talk, don't move, I promise you're okay? Zhu Xiyuan said in a frightened manner.

"Princess, are you really alright?" The little palace maid said timidly.

"Oh, I said it was okay, what are you talking about? Even if you are discovered, it is this princess who will be punished, and it has nothing to do with you. Come, change the clothes of this princess into ......"

Zhu Xiyuan put on the clothes of the palace maid, quietly walked out of the palace, and walked quickly in the direction of the Xuanwu Gate in the north with her head down.

The imperial palace in Fengyang, the central capital, covers an area no less than that of Jingshi and Nandu, but there are few empty people, usually only a few old eunuchs clean up, and there are no other people, everywhere is desolate.

was about to walk to the Xuanwu Gate, and Zhu Xiyuan's heart was pounding.

"Stop-" the chief guard guarding the door called out to her, "Is there a palace sign to go out?" ”

Zhu Xiyuan forcibly endured the tension in her heart and presented a cyan jade plaque.

The chief guard took it and looked at it, stared at her and asked, "Who sent you out?" What are you going out for? ”

No one has scolded her like this since she was a child, the little princess was anxious, raised her head, her jade face was frosty, and a cherry mouth was like popping beans: "In the palace of this central capital, how many masters can there be, do you still have to tell you what Her Royal Highness the princess explains?" Have you never served your master? Don't even understand the rules? ”

The barrage of words stunned the chief of the guard, and he was stunned with his mouth open. Zhu Xiyuan snorted, Xiao Yao's nose was like an ice bean bursting out, grabbed the cyan jade plate in the hand of the chief of the guard, and walked through the door with a majestic lotus step.

"Yang Muyun, he said that he would accompany me back to Beijing, but he pretended to be sick and ran away, what a big liar! Hmph, if you don't come, Princess Ben will look for you! The more I thought about it, the more proud I became, "Fortunately, Brother Wang went to the imperial tomb to worship his ancestors, otherwise it would not be easy to come out?" ”

Zhu Xiyuan walked a few steps closely, and said secretly in his heart: "There is a garden in front of me, it is Bei'anmen, as soon as I get out of Bei'anmen, I will go to Nandu to find that big liar!" ”

"Your Royal Highness, who are you going to find in such a hurry?" A feminine voice came.

"Oops!" Zhu Xiyuan's delicate body was shocked, and she followed the voice and looked at it. Lin Meier was dressed in red, leaning against a small tree, and looking at herself with a pair of charming peach blossom eyes with a smile.

"Can't I go out for a walk?" Zhu Xiyuan said angrily.

"Good! It's rare that Her Royal Highness the Princess is so interested, where are you going? I'll be with you. Lin Meier hugged her arms and said with a smile.

"No, stay away from me!" Zhu Xiyuan's heart darkened. With a slight sigh, he turned around and walked back the way he came.

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Nandu, Jinyi Weinan Town Fusi Case Collection Museum, Yang Muyun went straight here after he came back, and now he is looking through all the case files from the Hongwu period to the present. The strange dried corpse in Wujiang Town, Hezhou aroused his interest, and he wanted to see if there was any record of such a similar case in the case library.

The case files here are vast, and there are many more books than the Zhihu Prefecture Library. Yang Muyun carefully flipped through them, most of them were archives and records of important ministers and relatives of the imperial court, and there were no such strange things. He froze and walked deeper into the library. Sure enough, in an inconspicuous small room, he flipped through an unusual file: "In the seventeenth year of Hongwu, the Marquis of Xiping conquered Yuxi Pass in Guangnan, and ordered the hundred households in Jinyi to investigate the enemy's situation, and the road was impassable. At night, the moon hangs in the sky, and suddenly I hear the sound of the terrible bone flute, and the sound of the whirlwind makes people explore, and it is said that the ghouls are to the end! Xiang and everyone looked at it, under the moon, dozens of ghouls, arms stretched out, knees could not be bent, jumping to come, everyone was shocked. At the beginning, the fire struck it, and the lead did not hurt; Even if he slashes it with a sword or axe, he cannot hurt it; In the end, the black oil reached the body, and the ghoul turned into embers with fire......" Yang Muyun slowly closed the case file, and said in his heart: "It seems that this ghoul is a dry corpse that can act, controlled by the sound of the bone flute, and the fire gun, knife and axe cannot be injured, and finally it can be destroyed by fire attack." But how did this dry corpse become a controllable ghoul? ”

Yang Muyun went to look through other case files, but there were very few records of this kind, and after reading for a long time, he found another volume, opened it, and wrote: "In the fifth year of Yongle, Jiaozhi entered the Ming Dynasty, and the emperor set up Jiaozhi to set up a political envoy and a thousand households in brocade. In May, Nguyen Thieu, a hundred households in brocade clothes, went to Thanh Hoa Province. Qinghua is close to the basin barbarians, and the basin barbarians like to raise corpse insects. The moon is full, the basin barbarian cuts the face with a knife, the blood flows like an infusion, and then he whispers to invite the worm into the corpse, and the sound of howling cries in the heaven and earth. In a few days, the corpse rises, walks freely, no different from ordinary people, but not for a long time, until the dawn, the corpse pounces on the ground, and does not move. Ruan Shao's ......"

Yang Muyun closed the file and said secretly in his heart: "It says that after a corpse insect enters the corpse, the corpse can get up and walk. What the hell is this corpse worm? He remembered the round, white little insect inside the dry corpse in Wujiang Town, Hezhou, and wondered if it was the corpse worm that could make the corpse walk.

He opened the file again and took a closer look. I secretly wondered in my heart: The above record is different from the previous case file, the ghoul recorded in the Hongwu period has his arms stretched out, and his knees cannot be bent, but he can only jump it. And the walking corpses recorded above walk freely, no different from ordinary people. It's funny, but one thing is the same, these things are all recorded in the Savage Lands of the Southwest, and they are all active on full moon nights. It's interesting, why does this evil thing come out on the day of the full moon? ”

He closed the file again and put it back on the wooden shelf, "Now that this kind of evil thing has appeared in the land south of the Yangtze River, I don't know who is here to make trouble?" After thinking about it for a while, I couldn't help but be dumbfounded, Lord Shen had allowed me to leave the southern capital to go to Hangzhou to participate in this year's autumn festival, now I should go and pack up and leave one day, what do you want to do with this? He chuckled and turned to leave the Collection.

Walked out of the door of the case collection. Yang Muyun saw Duan Xiaoqi hurriedly coming, and said happily when he saw him: "My lord, I have found you, Ning Gongzi asked the villain to give you this." As he spoke, he handed him a big red wedding card.

"What's going on?" Seeing the wedding post, Yang Muyun couldn't help but sink in his heart.

"Ning Gongzi and Miss Zisu are about to get married, and the date is set on the 22nd of this month, which means to be in pairs, and the location is in ......"

Yang Muyun only felt that his mind was buzzing, and he never heard the words again.

Yang Muyun left a letter in his signature room, picked up his package and left. Shen Yun allowed him to leave Nandu Yang Muyun didn't tell anyone, although he didn't come to Nansi for a long time, he was deeply loved by his subordinates, he didn't want to see those reluctant eyes and hear those words of retention.

Out of the gate of Nanzhen Fusi, Yang Muyun hired a carriage, and after getting into the car, he didn't look out of the car again.

He lay in the car, feeling the feeling of the body shaking, and his heart felt a sense of relief. In the past month since I came to Nandu, I have been busy and nervous, and now I can finally let go of everything and live a life of a scholar. He closed his eyes, listened to the squeak of the axles, and stopped thinking about anything.

I don't know how far I went, but the carriage jolted heavily and stopped. Yang Muyun opened his eyes, lifted the curtain of the car, and asked, "How is the car ......?" Before he finished speaking, his voice was choked in his throat.

In front of him, there was a large group of people. Mr. Lu, Mr. Qi, Mr. Duan...... All the people in the Nansifeng Arrest Room stood at this tree-lined intersection outside the southern capital.

Yang Muyun slowly got out of the car, looked at them, and was silent for a long time.

"Your Excellency...... Everyone is reluctant to let you go. Lu Zongqi spoke first.

"My lord—" All of them said in unison the muffled voices in their chests.

"I'm just out running errands, and everyone thinks too much." Yang Muyun tried his best to stabilize the emotions stirring in his heart.

"My lord, before leaving, the brothers want to give you a bowl." Lu Zongqi took out a large white porcelain bowl, and Duan Xiaoqi picked up a jar of wine and poured a full bowl.

Mr. Lu stepped forward slowly, bowed his head and raised his arms, and respectfully offered this bowl of wine.

Yang Muyun's heart was hot, and he took a bowl full of wine. At this time, everyone's hands were filled with a bowl of wine.

"Brethren, I ...... Don't say more, do it-" Yang Muyun held back the tears in his eyes and did not shed, picked up the bowl and poured the wine into his mouth, and the wine gurgled down the corners of his mouth.

"Dry—" everyone shouted in unison, and drank the wine from their bowls.

Yang Muyun turned around and was about to get into the car, when he suddenly felt dizzy in his head, what was going on? It's just a bowl of wine, is it too excited, he looked back at everyone, only to feel that the sky was spinning for a while, and he fell in front of the car and didn't wake up.

"Quick, help the adults into the car...... someone shouted, and everyone stepped forward to help Yang Muyun into the car.

"Turn the car around and go back to Nandu!" Duan Xiaoqi slapped the body with the scabbard and threw a piece of silver to the handlebar.

"Yes, sir." The handlebar trembled in response, raised the horsewhip, and under the support of a group of brocade guards, the carriage drove back towards the southern capital......