"The people of this Posa Mountain are miserable, and they can only go around begging for a way to subdue the powerful ghost, and then one day, a Taoist with a profound spell came here, and the Taoist master fought with the powerful ghost for three days and three nights, and finally suppressed him on the cemetery in the west when the sun rose on the fourth day."

"Since this terrible ghost has been suppressed, why do you still worship him?" I was puzzled.

Aunt You made a gesture to me to calm me down for a while, and then she got up and went to the kitchen at the back, and after a while she walked out with a full plate of food.

"Come, you should all be hungry, let's have dinner first, and I'll tell you while eating my aunt."

"It smells so good." As soon as I smelled the aroma of the food, my heart was suddenly crispy, and all the ghosts and Taoist priests were left behind by me.

"Here, be careful of the heat." Seeing my eyes shining, Aunt You smiled and put the dishes and chopsticks in front of me, and specially sandwiched the dishes for me.

"Thank you, auntie." I took the chopsticks, I couldn't wait to pick up the dishes in the bowl and eat them, after eating, I didn't forget to praise the lady's cooking skills, the lady was praised by me happily, and pushed those delicious dishes in front of me.

Sycophants!

Gu Yuancheng and Cai Yu's hearts popped up this word at the same time.

"That's right, auntie." I ate a lot, but I should have asked, I still very responsibly did not forget, "What is the reason why you worship the princess every year?" ”

Aunt You got up and lit the candles in the room, but turned back to us and said, "Because the Taoist chief said that only when we worship every year and resolve the resentment of the princess, can he attain the Tao and ascend to immortals, and those of us who were captured by him can survive well." ”

"I see." I nodded thoughtfully.

"Aunt You, do you know where the temple dedicated to Po Suan Jun is?" Gu Yuancheng, who hadn't spoken much, suddenly spoke.

Aunt You nodded: "It's in the cemetery in the west where he was suppressed." ”

"Then what do you need to do when you worship the princess?"

"That is, some things of ordinary worship, offering some pigs, sheep or something, and then paying some money for incense and kowtowing."

"How much money do you have to pay for incense?"

"One tael of silver, this is the least, there are more, like the village chief, he has to pay a few hundred taels every year, but this is his own business, if he has enough ability, he will naturally pay more, like us, it will be one or two taels."

"Isn't there a lot of money for this incense, you have worked hard for a year to get a few taels of silver?"

Aunt You smiled, waved her hand and said, "We don't lack anything in this village, and we don't need any silver, so we can go around the mountains on weekdays, regardless of whether we are chopping firewood or hunting or collecting medicine, and ask people to sell them outside the mountain, we can always get a lot of money. ”

Gu Yuancheng understood and sighed, "This is not a paradise. ”

It's a pity that people's hearts are sinister and fate is impermanent, and no one can hide from the torrent of history.

"Auntie." Cai Yu blinked and asked, "Have you always lived alone?" What about your wife and children? ”

The smile that had been hanging on Aunt You's face suddenly stiffened, and her eyes instantly became moist, she hurriedly turned her head and wiped it with her sleeve, and then stood up calmly pretending to be something.

"You guys eat well, my aunt is a little tired, so I'll go to bed first." After saying that, before we could say a word, she hurriedly lifted the curtain and went into the back room.

The three of us looked at each other in unison, but didn't say anything.

Although the food cooked by Aunt You is delicious, but after what happened just now, I don't have much appetite to eat it anymore, Cai Yu also has the same idea as me, and then put down the dishes and chopsticks, as for Gu Yuancheng, he is a pampered young master, this kind of coarse tea and light rice, he didn't use chopsticks at all, just kept his head down and was thinking about something.

"Why are you so weird these days?" When I went back to the room to rest, I asked Cai Yu to go first, and I deliberately blocked Gu Yuancheng at the door of the room.

Gu Yuancheng was sluggish for a moment before he came back to his senses.

"What did you say?"

I glared at him, and in a rare good-natured manner, I repeated the question I had just asked, "I ask you, why are you so strange these days?" ”

"Strange?" Gu Yuancheng squinted slightly, and the corners of his mouth hooked up, "Where am I strange?" ”

"You!" I was about to be angry, but when I thought of Gu Yuancheng, who had been silent for the past few days, I didn't know how my heart softened, and I couldn't get angry when I wanted to.

After hesitating, I still turned my head, pulled down my face and asked him, "You don't go against me these days, because you're worried about Chen Yi who is still in Qi Kingdom?" ”

"Chen Yi? Why should I worry about him? Gu Yuancheng pretended to look at me suspiciously, and then knocked on the lacquer folding fan in his hand and laughed, "I have escaped, why should my father hold on to him again?" ”

"Chen Yi was released?" With a frown, I turned to look at him, "Then why didn't he follow you?" ”

"What about you? Why didn't your two 'civil and military guards' follow you? Gu Yuancheng didn't answer the rhetorical question, as if he expected that I wouldn't be able to answer this question.

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"You ......" I paused, bowed my head slightly, and didn't look at him, "Are you in a bad mood these days, so abnormal?" ”

Gu Yuancheng wanted to blurt out something, but when he lowered his head and saw the bright and elegant girl under the bright moon, his heart suddenly seemed to be locked by something, and he couldn't take his eyes off it, his mind suddenly went blank, and he forgot what he wanted to say.

"...... Qingzhi" he called her name, but there was no follow-up.

"Hmm." I subconsciously answered and looked up at him, "What?" ”

"It's time to rest." In the end, that's all he said.

Gu Yuancheng's eyes became very blurry in the moonlight, and I tried to see clearly, but suddenly I quickly withdrew my gaze as if I had been burned.

"You... You also rest early. After saying this, I hid in my room in a panic.

As I leaned my back against the door, I took a deep breath, and my heart, which had been beating hard, gradually calmed down.

What's going on? Why didn't I even have the courage to look into his eyes just now?

Obviously, there are still a lot of serious things to be agreed with him.

I closed my eyes, but the boiling blood was cold to the bottom in an instant.

Something that I can't control just happened in front of me, but I could only look at it like this, powerless, helpless.

Shen Qingzhi, one step further, but it is an abyss.

I slept very deeply that night, and when I woke up the next day, my head was dizzy and painful, and my stomach was tumbling terribly.

"Shen Qingzhi, Shen Qingzhi!" Cai Yu's voice sounded outside the door, and he slammed the door with a "knock knock", as if something big had happened.

"What's wrong?" I rubbed my temples as I opened the door, "What's going on?" ”

Cai Yu saw me looking lazy and lazy, and her heart was so anxious.

"Village Chief Liu's concubine was found dead in her house this morning, and his son Liu Xingwang was also found dead in the Posa Temple in the west." Cai Yu anxiously pulled me out, and regardless of whether I had breakfast or not, he hurried to Village Chief Liu's house.

"Don't go so fast, people are dead, and walking so fast can't bring them back to life." I was stretched out of breath, and my already tumbling stomach became even more uncomfortable.

Cai Yu heard what I said, and was so angry that he shook off my hand, "Human life is at stake, even if you can't bring them back from the dead, you can find out the murderer earlier, so that they can be blind, how can you look like you don't care about yourself?" ”

"It's really 'none of my business'." I looked at him innocently, "Ethics, they are not from our Qin country, in terms of feelings, they are not related to us, no matter what my identity is, this matter has nothing to do with me." ”

"You!" Cai Yu was speechless with anger.

"Why don't you go alone? I haven't had breakfast yet. I was so uncomfortable that I covered my stomach with my hands, but I looked very hungry on my face, and waved at him, "Remember to be a lady, don't show your stuffing." ”

"Humph!" Cai Yu was so angry that he threw off his sleeves and left, his face pale.

Cai Yu was already walking fast, and this anger disappeared in the blink of an eye, but this relieved me.

I collected the expression on my face, squatted down with a pale face, and after a whirlwind, my eyes suddenly went black and lit up again.

"I knew it would be so painful, why did I have to eat so happily last night?" The young man in the white robe sighed softly and bent down to help me up.

I was in so much pain that I could only look at him with half-squinted eyes.

"There are fewer antidotes, only one, and I have to endure it when I give it to the brainless one."

The young man's eyes moved slightly, and he looked at me quietly for a while, but after all, he smiled helplessly, brushed his sleeves and half-squatted down.

"Come on, I'll take you to the doctor."

I was stunned and didn't move for a long time.

"What? Do you want me to take you to the doctor? The boy turned to look at me, with a clear hint of banter in his eyes.

"It's not a drain." I hurriedly refused, leaning over on his back.

"A word of caution in advance, don't move, or I'll throw you to the ground." I felt uncomfortable, and just as I wanted to change to a posture that could keep some distance, Gu Yuancheng took the first step to warn me.

"If you really throw me to the ground, I'll grab you by the neck and throw it to the ground!" As the saying goes, if you lose anything, you don't lose your momentum, although my stomach is sad now, but I can't let him take advantage of it.

It was rare that Gu Yuancheng didn't quarrel with me, but just walked forward carefully with my back on his back, and the path between the villages stretched forward, as if it was going to extend to the edge of the sky.