After dark that night, Guo Hong and Cao Shouzhen slept on the bed in the guest room.

"Senior brother, you really didn't notice anything abnormal?"

"Wei Zhicheng went out in the morning, and since he came back in the afternoon, he has been at Uncle Qi's place, and he has never been close to Senior Sister He at all."

"Well, I'll get up early tomorrow morning and keep an eye on it until the evening when the lights are on."

"No problem, it's only one day anyway."

After a while, Cao Shouzhen fell asleep, his breathing was very quiet, only a slight snoring sound.

Guo Hong lay on the bed and soon fell asleep.

In his sleep, he seemed to be in front of the daytime boulder again, and there was a dark shadow hovering over the stone!

When he got closer, it turned out to be a person, and when he turned his head, his face was covered with blood, and it was clearly the Taoist priest of Wangwushan that he killed during the day!

Guo Hong woke up suddenly, he got up in a daze, got dressed, got out of bed in the dark and came to the table.

There was a copper oil lamp in the room.

In ancient times, people used torches for lighting, but if the fire was closed indoors, it would smoke people to death, and bronze lamps were developed in the Xia and Shang periods.

The main raw material of the bronze lamp is animal fat, which has a wick and has a foul smell when burned.

In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, pottery lamps replaced bronze lamps, and later oil lamps made of various materials such as copper lamps, wooden lamps, and iron lamps appeared.

There were no candles before the Han Dynasty.

Zhou Lizhong said that all the major events of the state are shared with candles and the court is burned.

The tomb here means fire, the tomb candle is the fire candle, the "candle" of the Zhou Dynasty is the torch, the lit branch is called the fire candle outside the door, and the bonfire lit in the courtyard inside the door is called the court fire.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, candles were introduced to China from the West, and gradually became popular after the Western Jin Dynasty.

But until the end of the Tang Dynasty, the output of candles was still not high, and the famous families used honey to make wax, and the folk still used animal fat.

Such a candle can only burn for half an hour, and it is very troublesome to constantly cut off the carbonized wick.

Li Shangyin has a poem: "Why should he cut the candles in the west window", which is what he said.

Therefore, most of the people of the Tang Dynasty made it at sunrise and rested at sunset, and they chose to go to bed after dark at night, and the lamps and candles were expensive and troublesome for them, and the smell was still unpleasant.

Guo Hong rubbed the flint a few times to light the wick, tiptoed out with a smelly oil lamp, and gently covered the door.

The moonlight was hazy, the breeze was gusting, and the cicadas were chirping.

Because it was too dark in the house, he came out with an oil lamp, and when he saw that the road could still be seen in the moonlight outside, he blew out the lamp and put it by the door, and after a while his eyes got used to it, he walked along the stone path towards the huge strange rock.

In the night, this big stone stood there, like a fierce beast lying on the ground, and the darkness made people feel a little eerie.

At this time, the birds in the distance were alarmed, and all the hula flew up.

Guo Hong hurriedly flashed, slowed down his breathing and hid in the shadow of the big tree.

There are many birds in the mountains, which chirp in the trees in the evening, and when it gets dark, they all fall silent, and from time to time there will be bird droppings that will only be alarmed when people pass by.

If it was in a big city like Luoyang, Chang'an, the birds would have been culled long ago and became a meal on the plate.

In the mountain towns, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and although there are also hunts, the number will not decrease at all.

A man strode towards this direction with a lantern and stopped in front of the strange rock.

Through the dim light of the lantern, Guo Hong recognized Wei Zhicheng at a glance.

I saw him lay down the lantern, kneel in front of the boulder and pray silently, then get up and look around, make sure that there was no one, and then go to the stream, bury something in the earth, and then hurried away.

Guo Hong saw him go away, so he quietly came there, and when he dug it up, he saw that it was a small cloth bag, which was soft in his hand.

He opened the cloth bag and saw through the moonlight that it was a doll, with a needle stuck in its body and a note on its back, on which words were written, but it was too dark to see clearly.

Guo Hong can guess what it is without looking at those words, it is nothing more than the name and the eight characters of birth, this is the art of disgust, he seems to have some memory of this, but he can't remember where he has seen it.

This is supposed to be a memory of the host before he was twelve years old, and now he has a splitting headache just thinking about it.

But it was a good start, indicating that he had begun to merge further with this body and get in touch with deeper memories.

Maybe one day, he will completely merge and become the real "Guo Hongzheng......

Now there is a question, why should He Qiong be buried here near He Qiong's house?

Disgust with victory belongs to the witch curse technique, and there was also a witch curse when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and tens of thousands of people such as Empress Wei Zifu and Prince Liu Ju died because of this.

The miraculous Gu art and disgust inherited from ancient witchcraft, in fact, had no effect on the living, and later became a tool for swagger and deception in the rivers and lakes.

Therefore, this puppet will disgust people at most, and it is impossible to cause any harm to He Qiong.

But in the Tang Dynasty, everyone believed that it was useful!

Guo Hong is too young now, the terrain is not familiar, and he is not suitable for doing anything to visit the enemy camp at night, so he put away the puppet, restored the small hole dug in the ground to its original state, clapped his hands and turned back to sleep.

When he got up the next morning, Cao Shouzhen rubbed his eyes and said, "Senior brother, I dreamed yesterday that you went out with an oil lamp. ”

"And then?"

“…… I dreamed again that you were back. ”

"Are my brother's dreams so boring?"

"Of course not, I also dreamed of Senior Sister He, the two of us are ...... together" Speaking of this, he suddenly remembered that the junior brother in front of him would make a small report, and suddenly sobered up.

"Senior brother, your pants are wet, are you ashamed?" Guo Hong thought of bedwetting.

"Don't tell Senior Sister He!" Cao Shouzhen got up in embarrassment to change his clothes, and after some tossing, he was completely sober.

"Senior brother, why is your urine slimy?"

"Shut up!"

After breakfast, Cao Shouzhen's task was to keep an eye on Wei Zhicheng, and Guo Hong went to find his master.

Lu Chaoyang lived with Liu Yuanjing, and when he saw the little junior brother coming, he called to help together and waited for the master to change clothes.

The Zhongyuan Festival is not as good as the Shangyuan and Mid-Autumn Festival, and the Shangqing faction did not attach importance to it until a few years ago, when Zhao Guizhen, the left protector of the Sect, proposed it, and it gradually became grand.

On the day of the festival, the Taoist priest will carry out the Jiao (Jiao), which is divided into the Zhai ceremony and the Jiao ceremony, and the 15th day of July is the Ghost Festival, which is held to summon the souls of the deceased.

Liu Yuanjing was the one who presided over the festival and was known as Gao Gong.

He began to fast three days ago, reciting scriptures every day, reaching the state of fasting and forgetting, making sacrifices today, bathing and changing clothes in the morning, not drinking alcohol all day, and not eating meat.

At this time, he had just curled his hair and was wearing a white undershirt.

Lu Chaoyang brought a magic robe embroidered with heavenly immortal cloud patterns and a lotus-shaped Shangqing crown, and Guo Hong and the two waited for the master to dress neatly, and set off together to go to the main hall where they first entered.