Chapter 14: The Black Woods
The black wood forest is located in the north of Fengqiu County, fifteen miles, where the woods are dense, it is a happy land for birds, beasts, snakes and insects, and most of the trees in it have been for a hundred years.
Zhou Laosi is a firewood man outside the black woods, making a living by collecting firewood, going to the mountains to collect firewood every morning, and carrying firewood to the county seat to sell in the afternoon.
A load of firewood can sell thirty copper plates, which is just enough for him to be a pot of Fengqiu old wine. He used the money from the sale of firewood to buy wine every time, but over time he had no money to buy clothes, and the coarse cloth shirt on his body was sloppy and never washed. He did not comb his hair, and allowed lice to settle on his head.
Now he is in his thirties, but no one wants to marry him, and even his relatives twist their noses and hide away when they see him.
Late at night, Zhou Laosi on the big tree was woken up by a gust of cold wind. He occasionally took his own wine to sleep on this tree, and slept all night.
"This damn weather, it looks like it's going to change...... Zhou Laosi cursed in his heart, and tightened his clothes, although the clothes were very thin.
He was about to get down from the tree and go home to sleep when suddenly a clear bell came to his ears from the silent woods.
He listened carefully, the sound of the bell came from far and near, and a terrifying and weird song sounded with the sound of the bell, and the sound was like a note from hell that made Zhou Laosi's heart beat non-stop.
He had never heard such an eerie singing voice, and the singing gave him a creepy feeling. Beads of sweat the size of beans dripped from his face onto the bark of the tree with a dripping sound.
He didn't dare to come out, and following the direction of the ballad, he saw a few blurs in the moonlight.
He rubbed his eyes, and when he looked closely, he saw a terrifying scene - a white sedan chair floated towards him in the air, and there stood a person like a paper tie in the front and back of the sedan chair, on the left and right, and those people did not have any blood on their faces, and their tongues were very long, and the most terrifying thing was that they had no feet, and their empty trouser legs were floating in the air with the sedan chair.
He could no longer bear the fear in his heart, and his body was unstable for a while, and he fell from the tree.
He looked at the sedan chair floating towards him and shouted in horror: "Ah~ghost~"
People are always in awe of the unknown, and they are always full of fear of ghosts and gods.
His legs were trembling, but the terrifying and strange sedan chair in front of him couldn't help him wonder why. He spread his legs and ran out of the woods, shouting as he ran, "Ghost~Ghost~"
I fell several times in a row, but I still stumbled and ran out.
"Huh?" A cold snort came out of the sedan chair.
"Subordinates deal with it immediately!" The attendant on the left side of the sedan chair said respectfully.
"Just scare him and spare his life." The voice in the sedan chair sounded again.
The retinue chased after him.
The sedan chair slowly fell from mid-air, and the attendant in front of him opened the curtain of the sedan chair, and a middle-aged man walked out of the sedan chair, and he slowly walked to the tree where Zhou Laosi stayed before.
I saw the attendant go up to the tree and remove a piece of bark from the root of the tree, and a peculiar groove appeared in the bark.
The attendant pulled out a teacup-sized seal carved of green jade from his bosom, and he placed it into the groove in the trunk of the tree, which fit securely into the groove.
He gently turned the seal in his hand, and the dirt in a clearing about two or three meters to the right of the tree loosened, and the dirt parted on both sides, revealing a staircase that extended into the ground.
The middle-aged man walked down the steps, and at the end of the road was a flat field, and at the end there was a strange cave, like a terrible ghost with a bloody mouth open. On the top of the entrance of the cave is carved three words "Senluo Temple".
He walked into the cave, but there was a cave inside.
When a man wearing a blue-faced ghost mask saw the middle-aged man, he knelt down on one knee and said respectfully, "My subordinates have seen the judge. ”
The middle-aged man couldn't see any expression on his face, so he walked straight to the middle stone and sat down slowly.
"Where's the dragon vein diagram?" He asked faintly.
"My subordinates have the trust of the judge, please punish him." The masked man knelt on both knees at the same time, his hands on the ground, his forehead pressed against the ground.
"Qingmian, you know I've always disliked killing. But that doesn't mean I won't kill. The middle finger and index finger of the man's right hand were pressed together and gently pressed against his temple, and his tone already made the masked man feel extremely cold.
"So many people can't even solve the problem of a small Yue Jianbai. You'd better give me a reason not to kill you. ”
"Your Excellency, although Yue Jianbai launched the Blood Divine Dragon Skill, his subordinates and others have already defeated him. The dragon vein diagram is at your fingertips, but something has happened. A nine-clawed multicolored dragon appeared, so the subordinates and others ......"
"Oh?" The corner of the middle-aged man's mouth flashed with an interested smile, and his tone was slightly gentle.
"Are you sure it's Ninepaw?" Then he asked leisurely.
"That dragon was more than twice as big as Xuanyuan Ming's Xi Yi, and its whole body glowed with five-colored light. Nine-clawed dragon indeed. The masked man said with great certainty, and recounted the scenes that happened at that time.
"Nine-clawed dragon, could it be Xuanyuan Piqi? If it's him, then ...... What a great thing! The man said with emotion.
He gently twisted the beard of his chin with his left hand, and muttered to himself: "The nine-clawed and colorful dragon has reappeared in the world, and my Great Song Dynasty will definitely be in the wind and rain, and the glory will no longer ...... the last paragraph of the "Wumu Minutes" really has a little meaning."
"Are you saying that the Nine-Clawed Divine Dragon was able to appear because it sucked the blood of this person named Ye Feng?" He seemed to think of something, and asked.
"Yes, at that time, Ye Feng was hit in the arm by the black girl, causing serious injuries, and the blood stained that piece of jade pendant, and the nine-clawed divine dragon broke out of the jade."
"What is the origin of that kid named Ye Feng?"
"I heard that it was an overseas returnee, and it was also him, Lu Yanhong failed repeatedly, and the dragon vein map fell into the hands of Yue Jianbai."
"Hmm......" The middle-aged man pondered, took out a booklet from his arms, and turned one of the pages, which was a name written in cinnabar.
He gently tore off the page, and said secretly, "The dragon vein diagram can't be lost, it seems that ...... It's time to move this piece. ”
"By the way, what about Hei and Bai?" He asked, turning to look at the masked man.
"The white girl and Lu Weihong are still waiting for the next instructions in Linhai City, and the black girl is ......"
The middle-aged man sighed, "She still can't let go......"
"Qingmian, you go to Linhai City, ask Lu Jianhong to go to Beimeng, and cooperate with Ji Chengcheng's action. You and Xiaobai have a good time playing with that Ye Feng, I am suddenly very interested in him......"
"Lord Judge, according to our investigation, that nine-clawed divine dragon has left Linhai City, why don't we kill that kid directly?" The masked man suggested.
"No, no, no~ It's easy to kill him, but we may be able to use this kid in our later plans~ I have my own arrangements for this matter, so don't be presumptuous, just play with him!"
"Yes! Subordinates obey! ”