Chapter 4 The Yin Soldier Borrows the Way
"Yin soldiers borrow the way? Captain Liu, what is the Yin Soldier's excuse? Tu Hu frowned and asked.
When I followed Princess Ning'er to the "Beautiful Immortal Valley" to learn art, I once heard the elders of the sect mention the secret of the Yin soldiers' borrowing of the Tao.
Because there are too many unjust souls who have died in the yang world, in order to prevent those unjust souls from becoming powerful ghosts, the Netherworld Yan Jun, who is in charge of the underworld, will send a "ghost army" to the yang world to detain the souls.
In order to avoid hurting the innocent with their own yin qi, when the yin soldiers marched and encountered the people of the yang world, the ghost king who led the team ordered the vanguard ghost soldiers to show their figures, signaling to take advantage of the road to go first, and the yang people to avoid.
When the Yin soldiers borrow the way, the people in the yang world must stop and avoid, bow their heads and close their eyes, and never peep at the Yin soldiers, once they peep, the Yin soldiers will take their lives, so that their bones are completely gone, and their souls are detained, and they will be included in the ranks of the Yin soldiers, and they will live forever as ghosts in the underworld.
Most people will retreat when they see the Yin soldiers taking the road, but some people are arrogant, ignore the Yin soldiers, and like to block the road and refuse to give way. Since the Yin soldiers only march at night, in order not to delay time, whenever they encounter someone who refuses to avoid, the ghost king lets the Yin soldiers accept the other party. ”
"Is there such a thing?" Tu Hu frowned.
"General, this matter is quite weird, the last general has also heard the rumors that the Yin soldiers borrowed the way and the living avoided it, I think we should rather believe it than believe it, or not? Let's get off the horse and get out of the way? Liu Xun'an hugged his fists and asked for instructions.
"Yin soldiers borrow the way, and the living avoid it!"
Whispering, looking back at the majestic army behind him, Tu Hu turned his head, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, revealing a trace of disdain, snorted coldly, he took out his blade, and shouted: "Pass the order, beat the drum and prepare for battle, if the opposite army continues to move forward, kill it!" ”
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"Knock knock ......" war drums roared.
"Charge ......" kills and roars.
The shout of "kill ......" shook the sky.
Ling Xia was sleeping in the temple, when he suddenly heard a noise from the bottom of the mountain, when he got up and walked out of the broken temple to look down, there was nothing left, the bottom of the mountain col became silent, and the torches he had seen before were gone.
"Strange? Where's the sound? Could it be that I'm stunned? He muttered a word, went to the corner of the wall to untie his hand, and then went back to the temple to continue sleeping.
Early the next morning, after Ling Xia finished practicing his fists and feet, he carried a bucket to the bottom of the mountain to fetch water, and when he walked to the stream at the foot of the mountain, he saw a girl squatting there, the girl was unkempt, wearing tattered clothes, wearing a light white robe, and there were many blood stains on her clothes.
"What do you see?" Although he was faint in blood, Ling Xia still approached curiously.
"Look at the small fish, there are a lot of small fish here." The girl didn't recognize her life either, and when she heard Ling Xia's words, she looked up at Ling Xia and pointed at the fish in the water and smirked.
After the girl raised her head, Ling Xia saw her appearance clearly, the girl was about seventeen or eighteen years old, although her hair was messy and her clothes were sloppy, but she was born with a national color and natural fragrance, willow eyebrows and apricot eyes, skin like jade, straight nose, bright eyes and bright teeth, pure and delicate, especially when she smiled with two dimples, both cute and playful, the only fly in the ointment was that the girl had a palm-sized birthmark on the left side of her face, which slightly affected the appearance.
"Which girl are you? How did you get here? Ling Xia could see that there seemed to be something wrong with the girl's brain? So he inquired about the girl's origin and wanted to send her home.
But no matter how Ling Xia asked, the girl still couldn't answer a single reason, except for looking at the small fish in the water, she just smirked at Ling Xia. Seeing that he couldn't ask why, Ling Xia couldn't help, so he filled the two wooden barrels with water and walked to the broken temple on the mountain.
I didn't expect the girl to rely on Ling Xia, he went to the top, and the girl also went to the top. He turned far away, and the girl followed suit, and even Ling Xia ran to the woods to go to the toilet, and the girl followed closely.
Back on the mountain and the broken temple, Ling Xia took a few breaths, wiped his sweat with a cloth, turned his head to look at the girl, he was surprised to find that the girl's breath was even, her breathing was not chaotic at all, looking at the girl who was smirking at him, Ling Xia thought about it, he took out a piece of dry food, pointed to the stone jar filled with water, and coaxed the girl to lift it.
The girl may be hungry, seeing that there is dry food to eat, she nodded with a smile, and then walked to the water tank, lifted it lightly with one hand, and threw it into the air, and then raised the stone tank with her hand, and raised her left hand for a while, and the girl threw it to her right hand, and when she threw it, the water in the tank seemed to be sealed by some kind of force, and it did not leak out at all, just like that, the stone tank weighing hundreds of pounds was thrown by the girl like a leather ball.
"Alright, alright, let it go, don't hurt yourself." Let the girl put down the water tank, give the girl a piece of dry food, and look at the girl who was gobbling up, Ling Xia was curious in her heart, thinking about where the girl came from?
As a modern person, Ling Xia does not have the kind of thinking of the ancients at all, and he does not shy away from the difference between men and women, seeing that the girl is crazy, he is worried that the girl will encounter danger if she goes out alone, so he plans to leave her in the temple.
If the girl's family comes to find her, he will return the girl to the other party, if no one cares, he will take care of the girl temporarily, and learn some kung fu from the girl by the way, he can see that although the girl has mental problems, her martial arts are much better than him.
Asked the girl's name several times, but the girl only knew how to smirk and didn't know how to answer at all, Ling Xia looked for the girl's belongings, but found no items that could prove her identity.
Seeing that the girl couldn't say her name, Ling Xia helped her come up with a name, and when he saw that the girl's skin was like snow and luster like jade, he called the girl ----- Ling Baiyu. Claiming to be his sister-in-law to the outside world.。
Ling Xia caught two hares, went to the house of the hunter at the foot of the mountain to change a few women's clothes, and when he was about to return, he heard a few hunters whispering, and stepped forward to ask, and the other party told him that last night, there was an incident of Yin soldiers borrowing the way under the mountain, because of disrespect for ghosts and gods, a thousand forbidden cavalry of the imperial court were all detained by the Yin soldiers.
This incident shook the entire Linlang Territory, and the governor of the territory was rushing towards Feifengling, and the provincial governor Yamen issued a notice to investigate the matter within ten days. The Yamen of the River Prefecture requisitioned and dispatched ten counties to arrest fast, and went to Feifengling to investigate the case, and Chong'an County ordered Yi Shirong to send all the county ya's arrests, government servants, and errand officers, and the entire Feifengling has been blocked.
The governor has already ordered the Yamen of the River Prefecture to investigate the case within 10 days, and if the case is not solved within the time limit, the prefect will be dismissed from his post for investigation.
The prefect of Hedao Prefecture did not dare to slack off, and immediately issued a writ, ordering Chong'an County to order Yi Shirong to find out the inside situation within seven days, and if the case could not be concluded within seven days, the county ordered him to be dismissed from his post and questioned.
After receiving the order, Yi Shirong, the commander of Chong'an County, sighed, "If the case is not solved, it seems that this case will be taken by the county order in the end." Subsequently, Yi Shirong led all the manpower of the county government to the scene to investigate the case.
Back in the temple, Ling Xia boiled some hot water and sent Ling Baiyu to take a bath inside, while he walked to the temple with those bloodstained clothes, and touched his tentacles, Ling Xia found that Ling Baiyu's clothes were actually made of brocade silk materials.
The material surface is embroidered with moire, the embroidery is very exquisite, and the cuffs are also embroidered with a peony flower, the pattern is embroidered vividly, ingenious. Ling Xia has been afraid of blood since he was a child, and he originally planned to bury the bloody clothes in his hands, but after thinking about it, he folded the bloody clothes and hid them again.
After Ling Baiyu took a bath, Ling Xia asked her to change her clothes, looking at the silly girl, he sighed, and patiently helped her tie a ponytail, so clean, Ling Baiyu looked much sharper, looking at the palm-sized red birthmark on Bai Yu's cheek, Ling Xia's eyes showed a trace of pity, but he didn't care at all, and he didn't dislike it at all.
As soon as Ling Xia and the others cleaned up, they heard a noise outside, a group of servants quickly entered the yard to search for something, after seeing the two, the other party came over to interrogate, surrounded by those people, Bai Yu was so frightened that he shrank his head, grabbed Ling Xia's arm tightly, and looked at those catchers timidly.
Gently patting Bai Yu's arm, Ling Xia stood in front to deal with the interrogation of the fast catchers, and put his relationship with Bai Yu? Where do you come from? Why live on the top of the mountain? Did you notice anything suspicious last night? Answered them all.
Ling Xia is a police officer, for the interrogation and questioning routines, he studied thoroughly when he went to the police academy, so although the arresters asked carefully, but Ling Xia answered well, interrogated for a while, and searched again, the arrest did not find any suspicion, after that, they signaled Ling Xia and the two to go down the mountain, saying that the county commander wanted to personally interrogate the nearby mountain people and hunters.
When Ling Xia and the others came to the clearing at the foot of the mountain, hundreds of villagers had gathered here, including men and women, old and young, these people were all mountain people and hunters around Feifengling, and they were all gathered together at this moment.
Opposite the villagers stood dozens of errands and nearly a thousand catchers, those catchers were all recruited by the prefect's yamen from the nearby ten county yamen, in front of those catchers, stood a big man with a face full of meat, fierce and vicious, this is Li Mingli, the head catcher of the Chong'an County Ya, Li Mingli is staring at those mountain people and hunters viciously.
At this moment, a middle-aged man in a red official robe walked over, this person was about forty years old, thin, with triangular eyes, a flat nose, an inverted mustache, thin lips and crooked mouth, and a dull and incompetent face. This person is none other than Yi Shirong, the county magistrate of Chong'an County, who is a seventh-rank official.
Yi Shirong was followed by a middle-aged scholar, who was holding a folding fan in his hand, shaking his head when he walked, with the style of a well-educated person, this was Yi Shirong's master Li Shanhou. In addition to these two people, the county officials and officials of the county government also came to Feifengling, and it seems that all the people of the entire Chong'an County government have been dispatched.
Coming to the front of the crowd, Yi Shirong didn't ramble, cut directly to the topic, briefly talked about the case, and after speaking, he asked everyone if they found any suspicious points?
If someone can provide valuable clues, he will reward the other party, from the nine rank of the warehouse, fifty acres of fertile land, a thousand silver coins, the clue provider can choose one.
Hearing such a heavy reward, there was a commotion in the crowd, and after a while, people continued to stand up and report clues, seeing this situation, Ling Xia's heart suddenly sank, and secretly said, "Oops." ”
Sure enough, after a while, a hunter walked up to Yi Shirong, pointed at Ling Xia with his finger, and said to Yi Shirong: "Lord County Commander, I report this person, he has a problem." ”