Chapter Thirty-Eight: Strange Corpses
Tang Zhou didn't know how he walked out, but after that day, Tang Zhou changed his previous ability to speak and become more and more silent.
During the days when Tang Zhou and Ma Yuanyi stayed on top of the Black Mountain, Tang Zhou often hid in the house and closed the door to thank guests. The two of them came to discuss the matter of the Black Mountain Army joining the Taiping Dao, and Tang Zhou didn't care, and all the things were handed over to Ma Yuanyi.
Ma Yuanyi quickly finalized this matter with Zhang Niujiao, Zhang Niujiao made it clear that he would join Taiping Dao, and when Taiping Dao rebelled, Zhang Niujiao would set off from Montenegro and sweep through Bingzhou and Jizhou. Ma Yuanyi took the great virtuous teacher to receive Zhang Niujiao, and Zhang Yan and the two were apprentices, and awarded the title of Dafang Taoist Master to the two.
After this matter was settled, Tang Zhoubian proposed to leave, originally Zhang Niujiao wanted to keep the two of them to live in Montenegro for a longer time, but Tang Zhou had already decided, and Ma Yuanyi happened to have some things, so he also agreed, Zhang Niujiao had to send the two to the bottom of the mountain.
At the foot of Montenegro, Zhang Niujiao and Zhang Yan sent Tang Zhou and Ma Yuanyi all the way here, and Ma Yuanyi stopped his horse and said to Zhang Niujiao, "The two brothers will be sent here."
Zhang Niujiao laughed and said, "That's okay, the two envoys will have a meeting in the future."
Ma Yuanyi waved his hand and said, "Hey, Brother Zhang has seen the outside, you and I are both Taiping Dao Dafang Dao masters, and we are both disciples of great sages and good teachers, so we should be commensurate with brothers."
Zhang Niujiao and Zhang Yan looked at each other and smiled, "What Brother Ma said is true!" ”
"Okay, let's go" Ma Yuanyi waved goodbye to the two and left with Tang Zhou.
During this period, Tang Zhou remained silent, and when the two of them walked away, Zhang Yan said to Zhang Niujiao, "Big brother, this Tang Zhou is very unkind to us, you didn't see his eyes, I can't wait to eat us"
Zhang Niujiao's eyes were gloomy and said, "Whatever?"
The two of them took a group of minions back to the mountain.
The book is divided into two ends, Tang Zhou and Ma Yuanyi left Montenegro and went all the way south, this day the two went to a fork in the road, this fork in the road one went to Qingzhou and one went to Yanzhou, Tang Zhou stopped the horse and said to Ma Yuanyi, "Senior brother, you and I have completed the mission of Montenegro, now I want to go back to Jinan County, Qingzhou, do you want to go with me?" ”
Ma Yuanyi shook his head and said, "No, I'll go to Luoyang in Yanzhou, and then go south to Jingzhou and Yangzhou."
"That senior brother, we will have a meeting later" Tang Zhou rode his horse in the direction of Qingzhou, Ma Yuanyi looked at Tang Zhou's back and said to himself, "Tang Zhou, Tang Zhou, the cruelty of this world is not just as simple as people eating people", after saying that, Ma Yuanyi walked the road of Yanzhou.
The land of Qingzhou, north of Jizhou, west of Yanzhou, south to Xuzhou east of the Canghai, this is a fertile land of thousands of miles, but due to the frequent occurrence of locust plagues in recent years, the original fertile land of thousands of miles, become a barren, no harvest, the people look at the field and sigh, the relief food issued by the imperial court, after layers of deductions, to the hands of the people of the grain is pitiful.
The Taiping Road is widely spread in Qingzhou, almost every ten households have five households believe in the Taiping Road, from the government to the common people, and the Taiping Road has a deep impact on the people here.
Now the inaction of the imperial court has made more people choose to believe in the Taiping Dao.
Tang Zhou entered the boundary of Qingzhou, changed into a Xuanhuang robe, painted with seven stars on the robe, Tang Zhou wiped a yellow scarf on his head, and rode a horse on the official road.
Tang Zhou looked at the fields that had been eaten up on the left and right, and couldn't help but let out a heavy sigh, the pedestrians on both sides of the official road, their faces were hungry, Tang Zhou's face showed compassion, although he wanted to help them very much, but what could he do with his own strength.
Tang Zhou believed in Ma Youyi, and at this moment, his mind kept recalling the scene of Ma Yuanyi and the three of them eating human flesh unscrupulously, as well as the hellish slaughterhouse. Can such a peaceful way really save the world?
At this moment, Tang Zhou fell into a deep entanglement, and he was already disheartened by Taiping Dao.
At this time, there was a burst of noise in a wasteland not far from the official road, Tang Zhou came back to his senses, looked around, and saw a mound not far from the official road surrounded by a lot of people, Tang Zhou rode a horse to the periphery of the crowd, got off the horse, Tang Zhou saw a thin young man wearing a yellow scarf in front of him, Tang Zhou thought that this person should be a Taiping Taoist, and the most obvious sign of all Taiping Taoists is wearing a yellow scarf.
Tang Zhou stepped forward and patted the Taoist disciple on the shoulder, at this moment the Taoist disciple was desperately squeezing into the crowd, but because his body was too thin, he couldn't squeeze in after squeezing several times.
At this time, Tang Zhou patted him on the shoulder from behind, this thin Taoist disciple was annoyed because he couldn't squeeze in, someone patted him, and he was about to scold when he turned around, but after he saw Tang Zhou's Xuanhuang robe, his mouth opened wide and stammered, "Big, generous Daoist?" ”
The so-called generous Taoist is the high-level leader in the Taiping Dao, which is divided into 36 large squares and 72 small squares.
The big and generous Taoist master wore a seven-star pattern painted on the Xuanhuang robe, while the small Fang Taoist master did not have a seven-star pattern on the Xuanhuang robe.
As a Taiping Daoist disciple, of course he knew this, Tang Zhou smiled at him, "Daoist, please help me get off the horse"
This Taiping Daoist had a look of ecstasy on his face, and hurriedly nodded and took the reins of the horse handed by Tang Zhou.
Tang Zhou looked at the dense crowd and asked, "What happened to this Daoist just now?" So many people around? ”
The little Taoist said with a slightly shy face: "I heard that this is a dead person, but I don't know what the specific situation is. ”
"Dead people?" Tang Zhou frowned, and just as he was thinking, the little Taoist disciple shouted next to him, "Dafang Daoist is here, get out of the way"
This voice frightened Tang Zhou, but after the onlookers heard the shouts of the little Taoist, they turned around one after another, and when they saw that it was indeed a generous Taoist, they all gave way to the road, Tang Zhou stretched out his hand and scraped the nose of the little Taoist and said, "What's your name?" ”
The little Taoist smiled and said a little embarrassedly, "My name is Chen Ergou."
Tang Zhou nodded, looked at this thin young man, and said inexplicably, "Ergou, you will follow me in the future."
Chen Ergou's face was excited, and he jumped up on the spot, "Okay"
Tang Zhou walked into the crowd with a smile, and Chen Ergou led the horse and followed Tang Zhou.
As mentioned earlier, most of the people in Qingzhou believe in the Taiping Dao, and now there is a generous Taoist master, and these onlookers are very excited.
Tang Zhou nodded at everyone, causing bursts of cheers.
Crossing the crowd, Tang Zhou saw that there were many officials blocking the onlookers from the periphery.
Tang Zhou took two steps forward, and a servant stretched out his hand to stop him, "Stop, who are you?" ”
Before Tang Zhou could speak, Chen Er's dog man behind him spoke first, "Presumptuous, how can you talk to Dafang Daoist?" ”
"Dafang Daoist?"
This official is a native of Qingzhou, and he has also heard of Taiping Dao, just now he didn't hear what people were shouting because of the noisy voice, and now when he saw Tang Zhou's clothes, he immediately put down his hand, and said with a smile on his face, "I've seen a generous Taoist master"
Tang Zhou nodded, pointed to a person standing not far away and asked, "That's the county lieutenant here?" ”
The official glanced at it and nodded, "Yes"
Tang Zhou nodded and said, "Trouble to report, it's Taiping Dao Tang Zhou asking to see"
The county lieutenant quickly ran to the county lieutenant's side and said something, the county lieutenant quickly turned his head to look at Tang Zhou with a shocked face, and it didn't take long for the county lieutenant and the magistrate to run over together, this county lieutenant was about thirty years old, wearing an official uniform, came to Tang Zhou's side and arched his hand and said, "In Xia Huang County, the county lieutenant Huang Tao, I have seen a generous Taoist master"
Tang Zhou hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Lord Huang is polite, I just want to know what happened here, so many officials were dispatched."
Huang Tao looked left and right, grabbed Tang Zhou's hand and took two steps forward, "Daoist and I come"
Tang Zhou followed Huang Tao forward and walked for a while, at the bottom of the mound, there were several servants who were busy around a corpse, Huang Tao pointed to the corpse for Tang Zhou to see for himself.
Tang Zhou looked at it carefully, and saw that the corpse was shriveled all over, and Zhou's body was covered with black hair. What surprised Tang Zhou the most was the corpse's mouth, with two sharp fangs exposed.
Tang Zhou looked at this corpse, and a terrible thought instantly appeared in his mind--- zombie?.
Huang Tao said next to him, "This corpse is really strange, I don't know where it came from, just now I said that this corpse should have been dead for a while"
Tang Zhou stood up and ignored Huang Tao. Walking two steps in front of the mountain, it seemed that he was looking for something, and Huang Tao also saw something strange and asked, "What's wrong with the Taoist master?" ”
Tang Zhou pointed to the ground in front of him and said, "Are the footprints of the deceased?" ”
"I don't know much about this" Huang Tao scratched his head, "There were already a lot of people when I came, and the scene was messy."
Tang Zhou shook his head and said to himself, "It shouldn't be."
Huang Tao asked with a puzzled expression, "Daoist? What shouldn't be? ”
Tang Zhou pointed to the corpse on the ground and said, "If I'm not mistaken, this corpse should be a black zombie."
"Black Zombie?" Huang Tao asked with a confused expression.
Tang Zhou nodded and said, "The most common zombies in the world are divided into white zombies, black zombies, jumping zombies, and flying zombies, and now this is a black zombie, but I don't know why this black zombie came here, this black zombie should be afraid of the sun?" ”
"What should I do then?" After listening to what Tang Zhou said so terrifyingly, Huang Tao asked, Tang Zhou pointed to the black stiff back and said, "Nail seven jujube cores into the back of the corpse, and burn it at noon tomorrow."
Huang Tao nodded, and then Tang Zhou got up and said, "Okay, Lord Huang, I still have something to do, remember to burn him at noon tomorrow"
Huang Tao nodded like a chicken pecking rice, Tang Zhou waved goodbye to Huang Tao and took Chen Ergou away, Tang Zhou said to Ergou, "What about your family?" ”
Chen Ergou replied with a snort, and tears were about to fall and "die"
"Oh" Tang Zhou didn't say anything, just touched Chen Ergou's little head lovingly, and the two left Huang County.
Huang Tao sent Tang Zhou away, and asked his servants to tie the black stiff body with a rope and pull it back to the morgue of the office.
A group of officials, returning to the office, Huang Tao hurriedly asked people to buy jujube pits.
After arranging these things, Huang Tao went to the restaurant to drink alone.
The county seat of Huangxian County is not large, and the current locust plague has made the small county town, which is not very prosperous, even more deserted.
Huang Tao pushed open the door of the tavern, and when Xiao Eryi saw that it was Huang Tao who came in, he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Lord Huang, you are here!" ”
Huang Tao nodded to Xiao Er and said, "It's the same old way, a jar of rice wine, and a plate of beef." ”
"Holo"
Xiao Er smiled and nodded, Huang Tao walked to the window and sat down, looking at the deserted street outside the window, Huang Tao shook his head. Now the Han Empire is rotten from top to bottom, and the heavens are angry and resentful, and the empire will end sooner or later if it continues like this.
Huang Tao shook his head, he was just a small county lieutenant, what was the use of thinking about this? At this time, Xiao Er came up with a jar of wine: "Lord Huang, your wine is here." ”
Huang Tao looked at this jar of wine, and asked with a puzzled look, "What about the meat?" ”
Xiao Er smiled awkwardly and said, "Lord Huang, it's not that we won't give it to you, it's really that the meat has been sold out, why don't I go find you some peanuts or something?" ”
"Roll" Huang Tao drove Xiao Er away with an impatient face, and drank by himself.
Drinking and drinking, Huang Tao drank too much, Huang Tao staggered and lay on the table, snoring loudly.
The night was getting deeper, and when Xiao Er saw that Huang Tao was asleep, Xiao Er pushed Huang Tao and said, "Adult? Wake up"
Huang Tao burped, opened his eyes in a daze, looked at Xiao Er and looked out the window and muttered to himself, "It's all black, Lao Tzu is going home to sleep."
After speaking, Huang Tao staggered out of the tavern with the remaining half jar of wine, and Xiao Er followed behind and said with concern, "My lord, do you want to send you back?" ”
Huang Tao waved his hand and said, "Your adults haven't drunk too much, so you don't need to send it." ”
Xiao Er shook his head and went back to the tavern by himself. Huang Tao took advantage of the moonlight, walking on the streets of this quiet county, walking and walking, he thought that at this time, most of his family members were asleep, and Huang Tao thought that it was better to go to the office to make up for one night. Huang Tao said to go, anyway, the tavern and the office are not far away, Huang Tao walked a few streets, came to the door of the office, at the moment the door of the office is closed, Huang Tao patted the door and no one responded, he remembered that no one was on duty at night.
Huang Tao looked at the wall of the office, jumped up, grabbed the wall with one hand, and turned over the wall with all his might.
Huang Tao staggered to the wall, blown by the wind, and sobered up a little drunk.
Suddenly, under the moonlight, a black shadow flashed away, Huang Tao rubbed his eyes and said to himself, "Thief? ”
He smiled, drank the rest of the wine, shook the empty wine jar, and Huang Tao smiled, "Let you taste Lord Ben's wine jar"
Huang Tao jumped off the wall and searched cautiously against the wall, but after a toss, he didn't find any suspicious figures.
At this time, Huang Tao came to the back of the office, which was the location of the morgue, which was overgrown with weeds because it had been left untended for a long time.
Huang Tao shook his head and turned to leave, suddenly, his body froze, and then he quickly turned around and looked at the location of the morgue, and by the moonlight he found that the door of the morgue was open for some reason.
Huang Tao also woke up at this time, he remembered the corpse during the day, and remembered what Tang Zhou said, impossible!
Huang Tao clenched the wine jar in his hand, and the moon disappeared into the clouds at this moment,
Slap
The sound of the wine jar shattering is extremely harsh in this silent office?
Under the barren grass, Huang Tao lay on the ground, his eyes wide, staring at the sky blankly, his eyes becoming more and more gloomy.
The moon crept out of the clouds,
On Huang Tao's body, a black figure lay on Huang Tao's body, biting his neck hard.
At the end of the moon,
grass and trees withered,
The demon is present,