Chapter 224: Paper Soldiers (I)
Without waiting for Yan Su to tell Uncle Hong about the words of the night guards, something happened to Yuejiang Tower again. A paper figure was hung in front of the door of Yuejiang Tower. Without waiting for Uncle Hong and them to send someone to take down the paper figure, the soldiers of the Minhou Mansion surrounded the entire Yuejiang Tower.
Just when the onlookers were waiting to eat melons, greater doubts appeared. Those government soldiers didn't seem to be targeting Yuejiang Tower, but the paper man who was hanging on the door of Yuejiang Tower.
What's so weird about that paper man?
Could it be even more weird than the girl who died in front of Yuejiang Tower before.
Just when the people of Nanshu were thinking in private, the paper man hanging on the door suddenly writhed and broke free from the rope sleeve, and then jumped and ran in the direction of the palace.
The Empress Dowager, who was sitting in the palace of Nanshu, naturally knew about this matter, and immediately issued a decree, ordering the king of Dongyang to take down the paper figure and find out who was behind the scenes.
Although the king of Dongyang successfully expelled the poison, the time was not yet ripe, and he did not dare to openly disobey the will of the queen mother, so he followed the night guards to track down the whereabouts of the paper man overnight. Out of concern for Yuejianglou and curiosity about the paper figures, Yan Suwen also quietly followed.
Because of the ban on the streets of the Nanshu Royal Court, the streets were empty. Yan Suwen was originally following the Dongyang King and the night guards, but as soon as he followed two streets, he was blocked by a cloud of condensed white mist. In the haze, she saw a dark shadow. I don't know if it's the legendary paper man, or the Dongyang King who went and returned and found her following. The thing, standing still in the white mist, motionless.
Yan Suwen pondered for a moment, grabbed the broken blade that Gu Changfeng gave her, and walked towards the white mist step by step. Just as she was about to approach the standing thing, her eyes suddenly went blank, and then she seemed to stumble on something. Looking down, it turned out to be a white and bony hand, from the analysis of the bone joints, it should be a pair of slender women's hands, and the owner of this hand is not more than eighteen years old. At this moment, the hand gripped her ankle, as if trying to pull her underground.
"I know that you died unjustly, and I also know that you must have a grievance to avenge when you caught me, but sister, it is very rude for you to grab someone's ankle so suddenly, okay? I'll count one, two, three, can you let me go first? Yan Suwen said as he turned sideways slightly, saw the opportunity, and directly poked the severed hand with the broken blade.
The severed hand seemed to have become a spirit, and at the moment when the broken blade was about to touch it, it actually "slipped away" and burrowed back into the earth. Immediately after, the ground around her was changing, and the ground was rising and falling, like a huge earthworm hiding inside, desperately turning over the soil.
Just when Yan Su asked if she was hesitating to poke the silver hairpin into the ground, her hand was suddenly grabbed.
"Who?"
"It's me."
"Gu Changfeng?"
"It's called Husband."
The white mist in front of him dissipated a little, and Yan Suwen saw Gu Changfeng's familiar face. didn't have time to stage a reunion, so he was hugged by him and took a few steps back. When they looked again, they found that there was an extra coffin and a black coffin where they had just stood.
"Did this thing fall from the sky, or did it come out of the ground?"
"No, it was pushed out of the poisonous fog by something."
"Poisonous fog?" Yan Su asked, and even planned to take a few more puffs. Before she could make a move, her mouth and nose were already covered by Gu Changfeng.
"Try to hold your breath and talk less. There is poison in this fog, and I don't know what the harm of this poison is. You and I need to be cautious. Gu Changfeng said as he pulled Yan Suwen to the coffin.
The coffin is a very ordinary kind of coffin, judging from the paulownia paint on the coffin, it should still be new. Worried that the coffin was poisonous, Yan Suwen tore off a corner of his clothes, wrapped his hand with the corner of his clothes, and then gently touched the surface of the coffin.
"." She told Gu Changfeng with her eyes: "The coffin lid is also loose, it should be a new coffin." ”
"Stand back and let me come." Gu Changfeng shook Yan Suwen's hand, and also motioned her to take two steps back with his eyes. Yan Suwen nodded, and just wanted to leave, but saw that the coffin lid was loose. Just as she was about to give Gu Changfeng a signal, a hand stretched out from the coffin, and with a sharp tug, he dragged her in.
"Husband!" Yan Suwen shouted anxiously, and was covered by a hand. The hand was sticky and smelled bad, and the image of the zombie ghost king in the zombie movie suddenly appeared in her mind. I wanted to take a deep breath to come back to my senses, but the hand was still covering my mouth and nose, and the smell rushed to my nose one by one, almost fainting her.
Just as she was holding on, trying to give the "ghost king" behind her a counterattack, the stinky hand covering her mouth and nose let go.
"Why did you come along? Also, who do you call husband? "Love more book city
"King Dongyang?" Yan Suwen turned around and saw a Dongyang King who was covered in a foul smell and had a few maggots on his head.
She is a female doctor, and she is also half a female forensic doctor, so she is naturally no stranger to maggots, and when she reached out to help King Dongyang remove the worms on her head, she found that the whole coffin seemed to be full of such worms. They were densely packed and distributed in various parts of the coffin, Rao is Yan Suwen is a very experienced female forensic doctor, and when she saw this scene, she couldn't help but vomit.
She stretched out her hand, grabbed the edge of the coffin, and said to King Dongyang: "I don't know what you want to do when you pull me into this coffin, but I would rather deal with a group of evil ghosts than face such groups of disgusting insects." ”
Dongyang Wang frowned slightly, and after leaning his ear close to the coffin wall and listening, he nodded at Yan Suwen, and knocked the coffin lid away with a "bang".
Yan Suwen quickly stood up, slapping the maggots that had crawled on him with his hands and feet. Worried that something would get into his clothes, he simply took off his coat. Then, he took out the insect repellent he had studied, sprayed his whole body, and then sat aside and gasped gently.
"Aren't you a female doctor? Would a female doctor be afraid of these things? King Dongyang also took off his coat, stretched out his hand and asked Yan Su for the medicine of maggots.
Yan Suwen thought for a moment and handed over the small bottle.
"You also know that I am a female doctor, which has the word "woman" first, and then the word doctor. As long as it's a woman, no one wants to face those things. It's disgusting, you know? Yan Su asked, stroking his chest. When the nausea in his chest faded a little, he observed the environment in front of him.
The coffin, which was still on the street just now, was moved to this small courtyard after a while. The yard looks like it has been abandoned for a long time. The house collapsed, the ground was overgrown with weeds, and from time to time you could hear some small insects making up their names.
Because of the insect repellent spray just now, the mosquitoes and flies flying everywhere did not get close to them.
"What is this place?"
"General Mu's Mansion."
"General Mu's Mansion?"
"A person who was killed by the Marquis of Min and the Empress Dowager was also the former residence of Mu Qing, the great general who crossed the border of my Nanshu more than ten years ago. Xu is guilty in his heart, or there is a ghost in his heart, although this General Mu Qing went, this old mansion stayed. ”
"Why are we here in General Mu's Mansion?"
"It brought us here." King Dongyang pointed to the coffin.
"Whose coffin does it belong to?"
"Minhou's."
"Minhou ......" Yan Suwen stood up, sat down, sat down and stood up again, and then pointed to the coffin and said, "How can Minhou's coffin appear on the street?" And you, Lord Wang, weren't you ordered to check the paper man who can run and jump? Why did he run into Minhou's coffin in a blink of an eye. And this coffin, does it have legs? Why is it on the street for a while, and in General Mu's mansion for a while? ”
"I don't know." King Dongyang looked at Yan Su and asked, and replied very sincerely: "I can't answer what Madame just asked." I don't know, I don't know anything. ”
"You-" Yan Su asked and pointed at the King of Dongyang, and put his hand down again: "What about the white fog on the street?" You should know something, right? ”
"I only know that when General Mu Qing was slaughtered, there was such a white fog on the street." King Dongyang clasped his hands together: "At that time, I was still young, and I relied on my identity as a little prince, so I didn't pay attention to the street ban issued by the court. While the servants at home were not paying attention, he quietly slipped out of the palace. The fog was exactly the same as it is now, and I was curious, so I walked around in the fog. Until I saw a group of soldiers made of paper figures. Those soldiers are all made of white paper, and the craftsmanship is extremely fine, even the armor on their bodies is made lifelike. Strangely, the soldiers didn't have faces. No, it's not that there is no face, it's that there are no facial features on the face. It was a paper horse that pressed the formation, and on the paper horse sat a man who looked like a general, and the general also seemed to be made of paper, but he had eyes. ”
"Only eyes?"
"Maybe a nose and a mouth, but I can't see it, because he has something like a mask, and all you can see is your eyes. Frightened, I hid in the corner and watched as the group of paper-bound soldiers walked past me and disappeared into the white mist.
After the white fog cleared, I heard the news that General Mu's mansion had been slaughtered. It is said that the death of people in the entire General Mu Mansion is very strange. Someone saw the paper man's arm cut off by a knife at the place where General Mu was killed, and suspected that all this was done by the paper man. ”
"It's inconsistent, you just said that it was General Mu Qing who was killed by the Queen Mother and the Marquis of Min."
"Not a contradiction." King Dongyang stared at Yan Su's eyes: "Minhou is good at Gu, do you know this?" ”