Baiyun Taoist Temple.

The Taoist priests here are used to being idle, but they are a little miserable these days.

"Senior brother, when will they be able to go down the mountain...", a young man of about fourteen or fifteen years old, tugging at the hem of a Taoist priest's uniform next to him, flattened his mouth and almost cried, "They are about to rummage through all the Taoist temples... I, I want to bury Senior Brother Siwen and Senior Brother Sili first, woo woo woo..."Speaking of the two senior brothers who had died, the little boy finally grinned and cried.

"Observance. Don't cry. The Taoist priest who was grabbed by the hem of his clothes originally stood aside with a cold face and watched the noisy farce in the Taoist temple, but he couldn't help but reddened his eyes when he heard Shouli's cry, "Senior brothers, you must not want to see us cry." Forcefully wiped away the tears of Shouli, he suffocated his sadness fiercely, the senior brothers died, he is the biggest in this Baiyun Taoist Temple, to guard the Taoist Temple, to guard the junior brothers.

Thinking so, he saw two Taoist figures, walking from the bottom of the mountain to the mountain, led by a man in white with a torch, and the firelight reflected him like Shura.

"Bai Gongzi." When someone walked in, he finally saw the man's face clearly, "I am under the guard, thank you for rescuing my junior brother the day before yesterday." Did you go up the mountain tonight to search for evidence? Shouwen looked at Bai Jian respectfully, and pushed his junior brother to Bai Jian, "Don't hurry up and thank Gongzi, he saved you that day." ”

"Huh? Your name is Shouli? Qiaozhi, who had been quiet behind Bai Jian and played the role of a transparent person, suddenly asked out loud, and a pair of eyes couldn't stop looking at Shouwen and Shou.

"If you go back to the girl, I do call Shouli. Do you know me? Shouli looked at Qiaozhi, a little curious.

"Do you know me?" Qiaozhi didn't answer the rhetorical question.

The girl looked kind and familiar. It's just that my brothers and I have been staying in the Taoist temple, and I shouldn't have met the girl, maybe you saw Shouli when you went up the mountain to offer incense. Shouli tilted his head and thought about it, and said in affirmative.

Qiao Zhi nodded, rubbed her eyebrows and gave up the right to speak to Bai Jian: "It's important to get down to business." ”

"That's right," Bai Jian stepped forward and unfolded Jin'er's clothes, "This is the clothes I found at the foot of the mountain." I don't know..."

"This! It's—" Shouwen and Shouli looked at each other, their eyes full of shock. Shouli swallowed his saliva, his voice hoarse: "This... It seems to be Jin'er's sister's coat..."

"Sister Jin'er?" Bai Jin keenly captured this word, the little Taoist priest and the county magistrate's daughter, there is a world of difference. Actually commensurate with brother and sister?

Shouli ignored it, and only held the bloody clothes in his hands.

Shouwen said: "Bai Gongzi, can you tell me the origin of this bloody clothes in detail?" Now that you have seen the bloody clothes, have you ever seen Wang Jin'er? ”

Bai Jian frowned, shook his head slowly, and explained the rhetoric and discourse that had been discussed in the afternoon.

"This bloody garment hangs over the bamboo grove on the west side of the woods." Bai Jian's tone was low, "It's strange to say, I didn't want to come here today. But there was a voice that kept calling me, urging me to come over, and when I arrived at the entrance of the bamboo forest, I looked up and saw this bloody clothes. ”

Shouwen listened to his narration, and his face turned pale. "West? The Land of Extreme Shade..."

I looked at this dress in a daze, and I don't know how long I looked at it, a gust of wind blew, and this dress slowly drifted down, and then. I saw a full moon in the place covered by clothes. Bai Jian looked up, and Shouwen followed his line of sight and saw the moon hanging in the sky. Seem... Some faint dark red.

"Red Moon..."Shouwen muttered.

The garment floated to my feet, but I didn't bother to pick it up, and kept looking at the moon in distraction. Until a frog croaked, I was excited, lowered my head and picked up the bloody clothes. "Under the moonlight, Bai Jane's face is hidden in the shadows, and it is not real." I saw that on the ground covered by the bloody clothes, several large blood-red characters suddenly appeared. ”

"Whoever harms me, die." Qiaozhi carefully looked at Shouwen Shouli's eyes that widened with fear, and deliberately said these four words in a sharper tone.

Out. Looking at Shouli's suddenly changing faces, Qiaozhi proudly gave the two of them a score for their acting skills.

After a moment of silence, Shouwen swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, and said, "This matter... Fear... I don't know if Bai Gongzi can follow me to the third lady to explain the situation. After speaking, he glanced at the pretty branch who was standing silently, and said, "Shouli, take this girl to find a place to live." It's windy at night, and it's hard to be a girl. ”

"It's okay, I'll just follow you." Just kidding, she's definitely going to appear in the official performance.

"She was also an eyewitness." Bai Jian covered her mouth and coughed, helping Qiaozhi to relieve the siege. "I'm stupid, she came up with me to explain the situation to me and the third lady."

I see. Shou Wen nodded clearly, and together with Shou Li, he took Bai Jian Qiaozhi and the two of them to the place where the third lady and Wang Ci were.

The lights were bright in the distance, and a middle-aged man in a gray robe had a round belly, and his stubby fingers kept pointing at several men dressed as small servants kneeling on the ground, and spit was flying. Beside him stood a beautiful woman dressed in splendid clothes, with several gold and silver bracelets, and at night, this woman wore a certain hat, and she bowed her head and hid her face, and wept prostrately.

"Lord Wang, this son and this girl. said that he had found the whereabouts of your daughter. Shouwen lowered his head, held the bloody clothes in both hands and handed it to Wang Ci.

"It's my wretched son... Jin'er, my mother can't stand you, I didn't protect you, son..."The woman with the hat only knocked on it, and then began to cry out to the sky and the ground, "Jin'er... How can I live without you, Jin'er! ”

"Dare to ask the little boy, what the hell is going on?" Wang Ci remained calm and pinched the corner of the bloody clothes, "Where is my Jin'er, do you know?" ”

Bai Jian said the whole rhetoric again. Qiaozhi had been observing the expression of the third lady, and when she heard the sentence that the one who harmed me died, the whole person froze in place, and the unfinished cry was swallowed in her throat, so she felt a bad breath, and sneered in a low voice.

"Third lady, just now I said that I wanted to avenge your daughter, why couldn't you even cry when you heard this? Could it be..."Pretty Eddy touched her chin and spoke nonchalantly.

"I... I'm just scared.." The third lady rested her head softly in the crook of Wang Ci's oily arm, "Master, you have to make the decision for me and Miss."

"You, go down the hill and have a look. Look at what that word is all about. Wang Ci casually pointed to a small servant in an indifferent tone, as if it was not his daughter who left the bloody clothes and blood letters, but a stranger, he was just conducting a routine investigation, "It's late, and it's inconvenient to go down the mountain." The two of them will stay here for one night, and tomorrow Wang will have something to ask the two of them for advice. ”

This is for fear that they will run away. But it just so happened that Bai Jane, who was in the province, struggled to find a reason to stay.

There are many guest rooms in Baiyun Taoist Temple, which were originally prepared for pilgrims, but in the past two days, because of the water, they have been inhabited by some slaves of the county order.

Shouli led them to search for a long time before they found two relatively quiet empty rooms.

"I'm sorry..."

"It's fine." Qiaozhi shook her head, and also learned to observe the etiquette of their heads, "Thank you Xiaodao Leader for finding a place to live for us, it's getting late, Dao Leader should hurry up and rest." ”

Shou Li, who received the eviction order, was not annoyed, nodded and withdrew.

When Shouli walked away, Bai Jian quietly walked out of the room and gently knocked on Qiaozhi's door.

The door opened.

The two looked at each other, and neither of them spoke first, but they both had a little smile in their eyes. In the end, Qiao Zhi couldn't bear it, and said with a smile: "The first scene is over, when are we going to rehearse the second act?" ”

"Well said, well said. Xiuzhu's side should already be arranged. We'll just be able to watch the show with peace of mind for a while. Bai Jian looked at the moon and replied casually.

"By the way, what's wrong with the ceremony? Do you know? ”

"I'm not sure. It looks like a little Taoist priest who gave me a well-dressed mound. "It's been too long, and he's wearing a hat again, I'm not sure if it's or not." ”

"Women... Sure enough, they are all unkind. ”

Is this the point? Pretty branches are depressed. Where did you say that you are unkind? Just because she doesn't remember the face of a little Taoist?

Qiaozhi opened her mouth and was about to retort, when she suddenly heard a small cry in the distance.

In the silence of the night, this cry was extremely poignant and terrifying.

The show begins.

Bai Jian made a shhhing gesture lightly, and walked out slowly with a pretty branch along the shadows.

The third lady had just put her little son to sleep, and there was Wang Ci's thunderous snoring in her ears, and before she could lie down, she suddenly heard someone crying.

The child is awake again? This dead boy still doesn't let people sleep? The third lady was a little irritable and drew the fire sickle, but she couldn't catch fire, and the spark seed came out and disappeared quickly, and she couldn't light a candle at all.

Wang Ci, who was asleep, turned over and muttered something in his mouth.

Thorn - candle lit.

By the dim candlelight, the third lady looked at her youngest son, whom she loved the most. Before he could see anything, he fell into darkness again.

A gust of wind blew and the candle went out.

"What a bad luck!" The third lady cursed, and then took out the fire sickle and set it on fire. At this moment, small cries rang out outside their house.

Even in Wang Ci's thunderous snoring, the third lady couldn't ignore the cry.

She continued to fire in a trembling manner, but several times without success, and just as she was about to collapse, the candle was lit, and the next moment it went out again. In these few seconds, by the dim candlelight, the third lady saw that there seemed to be a hole in the window, and a blood-red eye was staring at her.

"Whoever harms me, die." Wang Jin'er's faint voice sounded, as if it was in her ears, "Sanniang, I died so miserably~"

！！ The scalp was numb, the third lady's legs and feet were weak, and she screamed nervously, staggered over, and opened the door.

There was a dead silence, except for a dim moon hanging in the sky.

It's a Blood Moon!

"Ghosts! Hell! Wang Jin'er, she has become a ghost! The third lady fell to the ground, and finally could not restrain her fear, and cried out, over and over again.

"You mother-in-law, what's the matter!" Wang Ci was awakened and saw that it was the third lady kneeling at the door and screaming, and he suddenly became angry, "Are you stunned?" What is the mourning in that number? Get back to sleep! ”

"It's a ghost! Ghost! Wang Jin'er came back to me to ask for her life! Sir, help me! Hearing Wang Ci's voice, the third lady seemed to grasp a life-saving straw and crawled over on her knees, "This girl is usually most afraid of you, master, you must save me." ”

What nonsense is being. Wang Ci frowned, thinking about how to make the third lady wake up, but suddenly heard an ethereal voice from far and near.

"Whoever harms me, die."