The sky cleared, and even the mood of the people of Li changed for the better, but Guo Zhao hadn't slept a good night's sleep, and things came to the door again.

That's right, as soon as she returned to the other courtyard that day, she heard a report from her subordinates: "Master Sima has an urgent matter." ”

Sima Yi was serving as a literary scholar at this time, but he did not follow Cao Cao on the expedition and stayed in Yecheng to assist Guo Zhao. After seeing Sima Yi, before she could say hello, Sima Yi hurriedly pulled her to the county office.

"What's wrong?" Guo Zhao was confused.

Sima Yi's face turned blue, and he couldn't say it when he wanted to say it, and only after a long time did he say: "Mrs. Guo, go and take a look by yourself, it's really disgusting, I can't say it." ”

"You're a big man, why are your hands shrunk like this?" Guo Zhao opened his mouth to make fun of it and said, "Didn't you get beaten by your sister-in-law, and now let me help you get justice?" ”

Sima Yi's wife Zhang Chunhua is a rare smart person, knowledgeable, very beautiful, but also has a strong personality and amazing physical strength, Sima Yi respects and loves his wife.

His face was indescribable, and he said, "Don't talk nonsense, don't speculate, I'll tell you." ”

Months of heavy rains caused the Zhanghe River to burst its banks, because the government mobilized the people to evacuate the disaster area in advance, so there were few casualties, but many houses, livestock, and objects in the upper reaches of the Zhanghe River were washed downstream, and the displaced people often salvaged the livestock and good timber that were washed down along the river.

A day ago, there was a man fishing for something by the river, and he happened to see a strange thing, and he fished it up in curiosity, and after putting the thing on the shore, everyone saw its appearance clearly, this thing was condensed into a ball, and the smell was incomparable, and its skin had rotted, and the skin was pitted, and some places were bubbling, and on the whole it was a lump of soft lying on its stomach. The old man who lived for a long time said that it was a 'river ghost', and it was it that brought this natural disaster, so he wanted to burn it, and later, someone secretly reported to the county government, Sima Yi was curious and followed, and he vomited when he saw the thing.

Ordinary people don't read much, they don't know what that thing is, he often soaks in the sea of books, and often travels, how can he not know that it is a corpse?

He immediately asked people to cordon off the scene, and invited the coroner to come over, and the experienced corpse officer determined that this was indeed a corpse, but the cause of death of this corpse was really weird, and it was not human, and everyone suspected that there were demons at work, so Sima Yi dragged Guo Zhao over.

"Does the corpse still have hair?" Guo Zhao asked.

Sima Yi twisted his head, with an expression of reluctance to recall.

"Well, that's it, I'll go see for myself!"

When she arrived at the county office, a large number of people hurriedly surrounded her and hugged her forward, she only glanced at it, and ran out to vomit.

Everyone looked at each other, and the coroner said silently: "She, can she really do it?" ”

Sima Yi shook his head and said he didn't know.

After a while, Guo Zhao came in wearing a peculiar dress, which was transparent, slippery and shiny, wrapped from head to toe, tight, without a single gap.

Guo Zhao, who was wearing protective clothing, couldn't smell the breath of the corpse, and his head was not so dizzy, so he swaggered over, and she instructed: "I'm going to summon spirits later, if you're scared, leave now, don't wait to pee your pants." ”

Everyone looked different, they all shrank aside and watched, no one left, Guo Zhao raised his mouth, pulled out a few hairs from the black thing, turned a candle, and burned the hair.

"It stinks!"

"It stinks!"

The people behind were talking.

Guo Zhao recited a mantra, but the mass did not react, she frowned, and muttered: "I died a miserable death, almost even my soul was wiped out." ”

She held a ball of fire in her palm and threw it at the thing, the thing shook violently on the spot, Guo Zhao used a spell to restrain it, and shouted back: "Stay away!" She's too angry! ”

The mass jumped up and down, and it burned out after a long time, and the flames turned cyan, Guo Zhao shouted, "Who are you!" ”

The face of a young woman gradually appeared in the flames, she looked pained, and rushed over with her claws, Guo Zhao saw that there was black gas on the fire, and was busy reciting the mantra, and after holding each other for a few minutes, she finally calmed down, with a blank face.

"This person is so familiar!" Sima Yi said.

Guo Zhao asked the female ghost wholeheartedly, but she didn't hear Sima Yi's muttering, she said, "Who are you?" Where do you live? Who drained your blood and threw you into the river? ”

Hearing that 'sucking up the blood', everyone silently took a step back, but instead of retreating, Sima Yi stepped forward and asked, "Aren't you the little maid of my eldest brother's family?" How did you die? ”

"I, I'm ......" the female ghost tried her best to recall, Guo Zhao said: "What did you see before you died?" ”

"It was dark, it was dark...... Ghost! No! She suddenly covered her head and screamed, and disappeared into place.

Guo Zhao sighed, turned around and said: "Her Yuan Shen has been destroyed, it seems that it is really like you......" Seeing the shocked faces of the people, she waved her hand and said: "It's okay, she is not a demon, don't be afraid." ”

"Then, will there be any more deaths?"

"yes, I've heard that youkai have a good appetite, will it eat us too!"

"There are no youkai." Guo Zhao's heart was in turmoil, and he said loudly: "She became like this because her body was not well preserved after she died, don't think about it." ”

After talking nonsense again, after persuading everyone to retreat, she pinched her head and said to a few trusted friends: "You must pay close attention to prevention and control during this time, and tell me immediately if you see anything abnormal, you can't delay." ”

Seeing that they were confused and frightened, she said: "This demon path is too deep, and it can tear people's primordial spirits apart, so we have to guard against it." ”

This time and space is too wonderful, there are many monsters that have lived for hundreds of thousands of years, she has only lived for more than twenty years, no matter how powerful she is, there are still many species that cannot be dealt with.

"Mrs. Guo, you say, could it be that this monster caused the flood?" Someone asked.

Guo Zhao said: "It's possible. ”

"Mrs. Guo, why don't we investigate the cause of this maid's death first!"

"Huh? How do you know she's a handmaiden? ”

Sima Yi was helpless and said, "You didn't listen to what I said just now!" ”

"I'm sorry, I was too absorbed in the torture I just now, I didn't hear it." Guo Zhao smiled dryly, and said, "Zhongda, tell me about it!" ”

On the way back together, Sima Yi said: "She is my eldest brother's maidservant Xianglin, who has served my sister-in-law since she was a child, but somehow she died so miserably. ”

Sima Yi's eldest brother is Sima Lang, the current magistrate of Tangyang County, Guo Zhao has only seen him once, she said: "I heard that Brother Ling is a virtuous person and has unique views on everything in the world, does his brother have time recently?" The queen wanted to visit. ”

He knew that she was investigating the case, so he readily agreed: "Big brother has admired you for a long time, and if he sees you, he will be happy." ”