Chapter 23: The First Ghost Servant
Yu Ningchen got out of the carriage, shook the folding fan in his hand, and looked at the big courtyard in front of him, not knowing what he was thinking.
Dongqin followed her closely, for fear that if she didn't see any of them, Yu Ningchen would faint. It was daytime, and the sun was just right.
Seeing Dongqin like this, she had no choice but to take out a dark blue umbrella from the ring and fold the fan, but she didn't need it for the time being.
Under the umbrella, her face was even paler than in the morning, and she was even in a lifeless state. If it weren't for her faint shadow, I'm afraid she would have been regarded as a ghost!
The young man in Tsing Yi pushed it gently, and the rusty door opened, and there was not even a "squeak" sound of opening the door.
After pushing the door open, I saw a dilapidated courtyard, and I could vaguely see what kind of carved beams and paintings it was back then, and how many people came and went in it, but now, there is nothing.
The original clear water of the pond is now floating with a layer of green, overgrown with weeds, and half a person high.
However, the accumulation of fallen leaves over the years and the feeling of walking still made her slow down a little and enjoy it.
"Is the girl happy here? And the price is quite reasonable, only twenty silver coins. The young man looked at her and stopped for a moment from time to time, and took the opportunity to tell the price.
Twenty silver coins, for Yu Ningchen, are nothing, "It's a good place, but you need to clean it up." I'm going to have to clean it up myself. ”
"Then, we'll pay the money here, and I'll give the deed to the girl." The young man stopped in front of a small courtyard and refused to go any further.
Yu Ningchen didn't say anything, but Dongqin trembled and said, "Childe, is this the courtyard they said?" ”
The young man turned and handed her the key, "Yes, this is it. As soon as you open this courtyard, you can hear bursts of cries coming from the well. Day or night. ”
What does this mean, Dongqin didn't understand, she knew it clearly in her heart, and after taking a deep breath, she gave the money to the young man, "Since you're so scared, let's go back first!" ”
The young man opened his purse and saw that he was given seven more silver coins, "Thank you, girl." After he left the place with a smile, she told Dongqin, "Open the door!" ”
In fact, there is no need for a key, the door, Dongqin pushed it open, and unlike the outside, the smoke here is a lot more than outside.
As the young man had said, they heard a burst of cries, and a roar, and a hoarse "Revenge!" Kill! ”
It was a woman's voice. Yu Ningchen followed the voice and walked forward, until he reached the edge of a well.
There was a woman sitting by the well, dressed in red, with a sad face, and her hands were not hands, but a pair of sharp claws.
"They are all dead, and those who are alive will never dare to come back, and they will not dare to say that they are from this tribe. Is there anything else you don't like? Or, like me, aren't they the real enemies? ”
Yu Ningchen asked Dongqin to guard outside, and he came to the well with an umbrella by himself.
Hearing the long-lost ghost words, the female ghost stopped crying, circled around her, and after confirming that she was her own kind, she nodded, and began to tell her story.
Before her death, she was a maid in this courtyard, that is, the original Yong'an Hou Mansion. Because he accidentally soiled one of the skirts of the Houfu girl, he was beaten and thrown into the well.
With such an ugly death, she was naturally unwilling to be reincarnated like this, but cried day and night. Half a month later, the Hou Mansion invited a master who said that he was a Taoist priest of Youfang, but he was actually a monk of ghost cultivation.
The monk negotiated with her, let her stay in the well for three or five years, give her a ghost cultivation method, so that she can cultivate, and he will lay out a formation, which is very good for ghost cultivation, but it will make everyone here die a bad death.
She agreed, and while cultivating, she coldly watched the people in the Hou Mansion get sick, crazy, and some were killed by thieves.
In the end, the Hou Mansion was cut off from children and grandchildren, no one inherited the title, abandoned here, and left the country, nowhere to be found. That's when she dared to come out.
"It's not what you think, Xiaoyou, I've read too much! I just want to come out and see what the world has become like now. ”
The female ghost giggled.
"The world is very good now, it looks very good on the face, it is the same prosperous and noisy as a hundred years ago, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the official family is a bright king." She thought about it for a moment and said it anyway.
The female ghost looked behind her, and there was a shadow, and she understood her path, "Xiaoyou seems to be a person who has entered the path of death, and the senior also said that when he meets the person who has entered the path of death, he will give him the things in the well." ”
Before she could say anything, the female ghost went into the well and pulled out an ebony box with no keyholes on it, and there was no ornamentation on the whole box.
She took the box and fiddled with it in her hand, channeling the ghost qi, and sure enough, as soon as the ghost qi touched the box, the box swayed from side to side.
She remembered the special method of the Death Knot Path, pinched the magic trick in her hand, and entered seven ghost qi into it, up and down, left and right, front and back, and heard a "bang" sound, and the box opened.
In the box, there is no jade slip, no elixir, only a book, or a book written by the book.
However, on the front page, there are a few words written by this monk in ghost words, to the effect that some of the books are still crooked, and there are indeed these demons and monsters.
He also mentioned a place called Ghost Yuan Mountain, which is a happy land for ghost cultivators, but he doesn't know where the road is, but other people have been there, saying that the land there is all blue.
What's more, it is possible to directly reach the Nine Netherworlds.
After reading this paragraph, Yu Ningchen looked at the female ghost, "Do you want to go to the Nine Netherworld with me?" ”
The female ghost nodded, "There is no ghost cultivator who doesn't want to go there, I'm not as lucky as Xiaoyou, I can cultivate the ghost path with my human body and join some famous sect." ”
"It's not that I can't, if my predecessors are willing, I will sacrifice my soul fire, and as my ghost servant, where can I go?" She wiped her hand over the ring, and a piece of papyrus appeared in front of the two of them.
A little more of her hand appeared, and a ghost appeared on the papyrus, and they could all understand it. The female ghost spat out a mouthful of blue fire, and instead of being ignited by the fire, the straw paper absorbed the fire.
"That's it. When I break the formation, you can also get out of the shackles here. Putting away the papyrus, the female ghost floated to her side and showed her the way.