Wake up.

Hearing the riots in the courtyard and the screams of the female dependents, Wang Yi knew that someone had disappeared again last night. Pressing the panic in his heart, thinking that he had arranged a servant to guard the door of all his family members yesterday, the panic in his heart dissipated ninety percent - as for those subordinates, if they are gone, they will be gone, and they are not their own family members anyway.

Pushing open the door, Wang Yi, who had cleaned up and stopped, walked out, with the indifference unique to an elder who had experienced many worlds: "Wang San, who is not obedient and left alone at night?" ”

Wang San, who had been looking for someone in the yard for a long time, hurriedly stepped forward: "Back to the master, it's the third lady's maid Xiaocui!" ”

"Oh?" Wang Yi suddenly remembered the little maid who only bought the door last year and was assigned to the third lady's room, and wanted to wait for a few days for the little girl to grow up and then "eat", but he didn't expect that it would be gone like this last night.

"Didn't you tell you not to walk around alone after dark? Why did Cui go last night? He asked casually.

Wang San had already inquired clearly, and said: "The third lady was thirsty last night, and it happened that there was no hot water in the house, so she asked Xiaocui to run to the kitchen, but she never returned to the third lady's yard. ”

Wang Yi rubbed his fingers a little irritably.

He also understood in his heart: it doesn't matter if this house is a monster or a ghost...... I'm afraid that this house is not alive, and he only has two choices now, either move or find out about this matter.

More than half an hour later.

The family members who were sent out by Wang Yi to invite people entered the house with a few monks.

Wang Yi led a few powerful subordinates to receive these masters specially invited from the Golden Buddha Temple in the west of the city, and said the bad things in the past few days, and several people understood what happened.

I saw that the leading monk pondered for a moment, and then he opened his mouth and called a Buddha number: "Amitabha Buddha~~~ I already know the strange things in the family of the king benefactor, but this Ding maid has disappeared three people, why haven't you reported it to the official?" ”

Wang Yi's face froze, and he seemed to be a little ready to speak.

At this time, Wang San stood up and explained: "Several masters, if this matter is useful to report to the official, why have we dragged it out until now?" From the time the first one was gone, we reported to the police. But the government came to take a look, but they didn't find anything...... On the contrary, he opened his mouth and wanted to put this time on the head of our master, in fact, he just wanted to make some money, what use do you say is there to find them? ”

Several monks glanced at each other.

It was the middle-aged monk who took the lead and said, "Okay, since that's the case, then let's try." ”

With that, a few people let them lead them all the way to the inner courtyard of the palace, which is also the place where the three subordinates disappeared.

I took a look around.

The middle-aged monk in the lead was colored, and the others immediately understood the meaning, took out the magic weapon and said: "Donors, please stay, we will start to practice the practice of exorcism of evil spirits, and others are not allowed to watch." ”

Hearing these monks say this, Wang Yi and several servants also knew to stay where they were, and watched as several monks entered the garden of the inner courtyard.

As soon as you enter the yard.

Seeing that there was no one around, several monks immediately gathered together, and one of the young monks who looked like he was slick and said, "Senior brother, what should I do?" ”

A slightly chubby monk next to him also said, "Senior brother, there are no more than three people here!" We can't do that, can we? You let me recite the scriptures and knock on the wooden fish, I am a connoisseur...... But these three people in a row are gone...... Isn't there really a ghost in this king's house? ”

As soon as the words came out, several monks suddenly flinched, and only the middle-aged monk in the lead had a sinking face: "What the hell is not a ghost?" I have walked the rivers and lakes with my master for so many years, and I have never heard that there are really ghosts in this world! Even if there are ghosts, are the robes on our bodies and the magic weapons in our hands all decorations? Moreover, I see...... There's someone who's doing it! ”

"People?"

Looking at the confused expressions of several junior disciples, the middle-aged monk led by him smiled contemptuously: "Hmph, according to my experience of following my master to the rivers and lakes for so many years...... If it is said that the ancestors dragged their dreams, ghosts hit the wall, and the spirit fox thanked him, he didn't dare to say that there were none. But the ghosts you see and hear are all false, even if they are important to people, they use ghosts to hit the wall to trick people into falling off the cliff, or entanglement and frightening make people exhausted and die! Where is this kind of direct abduction of large living people? ”

"If you want me to say, there must be some people in this incident who killed people's lives, killed people and hid corpses, so they used the ghost fox to disturb the public view!" The middle-aged monk said categorically.

As soon as they heard that they were doing these things, the monks suddenly looked much more relaxed.

If they were people, they really had nothing to fear.

After all, there are many people, and all of them present are strong and strong, and they still practice boxing and martial arts in the temple on weekdays, where will they be afraid of one or two thieves?

A few people who came boldly walked around the courtyard, and from time to time they also commented on the layout of the courtyard.

At this time, the slightly fat monk was a little tired, and when he saw that there was a well in the corner of the garden, he sat down on the edge of the well.

"I'll take a break."

"you! Just walk a little more and rest?! Hurry up! Another young monk was so angry when he saw the fat guy that he threw away the copper-colored wooden demon-slaying pestle in his hand.

The fat monk was startled and ducked back.

But he didn't want his calf to be tripped by the edge of the well, so he lost his balance, and the whole person fell into the well!

"Senior brother!"

"Senior brother!"

Several monks were suddenly startled, rushed to the edge of the well, and looked down, but they couldn't see anything clearly except for the sound of water stirred up by the fat monk falling down.

The bottom of the black well only faintly reflected a glimmer of light.

"Shhh...... This well is quite deep! Help! The middle-aged monk shouted.

Just as several people were hurriedly packing up the well ropes, preparing to tie one person's waist and go down the well to save people, there was a shout of horror and a little excitement from the bottom of the well: "Corpse, corpse!" Corpse! ”

Several people have been brothers for more than ten years, and the voice from the fat monk is naturally very familiar.

After everyone looked at each other in shock, one person wrapped the rope around his waist, and several other people turned the wheel of the wellhead to send him down......

……

Three bodies lay side by side on straw mats in the clearing.

More than a dozen officials sent by the yamen stood full inside and outside the courtyard, plus some Wang family members and servants, and they surrounded the corpse in a daze.

He stood up from the corpse and stroked his beard, with a slightly puzzled look on his face.

The head catcher on the side frowned when he saw his expression and asked, "How did these people die?" ”

"Drowned, with no signs of struggle or binding, fingernails intact and no foreign objects...... It doesn't feel like he's killing. The old man, who was not young, touched his beard and said.

"Suicide by throwing yourself into a well? Three in a row? The head catcher frowned, it was obvious that not only him, but also everyone present would believe this statement.

"It can be seen from the autopsy method on the record of clearing grievances...... The old man is only a shallow learner, and he really can't see that these three people are likely to be artificially killed. It's just a little strange, that is, there are a lot of strange insects on these three people, wriggling and walking under the skin, but they are not common flies and maggots, and the old man has never seen this kind of strange insects. As he spoke, he used tweezers to pick up a long white worm that had broken and died from a copper plate in his hand.

At this moment, some of the onlookers saw that one of the corpses had a slight wriggling in its abdomen! Immediately shouted out.

He hurriedly checked and ripped off the clothes on the corpse's abdomen.

Seeing that the abdomen was still squirming despite being dead, an ominous thought rose in his heart, but driven by inexplicable curiosity, he still picked up a knife and slashed at the belly of the corpse-

Puff——!

With a disgusting voice, under the gaze of everyone.

Hundreds of large and small white monster insects erupted from the abdomen of the corpse! Dense sticky worms entangled, wriggled, and rolled into balls, as if flowing into the clearing.

"Wow——!" In the crowd, some people couldn't hold back and vomit anymore.