A year later.

Early in the morning, on the potholed official road.

A carriage was creaking forward.

The driver was a powerful middle-of-the-road man, with a fleshy face, a blue shirt with loose buttons at the collar, and a sharp, blood-stained knife on his back.

Despite the fact that the road was very many, he drove the carriage as fast as he could, and from time to time he observed the environment on both sides of the road, his eyes full of vigilance.

"Lord Nie, make a decision quickly, it will be difficult for us to escape from the pursuit of the people sent by the dog official if we are in such a hurry." The man shook the reins and turned back to urge in the carriage.

In the carriage sat an elderly man dressed in Confucian clothes and quite dignified, but at this moment the man was full of pain.

He held a young girl tightly in both hands, this girl had a beautiful and peerless face, elegant and graceful, with beautiful legs and slender legs, but at this moment, she was cold and silent, obviously she had already disappeared.

"Qian'er!"

The man's expression was sad, and his mouth kept calling in a low voice, but he could no longer wake up the person in his arms.

"Lord Nie!" The man driving the car persuaded loudly: "Please also take the overall situation first, the young lady was killed, you must not have another accident, otherwise who else can expose the evil deeds of the dog official?" ”

After the man finished speaking, seeing that Lord Nie in the carriage still had no reaction, he smashed his fist on the seat of the car with some annoyance, and after thinking about it, he continued to persuade: "My lord......"

Before he could speak, a man's trembling old voice suddenly came from inside the carriage: "Qian'er will not die in vain, I must go to the capital and expose the traitor's sin in front of Your Majesty." ”

This person's name is Nie Yuan, born in a family of eunuchs for generations, he had a daughter in his old age, but now he is a white-haired person sending a black-haired person, and he is very sad.

The man's face was overjoyed when he heard this, he shook the reins vigorously, and suggested: "My lord, it is really inconvenient for us to rush with the corpse of the young lady, and there are chasing soldiers behind, so it is better to find a place to bury it temporarily, and then come to take the young lady back to her hometown in the future." ”

"Good!" Nie Yuan was a very decisive person, and he asked, "Where are we now?" ”

"It's almost Guobei County ahead." The man thought for a while and said, "But there are many people there, so we'd better find a place outside the city to bury the young lady, and then throw away the carriage and ride away." ”

Nie Yuan lifted the curtain in front of the carriage, looked around on both sides, suddenly his eyes lit up, and he pointed to the forest in front of him and said, "Go there." ”

The middle-aged man looked down and saw a dilapidated building looming in the dense woods, which seemed to be a temple.

He agreed: "Just go there." ”

The carriage soon drove into the woods and followed a not-so-wide path to the temple gates.

Nie Yuan got out of the carriage and observed the surroundings, the outside of the temple was covered with leaves, it looked like no one had cleaned it for a long time, and the gate was not locked, half-open and half-exposed, and the door was covered with dust.

"This is supposed to be a deserted temple." The man walked in front, pushed the door in and looked around, then turned around and said, "My lord, you go first to rest, and I'll check around." ”

"Nope." Nie Yuan said: "I'm just here looking at Qian'er's body, you go and come back quickly." ”

The man sighed, nodded and went to look around.

However, it only took half a pillar of incense to return, and he hurried back, and reported: "My lord, not far behind the temple, there is a mass grave. ”

"Take me to see it." Nie Yuan was not very relieved.

The man hesitated for a few seconds and said, "Let's go over with the corpse of the young lady." ”

Nie Yuan trembled, his hands trembled uncontrollably, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, you take Qian'er." ”

The man entered the carriage, carefully took out the body of the girl, and then took the lead and walked towards the back of the temple.

The two of them came to the mass grave in silence, which was full of wild grass, many of which were crawling with cobwebs, and some of them were even crooked by the tombstones, faintly revealing the rotten coffins underneath.

"Your Excellency." The man pursed his lips, pointed to a stout tree in front of him and said, "It's better to bury the young lady there." ”

Strange to say, within 100 meters of this mass grave, there are no other trees except for this huge banyan tree, and it is not densely forested like outside.

Nie Yuan looked around and agreed, "Okay, I'll go back and find something to wrap Qian'er's body." ”

The man placed the body under a tree and dug a pit.

After Nie Yuan came back with a mat, the two wrapped the body in the mat and buried it in the pit.

"Qian'er." Nie Yuan's face was full of tears: "Wait for my father to come back!" ”

He reluctantly wiped his tears, turned to leave, and soon left the temple with the men on a horse and returned to the official road.

When they left, mass graves, under the banyan tree.

Countless filament-like roots, like a net, entwined Nie Yuan's newly buried corpse inside.

Nie Xiaoqian......

Banyan tree space, Xu Jing looked at the simple tombstone on the light curtain in front of him with a faint gaze, and his heart was full of emotion.

What should have come is still coming.

For a year, he didn't care if there was a plot or not, but he didn't expect that Nie Xiaoqian would come after all.

"Bring her here."

As Xu Jing's underground roots wrapped around Nie Xiaoqian's body, soon, a female ghost with a hazy figure and a dull face floated out from the dry corpse.

Two ghost soldiers who had been ordered by him suddenly appeared next to the female ghost, grabbed her one by one, and entered the banyan space in the next instant.

"Who are you?" Nie Xiaoqian came back to her senses and kept struggling: "Let go of me." ”

"Presumptuous!" One of the ghost soldiers pressed Nie Xiaoqian to the ground with a slight force: "Don't hurry up and see the master." ”

"What sir?" Nie Xiaoqian frowned, raised her head and reacted after seeing Xu Jing in front of her, and hurriedly asked, "Why are you arresting me, where is my father?" ”

"You are Nie Xiaoqian?" Xu Jing squatted in front of Nie Xiaoqian, reached out and pinched the other party's chin, and looked carefully: "It's really beautiful." ”

He secretly praised in his heart, the other party's complexion is beautiful, his skin is better than snow, his eyes are as black as paint, smart and delicate, and there is an indescribable temperament, which makes people want to care for it and ravage it.

Nie Xiaoqian didn't struggle anymore, her face suddenly became very ugly, because she remembered her experience before she was alive, she should have died.

"Remembered?" Xu Jing let go of his hand, stood up and returned to his seat and sat down, looking down at Nie Xiaoqian condescendingly and said: "You have become a ghost now, but this is not the underworld, but still in the yang world, your father buried you here with me, if he doesn't come to pick you up, you can't reincarnate anymore." ”

Nie Xiaoqian trembled, she was ice and snow smart, she understood her situation at the moment, knelt on the ground and said, "Xiaoqian begs the master to take it in." ”

"Not bad." Xu Jing appreciated it more and more in his heart, and said with a smile: "Then you can stay by my side and be a servant." ”