Chapter 146: The Blue-Faced Green Monster
Seeing the face that emerged from behind the grave bag, Wu Zhiyuan suddenly felt a familiar feeling, this face seemed to have been seen somewhere, but he couldn't remember it for a while. Just when he hesitated, there was a "click" sound above his head, which was the sound of a tree branch breaking, Wu Zhiyuan looked up, and saw a stone the size of a millstone smashing down from the tree to the top of his head.
Saying that it was too late, Wu Zhiyuan jumped backwards and jumped a meter away, and the stone fell with a "whoosh" and slammed heavily at his feet.
This stone came very strangely, Wu Zhiyuan couldn't help but be suspicious, he suspected that it was related to the white-clothed shadow, so he turned to look at the tomb, the shadow had long since disappeared, and there was a white thing on the tomb, Wu Zhiyuan took a closer look, it was actually his own burden.
In this way, it is indeed the white-clothed shadow who has taken his burden, but why does he have to lead himself to chase around? Who is he? There was also the fact that the stone actually fell from the tree, apparently someone deliberately placed the stone on the branch in advance, and the purpose was very likely to stone himself.
Judging from the speed at which the white-clothed shadow fled, his vitality cultivation was by no means below him, and he definitely didn't need to use such insidious methods. But the white-clothed shadow behaved extremely strangely, and it was very likely that he deliberately lured himself to the tree, intending to harm himself with the help of the boulder on the tree. After thinking about it, Wu Zhiyuan couldn't figure out the reason.
If you don't understand, you don't need to think about it, there will always be a day when things will come to light, in this barren forest cemetery, you need to cheer up the spirit, Wu Zhiyuan leaned against the grave bag and stayed up until the sky was bright.
The sun rose in the east, emitting a thousand golden lights, and the haze in the dwarf forest quickly dissipated under the sunlight, Wu Zhiyuan used the direction of the sun to identify the position, and walked directly towards the sun, but after a while, he passed out of the dwarf forest.
Standing at the edge of the woods, Wu Zhiyuan turned around and looked back, this forest does not seem to be big, but from the outside it looks extremely deep, like an endless black hole, although the morning light is shining at this time, but there is still a cold air that penetrates into the bone marrow.
Although he didn't sleep all night, Wu Zhiyuan had no time to rest at this time, and after arriving in Qixia County, he ate tofu brain at a street stall, got up and walked along the main street to the west. He remembered that Sun Xiangu's body was still at home, so he temporarily changed his mind and planned to go and bury Sun Xiangu first.
Wu Zhiyuan walked into the paper shop where he bought boys and girls for Dong Qian last time, and when the boss saw that it was Wu Zhiyuan, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he hurriedly nodded and let him into the store.
"Uncle, these are all new goods that have just been released." The boss flatteringly introduced to Wu Zhiyuan that in fact, he was old enough to be Wu Zhiyuan's uncle.
"How much money you have in this store, I'll cover it all." Wu Zhiyuan glanced at the dark coins in the house, thinking that it was only a few days since I bought all the dark coins in your store last time, of course you are new goods.
"Is it enough?" Wu Zhiyuan didn't elaborate, reached into his arms, took out a handful of oceans and put them on the counter.
"Enough, enough." The boss stared at Dayang on the counter with his eyes shining, and replied busily, turning around and beckoning the two guys on the side to go to the back room to bring out all the dark coins and ingots.
Paper money, ingots, gold and silver mountains, cash cows and other paper products were filled with a cart, Wu Zhiyuan threw out a piece of ocean to the boss, and asked these two guys to deliver the goods together, the boss was overjoyed, and hurriedly agreed, for him, this piece of ocean is equal to the outside money.
One of the two guys was the one who delivered the goods to Wu Zhiyuan last time, because he had an experience, so this guy was not so strange to Wu Zhiyuan, and he was not idle for long and short gossip along the way.
"Where's the graveyard around here?" Wu Zhiyuan asked.
"There is a cemetery behind Dong's house." The guy replied.
"Where else is this?" Wu Zhiyuan asked, and then added, "It's better to have feng shui." ”
"There is a high hill in the east of the city, there is a small river under the high gang, and there is also a cemetery there, and the fortune tellers say that the feng shui there is good." The other guy replied.
Wu Zhiyuan nodded, his back to Gao Gang, facing the river, it sounded good, although he was already a disciple of Maoshan, but he had only learned the feng shui theory of the Maoshan School, so he was a layman at best.
"Uncle, where did you send this treasure car?" The guy asked earlier, this is how the paper making industry is, and they themselves know that it is obviously a fake paper paper, but when they say it, they must also use the name of the real thing, which is a respect for the ghosts and gods.
In fact, there is a certain reason for the guy to ask like this, generally the guests who buy the dark coins are to be sent to the graves of their relatives for cremation, but Wu Zhiyuan opened his mouth to ask where the nearby cemetery is, obviously this car of dark coins does not know who the road is burned to, which makes the two guys confused.
"Send it to the cemetery in the east first, and I'll choose a good grave first." Wu Zhiyuan looked at the east and said.
After only half a morning, the three of them came to the cemetery that the guy said, Wu Zhiyuan took a look, the environment here is quiet, the cemetery is backed by the hill, facing the stream, it is indeed a good place, I think Sun Xiangu must like it, so he chose a vacant lot near the edge of the stream, and asked the two guys to put the earthen cart containing the dark coins there.
Wu Zhiyuan took out four pieces of ocean and gave them to the two guys, and the two of them immediately closed their mouths happily and kept thanking them.
"The money is not taken for nothing, come with me to carry the coffin over, bury it in the soil, and I will give each of you two oceans when you are done." Wu Zhiyuan said, and took the lead in the direction of Sun Xiangu's house in the city.
The two guys looked at each other for a moment, feeling that although it was unfortunate to carry the coffin, the deal was too worthwhile, so they followed Wu Zhiyuan closely.
After the three of them came to Sun Xiangu's residence, Wu Zhiyuan motioned to the men to carry the coffin parked due north to the cemetery where they had just gone.
"This old woman is dead?" The guy from earlier asked in surprise.
"Do you know her?" Wu Zhiyuan asked casually.
"Zhilu Dao, how can there be anyone in this county who doesn't know Lu Dao her, but no one knows what her name is, only that Lu Dao she sits on the big bluestone at the head of the alley every day, and she doesn't feel cold when it's cold." The guy looked at the coffin in surprise and said.
"But no, what's even more strange is that all the families from her alley to the west have slowly moved away, and now it's like a ghost town, and there is nothing to do with this alley to the east." The other guy shook his head and added.
Wu Zhiyuan nodded thoughtfully when he heard this, and said "move" to the two guys, and the two carried the coffin out of the thatched house.
The two of them carried a black lacquered wooden coffin and walked a few steps easily, and it was very difficult to walk far, and it was already afternoon when they returned to the cemetery in the east of the west of the city, Wu Zhiyuan ordered the two guys to dig the tomb, bury the coffin, pile up the grave bag, and then pay the ocean, the two guys were very grateful, and they were about to leave with the cart, and one of the guys wanted to say and stopped asking: "Uncle, this coffin ...... You don't cremate? ”
"No cremation." Wu Zhiyuan said casually, waving his hand to signal that they could leave.
The guy seemed to have something to say, but seeing that Wu Zhiyuan was resolute, he was pulled away by another guy.
After the two left, Wu Zhiyuan lit the pile of paper money, and when the paper money was almost burned, Wu Zhiyuan suddenly remembered that the pair of paper-tied boys and girls in Sun Xiangu's house forgot to bring them. The pair of boys and girls were prepared by Sun Xiangu before her death, and Wu Zhiyuan immediately set off to return to the county seat, intending to bring the pair of paper people back for cremation before dark.
Another back and forth, Wu Zhiyuan held the pair of paper figures in his hands, and did not care about the strange glances cast by pedestrians on the street, and hurriedly ran towards the cemetery in the east of the city. Rao ran all the way, and by the time he arrived at the cemetery, the sun had already set.
Wu Zhiyuan stood by the stream, looking at the grave bag in Sun Xiangu's cemetery from a distance, and the fire burning next to it still flickered from time to time. He let out a long breath and started walking towards the grave.
After just a few steps, Wu Zhiyuan stopped his steps and stopped, because he suddenly saw a black shadow suddenly flash behind the tomb bag, and the black shadow flashed away, like a person's back.
"Could it be those two guys just now?" Wu Zhiyuan secretly guessed in his heart that those two guys were extremely greedy for money, and it was very likely that they saw Wu Zhiyuan making such a generous move, and mistakenly thought that there must be a lot of burial goods in this tomb, and after Wu Zhiyuan stayed away, they came to rob the tomb. Moreover, one of them also asked him if he wanted to cremate the coffin, which seemed to have ulterior motives.
With this in mind, Wu Zhiyuan gently put the paper on the ground, and quietly tiptoed towards the tomb, at this time the sun had set, the new moon was rising, and the light was unknown, but the vision was not reluctant, and the scene in front of him could be seen clearly within five steps.
When Wu Zhiyuan approached the grave bag, he heard the sound of digging soil, and at the same time, the soil was constantly lifted into the air, he was immediately furious, and suddenly shouted: "Get out!" ”
Before the cheers were finished, a black shadow suddenly appeared from behind the grave bag, Wu Zhiyuan looked at it fixedly, and couldn't help but be surprised!
I saw that the black shadow that came out from behind the grave bag was not the two guys, nor was it human, but a monster that looked a bit like a dog's head, I saw that it had its teeth exposed, its limbs on the ground, its body was green, its tail was mopping the ground, and it had no hair on its body, and its appearance was extremely vicious.
Wu Zhiyuan didn't expect such a monster to come out at all, so when he saw it, he couldn't help but be taken aback, and took three steps back, although the monster looked fierce, it seemed to be more scared than Wu Zhiyuan, and after seeing Wu Zhiyuan, he suddenly jumped backwards on all fours, jumping more than three feet high, and before Wu Zhiyuan could react, he jumped again after landing, and fled in embarrassment, and soon disappeared into the night.
Wu Zhiyuan came back to his senses for a long time, he didn't expect that the person who dug up the grave bag was actually such a monster, and he didn't expect that the monster seemed to be even more scared than himself. He turned to the location where the monster had dug up, and saw that the grave had just been dug up in half, apparently not long ago.
Wu Zhiyuan settled down, took the pair of paper boy and girl to the grave and lit the cremation, looking at the beating firelight, Wu Zhiyuan suddenly remembered the rumor that the guy had said before that there were monsters with green fangs hidden in the Dong Mansion and specialized in digging the grave and gnawing corpses......