There is a large garden in the backyard of the Jiang family's house, which is full of flowers and plants of all colors, and a path is full of twists and turns. If an unfamiliar person comes in by himself, eighty percent of them will get lost.

Xia Beifeng carried the shovel through the garden, and after reaching the corner of the wall pointed by the ghost Taoist, he thrust the shovel into the ground, looked back at the various flowers he passed along the way, took out the mirror and sighed to it: "Amazing!" ”

"What's awesome? Is something coming? The ghost Taoist priest asked suspiciously. He looked in the direction of the garden with Xia Beifeng for a while, saw that there was nothing, and remembered what was going on, so he hurriedly urged Xia Beifeng and said: "This fellow Daoist, let's hurry up and work, it will be too late for the female ghost to finish singing in a while." ”

Plum blossoms and lotus flowers, one on the shore and the other in the water, bloom together, isn't it amazing?

Xia Beifeng glanced at the anxious ghost Taoist Yun Qingzi in the mirror and sighed. He pulled out an iron chain from under his collar, tied the mirror, hung it on the plum tree beside him, picked up the shovel and began to work.

At first glance, his iron chain was thicker than a regular necklace, but it was actually made of a long, thin chain that was folded into three strands and twisted into a strand. Under the chain hung a beast tooth that I don't know what it was, and the beast tooth was engraved with dense red small patterns, inlaid on a silver base that was also engraved with the same pattern, and was regarded as a necklace-like thing, which had been hanging around Xia Beifeng's neck.

Xia Beifeng has always disliked the shape of this thing, and it looks too middle two, and in his memory, this thing seems to be something that only half-sized gangsters on the street will carry to play handsome. And it looks very cheap, no different from a stall for more than a dozen dollars. Therefore, he hid him in his clothes all the year round and did not see the light of day.

The ghost priest in the mirror was hanging from the tree, and every time the mirror touched the beast tooth, he would feel a cold air coming towards him. It stands to reason that he's been dead for years, and he doesn't feel anything about cold or heat anymore. But in the process of the continuous collision between the beast teeth and the bronze mirror, there was a vague illusion that his wisp of remnant soul was slowly dissipating.

"I say, this Daoist." Xia Beifeng dug hard in the corner of the wall, and took the time to glance at the mirror hanging on the tree. Seeing that the ghost Taoist priest was looking around boredly in the mirror, and he was struggling to dig up the corpse for him, he suddenly felt a little angry in his heart.

"How the hell did you die? It's not even possible to be reincarnated for so many years, and it's not easy for you to get mixed up in this as a cultivator. ”

When the ghost Taoist priest heard this, he seemed to recall something terrible, and his face immediately turned ugly.

"What the hell is going on?" Xia Beifeng continued to ask without giving up, and he must insist on making the ghost Taoist priest unhappy with him.

"Alas, ashamed, ashamed!" The ghost Taoist priest couldn't stand Xia Beifeng's repeated questions, and still opened his mouth to explain the cause and effect to him: "When the poor road passed by the Jiang family, I saw the red cloth with the word happy on the door of the house, and the whole house was brightly lit, but there were dark clouds above, not like a happy event but like an accident. I knocked on the door and asked. When the old man of the Jiang family saw me, he cried and told me that his baby daughter had been taken by a monster, and he would marry her to the mountains in two days. As soon as I heard this, there was a poor way here, how could I let that monster rob the people and harm one party, so I volunteered to go to the mountains to get rid of the demons. ”

"Poor Dao went to the cave where the monster lived that Master Jiang said, and when he didn't see the monster come out, he scolded at the entrance of the cave. The monster thought that he knew how powerful I was, and refused to come out no matter how I scolded his ancestral mother, but after a while, he summoned a few wild wolves to clean me up. How can the poor road be given by these beasts, he killed more than a dozen wolves in two days, and still didn't see the monster who robbed the people's girls come out. Seeing that Master Jiang's daughter was about to get married, he had no choice but to turn back to the Jiang family......"

Xia Beifeng listened to the ghost Taoist bragging, while digging the soil, and after a few shovels, he felt the tip of the shovel touch something quite hard underneath.

Without thinking about it, he slashed down with a shovel, and immediately felt something cut off underneath.

"Ah......" Xia Beifeng quickly turned on the flashlight and glanced at what was broken underneath, and stuck out his tongue with his back to the mirror. Then he put away his grimace and raised his head seriously and glanced at the ghost Taoist.

The ghost Taoist priest was shocked that Xia Beifeng had stopped moving, looked up at him, and had a faint bad premonition, and immediately stopped his storytelling memories, stared at Xia Beifeng in the mirror, and asked, "Fellow Daoist...... How did you stop? ”

"Nothing." Xia Beifeng nodded and smiled at the ghost Taoist priest, stood up and reached out and pressed it on his back a few times, stretched, and then lowered his head as usual and continued to dig the soil in the corner of the wall, and explained in a low voice: "I'm a little tired, stand up and rest." You go on, what happened when you came back? ”

"After I came back, I told Master Jiang about the monster's refusal to come out, and suggested that Master Jiang simply set fire to the mountain and smoke the monster out. But Master Jiang disagreed, told me that there was another secret in this matter, and invited me to come to this back garden alone in the middle of the night to talk about it. The Taoist priest paused here when he said this, and after a while he said to Xia Beifeng in a mysterious voice: "I was waiting for Master Jiang by this wall in the middle of the night, guess what?" ”

"What's wrong?" Xia Beifeng hurriedly asked curiously. By the way, he kicked the half-cut thigh bone that had just been cut out into an inconspicuous corner, and turned sideways to block the half-cut bone from the ghost Taoist priest.

The half of the leg bone looked like it had been buried in the ground for some years, and it was covered with mud, and it had been broken from the middle, but the stubble was still brand new.

"I was waiting and waiting under the wall of this courtyard, and suddenly I was attacked by the monster from behind, hit my head, and fainted directly." The Taoist priest briefly summarized this most critical paragraph, and directly said the ending: "When I remember that I am a human being again, I am already a wisp of remnant soul like this." I am not completely soulful, and I cannot be reincarnated. Fortunately, he was witty and left the two magic weapons in the young lady's room, so that he could have something to put this wisp of remnant soul in place, so that his soul would not be scattered. ”

Xia Beifeng didn't speak, and after he dug out a few more ribs in the mud, the shovel directly touched the stone under the soil, making a crisp sound of gold and stone impact.

"Oops, you lighter!" The Taoist priest shouted to Xia Beifeng: "It's terrible to be heard by that female ghost!" ”

"I don't want to make a noise." Xia Beifeng straightened up, looked at the mirror, tilted his head and gestured to the pile of bones piled on the side, "There's nothing down there, are you sure your body is all buried here?" ”

"This should be it." The ghost Taoist frowned in confusion when he heard this: "How many have you found?" ”

Xia Beifeng immediately turned sideways and asked him to see the pile of white bones piled up in the corner, which was about one-third the size of a person's bones.

"How so?" The ghost Taoist priest looked at the pile of bones in disbelief, and couldn't speak for a long time.

"What's the matter? That's all you need, or do you want to look for it again? Xia Beifeng stuck the shovel into the ground and leaned against the wall to look at the ghost Taoist.

"Could it be that the youkai took my corpse away?" The ghost Taoist priest suddenly shouted with a sudden realization, "This beast, don't let the Taoist master catch you, otherwise you will have to be beaten to the ground, and you will never be able to be reborn!" ”

"I need to warn you." Xia Beifeng leaned against the wall and lit a cigarette, looked up at the stars in the sky leisurely, and said cool words to the ghost Taoist priest: "This Taoist master, you are now in a state where your soul is scattered and you will never be able to transcend life." ”

When the ghost Taoist priest heard this, his face changed, and then he lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking.

Xia Beifeng took a cigarette in his mouth, put his hands behind his head, leaned his back against the wall, and began to count the stars.

North Star, Big Dipper, Southern Dipper, Cowherd and Weaver Girl, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Cygnus, Sputnik, Space Station......

"Ah, yes." Xia Beifeng counted, and suddenly remembered something, held the cigarette between his two fingers, dusted off the cigarette ash, and said to the mirror: "I seem to have thought of a way." ”

After he said this, he ignored the ghost Taoist priest's anxious questioning, and directly took out the compass and fiddled with it in his hand for a while.

"This ......" Xia Beifeng took off the mirror from the tree, looked at the compass in his hand, and walked more than a dozen steps along the root of the wall until he stopped under a tree and stomped on the spot, "There should be a bunch here." ”

"Huh? What's there? The ghost priest looked around in the mirror and asked confusedly.

Xia Beifeng didn't answer, and hung the mirror on the tree again. Pick up the shovel and start digging right there.

He dug a few shovels, and sure enough, he touched something, which was tightly buried in the ground, Xia Beifeng dug left and right a few times, but failed to get it out, so he simply inserted the shovel down hard, and then dug out all the soil below.

A large pile of dirt flew into the air with the force of the summer north wind, and then fell on the ground around it. And with that dirt flew out a few bones and, a hammer?

The hammer was already rusty, Xia Beifeng took it in his hand and shook it a few times, and the iron head on the hammer fell to the ground with a muffled sound.

"You said before...... Xia Beifeng turned around and looked at Yun Qingzi in the mirror suspiciously, "You were plotted by monsters?" ”

"yes." The ghost Taoist replied very briskly, and then asked Xia Beifeng in confusion: "Who else can plot against me besides that monster?" ”

What kind of youkai can use a hammer?

Xia Beifeng squatted down and picked up the hammer head, put it back on the wooden handle, and knocked it on the ground a few times. After making sure that the hammer would not loosen again, he put it aside and picked out the remaining bones from the hole with his own hands.

"It's still not enough." Xia Beifeng gathered the scattered white bones, and compared them with the pile that he had dug up before, and found that the number of things dug up on both sides was about the same.

The most important thing is that the head was not found.

Xia Beifeng sighed, stood up, and began to fiddle with the compass in his hand again.

"It's probably not a coincidence, it's just for you." Xia Beifeng looked down at the pointer of the compass, discerning the direction, and casually said to the mirror.

The ghost Taoist priest first froze for a moment, then showed a suddenly realized expression, and shouted to Xia Beifeng in surprise: "Fellow Daoist! What kind of sacredness do you think that monster actually knows how to bury the corpse separately so that I can't be reincarnated! ”

Do you still think it's the monster that harmed you? If you're so stupid, it's no wonder you'll die! Xia Beifeng was also very surprised by the words of the ghost Taoist priest.

"Well, ...... over here" Xia Beifeng extinguished the burned cigarette butt on the wall, continued to walk a dozen steps along the root of the wall, and stopped under a tree.

"There should be only this pile left, and there is not much time, so I'll finish digging quickly and call it a day and go back to sleep." Xia Beifeng said this, so he waved his shovel and dug a few times quickly, and saw a little white arc exposed under the soil.

He squeezed his speed and dug carefully a few more times, then immediately crouched down and pulled out the exposed half of the skeleton with his hands.

"Tsk...... It's ruthless. What a grudge you have with them! Xia Beifeng lifted the skeleton up and pointed his skull at the mirror hanging on the tree, so that the ghost Taoist priest could see it clearly.

The skull's celestial spirit was covered, and a wooden nail was being nailed to death. The nail was long, sticking through the Celestial Spirit cover and down to the skull's chin, almost all the way through the entire head.

"Huh?" The ghost priest's eyes widened in the mirror, looking at the wooden nail on his head, and asked in a trembling voice, "What is this?" ”

"Willow nails. Don't you know? Xia Beifeng said as he pulled the wooden nail off the skull and took a closer look, "This thing is very vicious, and it nails into the body when the person is not dead." When that person dies, part of his soul will remain in the corpse, unable to get out, and unable to live. This kind of thing is just for people like you who can order things to be incompletely incompletely reincarnated. ”

"Oh." The ghost Taoist priest sighed when he heard this: "This time I am really taught." ”

Xia Beifeng threw the nail aside, and went to the freshly dug hole in the ground to look for a while. In addition to the bones, a small cloth bag and a rotten wooden sword were found.

He tossed the wooden sword aside, opened the small cloth bag, and poured out a dozen copper coins of various ages from it. This pile of copper coins is well preserved, neither rusty nor broken, and it looks pretty good.

"That's all it should be, take the bones back and fight, and I'll send you to reincarnation tomorrow during the day." Xia Beifeng threw the small cloth bag aside, put the copper coin in his pocket, and prepared to turn around to collect the bones of the ghost Taoist priest.

The ghost priest didn't answer, and the mirror hanging on the tree was trembling slightly in the wind, as if someone was shivering.

Xia Beifeng squatted on the ground and raised his head, looked at the garden, and happened to look at a pair of eyes.