Xiang Feng brought a lot of rune papers, and came out of the hotel and gave me a large stack, all of which I put in my pocket. By the light of the moon, I pulled out a four-sided rune and looked around, but I still couldn't see where the man was hiding. So I walked lightly to the place where the man had been lying before.

I crouched down to take a closer look, probably because the dam was often trampled on and the soil was too hard. The man left no footprints, and he didn't have any other footprints, so I wouldn't be able to use the rune paper to extract the marks he left behind as a 'quasi-image' spell to find him, as I did when I was looking for the paper man in Gaojia Village.

I frowned, and said to myself, there is only other way. With this in mind, I put the talisman paper back in my pocket, and as I stood up, I bowed forward when I suddenly felt something brush against my head. I was startled and looked up, and it turned out to be a few willow branches, and there were many willow trees planted on the embankment. I brushed away the willow branch with my hand, and suddenly my heart moved, since this willow branch touched me, then, when the man got up just now, he must have also touched him... There's a way!

In folklore, it is said that willow branches can be used to ward off evil spirits, such as during the Qingming Festival, two willow branches are pinned to the left and right at the door of one's house, which can block the wandering spirits and wild ghosts from coming out of the underworld, so as not to prevent them from entering the house. There is also a saying that willow branches can be used to fight ghosts, and many Hong Kong ghost movies have scenes where willow branches are used to fight ghosts. After learning Qimen, Master told me that willow wood is a kind of yin wood, and what distinguishes it from other yin trees is that it has a strange property, that is, it can absorb positive aura. I don't know if you feel the same way as me, but on a hot summer day, it will be much cooler to hide under the willow tree to cool off than to hide under other trees. The reason is that willow trees can absorb positive aura. In view of this characteristic of willow wood, many tokens or arrows in the Faqi Gate are made of it.

If the person was brushed by the willow branch when he was walking just now, then the masculine aura on his body would be 'stained' on the willow branch, which is the 'analogous image'.

I grabbed the longest willow branch that hung down and broke it about five centimeters in my hand. After walking about ten steps south along the reservoir embankment, I came to a flat and open place, I took out the four-sided rune, pulled out a silver needle that I had with me, and stabbed it on my index finger, squeezing the blood of the finger in the middle of the rune paper. After placing the rune paper on the ground, I held one end of the willow branch in each hand and carefully pressed the willow branch against the rune paper. The rune paper stained with the blood of my finger is equivalent to me, this willow branch brushed me before, 'stained' has my aura, after being placed on the rune paper, it is equivalent to merging with me, it should tell me where the person who touched it before me went...

I crouched down and took a deep breath, pointed my sword at the willow branch with my left hand, and silently recited the mantra of the four directions while thinking about the person from before. As soon as I finished reading it, a magical scene appeared. The willow branch was like floating on the water and being blown by the wind, slowly turning, turning about **ten degrees, the willow branch stopped, pointing in a direction...

I got up in a hurry, followed the direction of the willow branches, and soon descended the embankment, and walked about forty or fifty meters to a small shed where mushrooms were grown. The moonlight scattered down from the clouds, illuminating everywhere hazy, giving people the impression that a layer of gray dust was floating between the sky and the earth.

I looked around, and said to myself, the man must be hiding behind this shed, and from time to time the wind blows behind me, probably because of the tailwind, and I can't feel his aura. I took my nerve and picked up a branch from the ground for self-defense, and walked lightly around the back of the mushroom shed.

I had just walked a few steps when suddenly something flew towards me from the back of the mushroom shed. Startled, I hurriedly tilted my head, and the thing flew against my cheek, and it felt like it should be a stone. Immediately after, a man jumped up from behind the mushroom shed and ran.

"Stop! …”

Judging from the back, this is a man, not very tall, wearing a black dress, and it is not easy to tell how old he is. The man ran in a strange manner, jumping up after a few steps, like a hare being chased by a hound (dizzy, so that I was compared to a hound, but I can't think of a more apt way to describe the man running at that time), but the sound of the man landing on the ground was very soft, in the moonlight, like a ghost.

I gritted my teeth and ran with all my might, chasing after me. chased until he was in the middle of the two rows of vegetable greenhouses, and when he saw that he was about to catch up, the man suddenly jumped to the side and jumped to the vegetable greenhouse. Then, like a gecko, he climbed over the shed and ran in the direction of the town. I didn't have time to hesitate at all, and I also learned from the person to jump into the greenhouse, but the result was a "click" to break a hole in the greenhouse, "plop", I fell into the greenhouse, overwhelmed a piece of vegetables, not to mention, the greenhouse had just been watered and irrigated during the day, and the water had not completely soaked into the soil.

After I climbed out of the greenhouse, my face was covered in mud. Looking at it, the man had already run away. I wiped a handful of my face indiscriminately, jumped, shook off a lot of mud, and walked towards the town.

The little river passed through the town, and when it left the town, it made a bend and meandered south along this side of the town. Therefore, there is also a stone bridge here, which is smaller than the one at the funeral supply store. After crossing the stone bridge, there is a one-man high stone monument standing on the side of the road. Looking through the moonlight, the stele is engraved with three vigorous characters of 'Qingshi Town'. This area is full of ancient buildings, high and low in the moonlight, walking on the bluestone road without street lights, it feels like going back to ancient times. From time to time, I crossed an unknown tree, scattered leaves fell from above, and in the silence, the sound of leaves falling to the ground was heard clearly.

This bluestone town is really big, I have been walking for five or six minutes, and there is still no end in sight to the street in front of me, and the person does not know where to go, I can't help but retreat. Xiang Feng jumped into the reservoir regardless of his safety, and he didn't know what was going on now.

I turned around and walked back as I looked around. As I passed through a narrow alley, I glanced deeper into the alley and suddenly saw a building in the distance, blocked in the middle of the alley. I was very strange, and I thought to myself, how can this house be built in an alley? Who lives inside? …

I stopped, walked into the alley with this doubt, and walked towards the building. Unexpectedly, when there were still more than ten meters away from the building, the alley came to an end. A temple surrounded by a clearing appeared in front of him. Under the moonlight, the eaves of the temple house are warped, the temple wall is broken and mottled, and in the round arched doorway, two black temple doors are closed. It seems that this temple should be very old, and I don't know what gods are enshrined in it.

Picking at the brick cracks on the wall, I climbed the temple wall very easily. Look around, only to see that the temple house of this temple has four, divided into the southeast and northwest four directions, the temple is spotless, paved with bluestone, may be often trampled by visitors for the sake of the reason, those bluestones are very bright, like a piece of mirror under the moonlight.

I shook my head, and said in my heart, the buildings in this town are intricate, and the town is so big, it will be difficult for that person to find him if he hides in a certain place, forget it, let's not look for it first, let's go back to the reservoir to help Xiangfeng. Seeing that person sneaky, like a ghost, it is estimated that the person who got the strange fish into the paper figure and put it into Gaojia Village is him, Uncle Yang may also be taken away and locked up by him without knowing what to do, since he is in this town, he will not be afraid of him flying, and he will find him sooner or later.

With this in mind, I jumped down from the wall, and after identifying the direction, I circled half a circle along the open space outside the temple and entered another alley. We went out of the alley and came to the street of the hotel where we were staying. Compared with the previous street, there are not many old buildings on both sides of this street, most of them are antique new buildings, and there are occasionally a few modern style buildings in between.

The lights were still on in the hotel, and I don't know if Miss Bai and the others had slept. Out of town, I walked more and more anxiously, and my heart was uneasy. When I finally returned to the reservoir, I stood on the embankment and looked down, and my heart 'chuckled' for a moment, what about the wind?

"Ah Feng! …”

I stumbled down to the edge of the water when a man jumped out of the water about four or five meters away. I was so frightened that I almost fell into the water, and when I looked closely, this person was Xiang Feng.

"I'm scared of you, but you're fine," I said, patting my chest.

When I climbed ashore to the wind, I told him how I had chased the man.

It was already late autumn, and the water in the reservoir was very cold, and when he first came up from the water, Xiang Feng's face turned pale, and it took a while to return to normal.

"Well, did you find the hole in this reservoir?" I asked.

Xiang Feng looked motionless at the night sky, letting the droplets of water drip from his head and slide down his cheeks.

"Ah Leng."

"Huh?" I was stunned.

"Do you believe that there is a river god in this world?" Xiang Feng asked.

"River God?" I frowned.

"Hmm." Xiang Feng nodded.

I can't help but think of what the village elder of Gaojia Village told me about the past of Political Commissar Xu. When there was a famine, when Commissar Xu led the villagers to find the fish under the riverbed, he told them that the fish were blessed by the river god. Because the villagers of Gaojia Village ate live fish in the river, they angered the river god, and the river god punished them by causing a woman in the village to give birth to a freak. Later, Political Commissar Xu made a lot of paper figures to sacrifice to the river god instead of the descendants of the villagers of Gaojia Village... Previously, I thought that the so-called 'river god punishment' was actually just a kind of karma, and there was no river god in this world...

"What, are you in this reservoir?" I asked in a whisper.

Xiang Feng looked at me and said slowly, "The river god is in this reservoir..."

(Thank you for your support and understanding, I will make up for yesterday's update later)

Tips: The new domain name "biquge.info" has been launched by Biquge, and the original domain name is about to be discontinued. Please tell each other, thank you!