"But... How do you find this? I scratched my head.

When I was looking for the soul of the deceased named 'Gao Fusheng' in the wilderness outside Gaojia Village by the Yellow River, Master wrapped a piece of mud stained with his blood that he had found in the ruined temple with a piece of talisman paper with his birth date written on it, and ordered me to put it close to my chest and put it in my arms. Once you get close to the revenant, the talisman will turn cold. But right now, we're not looking for a dead soul, but a 'heavenly soul', so that won't work...

"Ah Leng."

"Huh?"

Xiang Feng looked at the moon again, "Under normal circumstances, if there is one less soul of a person, but the person himself is not dead, then, casting a spell to summon the soul, you can bring back the lost soul..."

"That's right." I said, "So, this girl's soul is not normal. ”

"Then have you ever wondered where the abnormality is?"

Xiang Feng was stunned when I asked.

"This..."

Xiang Feng looked at me, "The reason why her soul can't be summoned back, I feel that she should be trapped somewhere." I suspect it might be the same place where she lost her soul..."

"I see, you mean that we're actually looking for the place where she lost her soul, right?"

"That's right." Xiang Feng said.

I thought about it for a moment and groaned, "In that case, I know how to find it..."

"Then as I just said, let's go, let's go our separate ways..."

After separating from Xiang Feng, I took out the compass from my bag, put it flat in my hand, and walked west along the village road.

This village in western Sichuan is very different from my hometown, in addition to the trees and vegetation in the village, there are also differences in architecture. Most of them are tiled houses, and there are no streets and alleys, and the houses are scattered on both sides of the village road. I walked west until I walked out of the village, and I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary, and the compass didn't respond.

Further west, you will almost reach the temple, look up at the mountain, and you can vaguely see the temple courtyard. So I went south.

To the south is farmland, large or small, high and low. From a distance, the water vapor is thick and the frogs are calling around. Along the ridge all the way south, I came to the river.

The river is not wide, but the water looks quite deep and black, and when you look at it this way, you can't see that the water is flowing. The moon is projected on the surface of the water, rippling and changing shape slightly with the waves of the water blown by the wind. After a short walk east along the river, the river turned south, and I went south.

There is no farmland here, there are trees on both sides of the river, and some of the branches and leaves are stretched down to the surface of the river, and the coolness of the water, mixed with the air, drills straight into my nose one by one.

I walked for nearly ten minutes and found nothing, and as I looked ahead, the trees became denser and denser. I hesitated to stop, looked at the time, squatted down to the river, lit a cigarette, and watched the smoke wafting across the water, drifting to the other side of the river, I thought to myself, wait and walk forward, if I still don't find it, I'll go back, maybe, Ah Feng has found the place where the girl lost her soul...

It's quiet here, and the moonlight is dappled and mottled down, adding a bit of tranquility. I looked around and said to myself, if my lover had a tryst at night, this would be a good place. I think that the man in the hat and Zhu Laohan's daughter must have secretly come here at night when Zhu Laohan was asleep...

I was thinking about it when all of a sudden, I saw something floating down the river from the south...

What is it? … I was stunned, got up, broke a branch, reached into the river, and pulled the thing over. When I picked it up and looked at it by the moonlight, I saw that these were two pieces of paper money stuck together, although they had been blistered, but the color had not been completely washed away. I said to myself, is there a cemetery or something upstream?

I got up and continued south, and after walking for a while, the river narrowed, and not far ahead, in the narrowest place, there were wooden stakes nailed into the river. I stepped on a wooden stake to the other side of the river, and after a short walk to the west, there was a cemetery, surrounded by a bamboo forest. The difference is that on the edge of the cemetery, there is a sacrificial platform with stones, and judging from the residual incense inserted around the platform, it should be a recent sacrificial activity.

After a circle around the platform, I returned to the cemetery, and was standing and looking around, when suddenly my phone rang. I think whoever stands in the graveyard in the middle of the night and their phone rings all of a sudden, they will be startled.

I hurriedly took out my phone, but without looking at it, I pressed the connect button.

"Hello?"

"Hey, Ah Leng..."

"Well, what's the matter?"

"I've found the place where the girl lost her soul."

"Oh?" I was overjoyed, "Is that girl's heavenly soul there?" ”

"Yes, I won't tell you yet, I'll find a way to bring her back, you don't have to look for it, let's go back first..."

When I returned to the bamboo forest in front of Mr. Zhu's house, I happened to encounter the wind.

"How?" I asked.

Xiang Feng nodded at me, and I noticed that his other hanging hand was carrying a red rope, and there was a small bamboo tube hanging from nowhere.

"Let's go." Xiang Feng said.

When I came to Zhu You's old man's house, I called to the wind to open the door and ordered the old man to come out and wait outside with me. After about four or five minutes, I heard Xiang Fengdao, "It's okay, come in..."

When I came to the house, I saw that the silver needle on the girl's forehead had been removed, and her face was bloody.

"After dawn, carry her outside the house and let the sun shine on her, and she'll be fine." Xiang Feng said.

The old man Zhu You stood dumbfounded.

"Where did you find her soul?" I asked.

Xiang Feng pointed with his finger, "It's just east of the village." ”

"How did her soul end up there?" I asked.

Xiang Feng looked at me and said, "It's artificial." ”

"Artificial?" I was stunned.

"Hmm."

Xiang Feng kicked the bamboo tube on the ground with his foot, "Her soul was got into this bamboo tube, the mouth of the tube was facing down, buried in the soil, only a small section was exposed on it, if it weren't for the traces of human movement in the soil around it, I really wouldn't have paid attention." ”

"Artificial..."I muttered, looking at the old man Zhu You, "Your daughter usually offends anyone?" ”

"Offending someone? Nope..."

"When his daughter wakes up, ask her then." Xiang Feng said.

There were still two or three hours before dawn, and Xiang Feng and I were no longer sleepy. Ran to the window, to see the pattern on the brick, carved indeed like a snake, but it has long been blurred, can only distinguish a general outline, asked Zhu You old man, the old man said, they used to have an old ancestral hall in this village, the Cultural Revolution was demolished at that time, this brick was secretly picked up by him at that time. Originally, the temple on the mountain in the village was also going to be demolished, but when I went to demolish it twice in a row, it suddenly rained heavily, and then those people didn't dare to demolish it...

At dawn, Xiang Feng and I carried the girl to the courtyard with the bed. At about eight o'clock in the morning, the girl finally woke up quietly. After feeding her something, and after she regained her sanity and strength, through patient inquiry, we learned that this girl had a leg with a 'Taoist priest' in their village before. The so-called 'Taoist priest' is actually a single god stick, who usually makes a living from farming, and in the village, or in other villages, when someone dies or has sacrificed, he will go with Taoist priests from other places to eat and drink, and mix some money for tobacco and alcohol. Before Zhu You's daughter went to Guangdong, she had a good time with the 'Taoist', and when she came back this time, the 'Taoist' secretly asked her for pleasure, but she refused... As for what happened the night she lost her soul, she couldn't remember...

Xiang Feng and I both felt that this girl lost her soul and fell into evil with the man wearing the hat, it is very likely that they were fooling around in this village, and the Taoist priest was jealous, so he harmed them.

Xiang Feng and I found the Taoist priest's house, but there was no one at home. Through inquiries in the village, we learned that the Taoist priest did not know any spells at all, because no one had ever seen him cast them. Some time ago, a family in their village had a sacrifice and invited a group of Taoist priests to do things. Then, there was a strange Taoist priest from outside, and he stayed in the house of this Taoist priest in their village for a few days. As for the origin of the strange Taoist priest, not only the villagers didn't know, but even the family who had sacrificed didn't know...

As for the man wearing a hat I met at KFC, Zhu You's daughter only knew his name, not what he did, and the reason why she slept with him was that Zhu You's daughter said it was for money...

After lunch at Zhu You's house at noon, I was about to recuperate and sleep for a while, when the mobile phone rang, it was Mr. Yang calling.

"Hey, Xiao Leng."

"Hey, uncle, how are you checking?"

"I found one, who had dealings with people abroad back then, and who resold antiques."

"Oh?"

"Whether it's the person who assigned the mage to Jinshan's side, I don't know."

"And you're calling me?" I asked.

"You know, it's illegal to resell antiques, and now that I'm washing my hands and suddenly running to find someone else, and I haven't even seen it before, who can guarantee what my purpose is? So, it's hard to tell the truth. I thought about it, to meet each other, not too many people, at most two. Although your master is capable, he is not good at words, although your Uncle Yang is smart, he can't get on the stage, and Xiaofeng talks too little, so it's even worse, you two... Oh, no, not even as for my daughter's stupid girl..."

I almost didn't laugh out loud, "Uncle, say whatever you want." ”

"I just thought, let you go with me this trip, not to mention that you are smart and clever, just our old brother has such a good temper, and he must cooperate seamlessly, even if he has an iron mouth and steel teeth, no matter how dead he bites, he will pry open the seam and let him spit out the old bottom. You check with Xiaofeng about the clues to save people, just let Xiaofeng work hard, and check it yourself first..."

I thought about it for a moment and said, "Okay then." ”

On the phone, Mr. Yang said, just let me go back to the town where I went to this 'downhill village' with Xiang Feng and wait for him, and he will come to pick me up early tomorrow morning.

That afternoon, Xiang Feng dropped me all the way to the town before returning to Xiashan Village. Found a farmhouse in the town that provided accommodation for one night. The next morning, when I saw Mr. Yang, I almost didn't recognize him...