After coming out of that 'ghost domain', Yuxin and I have been in a bit of a trance, feeling that everything around us is very unfamiliar. Other than that, my whole body was like clockwork, taut and tight. Being slapped like this from behind, under the conditioned reflex, I jumped up, turned around suddenly, and instinctively squirted out a mouthful of spicy soup in my mouth as a 'weapon'...

This mouthful of soup was sprayed on the face of the man behind him, and the man jumped up with a strange scream...

When I looked closely, I saw that this man's eyes were bulging, but it was the same man I had saved his son earlier.

"Your mother..."

The man stubbornly held back the swear words that blurted out, and wiped his face with 'flutter lala', his whole face was red, and he didn't know if it was hot or because of embarrassment.

"How... Why are you, big brother? I'm so sorry, you look at me..."I forced a smile and stammered, looking at Yu Xin, who glared at me.

The man smiled awkwardly and gave me a thumbs up, "Little Master is Little Master, and his reflexes are not comparable to ordinary people..."

"Hey, hey..."I scratched my head.

The man said he saw us having breakfast here, so he came to say hello to us. As for his son, he said he was completely fine.

As he spoke, he looked at the table, "What's so delicious here, let's go, I'll take you to eat donkey meat and burn it!" ”

"No need, big brother..."

I excused myself again and again, but this man didn't do it, and insisted on inviting us. It was also the gluttonous donkey meat that burned, and I finally nodded. As I lifted the bag from the table, I grabbed the half of the pancake that I hadn't finished and took a hard bite.

Following the man around the corner, we came to an old shop at the crossroads. The shop is dark, not large, but clean, and the tables and chairs look quite old. Since breakfast time has passed, there are not many diners.

As soon as they came to sit in the corner of the wall, the two young men of the shop brought fragrant fire and hot donkey soup. The burnt skin of this shop is golden brown, and the smell of it makes your mouth water. After eating two fires in a row and drinking half a bowl of soup, I finally got back to my soul, and Yuxin looked at each other and smiled, escaping from death, feeling that life was really beautiful. I let out a long hiccup and patted my stomach.

Yu Xin pouted and said with a smile, "It's really a master of wine bags and rice bags." ”

I 'haha' and exhaled at her, 'Ahhh Yuxin frowned, lifted her feet, and stomped on the surface of my feet.

"Oops!"

The man sitting opposite laughed 'hehe', Yuxin blushed, lowered her head and drank the soup sullenly. I couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, and scolded in my heart, this person didn't even have a little look, laughing at your sister...

To hide my embarrassment, I took a crooked cigarette from my trouser pocket and threw it to him, and then lit one myself, took a slow puff, and let out a long puff of smoke.

"Little Master."

The man screamed, and I choked on the cigarette, and I hunched forward and coughed.

"What a fool." Yuxin whispered, and then, got up and patted me on the back.

"What... What's the matter? "It's easy to stop coughing," I said to the man.

"Will my son be okay in the future?"

I nodded.

"That's good, that's good... It's strange to say, you say, how could such a thing come out of that broken temple...", the man muttered.

As soon as he mentioned the temple, I remembered the hole in the wall behind the temple... said in my heart, that night, I couldn't find the reason for the weirdness of the magnetic field in the temple, could it be that the reason why the magnetic field was weird was related to the hole behind the temple? Also, wasn't that thing that was attached to the child that ran out of the temple, but out of the hole? … It shouldn't be, what was attached to the child's body was obviously a divine object, but the cave was connected to the 'ghost domain'... But it's hard to say, that 'ghost domain' is so big, whether it is full of dead ghosts, whether there are other things besides dead ghosts, such as sacred objects, who can say clearly? …

"Little Master..."

"Huh?"

"That 'thing' got into the city wall, and it shouldn't come out again..."

I let out a muffled 'um' sound, and my eyes suddenly lit up. Before casting the spell that night, I pinched my fingers and calculated, the 'Nine Lands' fell to the west of the palace, the city wall is located in the west of the temple, and the top of the city wall is the best place to cast the spell. And what I drew when I cast the spell, directly below the nine-square grid, is the hole... In this way, even if the thing didn't run out of the 'ghost domain' along the hole, it got into the city wall, and it was likely to run into the 'ghost domain' along the hole... In any case, that hole is a dangerous existence, just sealing the entrance of the hole, just relying on the small array I clothed, it is estimated that it will not be useful at all. When I return to Fengyang Town, if it doesn't work, I'll take the master over and see if he can completely seal the hole...

"Ah Leng, what are you thinking?" Yuxin nudged me gently.

I came back to my senses, smiled at her, and said to the man, "Big brother, when was the city wall built?" ”

The man scratched his head and thought, "It's been years, and I don't know when... Like, it's about the same age as the canal..."

Yuxin and I looked at each other.

"It's about the same age as the canal, isn't that a thousand years old?" I asked with a frown.

"I guess so, I also heard from the old man..."

I nodded and asked, "What about the Land Temple?" ”

"That temple, it's not as old as the city wall, it is said to be from the Ming Dynasty."

"The reason why the temple was built there was to protect the walls from foreign invasion?"

"yes, I've heard people say yes..."

I frowned, subconsciously picked up the soup bowl, 'goo', and took a sip of the soup. Before he could swallow it in his stomach, a strange voice suddenly came from behind him.

"It's not..."

I was startled, and I shook violently, and squirted the soup in my mouth, but by coincidence, I just sprayed the man's face again...

"Your mother..."

"I'm sorry, big brother, I'm sorry..."

I hurriedly stood up and waved at him. The man wiped his face, and when he looked like that, he couldn't wait to jump up. But he suppressed his anger and made a smiling face, but the smile was even more ugly than the bitter look, and besides, the tone of his voice sounded strange...

"It's okay, little master, it's okay..."

I smiled awkwardly and turned around to see that it was an old man who had just spoken. The old man was at least eighty years old, with a long white beard on his chin and a crooked stick.

"The land temple was built under the foundation of the city wall, not because of that, but because of the city wall." The old man said.

"Who is this?" I pointed at the old man.

"This burns the shopkeeper's father." The man said.

"Uh-oh." I nodded.

"Sit, old man."

Yuxin gave him her stool, but the old man was not polite, and sat down tremblingly.

"Sit down." I got up and pushed the stool.

"No, I'll stand for a moment." Yuxin said.

"Then I'll stand like you." I smiled and looked at the old man, "Grandpa, do you know what that temple was built for?" ”

"Of course." The old man said, "The reason why the temple was built there is for the town... Ahem... Town..."

"What's in town?"

"Ahem, ahem... Suppress evil spirits..."

"Suppressing evil spirits?" My eyes widened.

"Ahh Oh, yes. ”

"What kind of evil is there?"

Although this old man is old, he is not confused, his thinking logic, and his ability to express himself are very clear and organized.

"It's a long story, and I've heard from the old generation..."

The old man told us that we should start from the time of the Ming Dynasty. I have summarized the old man's words in combination with history, and they are roughly as follows.

During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, moved the capital to Beijing. Before Zhu Di's rebellion, he was the king of Yan, and Beijing was called Yanjing in ancient times, which was his old nest, and he was used to living there. In addition, the border trouble was serious at that time, and Nanjing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, was located in the south of the Yangtze River, which was not conducive to controlling the situation in the north, so the capital was moved. From the perspective of human nature, no good person in history can be a good emperor. Zhu Di is not a good person, but he is a good emperor, without Zhu Di, there would be no today's Beijing, without Zhu Di, there would be no "Yongle Grand Canon"... It's far away, it is said that when Zhu Di just seized power, he moved the idea of moving the capital, so he set out to build his own nest in Beijing, which is today's Forbidden City. Before building the Forbidden City, he first had to do one thing, and that was to dredge the water. At that time, Beijing was not rich in materials at all, especially wood and stone, which were even more scarce for building the Forbidden City, and could only be transported from the south by the Grand Canal. Due to years of war, many sections of the northern section of the canal have been silted up and have long been blocked.

Therefore, in the second year of Zhu Di's usurpation of power, he set up the governor of Caoyun, as well as a series of large and small official positions, to renovate the canal and dredge Caoyun. After investing a lot of manpower and material resources, the work of river control went smoothly, and with the passage of time, sections of the river were opened. However, when they came to this section of ×× County, they encountered inexplicable obstacles, first it rained heavily for three days, and the work could not be carried out, and after the rain stopped, a heavy fog floated in the river, and there were many shouts faintly in the fog. Several of the river officials were frightened and reported it to the governor. When the governor came, he ordered a servant to take them down to see what was in the mist. I never thought that after those people went down, they would all disappear, and none of them came out of the fog...

As a result, no one dared to go down, and for three days in a row, the fog did not disperse, and the work of controlling the river could not be progressed. While the governor was at a loss, a young man came and volunteered to go down and see. So that same night, the young man walked alone towards the river without a single entourage... Everyone thought that the young man would definitely not come back, but they never thought that at noon the second day, the young man suddenly appeared in the governor's house.

He told the Governor that he already knew what was going on. But, no matter what the Governor asked, he would not say what was going on, only that if the Governor did what he said, he would guarantee that the fog in the river would disappear...

"And then, as the young man said, the governor built a temple under the wall?" I asked.

"Ahh The old man said.

"Does no one know where the young man came from?"

"I know later, the young man is from a small village on the edge of the Yellow River, surnamed Gao..."