Finally, I saw the thin Taoist priest flutter a few times, lying straight at the bottom of the pit, no longer moving.

I was overjoyed and said to Zhang Yuan: "It's done, he won't move." "

Then, involuntarily, he took two steps forward, wanting to see the situation of the thin Taoist.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Yuan shouted behind me: "Come back." "

This sound startled me, and I was just about to come back when I suddenly saw a black shadow flying out of the thin Taoist priest and rushing straight towards me.

I was horrified, and I hurriedly tried to escape back, but it was too late, and seeing that the dark shadow had already arrived in front of me, I already felt a gust of wind blowing on my face, piercing the flesh and cold, and freezing the bones numb.

At this moment, suddenly I saw a yellow talisman blocking in front of me. Immediately afterwards, as soon as the body warmed up, the gust of wind disappeared without a trace.

At this point, I couldn't hold it anymore, so I pounced and sat down on the ground.

At the moment when I fell to the ground, the abbot had already come in with a candle, and the room was immediately much brighter.

He poked the probe and asked my master, "Is there anything wrong?" "

My master nodded: "It's okay." Then he looked at me again and said, "You and the abbot, you two pull the little Taoist priest up." "

I had no choice but to get up from the ground, jump into the pit with the abbot one after the other, and then get the thin Taoist priest up.

At this time, I noticed that there was a lot of red powder scattered in the pit. I couldn't help asking, "Master, what did you just sow?" "

Zhang Yuan was looking at the yellow talisman in his hand under the lamp, and when he heard my question, he said lightly: "Cinnabar, and sulfur." After a few seconds, he said solemnly: "In the future, without my order, don't move, you were almost caught by the water ghost just now." "

I couldn't help but tremble when I remembered what I had just seen, so I nodded quickly.

The abbot looked at the yellow talisman in his master's hand and asked, "Master Zhang, has the water ghost caught it?" "

Zhang Yuan smiled bitterly and lit up the talisman in front of us: "Look, does this seem to be caught?" "

When I looked up, the talisman was half blackened as if it had been burned by fire.

I was a little surprised: "This water ghost is so powerful?" "

Zhang Yuan waved his hand again and again: "If this had been left before, he would have been gone." It's a pity that your master and I have been lying in the coffin for a few years, and my vitality is greatly damaged, so he ran away. But it doesn't matter, wait for me to delay for two days, and the gentleman will take revenge, ten years is not too late. "

I looked at the thin Taoist priest lying on the ground, his eyes closed, and he still looked unconscious.

I pointed at the thin Taoist: "Master, what's going on?" "

Zhang Yuan sighed: "It shouldn't be." Then he crouched down to check.

While Zhang Yuan was checking on the thin Taoist, the abbot whispered to me: "Xu You, your master's skills are not very good." Looks like a two-knife knife. "

Zhang Yuan didn't care about this, and still squatted on the ground to check the thin Taoist. After a few minutes, he stood up, his face and ugly.

I nervously asked, "What's wrong?" "

Zhang Yuan said lightly: "It's a blood contract." The little Taoist priest really didn't know what to do, and he actually made a blood pact with the water ghost. Once the blood contract is formed, it is closely related, and life and death are shared. Although the water ghost was driven away today, the thin Taoist priest may not be able to save it. "

There was a hint of sadness in my heart. Although he has only known the thin Taoist priest for a few days, he is enthusiastic and wants to learn Taoism, so he is a sincere and kind person. Seeing that good people are about to die, there is nothing we can do.

I sighed and said, "Can you only prepare for him?" "

Zhang Yuan thought for a while: "Generally, ghosts who make blood contracts with living people are either worshiped after death and want to harm people. If that's the case, there's nothing I can do right now. There is also a kind of wish that is not fulfilled when he dies, so he wants to use the power of the living to achieve his wish. If that's the kind of ghost, maybe there's a silver lining. "

I asked Zhang Yuan, "What kind of water ghost is this?" "

Zhang Yuan patted his head: "It's up to us to check it ourselves." I feel that this water ghost is not small, and he should have just died not long ago. "

That night, after some tossing, we were already very tired, Zhang Yuan didn't say anything more, and let us go to bed early.

The next day, before dawn, he woke me up on the grounds that "the rooster crows, it's time to get up." "

I got dressed sleepily: "Master, the sun hasn't come out yet." There's not even a car on the street, so where are we going? "

Zhang Yuan didn't answer, and pulled me to walk outside. I staggered to keep up, and couldn't help but ask, "Where the hell are you going?" "

Zhang Yuan looked up at the road: "By the river." Go to the place where the thin Taoist priest recruits water ghosts. "

At this time, I suddenly found a problem, Zhang Yuan walked through the streets and alleys, and seemed to be extremely familiar. So I couldn't help but ask, "Master, you have been lying in the coffin for more than ten years. Here all day building buildings and building roads, demolition today, illegal construction tomorrow, a few months to change the appearance, why do you still seem to be very familiar? "

Zhang Yuan waved his hand and said, "You forgot?" I am a cultivator, and I usually recuperate in a coffin, and sometimes my soul will come out to do something. "

However, when I asked Zhang Yuan again what he was doing, he still refused to say.

The two of us walked on two legs from the Great Temple to the river. Luckily, we woke up early, so when we walked to the river, it was just dawning.

Zhang Yuan walked around the river, then stood under the big tree by the river, and after a while, he said slowly: "A person once drowned here. "

I stood behind him, listening to what he said solemnly, I couldn't help but think about it and laugh: "Since it's a water ghost, who doesn't know that Lu Dao is drowned?" "

Then, Zhang Yuan actually sat down cross-legged, closed his eyes, and didn't say a word.

I stood by and waited for him for a while, and couldn't help but ask, "What are we doing now?" "

Zhang Yuan's words are like gold: "Wait." "

I didn't know why, so I sat down on a rock. Drowsiness in the morning light.

Suddenly, Zhang Yuan patted me on the shoulder and said, "It's here." "

I looked up and saw an old man doing morning exercises, with his hands behind his back, slowly walking over.

Zhang Yuan greeted him and asked, "Uncle, your old man exercises by the river every day?" "

The uncle's hair fell out, but he was in good spirits, and immediately replied: "Yes, I've been practicing for 30 years, you see me now, my eyes are not dazzled, my ears are not deaf, but my teeth are a little bad, and I can't eat hard things."

Zhang Yuan interrupted his nagging: "People have drowned in this river, do you know the road?" "

The old man came to the spirit again: "Knowing the Dao, of course knowing the Dao." This river, there are a lot of people who drowned, especially in those years, the red generals took people everywhere, one of my neighbors, I can't stand the criticism, on the way back"

Zhang Yuanyou waved his hand: "Needless to say, it's so far away, just recently, has anyone drowned here?" "

The old man's gaze was a little strange, and he nodded after a while: "Yes, there is a person who once drowned here, hey, since then, this river is not very peaceful, and I often hear ghosts crying in the middle of the night." Then he touched his chin again: "However, I don't seem to have heard it in a while." "

Zhang Yuan asked again: "Then do you know who drowned here?" "

The old man nodded again and again: "Knowing the Dao, of course knowing the Dao." The drowned one is a unit, the name seems to be Wu An, and the person is quite honest, working in a company. The money I earn is less, hehe, it's not as much as my pension old man. Now he's dead. Hey, there is a daughter-in-law left, who became a widow at a young age, and it is not easy to live. "

Zhang Yuan also sighed for a while, and then asked, "Which unit?" "

The old man casually pointed to a community by the river: "That's it, do you see?" The first building, one unit. "

The old man who exercised in the morning left, and Zhang Yuan and I slowly walked towards the community he said according to his instructions.

On the way, I was a little puzzled and asked, "How does this old man know so many things?" That Wu An shouldn't have been killed by him? "

Zhang Yuan looked strange: "These old men and old ladies have nothing to do, they just get together and chew their tongues together." Do you believe it or not? If you ask him what Wu An eats every day, he will also know it clearly. "

I was dumbfounded.

As we speak, we've walked to the community. The houses in the neighborhood are very old, and they are very quiet when you walk in, with advertisements plastered on the low walls. Zhang Yuan grabbed a little kid holding a cat in front of the building, and pointed to a unit: "Where is Wu An's house?" "

The little kid blinked and said crisply, "I don't know what to do." "

I walked over and touched the child's head: "Which family has died recently?" You know that, right? "

The child nodded again and again: "Zhilu Dao, Zhilu Dao, the family on the left is dead." My mom won't let me go to their house anymore. "

Zhang Yuan nodded and said to me, "Let's go." "

The one on the left is 101, a very primitive security door, Zhang Yuan and I walked over, and were about to knock on the door, suddenly, I felt that something was wrong.

What's so eerie in this hallway? The sun doesn't shine here, but it shouldn't be so cold.

Zhang Yuan took out a talisman from his arms, handed it to me, and instructed: "Put it in your heart, in case there is any situation, I can protect you." "

I didn't dare to slack off, so I hurriedly put it away as I said.

Immediately, Zhang Yuan knocked on the door a few times. The most primitive anti-theft door, welded by a large iron sheet, knocks on the earth. After a while, an unkempt man opened the door.

The man's hair was glued together and drooped down. There was a lot of dust on her face, and I took a closer look at her face. She should have eaten greens today, and of course, it was possible that she ate it yesterday.

I looked at it for a long time, and I could barely tell from her clothes that it was a woman.

The woman did not speak, wiped the tears on her face with the back of her dirty hand, and asked, "Who are you?" "

I took out a business card and handed it over: "Hello, I am"

The woman glanced down, then threw her business card on the ground: "I don't buy insurance." Then, turn around and close the door.