The land of Xiangxi is steep and steep, and the roads are rugged and difficult to travel, and it is very difficult for people to come and go, let alone send the coffin back to their hometown. Therefore, the legend of driving out corpses has been circulating here.

The art of expelling corpses, also known as Zhu Youshu, is a kind of mysterious witchcraft native to Xiangxi. It is said that the spell is cast with talisman paper to keep the corpse incorruptible and lead the corpse of the dead in a foreign land to return to its hometown.

The person who chases the corpse is called 'Mr. Corpse Chaser' and 'Corpse Chaser'. There are many schools of chasing corpses in the world, not to mention the major schools in the spiritual world such as the Maoshan faction, and there are hundreds of schools of thought in Xiangxi alone.

Shi Jian was ordered to go down the mountain this time in order to visit Mr. Xiang Sheng, one of the hundred clans who drove out the corpse, and settle an old grudge against a mundane matter.

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It's night, nameless mountain village.

The night covered the earth, and the few lights in the village were faint like fireflies, constantly extinguished by the darkness.

A crow landed on the treetops, opening its broken gong and howling dryly, adding a bit of gloom to this remote nameless mountain village.

In the dead of night, there was a knock on the door.

Shi Jian, who had already slept in a wide coat, sat up suddenly, the room was too dark to see his face clearly, and he vaguely heard the sound of rustling, and one hand had already reached under the pillow......

Under the pillow was a thick pile of yellow charms.

With one hand pinching the trick and the other holding the talisman, Shi Jian was bold and asked loudly, "Who is knocking on the door?" ”

"Brother Shi Jian, it's me, the sister-in-law of the Ding family." A female voice came into the room.

It turned out to be the owner of the house, knocking on the door in the middle of the night, trying to scare people to death.

Secretly slandering, Shi Jian couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and asked kindly: "Sister-in-law Ding, it's so late, is there anything wrong?" ”

Sister-in-law Ding said: "It's cold at night in the mountains, and my sister-in-law is afraid that you will catch a cold, so I will send you a bed quilt." You open the door. ”

If you don't send it during the day, you have to send it at night, there are many rights and wrongs in front of the widow's door, and the ancients are honest and don't deceive me.

I think the quilt is fake, but the greed for my body is real.

Not just anyone can help me give birth to Shi Shaojian.

Resolutely don't be fooled!

"Sister-in-law Ding, I am strong and strong, and I am not afraid of the cold. It's late, so go back and rest early. ”

Hearing the words 'strong and strong', Sister-in-law Ding's breathing became slightly heavy, and her voice was as soft as the wind, with a bit of pleading: "Brother Shi Jian, you open the door and leave after you send the quilt." ”

"Purr ......"

"Brother Shi Jian?"

"Gurgling ......"

Sister-in-law Ding shouted a few times without giving up, but there was no response in the house, and she couldn't open the door, so she had to leave in a huff, cursing something in her mouth.

"Gone?"

Shi Jian, who pretended to be asleep, got up, tiptoed out of bed, walked to the door and listened, but he didn't hear a human voice, so he couldn't help but sigh, "Boys must learn to protect themselves when they go out." ”

Thinking about it, he put two yellow talismans on the door.

If there are lights in the house, you will find that the doors, windows, and walls are covered with yellow charms, and even the mosquito nets around the bed are also pasted with charms, making it look like a haunted house.

It's not that Shi Jian is cowardly and timid, in this wilderness, there are ghosts and spirits in the wilderness, and if you encounter a strong ghost, you have to shed your skin if you don't die.

In short, there is nothing wrong with being careful.

No, the ghost didn't guard against it, but it guarded against a widow.

Therefore, people's hearts are sinister.

After walking a few steps back, he slapped two more talismans on the door uneasily, and then went back to bed to sleep.

In the second half of the night, he had a very outrageous dream.

In the dream, he got married, and the bride's surname was Lin Fengjiao, who was a handsome girl from ten miles and eight towns near Maoshan, and I don't know how many people remembered.

However, Shi Jian lifted the red hijab and saw that Nima was Lin Jiu......

Shi Jian was immediately frightened awake, sat up from the bed suddenly, and gasped for breath, "It's damned, it's terrible, I dreamed of Ah Jiu for no reason, could it be that I miss him too much, thinking about it day and night?" ”

"He didn't want to be like this before he went to Maoshan Mountain, and he still got to Maoshan Mountain?"

"Inexplicable! It's just inexplicable! The orientation of the past and present lives is very normal, and it is outrageous to dream of marrying him. ”

I looked at the doors and windows, and saw that it was already dawn, and the sunlight was shining through the window paper, and golden particles of light were flying all over the room.

"Get up."

Get dressed, take off hundreds of yellow charms from doors, windows, walls, and mosquito nets, fold them neatly, and put them in your carry-on bag one by one. These talismans are not broken, and they can still be used.

After packing up his things, Shi Jian opened the door and walked out.

"Ah, what a comfortable sunshine." Stretching in the sunlight, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a person sitting at the door of the hall.

It was a woman in her early thirties, with a floral jacket on her upper body and a floral cloth skirt on her lower body, a plump figure, and her complexion was whiter than that of ordinary peasant women, and she was a healthy wheat color.

At this moment, Sister-in-law Ding's expression was sluggish, the dark circles under her eyes were clearly visible, and a pair of eyes were staring at Shi Jian like a ghost.

Shi Jian showed an embarrassed but polite smile, and saluted Sister-in-law Ding: "Sister-in-law Ding, you stayed with me so that I wouldn't stay overnight in the wilderness, Shi Jian is very grateful." I'm a Taoist priest, and I don't have much money on me, so I'll leave two yellow talismans as a reward. Sister-in-law, remember that the charm should not be wet, otherwise it will not work. ”

Sister-in-law Ding didn't say a word, staring at him directly, and the meaning couldn't be clearer: I don't want to match, I want you.

Shi Jian's scalp was numb when she saw it, and he coughed dryly: "Sister-in-law Ding, I can understand what the people in the village say, I want to go to Lishui County, see if you can show me the way." Please. ”

Stretching out his hand and not hitting the smiling person, people are so polite, Sister-in-law Ding is not good to continue to hold it, and said with a grudge on her face: "Little wrongdoer!" ”

"Lishui County is in the south, out of the village, follow the path on the right."

Shi Jian was overjoyed, "Thank you, sister-in-law." I'm leaving. ”

With that, he strode away.

"Eh......" Sister-in-law Ding saw that he walked neatly and didn't think about it at all, so she stood up angrily, yawned and went to the hall, "The old lady thought about you all night, and you just left." Okay, I'll let you go to Lishui County, and sooner or later you'll come back to me. ”

"Hmph."

I'd rather offend the villain, don't offend the woman, Shi Jian is considered to have seen it today, didn't he reject her once, can he lead himself to death?

Looking at the cliff one step ago, Shi Jian once again felt the malice brought by the world.

"It's impossible to go back."

"Women like to talk the opposite, she said on the right hand, the true way must be on the left."

Why?

There are three roads at the entrance of the village, one is the way to come, one is the dead road into the mountain, and the other one is not the road to Lishui County?

It's a good choice.

Re-embarked on the road, and soon Shi Jian was in trouble again, the boundless mountains and forests, and if he was not careful, he would get lost. After going around for a day, Shi Jian came out of the mountains and forests.

"Poor mountains and bad waters, it's just poor mountains and bad waters!"

When the sun sets and night falls, the quiet mountains and forests seem to come alive and become lively. All kinds of animals are infested, and the roar of the beast is faintly heard.

Shi Jian sensed the crisis, quickened his pace, and planned to get out of this wilderness before it got dark, and it was best to find a family to spend the night.

After a while, the sky completely darkened, Shi Jian's good wishes were disappointed, of course, it was not completely disappointed, the people who stayed there did not find it, and found a deserted mountain temple.

This mountain temple must have been abandoned for a long time, because it has been in disrepair for a long time, the wall is poured into the east and the west, the wooden door is full of cracks, the paint has also fallen off, and it has been dusty by the wind and rain, but it is still strong.

Push the door in, and the inside is even more dilapidated.

Tall weeds grew at the foot of the courtyard walls and in the cracks of the bluestone slabs on the ground, the doors and windows were tattered, cobwebs were everywhere, and a thick layer of dust fell on the statues of mountain gods, offering tables, incense burners, and futons, and it looked like no one had cleaned them for a long, long time.

With a gentle blow, a cloud of dust was raised, choking Shi Jian and coughing.

It was dark, and Shi Jian was not sure if there were people near the mountain temple, and it was too dangerous to walk at night, so he was ready to rest in the mountain temple for a night, and set off again at dawn tomorrow.

"Mountain God, you haven't seen popularity in many years, tonight the kid will spend the night with you, you can bless me."

Take out three sticks of incense from the satchel, flip your wrist, and the incense will automatically ignite.

"Honor you, enjoy slowly."

Inserting the incense into the incense burner, Shi Jian leaned over to clean up the temple, intending to get a clean place to rest.

Just then, there was a creaking sound behind him.

The gate of the mountain temple is open!