Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Past
Zhang Tude looked at his work with great satisfaction, and after admiring it for a while, he hung the corpse of Lin Xianling, who had lost his hands and feet, on the plaque of Zhengda Guangming, presumably the official who opened the door the next day would be shocked to see this scene.
At this time, it was already night, and Zhang Tude deliberately took advantage of the night to sneak into Lin Xianling's house and kill him, and then brought his body to the county office.
After this was done, Zhang Tude left Weishan County and walked towards the mountain where Bu Shiren was located, but he had not left the county seat far before a carriage stopped in front of him.
Looking at the coachman in the carriage wearing black cloth, Zhang Tude recognized at a glance that this was Gao Wen's carriage, he opened the curtain of the carriage, and found that Gao Wen, who had not been seen for many days, was indeed on the carriage, and there was a dead body lying on the carriage board, but the upper body was covered by a black cloth, and he couldn't see it clearly.
Gao Wen pointed to the corpse, and then said to Zhang Tude
"Sorry, I had some trouble on the way, so I was delayed for a few days."
"But you seem to have experienced a lot of things in that county these days."
After Zhang Tude got into the carriage, he found a place to sit down and asked
"Are we going to continue our deal?"
Perhaps it is the experience of the past few days that has changed Zhang Tude, he is no longer as submissive as when he first came into contact with Gao Wen, but the two are more like real collaborators.
Gao Wen saw the change in Zhang Tude, but he was not angry, but said with a smile
"Of course I have to continue, in order to apologize for my delay for coming a few days late, I will increase the remuneration to your satisfaction, but you can tell me about what happened in Weishan County in the past few days."
So Zhang Tude told Gao Wen about his experience in Weishan County in the past few days, but in the process of speaking, he removed the existence of Chen's father and daughter, after all, being known by Gao Wen's evil cultivator is not good for the father and daughter.
Gao Wen nodded after listening
"Well, it looks like it's pretty much the same thing I know."
Looking at Gao Wen's appearance, it seems that he knows what happened in Weishan County, could it be that he has been in Weishan County in the past few days?
seemed to see Zhang Tude's doubts, and Gao Wen continued
I've also heard from others, do you know why Shi Ren caught so many children?
Zhang Tude shook his head, for Bu Shiren, Zhang Tude could only kill him and say anything else.
"Don't worry, the place we are going to now should be able to meet that Bu Shiren, but it just so coincides, your experience in the past few days, the troubles I have encountered, and the things I am ready for you to help do, these three are more or less related."
"There's still some way to that mountain, would you be interested in listening to me?"
"Okay."
"This whole thing actually starts with the follow-up to the story you heard in the teahouse......"
Under Gao Wen's narration, Zhang Tude knew the follow-up to Wu Da's unfinished story.
Liu Qiao met the woman who called himself a fairy in the mountains and later became his wife named Mu Ling, Liu Qiao later did follow the founding emperor of the Four Qi Dynasty Fu Ye uprising, and became the founding general of the Four Qi Dynasty, and he lived a good life with his wife and the "old mother" after becoming famous, but one day, Fu Ye suddenly called him into the palace.
In the palace, Fu Ye personally met with Liu Qiao, and told him the true identity of Mu Ling and the truth of his mother's resurrection, it turned out that there was an ancient tomb in the mountain where Liu Qiao went, this ancient tomb was built by an ancient country called the Serving Immortal Kingdom, after the Serving Immortal Kingdom was destroyed by the Great Qi, the last monarch of the Serving Immortal Kingdom took some people to hide in the ancient tomb and lived in it for many years, and Mu Ling must be the descendants of these people.
And Liu Qiao's mother is not really alive, but the corpse was manipulated by Mu Ling with magical powers, perhaps there was a trend of chaos in the world at that time, and the remnants of various countries appeared one after another, and Mu Ling was not willing to stay in the tomb all the time, and when he came out, he met Liu Qiao and felt that Liu Qiao had potential, so he invested in him, and Liu Qiao did become a big man.
In the process of the uprising of Fu Ye, the founding emperor of the Four Qi Dynasty, there were also many remnants like Mu Ling to help, and they hoped that Fu Ye could help them restore the country, but how could this be possible? After Fu Ye built the Four Qi, he got rid of these people, but for Na Mu Ling, Fu Ye asked Liu Qiao what his plans were.
Liu Qiao asked Fu Ye to let Mu Ling go, he was willing to resign, become a common man, and live an ordinary life with Mu Ling from then on, Fu Ye Nian finally agreed to Liu Qiao on the old relationship, just let him take strict care of his wife, forbid her to use magical powers in the future, and rewarded a lot of gold and silver treasures, so that Liu Qiao returned to his hometown to live a rich life.
Liu Qiao went home and told Mu Ling about it, but did not blame her, still treated her as before, Mu Ling was also deeply moved, made up his mind to live a good life with Liu Qiao, and then buried his mother again, the two returned to their hometown of Weishan County, because Liu Qiao changed his name at that time, and he has practiced military magic for many years, his appearance has changed a lot, and no one in the county recognized him as that Liu Qiaofu, only knew that he was a big man.
Soon after returning to her hometown, Mu Ling found out that she was pregnant.
Speaking of this, Gao Wen suddenly stopped, opened the kettle next to him and drank a few sips of water, which made Zhang Tude feel that Gao Wen at this time was not like an evil cultivator who had killed countless people, but more like a storyteller in a teahouse.
After drinking the water, Gao Wen said slowly
"If the story ends here, it would be a good ending, but unfortunately not."
Mu Ling, who was just pregnant, found that strange things often happened around her, such as her pets often dying inexplicably, and she also saw people who had died many years ago.
It turned out that after the king took those people into the tomb, he used his magical powers to cast a spell on those people, so that they and their descendants could not leave the tomb for a long time, otherwise the disaster would befall the person who went out.
"Hee-hee-hee."
"Roar."
At this moment, two voices suddenly came from outside the carriage, the laughter of children and the roar of some kind of beast, which interrupted the storytelling, and he looked out the window of the car, and Zhang Tude also recognized one of the voices, it should be a headhunter, they seemed to have encountered something.
"What's going on out there?"
Zhang Tude asked, but Gao Wen looked out the window for a while, closed the curtain, and then continued to him like a nobody
"Small question, let's continue to tell that story, but the reason why the king cursed those people is not important in this story, I'll tell you after that ancient tomb, let's skip it for now."
The story returns to Liu Qiao, Liu Qiao in order to save his wife and the child in her belly, he went into the mountain again to the ancient tomb, and wanted those remnants to hand over the method of unraveling the curse, but obviously did not negotiate, and finally Liu Qiao and they still fought, although the remnants died a lot, but Liu Qiao was also seriously injured, so he had to retreat to the bottom of the mountain first, and let a servant go to the prison to ask for reinforcements.
And the servant's name was Bu Zhong, this man was the ancestor of the Bu family, on the way, the remnants stopped him, secretly made a deal with him, let him trick Liu Qiao into reinforcements coming, and led Liu Qiao to a place, promising to give him a large amount of treasure afterwards.
In this way, Liu Qiao was led by Bu Zhong to the place where the remnants set up an ambush, and was finally killed.
Speaking of this, Gao Wen actually sighed
"It's a pity that a generation of heroes died because their servants betrayed themselves."
Mu Ling also died of illness soon after, after her death, Bu Zhong left with the treasures in the tomb and the money of the Liu family, but Bu Zhong did not enjoy a few years of wealth, and the family continued to suffer, it turned out that the king of the immortal country not only cast a spell on people, but also those treasures.
The disaster of the Bu family has been passed down from generation to generation, although it will not make the Bu family completely extinct, but each generation of the Bu family will have many deaths and injuries, and the pain will be unbearable, until the generation of Bu Shiren's grandfather, due to the lack of records, he mistakenly thought that the remnants in the ancient tomb were Shangxian, and the disaster of the Bu family was the anger of Shangxian.
In order to solve this disaster, Grandpa Bu Shiren moved to Weishan County with his family, trying to calm the anger of the remnants of the tomb through some kind of ritual of sacrificing ghosts and gods, and asking them to solve the disaster on the Bu family.
After the sacrifice, Bu Shiren's grandfather died of illness soon after, but since then the Bu family has been safe and sound, until these days, there are strange things happening around the Bu family, Bu Shiren thinks that the disaster is coming again, so he wants to learn from his grandfather to sacrifice, and those children who were captured are sacrifices.
Hearing this, Zhang Tude understood why Bu Shiren wanted to arrest so many children, and Zhong Hai, who went crazy, the fire of the Bu family may also be related to the disaster of the Bu family, he asked
"Is it really effective to have a sacrifice that requires so many people to be killed?"
Hearing this question, Gao Wen actually smiled and said
"The interesting thing is here, I have seen that sacrifice, I don't know where it came from, in fact, it has no effect, and you think about it, the remnants have been in the tomb for so many years, in fact, because of the curse on their bodies, they can't unlock it themselves, how can they help the Bu family unravel it?"
"I guess those sacrifices may still be of some use to the remnants, so they still coaxed the Bu family to solve the calamity and accepted those sacrifices."
"Then why hasn't there been an accident in the Bu family for decades before?"
Gao Wen didn't answer Zhang Tude's question, he took out a bottle from the bag next to him and put it in front of Zhang Tude
"There are ten Yangshou Pills in this bottle, if you can guess what is the reason why the Bu family has been safe and sound for decades, this bottle will be given to you."