Chapter 55: The Rules of a Ghost Town
Shen Yu's frightened shouts came from outside the house.
Lin Yanxi and Shen Muzhou walked out when they heard this, and they were also frightened by the scene in front of them.
The trees in the yard were withered, weeds were reborn, there were no yellow charms and wind chimes on the doors, and thick cobwebs were piled up on the beams of the houses.
The four of them searched together, but there was no one in the whole house, Jiang Cong and his cousin didn't know where to go, and they didn't even find the room where they lived.
"Here, there was a goldfish here yesterday, and the fish was three feet long, why is it gone?"
Shen Yu pointed to the dry pool, his voice trembling a little.
Not only is there no water in the pool, but also the bottom of the pool is covered by fallen leaves, which has not been used for a long time, and the rockery is white because of the lack of water because it is untended all year round, and the weeds are grown.
They walked down the corridor again, and there were thick cobwebs everywhere, and even a few of the exterior walls of the old house were already in ruins, and the paper on the wooden windows was tattered, and the doors "creaked" when the wind blew. qδ
The sun shone directly on the eaves of the house, and could not dispel the dilapidated desolation of the house.
Further on, there are traces of burning, and there are several tablets in the lobby, all of which are old people of the Jiang family.
There are a few words engraved under the tablet - Jiang Congli.
The tablets were placed one by one, and there were eighty-three of them, and the nearest row actually had the names of several of them written on them.
"Lin Yanxi, Shen Muzhou, Xiaoliu, Shen Yu?" Shen Yu looked at the entire tablets engraved with their names and felt a chill down his spine, and a chill came out of his heart.
The difference is that the other tablets are black wood with white letters engraved on them, while their names are bright red.
Shen Muzhou picked up a tablet, touched the red font on it, his fingers were dyed red, he put it under the tip of the pen and sniffed it, and a rust-like smell of blood penetrated the tip of his nose.
"It's blood, and it's new."
On the offering table under the tablet are decayed tributes.
"What do you see these offerings, apples, roast chicken, snacks, wine?" Shen Yu looked at the tribute in disbelief.
Lin Yanxi frowned and said, "That's what we ate yesterday."
Shen Yu ate the most, he looked at the plate crawling with white maggots, rotting and smelly tribute, he covered his mouth and ran out, retching.
Shen Muzhou asked, "Is it an illusion?" Dementor bells?"
Lin Yanxi closed her eyes and felt it, she shook her head in disappointment and said, "I don't feel any spells here."
How can they explain it all but illusion.
Shen Muzhou proposed, "Let's get out of here first."
The four of them struggled to push open the wooden door, and some people on the street looked at them in horror, and immediately staggered their gazes, and quickly ran away as if they had encountered a plague god.
Lin Yanxi grabbed a passing woman and asked, "Auntie, I want to ask the house......
The eldest lady hurriedly pulled out her sleeve and said, "I don't know, don't ask me."
After she took a few steps, she patted the clothes on her body with a gloomy face, as if Lin Yanxi would bring her some plague god when she touched her clothes just now.
Lin Yanxi also wanted to ask the people on the street again, but Shen Muzhou grabbed her, "They won't say it."
A beggar sat diagonally across the house, Shen Muzhou looked at it and walked straight over and asked, "What happened to this house?"
The beggar said with a look of disgust, "Seeing that you are dressed extraordinarily, why do you even live in the house of the dead?"
"A dead man's house? Isn't this the Jiang family's mansion?" Lin Yanxi asked.
The beggar looked like he wanted to say something, waved his hand, and said, "I don't know anything, so let's go."
Xiao Liu pulled out a long knife and put it on the beggar's neck.
Shen Muzhou looked at him coldly and said, "Don't say it?"
The beggar was stunned by fright, looked at the house behind them again, swallowed his saliva and said, "Adults, let me go, I'm just a little beggar, I really don't know anything."
Xiao Liu's knife pressed down a few more points.
The beggar screamed in pain, "Ah, I've killed someone, I've bullied a beggar, even if you kill me, I won't say anything."
The people passing by around cast their eyes with pity, but no one dared to come to the rescue.
Shen Muzhou's eyes were full of murderous intent and said, "It turns out that I don't know, I can't say it. Little Six."
Xiao Liu's blade stood on the beggar's neck, and with a single swipe, it would cut his throat.
Lin Yanxi grabbed Xiao Liu's arm in time, she looked at Shen Muzhou and said, "Let's think of another way."
Shen Muzhou paused, nodded, and motioned for Xiao Liu to put away the knife.
Just as a few people were about to leave, Shen Yu spoke, "Oh, there is only one way to solve the problem in this world."
As he spoke, he took out a gold leaf from his body, and the beggar's eyes immediately lit up, and even his head shook with the gold leaf.
"If you tell us about this house, the gold leaf will be yours."
The little beggar smiled and spread out his hand to take the gold leaf, but when he heard that it was related to the house, he hesitated and said, "A few nobles, it's not that I don't say it, this house is very evil, and everyone in the town knows that whoever touches this house will definitely die."
Shen Yu shook the gold leaf, pretending to put it in his purse and said, "Really? Then I won't embarrass you."
The little beggar's eyes were eager to see that the gold leaf was about to be put into his pocket, and he said with an open expression, "Eh, wait, wait, wait. Oh, it took me a beggar a few lifetimes to earn a golden leaf, okay! Whatever you want, I'll tell you."
Lin Yanxi showed a smile and asked, "What about this Jiang family?"
The little beggar sighed and said, "It's all dead."
"The Jiang family was originally a famous family in the capital, and their family knew how to use talismans to draw yellow talismans for the people. Ordinary people who have no money do not receive silver gifts. Later, I don't know why the Jiang family no longer draws talismans, and the family is in the middle of the road."
Because her grandfather Jiang Qi died, there was no one in the Jiang family who could draw talismans to save lives.
Lin Yanxi learned about Jiang from someone else's mouth for the first time, she clenched her palms, her eyes were sad.
The little beggar recalled the past and said: "Jiang Zhai moved to this town after the decline, Jiang Cong is a descendant of the Jiang family, but he is a good person, the drought in the first few months, all rely on his family to release water and grain, and the people have been able to live until now, it seems that he experienced a fire a few years ago, and there is a large burn on his arm, and I don't know if it is because of this, there is no woman around him."
Yesterday, when her grandfather grabbed her by the sleeve, a large burn was revealed on her arm......
Countless terrifying conjectures grew in Lin Yanxi's mind, like a cold-blooded poisonous snake spitting out a letter and slowly crawling through her heart, making her creepy.
The little beggar continued, "Since all the people in this Jiang Mansion died, this house has been deserted, and it is a troubled time, and the people do not have enough to eat, and some have crooked thoughts, sneaking in to get some valuable objects, or want to spend the night."
"But everyone has never returned, and there are often women crying and whispering in this house at night, this is a ghost house."
"That's all I know, but I'll tell you."
Shen Yu threw the gold leaf in his hand to him, Shen Muzhou saw that Lin Yanxi was a little depressed, and his slightly cold palm wrapped Lin Yanxi's little hand.
Only then did she come back to her senses, glanced at Shen Muzhou, and shook off his hand.
A few people walked out of the alley, the beggar held the gold leaf in his hand and looked at it repeatedly, his mouth was happy, and he suddenly thought that he seemed to have seen a group of people come to Jiang Cong a few days ago.
After that, Jiang Cong drove them out, pasted a few yellow charms and hung a string of bells on the door, and then Jiang Cong died a few days later.
"Eh......" When the little beggar tried to stop them, they were already far away.
Shen Yu rode on his horse, knocked on the sedan chair and asked, "Where are we going next?"
Shen Muzhou lifted the curtain and looked at him and said, "I think you can go back, you are a gold leaf in your hand, even if you don't have your father's money, you."
I won't be able to drink the northwest wind for a while."
Shen Yu rode a horse and smiled embarrassedly, it was true that his father asked him to help Xiao Jiu recover the jade talisman, the most important thing was that Luo Jingxin said that as long as he helped Shen Muzhou find the jade talisman, he would marry him.
Lin Yanxi sat in the carriage and said slowly, "Yesterday, my grandfather grabbed my sleeve, and he almost tried his best to squeeze out a word and run. When he grabbed me, he had a large burn on his arm."
Shen Muzhou thought for a moment and asked, "You mean, the ancestor is Jiang Cong?"
Lin Yanxi was a little dazed, and she couldn't figure out how this was possible.
"I'm more worried about the safety of the rest of the Jiang family now, if Jiang Cong's side is killed, and the rest of the Jiang family is scattered all over Nanmin after they split up, will they also be in danger?"
At that moment, the death of her mother resurfaced in front of her eyes, as well as the tragic situation of the Taifu Mansion being beheaded in her previous life, an unprecedented sour and angry entangled in her heart for a long time and could not be dispersed, and she couldn't breathe in pain.
In her first life, she couldn't protect anything, but these people all died with an even more tragic ending.
Shen Muzhou saw that she was sad, and he once again put his big hand on her slender little hand, "Don't be afraid, the Dark Night Division is all over the Moon Shadow, and I will let the Dark Night Division protect the other descendants of the Jiang Clan." Now that we've formed an alliance, you and I are your last support."
At the moment when she was cared for by him, her originally hard defense line seemed to collapse in an instant, she wanted to push him away, and wanted to pretend to be strong to tell him that she didn't need to, but she couldn't.
Mother and Yugu had accidents one after another, and Shen Qingyun was calculating step by step in the Taifu Mansion, and the pressure accumulated in her heart made her sensitive and vulnerable.
She forced her crying, her throat choked, and he changed his previous detachment, pinched her tender white little face and said, "I love to cry so much."
Lin Yanxi sat up straight, shook off his hand, wiped away the tears on his face, and turned his head awkwardly to stop looking at him.
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East Palace.
The prince stood in front of the window and asked, "Where are they?"
Tai Fu Lin replied, "I will enter the ghost town tonight."
Shen Qingyun turned his eyes back and suppressed his anger and said, "Master Taifu, but your heart is soft?"
Lin did not reply.
Shen Qingyun sneered lightly and said, "Master Taifu, don't forget, it was your daughter who insisted on rescuing Shen Muzhou and ruined our plan!" If I want to miss again in the ghost city, I really have to wonder if Taifu has already recognized Shen Muzhou as a good son-in-law."
Once you enter a ghost town, life and death will not be investigated.
This is the rule of ghost towns.