Chapter 136: Dutou is a high-risk profession
"My master was afraid that he would make a mistake, so he first invited a doctor, and then invited him, and after three days, the guest's madness improved a little, and he intermittently told what he had seen and heard."
"He said that his real surname was Ning, and he was a merchant who collected debts, and he went to Qinghe County with a fellow to collect debts. Because I am not a local, I don't know the path, and when I got to Jingyanggang, I had nowhere to stay, so I found a ruined temple, called "Lanruo Temple", and lived there temporarily."
"It's just that at night, this surnamed Ning was hazy, and in his sleep, he saw a beautiful woman fluttering forward, wanting to do that *** thing. He was half-pushing and half-doing in his dream, and when he saw that he was about to do a good thing, he suddenly heard the screams of the guy next to him and woke up."
"When he awoke, he saw that his fellow was entangled in several arm-thick vines, and in just a few breaths he had changed from an obese man to a shriveled corpse, which frightened the man surnamed Ning into a delirium, and he fled with his legs, and arrived at Okashita at daybreak. It's also thanks to his usual caution that he tied his luggage and baggage to his body, so he didn't lose it."
"Listening to him, the people in Zhuang Shang don't believe it, if this Gangshang says that there is a jackal, tiger and leopard, it is still reliable. The hunters have been walking on the hill for many years, where do you see any Lanruo Temple? But the one surnamed Ning said that he had a nose and eyes, so a few bold people took knives, guns, and torches and went to find Nalan Ruo Temple."
Wu Song listened attentively and hurriedly asked, "Have you ever found it?"
The old man nodded and said, "I found it, there really is a ruined temple on the hill. It's just that there are no people in it, and there are no dryads and ghosts, and a few hunters have been looking for a long time, and they have returned disappointed."
Wu Song said disappointedly, "In this way, the ghost theory is just nothing?"
"No, no." The old man hurriedly waved his hand, with a very terrifying look on his face, "After that, there were two bold and good things in the village, and when they heard about the female ghost, they wanted to touch Yanfu."
"These two people pondered, and everyone didn't find anything last time, but there must have been too many people, and they went there in the blue sky and daytime. These ghostly creatures are all afraid of yang energy, and they can only appear after the sky is cloudy, so these two people went to the gang at night."
Wu Song hurriedly asked, "What's next?" Is it crazy? How?"
The old man whispered, "It's good if you're crazy! The two people went to the gang at night and did not return for three days, and the family was worried, so they asked the Taoist priest to divinate the hexagram, saying that they were dead, and the body was on the hill, and if they wanted to collect the body, they had to do it at noon three days later. But the two families thought they had been waiting for a long time, so they wept and cried and searched for it that day, and sure enough, they saw two dried corpses on the hill."
"Dry corpse?"
"Exactly, there was not a single trace of blood in his body, like the bark of a dead tree. But the more terrifying thing is still to come, the two families saw the child's corpse, and they were about to step forward to restrain it, but who knew that the corpse actually moved, opened their mouths and bit the throats of the two little guys!"
The old man's expression was very terrifying at this time, and his hands and feet trembled involuntarily.
"After that, the two families took a great deal of effort to cut the two dried corpses into several sections, so that it could not move. Later, he was afraid of another incident, so he directly burned the corpse and the little guy who was bitten to death, and the two families moved out of Yanggu County from then on, and there was no news again."
"Smack!!"
Suddenly, there was a crisp sound, and when I looked down, it turned out that Wu Song was stupid, and with the force in his hand, he crushed a wine glass.
Wu loosened his wine glass, wiped his hands and said, "In that case, why don't you care about it in this county?"
The old man said, "What's the matter? It's just weird here. When the magistrate heard this, he ordered the local soldiers in the county, and found a Taoist priest, who was brought by the capital, and came to Jingyanggang with great fanfare, and looked for it for three days, but he didn't even look at a brick."
"The Taoist priest said that this is the ghost in Lanruo Temple also has magic, and when he saw that there were many people, he hid the temple so that people could not find it. Unless one or two people walk alone, the ghost will manifest itself and absorb people's yang energy."
"Therefore, the magistrate left the Taoist priest on the hill, plus the first two of them, hoping that these two would catch the ghost. But another three days passed, and the Taoist priest and the head were nowhere to be seen, and no one was alive or dead. The magistrate was frightened, so he no longer cared about the matter, and only issued a list of documents, so that passers-by were not allowed to walk alone at night."
After listening to the old man's story, Wu Song knew in his heart that it seemed that he walked up to the hill alone last night, and he must have been worried about the ghosts in Nalanruo Temple
。 It's just that I keep more eyes on myself, be bold and careful, and I haven't been poisoned.
When they were full of wine and food, everyone carried out the big worm and put it on the tiger bed. All the rural households hung the Duan Pi bonus with Wu Song. Wu Song had some luggage packages and sent them to Zhuang. They all came out of the village.
There was already a minister from Yanggu County who came to pick up Wu Song. When they all met, they called the four Zhuang guests to take a sedan chair to carry Wu Song, carry the big insect in front, and also hang the bonus section horse, and welcome them to Yanggu County.
The people of Nayanggu County heard that a strong man killed the big insect on Jingyang Gang, and they all came out to see it, which coaxed the county magistrate.
"This can be a big harm to our Yanggu County, and in the future, we will always be able to walk on Jingyanggang during the day."
"Yes, I don't know what kind of hero he was able to kill a tiger with his bare hands?"
"To be able to kill a tiger is no ordinary person. If you beg him to go to Lanruo Temple to catch ghosts......
When Wu Song looked at the sedan chair, he saw that the shoulders were stacked on his back, making a lot of noise, and the streets and alleys were congested, all of which came to welcome the big insects. At the gate of the county office, the county was already waiting in the hall, and Wu Song got off the sedan chair. Carrying the big worms, they all went to the front of the hall and put them on the corridor.
The magistrate saw Wu Song's appearance like this, and saw this boss brocade worm again, and thought to himself: "It's not this man, how can you beat this tiger!" called Wu Song to the hall.
Wu Song went to the front of the hall and said. The magistrate asked, "You strong man who fights tigers, but you say how you beat this big worm?"
Wu Song talked about the ability to fight tigers in front of the hall, and many people in the hall and the hall were stunned. The magistrate gave a few glasses of wine to the hall, and gave Wu Song a thousand yuan of reward money from the upper house.
Wu Songyu said: "The villain relied on the blessing of the minister, and accidentally killed this big worm, how dare he be rewarded if it is not the ability of the villain. The villain heard that the hunters had been punished by the public for this big worm, and they had been guarding the hill all day, which was very hard. Why don't you let me take my place as an adult, and just scatter this thousand pieces for everyone to use?"
Zhixian said: "Since this is the case, let the strong man obey."
Wu Song scattered the reward money in the hall to everyone ,—— hunters. Seeing that he was loyal and benevolent, the magistrate wanted to promote him, so he said, "You not only have the ability to fight tigers, but you are also a righteous man. Although you were originally from Qinghe County, you are only a stone's throw away from my Yanggu County. I'll join you in making a capital in this county today, how about it?"
It turns out that since the last time Lanruo Temple caught ghosts, the position of the head of Yanggu County has been vacant, and all the public people are afraid that they will go to catch ghosts when they become the head of the capital, so they are all kinds of excuses.
Wu Song didn't know what was going on, he just wanted to go to Qinghe County to find his brother, but he didn't dare to agree.
"That's my uncle, I'm going to go over!"
"You said he was your uncle, and I said I was your grandfather!"
"Don't believe me? I don't believe you asked him to go!"
While he was talking, there was a sudden sound of a child arguing with someone in the crowd, Wu Song turned his head to look, and there was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy who squeezed through the crowd and came to Wu Song to talk to him.
Wu Song smiled, "How does this little brother recognize me?"
The kid asked, "Are you Wu Song from Qinghe County?"