Volume 1 Conspiracy Chapter 24 The Empty Tomb
The sun and the moon change, and night falls.
On a flat ground outside the village, Li Chongli and his wife set up a tent and lit a fire, and Li Chongli sat by the fire, holding a branch of a tree with a rabbit that had been stripped of its fur.
On the other side, Qing Ruxu was holding the tattered badge and was fascinated, looking at the left side for a while, and then looking at the right side, it seemed that the badge could see a different mark in his eyes.
"I said, Qingdao Chief, have you seen anything by looking at the badge for a long time?" Li Chongli asked jokingly as he roasted a rabbit next to the fire.
"Cough~ It's almost there!" Qingru Xu turned his head, coughed dryly, and said softly.
Two days have passed, and Li Chong's plan to leave for Qianlong Yuan was delayed by this sudden incident for two days, but fortunately, he got a small harvest in Xifeng Mountain, which was not in vain, and he also met Qing Ru Xu, the Taoist of a humble gentleman in front of a stranger, although he was not in front of him.
Li Chongli shook his head with a smile, turned the rabbit in his hand, and sprinkled a little salt on his hand, the smell of the aroma was wafting, making his mouth water.
"Ouch!! ouch. ”
Qingru Xu on the side was suddenly startled, so frightened that the rabbit in Li Chongli's hand almost fell into the fire, Li Chongli turned his head to look at Qingru Xu, only to see Qingru Xu covering his fingers, flicking and blowing, as if he was injured by something.
Li Chongli asked suspiciously, "Qingdao Chief, what's wrong with you?"
Qingru Xu sighed towards his fingers and said with a wry smile: "Hehe.. It's okay, it's okay, it's a mistake, it's a mistake. ”
Shaking his head, he continued to roast the rabbit in his hand very helplessly, meditating in his heart that this Qingru Xu is too unreliable, is this the Taoist priest who came out of Bagua Mountain, the impression is really unforgettable.
After half a stick of incense, Li Chongli's rabbit was finally roasted, and the young Confucian Xu on the side immediately rushed over with the appearance of a starving ghost, which had the appearance of the village chief's house today, and saw that he was about to grab the rabbit, and was instantly scalded by the high temperature of the rabbit and jumped up.
"Hahahaha... You are in a hurry.. What's the hurry, there's... Have your portion to eat, and look at your starving ghost reincarnated. Li Chongli stood on the edge of the fire, looking at Qing Ruxu's jumping up and laughing.
Qingru Xu frantically blew his hot hands, occasionally putting his hands on the earlobes to cool them down, that embarrassed look, it really made people want to laugh.
"Don't laugh, don't laugh, break me in half, I'm going to faint from hunger. Qingru Xu straightened his body, put his hot hand behind him, looked at Li Chongli, who was laughing heartily, and said with some embarrassment.
When Li Chongli heard this, he slowly stopped laughing, but he still kept the laughing face on his face, and vigorously broke out half of the rabbit meat and handed it to Qingru Xu, who saw that the rabbit meat was in front of him, so it didn't matter if Li Chongli smiled or not, he picked up the other half of the rabbit meat and put it to his mouth and gnawed it.
Looking at Qingru Xu's eating appearance regardless of his image, Li Chongli also ate the rabbit meat in his hand, but in comparison, Li Chongli ate more gently, chewing slowly and enjoying the delicious food he made, his face revealing enjoyment.
Soon, Qingru Xu finished eating the rabbit meat in his hand, and didn't seem to feel full, and looked at Li Chongli with half of the rabbit breast meat left in his hand, and swallowed his saliva.
Although Li Chongli was concentrating on enjoying the delicious food in his hands, he still felt the hungry wolf-like eyes on the side, and reluctantly handed him the remaining half of the rabbit breast.
"Eat slowly, don't choke to death, I won't collect the body. Li Chongli wiped his mouth and looked at Qingru Xu's gobbling up and said.
Qingru Xu's mouth was full of rabbit meat, and he muttered something, Li Chongli didn't hear anything clearly, smiled on his lips, and then took out the pot of wine from his waist that seemed to never finish drinking, raised his head and drank two sips.
"Ahh It's so full!hiccup~" Qingru Xu burped without scrupling about the image, and patted his bulging belly, indeed like a starving ghost reincarnated.
Stretching his waist, he glanced at Li Chongli, who was drinking, and then at Li Chongli's waist, there was a crescent-shaped jade pendant pinned to his waist, which was even more conspicuous under the moonlight, Qingru Xu pointed to the crescent-shaped jade pendant and asked: "Li Shaoxia, is the jade pendant on your waist a space utensil that can store items?"
Hearing this, Li Chongli touched the crescent-shaped jade pendant and said with a smile: "Hehe... Think so. ”
This crescent-shaped jade pendant was bought by Li Chongli on the black market three years ago, the name is called Yuanqi, taken from the moon is cloudy and sunny, I heard that it was a gift from a woman to her husband, but then how it got to the hands of the black market merchant is unknown, Li Chongli bought it, and has been using it as a storage utensil.
"Eat and drink enough, it's time to do something!" Qingru Xu pointed to the west, it was the direction of the West Wind Mountain, and the two of them were going to the foot of the West Wind Mountain tonight to take a look at the graves of the husband and wife.
It was another matter of choosing to set off at night, and this matter was naturally proposed by Qingru Xu, although Li Chongli was very reluctant at the time, but this Qingru Xu kept chattering in his ear, and Li Chongli could only agree.
This time, the two of them did not enter the West Wind Mountain, and there would be no danger in the future, Li Chongli comforted in his heart, plus since he had the silver light ball, his cultivation had grown again, even if he encountered any danger, he still had the ability to protect himself.
The two put out the campfire, left the tent, and headed west.
"If we run into that Wang Jinmeng in a while, we will run, what does Li Shaoxia think?"
"Aren't you taking it as your mission to subdue demons and eliminate demons, how can you run away when you see ghosts? ”
"You have to beat it. ”
"Why don't you try again, you do this first..."
The two talked about Wang Jinmeng's unjust soul in the West Wind Mountain along the way and discussed how to deal with this fierce Wang Jinmeng again, Li Chongli's idea was to let Qingru Xu go up first to inquire about what happened to the two of them at the beginning, what grievances were unwilling to stay in this human world, if they couldn't talk, Li Chongli used his sneak attack to learn and give her a sword again.
Qingru Xu naturally shook his head violently after hearing this, and negotiated with Wang Jinmeng, that is not to push himself into the tiger's mouth, and to say that he is a Taoist priest, it is one thing for Wang Jinmeng to believe it or not.
The two of them discussed strategies as they walked, and soon came to the foot of Zephyr Mountain, where under the moonlight, the weeds that grew up to half a man covered the road in front of them, and they couldn't tell where to enter.
"Hey~"
I saw Qing Ru Xu throw a talisman into the air, and after reciting two vague words in his mouth, he made a gesture like an immortal pointing forward, and then saw that the air spell spread out, and as an orange road split from the weeds, Qing Ru Xu slowly withdrew his gesture.
"Let's go! Qingru Xu gave Li Chongli a gesture of invitation, and said with a proud smile on his face.
Li Chongli secretly gave this method a thumbs up, although it was not a powerful spell, but it made Li Chongli very novel, thinking about when he had time, go to Bagua Mountain to learn a trick and a half, and when he was old, it would be good to perform tricks for his grandchildren there.
If this idea let Qing Ruxu know that the two of them would not be able to go to the grave, Qing Ruxu might let Li Chongli taste how ruthless that "trick" was.
Then they walked together into the path that had been carved out, and it was not too far, and they soon came to two graves overgrown with weeds, which had covered them like two high slopes.
The two of them tidied up the weeds a little, revealing the appearance of two tombs, and in front of them were still the clay bowls left over from the years of worship, which were worn out and filled with gaps left by time, and the bowls had been filled with earth.
The tombstone in front of the grave is made of wooden planks at random, and the words on it have been eroded and not very clear, but if you look closely, you can still see that the names of the husband and wife are engraved on the tombstone.
"What do you do now?" Li Chongli cleaned the weeds on the grave and the weeds around the grave, turned his head and asked softly.
Qing Ruxu sighed and said, "Let's worship first, and have a sense of reverence for ghosts and gods." Then he took out a stack of incense candles from the package, lit them and planted them in front of the grave.
Li Chongli waited on the side for Qing Ruxu to finish the worship, and continued to ask, "What should I do next?"
"Let's dig up these two graves, I suspect that the bones of their husband and wife are not in them at all!" Qingru Xu turned his head to look at Li Chongli, his eyes shining, and he said in a somewhat gloomy tone.
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Li Chongli's eyes were round at first, and his face was a little frightened, but he immediately turned into doubts, and asked in a soft voice: "Then since you are going to dig people's graves, you still worshiped just now?"
"Ahem... Well, you don't understand, you just dig it!" Qing Ruxu immediately replied with righteous words.
On this dark and windy night, in front of the two tombs in the moonlight, two men of almost the same height stood preparing to dig people's graves, and as a gust of wind blew, their hearts shook a little uneasy.
Qing Ruxu slowly pulled out a long sword, a genuine blade, just as he raised his sword to cast a spell to blow up the grave, Li Chong suddenly raised his hand to stop Qing Ruxu and said: "Eh, you are going to move the grave, otherwise, I'll investigate!"
Qingru Xu glanced at Li Chongli with strange eyes, then nodded, withdrew the long sword in his hand and retreated to the rear, waiting for Li Chongli to investigate.
A gust of wind blew, different from the previous yin wind, this gust of wind carried a little warmth, blowing on Qing Ruxu's face, only to see that Li Chongli had released that mysterious silver light at some point, which was slowly penetrating into the two tombs.
Li Chongli closed his eyes tightly, his hands moved forward slightly, and silver light slowly flowed out from his hands, like a small waterfall, pouring on the two graves, Li Chongli's brows slowly furrowed, as if he sensed something, and his face was a little painful.
Call!
After half a burnt incense, Li Chongli exhaled heavily, and after retracting the silver light, his eyes opened slightly, turned to look at Qingru Xu, and said in surprise: "The tomb is empty!"