Thunderbolt is a short, stocky crow with a sharp beak, sharp claws, and sharp eyes.

But Wang Qilin couldn't understand why Taiba was such a precious bird.

Taiba gave an order after releasing Thunderbolt, and Thunderbolt spread his wings and suddenly appeared on Wang Qilin's shoulder.

The flight speed is not much worse than the power switch!

You must know that the electric body is slender and slender, and at first glance it is a speed-type bird, this thunderbolt is more like a hand-to-hand combat system, and the result also has such a fast speed, which is really surprising.

Wang Qilin also handed over this crow to Xu Da to take care of, got on the horse and waved his hand: "Sword in hand, follow me!"

swallowed and whimpered, striding after the horse's buttocks.

Mr. Zu's family lives in Yaojiakou, which is a township in Lubo County, about 20 miles away from the county seat.

It is also a coincidence that the ancestors stopped for three days after their deaths, and they are about to go out of the funeral today.

After they entered Yao's house, the smell of meat came, and Xu's big stomach gurgled.

Swallow and laugh: "Rice bucket." ”

Xu Da also laughed, and he said to Wang Qilin: "Seventh Master, you said that you have such a divine beast as Swallowing Mouth by your side, why do you need to ride a horse?

The Taiji diagram that was spinning in the swallow mouth almost stopped, it glared at Xu Da angrily, and ran at the back with its tail between its legs.

When Wang Qilin and others arrived, Mr. Zu's house was killing chickens and pigs to prepare to entertain guests and villagers who came from afar to help.

He has a good reputation in the township, and every family comes to him when they encounter some trickery, and he is willing to help.

If a rich man gives him a silver baht, he will make a move, and if a poor man digs two scoops of sorghum rice for him, he will also help, so when such a person dies, naturally many people will come to give him a spirit.

Wang Qilin and the others arrived in fresh clothes and angry horses, and the singers who entertained the guests at the door thought that they were also here to send the spirit, so they shouted happily: "Listen to the heavenly supervisor master 123456, ouch, there are enough people, listen to more than ten heavenly eunuchs, relatives to see the ceremony!"

Hearing that the heavenly prison was coming, dozens of people, old people, adults and children, knelt down and saluted them together.

Li Ta dismounted and said, "No need to be polite, what about Mr. Zu's coffin?"

"Wait a little longer, and when the good day is auspicious, I will send him into the Yin House. An old man with snow-white hair said cautiously.

Li Ta breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Fortunately, it hasn't been buried yet, and the idle people will come out first, and we will listen to the heavenly prison to investigate something." ”

Hearing this, the old man became a little flustered and asked, "Master Li, what are you going to do?" Do you know, this nephew of my family has done everything with a clear conscience all his life, and now that he is gone, we have to let him go smoothly, and he can't ......."

"Stop, stop," Li Ta shook his head, "Uncle, what do you think of this official? Mr. Zu helped this official a lot when he was alive, can this official harm him? This is not a joke!"

He said: "The purpose of this official's visit this time is exactly the opposite of your guess, it is to help him, don't you think it's strange that this ancestor died suddenly?"

The old man pondered for a moment and whispered, "It's really weird. ”

Wang Qilin patted the horse's head and jumped down and asked, "What's so strange?"

The old man sighed and said, "Don't dare to hide it from adults, my nephew also ate two bowls of dumplings and drank a pot of wine in one go during the New Year, how can you say that it is gone?"

The singer next to him also sighed and said, "What kind of weirdness is this? Mr. Zu used to say before his death that his job was to hang his head on the tip of a knife, and if he said no, he would be gone." But he is accumulating yin and virtue, and he must be blessed in the next life, so there is no need to feel sorry for him, he is about to live a good life. ”

The old man glared at the singer and said, "As long as your mouth is fast, you have the right to interject here?" You go in and call out the big guy, I have something to talk to the adults." ”

After driving away the singers, he looked left and right, and whispered to Wang Qilin and Li Ta: "My nephew has been refusing to look at him since he died!

Wang Qilin said to Li Ta: "Go in and take a look, I will guess that this gentleman is not dead." ”

There are still many people burning paper and incense in the courtyard, and there are also eight King Kongs sitting in the house drinking soju, ready to carry the coffin on the road later.

After they all went out, the house became deserted, Wang Qilin carefully looked at the house, and found that the area was not small, and the cleaning was very good, but it was very shabby, there was no furniture in it, and the brooms placed in the corners of the room were all used into pimples and had not been thrown away, as if it was a cold door.

But this is not normal, the monks have the ability, they may live and die impermanently, but they will not live in poverty, otherwise there is no money and danger, who will do such a job?

In the case of the Heavenly Eunuchs, their work is the most dangerous, but they are the highest among all the departments of the imperial court.

And more than ten years ago, they were the most majestic, at that time, there was simply a group of powerful ministers in the Heavenly Prison, they blessed the people in various places, supervised hundreds of officials, and went up to Heaven to listen to Huangquan, not to mention ordinary people, even officials at all levels would be terrified when they saw them.

It's a pity that Emperor Taijia doesn't like to listen to the heavenly prison, and after ascending the throne as the emperor, he began to reduce the authority of the heavenly prison.

He expressed his doubts, and Li Ta smiled bitterly: "Seventh Master, you don't know Mr. Zu, this is really a well-deserved title of 'sir', he is very diligent and thrifty to himself, even to the point of slamming the door, a candle in his hand can be lit for a year!"

"But he is very generous to the people, who can't open the pot in ten miles and eight villages, and whose people have no money to treat the disease, as long as you tell him, he will help no matter what. ”

Xu said angrily: "Twenty-eight nights are really a loss of conscience, and they actually killed such a good person, damn, the next time the uncle sees them, he will never let them die easily, and he can't leave them with a whole corpse after death, at least he has to chop them into ribs with the uncle's big knife!"

Wang Qilin said: "This Mr. Zu may not have been killed by Twenty-Eight Nights, besides, according to Cheng Fubo, Mr. Zu gave him the idea to use the method of exchanging disasters to harm people...... No, I see!"

He sighed: "I'm afraid Mr. Zu is really kind-hearted, he has been in Cheng Fubo's house for many days, he should have used his own spells to protect their family, the 'Cheng Fubo' we met is naturally not the real Cheng Fubo, and the matter of changing the disaster naturally has nothing to do with Mr. Zu." ”

Li Ta did not lose his strength, and went up to push the coffin lid open.

Inside was a dry old gentleman, about sixty years of age, with a dark and rough complexion, gray hair, calloused palms, and an ordinary shroud, who looked no different from the old peasant in the country.

The only difference is that he has been keeping his eyes open since he died, and his mouth is slightly open, Wang Qilin saw a thought in his heart: this person is unwilling.

Xie Toad circled around Mr. Zu, he reached out and pinched the old man's body, shook his head and said, "He died strangely, is this little brother usually so thin?"

Li Ta said: "Yes, he lives a poor life, he eats one meal a day, can he not lose weight?"

Xie Toad nodded and asked, "What kind of spell is he cultivating?"

Li Ta said: "He knows a lot of skills, Liuren, Four Pillars Prediction, Qimen Dunjia, and Eight Characters to see Feng Shui, how much can be pointed." In addition, he has a big move, which is similar to Master Ma, Mr. Zu has a god on his body, but he carries a group of imps on his back, not as majestic as Master Ma. ”

Xie Toad wanted to untie Mr. Zu's clothes to see the situation of the god behind him, but when he saw this scene, the clan elders who followed them and the Eight King Kongs in the house were all angry:

"What are you doing here? You just touched my nephew, and now you want to untie his clothes?"

"Ancestors must not be humiliated by this after they die and die!"

"Your Excellency, have you gone too far?"

The spirits ran out and told the villagers outside and Mr. Zu's friends what they had done, these people were already disgruntled because they were kicked out, but now they learned that the Heavenly Eunuch was going to untie the deceased's life clothes, and they immediately became even more angry, and crowded into the house to denounce the Heavenly Prisoner.

Li Tahu was about to get angry, and Wang Qilin waved his hand at him.

Mr. Zu's personality made him extremely respectful, and he blessed a neighbor, so when the neighbors found out that he was going to suffer, they would sincerely speak up for him.

Wang Qilin said lightly: "This official is the iron captain of the Heavenly Prison Shangyuan Mansion, this time I came to see Mr. Zu because he died unjustly, and he was unwilling to die, and this official wants to wash away this grievance for him, so that he is willing and happy to go on the road, so why are you blocking this official?"

The agitated villagers looked at each other and didn't know what to say.

Someone asked, "Who is older than you, the official and our county master?"

Li Ta smiled: "The county lord saw my seventh master kneeling more actively than you!"

When they heard this, the people shrank their necks and were afraid.

The leader of the Eight King Kongs, Zhengse, said: "If you really want to come to clear Mr. Zu's grievances and let him go on the road with confidence, I will naturally kneel and kowtow to thank you, if so, why do you want to untie his shroud and let him go on the road naked?" Isn't this an insult to him?"

Wang Qilin said: "The official just unbuttoned his clothes to find out the cause of his death, and you don't want him to die with a stomach full of grievances, right? ”

The clan elder said: "Hey, you can ask us about this matter, what can you see when you untie his clothes?"

"My eldest nephew was not killed by someone, he was killed by a ghost!"

Wang Qilin nodded: "Tell me more." ”

The clan elder swallowed his saliva, and his face showed a look of horror: "This, this thing is quite evil, our Yao family has four big surnames, Sun Wang Zhao Zu, but there was actually only one surname before the earliest, and that was Yao." ”

"This Yao family is not prosperous, and the children and grandchildren of the family die at every turn, and some will relocate, so slowly there is no one. During the Chinese New Year, the last family surnamed Yao also moved away, and Yao's ancestral shrine was naturally vacant......"

Li Ta suddenly: "Seventh Master, the lowly job knows what is going on, there is indeed a strange thing in this township, the local Xiaoyin did not find out the reason so he reported it to the lowly position, but it just happened, and the lowly position has not been taken care of to deal with it." ”

"Here's the thing, after the Yao ancestral ancestral hall was vacated, the four surnames in the township took a fancy to them, they all wanted to occupy the house, but no one could occupy it, and finally decided to use it for the township. ”

"One of the houses had an accident when it was being cleaned up, and this house had big doors and windows, so I also wanted to repair it for school, but it was an accident when I was painting its inner wall, and at first there were workers stepping on a ladder to paint the wall, and the ladder always fell......"

"Yes, because a hand will reach out and knock down stools and ladders!" a child shouted as he squeezed in.

A young woman followed behind and grabbed the child and dragged him back: "Xiaomin, come back, come back, don't talk nonsense." ”

The child struggled: "I saw it all, I saw it, mother, I really saw it." ”

The young woman cried out, "Don't talk nonsense when you see it." ”

Wang Qilin gave Ambassador Xu a look, Xu Da took out a packet of candied preserved fruits from his arms, squatted in front of the child, handed him a dried apricot, and said with a smile: "Brother, tell the uncle what you saw?"

Xu Da is five big and three thick, with a face full of meat, a grease-stained apron on his waist is a pig killer, and a little blood on his body is a perverted murderer, but he is very childlike, and children are not afraid of him.

The child took the dried apricots and stuffed them into his mouth, and said, "My grandfather stepped on a stool to paint the wall, and I was looking at him, and then a hand stretched out on the wall, and he found the stool and pushed it down, and his grandfather broke his leg." ”

"I was scared and cried, but everyone didn't believe it, and the next day the second uncle went to paint the wall again, he used a ladder, and it was very stable on the wall, but the hand came out again, and pushed the ladder down!"

An old man said worriedly, "But I didn't see that hand appear." ”

Wang Qilin looked at the others and asked, "Then has anyone seen that hand?"

The clan elder swallowed his spit and said: "The official master is like this, we attached great importance to it after hearing Xiao Min say about this matter, so we found someone to step on the ladder to try, and this time we found many people to come and see it together." ”

"But nothing happened!"

Everyone nodded, and began to add: "At that time, I thought Xiao Min was talking nonsense, after the villagers dispersed, something happened again, and when Sun Erye squatted on the ground and wiped the corner of the wall, he was detained with a bucket of lime water!"

"We left a child, and when we were working on it, the child saw a hand sticking out of the wall!"

"The ghost in the wall is very cunning, and it does not appear when there are many people outside, and only appears when there are few people. ”

"Yes, only when you're a baby. ”

Xie Toad shook his head and said, "It's not that it only appears when it's a doll, but that only a doll can see it after it appears." ”

Wang Qilin figured out the truth and asked the clan elder to take them to the Yao family's abandoned ancestral shrine.

At the same time, he arranged for Ma Ming to take people to stay and search Mr. Zu's house to see if he could find information about Twenty-Eight Nights.

This ancestral hall is a large compound, open the door and enter into a vacant lot, and on the north side are several houses row upon row, high and low.

The villagers who heard the news wanted to follow up to see the excitement, so the clan elder drove them out of the door, and then ordered the rooms one by one, saying, "They have all been converted into private schools." ”

He pointed to a house in the far west: "This is the room where the accident happened, I once inquired, there was a dead person in this house before, and it was the caretaker of the ancestral ancestral hall of the Yao family." ”

"This person was born with five disadvantages and three shortcomings, he was a blind man, he killed his father and brother, he was lonely and widowed all his life, and he was arranged to guard the ancestral hall, which can be regarded as giving him a way to live. ”

Wang Qilin pushed open the door and went in to take a look, the room was very sloppy, the walls on both sides had been plastered with lime, and the east wall was half painted, obviously this was the wall where the accident occurred.

Xu Da pondered: "Seventh Master, we won't have to wait until the evening to do things, right?"

Wang Qilin shook his head and said, "The children in the village have seen ghost hands on the walls during the day, so we should be able to find the problem during the day." ”

He looked at Xie Toad, who walked around the wall with his back hand and reached out to touch it.

Wang Qilin followed and touched the wall, it was very cold.

Xie Toad stretched out his hand and picked at the wall, and said, "Master Xu, go find a shovel and scrape off all the lime powder on the new paste." ”

The clan elder immediately asked the villagers to send a shovel knife, and Xu Da made a move to scrape the lime powder delicately.

As he went deeper, he noticed that the blade was sometimes like a stone, and it would be very hard.

Xie Toad said: "You go around this kind of place and continue to scrape." ”

The more lime powder falls, gradually some lines appear on the walls.

The patriarch's eyes straightened a little.

In the end, Xu Da scraped off all the lime powder on half of the wall, revealing a pale old face.

This face is huge, like a big pot lid!

The strange thing is that this face has no eyes.

When the clan elder saw its appearance clearly, he exclaimed: "This and this, this is the old kiln! Oh, the old kiln is the last person of the Yao family to watch the ancestral hall! How can its face appear here?"

Xie Toad stroked his beard and pondered for a moment, and then said to Xu Da: "Dig the wall." ”

Xu Daliang took out the Burning Wood Divine Knife and spat in his hand, and asked, "Where is the chise?"

Xie Toad said: "Whatever, if the old Taoist guess is right, as long as you dig the wall, we can see the things in this wall." ”

Xu Da reversed the glaive knife and smashed it against the wall with the handle of the spear head, and the dust was filled with two chisels.

Wang Qilin went up and waved his sleeves to pat away the dust, he looked at the wall, and suddenly saw an eye.

Black and white eyes!

Before he could react, his eyes blinked, and a voice came into his ears: "Why are you tearing down the walls of the private school?"

Xu Da grabbed the Glaive Knife on the spot and wanted to open it, and shouted: "Seventh Master get out of the way, let the master see what kind of demon and monster this is......"

Xie Toad smiled angrily: "Immeasurable Tianzun, bullshit demons and monsters, this is a living person!"

The patriarch slapped his forehead and ran out, opened the door next door and asked, "Sun Xiucai, why are you here?"

A middle-aged man wearing an old robe walked out sloppily and said, "I studied by candlelight last night, and I have been sleeping today, and then I fell asleep and woke up with the sound of you tearing down the wall, why did you tear down the private school?"

Wang Qilin asked, "Who is this?"

The patriarch explained embarrassedly: "Aren't we going to rebuild the ancestral hall into a school? So I invited Mr., this person is called Sun Xiu, a scholar in our township, who failed to pass the exam, but he also has some knowledge, so he was invited to be a gentleman." Oh, he lives here now. ”

As he was explaining, Wang Qilin looked at the wall violently.

A hand sticks out from the corner of the wall high up.

This is a wizened old hand, and behind it there is a cuff of a cotton jacket sewn from old black cotton, which is smeared with a layer of putty, black and shiny, and in some places it is broken, and you can even see the gray and yellow cotton wool hidden in it.

The old hand stretched out and groped on the wall, like a blind man touching something, it stretched out and groped on the wall little by little, until it reached the hole opened by Xu Da, and then the arm was extended, the whole arm was stretched out, and then it dug out of the hole from outside the wall.

Seeing this, Wang Qilin asked in surprise, "What is this?"

Xie Toad smiled and said: "A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall, you must have heard of this seventh master." ”

Wang Qilin nodded, Xie Toad patted the wall and said: "This is a dangerous wall, if Lao Dao is not mistaken, when building this wall, rice milk must have been used to stick the bricks." ”

The patriarch said: "What the Taoist chief said is right, I heard the old man say this, the Yao family was rich at that time, and their family spent a lot of material and financial resources to build the ancestral shrine, and the load-bearing walls in it were all picked up with rice milk and mud. ”

Xie Toad stroked his beard and said, "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, this is no problem, the wall itself is built on a tomb, and there is grain to irrigate." If someone dies and his soul lingers here, if he can avoid the shadow and hide in the wall, he can form a dangerous wall. ”

"But it's not easy to avoid the Yin Soul Temptation, right?" Wang Qilin asked.

Xie Toad nodded, and then he turned his head and asked Sun Xiucai, "Xiucailang, do you sleep in the next room at night?"

Sun Xiucai nodded and said, "Not bad." ”

"Are there any strange things? Do you have any strange dreams when you fall asleep?"

Sun Xiucai hesitated for a moment and said, "Zi Bu is silent. ”

Xu Dayi pulled him over and said scoldingly: "The strange force has come out, and it wants to be a neighbor with you." ”

Sun Xiucai carefully looked at the faces outlined by the white lime lines on the wall, looked at it and said with a smile: "Who made this lime painting? ”

Xie Toad said: "Immeasurable Tianzun, the gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, Xiucailang, you are really a big sloppy, no wonder you have not been able to go further in fame." You are now staying under the dangerous wall every night, and you don't want to be admitted to show off your talents in this life. ”

Sun Xiucai was honest when he heard this, and he hurriedly said: "Please ask the Taoist to save the student's career!"

Xu Dayi was speechless when he heard this: "Mother, career?"

Xie Toad shouted, "Why don't you hurry up and tell me what you dreamed about at night?"

Sun Xiucai said: "It's not a secret, my lords, the student didn't dream anything at night, but he dreamed that someone was painting on this wall, and the student stood behind him and looked at it all night, but he couldn't tell what he was painting......

A flash of inspiration flashed in Wang Qilin's mind, and he subconsciously said: "Xu Da smashed the wall with the glaive knife and scraped the mud layer on the wall just now, but it didn't cause the ghosts in the dangerous wall to do it, and the people in the countryside smeared white ash on the wall before, and this sneaky came out to harm them, why?"

"It painted something on the wall before it died, and it wanted people to discover it, so the villagers plastered the wall with white plaster, which was equivalent to covering the painting, and that angered it. ”