Chapter 157: Human Shadow
In front of a sea of forests, there are thousands of strange ancient trees, rough and tall.
The weather was so cold, the wind was like a sharp knife, and the frost was like snow, it was not even threatening. The ancient tree still stretches its branches, standing proudly and proudly, not afraid of the cold and evil of heaven and earth.
Wang Dashi remembered his name, at the beginning, Wang Lichang wanted him to be as tough as a stone and not afraid of external evils when he grew up, but he was the opposite, he was afraid. He sighed for a while, and didn't dare to think about it.
The branches and leaves of the ancient trees spread out like umbrellas, one after the other, as if a large curtain was rising in the air. The dust on the hill is sighing, and the sand is drifting, and the ancient trees are full of moist and fertile soil, and the cold covers the heavens and the earth, but under the dense ancient trees there is a rising heat flow, like a warm house.
Ouyang Ziyun was very happy, and went into the forest to warm his hands and feet. The fat man was sweating after a while, but even so, he was reluctant to come out.
Indeed, the air here is fresh, and when you reach the forest, it seems that you can forget to breathe.
Ouyang Ziyun has been like meeting a living Maitreya since she met the fat man of Mu Tie, and the slightest exaggerated action caused her to open her apricot mouth and laugh.
At this moment, there was a rustling sound in the woods, and this movement was not far away.
The forest is dense, the main trunks are erect, and the side branches hold the leaves high, and the eyes are empty and clear. Wang Dashi and the others noticed this movement, searched around, and saw that not far ahead, there was a sheep eating the leaves of the canopy.
The sheep had two legs upright on the ground, and the other two legs were like human arms. Wang Dashi recognized it as soon as he saw it, and this was a bearded sheep raised by a real beast driver. He had seen the skill of this bearded goat, which was extraordinary.
In front of Xiantong Temple, Mu Tie Fat Man and Ouyang Ziyun both saw this unusual goat. Ouyang Ziyun was particularly interested in this, so he chased after him, but the goat ran away all of a sudden.
Ouyang Ziyun said: "What kind of forest is this, although the grass is very green and tender, and the big fruit is delicious, but the sheep still ran away!"
Wang Dashi saw that Ouyang Ziyun was unhappy, and said, "That bearded sheep was alarmed by us and ran!"
"Hmph, I want to get close to it, hug it well, and then hurt it, how can it run away? Either you two are frightened away, or the grass and fruit here are not fat and not tasty!"
When the fat man heard Ouyang Ziyun say this, he didn't understand it, and looked at Wang Dashi: "Yes, is that the case?"
Wang Dashi didn't answer, Ouyang Ziyun said: "Hmph, is there anything wrong with that, it's all your fault! Let's go!"
Ouyang Ziyun was angry, so he felt that this forest was not good, so he walked out, and Wang Dashi and Mu Tie Fat also walked out at this moment.
The three of them walked out of the forest not far away, only to see the real animal driving the beast driving the bearded sheep over.
Ouyang Ziyun quickly greeted him and laughed at the bearded sheep: "You dead beast, I was just trying to see you, where did you go, let me worry for a while, I want to hug you when I see your demented and clumsy appearance!"
The bearded sheep's body was raised high, and he screamed twice, and slapped his hand on Ouyang Ziyun's face.
Ouyang Ziyun was not angry, but was even happier: "Hmph, you strange sheep, your beard hangs down to your chest! Hehe, what do you say? By the way, your beard is like a ponytail, an elder goat with a beard like a ponytail! Hehe, I'm not wrong!"
Ouyang Ziyun was so enthusiastic, but the beast driving real person had a straight face, and drove the goat forward.
The fat man of Mu Tie is a hot person, and he wants to say hello to the real person who drives beasts, but when he sees his plate-like heavy face, he has no mood.
Ouyang Ziyunjing glanced at the real person who drove the beast: "Hmph, like you look so depressed, one day this sheep will not want you, look at your straight face like a big pig's head! Hmph, people like you are the most annoying, the least likable!"
The real person who drove the beast didn't care about what she said, how to make a fuss, and she wouldn't bother with such a child, so she walked away with a stiff face.
Ouyang Ziyun deliberately humiliated the beast repellent real person openly and secretly, hoping that the beast repelling real person would be able to stop, so as to delay time, and let himself carefully look at the mountain bearded sheep, and the beast driving real person had a strange personality, ignoring and not stopping, but this did not make her think, watching the mountain bearded sheep walking away from him, he was very unhappy, and his little feet stomped on the ground: "Hmph, what's the big deal, I'll raise a sheep when I go home!"
The three of them left the Lin couple's house early in the morning, and they had not eaten until now, and their stomachs were rumbling at this time, and they walked to the market to clean their stomachs. After eating, he wandered around the market for several years until it was dark.
In fact, there are already many sects that have learned about the strange things that have happened to the Lin couple who are unlucky, and all the sects want to glorify it. This place is not far from Xiantong Temple, if any sect helps to resolve it, it will be mentioned at the time of the gathering, so that all living beings will be impressed. Therefore, many sects volunteered to help the Lin couple.
The Forge Sword Gang sect members held bronze cast toads to help the Lin couple suppress the disturbance of the "ghost knocking on the door", whether it will work depends on whether it is effective tonight.
The three of them went to the room arranged by the Xiantong Temple to stay overnight, and met in the market the next morning, and then went to the home of the Lin couple.
Huang Xiuxian and his wife and Dafuyou didn't know where to play, leaving only Wang Dashi alone, Wang Dashi couldn't sleep, he thought about Wen Qingqing...... I also thought about how to practice martial arts. That night, I read the "Golden Trick of the Dao" on my body again, and after practicing the "Zhou Tian Cycle Method", I recalled the "Scattered Martial Arts" in my mind for a while, and then lay down on the bed to rest. He deeply felt the importance of martial arts at the moment, and he would practice it as soon as he had free time.
Wang Dashi was tired from the journey, and he was injured by Dongfang Qingluo's sword, and he didn't sleep all night yesterday, so he was exhausted from tossing and fell asleep on the bed. He slept very soundly, and when he woke up, he felt warm in his chest, it was the piece of jade, there was a female ghost hidden in this jade, before, every time he encountered a place with heavy yin, this jade jue would be chilled, and he felt cold. Wang Dashi didn't know why it was warm at this time, could it be that the yang energy was more vigorous? This place is not far from Wutai Mountain, and it is considered a place where Wutai Mountain entertains Hakka, but now because the personnel of various sects have not yet arrived, the existing sects have gathered here to eat and live, about nearly 1,000 people, and the popularity is relatively strong? At this time, it is also the time when the yin energy sinks and the yang energy is steaming, and the yang energy is sufficient. Wang Dashi silently agreed.
The sky was already bright, Wang Dashi got up early, and came to the market, where all the sects and factions in the street seemed to have disappeared, and there was no trace of a single person in sight, even the beggar who shuttled between the crowds suddenly disappeared.
Wang Dashi thought, the scenery of Wutai Mountain is beautiful, the weather is peculiar, and all the sects and factions in the road have probably gone to the vicinity to enjoy the scenery, and only he is still groping around in the market. It's just that the beggar disappeared in an instant, which is really incomprehensible, could it be that he followed the people in the road to enjoy the scenery?
Despite this reasoning, Wang Dashi still couldn't convince himself, so he asked a neighbor.
This neighborhood is an oil extractor, and the oil extractor said that there are few beggars here, only in the last day or two, but today I opened the door and came to the present, I have not seen a single beggar, which is strange.
Wang Dashi has always been suspicious of this group of beggars, and when he heard the neighbors say this, he felt even more strange, and he didn't think much about it at the moment, and when he met Ouyang Ziyun and the fat man of Mu Tie, he walked towards the Lin family's house.
The three of them wandered around for a long time, and rushed to the village where the Lin couple lived before dark. The Lin couple had been sitting at the door for a long time.
Wang Dashi saw that the Lin family's house had been passively soiled, there was a cow's tail hanging from the door, and the "dare" arranged by himself was also knocked to the ground.
The fat man was so angry that he said: "Who did this? What a foolish toss! Is this useful? The house is dug up in a mess, and the tail of the hanging ox looks like something, what kind of name is this!"
The woman said with tears in her eyes, "Who knew that the people in the path were so warm-hearted? Yesterday, just after you walked by, many people came one after another, and the sect of the Sword Forging Gang insisted on digging a pit in front of our house and burying the bronze cast toad, saying that this can suppress demons and eliminate ghosts. We didn't let them dig it, they still dug two pits and buried the toad! As soon as the Sword Forge Gang left, another sect came, and we couldn't name either of them, and they were both dressed in the clothes of the sun and the moon...... Hey, let's just let them toss, I really think we can suppress demons and get rid of ghosts, how do you know that the ghosts knock on the door louder......"
The clothes that the woman said were wearing the sun and moon patterns were naturally the Moon God Sect, and the person with a crooked nose and slanted eyes was naturally Hu Daxiong, the son of the leader of the Moon God Sect.
When they went back yesterday, the three of them passed by the village, and the tail of a yellow cow in the village was inexplicably cut off, which must have been done by Hu Daxiong of the Moon God Sect. Hu Daxiong is obscene, cunning and treacherous, and can do any bad thing.
The woman continued: "Not long after the two sects left, three more people came, and one of them said that he was raising dead corpses, and he wanted to set up a zombie at the door of our house, saying that zombies could drive away ghosts and evil spirits. I told him that ghosts knock on the door and are afraid of death, and that if there is a dried corpse at the door, it doesn't mean our lives...... Oh, although these sects are all masters, there was a ghost knock on the door last night. ”
The dried corpses and strange sheep mentioned by the woman must have belonged to the Corpse Valley and the Animal Raiders, but the woman could not accept a zombie and a strange sheep placed in front of the house.
After Wang Dashi heard what the woman said, he said: "The bronze toad and the ox's tail are both things that drive away evil spirits and avoid evil spirits, and since these things cannot crack the ghost knocking on the door, then it is said that either these ghosts are particularly powerful, or the ones who knock on the door are not ghosts!"
As for the feng shui and gaps in the house, they still have to be arranged and filled, and the fat man of wood and iron has reinstated the dare to be a stone.
According to Wang Dashi's instructions, the Lin couple closed the door early and went to bed.
At night, the fat man moved a bunch of stones and put them at the slope not far from the house, and hid under the stones to squat.
As the saying goes, "flowers and trees are in season, and birds are singing to report the agricultural time", flowers, trees, birds, beasts and birds all change according to the season. There was a desolation near and far, not a sound at all, and there was no wind at night, which was even more desolate than last night. This is not a cold day, probably only the climate produced by the special environment of Wutai Mountain.
In order to be able to explore the ghost knocking on the door, the three of them braved the cold, and still lay on the edge of the stone and looked at the door of the woman's house. The fat man of Mu Tie was obese and seemed to be unable to squat, and he said to Wang Dashi: "Hey, I said brother, ,—— this, can you wait until the ghost knocks on the door tonight?"
Wang Dashi learned some formations and magic in the local school, but he didn't see any signs Whether the "ghost" would come knocking on the door, he didn't know. However, only a dumb character like him can come up with a way to stick to it and stick to it to the end. He replied to the fat man and said, "I don't have any ability, so I can only wait silently to see what the situation is!"
"Alas!" the fat man lamented, "I wish I hadn't waited all night in vain!" he was extremely unhappy to lie down under the stone pile and wait.
After a while, it got dark again.
The villa here is not big, inaccessible, if it is in normal times, you can't see a few people a day, but at this time of the deep watch, a shadow of a person walked not far ahead. The figure walked with a step, looking left and right, as if it had some scruples.
Wang Dashi and the three of them immediately held their breath, for fear of alarming the figure.