33 Borrowing souls to find a substitute
At that moment, the old man Qingzhu continued: "My two elder brothers didn't seem to hear their father's shouts, and still drove the carriage forward...... You know, we were in a fog at that time, and there was a white confusion on all sides, and we couldn't even see anything three feet away. With his decades of experience, his father www.biquge.info, with his decades of experience, seemed to have a premonition that danger was ahead, and in desperation, he suddenly tightened the reins with both hands to stop the horse pulling the cart. ”
"There was a mournful roar from the horses pulling the cart, followed by a heavy overturning and tumbling sound ahead, mixed with the screams of my two brothers. Although my father reined in the horse in advance, he was still a step too late, and I suddenly felt the carriage under me suddenly lighten up, and I fell diagonally forward......
When the old man Qingzhu said this, he immediately stopped his words and asked Xie Yixiang: "Girl, since you are so smart, you might as well guess, but what happened to us?"
Xie Yixiang pondered for a moment and asked, "Could it be that there is a trap on the ground?" The old man Qingzhu was slightly stunned, and then smiled: "Trap? haha, yes, not bad...... This whole thing is a trap, a trap for a Yin soldier to find a stand-in by borrowing his soul...... They take advantage of the fear of turning a blind eye in the fog, through the black carriage, pretending to lead the way ahead, seemingly pointing us to a bright path, but in fact leading us to death...... So at that moment, we were led to the edge of the cliff by the black carriage controlled by the Yin soldiers, and the loud noise in front of us was the movement of the two brothers driving the carriage down the cliff......"
Xie Yixiang was a little misty by his words of "borrowing the soul of the Yin soldier", so he had to interrupt the old man Qingzhu and asked: "Senior, how did your carriage come to the edge of the cliff? Could it be that you met the corner of the road around the mountain with a mountain on one side and a cliff on the other, so you rushed off the cliff carelessly? The black carriage that walked in front also fell into the cliff?"
But seeing that the old man Qingzhu shook his head with a calm face, he didn't answer Xie Yixiang's question, but just said to himself: "Since I was a child, I have heard the old man in the village talk about the Yin soldiers in Changbai Mountain borrowing souls...... The old people have repeatedly told me that although Changbai Mountain is extremely cold and remote, and there are few people, there are always thousands of soldiers and generals who have died on the battlefield in the past dynasties, and the corpses are exposed to the wilderness, and no one collects the bones, so they have to be buried here with the ice and snow, and finally become a part of Changbai Mountain. And the souls of these generals naturally can't enter the hell reincarnation...... Therefore, when the yin and yang are in full swing, just like the weather of heavy snow and fog, their souls will float out and lead the living to sacrifice to the mountain gods, so as to exchange for the liberation of their souls...... It is also the so-called 'finding a stand-in' ...... you Jiangnan people."
"So that black carriage, from beginning to end, is a fake at all, an illusion created by those Yin soldiers to deceive us...... Our carriage followed it, and walked the way it walked, naturally thinking that the road ahead was extremely safe, but before we knew it, it lured us to the edge of a cliff...... First, the carriage of the two older brothers in front of us fell off the cliff, and then our carriage...... Fortunately, my father, who had been running on this official road for many years, had already noticed that something was wrong, and before our carriage fell, he immediately reacted, reached out and rubbed me, and pushed me off the front of the carriage, and just rolled down the cliff, and only then did he save his life...... In the years that followed, I wondered if my father had driven the car and let the carriage of my two older brothers follow, and with my father's many years of experience in driving, no matter how the black carriage tempted us, I am afraid that this accident would not have happened......
Speaking of this, the old man Qingzhu took a long breath, knocked the remaining cigarette ash in the cigarette pot to the ground, and said, "I clearly remember that our carriage rolled down the cliff from my ear...... I poked my head out of the cliff and saw the eldest sister sitting in the back of the carriage, her pale face almost brushing against my hair...... For some reason, I always felt that my eldest sister was smiling at me at the time, and I laughed so hard that my heart was hairy...... However, by the time I took a closer look, her face had been swallowed up by the mist beneath the cliff, and all that was left was a white expanse of color...... And right behind my head, there was a familiar sound of horses' hooves...... I turned my head in horror to see that it was the black carriage again—the black carriage that had clearly gone ahead of us, and it had appeared behind me at this moment. ”
So I could only stare at the black carriage and see what it wanted to do to me...... The black carriage drove straight in front of me, and the black horse pulling the cart just turned around slightly, and then led the carriage past me, as if he didn't see me at all...... At that moment, I didn't know where I got the strength, Huo Ran got up from the snow, went madly to chase the black carriage, and cried out, 'Give me back my father!' The black carriage ignored it, and continued to move forward at the same unhurried speed as before; I chased in front of the carriage with all my might, trying to pull the coachman off the carriage, but when I ran to the front of the carriage, I found that the carriage in front of the carriage was completely empty......! It's clearly a ghost car!"
After the old man Qingzhu said this, he began to mumble quietly, Xie Yixiang listened attentively, but it was full of words such as "father" and "Yin soldier", which was simply unintelligible. I think he is old, after all, he can't withstand such a painful past, and what happened to him afterwards was most likely to be scared to death on the spot, and then he survived by chance in the ice and snow.
Xie Yixiang heard this, although there were too many things that she didn't understand, but seeing the old man Qingzhu with such an expression, it was not good for her to continue to ask for details. Seeing that Siye was gradually opening up and the sky was gradually becoming brighter, Xie Yixiang sorted out her thoughts carefully, and returned to the reason why the old man Qingzhu mentioned this past at the beginning, she couldn't help asking: "Senior, what is the connection between the snow and fog of Changbai Mountain that you just told and the fog we encountered during the day? Could it be just because both of them have a fog?"
The old man of Qingzhu was suddenly shocked, and seemed to be awakened by Xie Yixiang's question, and returned to reality. He immediately muttered, "The fog of the day...... The fog ......" he said, but there was no follow-up.
You must know that after Xie Yixiang met Dai Qi and Qu Baoshu, he had solved a lot of doubts in his heart, and gradually blamed all the strange things in Poyang Lake on those black-robed people with extremely high martial arts, which is also the mysterious force hidden on the shore of Poyang Lake. And the number of martial arts paths used by these black-robed people is actually the number of paths of the "Shushan Sect" that has been extinct for nearly a thousand years, which even Dai Qi can prove. However, at this moment, hearing the story of the old man Qingzhu, the fog on the shore of Poyang Lake, which is also the so-called "chaos beast", seems to be implicated in the legend of the Changbai Mountain Yin soldiers borrowing souls that the old man Qingzhu said, which then makes the whole thing more and more confused.
Xie Yixiang couldn't help but have a thought, and secretly thought: "Dai Qi, Qu Baoshu, Qingzhu Old Man, and what kind of 'bull nose', these people are all masters of the world, what kind of reason did they actually come to this Poyang Lake together? Or in their respective hearts, there is actually a purpose hidden in them that only they know?"
When she was thinking about it, she suddenly heard the old man Qingzhu beside her scream, and said a little crazy: "I remember...... Come to think of it...... In the fog of the day, I saw a black carriage!"