Chapter 65: The Nightmare Reappears (Part I)
Qin Huai was sitting on top of the lobby of the Qin Mansion, staring at the moonset with an anxious expression.
Yueluo stood in the center of the lobby, Cheng Xiaorou and Zhu Changqin were sitting on the left, Li Qingyuan was still standing behind Zhu Changqin, and Zhang Yuning and Zhang Yuheng were the brothers Zhang Yuning and Zhang Yuheng sitting on the right.
Moonset replied respectfully, "The locust trees in Qilin Mountain have indeed all died. I went to several households in Zhishuijian to inquire, and they all said that after the first bloody rain, those locust flowers only turned blood red, with a little bit of bloody smell, and since the bloody rain a few days ago, all those locust trees have died."
"So, the death of the locust tree was due to the rain of blood"?
Yueluo immediately shook her head and said, "Not necessarily, blood rain can indeed corrode our skin, if it can also corrode trees, then how can other trees in Yueyang live well." If not, I can't figure out why."
Zhu Changqin immediately interjected: "What if there are demons doing it"?
Yueluo continued to shake his head and said: "Senior Brother doesn't know, Senior Brother Song also went to Qilin Mountain yesterday, and even he didn't find any traces of demons, thinking about it, the possibility of demons doing something is not very big."
Zhang Yuning immediately stood up and said, "Our Zhang clan has been practicing pills and making poisons for many years, and we have never developed a strange poison that can make all trees die overnight, so it can be seen that the possibility of man-made is not very large."
Zhang Yuheng then asked: "Could it be the witchcraft of the Western Regions, wasn't the illness of the people before that evil art?"
Cheng Xiaorou also stood up and shook her head: "No, Senior Bai said that the Western Regions Witch Gu does not have that much power."
Zhang Yuheng was dissatisfied: "Hmph, that strange old man is also from the Western Regions, who knows if he is deliberately covering up, or if he has malicious intentions."
Zhang Yuning immediately stopped: "Yuheng, don't talk nonsense, Senior Bai saved all the people in Yueyang City, how can you be so unbearable." Besides, the people brought by Song Immortal Master must be trustworthy people."
Zhang Yuheng snorted coldly in displeasure, he didn't turn his head and stopped talking.
Zhang Yuning consciously spoke in a heavier tone, and wanted to comfort him, but there were other people here, and the hand that was frozen in mid-air was slowly lowered. Then he turned to everyone and said with a smile: "Brother She's still young, and he speaks openly, so please don't be weird."
Cheng Xiaorou smiled and said: "Zhang Gongzi doesn't have to be like this, Yuheng is straightforward and fast-talking, it is really the nature of a teenager, how can we be strange"!
"Thank you, Miss Cheng!" Zhang Yuning bowed his head slightly in thanks, and then sat down.
Seeing that everyone was worried, Yueluo immediately said: "You don't have to worry, I have ordered Qin Yuan to take people to Qilin Mountain, cut down all those dead locust trees, and transported a batch of new locust saplings from Guancheng, and in a few days, they can be planted from new."
Several people breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this, Li Qingyuan looked at all this coldly, and when others were not paying attention, cunning and disdain flashed in his eyes.
Then everyone talked about the demon path and the blood rain again, but they discussed it for a long time without a conclusion, and finally dispersed.
"Senior sister, why have you been discussing for so long, I almost fell asleep when I heard it." Tang Yanyan saw Cheng Xiaorou walk out, and immediately pouted, he didn't like serious occasions like discussing serious matters, so he stood at the door and waited for her. Hearing what they were talking about just now, he just felt like listening to a book from heaven, leaning against the door, he really almost fell asleep.
"You", Cheng Xiaorou shook her head helplessly, and then asked: "Senior Brother Jiang, why didn't you see him with you"?
Tang Yanyan said indignantly: "He went out, saying that he was going to Zhishui Stream for a walk, saying that he was going to investigate the news of the demon road, and said that I was very safe in the Qin Mansion.
"How can you say this when you see the color and forget the righteousness"?
Tang said with added fuel and vinegar: "Senior sister, don't you know yet? Jiang Yu followed Yu Man, with my fiery eyes, I have long seen that he is interested in Yu Man, giggles...".
Cheng Xiaorou just shook her head and smiled, talked with him and left with a smile.
These words happened to be heard by Zhu Changqin and Li Qingyuan behind them, and the two looked at each other with a wicked smile.
Jiang Yu walked quickly all the way to Zhishui Stream, and the surroundings were so quiet that he couldn't even see a pedestrian. Walking to the Jade Emperor Temple, he looked up at the huge locust tree, and saw that the locust flowers had long since withered, and the leaves were as lush as ever, but they were a little better than the dead locust trees in Qilin Mountain.
He walked slowly into the courtyard, only to see that the temple was full of incense, and the ground was full of people who came to pray for blessings, all of them holding a pillar of incense in their hands, chanting words in their mouths, and constantly kowtowing and worshipping.
Yu Man stood aside, holding his hands on his chest and watching coldly.
Jiang Yu walked slowly, smiled and said, "Senior Sister Yu, are they..."?
Yu Man glanced at him, turned around arrogantly and entered the Jade Emperor Temple.
Jiang Yu shook his head and smiled bitterly, and then followed.
The mother and son under the temple are sincerely bowing, it is the woman and the boy who have eaten the charm given by the black flame and have been cured of the epidemic.
"Lord Jade Emperor is merciful, please forgive us for our ignorance, in the future, we will definitely come to worship every day, please Lord Jade Emperor don't rain blood anymore, please." After the woman finished speaking, she kowtowed three more times, and finally stood up slowly with the support of the young man.
Seeing that Yu Man and Jiang Yu were staring at the two of them, the young man quickly pulled the woman down, stretched out his arms in front of her, and asked tremblingly, "What do you want to do?"
Jiang Yu didn't answer and asked, "What are you doing here?"
The woman gently pulled the young man aside, and said with sincere fear: "We are here to worship the Jade Emperor, last night, the women were instructed by the Jade Emperor, saying that the death of the locust tree in Qilin Mountain was due to the blood rain, and the blood rain was the punishment given to us by the Jade Emperor."
"What nonsense, didn't I tell you that there are no gods to condemn you, why are you still so ignorant?" Yu Man was furious, Ji Nuan had done so much, in the end, they were still here to be confused.
Seeing her angry appearance, the woman was so frightened that she retreated again and again, and whispered: "This, not only the women have been given guidance, you look at them, they all dreamed, it was the Jade Emperor who told us personally."
Yu Man looked outside the temple in the direction of her finger, and saw that the people were trembling and kowtowing to worship, and suddenly became even more annoyed.
Jiang Yu asked: "Dream, what dream"?
Seeing that he was not a very evil person, the young man paused, and then told the story of last night's dream.
Last night he went to bed to rest, as usual, and it wasn't long before he had a dream. In the dream, he came to an ethereal world, surrounded by nothing but clouds.
He looked around in horror, and as soon as he took a step, it was like stepping on cotton, causing him to stagger and almost fall, and finally to gain a foothold. He walked forward in surprise, and with every step, he stepped on a white cloud, and he also became excited from the initial panic, this is the Heavenly Palace, and he actually arrived at the Heavenly Palace.
It's just that he didn't be happy for long, and an angry voice sounded: "Ignorant child, don't kneel down when you see Bendi."
Looking up, in front of him was a Jade Emperor who was dozens of times bigger than himself, his body exuded dazzling light, and there were two divine generals standing on the left and right, and the one on the right was the Taoist who had seen him in the Jade Emperor Temple before.
The young man immediately fell to his knees with a thud, kowtowed, and responded tremblingly, "The Jade Emperor forgives the sins, the villain somehow came here and disturbed the purity of the Jade Emperor, please forgive the Jade Emperor."
"Hmph, do you know why the deity called you here?"
The young man was shocked when he heard this, and replied in a trembling voice, "The villain doesn't know, please ask the Jade Emperor to make it clear."
"Half a month ago, the Black Flame Immortal Monarch personally went down to treat your mother's illness, never thought that you actually brought a group of people to the temple of the deity to make trouble, and almost injured the Black Flame Immortal Monarch, can you be guilty?"
"The villain is guilty, the villain is guilty, please ask the Jade Emperor to spare me"!
"Hmph, the deity has punished him with three days of blood, but you still don't repent, and mistakenly take that wicked man for a benefactor. Do you know why Song Wangchen and Bai Muqi were able to cure your illness, it was that Bai Muqi who had evil intentions and planted dragon Gu on you, and finally personally unspelled the spell for you, so that you could worship him as a god and believe in them."
The young man was full of questions, the people in the Xianmen had always been the objects of their respect, so why did they need to do more.
"Why? You don't believe it, do you think the deity is deceiving you"?
"The villain doesn't dare, the villain doesn't dare".
Black Flame immediately stepped forward and roared: "Don't dare, what else don't you dare, this immortal is kind enough to treat you, but you will take revenge, the dead locust tree in Qilin Mountain is the Jade Emperor's punishment for you, if you don't repent, the dead locust tree is your fate."
"It's... , the villain will go to the Jade Emperor Temple to worship before the day when he goes back, and I hope that the Jade Emperor will not be angry anymore." The boy looked up and stole a glance, and the dazzling light pierced him and immediately closed his eyes, and he was terrified in his heart, and he knelt on the ground and shivered.
"Do you think that if you go to the Jade Emperor Temple to worship, the Jade Emperor will let you go? Have you forgotten what I said that day?" The black flame walked up to him in a domineering manner, lifted him up, and said viciously in his ear: "Kill Song Jue, and waste a hundred gates."
The voice was small, but it was full of anger, and the young man closed his eyes tightly, not daring to look at him directly. Suddenly he felt his body light, and he was thrown out by the black flame, and then fell heavily on the clouds.
He got up in fright, feeling that he was not injured, he quickly crawled to the feet of Black Flame, kowtowed and replied with tears in his eyes: "Immortals, immortals, not villains don't want to kill Song Jue, then Song Jue's cultivation is profound, let alone killing him, it is difficult for us to even get close"!
"If you can't kill them, then kill Bai Muqi, the evil worker, to set an example." The sound of the black flame faded away, and the blinding light gradually dimmed.
When the boy opened his eyes, he was lying on his bed, his whole body was already drenched in cold sweat, he reached out and touched the cold sweat on his forehead, and then got out of bed and put on his shoes.
Looking up, he saw that her mother's room was lit by candlelight, and he quickly came to the front room and found her sitting on the edge of the bed sighing.
After asking why, he realized that they had a similar dream. Early this morning, they came to the Jade Emperor Temple to worship, who knows, only to know that all the people of Zhishuijian have the same dream.
"That's how it happened, we just came to pray for blessings." The young man spread his hands in a helpless expression, and then looked at Yu Man with a vigilant face.
Dream? Yu Man suddenly remembered Ji Nuan's nightmare yesterday, could there be something related to it? She ignored them anymore and went straight to the Qin Mansion.
Jiang Yu nodded to them in thanks, and left with him.