At noon, the sun was blazing.

Qingyao Village Green Bamboo Forest.

"Don't run, thief!" four or five big men were trying to chase a middle-aged man in shabby clothes.

In front of the few big men less than half a mile away was the middle-aged man who was being chased, and when he heard the roar behind him, he didn't stop for anything, but just grabbed the money bag in his hand, panting and running forward even more desperately.

However, although the middle-aged man has tried his best, he is over half a hundred years old, and his physical strength is not comparable to that of a few young strong men behind him.

In less than half a moment, he was caught, and the middle-aged man was pressed by the people behind him with his face dripping profusely and sweating.

"Let me go, please be good, my daughter has been sick for several days......" he begged for mercy with a crying voice, and he didn't know whether it was sweat or tears, his face was covered with stains and water stains, and he was really embarrassed.

However, these people are the well-known bullies of Qingyao Village.

"Bang", and the strong man who took the lead slapped the middle-aged man on his head, "I told you to steal silver, you steal silver, steal silver......"

Seeing the eldest brother's movements, several people around him slapped the middle-aged man's head in unison.

Fighting, the people on the ground slowly stopped struggling, and lay motionless on the ground.

One person saw that the situation was not good, and immediately stepped forward and hugged the arm of the strong man who took the lead, "Big brother, don't fight, if you fight again, you will die." ”

The remaining few people also stopped moving when they saw this, several people looked at each other, one of them hesitated for a moment, and then slowly leaned over to look at the people on the ground, he carefully observed the face that was blocked by emanation, and saw that although the middle-aged man's eyes were blank, the corners of his eyes trembled slightly, and cloudy tears flowed down the corners of his eyes.

The man immediately got up and rejoiced: "Not dead!

Hearing this, several people breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, and they began to vigorously rummage through the middle-aged man's cuffs, eager to retrieve the two taels of silver that the eldest brother had stolen!

The middle-aged man was lying on the ground, no longer had the strength to resist them, but there was still unwillingness in his eyes, he seemed to be talking to himself, and said in a hoarse voice: "My daughter, if you don't ask for a doctor, she will die, she is only 15 years old this year...... Unmarried......"

A handful of snot and a handful of tears finished this sentence, but it did not move these people.

These words sounded very harsh in the hearts of these reckless men, and the strong man who took the lead let go of him, squatted in front of the middle-aged man, looked down at him and said: "What do I care about what you do, dare to steal Lao Tzu's money, you just use it to save the emperor Lao Tzu, and you don't have a good life." ”

Hearing this, the middle-aged man's face turned pale, and he finally gave up.

Several people behind him rummaged back and forth in his cuffs several times but could not find the money bag, and turned to search for other places.

At this time, the middle-aged man squinted at the leading man squatting in front of him, who was looking away, while several people behind him were searching his trousers.

After secretly making up his mind, the middle-aged man quietly moved his hand to his waist, where there was a dagger made of iron sheets, and before these people knew it, the middle-aged man instantly pulled out the dagger from his waist and stabbed it at the person squatting in front of him.

Without falling for a moment, the leader naturally didn't react, and he felt a tingling pain in his abdomen, and his eyes became blurred.

"Big brother, it's found!" A person behind him picked up the money bag that fell not far from the middle-aged man's waist, and was about to hand it to the strong man in the lead, but saw him frown tightly and slowly fell to the side, "Big brother, big brother!"

Several people stepped forward and hugged the strong man.

Half of the incense was not enough, the strong man was already unresponsive, the blood flow of the abdominal wound could not be stopped, and the four of them were so frightened that they forgot about the middle-aged man who stole the money, and just hugged the eldest brother and cried loudly.

However, the strong man who took the lead looked at the figure of the middle-aged man getting farther and farther away, and shouted: "Chase me and catch him for me!"

The four of them continued to cry as if they hadn't heard.

Suddenly, the strong man who had been struggling to struggle stood up from the ground, he chased in the direction of the middle-aged man without thinking about it, and after running a few steps, he slowly noticed that something was wrong, his body seemed to be without the pain just now, and his body was a lot lighter, and the weather was not as hot as just now.

The big man stopped in place, looked down at his wound, it was still bleeding, and then reached out to cover it, he watched in amazement as his hand slowly passed through his body, the strong man's eyes widened in disbelief, and he trembled back and forth several times.

At this time, a girl in black appeared next to the big man, sixteen or seventeen years old, her hair was pulled at will, the broken hair between her temples was fluttering in the wind, her face was good, and she looked at him expressionlessly.

"Shen Wu, thirty-six years old, on the seventh day of June in the year 1008 of An Yuan, died of a knife killing. ”

Shen Wu's face was stunned, he didn't understand what the little girl was talking about, "Death, what are you talking about?"

Without waiting for the girl in black to answer, he saw a person who looked exactly like himself lying not far away, surrounded by several people beside him, Shen Wu's fingers trembled and pointed to himself lying unconscious on the ground, "Who is he?"

"You're dead, it's just a body. After the girl in black explained, seeing that he was pale and silent, she guessed that he understood, and did not bother to talk to him again: "Let's go." ”

Shen Wu panicked and took a few steps back, "You...... Who are you?"

"People of the underworld. The girl in black said, and added coldly: "That is, the ghost --- the mortal world."