Ye Mingzhu is dead!

Xu Rulin stood under the bluestone plaque at the entrance of the market in Shifang Ancient Town, and suddenly heard the bad news, which was unbelievable. The old man Zhang, who was carrying a load of fruits and vegetables, had red circles in his eyes, and kept cursing God in his mouth for being blind, what a good girl's house was gone in the blink of an eye.

has known Ye Mingzhu for nearly three years, and Xu Rulin likes this young girl with clear eyebrows and clever minds. Early yesterday morning, he met Ye Mingzhu's father, Ye Youcheng, at the bazaar, and planned to exchange eggs for some white rice. At that time, the girl was helping to sell vegetables, and when she saw him, she smiled shyly, and her voice was small, "Brother Rulin", which made Xu Rulin numb half of her body.

Every time he saw a girl, he was determined to ask seriously. Whenever he took the trouble to ask about this, the girl always blushed with her face, twisted the hem of her clothes with her hands, and did not dare to run away in the face of the elders, but she was eager to find a crack in the ground and get into it.

Thirty miles outside the north gate of Shifang Ancient Town, there is a hundred-mile mound. Surrounded by mountains and rivers, the scenery is pleasant. The girl's family of three lives at the foot of the hill, with three huts, two yards, and a pond, and is the most ordinary peasant family.

Ye Youcheng's wife's name is Wu Qinglian, she has never been able to conceive a child, and she has taken countless medicines, but her belly has been stunned for nearly ten years, and she has not reacted at all. As a wife, I feel guilty and always feel sorry for my man. But Ye Youcheng didn't care too much, although he occasionally complained in the first few years, but in the following years, he could see it openly. It's not a big deal, it's good that two people are healthy, loving and loving.

When Ye Youcheng was thirty-five years old, a wandering Taoist came to the village, and when he passed by his house, he went into the house to ask for a bowl of water to drink. At that time, Wu Qinglian was cooking in the kitchen, and when she came out, she saw that this Yunyou Taoist was very haggard, so she asked Ye Youcheng to leave him for a light meal before leaving.

During the casual conversation after the meal, the wandering Taoist learned that the two had no children and no daughters under their knees, so they said that they knew a little bit of the art of disambiguation, and left a red pill after checking the pulse, and told them to mix it with honey and take it, and they would soon be happy.

The couple were suspicious, Ye Youcheng was not at ease, and he kept entangled, but Wu Qinglian still couldn't withstand the temptation and secretly took the pill. Unexpectedly, only a month has passed, and she suddenly began to like spicy food, and she couldn't stop at all. In addition, there were occasional symptoms of dizziness and vomiting, Ye Youcheng hurriedly invited the barefoot Langzhong in the village to take a look, and he was really happy.

After another eight months, she gave birth to a daughter named Ye Mingzhu.

The two of them were overjoyed. Wu Qinglian is okay, Ye Youcheng is absolutely fond of this baby daughter, holding it in the palm of his hand for fear of knocking, and holding it in his mouth for fear of melting.

Now that this is happening, Xu Rulin has to comfort this hard-working old couple anyway. As soon as I arrived in the front yard, I heard Wu Qinglian's heart-rending cry from inside the house. Ye Youcheng leaned on a neem tree outside and smoked dry cigarettes, and he hadn't seen him for a day, and the whole person was much older. It looked like a sack that was about to be emptied, crumbling and threatening to fall down at any moment.

In the open space in front of the door, a dark red coffin was particularly shocking.

"Brother Xu-", Ye Youcheng, who was in a trance, looked up and saw Xu Rulin, greeted him hoarsely, and walked over with a shaking, his face was as pale as paper, and his eyes were bloodshot.

"Condolences change. ”

"Pearl She ......"

Xu Rulin stretched out his hand and slowly uncovered the white linen, his eyebrows furrowed suddenly, as if a sword was slashing through the air, and asked in a deep voice:

"Old Ye, Mingzhu is dead, what is the situation?"

Ye Youcheng cried and said that it was a few miles north of Baili Hill, and there was a ten-mile peach forest. There is a peach blossom pond in the forest, and I don't know how much. At the end of yesterday afternoon, a group of peach pickers from a neighboring village saw Ye Mingzhu floating in the pool. After a few brave men went into the water to fish ashore, they found that they had already lost their breath.

When the couple heard the bad news, they hurried to Peach Blossom Pond and hugged their daughter and cried to death.

Some villagers who knew Ye Mingzhu proposed to report to the official, saying that the girl grew up by the water's edge when she was a child, and her water nature was quite good, so how could she drown in the peach blossom pool?

After saying so, what else could the couple say, they could only push a wheelbarrow cart and bring Ye Mingzhu's body home for burial.

Xu Rulin cut the railway:

"Old leaves, with the water nature of the pearl, if there is no accident, it is absolutely impossible to drown. ”

"We don't believe it either, but we ...... it"

"There are some things that you can't see. Xu Rulin said, "If you couple don't mind, I want to check it again." ”

Ye Youcheng hesitated slightly, and asked Xu Rulin to wait, he had to go into the house and ask Wu Qinglian what he meant. Although Xu Rulin has always spoiled Ye Mingzhu as his sister over the years, he is not a family member after all, so he has to avoid suspicion. Besides, the body of the daughter's family, even if the person is gone, cannot be touched casually, and it is important to be safe in the ground.

After a while, the couple helped each other to the door and nodded at Xu Rulin.

For Xu Rulin, the couple didn't know much. It is only known that he is a monk, who looks to be no more than thirty years old, and lives alone on an unnamed island closest to the ancient town of Shifang, growing some fruits and vegetables and raising a lot of poultry.

Every time he went to the town to catch the market, Xu Rulin would take some cured pork, air-dried white feather black chicken and dozens of eggs to the market to exchange rice and flour with vegetable farmers around the town. After a few transactions, it was found that Ye Youcheng's goods were of the best quality, so they cooperated for a long time, and slowly became familiar with each other, plus Xu Rulin was gentle and elegant, without the slightest monk, and after a long time, Ye Youcheng was finally able to muster up the courage to call Xu Rulin a brother and sister.

Because Xu Rulin is a monk, Lao Ye and his wife have always called him Brother Xu. As for the depth of cultivation, the couple has not seen it. According to the seniority, Ye Mingzhu had to call Xu Rulin uncle, but the girl refused, saying that he looked like he was only twenty-seven or eighteen, and he couldn't call him uncle, just call him brother.

Of course, Lao Ye and his wife refused, thinking that they had lost their courtesy. However, Xu Rulin was very happy, and there was no way, so he let this generation be messed up.

Xu Rulin held up the coffin weighing seven or eight hundred catties with one hand, and strode into Ye Mingzhu's boudoir in the frightened eyes of the old Ye couple. Gently place the coffin on the ground, and then carefully pick up the girl with both hands and lay it flat on the bed.

"Mingzhu is indeed drowning. In less than a pillar of incense, Xu Rulin walked out of the boudoir, put the coffin back in its place, sighed, shook his head and said, "People can't be resurrected after death, don't be too sad." I'll go back and help later. ”

On the edge of the Peach Blossom Pond, Xu Rulin put his hands behind his back and shouted softly:

"Edict!"

A moment later, a whirlpool the size of a waterwheel appeared in the pool. An almost transparent humanoid creature rushed out of the water, hovered in mid-air, and bowed to Xu Rulin.

"I am here for the girl who drowned in the pool yesterday. Xu Rulin said, "You are a water ghost in the Peach Blossom Pond, and if you don't save yourself when you see death, you should be punished." ”

The water ghost shook violently, immediately knelt on the water, and said in a trembling voice:

"The master doesn't know, among the three people, there is an immortal family who has a profound cultivation, and the small one doesn't dare to approach at all, otherwise he will be suppressed by his true yuan, and his soul will be scatter......ed."

"Hmm-"

"The little one knows that 'saving a person's life is better than building a seventh-level floating slaughter', and this act of doing good is also beneficial and harmless to the small practice. The water ghost hurriedly said, "It's just that the person used the true yuan to imprison the girl, and he didn't withdraw the true yuan until he was out of breath and left." The small one has been lurking at the bottom of the pool, and it is really more than enough to have enough strength. The only thing Xiao can do is to let the girl float on the surface of the water, and be discovered early, so as not to sink to the bottom of the Baizhang Pond and turn into a pile of white bones. ”

Xu Rulin grabbed the void with his right hand, and the throat of the water ghost seemed to be locked by an invisible big hand, and he struggled powerlessly twice, revealing his original form.

"Great, the master spares his life. Although the little one didn't see the appearance of the three people, he remembered their voices. One of them must be from Shifang Ancient Town, and the laughter is extremely ugly, like a duck's song. ”

"Go on. ”

"During the peach picking season, there are many men and women in the town, and when they play by the peach blossom pond, the little ones listen to them and naturally know each other. One of them spoke the Shifang Town dialect. When they left, the man said, 'Mr. Cao, if this little lady is having a good time today, let's go back to the town for a drink first, and then get you another one in a few days.' ’”

"What did Gongzi Cao say?"

"Just 'hmm'. ”

"What about the other one?"

"In the end, the man said, 'It's a pity to kill it, take care of it, and you won't get tired of playing for most of the year.'" ’”

"You are now a tenfold heavenly cultivator in the Ten Directions Realm, and you have practiced diligently, and you can break through the realm in another half a year. Xu Rulin said in a deep voice, "If you help me find these three people, I will give you a credit." I will say hello to the King of the South Vermilion Bird, and after successfully breaking through the realm, I will enshrine you as the water god of Peach Blossom Pond, and build a temple on the side of the pool, and you can enjoy the incense offerings in the world during the New Year's Festival. ”

"Thank you, Master!"

"Come with me. Xu Rulin walked into the peach forest, "There is a pond on the left side in front of the girl's courtyard, I want you to sneak in it for a few days." During this period, if the voices of these three people are heard, the sound will be recognized. ”

"Yes!"

Xu Rulin returned to Ye Youcheng's house, and the couple was setting up an incense table at the door. One after another, villagers sent paper money, incense and candles and left in a hurry. But all those who drown have a saying of "vain ghosts", and they will find people who are familiar or close to them to be substitutes so that they can be reincarnated as soon as possible.

What's more, the "vain ghosts" cannot be used to organize funerals on a large scale, and the coffins can only be placed outside, and it is advisable to bury them hastily, and their families cannot worship every year afterwards.

Xu Rulin didn't plan to tell Lao Ye and his wife the truth. In fact, when he checked it, he had already seen that Ye Mingzhu had been violated during his lifetime, and it was very likely that it was done by a monk. Although it is impossible to determine the size of its origin for the time being, even a monk who has just entered the Ten Directions Realm is definitely an extremely dangerous existence for ordinary people like Lao Ye and his wife.

Once the news leaks, the couple will definitely be killed, and there is no suspense.

In addition, he also found that Ye Mingzhu had a great immortal fate, as long as he stepped on the immortal edge platform to test it, he would immediately be sent to the two major sects of Miaoyin Valley or Xingluo Tian, and become the inner disciple that countless scattered cultivators and wild cultivators dreamed of. At most, three or five years, you will definitely enter the Bagua Realm, and you can enter the Seven Star Realm in ten years. If there is a great opportunity, it is not impossible to step into the Liuhe realm of immortality for a thousand years in another ten years.

At the beginning, Xu Rulin was also puzzled, with the naked eyes of the old Ye couple, it was impossible to give birth to a descendant of a great immortal like Ye Mingzhu. The only reasonable explanation was the red pill given by the Yunyou Daoist, Xu Rulin speculated that there should be some kind of spiritual creature hidden in the pill, and it was only conceived with the help of Wu Qinglian's body.

If this reasoning is correct, Xu Rulin has a new confusion.

Yunyou Daoist is undoubtedly a master, and it is absolutely impossible to make such a decision because of a bowl of water and a meal, but he may find that this spiritual creature is related to Lao Ye and his wife, so he deliberately came to the door to ask for a bowl of water to drink. In other words, all of this is deliberately arranged by the Yunyou Daoists.

So, a character like Yunyou Daoren, since he is willing to give away the Great Immortal Yuan, how can he not calculate Ye Mingzhu's life and death calamity?

What surprised Xu Rulin even more was that although Ye Mingzhu's body had died, the three souls and seven spirits had not disappeared, but were forcibly imprisoned in the body by some mysterious force. The reason for this can only be the spiritual creature. However, Xu Rulin used True Yuan and Gang Qi to detect Ye Mingzhu's whole body, but he couldn't catch any breath of this spiritual creature.

The strength of a spiritual creature that can make even soul-detaining ghosts cry out in vain is undoubted.

In this way, Ye Mingzhu didn't really die, but if he wanted to be resurrected, it would definitely not be an easy thing, at least Xu Rulin couldn't do it. Therefore, ignoring the wandering Taoist, he can only temporarily understand it as a hidden mystery.

In other words, Ye Mingzhu is destined to go through this calamity in order to be reborn in Nirvana.

It was precisely because of these discoveries that after inspecting it, he stuffed a [Night Pearl] containing ten years of true yuan into Ye Mingzhu's mouth, which could ensure that her body would not decay and become immortal within ten years.

But now, he's going to find three killers.

Although the information provided by the water ghost was not comprehensive and detailed, it was enough for him to follow. It is impossible to determine how profound the cultivation of the prince surnamed Cao is for the time being, but the water ghosts who can suppress the ten heavens of the Ten Directions Realm can be judged that they have at least stepped into the Bagua Realm.

Lao Ye and his wife had already set up the incense table, put the tribute, and sat at the door tearing the paper money. Xu Rulin came to the coffin that had not yet been sealed, and a golden magic seal formed in his left hand, pressed it on Ye Mingzhu's eyebrows, and said softly:

"Mingzhu, what awaits them will be an execution. ”

Ye Mingzhu's eyes finally closed slowly, and two tears of blood slipped down gently.

At nightfall, several meteors streaked across the southern sky.

This means that there are several monks of the Lower Five Realms who are about to fall.