In the cold moonlight, a muddy ridge loomed in the distance, and at the edge of these ridges were rows of houses repaired with mud and straw.

There are a few families with better conditions, and the roofs are paved with tiles, which is already a sign of wealthy families in the village.

Strangely, very few of these houses are lit. Even the barking of the dogs, which can be heard everywhere in the countryside, is rarely heard.

Everything seemed broken and silent.

"Here it was half a year ago. It's still a bustling village. ”

At this moment, Zhong Wanquan said with emotion.

Lu Qing said strangely when he heard this: "This is the hometown of the female ghost in red?"

Zhong Wanquan nodded in affirmation, and then told him about the village's past. And the female ghost.

This place is called Chenjiabao, it is one of the three villages outside Yongchang County, and the remaining two are called Wujia Village and Gaozhuang, and the three villages are located on three sides of Wutou Mountain. That's right, it was the Aconitum Mountain where the spirit stone mine was discovered.

Chenjiabao is located in the middle of nowhere, although it is not big, but there are more than 400 people living in it, although the people of Chenjiabao are not rich, but they are also considered to have a stable life, and there is no dispute with the world.

The red-clothed woman's name is Jade Niang, and this was thirty or fifty years ago.

Yu Niang was born in Chenjiabao since she was a child, grew up here, and depended on her mother Wu Ma. Wu's mother married from Wujia Village next door, who would have thought that her husband would die young just after getting married. The pressure of life forced her to have no choice but to sell herself to the Chen family as a servant, and she worked hard to raise her daughter Yuniang.

Later, when Yu Niang grew up to the age of seventeen, she had a delicate face, a graceful posture, and was good at sewing and embroidery, and the handkerchiefs and dresses she made by herself were very popular with the residents of Chenjiabao, and she could also exchange some change for some change to supplement the family.

Everything in Chenjiabao looks so calm... And all this quietly changed until Old Man Chen's family came to give the dowry.

Chenjiabao is dozens of miles away, all of which are the property of the landlord Chen, which can be described as a family wealth.

But the only son of the Chen family was a natural tuberculosis ghost, and his body was so weak that he would cough and tremble when he said two words.

Young Master Chen's illness is getting worse and worse, and he is almost bedridden, and Master Chen is so anxious that the doctor has searched all over him, but there is no improvement.

When he was in a hurry to go to the doctor, he thought about marrying a daughter-in-law for his son, and maybe there would be a turnaround.

is such a ridiculous reason that ruined Yu Niang's life and Chen Jiabao's peaceful life.

Just two days before Yu Niang was about to marry into the Chen family, there was a big incident.

It turned out that Young Master Chen drank two glasses of wine as soon as he was happy because he was about to marry, and as soon as this soju was in his stomach, Young Master Chen's illness flared up again, and this time he finally vomited blood and died after tossing for most of the night.

When Yu Niang heard that the young master of the Chen family died of illness, she thought that she would not have to marry into the Chen family this time, but she did not expect that Master Chen insisted that the marriage contract was valid, so that she could marry the young master as scheduled and match a pair of yin marriages.

At the beginning, the theory of Yin marriage was actually a means of Shinto in the Western Continent, and there was no such rule on the Eastern Continent where Xun was located. It's very simple, if you really want to marry yin, you must have a Shinto monk to knead the soul of the deceased newcomer to marry in order to really work, the soul of the two will be bound by the Shinto spells of the previous life, and under the mutual traction in the underworld, they can naturally get married to continue the front edge, so it can also be regarded as a match made in heaven, a covenant of three lives.

But there is no Shinto inheritance on the Eastern Continent, so how can we talk about Yin marriage?

It's just an absurd ritual formed by the village fools and fools who hear about it, and it is just a psychological comfort.

The final result of this incident was naturally a tragedy, Yu Niang chose to commit suicide to defend the last dignity, but the old man of the Chen family was indifferent, and let Yu Niang, who died in a wedding dress, and the young master of the Chen family go to the earth to be buried together after completing the yin marriage.

Decades passed, and the Chen family later seemed to be cursed by Yu Niang, and their business deteriorated, and finally even the huge real estate was sold by them one after another.

Less than ten years after Yu Niang's death, the once invincible Chen family disappeared and disappeared forever in Chenjia Village. Except for some elderly people, no one knows the past of Chenjiazhuang and the story of Yu Niang.

"Two immortal envoys, this is what I know, if I expected it to be true, the female ghost in red is the jade lady of the year... In addition to the missing villagers of Chenjiabao for no reason, most of them have fled to other villages, some of the old people have been abandoned, and now most of them are in Wujia Village, and some of them are difficult to leave their homeland, so they stayed in Chenjiazhuang and did not go anywhere.. People here say that this is Yu Niang's revenge! She first secretly harmed the Chen family, and then came to take revenge on these villagers who watched coldly back then. Alas!"

Zhong Wanquan said in the end, and couldn't help but sigh again.

And the doubts in Lu Qing's heart when he heard the words not only did not decrease, but became more...

"Thank you Zhong Zhutou for your advice, but I still don't understand some things, if the female ghost in red is really a jade girl, then why did she only come out half a year ago?"

After Lu Qing first politely said as usual, he asked the doubts in his heart.

Lin Shiyan also nodded her little head, as a woman, she obviously could better understand Yu Niang's tragic experience, and her eyes were a little red at this time.

Zhong Wanquan was silent for a while, then slowly opened his mouth and said, "I really don't know much about this villain, I only know that since the spirit stone mine was discovered here half a year ago, everything has changed. ”

He pursed his lips as he finished speaking, clearly not intending to say any more.

And Lu Qing was not satisfied with Zhong Wanquan's prevarication, and was about to continue to ask, when he waved his hand and said, "I have already said everything I know, otherwise I will take the two immortal envoys to see the other two villages, okay?"

Lu Qing looked at this square-faced head catcher at this time, and always felt that he still had something to hide from him.

But thinking that he is the only person willing to help now, he plans not to tear his face with him for the time being, and wait until he has an eyebrow.

Next, the three of them went to a place similar to Chenjiabao, that is, Gaozhuang in the remaining two villages.

Like Chenjiabao, there are no people there, and the villagers, except for the missing ones, either fled to other places or went to Wujia Village.

The trio didn't find anything there, and ended up going to the last remaining of the three villages. It is also a village that is still a little popular, Wujia Village.

Wujia Village is located in the middle of the Wutou Mountain, there is only a narrow mountain road to go up, there is a cliff behind the village, there is no way to go at all, the villagers here can only rely on the steep mountain road to get in and out, the whole village seems closed and backward, perhaps it is precisely because of this that the disappearance phenomenon here is obviously much less than the other two villages, so some of the villagers of the other two villages have come here to live.

At this time, although there is still a period of time before dawn, the chickens in the countryside have always crowed very early, and when the three of them arrived, some villagers had already gotten up to clean up the snow, and the heavy snow in Qingzhou has not stopped in the past few days.

A few sharp-eyed villagers found Lu Qing and the three people in the distance at this time, they were as wary of Lu Qing and Lin Shiyan as ever, but they welcomed and warmed Zhong Wanquan from the bottom of their hearts.

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"Zhong Zhutou, why are you here?"

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"Has the county magistrate solved the case?"

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"When will my second dog come back?"

When the villagers saw Zhong Wanquan coming, they rushed up and asked non-stop, and the deer and Lin on the side smacked their tongues.

Especially Lu Qing, he didn't expect this Zhong Wanquan to have such a high prestige in the minds of the local villagers.

Zhong Wan's comprehensive interrogation of these villagers seemed a little powerless, and after his eyes swept to Lu Qing and Lin Shiyan, he hurriedly pulled them to his side, and then ceremoniously introduced to the people that they were immortal envoys from Qingyun Palace, and this time they were specially here to solve the problem for them.

The villagers didn't believe it at first, not because they doubted Zhong Wanquan, but because they suspected that Lu and Lin were young, how could they be immortals?

After seeing Lu Qing use the True Yuan to urge the Chixuan Sword to fly around and smash a thousand catties of boulders, they knelt on the ground and kowtowed, calling the immortal manifest in their mouths.

After Lu Qing helped them up, Zhong Wanquan continued to tell the villagers about the haunting of the county government last night and how Lu Qing drove away ghosts.

When the people of Wujia Village heard this, they all thought for a while that Lu Qing was a god in the sky who had come down to catch demons, and they knelt down and kowtowed again in their hearts under the excitement.

Zhong Wanquan didn't stop him, he took a step back after finishing speaking, and let a group of villagers surround Lu Qing and watch coldly.

Of course, this scene still made Lin Shiyan see it clearly.

"Immortals, that female ghost has harmed us a lot, you must get rid of her for the villagers, otherwise this Wujia Village will be finished... The old man is here to beg the immortals to have mercy!"

At this time, an old man with a white beard came out of the crowd, looking like the village chief of this Wujia Village, after seeing Lu Qing's methods, he solemnly begged Lu Qing to help them, and finally knelt down with the other villagers.

Seeing such an old man kneeling down to himself, Lu Qing felt a little uncomfortable in his heart... When he was born, he was born by bowing down to all the peoples, and this ceremony was not too much for his status.

Even now, he is also the immortal envoy of Qingyun Palace, and it is not a big deal for these villagers to kowtow to him, because this is a gap in identity.

But he was a little uncomfortable now, it turned out that the reason why they would bow down to themselves from the bottom of their hearts was more because they were expecting something they could do for them.

This was the first time he realized that he seemed to have memorized a lot of things that he hadn't seen before.

At this moment, Lin Shiyan quietly tugged on his sleeve and motioned with his eyes for him to quickly explain to the villagers.

Lu Qing saw Lin Shiyan's hint, of course she knew what she meant, she wanted to remind herself not to forget what the identities of the two of them were and what their tasks were.

They are the envoys of Qingyun Palace, and their mission is to come down and be ordered to investigate the disappearance case in Yongchang County.

Now there is only a suspicion that this female ghost in red, that is, Yu Niang, may be related to the disappearance.

Secondly, even if it turns out to be true in the end, it is related. Then their task will be completed, and then they will only need to report to the sect for processing.

At that time, a little female ghost will not be worth anything in front of the huge Qingyun Palace, and the Demon Suppression Hall will destroy her like a bedbug!

But.. Is that really good?

If he chooses to follow the procedure, then when Qingyun Palace receives their report, he will send someone down to eradicate the female ghost, and this back and forth will take half a month.

And how many villagers who have knelt on the ground here will be alive to see this day?

Lu Qing hesitated a little at this moment...

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