After thinking for a moment, Xu Tong stopped thinking about it. Just try it yourself and you will know what kind of luck it is.
After summoning Fu Cai and letting him transform into his own appearance to replace him, he put on black clothes and quietly sneaked into the night and walked towards the outside of the city gate.
Under the night sky, Xu Tong's figure was like the wind, stepping lightly on the bricks and tiles of the building, avoiding the observation towers in the city, climbing over the city wall, and taking a glance toward the southwest.
There was a village over there, and in the woods not far from the village, everything was lifeless.
It was a mass grave.
The so-called mass graves do not mean that the people buried there are poor people. Even though people are poor, it does not mean that no one visits their graves. Who would leave their relatives in such a place?
There are only three types of people actually buried in mass graves.
One is a nameless refugee who dies on the street without any relatives or friends. When he meets a kind-hearted person, he begs for some money to buy a thin-skinned coffin and has someone take him to this place to bury him.
If there is no kind person, wait for the messenger from Wuhoupu to come, roll up the straw mat, drag it to this place, find a hole and throw it in and bury it. If the messenger is lazy, he probably won't even bother to bury it, and just casually bury it.
Lost something.
The other kind of person is the criminal.
Prisoners who died in the prison, or who were sentenced to beheading and whose bodies were not collected, were also taken over by Wuhou Pu and thrown here.
As for the last kind of person...
It's a private dumping of the body.
For example, if you kill someone, bury the body here quietly.
Most of these are domestic servants and slaves who made mistakes and were beaten to death by the family law. The masters would not pay them, and they would often quietly drag them here and bury them, without any official action being taken to task.
The reason why Xu Tong came to the mass graves was precisely because his master gave him the prescription for Huangwen. All other materials were easy to tell, but the one about the wild dogs in the mass graves was the one that Xu Tong needed to come here in person.
One trip.
As for what Yuan Shoushi said that repairing the money model would require a coffin board made of dark wood, Xu Tong didn't think too much about it.
A place like a mass grave might not have such a thing.
Xu Tong stepped on the withered leaves, but he didn't make a sound under his feet. When he looked around, he saw that the graves were covered with messy soil bags. As for the tombstones, he didn't see a single tombstone.
"Woo~~"
A few wild dogs hiding behind the earthbags seemed to be aware of it and raised their ears. However, after looking around, they found nothing and continued to eat the corpse wrapped in a straw mat.
However, these wild dogs with a keen sense of smell did not notice that a figure was standing on the dirt bag above their heads, watching them silently.
"Black, white, yellow."
Xu Tong frowned and carefully identified these wild dogs.
But unfortunately, there were only two black dogs and one yellow dog, and the others were all mottled skewers.
Moreover, the yellow dog obviously had diseased bones and was as thin as a stick. It was difficult to even stand up.
Follow these wild dogs and only dare to eat the bones left by the wild dogs.
Even if such a cowardly yellow dog meets the conditions, Xu Tong would not want to use it to perform spells.
When he looked again, he saw the two big black dogs, fat and strong, their eyes glowing red in the night light.
They are also the most ferocious among them. Other wild dogs dare not approach easily. Unfortunately, these two wild dogs are both pure black. It would be great if one of them could be white.
"No matter what, let's catch one first. Let Guo Yi go to the dog market to take a look at the remaining two."
But just when Xu Tong was about to take one of them away.
Suddenly these wild dogs raised their heads one after another, and then dispersed with a loud crash.
"somebody is coming??"
Xu Tong frowned and looked sideways. He saw a group of people in the distance dragging a donkey cart sneaking along the foot of the city wall.
"Help……"
There was a squirming sack on the donkey cart, and faint shouts could be heard inside the sack.
Obviously what was inside the sack was a living person.
But the few people driving the car didn't care about this. They parked the car outside the forest and carried the people into the mass grave.
"Just stay here, it's too messy in there, don't attract evil spirits!"
Several people walked into the forest, but when they saw the darkness ahead, they were reluctant to continue walking.
The leading man wore a black gauze hat on his head and held a fan in his hand. Judging from his attire, he did not look like the kind of boss who was short of money.
This person's name is Zhang Cui. Everyone who knows him in Luoyang City knows that he is the chief steward of the Zhang Mansion.
Zhang Cui squinted his eyes and looked inside, only to find that it was dark inside, and he could vaguely hear the sound of something moving back and forth, which made people feel terrified all over.
I hurriedly recited the words "Amitabha, Buddha bless me" in my heart, then turned around and said to the people behind me: "Let's bury it right here."
Hearing this, several other people were unambiguous. They threw the sacks on their shoulders to the ground, picked up their hoes and started digging holes.
"Bah, Xu Tianjun, Xu Tianjun, you are here too. Don't blame us for being unjust. If you do, blame yourself for being so ignorant."
Zhang Cui said that he was still angry and kicked the sack hard.
Others also followed and scolded: "You deserve it. I don't know how much I weigh. Master Zhang wants you to write fancy words. He is looking down on you. Not only do you not write, you also dare to insult Master Zhang!"
"After all, you are just a scholar. You don't even have any fame. Don't you just make a living by writing fancy words? The money Mr. Wang gave you is money, but the money Mr. Zhang gave you is not?"
"Damn it, I have to come to a place like this in the middle of the night. It's so disappointing!"
The person in the sack was kicked several times and screamed in pain. Maybe he knew that he would not survive, and he cursed:
"Bah, Mr. Zhang, his mother just died and he was still observing filial piety, so he blatantly went to Tanhualou and asked me to write a flower poem for him. I will not write it for him if he is an unkind and unfilial person!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone beat him even harder.
Zhang Cui waved his hand and pushed everyone away, squatting beside the sack and sneered.
"What do you know? My lord was too sad, so he went to Tanhua Building to chat with Miss Deyue and relax." At this time, Zhang Cui did not forget to defend his lord.
Besides, you know what my master has prepared for the old lady. I will scare you to death if I tell you. It is a thousand-year-old gloomy wooden coffin. That coffin alone will cost your family eight lifetimes."
As soon as Zhang Cui said this, Xu Tong, who was hiding in the shadows watching the show, couldn't help but slowly narrowed his eyelids.
He thought to himself: "Hey, it's really unintentional, Liu Zilai came!!"
I obviously wanted to catch the dog, but the dog failed to catch it. The matter of the gloomy wooden coffin was actually solved!!
Thinking of this, Xu Tong couldn't help but be surprised.
He glanced at Zhang Cui and others, and immediately had an idea in his mind.
Xu Tianjun was beaten badly in the sack, but he didn't stop talking.
Some people were so angry that they picked up the hoe and wanted to hit it a few more times to make Xu Tianjun shut up.
Seeing this, Zhang Cui stopped him and urged: "Forget it, bury him quickly. Let's leave quickly. I always feel that this place is very evil."
It's okay if Zhang Cui didn't say it, but when he said it, everyone couldn't help but start to murmur in their hearts.
No one would be willing to come to a place like a mass grave, and they were also in bad luck today.
So they all worked hard, planning to bury this guy as soon as possible and leave as soon as possible.
"Huh??"
At this time, someone dug a few hoes and discovered that there was a coffin carved out of stone under the pit.
Zhang Cui came over to take a look and curled his lips: "Hey, it's strange, coffins can be dug out of mass graves, so they should be buried together!"
The man in the hat just finished speaking
Suddenly, I heard a faint voice complaining: "That's not the case, it's so crowded down there."
The sound came so suddenly that Zhang Cui didn't recover for a moment, and said with an impatient face: "I don't want to force you out."
After saying that, Zhang Cuicai suddenly realized that something was wrong. When he looked back, he saw a group of people staring at the coffin in a daze. The silence for a moment was terrifying.
Looking down through the pit, he saw the coffin below shaking slightly, and heard a strange laughter coming from the coffin: "Then I'll come out!"
The sound fell, and the coffin stood up from the pit with a whooshing sound.
"hiss!!"
Looking at the coffin that suddenly stood up, several people's scalps went numb and their heartbeats almost stopped.
In the middle of the night, there were graves all over the ground, and a coffin stood up from the pit. Don't call it a mass grave. Even if it were in another place, I couldn't stand it.
"well!!"
Zhang Cui's heart skipped a beat, and beads of sweat suddenly rolled down his forehead.
"I'm out, you come in!"
The coffin continued to shout.
Upon hearing this, Zhang Cui's face turned as white as window paper with fright, his whole body trembled, and he shouted for a long time with his mouth half open, without shouting a single word.
"Ghost!!"
Finally, several people on the side couldn't stand it anymore, and no one knew who it was, they turned around and ran out.
Several people ran very fast, wishing their parents would give birth to two more legs.
After running out of the woods, I looked back and found Zhang Cui still standing where he was.
“Why doesn’t Butler Zhang leave??”
Some people wondered.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Cui's screams were heard in a moment: "Don't run, please pull me! My legs can't control me!"
I saw that Zhang Cui's legs were weak and he wanted to run, but his feet didn't obey him.
Upon hearing this, several people looked at each other, turned their heads, and ran faster.
When Butler Zhang looked back, he saw that everyone had disappeared. He was so angry that his legs jumped up and he wanted to greet these bastards and the whole family.
As a result, before he could open his mouth, he was suddenly kicked from behind and was kicked directly into the pit.
Zhang Cui fell hard under the pit. When he opened his eyes again, he saw a huge mouse standing in front of him. The hair on the mouse was black and white, standing in front of him like a human.
Zhang Cui had seen it before, but he had never seen such a big rat. He was stunned when he saw the rat mouthing human words: "If you like it, I will give this place to you!"
After saying that, the mouse jumped out of the pit in a flash, not forgetting to step on the coffin before leaving.
"Help...help...ah!!"
Suddenly the coffin fell down, killing Zhang Cui under the coffin.
At this time, Xu Tong came out from the side and waved, and saw Jixiang slipping back into the hall.
Xu Tong stepped forward and untied the sack.
I saw a scholar under the sack. The scholar was young and had a delicate look on his eyebrows. When he saw Xu Tong, he was shocked at first: "Are you a human or a ghost!!"
"Of course he's a ghost, and he's a fierce ghost!"
Xu Tong said half-jokingly.
Xu Tianjun couldn't help being startled when he heard this, but when he saw the smile on Xu Tong's face, he knew that he was overthinking it.
He quickly crawled out of the sack and bowed deeply to Xu Tong: "Thank you very much for your help, otherwise I would have been buried here today."
Xu Tianjun said, looking up, but did not see Zhang Cui.
So I plucked up the courage, walked to the pit, lowered my head and looked down carefully. I saw Zhang Cui, the unlucky guy, hitting his head on the corner of the sarcophagus. His head hit the stone and was smashed to pieces in an instant.
"Humph, you have done many evil things, so this must be your retribution."
Xu Tianjun sighed, with an unbearable look on his face for a moment.
When Xu Tong saw Xu Tianjun's angry look, he urged: "Let's go, it's getting late. Don't worry if those people come back later and they'll be in trouble."
"But...he..."
Xu Tianjun looked at Zhang Jie who was beaten to death and hesitated a little. This was a life case, and there was no way for him to leave like this.
After Xu Tong heard Xu Tianjun's words, he shouted in his heart: "You deserve to fail the exam!"
Patting him on the shoulder, he said: "This is called seeing the coffin with good luck and peace..."