Chapter 147: Borrowing birth date and luck (5k big chapter, please subscribe and vote monthly) (revised)
The distance between Lingqian Township and Fucheng.
If one person is paired with two fast horses.
I kept driving fast all the way.
It only takes one day to get there.
But if you are traveling by carriage, you will be delayed for about three days on the road.
final.
Jin An agreed to the eldest lady's request and came to Lingqian Township.
In addition to what the eldest lady promised, there must be a generous thank you.
He also intends to eliminate the roots.
Never have future troubles.
Lest the evil fetus in Zhang's belly could really come to fruition and be born, and then seek revenge on him, the enemy who killed his fifth father, with overwhelming resentment.
After riding a carriage for three consecutive days, the first two days were fine and the official road was not too bumpy. However, on the last day as we got closer and closer to Lingqian Township, the road began to get bumpier and bumpier.
It's getting harder and harder to go along the way.
This is a motorcade.
There are three carriages in total.
Each carriage is pulled by two tall and strong horses with long endurance.
In front of and behind the convoy, there were more than a dozen direct line guards raised by the He family to protect them, to prevent any blind bandits from setting their sights on the convoy of the eldest wife of the He family.
These guards are not comparable to the ordinary nursing homes in He Mansion.
He has a powerful figure and bulging temples. There is an ox-horn bow on one side of the horse under the seat and a bag of arrows on the other side.
This kind of ox-horn bow cannot be fired with less than 200 to 300 kilograms of strength.
If you want to draw a full bow, you won't be able to do it without a weight of 500 to 600 kilograms.
These people are all good at riding and shooting. They are not afraid of the harassment of horse thieves at all. If they encounter ordinary bandits, they will shoot them directly from a hundred steps away.
These are the elite guards of the direct line raised by He Mansion.
According to what Jin An and Guard Li learned, each of these direct line guards is a master of horizontal training who can fight against one to twenty bandits. They are good at using swords, guns, swords and sticks when they are off the horse, and they are good at riding and shooting when they are on the horse.
, strict discipline, and drilled according to the standards of the Kangding cavalry.
It takes several hundred taels of silver to train each person.
It's not an exaggeration to say that he is a master who uses money to make it happen.
One person can spend hundreds of taels of silver, and there are more than ten people here, which is equivalent to tens of thousands of taels of silver moving around. The He family is indeed very wealthy.
Jin An has not been idle along the way. He has been observing and trying to figure out the visualization of the Great Demon God, and he has been improving his spiritual martial arts every day.
On the contrary, on the last day, the old Taoist priest's butt was so shaken that he finally walked out of the carriage, sat at the front of the car, and chatted with Li Weiwei from all over the world.
So at this time, only Jin An and Xiajian were left in the carriage.
This encounter with a group of antique merchants will most likely turn into a group fight, so Jin An will naturally bring along the sword-sharpening master thief.
If we really encounter a large group battle, we won't be alone and helpless, right?
As for the greedy and silly sheep in the Taoist temple.
Jin An was temporarily thrown into the He Mansion to be raised.
It is estimated that there are a bunch of ewes surrounding me right now, and they are intoxicated in the wine pool and the meat forest and can't extricate themselves.
Jin An couldn't help but feel an inexplicable joy in his heart when he thought that Fatty Li, the guard in the He Mansion who wanted to catch an evil spirit, also came to Lingqian Township with the eldest lady's motorcade this time.
This time, Li Huwei finally got what he wanted and defeated the evil spirit.
I wonder if Li Huwei will continue to be obsessed with finding the Headless Village and becoming the Headless Corpse King after seeing the man-eating ghost fetus this time.
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"Little brother, we have finally arrived. I have already seen Lingqian Township at the foot of the mountain."
The old Taoist priest's voice shouted outside the carriage.
When Jin An heard this, he raised the curtain, but what he didn't expect was the pungent dust from the rocky mountain road. The outside of the carriage was covered in yellow and the visibility was very poor. Jin An quickly put down the curtain to block the yellow sand outside.
The carriage drove for a while, and when the road became less bumpy, Jin An opened the curtain again.
It was better outside the carriage this time. Although there was still yellow dust flying, it was not as uncomfortable as before because of the leeward wind.
The carriage is now halfway up the mountain, heading down the mountain.
From the location of Jin'an, I happened to see a large open land at the foot of the mountain. The fields are endless, the sky is endless, the water is clear, and it is surrounded by green mountains, setting off the quiet and peaceful field scenery. It is indeed a suitable retirement home for old age.
Great place.
According to the words of the old Taoist priest, this is a geomantic treasure land. Lingqian Township is backed by five mountains, and to the north is a flat river. There is plenty of sunshine every day. This is a geomantic treasure land for the placement of the Yangzhai, which is called the Five Blessings.
Although Jin'an doesn't understand the old Taoist priest's Feng Shui adjustments.
But just looking at the scenery of the fields at the foot of the mountain from a distance really broadened his mind and body.
It is said that if a person is open-minded, disaster will be far away.
As he got closer and closer to Lingqian Township, Jin An also saw that there were high walls built on all sides of Lingqian Township, forming an irregular rectangle.
Those high walls are also built with simple wall stacks, which can easily prevent the invasion of bandits and bandits.
In Lingqian Township, there are two largest villages.
A large village is very popular.
The other large village with half the area was empty, not even a single person was seen.
Jin An's thoughts moved.
It seems that the large deserted village is the Zhang family's house.
As the carriage kept moving and changing directions, Jin An also saw the situation of the Zhang family's village from multiple angles.
It was a courtyard with three entrances.
The gate of the mansion.
Weeping flower door.
Outer courtyard, inner courtyard.
Wing room, wing room, lower room, main room, east kitchen, west kitchen...
There is also a small flower pavilion with lush trees in the inner courtyard.
Just when Jin An was about to turn his attention to the He family's ancestral home, suddenly, his eyes froze.
At some point, there was an old monk standing in the village of the Zhang family. The old monk also saw Mrs. He's majestic motorcade and calmly watched the motorcade enter Lingqian Township.
Lingqian Township can be said to be big or not, but the eldest lady has said that the population of Lingqian Township is about a thousand households.
A central axis runs through the entire Lingqian Township.
As soon as the motorcade entered Lingqian Township, they found that there was something wrong with the atmosphere in Lingqian Township. It was too peaceful and few people were seen along the way.
Popularity is declining.
Many shop doors are closed.
It looks like there has been a lot of evil recently, and many people have fled Lingqian Township.
The motorcade continued to move forward in Lingqian Township. If it wanted to go to the ancestral home of the He family, it had to pass by the Zhangjia Dazhuangzi. When the motorcade passed by the Zhangjia Dazhuangzi, it saw that the gate of the Zhuangzi that had been sealed by the government had been torn off.
seal.
Jin An couldn't help but think of the old monk he saw in the Zhangjia Village when he was halfway up the mountain.
He looked thoughtful.
Out of curiosity, Jin An used a qi-gazing technique on the Zhang family's Dazhuangzi to see if there was really something evil happening in the house. If something was really evil, it would definitely be filled with cold yin and black energy... As a result, this look made him
Jin An was surprised and startled.
The motorcade just passed by the Zhang family's Dazhuangzi and did not stop along the way. It continued to rush to the He family's ancestral home. However, since the Qi-gazing operation was performed on the Zhang family's Dazhuangzi, Jin An's brows did not relax during the rest of the journey.
.
He seemed to have made some unexpected discovery in Zhangjia Dazhuangzi.
The motorcade passed through the desolate streets, and when they arrived at the He family's ancestral home, they finally saw many living people. Many people immediately came out to greet the He family's ancestral home.
When they saw the eldest lady getting out of the carriage, the He family cheered and many people had smiles on their faces.
Jin An felt that the smiles of these people were more of relief.
It's like I found my backbone all of a sudden.
When they saw Jin An and the old Taoist priest, an old and a young Taoist pair, the servants of the He family all paid curious glances.
Since Jin An started practicing martial arts, his senses have been sharp and he heard these servants secretly discussing them.
"Are these two Taoist priests the masters that the eldest lady sent back in advance to inform them that they were invited in the city?"
"What do I think of that young Taoist priest? He looks more like a monk than a Taoist priest?"
"On the contrary, the old Taoist leader who took the lead has an air of immortality about him, and he has a sense of being an outsider. That young Taoist priest should be the disciple of that old Taoist priest, right?"
The discussion among the servants was quickly distracted by the third carriage.
The carriage was larger and more spacious than the carriage the eldest lady was riding in, but it was always covered by curtains, blocking outside eyes, and no one was seen getting out of it.
Is it because there is no one in the third carriage?
Everyone became curious about what was in this third carriage?
The eldest lady did not waste time on these trivial matters. She took Jin An, the old Taoist priest and others to the inner courtyard of the He family and met directly with the old man of the He family.
The old man of the He family is a strong-boned old man. Beside him, there are several elderly people with similar facial features and similar age to the old man.
Jin An secretly speculated that these people should be some of Mr. He's brothers, that is, the top leaders of the He family who are really in charge.
This is obviously a family meeting of senior leaders of the He family.
The eldest lady waved away the two maids around her, but did not let Jin An, the old Taoist priest, sharpen his sword, and Li Weiwei leave. It was obvious that the eldest lady did not avoid suspicion in this direct family meeting that was related to the life and death of the He family.
The eldest lady believed that the four outsiders present were the most worthy of her trust.
"Little brother, look at the old man sitting next to Mr. He. The palace of husband and wife is covered by black energy, and the treacherous door in the corner of the eye is broken, which means that the couple's life has come to an end. He has just divorced his wife. And the tip of the nose, which represents the palace of wealth and silk, is black.
Heaviness of breath means that he has recently encountered troubles and lost money, and it is the time when he is most short of money to spend. Looking at his bad luck recently, and the whites of his eyes with black hair, it means that this bad luck has made him worried in his later years."
"I'll bet you a bowl of haggis noodles. This person must be the 'Uncle' who was cuckolded by the evil evil priest."
Jin An and others were on the eldest lady's side, so they naturally sat down on the eldest lady's side. The old Taoist priest secretly pulled the corner of Jin An's clothes, winked and whispered.
When more than a dozen people were seated, after a brief introduction, Jin An looked at the old Taoist priest in surprise, and he was guessed by the old Taoist priest.
That man turned out to be Uncle He Gui, and his name was He Liangchou.
Several old people in the house are all brothers of Mr. He.
They are all senior members of the He family.
"Father, after I got the news from the ancestral home, I immediately rushed back to the He family's ancestral home. I was delayed for several days on the way. I wonder what the situation of the Zhang family and the Zhang family is now?"
"On the way here, I saw an old monk in the empty Zhangjia Village. Is that old monk the eminent monk invited by the Yamen from Bailong Temple in Fucheng this time?"
The eldest lady asked Mr. He.
Mr. He: "Yes, that monk is indeed an eminent monk from Bailong Temple. He just arrived this morning, half a day earlier than you and the two Taoist priests."
Although it is said that scholars look down upon each other.
But Mr. He became more open-minded as he lived. Even when he faced a young Taoist priest like Jin An, he treated him as a Taoist priest and was polite. He did not look down on Jin An because of his young appearance.
"As for the Zhang family, there are also Zhang Xiang... The Zhang family has not been found so far. No one has been found alive, and no body has been found dead. According to Mr. Yuan, the Zhang family is troubled by raising tigers, and dozens of them must have died.
Enter the mouth of the ghost fetus in Zhang’s belly.”
"Mr. Yuan is a worldly expert among the group of antique dealers who came to Lingqian Township. It was this Mr. Yuan who discovered the truth that Zhang was pregnant with evil spirits and was stealing children to eat in Lingqian Township."
"oh?"
The eldest lady looked around at everyone in the room: "It's been so long since I came to my ancestral home, why haven't I seen this worldly master, Mr. Yuan, and his antique dealers?"
"When we talk about this, we also feel strange."
The speaker this time was another old man sitting next to Mr. He, He Liangchou, Mr. He's eldest brother and He Gui's uncle.
Next, the eldest lady, Jin An and others learned about what happened in the past few days.
It turned out that the group of antique dealers had disappeared in Lingqian Township for several days.
Since taking the initiative to exorcise evil spirits that day, the group of antique dealers could still see people in Lingqian Township for the first two days.
He was busy in and out of the mountains near Lingqian Township every day, and he stayed in the spooky Zhang family's village every night. He seemed to be seriously searching for the missing Zhang family.
But on the third day after spending the night at Zhangjia Dazhuangzi, the group of antique dealers disappeared inexplicably.
All are missing.
At first, the villagers were speculating that the group of antique dealers were not good at learning and blew their hides so loudly that they were swallowed whole by Zhang, right?
The blame lies here.
Since then, Lingqian Township seems to have returned to peace, and no one has heard of any pregnant woman giving birth to a stillbirth prematurely. It seems that Mrs. Zhang has successfully exorcised the evil spirits and no longer continues to steal and eat the children.
I haven’t heard of anyone’s family going missing or anyone’s poultry being bitten to death in the middle of the night.
From this point of view, the exorcism must have been successful, and Zhang, who was pregnant with a ghost fetus, had been surrendered by Mr. Yuan, the master of the group of antique dealers.
But if the exorcism was really successful, why did the group of antique dealers suddenly leave without saying goodbye?
According to normal logic, shouldn't we ask the wealthy He family for a generous reward, and then make the villagers of Lingqian Township feel grateful and continue to buy antiques in Lingqian Township?
That's why the He family feels strange.
Nothing makes sense before and after.
While He Gui's uncle He Liangchou was speaking, the old Taoist priest kept staring at him, with an increasingly surprised look on his face. After He Liangchou finished speaking, the old Taoist priest asked He Liangchou: "The Yintang is black and the eyebrows are divergent. It's obvious that
It is a sign of bad luck. The lower lip is sunken and the corners of the mouth are deflated. This is a sign of a loss of fortune. A black line gradually appears in the middle of the person, indicating that the loss of fortune is slowly overcoming the master. The fortune is getting worse day by day, slowly pushing the person forward.
If you go to a desperate situation, you may not be forced into a desperate situation in a short time, but in the end you will still be unable to escape the impending disaster..."
"Logically speaking, this is a sign of being haunted by unclean things, but I look at this donor. There are no black lines in the whites of his eyes. It's strange. This donor, have you encountered anything strange recently?
?”
The words of the old Taoist priest can be said to be somewhat unlucky.
Makes people feel unhappy.
"This Taoist Master Chen, that slut of the Zhang family, should have been exorcised by now. What other unclean things can still come to haunt me? I, He Liangchou, have been doing things openly and above all in my life, and I have never done anything wrong. Naturally, I am not afraid of those evil spirits knocking on the door in the middle of the night.
.”
"Uncle" He Liangchou, who ate the tender grass of an old cow and had five green patches on his head, spoke quite righteously and with the magnanimous righteousness of a gentleman.
"My nephew-in-law, don't blame me for being outspoken. My nephew-in-law, have you figured out the origins of these two Taoist priests?"
"Now that Zhang's slut has been exorcised by Mr. Yuan who was invited by the family, Lingqian Township has returned to its former peace. The uncle also kindly advises his niece and daughter-in-law not to lose all their money by then."
Perhaps because he was driven back to the countryside by the eldest lady, He Liangchou had a grudge against the eldest lady, and his words were somewhat thorny.
The eldest lady and Jin An are both well-educated people, and they are not aggressive towards the old man who has half a foot in the coffin. They all trust the old Taoist priest (Chen Taoist priest)'s vision of people and will never see the wrong person, so they all
He looked at the old Taoist priest (Taoist Master Chen).
Want to hear what the other person has to say?
The old Taoist priest is not a person who is afraid of trouble.
Because he was eager to save people, he spoke a little bluntly, and he was a little apologetic in his heart. Now when he saw this uncle with five grasslands above his head, he almost pointed at his nose and called him a charlatan. The good-looking old Taoist priest was also stubborn now.
When his temper got worse, he stopped rushing to save people and planned to give He Liangchou a little pain.
So he said calmly and without any expression: "As I said, donor, you look like you are chasing evil, but it doesn't necessarily look like you are chasing evil. Please think carefully and think about it, have you encountered anything strange around you recently?
?”
"The lower lip is sunken, the corners of the mouth are deflated, a black line gradually appears in the philtrum, and the fortune is getting worse day by day, slowly pushing people to a desperate situation. This loss of fortune can also be divided into several situations, such as what has been done recently that damages one's moral character.
?”
"What's another example of getting caught in something unclean?"
"Or maybe someone borrowed your luck?"
"Of course, according to what you said, the donor, you are not afraid of evil spirits knocking on the door in the middle of the night. Since you are not haunted by evil spirits, and you have not done anything unworthy of virtue, there is only one option left. Donor, have you done anything lately?
Have you ever lent anything to outsiders?”
After the old Taoist priest finished speaking, he finally reminded He Liangchou: "For example, I lent my birth date, hair, nails, blood, skin scrapings, etc..."
Plop!
Before the old Taoist priest finished speaking, He Liangchou, who was sitting on the Taishi chair with no regrets, straightened his legs and fell to the ground.
The elders of the He family were in a hurry and called for help from the servants. Then they breathed a sigh of relief. They just couldn't breathe and fainted from fright. It was nothing serious.
Now even Jin An was curious. He Liangchou was really told by the old Taoist priest. What on earth did he lend that could scare people like this?
This time it was He Gui's father, Mr. He, who answered the questions in the minds of Jin An, the eldest lady and others.
It turned out that He Liangchou not only borrowed things, but also lent out his birth date, hair, nail clippings, blood, and fallen skin flakes.
And the people who asked him to borrow these things were actually the antique dealers.
Now Jin An and others are even more curious, why did that group of antique dealers borrow these things?
Why are the He family so confident in lending it to outsiders of unknown origin?