Chapter 1535: Its hard to talk to someone who deserves to die
Speaking of which, there are three more people to mention.
Li Yan didn't know the true identities of these three people. He only knew that these three people were just like him. They were clerks who worked in the spice shop. By going in and out of the spice shop and transporting spices, they helped people smuggle in shady things.
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The difference is that these three people are older than him, so they have more access to secrets than him.
At Yinshi that day, as usual, after purchasing the Nanyang spices needed for the store, he did not return to Penglai Inn immediately. Instead, he parked the carriage at the designated place according to the instructions.
It was a very deep alley, where only one carriage could pass at a time, and there was no room for turning around. It was dark all around, and except for the high brick walls and the occasional soft cough that came from far and near, it was so quiet that you could only
Hear the pounding of his nervous heartbeat.
There is only one disease in this world that has no cure, and that is the disease of poverty.
Li Yan was afraid of poverty at the bottom, and finally caught an opportunity to make a fortune. Even though his heartbeat would speed up and his palms would sweat every time he came to this place to pick up goods, he would still drive a carriage here as instructed.
Receive goods.
That day, as usual, after he parked the carriage, he got out of the carriage, not even daring to light a torch. He went deep into the alley in the dark to wait for a cup of tea. He heard several night owl calls, and after receiving instructions, he returned the same way.
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The cry of the night owl is their joint signal, which means that the goods have been loaded and it is time to pick them up and hit the road.
If the previous process was followed, he could only be alone when he came and leave alone. The delivery location and remuneration would all be left directly in the car for him by the owner of the cargo, and neither party would meet.
But things were different that night.
Before he got close, through the scattered moonlight shining in the alley, he could vaguely see two vague figures sitting in the carriage, looming like ghosts.
Li Yan was immediately frightened and his heart skipped a beat. He felt as if his heartbeat was about to stop and his scalp felt cold.
After calming down for a while, he gritted his teeth and bravely stepped forward to check the situation.
He knew very well that if he abandoned the carriage and ran away alone, not to mention the powerful cargo owner would not let him go, nor would Li Dajin let him go after returning to Penglai Inn.
So no matter how nervous and scared he was, he had to go through it bravely.
Seeing Li Yan, the figure sitting on the carriage seemed to have been impatient for a long time. He said in an irritated tone: "What's going on? Why have we waited for so long? Get on the road early and don't miss our delivery time."
Hearing the other party's impatient voice, Li Yan, instead of being angry, breathed a sigh of relief and looked happy, as long as he was alive, everything would be easy.
Although he was curious as to why there were two more people guarding the car today, Li Yan didn't ask too many questions. Adhering to his long-standing cautious principle of "don't look around and ask too many questions", he silently got into the car and prepared to drive away.
There are too many strange things today. In the past, copper coins were used to press notes with the delivery address written on them. Today, there were only two coins on the carriage and no note was left.
Among the two people escorting the car, the taller one said coldly: "It's difficult to get to the delivery place today, so we will lead the way ourselves."
There are two people escorting the car here, not three.
Because there is another person in the carriage.
But Li Yan only found out about this later.
Li Yan only knew how to use money to do things, and did not care about other details. He collected the money and drove away.
It's strange to say that the carriage had a hard time getting started. The cargo loaded today was particularly heavy, and the horse pulling the carriage couldn't even pull it a few times at first.
Li Yan whipped the riding crop harder and frowned in displeasure as he said, "Why is the cargo so heavy this time?"
"This order requires extra money."
"When I get back, I need to feed the horse more fodder so that my boss doesn't notice."
The other party was very generous and threw Li Yan a bunch of money directly, not bothering to bargain. It seemed that in their eyes, anything that could be solved with money was a trivial matter.
Li Yan's eyes widened when he saw money. It was the first time he could earn three ounces of money in one trip. One ounce of money was one thousand two hundred copper coins, which was one tael of silver.
Being able to earn three taels of silver in one night is unthinkable to ordinary people.
At this time, an even stranger thing happened. The carriage, which had been heavy and motionless before, was easily pulled by the horse immediately after Li Yan accepted the money.
Li Yan wondered if there were stones blocked under the wheels just now? He wanted to look back behind the car, but the alley was too narrow, just big enough for a carriage to pass, and the environment was dark, so naturally he couldn't see anything.
He didn't take this matter too seriously, he only focused on the three heavy coins in his arms.
Not long after the carriage left, Li Yan vaguely heard footsteps behind the carriage. It seemed like someone was following their carriage?
Because he was not transporting goods alone tonight, and there were two big people sitting next to him, Li Yan muttered: Normally you don’t even see a wild dog in this alley, why are there so many people in this alley tonight...
Because the alley was narrow and the sight was blocked by high brick walls on both sides, Li Yan planned to lift the small curtain of the carriage to see who was following the carriage.
The carriages of freight carriages always have a small window at the driver's position, which is convenient for checking the condition of the goods in the carriage and whether they have been overturned or damaged.
Although there is a curtain at the rear of the car to block flying dust on the road, there is a small gap between the curtains, and you can still see the situation behind the car if you look closely.
When Li Yan said this, his voice suddenly stopped and his body trembled with fear, as if he was recalling an extremely terrifying scene. His face was full of fear, and he looked lost.
Fatty Li has experience in dealing with this kind of situation. He just cracked a few big-eared melon seeds and pulled them out. People have the most brittle skin. The burning pain coming from the face, all the three souls and seven souls were pulled back immediately.
Fatty Li was so merciless that Li Yan's cheek was swollen and black and blue.
But no one pitied Li Yan.
The current situation can only be said to be that this person deserves it.
Li Yan, who had withdrawn all three souls and seven souls, began to stumble and continue talking...
Hearing footsteps following the car, just when Li Yan was about to lift the small curtain to check, a cold hand suddenly grabbed his raised wrist. The hand was colder than ice and he couldn't feel it at all.
body temperature.
Li Yan was pinched in pain and tried to pull his hand away, but he couldn't. Instead, the force on his wrist continued to increase.
The person holding his wrist was the taller one of the two escorting the car. The other person's voice was hoarse and he said in a very low voice: "Don't look back, don't go back, focus on your journey."
It looked like he was deeply afraid of being heard by the people following the carriage.
Li Yan was startled by the other party's face. The other party's face was frighteningly pale at the moment, like a dead person who had just been fished out of the river. There was fear in his eyes, and he was actually more nervous and scared than him.
Seeing the two people escorting the car with the same nervous and fearful expressions, Li Yan was also frightened and shivered. He was infected by the fearful expression on the other side and was scared to death. His mind was full of random thoughts along the way, even how to get to the destination.
Don't remember.
When he came back to his senses, the carriage had stopped. The two people escorting the carriage walked behind the carriage and screamed like night owls, and jumped out of the carriage. Only then did Li Yan realize that there was another person in the carriage.
The opponent held the Five Emperors Copper Coin Sword in one hand and a small incense burner in the other. The small incense burner lit a stick of incense. Most of the incense had been burned, leaving only the last bit.
The third man's voice sounded like he was thirty years old, and he was the oldest among the three. Although the other man was not wearing a robe, the two magical weapons in his hand had revealed his identity.
Judging from the other party's voice, he was probably just like them. He was a young Taoist priest from some Taoist temple who secretly came out to make a fortune without telling the disciples.
The third person got off the carriage and scolded the two people escorting the carriage, asking them to hurry up and move the things on the carriage. The time was coming soon.
"We didn't expect that guy to be greedy and timid than a dog. He was scared to death along the way and wasted our time." The two escorting the car explained in a low voice.
But the third person didn't listen to the explanation at all and scolded the two for their incompetence.
The two people escorting the car looked very afraid of the third person and did not dare to refute.
The confused Li Yan came to his senses at this moment. When he heard the word "hour", he subconsciously looked at the incense burner held by the third person.
Just from this glance, the third person immediately sensed the situation and turned back to look at the carriage.
The moment their eyes met, Li Yan felt as if he had been hit hard on the back of the head by a hammer, and his head exploded. He quickly lowered his head in fear, not daring to look around anymore.
After another scolding, the third man began to instruct the two escorting people to unload the things from the car.
Although it was dark and there were no lights around, with just a few moonlight, Li Yan could vaguely see that what was lifted out of the car was a sack.
The sack was about the height of a person, and both ends were tied up with hemp ropes. It was very heavy to carry, and it seemed difficult for two people to lift it one at a time.
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Li Yan later figured out that the sack that was as tall as a person should contain a dead person...
Li Yan did not see where the three of them ended up, because after the two escorts carried the goods, they left him alone without taking his carriage back.
He experienced too much that day. After Li Yan returned to Penglai Inn, he fell seriously ill that day. In his sleep, he dreamed more than once of being chased by footsteps in a dark alley...
When Li Dajin heard this, he became very angry. He stepped forward and kicked Li Yan several times angrily, scolding Li Yan for being a wolf. He was kind enough to give Li Yan two days off that day so that Li Yan could have a good rest. As a result, Li Yan was
To repay him like this, he did so many dirty things behind his back.
Li Yan was beaten and scolded so much that he did not dare to fight back, so he cried and huddled in the corner.
If he hadn't been stopped by Fatty Li, Li Yan would have been beaten half to death by Li Dajin.
After calming down Li Yan's emotions, Jin An asked Li Yan to continue talking. It must not be that simple to scare a person who is afraid of poverty but not death.
really.
Bigger trouble is yet to come.
After that incident, Li Yan fell seriously ill and did not go to purchase Nanyang spices for several days. Li Dajin made temporary arrangements for others.
Later, Li Yan recovered and continued to purchase Nanyang spices. The mysterious owner seemed to have disappeared overnight, and he was not found for a month.
After a month of recovery, Li Yan had long forgotten all the previous nightmares. He just wanted to continue taking jobs, helping people transport goods, save enough money to return to his hometown as soon as possible, and then buy a restaurant and become the shopkeeper himself, which can be regarded as a return to his hometown.
, Guangzong Yaozu.
About a month and a half later, the other party contacted Li Yan again. However, for two or three consecutive months, he helped smuggle some spices and resold them at both ends. He could only earn a drop of money per trip. He only made enough by shipping goods two or three times a month.
Three ounces of money.
Earning two or three ounces of money a month is already a huge fortune for other ordinary people, and they have so much money that they don't know how to spend it.
But for Li Yan, who is used to making windfalls, especially after earning three ounces of money in one trip, how can he be satisfied with earning only one ounce of money in one trip.
His appetite was so greedy that he could no longer satisfy his appetite and only earned a handful of money for a trip.
A turning point came one night.
That night, he helped the other party smuggle goods again. When he saw the two men who escorted the car last time, Li Yan was delighted.
Sure enough, it lived up to Li Yan's expectations. This time the other party was still very generous, giving Li Yan three shillings at a time. The other party still had the same impatient tone and asked Li Yan to just deliver the goods to the destination honestly like last time.
There was an episode during which the two people escorting the car seemed to have a disagreement. They avoided Li Yan and argued quietly for a while. The tall man looked down on the timid Li Yan...
In the end, a consensus was reached and Li Yan was retained.
This trip was still full of strange things, bursts of crying came from the carriage, and the crying was so chilling that it was terrifying, as if there was a person lying on the back, and the person was crying in the ear, and his body was cold and cold.
Li Yan was startled. He wanted to turn his head and look at his back, but two people in the escort car held down his arms at the same time. Both of them looked extremely ugly and shook their heads at him stiffly. Their mouths were closed tightly and they didn't dare to express themselves.
Take a breath.
Seeing the two people's stiff movements, Li Yan in the dark alley could not help but think of the paper-tied man he had seen when passing by Fu Shou Store during the day.
This trip was the same as last time. After arriving at the destination, a third person got out of the carriage, holding the same Five Emperors copper coin sword and incense burner, with a stick of incense burning in the burner.
The third person looked up at the night, then looked down at the burning speed of the incense in the incense burner, and nodded slightly, as if he was satisfied with this trip.
Seeing the third person nodding with satisfaction, the tall man escorting the car took out another handful of money and gave it to Li Yan as an extra reward. Li Yan's eyes widened when he saw the money and he was ecstatic.
The goods transported this time were still sacks as tall as one person. The two people in the escort car carried them one by one and followed the third person and disappeared into the night, leaving Li Yan to go back first.
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Because of his satisfaction with this trip, Li Yan received more and more big jobs, which increased to four or five times a month. Sometimes he was helping to transport a person's sack, and he was paid three ounces per trip;
Occasionally, if you help transport two men-high sacks, your reward can increase to six ounces of gold.
Strange things happened every time they went there. The strangest one was when thick fog rose around them. They kept walking in circles in the alley and couldn't get out.
Finally, the third person who had been doing this in the carriage was alarmed.
The man cut his fingertips with the Five Emperors Copper Coin Sword, drew two yellow talismans with the blood on his fingertips, tore off pieces of clothing, stuffed the yellow talismans into the pieces of clothing, and tied the horse's eyes before they walked out.
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After returning that time, Li Yan fell seriously ill again. He kept circling in circles in his sleep and slept for a day and a night. It was not until the sound of a rooster crowing the next day that he woke up from his dream.
Perhaps even the cargo owner knows that it is too difficult to transport two sacks at a time. Most of them are one sack, and occasionally two sacks are shipped at the same time.
Li Yan's greedy appetite has been cultivated. He knows that something is wrong, but he can no longer bear the money coming in as quickly as gold falls from the sky. He just wants to earn enough money to buy a restaurant as soon as possible, and then quit his job early and go back to his hometown to spend the rest of his life.
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Six days ago, Li Yan helped the other party transport goods again. After this experience, Li Yan finally realized that he had been helping people smuggle dead people! Because this time the transport was no longer a sack, but a black coffin!
Li Yan was so frightened that tears flowed from his nose, and his pupils shrank in fear: "When they lifted the coffin from the car, I panicked, and several sacks that I had helped smuggle in over the past few months... turned out to be...
It’s a corpse, corpse, body bag!”
"Uncle, you must save me. We saw something we shouldn't have seen. We are all going to die. They said we are all going to die. Let me escape as far as I can and don't go back to the capital!"
At the critical moment, Li Yan went crazy. Fatty Li became anxious and slapped him a dozen times: "Who are they?"
"Are they the three people responsible for escorting the car together?"
"Why did they run away because you saw the coffin?"
His face was severely swollen from being slapped, but he still couldn't hide his frightened pale face: "It's not because I saw the coffin!"
"The coffin was too heavy and they couldn't carry it, so they asked me to carry the coffin together... Four people carrying the coffin just means that everyone is going to die! Everyone is going to die! Everyone is going to die!"
Li Yan's eyes were bloodshot and bloodshot, as if he was crazy.
Suddenly, Jin An took action. He raised his index finger and pointed at the sunken life palace between Li Yan's eyebrows. He saw that all the black energy that erupted between Li Yan's eyebrows was pulled out by him.
These black energies are twisted and floating in the void, and they are vaguely visible as a black talisman.
The old Taoist priest exclaimed: "It's a poisonous heart curse!"
Jin An squeezed his palm, and Yang Fire rose from his palm. He crushed the poisonous heart curse on the spot and disappeared.
"You dare to harm people in front of me despite your shameful tricks." Jin An snorted coldly.
It's just that although Li Yan was rescued by him, his eyes were stupid and his mouth was drooling, and he had become an idiot.
Jin An raised his eyebrows and looked slightly gloomy.
Deputy Commander Sun was surprised: "Sir Commander, has this greedy man become an idiot?"
Jin An's voice was cold: "The evil cultivator hiding behind made Li Yan drink the Poisonous Heart Charm Water and swear a poisonous oath from the very beginning. Once he violates the oath and reveals the secret, he will be doomed and his soul will be destroyed."
"Although I just prevented the Poisonous Heart Curse from harming people, the opponent was very cunning and did not plant enough Poisonous Heart Curse. He actually took away Li Yan's soul as a double insurance. As soon as the opponent sensed the Poisonous Heart Curse erupting, he already knew
The Dongchuang incident shattered Li Yan's soul. Once a person's soul is incomplete, he will be confused and stupid, like a walking zombie."
The old Taoist priest saw that Jin Anxin was regretful, and sighed and comforted: "It's hard to talk to the damn ghost. He has been dealing with monsters and monsters all day long for more than a year, and the evil wind has already taken hold of him.
He is terminally ill and is a damned ghost. My little brother, if you save his life today, it is equivalent to robbing someone from the clutches of the ghost gate. You have done what you can, don't think too much."
When Fatty Li heard this, he cursed angrily: "The most important witness turned out to be an idiot, and the clues were interrupted! We haven't had time to find out who the other three people are!"
"We haven't had time to ask where the body was dumped, what we saw in the end, and why we were all massacred!"
"Asshole, if we don't catch these evil cultivators as soon as possible, we may not know how many innocent people will suffer!"
Jin An snorted: "The clue may not be broken!"
"I want to see how many cow ghosts and snake gods are hidden in this spice shop. No matter how deep they are hidden, they will be dug out even if they dig three feet into the ground! Tonight, if the gods stand in the way, they will kill the gods, and if the ghosts stand in the way of the ghosts, I will go on a killing spree.