The junction of Wuzhou Prefecture and Cangshan Prefecture.
It is also the crossing point between the Wushan Ridge branch and the Cang'er Mountain branch.
There is a small town outside the mountains.
It's called Jinsha Town.
It is said that in the early days, this town was originally a temporary gathering place for people who went into the mountains to log trees, hunt, collect herbs, and quarry people. Later, as more and more people gathered, it gradually became prosperous and slowly developed into what it is today.
Jinsha Town.
Sands Town is not rich in gold.
The reason why the people originally gave the town this name means that the reason why everyone gathered here in the first place was to dig for gold to support their families.
On this day, a group of people came from outside Jinsha Town.
This group consists of three people.
They are two Taoist priests, one old and one young.
Plus a middle-aged man with a big belly.
The young Taoist priest was wearing a five-color Taoist robe, a pair of Shifang shoes on his feet, and a Taoist nine-turban on his head.
This young Taoist priest is naturally Jin An.
Ever since Jin An started wearing the Taoist Nine Scarves, he had some nondescript shawl hair that was either long or short. After putting his hair up and wearing the Nine Scarves, he finally no longer had people staring at his hair in embarrassment.
Among the remaining two people, they are naturally the old Taoist priest and Li Weiwei, who is determined to go to Wutou Village to become the Corpse King.
Since they found clues about Wutou Village through the Xue family a few days ago, and after seeing that the eldest young lady of the Xue family and the old lady of the Xue family were all fine the next day, they set out directly to find Wutou Village.
Although the eldest young master of the Xue family is most likely in danger at this time, if he takes people's money, he must do good things for the patron's family, and he must see the person in life and his body in death.
actually.
The accompanying old Taoist priest and Li Huwei knew it very well.
The reason why Jin An was so determined to come to Wutou Village this time was probably because he wanted to find Yu Youzi, a Taoist priest from Wu Zang Temple who was killed in Wutou Village, and then bury his body.
Rest in peace.
To avoid becoming a lonely ghost in the wilderness.
Jin An looked up at the sky. It was getting dark. It was not a good time to go into the mountains today, so they planned to go to Jinsha Town to stay overnight.
Wait until you get up early tomorrow to go into the mountains and look for the hanging road.
The atmosphere in Jinsha Town today was tense. Before we even arrived at Jinsha Town, we encountered several interrogations by government officials and local warriors along the way. Two portraits of wanted criminals were posted at the city gate.
Upon inquiry, it turned out that there were two wanted criminals who committed murder without blinking an eye. They recently fled to Jinsha Town and committed consecutive murders. They fled into the nearby mountains yesterday.
In order to prevent the two wanted criminals from returning and fighting back to Jinsha Town, the local officials were at war with each other, arresting people and searching everywhere.
The three of them lined up to wait to enter the city, and soon it was their turn. Jin An and the old Taoist priest had Taoist discs, and Guard Li also had a guide, so they did not encounter any trouble when they entered the city to check their identities.
After the soldiers guarding the city gate checked the documents of the three people, they did not immediately let them go. Next, there were two little Taoist priests who were 17 or 18 years old and had been exposed to wind and rain all year round. Their skin was slightly rough and dark, and they wanted to check the three people's documents.
Whites of eyes.
Then he handed out a jug of wine for the three of them to drink.
"Sanyang wine?"
Jin An and the old Taoist priest immediately smelled the strong smell of medicinal herbs emanating from the wine pot.
"This Taoist brother has a good nose, and this bottle of wine is indeed Sanyang wine. Taoist priest, Taoist brother, I have offended you so much. I hope you will be considerate. Please cooperate with the government and drink a bowl of Sanyang wine."
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Perhaps it was because of their companionship, or perhaps because Jin An and the old Taoist priests could smell the Sanyang wine at once, but the attitude of the two young Taoist priests who were 17 or 18 years old opposite them became much more respectful.
Wine can dispel qi, while Sanyang wine purifies yang and is specially used to drive away evil spirits.
Jin An pondered.
It seems that evil things have been going on in Jinsha Town recently. The purpose of checking the whites of people's eyes is to check whether there are black marks of evil spirits in order to prevent evil people from sneaking into the town and harming people.
Jin An has been with the old Taoist priests for so long, and he has long been familiar with these methods of exorcising evil spirits and identifying evil spirits.
When Jin An expressed his thoughts, he received a positive reply from the two young Taoist priests opposite him.
"When we talk about this, we have to start after entering the rainy season."
The person who spoke was a thin little Taoist priest with an active personality. Jin An already knew that his name was Zhao Youcai.
He is a junior brother.
The other little Taoist priest, who is shy and more honest, is his elder brother, his name is Sun Ping. Sun Ping is not as lazy and playful as Zhao Youcai. He is diligently feeding Sanyang wine to other people entering the city and checking the whites of their eyes for abnormalities.
They are all locals of Jinsha Town, and their master is a Taoist named Tiejuan from the morgue in the town.
Zhao Youcai continued: "Most of the people in Jinsha Town are hunters, medicine collectors, stone quarryers, lumberjacks, etc. who rely on the mountains to make a living. Therefore, many people go to the mountains to make a living on weekdays."
"Originally, this has always been peaceful in the past."
"But since the rainy season this year, as long as it rains, there will be a few people who go into the mountains and never return. When their relatives find them, they are found to have been circling in circles, shouting no matter what.
I wouldn't wake up until I fainted from exhaustion, then I would wake up early the next morning and return to normal."
"Even the hunters and herb gatherers who have not been found will come back on their own the next day, claiming that they have been wandering in the mountains all night and cannot get out no matter how hard they walk. They will not be able to get out of the mountains until the next day."
"This incident has become so loud that no one dares to go into the mountains anymore in the past few days. The only ones who went into the mountains were the two wanted criminal brothers who fled into the mountains. People in Jinsha Town said that this was someone who died in the mountains before.
People helped collect the corpse, so he died for a long time, and his resentment accumulated, and he gradually became a mandrill that harmed people."
"So how many people have been killed?" Jin An asked curiously.
Zhao Youcai shook his head and said that was not the case. Let alone someone being killed, it was a miracle that he was not snatched away by hungry tigers, wild bears and wolves in the mountains all night long.
His master said that the mountain ghost who died in the mountain was just trying to find his way to the mountain and did not harm people's hearts. If people do not harm people's hearts, ghosts will naturally not knock on the door to harm you.
Mountains are shady places. Because the canopy of trees blocks the sky and the sun is blocked, there is not enough sunshine, and there are many canyons and basins. Therefore, these places are low-lying places where it is extremely easy for yin energy to accumulate, and it is easy for evil things to happen.
But no one can tell, if this evil spirit really follows people out of the mountains, will it start to harm others?
So the town invited the only Taoist priest in the town to go into the mountains to find traces of the evil spirits.
But to no avail.
And recently, they happened to encounter two wanted murderers who escaped near Jinsha Town, so they had no choice but to return to the town first and put a strict defense on them to keep the people of Jinsha Town safe.
Hence the situation before us.
They are responsible for checking the people entering the city one by one for any abnormalities.
At this time, because the night was dark, the city gates were about to be closed. The number of people entering the city suddenly increased, and Sun Ping alone was too busy. Zhao Youcai hurriedly ran to help his senior brother.
Afterwards, Jin An and his party entered the city.
When the three of them passed through the city gate, they saw a small room in the city gate, which was a resting place for the soldiers guarding the city gate.
Sitting cross-legged in the small room was a middle-aged Taoist priest who was beardless and was practicing meditation with his eyes closed.
It seems that this is the Taoist priest in the morgue, Taoist Iron Volume.
The other party seemed to sense Jin An's gaze.
Close your eyes.
He nodded slightly and gave a fist-cup salute to Jin An and the old Taoist priest who were also wearing Taoist robes, which was regarded as a friendly greeting.
Jin An and the old Taoist priest also clasped their hands, crossed each other's mouth, left hand on the right, like a yin and yang diagram, and saluted each other.
This is the etiquette for the secular encounter between Taoist friends.
Li Huwei also performed a secular fist-holding salute towards Taoist Tiejuan.
Not long after entering Jinsha Town, the sky darkened. Not long after, Xiejian sneaked into the town and followed the codes Jin An left along the way. He successfully reunited with Jin An and the others and stayed at the inn.
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A night of silence.
The next day.
To be continued...