Chapter 272 The Dead Man Hanging on the Horns(1/2)
Tonight, this rainy night, is destined to be uneventful.
Just like this rain.
It will be calm when you don't come.
It comes quickly and violently.
Just when Jin An and Zhao Ping, the old Taoist priest, were still in the coffin, doing the rituals, suddenly, there was a loud noise in the dark night.
咚!
Like the sound of heavy objects hitting the ground.
When the old Taoist priest saw the legs of the stool on which the coffin was placed shaking, he thought that the dead man in the coffin was going to fake his corpse. He screamed, "It's not good, little brother. Zhao Pingfa won't accept our trick. He will definitely fake it tonight."
Dead!
After the old Taoist priest yelled anxiously, he grabbed a pile of yellow talismans on the yellow cloth ritual table and lit it, then threw it into an earthenware bowl filled with Sanyang wine. The yellow talisman mixed with the Sanyang wine turned into talisman water, and the old Taoist drank fiercely.
A mouthful of talisman water was sprayed into the coffin.
Good guy.
The old Taoist priest’s talisman has a lot of water.
Even Zhao Pingfa was really unlucky today. He would not be able to survive the next burial. Unlucky things happened to him frequently. At night, he was unjustly spat on by an old Taoist priest.
"Old Taoist, it's not Zhao Pingfa who tricked the corpse. It's from outside. The noise came from outside the Taoist temple." Jin An looked at the old Taoist priest speechlessly, and looked sympathetically at Zhao Pingfa's body in the coffin, which had been sprayed with talisman water by the old Taoist priest. This Zhao Pingfa
He had such a good temper that he didn't even bother to strangle the old Taoist priest.
“This movement reached the Taoist temple, and there was still such a big movement. The ground shook. This movement is definitely not small.”
“There must be something big happening somewhere in the city.”
Jin An put down the paper money in his hand.
Easy to jump up to the roof and look high and far away, but in the city of Fucheng on a continuous rainy night, it is completely dark, surrounded by hazy building outlines under the rain curtain, and further away there is only pitch black.
It was the sudden movement and the feeling of the ground shaking that woke up some people who were not yet asleep. They saw the lights in every house being lit sporadically in the rainy night.
Suddenly.
Jin'an was startled. On a rainy night, many torches suddenly lit up in a place, surrounding the place.
Looking at the situation, it looked like they had been lying in wait for a long time.
After seeing clearly where that direction was, Jin An's eyes aroused strong interest. If he remembered correctly, wasn't that place the direction of the stone cow left in the world by the senior Shijie Immortal?
咻!
Just as Jin An was thinking, a loud arrow shot into the sky, and then exploded in the sky, like a rising sun lighting up the night sky during the day, which was unusually eye-catching.
This sounding arrow was like a signal, and the sound of the rapid march of a large number of troops began to be heard in the city.
Under the dark curtain of rain, the city gates were wide open, and strings of fires were as bright as fire dragons, illuminating the night. They were quickly gathering in one direction from outside the city toward the city.
Look in that direction.
He was heading towards the square where the Xiang Arrow was located.
Jin An’s expression changed.
Those who can act so blatantly in the city and can easily mobilize such people and horses need not even think about it. Only the imperial army and the captain stationed in the military camp outside the city have such great ability.
“Old Taoist, the captain seems to be making a big move tonight. You and Xi Jian stay in the Taoist temple and guard Zhao Pingfa’s body to prevent another accident with Zhao Pingfa’s body. I’ll go over and see what’s going on.”
With the mentality of watching the excitement, Jin An's body jumped quickly in the dark night and moved away quickly. In just a few blinks, he disappeared into the thick darkness.
As we get closer to the square, we hear more noise.
It seems that a butcher saw a stone cow coming to life during the day. The ordinary yamen servants did not pay attention to it, but it attracted the attention of the captain.
The captain sent people to hide near the stone cow in the square, and he also had a premeditated plan to urgently mobilize the army to rush to the stone cow in the square. This was clearly aimed at the stone cow left by Senior Shi Jie Xian in the world.
Because Jin An took a shortcut and jumped quickly from the rooftop, he rushed to the square before the garrison outside the city.
The rain washed the ground, and a large pool of blood flowed on the ground. The scarlet blood mixed with the rain dripped down, and the sharp horns of the tall, mighty, majestic and desolate stone cow, two people tall, penetrated the chest.
There was a dead man hanging on his back.
That was a half-century old man wearing ordinary people's linen clothes. The old man was already dead, with a frightened expression on his face, as if he had seen some extremely horrifying scene before his death, which frightened him so much that his eyes widened with fear.
His death was miserable. His chest was penetrated, and his heart and lungs were torn apart by carved stone horns. After his death, his head and limbs were weak and drooping. The air and blood in the alveoli flowed backwards along the weak and drooping head, and foam poured out of his mouth and nasal cavity.
Such blood dyed the linen clothes and the water on the ground red.
On the ground at the feet of the corpse, a large pile of yellow talisman paper, a dozen coffin nails, a Taoist mirror, and a golden iron rod were scattered.
Good guy.
Jin'an took a closer look at the golden iron rod. It was actually a demon-conquering rod made of pure gold. Gold can suppress evil. Since ancient times, monks have had a tradition of enshrining golden Buddhas in temples to ward off evil.
Such a big gold demon-conquering stick weighs less than ten or twenty kilograms. Jin An dared to take off his head and let the stone bulls in the square step on it.
Jin An was thinking that this demon-suppressing stick should be the same as the golden coffin in Wutou Village, which was an evil-suppressing weapon plated with gold on the outside.
After all, who else would really run around with so much gold in their arms every day? Why else would a practitioner with his head in his belt have to deal with stinky corpses, sinisterness and filth all day long? The whole ascetic life is just as miserable haha
.
With so much gold, he would buy a few big houses in a big city for retirement, then buy a dozen shops, buy more than a thousand farmland, and finally marry a wife with ten or twenty bedrooms, and have the luxury of having a little beauty and a maid to warm the bed every day.
Doesn’t he enjoy living a corrupt life?
Obviously.
The old man in front of him was dressed in ordinary clothes and deliberately did not want to attract attention. He was a talented stranger hidden among the people.
As for why this man appeared at Stone Niu in the square at night?
You know it without guessing.
Must have come here for the stone ox.
Jin An felt that a butcher passed by the stone cow in the square during the day and saw the news that the stone cow had come to life. He did not know who leaked the news, which attracted the attention of interested people.
Even the captain saw some clues and sent people to ambush nearby. It is impossible that others are too stupid to see the clues about this stone cow.
It’s just...
Looking at the dead body hanging upside down on the horns, this scene is somewhat intriguing.
It was the captain and others who killed him?
Or...the stone cow really came to life? This stone cow has changed from a dead stone to a living creature with spirit?
If it’s the latter…
Recalling the sound of heavy objects hitting the ground that he heard in the Taoist temple before, Jin An couldn't help but frown.
With the advent of the Cave Heaven Paradise Passage, all kinds of moths have begun to rush together.
…
…
The square was very lively at this time.
Jin An saw dozens of cavalry guards holding torches, surrounding the stone ox. His eyes swept over these people, and he also noticed the captain.
Besides the captain, there were two familiar figures following him.
They are the two very funny mourning brothers.
The younger brother wears a long pointed hat with the words "I'm catching you" written on his head and holds a mourning stick.
The elder brother wears a long pointed hat with the words "You are here" written on his head and holds a soul-beating stick.
Jin An was not surprised to see these mourning brothers here. This time, so many folk exorcists responded to Master Fu Yin's call and went down to the Yinyi River to pacify the Dragon King. They were originally aiming to gain promotion to the imperial court.
Going to be an official.
Some people like to be free and unrestrained.
There are also people who are tired of running around and like to be officials, hoping to change their destiny and leave a rich blessing to their descendants.
To be continued...