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.
There are also people who long for great wealth.
Everyone has his or her own ambitions.
Just like when Jin An went to Yinyi Jiangping Longwang this time, he went to the group of antique merchants. He had no interest in becoming a minor official.
"These mourning brothers do have some abilities, and their hearts are not bad. It is a good future to follow a captain who treats his subordinates as brothers and loves his soldiers as sons."
Jin'an sincerely wishes the mourner brothers a bright future and a bright future as a high official following the good general Du Wei.
Hmm.
I went to the old Taoist priest and saved the mourning brothers many times.
From now on, when he lives in Fucheng, he can be regarded as a privileged person with someone in the court. Thinking of this, Jin An was happy and asked the old Taoist priest to show the brothers' faces and their official fortunes another day.
Tick tock
Tick tock
The blood on the corpse was still dripping.
The blood on the ground continues to expand.
As the blood in the body dries up, the flow of blood slowly slows down, solidifies, and turns into a slow drip.
Plaza.
The captain refused the umbrella and raincoat offered by his subordinates. He was soaked in the rain and stood in front of the stone cow with his hands folded. Like Jin An who was hiding in the distance, he carefully looked at the stone cow in front of him with a solemn expression.
The stone ox is still the same stone ox.
The posture has not changed.
It is as if it has not moved for more than ten years, maintaining the same posture as it has been for more than ten years.
The cow's head is slightly lowered, its thick horns are slightly tilted upwards, and its front hooves are raised, as if it is carrying something heavy, as heavy as a thousand stones. The momentum is majestic, vicissitudes of life, sad, and lonely.
The stone cow was carved lifelike by stonemasons, and the texture of each tendon and muscle was clearly visible.
Expressively.
Ingenious craftsmanship.
The captain was soaked in the rain, and looked at the two tall stone cows in front of him with an expressionless face... It is said that the eyes are the psychological world, and the eyes can see through a person. He seemed to want to use this to see whether the stone cow in front of him was alive or not.
Object?
But it’s a dead thing that doesn’t move.
It never moved.
In fact, the captain was not the one who killed the dead man hanging on the horns. He did not even see how the man died, nor did his men who were ambushing nearby.
He was sitting at the back, closing his eyes and concentrating, recharging his energy. When he heard a huge noise in the night, he got up and came to the window, and he saw a dead man hanging on the horns of the cow.
When I asked the other men lurking by the window, no one could tell how the man died.
So many pairs of eyes.
No one saw how the man walked into the square, how he approached the stone cow, and how he died on the bull's horns.
Everything was too sudden.
It’s so bizarre.
It contains a lot of weirdness and weirdness that is far beyond the understanding of ordinary people.
“Brother, why is General Duwei standing motionless and staring at a dead thing in the rain?” At this time, the mourner’s younger brother, who had many questions, quietly asked his elder brother beside him.
The eldest brother of the mourner glared at his younger brother: "We are already members of the official family. I have told you many times that our speech must be cultured and meaningful. We can no longer talk nonsense. What do you mean by a captain?
The general is staring blankly and speaking uneducatedly!"
“Haven’t you heard the saying that scholars often say, ‘If you look at mountains, they are not mountains; if you look at water, they are not water; if the mountains are not high, there will be immortals, and if the water is not deep, there will be dragons singing’.”
"You think General Duwei is admiring the rain? No, in fact General Duwei is looking at the stone cow. Do you think General Duwei is looking at the stone cow? You are totally wrong. General Duwei is not looking at the stone cow, but
It was the rogue cultivator who failed to resolve the corpse more than ten years ago."
"Why do you think this stone cow is so famous? It is not the stone cow that is famous, but the immortal hidden behind the stone cow. This stone cow has an immortal, so it is famous all over the world."
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The captain was standing in the rain with his hands behind his hands, staring at the stone cow until his eyes became a little dull, and the veins on his forehead were pulsing.
Other cavalry guards around: "..."
The younger brother who was mourning did not notice the strange atmosphere in the others around him. He looked at his elder brother with bright eyes and said excitedly: "Brother, I understand what you mean. You want to tell me that we are mourning in front of this stone cow. You can cry out for an immortal who can dissolve corpses!"
A desolate rainy night.
Periods of pitiful mourning began to sound.
The people around were so frightened by the crying at night that they could not sleep at night. The men were so frightened that they hugged their wives to warm their beds. The men without their wives held back their pee, and their bodies became colder and colder.
Armor collision.
Torches lit up the night sky like a long dragon. Groups of troops with strict military disciplines finally marched from outside the city to the square. They surrounded the square with murderous intent, weapons unsheathed, and prepared to prepare for the surrounding areas under the dark night.
Then the leading soldier dismounted and came to the front of the captain. Because of the distance, Jin An could not hear the conversation between the captain and the captain. After a while, the soldier walked away and came back. He found a ladder and climbed up the stone cow. Move the body.
It’s just that the corpse was hung tightly on the horns, and the rib cage bones were firmly stuck with the horns. In the end, a few strong cavalry masters used their hands to lift the dead man hanging on the horns.
At this time, Jin An was staring in the direction of the stone cow in the square. He was curious, could this stone cow come back to life and kill people?
Just when Jin An was paying close attention to the direction of the stone cow in the square, suddenly!
Jin An seemed to have noticed something, and his eyes turned solemnly. In the dark, cold rainy night, on another roof two or three feet away from him, there was a scholar quietly appearing at some point.
The scholar appeared silently.
As if it suddenly appeared.
The scholar was weak in writing and had a sallow complexion. At first, Jin An thought this man was sinister, but this man was not afraid of the yang energy in him. Jin An sensed the yang energy in the scholar's body that only living people have.
But there is something wrong with the scholar.
The muscles on his face and body were losing weight at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the three yang fires on his body were weakening rapidly. Only when Jin An took a closer look did he notice that there was a wriggling mass of something unknown lying on the scholar's back. thing.
That is a human face that has been skinned off!
Jin An's eyes widened, but it was already too late when he tried to save the scholar. The scholar's little Yang Qi had been absorbed by the wriggling human face behind him, and his body lost Yang Qi.
Supported, he collapsed and died.
Just when the scholar died, the wriggling human face appeared on the scholar's face, and the human face replaced the scholar's facial features.