Chapter 9 Survivors
"Swish".
Everyone's eyes were focused on the guards.
Liu Yi also stood up suddenly and immediately met him.
"Say, what have you discovered?"
The guard swallowed, took out a few pages of paper from his arms, and whispered: "Young Master, I bribed Old Man Zhang from the county government. He is responsible for sorting out the county annals. These are several county annals handwritten by Old Man Zhang, with records of similar strange events on it."
Liu Yi hurriedly picked up the hand-written county annals to check.
The county chronicle records that the first strange incident was 168 years ago.
It is called the floating corpse incident.
One hundred and sixty-eight years ago, the moat outside the county town had some unknown reasons, and some floating corpses suddenly appeared, and the reason could not be found.
The number of corpses floating every day increases.
They are all ordinary people in the county, and they will fall to the moat for no reason and become floating corpses.
The whole of Luo County was very panicked.
However, the county annals did not record how the floating corpse incident was resolved later.
The second strange event was ninety years ago, called the hanging incident.
At that time, in Luo County, for some reason, people hang themselves at home every day, and even hang dozens of people a day. The people in Luo County were in panic, and many people moved their families and dared not stay in Luo County.
The county annals also do not record how the hanging incident was resolved.
The third is strange, it is much closer. Just thirteen years ago, there was an Anjia Village in Luo County, where there were families with the surname An.
But for some reason, the entire Anjia Village disappeared overnight.
Completely disappear.
Many people reported that they saw a layer of blood-red light over Anjia Village at that time, which was very strange.
Then Anjia Village disappeared.
It’s not that people have disappeared, but that the entire village has disappeared, as if there has never been Anjia Village. All traces of Anjia Village have been erased.
This strange incident is also called the Anjia Village incident.
"Sure enough, there were strange incidents in Luo County before!"
A glimmer of light flashed in Liu Yi's eyes.
He guessed it right, the strange events that are happening now are not isolated events.
Strange events have happened before.
"The floating corpse incident and the hanging incident have been too long. Even if there are insiders, they are almost dead and cannot provide us with help. However, the Anjia Village incident is just what happened thirteen years ago, and there may be insiders."
Liu Yi guessed.
"Young Master, you guessed it right. After learning about the Anjia Village incident, I investigated and searched for it from multiple sources, but I really found a clue. There was still one person in Anjia Village that was originally alive."
"What, someone survived?"
"Yes, his name is An Yuansheng, he is a small businessman in Anjia Village. In the Anjia Village incident, Anjia Village disappeared without a trace overnight, and only this An Yuansheng was left."
"Where is An Yuansheng?"
"He has become a monk, and he is in the Great Buddha Temple in Luo County, with the Dharma name Zen Master Qingjing."
Liu Yi was excited.
Survivor of the strange event, Zen Master Qingjing!
This is equivalent to a very important clue.
"Okay, you did a good job in this matter, and you will be rewarded!"
Liu Yi was not stingy at all and rewarded a thousand taels of silver!
The information provided by the guard was too timely, only one thousand taels of silver was provided, and it was more than this little silver to Zhao Youde, the dog official.
"Uncle Hui, let's go to the Great Buddha Temple."
"Young Master, do you want to prepare something? What if this Zen Master Qingjing refuses to help us?"
"Don't help?"
Liu Yi's face darkened: "I'll take the silver, and you'll take the big knife to help us have the silver. If he doesn't help us, he'll serve him. If he is not afraid of death, everyone in Anjia Village will disappear. How could he survive without mercy?"
All of them have reached the point of life and death, and Liu Yi has no choice but to do anything.
This time I went to the Great Buddha Temple and said that I would "invite" Zen Master Qingjing no matter what.
"Young Master, I understand."
Uncle Hui nodded.
Indeed, at this time, there is no need to worry about it.
So everyone was ready and followed Liu Yi away from Liu Mansion and rushed towards the Great Buddha Temple.
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The Great Buddha Temple is famous for a great Buddha.
This big Buddha has a history of at least six hundred years and is the most famous landscape in Luo County.
It even became a symbol of Luo County.
Whenever people in Luo County are mentioned, people in other places will think of the Great Buddha Temple.
Liu Yi and others took half an hour to arrive at the Big Buddha Temple.
The Great Buddha Temple is full of incense, and people come and go, and it is very lively.
Liu Yi and others had no intention of worshiping Buddha, but went straight to the backyard of the temple. When they saw a novice monk, they immediately asked, "Where is the Qingjing Zen Master in your temple?"
"You are looking for Zen Master Qingjing? But Zen Master Qingjing never welcomes guests. Please come back, donors."
The novice monk shook his head and stopped everyone from entering.
"We have a very important thing to find Zen Master Qingjing, which is related to human life. Please be sure to be compatible."
When he heard Liu Yi say that it was related to human life, the novice monk hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded and said, "Okay, I'll take you to see Zen Master Qingjing."
So, Liu Yi and others followed the little novice monk to a Zen room in the backyard of the temple.
The little novice monk respectfully shouted to the Zen room: "Zen Master Qingjing, if you have pilgrims, you must find you. It is said that there are very important things, even related to human life."
"It's related to human life? I'm just an ordinary monk. How can I save my life? Please find another master."
An old voice came from the Zen room, and he refused without even seeing each other.
Liu Yi glanced at Uncle Hui.
Uncle Hui understood it and went straight to the meditation room and kicked it at the door.
"Bang".
The Zen room was kicked out directly.
The little novice monk said in a panic look: "How can you forcibly break through?"
"Hehe, little monk, we are from Liu Mansion in Luo County. If you have something to discuss with Zen Master Qingjing, you might as well leave."
After saying that, he stayed at the door of the Zen room and refused to let anyone enter.
Liu Yi and Uncle Hui entered the Zen Room and saw an old monk about fifty years old sitting on the futon on the ground.
This old monk is Zen Master Qingjing.
He slowly opened his eyes, looked at Liu Yi and others, then shook his head and said, "Donor, please come back, I have nothing to help you."
"Zen Master Qingjing, or An Yuansheng. You are the only survivor in Anjia Village. You have lived in vain so far, shouldn't you do something?"
Liu Yi said with a sneer.
"Swish".
Suddenly, Zen Master Qingjing suddenly opened his eyes and stared at Liu Yi tightly.
After a long time, Zen Master Qingjing sighed and said, "Since you know my secular name, it must be related to strange events. Let's talk about it, what exactly do you want to ask?"
Liu Yi's eyes lit up.
It seems that this old monk really knows something.
So Liu Yi immediately lifted his sleeves, revealing half of his black arm, and said in a deep voice: "Zen Master Qingjing, look at my arm, is there any help?"
"Corpsy?"
Zen Master Qingjing glanced at it, then nodded and said, "Of course there is a rescue. The corpse spots have not spread to the heart. Now you only need to cut off your arms and don't have to worry about the corpse spots."
Chapter completed!