In front of him is a wooden table. The lights on the table are as bright as eggs, illuminating the dim surroundings.
A ram was tied to the table and then disemboweled. The red heart, black liver, cyan intestines, and white fascia were all opened, and slowly moved with the ram's weak breathing.
What is this place? Why am I here?
He vaguely remembered that he had a small drink as usual, and after venting his remaining energy on the newly purchased concubine, he fell asleep on his soft bed stuffed with cotton wool.
But what happens now? What if I was kidnapped?
My eyes gradually adapted to the darkness.
He saw a man sitting opposite the wooden table.
He thought about that person day and night, always wishing to eat his flesh and sleep on his bones.
Qu Dingchun! How shameless a dog thief is!
He was about to stand up and scold: How could Qu Lang be so unfaithful? Didn't he say that he was willing to accept defeat? Why did he tie me up here again and ruin the harmony between the two families?
But when he wanted to open his mouth, he found that he could not speak; when he wanted to get up, he could not move his body.
Not only that, he couldn't control his whole body, not even a finger.
It was as if he was still in a dream, with only his eyes, ears and nose waking up.
terrible.
He still doesn't understand.
Possessed!
The talismans I asked for all over the house turned out to be useless?!
He was angry and panicked.
suddenly.
"So hungry."
he heard himself say.
He was not hungry at all. For dinner tonight, he drank a whole glass of Western wine, two steamed white flour cakes mixed with honey, and a large bowl of lamb stewed softly with southern spices.
But this does not stop "himself" from digging out the sheep's eyeballs alive with his fingers, and then swallowing them into his mouth along with the tear ducts.
The eyeballs were chewed between the teeth with a disgusting feeling, a strange fishy smell filled the nasal cavity, and the smelly juice was swallowed down the esophagus.
He wanted to vomit, but he heard himself saying:
"tasty."
Immediately afterwards, he and Qu Dingchun stood up at the same time.
Only then did he see clearly the panic in the other person's eyes and the dull look on his face.
Oh~ He suddenly realized that Qu Dingchun was also possessed by the evil spirit.
Then they both buried their heads into the ram's chest.
They were like two pigs fighting for food in a stone trough, gulping down the smelly sheep blood and tearing at the hard bones, sinewy internal organs, flexible muscles and soft fat with their teeth.
…
eat!
Eat big!
Eat greedily!
Eat like crazy!
No picking, no cleaning, no chewing.
Everything that the teeth could find was swallowed into the abdomen, stretching the stomach pouch, squeezing it into the esophagus, and stuffing it into the throat.
When Niu Shi was shocked and wondered whether he was going to die from gastrotomy.
He finally heard himself let out a long sigh.
"I'm full."
The body belongs to him again.
He suddenly lost control and fell to his knees, vomiting out pieces of flesh and blood from his mouth and nose.
suddenly.
"Uushi!"
Niushi shivered, and slowly raised his head while trembling.
But I saw three terrifying faces emerging from the darkness. Their mouths were open, and their tongues had rotted to the point where only the root of the tongue remained.
His voice was cold and cold, as if insects were crawling all over his body.
"Niu Shi, you promised to take care of my brother's funeral, but you broke your promise and allowed our bodies to be humiliated!"
"Qu Dingchun, you are vicious and vicious. You don't follow the moral principles of the world, and you use evil magic to harm our souls."
The sound became more and more shrill.
"Hateful! Hateful! Deserve to kill! Deserve to kill!"
"Are you my three nephews?"
Niu Shi finally recognized the identity of the evil spirit seeking revenge on him and hurriedly knelt down. Although his abdomen was pulled and the pain was excruciating, he still held back and begged for mercy.
"I, Niu Shi, can't help you! This fact was not my intention. Naqu Dingchun had evil intentions, and I had no choice. If I can spare my uncle's life today, I will enshrine his soul in the shrine in the future, and burn incense every day.
"Blessed, if I disobey it, I will definitely die badly."
In the darkness, the evil ghost responded with a sad sneer.
Niu Shi kowtowed vigorously:
"When there was a disaster in my hometown, I, Niu Shi, asked people to send food back to my hometown. I don't know how many villagers lived. Can I take this small kindness into account..."
Still sneering in the darkness.
Niu Shi was helpless and turned to Qu Dingchun: "Qu Da, leader of Qu Gang, please say a word when you arrive!"
Qu Dingchun also collapsed to the ground, his abdomen was distended and it was difficult to move. He wiped the dirt on his face and sneered at the ghost: "When you join our line of work, you usually do a lot of bad things, but you want to have a good ending when you die.
,What kind of daydream are you doing?!"
As he spoke, he spat into the darkness.
"If you want to kill me, scrape me, or vomit, please do as you please."
Qu Dingchun's strong words are more effective than Niu Shi's hundreds of pleading words.
The three ghosts stopped laughing fiercely, dived back into the darkness, and whispered ghostly whispers for a while.
Show your face again.
"One of you is indeed kind, and the other is reasonable. But if you let me go, it will not quell the hatred in my brother's heart. Why don't you two compete here? The winner will spare your life, and the loser will stay.
, Vent your hatred for my brother!"
Qu Dingchun dismissed it, while Niu Shi just begged.
The three ghosts calmly spit out a box and opened it to reveal the items inside.
"You two have been fighting for this thing for many days, so how about adding it to your prize today?"
Niu Shi couldn't help but stop pleading and was stunned: "Why is it in your hands?"
Qu Dingchun was silent for a while, then suddenly said: "Is this true?!"
Li Gui said bitterly: "We are not like you, Qu Dingchun, and we are unethical."
Niu Shi was shocked: "How can Qu Da believe lies?"
Li Gui: "We are not like you Niu Shi. We can't keep our word."
Qu Dingchun said nothing, climbed up on the table with difficulty, and stared at Niu Shi fiercely: "How to compare?"
"of course-"
The three ghosts suddenly approached the table, and the dancing dim light reflected three faces, one was joking, one was ferocious, and the other was miserable.
"—Douchun!"
…………
The sheep carcass on the table has been removed and replaced by a brazier.
The charcoal fire in the basin was blazing, and several iron bars were burning red.
Qu Dingchun placed a sea bowl in front of him.
He glanced at Niu Shi, who had an uncertain face across from him, and grinned.
"The whole table of mutton fell into the stomachs of the two of us. Isn't it a pity that the three of us could only taste it but not be full?"
"In my haste, I couldn't find another sheep. But..."
Bang! Qu Dingchun stood up suddenly and put one thigh on the table.
“Where is mutton compared to this meat?!”
After that, he pulled open his pants, lifted a short knife and put it on the outside of his thigh buttocks.
He took a deep breath and then turned purple.
Shengsheng cut off a piece as big as a palm.
Throw it into a bowl.
Then he picked up the red iron bar and pressed it on the wound.
Zira~
The burnt aroma overflows.
The iron bars were thrown back into the brazier, and the charcoal fire ate the blood and burned more vigorously.
Qu Dingchun was already dripping with cold sweat.
The devil laughed in the dark.
He didn't stop there.
"It's just a piece of cake, you can't satisfy your hunger."
He put down his legs, picked up the hem of his clothes, and grabbed a ball at his waist.
"This place is soft and waxy, and the most plump."
I cut the knife again, but it was a little dull, so I had to slowly cut it with the edge.
With blood flowing freely, he gritted his teeth, cut off a fist-sized piece, and threw it into the bowl as well.
By the time an iron bar was applied to the wound, blood was already bleeding from the bite.
In the darkness, the ghosts cheered.
He still didn't give up.
"The fatness of the loin meat is not as firm and elastic as the shoulder meat."
He pulled off his sleeves, turned pale, and stabbed the tip of the knife into his shoulder blade.
…
Time flies by like drops of blood.
The charcoal fire in the basin is still bright, but the bowl has long been eaten up.
Niu Shi and Qu Dingchun were lying on the table, their lips turning white from blood loss, and the severe pain making them weak.
Qu Dingchun was fierce, and Niu Shi was equally vicious. He kept pleading, but he did not hesitate to lower the knife. He would cut wherever Qu Dingchun cut; no matter how deep Qu Dingchun cut, he would also cut!
The two of them chased each other so hard that they were both covered in bruises, and in the end, they didn't have the strength to burn the wounds anymore.
The blood continued to flow, forming a pool of blood under the table.
Weird laughter sounded in the darkness.
The smile is filled with hatred.
"It's such a pity that neither of you can win. Since no one can take away the prize, it's better to just burn it."
A skinny hand came out of the darkness, making a gesture of throwing the wooden box into the brazier.
"stop!"
Qu Dingchun was hoarse and stopped.
Niushi listened in his ears and mumbled a few times, but in the end he didn't say anything.
From the very beginning, he kept begging ghosts for mercy and constantly insulting and provoking Qu Dingchun. But now, he has neither the strength nor the inclination to speak out anymore.
He has already understood that how can Li Gui's words be trusted? How can Li Gui's resentment be quelled? The three brothers are just playing tricks on them.
Qu Dingchun must have understood and made the final plan long ago.
He is different from himself, Uishi thought, he is a local.
Qu Dingchun squeezed out the last of his strength and put his neck on the empty bowl. He panted violently for a while, then he found the strength again and put the knife across his neck.
"With good meat, how can we not have good wine? Please don't break your promise, you three, and drink to the full."
Then he had to slit his throat.
Three ghost faces laughed in the turbid candlelight, chewing in their mouths, and already greedy for fresh "wine" in their eyes.
boom.
It wasn't blood splattering, but the door was suddenly kicked open.
The light from outside shone in, illuminating the twisted, ugly and sad figures of the three brothers.
Huang Wei, who broke through the door, looked at the field in surprise.
Then he quickly retreated.
"Taoist Master, here!"
The words just fell out.
Countless birds fluttered their wings and rushed in.
…………
"The sky has no eyes! The sky has no eyes! Niu Shi, you unconscionable bastard! Qu Dingchun, you murderous bastard! And you, you bull nose! You all will not die well!"
Brother Li Gui was suppressed by Huang Fu, but he still cursed endlessly.
The "bastard" and "pickle" as they called them were sitting in the corner, roughly treating their wounds, and each of them got a wood spirit talisman to warm up their injuries.
And "Niubi" was squatting in front of them, groping his chin, his eyes full of inquiry.
The state of the souls of the three brothers is very strange. The long torture not only caused them to accumulate huge grievances, but also made their minds almost collapsed, and their souls were no longer human. If they were left outside, they would probably be gone. But in Qiantang,
But it can barely condense without falling apart.
He was considering whether to capture it and study it carefully.
Brother Li Gui finally accepted the reality and tried to reason: "Those two people are not good people. It is natural for my brother to take revenge. Why do you, a Taoist priest, meddle in others' affairs?"
"I don't want to meddle in other people's business." Li Changan sighed in a non-trivial manner, "But that cow benefactor is my employer. Today I bury a dead person, and tomorrow my employer dies in a mysterious way, so I won't be able to do this business anymore.
"
"Business?" The cow stone cat in the corner summoned some energy and called out quickly, "Are you a funeral manager? That's great! Master, get rid of the evil ghost quickly. I can add more money."
The three fierce ghosts roared when they heard this and wanted to swallow the cow stone alive. Unfortunately, they were restrained by the yellow talisman and had to fight in place.
"More money won't do it." Li Changan glanced at him coldly, "No matter what happened to these three people in person, they became evil ghosts after death, and they didn't kill innocent people. How can they kill them at will?"
This doesn't work, that doesn't work either, so what should I do?
The Li Gui brothers just continued to express their resentment, Qu Dingchun was thoughtful, and Niu Shi rolled his eyes.
"Our lives were all saved by the mage. Whatever the mage wants to do, just do it."
Niu Shishi was very responsible, and Qu Dingchun did not object, but the Li Gui brothers seemed to be blinded by resentment, and gradually they could only roar and growl. Li Changan had to throw a few more Pure Heart Talisman to bring some of their sanity back.
Then he pulled a stool over and Damajinda sat down.
"We are all asking for food in Qiantang. There is a saying that 'it is better to resolve enemies than to make enemies'. Why don't we let Pindao be a 'peacemaker' and resolve this enmity for everyone?"
No matter how the three parties react.
"The three of you have become evil ghosts and are irreversible. Why don't you let Niu Qu and the others find a temple with a lot of incense to enshrine your souls? When you have accumulated enough blessings and dissipated your grievances, then they will fund it for you."
How about a good pregnancy for the three brothers?"
Recovering reason does not mean eliminating hatred.
Li Gui sneered: "Should I say no?!"
Li Changan was helpless.
Do they really think that Pindao is here to seek their opinions?
"Qian Tang can't access the netherworld and can't save the souls of wronged people, so he can only ask three souls to fly away."
…………
What else could Brother Li Gui do? He had no choice but to accept the offer.
Taoist priests put away their souls.
Plop.
A box falls.
Li Changan picked it up: "This is..."
Qu Dingchun's expression suddenly became excited, and he struggled to get up. Behind him, Niu Shi stretched out his foot to knock him down, and then staggered towards him.
"Oops! Thank you, Taoist Master, that is exactly what was stolen from my house."
Li Changan turned around.
Niu Shi missed the target and fell to pieces like a dog.
The Taoist priest opened the box.
"I heard that you two fought fiercely for a certain treasure, and many people died and a lot of money was lost. Is this it?"
He took out a stack of papers from the box. They were all land deeds and had the same name on them - Zhengzhao Temple.
The square where Dong Wazi is located is also called Zhengzhaofang.
Huangwei came up curiously to look through it.
According to him, Zhengzhao Temple is one of the sixty-four temples and is a descendant temple. Unfortunately, the current head of the temple is an unscrupulous descendant. He divided the whole temple into four parts to pay off debts, built hook railings on the mountain gate, and built a quiet room.
It was built as a warehouse, and the side hall became a fire worship temple... The land deeds were also divided into many parts and scattered in Qiantang.
I didn't even think about collecting it here.
Li Changan clicked his tongue, everyone said that the sixty-four temples were noble, and each temple was named after the temple. He did not expect such a strange thing to happen. But after thinking about it, it was not surprising. After all, there are Xianyi'an Zhuyu.
Before.
"What do you two urban foxes want from this Buddhist temple? If you want merit, you might as well do less evil things on weekdays."
Qu Dingchun got up in disgrace and did not come to fight for it, but said disdainfully:
"Why should a good man who begs for food at the knife's edge need to worship a monk? It's the ghost king who asks for it."
Niu Shi also stood up and echoed: "On the Eighth Ghost King's birthday in August, he and I each received a 'thousand gold post', and the messenger made it clear that the ghost king only wants Zhengzhao Temple."
The birthday stickers that Li Chang'an and other ghosts received were called "ten thousand-dollar stickers," but how could they meet the ghost king's face with only ten taels of silver? The so-called "ten thousand-dollar stickers" were just spread out by the Cave City messengers to add joy to the birthday banquet.
The winner can just hand over 10,000 yuan to the wizard who worships the Ghost King in time, and that will be the end of the matter. He will not really be able to attend the Ghost King's birthday banquet.
But there is another kind of birthday gift called "thousand gold gift". Only those who get this birthday gift can really be regarded as guests. But as the name suggests, they must be given a birthday gift worth thousands of gold.
It is said that over the years, many people have lost their families and died due to the "thousand gold allowance".
"Is that why you fight so hard for it?"
Qu Dingchun looked bleak: "Because of it, 30% of my brothers died and most of them were disabled."
Niu Shi looked sad: "For it, I spent half my life savings and took on new debts."
Li Changan frowned and said nothing.
Qu Dingchun asked again: "Master, do you think I am shamelessly clinging to the cave city?"
Don't wait for the Taoist priest to answer.
"Oh, those gossips never thought that the huge wealth of Dongwazi would fall into the hands of a local poor man like me, a poor immigrant from Qu Dajie. Isn't it because the previous manager offended me? In the cave city, all the doors disappeared without a trace overnight."
Say it.
He propped himself up and left Xiao Suo.
He lost the last fight, but he didn't win this time.