The clouds covered the moon, leaving only the stars.
When Wei Yang heard the sound of fighting and iron horses outside the canyon, he felt panic for a moment and couldn't help but look at Lin Ye.
When he saw Consultant Lin still sitting calmly, he breathed a sigh of relief.
There shouldn't be any big problem.
And soon he also knew what the sound of fighting and iron horses outside the canyon was.
An army, judging from its clothing, should be the army of the Han Dynasty.
Wei Yang watched the old village chief stand up and greet the leader of the army. Through the conversation between the village chief and the leader, Wei Yang knew that the leader was a school captain, under the orders of the Beidi County Governor, Chen Qian.
Came out to pursue the enemy.
The village chief informed the captain that they were villagers who had taken refuge, and asked the villagers to provide food for the soldiers. However, when the village chief took the villagers to prepare food, he did not notice the cold eyes of the captain.
"Sir, we were asked to come out to kill the enemy, but the enemy has already escaped. If we fail to kill the enemy, we may not be able to go back and report."
"What do you think we should do?"
A local Buddhist temple fell in front of Lin Ye and Wei Yang.
"Two distinguished guests, the heads of people in our village have been in this temple for more than a thousand years. All the resentment has dissipated. We just want to take the heads and bury them with the corpses so that we can be reincarnated."
The heavy rain extinguished the sinful flames and washed away the blood stains on the villagers. Seventy-three headless corpses lay on the ground like this.
The old village chief stood at the door of the temple, looking at the door with some fear and not daring to step in.
Wei Yang saw the bloodiest and cruelest scene in his life.
"Let's go!"
These soldiers rushed into the village and raised their spears at the villagers who were giving them food. Within a quarter of an hour, there was no one alive in the entire village.
Then Chen Qian, the governor of Beidi County, turned out to be this stone Buddha?
"I'm not really an enemy of you. I'm just being entrusted by the villagers who died unjustly to retrieve their heads so that they can go to the underworld and be reincarnated in peace."
The captain pondered for a few breaths, and the next moment he waved his long sword.
"Uncle, you have to remember our names."
"Old man, why did you bring us here?"
Kill the good and take credit!
These soldiers actually massacred innocent people of their own country.
"My name is Mao Dan!"
"Are you here for these resentful ghosts? When these resentful ghosts were full of resentment, I suppressed their heads here with the intention of saving them. Since you are entrusted by them, I will give you a gift today.
To save face, let you take these heads and leave."
"In that case, why don't we kill these people and use their heads to pretend to be enemy soldiers? Then you can report to Master Chen."
…
Not only did these colors fail to increase the beauty of the stone statue, but they made the Bodhisattva's face look a bit ferocious and strange. Just looking at this Bodhisattva made Wei Yang feel a little chilled in his heart.
The flames did not last long and soon dissipated because a heavy rain fell from the sky.
Entering the ancient temple, Wei Yang saw seventy-three pointed stone towers erected in the temple courtyard. Each stone tower was about two meters high, wide at the bottom and pointed at the top. Each stone tower had a talisman attached to it.
Looking at these headless corpses, Wei Yang suddenly understood why those children asked him to remember their names and facial features.
Lin Ye shook his head. If he could have stopped it, he would have stopped it long ago.
He thought carefully and realized that this special feature started after he refined the City God's Seal. After thinking for a while, he probably found the reason.
This prefect Chen was very talkative, and Lin Ye also smiled and said, "My lord is so talkative, why don't you let me complete my duties again."
Looking at the child lying not far in front of him with his eyes wide open, Wei Yang felt his whole body trembling, not with fear or coldness, but with anger.
…
Lin Ye got up and walked towards the outside of the canyon, Wei Yang followed silently. When the two reached the mouth of the canyon, the old village chief appeared again, saluted the two, then turned and led the way forward.
.
"What are your duties?"
Lin Ye gently raised his right hand, and the old man stood up uncontrollably. Looking at the quiet ancient temple, Lin Ye strode in, followed closely by Wei Yang.
"Chen Qian, the governor of the northern Han Dynasty and a powerful official in the border areas, is willing to hide in this small temple!"
"Who are you? Why are you an enemy of me?"
In the main hall directly in front of the courtyard, there is a stone statue.
Lin Ye uttered a word, and the whole temple became silent because of his words.
"The villagers here have moved from their original residences, and their household registration is no longer available for inquiry. Moreover, the people in this village have moved without permission from the government. This is tantamount to desertion and should be severely punished according to the law."
Wei Yang asked in confusion. He originally thought that the old village chief would take them to find the heads of the villagers, but he did not expect that he and Consultant Lin would be brought to the temple.
The old village chief plopped down and knelt down in front of Lin Ye and Wei Yang: "I hope these two distinguished guests will help me."
"These are things that happened thousands of years ago. They have become facts and cannot be stopped."
"My name is Maomao!"
After watching these soldiers kill the villagers, they raised their machetes to chop off their heads. Wei Yang couldn't bear it anymore and rushed over to grab the butcher knife in the hands of the soldiers who were about to chop the child in front of him. Unfortunately, his
The hand passed directly through the long knife and even passed through the soldier's body.
Seeing this stone statue, Wei Yang had a look of surprise on his face. This stone statue was exactly the same as the stone statue that was crushed by Consultant Lin before. The difference was that this stone statue of Bodhisattva was larger, three times the size of the former, and it also had
Various colors.
Wei Yang was stunned and looked at Lin Ye the next moment.
"My name is Furball!"
A hoarse voice came from the main hall. Wei Yang looked into the main hall and found that the mouth of the stone statue of Bodhisattva actually moved.
Lin Ye's sudden words put Wei Yang on guard. His eyes were looking around, but he didn't find anyone else in the courtyard.
"Why do you have to be like this, old man? You should do your part to eat a sumptuous banquet."
The soldiers chopped off the heads of all the villagers, plundered all the food, then set a fire and left the canyon with the heads of seventy-three villagers in the light of the fire.
There are ancient temples deep in the mountains.
He didn't mean to be mysterious when he said this. Lin Ye also discovered a change in himself during these days, that is, if a ghost somewhere had a grievance, he would feel it as long as he was close.
"Kill ghosts and kill evil spirits!"
Killing good people for meritorious deeds was a common practice for frontier generals in ancient times.
"Uncle, my name is Maomao. Don't forget, I have a mole on my face."
He didn't feel the weight of the four words in history. However, after seeing it with his own eyes, he knew what these four words meant.
Especially a moment ago, these villagers were still alive in front of him.
The Seal of the City God is owned by the City God, and it governs the ghosts of the place. If the ghosts are wronged, they can also redress their grievances to the City God.
I have refined the City God's Seal, but I am not a City God, so I can only vaguely sense it, and those ghosts who have been wronged may also feel it, and they will come to me to file a complaint for redress of their grievances.
In a sense, I can be considered a superscript.
PS: This year I have relatives from my wife’s family who are visiting me. They are more diligent in paying New Year greetings. Jiu Deng usually merges two chapters into one chapter and updates them together. If the number of words is not enough, Jiu Deng will try to add a chapter. I hope everyone can understand. 2 am
After finishing writing, I went to bed and continued to pay New Year greetings during the day.