If you hear the Tao in the morning, you may die in the evening.
This is a very classic motto for studying, but in Heyunuma, it seems that you can smell the so-called "Tao" day and night, and the Tao here refers to the "ghost way".
Xue Poye only saw a vast swamp in front of him, with dead vines entwining the old trees next to the swamp. The swamp was strange under the dim moonlight, and the night crows on the old trees were making ghostly low calls.
Next to the swamp, there is a large field of weeds as tall as a man's head. Under the cover, there is a wild tomb.
The name Heyunuma is very special. According to many people's explanation, it is actually very simple. It just means that this place always seems very peaceful, the dead cannot fight, and it is purer than the world of the living. And here, surrounded by lush forests, it is a very peaceful place.
Looking at it all year round, even when the sun is shining brightly, it is still as dark as the setting sun.
Xue Poye and Lady Green urged their horses forward and looked at the large fields of weeds and abandoned graves. In this late hour of the night, they did not feel the fear they expected, but instead felt a sense of emotion and sympathy.
Every family worships their ancestors, but who will worship these lonely ghosts who are sleeping underground?
Xue Poye turned over and dismounted, bowed to the vast cemetery in front of him, and said sincerely: "Dear seniors who have passed away, no one has sacrificed you, and I have no one to sacrifice. Why don't you and I get together, so that we can have a happy life?"
Sustenance." After saying that, he bowed three more times. In his heart, it was just to show respect for the ancestors who were far away in another time and space.
Seeing the piety on Xue Poye's face, the green lady naturally didn't know what he was thinking. She also said that Xue Poye was really dedicated to worshiping these lonely ghosts. She couldn't help but be very moved and followed Xue Poye.
, it was a blessing, but I immediately realized that I was now a woman disguised as a man, my pretty face turned red, and I followed Xue Poye's example and bowed a few times.
Xue Poye put his hands behind his back, hearing the low cries of crows and the snorting of horses in his ears. His eyes were filled with desolation, and there were no traces of other people anywhere, and he couldn't help but frown.
"Is it midnight yet?" Xue Poye asked Lady Green.
The green lady nodded and said, "It's past midnight!"
Xue Poye said to himself: "You invited me here but you didn't dare to show up. Could you be making a fool of me?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of footsteps, but the footsteps came from behind.
Xue Poye and Lady Green immediately became alert and turned around to look. They saw two men in black slowly walking out from behind, their heads disheveled. At first glance, they looked like lonely souls wandering around.
If it weren't for the two men in black holding a shovel in each hand, Xue Poye would have been ready to shout "Namo Amitabha" to drive away the evil spirits.
The two men in black each held a sharp shovel. Without looking at Xue Poye, they walked straight to the edge of the swamp. Then they stopped and without saying a word, they started digging a hole.
Xue Poye frowned and looked at Lady Green, but saw that her beautiful face was also frowning. The two looked at each other with doubts in their eyes.
The two stood quietly, watching as two men in black dug a large hole three feet wide, five feet deep, and seven feet long next to the swamp.
Xue Poye felt a little nervous. Look at this formation. This big pit is like a dug coffin pit. Is there someone going to be buried tonight? Although he is not timid, he still felt panicked when he saw this strange scene.
Although the Green Lady is good at martial arts, she is still a woman. In this eerie and terrifying environment, such a strange scene happened in front of her. She couldn't help but think about Xue Poye leaning over there. Xue Poye naturally held the Green Lady in his hand.
She clenched her smooth little hands hard, and the green lady suddenly felt a warmth in her little hands, and her heart, which was originally a little anxious, felt much more at peace.
"Two eldest brothers!" Xue Poye asked bravely: "Did you two arrange to meet me here?"
The two men in black were like dumb people, more like deaf people. They paid no attention to it. They dug a big hole and left slowly with shovels. They disappeared into the night in a moment.
Xue Poye took Lady Green's hand and walked slowly to the side of the big pit. He saw that the big pit was actually used to place coffins. The length, width and depth were typical of a grave pit.
"I... let's go back!" Goosebumps appeared on the green lady's delicate skin, and a trace of sweat broke out on her forehead. If it were really an enemy, even if it was powerful, the green lady would dare to fight him head-on, but this ghostly and terrifying atmosphere
, which gave a girl a lot of feelings of terror.
Xue Poye smiled softly at the green lady, kissed her gently on the ear, and said softly: "Don't be afraid, I have everything."
The green lady felt her pink ears being kissed gently, and her delicate body trembled slightly. Listening to Xue Poye's gentle words, although Xue Poye's kung fu may not be as good as hers, but listening to these words, she just felt that
The fear suddenly disappeared, and I felt much more at ease.
In the blink of an eye, he saw the two men in black suddenly returning, each carrying a big bag, running towards the pit with flying footsteps. Xue Poye hurriedly pulled the green lady back.
Two men in black came to the edge of the pit and jumped in without knowing what they were doing. After a while, two men in black jumped out carrying empty bags and left again.
And when the two men in black disappeared, an even stranger man finally walked out of the night.
The man looked very thin, wearing a light yellow robe, and his appearance was very ordinary. He was the type who would not attract anyone's attention if he was thrown into a crowd. However, his walking posture was very good-looking and he looked very imposing.
Xue Poye frowned slightly, took two steps forward, cupped his hands and said, "Senior, do we have an appointment with you?"
The man in yellow robe glanced at Xue Poye and nodded slightly, but without saying anything else, he walked directly to the edge of the pit and jumped in.
Xue Poye was startled, and just as he was about to say something, he heard a "click, click, click" sound coming from the big pit. He couldn't help but slowly approached it, and when he looked slightly, his face instantly turned pale, and his stomach turned, almost to the point of death.
Vomit it out.
The green lady frowned and was about to step forward when Xue Poye stopped her and said, "Don't come over."
Seeing that Xue Poye's face was a little pale, Lady Green was a little worried and even more confused as to what happened in this big pit to make Xue Poye look like this.
What happened in the pit was very simple, Xue Poye could see it clearly, but it was the man in yellow robe who was sitting in the pit eating human flesh.
I don't know when there were a lot of broken limbs and severed hands in the big pit. They were all bloody and looked very fresh, as if they had just been chopped off. The man in yellow robe was holding a bloody arm in his hand and wanted to cut the arm.
He took a big piece, raised his head, chewed and smiled and said: "Xue Shitou, are you willing to come over and have a taste?"
Invite people to eat dead bodies?
Xue Poye felt nervous, surprised and disgusted at the same time. He smiled bitterly and said, "Senior's hobby is really special."
The man in yellow robe chuckled, suddenly coughed violently, his body trembled slightly, and after a while he sighed: "Young people are becoming less and less courageous now."
Only then did Xue Poye see this man's face clearly.
His skin is a little yellow, a kind of sickly yellow. He has a beautiful beard, but his skin is very smooth. His eyes are huge but dull, a little dull, and he looks sickly. His mouth is big and his ears are very big.
It's wide and looks quite majestic.
The man in yellow robe tore off half of his arm again and started eating it "click-click-click".
Xue Poye frowned and watched the man in yellow robe eating human flesh with relish. He suddenly laughed, stepped forward and jumped into the pit, sat opposite the man in yellow robe, and said with a smile: "Young people always have many things to want.
I learned from the elders, and today I will learn from the elders how to eat human flesh." After saying that, he actually picked up an arm, put it in his mouth and started chewing it. Blood flowed down the corners of his mouth, but he looked...
He seemed to be enjoying his meal.
The green lady finally came over and saw Xue Poye and the yellow-robed man devouring human flesh, their beautiful faces turned pale, she let out a cry of "Ah" and almost collapsed, her delicate body trembling. Such a weird and terrifying thing was not allowed to happen to her.
I have been in the world for many years, but I have never seen it before.
Now she is only worried about why Xue Poye also eats human flesh. Has he gone crazy with fear? Or is he really obsessed with evil spirits?
"It tastes really good." Xue Poye laughed, took two more bites, and ate with a "click-click" sound.
The man in yellow robe put down the human flesh in his hand, showed a strange smile, nodded and said: "You are indeed brave enough. Only those who are brave can do things that others cannot do, and only then can they be truly responsible."
Xue Poye put down the human flesh in his hand and sighed: "White lotus root mixed with brown sugar juice, I didn't know it was so delicious until today. But I don't think senior invited me to come here to eat delicious food!"
The green lady was stunned for a moment, but she quickly understood that the "human flesh" eaten by Huangpao Ren and Xue Poye was just white lotus root mixed with brown sugar juice. Under the dim moonlight, it looked like a dismembered arm, beating all the time.
Xin'er finally calmed down, but her face was still pale.
The man in yellow robe pondered for a moment and said slowly: "You attend the appointment at the graveyard and dare to eat fake human flesh. Your courage has proven that you are a responsible person."
Xue Poye smiled bitterly and said: "I just feel that in this Longtan area of Kyoto, if anyone wants to harm me, there is no need to waste this trouble."
"You are really thoughtful." The man in yellow robe said in a calm voice: "In my opinion, in the entire Kyoto, this is probably the only place where no one is paying attention, and only this place can be considered truly without ears."
Xue Poye cupped his hands and said: "Senior, I don't know who the master is. I summoned this junior here. I wonder if I have any advice?"
The man in yellow robe stood up, looked around the big pit, and suddenly asked: "If a person dies, is such a big place enough to bury him?"
Xue Poye nodded and said: "That's enough, you can even put a few sacrifices."
"Haha...!" The man in yellow robe laughed and said slowly: "It seems that you are very satisfied with this place."
Xue Poye said calmly: "If the senior asked me if I would like to be buried here after my death, I think this is an easy question to answer. If a person dies, his fame and wealth will be gone, and he will be nothing more than a skin.
, as long as there is a place to bury it, it is better than abandoning the body in the wilderness."
The yellow-robed man's voice suddenly turned cold and he said: "Okay, I will keep this place for you. If you do something you shouldn't do in the future, I will bury you here myself and will never let you
Abandoned corpses in the wilderness.”
Xue Poye frowned and said calmly: "Senior, is this a threat?"
"Threat?" The man in yellow robe showed a weird smile again: "Maybe, you can take it as a threat."
Xue Poye stood up and said slowly: "Senior, if you just want to explain these things, I think I have listened. Let me leave first." He clasped his fists and was about to leave the pit.
The green lady was on guard, holding a silver needle in her hand. If the man in yellow robe made any move, she would take action to protect Xue Poye.
"Xue Poye, the water in Kyoto is very deep, but there are more temptations. If you can't hold on to something, you will definitely do something you shouldn't do. At that time, you will regret it very much." The voice of the man in yellow robe.
Already getting serious.
Xue Poye was about to leave the pit, when he suddenly heard the words "Xue Poye", his body trembled, and his heart sank.
This man in yellow robe knows his true identity!
He turned around, stared at the man in yellow robe, and asked: "Who are you?"
The man in yellow robe did not answer, but explained in an explanatory manner: "When you enter Beijing, you should not hire a carriage, let alone ask the driver to take the driver back to Hangzhou." After saying this, the man in yellow robe began to cough violently, and Xue
Po Ye saw him take out the yellow silk from his arms and cover his mouth. When he put it away, there was a faint trace of blood.
Xue Poye suddenly understood in his heart that the man in yellow robe knew his identity, and he obviously figured it out from the coachman.
That day, he and Lady Green entered the capital together. When passing through Nanlin Garden, they happened to encounter Princess Yi leading a hunt, and accidentally shot and wounded the coachman. For this reason, Xue Poye seemed to be a blessing in disguise and successfully entered Kyoto and even made a job.
Princess Yi, the master of the princess, even ordered Hua Gongwei to arrange for someone to send the coachman back to Hangzhou.
Xue Poye might have been very excited at the time, or maybe he was very concerned about the coachman's injury, so he agreed to take the coachman back to Hangzhou. Thinking about it now, this was really a huge oversight. If someone took this opportunity to learn about their identity from the coachman, even if
I had given instructions before leaving Hangzhou, but whether it was coercion or inducement, it was very easy to learn something from a coachman.
As long as the coachman revealed his true name, going to investigate the name "Xue Poye" in Hangzhou would be like looking for money in a bank or medicinal materials in a drug store. It would be an extremely easy task.
Now it seems that the coachman has told some people his identity.
In fact, Xue Poye himself also knew that his reputation in Hangzhou was so famous that anyone with a little background would always find out his true identity from clues as long as he investigated carefully.
He stared at the man in yellow robe and finally said: "So the Hua Palace Guard is yours."
There was a trace in his mind that it was arranged by Hua Gongwei to send the coachman back. During the field battle, Hua Gongwei had already bluntly stated that he was not Xue Shitou. The anonymous letter he received later at the Prince Consort's Mansion could only be Hua Gongwei's stay.
, and now the man in yellow robe knows his identity, and a clear trace shows that his identity has most likely been investigated by Hua Gongwei, and has even been revealed to the man in yellow robe.
What is the identity of the man in yellow robe?
The man in yellow robe looked calm and said calmly: "Sometimes you are not too smart than you appear. In Kyoto, the consequences for smart people have always been very bad. I like your bravery and wit very much, but I hope you can be more subtle in the future.
A sword that is too sharp will break easily, you should understand this truth."
Xue Poye understood that these words were teachings from the bottom of his heart, and he was grateful in his heart. He smiled bitterly and said: "Senior's words are naturally the opposite, but there will always be many things that you can't control on the stage of life, and there will always be things that you don't expect.
Sometimes even I can’t control things.”
The man in yellow robe raised his head, looked at the moon in the sky, and finally said: "Xue Poye, I hope you can be a responsible person and be able to protect everyone around you." After saying that, he looked at the edge of the pit not far away.
The green lady slowly said: "For example, she, or...that child!"
"Child?"
Shows that he knows himself very well and that everything is under his control?
The man in yellow robe stood up slightly and came out of the pit like a ghost. He put his hands on his back and said slowly: "I will always keep this pit for you, and I hope you will always remember that there is such a wilderness here that will not let you abandon your body.
Grave." After saying this, he coughed violently again, and while coughing, he slowly left with a very impressive pace.
"What did he want to say?" The green lady walked to the edge of the pit, stretched out her hand, and pulled Xue Poye out of the pit, asking with some confusion.
What the man in yellow robe said tonight was very cryptic. Even Xue Poye himself seemed to understand it, and there was something strange about it. Xue Poye was still thinking carefully about the meaning of his words until now.
He came to this place in the middle of the night and said these strange words. If it were others, he would have thought that the man in yellow robe was a lunatic, but Xue Poye knew that every word of the man in yellow robe was carefully thought out. He could tell that this man in yellow robe was not a psychopath.
He is not a person who likes to talk very much. To say these words tonight, for the man in yellow robe, they are the inner thoughts that must be spoken. However, these inner thoughts made Xue Poye a little confused.
Xue Poye watched the yellow-robed man's back disappear in the black screen, and then sighed softly: "I think he meant that I should not be confused by certain things in Kyoto, such as money, power or beauty!"
The green lady spat: "Who do you think you are? Who will give you money, power and beauty?"
Xue Poye shook his head and smiled bitterly: "These things that no one can ask for are originally difficult to get, but when you are a very useful tool, they will come to you like a tide until you are
The day you abandon it, you will understand that all this is just a passing cloud. In the end, you will actually have nothing left, but will lose a lot."
The Green Lady can understand Xue Poye's state of mind and the meaning of Xue Poye's words.
Xue Poye is undoubtedly a very handy tool for many masters in Kyoto. Many people want to grab this tool. The so-called money, power and even beauty are always the best tools in this world to win people's hearts.
Good tool.
"Actually, I don't know if you can resist those temptations." The green lady stared at Xue Poye's handsome face and said quietly: "I just hope you don't forget some things, and don't forget who you are!"
Xue Poye held Lady Green's hand and said softly: "At least I will never forget you in this life."
The green lady was silent. Her mind recalled the time when she met Xue Poye at Pinxiang Pavilion in Qinghefang. That time, Xue Poye left a deep impression on her. However, she did not expect that time would
Liushui, in less than a year, the two of them have become superiors and subordinates, and there is still a deep-seated affection between them.
Life is always wonderful.
"Ah!" The green lady suddenly exclaimed, pointing to the cemetery.
"That's a will-o'-the-wisp." Green Lady said nervously.
Xue Poye laughed, held Lady Green's hand, and said softly: "That's not a will-o'-the-wisp. Come on, I'll tell you what it is on the way."
So the two rode horses together. Xue Poye explained the phenomenon of will-o'-the-wisp, which made Green Lady even more confused because she really didn't understand the so-called "will-o'-the-wisp is a chemical reaction caused by the contact of a chemical phosphorus with the air."