Su Bai nodded again and said loudly: "Thank you, Taoist Priest, for saving your life. It's too late for Su Bai to thank you!"
"I can't do it, I can't do it." Xuanxu pushed Bai Ling away and helped Su Bai up with one hand. There was a lot of emotion in his words: "It seems that I didn't save the wrong person. It's really rare for you to have such a character. Thank you for your kindness."
, I didn’t save you in vain.”
"Taoist priest..." Subai's eyes were a little red.
"Good boy, don't thank me anymore for this. I'm very happy if you remember it in your heart. I won't say it anymore. I won't say it anymore." Taoist Master Xuanxu looked back at the house. After so many years, it was covered with dust.
The corners are full of spider webs, and the two wooden doors don’t look alike.
Looking good, Bai Ling said: "This house has been here for so long. It must be repaired. Otherwise, how can we live in it? Su Bai, ask Yue Qing and others to come up to help. Bring some paint and tools. In short, we can send
Bring everything you need."
When Yue Qing and Cui Ying came up, the house had been cleaned. The dust was gone and it looked a lot cleaner. However, it was still dilapidated. Yue Qing and Cui Ying also quickly joined the battle. The place was not big to begin with, with two rooms in the east and west.
The wing room, plus the kitchen, thatched room and main hall, and a small courtyard were already overgrown with weeds. Bai Ling had cleared them away and burned them all with a fire.
Yue Qing moved the ashes out and saw the grave bag behind the house. He was stunned for a moment. He looked at the grave bag and suddenly had a strange feeling. He took out his mobile phone and called his father Yue Bai: "Dad, your master's
Is the grave at the back of the house?"
"Yes, what's wrong?" Yue Bai held a paintbrush in one hand and a mobile phone in the other: "If you have anything to say, please tell me, I'm busy."
"How long has it been since you went back to that place to worship?"
Yue Qing's words stunned Yue Bai, and then he said: "After repairing Master's tomb, I have never been to the mountain again. It's not that my father has no conscience. The shock I received back then was too strong."
"Dad, is that house on the mountainside? The tomb is behind the house, and behind the tomb is the cliff. Also, is there a stone tablet without words in front of the tomb?"
As soon as Yue Qing finished speaking, Yue Bai was dumbfounded: "How did you know?"
"I am standing in front of this grave now." Yue Qing said: "Dad, this place is now occupied by Taoist priest Xuanxu."
Yue Bai still didn't speak on the other end of the phone, but a scream came from the yard, and Yue Qing said in a hurry: "Dad, I'll talk to you later."
Yue Qing came to the yard and saw that a hole had been dug in the yard, and a leg bone had been exposed. The yard was filled with a putrid smell. The person who screamed just now was Bai Ling. She was so frightened that her face turned pale.
While Shi was holding Su Bai's arm tightly, Cui Ying was bold and continued digging until the entire corpse was completely exposed. Yue Qing said, "Why did you think of digging up here?"
"Auntie said that the yard is too barren. Let's level it, remove the old dead tree, and plant a new one after the new year. Who knows how to dig, so I dug this one out." Cui Ying pointed to the ground.
, while covering his nose with his hand.
This corpse was completely decomposed, and the clothes were soaked in corpse liquid, but they could not completely cover the corpse. Taoist priest Xuanxu suddenly lowered his body, picked up a branch, turned up the soil, and carefully selected from it.
I got something, put it in my hand, squeezed it, and smelled it: "It's chaff."
The so-called chaff is actually rice bran. In some places, wine bran is also called chaff. These chaff were found near the skulls of corpses. Taoist priest Xuanxu said: "Could it be that he stuffed his mouth with chaff and made him become a ghost and unable to speak after death?"
Yue Qing knew this method. After killing the other party, some people with magic skills would cover their faces with their hair and stuff their mouths with chaff after their death in order to prevent them from turning into ghosts and redressing their grievances.
In this way, even if the three souls and seven souls are separated from the body, the mouth cannot speak, and the grievances during life can only be hidden in the stomach. Such a ghost is called a real ghost who died in vain!
"It seems that I have been a neighbor with this corpse for a long time." Taoist priest Xuanxu said: "The corpse is completely decomposed, and it is quite old. It has been nearly twenty years since I left here. I am afraid that the bones will still be there.
morning."
"Do you want to notify Gao Mingyuan to come over?" Subo asked.
Yue Qing said: "Although the case of nine deaths is over and the murderer has been caught, don't forget that there is another case of nine corpses. The murderer is obviously the masked man, but there is no evidence. Secondly, the man is esoteric and unpredictable, so we can't
If we can't catch him, Gao Mingyuan's current situation is not easy. This is a corpse from decades ago. I think we don't want to cause him any more troubles."
"Yes." Cui Ying agreed.
Taoist Master Xuanxu said: "This man was gagged after his death. The person who killed him must know alchemy."
Several people carried the corpse aside, buried the pit first, and removed the dead tree roots. With sharp eyes, Su Bai saw something under the ground. He dug it out from the mud and wiped off the mud on it: "
This is a seal."
Moreover, it is a bloodstone, with a person's name engraved on it. Unfortunately, one piece is missing and incomplete. Subai said: "It may be this person's, or it may be that the person who killed him accidentally dropped it when burying the body.
Let’s keep it for now.”
Yue Bai hurried over. He had been away from this place for a long time. When he came back again, he saw that the house was exactly the same as before, with no changes at all. Thinking of the past scene, he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotions. He went to the grave behind the house first.
After bowing to his master several times, he walked into the courtyard. When he saw the corpse on the ground, Yue Bai walked around it three times and said, "Now that it's like this, who knows who this is?"
"Uncle, look at this seal, do you recognize it?" Su Bai put the seal on Yue Bai's hand.
"Zhang Zhengtong." Yue Bai suddenly grasped the seal tightly: "This is my senior brother's seal. It is missing a piece, but it is still recognizable. The seal is here. Could it be that this skeleton is his? Look at the height of the skeleton, and his
The height is the same, this dress..."
Yue Qing used a branch to push aside the clothes stuck to the bones so that his father could take a closer look. Yue Bai said: "The clothes also look like they were from that period. If it's really him, no wonder I can't find this no matter how much I ask."
People."
If this Zhang Zhengtong has relatives, a DNA test can be done to confirm his identity. However, Zhang Zhengtong was originally an orphan and was adopted by Master Yue Qing. Now he can only synthesize this information. Yue Bai studied the skeleton.
, seeing that the right leg bone was somewhat deformed, he came to a conclusion, "It seems that there is no other possibility, it is him. My senior brother walks a little weird. I heard from the master that he fell off a cliff before and was injured."
Down to the bone.”
Yue Bai's feelings towards Zhang Zhengtong are very complicated. Before his master died, he left a bloody word "Rebel, Qi Gui Zhi". These five words basically meant that his senior brother had taken away "Qi Gui Zhi" and his master had his tongue cut off.
, it can only be the fault of senior brother! But now that his bones suddenly appear here, how can we explain it?
"Dad, what do you think?" Yue Qing asked.
"The clothing statue, the seal and the right leg bone are direct evidence." Yue Bai smiled bitterly: "I have nothing more to say, but how did the Taoist priest come here?"
"I was originally wandering around. I passed by here twenty years ago. I thought it was nice and there was an abandoned house, so I just stayed there. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be your master's old residence." Taoist Master Xuanxu said, "The grave behind the house is
, I thought it was the owner or a relative of this family. Every Qingming Festival, I would burn paper and incense to thank him for giving me a place to live."
Yue Baichong cupped his hands with Taoist Priest: "Thank you so much, Taoist Priest. Thinking about it this way, I am the traitor."
Yue Bai looked around the house, pointed to the east wing and said: "That was originally the master's house. It was also the room where the master kept various classics. It was also where we received guests. The west wing was where my senior brother and I lived. It was originally his room."
After I went up the mountain, I squeezed in with him. It was the most difficult time in my life. He targeted me in every possible way and even snatched my quilt at night!"
The last sentence made Su Bai laugh out loud: "Uncle, this is not the point."
"Well, after all, we had a friendship with the same sect," Yue Bai said: "Now in this sect, the master is gone, the senior brother also died tragically, and I am the only one left."
All hatred, resentment, and death have all disappeared, and now all that is left is regret. Yue Bai said: "I want to bury my senior brother's remains next to my master. If they are alive in heaven, they know that all this is because of someone."
Design, everything in the past disappears, and the relationship between master and apprentice can continue."
Yue Qing and Su Bai dug a hole next to the original grave and buried Zhang Zhengtong's body in it. Looking at the new and old graves, Yue Bai couldn't help but burst into tears: "Master, brother, you all are the ones who let me."
It was designed by someone, and I will definitely find that person and avenge you, and I will definitely retrieve "Strange Ghost Chronicles" and destroy it to prevent it from falling into the hands of evil people again and continuing to do evil!"
Su Bai did not expect that he would make such a shocking discovery after sending Taoist Master Xuanxu back. He couldn't help but have an idea and continued to search in each room, especially the east wing. After the Taoist priest moved in, he did not make any changes. Everything was as it was.
In the past, even the shabby bed was still the same one. The bookshelf next to the bed was empty. Back then, Yue Bai took away all the classics and started his own practice. Apart from that, there was nothing else.
There is only one chair painted yellow.
Sub Bai and Yue Qing exchanged glances, and together they started to dismantle the rickety wooden bed. Bai Ling couldn't help but said, "I'm afraid this bed can't be used anymore, so just throw it out."
The two nodded, and with three clicks, they dismantled the bed and threw it out. There were still blood stains on the bottom of the bed, mixed with the mud, which was obviously different from the color of the surrounding mud. The Taoist priest said: "When I came in, this
The bed is clean and there is no blood."
"When I placed Master's body, I cleaned this place." Yue Bai explained: "But the blood seeped under the bed because the amount of bleeding was huge. When I found him, he had obvious external injuries. I used a sharp blunt instrument to
The wounds were caused by the instrument, and the wounds were mainly concentrated on the chest and abdomen. What I can’t understand the most is why the master’s tongue was cut off. If you want the master to be silent, you can just kill the master directly. Why bother?”
That's right, Taoist Master Xuanxu nodded and said: "This behavior is indeed a bit redundant."
Subai looked at the range of blood stains on the ground, which showed how tragic the case was back then. He couldn't help wiping the sweat from his forehead. He swept the dust in the corner and saw something flashing. He picked it up and said "oh"