Bonfires were lit, and the sound of crackling and peeling firewood was heard everywhere.
"...The rest of the Tubo people are fine. Those warlike lords are not difficult to deal with. The worst thing is the evil monks who practice Happy Buddha..."
"... Among the three major sects of Tantric Buddhism, the Happy Buddha is the first and the most evil. Those evil monks are called monks, but they are actually evil demons. Even the other two major sects are looking at them with suspicion."
"But the Huanxi faction is the strongest. Why? Because there are too many lustful people in the world."
Qian Sibaan sat across from Luo Ning and chatted with Luo Ning across the bonfire, intending to get closer.
"Brother Luo Dao and his female relatives must be extra careful about those evil monks. A few days ago, an evil monk sneaked into this county and kidnapped the county governor's daughter, which made the county governor furious."
"The Dabei Temple that housed evil monks, including the abbot and novice pilgrims, were all locked up and imprisoned."
Luo Ning nodded and said: "I know about this matter. There was a big fuss before. Can the evil monk catch it?"
Qian Si Abacus sneered: "How can I catch him? That evil monk is said to be a sixth-grade master, and he is very powerful. If he escapes, how can he catch him?"
"Is it possible that the county guard still dares to send troops to Tibet to demand people? If the Tibetan cavalry is provoked to attack the county, his official position will be over."
The strange thing is that this Qiang girl is obviously the youngest, but the calmest.
"Which Qiang chieftain's daughter is this?" Qian Sibaanpan said. He knew some Tubo language, but not Qiang language.
When Luo Ning heard this, his heart moved even more.
Luo Ning shook his head secretly.
Luo Ning said: "Is it 'Gukahahahaha...?"
She wore a splendid robe with left lapels, her hair was braided and decorated with pearls. She also wore a necklace on her chest.
Qian Sibaanpan looked very strange when he saw so many corpses.
"It is the crossroads of official roads and the ferry on the upper reaches of the Chi River. There are many people traveling to and from the three counties and entering and leaving Tubo. It can be said to be a strategic point on land and water."
She looks exactly like a foreign noblewoman.
"Help…"
Luo Ning thought for a while and nodded: "What Qian Chaofeng said makes sense. If it is convenient, I will settle them and prevent them from entering Tubo."
The foreign girl was about twelve or thirteen years old, about the same age as Luo Li.
Seven of the horses had women tied to them.
"Oh, there is a brothel called Wangyoulou. It is a gold-selling cave that specially receives foreign merchants. The girls in it can compare with those in Jinguan City."
Early the next morning, everyone set off together.
"What's going on?" Luo Ning flew off the horse, untied a woman's rope, and took off the cloth from her mouth.
"In April, Xue Bingyu sent a killer to assassinate my brother."
Qian Sibaan's chubby face showed a smile: "Actually, I am reminding Brother Luo Dao that I will take my female relatives with me when I go there. If I encounter that evil monk..."
"...I can't walk anymore, I guess I can only walk a hundred miles at most. I'm heartbroken."
Unexpectedly, Yinyue Villa is the only place to go to Fengzhi Mountain.
Qian Sibaan dismounted, took out a jug of wine, and poured wine to pay homage to the deserted courtyard from a distance.
"Yinyue Villa is a must-visit place," Qian Sibaan said.
"How do you say that? In Wangyou Township, every household has a lot of money. At that time, the richest town in Yizhou was this remote Wangyou Township!"
"The robber is dead... fighting..."
Even though the sun was shining brightly in broad daylight, everyone felt terrified.
"However, this county is thousands of miles away. How easy is it to find that peerless corpse? Even if he can sense corpse energy, it will not be easy."
"I don't know why, but he came to this county to look for some extremely beautiful corpse. Is it possible that there is a powerful and beautiful female nun in this county who has died? I've never heard of it."
There are many horses tied up outside the courtyard, and they are kicking and snorting anxiously.
Luo Li and Su Chuo didn't want to hear this, so they left the bonfire together and returned to their carriages.
There are as many as twenty or thirty.
Luo Ning thought about it and said, "Why did Qian Chaofeng suddenly talk about this?"
………
Luo Ning murmured in his heart when he heard this. This was the second person he heard talking about Yinyue Villa.
"My companions told me that this evil monk has the magical power to sense corpse energy. He can clearly sense corpse energy within ten miles, and he can immediately visualize the appearance and physique of a corpse..."
Qian Sibaan said with emotion, pointing to a village with row upon row of courtyards, "When I was young, my uncle and I once visited this place. It was a prosperous place."
At this time, she did not cry, but looked at Luo Ning, who had rescued her, with a strange look in her eyes, and her fingers were still making knots.
Luo Ning nodded and asked the woman: "What did the robbers shout before they died?"
After everyone walked for more than ten miles, suddenly a gust of wind blew, and they immediately smelled the strong smell of blood.
After walking for twenty or thirty miles, they saw no trace of smoke or human beings, or heard the barking of dogs and the crow of roosters.
When Qian Sibaanpan saw the two women leaving, he let go and said:
"It is said that the evil monk is extremely disgusting. He also likes female corpses. He is a monk from Yanshi Temple."
Passing by that deserted courtyard again, everyone couldn't help but feel a little sad.
Qian Sibaan continued: "After the death of Wangyou Township, the government was perfunctory, and many corpses that were too lazy to bury were placed in Yinyue Villa."
"Brother Luo Dao, the causes of death of these thieves are very similar to Mo Gu and others."
"I remember that there were poppies everywhere at that time, and the aroma of boiling Fushou ointment could be felt within dozens of miles."
Although many courtyards are covered with thorns and vines, their original style can still be seen.
"The evil monk harmed many women in this county, and even the county guard's daughter was poisoned, but in the end he was able to escape, which shows the incompetence of the government."
The woman nodded suddenly, "That's right! My benefactor, that's what they called me!"
Luo Ning felt a little scared. He untied all the women who had been snatched by the thieves and immediately gained an inch of his willpower.
"It's a pity that it has only been twenty years and it has become like this. Alas, Fellow Daoist Luo, even monks like me cannot avoid the sigh of unpredictability."
Among the seven robbed women, there was actually a foreign girl.
Nothing happened all night.
When the woman saw that Luo Ning was a good-looking young man, she calmed down and replied: "It seems...it seems that he said something strange and I can't understand it."
He felt that what Qian Si Abacus said made sense. Since Tubo was happy that the Buddha was powerful, it would be inconvenient to bring a woman with him, and it would easily arouse the covetousness of those disgusting and evil monks.
"In another thirty miles, we will reach Yin Yue Villa." Qian Sibaan pointed at a large horn-like mountain in the distance, "It's at the foot of Qingniu Mountain."
"According to the government's interrogation of his accomplices, he has another purpose here, which is to find a peerless female corpse to use as the Wonderful Corpse Lotus in Yanshi Temple."
Faintly, it seemed that I had caught something.
When I first came into contact with this person, I felt that he was an out-and-out businessman. But the more I met him, the more I felt like he was becoming less and less like a businessman.
There are some Qiang tribes on the border of Yizhou, and their leaders are chieftains. In fact, most of them are Dangxiang survivors and Xianbei survivors, but they are collectively called Qiang.
A group of people walked through the once prosperous Wangyou Township, but they saw the fields were deserted and uninhabited, and they saw only empty courtyards, like haunted houses.
The cardamom girl got on the carriage, lit the lantern, took out the pamphlet, and wrote seriously:
"There's a dead person in front." Luo Ning looked stern.
When Luo Ning heard this, he felt that this money calculation was getting more and more interesting.
Luo Ning waved his horsewhip casually and asked, "Are we still going to pass by Yinyue Villa?"
Yinyue Villa!
The women were tied to horses and their mouths were sealed.
But he could tell that this girl was probably a Qiang person.
The stone lion carvings under the ruins, the embroidered embroidered houses that have not yet completely decayed, the blue brick avenues overgrown with weeds, the collapsed bridges at the river crossings, and the decaying ships all silently tell the story of the glory of the past.
"If someone dies and the body cannot be transported home for a while, it will be left there."
When I got closer, I saw a courtyard filled with corpses.
It's like being forgotten by the world.
Luo Ning's consciousness swept away and he saw a large group of dead bodies that had indeed killed each other.
There were thirty people in the group, and the momentum was quite considerable.
"In April, I will earn fifty taels of gold."
After she was untied, she put her hands on her heart and saluted Luo Ning, and in a voice like a baby bird returning to its nest, she said two words that were similar to Xia's language, but definitely not Xia's language.
Qian Sibaan's reminder was of course for the safety of the caravan.
This girl's skin is fair and rosy, her eyes are as black as gems, and her facial features are handsome and delicate. Although she is less elegant and more wild, she is very upright and eye-catching.
What? Is Yin Yue Villa ahead?
"The government is incompetent, making it difficult for us to do business..."
Everyone couldn't understand, but Luo Ning, who had the magical power of Ling Dao translation, understood it.
What she said was actually: "My divination is correct, I will turn the crisis into safety."
"O noble person, you have brought me peace."
"The white shaman of Bayan Mountain, Murong Lingbei, the daughter of Tugu tribe, has met the respected sir."