When the two people wearing raincoats noticed someone in the Chenghuang Temple, the person walking in front froze.
It was raining heavily outside the Chenghuang Temple, but they still walked into the temple.
At the entrance of the City God's Temple, the leading old man took off his raincoat and shook off the rainwater at the entrance before turning around.
Seeing the old man's face, Yan Yan was stunned.
The old man had a palm-long scar on his face, which was extremely scary across his face.
Seeing that there were women and children among the three people in front of them, the old man turned his face sideways. After nodding with Qingxuan, he led the people behind him and sat down beside the Chenghuang Temple.
Only then did Yan Yan notice the strangeness of the person behind the old man.
He has straight arms and legs, like a child who has just learned to walk, and also like a stiff person who doesn't move around often. When walking, the entire upper body does not move, only two legs move.
"Why don't he take off his raincoat? He will catch a cold if the rain falls on him." Yan Yan asked curiously.
In fact, she wanted to know what it would be like for the person behind her to take off her raincoat.
"Thank you for reminding me, girl. He was afraid that it would be inconvenient to take off his raincoat when seeing others." The old man's voice was hoarse, like the cry of a crow.
The old man saw that Yan Yan and Xiao Bai Zhu were not afraid after seeing his true face, so he raised his head and looked at Qing Xuan with a cold face.
"Are you a Taoist priest?"
"He's wearing a Taoist robe. What else could he be if he wasn't a Taoist priest?" Yan Yan first said with a smile.
"What the girl is saying is that the younger brother has a wife and children at a young age, which is not common among Taoist priests," the old man said.
Yan Jie smiled upon hearing this.
Last time, Xiao Bai Zhu and I were brothers. This time, the three of us are a family of three.
"His master doesn't know yet that he has a wife and children. We are planning to go back to the mountain to tell his master this time." Yan Yan touched Xiao Bai Zhu's head, but Xiao Bai Zhu shook her away.
"At that time, he came down the mountain for training. I saw that he was handsome and kept him as husband-in-law. Now that I even have a son, I also plan to have another daughter." Yan Yan pushed Qingxuan with his elbow, "What do you think?
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Qingxuan: "...as you wish."
He knew that Yan Yan was fabricating a reasonable identity for a few people and just wanted Master Qi to be his son - Qingxuan trembled when he thought of this.
I hope Master Qi won’t blame him considering the hundreds of years of friendship between the two.
Seeing that Yan was generous in speech and interesting in manner, the old man became more casual and asked, "That girl has white hair?"
"Alas, you can't blame him!" Yan Yan glanced at Qingxuan with an irritated look. Qingxuan silently turned around and ignored the two of them, "Back then, he refused to obey and devoted himself to the Tao. It became clear that I missed him so much that I became ill."
head."
"Girls are also sweethearts." The old man said with a smile.
What Yan Yan said was exaggerated and no one believed it, but it was also impossible to refute.
Seeing the old man bringing out dry food, Yan Yu stopped talking nonsense with the old man.
"Why do I feel that something is wrong with the person next to this old man?" Yan Yan asked quietly, still looking at the person behind the old man.
The three of them, Yan and Yu, were sitting on the east side of the City God's Temple. The old man was on the west side, and the people following him were also on the west side, but they were blocked by the statue of the City God's Temple.
She couldn't see the man's figure, but she couldn't feel the man's breath. She didn't even give the old man solid food.
If he hadn't seen that person follow the old man in with his own eyes, Yan Yan would never have believed that there was a fifth person in the City God's Temple.
"The old man is the corpse exorcist, and the one next to him is the zombie." Qingxuan said in a calm tone.
Hearing this, Yan Yan looked at the zombie beside the old man more curiously, and suddenly realized something was wrong: "He is a corpse exorcist, and you are a Taoist priest, so don't you both recognize each other's identities? You don't know each other."
Two lives are tired of each other? One drives away corpses, the other drives away corpses."
"As long as the zombies in his hands don't commit any crimes, we won't take care of them."
Yan Yan has never seen a zombie before. She is a ghost without a physical body, while a zombie only has a physical body without a soul. The two are like the Liangyi of Tai Chi.
"Old man, this is the crispy meat pie we brought, you can try it." Yan Yan squatted beside the old man enthusiastically holding the crispy meat pie, "What do you call me? Where is this eldest brother? Is he your son? Can't you?
If you are always so introverted, you will never find a wife. As for the one in my family, if I didn't really like him, then no woman would even want to talk to him if he owed him two hundred taels of silver."
Qingxuan, who heard clearly from a distance: "..."
"No girl." The old man waved his hand.
Crispy meat pie is a common type of crispy meat pie sold at roadside vendors, but the clothes Yan Yan is wearing are not common.
Wearing a flowing silk black dress, a black gold hairpin on her bun, and two strings of pearls hanging down from the hairpin glowing with light color.
This luxurious outfit really does not match the crispy meat cake. It is understandable for the old man to suspect that the crispy meat cake is poisonous.
"This crispy meatloaf is delicious, but it's a bit cold. If it's hot, it can be served with a bowl of clove wontons." Yan Yan's mouth watered just thinking about the delicious food.
The old man still resisted, and Yan Yan handed it to the zombie beside him: "Will he eat it?"
"We already gave him something to eat before we came here." The old man stretched out his hand to stop Yan Yan from moving forward.
"That's right." Yan Yan took back the crispy meat pie, held his chin and smiled, "But why did I hear that zombies only eat human hearts? Old man, you just had a good meal before you came here?"
The old man's expression changed, and he looked at Qing Xuan not far away from the corner of his eye, but Qing Xuan and Xiao Bai Zhu did not look in the old man's direction.
"I'm so blind that I didn't realize at a glance that this girl is the real master." The old man said seriously.
Among the three Yan Yu, he couldn't even tell the difference between the youngest child and the only one who could let him know was the Taoist priest Qing Xuan.
Now it seems that the Taoist priest is the easiest to deal with.
"It's easy to say. I've been traveling around the world for so many years and there are only a few people who can tell that I'm an expert." Yan Yan shrugged, "Why do you, old man, come to the village? It doesn't mean that you corpse exorcists rarely let people die.
When people see it, they usually walk through mountains, forests and waterways.”
"We walked through the mountains and forests to avoid bumping into strangers, and we were also afraid that strangers would bump into us. Can the girl see anything unusual about this village?"
"Abnormal?" Yan Yan tilted his head, "There was someone knocking on the door in the middle of the night and pretending not to hear it? It's okay if you don't open the door. You don't even take a look at the door, and you're not afraid of someone stealing their chickens, ducks, pigs and dogs. Hey, what do you think we should do?
I'll try to steal their chickens, ducks, pigs and dogs later and see if anyone can stop them."
"..." the old man, "haven't you noticed that there are many cemeteries on this hillside?"
"Oh, you said this, I discovered that there are mass graves, but this village is very clean." Yan Yan touched his chin, thinking about the mystery.
The old man nodded, "We who drive away corpses are most afraid of walking in places with strong ghost spirits. If we are not careful, the soulless corpse will be possessed. And there is no soul in this village. It happens to be convenient for us.
Climbing the slope from Zhangmen Village is half as fast as going around the forest."
Yan Yan pondered: "Then the soulless incident in Mencun was probably done by you corpse exorcists?"