Outside Liangcheng, on the small road out of the city, the old horse pulling the cart was groaning and stumbling.
The moonlight filtered through the leaves and fell on the face of the old man driving the carriage, reflecting a bit of panic that was beyond words.
Inside the car, a candlelight shines through the curtains, shaking occasionally with the bumps of the carriage. A figure can be vaguely seen holding a candle in the car and reading at night.
On both sides of the path, the sound of insects could be heard endlessly.
Only the sound of wheels rolling over the soil broke the harmony in the forest.
The old man who was driving the carriage swallowed, and cautiously stuck his head out to look at the back of the carriage. After just a confused glance, he was so frightened that he quickly looked away.
"Still...still there." The old man subconsciously touched his forehead, which was already covered with fine sweat.
What the old man was talking about was the young man dressed as a scholar who was following the carriage.
The young man was about in his early twenties, wearing a faded green and ink gown, and holding a folding fan in his hand.
The folding fan was obviously not opened, but the young man was pretending to swing it and looking left and right from time to time.
This gesture does not look like a scholar traveling at night, but rather like a scholar and poet out for an outing.
He was carrying a cloth package behind him and a simple long sword slung around his waist. The red sword spikes swayed as he walked, giving it a rather agile feel.
The old man didn't dare to think about the young man's appearance anymore. He turned to look at the car behind him and asked in a low voice: "Miss, that man has already followed us all the way."
After a while, a calm female voice sounded in the carriage.
"Maybe we're on the same journey."
"Miss, when you and I entered the city during the day, that man has followed us." The old man's voice was low, but there was anxiety in his tone, "We have been traveling for a whole day! In these barren mountains and ridges, there is no way to reach the village.
Don't leave the store, if that person has malicious intentions..."
"Then stop and wait for a while. If we are just traveling together, you might as well give him a ride."
"What if not?"
The young lady did not respond, as if she was too lazy to pay attention to the coachman's inquiry, or she did not know what to do.
The carriage stopped.
In just a few breaths, the young man behind came to the carriage.
He paused, first glanced at the tense coachman, and then his eyes fell on the small window of the carriage.
The young man's eyes reflected the candlelight through the car window and seemed to shine brightly.
With a faint smile on his lips, he asked:
"Why don't you leave?"
"This young master, I haven't asked for advice yet..."
"I'm in Lin Ji, Qingyang County."
"Master Lin."
There was another moment of silence.
The young lady in the carriage said: "Young Master Lin has followed you all the way. Where are you going, sir? If you are going the same way, you might as well go with my master and servant. The road is lonely, but you can have many companions to talk to."
"We are not on the same road." Lin Ji shook his head.
"Then why does the young master keep following behind? Could it be that he has malicious intentions?" The lady's tone became more severe, "The laws of the Qin Dynasty are strict and the young master has a dignified appearance. He shouldn't be so unwise."
Lin Ji was obviously a little surprised when he heard what the young lady said. The smile on his face was a little thicker, but it quickly faded away.
"Miss, what's your surname?"
"Excuse me, my surname is Luo."
"Miss Luo is going to the capital, right? Her surname is Luo... She should be a descendant of Luo Xuanyi, the prime minister of the dynasty, and the eldest lady of the Luo Mansion?"
Lin Ji looked at the word "Luo" on the carriage and chuckled: "Miss Luo, don't worry, I'm not a bad person, I just happen to be going to the capital."
In the carriage, Miss Luo frowned slightly and put down the rolled-up book in her hand.
"Then when I asked the young master if he was traveling the same way, why did the young master deny it?"
Lin Ji did not answer, but stretched out his hand and said, "Miss, do you have any personal tokens that you want to take back to the capital?"
"Token?" Miss Luo didn't know why, she just felt that Lin Ji was a little confused.
But with this thought in her mind, she subconsciously took off a small sachet from her waist and handed it out through the car window.
"This is the sachet my mother made for me. I have never left this sachet since I was a child."
After handing over the sachet, Miss Luo came to her senses and realized why she had given something personal to a stranger.
After Lin Ji took the sachet, he unfolded the folding fan in his hand and swayed one by one. However, he ignored Miss Luo and directly crossed the carriage and continued to move forward along the path.
The driver, who was already so frightened that the hair on his body stood up, only stared at this moment and said: "Miss, that... that person's fan..."
"What's wrong with the fan?" Miss Luo was puzzled.
"White fan, with a word 'cut' in it!"
Miss Luo's expression froze.
"Supervisor Tiansi?"
The reputation of the Supervisor Tiansi is even better among the people than that of the government yamen.
The troubles caused by demons and ghosts are a thousand times scarier than the villains who rob homes and homes.
Lin Ji's figure disappeared in the distance.
But just when Miss Luo was about to give instructions to set off, an erratic voice sounded in the ears of the master and servant again.
"Although we are all going to the capital, people and ghosts take different paths, so how can they be considered to be on the same road?"
The master and servant were stunned on the spot.
"Humans and ghosts...have different paths?" Miss Luo muttered a few words, seeming to understand something.
Looking back, the tired old horse and the driver had disappeared.
She picked up the bronze mirror in the carriage, but she couldn't see her appearance in the mirror.
"Am I...am I...dead?"
...
"A month ago, the eldest daughter of the Luo family in the capital came to Liangcheng to visit relatives, but she didn't expect to encounter a gangster on the way."
"The guards of the Luo family's motorcade all died miserably in order to protect them, but they also forcibly escorted Miss Luo to a place less than a mile outside Liangcheng... It's a pity that they couldn't spare the manpower to go to Liangcheng to ask for help. In the end, they fell short and were killed.
The bad guys are catching up."
"According to what the Yamen official said, Miss Luo committed suicide because she was desperate and didn't want to fall into the hands of the bad guys."
Lin Ji was walking alone on the path in the forest. The folding fan in his hand was opened and placed above his head to block the rain, but the smile just now was no longer visible on his face.
"Ghosts after death think they are still alive and want to return to the capital." Lin Ji secretly shook his head, "If no one points it out, after arriving in the capital, the ghosts will be shocked by the monstrous dragon energy before entering the city.
His soul was so shattered that he even had no chance of reincarnation."
Today's Great Qin Dynasty is just when the new emperor has just ascended the throne and the dragon's veins are tumbling.
And the capital city is the place where the country's dragon energy gathers. Ordinary monsters, monsters, ghosts and monsters can't even get close to it, let alone enter the city.
Lin Ji rubbed the sachet in his hand.
"If it were normal, a kid like this who has never harmed anyone would be let go... But in this world, a lonely ghost without any cultivation, even if it is taken by the monsters in the mountains and made into a ghost,
It’s all considered lucky.”
Lin Ji thought again about the case files he had seen in the Liangcheng Supervisory Office not long ago.
In the demonic way of killing people and refining their souls, they need to burn the ghosts who have not yet lost consciousness with spiritual fire for seven or forty-nine days, in order to obtain a little bit of soul energy that is better than nothing.
Even the toughest ascetic monk may not be able to bear such pain.
In addition, there is also the Ghost King City outside Liang City. There are often ghosts and monsters under the Ghost King wandering around at night, either catching lonely ghosts or killing passers-by, and then catching lonely ghosts.
As for what he would do if he was taken back, Lin Ji didn't know and didn't want to know.
But it's not always a good thing.
"So, it's better to be reincarnated, at least you don't have to suffer anymore after death. Life is only a few decades, but if you become a ghost and are caught by others, that is the real torture."
Lin Ji took out a small book from his arms. On the cover of the book were written the words "Cause and Effect Book".
Turning to a blank page, I made two random gestures with my fingertips.
A line of small words suddenly appeared.
‘Miss Luo Family’s Sachet in Beijing’
In an instant, Lin Ji felt vaguely that something was wrapped around him.
He knew very well that this was Miss Luo's cause and effect, and this cause and effect could only be resolved after returning the sachet.
After the cause and effect recorded in the cause and effect book is resolved, Lin Ji will receive some mysterious and mysterious blessings.
Is it the blessing of heaven, or is it something else?
Lin Ji couldn't figure it out, maybe it was something like merit.
Anyway, this book of karma has been by his side since he came to this world.
Moreover, after he used the Book of Cause and Effect to complete the cause and effect he took over, there was no bottleneck in his cultivation, and his journey was smooth and his progress was extremely fast.
In his early twenties, he already has the strength to open the third level of spiritual realm. This speed cannot be explained by talent. After all, he is not from a noble family, and he relies on his own diligent cultivation.
In addition, every time he completes the cause and effect for others, he will get good luck the next day.
It can be as simple as enlightenment through cultivation and picking up treasures from heaven and earth; it can be as rare as finding delicacies by accident, or simply picking up money on the road.
Although most of the time, gifts from cause and effect are better than nothing for Lin Ji.
But this gift of completing the cause and effect for others has never been absent.
"After I go to the capital to report my work, when I leave, I will go to Luo's house and return this sachet."
Putting this matter aside for the time being, Lin Ji saw a mountain temple ahead.
It happened that the rain in the forest was getting heavier and heavier, so this was a good place to take shelter from the rain.
He walked a little faster, almost jogging, and arrived in front of the temple. There were lights flickering in the temple, and the sound of conversation could be heard.
"He must be a pedestrian like me who is traveling at night and takes shelter here from the rain."
Thinking in his mind, Lin Ji bowed his hands at the temple gate.
"It's raining heavily in the forest. Please make a place for us to shelter for a while. We'll leave as soon as the rain stops."
While talking, Lin Ji had already stepped into the mountain temple with one foot.
But when he saw the scene in the temple, his expression suddenly changed.
"This is a lucky coincidence."
"Everyone, how about pretending that I have never been here?"