I don’t know who wrote this letter. The paper is yellow and the handwriting is messy. It has obviously been a while. I don’t know what was written on the letter. Anyway, after Zheng Kexiu read it, he sat on the stone bench and was in a daze for a long time.
Yes, he was indeed in a daze.
I sat quietly beside him, not daring to speak, but secretly guessing about Zheng Kexiu's character.
Logically speaking, he belongs to the category of golden corpses and is not considered a living person. But he was formed after the death of an exorcist, and his mind should be upright. There are many examples like him. Tie Sanchuan, the ancestor of the Shandong Tie family
, that is, after death, the corpse becomes an immortal and becomes a corpse immortal. Although it is not considered a living person, it can still act chivalrously and exorcise ghosts and evil spirits.
The most important thing is that although the soul-destroying cat devours powerful ghosts, it never attacks the lonely ghosts who have no resentment. From this point of view alone, Zheng Kexiu is not considered a demon.
But he said that he was stunned for a while, then turned to me and said: "You want to ask me for help?"
I nodded hurriedly and said, "Senior, please extend your generous hand!"
Zheng Kexiu said: "What do you want me to help you with?"
I took a deep breath and said, "I wonder if seniors have heard of the four things?"
"The living have no evil thoughts, and the dead have no resentment. Yin and Yang coexist, and the sun and the moon have no light!"
As soon as I said these four sentences, I noticed that Zheng Kexiu's eyes were filled with golden light, and even the mask on his face was faintly glowing with gold. This vision scared me, but I forced myself to sit still.
I bit the bullet and said, "I want to complete these four things, but I have no clue. My boss said that I could get some inspiration by coming to Kashgar to see you, so I traveled thousands of miles to find you."
While talking, I took out the ghost tears from my bag, handed them over respectfully, and said, "This is the ghost tears that I got by chance as a reward for my seniors."
Zheng Kexiu didn't even look at Ghost Tears, but looked at me carefully. He looked at me for several minutes, until all the hairs on my body stood up, and then he said softly: "Are you sure you want to do these four things?
"
If Xi Buyu hadn't threatened to die, I wouldn't have wanted to meddle in this nosy matter at all! But now that it has happened, I can only bite the bullet and do it.
So I bowed my head slightly: "Yes, please let me know, senior."
Zheng Kexiu pushed Ghost Tears to me and said: "I don't need any external things. If you do one thing for me, I will tell you how to do these four things!"
I was stunned for a moment and said, "What does senior want me to do?"
Zheng Kexiu said: "Thirty kilometers northwest of Wuqia County, there is a red hill. Because it looks like a closed eye, I call it Hongmu Mountain."
"At the foot of Hongmu Mountain, there are jagged rocks, all formed by years of erosion by wind and sand. There is a ghost market hidden in those rocks."
I recalled carefully that Wuqia County is the westernmost county in Kashgar. Thirty kilometers further to the northwest, the county is basically at the border between China and Kyrgyzstan.
Because I didn’t open the map, I couldn’t tell whether the Hongmu Mountain was in China or Kyrgyzstan.
Seeing that I was listening seriously, Zheng Kexiu continued: "That ghost market has existed for a long time. No one knows exactly how far back it goes. In the ghost market, I need you to get something back."
I frowned and said, "What do you need, senior?"
Zheng Kexiu shook his head: "I don't need this thing, but you need it."
After a pause, he added: "That thing is a gourd, about the size of a palm. The material is neither gold nor iron nor wood. If you touch it, you can feel half warm and half cold."
"This gourd is hidden underground and should be the foundation for the formation of the ghost market. Without the gourd, this ghost market would not exist. But too much time has passed and the current ghost market managers no longer know about it. They
Just treat the gourd like an ordinary exorcism item."
"What you have to do is bring this gourd back. Whether you do it through normal transactions, deception, or even theft and robbery. As long as I see this gourd, I will tell you how to complete those four things!"
I remain calm on the surface, but my mind is spinning rapidly. I have seen a lot of ghost markets, and most of them are places with special terrain where the ghost gathers.
The lonely ghosts wandering in the Yang world like to live in this kind of place. Over time, when the number of ghosts gathered reaches a certain level, a ghost market will form.
Ghost merchants and wanted criminals on the murder list like this kind of ghost market the most. Because there are few rules in the ghost market, basically whoever has the bigger fist is the boss.
Moreover, there are many good things here, and the prices are much cheaper than those at ghost merchants in China. As long as you are willing to visit a few ghost markets, you can buy anything.
The only disadvantage is that the ghost market does not exist for a long time. A ghost market, ranging from seven to eight days to several months, will exhaust the local Yin energy and tend to dissipate.
But it is incredible that the ghost market at the foot of Hongmu Mountain can exist for such a long time. But what exactly is that gourd? It seems that it is not even recorded in the Yin and Yang chapter of Zhenxie Notes!
Zheng Kexiu saw me meditating there and said: "That place is very dangerous. If you go in with your ability, the mortality rate will be very high. Once you die, the three souls and seven souls will stay in the ghost market forever. You must
Think it through."
I said: "Senior, is that gourd important to the four things I mentioned?"
Zheng Kexiu nodded: "It's very important. This thing is even the main reason why I am stranded in Kashgar!"
I asked again: "You are many times more capable than me. Why can't you go get it in person?"
I have to ask clearly about this matter. Who is Zheng Kexiu? The number one warlock in the Song Dynasty. With his ability, he can just come and go in a ghost market. Since he wants it, why doesn't he go and get it himself?
Zheng Kexiu glanced at me appreciatively and said, "I'm waiting for the owner of the gourd. Only he can take away the gourd."
I was dumbfounded. Could it be that the owner of the gourd was me? Or... Tianzi? In that case, wouldn't it mean that the gourd was from thousands of years ago?
Grandma's gourds from thousands of years ago are almost fossilized by now, aren't they?
Seeing my stunned expression, Zheng Kexiu said calmly: "I don't know if you are the owner of the gourd, but I know that I am definitely not. So I have been waiting for him in Kashgar City. What do you think? Do you dare to try it?"
I saw his playful expression, and suddenly I felt angry. Is this guy asking me to get the gourd to be fake, but testing me is the real thing, right? A gourd is not an intelligent little animal, could it be possible that it also has legs? No.
The master won’t follow?
An excuse?
I'm a little helpless. Regardless of whether it's an excuse or not, I'm here to beg him after all. Since he asked this question, we have to continue. Otherwise, we can only go home in despair.
So I thought for a moment and said decisively: "Okay! I'll go get that gourd!"
Seeing my promise, Zheng Kexiu said loudly: "Little soul! Give me the ghost market map!"
The soul-destroying cat came out of the house with a squeak, holding a bound book in its mouth.
The soul-destroying cat was very sensitive to my senses. After putting the map on the table, he meowed at me. I knew that this guy was very intelligent, so I hurriedly said: "Thank you, Brother Cat."
Zheng Kexiu said: "The emperor has no shortage of hungry soldiers. This information is the ghost market intelligence that I spent three years collecting. It includes the managers of the ghost market, the rules that outsiders need to abide by, and some evil spirits who have been avoiding trouble all year round.
There are records of people's evil spirits. The matter is related to your own life, so you should watch it carefully and don't be careless."
I took the brochure from the table, lowered my head, opened it, and flipped through it. I found that in addition to the clean handwriting, there were also some simple sketches on it.
Although it is a simple painting, the mountains, rivers, and terrain are completely presented in the painting. The Hongmu Mountain in the center is painted red, which makes it particularly eye-catching on the painting paper.
This is the destination I'm going to.
I carefully read page after page, and then kept it in my mind. Who would have thought that while reading this, I would lose track of time. It was not until it was getting brighter that I suddenly woke up. It turned out that it was already dawn without knowing it.