The uncle borrowed some merits, and the princess drew the talisman fiercely

"Here, plug your nose with this. It's freshly pulled out cotton and isn't very dirty."

Lu Yuan also tore off a small ball and handed it to Lu Zhaoling.

The smell in here is really bad.

But Lu Zhaoling didn't take it, she just took out the veil and put it on.

"No, I'll leave it like this."

"Auntie, do you still think it's dirty?"

Lu Zhaoling held back and said, "Why don't you just call me Big Sister? It will make me look younger. What do you think?"

Lu Yuan looked at her.

"alright."

He muttered, "You're already this old and still fussing about age. How different can my elder sister and aunt be?"

He was only sixteen, and she looked to be in her early thirties. What was wrong with calling her aunt? But, let her be. If she wanted to be the eldest sister, she could be the eldest sister.

"It's hard to breathe with cotton stuffed in it."

Lu Zhaoling explained.

"Then don't say it stinks later."

Entering the village means avoiding the other soldiers guarding the village. After all, other people will never come in unless there is something important.

"Are the bodies here really not rotten?" Lu Zhaoling asked.

"Not yet."

Lu Yuan still lowered his voice. As soon as he walked into the village, he felt a chill rising from the soles of his feet. He felt creepy and uncomfortable all over.

"Let me tell you, there's a lot of mineral powder sprinkled on it, plus it's cold, so it doesn't seem to be rotting for now. But I don't think it will last much longer. If it hadn't snowed a while ago, the smell would probably be even worse now."

When he finished speaking, Lu Zhaoling had already seen the situation in the village.

Broken tiles and ruins show signs of burning everywhere.

Although it was covered with a thin layer of snow, the dried blood could still be seen.

This village is actually not small, but it is poor and remote, and the houses are low and dilapidated, and many parts have been repaired.

As soon as she walked in, she seemed to hear a terrified cry or scream, from the old and young, women and children, all of them sad.

Snowflakes are falling.

There was also the sound of hurried horse hooves, the arrogant shouts and wild laughter of the bandits.

The sound suppressed the cries and screams.

There seemed to be a fire in front of my eyes, burning my vision. The waving swords, the thrusting swords, the raised horse hooves, the grim faces.

Scene by scene, bit by bit, it seems to be replayed.

Before Lu Zhaoling entered the village, he was holding a talisman in his hand.

At this moment, she had already experienced the tragic scene in Cuosha Village, and her whole body began to feel cold. She rubbed her fingers together, lit the talisman, and passed it in front of her eyes.

Everything returned to silence.

The ruined, dead village appeared before my eyes.

Lu Yuan was shocked when he saw the talisman she had just burned between her fingers.

He stared at her fingers with wide eyes.

"Sister, you..."

The talisman burned completely between her fingers, but her hands were not burned?

"No pain?"

Lu Zhaoling calmed himself down.

"No pain."

"Is that a talisman? You came prepared, right? Where did you get the talisman?"

Lu Yuan didn't think that this talisman might have been drawn by Lu Zhaoling herself. He thought she knew she was coming to such a place and made preparations early.

However, after Lu Zhaoling burned this talisman, he did feel a little more at ease, but he didn't know if it was a psychological effect.

"Well, you must be well prepared." Lu Zhaoling replied to him without saying where his talisman came from.

"Anything else? Otherwise, burn two more talismans. I think it will be helpful." Lu Yuan said.

"Do you feel cold?" Lu Zhaoling glanced at him.

After entering the village, the ghostly aura that was lingering on him became clearer. This time, a human figure could be seen, and it was tightly attached to Lu Yuan's back.

After leaving the village and getting a little further away from the confinement, the corpse was isolated by the talisman array, and the ghost energy was weaker. But once I returned to the village, the ghost suddenly became much more solid.

Lu Yuan must have felt it, and he must be feeling very cold now.

"How do you know?" Lu Yuan was actually wearing a very thick military jacket, much thicker than Lu Zhaoling, but he always felt that Lu Zhaoling was not cold at all. Unlike him, his neck was shrunk into the collar and he even wanted to tuck his head in.

"You can see it."

Lu Zhaoling didn't think about pulling the ghost off his back first, because there were some causes and effects, and she had to deal with the other party's obsession first, otherwise she would have to carry it with her.

"Do you have any more talismans?" Lu Yuan asked again.

"Yes, but it would be a waste to use it now. Let's find the body you collected first."

"Over there, over there."

Lu Yuan also wanted to deal with this matter quickly, so he quickened his pace and led her to a pit in front.

"It seems that the village originally wanted to dig this pit to build an altar," Lu Yuan explained to her in a low voice, "Cuosha Village was talking about building an altar a year ago. I heard about it when I first joined the army."

"It's not completed in a year?" Lu Zhaoling asked.

"No, they need to prepare a lot of stones, those that need to be chiseled flat. Also, they need to ask villagers outside to donate some silver, so they have been preparing."

At this point, Lu Yuan sighed again, "At that time, there was another buddy in our army who was from this Cuosha Village. He came back to help prepare for the construction of the altar, and ended up encountering the massacre of the village."

"Dead too?"

"Yes, I found his body last time I came here. He was covered in wounds. He must have resisted, so his injuries were very serious. I also collected his body and placed it with his grandfather."

Lu Zhaoling was silent for a moment, "What's that person's name?"

"We all called him Brother Frog, because I had just joined the army at that time and didn't know him very well, so I didn't know his full name."

The old soldiers called this Frog Brother because he had big, bulging eyes and a round face. Newcomers like them just called him Frog Brother to be polite.

"Is he a man of blood?" When Lu Zhaoling heard that the other party had resisted and died with wounds all over his body, he felt that Frog Brother should not be a coward.

"Yes, Brother Frog is a pretty nice person." Lu Yuan became quite depressed again when he said this.

Lu Zhaoling had an idea.

If she wanted to find someone to question, it would naturally be best to find this Frog Brother.

As a soldier, you may discover more details.

She called Madam Sheng San over, but she did not show up so as not to scare Lu Yuan.

Lu Zhaoling lagged behind Lu Yuan by a few steps and whispered to Madam Sheng San, "Go find the soul of the frog brother he mentioned."

"This village is very strange. I don't know where the ghosts have gone." Madam Sheng San said, "I haven't seen a single ghost yet."

"Let's look for it again."

"Okay." Madam Sheng San floated out again.

"What are you talking about?" Lu Yuan took a few steps and found that Lu Zhaoling had not caught up with him, so he quickly turned back to find her.

"coming."

Lu Zhaoling had already seen the pit.