Hundred Ghosts

He Huai frowned and looked towards the corner of the room, where there was a faint shadow squirming, and Lin Zi walked over holding a candle.

In the corner lay a ghost dressed as a monk, clutching his stomach and rolling around in the corner, looking very painful.

The speeding ghosts were monks whose precepts were broken because of this. They dressed in Buddhist robes and went around for alms, saying that they were healing people's diseases, but in fact they squandered all the money they collected.

This kind of ghost moves like the wind, coming and going without a trace.If you only eat dirty things, you will have a stomachache after eating.Later, because of their fast walking, they were spotted by King Yama, and ordered them to report the news between the gate of hell and the palace of Yama.

It's really good to let it take you away, but there must be mourners or people who are about to die wherever you go.

"Anyway, it's better to go anywhere than here, at worst, roll around in the mass grave." Lin Zi said.

He Huai smiled "hehe", "It's okay, I'll carry you and jump over the corpse."

"The dead are the greatest, don't say that."

In an ancestral hall hundreds of miles away, the incense is very strong, but the offerings are not dried fruit desserts, nor fruits and meat.

But a little baby.

In such a cold day, the child was not wearing a single layer of clothing, his little face was purple, and he was out of breath.

Lin Zi was so shocked that she took off her clothes and wrapped him in her arms, trying to warm him with her own body.

"Don't panic, its soul is still there, and it can be saved. I'll summon his soul and light the everlasting lamp first." He Huai took off two layers of his clothes and covered them.

"Okay." Lin Zi unbuttoned his clothes a little more and squeezed him tighter, his cold body temperature made Lin Zi shiver.

There were a lot of candles in the ancestral hall, He Huai quickly lit the ever-burning lamp, and then he summoned the soul outside the door.

After a while, he saw a little baby crawling around the door, just like the child just now, He Huai waved to him, and carried him in.

The little baby gradually began to breathe, and his complexion became better. After the two of them were relieved, He Huai said, "We can't hold it like this. We should take it to the hospital to have a look."

Lin Zi looked up at the ancestral hall, frowned and said, "I don't know what kind of evil thing is enshrined here, so I have to use children as sacrifices!"

"Come back and talk about it."

The speeding ghost took them to the village in the mountains. Because it was in the mountains, it was very cold here. Lin Zi was shivering from the cold along the way. He and He Huai's warm jackets were used to wrap the children. Cover the child in his arms, for fear that he will suffer from the cold again.

After finally finding the hospital, He Huai hurriedly opened the door, "Doctor, help me!"

"Hey, come here! Who's sick?"

Lin Zi carried the child in, "This, this, I'm almost out of breath, please take a look."

The doctor saw that the baby froze.

"Where did you get them from?"

"In the ancestral hall on the east side of the village."

The doctor waved his hand, "Send him back quickly, otherwise something serious will happen!"

Lin Zi couldn't believe it, "But if you send him back, he will definitely die. You are a doctor, so you can't see if you die or save him!"

He Huai echoed, "What kind of thing is enshrined there? You actually want a child as a sacrifice!"

"Don't talk about it, it will anger the tree god!"

There is a sacred tree to the east of the village head, and the tree is often surrounded by light in the middle of the night. The sacrifices sent there are sometimes eaten, and sometimes they talk to people. Sometimes people in the village pray under the tree and their wishes come true. The tree god is here, and the weather here is smooth every year.

It's just that the tree god didn't bless the villagers suddenly recently. It snowed several times this year, and many animals froze to death, and several elderly people couldn't support themselves and passed away.

The village chief said that this was the result of the tree god's anger, and he must compensate the tree god with better sacrifices, otherwise bigger troubles would arise.

That sacrifice was this little baby.

"This... nonsense! The tree god is probably a ghost!"

He Huai didn't understand, "Will the child's parents have the heart?"

Lin Zi lowered his head, "Actually, not all parents can't bear it."

Thinking that he was an abandoned child, He Huai shut up and touched his shoulder.

"Then what about the child's parents?"

The doctor snorted contemptuously, "His mother doesn't obey women's morals, she was buried in the pond a few days ago, his father...you come here."

When the two of them approached, he whispered, "Oh, his father is probably the son of the village chief!"

The child's mother was extremely beautiful, and her husband was a scholar. He left the village to take the imperial examination in the capital two years ago, but never came back.

The village chief's son had liked her for a long time, and when he saw this situation, he ran to her door to harass her. She resisted in every way, but as a weak woman, there was nothing she could do.

Although she is a victim, it is always said that there are more women in this situation, that her husband hooked up with other men within a few days after his husband left...

The most frightening thing was that her belly grew bigger.

The daughter-in-law of the village chief's son is a shrew who can't stand the sand in her eyes. She throws broken shoes and dirty water in front of her door, scolds her for being shameless, and encourages the whole village to soak her in a pig cage.

At that time, seeing that they were already preparing to make sacrifices to the tree god, she proposed to use her children as sacrifices.

Children should be used for sacrifices, and no family is willing to part with their own children, so a consensus has been reached.

The village chief's son looked tough, but he chose to remain silent on this matter.

After she gave birth to the child half a month ago, everyone sank her into the pond with only one breath left. After raising the child for half a month, today is a good day for offering sacrifices, so they sent him to the ancestral hall.

Lin Zi couldn't help but said, "It's just...a disregard for human life!"

"That's right, but what can we do, I advise you to send him back." The doctor said with a sigh.

"However, if it was really a sacred tree, it wouldn't use humans as sacrifices! Only children with human blood and heads are used when sacrificing to evil gods..."

The doctor rubbed his hands, "Oh, who knows."

Lin Zi fumbled in his bosom and found a piece of jade pendant, "How about this, doctor, please tell me about the child's treatment first, after all, it's a life, and you can't just ignore death in medicine, right... Let's go to hell Look at the tree, if there is a problem, how about we send the child back immediately?"

After receiving the money, the doctor spoke confidently, "Yes, this is what a doctor should do. Don't worry, I will do my best!"

Lin Zi: "..."

The two of them went back to the ancestral hall the same way, and they didn't notice it when they walked in a hurry. They took a closer look at the sacred tree...it was quite ordinary.

The tree is bare, without leaves, and I don't know what species it is. The branches are thin, the kind you can't find in the woods.

Lin Zi stroked his chin thoughtfully, "Speaking of the sacred tree, I suddenly thought of..."

He glanced at He Huai.

He Huai hurriedly waved his hands.

I am not, I am not, how can I be that kind of tree?

"I feel a ghost in the tree...Maybe I know what's going on." He Huai stepped forward and knocked on the trunk.

A hoarse voice came from the tree trunk, "Who is disturbing this god's sleep..."

He Huai sneered, "Lin Zi, go to the ancestral hall and bring the candle, and burn this sneaky one!"

"No, no, no...how can you treat this god like this!" The trunk's voice was a little panicked.

He Huai snorted coldly, "The gods don't use people as sacrifices."

"I was wrong... I was just talking for fun, how dare I use people as sacrifices to harm Yin virtue!"

Lin Zi was also sure what was going on.

It is a tree-dwelling ghost. As the name suggests, this kind of ghost mostly lives in or under trees. It especially likes to hide in trees and do some mysterious things, so that scared fools call him tree god.

However, it does not hurt people. Generally speaking, it is a relatively easy ghost to deal with.

"Then what happened recently?"

It said in a muffled voice, "It's just that it's cold this year... I'm just a little ghost, can I turn things around?"

"I mean the kid."

"The child was sent by them themselves, I didn't want it!"

"Lin Zi, bring the fire!"

"I said, I said... I was really wronged. I usually eat incense. I can eat a few sacrifices at most to beat the teeth. It was the shrew who insisted that I want a child as a sacrifice and stuffed it on the table. !"

Lin Zi breathed a sigh of relief, "Forget it, as long as it's not some evil spirit, don't do such tricky things in the future."

The ghosts who live under the tree say yes again and again.

After meeting so many ghosts, and seeing such a cowardly and easy-to-talk for the first time, Lin Zi had nothing to say.

"Forget it, go back."

Fortunately, he came back early, and when he came back, he ran into a group of people surrounding the medical center, and the one who fed him was a fat woman who looked aggressive.

I don't know how many people saw them on the way to send the baby to the hospital, and they all said in front of this woman that she immediately came over to block them.

"Those two foreigners are ignorant, are you ignorant, Doctor Liu? Send that child back quickly, if you offend the tree god, we will have good fruit to eat!"

The old doctor was a little at a loss while holding the child, but it was a life anyway, and he saved it by himself, so there was no reason to send it back.

"The tree god probably wouldn't like to eat people. This kid managed to save his life, so just let him go!"

"Are you a tree god? If you anger the tree god and condemn the whole village, you can afford it..."

"It's nothing to do with the child, just now the tree god said that it only eats incense, and this kind of sacrifice also damages its morality, which is very bad for its cultivation." After walking such a long way, Lin Zi felt his legs ache again Get up, walk into the medical hall and find a chair to sit down.

She looked a little panicked, "What evidence do you have?"

"The tree god told me that himself."

"There's no evidence for what you say. Who knows if the tree god talked to you, a foreigner... The tree god clearly said that he wanted a child to beat his teeth."

"Similarly, you also say that there is no basis for it. Who knows if the tree god said that all you need is incense." Lin Zi replied calmly.

"you!"

"This year's climate is a bit colder, but it's not just your place. The capital city and frontier fortress are already doing well here, but it's a bit colder. In some places, the ice and snow haven't melted yet." Lin Zi continued, "You guys Is the tree god so powerful? Can he control the climate? How can you prevent your village from being as warm as spring all year round?"

"Yes," He Huai agreed, "If I had that ability, I would have done it a long time ago. Look at its bare branches...it's so ugly."

"What does it matter to you outsiders?" She became a little annoyed, "That child is a sacrifice, just send it back!"

Lin Zi picked up the child from Dr. Liu's hands, his face had returned to its original color, he was very thin, other people's children were chubby like a young man, and he was as thin as a little monkey.

Even if you don't use him as a sacrifice, you won't live long.

He Huai couldn't stand it, and said in a cold voice, "It's a life anyway, why do you have to force it so hard? It's your husband's fault. You love your husband very much, and you couldn't bear to lose your temper with him, so you vented your anger on this poor mother and son." How innocent are they?"

It seemed that her arrogance dissipated all of a sudden. It was a "secret" that everyone knew and the world knew, but she was suddenly picked away like this...

I can't even lie to myself.

Her eyes were red when she stared at the child. He is the flesh and blood of her husband, but not hers... How can you let go of this tone?

"Think about it again, your husband likes that woman so much, why doesn't he just watch her fall into the pond? No matter how you say it, this child is his own flesh and blood, and he is not allowed to be spoiled by you. However, dare you say that all of this is Because I love you?" Of course not for myself.

She is still very self-aware.

She walked away with a desolate expression, her back seemed to have aged many years, and the people who came with her also left with her.

Lin Zi let out a breath and said, "It's a good thing you can say it, otherwise we'd have to take this kid to the fore!"