meow

After the city gate was closed, merchants in the East and West Markets also suspended their purchases, and no one walked the road near Heyuan.Pickle lay on the tree and waited for a long time, but it didn't wait for its mother to come. In the end, hunger overcame its fear. It stood up staggeringly, hooked the bark of its hind legs, and moved down tentatively.But for today's pickles, a tree more than two meters high is like a cliff thousands of feet high. Whenever it lowers its head down, the courage it has accumulated with great difficulty disappears. Claw Claw, I want to go back again...

Clap!

The bark hooked by the hind paws made a sound of falling. After all, the long-dried tree could not support the cat's weight, and the pickles were caught off guard to prevent their heads from falling. "Meow meow meow!" While falling, Pickle waved the cat's claws wildly, trying to stabilize his body by relying on the tree trunk again,

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" the cat's instincts allowed the pickled vegetables to stretch out and land on the ground smoothly with the help of the tree trunk.But what happened just now still had a big impact on the pampered pickle, it shrugged its tail away from the old tree, and ran towards the grass.Because of its greedy mouth, it lost its mother's pickles, and couldn't find its way home, so it could only run in the direction of the fishy smell.

In the Heian period, wind burials were carried out. After death, relatives would take them across the Kamogawa River, and they would not be buried, but the corpses would be left in the burial ground.However, there are also some people who are lazy and will directly discard the corpses on the way or even Kamogawa Hanoi.For hungry animals, those unburied corpses are food, so wild dogs are always indispensable in Kawara's generation, which also frightened the passing pickles to raise their hairs.

Kamogawa just flooded a few days ago, and there are still many washed-up bones left by the river. The animals know the danger and will not approach it during the flood season, but Cai Cai knows nothing about the threat to nature. After smelling the fishy smell in the river, they stepped ashore, leaving cat's feet flowers on the sand.

"Meow."

The dried shrimps jumping on the gravel caught Pickle's attention. The kitten put up its ears and ran towards it cheerfully. Just after taking two steps, a pair of hands stretched out and hugged Pickle in its arms.Touching the cat's head with long, white fingers, the visitor said softly, "Don't go forward." Then, she stepped on it lightly, and the shallow water slope in front collapsed and was instantly swallowed by the river.

The seemingly flat land has actually been hollowed out by water long ago, and if you get close to it, it may be directly brought into the vortex, and it will be difficult for the gods to come back.Pickle was held in his arms, and he didn't know what happened, but just looked at the rolling water with his small ears up.

The one who rescued Pickle was a woman with white hair and green eyes. She had an appearance that was clearly different from ordinary people. She walked on the bank softened by the river without leaving any footprints.As soon as he returned to a safe place with the pickles, a skinny yellow dog rushed out from the grass, the woman stopped when she saw this, put the pickles on the ground, and said: "Okay, I'll wait here to pick you up people."

The yellow dog leaning on the woman's feet was so thin that the ribs could be seen, and it was not as vicious and crazy as the one that Pickle had seen before. Even so, Cai Cai, who had suffered a lot today, shrank her head in fear and retreated to the corner. Realizing that there are invisible walls restricting its range of activities, it can only threaten the yellow dog viciously with its teeth bared, but the retracted tail reveals its sternness.

Unlike pickles, the yellow dog flicked its tail excitedly, and said friendly: [Hello, kitten! ]

It doesn't growl at itself, and there is no smell on its body. Pickle's stretched ears trembled, and its front paws looked at it together.

[My master has gone to work, we will have a house to live in when he comes back! ] The thin yellow dog didn't seem to feel the repulsion from the pickles, it continued: [Little cat, are you too? ]

Pickles couldn't understand what the yellow dog said, and didn't want to pay attention to it.

It's waiting for its mother here.

...

The main hall of the Tzu Chi Institute has been in disrepair for a long time, and the stairs connecting the upper floors are loose. Wang Ye did not continue to go up, but went directly to the backyard through the corridor.Zuo Wei followed closely behind him, and said, "This is not good. According to the location, this place should be a residence for women..."

"The Tzu Chi was built by the Miyashiki family to accommodate refugees. The main hall in the front is used to receive nobles who pretend to be kind, and behind it is an ordinary private house. Unlike the noble mansion, it will not be divided into too much detail. As Ye Wang said, there are rows of low houses behind the luxurious main hall, which pay more attention to practicality than aesthetics. Although each house is small in size, it can accommodate hundreds of people to shelter from wind and rain.

"Pretentious... Ye Wang, I think you are a bit extreme." Zuo Wei wiped his sweat.

Ye Wang didn't refute, but just pursed the corners of his mouth.

But just as Ye Wang said, when Tzu Chi was first established, nobles often came to visit to show their kindness, but the money given out was far less than what the Ubuyashiki family spent to receive them.Later, the epidemic spread, even if these refugees were not infected, the nobles still asked the emperor to force the maternity house to expel the civilians in the name of the filth of the civilians.The so-called kindness of these people is simply a joke.

Noticing Ye Wang's expression, Gu Zong said: [It was also burdened by the refugees. At that time, the Ubuyashiki family left the center of power in Kyoto, and the second son of the patriarch became the governor of Shima Kingdom, and resettled the expelled refugees in Shima. ] In this world, there are not only wicked people.

Looking down at Gu Zong, compared to perfunctory Zuo Wei, Ye Wang said with a smile: "I see."

Zuo Wei shivered, rubbed his arms and said, "King Ye, who are you talking to?"

"It's nothing." In order to divert the attention of Zuo Wei, who was afraid of ghosts, Wang Ye jumped directly from the dilapidated corridor and entered the house that was once full of refugees.To his surprise, compared to the front yard, the houses at the back seemed to be still inhabited. Although they were old, they were cleaned up very cleanly, even the weeds in the yard were carefully cleared.

The stock sect followed behind, and after Zuo Wei got down safely, he followed in Ye Wang's footsteps and sorted out the information reports he had found out: [Some time ago, a nobleman recruited beggars from outside the city to clean the courtyard, and those who were quick with their hands and feet could be confiscated. To be a servant.It's just that I don't know the whereabouts of those people, and I can't be sure whether they came to clean this place. ]

"It doesn't matter anymore." Ye Wang stretched out his hand and slid it in the void, and was blocked by the invisible barrier. He withdrew his hand and turned around and said, "Fujiwara Sawei, you stay here." "What?" Zuowei went up in a daze He took a step forward, but his right foot was tripped by a cloth towel that suddenly appeared, and he fell to one side unsteadily, and before Ye Wang and Gu Zong could help, his whole body was swallowed by the barrier.

"Master Zuo Wei?!" Gu Zong was shocked, and walked to the place where Zuo Wei disappeared, but the entrance to the enchantment had already been closed.It has come here to investigate several times, but has not found any enchantment. Could it be that what it saw before were all illusions?

"Don't worry, Stock Sect." Wang Ye raised his hand to cover the barrier with a calm expression.The enchantment that made Gu Zong return without success several times appeared under his hands, bursting out bright red scars, extending and cracking like spider webs, and also overflowing with strong demonic energy.The power that formed the enchantment didn't seem to admit defeat. It struggled and squirmed in Ye Wang's hands, and the ghost energy inside also expanded, forming an air vortex several meters high, stretching outwards, as if it wanted to swallow Ye Wang eat.Seeing this scene, Gu Zong drew his knife to shatter the overflowing demonic energy, and guarded nervously beside Ye Wang.

"Stock Sect." Ye Wang shouted.

"exist."

"Don't waste the witch power I gave you." After Ye Wang finished speaking, he squeezed his palms together fiercely, and the barrier that was struggling just now shattered into thousands of crystals of demonic energy, revealing the true appearance of Tzu Chi.This piece of land used to accommodate refugees has been polluted by evil spirits into a haunted area where sunlight cannot penetrate. The huts are looming in the black atmosphere, like a hell house, full of ghosts.

Nothing more than that.

Ye Wang withdrew his hand, and didn't even change his breath.

The enchantment was forcibly broken, and Guzong released the super spirit state, stood beside Ye Wang and said, "This is... is someone raising ghosts?" Onmyoji will use monsters as their shikigami, but there are also people who don't. Feel free to subdue monsters, and cultivate monsters by yourself.However, because this kind of method is usually too cruel, it is not tolerated by the underworld, and it has long been banned by Yinyang Liao.

As if responding to the stock sect's question, the doors of hundreds of rooms opened together, and then the ghosts who had become ghosts walked out.They still maintain the same appearance as before, with fresh smiles on their gray faces and eyes full of expectations for future life.They just walked in front of Ye Wang and Gu Zong, and they could even hear their conversation.

[The nobleman said that we can live here after cleaning. ]

[In the future, there will be a place to shelter from the wind and rain, which is great.I have no relatives, so I brought back the dog I had raised for several years when I went out this time. ]

[Yeah, I already picked up my wife and daughter, now go pick up my brother. ]

Listening to their conversation, the stock sect couldn't help but focus on the person who said he brought his wife and daughter back. His wife and daughter were indeed walking behind him, but like him, they were no longer alive, gray and pale. face, walking behind with blank eyes.

Stock Zong gasped, holding his breath in disbelief.It recognized them. They were the mother and daughter who died of weakness after being infected with facial sores.Suddenly realizing the truth, Gu Zong hurriedly said: "Please stop them Lord Ye Wang!!"

These people have already died, and their souls are trapped in this enchantment. They forget the fact that they are dead, and only want to live a good life, and eagerly want to share it with their families.But in fact, what they bring to their families are facial sores that suck life force, and people who have been in contact with ghosts also lose their lives and become members of this gu basin.

At this moment, the stock sect didn't know whether to let these ghosts stay in their happy time, or to shatter the illusion and bring everything back on track.