Shengjing Conspiracy

Rural villages, rice paddies trails.

Yang Su and Heizi had already walked through three villages. At this time, they stopped in front of the farmer who was carrying a hoe and was about to go home. Yang Su, who had aspired to be a small official and was extremely friendly, walked up, smiling cutely. And docile, "Master, we are travelers passing by, can I have an excuse to drink water?" As he spoke, he poured out his own water bag, and a thin drop of water fell on the ground, leaving no watermark.

The farmer looked like he was in his 50s, and his back was a little hunched. Seeing that Yang Su was fair and clean, although the people following him looked cold, he subconsciously felt that the two of them were not bad people, so he nodded and led them towards his home. go.

With his hands behind his back, Yang Su secretly made a triumphant gesture to Heizi, and the man who looked cold but dull followed.

The farmer led them into their small courtyard, pointed to the water bag in Yang Su's hand, "give it to me, I'll fetch water for you, and you sit here for a while."

"It's troublesome." Yang Su pulled Heizi to sit down, and the farmer came back in a short while, and handed the water bag to Yang Su, Yang Su took it and gulped a few mouthfuls for Heizi, who held it up and continued. drink.

Yang Su wiped his mouth, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said as if unintentionally: "You are so kind, sir, you don't know, we didn't meet anyone on the way, I even suspected that I was in a ghost fight." I met a few later, but they were going to rob us of our money at the beginning, and if they didn’t run fast, they would have confessed.”

What Yang Su said here was half-truth and half-false. They did meet bandit-like people, but they were all knocked down by Heizi several times, and they never met Yang Su at all.

It is amazing to say that Yang Su is not young, maybe because he was born with a baby face, he is already 26, but he still looks like a young man in his early twenties.

The farmer saw that he looked amused by how scared I was, smiled and shook his head, and said in a low voice: "The farmers you met are not my kind of farmers, those are bandits from other hills. Wander here and rob houses."

"Bandits?" Yang Su pretended to be dumbfounded, "Master, aren't you afraid? Why don't you report to the officials? I saw soldiers walking through the mountains."

This is purely made up to deceive farmers.

"Those are not our soldiers, those are the soldiers of the mountain ghost." The farmer explained.

"Mountain ghost? We have traveled all over the world to do business, and we have seen a lot of things in the world. We have been to Kunshan County a few times, but we have never heard of this mountain ghost." Yang Su said.

"It's normal if you don't know. The mountain ghost appeared suddenly recently. You outsiders may not know it. The mountain ghost has been making a lot of trouble recently before letting outsiders know." The farmer pulled down the cloth scarf on his shoulders. Wiping his face, "Look, are there any empty courtyards near me? They are all mountain ghosts now."

Yang Su looked around and found that there were indeed several empties. When the wind blew, the broken back basket turned over a few times, exposing a big hole facing the sky.

"After walking so far, what did the mountain ghost use to lure them away?" Yang Su looked curious about the baby.

The farmer waved his hand and gestured with his hand, "Just played the flute, I glanced at it from a distance, and those people followed the mountain ghost as if under a curse."

"Flute?"

"I don't know for sure. Those people followed the flute like a demon, and they couldn't stop them. The elderly and children in the family left together." The farmer wiped his face again as he said.

Being possessed by a demon sounds more like being possessed by something that can confuse the mind. Yang Su has already guessed that these are Jiuli's methods.

As Yang Su recalled, he looked at the farmer and said, "Then you are not affected, sir?"

"Yeah, maybe it's because I don't care about the old man when I'm old." The farmer smiled shyly and honestly, "It's okay not to go, but the mountain ghost is so demon-like, it's not a serious place at first glance, maybe it's still a place Rebels or something, we can't join in the fun."

Yang Su and Heizi bid farewell to the farmer and continued on to the next farmhouse. As the sun set, they saw the smoke curling up in the distance.

"It seems that there are several families." Yang Su murmured, and Heizi followed silently, like a pendant.

"Grandma, are you alone?"

Under the setting sun, Yang Su looked at the old lady who came to open the door for them and smiled.

The old lady stared at him for a long time, tears suddenly appeared in her cloudy eyes, and Yang Su was taken aback.

"Cai Zai, come back." The old lady burst into tears suddenly, Yang Su was completely flustered, and hurriedly helped the old lady into the room and sat down.

"Grandma, don't cry, don't cry, you're back, isn't this back?" Yang Su said as the old lady said, for fear that the old lady would continue to cry.

The old lady wiped her eyes, "Zai Zai, you have been away for a few days, why did you come back!"

"I was dragged by things, it's okay, it's okay." Yang Su was relieved to see that the old lady finally stopped crying.

After crying enough, the old lady raised her head to look at Yang Su, and at the same time saw Heizi behind Yang Su, and realized that these two were not the cubs she was waiting for.

"Who are you?" The old lady let go of Yang Su's hand, alert.

"Grandma, don't be afraid. We are not bad people. We were sent by the capital to investigate mountain ghosts." Yang Su didn't say he was a businessman like he said to the farmers before, but directly explained the purpose. After all, he was wary of living alone at home. For the elderly Gao, the status of an official is more reliable and trustworthy.

"The capital is here to investigate the mountain ghosts?!" Granny suddenly knelt on the ground, and Yang Su's face turned pale.

The two hurriedly helped him up, and Yang Su was about to cry, "Grandma, don't do this, isn't your life ruining us!"

"Oh, yes, yes, no, I beg you, grandma, you must investigate that mountain ghost and save my cub!" The old lady began to cry again.

"Grandma, is the cub you're talking about your son?"

"Yes, my son was deceived by that mountain ghost and never came back." The old lady grieved, "They were playing the flute at the entrance of the village, and my son followed the devil for some reason. He also wanted to take us away, and in the end, only a few old things that couldn't be taken away were left here waiting to die."

Bang!

Yang Su slapped the table hard. He has always been a good-tempered person. When threatened by Jiuli, he was just sad and not angry, but now he is really angry.

The reason is very simple, Yang Su couldn't imagine, if he and Heizi hadn't come here today, hadn't seen this old man, what would have been waiting for them.

Maybe they can live on the only food around them, but after the food is gone, there will only be a few starving corpses left here, and they didn't even wait for their children to go home when they were dying. Desolate and miserable.

In Yang Su's view, the mountain ghost, or Jiuli, was the mastermind behind the plot of Jiuli's case!

"Grandma, don't worry, your son will be back soon." Yang Su said with suppressed anger.

"Thank you, thank you!" The old lady cried like a tearful person, Yang Su felt uncomfortable, but there was nothing he could do, Jiuli was like a ghost hiding in the mountains, without a trace, they could only watch, But nothing can be done.

Walking out of the village, Yang Su's face was still very solemn. There were only old people left in this village, and all the young people were taken away to serve as soldiers of the Raoshizi Mountain Ghost. Then it can be inferred that Jiuli has hidden a powerful force in this mountain. The army, and a group of "zombie"-like monsters.

"Which kind of monster is this Jiuli, planning so many things." Yang Su sighed while thinking.

Hei Zimu followed him in a daze, and suddenly stopped while walking, and Yang Su also stopped to look at him.

Just as the two of them stopped, a few ragged and strong men suddenly appeared in front of the road, holding rusty weapons in their hands, and facing them fiercely, "Hey! I planted this tree, and I drove this road. If you want to -"

"Heizi, beat him up."

Yang Su didn't bother to watch the bandits, so he ordered Heizi to beat them up. In a few moments, those strong men fell to the ground wailing.

"Which mountain are you from?"

The bandits never expected that the people they stopped casually would be so hard-headed. At this moment, their intestines were green with regret. Facing Yang Su's handsome appearance, they wanted to be stubborn but dared not keep silent, so they could only stammer and say that they were the fish next door. on the mountain.

"Yushan?" Yang Su rubbed his chin, thought to himself, isn't that on the Dingfa Temple mountain, and asked again: "Then why did you come here and look so shabby?"

The bandits saw Yang Su kicking their weapons away in disgust, and felt sad, this was humiliating them!

"Scholars can be killed and cannot be humiliated!" The bandit roared angrily, and before he could say another sentence, he kicked Heizi again, sobbing: "We don't want to either, the damned Jiuli took all our brothers away, just I'm the only ones left to survive."

Yang Su raised his eyebrows slightly, "Do you know Jiuli?"

The bandit didn't feel anything wrong, "It's not that group of people who took our brothers away, and even took our lair, so we can only escape here and hide."

These bandits are useful.

Yang Su took out a bundle of rope from his waist, and together with Heizi tied up several people, "I'm here to investigate the Jiuli case, you go back with me to cooperate with the investigation, and you will be rewarded for your merits, and I will find you when the case is over." A good place to stay."

The bandits all looked at him with wide eyes, they didn't expect such a good thing to happen after being beaten up, and they cried even more after hearing this after they had been starving and freezing for several days.

After all, if they could have a peaceful life, who would want to be a bandit who didn't finish their meal? Yang Su was no different from their reborn parents at this time.

Yang Su walked in front, followed by a group of bandit sunspots, and the group said as they walked, it was precisely the bandits who unilaterally described the changes in Kunshan County.

For example, there are not a few bandits like them who were chased away by Jiuli. The outskirts of Kunshan County have been occupied by bandits, and the situation is not good.

"I have to go back and tell Tan Ya and the others as soon as possible." Yang Su thought about what he saw along the way and asked, but he didn't notice when Hei Zi stopped, and stared at Lin Zi in a daze.

As Yang Su walked, he found that the movement behind him had stopped. He looked back and found Heizi in a daze. He was puzzled, "Heizi?"

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sharp whistle in the woods, and Heizi seemed to be stimulated by something, he threw down the rope holding the bandit in his hand and rushed towards the woods.

"Heizi!" Yang Su was stunned for a moment, thinking of the flute sound that the farmer said could control people, he didn't care about the bandits, and followed Heizi into the forest.