seven relics

Qu Jiuchuan turned his head to look at him, and burst out laughing again.Lian Jiangyue said: "If you want to leave, it's okay for me to come down with Lianwu and look for it myself. It's very trustworthy for you to send me and him here."

Qu Jiuchuan glared at him: "No way! Whatever I say, I have to go to the Que Que Temple to have a look. Is it true that I can be cremated there?" His eyes narrowed slightly, "Let's talk , if you suffer from shortness of breath, you may not even be able to walk, besides, here is a desolate country, dense fog and heavy dew, where can I go?"

After saying that, Qu Jiuchuan sighed up to the sky, but the voice contained more relief than helplessness. Then, he did a few stretching movements, returned to the car, and sat in the driver's seat.He put the phone on the support frame beside the steering wheel, poked the screen a few times, and asked, "My phone has no signal, what about yours?"

There was no signal on Lian Jiangyue's mobile phone. At this time, the sound of chanting Buddha from the loudspeaker was not very coherent, and there was a murmur of Shashalala from time to time in the Dharma music.

Qu Jiuchuan patted the steering wheel, and said loudly, "Anyway, just go north! Where does the sun come from, and the north is still in front of us!"

He put the handbrake down, started the car, and their funeral van, carrying the two of them and the dead body, continued north.

The wind blowing in from the window brought a little coolness. Lian Jiangyue was sensitive to temperature and couldn't stand the cold, so she hurriedly rolled up the window, wrapped her coat tightly, and sat with her shoulders hunched.Qu Jiuchuan suddenly asked, "Hey, what do you do?"

The two met eyes in the rearview mirror of the car. A pair of smiling eyes with curved tails were facing a pair of eyes with dark pupils and seemingly no warmth.

Lian Jiangyue said: "My master has a casting iron workshop, I will help him."

"Graduated from college?"

"Study chemical engineering."

Qu Jiuchuan's brows and eyes became even more frowned: "I'm still thinking that you are either my colleague, a Taoist priest, or someone who shows Fengshui to others and seeks shelter from disasters. You have passed the Marxism-Leninism course in university with full marks, right?"

Lian Jiangyue smiled: "There are so many wonders in the world, there is nothing to be surprised about. Water comes to cover you, and soldiers come to block you."

Qu Jiuchuan looked directly into Lian Jiangyue's eyes through the mirror, and said, "It's natural for the boat to reach the bridge, right?"

The window of the van leaked air, and cold air came in. Lian Jiangyue held her chin and sneezed, and was rubbing her nose. Qu Jiuchuan turned around and looked at him: "But you are too courageous."

Lian Jiangyue sniffled, pushed him to make him turn back quickly: "Look at the road."

Qu Jiuchuan turned back and shrugged: "Well, it's not too big, I'm afraid of death, haha!"

Lian Jiangyue was helpless: "Who is not afraid of death?"

He was even more helpless: "Otherwise, why don't we just bury him?"

He thought, this is also a way, why didn't he think of it before?He dug a hole on the spot to bury Lianwu, and performed a burial ceremony. Firstly, Qu Jiuchuan was fulfilled, and his business of sending people to the next life was completed; secondly, he also took care of the sudden death. The corpse that appeared in front of his eyes completed this tricky task.

Lian Jiangyue looked around and asked Qu Jiuchuan, "Do you have a shovel in your car?"

Qu Jiuchuan said: "I don't have a shovel in the car, but in your father's situation, if you bury him on the spot, you wait, he will definitely entrust you with dreams every night, asking you to take him to the Que Que Temple for cremation. Does he have anything to do with that temple? Did he tell you?"

He asked again: "Didn't his household registration be moved from Inner Mongolia? Where did Xiao Wang and Xiao Li, the local snakes, know about it?"

Lian Jiangyue said: "You know him very well."

Qu Jiuchuan smiled, pityed Jiangyue and said, "You're not from the local area, are you?"

"Of course not. I've never heard of the black land, and no one has ever mentioned it to me."

Lian Jiangyue was curious for a moment: "Then why did you come to such a remote place for funeral..."

Qu Jiuchuan said: "I am not responding to the country's call for young people to start their own businesses, start from the grassroots, guard against arrogance and impetuosity, and serve the public. I chose the most corners of the ten miles and eight towns to serve the public here. Bring a new style of funeral for everyone.”

"A new type of funeral?"

Qu Jiuchuan talked eloquently: "You stayed here for four or five years when you were a child? It's only been ten days since you came back. You don't know. In the past, when people died in Stone Village, they would hold firecrackers to bury them. Cremation, after burning, mix the ashes and gunpowder together to make firecrackers, and put them in the sky. The louder the explosion, the better. Xiao Li’s family used to do this business. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, this tradition has been preserved. Not long ago A new village chief, a college student village official, said it was a feudal superstition, so it was banned, and I will help everyone follow the new standards of the new era and new burials."

Lian Jiangyue said: "You also know me very well."

Qu Jiuchuan said with a smile: "In such a small place, if you don't ask, someone will stuff your ears with rumors. Don't worry about it."

Lian Jiangyue said: "I don't care. But you seem to have a little impression after saying that."

He remembered that when he was a child, he suddenly heard a loud explosion in the yard. He covered his ears, feeling a little scared. Lian Wuchen came over to him with a smile and said, Ah Yue, listen, the explosion killed people, let’s go, let’s see look.

Did he and Lian Wuchen go to the scene of the bombing to watch the excitement?What have you seen?Lian Jiangyue couldn't remember.He said: "Lian Wu hate asked me to take his body to the temple for cremation. When he was cremated, he was almost out of breath. I told him to stop talking. He still opened his mouth to speak, but then he couldn't say anything. gone."

Qu Jiuchuan said: "Even if you bury him, this ghost hit the wall, this fog is heavy, can the visibility be [-] centimeters? We won't be able to get out for a while." He glanced at the rearview mirror again, and pity Jiang Yue raised her eyebrows: "Do you have a baby pee?"

Lian Jiangyue also glanced at him, and also raised her eyebrows: "You don't have a boy to pee?"

Qu Jiuchuan laughed, pity Jiangyue and asked him: "Is there any other way when a ghost hits the wall?"

"I also want to check online, but there is no signal here," Qu Jiuchuan looked at his phone, and said, "Well, the battery is gone, and there is 50.00% left just now."

Lian Jiangyue's cell phone was out of battery, and he couldn't even turn it on. He was fiddling with the cell phone when a high-pitched sound came from the external stereo, and the car braked suddenly. Qu Jiuchuan and Lian Jiangyue rushed forward together. , Lian Jiangyue bumped into the driver's seat, the Buddhist scripture music stopped abruptly, and the car was lifeless, only listening to Qu Jiuchuan saying: "I'm out of gas..."

Lian Jiangyue rubbed her forehead and looked out, the milky white mist surrounded the van, and they seemed to be trapped in a fairy palace in the sea of ​​clouds.

Qu Jiuchuan laughed: "I understand what it's like to lie in that fairy palace system."

Lian Jiangyue said: "It seems that we can only get out of the car to find the way."

Qu Jiuchuan looked around, pondering, and said: "I have only encountered ghosts hitting the wall three times, one time was solved by Xiao Li's boy peeing, and the other two times I just kept on, from night to dawn. It's dawn for us now..." He muttered, "Could it be possible to wait here until it gets dark, and then wait for dawn?"

Lian Jiangyue said: "Staying in the car is not an option, Lian Wu hates more and more stink."

As he spoke, he opened the car door, intending to get out of the car to check the situation outside the car. Before he could take a step, Lian Jiangyue's right arm tightened, and he saw that a white hand was holding him.He couldn't see the van behind him, nor could he see Qu Jiuchuan.Lian Jiangyue asked: "Qu Jiuchuan, are you holding me?"

Qu Jiuchuan responded, and the voice came from behind the white fog, he said: "The fog is too thick, I can't see you as soon as you go, this place is too weird, let's not get separated, two people I would like to have someone to take care of me.”

Lian Jiangyue thought about it, and said: "You are right, the fog is really too big, I am only half a step away from the van, but I can only see your hand, I have a suggestion, let's get out of the car and continue Going forward, although it is difficult to judge the north, south, east, west, but there is no other way, it is better than staying here and waiting to die, the two of us are carrying Lian Wuchen on a stretcher, you have one end, and I have the other end, so it is not easy to get separated."

Qu Jiuchuan agreed and said, "Okay, you hold my hand and touch the car first."

Lian Jiangyue grabbed Qu Jiuchuan's hand, groped for the door of the van, and returned to the car.Qu Jiuchuan had already climbed to the back row, and the two adjusted the position of the stretcher. Qu Jiuchuan raised one head, Lian Jiangyue put the plastic bag containing apples on her wrist, and raised the other end, the two looked at each other, Qu Jiuchuan turned his back and jumped out of the car first. In a blink of an eye, he was engulfed in the fog.Lian Jiangyue got out of the car.

The fog was thick and humid, and Lian Jiangyue couldn't see Qu Jiuchuan at all, he could only feel that someone was helping to carry one end of the stretcher. He looked down, and even Lian Wuchen on the stretcher was blurred, covered by the dense fog. Covered, it's hard to tell the real face.After walking like this for a while, Lian Jiangyue felt that her breathing was not smooth, as if the air she inhaled was full of mucus, and her nasal cavity was sticky, but her throat was abnormally dry. Lian Jiangyue couldn't adapt, and she coughed a few times.

Qu Jiuchuan's voice sounded: "Are you okay?"

He also said: "Let's talk, I can't even see you, and I don't know when you ran away like Xiao Li."

Lian Jiangyue said: "It's all because of me that you encountered these strange things, I won't leave you and run away, don't worry."

Qu Jiuchuan asked, "What's in your bag?"

"Apple, egg roll, American ginseng, do you want to eat?"

"Okay, did you plan to come here to survive in the wild?" Qu Jiuchuan said: "Oh, I understand, this place is suitable for researching "Approaching Science", maybe it is caused by the radiation magnetic field It's very strange here, you said there shouldn't be any rare mines underground in the black land? So the soil is completely black? Or is there some government organization conducting scientific research and experiments there, and the outside world declares that it can't be approached?"

Lian Jiangyue wanted to laugh, and it was even more difficult to adjust his breathing. He gasped and said, "Let's take a break, I'm going to sit on the ground and put the stretcher on my lap."

"it is good."

Lian Jiangyue first put down the stretcher, held it with one hand, and then sat down cross-legged. He took out an apple from the plastic bag and handed it into the fog: "I'll hand you an apple, can you see it?"

"can not see."

Lian Jiangyue put the apple on Lian Wuchen and tilted the stretcher.Qu Jiuchuan said: "I saw it! I caught it!"

Lian Jiangyue laughed when she heard the sound of gnawing an apple: "Have you eaten?"

"Huh? It's not for me to eat?"

"I want to see what's going on with this fog, under what circumstances you can see things, and under what circumstances you can't."

After a few more clicks, Qu Jiuchuan said, "I'm starving to death."

Qu Jiuchuan asked him: "Then have you figured out why?"

Lian Jiangyue also took out an apple and gnawed on it: "I'm starving to death too, let's talk after eating."

Qu Jiuchuan laughed straight, and said: "Listen to you, your father has practiced martial arts? What kind of kung fu? What kind of kung fu did you practice? He has become this invincible golden body?"

"I don't know either, he just said it's the kung fu of the evil sect."

"Didn't teach you?"

"I hate to say that those who practice this kind of kung fu will die when they reach their thirties, and their living years will only drag on."

"So according to what he means, the old man has been dead for 30 years? Every time I see him, he is very energetic."

He said again: "But there are many unexplainable things in the world. I just wanted to say that your father's hair is black and shiny. It looks better than mine. Your hair looks like him."

Lian Jiangyue said: "I take traditional Chinese medicine all the year round, and Shouwu is added to it, so my hair grows fast and is also very black."

Qu Jiuchuan said: "Your father is getting old, but it can be seen that he must have been a handsome guy with spirit before, with sword eyebrows and star eyes, do you look like your mother?"

Lian Jiangyue looked down at Lian Wuchen, except for the fog on Lian Wuchen's face, there were wrinkles, his eyebrows seemed not eyebrows, his eyes were not eyes, and his nose was not a nose. Lian Jiangyue couldn't make up what he looked like before he was alive, and said It's not clear what he looks like.He also doesn't remember what he was like more than 20 years ago.

Lian Jiangyue said: "I have never seen my mother."

He opened the eyes of pity, Wu hate, and looked, but he couldn't see the sword eyebrows, as for the star eyes...

Lianwuhan's eyes are black and white, the eyeballs can still emit light, the light seems to be still flickering, and the fog covering his face has dissipated a little at this moment.Lian Jiangyue rubbed her eyes, and stared at the dead eyes for a long time in surprise, but when she didn't see any flashes, he closed Lian Wu's eyes again.

During this time, he didn't hear Qu Jiuchuan's voice, Lian Jiangyue pulled the stretcher: "Qu Jiuchuan?"

"Here." Qu Jiuchuan said, "Did you smell anything?" His voice was low, "It's like the bitter core in lotus seeds."

Lian Jiangyue took a sniff, and there was indeed a strange smell in the air. The fragrance was sour, and he was about to speak, but the thick fog in front of him dispersed at this moment. He turned his head and saw Qu Jiuchuan, Qu Jiuchuan was dumbfounded, staring straight ahead, amazed: "Black land!"

In front of them was a pitch-black plain!They are also stepping on black ground!At some point, they were already in the black land. This black land seemed to extend to infinity. There were no mountains or tree shadows around it. It was open and empty, and its surroundings were even more open and empty.

The sky is pale, there is no sun, no cloud.The sky above them was just a white glow.

Qu Jiuchuan said "something is wrong", suddenly left the stretcher, jumped up suddenly, stood in front of Lian Jiangyue, and warned him: "Don't move around..."

Lian Wuchen rolled off the stretcher, Lian Jiangyue heard Qu Jiuchuan say again: "Cover your nose!"

Lian Jiangyue was puzzled, but saw Qu Jiuchuan took out a lighter, lit it on fire, and threw it towards the black ground in front of the two of them. With a "wow", a big fire broke out.The scent in the air disappeared, replaced by a burnt bitterness.The fire was getting fiercer, and the smell was getting stronger and stronger. The fire burned until the ground was covered with blackened branches in a blink of an eye.Lian Jiangyue reached out, picked up one nearby, and asked, "What is this?"

Qu Jiuchuan turned around, with anxious eyes, grabbed the dark branch from Lian Jiangyue's hand, threw it into the fire, and said, "This is phantom grass, don't touch it!"

After that, he faced the rapidly spreading fire on the black land again, and muttered in his mouth: "I know, this black land is an illusion caused by the smell of phantom grass. They grow here naturally? Or is there a human race?" here?"

"Phantom Grass?" Lian Jiangyue asked herself that she has done some research on medicinal herbs, but she has never heard of such a plant. Taking advantage of Qu Jiuchuan's back to him, he secretly grabbed another one and stuffed it into his pocket .

He asked Qu Jiuchuan: "How do you know this kind of thing?"

Qu Jiuchuan still turned his back to him, the flames painted a scarlet border around him, and he said earnestly: "It's a long story, anyway, now, you listen to me."

Lian Jiangyue looked at Qu Jiuchuan's standing posture. At this moment, Qu Jiuchuan assumed a posture to defend against the enemy's attack-his body leaned back, his feet were slightly separated, and he took a half-empty horse stance. One hand is in front of the body, and the other is on the waist. This posture is a gesture that martial arts practitioners will only pose when facing an unknown enemy. It is completely an instinctive reaction when facing danger. , innate consciousness.Lian Jiangyue also felt a faint heat emanating from Qu Jiuchuan's body, because he was far away from the fire, and the heat of this heat did not have the scorching feeling of a general fire. The heat of the hot air is gentle and very forgiving.Lian Jiangyue can conclude that this is the internal energy of a martial arts practitioner.

Lian Jiangyue said: "I felt a little strange in the hospital before, are you a practicing family?"

He wasn't quite sure before that, in the hospital, when the young man in bed 2 pointed at him with a cane, Qu Jiuchuan gently pushed him away. Was it Qu Jiuchuan's intention to resolve it or the young man in bed 2 saw it? Qu Jiuchuan didn't want to accidentally injure the innocent, so he withdrew his skills.Looking at it now, perhaps Qu Jiuchuan had also seen through the intention of the second bed, and he must have been full of internal strength when he gently removed the second bed youth's crutches.

At this time, Qu Jiuchuan turned his face and glanced at Lian Jiangyue, his whole body did not relax, but his tone was very relaxed: "The cripple's stick stabbing over is no small matter. I thought you didn't know martial arts. I'm not used to others relying on my ability to bully ordinary people, but now it seems that you are also a practitioner? You just restrain your breath?" At this point, Qu Jiuchuan became suspicious: "But your body..."

Lian Jiangyue secretly thought, it seems that Qu Jiuchuan didn't see that he used his strength to defuse the collision of the two-bed youth.He said to Qu Jiuchuan: "It's true that I don't know martial arts. It's just a chance meeting. I have met many martial arts masters. I know a little bit. It's a long story."

Qu Jiuchuan laughed: "Are you Wang Yuyan from "Dragon Ba Bu"?"

Lian Jiangyue wanted to refute, but she couldn't stop coughing, the fire was still raging, black smoke was billowing, maybe she had inhaled too much residual smoke, which caused her lungs to become unbalanced, Lian Jiangyue bowed her head, and even coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Qu Jiuchuan hurriedly supported him, and said with concern: "I've made you cover your nose, are you okay?" He was full of doubts, "But these phantom grasses shouldn't hurt you like this..."

Lian Jiangyue said: "I'm fine, probably because I walked too long today and I'm tired." He leaned against the stretcher, put one hand on Lian Wuchen's shoulder, and tried to regulate his breathing: "Where is this phantom grass? What's the history?"

Qu Jiuchuan said: "I don't know its origin either. I only know that its smell can make people hallucinate. It's the first time I've seen such a large amount of phantom grass."

As soon as he looked up, he suddenly became excited: "Look!"

Lian Jiangyue looked up, and the outline of a building suddenly appeared in the fire that had burned to about ten meters away. There seemed to be a plaque hanging on the building. There were two black shadows twitching and twisting on the plaque. Look, it seems that the word "resolve".

Qu Jiuchuan was overjoyed: "I understand! The Que Que Temple is hidden by these phantom grasses." He helped Lian Jiangyue, his eyes suddenly became deep and full of doubts, "But how did your father know? Here, he has been here? He also knows about the Phantom Grass?"