"Yuesheng, guess what program I have prepared tonight."
Seeing Du Beilun's mysterious and eager look, Qin Yuesheng picked up a bunch of pig intestines and stuffed them into his mouth. "If you have something to say, say it quickly. If you have something to say, fart quickly. I'm not a worm in your stomach, how can I guess what you're thinking?"
"Hehe." Du Beilun patted the woman sitting on his other leg and motioned her to go away first.
"Tonight is the day that Tianxian Pavilion selects a new oiran. From the former oiran to the young prostitutes, everyone is eligible. However, they need a customer to deposit ten taels of gold as a reward. The winner will be the oiran. The person who provides the highest deposit will be rewarded with a night with the oiran."
Du Beilun bumped Qin Yuesheng's shoulder and said, "Yuesheng, how could I not ask you guys to come when you're talking about this kind of thing? Then we can all rely on our own judgment to see who can choose the most beautiful girl tonight. Wouldn't that be interesting?"
"Well, it's quite interesting." Qin Yuesheng suddenly put down his chopsticks and pulled Du Beilun over. "But, I'm more interested in what happened in Nanyan Baozhai that day. Beilun, you shouldn't have forgotten what happened in Nanyan Baozhai before, right?"
When Du Beilun heard Qin Yuesheng mention this, his smile froze: "Of course."
"Du Tankang has traveled extensively for several months, and has seen many things that the people living in Qingyang City have never heard of. Does he know the origin of that thing?"
Du Beilun's expression was a little awkward: "Yuesheng, let's not talk about the past. Anyway, nothing happened to us."
Qin Yuesheng tilted his head: "Can't say?"
“Not really…”
"Then tell me about it. It won't hurt you to tell me."
"Okay, but you have to promise me that after I tell you, you will never be interested in this matter and don't tell anyone else about it, otherwise you will be in big trouble."
After hearing Du Beilun's serious words, Qin Yuesheng couldn't help but become more curious.
"Okay, I'll forget about it after I hear it."
"Come closer and listen." Du Beilun said mysteriously. After he put his mouth close to Qin Yuesheng's ear, he whispered.
"My second brother told me about this after that day. About half a month ago, my second brother returned to Qingyang City from Bailian County along the Baoqing official road. He couldn't find a suitable place to stay in the middle of the night, so he spent some money to bribe the postmaster of the government post station to rent him a few rooms for the night.
It was midnight when my second brother heard some noise outside the window. He got up and went to check. After opening the window a little, he saw a dark black coffin that had appeared in the courtyard of the post station. There were four men in white mourning robes carrying the coffin. My brother felt something was wrong, so he didn't say anything. Instead, he hid behind the window and watched secretly.
Not long after, the post officer came out of the house holding a candlestick, and loudly scolded these people for trespassing into the government post station. If they didn't get out immediately, they would be thrown into jail.
But everything happened in the blink of an eye. The four people carrying the coffin all looked up, and my brother was shocked when he saw their faces in the moonlight.
"What? Those four coffin bearers look hideous and ferocious?" Qin Yuesheng asked.
Du Beilun shook his head repeatedly, feeling inexplicably unsure. "No, if it was just a matter of appearance, it would be fine, but my brother told me...the four coffin bearers had no faces at all. It was empty, completely void."
Qin Yuesheng's eyes widened instantly.
"And then?"
"One of the pallbearers pulled out a bloody face from his arms and pressed it directly onto the postmaster's face. Just like what we saw that day in Nanyan Baozhai, the postmaster immediately went crazy and actually took the initiative to lift the coffin lid and crawled inside. At the same time, a white human face flew out of the coffin and directly sank into the body of the pallbearer.
After finishing all this, the four bearers put down the black coffin and prepared to go into the post station. My brother was so frightened that he hurriedly hid under the bed. Someone walked into his room and wandered around for a few steps, and then left when he could no longer see anyone.
It wasn't until noon the next day, when he heard the shouts of a passing peddler, that my second brother dared to crawl out from under the bed. He found that everyone in the post station had disappeared. There was not a drop of blood in the entire post station. Whether it was the postman or the people who traveled with him, none of them were found alive or dead.
Qin Yuesheng held up his chin and asked, "Then was the white face that Du Tankang saw flying out of the black coffin the same one we saw in Nanyan Baozhai before?"
"Except for the different appearance, they are basically the same."
"In other words, those four faceless men have most likely already carried the black coffin to Qingyang City, and those crazy murders were all behind this?"
"The Baoqing official road leads directly to Qingyang City and Yangzhou Prefecture. There are no side roads or mountain paths on the way. My brother and I think that's the truth." Du Beilun said gloomily, "Those four faceless coffin bearers are obviously not good people. Now there are creatures hidden in Qingyang City that we can't possibly deal with. That's why, Yuesheng, I advise you to forget about this matter. As long as we don't go to crowded places on weekdays and hide in the mansion when we have nothing to do, we should be fine. Wait for a month or so, and those guys may leave Qingyang City."
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