Chapter 305 I will help your father rest in peace [5,000 words 2-in-1]
According to the ancestral motto of Southern Xinjiang, don’t go out after dark.
Tietou has been obeying the orders obediently.
no way.
Southern Xinjiang has been a place of evil since ancient times. It is home to witchcraft, evil spirits, seventy-two barbarians, and all kinds of weird things... From ancient times to the present, these things have never been eradicated.
Also, due to the power struggle between the court and the aristocratic families, the Heluo court has very little control over this land, and Chaotianque does not have much presence here.
In addition, most of the land is barren, there are few cities, and the area is vast and sparsely populated.
Therefore, people living in this land have long developed the habit of being cautious, such as not walking at night, not entering dangerous places, etc. It's nothing more than one word.
Go.
It's not shameful to cherish your life.
But Tietou didn't expect that something would come to his door while he was sleeping at home...
Knock knock knock.
There was another rapid knock on the door.
The sound of the wind outside the window, the sound of the branches swaying, the roar of animals in the distant mountains... none of them could cover up the small knocking sound.
Tietou huddled his whole body in the quilt, not daring to expose even his toes outside. He just left a tiny gap and looked at the door with his eyes, trembling.
There has been knocking on the door for some time.
But no one in the village would visit someone else's house at night. Even if there was an emergency, they had to make a noise, right? Although Tietou was a strong man eight feet tall, he was extremely timid. He was afraid that if he made a noise, it would reveal that there was someone in the house, so he waited quietly.
And the thing outside seemed very patient, knocking on the door without saying a word.
Knock knock knock.
Knock knock knock.
It rang for about half an hour before it stopped.
Tietou breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that his patience had won out.
Before his heart could fall from his throat, he suddenly heard a fierce "bang bang bang"! The thing outside started to hit the door with its body! The small broken door of Tietou's house immediately made a creaking sound.
My door! Tietou felt distressed and couldn't help shouting, "Who are you?"
It suddenly became quiet again.
After a moment, a very hoarse and low voice answered.
"I am your father..."
"I'm your grandfather!" Tietou was angry.
Even a clay figure can still have some temper. I respect you as an evil spirit, so I am being polite to you. Why are you still cursing at me? "Iron-headed kid..." the voice sounded again, "I really am your father..."
Huh? Tietou was stunned for a moment.
Although the voice was a bit muffled, if you listened carefully, it really sounded a bit like my father's voice. Especially the affectionate name "Iron Head Baby", which only my father would call me like that.
When he heard that the person outside was his biological father, Tietouwa became even more scared.
"Dad..." he asked in a trembling voice, "Don't scare me. I buried you with my own hands three months ago."
It was quiet outside again.
It seems that the "father" outside is not very smart. Tietou thought that although his father's brain was not very good before, he would not take so long to think before saying a word.
After a while, a slow reply came from outside: "Dad misses you..."
"Oh my god..."
Tietou grinned and almost cried, and it was unclear whether he was afraid or moved.
Another voice was heard from outside: "Iron Head Boy, are you missing your mother? How about I…"
"No, no, no!" Tietou shouted hurriedly, "No, I miss you two too, but it's late at night... I will go to your grave to see you and burn paper for you tomorrow morning. Tonight... why don't you go back and rest first?"
"Dad is worried about you..." Someone outside asked, "Have you got married yet?"
Tietou felt a headache.
My goodness, the New Year is almost here, and you come out here just to urge me to get married?
Putting aside other things, if you have only been away for three months and I have already married, would you be happy or unhappy?
He couldn't help but beg, "Dad, I just finished your funeral, how can I have time to handle my wedding... Good things don't come in pairs this way, right?"
This time, no sound came back. After waiting for a long time, Tietou tried to call out again: "Dad?"
No response.
It seems that he has left.
"call--"
Tietou finally let out a sigh of relief.
After he calmed down, he remembered all the good things his father had done when he was alive, and how he still cared about him even after his death.
But I didn't even dare to open the door and look at him.
I always asked him for things but never thanked him. It was not until I grew up that I understood how hard it was for him...
My eyes couldn't help but become moist.
He gritted his teeth secretly, thinking that if his father came back again, he would open the door and hug him no matter what.
Otherwise I would be unworthy of being a son!
Then I heard another round of knocks outside the door... knock, knock.
Tietou's shoulders trembled, and he immediately shrank back into the quilt, forgetting all the warmth just now.
He wailed, "Dad, what's the matter?"
immediately.
Then I heard a young man's voice outside the door.
"Huh?" the voice asked in surprise, "Are people in Southern Xinjiang so polite?"
Then another slightly more experienced voice said, "In the South, customs vary every ten miles and practices every five miles. I guess some villages insist on calling strangers "dad"?"
"That's very polite."
"So what should we call him?"
"When in Rome, do as the Romans do."
"Then Seventh Young Master, you come first..."
"Hey, Lao Du, why don't you come first?"
"Seventh Young Master, you have many fathers, so one or two more won't make a difference."
"What kind of words are you talking about?"
"Too many fathers is always a blessing."
“…”
Listening to the lively conversation outside the door, it didn't seem like there was any evil spirit, let alone his father, so Tietou poked his head out again and asked, "Who are you?"
"Hello."
A warm and pleasant voice sounded again. Just by hearing these two words, one could tell that this person must be extremely handsome.
"We are Taoists from Deyun Temple in Hangzhou. We are going to southern Xinjiang to collect medicinal herbs. We are passing through this precious place and would like to stay overnight. I wonder if you can help us?"
Stay overnight?
Taoist priest?
When Tietou heard that they were staying overnight, he wanted to tell them that they were going to another house and that he had nothing to offer them. But when he thought about the Taoist priests, he stopped talking.
After a pause, he stood up and said, "Wait a moment."
After putting on his clothes, he walked over and took a peek through the crack of the door. He indeed saw the color of the Taoist robe, so he opened the door with confidence.
Ah! As soon as he opened the door, Tietou couldn't help but cover his eyes with his hands.
So dazzling! The three people outside the door, the one on the left is a tall, long-armed, black-faced Taoist priest, who looks very old. The one on the right is a rich young man in brocade clothes with thick eyebrows and big eyes, with a slightly sad face.
Among them, one was the most amazing. He wore the same Taoist robe as the black-faced Taoist priest, but the robe looked so fitting and neat on him, not to mention his face...
The handsome guy made Tietou unable to open his eyes for a long time! He squinted his eyes to adjust for a long time before he could barely look directly at the young Taoist priest's face and stretched out his hand to let the three people in.
These three people were none other than Li Chu, the founding and closing disciple of Yu Qian'an, the abbot of Shilipo and Deyun Temple in Yuhang Town, and Du Lanke, the founding and closing disciple of Li Chu.
This time he came to Southern Xinjiang to accompany Wang Longqi on a journey to save his father.
According to Yu Qian'an, the red line on Wang Longqi's father's wrist is not a simple mark at all, but a curse.
Although Taoist Master Cen had some knowledge of the "medicine eating people" incident, his understanding was not thorough after all. This red line was not a sign of the medicine beauty killing people, but a means. As long as the red line grew all over the wrist, that would be the moment when the curse would fall.
Even if there are more cultivators guarding, it is useless, the cursed person will still die.
As the saying goes, the person who tied the bell must be the one to untie it. The only way to break the curse is to find the source of the curse, that is, the medicine beauty who cast the curse that day.
Even if it has been a few days, they still have to go back to the village where they collected the medicine to investigate.
So the three of them set out immediately. When they arrived at the village, it was already dark. After crossing a tall black mountain in front of them, they reached the target village.
If they went over the mountain, they might not be able to get anything at night. The three of them discussed and decided to stay overnight in this village and go over the mountain tomorrow.
This is how the current scene came about.
Tietou ushered the three people into the house and sat them down. He poured three bowls of water and said, "I happen to have an empty room in my house, but it's a little small. If you don't mind, you three can rest there later."
"I'm glad you don't mind bothering me, little brother." Dulanke smiled and nodded, and asked, "Little brother, do you know where Shanbei Village is?"
"Shanbei Village." Tietou raised his hand and pointed. "You can follow the main road in the village and go over the Black Mountain. You can see it at a glance. Do you three want to go there to collect the medicine?"
"Yes." Dulanke nodded, but did not mention the curse.
"Then I advise you not to go." Tietou is also a warm-hearted person, and he directly reminded them: "A few days ago, there was a group of customers who came to collect medicine. After they passed by our village, they also went to Shanbei Village. Later I heard that something happened there, and there should be no medicine to collect now."
"Oh?" Li Chu raised his eyes and looked at him, "Do you know what happened in Shanbei Village?"
Although Wang Longqi's father has already told the general story, listening to it from a different perspective might help investigate the origins of the medicinal beauty.
"I heard that it's something related to evil spirits." Tietou lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "I know a little bit, but I can't tell you now."
"Why?" Wang Longqi asked.
"The rule here is that after dark, don't talk about weird things." Tietou said carefully, "It is said that there are some powerful evil spirits. Once someone mentions its name or talks about its affairs, it can hear it even if it is hundreds of miles away, and then it will come to find you!"
Li Chu blinked.
Is there such a good thing?
Isn't it possible to just sit at home and listen to stories without moving, and wait for the evil spirits to come? "In that case..." He said to Tietou, "Then I'd better trouble you to tell me in detail."
"You may not have heard of the name of 'Little Taoist Priest Li', but no evil spirit in the world has ever been able to survive his sword strike." Wang Longqi said, "If you are causing trouble, just lure you here and let him kill you."
"That's right." Dulanke nodded. "My master's nickname is 'Central Plains Women's Sorrow', no, it's 'Ghosts', you can rest assured."
"this……"
Tietou was still a little hesitant. After all, people who travel around the world are bound to make some fuss. This little Taoist priest is so young, and you can barely believe that he is a genius with high cultivation.
You said that no evil spirit could survive his sword attack...
This is too exaggerated.
Only a fool would believe such a thing, right?
But thinking that he still needed their help, he finally said:
"Okay, then I'll tell you about it."
Tietou first went over to close the door, then came back and spoke in a very low voice.
"First, there was a man named Heizhu in Shanbei Village. He married a wife, but died soon after. It was said that he was an alcoholic and often beat his wife, so his wife found an opportunity to boil him alive. Then he ran to the home of a man named Erlaizi in the same village and hid there."
"No one had discovered it at first. But a few days ago, a group of guests who were collecting medicine went by. Among them, there was an old Taoist priest who happened to see Heizhu's grave on the mountain and said that it was some 'medicine beauty' who was causing trouble. The group of people talked for a long time and finally decided that the woman hiding in Erlaizi's house was an evil spirit, so Erlaizi led them home."
"When the old Taoist saw the girl, he used a talisman and a sword to kill her. But after killing her, he found that it was not an evil spirit, but a human being! It's a pity that such a beautiful young lady was killed by that ox-nosed man."
"Um?"
Hearing this, the three of them exclaimed in surprise.
This is completely different from the version told by Wang Longqi's father! It is difficult to detect a monster when it changes shape. If you wait for it to reveal its evil spirit, you may lose the opportunity. Therefore, there have been precedents of accidentally killing good people in the past.
But why did Wang Longqi's father lie? Or were the villagers of Shanbei Village lying to the outside world? The candlelight was dim, and Tietou didn't notice the expressions of the few people, and continued to speak:
"Things got really chaotic after this. The second beggar grabbed the old Taoist priest and asked him to compensate for his wife. The customers who came to collect the medicine were all rich people, so they compensated him with hundreds of taels of silver to settle the matter peacefully, and then left."
"The wife wasn't his in the first place. He was just harboring a suspect. He made a hundred taels of silver for nothing. The villagers are so envious."
"But the next day, he was found dead on the mountain!"
"And his death was extremely tragic, with his flesh and blood all torn into pieces. When they went to his house again, the 100 taels of silver were gone. So the villagers concluded that someone must have coveted his windfall, dragged him to the mountain in the middle of the night, killed him, and took away the silver."
"Besides, not many people knew about this incident that day. It's very likely that someone in the village did it!"
"Now everyone in Shanbei Village has started to suspect each other. If we don't find out who did it, everyone will be suspected."
"Our two villages are not far from each other, and many families are relatives, so the news spread here very quickly. After hearing about it, the surrounding villages are afraid to interact with people from Shanbei Village."
After Tietou finished speaking, he shook his head and sighed.
"One hundred taels of silver, it's not too little, but how much can it be? How can it be worth such a cruel move? Alas!"
Li Chu and the other two looked at each other and felt that something was fishy.
But to find out what the real story is, I'm afraid we still have to go to Shanbei Village to ask.
After telling them the story they wanted to hear and chatting for a few more words, Tietou said, "I see that the two Taoists have profound cultivation. I actually have a favor to ask of you. I wonder if it would be convenient for you."
He was a little embarrassed because there were not many cultivators he could meet in the countryside and he couldn't afford to pay a high price, so he felt embarrassed to ask them to do something for him.
But Li Chu just smiled gently: "You can talk about it."
"It's like this, my dad passed away a few months ago..." Tietou then said, "But just now, before you came, someone knocked on the door and said he was my dad and he was back! And his voice and tone were exactly like my dad! Although I didn't dare to open the door to see, I can almost confirm that it was my dad!"
"But how can a dead person be resurrected? This is clearly a demon!" Tietou begged, "So I would like to ask you to help me figure out what is going on."
"Also...if my father really became a ghost, he would probably be a good ghost. I hope you guys won't harm his body. It would be best if you could make him return to the right path and bury him in peace again."
Tietou reminded filially.
In the simple rural concept, people still hope that their relatives can leave an intact body after death. What he is most worried about is that these cultivators act rudely and directly physically transcend his father.
Therefore, the emphasis is on keeping the body intact.
"Resurrection from the dead?" Old Du frowned again. "This is a strange thing. I heard people say that there are many evil spirits in southern Xinjiang. I was skeptical, but now I am really convinced."
"But we are in a hurry to get to Shanbei Village and can't delay. It would be easy to kill an evil spirit, but if it is complicated to investigate this matter, I don't know how long it will take..."
Wang Longqi turned his back and spoke to the two of them in a low voice.
"His father is already dead, but my father can still be saved..."
"How about this..." Li Chu thought for a moment and said, "Old Du, you stay here and investigate this matter for the time being. Tomorrow, Wang Longqi and I will go to Shanbei Village together."
"Okay." Dulanke replied.
In his opinion, this was the master's recognition of his ability to stand on his own. As a new disciple in his forties, he was very happy about it.
"ah?"
Tietou was a little skeptical.
Although the Taoist priest looked older, between a master and an apprentice, the master was definitely more reliable. He heard that the young Taoist priest was leaving, leaving only the old apprentice here. He didn't know the inside story, so he couldn't help but wonder if the other party was perfunctory.
Dulanke saw his concerns, so he patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, little brother, there's nothing to be afraid of. Although I am a young disciple in our Deyun Temple, I was the temple master for more than ten years in Shenluo City. I am considered a famous ruthless man in the southern part of Shenluo City! I was also the main player in several battles to eradicate evil spirits in the city."
"Really?" Tietou finally showed a simple smile, "Then I'll trouble you, Taoist Priest."
"Don't worry." Lao Du added, "Let's not talk about anything else. Just now at the entrance of your village, our team encountered a zombie that might have harmed your villagers. I was the one who killed it."
"I used the sword control technique to rip its belly open, then summoned it back with the sword and beheaded it."
"But I've always been careful in my actions. I'm worried that its Yin Qi will not be extinguished, so I cast another Fire Department Talisman on it and burned it to ashes!"
"Haha, there's no body left."
"The entrance to the village?" Tietou blinked. "Isn't that very close to my home?"
"Yes, it was not far from your house." Lao Du touched his chin, "Come to think of it, the zombie seemed to be walking towards your house at that time."
"But it doesn't matter..." He waved his hand again, "It's all gone to ashes anyway."
"Let's think about how to bury your father."
I originally wanted to take a day off to work on the outline of the new volume, but when I thought about how it just got a big recommendation, it seemed a bit inappropriate to stop updating to celebrate... so I forced myself to write a chapter.
(End of this chapter)
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