Jiajing Spiritual Records

Chapter 58

Su Xian and others got off their horses, and the village chief led them to a cottage. He stopped, glanced at the closed door of the house, thought to himself strangely, turned and said to the people behind him: "Please wait, adults, I'll call him out right now." Su Xian nodded.

On the side, Ning Huan lowered his head, his eyes under the slender eyelashes showed a trace of uneasiness, and he frowned for a moment without knowing what he was thinking about.Seeing this, Su Xian pursed his lips slightly, coughed unnaturally, glanced at the Jin Yiwei behind him and saw that no one was looking at him, so he leaned over and comforted Ning Huan, "You don't need to worry too much. Those who disappeared a few days ago are all back now, so your cousin must be safe." Ning Huan nodded numbly.

"Wang Er!" The village head shouted loudly outside, but no one responded from inside the house. "Hey, where's the person?" The village head turned around and smiled dryly at Su Xian, but there was a trace of anxiety between his frown brows, "Don't be impatient, my lord, little man... I'm going to go now, little man." Shout out again."

Before Su Xian could respond, the village head hurried to the front of the courtyard, and poked his head through the small courtyard surrounded by fences, "Wang Er! The government is here, please open the door quickly!" They yelled again and again, but still no one responded.

Although it was noon at this time, it should be the busiest time, but there were not many people in the whole village except for them.The sun was shining, but Ning Huan felt that there was a coolness behind him, and the village was too quiet.

Ning Huan involuntarily leaned towards Su Xian's side. At this time, through the gap of the bamboo fence, he suddenly saw the bamboo basket placed in the corner, and was startled.A dead black cat was randomly thrown in the cage, with half of its head missing, revealing a long black tail outside...

Was it attacked by wild animals?Ning Huan looked at the crater on the black cat's head, pursed his lips uneasily, and then looked at the closed wooden door in front of him again, the worry on his brows became more serious.

Su Xian also noticed that something was wrong with this cottage, he cast a glance at the Jin Yiwei behind him, one of them took a few steps forward, and kicked open the closed wooden door.

A big hole was kicked open on the wooden door, and the lock fell to the ground.The wooden door made a dull sound like an old waterwheel, and opened with a "squeak".

Su Xian and the others walked in, and Ning Huanfu glanced at the black cat that died in the bamboo basket.Ning Huan's eyes widened slightly, and his scalp felt numb all of a sudden. The black cat's head was already an empty shell, and the sunken hole on its head was more like a bite mark left by a human being...

Everyone made such a big commotion, but the people inside didn't respond at all.Su Xian glanced at the shivering village chief, and asked in a deep voice, "Did this family leave long ago?"

The village chief quickly shook his head and denied, "So many people have disappeared in our village these days. I know that the government will send people to investigate today, so how dare they let people out of the village. I have someone to keep an eye on these people who came back." I've never heard of anyone leaving overnight." As they spoke, everyone had already walked to the front of the back room.

The door was unlocked, Su Xian frowned slightly and pushed the door open, the door opened a gap, a pungent smell of blood wafted out, Ning Huan suddenly felt that something was wrong.Su Xian's face was solemn, he held the knife in his hand, and he waved to Ning Huan and the village chief, signaling them to back off.

The blood slowly flowed out along the crack of the door, leaving a meandering trace on the muddy land, "tick, tick", one sound, as if there were more blood flowing behind the door...

Su Xian kicked the door hard, and several Jin Yiwei behind him rushed in, but then they stopped.

"Tick tock, tick tock", blood fell down the ankle half a foot off the ground, and hit the blood-soaked mud.Su Xian took a step forward, and the black boots made a sticky "creak" sound when they stepped on them.Everyone slowly raised their heads and looked towards the beam.I saw five decapitated corpses hanging above. "Kacha..." Su Xian's short blade flew straight up, cutting off the rope of one of the headless corpses.So the corpse fell down, smashed into the pool of blood, and exploded into red blood.

The corpse looked like a middle-aged man, with the uneven incision on the neck, and the human head had been pulled out.Ning Huan took a step back, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and then looked at the bamboo basket outside the door again, enduring the overwhelming nausea in his stomach.

Su Xian stood in front of the door, he glanced at the village chief who was shrunk behind him, and asked, "How many people are there in this family?"

The village head was so frightened by the five headless corpses hanging on the top of the beam that his face turned pale. He staggered and fell to the ground, and stammered back: "A total of...a total of five people, Wang Er...Wang Er's family The family has been separated a long time ago, and there is only one daughter-in-law and his three sons in the family."

"Who is the missing person?" Su Xian asked again.

The village head stumbled and replied: "Yes...it is Wang Er."

Su Xian looked at the headless male corpse on the ground, then raised his eyes to look at the other four corpses on the beam. According to their body shape and clothes, these five people should be right.At this time, the two Jin Yiwei who were sent by Su Xian to search the house also came out: "My lord, there is no one inside."

Suxian nodded, and said to the two of them, "You guys stay here first." He glanced at the trembling village chief behind him, "Take me to the houses behind."

The village chief wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and nodded hastily.This is a small village, and the next family is not far away, just a few dozen steps away.Similar to the situation of the family just now, the door was closed, no one was seen, and the yard was surprisingly quiet.Su Xian didn't let the village chief knock on the door, he just kicked the door and walked in.

The house was quiet and empty.Ning Huan pursed his lips, "No one?" Su Xian shook his head, and suddenly his eyes fell on the slightly raised bed.He walked over and lifted the quilt abruptly, a pungent bloody smell came over his face, revealing two headless corpses under the quilt.

Ning Huan was slightly taken aback, covered his nose and took a step back.The village head was brought in, Ning Huan listened to Su Xianfa and asked: "How many people are there in this family, who is missing?"

The village chief's face was pale, his legs trembled: "Yes...it's Li Mazi. There are only him and his wife in their family."

Su Xian frowned, looked at the two headless corpses on the bed that looked like a man and a woman, fell silent for a moment, and said again: "Take me to the next house."

Strange things happened one after another in this quiet village, and headless corpses were found in the next four families, and all of them were dressed in the same clothes.

Su Xian frowned and fell into deep thought. After a while, he raised his head and asked, "You just said that those people don't look like living people. What's going on?"

The village chief's face turned pale with fear, he panted and said: "These...these people came back last night." The corners of his lips trembled, "They suddenly appeared from the dead man's slope, but After he came back, his eyes were dull, thinking that he had been taken out of his soul, and he didn't respond to the question. I thought they were just frightened, but no... I didn't expect..." He raised his head slightly, with a frightened expression on his face, "My lord , they must have been killed by ghost generals, right?"

"Ghost General?" Suxian asked suspiciously, frowning.

The village head nodded again and again, and said: "Your Excellency, I don't know. It turned out to be a general's tomb. I heard that a general who died in battle was buried behind this village." The village head frowned, "But listen. It is said that the general’s death has other secrets. He...he was killed by someone, and his soul lingers after his death. Some people in the village went home in the dark. Passing that road, they could even hear the sound of soldiers practicing. No one dared to run there."

General Tomb?Ning Huan was still in deep thought, but he saw Su Xian frowned slightly, and suddenly turned his head to look at the corner outside the door, and asked coldly, "Who?"

At this time, a dirty little face protruded from the surrounding haystacks. The boy was about eleven or twelve years old, and he looked up at Su Xian.Facing the malevolent man in front of him who was much taller than him, he had no fear at all.He retorted loudly: "They are not possessed by the ghost general!"

Hearing this, Su Xian looked at the skinny young man in front of him, with the blade retracted into the scabbard, he raised one corner of his mouth slightly, and asked, "Oh? How did you know?"

The young man pursed his lips and said, "That Wang Er, I... I saw his head fly out of the house with my own eyes." The young master seemed to be afraid that Su Xian would not believe him, so he added, "His head still belongs to his family." The cat killed it, if you don’t believe me, you can go and have a look.”

The village chief rushed forward, covered the boy's mouth, and brought him to kneel down towards Suxian, "My lord, don't listen to his nonsense. This kid has no father or mother since he was a child, he is crazy." Ke Suxian But he didn't pay any attention to what the village chief said, instead he lowered his body, looked at the boy with his eyes and asked, "You saw his head flying out, is it just him or everyone else?"

The young man blushed, and responded with some hesitation: "I... I didn't look at you. That dead man saw me, and he kept chasing me."

"My lord, look at this kid talking nonsense again..." The village chief wanted to interrupt the boy, but Su Xian cast a cold look at him and fell silent.Suxian looked at the young man and asked, "The dead man was chasing you, how did you escape?"

"I... I ran to the dead man's slope, so...the dead man's head never came after me." Hearing this, Su Xian seemed to be lost in thought, and didn't speak for a while.

Ning Huan looked around, his eyes were suddenly locked by a strange temple in front of him.Strange to say, Ning Huan felt uncomfortable when he saw the temple.So he asked curiously, "What kind of place is this?"

The village chief glanced at the temple Ning Huan was pointing to, with a trace of respect in his eyes, and he replied, "This is the Temple of the Joyful Buddha?" Joyful Buddha?Ning Huan has only heard of those who enshrine Bodhisattvas and Buddhas, but this is the first time he has heard of Xi Le Buddha.So he asked puzzledly, "What kind of Buddha is Xi Le Buddha?"

"Keep your voice down, keep your voice down, you can't violate the taboo of Buddha Xi Le." The village chief looked around, as if he was really afraid that Buddha Xi Le would overhear, and said in a low voice, "This is to suppress that ghost general."

Ning Huan frowned, looked at the ghostly temple in the distance again with discomfort, and nodded.

At this time, there was a sound of horseshoes in the distance, "Is the governor here?" Su Xian walked out, only to see a man dressed in brocade clothes stopped in front of Su Xian.He got off his horse, "My lord, the command envoy has ordered you to return to the palace quickly."

Su Xian frowned and asked, "What's wrong?"

The man cautiously looked at the people around him, leaned close to Su Xian's ear and whispered, "I don't know about it, but I heard that something happened in the palace..."

Suxian's face changed suddenly, he turned over and got on the horse, and said to Ning Huan, "I have to go back." He turned the horse's head and walked back a few steps, as if he was worried, he asked the other two guards in Jin Yi Said, "You send Ning... send my junior brother back first."