Ouyang Jianying and the others were sitting inside. Xu Ning walked in first, followed by Moxie, who was limping. He pretended to be surprised and said,
"Nephew Moxie, what should the uncles do?”
"Eh?" Moxie looked at them with a baffled expression.
"In order to set up an array for us, you made yourself limp! We really feel bad." Ouyang Jianying looked at Moxie with a smile.
"Uh, hehehe, Uncle Ouyang, you must be joking!”Moxie looked embarrassed.
hahahaha
Everyone in the room burst into laughter, and Xu Ning, who was sitting in a corner, glared at Moxie. She wondered why nothing good happened every time she was with this guy.
Seeing this, Moxie hurriedly changed the topic."
"How do you feel, uncles?"
"This formation is indeed effective. Previously, we all thought that we were much older and felt that our physical strength had decreased a little. However, after entering for a short while, we felt that it was obviously not the case. This was because we felt that the internal strength that had disappeared for many years was actually growing and recovering bit by bit!
This was unbelievable! Could it be that this formation could also restore one's internal strength?”Cao Feng looked at Moxie in shock.
"Hehe, actually, it's not that your internal strength has disappeared. It's just that it's suppressed by the ghost qi in your bodies and can't advance an inch. However, as time passed, the ghost energy in their bodies would slowly disappear, and their internal strength would naturally return.”
"Haha, that's good, that's good.”Xing Mu also laughed heartily.
"Old Cao, what did you say was the incident that made you panic?”At this moment, Li Guai suddenly spoke. It seemed that he was very concerned.
Mo Sanqiu was also stunned. Then, he nodded and said,"
"Yeah, what kind of story can make you, Old Cao, feel terrified?”
Cao Feng saw that everyone was looking at him curiously. Then, he sighed slightly and said,
"It's a long story."
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(Near the Star Dou Mountain in Hu Province's Shien County, there was a small mountain village called Chang Family Camp. The village had a total of 48 people, and it could be considered a real small mountain village. Usually, the villagers would farm their own land, dig up some medicinal herbs from the mountain, pick some mountain products, and sell them in the county town or directly exchange them with others. They could also be considered to be living in a paradise.
However, one day, something big happened in the village. This matter was not about a family getting married and having children, but about a family.
At the end of the twenty-first year of Daoguang (1841), a carriage came to the village. The driver seemed to be a well-educated person. He wore a melon skin hat and a green satin robe. A young woman sat in the carriage with two children in her arms. It looked like a family.
The first thing this family did after arriving in the village was to find someone to build a house. They moved a lot of things from the car, large and small. Many of the things were things that the most knowledgeable people in the village had never seen before.
In the past, the villagers were very simple and enthusiastic. Although they didn't know each other, they were very welcoming to this newly moved person who had seen the world.
At that time, Chang Laoxi, who was in charge of the village, not only personally entertained the family, but also sent the village's Zhuang Liu to build two rooms for the family. He did not charge a single cent. The family was also very touched. From then on, the "boss" of the carriage opened a private school in his house. Not only did he teach the children in the village to read and write for free, but he also took the pulse of the villagers for free. The price was that the children's families would give some food to support the whole family.
According to the car owner, this family was Liu Yi. Because of his knowledge and knowledge in checking pulse and curing diseases, in less than half a year, his prestige in the village was as high as that of Chang Laoxi. Chang Laoxi was also a person who liked to make friends. He directly became sworn brothers with Liu Yi regardless of his age.
From then on, the villagers began to call Liu Yi the Head Liu. Chang Laoxi simply retreated to the second line, and Liu Yi made all the decisions in the village.
At the end of the 22nd year of Daoguang (1842), a few villagers went to the market to exchange for the New Year's goods. Suddenly, they saw that the city gate was surrounded by people. Shien County was a small county, and the traffic was blocked. For many years, there were no major events. Now, there were three layers of people here. Could it be that the county had recruited another live-in son-in-law?
A few people came forward to take a look. It turned out to be a picture of a notice to arrest criminals. There was a bright red seal printed below the notice. Although these people were illiterate, the people on the notice could recognize it. Wasn't this the head of the village, Liu?
This was like a bolt from the blue to these simple mountain people. The person in charge of the village was a criminal of the imperial court!？Oh my god. What crime? Murder and arson?
Fighting? It didn't seem like it. That Liu family head was a scholar. He didn't have the strength to even tie up a chicken, let alone attack his family. The mountain products in the village were left hanging on the streets every day.
One of them was called Chang Sishan. He was bold and forthright. His parents were cured by Master Liu, and his son was also studying at Master Liu's place. Therefore, he felt that the person on the notice looked like Master Liu at most, and was definitely not Master Liu himself.
In order to confirm his thoughts, Chang Sishan found someone who seemed to have some knowledge and asked him what was written on the notice, what was the surname of the criminal with the drawing, and what crime he had committed. Why was this notice pasted on Shien?
Actually, the person Chang Sishan was asking about was also illiterate.
But in front of this country bumpkin, he was too embarrassed to say that he was illiterate, so he began to make things up with Chang Sishan, saying that the person on the notice had the surname of Xia (the word Liu was similar to the word Xia. This brother thought for a long time and only remembered that the word Xia was probably of this shape), and that he had committed a major crime of rebellion. He had to be executed immediately, and his nine families had to be implicated.
Chang Sishan didn't know what was a beheading and what was implicating nine families, but when he heard that the person to be arrested wasn't surnamed Liu. He felt relieved and exchanged some flour with the others before returning to the Chang Family Camp. However, Chang Sishan was more careful. After returning to the village, he told the others not to mention the notice to the villagers. Instead, he sneaked into the Liu family in the middle of the night and told them about it.
And what Chang Sishan never expected was that when this Head Liu heard the announcement. He even wanted to implicate his entire family. His face turned green as he sat on the chair, almost passing out. This time, Chang Sishan was frightened. As the saying goes, only a thief has a guilty conscience. Could it be that the person on the notice was really Head Liu's?
After feeding him two mouthfuls of water, Liu Yi gradually regained his composure. With a plop, he knelt down before Chang Sishan. He begged Chang Sishan with tears in his eyes not to tell anyone about this. The head of the family knelt down before him. Moreover, he was indebted to him. In the past, this was a matter that would cost him his life. Liu Yi's kneeling frightened Chang Sishan so much that he immediately knelt down and kowtowed loudly. He repeatedly shouted that the head of the family did not dare, the head of the family did not dare.
Liu Yi and Chang Sixi helped each other to stand up. Liu Yi tearfully recounted a history that made people not know whether to laugh or cry.
It turned out that Liu Yi was the most famous fortune-teller in the capital city. He was smart by nature and had learned the art of Yin and Yang at the age of thirteen. Liu Sisui had already set up a stall on the bridge to read people's fortunes. Liu Yi's surname was not Liu, so the name Liu Yi could only be considered a name. As for his real name, Liu Yi had never told anyone. Other than his parents, master, and a few close friends, basically no one knew. However, almost everyone in the capital knew that there was such a Divine Minister Liu on the bridge. He could read people's faces and divine words.
When Liu Yi read fortunes, he first had to make three rules for the guests. First, he didn't read the fortune of birth and death, second, he didn't read the fortune of children, and third, he didn't read the fortune of grudges. Because these three questions were all first-class heavenly secrets.
Regardless of whether he didn't tell or lied, the customers would say that he couldn't calculate or didn't calculate it correctly. He would smash his own plaque, and if he said it, he would lose his life. Therefore, Liu Yi simply didn't count. In modern terms, it should be counted as " strong self-protection consciousness."
As the saying goes, if you sit at home behind closed doors, disaster will come from the sky. One day in November of the 21st year of Daoguang, Liu Yi had an ominous premonition when he opened his eyes early in the morning. He wanted to tell his fortune, but after hesitating for a long time, he decided to do it. He thought, I am a fortune-teller, what big thing can happen?
(Under normal circumstances, fortune-tellers would not be willing to divine their own fortunes, just like Chinese medicine practitioners would not be willing to take their own pulse.) He put on his shoes and was about to go to the ground to wash his face when he suddenly heard footsteps outside.
"Open the door!" The sound of the knocker was like a debt collector who had finally found a debt collector and wanted to smash the two broken wooden doors.
"Who is it?" Liu Yi opened the door himself.(At that time, his wife had just given birth and was still in confinement, so it was inconvenient for her to do so.)"Hey…what are you…?”Liu Yi was stunned on the spot, and the two began to tremble uncontrollably…
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Corpse Refining Kiln (Part 2)
Everyone was listening attentively. Cao Feng drank a mouthful of water and continued,
On the sedan chair, Liu Yi secretly did a divination for himself. As a result, he got a divination of " dark clouds covering the sun, rivers flowing dry, wildfires burning mountains, and white waves capsizing boats ". Liu Yi was so scared that he almost peed and urinated on the sedan chair. However, since things had come to this, he could only take it one step at a time.
In a garden that he had never seen before, a person who called himself " Prince Kun " claimed to have just joined the Military and Political Affairs Office. He wanted to ask Liu Yibo to tell Liu Yibo about the war between the Qing Dynasty and the Ji Kingdom. He said that the Qing Dynasty and the Ji Kingdom had already fought two wars and both ended in defeat.
The Emperor was very distressed about whether to fight the third battle or to admit defeat and pay compensation. He wanted to ask Liu Yi for a divination to calculate the chances of winning if they continued to fight.
What did Liu Yi do? Although the person in front of him considered himself a prince, in Liu Yi's eyes, this person had a broad forehead, a round corner, and a pair of eyes that looked like shuttles. He was clearly the emperor.
This scared Liu Yi. At that time, the people of Ji Country launched a large-scale military campaign in Fujian and Guangdong because of Lin Zexu's sale of cigarettes in Humen. The outcome of the two battles in Dinghai and Fujian and Guangdong could be said to be one-sided. The army of the Great Qing Dynasty was almost completely wiped out, and the casualties of the people of Ji Country were only in the single digits.
According to this disparity in strength, if the third battle was fought, the outcome of victory or defeat could basically be guessed without divination. However, the Easterners had a problem, they liked to be extravagant. Liu Yi was not a fool. He said that the third battle would definitely be defeated in front of the current Lord Wansui.
His head would most likely be lost. Moreover, the fate of the country was a secret. The consequences of revealing this secret were not as simple as reducing his lifespan. Therefore, if he told the truth, whether the Emperor was happy or not, he would die. After a mental struggle, Liu Yi decided to lie in front of the Emperor for the sake of his wife and children's lives.
In order to not arouse suspicion and not reveal any flaws. Liu Yi's divination was done using the Innate hexagram. The full name was "Xian Tian Yan Divination", which meant evolution and evolution.
It was said that Fuxi created the Innate Eight Trigrams. When King Wen of Zhou was imprisoned by King Zhou, he evolved the Innate Eight Trigrams into the acquired sixty-four hexagrams. The real Innate Divination was said to be the most difficult divination method to master, but it was also the most accurate. Needless to say, the result was the opposite.
Hearing Liu Yi say that he could win the third battle, although the Emperor was skeptical, he was still quite happy. After rewarding Liu Yi with a thousand taels of silver, he told Liu Yi to leave Jingdou and never return. He also had to keep this matter a secret.
This was exactly what Liu Yi wanted. After being sent home, Liu Yi took his wife and child and left Jingdou City overnight. After many twists and turns, he arrived at the Chang Family Camp.
Although Liu Yi didn't know about this, from the Xian Tian hexagram that said," One person causes ten thousand bones to wither, and one soul causes ten thousand lives to die ", he could tell that many soldiers had lost their lives on the battlefield because of his lie.
Every time he thought of this matter, Liu Yi would beat his chest and stamp his feet. In the short month before he arrived at the Chang Family Camp, Liu Yi seemed to have aged ten years. His white hair grew one by one. It was a lie that harmed the country. Not only did it cause the people to suffer, but this matter itself was a great crime of deceiving the emperor and killing the entire family. How could an ordinary person withstand this kind of reprimand from his conscience and the pressure of his thoughts?
At this point, Chang Sishan roughly understood what was going on. However, as an illiterate villager, he did not have any concept of deceiving the emperor and subjugating the country. He only knew that the person in charge in front of him had done him a favor. Therefore, under Liu Yi's pleading, although he already knew that the person to be arrested on the notice was Liu Yi, he did not publicize this matter.
As time passed, the others who had seen the notice in the county town had forgotten about this matter. Liu Yi continued to teach the children to read and write every day, taking the pulse of the villagers and performing acupuncture as if nothing had happened. The people of the Chang Family Camp also did what they were supposed to do as usual.
" This is ridiculous…" Hearing Cao Feng's words, Moxie didn't know whether to laugh or cry." How can we listen to a fortune-telling uncle on such a big matter?”
"That's wrong!" Cao Feng said," Easterners are heavily influenced by Confucianism. Even the emperor is very dependent on it. If the commoners had problems, they would rely on the yamen. If the civil and military officials had problems, they would rely on the Emperor. If the Emperor had problems, who would he rely on?”
" This…" Moxie didn't expect Cao Feng to have such a unique understanding even though he wasn't very old.
" Moreover, the war faction still had the upper hand in the court at that time," Cao Feng continued to analyze." The pressure on the Emperor not only came from the war faction ministers, but also from the pride of a ruler.
Uncle Cao, are you a historian?" Mo Xie began to suspect that this Cao Feng was also an archeological madman like Qin Ge. The story that Cao Feng told was not even a grain of sand in the vast river of history, and this Cao Feng actually knew so clearly.
" No, I'm a lawyer. It's because of this story that I became obsessed with history and archeology…" Cao Feng took a sip of tea and said thoughtfully," This is just the introduction. The story that follows is the beginning."”
Cao Feng drank a cup of tea and continued.
He had lived in the Chang Family Camp for about ten years. Although it was not a short time, the self-blame and fear in Liu Yi's heart were still the same as before. Even in his dreams, he would dream that the yamen officials caught him and his entire family was beheaded. In these ten years, Liu Yi's hair had completely turned white. The person who had just nodded at the age of 50 looked no different from an old man in his seventies.
On this day, Liu Yi was feeding the chickens in the yard when someone suddenly ran to his house crazily, saying that something had happened to Chang Sishan's house. The family of four hung themselves together and were saved now, but they were not breathing or had no pulse. They asked Liu Yi to see if they could still be saved. When he heard the news, Liu Yi immediately found the needle bag and went to Chang Sishan's house with the messenger.
At that time, Chang Laoxi was analyzing the situation while leading a few people to save the people. The Chang Family Camp had never had much contact with the outside world, and they would never borrow money from outsiders. They were living a good life, so why would they have to hang themselves if something bad happened?
Liu Yi looked at the situation of these four people. Other than Chang Sishan's chest that was still a little hot, his father, his wife, and his son were definitely hopeless. They were all stiff.
Although Liu Yi tried his best, Chang Sishan's life was not saved. This caused a lot of discussion in the village. There were all kinds of rumors, such as playing with money and getting into debt, smoking cigarettes, and so on. However, Liu Yi felt that this matter was not so simple. At night, Liu Yi divined for this matter. The result shocked him. Chang Sishan's family had died an unnatural death.
Not all accidents could be counted as an " unnatural death." In the true sense, an unnatural death referred to death before one's lifespan.
The reasons could be roughly divided into three categories: Offending ghosts and gods, revealing the secrets of heaven, and touching the stars (touching the stars meant offending and hurting the stars that descended to the mortal world). However, in such a remote mountain village, a total of 40 people would see each other all the time. It was impossible to touch the stars, and as an illiterate mountain resident, it was even more impossible to reveal the secrets of heaven.
Moreover, revealing the secrets of the heavens would not cause the entire family to die together. For Chang Sishan's family, there could only be one reason for them to "die an unnatural death", and that was to offend the gods.
There were no graves or temples within a radius of twenty miles from the Chang Family Camp, so how could they touch the ghosts and gods? Liu Yi did not sleep the whole night and was puzzled. The next morning, the messenger from yesterday came to the Liu family again and said that Chang Laoxi's family had also hanged themselves. This time, the hanging was more thorough. When Liu Yi arrived at the scene, they were basically all hard.
With this, the Chang Family Camp immediately panicked. There were more than forty people in the village, and a fifth of the villagers had died in two days. At this rate, the entire village would die in a few days. At this time, something even stranger happened. All the chickens, ducks, cats, dogs, and other small animals in the village had fled overnight.
(Most of the villagers in the Chang Family Camp raise chickens, but they are all free-range and surrounded by fences. I don't know where this chicken got its ability from, but it actually flew out.)
It could even be said that there was not even a mouse in the village. In a moment, every household began to pack their luggage and prepare to escape. In two days, other than the crippled old lady, Madam Chang, and Liu Yiyi's family, the entire village had basically run away. The Chang Family Camp, which was still smoking two days ago, had immediately become a dead village.
Madam Chang did not leave because she had lost her husband in her early years and did not have children. All these years, she had been raising chickens and ducks and the villagers had given her alms to make a living. Now that the chickens and ducks were gone, she was old and her legs were not agile. Thinking about how miserable her life was, when this matter came out, she simply wanted to die at home and end it all. Liu Yi indeed did not dare to go out. The matter of killing nine families had always been a sickness in his heart.
In the evening, Liu Yi made another divination for himself in despair. The result was roughly the same as ten years ago. Black clouds covered the sun, rivers stopped flowing, wildfires burned mountains, and white waves overturned boats. However, compared to the divination ten years ago, it seemed to be a little different. The clouds covered the sun and blocked the eyes. The rivers cut off the water and did not cross the bridge. The mountains burned and the fire extinguished, and the withered grass was green. The small boat did not overturn the big boat.
"What is the meaning of this?" Although the divination was still an absolute divination, the end of the divination seemed to have the meaning of a willow tree hiding in the dark and a flower blooming in the light. Liu Yi had divined for decades, but he had never seen such a strange divination.
"Could it be…that there is a noble person protecting my Liu Yi family…?”
In a short while, the sky had completely darkened. In the Chang Family Camp, only two families had lights in their houses. One was the Chang Family, and the other was the Liu Family.
Because the Chang family had settled down later, the house was built quite a distance away from the place where the villagers lived together, so they could only see faint lights. It was impossible to tell which family the lights belonged to. People in the past were very superstitious. When they saw the will-o'-the-wisp lights, his wife Luo basically had a mental breakdown. During the day, every family moved out in large numbers, and the entire village was basically empty.
But at night, there were still lights in the village. Could it be a ghost?
Thinking of this, his wife Luo began to beg Liu Yi to leave the Chang Family Camp. During the day, the two of them had already fought over this matter, but Liu Yi was a more traditional man. He would rather die in the hands of ghosts and gods than be dragged back to Jingdou in a prison cart and beheaded by the people.
His wife's plea once again made Liu Yi waver. To be honest, Liu Yi was not a divine man, but a fortune-teller. He knew about exorcism, but he was definitely not an expert. At least his physical strength was not up to standard. The strange things in the Chang Family Camp were obviously not caused by ordinary things.
With the appearance of the night lights, Liu Yi also felt weak. However, it was night time now. Even if he left, he would have to wait until tomorrow. Left with no choice, Liu Yi took out a divination stick and spread out the divination of the Xiantian hexagram. If the light was not emitted by a human, then only the Xiantian hexagram could estimate it.
Liu Yi was both surprised and delighted when he saw the hanging elephant." The light of the day is at night, and there is no place to be uneasy." From the divination, as long as they went to a place with light, they would be safe.
Liu Yi used the things he found at home to make some simple protective measures for himself and his wife. He put the two demon-revealing glasses passed down by his master on the necks of the two children, then tied the wrists of the family of four together with a red rope. He lit up the lantern and walked towards the bright place in the middle of the village.
The place where the light came from was about two to three hundred meters away from Liu Yi's house. In the daytime, it would take a few minutes to walk. However, when Liu Yi's family walked, they felt that it was unusually long. They were jittery along the way. Not to mention the children and his wife, even Liu Yi himself was scared out of his wits.
Having stayed in the Chang Family Camp for more than ten years, it wasn't that they hadn't walked this path at night, but they had never felt so strange. Other than the strange sounds of wood breaking and stones falling into the water, the Demon Revealing Mirrors hanging around the two children's necks also tinkled endlessly.
According to Master Liu Yi, the Demon Revealing Mirror was a treasure that could shake the house. It was not used for protection. Although it was fine to protect it occasionally, it could only block ordinary small ghosts and monsters. If the Demon Revealing Mirror rang on its own, it meant that something had washed it away. If it was something that had matured, the Demon Revealing Mirror would be spent.
To be honest, Liu Yi's master was called Lou Moxun. He was not a big shot. The Demon Revealing Mirror that he passed down was not a world-shocking treasure. Therefore, along the way, Liu Yi had to check if the Demon Revealing Mirror was spent every few steps. He might as well walk until he reached a bright place. The Demon Revealing Mirror was still very bright.
Liu Yi was not surprised to find that the place where the lights were lit was the Chang family's house. This old lady used to count on the villagers to help her. Now that the villagers had left, he was old and his legs were not good. He could not walk far and would die no matter where he went. If it were him, he would probably choose to stay. He might be able to live a few more days.
After the family entered the house, Madam Chang was already trembling on the kang. When she realized that it was Liu Yi's family who came in, she collapsed on the bed.
Liu Yi saw that the old lady seemed to have not eaten for a day and was starving. He took out some dry rations and asked Luo to start a fire to prepare some porridge. At this moment, a miserable meow of a cat suddenly came from the courtyard, followed by an ear-piercing scratching sound. Liu Yi's scalp tensed up when he heard it. All the cats, dogs, chickens, and ducks in this village had run away for eight lifetimes. Why was there still a cat?
Hearing the cat scratching the door, Madam Chang hurriedly limped to open the door. It was strange that Madam Chang was a cripple. She was not young anymore and had not eaten for at least a day. However, looking at the energy she had when she got down to open the door, she looked like a young man in his twenties.
After the door was opened, a huge tanuki with black spots limped into the house. Its nostrils, mouth, and eyes were bloodshot, as if it had just fought with something. When Madam Chang saw this scene, she cried and hugged the cat in her arms. She limped back to the kang and gave her tattered bed to the cat.
According to Madam Chang, about two months ago, a big civet cat inexplicably came to the house. Madam Chang was lonely living alone, so she kept this cat as her companion. Although her rations were not rich, she still had to allocate a little for the cat to eat every meal. This cat was quite spiritual.
Although it did not eat much every day and was getting thinner by the day, it would not even look at the chicks hatched by Madam Chang's old hen. It ate whatever Madam Chang ate every day, such as sweet potatoes, Chinese yam, cornmeal, and even chaff. These were things that people could not swallow. Ordinary cats would not even smell them. As long as it was given by Madam Chang, the big black cat would definitely accept it without any waste. It would even lick the food bowl clean.
This time, the Chang Family Camp was in trouble, and the civet cat had disappeared. Madam Chang felt that the situation was over. Even the cat didn't care about her, so who else could care? The neighbor, Chang Wu, tried to persuade Madam Chang to escape, but Madam Chang refused. The disappearance of this cat was also one of the main reasons. However, she did not expect that in the middle of the night, when the ghost was patrolling, this cat would come back.
Hearing Madam Chang's words, Liu Yi wanted to perform a divination for Madam Chang and see the background of this big black cat. However, just as he was halfway through the divination, a cold wind suddenly blew outside the house. The windows and doors were blown and clanked. The Demon Revealing Mirror on his eldest son's neck suddenly clanked, scaring Liu Yi so much that he almost dropped the divination stick to the ground.
He picked up the Demon Revealing Mirror and saw five or six scratches on the surface. Liu Yi's hand trembled on the spot. Didn't they say that they were invincible? What was going on?
The cold wind outside was getting stronger and stronger, and the big black civet cat seemed to be getting closer and closer to Moxie. Liu Yi let Luo carry the two children and squeeze on the bed with Madam Chang. Then, he took out a jar of incense ash from his bag and sprinkled a layer on the windowsill and the door sill. He took off the two Demon Revealing Mirrors on the children's necks.
He hung one side on the door and the other on the window. The crackling sound of the door and window immediately stopped. After about an hour, the cat gradually quieted down. Liu Yicai was trembling with fear as he scooped a bowl of porridge from the pot and gave it to his injured wife and Madam Chang (Madam Chang only had one bowl).
Just as Liu Yi was about to go to the pot and scoop a few mouthfuls of rice soup with a spoon, the big black civet cat suddenly meowed again and stood directly opposite the door. All the fur on its body stood on end as if it was about to fight. The incense ash on the door sill was blown clean from left to right as if it was blown by someone. The Demon Revealing Mirror on the door fell to the ground with a clang.
Liu Yi's youngest son screamed and peed on the spot. The eldest son simply plunged into Luo's arms and did not dare to look at anything.
" Mother…" The youngest son pointed at the cat with snot and tears." That cat, why does it have so many tails…"
Liu Yi was also surprised by his youngest son's words. Among the animals, there were not only snakes, foxes, raccoons, yellow weasels, hedgehogs, rabbits, but cats could also cultivate, but there were fewer of them. However, it was said that cats that cultivated had nine tails, but ordinary people could not see them.
"Could it be that this tanuki is a beast that cultivates immortality?”Liu Yi stood behind the civet cat, trembling as he held a peach tree branch. He stared at the door and heard the door creak. It was as if someone was knocking on the door repeatedly with a few fingers. Liu Yi knew that this was called a ghost knocking on the door.
The so-called " if you don't do anything wrong, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door " referred to this. But then again, it could be said that there were only these four people left in a radius of more than ten miles. The strange deaths of the villagers, coupled with the ghost knocking on the door in the middle of the night, if an ordinary person really encountered such a scene, it would be enough to make a pot of tea whether they had done anything wrong or not…
The sound of the ghost knocking on the door lasted for about half an incense stick's time. During this time, the civet cat's cry turned into a howl, just like the cry of a baby. The five people in the room were frightened. Madam Chang knelt on the bed and kowtowed to the outside, begging the Great Immortal to spare her life.
What humans feared the most was not death, but the fear when they were on the verge of death. Although Madam Chang had already made up her mind to die, in the face of this unknown power that was fatal, she still revealed the innate desire to live.
Not only Madam Chang, even Liu Yi was beginning to feel fear. Originally, Liu Yi knew that as a criminal wanted by the imperial court, it was already good enough for him to survive until now. He had never taken death seriously.
The reason why he did not hesitate to hide and live was all for his wife and children. However, at this moment, for the first time in his life, Liu Yi truly felt the fear of death. The stiff corpses of the four mountains immediately appeared in his mind.
Especially Chang Sishan's father. When he died, his eyes were open. He hung himself with his eyes open and his face was ferocious. This was the first time Liu Yi had seen such a thing.
Although his body had hardened, the fear of death in his eyes seemed to have frozen in his pupils. At first, Liu Yi could not figure it out, but at this moment, he completely understood that the old man did not want to hang himself. When he was hung by the rope, his consciousness was very likely to be awake. It was very likely that he saw himself hang himself to death with his own eyes...
Just as Liu Yi was letting his imagination run wild, the sound of the ghost knocking on the door suddenly stopped. It was unknown whether it was the tanuki's howl or Madam Chang's loud head that had influenced that thing. Other than polite grunts and Madam Chang's sobs, there was no other sound in the room. Immediately after, Madam Chang was scared silly.
The cat stopped humming and there was only dead silence. The atmosphere was even stranger than when the ghost knocked on the door.
Just as Liu Yi wiped his sweat and was about to hang the Demon Revealing Mirror back on the ground.
Suddenly, the door opened with a loud bang. The huge force knocked Liu Yi over and knocked his head on the corner of the table. Liu Yi's body flew over and stood at the door. Liu Yi covered his head and slowly raised his head. Suddenly, he saw that the cat at the door seemed to have grown several times bigger. Its huge body almost blocked the entire door. Its nine tails were fan-shaped and its fur was emitting black gas.
Liu Yi closed his eyes and shook his head. He looked at it again. A cat was a cat. It didn't grow bigger and only had one tail.
"Could it be that I've awakened Heavenly Acumen?？”Liu Yi stood up with the help of the table and grabbed the peach tree branch.
At this moment, the civet cat suddenly turned its head to Liu Yi and bit the corner of Liu Yi's clothes with its mouth. He desperately tried to pull it out of the door, and his strength was as strong as a living person.
Liu Yi understood that the cat had no ill intentions. It wanted him to follow it." Perhaps, this cat knows how to break this thing? But if he went, what would happen to the four people in the house?”
Just as Liu Yi was hesitating, his youngest son suddenly rolled his eyes, and his pupils immediately turned into spinning ingots. "Duke Liu, come with me, your wife and children and my benefactor will be safe!"”After saying this, the youngest son spat out white foam on the bed and fell unconscious in Luo's arms.
Hearing this, Liu Yi completely understood that this cat was here to repay Liu Yi and Madam Chang's kindness. He would not lie." Take good care of the child. I'll be back soon…If I don't come back…take Aunt Chang and the child and leave the Chang Family Camp tomorrow morning. You must raise the child!"”
Liu Yi stepped out of the house and closed the door behind him. He and the black cat disappeared into the night.
Speaking of which, it was strange. Liu Yi usually had no strength to tie a chicken. He would have to catch a chick for a long time if it came out of the cracks in the fence. However, this night, he felt that his entire body was filled with endless energy. He jumped over the roof as if he was walking on flat ground. Moreover, he was born with night blindness. It was difficult to see things when the sky was just dark. Without a light, it was simply difficult to move an inch.
But on this night, he could see things very clearly. He could see every move of the black civet cat that was running 40 to 50 feet in front of him. Jumping around, Liu Yi followed the black civet cat to Chang Sishan's house. He saw the civet cat stop in front of a large water tank.
"What is the meaning of this?" Liu Yi came to the water tank and looked at it carefully. It was obviously not something from the current dynasty. The shape of the water tank was strange, a little like a gourd. There were two protruding " bellies " in the middle and upper sections of the tank, and a circle of animal patterns was engraved around the tank.
It didn't seem to be something used to hold water, but some kind of sacrificial vessel in ancient times. He had been to Chang Sishan's house before, and there were only a few pieces of broken furniture. He had never seen this thing before.”
As Liu Yi was pondering, he suddenly saw the civet cat suddenly slam into the water tank. Immediately, its head was bleeding, and the sound was like a landslide. It shook the broken house of Chang Sishan's family three times, but the civet cat did not give up. Instead, it took a few steps back and continued to hit the water tank with its head. There was another loud sound. After hitting it twice, the civet cat could no longer stand steadily, but it still staggered back and prepared to continue hitting.
" So this is the reason why the Chang Family Battalion met with such a mishap…" Liu Yi sighed." God bless my wife and children!" I, Liu Yi, am leaving!" After sighing, Liu Yi took a few steps back and slammed his head into the water tank. There was a loud noise that sounded like the sky was falling and the earth was shattering. Even Madam Chang and Madam Luo, who were trembling, were shocked…"
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