Chapter 63: Zhongshan Country [10]
Zhang Qiu’s heart warmed as he heard the familiar name ‘Song Bao’, but his fast reaction was that Li Shu had lost his memory, how could he called him ‘Song Bao’?
Immediately, he spit a mouthful of spittle, cruellykicked over and at the same time holding up the dagger high in his hand beforeplunging it down.
The other side reacted quickly by goingaround, binding Zhang Qiu’s arm and pulled him into his embrace. Familiar scentwafted in Zhang Qiu’s nostril and his struggling movement slowly stopped. Hewas still very defensive, holding a dagger in his hand as he looked up at theother side. It was Li Shu’s appearance.
“Li Shu?”
The other side nodded. Suspicion was written across Zhang Qiu’s whole face and then heard Qi Xi’s voice behind him. “Xiao Qiuqiu, you just went crazy somehow, ignoring our calls for you for half a day.”
“Daddy! Daddy!” Xiao Jiang came running “dadada” with the jingle of a bell.
Only then Zhang Qiu felt that the white fog was slowly dispersing as the jingle of the bell approached. Looking behind him, it was Er-Ge, Qi Xi and the others. Looking back on the ground, there were none of whatever broken child’s head, female ghost or zongzi.
“Yoyoyo, it’s been how long since you guys seen each other, you guys just can’t bear it? Xiao Qiuqiu, in any case you have to exercise restraint a bit. This kind of place——” Qi Xi laughed in ambiguity, “Is also quite stimulating.”
Zhang Qiu did not know what fault had Qi Xi cameup again. “What nonsense!”
Qi Xi pointed at his own neck for Zhang Qiuand said, “You let others see, the neck is red, and plus, till when areyou two going to keep embracing?”
Zhang Qiu then realized that Li Shu was still holding him. He coughed, then suddenly recalled that Li Shu had just called him Song Bao, and as he was about to ask Li Shu if he remembered, he saw Er-Ge coming straight up to him and pulled down his collar.
“Er, Er-Ge?”
“Ghost’s hands.” Zhang YuShui took out a spray and sprayed two times on Zhang Qiu’s neck. Zhang Qiu only felt a burning pain, and then heard Qi Xi squawked: “It’s black! Li Shu, your hand’s strength is too strong.”
“f.u.c.k off!” Zhang Qiu kicked QiXi, and then mentioned what had just happened. He heard Qi Xi said, “Justnow, you looked as if you were possessed. I called you from behind but you didnot hear it, insisted to come this way. From a distance, I could see you wereturning around in the same place as if you were trying to find someone at allcost.”
Zhang YuShui looked up at the sky and saidquickly, “First things first, we can’t delay any more.”
“Where are Qi ZhiRong and the others?”
“Wait in the original place, while wewent to find you. Pei Qing and Pixian Hui w.a.n.g stayed there, it won’t be aproblem.” Qi Xi said.
Zhang Qiu did not dare to delay, too. He pinched his son’s soft face, finding it was the right feeling. He walked with Li Shu at the rear, and then remembering that Li Shu had just called him Song Bao, his neck was no longer painful. He said in all smiles, “Xiao Shushu, do you remember who I am?”
“Who?”
Zhang Qiu’s smile froze in an instant. He crankedhis neck, looked up at Li Shu to distinguished whether Li Shu was amusing himor not. As a result, he saw Li Shu was very serious and immediately his wholeperson felt unhappy.
“You haven’t remembered yet?!”
Li Shu was sincere when he asked who, hefrowned and seriously said, “Just in a split second, I suddenly wanted tosay that name. So, we really knew each other before?”
Not only knew each other, the baby hadalready grown up. Zhang Qiu felt his heart twisting. The two of us met naked, and now we have to start all over again. Butafter second thought, being this way is fine too, heeheeehee. Zhang Qiu’seyeb.a.l.l.s turned and beamingly said, “You really want to know?”
“En.” Li Shu nodded. From thefirst meeting, he felt very familiar with the other person, and later, thescattered memories he remembered had the other person in it. It was unknownwhen he had begun to think that the other person might not have mistaken himfor another.
“Uh, at that time as soon as we met, youparticularly liked me right away. You love me very very much, even willing to give birth for me. Na, Xiao Jiang is our son.”
“Pfft.”
(Editor: ಥ‿ಥ Our Song Bao really know how to joke.)
Zhang Qiu heard Qi Xi’s laughter behind himand wanted to kick his legs hard. Upon seeing Li Shu’s doubtful gaze, hethought, he should not boast excessively. He quickly said, “I feel bad foryou later! For the sake of fairness, you had once and so do I. I’m carrying LaoNi.”
It seemed that it would be impossible for him to be main Top position in the future, but if he occasionally strived hard with you once and so do I, he might accomplish it. Especially with the present Li Shu, who lost his memory could be deceived better. Zhang Qiu smiled and patted himself on the stomach. “Lao Ni!”
(Editor: Song Bao doesn’t know how to give up. ಥ_ಥ)
Li Shu shifted his gaze on it and finallyknew who Lao Ni was.
Once Zhang Qiu saw that Li Shu did not makea statement with face as indifferent as before, he hurriedly said, “Itdoesn’t matter if you don’t remember it now, we can develop our feelingsslowly. I am a responsible person, so you can rest a.s.sured that I won’t abandonyou.”
Xiao Jiang had a complex expression on hisface from beginning to end, but he was especially supportive of Daddy, so hewhispered to Li Shu, “Mommy.”
Li Shu swept a glance at him dully.
Xiao Jiang immediately froze and promptlycorrected himself, “Big Daddy.”
Although the son lost the chain, but theson’s heart was good. Zhang Qiu waved his hand in easy-mannered, “What weaddress each other at home are not important, as long as the position is right.”
Between talks, they had arrived at the original place. After checking the number, everyone who was counted for was here. Zhang Qiu was in a good mood that he felt like he could kill one hundred zongzis in a breath. Then he heard Er-Ge said that they were almost there.
This hill was quite low, and they were halfway up now. They could reach down in about ten minutes.
The fog had dispersed a lot, so the field on the foothill could be seen clearly. The gra.s.s on the hill grew wildly, yet the ground on the field was barren; the whole area was red, as if soaked with blood. Their guide, Ah Gui’s face grew whiter. Zhang Qiu had a bad feeling, and he looked at Er-Ge. Zhang Yushui went forward but before he even came across Ah Gui, Ah Gui put out his hand in fear. He pointed to the field before him, and spoke falteringly, “I-I saw…”
“What did you see?”
Ah Gui was in a trance; his whole personseemed as if it was about to collapse. His mouth kept repeating that he saw it.Zhang YuShui once again asked what he saw.
“There, the skins of all of us arefloating there. We are dead, dead, all of us are dead…”
“Utterly rubbish! Ah Gui, you don’ttalk nonsense.”
“Wait a minute. I seem to see my ownface too. Am I dead?”
“I saw it too. Could I be dead?”
The bodyguards at the back showed looks offalling apart and fear. When Zhang Qiu looked at them, his scalp numbed. Theylooked as if they were not human, but ghosts. But how could this be possible?He looked at the foothill; there was nothing more than a dozen sheets of humanskins hung on the air. He found himself, Li Shu and Xiao Jiang among it at aglance, and his heart tightened. After staring at it for a long time, heunexpectedly felt indescribable that he had died.
Zhang Qiu bit the tip of his lower tongue,and the pain aroused his consciousness. He quickly said, “Everyone, don’tbe fooled; don’t stare at that thing.”
Li Shu pinched Ah Gui’s shoulder with onehand, and the pain awakened Ah Gui. Ah Gui showed an expression of awake from adream and begin to see the light. He laughed out loud, “It hurts, I feelpain, I didn’t die.”
Upon seeing the situation, Qi Xi and PeiQing, one after another blocked those bodyguards from running around in atrance, and slapped them hard in the face. Soon these people showed the sameexpression as Ah Gui; both crying and laughing, and all blurted out that theywere okay.
“There Yin Qi is too thick here, withtoo many ghosts of one who died unjustly and malicious spirits. In front of usare all diversionary tricks. It is fine as long as we have the protectiontalisman, let’s go first.” Zhang YuShui took the lead in walking down whenhe saw that everyone was okay.
After a series of things, the bodyguards behindthem were now scared and suspicious, but they dared not leave behind. Theyclosely guarded Qi ZhiRong and hurried to follow Zhang YuShui down. Qi Xiwalked at the rear and kept looking back.
“What’s wrong?” Zhang Qiu asked.
Qi Xi frowned, looked across the back of QiZhiRong in the crowd and shook his head. “Maybe I was mistaken.”
“It’s an illusion ah!” Zhang Qiupatted Qi Xi on the shoulder and said in a brisk tone, “I think thesethings want to shake our confidence first. In fact, let’s talk about it. Wehave a huckster and mythical beasts whenever we need here. As for me, half ofthe Divine Vein can be useful too.”
Qi Xi took his line of sight back and lookedat Zhang Qiu with annoyance. “You? The first one who fell behind just nowwas you, this half of Divine Vein!”
Zhang Qiu, who was full of lively kindnessmood immediately felt like kicking Qi Xi to death. He snorted and quickened hissteps to join Li Shu.
About a few minutes later, they had reached the central field. Er-Ge was staring at the bronze mirror with the compa.s.s. Zhang Qiu looked at it. The needle of the compa.s.s was wildly swinging while the image in the bronze mirror was b.l.o.o.d.y, not even a shadow presented.
Zhang YuShui handed the compa.s.s to Zhang Qiu. Zhang Qiu held it steadily. As soon as he saw Er-Ge pulled out a small case from the bag, Zhang Qiu knew it contained his blood. Er-Ge dipped a brush in it and without raising his head said, “Don’t shook, hold it steady.”
“I’m steady——” The compa.s.s inZhang Qiu’s hand was taken over by another hand. As soon as Zhang Qiu saw itwas Li Shu, he relaxed.
Zhang YuShui looked up at the two people andlaughed, “Made up?” Before they could answer, he lowered his head andraised his wrist to draw talisman texts on the compa.s.s.
Upon seeing this, Zhang Qiu no longer spoke. He saw Er-Ge was concentrating; undoubtedly it was cinnabar colored bloodstains, but the next stroke on the compa.s.s appeared a faintly golden light. About a few times, Er-Ge’s head had been covered with a thin layer of sweat. From beginning to end, the brush had not paused; it was done in a breath.
Once the brush was lifted, the compa.s.s’s needlethat had just been wildly swinging stopped immediately, while a scene of evilspirits emerged within the b.l.o.o.d.y image on the mirror.
When these ghosts saw that they could see, they all showed malevolent expressions, as if they were about to burst through the mirror and rush forth. Zhang Qiu felt a cold gloomy breath burst on his face. Zhang YuShui looked up in front and said dully, “Courting death.”
The compa.s.s in Li Shu’s hand was taken quickly, and it was unknown what method Er-Ge did, but the talisman texts on the compa.s.s flew up in a split second and became an array up in the air. Following the magic array, many grieving malicious spirits suddenly appeared in the just recently empty air.
Being confined in the array, these maliciousspirits let out forlorn and bitter screech, and not a moment pa.s.sed, their fiveorifices on the face could not be kept, showing their miserable death state.Some of these ghosts had their carca.s.s separated, some had no eyes, some had beenskinned off, some had their rotten intestines bore through their stomach…
With a talisman paper between his fingers, ZhangYuShui asked coldly, “Who incited you all to rise in revolt? Not going toreincarnate, but staying here to harm people’s lives is disturbing the HeavenlyLaw. Today, I advocate the Law on behalf of the Heaven, to annihilate you allfor eternity, not allowed to be reincarnated.”
These grieving malicious spirits had been soakingin this dense evil spirits day after day that their wisdom had gone long ago.They could only instinctively remember to obey orders, or their deepestobsession before death. Now they were trapped in Zhang Yushui’s magic array,which had the effect of calming and dispelling evil, and in merely an effort,these irrational malicious spirits appeared in their death state as before theydied, while their memories and consciousness slowly recovered.
When Zhang YuShui said that they would neverenter reincarnation, they were all frightened with alarmed and perplexedexpression, and began to beg for mercy.
Zhang YuShui pointed to a slightly olderfemale ghost and asked, “You talk.”
The female ghost had a beautiful face andwore ancient dress, but her stomach was dripping with blood; her whole skirtwas stained with blood. Looking down, there was a b.l.o.o.d.y flesh ball hanging ather feet. After looking carefully, it turned out to be an undeveloped infant.
Zhang Qiu thought that the female ghost mighthave died because the undeveloped infant was taken out of her by digging herstomach while she was alive, and he could not help shivering. The way theperson who did this was too cruel and perverted.
“This slave’s child, this slave’s child…”The female ghost cried piteously.
Zhang YuShui’s hand holding the talismanmoved, and the female ghost dared not cry any more. She said in a low voice,“This slave was captured by Zhongshan Country. The person who dug thisslave’s stomach said that they needed people to be sacrificed to beseechtreasure. Afterwards, this slave did not know. My poor child, child…”
“You talk.” When Zhang YuShui sawthat female ghost had nothing more to say, he pointed to a male ghost.
The male ghost had clear face with no moustache, middle-aged, without legs, and had a sharp voice. As soon as the voice was heard, they just knew that the ghost was a eunuch.
But to their disappointment, ZhongshanCountry at that time was still not used to eunuch. According to the male ghost,he was originally the lowest peasant of Zhongshan Country, but one day he wascaught by the palace Imperial Bodyguards, had his legs and b.a.l.l.s cut off; itwas said that sacrificing the people to obtain treasure for the sake ofreviving the Kingdom.
Zhang YuShui interrogated several otherswithout asking for specific, but they all said these two sentences: sacrificingpeople and treasure. Losing patience, he raised the talisman paper in his hand,and the ghosts in the array were trembling and begging for mercy.
“Wait, Your Excellency, this child knowswhat Your Excellency wanted to know.”
A little ghost in the array said childishly.He was about seven or eight years old, looked fair and cute, with sharp smallface which looked quite delicate. But in place of his eyes were two black holesdripping with blood as his eyes had been dug out.
Before Zhang YuShui asked, the little ghost said in one breath, “This child is a young servant in the palace. The king was seriously ill and the country was declining day by day. This child accidentally heard that Zhao and Qi were going to attack. Later, a Lord came to the palace and said to the King that there was a treasure that could revive the country. After that, was the day the whole palace’s people were killed, because this child’s eyes were dug up, this child didn’t know the rest. Later, this child didn’t know when but regained consciousness and there was an inaccessible place underneath. Every time, it absorbed this child’s strength…”
Another b.l.o.o.d.y-faced female ghost lamented, “Your Excellency, this concubine doesn’t want to hurt people either. The Yin Qi here is originally thick, and with constant new souls joining, it’s enough down here. But-but that large fire caused Yin Qi to leak out. This concubine also didn’t know what happened, but followed after the skinned sisters to go seduce people to come here. Beg Your Excellency to spare us.”
“You all have done too many evils. TodayI wash away the evil from your body but surely your crimes are reported to the NetherWorld. Whether to be punished or enter reincarnation, all are at King Yan’sdisposal.” Zhang YuShui spoke while the talisman paper in his hand ignited,and the golden seal array emitted thick flames. These malicious spirits howledmournfully in the array. However, not more than a few minutes, their voicesgradually stopped, and these malicious spirits with horrible facial featuresand different death states resumed their appearance. Their figures also seemedmore transparent and clear.
Zhang YuShui bit his fingertip and shot adrop of blood into the array, “Go!”
The malicious spirits in the array dispersedlike the wind.
Zhang Qiu did not know if it was apsychological effect, but he really felt that the low temperature suddenlyrose, the thick gloomy clouds in the sky were fading, and there was a faint rayof light pa.s.sing through the clouds to reach this area, but it’s still notobvious.
“Great Master, I heard from people inthe county town that there was a fire in this area five years ago.” Ah Guisaid.
Zhang YuShui nodded. This was not anysignificant. He was not ruthless because those malicious spirits were subjectedby other people’s control and they were already pitiful before they died.
“Underneath.” Li Shu looked atZhang Yushui as he spoke.
Just now, those malicious spirits said thatthere was a place underneath that absorbed their Yin Qi, indicating that verylikely a tomb was here. There was something somewhere that was probably what QiZhiRong wanted to unravel.
“I’ll determine the position. You guys find a place to rest.” Zhang YuShui looked around. “This place congregating Yin, remitting sun and moon essence; such a good piece of land but it is not a Feng Shui treasured land suitable for tomb.”
“Why?” Zhang Qiu asked curiously.
“Generally, the search for Feng Shui treasured land for Yin Burial Chamber is mostly for the sake of blessing the future generations of the descendants, life after life for prosperity and honor. This is called Yin Luck. Of course, the deceased’s soul can also rest in peace when they were buried in such place. When reincarnated, you can also be lifted up a layer. Maybe you will be rich, powerful and influential person in your next life.” Zhang Yushui gossiped, took a step and stopped somewhere. The copper coin dagger in his hand stabbed the ground, then he pulled it out and pinched the soil. He said, “Here it is.”
[T/N: you can search Yin Burial Feng Shui]
Qi ZhiRong waved his hand. These bodyguardsalso used to do this line of work; four people came over and brought Luoyangshovels and detonators while the rest of the work was given to those people.
Zhang Yushui walked to the side. These bodyguardsof Qi ZhiRong were quite completely prepared with simple tent folding chairs. OnceAh Gui saw Zhang Yushui coming over, he hurriedly pa.s.sed his chair over to him.Zhang Yushui thanked him and pulled Pixian Hui w.a.n.g to sit down while he stoodnext to Zhang Qiu and continued, “Every person seek peace in death. Althougha place like this is good, but it is harmful to the soul as it is likely toraise corpse, forming grievous malicious spirits, and not good for reincarnation,which every Feng Shui pract.i.tioners will not recommended to choose this place,unless someone knows but do so intentionally.”
Only then Zhang Qiu remembered of the place that the little ghost had mentioned, and he thought, he had only to wait to know what was in it.
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