Chapter 1372 Casting Creatures
Everyone knew clearly that it seemed that these people had already prepared for their funeral. Their guess last night was correct. The general was testing them. If they could survive, then It proves that he is really capable, and he will be introduced to the Marquis of Zhennan next. If he opens the door this morning and sees a lake full of water on the ground and a few chewed corpses, then he will directly collect the corpses for them.
Judging from the general's smooth steps, it is obvious that this is not the first time, and everyone is becoming more and more curious about the Marquis of Zhennan behind the general.
Going upstairs and seeing Gao Yanqing’s body, the general showed a sad expression and did not forget to comfort the remaining people. “Masters, please rest assured. After all, this incident also happened in our Luo’an City. We will take care of this master’s funeral, and his family will also receive a generous reward.”
In such a world, Jiang Cheng and others don't care about rewards at all. They only think about how to survive, but they still have to say what should be said. After all, the plot has to advance. Zhang Qizheng raised his hand to the general and said, "My brother He is also a poor man. We are not familiar with the place here, so we will leave the funeral to the general.”
"It's a matter of duty."
After the general answered, he immediately glanced at the soldier behind him. An older soldier with a beard came over. He first bent down and carefully inspected the The remaining half of the body.
Jiang Cheng noticed that the other party’s attention stayed on the huge wound on the body and on the face for the longest time. There were several beauty incense plants near the wound. After a while, the man seemed to have found nothing. With a special clue, several soldiers stepped forward, wrapped half of the body in the quilt on the bed, and then carried it away.
The quilt was completely soaked by the lake water, and water was still dripping along the way. The fat man looked at the remaining water stains on the ground, and suddenly felt very sick.
This water has a sticky texture and continues to exude a stale smell.
Later, several teams of soldiers who had previously arranged to inspect the entire courtyard also reported back. Just as Jiang Cheng and others thought, except for the room where the dead person was found to have water damage, everything else in the courtyard was normal.
Hearing this, the general's tense face relaxed a lot, and then he nodded to everyone, and said in a firm tone: "If something like this happens, this courtyard will definitely not dare to let you go again. The master continues to live here. If it is convenient for all masters, Now follow me to the Hou Mansion to meet the Marquis."
Although he said it politely, he did not give Jiang Cheng and others a second choice. After hearing this, the fat man took a deep breath. The next plot seemed familiar to him. It seemed that the plot map was about to advance to the Hou Mansion.
I agreed without a doubt. After the general arranged the affairs here, the group headed to the Hou Mansion under the leadership of the general. This time their treatment was much better than before. Not only were there people around Soldiers accompanied them to protect them, and some horses were arranged for them to ride. The group marched towards the Hou Mansion in a mighty manner.
The team was marching on the road, which was very eye-catching. Jiang Cheng noticed that the equipment used by these horses was also engraved with strange patterns. He had seen this pattern before. It was on the furoshiki. It was the exclusive symbol of the Hou Mansion. .
Pedestrians and merchants around them all gave way wherever they went along the way. Their eyes looking at Jiang Cheng and others were filled with complex emotions, including awe, fear, and a subtle emotion that even Jiang Cheng could not figure out. Being treated like this Both eyes were staring at each other, and the fat man suddenly felt inexplicably nervous. It felt like he was seeing them off.
No, it’s for the funeral.
To everyone's surprise, the famous Zhennanhou Mansion is not located in the center of the city, but is located in a place that can even be called remote. It is quite a long walk from the previous courtyard. It took a stick of incense to walk.
As early as when they were still some distance away from the Hou Mansion, the general called for everyone to dismount, and the group went there on foot.
In broad daylight, the lavish front door of the Hou Mansion was closed. There was no one outside, perhaps because of the light. The fat man looked at the main entrance of the Hou Mansion. After looking at it for a long time, he only felt a gloomy ghostly aura.
The general who was walking at the front turned his head and explained, "Masters, the Marquis prefers peace and quiet, and he doesn't care about ostentation. We enter the mansion through a side door."
"It all depends on the general's arrangement." Everyone echoed.
The group of people turned a corner and walked into a secluded alley. Not long after entering, everyone felt an indescribable discomfort at the same time. The walls on both sides were painted vermilion and were extremely high. The sky was squeezed into a gap, and the surroundings were eerily quiet. Everyone pursed their lips and said nothing, and the atmosphere was very depressing.
The fat man looked left and right, staring at the vermilion walls on both sides. The wall was so red that it made people unable to take their eyes away, as if it was like a bottomless pool that was about to swallow people up. Among them, there was faint laughter in the ears. It was the laughter of children. The laughter came one after another, far and near, erratic, but at the same time it was crisp, crisp and even a little weird.
Until someone reached out and blocked his eyes, the fat man who came back to his senses suddenly found that he had walked to the wall unknowingly, sticking his head out in a weird posture, facing the wall. It's so close that you can almost touch it.
"What...what's going on?" The fat man suddenly felt a chill and immediately backed away.
The person blocking his sight was naturally Jiang Cheng, and when the fat man retreated, he accidentally bumped into Tang Qisheng. Tang Qisheng supported him and whispered at the same time, "Don't look at the walls on both sides. There is something wrong with this wall. The paint was mixed with dead people’s blood.”
Zhu Jie stared at the fat man, especially his pupils. As if confirming something, he nodded after a moment and breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, I found it in time, otherwise it would have been troublesome if my mind was taken away."
After a brief hesitation, the group continued to move forward. Go, the general walking at the front is walking alone in the narrow passage, as if he doesn't care about what is happening behind him.
The connection of these strange things strengthened everyone's determination to explore the Zhennan Hou Mansion. Yao and Shun Yu turned to look at Tang Qisheng. The other party's performance just now must have seen the mystery behind the wall, "Tang Sir, what did you mean when you said the paint on the wall was mixed with dead people’s blood?”
Tang Qisheng hesitated for a moment and shook his head, "Maybe what I said is not accurate. I have to ask him for details. Tang Qisheng looked at the fat man and asked in a serious tone: "What did you see just now? "
"No, I didn't see anything, but I heard...I heard a burst of laughter. It was the laughter of a child. It was very clear and unmistakable...it couldn't be wrong! "Recalling the scene just now, the fat man trembled in his heart. How could he not know that he almost got caught just now.
"There was only laughter. Have you seen the child's face or head? Zhang Qizheng, who was walking at the end, suddenly said: "Like a child's head hanging on the wall?" "
Just listening to Zhang Qizheng's description, Fatty felt that he was not well. What kind of underworld scene is this, with a child's head hanging on the wall?
"No, no, it's just …just laughter. "The fat man quickly corrected him.
Tang Qisheng breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, "That's not a big problem. It seems that I guessed it right. It's not that kind of thing. It's just that the vermilion paint on the wall is mixed with the resentful blood of the dead child. No wonder it's so red."
< br>"This wall is built too high, and the road in the middle rarely gets sunlight. Over time, evil will naturally breed, and the resentful spirits of those dead children will not go away. , will seduce people who are not determined on the road, you just happened to be on the road."
Hearing Tang Qisheng's nonchalant tone, Fatty felt bad. He was a person who experienced it, so he naturally knew the weirdness. place, and listening to Tang Qisheng's meaning, he seemed quite lucky that it was just the resentful spirits of some dead children, not those things.
Those things...what the hell are they?
Seeing the fat man's doubts, Li Bai, who had not spoken for a long time, said slowly: "Don't be afraid, they are worried about casting living beings. The so-called casting of living beings is somewhat similar to driving piles. They both pour living people into the building. The flesh and blood will of living people is used to bless the building to achieve a certain effect. The biggest difference between the two is that driving piles is generally used in water, such as building bridges across rivers. Human beings are different from human beings, but casting creatures is different. Most of them are used in homes. The specific process is to bring in living people and pour them into the foundation, or cast them directly into the wall. There is a saying that the more resentful these people are before they die, the more resentment they have before they die. The more fearful it is, the better the effect of casting the creature. It can protect the building from falling down for a hundred years, and the effect is even better, it can even help the owner and his family to ward off evil spirits. ”
"It is said that if you want to distinguish whether this house is a casting house, you can refer to a few points. The house of the casting house is very cool in the summer. It is not the kind of coolness with wind, but just sitting there, motionless, it is very cool. There is also a little , that is, the building of the house will not rot or be infested with insects. The infestation of insects and ants can't even be seen."
Li Bai explained in detail. Only then did Fatty suddenly realize that this was already a high-end game. There was a crouching tiger, hidden dragon among his teammates. If he wasn't led by a doctor, he wouldn't even be qualified to participate in this kind of game.
We haven't entered the Zhennan Hou Mansion yet, but the alley outside almost got the fat man into trouble. Everyone is not optimistic about the situation in the Hou Mansion.
Finally, the general walking at the front stopped. A side door appeared on the side of the wall. The side door was divided into two, left and right. It was dark. The general stood in front of the door and reached out to knock. The door felt stiff every time I moved it.
Judging from the knocking sound, this old wooden door is made of very solid materials and makes a very solid sound.
The fat man stared at the door, feeling strange for some reason. The two door panels gave him a very bad feeling, as if an accident would happen after the door was opened, and... there was a row of holes on the edge of the door.
The holes are not big and not very obvious. You need to be very careful to see them. They are lined up in a row from top to bottom. Before the fat man can continue to think about it, there is a "squeak--" The door is open.
The person who opened the door was a woman. She was wearing a green skirt. She looked pretty. She looked like she was a maid in the Marquis's mansion. However, the woman's face was expressionless, and there was a faint air of unnaturalness. Bai said, "General Yuwen, the Marquis is waiting for you inside." The maid's voice was calm and without any emotion.
General Yuwen... This is also the first time everyone knows the name of this general.
There is a man standing behind the woman. The man has a beard, a big chest and a round waist. He is wearing a short jacket and has two bare arms. The exposed muscles look full of strength.
Several people in Jiangcheng keenly noticed that whether it was the clothes on the maids or the shorts on the shirtless men, the unique patterns of the Hou Mansion were displayed in conspicuous positions, which seemed to have become a means of showing off one's identity.
The man didn't say anything. A pair of leopard eyes glanced at General Yuwen, staring at Jiang Cheng and others, as if he wanted to drill two holes in them. Fortunately, Jiang Cheng and others were experienced in hundreds of battles. He had never seen any scene before, and he was not intimidated by the man. He still maintained an expressionless expression.
After a while, the maid and the man stepped aside, and General Yuwen was the first to step into the door, followed by Jiang Cheng and others.
The space inside was very large. The group walked through the corridors and came to a secluded courtyard. Along the way, Jiang Cheng and others looked around, trying to write down the topography of the Hou Mansion, but soon, So they all gave up, because it was too complicated, one layer inside another, and many places were almost the same. Fatty even suspected that General Yuwen was leading them in circles just to stun them, no. Let them remember the real path within the Hou Mansion.
Stop in front of a courtyard, General Yuwen paused, turned around and said: "Excuse me, masters, please take a rest here. I have to go inside to report to the Marquis. The Marquis has been resting for a while. .”
Later, General Yuwen lowered his voice and continued: "By the way, I want to remind all the masters that during the waiting period, all masters should try not to move around. There have been some things in the house recently, and the situation is relatively complicated. Once let go, The others misunderstood, but that’s not good.”
After finishing speaking, he walked into the courtyard alone without waiting for the reaction of others in Jiangcheng. After a few turns, the person disappeared.
After General Yuwen left, the fat man really breathed a sigh of relief. This man was standing next to him, which made him very nervous. "Damn, what is this man talking about? He also specifically told us not to walk around. , but why does it sound like you are encouraging me? What do you mean? Do you think..."
But when the fat man turned around, he suddenly found that Jiangcheng, Zhang Qizheng and others had completely ignored him. Their expressions were very bad, especially Zhu Jie. His face was extremely gloomy.
Zhu Jie stared at a few people, his eyes sweeping across Jiang Cheng’s face one by one, as if he was confirming something. After a while, even his breathing became faster, “Don’t hide it. Yes, you can see it, right?”
"Yes." Zhang Qizheng glanced at the other courtyard and nodded calmly, "There was something wrong with the door we came in just now. It was not an ordinary door panel, but a coffin. That door was made of a coffin, and it was sunk. The holes on the edge of the black cellar coffin that have been in the water for a long time were left by the nails that were driven into the coffin." (End of Chapter)