Chapter 59: Taking the ghost test, eating mud and telling lies
As soon as the tip of the whip sounded, many candidates started to move and ran towards the deserted village in the distance.
Some of them ran very fast, fearing that they would fall behind and find no suitable medicinal materials in the deserted village.
At this time, the red snake lady shouted loudly behind the crowd:
"Although this level allows you to collect herbs, it does not necessarily require the method of gathering. Also, I call this level 'testing ghosts'. Don't say that I didn't remind you."
This sound came into everyone's ears, making many candidates confused. Those candidates who ran away at the front repeatedly turned back, as if they wanted to run back again and ask Mrs. Red Snake carefully.
But after the examiner, Mrs. Red Snake, gave the hint, she held her hands and jumped into the air. She sat on the roof of the carriage and looked at everyone with a smile without saying a word.
Yu Que was originally in the front row entering the village, but when he heard Madam Red Snake's voice, his heart became alert and his steps slowed down.
Qian Huazhen next to him also slowed down. The other party came to his side and whispered:
"Brother Yu, you are smarter than me! What does it mean that you don't have to use the method of collecting herbs, and what is the 'test of ghosts'? Could it be that the results of this test are excellent, and you can be worthy of being a ghost?"
Ghost messenger has many meanings in this world. It not only refers to a certain kind of ghosts and gods that can seduce souls, but also refers to officials in the yamen who specialize in dealing with the souls of the people.
If everyone at the scene has passed the county school entrance examination, and after graduation, if they have not passed the Daogong entrance examination, there is a certain chance that they can enter a yamen and work as a ghost officer. However, the "ghost exam" may have a different meaning in today's ghost exam scenario.
"Let's go to the village and have a look." Yu Que responded to Qian Huazhen in a deep voice.
The two of them got together, in the middle of the crowd, and rushed forward at an unhurried pace.
In addition, while Yu Que was traveling, his attention was not only focused on the front, but also on a certain person.
The other party is also in the middle of the crowd and has a tacit understanding with him.
This person is Fu Ling.
On the way into the village, their eyes met from time to time, each with a cold look in their eyes, and they were obviously ready to deal with each other in the middle of a deserted village.
So the moment he entered the village, Yu Que said to Qian Huazhen beside him:
"Brother Qian, I have a cause and effect that needs to be settled, so I won't go with you, so as not to implicate you."
After the words fell, he didn't wait for the confused Qian Huazhen to reply, then floated away from the crowd and drifted towards a corner of the deserted village.
Qian Huazhen looked stunned. He didn't think that Yu Que was making excuses and didn't want to partner with him.
Because in the first exam, the word "Yu Que" was heard by all the candidates, and someone hated him so much that he wanted to eat him alive.
Sure enough, after Yu Que left, another figure followed him away.
Qian Huazhen saw the man clearly. He quickly wrapped his robe around him and murmured: "He was beaten to death as soon as he entered the village. He is really energetic... and he is not afraid of being seriously injured or being missed by others."< br>
As he spoke, Qian Huazhen was reminded of the enmity between Yu Que and Fuling, and the thought of finding someone to partner with him disappeared instantly.
The boy immediately broke away from the crowd and ran into the deserted village alone.
As he ran, he thought to himself: "It's better for me to look for medicine alone, and if I can't find it, I won't find it, than to join forces with others, and end up getting slapped by my accomplices."
Among the many candidates, there are not a few who consider Qian Huazhen. This is actually the reason why Yu Que, who left just now, chose to go alone.
In addition, many candidates chose to go together with each other. They planned to work together to collect medicines in deserted villages, or even to snatch medicines.
The eyes of these people flickered: "The examiners have said that you don't have to use 'picking' to pick herbs. Doesn't that mean you can use 'grabbing'?!"
However, after entering the village, the candidates who were originally in high spirits began to feel heavy in their hearts.
Only corpses were seen, either lying dead on the mountain road, or hanging from trees or roof eaves. Clouds of cold mist rolled in the deserted village, making the dead environment extremely gloomy.
The village was deserted. Nearly two hundred candidates dispersed into the village. Although there was no disturbance at all, it didn't cause much splash.
Yu Que ignored the corpses in the deserted village. He wrapped his consciousness around him and walked deeper into the village in an orderly manner.
Once entering the village.
He realized that the further he walked into the village, the more obvious the accumulation of Yin Qi and Corpse Qi was. If there really were broken branches and leaves of heavenly materials and earthly treasures here, then they must have been located in the deepest part of the village.
Suddenly, bang, bang, bang, bang!
A sound of gongs sounded strangely in the deserted village, and a murmur of words came out:
"Ho ho ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha."
The sound immediately startled all nearby candidates, including Yu Que.
No one who went to take the exam tonight had a gong with them, and the examiners had already said that the people in this village were dead.
There's a ghost!
Such thoughts jumped out in everyone's mind.
Don't be reckless when encountering ghosts in the wild, especially in this dangerous place where the whole village is dead.
The hair on Yu Que's body immediately stood up. He looked around and saw a haystack nearby. He dodged and jumped into the haystack. He covered himself with the haystack, and then he didn't dare to breathe.
Around him, the other candidates, including Nafuling.
Everyone of that generation also crawled into the grass, jumped onto the roof, and some people had a water tank next to them. They didn't have time to pay too much attention and plunged into the water tank.
Soon, the sound of the gong was getting closer and closer.
In the vigilant eyes of everyone around, a shambling mummy appeared in everyone's eyes. It had a big head and slender limbs. It was staggering and carrying a gong. It was indeed not a human being, but it was working in the village like a human being.
Many candidates have thoughts:
"Is this a zombie ghost? Or a night watch ghost?"
Waiting until the night watchman slowly walked by, the candidates hiding around sneaked out like cats and mice, planning to continue deeper into the village.
But as soon as they appeared and raised their heads, they found that the ghost who was passing by had turned back strangely and was standing on the road, looking straight at them. This scene frightened the candidates, and they immediately wanted to strike first and beat the ghost to death.
Fortunately, Yu Que fell into the crowd, and he was relatively close to the night watchman, so he immediately shouted:
"Wait a minute! Don't even make a move."
Except for Fu Ling, who had a fierce look on his face in the dark, the rest of the people subconsciously stopped and looked at Yu Que.
It is said that Yu Que was a person who stole the show in both exams and was quite capable. Therefore, in such a ghostly environment, other candidates naturally followed his advice subconsciously.
Yu Que bowed his hands to the people around him, frowned slightly, looked around, and suddenly got into the nearly half-collapsed house next to him, and took out a handful of firewood ashes and a hand of pot bottom ashes.
With a little water in the water tank, he squeezed the firewood ash into the size of an egg, and touched it with the pot ashes.
Immediately afterwards, Yu Que endured it and stuffed the black mud pill into his mouth with an uncomfortable look on his face.
He opened his mouth and made a weird sound, and walked towards the watcher behind him.
When the other candidates around saw this, their eyes lit up: "Yes, that ghost was talking just now. We can definitely listen to what it said and see if we can communicate."
"He is indeed a strong candidate for the first place in the literary test. I can even remember the trick of 'eating mud and telling lies' in a hurry."
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The so-called "eating mud and telling lies" means that after a person dies, the ghost will be light and airy and speak in a high-pitched and thin voice, which is even weirder than the eunuch, as if there is a pool of thick phlegm in the mouth.
Even if the immortals can understand the nonsense spoken by the ghosts, the ghosts cannot understand human speech without realizing it, and the two cannot communicate normally.
Therefore, if immortals want to communicate with ghosts and gods, they often need to become like them, and their mouths must be filled with thick phlegm. Only when they speak like this can the ghosts and gods understand them.
And the deeper you face the ghosts and gods, the more necessary it is.
On the contrary, some ghosts who have just died may still speak normally, but it will become longer as time passes, just like rigor mortis and the vocal cords will drop. The ghosts will increasingly forget human speech and only understand nonsense.
Yu Que walked up to the night watchman. He was eating clay balls in his mouth and communicating with him in a weird voice:
"Brother, why are you out so late at night?"
"Watch, watch." The mummy's throat clucked, making a muffled sound even weirder than his own.
Yu Que said again: "Go into the village, do you know what's there?"
The ghost at night shouted: "There are, there are messengers, they are fierce, stay away, don't go."
Hearing the word "person", Yu Que raised his eyebrows slightly, and instantly thought of the word "testing ghosts" in the examiner's mouth.
He was good at tempting, and even took out a gold ingot chestnut from his sleeve, tempting the other party: "What will happen if you see the policeman?"
The wake-up call ghost's eyes shone brightly. He stared at Jin Yuan Baoli and his throat roared: "Give it to me, give it to me."
Yu Que was not stingy. He threw the treasure out as soon as he could. The watchdog caught it and said happily:
"Collect people, no no, collect ghosts. They are collecting ghosts, and they can serve as errands when they go."
Geez, the mummy wanted to stuff the chestnut into its mouth and eat it, but its teeth couldn't open and it was so anxious that it turned around.
Yu Que and several candidates around him listened to the ghost's answer and vaguely understood.
Their expressions were horrified, and they were all frightened: "Could it be that the ghosts here are forming a group of ghosts, or is there a big ghost coming here to gather a crowd?"
The meaning of collecting ghosts as errands is similar to "recruiting soldiers and buying horses".
Those who dare to do such things are either immortals who are recruiting soldiers and horses, or they are big ghosts who want to roar in groups.
If it was the latter, the depths of the village would undoubtedly be extremely dangerous. Such ghosts and gods that can gather crowds must be eighth-grade rampant gods, and they are not something that students like them can touch.
But at the same time, the candidates are also coveting it.
Since ancient times, the more dangerous a place is, the more bizarre and unique its scenery is, and the more benefits it has.
Moreover, they are still taking exams, and there are examiners outside to take care of them. If there is a real danger, the examiners will not put everyone in a narrow escape situation.
Among them, Yu Que's eyes were thinking, and he had already decided to go to the place where "ghosts were collected as errands".
Just at this moment, someone suddenly took a mouthful of mud, raised his hand towards Yu Que, and then shouted vaguely, wanting to talk to the night watchman.
Yu Que didn't stop him and stepped aside.
"Mumbling about this and this, go in, how can you not be discovered..."
The man said a few words, but the watchdog was confused. It froze in place and couldn't understand it at all.
Yu Que took a closer look at the man and couldn't help but laugh.
He sighed first and spat out the puddle of mud in his mouth, and then spoke:
"This man, you are talking nonsense when eating mud. You are eating it, not swallowing it, you just have to keep it in your mouth."
The examinee who came forward for questioning suddenly had a bitter look on his face. He couldn't help but open his mouth, clucked a few times, then rolled his eyes and retched on the spot.
It turned out that this guy had swallowed the mud pill directly, and then talked to the watchman.
There was no mud in this man's mouth, and the nonsense he spoke was so confusing that even ghosts couldn't understand it.
And this person was not like Yu Que. He didn't make firewood ash specially, but in a hurry, he grabbed a handful of mud from the ground, rolled it into balls, and stuffed them into it.
"Ugh!" Thinking of this, the examinee who ate mud became more and more disgusted. He also felt a bad smell in his mouth and retched even louder.
This move made Yu Que next to him shake his head.
In fact, there is no need for this person to interrogate him. Yu Que has already thought about how to sneak into the depths of the village safely...
(End of chapter)