Merchant of the Underworld

But the doubts in my heart reached an extreme.

Are T-shirt men awesome? There is also the sentence "He belongs to the Zhang family." What kind of story does our Zhang family have?

With this doubt, we were invited to the mountain by Mu Mu. On the top of the mountain stands a thatched house. After entering, there are only a few simple pieces of furniture inside. It looks quite poor. There is no electricity here and it is lit by candles.

On the Eight Immortals table directly opposite the door, there is a spiritual tablet enshrined, and an ancient painting hangs on the spiritual tablet. On the scroll, a dignified ancient beauty looked at the door with distinct eyes. For some reason, I felt a touch of sadness.

After the man in the T-shirt entered, he burned three sticks of incense, nodded slightly to the ancient painting, and then sat down next to the wood.

"Let's talk." The man in the T-shirt said, "If we can help you, we will naturally help you."

Mu Mu's eyes were blurred, tears flowed down unconsciously, and he began to tell us his story.

It turned out that this hilltop was the residence of the famous empress Xiao in ancient times.

Mumu and their ancestors had received the grace of Queen Xiao, so after Queen Xiao's death, they volunteered to become Queen Xiao's tombkeeper.

In order to commemorate Queen Xiao, Mu Mu's ancestors changed their surname to Xiao, which shows how much they respected Queen Xiao!

Empress Xiao lived a life of ups and downs and had a total of six husbands, each of whom was an emperor.

Among them is the famous Sui Yang Emperor Yang Guang!

For this reason, people began to spread rumors that Empress Xiao Kefu, each of her husbands, died unexpectedly. Of course, this has a lot to do with the wars at that time...

As we all know, the king of a country is often very possessive. Queen Xiao remarried after their death, which touched the negative scale of the king of a country. Therefore, even after their death, there will be a resentment that entangles Queen Xiao.

Therefore, Queen Xiao lived to be eighty-one years old and experienced the torture of her first five husbands throughout her life. Even after death, she could not live in peace.

And there is a sinister thing on her body, which is the golden hairpin. It is said that the golden hairpin was stolen by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty from an ancient tomb. It has the function of hiding dirt and evil people. Therefore, after the death of Empress Xiao, the grievances of her six husbands were all gathered in the golden hairpin. .

After Queen Xiao's death, her body was affected by the strong resentment of her six husbands, which caused her body to mutate shortly after her death. However, because he was trapped in the coffin, no one was harmed.

But every day, seeing Empress Xiao unable to live in peace after her death, the tombkeeper felt uncomfortable. I had no choice but to find my husband and ask how I could let Queen Xiao rest in peace.

The gentleman was a capable man and gave the tombkeeper a suggestion. Those are the six dead souls. The reason why they are haunting Queen Xiao is because the golden hairpin is a sinister object. They are bound by the golden hairpin all day long, so naturally they have strong resentment.

If we can find six more ghosts and replace them from the golden hairpin, their resentment will naturally not be so strong, and Queen Xiao's problem will be solved.

In order to allow Queen Xiao to die in peace, the tombkeeper found six people in the family, all of whom were willing to sacrifice for Queen Xiao!

This really worked, and Queen Xiao rested in peace. However, the husband told them that this method can only last for a hundred years. A hundred years later, those ghosts were tortured by the golden hairpin and their souls were scattered. The souls of Queen Xiao's six husbands will be bound by the golden hairpin again. Therefore, a hundred years later, six more scapegoats will be found.

At first, the Xiao family had a great cause and some people were willing to sacrifice. But then war broke out and the population dropped sharply. As a last resort, one can only look for a scapegoat from the outside world.

In order to make up for the guilt of those scapegoats, they all married their daughters to each other. After a period of time, they would naturally be drained of their yang energy by gold hairpins and die.

When the time comes, the dead soul will naturally become a scapegoat.

When he said this, Mu Mu had already burst into tears and knelt down to Mu Wan: "Mu Wan, I'm sorry for you! I had no choice but to do this. Without Queen Xiao, there would be no us. I have to do this, otherwise I will So ungrateful.”

Mu Wan looked at him with tears in her eyes: "Brother Mu Wan, how could you...I was the one who killed all my husbands?"

Mu Mu immediately shook his head: "No, no, it has nothing to do with you. You didn't know anything about it. It's all my fault, and I will bear it myself."

Mu Wan hugged her head and cried: "How could you do this, Brother Mu Wan, do you know how much my heart hurts? I would rather die than myself."

"Now that you have gathered five ghosts, and one more, are you going to use yourself to top up the number?" The man in the T-shirt said, "Is this why you asked Mu Wan to go home?"

Mu Wan nodded repeatedly: "Yes, I know that Mu Wan has met a strong opponent, and I know that if we continue, we will probably be exposed. So I let Mu Wan come back, and I am going to use my ghost to get the last spot."

"Brother Mu Mu, why are you so stupid?" Mu Wan cried while hugging Mu Mu: "How can I survive without you?"

"Alas." The man in the T-shirt shook his head helplessly: "Even if Empress Xiao was kind to your family back then, thousands of years have passed, and everything you have done to Empress Xiao is enough to repay your kindness. Why do you need to sacrifice your life again? It’s not called loyalty, it’s called ignorance.”

Mumu sighed: "I dare not break the oath made by my ancestors."

"You still want to continue?" The man in the T-shirt looked at the wood in surprise.

"Yes." Mu Mu said.

"Brother, you don't want it, you must not. What will I do if you leave? I won't survive." Mu Wan burst into tears.

Mu Mu hugged Mu Wan and gently stroked her long hair: "Find a strange place and find a good family to marry! The person I am most sorry for in my life is you. Don't blame me, okay? "

Mu Wan shook her head, tears falling down.

"Stupid." I also sighed: "Why should living people care about the dead? If you really care about Empress Xiao, it would be better to directly give her salvation to Empress Xiao. This is the true sense of rest."

"If I could be saved, I would have found someone to save her." Mu Mu said, "It's just a pity that Queen Xiao has been dead for thousands of years and can no longer be saved. I can only use this method to let her rest in peace."

"Then beat her until she loses her soul." Li Mazi said viciously: "Have you ever thought about it, is this fair to the innocent people you killed? An old woman who has been dead for thousands of years still has to beat her every hundred years. Do you think it’s a good deal to bury six people alive?”

"Behind the six scapegoats, there are six families. You only think about your own obsessions, have you forgotten the happiness of others?"

Mu Mu shook his head and said: "The matter has come to this, I can only die to apologize. A hundred years later, I hope you can make Empress Xiao's soul fly away, and I can be considered worthy of my ancestors..."

"I'm stubborn." The man in the T-shirt looked coldly.

Suddenly, a piece of wood knocked on the back of Mu Wan's neck. Mu Wan's vision immediately went dark and she fainted.

After that, Mu Mu kowtowed three times to the man in the T-shirt, took the gold hairpin from the man in the T-shirt and left.

I looked at the man in the T-shirt in confusion: "Just let him leave like this?"

The man in the T-shirt patted my shoulder: "Before I die, I will deal with Queen Xiao."

"But……"

I wanted to say something more, but the man in the T-shirt had already followed the wood.

I glanced at Mu Wan who was unconscious, sighed and followed suit.

Mu Mu took us all the way to a small grave behind the thatched house. After he dug up the small grave, I saw a white tomb door inside.

Wood opened the tomb door, reluctantly glanced in the direction of the thatched house, and then stabbed the hairpin into his throat, blood spurted out instantly, and then he rolled into the tomb.

I looked inside with a flashlight and saw that it was unfathomable. I didn’t know how deep it was.

The man in the T-shirt said: "Bury it! It's his own choice."

Li Mazi and I immediately started filling up the grave. The man in the T-shirt also buried the black donkey's hooves, saying that it could temporarily suppress the Yin energy in the tomb. He also threw other things around the tomb.

Originally, the T-shirt man wanted to use these things to deal with Empress Xiao who had turned into a corpse, but now they are no longer useful...

We burned down the thatched hut and went back with the wood sticks.

After Mu Wan woke up, she didn't cry or make a fuss, she just sat quietly in a daze.

So I asked Mu Wan what are her next plans?

Mu Wan said she wanted to become a monk.

Li Mazi quickly persuaded her, saying that she was so old, why should she become a monk? It's better for him to introduce someone to Mu Wan, so that they can take care of each other in the future.

Mu Wan's heart is dead, and she has no nostalgia for this colorful world. I know that it is useless to persuade her.

It happened that the man in the T-shirt knew a master of the nunnery, so he gave Mu Wan a letter as a token and let her go.

Looking at Mu Wan's leaving figure, I had mixed feelings in my heart.

Loyalty is valuable. In order to repay Empress Xiao's kindness, Mu Wan's ancestors have been tombkeepers for generations, working hard and without complaint, rain or shine. This loyalty is worth learning from everyone.

However, for a ridiculous loyalty, so many innocent lives were sacrificed.

This loyalty has changed its flavor and turned into stupidity and ignorance.