Nightmare Apostle

"Who did it?" Jiang Qingluan asked.

Hearing this, the man's face turned bitter, "I don't know about this villain. This is the first time I saw him."

Yang Xiao recalled what happened in the ruined temple at night. The statue in the center had indeed had its entire face gouged out. He still remembered the tragic situation at that time.

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The people in the village would not be so bold to do such a thing. It should be done intentionally by the person who built the temple, that is, the big shot in the Earl's Palace who is behind the scenes. But this is very abnormal. Since it is a temple, something must be enshrined. But the people in the village don't even know the names of the gods in the temple, so how can they collect incense? Besides, this is a faceless god.

Yang Xiao knew that this matter was not simple. This faceless statue would definitely not be as simple as the Earth God. After all, he had never heard of any Earth God having 11 guardians accompanying him. It seemed that he had to go to the so-called Earth Temple. .

"What's your name?" Yang Xiao glanced at the frightened man. After being in contact with him for so long, he still didn't know his name.

"Little man Ji Gen." The man replied respectfully.

"Okay, Ji Gen, keep talking." Yang Xiao nodded.

"The villain just mentioned four monsters, and there is still one last monster left. Once you enter the Houmen, it is as deep as the sea. You can't get out of one door, and you can't step forward through the second door. The sedan can run fast in the middle of the night." Ji Gen lowered his voice mysteriously. The voice said, "This is talking about the big shots in the Earl's Mansion. These people have lived in seclusion for decades, even if they are from the same village as us." I have never seen them. They rarely leave the mansion, and even if they do, it is late at night. The stewards of the Earl's Palace will hang up lanterns on the street in advance. People like us will stay shut up at night when we see lanterns. You can’t even look through the cracks in the window. If you are discovered, someone will die. This is a great disrespect to the earl.”

After a pause, Ji Gen spoke with a guilty conscience, and his voice became a little weaker naturally: "But...but there are always exceptions. There are still people who can't bear to be curious. They looked out through the cracks in the window at night and saw the Earl's Mansion. There was a hidden sedan in the convoy, which was carried by eight people. It was not clear who was sitting in it, but the sedan was moving very fast. "

"Don't get me wrong, it's not me. A villain wouldn't dare." Ji Gen declared nervously.

The dark sedan refers to a sedan that is wrapped very tightly and is made of dark fabric that is not easy to transmit light. This reminds Yang Xiao of the owner of Fushou Village who he had met before, who is the current head of the Earl's Mansion. He was Riding in a dark sedan chair.

The owner of the village wore a strange mask on his face. Not only himself, but also his ancestors and clan members were all wearing masks. These people acted strangely and appeared mysteriously, giving him the impression that they were some kind of cult. believers,

These are most likely related to the "Temple of the Earth" built in the Earl's Mansion. Yang Xiao suspects that they believe in the faceless "Gong of the Earth" in the Temple of the Earth.

The top priority now is to find out who is enshrined in the Earth Temple, and to determine what the purpose of the Earl's Mansion is.

What made Yang Xiao uneasy was that the number of guardians in the Tutu Temple was exactly the same as the number of filial guests, and most of them were used as sacrifices.

Taking the book in Fang Zhou's hand and turning to the map page, Chang Chuchu pointed at the corner of the map and drew a circle, then told Ji Gen: "There is a Tutu Temple nearby. Point out the specific location to me. I want the nearest one." road.”

Ji Gen was very obedient and drew a path for them according to his memory, but at the same time he reminded them that the place was remote and no one had been there for a long time, and there were rumors that the place was evil and that foreigners had disappeared nearby.

"Have you been to that Earth Temple?" Jiang Qingluan suddenly asked.

Ji Gen was stunned for a moment, and just about to nod, he seemed to suddenly think of something, and shook his head fiercely, "No... I have never been to that temple. It has been many years. My parents said that it was there when my great-grandfather was a child. ”

Ji Gen looks older, but his real age is probably in his early 30s, and the temple existed when Ji Gen's great-grandfather was a child, which means that the temple is at least nearly a hundred years old. This is also inconsistent with the memory of Yang Xiao and others. The temple is worthy.

"By the way, I heard from the old man that that temple was the first earth temple in the village." Ji Gen recalled.

"How many temples are there in the village?" Yang Xiao asked.

"Why, you don't even know this?" Ji Gen also realized something was wrong at this moment. These people in the Earl's Mansion seemed to know nothing about the affairs of the manor.

Yang Xiao sneered and winked at Fang Zhou who was standing aside. Fang Zhou picked up the book and pretended to write with a brush. He read aloud in a long tone while writing: "Ji Gen said that the people in the Earl's Mansion are all uneducated fools. "

Hearing this, Ji Gen was stunned. The next second, he was trembling with fear and almost cried, "Sir, I don't have one, you..."

You can't wrongly accuse a good person! "

"Ji Gen said he liked that demon poem very much and sang it every day before going to bed. If he didn't sing it, he wouldn't be able to sleep well." Fang Zhou wrote stroke by stroke.

This time Ji Gen completely surrendered, fear overwhelming everything. He knelt on the ground, begging for mercy and begging Yang Xiao and others for forgiveness.

Yang Xiao took Fang Zhou's book and slowly tore out the page that Fang Zhou had written randomly. While tearing it, he criticized Fang Zhou in a high-pitched voice, "How could you write like this? Do you know that if this book is handed over to Manager Wu, Ji will The lives of Gen's family are gone, how can you be so cruel?"

After finishing speaking, Yang Xiao turned his head and glanced at Ji Gen, who was kneeling on the ground tremblingly, and criticized: "Are you too, you are not timid, you dare to question the people of the uncle's house?"

"The villain is wrong. I will never dare to do it again!" Ji Gen kowtowed, "Please forgive me this time."

"We want to be considerate of you. We won't talk about what happened today, but if you can't control your mouth, then these things..." Yang Xiao held the torn paper in his hand, and the threat was very obvious.

"I understand, I understand. I will keep my mouth shut. Thank you for your forgiveness, sir!" Ji Gen said very politely.

After such a beating, Yang Xiao now believes that Ji Gen will not tell anything about today's incident. He knows the stakes.

"How many temples are there in the village?" Fang Zhou asked impatiently, while scribbling on the blank pages of the book with a pen.

"Speaking to adults, 8 seats, oh no, now... now it is 9 seats." Ji Gen suddenly changed his words, and the change was very abrupt.

"How many are there?" Fangzhou frowned.

"Block 9, this ninth block is newly built, the villain... the villain didn't react for a while." Ji Gen's voice was flattering.

"When was it newly built?" Yang Xiao asked, with a solemn expression of "I know everything, but this is just a routine matter."

"About... about a month ago, the adults sent by the mansion went door to door to collect the incense money for the temple, and the villain also paid it." Ji Gen explained, "The villain's admiration for the Earl's Mansion is like a torrential river. , the villain paid 3 taels of silver."

Sure enough, harsh government is fiercer than tigers. Ji Gen and his wife came out to do this shameful thing, and only received 2 coins at a time. And this temple construction,

You have to pay 3 taels of silver for incense. This is not an ordinary black heart.

And more importantly, the construction of the new temple started one month before they came. Is this too much of a coincidence?

Suddenly, a bold guess popped up in Yang Xiao's mind, but before he could speak, he was overtaken by someone else, "When were those previous temples built?" Jiang Qingluan asked, with a rarely seen calm face. He showed a little solemnity.

"Well... let me think about it." Ji Gen frowned and tried to remember. After a moment, he patted his forehead and said, "I remembered that the previous temple was built before I was married. Yes, my father was still alive at that time, and I worked as an apprentice in the cloth shop at the end of the street. It has been more than ten years at least. "

"How many years is it?"

"It should...should be 16, no, no, no, it should be 17 years ago." Ji Gen tried his best to recall.

"Should?" Jiang Qingluan was obviously not satisfied with this ambiguous answer.

"No, it must have been 17 years ago. I remember it very clearly. At that time, I just worked as an apprentice in the cloth shop at the end of the street. One day I missed a piece of cloth and was chased and beaten by the shopkeeper with a feather duster. , I was blocked in the backyard, but luckily...fortunately, the people from the Earl's Mansion came to the door and asked the shopkeeper to pay for the incense for the temple, so I escaped a severe beating. "

"By the way, the adult who came here also gave me a red lantern. I set up a ladder and hung it outside the shop door at night, just under the pillar at the corner of the street." Ji Gen said firmly.

"Send red lanterns?"

"Yes, the kind of longevity cage with the word "longevity" on it also makes us people feel happy about our ancestors." Ji Gen lowered his voice flatteringly and said mysteriously: "You must know that soon after every temple is built, The ancestors in the Earl's Mansion are about to celebrate their birthdays, so there are rumors that, This earth lord is a protective bodhisattva invited by our ancestors, but everyone thinks privately, and no one dares to say it openly. After all, the big shots in the Earl's house have never said that. If we little people say it, it will ruin the count. I can’t afford to suffer the consequences of my government’s fortune.”

The thread in Yang Xiao's mind finally clicked. Sure enough, the Faceless Earth Temple built was related to the ancestors of the Earl's Mansion, and...

Yang Xiao clearly remembered that Nalan Shuo once told him that the last time the Fushou Village ghost script appeared was 17 years ago.

It was also that time that he took away two seniors from the patrol department.