Chapter 607 – The Temple God

Every time he passed by a place, he would ask the local well-informed people about strange anecdotes ………. This was what Xu Qi’an believed to be a more effective method other than the means of dragon qi detection.

All of the Dragon Qi hosts are all demonic jian goods, manifesting the holy demon in front of people, and they will stir up the wind and rain in their respective occasions, making a big splash.

But according to the richness of the dragon qi, the commotion is not the same, some dragon qi can blow up a city, some dragon qi host, can only become a gai the most beautiful pup.

Moreover, it was a time of chaos, and there was no peace anywhere, and there must have been a whole lot of mess.

Li Lingsu laughed, “Tell me, what’s so interesting.”

Miao Youfang dangled his chopsticks and added:

“The rules of the jianghu, demons and monsters are called “strange things”; the jianghu villains robbing houses is called “trouble”; squires and officials raping and oppressing the people, called “not doing personnel “.

“Elder, you’re asking about the first one.”

Xu Qi’an was surprised, “There’s this kind of instruction?”

He whirled around and glanced at Li Lingsu, and the Saint Son was also filled with surprise, stating that this was the first time he had heard of it.

Seeing this, Miao Youfang suddenly branched out, finding a sense of superiority and shaking his head:

“Both of you are high and mighty figures, naturally you are not too clear about the proverbs and rules of the bottom of the jianghu.”

After he finished speaking, he saw Mu Nanjian shrinking her body, sticking close to Xu Qi’an with a somewhat intimidated expression.

Xu Qi’an just asked if there were any strange things.

Reply from the shopkeeper: Yes!

This suggests that the small county has been the scene of several recent incidents of demonic and devilish mischief.

Mu Nanjian was most afraid of these gods and goddesses. Even if there was a Transcendent Realm martial artist by her side, it couldn’t give her a sense of security.

Under the silent gaze of the guests, the store assistant first looked at the store door and saw that no new guests had entered the store, so he sat down beside Miao Youfang and said:

“It began a month ago, when a man named Li Gui in the county had his mother-in-law die.

“This death is a common thing, and nothing unusual, but who knows, the day of the first seven, Li Gui heard someone knocking on the door at night, Li Gui sleeps in a daze, so he asked who it was?

“The person at the door said it was his wife, who was going home to bed, and questioned why he had closed the door.

“Li Gui was not in his right mind, so he got up and went to open the door, and when he got to the door it suddenly occurred to him that his wife was dead, so how could she possibly come back?

“He was terrified and fled back to his bed, hiding in his bunk and not daring to venture out.

“Li Gui’s wife kept knocking on the door outside, questioning why he didn’t open the door, over and over again with just this sentence.

“It wasn’t until dawn, when the rooster crowed, that the knocking outside stopped.”

Mu Nanjian slowly shivered, brainstorming about being alone at night, then a man came knocking on the door, claiming to be Xu Qi’an, who had been dead for seven days ………

She blanched for a moment.

Xu Qi’an, not realizing that he had become a deceased husband in Mu Nanjian’s brain, asked:

“And then?”

The shopkeeper said:

“The next day Li Gui went to the police, and the officials thought Li Gui was cheating, beat him with a board and sent him away. The next night, Li Gui’s wife came back and knocked on the door again.

“This time, his mother-in-law knocked on the door for a while, and when she saw that Li Gui didn’t open the door, she lay down on the window and looked into the house, and lay down for the whole night ………”

Mu Nanjian was frozen in fear, the little white fox in her arms was almost suffocated by her hug, her legs stomping about.

Miao Youfang listened with interest and questioned:

“How did you know to lie down and watch out the window all night, and why do you know so much detail?”

The shopkeeper smiled and said:

“This is not over yet, after the rooster crowed, Li Gui’s mother-in-law left, Li Gui was scared for two days in a row, and felt that he could not go on like this, and his anger rose from his heart and his evil grew out of his guts, so ……..”

Miao Youfang interjected, “So he went back to the police?”

The shopkeeper was speechless for a moment and licked his lips, revealing an awkward and nonchalant smile:

“Guest really love to joke, report the official how need to be evil to the gall ………”

After a pause, the shopkeeper’s face was serious and his tone was low, “He called out to his friends and went digging for graves.”

Mu Nanjian lowered his voice, “Is the body missing?”

The shopkeeper shook his head:

“That’s not true, Li Gui brought his family and friends, dug up his wife’s grave, and found her lying nicely in the coffin. The body was already slightly decomposed.

“The group was relieved and blamed Li Gui for her nonsense, and it wasn’t wrong to receive a beating from the officials. After all, the body is still in the coffin, it’s hard to believe that she herself lifted the coffin boards out at night to scare people, and then buried herself back in after dawn?”

Mu Nan gardenia heard that it is not a ghost or monster haunting, then not afraid of it, punching fist out of the way:

“This Li Gui is an improper son, using his dead wife as a talking point.”

The shopkeeper’s face was grave and he shook his head, saying:

“This lady is at ease, and hear me out.

“In the face of the group’s skepticism and the sights seen in front of him, Li Gui also can not help but doubt that the two-day encounter is not his own illusion.

“Convinced that he couldn’t have misread or misheard, he took a closer look at his wife’s body, and guess what he found?”

This store assistant is also quite talented in storytelling, knows how to sell a story, throws suspicion, with the appearance and gestures of fluttering eyebrows, Xu Qi’an feels that if he is not accustomed to whoring, this moment will not be able to say that the reward money will be thrown out.

“What was found?”

The little white fox’s tender childish voice came out from Mu Nanjian’s chest.

The shopkeeper looked around in bewilderment, “Who’s talking?”

When his gaze was about to cast to the crown princess’s plump, bulging breasts, he was pressed against his face with the palm of his hand by Xu Qi’an, screwing it back, and faintly said:

“Keep talking about yours.”

Mu Nanjian then took the opportunity to pinch the little white fox’s butt cheeks, warning the little guy not to interrupt.

Otherwise, the small county today will be another “strange”.

The store assistant fawned and responded, continuing:

“Li Gui noticed that the shoes worn by his mother-in-law were caked with mud.

“Think ye, how can a body get muddy when it’s lying in a coffin? Unless ……..”

He said sorrowfully, “The body will go by itself.”

Mu Nanjian lowered her head and drank tea to hide her inner fear.

If I tell you about The Village Teacher tonight, won t you be so scared that you will round with me ……… today Xu Qi an muttered in his heart.

Hearing this, Li Ling Su Miao You Fang and the two of them, had already concluded that there were exaggerations in the story told by the shopkeeper.

Half-truths aren’t even true. Nine falsehoods are true.

Seeing the disbelieving faces of the customers, the shopkeeper gave a confident “Hey”:

“Are several guests not convinced?

“A lot of outside guests didn’t believe it, but by the end of the day, they all did.”

Miao Youfang, who was experienced in Jianghu, raised his eyebrows, “Oh, there’s a follow-up?”

The shopkeeper tapped his finger on the tabletop, like a storyteller tapping a ruler, and said:

“After Li Gui pointed out his doubts, his friends and relatives were also afraid, hastily buried the grave, and fled back home. Soon after, the story spread in the county.

“At this time, an old woman who called herself a goddess came to the door and told Li Gui that her mother-in-law could not live in peace even in death because she had offended the temple god.

“The godmother said that Li Gui’s mother-in-law was disrespectful to the temple god in her lifetime, and that’s why she was struck by a terrible disaster, and that she’ll still have to suffer after her death, and will not be able to transcend her life forever. And it will wreak havoc on her family.

“After hearing this, Li Gui came to a realization and remembered an incident in his wife’s life.

“When my wife was still alive, she once went back to her mother’s home to visit her relatives, and when she returned to the city, she encountered heavy rain, so she took refuge in the City God Temple to avoid the rain.

“The City God Temple has long been deserted, Li Gui’s mother-in-law got wet, so the City God Temple, a “wooden ghost” as firewood burned for warmth.

“Since then, Li Gui’s mother-in-law’s body has been getting worse and worse, and after being bedridden, she woke up night after night with nightmares, saying that she saw a little ghost coming to detain her soul. Li Gui only thought she was delirious and having nightmares.”

The shopkeeper spoke eloquently:

“Li Gui realized that his wife had offended the temple god and asked the goddess what to do in fear.

“The goddess told him to remake the statue for the brat and burn incense for three days, and the jinx would be lifted, so Li Gui emptied his savings, remodeled the statue, and renovated the City God’s Temple as well.

“After that, his wife never came back to him.

“Now the City God Temple can also be very lively, every day people go to incense, it is said to be very spiritual, and what you ask for gets what you get. And those who disrespected the temple god were punished.”

Li Lingsu laughed, “How spiritual is it?”

The store assistant looked left and right, lowered his voice, and said:

“Coincidentally, I know one thing, Guanghua Street rouge store Zheng boss, is a pious. Because the opposite side also opened a rouge store, robbed his business, he went to the City God Temple to burn incense, cursing that the boss of the opposite store shall not die.

“As it turned out, the owner of that store hanged himself in his house that night.”

Miao Youfang’s thick eyebrows raised at once.

Li Lingsu, on the other hand, laughed without changing her color, “How do you know, is it possible that that Boss Zheng told you personally?”

“It’s still true!”

The store assistant’s voice became lower and lower, “Boss Zheng got drunk here a few days ago, and only spoke out after drinking.”

Li Lingsu frowned and tightened his smile, “Then why don’t you report it to the police?”

The store assistant said strangely, “Why should I report to the government? Not to mention whether or not the officials love to care, what does this matter have to do with me, if I offend the temple god, my little life will not be guaranteed.”

At this moment, Xu Qi’an knocked on the table and faintly said:

“Okay, go serve the food.”

“Okay!”

The shopkeeper had had his fill and left satisfied.

When his figure disappeared inside the hall, Xu Qi’an mused:

“That doesn’t sound like something a Dragon Breath host could do.”

Overly bizarre and grotesque.

Li Ling Su asked, “Then should we care?”

Without waiting for Xu Qi’an to comment, Miao Youfang snatched an answer:

“Naturally, we have to manage, if you kill someone, you have to pay for it, after dinner we will go to the City God Temple to have a look. Moreover, this lord also wants to see what the so-called temple god is.”

Xu Qi’an nodded his head and looked at the Saint Son, “Then what do you think about what happened to Li Gui?”

Li Ling Su knew what he was asking:

“It can’t be an unjust soul, the mortal soul is weak, muddled before the seventh day of the first head, after the seventh day of the first head goes up in smoke, unless there is a person who is proficient in Taoist magic to refine the soul.

“But just now Xiao Er said that it was the corpse that was doing the haunting, I think it’s a corpse control tactic. Why don’t we go dig up the grave and examine the corpse?”

After saying that, Li Lingsu suddenly realized why Xu Qi’an was able to make a name for himself in the capital because he was nosy.

Just as Li Miaozhen could become the Flying Swallow Woman.

In contrast, the Young Brothers were not persistent enough in this regard.

Xu Qi’an laughed, “What about the purpose? After all this effort, just to rebuild the City God Temple?”

Li Lingxu was puzzled.

After finishing their meal and asking the shopkeeper for the location of the City God Temple, Xu Qi’an and his group left the small county.