Laiyang County is quite a distance away from Qinghua County, even if masters like Jiang Chen and Yan Chixia ride fast horses, it will take two days to arrive, not to mention that there are more than a dozen people in Uncle Song Yu's party, even if there are carriages and horses to travel, the journey will be slowed down, at the end of the day, not to mention half of the road, even one-fifth of the road has not been walked.

At night, because of the wilderness, there was no village in front of the village and no shop in the back, so everyone had to set up camp in a small forest next to the official road and build a bonfire.

Although everyone had dry food on them, Jiang Chen still took action in person, went to hunt some wild things and came back, and his own servants and maidservants under Uncle Song Yu cleaned and roasted them, and everyone was able to have a full meal.

After eating and drinking, because he was idle, Jiang Chen simply asked Uncle Song Yu about Song Yuniang's life before and after, Song Yu only hesitated for a moment, and then told Jiang Chen and Yan Chixia all the things before and after Song Yuniang's death, and he said: "Actually, everything has to start from a year ago. ”

A year ago, Uncle Song Yu was admitted to the Jinshi, passed the imperial court assessment, and was sent to Laiyang County to be the magistrate, because he was far away from home, so he took his wife, children and sisters to move his family and moved from Qinghua County to Laiyang County to settle down. Because of its geographical advantages, Laiyang County is much more prosperous than Qinghua County, and the county government compound has several courtyards, which are enough for his family to live in, but there is no need for him to buy a new house.

When you become an official, especially a magistrate, you naturally take responsibility for governing the party, and most people who are keen on officialdom have ideals and ambitions, especially young people like Song Yushu who have just entered the officialdom. If you want to be a good official, you must be diligent in government affairs, so you are naturally busy, so Uncle Song Yu can't help but neglect his family.

Half a year has passed, and I don't know which one was passed first, let alone when it began to circulate, saying that it is haunted in the back garden of the county government compound, saying that as long as it is late at night, there will be a red light in the garden, and there is a vague figure in the red light, the figure seems to be an old woman, the body is very short, hunchbacked, snow-white hair and broom-like, holding a two-foot-long bun, walking around the garden; As soon as he bowed down, he looked like a crane walking, and while walking, his mouth was constantly spraying water, which was red blood, one after another, no matter how long he walked, how far he walked, and he couldn't finish spraying.

As a scholar, Uncle Song Yu naturally scoffed at this, and didn't believe it at all, so he immediately ordered his wife, children, and sister Song Yuniang, as well as many servants and maids: "Now that it is an eventful season, don't rumor again, since there is something different in the garden, after nightfall, you are not allowed to walk around in the garden." ”

Because he is the head of the family, and he has been an official for more than half a year, although the magistrate is only a seven-grade petty official, but he has also accumulated some official authority, and those servants and maids naturally dare not disobey. In this way, in a blink of an eye, more than half a year has passed, although the rumor that the back garden is haunted has not disappeared, but there is no problem, and Uncle Song Yu gradually put it behind.

It's just that his neglect ignored something that made him regret his life, more than half a month ago, his sister Song Yuniang suddenly died in the back garden.

Except for a faint red water trace at the scene, no clues were left, and there were no wounds on the corpse after an autopsy, Uncle Song Yu wanted to investigate the truth about the death of his sister Song Yuniang, but before he could gain anything, Song Yuniang's body turned out to have a strange change.

"Yan Daxia, Zhiqiu Dao Chang, you don't know at all, the tragic situation that night, I saw it in my eyes, and I was almost scared to death on the spot. Although half a month has passed, Uncle Song Yu still can't help but tremble when he recalls the events of that night, and his distracted eyes are full of fear.

It was the night of the third day after Song Yuniang's death, Song Yuniang's corpse suddenly opened her eyes, she was like a wild beast, she killed several servants and maids in the mourning hall, and then broke out of the county government compound and disappeared into the night.

When Uncle Song Yu heard the news and rushed over, he saw that several servants and maidservants in the mourning hall had died tragically on the spot, and the corpses seemed to have been pulled away from all the flesh and blood, turned into dried corpses, and shattered when touched.

"What the hell is going on?!" In addition to being shocked, Uncle Song Yu also knew that something was wrong, and hurriedly sent all the officials in the yamen to find the whereabouts of his sister Song Yuniang's body, but everyone searched all night, but they did not find Song Yuniang's body.

After a night of exhaustion, Uncle Song Yu led a kind of official messenger back to the county government before he had time to take a breath and rest for a while, he never thought that someone would come to report the case early in the morning, and there was more than one person, a large group of people poured into the county government and reported that there had been a murder.

There were more than a dozen people, all young and strong men, all of whom died strangely last night, and their corpses turned into dried corpses, which made the people wonder in their hearts, if there was a demon in the county, otherwise how could there be such a terrible disaster?!

The people were afraid, and Uncle Song Yu couldn't help but be shocked, the death of those young and strong men made him can't help but think of the servants and maidservants who died in his mourning hall, compared with the deaths of many deceased, where did he not understand what was going on?

His sister may have been transformed!

He didn't know what happened to his sister Song Yuniang's body, but he also knew that this matter had become a big problem, so he hurriedly invited a Laoshan Taoist priest to come and do it.

This Laoshan Taoist priest is also a capable person, after he came to the county office, he opened the altar in Song Yuniang's mourning hall that night, and after a while, everyone saw Song Yuniang's corpse like a zombie ghost, and walked back from the outside, sharp nails, sharp fangs, and blood all over her body, all showing her terrible!

Immediately afterwards, the Laoshan Taoist priest and Song Yuniang's body launched a vicious fight, but unfortunately, although the Taoist priest has some mana, but after all, it can not be enough, although Song Yuniang was sealed with a blood charm, but he himself died because of serious injuries, only left a warning before dying, do not take off the blood charm on Song Yuniang's body, it is best to burn Song Yuniang's body in peach wood or lychee wood during the day.

Hearing this, Yan Chixia couldn't help but snort coldly: "The warning left by the Taoist priest is right, but you didn't follow it. ”

"Yes. Uncle Song Yu responded with shame on his face: "I thought at the time, since there was already a blood talisman suppression, why destroy my sister's body, so I didn't follow the instructions of the Taoist leader, but asked Shang Feng for menstrual leave, and personally took someone to send my sister's body back to the ancestral grave in my hometown for burial." ”

"Ignorant, fearless, self-righteous, you so-called readers are really annoying. Yan Chixia couldn't help but scolded: "Although the blood talisman was drawn by the Taoist priest with his own essence and blood to stimulate mana, the power is extraordinary, but after all, it can only suppress the corpse for a while, the night before yesterday, if it wasn't for me and the little brother Zhiqiu who happened to be there, everyone in that inn, including you, I'm afraid that none of them would survive!"

"Ah?!" Hearing this, Uncle Song Yu couldn't help but be startled, his face turned pale, obviously remembering the tragic situation of those who were killed by the female corpse Song Yuniang.

"Your sister Song Yuniang's matter has come to an end, don't pay attention to it for the time being, all the things still need to go back to the original question, that is, how did your sister die? Why did she become a corpse?" Jiang Chen groaned for a while, and finally interjected and asked, "Lord Song, can you tell me more about the haunted things in the back garden of the county government?"

"This" Uncle Song Yu groaned for a while, and after half a sound, he frowned and responded: "Regarding this matter, I also investigated at the beginning, and repeatedly asked the servants and maids at home, and they all said that it was at night when I saw a red light in the garden, and there was an old woman who kept spraying water in the red light."

"Red light, old woman, squirting water?" Jiang Chen heard this, and Yan Chixia glanced at each other, both of them saw the doubts in each other's eyes, but they spoke emptyly, where can they find out the reason, he frowned and thought for a while, but he could only say in a deep voice: "That's it, that's it, early tomorrow morning, we will hurry up, and feel that the Laiyang County Government, the reason for this matter, I'm afraid it will have to be investigated from the back garden" (to be continued.) )