"Thank you, Granny Sha." Grandpa breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Chen Shi waking up.
The old woman put down the strange musical instrument in her hand and said with a smile: "Old Chen, we are all one of our own, why are you so polite? If it weren't for your strength, my spiritualism alone might not be able to bring Xiao Shi back from the underworld. Even if he were recalled, the corpse would be there. It's also rotten."
Grandpa dispersed the mass of water and fire above his head, looked at Chen Shi, and asked, "Xiao Shi, how do you feel? Does your chest still hurt?"
Chen Shi wanted to speak, but his voice was hoarse and he couldn't make a sound.
"He has been dead for seven days and his body is completely cold. It would be good to bring him back within the first seven days."
Grandma Sha came up to Chen Shi, opened Chen Shi's mouth, looked inside, and said with a smile, "The muscles in his throat are relaxed, so he can't speak yet. When he gradually warms up and becomes familiar with his body, he can speak."
"It's a body, not a corpse." Grandpa corrected her.
After saving your grandson, do you want to pass on the Water and Fire Alchemy to me? "
The grandfather was alert and shook his head and said: "Please help me, I paid for it. But I don't have much time left. If Grandma Sha agrees to become Xiao Shi's godmother, I will give you the Water and Fire Alchemy."
“Become Xiao Shi’s godmother?”
Grandma Sha's face suddenly changed. She glanced at Chen Shi who was lying on the bed and hesitated, "Will you be his godmother? I'm afraid my life is not so tough... Do you want to take a gamble? Hehehehe... I don't dare!"
She She cried and said: "Old Chen, did you want to give away this hot potato before you died? You are also afraid, right? I dare not accept this wealth! I am afraid that I will not be able to accept it and become a sinner..." At this point, she lost control of her emotions and cried.
Chen Shi, who was lying on the bed, was a little puzzled: "Why is the old woman crying? Why did she say that she would become a sinner?"
After some time, Chen Shi was able to speak and asked for water.
Grandma Sha gave him a drink of water and began to chase people away. Watching her grandfather carry Chen Shi, who was still unable to move, to the wooden cart, she didn't know which string was touched and started crying again.
Xiaoshiganniang."
"No!"
Grandma Sha refused simply, "You'd better take the water and fire to the grave, I will dig your grave when the time comes!"
The armor and horse talismans gradually circulated, and the wooden cart started slowly.
Black Guo ran in front of the car with brisk steps. Chen Shi was lying on the car, bumping and swaying from side to side. The wooden car left the village where Granny Sha was.
Chen Shi reluctantly looked outside. The village was very unfamiliar. He had never been there during the Moon Festival.
"Grandpa and Granny Sha are very familiar with each other. Granny Sha even calls me Xiao Shi and knows my nickname."
Chen Shi blinked, he should have been here before, but he just didn't remember.
"We are not going to Huangpo Village, we are going to another place."
Grandpa said to Gouzi, "Xiao Shi's body is too cold and the blood is difficult to circulate. He has to go to the corpse raising ground in Zhiyin for two days."
Chen Shi's voice was weak, but he tried his best to speak loudly: "Kaiguo, thank you."
The dog was startled slightly and wagged his tail.
"This is Gangzi Village, in the north of the mountain. Granny Sha is a good person. After you were born, she came to hug you and touch your bones. She praised your bones for being so good. Later, when you ranked first in fifty provinces in the county examination, she even came to congratulate you. When you die..."
Grandpa seemed to be talking to himself or talking to Chen Shi, "After you were injured, she was also very angry. She ran around for you and tried every means to summon your soul. If I die in the future, I will leave you a copy of "Water and Fire Refining Technique". You can give it to her to repay her kindness." "
He paused and said: "She is a person who values affection and righteousness. If you give her the Water and Fire Refining Technique, she will remember your kindness and find ways to return the favor to you. Although she does not dare to be your godmother, she will do her best to protect you."
Chen Shi lay in the car and listened to the sound of the wheels rattling, and whispered: "Grandpa will not die."
"Hey."
Grandpa laughed out loud and touched his head, "Silly boy, how can there be immortal people? I don't dare to stay. When the moon rises, I'm afraid I can't help but be hungry..."
He fell silent.
Chen Shi quickly changed the topic and said: "Grandpa, is Black Pot a normal dog? Why can it enter the underworld to save me?"
"Do you also doubt it?"
Grandpa’s eyes fell on the black pot, with a gloomy expression, "I have suspected it for a long time, but I just couldn’t get a handle on it."
Gouzi noticed the gazes of his grandfather and grandson from the front, and couldn't help but shudder.
It is really difficult to make ends meet in the Chen family.
Why is my dog life so full of ups and downs?
I obviously just want to be an ordinary dog.
Hikai Guo led the way, and the wooden cart followed the dog into the mountains, going farther and farther along the rugged mountain road.
Some mountain roads are dilapidated and steep, making it difficult for even people to climb up. However, wooden carts can drive up the mountain smoothly, as if walking on flat ground.
After a long time, they came to a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters, surrounded by not too high peaks, with a valley in the middle and a deep pool in the middle. The water was very pure and extremely clear. Looking into the pool from a high place, it was like an eye that was clear on the outside and dark on the inside.
Beside the water pool is an ancient mountain villa. The trees are tall and pine, blocking out all the sunlight. The villa is pitch black, and it takes a while to get used to it before you can see the surroundings clearly.
Black Pot sneezed several times. It was so cold here that it shivered from the cold.
It stopped outside the door and did not enter the village.
The word "Jinghu" is written on the door of the villa.
Jinghu Villa.
Chen Shi found it strange that there were no mosquitoes in the villa. He lay unable to move. Logically, mosquitoes would have bitten him, but there was not a single mosquito.
Not only were there no mosquitoes, but also no birds were heard. Everything was quiet, so quiet that it made people shudder.
A big tree caught Chen Shi's eyes. The tree was very thick, and its bark was like pieces of dragon scales. It grew upside down. The tree body was so straight that only three or five people could hold it.
There was a coffin parked under the tree, pitch black, standing upright, leaning against the tree.
Chen Shi rolled his eyes, wanting to take a closer look, but the second dragon-scale tree and the vertical coffin had already come into view.
Then there is the third big tree and the third black coffin.
The wooden cart was parked under a large dragon-scale tree in the center of the villa. There was also a black coffin erected under the tree. The coffin was not big and should not be for adults.
Grandpa opened the coffin, put Chen Shi in, and closed the coffin lid.
Oddly enough, it was extremely cold here, but Chen Shi felt his body gradually warming up as he lay in the coffin.
his heart gradually beat more and more powerfully.
What makes him even more strange is that when he lay in the coffin, he felt calm and extremely peaceful, as if he was very familiar with this place.
He even slept peacefully, and did not wake up until his grandfather opened the coffin.
Grandpa touched his hand. His palm was already warm and his heart was beating very strongly.
Chen Shi walked out of the vertical coffin and moved his hands and feet. He felt that his body had returned to its previous state, but he was full of questions.
h "Grandpa, have I been here before?"
h ?"
"It's more serious than this time. Last time you...were seriously injured."
Chen Shi thought for a while and asked tentatively: "Is it the time when I took the first place in the fifty-province examination? How long have I been sleeping here?"
"Yes, it's been a long time." Grandpa said in a muffled voice.
He packed up the wooden cart and looked over.
Chen Shi solemnly closed the coffin board, taking great care of his other "home", lest it be damaged.
The grandfather and grandson got on the wooden cart. Chen Shi looked at the other vertical coffins in the villa. There were eight vertical coffins here, and the other seven black vertical coffins were distributed under the ancient trees. He saw no ghosts and gods, and wondered if anyone was sleeping in these coffins.
However, he was vaguely aware of an extremely strong sense of oppression coming from several vertical coffins. As he looked, the sense of oppression became stronger and stronger!
Obviously there is something in the coffin, something amazing!
"This corpse raising place was found by me and a few friends."
Grandpa controlled the compass and drove the wooden cart out. He said, "We can't say we are friends. We just know each other and have exchanged a few words. They are very afraid of death, as afraid of death as I am, so we all got together to build this villa. Putting your body here, you don't have to worry about breaking down and rotting. There are already some old guys who can't wait and live in it. But everyone who lives in must follow a few unwritten rules. Rules. "
He paused and said: "You are not allowed to ask about other people's origins, you are not allowed to ask who is living in this place, and you are not allowed to reveal this place to outsiders. No more than two people can come at a time. If you violate it, attack them in groups. Hehe, if they get up from the coffin, it will be scary."
Chen Shi said with a smile: "No wonder the dog didn't follow."
The wooden carriage drove out of the villa, and the black pot quickly came up. There was a carriage parked not far from Gouzi, which was very gorgeous.
It is not as rustic as grandpa's wooden chariot. The chariot has a wooden frame, copper as the regulus, gold as embellishment, beads as decoration, the roof is covered with a canopy, and there are four horses in front of the chariot. Even the horses are covered in gold and silver armor.
There is also a coachman sitting on the shaft of the carriage, holding a whip.
Sitting in the car is a figure who looks like a royal nobleman. He is dressed in white and has a sword-shaped eyebrow and starry eyes. He is rich and handsome, and has a graceful bearing.
When he saw his grandfather and grandson coming out, the man in white clothes got up and got out of the car.
He wears a long sword at his waist. The scabbard is a large lacquer scabbard with a diamond-shaped texture and is narrow in the middle, like a woman's corset. The hilt and the end of the scabbard are both carved and polished from tortoiseshell, which is very gorgeous and eye-catching.
The man in white wears the sword hilt downward, has a tall figure and walks calmly.
After he left the chariot, he saw that the four horses in front of the chariot were quickly petrified and turned into four stone horses!
And the driver turned into a pottery figurine, raising the reins in his hand as if to restrain the horse.
Chen Shi was surprised when he saw the man in white had already come to his grandfather and grandson and bowed to them.
Grandpa also owes himself a courtesy.
"Long time no see, Master Chen's style remains the same."
The Prince Xiao is so handsome, I am far inferior to him.
The two of them exchanged polite words.
The Prince Xiao's eyes fell on Chen Shi's face, he took a deep look at him, and praised: "The results are extraordinary when tempered by water and fire."
Grandpa's pupils shrank slightly.
Chen Shi had a hairy feeling, as if he was being stared at by a wounded leopard again, and wondered in his heart: "Why did grandpa have murderous intentions again?"
Xiao Wangsun also sensed the murderous intention, and said without saying anything more, "Penalize." After that, he walked into the village.
Chen Shi looked back and saw Xiao Wangsun coming to an erected coffin. The coffin was like a small house, one foot two high and one foot eight long. The surface was covered with extremely gorgeous talismans, and the various talismans were dazzling.
The coffin board automatically opened and flew out. Then a yellow coffin board flew out from the coffin, then a silver coffin board flew out, then a golden coffin board flew out, and finally a jade board flew out, which was about the same size as a normal coffin board.
Xiao Wangsun walked into the coffin, and the coffin boards one after another flew into the coffin, sealing him inside.