After settling down and waiting for a group of people, Cheng Muyou invited Liu Yujiao to the study and asked him to tell the story of what he encountered one by one.
Liu Yujiao took a sip of the tea brought by Yan Niang, calmed down slightly, and then said to Cheng Muyou, "Coincidentally, when I came back from Qingzhou this time, I happened to meet this place on the road, and I met Miss Jiang and a few of them who were glued together with the monster, so I helped them." ” "Monsters?"
Cheng Muyou's eyebrows crumpled, "What monster?"
” Liu Yuzhu stared at the mottled ground, "It's very thin, the bones seem to be covered with only a thin layer of skin, Brother Cheng, I don't know if you've seen people who are dying of starvation in the famine, to be precise, it's like that, the ribs are all on display, and it looks like you can break yourself into two pieces with a single heel."
But its face was different from that of a human, it had no facial features, only a thin slit that stood up, and a thick, long tongue was hidden inside."
"It eats people with that tongue?"
Yan Niang asked coldly on the side.
Liu Yuzhu nodded at her, "I haven't seen with my own eyes how it ate the official of your Xin'an Mansion, but I heard Miss Jiang say that it can suck people even with flesh and bones by inserting that tongue into their mouths, but" "Just what?"
Yan Niang asked.
Liu Yuzhu lowered his eyes, held his breath and endured it for a while, and then said, "Although it ate the servant, it vomited out the debris of its body, as if it couldn't digest it." ” After he became an official in the court, although he walked around all over the world, he couldn't be too particular about food and clothing, but he also tried not to touch any pickled and dirty things, so after hearing Jiang Xixi talk about the monster eating people and vomiting out, he was nauseous for a while, even if he said this to Cheng Muyou and Yan Niang, it also caused physical discomfort.
Yan Niang was unmoved, she looked at Liu Yuzhang's slightly discolored face, and said thoughtfully, "The body is extremely thin, it seems that I have been hungry for a long time, and after devouring it, I vomited it all out, so I have to continue to look for food." ” Cheng Muyou said suspiciously, "Madam, what did you think of?"
” Yan Niang glanced at him, "I traveled to the Western Regions when I was young, and I accidentally came to a grotto on the cliff on the northern edge of the desert.
It's just that I was young and playful at the time, so I didn't have the patience to admire these murals, so I just walked around the grotto casually and left.
But now that I think about it, I seem to have seen the monster that Lord Liu just said on one of the paintings. ” Cheng Muyou froze, "Madam, what does that painting describe?"
” "A young man in fine clothes, holding a jug, stands in an empty city."
"Empty city?
So where are those monsters?
” Yan Niang smiled slightly, "I said the empty city because that boy thought that there was no one in the city, but in fact, he didn't know that he had already been targeted by thousands of pairs of eyes."
They were hidden in the shadows, some lying on the eaves, some curled up in the corners, and some with only one head peeking out of the window, staring at the jug in his hand, which was covered with dry bones, and although they had no eyes, they seemed to smell the smell of the living. ” Hearing her say this, the expression on Cheng Muyou's face seemed to be frozen, he clenched one hand into a fist, got up from the chair, and paced around the room twice, before he froze, and muttered to himself, "Water jug, empty city, childe, I know, the painting that Madam said is the story of Yi'er meeting a hungry ghost." ” "Billion ears meet hungry ghosts?"
Yan Niang and Liu Yuzhu looked at him at the same time, especially Liu Yujiao, his face was full of surprise, and he repeated those two words again, "Hungry ghost?
” Cheng Muyou looked out the window, "That's right, the grotto where Mrs. went is called the Thousand Buddha Cave, which is located on the cliff of Mingwu Tag Mountain in the Western Regions, which is called the Thousand Buddha Cave, and the murals inside must be related to Buddhism, and the encounter with a hungry ghost is a Buddhist scripture story."
It tells the story of a great merchant named Yi'er, who went into the sea with his companions to collect treasures, returned from the treasures in the sea, and after spending the night with his companions, he was forced by hunger and thirst and was anxious.
He saw a city in the distance, and thought that there must be water in it, so he went to the edge of the city, asking for water to drink. ” "But they didn't know that this city was a hungry ghost city, and they couldn't see anyone when they walked on the main road in the city, and because of hunger and thirst, they cried out loudly: 'Water!
Water!
’” "When the hungry ghosts of the city heard the shouting, they gathered together, and they were all like pillars of fire, and they all came to the ear and put their palms together and said, 'Beg me for water.'"
Elier replied, 'It is because of hunger and thirst that I have come here to ask for water.'
When the hungry ghosts heard this, they knew that their hope for water had been extinguished, and they exclaimed: 'Don't you know that this is a hungry ghost town?'
Why do you want to go here for water?
’” "They also said, 'We live in this city, and we have not heard of water or eaten food for millions of years.'
The forests of Dora were burned by fire, and so were the hungry ghosts, whose branches were burned with fierce fire, and whose hair was unkempt, and whose bodies were ruined, who ran and searched for food and drink, and who thought day and night, but could not ask for it, and were persecuted by hunger and thirst.
He was whipped and bitter by the Yaksha from time to time, and all he heard was a bad sound, and he never heard a good word, let alone a drop of water. ’” "They sighed to the billionaires: How can we get water and give to you when we suffer from this?
This is all due to the retribution we have received from our past lives of greed. ” "Hungry Ghost City," Liu Yujiao said these three words, "Brother Cheng means that what they encountered was a hungry ghost, Miss Jiang?"
” Cheng Muyou nodded, "If Madame remembers well, I'm afraid they really met a hungry ghost," Speaking of this, he slammed it on the table, and a wave of anger rose on his face, "It's a pity that my brother died in the mouth of a hungry ghost." ” Yan Niang walked up to Cheng Muyou and reached out to hold his fist, "Now is not the time to get angry, we can only find out the culprit and avenge him by figuring out why the hungry ghost appeared in Xin'an, isn't it?"
” Cheng Muyou understood what she meant, so he turned his head to look at Liu Yuji, "Where did that hungry ghost come from?"
” "According to Miss Jiang, the hungry ghost is Jin Chen, and Jin Chen is the hungry ghost."