Lord of Earth Fiend

Chapter 157
It was raining heavily outside, making crackling noises on the roof.

It was almost dusk, and the sky was already dark because of the rain, and the winter days are already short.

Gu Leyou took off his coir raincoat, shook off the rain on it, and muttered, "This rain is really not at the right time, and I thought I could arrive in Yun County sooner, and deliver the bodyguards smoothly."

Chen Jin looked around, sizing up the environment here, and smelled a strong musty smell, which made people feel uncomfortable.

After setting up the escort vehicle, Nie Feng came over, clasped his fists at Gu Leyou and said, "Brother Gu Dao, I want to trouble you with something."

"What's the matter?"

"Zhuangzi suffered from war here, and there must have been countless casualties. I don't know what to do with those corpses. I'm afraid there is resentment and no peace. Let's take the liberty to stay here. There will be a lot of disturbance. According to the etiquette, we should recite the "Mantra of Rebirth" as a sacrifice. Revenant."

Gu Leyou asked: "You mean to let me read it?"

Nie Feng said embarrassingly: "Although I have also learned this sutra, but I am a layman after all, and I can't read it fluently enough."

Gu Leyou nodded and said, "Forget it, I'll do it now."

Nie Feng said happily: "Then thank you, Brother Dao."

"Taoist priest, I will go with you."

Chen Jin volunteered.

The two set off, starting at the gate first.

No matter what kind of house construction, the gate is the main passage and is very important.In geomancy and geomantic omen, the door is the mouth for receiving air, coming and going in and out, so the door god must be posted, and peach charms and Aisuos should be hung to resist the invasion of evil spirits.If the conditions are good and the family is rich and noble, there will be stone lions and stones outside the door to ward off evil spirits.

The family status of this landlord and squire family is obviously exquisite, but it is dilapidated, one of the doors is missing, and a big hole is broken in the other one. The door panel is stained with blood stains on it.

Gu Leyou seems to be frivolous, but he is very serious when he does things. If he does not do it, he will do it. All ghosts and ghosts, four life benedictions; those with a head surpass, those without a head rise, kill with a gun and knife, jump into the water and hang a rope;

Listening to these scriptures, Chen Jin was very interested.In the past, Gu Leyou mostly recited the "Sutra of Rescuing Suffering", but this "Curse of Rebirth" is not bad.

After finishing at the gate, go to the front yard. There is a well here. A traveler has observed it before. The well water has been polluted and can no longer be used for drinking.

Then there is the nave, the inner room, and the backyard...

The troops of Zhenfeng Escort mainly gathered in the front hall, and did not go deep into the back.After passing through the nave, the surroundings were secluded and quiet, coupled with the dim light, it immediately appeared a somewhat gloomy atmosphere.

Chen Jin reached out and found a small white leather lantern in his hand. He opened the lampshade and lit the candle inside.

Gu Leyou looked at it and sighed: "I didn't expect that all the lanterns are with you."

Chen Jin replied: "When going out, it is natural to prepare all kinds of utensils in case of emergencies."

Gu Leyou looked up and looked around: "Scholar, to be honest, I feel a little hairy walking here, as if there is something lurking in the dark, peeping at us."

Chen Jin said calmly: "The evil spirit here is indeed quite strong."

Gu Leyou asked: "Could it be that evil ghosts have formed?"

"So what? Don't you know how to recite scriptures to save them?"

"Oh, others don't know, but you are a scholar. If there are really evil spirits, how can they be settled by reciting scriptures?"

Chen Jin raised the lantern, and the light radiated out, dispelling the surrounding darkness: "The evil spirit is not the same as evil spirits, at least I didn't see it."

Gu Leyou breathed a sigh of relief: "As long as you see it with your legal eyes, I'm relieved."

He had an almost blind trust in Chen Jin's abilities. After all, the two of them had experienced so many things together, and they were all resolved by Chen Jin.

"Didn't you also open your eyes?"

"Heh, do you think everyone is like you and dares to look around with eyes open?"

Beginners of practice can open their eyes and open their eyes, but for junior practitioners, the Yin-Yang Dharma Eye will not be opened easily.

The Dharma eye is equivalent to a door that practitioners open more than ordinary people, through which one can peek into a new world.But at the same time, it also increases the risk of being hacked by unknown people.

After all, as long as it is a door, it basically has a two-way function. Once it is opened, it will come in and out. It is rare to say that it can only go out and not in.

Therefore, the new monk's Dharma Eye will never be used as a last resort.You must know that watching people's blood will suffer backlash. If you accidentally see a fierce person, your eyes may be blinded; as for watching ghosts and gods, there are more taboos. .

Chen Jin built a temple, and with this solid backing, nothing would go wrong if he opened his eyes.

He said again: "Since the evil spirit is strong, then burn some more incense."

Then, he took out a large stack of incense paper money from Hutian.

Gu Leyou was dazzled: "Why do you feel that you are more like a Taoist priest than me?"

Chen Jin replied with a smile: "I've been practicing meditation recently. As a necessary form of incense for sacrifices, naturally I can't ignore it."

Gu Leyou said seriously: "Scholar, although your cultivation base is higher than mine and your talent is outstanding, I still have to remind you, don't look at and think randomly, it is easy to cause problems. Once something happens, it is no small matter."

"Well, I'll be careful."

While the two were talking, they had already reached the backyard. After finishing this area, the whole house would be finished.

Whoosh!

When passing a tree, a black shadow suddenly sprang out and rushed down.

"Where is the evildoer?"

Gu Leyou reacted very quickly, and immediately thrust out the mahogany sword in his hand, hitting a limp body.

"Meow……"

The black shadow uttered a miserable cry, jumped up and fled towards the outside.

It turned out to be a huge wild cat.

"This bastard frightened me."

Gu Leyou said angrily.

Chen Jin praised: "Taoist, your swordsmanship has improved a lot."

"you do this delibrately?"

"This cat has a hidden breath and is hiding in a tree. I didn't notice it for a while."

Hearing what he said, Gu Leyou was convinced that cats are indeed evil, especially this kind of wild cat, which is agile, good at crawling, and walks silently.

The episode passed, and there were no more accidents. After reading the scriptures and burning incense and paper money, the two returned to the front yard, and saw that everyone was boiling water and cooking food around the fire.

It was windy and rainy outside, and Gu Leyou had no interest in hunting, so he could just make do with some dry food.

In the sound of wind and rain, there was suddenly the sound of horseshoes.

Nie Feng suddenly stood up with a solemn expression: "Someone is here."

Listening to the movement, there are quite a number of people, and it seems to be an army.

Not long after, the other party also stopped outside the house, and someone shouted loudly outside: "Where is your friend here? Our merchant happened to pass by, and we want to take advantage of this precious place to shelter from the wind and rain. Please give me a hand."

Hearing this, Nie Feng breathed a sigh of relief. Based on his original intention, he naturally didn't want people to come in and live together under the same roof. There would be variables in that way.However, this house is not owned by the Zhenfeng Security Bureau. When others pass by, they want to avoid the wind and rain, and they have no position to refuse.

Wei Yi pondered, and immediately came out and said: "We are also passers-by sheltering from the rain, if you don't think it's crowded, please come in."

"It's windy and rainy. It's good to have tiles to cover your head. How can you dislike it?"

The man said politely, and then directed his companions to push the two large carriages into the yard.

They were a party, two cars, and six other people, all wearing coir raincoats and bamboo hats, with weapons on their waists.

These days, it is impossible to do business without any strength, and even pure merchants will send escorts to escort the goods.And the two carriages seemed to be carrying a lot of goods, and they were struggling, and the wheels had deep ruts.

Although the front yard of the house was not small, two groups of people came in one after another, and it suddenly seemed crowded.

Nie Feng kept alert, and kept looking at the other party's outfit; but the other party's attitude was also uncompromising, with scrutiny in his eyes.

When each other's eyes meet, they smile, and use a smile to resolve the embarrassment.At the same time, I felt a little more at ease.

Then they were busy.

"My friends, I have a good burning knife here, do you want to drink?"

The leader of the merchants said, holding a jar of wine in his hand.

Nie Feng waved his hand: "Thank you friend, we have already eaten."

"Oh well."

The big man didn't say any more, and sat with his partner to make something to eat.

Time passed silently, the wind and rain continued, and it was getting late. Whether it was the people of Zhenfeng Security Bureau or the merchants, they all began to doze off by the fire.

Crackling!

Suddenly there was the sound of chaotic footsteps outside, as if a lot of people were rushing here.

Nie Feng was startled, he jumped up, and before he could make a sound, he heard a scream, and then a guard who was in charge of night watchman retreated into the courtyard, he was shot by two arrows in his back, bleeding profusely, his mouth Called: "Young bodyguard master, a large number of bandits have been killed, there are dozens of people."

"Bandits?"

Nie Feng's face turned cold, but he didn't panic.

With regard to this route, although it is an official route, there have been intelligence reports that there are many rogue activities, and there are even a few bandits haunting and looting houses, and doing a lot of evil deeds.

Before setting off, Nie Feng and his father had already formulated a countermeasure. Since they spent a lot of money to invite Huang Zhongheng and others to help them, it is no problem to deal with these thieves; idea.

Looking at it now, it really is greedy and unwilling to let go of this piece of fat.

Come as soon as you come, just in time to start a killing spree, so as to kill the signboard of Zhenfeng Escort Bureau, and when you go to escort in the future, these thieves will flee when they see Zhenfeng's banner.

As a younger generation, Nie Feng naturally has some ambitions. He has not lost the family admonition to be kind and make money, and form good karma, but this admonition is of little use to bandits.

You can't reason with them, you can only kill them.

If it's just the bodyguards and troopers in the bodyguard agency, Nie Feng doesn't have the confidence yet, but there are many masters in the formation, so why worry?
Compared with them, the group of merchants was obviously panicked, and the leading man panicked and said: "The bandits are here, what should we do? All kinds of escort heroes, can you let us join and kill the bandits together?"

Nie Feng knew that these merchant guards looked at Kong Wu as powerful, but in fact they didn't have much skill and means. How could a powerful warrior lower himself to guard the house for merchants?

So he said: "The fight will start later, you all need to be careful and just protect yourself."

Chi Chi Chi!
Bang bang bang!
The thieves had already attacked, shooting arrows indiscriminately, and some people were hitting windows, doors, walls, etc., forming a siege, and they kept making strange noises to strengthen their prestige.

Fortunately, those arrows and crossbows are all made of earth, and their killing power is greatly reduced, not that powerful.

However, with so many people under siege, the house could hardly sustain it, and it might be pushed down directly, and it would be difficult to deal with it.

Nie Feng looked at Luo Jiazhi and Shi Mingsheng.

The two masters understood, and said in unison: "Let's fight together and give them a blow."

After all, let's move together.One of them is nicknamed "Iron-armed Arhat" and the other is "Running Thunder Hand". You can tell from the names that they are masters from outsiders, and they don't need weapons, and their martial arts are all in one pair of hands.

The two rushed out, and immediately there were screams of fighting and screams.

For their strength, Nie Feng is quite confident. The only disadvantage is the wind and rain at night. When the number is at a disadvantage, we must pay attention to "it is easy to hide from the open gun, but difficult to guard against the hidden arrow".

This is a well-known saying in the Jianghu. As the saying goes, "No matter how high your martial arts are, you are afraid of kitchen knives." There are too many things to capsize in the gutter.

The good thing is that Luo and Shi are both veterans, so they will naturally be careful.

Nie Feng's attention was on the outside of the door, and at this moment, there was a crackling sound.

The abnormal sound came from the courtyard, just above the two carriages of the merchants.

The carriage opened suddenly, and two rows of arrows and crossbows fired out, shooting to death several unresponsive riders, including an escort, the old man of the escort, Uncle Hai.

"kill!"

There were seven or eight black-clothed men ambushing in each carriage, and all of them came out with sharp knives at this moment.

"kill!"

At this time, the merchants stopped hiding, showed their true colors, raised their weapons and slashed at the guards around them.

After some communication just now, the two groups of people were already close to each other, but this sudden attack caught them off guard.

"Good thief!"

Nie Feng roared angrily, and with the long knife in his hand, he chopped down an attacking merchant with his backhand.In fact, he had already done it quite carefully. He had kept a distance from the other party before and did not accept the other party's wine.However, when the thieves appeared and launched a siege outside, the situation changed, and the focus of defense was naturally placed outside. That's why Luo Jiazhi and Shi Mingsheng were sent out to defend against the enemy. After all, there were Huang Zhongheng and Gu Leyou sitting in the guard. .

At this moment, the "traders" started to attack. It can be seen from this that these people are definitely not ordinary rogues. From the beginning to the end, they are meticulously designed, cunning like ghosts, and they have done a good job of acting, so that all the veterans have not noticed. flaw.

But at this time, it is meaningless to think about those things again, and I can only fight back.

The manpower brought by the Escort suffered heavy losses during the raid, and there were not many people left. Fortunately, Huang Zhongheng was still there.

This old-fashioned "Iron Brave Master" was ruthless as soon as he made a move, and the iron guts in his palm were aroused, beating a "trader" on the spot until his brains burst.

On the other side, Gu Leyou fought with an iron sword in his hand.

On the other hand, Chen Jin was still sitting by the fire, keeping a calm expression, as if waiting for something.

　Thanks to a new book friend "The Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River" for their generous reward!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)