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If we can't get out, we'll stop.

After breaking up with that group of people, everyone treated him indifferently, he did not care, and he was not good at dealing with others.

"If you want to talk about adventure, that means...."

Xiao Lingchuan recalled that at the end of the autumn three years ago, around this time, the escort bureau where he received a business order to transport the coffin of a wealthy woman back to her ancestral home for burial.

After all, they would escort the dead bodies. The chief bodyguard was initially unwilling to accept this kind of thing, this was an unlucky thing, but the other party was their regular customer. The family jewelry business is big, and there are several shops in Daqijing. The other party gave a generous gift, transporting the corpse, everyone would avoid on the road, there was no risk, money was easy to come by, the butler thought this business was purely profitable, so he nodded and agreed.

"Before proceeding, the coffin stopped at the escort bureau. The guard on duty at night said that he heard a woman crying in the middle of the night."

Moreover, the benefactor made a strange request that the bodyguard escorting the coffin should be an unmarried person. It is said that it was proposed by monks in the temple. Miss Qianjin died suddenly and had a deep hatred, so she had to find someone who could endure it.

The night in the rain continued the gloomy topic, Li Weiyue couldn't help but feel goosebumps in her body, but pretended to be relaxed: "Then why would she want an unmarried man to send a coffin? Is there a connection between humans and ghosts?"

Xiao Lingchuan could not say it too directly, in fact, they needed a male bodyguard, a male filled with Yang, and ghosts could not approach him. According to folklore, a single woman who died suddenly, with a lot of hatred, would haunt in the middle of the night and seek a man to marry her in the dark.

After receiving the order, the head of the bodyguard was in a desperate state. As long as he asked, everyone's head would be like a rattlesnake toy, and they all said that even though they weren't married yet, they were, they often go to flower houses and tea houses for fun while taking walks as bodyguards. No one dared to take the risk.

"The streets and they gave me a thousand taels of silver, and I agree."

Thousands of taels of silver, back and forth for about a month, some bodyguards were unable to make much money throughout their lives.

Although it was late autumn, the weather in the south was still hot, and there were several cities to go through. To prevent the corpse from rotting, the woman was sealed in an ice coffin. Fortunately, they did not need to stop on the road, they only added ice cubes to the icebox every seven or eight hours.

"Then, what happened to you?"

Li Weiyue was in a hurry, her story was only half told, neither rising nor descending, so she gestured for Xiao Lingchuan not to deceive her, and hurriedly wanted him to continue, so she gestured to Xiao Lingchuan not to trick her, this wild man is full of evil spirits, and the female ghost is scared, right?

Moreover, his appearance was extremely ugly in the eyes of the Da Qi society. Everyone loves beauty, and he believes ghosts are like this too. Female ghosts must choose someone who looks good when they want to marry someone in the dark.

There were only four people sent to escort the coffin on that trip. Xiao Lingchuan was supposed to be alone, but the chief bodyguard refused to agree. If he was the only one who went alone, he would earn too much money and make a lot of money, so he made the pieces. From relatives at home, persuaded and deceived, and gathered with three unmarried boys.

"The three people had absolutely no experience in escorting. They were only collecting some money for themselves, the head of the bodyguard did not say that this trip was to transport the coffin."

The three of them had yet to reach adulthood, they were two or three years younger than him, seventeen or eighteen years old, full of curiosity about everything. The chief bodyguards drew a large cake for them, and they left for a month, and when they returned, they would each receive a hundred taels of silver, plus a room in the city.

The conditions were attractive, and the three of them did not know the truth, so they thought they would only bring an empty coffin, and happily agreed.

Before leaving, the butler gave Xiao Lingchuan five hundred taels of silver money, and after the journey home, there were another five hundred taels, which would be cashed in that place.

The head of the bodyguard threatened him that if he spoke nonsense, he would be disbanded in the future. Never think of getting any more money out of it. Bodyguard runners would exchange their lives for money every time they left. Many people leave happily, but never return.

So for this trip, he would give her a thousand taels. This price is hard to find even with lanterns. There were two unmarried boys in the god agency, but they were already engaged, and the wedding date was near. Damn things, rejected.

"Nobody told them the truth. I was the only one who put ice on the body. I think it's a good thing if they don't know."

He plans to work harder on his own. As long as the three of them did nothing wrong and followed them honestly, they would arrive at their ancestral home in about fifteen days, and the journey home would be much easier.

Li Weiyue nodded, she had guessed a part of it, this wild man was not a talkative person.

"Because of transporting the coffin, you can only stay in the tent all the way, you can't stay in the inn."

Even if it was an empty coffin, the innkeeper would prevent some people from exiting the door. When doing business, they are most afraid of causing misfortune, especially the ancients who were superstitious about this.

In the first few days, Xiao Lingchuan added ice cubes, for fear that his corpse would rot, he would have to replace them every seven or eight hours, and often have to leave the nearest road and take a detour to the city to buy ice cubes.

Perhaps his cunning behavior attracted the attention of three other people. The men did not ask explicitly, but quietly gathered in one place, suspecting that there was a treasure in the coffin.

Many wealthy merchants might have had the oddity, for fear of attracting the attention of bandits, they used coffins to transport jewelry, it was safer. If there was indeed gold in it, he had no idea how much profit he was taking advantage of behind his back.

Walking for a month, a hundred taels per person plus a small yard, combined into silver, still a lot of money, transporting an empty coffin, can he give so much? A few days after leaving, the three smart people suddenly woke up, and they were increasingly convinced that there was something complicated behind them.

It was a coincidence that night. After a group of people bought ice cubes in the city and stored them properly, it should be enough for three days. Then they returned to the small street and traveled day and night, right on the first day of October in the lunar calendar, the festival of the people's cold clothes.

As they were walking, a cloud of mist suddenly descended, and the road ahead was not clearly visible. Some banknotes fell from the sky, and the black ash from the burning banknotes floated in the air.

On both sides of the street, there was a graveyard, with dim floating ghost lights. They did not know the direction, so they had to stop and rest.

"Then, did you meet something unclean?"

Li Weiyue remembered reading a book, the book introduced that the fog that appeared around the ghost festival was actually a kind of poison, do not walk in the grave at night, children are easy to fear, adults are easy to deal with a ghost hitting a wall.

It is said that ghosts that hit the wall are the favorite jokes of ghosts. Wherever you go, you can't get out of the odd, hanging loop, or you'll get back to square one. Right now, you cannot go any further, otherwise the Feet will go into the gates of hell.

"If we can't get out, we'll stop."

Xiao Lingchuan returned to the tent, too tired from the trip that day, and fell asleep after a while.

In the middle of the night, he was woken up by a scream, and when he came out of the tent, the three of them had opened the coffin together, and they continued to make one move, he said, their eyes were fixed on the long-dead princess inside the coffin.

An oil lamp was thrown into the grass not far from it, and the lamp oil inside spilled out, igniting the grass and illuminating everything around it.