Chapter 230: Cliff coffin burial, donkey and horse race

It only takes a waterway to go from Jinmen to Qianzhou, but once you arrive in Qianzhou, if you want to go elsewhere, you have to change to horses.

Xu Qing didn't bring his "Funeral-Chasing" horse. Before leaving Qianzhou, he specifically borrowed a horse from Shang Shaoyang, saying that he would return the horse to the Shang mansion when he returned to Qianzhou after finishing his business.

The Shang family was large and prosperous, and any horse raised in the mansion was a strong horse with great strength.

Although it couldn't compare to his "Funeral-Chasing," it was enough for him to use.

"Why does Immortal Xu want to ride a horse?"

"Hmm?" Xu Qing looked at the little girl beside him and raised his eyebrows: "Why ask that?"

Xuanyu looked up at Xu Qing and said as a matter of course: "Horses run slowly. I have the technique of riding the wind. When I came to Quyang Commandery last time, I came by riding the wind."

"..."

Xu Qing finally understood why this cat would stumble outside.

"We can't ride the wind, and we can't run faster than horses."

"Why?"

"Because we will be treated as monsters."

Xuanyu retorted: "It's immortals."

Xu Qing shook his head and said: "We are immortals of Jinmen, but not immortals of Quyang Commandery. Here, we are strangers, and we will only be treated as monsters, and foreign monsters at that."

"If you are treated as a monster, it will cause a lot of trouble."

Xuanyu was silent for a moment, then suddenly looked up and said: "If I were a human, would she not take me to Mount Yunmeng to find those Daoists..."

Xu Qing knew who the "she" Xuanyu was referring to.

"These things have nothing to do with monsters. Demons are the same as humans, and there are good and bad. That old witch didn't know what was good for her and lured you to Mount Yunmeng, which is her fault in itself. Besides... how do you know those demon Daoists don't harm people?"

"Before they found you, the people in Bailong Village were all longevity prescriptions used by Ruyi Temple to extend their lives."

"So Xuanyu doesn't need to make excuses for her."

Xu Qing could distinguish clearly. If he met that old witch...

He would definitely take Xuanyu and run away the first time!

As for why it was running away instead of facing the old witch... the reason was that when Xu Qing calculated the Ziwei Dou Shu and divined the background of that old woman, he couldn't calculate anything!

The last time he encountered this situation was at Liu the midwife's house, when he recruited Bai Xiaoxian.

At that time, Xu Qing found a rusty cast-iron pot in the haystack at Liu the midwife's house. The white snake lying in that pot to avoid the sun was Bai Xiaoxian.

Bai Xiaoxian once told him that Liu the midwife was taken away by an old woman.

Besides that, Xu Qing also got a piece of information, which was that the old woman was a benefactor who had helped Liu the midwife before.

Liu the midwife told Little Immortal that it was time for her to repay the kindness, and since then, she had cut off contact with Bai Xiaoxian and disappeared without a trace.

Xu Qing had divined the old woman who took Liu the midwife away at that time, but couldn't calculate anything.

Could the old witch who lured Xuanyu into the trap and the old woman who took away Sister Liu be the same person?

If they were the same person...

Xu Qing, who hadn't felt nervous for a long time, felt his zombie hair stand on end and felt a chill.

Xuanyu came to Linjiang County with him, and Sister Liu also had dealings with him. It's hard to say whether there is any connection here.

Could that old woman have already discovered Xuanyu's tracks, so she appeared in Linjiang County?

Xu Qing didn't know. He only felt that the long-lost pressure had come back to him.

This was also one of the reasons why he had to take Xuanyu to Mount Yunmeng.

There were times when he wasn't by Xuanyu's side, and this silly cat was easily deceived. He had to let it grow up as soon as possible, whether in terms of cultivation or in terms of dealing with people.

Demons are already too close to humans, and the closer they are to humans, the closer they are to danger.

Xu Qing, who was a human before death and a zombie after death, understood human nature better than any other demon.

And the "Scripture of Saving People" deepened and magnified this perception for him.

On the Qianzhou official road, a young man, a little girl, and a horse walked slowly and finally walked out of the city gate.

Just looking at their words and deeds, no matter how ordinary people looked, they couldn't see anything wrong.

Beside Xu Qing, the little girl who occasionally made some innocent moves instead confirmed this harmonious feeling.

Outside the city, Xu Qing took a Qianzhou local map bought from a bookstore in the city and selected the path to Mount Yunmeng. The scenery and style of Qianzhou and Jinmen were completely different: Qianjiang Gallery, Puhe Dark River, strange mountains and rainbow waterfalls, as well as corridor bridges, cliff coffins, terraced fields...

When Xu Qing was handling the funeral for Cui Shiyuan at the Cui family, he had heard the Cui family mention the unique "cliff coffin burial" custom in Qianzhou.

The so-called cliff coffin burial is to place the coffin of the deceased on a dangerous cliff.

Qianzhou people advocate "the higher the filial piety," believing that the higher the hanging coffin, the more noble the descendants will be. This style is particularly prevalent among the Yue, Pu, and Liao tribes.

They firmly believe that as long as the coffin is hung high, it can make the deceased closer to gods and ancestors, and it is also more conducive to the soul of the dead to ascend to heaven.

As the top funeral director in Jinmen Prefecture, when Xu Qing first heard about this novel thing, his first reaction was neither the narrow-mindedness of "party-aligning and eliminating heresy" common to traditional craftsmen, nor the regional prejudice.

On the contrary, after hearing it, Xu Qing developed a desire to study and explore.

If he could master this thousand-year-old cliff burial wisdom, it would definitely be beneficial and harmless to his funeral business!

It is said that one should advance with the times and learn from the old to accept the new.

This trip to Qianzhou was also an important visit for Xu Qing to absorb advanced funeral knowledge, improve business level, and complete integration with new funeral fields and new worlds.

"Must cherish this trip to Qianzhou!"

Xuanyu didn't know Xu Qing's thoughts and thought that the other party wasn't sure about walking out of Qianzhou and walking out of Mount Yunmeng.

When it heard Xu Qing say that he wanted to cherish this tour, Xuanyu, who had been following behind, subconsciously grabbed Xu Qing's hand.

Xu Qing, who had just put away the map, looked sideways, only to see the little girl who was looking around curiously before, now silent again.

"Does Xuanyu want to ride a horse?"

"Hmm?"

The little girl's silent eyes suddenly brightened again.

Where the dust rose on the official road, Xu Qing was taking Xuanyu to Quyang Commandery when he suddenly heard the sound of rapid horse hooves behind him.

Xu Qing looked back and saw a fat monk with his back to him in the city gate hole, riding a donkey backward, chasing him with a clear goal.

The yellow dust rolled, and when he was only seven or eight feet away from Xu Qing, the fat monk shouted: "Donor Xu, slow down!"

Xu Qing's heart skipped a beat, secretly thinking it was bad.

When he attended the banquet at the Shang mansion, he had joked with this bald monk, saying that he had a hundred taels of gold and a thousand taels of silver as incense money.

Xu Qing's original intention was to take the opportunity to approach Daoist Bai Yun and explore more truth, but he didn't expect that it would be missed by this greedy bald donkey.

"Giddyup!"

Xu Qing shook the reins without any hesitation and decisively quickened his pace!

At this time, there was a headwind on the official road. The fat monk thought Xu Qing didn't hear his words, so he immediately used magic power to pour into his voice and shouted loudly:

"Donor Xu has a fate with my Buddhism, why not slow down and talk?"

In front, Xu Qing heard this, his face turned black immediately, and the horse under his crotch was frightened. The speed not only didn't decrease, but became faster!

A strong pushing force came, Xu Qing's robe fluttered, and the little girl sitting in front of the horse was more excited than anyone else.

Zen Master Jinghai sat with his back to Xu Qing, and the shiny back of his head didn't seem to have eyes, nor did he look back, but he could see the scenery behind him.

Seeing Xu Qing riding away, about to disappear at the end of the official road, the fat monk was not in a hurry. He just opened his wide monk sleeves, and a Buddha post was pressed on the donkey's butt in front of him.

The burning golden light flashed, and the Buddha post burned without wind. When the paper ash dissipated, a line of burnt Sanskrit characters entered the donkey's butt.

The fat monk twisted the prayer beads and chanted scriptures. The next moment, the thin donkey under his crotch that couldn't bear the burden suddenly seemed to have been injected with chicken blood. Its nostrils sprayed smoke, its four hooves produced wind, like a swallow skimming the flat ground, or like the rapid drumbeat of knocking, the donkey hooves clattered, but it was a few points faster than a thousand-mile treasure horse!

Hearing the movement behind him, Xu Qing looked back.

Good heavens! A fat-headed, big-eared monk, riding a thin little donkey backward, actually came behind him like a bull crashing.

Looking at the fat monk on the donkey's back, the gray cloth cassock was blown into a meat bun by the wind!

"..."

Xu Qing's face was very ugly. If "Funeral-Chasing" was here, he would definitely let this monk know what it is to be as fast on a curve as on a straight road.

"Donor Xu can finally be willing to listen to what the old monk has to say."

"I don't know what advice the master has?"

Xu Qing simply reined in his horse and stopped, watching how the old monk would explain.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 231 =====