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Chapter 14 Fragrant Hall

I remember that the four words "Nie Jing Lan Ling" were engraved on the stone tablet of the spiritual altar where the female ghost in green was.

So I thought about it carefully. If the female ghost in green is the Nie Jing Lan Ling, then she should not be an evil ghost with bad intentions.

After all, she originally requested to be admitted to the spiritual altar.

Moreover, I met her in the Guandi Temple in Fengmen Village before, which also shows that Dizang Temple does not restrict her freedom. She can come and go here at will.

So I really can't understand why she dug out my heart and asked me to exchange ninety-nine and eighty-one animal hearts with her.

In order to clarify this point, I went to the spiritual altar again late that night.

I crept up the hillside, thinking about how I would ask her about this later, but then I saw a stream of white smoke coming from behind the altar.

I thought something had happened in the spiritual altar, so I hurriedly moved toward the white smoke.

I hid behind the grass and saw a bonfire in the open space behind the altar. The female ghost in green was sitting next to it. She seemed to be roasting something on the fire.

At this time, the air was filled with the smell of meat, which reminded me of the scene when she took out my heart at the Guandi Temple that night, and I subconsciously felt that she was baking something unclean.

Thinking of this, I suddenly felt sick in my stomach.

At this time, I wanted to back off, thinking that what Liu Dashuang said before might be false.

But before I could turn around, the voice of the female ghost in blue came to my ears.

"Why are you hiding somewhere sneakily? Look again, do you believe that my aunt will dig out your eyeballs?"

I was so frightened that I trembled and ran out to apologize to her.

It was only after I got closer that I discovered that what was roasting on her bonfire was not a human heart, but two chickens. It looked like I had brought them to her yesterday.

I was a little confused all of a sudden.

"Xiangu, you asked me to bring you chickens just because..."

She took off a roasted chicken and smelled it.

"Well, it tastes so delicious. How about you eat some too?"

I took the roast chicken from her with some speechlessness and said: "Xiangu, you should tell me directly before you want to eat chicken, why are you making such a big joke with me?

Why would you exchange ninety-nine and eighty-one hearts for mine? You scared me to death."

She raised her eyebrows and looked at me.

"Who are you kidding? That chicken heart is indeed useful to me.

As for this, I just don't want to spoil the chicken.

By the way, why did you come here empty-handed tonight? The time limit we agreed on is not long."

I whispered: "Actually, I came here tonight just to ask Fairy Aunt a question. What is the purpose of asking me to send you so many animal hearts?"

She sneered.

"Didn't I say before that this is my business and you shouldn't ask any more questions.

If you dare to amuse my time, are you really not afraid that I will take out your liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys and eat them?"

As she spoke, she smiled evilly and licked the corner of her bright red mouth with her tongue.

Under the white moonlight, there was an indescribable ghostly look on her face.

I was so frightened that I took two steps back, but I still straightened my back and said: "You... can't scare me. I've heard people say that your name is Nie Jing Lan Ling. You are a good ghost. You can't."

Killing innocent people indiscriminately..."

She was stunned for a moment after hearing what I said, and then burst into laughter.

"What a ghost? Haha, this is the first time I heard such a word."

As she spoke, she slowly turned around and looked at the stone tablet in front of her spiritual altar.

After a moment of silence, he said: "Well, since you know everything, I won't scare you anymore."

"So Fairy Girl, you really..."

"That's right, I didn't steal your heart at all. I was just scaring you that night at the Guandi Temple. The purpose was to get you to run errands for me and collect this thing."

As she said this, she took out a porcelain bowl from behind the altar and saw four bloody chicken hearts in it.

After hearing what she said, I finally breathed a sigh of relief, but I became even more curious.

"So what's the point of collecting this stuff?"

She turned back and looked at me.

"Boy, you are really persistent.

Forget it, I have nothing to do now anyway."

As she said that, she suddenly came over and grabbed my sleeve. Before I could react, she had already lifted me up.

In the blink of an eye, she took me flying down the hillside, and by the time I recovered, I was already standing with her in front of the incense hall of Jizo Temple.

"Xiangu, what are you doing?"

"Don't you want to know my purpose of collecting these hearts? I'll give you an idea right now."

After saying that, he took me and walked towards the incense hall.

I said in a panic: "That's not allowed, Fairy Girl. I heard from Dashuang that Xiangtang is the place where Ksitigarbha nunnery worships gods. The statues of Ksitigarbha and officials and generals are all there."

There is a lot of spiritual energy here, and ghosts and other negative things will be severely damaged if they enter.

Fairy aunt, although you are a good ghost who does not harm others, after all..."

She seemed not to have listened to my words at all, and she had already pulled me into the door of the Xiangtang before I finished speaking.

But then she was not hurt by the aura of the statue as I imagined, and she walked inside completely as if nothing had happened.


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