With tears in Chen Zeshan's eyes, she said a little aggrievedly: "I...I don't worry about you, Brother Yu, being here alone..."

Ge Yu shook his head helplessly, thinking that this girl was stupid enough. Those workers were all tall and thick, and even they couldn't help. What use could she, a little girl, do here?

But this also shows Chen Zeshan's sincerity towards herself. As soon as ordinary people saw the spermatozoon popping out of the coffin, they would have been so frightened that they ran away. It takes a lot of courage for her to be able to stand here.

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After comforting Chen Zeshan, Ge Yu asked her to stand aside and wait for him for a while. Now Ge Yu still has a very important thing to do, which is to deal with these resentful spirits.

In the end, should the beheaded soul be annihilated, should it be saved, or should the reason be found out.

With these thoughts in mind, Ge Yu walked up to the ghosts subdued by the Spirit-Gathering Tower and asked in a deep voice: "Let me ask you, why are you entrenched here and unwilling to leave?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the resentful spirits kneeling on the ground looked at each other and refused to speak.

"Quickly tell me, my patience is limited. Explain the reason, and maybe I can give you a salvation. If you are stubborn, I can only beat your souls to pieces. People are human beings, and ghosts go to the underworld. This is the place.

This is not a place where you should exist." Ge Yu said angrily.

Accompanying Ge Yu's words, the Maoshan Seven-Star Sword inserted on the ground suddenly flashed with golden light. It seemed that it sensed Ge Yu's thoughts. The seven small swords made a slight buzzing sound, which was quite a bit...

Looking ready to go.

"Master Yu, what nonsense are you talking to them? These resentful spirits almost killed your little wife. Let me see, you can directly refine it into a ghost elixir, and it can also increase your cultivation." A ghost said impatiently.

Under the threat of the Maoshan Seven-Star Sword, those ghosts were frightened. At this time, a middle-aged ghost said tremblingly: "Master Taoist, you think we don't want to leave... We are all people who died violently.

, the grievances are too strong, the underworld will not accept us at all... We can only wander here, but we have never harmed anyone before, if they didn't want to disturb our graves, we would not embarrass these people..."

What this ghost said seemed to make some sense. Ge Yu didn't know if anything had happened in this place before. But judging from what happened in the past few days, these ghosts did not have serious intentions of harming others.

At first, the construction workers here were only given a symbolic warning by these ghosts, and they only injured the construction workers. Until yesterday, these workers continued to work, and finally completely annoyed these ghosts, and then they took a serious step and killed one person.

The purpose is to get them out of here.

"Then why did you die?" Ge Yu asked doubtfully.

"We...our whole family was beheaded by the imperial court. Every one of us was beheaded. Even my six-year-old son was not spared..." The middle-aged ghost said with a sad look on his face.

Hearing this, Ge Yu was shocked and said in a deep voice: "What crime did you commit to deserve to be executed by the whole family?"

"I am a mere literati. Just because I wrote a poem, the first line of which is 'The yellow flowers are sad in the rain during the Qingming Festival' was considered by the court to be an anti-poetry with the intention of treason. Then the whole family was arrested by the court.

, all of them were beheaded in public, and then their bodies were exposed to the sun for several days before they were collected and buried by distant relatives at home. It was really an unjust death. My poem had no intention of rebelling against the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty...

The imperial court is completely making excuses, and it’s all my fault that has killed a whole family..." As he spoke, the middle-aged ghost actually started to cry.

Of course, ghosts don't have tears, and crying is just for show.

After listening to what the middle-aged ghost said, Ge Yu finally figured out the whole story.

A family of more than 20 people, old and young, is buried here. The initiator of this incident is the middle-aged ghost who cried. He lived during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. He wrote a poem to express his emotions. This poem was

If it spreads, it will be exposed and the family will be destroyed.

This is the so-called literal prison.

Literary inquisition has occurred in all dynasties, with the Qing Dynasty being the most serious. It was particularly severe during the Qianlong period. Three hundred years after the Qing Dynasty, no documents existed. Literary inquisition lasted for about 250 years in the Qing Dynasty. The peak period started with Shunzhi and passed through the middle period.

The four dynasties of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong...

Scholars of letters showed slight dissatisfaction in their writings, or the emperor suspected that the writings contained content that ridiculed the Qing Dynasty. They impromptuly imprisoned people and often implicated themselves in various incidents. Except for a few cases that had good reasons, most of them were based on suspicion and were purely unjust killings.

This family was a victim of the Literary Prison. Just because of a poem, more than 20 members of the family were beheaded.

It is worth mentioning that there is an old man in their family, the spirit corpse that Ge Yu killed before. He escaped because of an incident. When he returned, he found that the entire family had been taken away by the court.

, when he learned the reason why his family members were taken away, he knew that a disaster was coming. He didn't even take a breath, his head fell to the ground, and he died on the spot.

Due to the accumulated resentment in the old man's heart, his body became stiff and incorruptible after death. People who knew the truth said that the old man might transform into a corpse and must be buried in a copper coffin, so they pooled their money to build a copper coffin for the old man and bury him.

, and was finally buried together with the whole family.

However, those people didn't know that corpses encased in copper coffins were more likely to undergo corpse transformation. The old man relied on the resentment accumulated in his chest to absorb the power of the earth evil, and finally turned into a zombie.

It has been transformed into a spirit corpse for more than two hundred years. If Ge Yu had not discovered this spirit corpse first, if it had been dug out by the construction workers, it would have definitely caused a catastrophe.

The remaining decapitated corpses all died very unjustly, and all died violently, with no chance of reincarnation. They were also affected by the old man's transformation into a spirit corpse, which nourished a deeper resentment and lingered here.

Fortunately, this matter happened and was resolved as soon as possible.

Ge Yu thought that the whole family was indeed unjust and had not harmed anyone, so he fulfilled his previous promise and set up a altar next to the coffins to liberate the entire family.

Saving more than twenty resentful spirits at once was very draining of spiritual energy, and even Ge Yu could not bear it.

Salvation of resentful spirits is also a manifestation of Taoism's accumulation of negative virtues, which will also be helpful to Ge Yu's practice in the future.
Chapter completed!