A girl in a snow-white shirt stood outside, tilting her head slightly and smiling playfully. On her shoulders stood a brightly colored parrot, pecking at her earrings affectionately.
Yan Dan couldn't help but ask, "How did you get in?"
The girl raised her hand and touched the parrot on her shoulder: "It told me that birds are the smartest in the world, they know everything."
Tang Zhou's thoughts turned around, and he couldn't guess whether the other party was pretending to be stupid or telling the truth.
The girl turned around and took two steps. Seeing that they were not following, she turned around and waved her hand: "Hurry up, let's go, the birds will take us out." As she walked, she chatted with the parrot on her shoulder. Laughing, sometimes getting angry, but keeping footsteps, opening the door on the wall all the way, and walking forward quickly.
They turned a few times in the tunnel, and suddenly their eyes lit up, and they came out of a cave under the graveyard. It was evening now, and they had endured a whole day and night in the cemetery. Yan Dan took two steps closer, smiled and asked, "Did the bird tell you who locked us in the tunnel?"
The girl turned her head away, her smile blooming like a spring flower: "The bird knows everything, of course she will tell me. The bird said that she is a beautiful sister with a heart of snakes and scorpions. She is rescued by others and needs revenge."
Yan Dan heard the words, looked at Tang Zhou, and then asked, "Then why does she want to avenge her kindness and revenge?"
The girl tilted her head, as if listening to the parrot on her shoulders, the parrot croaked twice, and the girl said, "It said, because the beautiful sister and the ugly big brother are very close, you saw the big brother The secret, she will keep you inside for the rest of your life, and will never tell this secret."
"Secret...?" Yan Dan couldn't help but repeat softly.
Tao Ziqi is the subordinate of the Shenxiao Palace Master, so this is very likely.
"Miss, why did you come here again?" The woman I had seen before ran up and out of breath, panting from exhaustion, "It's really worrying, I just didn't pay attention and you disappeared again! She shook off the cloak in her hand, wrapped the girl inside, and looked at Tang Zhou and Yan Dan: "Thank you two for taking care of my young lady, why don't you come and sit at home?"
Tang Zhouwan refused: "We haven't helped us much, let alone disturbing us. This kindness can only be accepted."
The woman nodded with a heavy face: "That's fine, our Shen family is now haunted very fiercely. Before, there was a Niubi old Taoist named Ling Xuzi who said he wanted to help exorcise ghosts. Crying and laughing is useless."
Tang Zhou thought for a while, and said, "I'm also a Celestial Master, and I also know Senior Ling Xuzi. Why don't I go down to your house to see the situation? I don't think there will be countermeasures."
The woman looked at him, hesitated for a while, and seemed to think that he was too young and unreliable, and finally nodded.
The girl was even more happy when she heard that they were going to her own house, pestering them to say something inexplicable. The woman looked at it and sighed: "What a sin, my eldest young lady is not in good health and stays at home, but the second young lady doesn't know anything, she was born a fool, take pity on my master..."
The Shen family is a well-known family of wealthy people in Qingshi Town. They built a mansion on the outskirts, with two tall and strong nursing homes standing at the entrance.
Tang Zhou stepped into Shen's house and heard Yan Dan say softly, "It's really a ghost." He also immediately felt the spirit of injustice around him: "Can you take me to see Lord Shen? I want to ask him something."
The woman led them to the flower hall, and then asked someone to serve tea: "Sit down for a while, I'll go and call my master."
Yan Dan took a few steps back and forth in the hall, rolled his eyes, and smiled cleverly: "Senior brother, since you plan to help them drive away ghosts, you don't want me to follow you all the time, right? Look at this ban... "
Tang Zhou glanced at her: "You keep it up a little longer, and I'll untie it for you later."
Yan Dan was happy in his heart and couldn't help laughing, but he was still a little suspicious, so he could only look at the other side secretly. It's just that Tang Zhou remained silent, and she couldn't see anything.
After a while, the head of the Shen family came out.
After a few words of greeting, Tang Zhou changed his words and talked directly about the business: "To tell the truth from Lord Shen, this house is indeed not very clean. Does Lord Shen know the origin of this house?"
Master Shen is a white-faced businessman with a mediocre face. He doesn't look much like the young girls before. He has extremely short nails, and the clothes on his body are very good. Hearing what Tang Zhou said, he couldn't help showing a look of horror on his face: "This house was purchased later, and I asked a Feng Shui master to look at it and said that it is very good. I have been out for business in recent years, and my financial resources are also very stable. What's wrong with my family? Will it be clean?"
"It may be because of the wrongful death in this house before."
"This, this is convenient for expelling? If the young master can help us with this, no matter how much the reward is, just speak up."
Tang Zhou nodded: "It only takes two or three days, so Master Shen doesn't have to worry. The daughter has helped us before, so there is no need for the remuneration, it's just a favor."
Master Shen smiled bitterly and said, "You mean my second daughter, Xiangjun. Alas, she is a kind and good child, but unfortunately she is a stupid girl. God has no eyes."
"I see that Miss Shen's eyes are clear, maybe she just doesn't know the world."
"Oh, I hope so too. If Xiangjun is half as smart as her sister, I'll be satisfied." Master Shen paused and waved his hands again and again, "Look at me, what are you doing with so much nonsense? I'm tired too. Sister Hu, Sister Hu!" The woman who brought them here before rushed over immediately.
"Sister Hu, hurry up and arrange a wing room for the two of you, and then let someone burn more hot water for the distinguished guests to bathe." Master Shen ordered a few words, then turned to Tang Zhou and Yan Dan, "If you two want to eat something, just tell Sister Hu, It will be delivered from the kitchen."
Tang Zhou said lightly: "You are too polite, you don't need to be so troublesome."
Master Shen said immediately, "I want what I want."
On weekdays, Yan Dan would definitely be impatient with this kind of politeness, but just now Tang Zhou promised to help her get rid of the restriction, and he was in a good mood and waited quietly. Sister Hu arranged them in the east wing, and the two adjacent wing rooms have been tidy up.
Tang Zhou really helped her get rid of the restriction on her hand, and then took her to the next room to rest. The remaining doubts in Yan Dan's heart also disappeared, and after soaking in the hot water for a while, she felt even more refreshed. After dinner, she felt that she should start her escape plan.
As soon as she opened the door, she suddenly felt golden light flickering in front of her eyes, staggered back a few steps, and fell to the ground. Yan Dan looked at it intently, and saw a few pieces of talisman paper pasted by the door and on the threshold, thinking that it was Tang Zhou's handwriting again. It turned out that the joy in my heart was like being poured over by a basin of cold water, and my heart was cold.
The evening breeze blew lightly, sending Shen Xiangjun's crisp laughter and Tang Zhou's low voice. The two approached slowly, Shen Xiangjun still had the piebald parrot on her shoulders, and from time to time she chirped and said a few words to the parrot, and to Tang Zhou, with an intimate expression. Tang Zhou lowered his head and listened to her patiently.
Yan Dan hugged her knees and stared at Tang Zhou stubbornly. Tang Zhou quickly felt her gaze and said a few words to Shen Xiangjun, and she immediately walked away with the parrot. Tang Zhou walked to the door of the guest room and smiled softly: "Why are you sitting on the ground?"
Yan Dan smirked, and his tone was still soft: "Senior brother, if you are afraid that people will run out and be entangled by evil spirits, just say it directly. Why do you need to put so many talismans on the door?"
Tang Zhou smiled and said, "I'm not afraid that you will do some naughty things, junior sister, and you have to do this. It's hard for junior sister to understand the painstaking efforts of brother."
Yan Dan's face was cold: "When are you going to take me to alchemy?"
Tang Zhou walked into the guest room and sat down at the table: "This is not in a hurry."
Yan Dan stood up and brushed off the dust on his clothes: "There are so many monsters in this world, you just don't want to let me go."
Tang Zhou looked at her in the twilight and hummed slowly: "Actually, I thought about whether to let you go or not. Your nature doesn't seem to be bad."
Yan Dan looked at him with burning eyes.
"But it's not much better. Or should I let you stay with me for a while to sharpen your xinxing?"
Yan Dan immediately said: "You better hurry up and make me into an elixir."
There was a little fire in the courtyard, but this was no ordinary fire, it was a ghostly blue-green. After a while, the phosphorous fire slowly extinguished itself.
Tang Zhou gently walked into the courtyard, lowered his body and took some of the soil on the ground in his hands. He was about to turn back to the guest room when he suddenly heard a strange sound like crying and laughing from the west wing. The sound was vaguely familiar, as if he had heard it before. He walked gently to the west wing, leaned sideways against the door, and looked into the crack of the door.
I saw an elderly Taoist priest in apricot and yellow robes sitting on the ground, beating his chest and feet, crying and laughing, it was Ling Xuzi. This person is also considered to be a grandmaster of a generation, and it is sighing to have fallen to such a level.
Tang Zhou turned his head, and suddenly saw a cold light flashing in front of him, and the sharp long sword almost slashed against him. Tang Zhou used two fingers and a twist, and immediately clamped the sword in his hands, only to see that the person holding the sword was actually Shen Xiangjun! He was slightly startled, thinking that the night was dark, and she didn't recognize him all of a sudden. He had just let go, when Shen Xiangjun stabbed again, fast and ruthlessly.
I saw her gloomy face and fierce eyes, as if she had changed into a person during the day.
Tang Zhou didn't want to hurt her, so he put the scabbard on her Jianjing point, Shen Xiangjun released his hand, and the long sword in his hand fell to the ground with a bang. He turned around, a little on one foot, and fluttered away.
From the West Wing to the East Wing, one had to pass through the courtyard, and I saw a person walking slowly, but it was Mr. Shen. He was carrying a basket and a flower hoe on his back, looking very laborious. He took off the basket and put it aside, picked up the flower hoe and started digging a hole. Tang Zhou walked lightly and walked around the tree near him without making any sound.
I saw that he had been digging for a long time, digging more than three feet deep, before he stopped. He picked up the basket at his feet and slowly poured the contents into the pit. Tang Zhou hid in the tree and could only see his silhouette, but couldn't see what he was buried in. He thought for a while, and suddenly remembered that the hairpin he had helped Tao Ziqi retrieved was still with him, so he threw it at the stone brick in the distance.
The hairpin made a clanging sound when it landed, and Master Shen immediately looked for the sound and left.
Tang Zhou jumped off the branch and looked into the pit by the moonlight, but it was too dark around, so he had to reach out and take some out of it, wrapping it with the previous bag of soil. Just after doing these things, I heard the footsteps of Master Shen approaching again.
The talisman papers at the door of Yan Dan's room were still well pasted, and the candles in the room had been extinguished, so she had already fallen asleep. Tang Zhou returned to his room and looked at the retrieved things by candlelight. The soil of the bag is very mixed, which may be caused by frequent stirring. And what Master Shen buried was even more strange, it was actually a few fresh peach petals. Tang Zhou didn't find it strange, how could a businessman bury flowers, and bury the petals just picked? Why is the soil in the courtyard so mixed? Does someone often dig and bury something there
He blew out the light, washed casually, and then lay on the bed, just thinking about things in his mind, and couldn't fall asleep for a while. In the haze, he felt that someone was standing in front of his bed. He suddenly woke up, but saw that the bed was empty, and the door had long been blown open by the wind, making a crackling sound in the wind.