Wei Xi suddenly stopped and looked back.
He noticed that the second disciple also stopped and looked back, and asked, "What's wrong?"
The wind gently rolled the incense ash and swirled at his feet. Outside the Wei family's lush green house, the towering Zongmen stone monument and the quaint incense burner stood quietly in their place.
Wei Xi watched for a while, and finally frowned and shook his head: "It's nothing."
***
Lianduguan is located in a small scenic spot on the outskirts of Beijing. The location is relatively remote. Because of its long history, it has been classified as a cultural relics protection building. You can see the introduction information hanging on the wall from far away.
The incense is also very strong. On normal days outside the New Year and the festival, you can see ordinary people on the road carrying tributes to burn incense. Wei Xi was very envious when he heard the voice on the phone, but now that he has inspected the scale of his peers, he feels more and more that his own sect's business method needs to be improved. When will Taicang sect attract so many people to come to burn incense and worship it? .
Tuanjie comforted him: "Master, we are just getting started. How can we compare with a family business like Lianduguan? Didn't you read the introduction above that Lianduguan was established two hundred years ago? You also didn't read it. , People have a house in the scenic spot, but it’s still such a big house, it’s different, the rich second generation, with a father, the starting point is higher than our company.”
Wei Xi looked at the more reliable second disciple: "Is that so?"
Shuozong met his black and white eyes, and was silent for a while: "... um."
Unity: "That's right, my junior and senior also agree with me!"
Wei Xixin said that it was the case. According to this, the sect of Kuang Zhiming's family is indeed much deeper than the bragging Wei Dedao. It is no wonder that he can master the double cultivation method that even Wei Dedao has not taught himself. .
When Kuang Zhiming came out to pick up people, he found that Wei Xi was looking at himself with an envious look, and he couldn't help sweating. He was speechless when he saw that this wave of ghosts from Taicang Zong could be caught in the recruitment scene. , where can you think of what you have to be envied by the other party.
However, although he acted strangely, the strength of Taicang Sect was there after all, and his attitude was still polite: "Fellow Daoist Wei, please take this trip."
Wei Xi agreed and walked inwards behind him, suddenly remembered something, reached out and took out a volume of books from Tuanjie's backpack: "Kang Daoyou, this is what our sect personnel manager mentioned to you on the phone before. Even though you are willing to believe us in the sign-in book that arrived, after all, it is about the reputation of the sect, so you still have to explain it clearly to your followers. If he still has doubts, he can directly call our personnel manager here to confront him. "
Kuang Zhiming: "???"
Kuang Zhiming glanced at the gloomy book in Wei Xi's hand. Although the words "Taicang Zong Co., Ltd.'s First Staff Training Conference" were printed on the cover, he knew that he was definitely not a human being. something to use.
Thinking of what the personnel manager mentioned on the phone about crawling from the Taoist temple on the phone, the sweat on his temples became faster, and he couldn't help turning his head to look at the deity beside him. The goddess of Tianzun looked fierce behind the smoke, and he looked like he was glaring at himself.
"No need, no need." He hurriedly refused, with a stern tone: "Please put away the sign-in book, after all, I am a Taoist temple, and my ancestors are watching..."
Although usually never manifested.
As soon as this thought came up, I heard an exclamation from beside me: "Oh, why did this incense stop at the waist!"
Kuang Zhiming: "..."
Seeing that his face was blue, Wei Xi couldn't help but sigh after putting away the sign-in book: "Your Heavenly Venerate is really bad-tempered, much more irritable than our sect's Heavenly Venerate."
When the voice fell, I heard another exclamation: "Oh! The candles are also extinguished!"
"..." Where did Kuang Zhiming dare to answer the question, the vests of the believers who hurriedly resolved the commotion were soaked with sweat. Fortunately, the believers were relatively simple, and they fooled the past with any excuse of the poor quality of the incense candles.
***
The believers who came to the door to ask for the practice were still waiting in the quiet room. Seeing that Kuang Zhiming's face was blue, he led a group of strangers in, and immediately got up to greet him: "Master Kuang, are they...?"
"This is the Daoist guard of Taicang Sect. These two are disciples of Daoist guard. They are both my fellow Daoists in the local area. I heard about you and came to investigate together." It was only after a frantic apology that it was easy to settle down and get good incense, and waved his hands exhausted, "The things they asked you to do are also somewhat related."
The believers were a little unbelievable when they first saw the appearance of the Weixi people. Why do they have such high requirements for appearance as a monk now? In the end, when he heard Kuang Zhiming say that they had a relationship with him, he couldn't help asking curiously. The strange thing was that Kuang Zhiming refused to explain the relationship between the two sides. The tall man shook hands with him without saying anything else, and kept talking about how to take care of him in the future.
I came here to ask for help to exorcise evil spirits. What can I take care of these masters? He heard that the second monk was puzzled, so he had to put this question aside and narrate the troubles he encountered.
The man's name is Bo Hao, and he is the developer of the Gangyue Building, a shopping mall under construction.
Speaking of the development process of the Hong Kong Yue Building, it is also quite a long story. This project has been under construction for nearly ten years since the land was approved, and the progress of the project is appallingly slow. In recent years, it has simply been left there. You must know that this is the city center where the land is expensive, and the unfinished real estate with such an amazing cost is quite rare in the whole country, so it has always attracted much attention from the outside world, and the pressure on developers can be imagined.
"Such a good location has not been built for so many years, and every day is a brand new loss, and we are also anxious. In June, the project department put the plan for the resumption of the mall on the agenda, and the company also decided to allocate funds again. I want to continue to follow the original plan to complete the construction of the Gangyue Building as soon as possible, and then create a brand new shopping mecca. For this matter, I specially brought a new design project team to Beijing last month for inspection and traveled all over the place. Learning experience from shopping malls in the entire capital. The inspection was almost over, we almost had the planning of the shopping mall area and investment promotion. As a result, after having a celebration meal with the project team a few days ago, I happened to pass by that area, and I suddenly thought of it. The nighttime lighting of the new shopping mall should also be designed to fit the exterior of the building, so I decided to bring people in at night to have a look, who knows that this will lead to an accident.”
Bo Hao was still in shock when he said this, and he couldn't help but reach out and rub his face.
It was almost midnight at that time, the time was quite late, the weather was cold, and there were not many people still shopping in the city center. To be honest, in such a situation, the dark and unfinished buildings looked really infiltrative. , There was an architect named Xiao Ke in the project team who was very scared and refused to go in.
However, all the people present at the time except him were eager to try it out. Bo Hao was educated in the new era since he was a child, and he was a young man with strong blood. He also didn't believe that. How can you, a dignified man, be afraid of the dark.
The minority obeys the majority, and everyone is so determined, Xiao Ke has no choice but to follow them tremblingly.
The temperature is low at night, everyone has measured the wall outside, and decided to go to the top of the building to have a look, can you do some more fuss on the signboard lighting on the top floor.
The building elevators in the unfinished real estate have long been disabled. To go to the top floor, you can only walk from the stairs. Fortunately, the building is not built high, and it is not difficult to climb up. However, it was too late, and considering that Xiao Ke was afraid of the dark, everyone did not leave separately, and always gathered in groups. Who would have thought that when Xiao Ke was going up the stairs, Xiao Ke suddenly said that he heard a voice.
Everyone stopped immediately, but of course they didn't hear anything. It's been winter in the capital recently, and the temperature has dropped sharply. Under such severe cold, there are no insects outside at all.
When everyone saw this, they immediately started laughing at Xiao Ke, saying that he was so afraid of the dark that he had hallucinations.
Xiao Ke said with certainty that he heard it right. There was a voice floating around faintly, but of course no one believed him. Everyone insisted on going up to the top floor and took pictures of the night scene of the surrounding business district.
Bo Hao was busy framing the scene at the time, but he was filming when he suddenly heard someone beside him asking him, "Where have everyone gone?"
He subconsciously answered, isn't it right here, and then he realized that the question was asked by a very old and strange voice that he had never heard before.
He was startled at the time, and immediately turned his head to look for it, but found that the people on the top floor had already been evacuated, and there was no other figure around. He was frightened and frightened, and thought he had auditory hallucinations too, but after scanning the crowd, he realized that Xiao Ke had disappeared!
He immediately shouted and gathered everyone, but the others didn't even realize when Xiao Ke disappeared. It's not fun at all to make such a thing happen at night. Several team members thought that Xiao Ke was secretly hiding somewhere because he was afraid of the dark, so someone called Xiao Ke unhappily. Unexpectedly, the phone rang, but the source of the sound was not on the top floor, but vaguely, like a desolate ghost crying, came up from the bottom of the building, and no one answered.
Everyone was inexplicable, and went downstairs to check. Unexpectedly, they were horrified to find that Xiao Ke had fallen into a pool of blood.
When everyone rushed forward, Xiao Ke was still a little conscious. He was lying on the messy pile of wooden boards at the bottom of the building, his body was full of red, staring at him, accompanied by the gushing blood. Gurgling sound.
"Ghosts... there are ghosts... I saw..."
After saying this, he tilted his head with a dizzy look on his face.
****
"Xiao Ke is still in the ICU of the city hospital. The doctor said that fortunately, he found it early, and it is estimated that he will not be able to save him if he is half an hour later. Although he has survived the dangerous period, he is still in a coma, and he does not know when he will wake up. The hospital said that he had multiple comminuted fractures all over his body, and his internal organs were also damaged, which should have been caused by falling from the roof." Bo Hao wiped his face again when he said this, with obvious fear and remorse on his face, "Yes I was wrong, I shouldn't have asked to enter the building in the middle of the night to observe, and that voice... that voice... "
The old and unfamiliar voice has been haunting his mind for a long time since the accident. He has confirmed with everyone in the company. At that time, everyone was busy with their own affairs, and no one said anything similar.
This time, Bo Hao was really frightened. While he thought it was an illusion, he also felt that Xiao Ke's fall from the building was really weird, not to mention that the words the other party said before he fainted was so directional, it made him I really can't deceive myself anymore.
But Xiao Ke hasn't woken up yet, and he can't ask exactly what happened to the other party before he fell from the building. Therefore, after thinking about it, he still decided to ask for help from an unnatural force, searched the Internet, and selected the famous Liandu Temple in the local area.
After hearing this, Kuang Zhiming's expression became very serious. The living person fell from the building and almost died. This is not a small matter. He immediately got up and said: "Mr. You go to the real estate to see what's going on."
"Yes, can it be done?!" Bo Hao was so frightened that he turned from firm materialism to the other extreme, and asked with a pale face, "I... I went to inquire later, when the shopping mall was under construction. At that time, it was rumored in the company that the land of the Gangyue Building was a mass grave hundreds of years ago. Later, it was outsourced to a construction company. The project also had accidents one after another. The company also specially invited people to drive away evil spirits and change Fengshui. But the problem has never been solved. If it wasn't for this, we wouldn't let it stop working for so many years. You said that if this is really a mass grave, there are thousands of dead people buried under it? Xiao Kedu Forced to jump off the building, if these dead people appear together, wouldn’t it be a big army? How can we solve so many things with just the few of us?”
Kuang Zhiming was silent for a while after hearing the words, and under Bo Hao's terrified gaze, his eyes slowly turned to the Taicang Zong group.
Bo Hao: "?"
The eldest disciple of the Taicang sect immediately smiled knowingly at the future landlord: "Mr. Bai, don't worry, my master is the best at fighting, and if it doesn't work, we can also pull in foreign aid. There are hundreds of our sect employees, and we will come together when the time comes. , it is impossible to suffer a loss.”
Hundreds of employees? This is the standard for a medium-sized enterprise. Bo Hao looked at Wei Xi and imagined the scene of hundreds of Taoist priests sending troops to fight the ghosts. He felt relieved and said in surprise, "Master Wei is really... really young and promising. , at such a young age, he managed such a large-scale Taoist temple."
But he didn't understand. Do Taoist temples have to recruit so many people now? He didn't seem to see so many Taoist priests when he came to the Lotus Capital Temple just now. Thinking of this, Bo Hao asked Kuang Zhiming curiously, "Master Kuang, do you have so many Taoist priests here?"
Kuang Zhiming stared at him, his eyes were complicated, and he didn't know how to explain it. After a long time, he could only answer with difficulty: "Lianduguan currently has seventeen people, nine monks, and many others, not including short-term vulgar guests. Forty-five people."
This number is indeed very impressive in Taoist temples in various cities, and it is one of the best in the local area. Bai Hao, a non-believer, has no concept. He was disappointed when he heard it. There were only forty-five people, and there were hundreds of people in Taicang Sect.
Having said that, such a direct comparison is still too embarrassing, Bo Hao didn't express his own thoughts, he quickly smiled and nodded and said, "Ah, so, it's alright, there are a lot of forty-five people, I think Mr. Kuang, your incense is good, the location is good, it is still a historical site, and it will definitely develop in the future."
However, if he had known this earlier, he would directly look for the larger Taicang sect. The netizens on the local forum were really unreliable, saying that the lotus was one of the best, making him a foreigner.
Kuang Zhiming listened to his sincere comfort, but he was not happy at all. He bit his lip and stepped out of the threshold, feeling extremely humiliated.
Before the grievance was over, I heard Bo Hao's voice again: "Oh, Master Wei, where is the specific address of your Taicang Sect? I didn't find it on the Internet before, but I'm free recently, so I'll go there when the time comes. You burn incense sticks."
His voice fell to the ground, and the exclamation of the believers came from the front of the quiet room: "Oh, this Taoist priest, come and see, why is the new incense broken again? Is the quality of this brand not good?"
Kuang Zhiming: "..."