The "that day" in Wen Shi's mouth matched the time concept of the caged person, and the reality didn't actually pass for a long time.
When I came out of the cage, the rain had just stopped, and the water was dripping down the edge of the umbrella. They were still on the street in Xiping Garden, with the shops on both sides closed, so they should be very deserted.
When I smelled it, I opened my eyes-
There was a circle of people around.
They were all women, with long black and thick hair, a pale face, and a yellow paper talisman stuck to their foreheads.
Their eyes are almost completely white, with only a small dot in the middle that is black, and they do not turn around. The lips were bright red, curved upward, and the tongue fell out of the mouth, dragging it longer than the hair.
Xia Qiao was still arguing with Zhou Xu one second, and the next second he came face-to-face with these things.
The women didn't move, and Xia Qiao didn't dare to move.
He silently grabbed Wen Shi's left arm and said with anger, "Brother, are we out yet?"
Before he heard it, Xie Wenyue took his place: "It's out."
Xia Qiao was even more angry: "Then what are these?"
He moved his lips when he smelled it.
Xie asked: "Ghost."
Xia Qiao only held on for a second, then grabbed Wen Shi's arm and slipped to the ground silently.
When smelling: "… "
Although it was Xia Qiao who died, he felt that Xie Wen was the one who did it.
"Do you have a grudge against me?" Wen Shi couldn't get his left hand out, so he had to hold the umbrella handle on his side, freeing up his right hand to deal with the circle of female ghosts.
"How come." Xie Wen slowly denied it, reached out and held the umbrella handle for him.
He was also wearing black gloves, holding the bottom end of the umbrella handle, a polite distance from Wen Shi's face.
But I don't know why, when I saw the pale wrist, I suddenly remembered the cool touch of Xie Wen's fingers when I smelled it, and paused for a moment when I reached out to the female ghost.
"Raise your head." Xie Wen reminded Wen Shi to let go, "The rain has stopped, and I have put away the umbrella."
After a second of waiting for a response, he asked in a low voice, "What are you doing?"
When he heard it, he suddenly came back to his senses.
He pursed his lips and straightened his neck, silently letting Xie Wen take away the umbrella. Then he picked a female ghost and pulled the talisman off her face.
The moment the talisman paper was taken off, the circle of female ghosts quivered, as if they were about to break free of the seal and rushed over.
He didn't care when he smelled it, and reached out to pick the second one.
As a result, someone muttered: "Is this out?"
Then the female ghost disintegrated into smoke one step ahead of him, and disappeared by herself, leaving only seven pieces of talisman paper that floated down gently and were caught.
The man who fetched the paper was a tall man with wheat-colored skin and a lean stature. He had short shaved hair. At first glance, he looked like a trainer, but his expression was a little sullen.
Wen Shi stared at his eyes for a while, and then his eyes moved to his heart again.
Clothes are blocking it, so when you smell it, you can't see the imprint of the other party's heart. But he could sense that it was a puppet. A puppet that is very close to the living.
The puppet held the talisman paper, turned his head and asked behind him: "I caught it, what should I do?"
Behind him stood a woman, with her hair over her neck, half scraped behind her ears, revealing a row of bright studs on her ear bones. She wore exaggerated heavy makeup, like a painting skin, covering her original appearance, and she could not tell her age. But judging from her bones, she should be a beauty.
"Help me burn it." After she answered Puppet's words, her glass-like eyes turned around and glanced at Xia Qiao, paused for a while on Wen Shi, slid onto Xie Wen, and then said, "Who exposed grandma just now? , come out."
When smelling: "… "
It's better not to talk about this girl.
"Sick seedling, is that you?" She asked Xie, staring at her.
He moved his lips when he smelled, and whispered a few words: "Do you know this grandma?"
Thank you for laughing.
He tilted his head and coughed twice, then pressed his nose and replied, "I know you, Zhang family."
There are too many Zhang family members, and the famous tree map is densely packed. When I hear it, I can't match the number, only "Oh".
Seeing that he was still puzzled, Xie Wen added: "Just now in the cage, Zhang Biling's son mentioned it along the way. I don't know if you still remember, it's called Zhang Lan."
The grandma opposite: "..."
Zhang Lan has experienced various occasions, met various people, and has been introduced in various ways. Most of... No, it can be said that every time her name is reported, people who listen to it will be astonished.
Honestly, it's cool.
But the more you hear it, the more it happens.
Zhang Lan felt that she had passed the age where she would be proud of these pride, but today, when she heard Xie Wen's introduction, she realized that she might still be young.
What do you mean by "talking about"
What is "I don't know if you remember"
Zhang Lan stepped on high heels and came over in a hurry.
As a result, when I got close, I heard the cool guy next to Xie Wen say, "I have a little impression."
Zhang Lan stepped on the manhole cover with one foot, and the heel got stuck.
"Before going out, what did you plan for me?" She turned her head and asked the bodyguard-like puppet.
The other party replied in a straight-forward manner: "Sixty-five: Huang Chang, Yuan Ji."
He hesitated for a moment, probably afraid that Zhang Lan would not understand, so he dutifully added: "Great luck."
Zhang Lan: "It's pure fart."
Puppet loyal: "You are right."
Zhang Lan: "…"
Wen Shi watched for a while, then turned to ask Xie, "Are you sure it's that Zhang Lan, not the same name?"
Zhang Lan had sharp ears, turned his head and said, "Are you mocking me?"
Wen Shi whispered: "No, I'm serious."
Xie Wen laughed and coughed again. After a while, he turned back and said to Wen Shi, "If I have a bad cough tonight, you will be fully responsible."
Wen Shi didn't really want to take responsibility, so he closed his mouth coldly.
Xia Qiao, who was paralyzed on the ground, finally recovered and murmured, "It scared me to death."
He looked around and asked in shock, "Brother, where are those female ghosts?"
Zhang Lan rubbed his face and put on the air of "auntie" again: "What kind of female ghost, that's what I used to find the cage door."
Xia Qiao only knew that the carp jumped from the dragon gate of the dragon gate, and looked at him blankly: "You did it? Then what are you doing around us?"
"You are in the cage, where can I look if I don't surround you? Forget it, you probably don't quite understand what I'm talking about."
In fact, Zhang Lan had met Xia Qiao before because of Shen Qiao's relationship, but she didn't recognize it.
Zhang Lan grew up being held in hand. Apart from her own family, she only has an impression of people who are particularly good-looking and powerful, which is doomed to her not being able to remember how many people.
Xia Qiao is obviously not in this range.
She subconsciously regarded Xia Qiao and Wen Shi as Xie Wen's guests, just ordinary people, and accidentally entered the cage with Xie Wen.
So she didn't explain much, just asked Xie, "I'm on duty in Ningzhou tonight, and I heard that Zhou Xu was caught in the cage, so I came to see it, and I happened to see you guys stop here suddenly."
She has seen a lot, and she can tell the person entering the cage at a glance.
"I was about to enter the cage to find you, but I didn't expect you to come out." Zhang Lan said in a surprised tone, "How did you get out? Is there anyone else in the cage?"
As we all know, Xie Wen is a half-assed person who can't solve the cage, so Zhang Lan didn't think about the three people in front of him at all, and it was only natural that he felt that someone else helped.
Before Xie Wen spoke, he said, "Zhang Biling."
These words are very ambiguous, and it will make people subconsciously think that Zhang Biling is also the one who unboxes.
Sure enough, Zhang Lan said "oh": "Sister Ling went in? No wonder. Yes, after all, my son was arrested."
"Okay, then save my trouble."
She turned around and was about to leave, and suddenly realized one thing—these two strangers knew both Xie Wen and Zhang Biling, so they might not be just ordinary people.
Zhang Lan took two steps and stopped. When he turned around and looked up and down, he wondered, "Wait a minute, are you doing this too?"
But it's not right, she has seen almost all the people on the family tree map. She couldn't have seen someone who looked like Wen Shi but not remembered.
Zhang Lan: "Which one do you belong to?"
Xia Qiao said shyly, "Shen family."
He was actually quite afraid to report to his family, and always felt that he was embarrassing Shen Qiao. It may be that Zhang Lan's expression and tone of speech are a bit strong, and his feeling is particularly obvious, almost a little heartburn.
Even more heart-burning, Zhang Lan froze for a moment and said, "Which Shen family?"
Xia Qiao was completely speechless now.
At that moment, an idea came to him. He wanted to try to learn from Wen Shi again. What if... he could have a name
Wen Shi caught a glimpse of his shameless appearance, and added to Zhang Lan: "Shen Qiao."
Zhang Lan responded quickly this time: "I see."
She knew Shen Qiao and was familiar with the name, but not because of Shen Qiao himself, but because of the lineage he belonged to.
There is a legendary character in that vein. The weight is probably less than that of the ancestors. All the juniors who majored in puppet arts like to serve him.
She has a younger brother, Zhang Yalin, who is obsessed with puppetry. That Er Lengzi worships a small box very devoutly. The front of the box is engraved with the name of that person - Wen Shi. In the box is the treasure that Er Lengzi bought from the spirit shop.
Zhang Lan quietly opened it and looked at it. There were two phalanges like jade, two short pine branches with a light fragrance, and a mass of threads with no discernible material.
Er Lengzi firmly believed that it was Wen Shi's remains and relics.
It can be said to be quite perverted.
Leaving aside Zhang Yalin, although Zhang Lan studied spells, he was also very interested in Wen Shi.
At first, he was said to be very good-looking. Secondly, she is keen to read all kinds of gossip about unofficial history, it doesn't matter if it is true or false, as long as it is interesting to bluff people, she has read a lot of rumors about her, but she has heard very few.
According to rumors, there were quite a few apprentices of Chen Dao back then, most of them from outside the mountain gate. There were only a handful of people who had actually seen him. Those few were called relatives by the younger generation.
Among the relatives, Wen Shi mastered puppet art, Zhong Si mastered spells, Bu Ning mastered hexagram formations, and Zhuang Ye learned everything. It was a miscellaneous practice. Zhuang Ye is good at making friends, and most of the outsiders who are not familiar with him have a good relationship with him. Among them are the ancestors of the Zhang family.
Later, when the dust was not covered with evil spirits, and wherever he went, all living beings were withered, and it was these people who blocked him together. The ancestors of the Zhang family are the first, which is one of the reasons why the Zhang family became more and more prosperous later.
This is the more common statement.
But Zhang Lan has also seen some unusual-
It is said that among those few relatives, only one is really not following Chen. That apprentice was born with the appearance of an evil spirit, so Chen Dao always took him by his side, raised him with one hand, and taught a lot of things before slowly turning into an ordinary person.
This statement is really rare, and it has never mentioned who the apprentice is.
Zhang Lan felt that if this was true, the apprentice was probably Wen Shi, because she knew very little about Wen Shi.
"Someone is looking for you." Puppet said suddenly.
Zhang Lan came back to his senses, turned his head and asked, "What?"
Puppet took out the vibrating mobile phone from his pocket and handed it to Zhang Lan.
Zhang Lan tapped a few times on the screen, and a bookish voice sounded in the night: "Where did you deceive my puppet?"
Zhang Lan glanced at the puppet, cut off the question, and replied: "How is it called cheating? It was brought out by Guangming, and Xiao Hei is also willing to follow me. If you don't believe me, go back and ask him yourself."
Puppet stood respectfully beside him, very innocent.
She didn't care about Xia Qiao and the others, after all, she had heard about Shen Qiao. Although she didn't know how many apprentices Shen Qiao had accepted, she knew that none of those apprentices were on the chart, they were all chickens.
"Okay, the cage has been released, and we have talked. If there is nothing else, I will continue my rotation, see you later." Zhang Lanchong thanked them and waved their hands, and took Xiao Hei around the corner.
She received news from Zhang Biling and was going to go to Wangquan Ancient City to see how the other party was doing.
Along the way, she contacted Zhang Biling and pinched each other with her younger brother Zhang Yalin. Halfway through the pinch, Zhang Yalin suddenly popped up a video.
"What are you doing? Your voice isn't enough for you? Are you going to give a speech?" Zhang Lan said, "I don't listen."
"No." Zhang Yalin's voice appeared on the other end of the video, but his face did not appear. His camera was facing a picture, and there was a crack in his usual rational tone.
"I just discovered it, you'd better take a look." Zhang Yalin said.
Zhang Lan looked at what was in the camera and wondered: "Famous tree map? Are you wrong? What are you doing to show me the famous tree map, I haven't seen it or what?"
Zhang Yalin said patiently: "I don't want you to look at the whole picture, you look down, the bottom."
As he spoke, he moved the camera down, for fear that Zhang Lan would not look carefully.
Many names flashed through his lens, Zhang Lan rolled her eyes, and swept all the way down... When she swept to the end of a few lines, she slapped her foot.
Because she saw the line that was originally lying at the bottom, the line that had been sinking at the bottom since Shen Qiao was old and stopped entering the cage, and had been sinking for more than ten years, unexpectedly crossed Zhang Biling.
Zhang Lan: "???"
"What's going on?!" she exclaimed in surprise.
"Just what you saw." Zhang Yalin said, "The Shen family suddenly jumped onto Zhang Biling."
"Impossible." Zhang Lan was stunned: "Isn't this line dead?"
Zhang Yalin: "Yes, they are all dead, and there is no living person."
Zhang Lan: "How could it suddenly jump up???"
Zhang Yalin said: "I don't know, I just watched it turn up. I watched it with my own eyes, and turned it up."
Zhang Lan: "...Is this picture crazy?"
Zhang Yalin thought for a while and said, "I don't know if the picture is crazy or not. Anyway, I'm a little crazy now."
Watching the dead line jump up, head up.