On this day, Xie Lingya cooked lunch as usual. In Baoyangguan, because Zhang Daoting supported the scene in the front yard every day, Xie Lingya did a lot of other work by himself.
Seeing that Xie Lingya was not dressed as casually as he usually did when he didn't go out, Hai Guanchao asked him casually, "Where are you going?"
"Taihe Temple is engaged in folk cultural activities... It's a temple fair, and there is a Taoism lecture, go and have a look." Xie Lingya said. In fact, besides him, Taiheguan made a special call and invited Shi Changxuan, but Shi Changxuan was not interested in this kind of activity.
"Taoism lectures, do they know your virtue?" Hai Guanchao said with emotion.
Xie Lingya: "Brother, you can't make fun of me because you haven't grown up in seniority."
Hai Guanchao: "...to praise you, you are too sensitive."
He secretly said in his heart that he all said to absorb knowledge like a sponge, but this Xie Lingya is like a sponge, which is too much.
Taihe Temple is a local tourist attraction, and it is normal to engage in activities. They also invited a song and dance troupe to hold this temple fair.
When Xie Lingya arrived at the scene, he saw that the scene was already very lively, and many citizens, even if they were not believers, would bring their families to play.
Xie Lingya walked through the crowd to the conference hall where the lecture was held. Because it was a part of the temple fair, this lecture was not like what Hai Guanchao thought, but it was actually a relatively popular Taoist cultural popularization, which was open to the public. However, people from the Taoist Association will have to communicate with each other in private after the meeting.
As soon as Xie Lingya left, he said hello to the more familiar Taoist priest Mao Zhengqing, and everyone sat together.
"Jushi Xie," Mao Zhengqing said with a smile, "I heard that there have been a lot of good faith in Baoyang Temple recently, congratulations."
The popularity of Baoyangguan is getting bigger and bigger, and even Mao Zhengqing knows about their recent movements.
Xie Lingya said modestly.
Mao Zhengqing said: "Director Chen also said that you are here today, you must introduce him to him and have a chat."
"Chen Guanzhu is in good health?" Xie Lingya asked. Chen Sansheng, the guardian of Taihe Temple, has been recuperating since he failed in a fight with others a few months ago, and he did not participate in any activities.
Mao Zhengqing nodded and said: "Actually, he is still relatively weak, but some affairs must be handled, or important guests are received, so there is no way."
After a while, Mao Zhengqing checked his phone and took Xie Lingya to leave the venue early to see Chen Sansheng.
Xie Lingya had never seen Chen Sansheng before, but there was a photo of Chen Sansheng in Taihe Guan. Compared with the previous photos, he looked a lot of vicissitudes.
After seeing Xie Lingya, Chen Sansheng smiled and said, "It's Xiao Xie, you really have a bit of your uncle's style."
He let both Xie Lingya sit down and said, "I think back then, I also recommended someone, someone wanted to ask your uncle to be the spectator of a big temple, but your uncle was concerned about the Baoyang Temple, and declined. You are better than blue. , I heard Daochang Mao talk about your ability to form a talisman in a moment, you are really talented, no wonder you are so similar to Daochang Shi."
It is said to be a talisman in a moment, but in fact, everyone knows that when Mao Zhengqing described it, the movements may be placed on Xie Lingya's posture...
Xie Lingya didn't know that Chen Sansheng and his uncle still had this past, and he was quite embarrassed. His uncle was stubborn.
Chen Sansheng was really hurt before. When he went out these days, he immediately received a lot of invitations to practice and do things. In fact, he accumulated a lot during his retreat. He really had to reply in person and declined one by one. With his physical condition, he really can't stand the long-term energy consumption.
Xie Lingya was very envious. There were a lot of customers coming, and some people lined up to ask for a practice. How many orders did they take in a few months.
However, this is also the accumulation of the fame of Taihe Guan and Chen Guanzhu for many years, and there is no comparison.
Because his health was not in good shape, Chen Sansheng saw off the guest after a few chats, but Xie Lingya felt that he had a good attitude towards himself, and he also knew his uncle, so he had a good impression.
When walking out with Mao Zhengqing, an old woman came across. Seeing Mao Zhengqing, she walked a few steps and called him: "Master Mao, I have found you."
"Jushi Dong, what's wrong?" Mao Zhengqing asked in confusion.
The old woman said, "Last week I invited Sanqing Xiang back here, do you remember?"
Mao Zhengqing: "Uh... It seems that there is such a thing."
The Taihe Temple is much larger than the Baoyang Temple. They also have two large facades, which are used as a logistics center for good men and women to ask for some statues, talismans and the like to go back.
The old woman added: "Last week, I went to live with my daughter out of town for a few days, and ordered my daughter-in-law to change the offerings for me every day. When I came back, I heard that she had been pulling her stomach for several days."
When Mao Zhengqing heard it, he quickly said: "Our idols are all standard, and they were induced by the priest's consecration."
He was afraid that the old woman wanted to say that their idols were wrong and belonged to the evil gods, so that they affected the host's family.
"I know," the old woman said immediately, "of course there is no problem with the idol, it's my daughter-in-law. I told her thousands of times, but she just didn't care. I asked her to put apples. She was lazy and put plums in the first two days..."
Having said that, Xie Lingya, who was originally standing beside him in a daze, waiting for Mao Zhengqing, couldn't help but look over.
Putting fragrant flowers as offerings to the gods is also a bit particular. For example, the flowers should be fragrant flowers such as plum orchid, the best fruit should be apples, and the things that have been eaten should not be placed, and plums must not be used for the statue of Sanqing. Because Lao Jun's surname was Li, he was a taboo.
The old woman continued: "In the next few days, it was even more extreme. She put on the durian that she couldn't eat."
Mao Zhengqing: "...??"
Mao Zhengqing and Xie Lingya were speechless for a while, what is the operation of putting durian, if you like to eat Sanqing, you may not like to eat it, and then smoke it!
"I don't have diarrhea after I donated durian, and I said that I should have gastroenteritis, so why can't I take medicine and eat well." The old woman complained, "Mao Daochang, what do you think we should do?"
Mao Zhengqing Khan said: "The offerings have been changed, take your daughter-in-law to the Sanqing Palace to offer an incense to apologize, and please go back with a peace talisman. Don't do this again in the future." He said with a very dark line, "Durian... "
The old woman nodded quickly, "Well, well, I told her well."
After the old woman left, Mao Zhengqing and Xie Lingya looked at each other helplessly. It was true that anything could happen, and the plum durian offered to Sanqing, thanks to that person who could figure it out.
…
Xie Lingya communicated with other Taoists again, deepened their friendship, and then left.
There were many people at the temple fair, and Xie Lingya seemed to hear someone calling his name in the crowd.
"Mu Shan?" Xie Lingya greeted the girl who called him, this is his college classmate.
Mu Shan came with her parents. Xie Lingya called her uncle and aunt in the past, but Mu Shan's parents thought about it for a moment.
"I haven't seen you for a long time. Are you so busy doing finances in Taoist Temple? You can't even come out of the class reunion." Mu Shan said with a smile, "I just made an appointment with Letong and Xiaobai this afternoon. Come together."
Many of Xie Lingya's classmates thought that he was doing finance in his uncle's Taoist temple. He didn't explain it so clearly. Anyway, he was really not a Taoist priest. As for the boss or finance, it was similar. Anyway, he was also doing the finance work.
Because there are few people in Baoyang, Xie Lingya did give up a lot of activities. Now he was caught by an old classmate, he could only say: "Okay."
Mu Shan just took the opportunity to say goodbye to her parents, and dragged Xie Lingya away, "Wow, my parents are trying to persuade me to go on a blind date again. Fortunately, I saw you."
Xie Lingya looked back, "I guess your parents will have to ask if you and I have a chance when you go back."
"Is there a chance to wait until college graduates?" Mu Shan took Xie Lingya to take the bus and then transfer to the subway. According to her, let's meet some classmates who played well in college today for board games.
It was already five o'clock at this time, and the other students had already arrived at the board game. Mu Shan was a few minutes late and pushed the door in. Everyone looked at the surprise behind her.
"Damn it, Xie Lingya is here too?"
"You kid is finally out!"
Xie Lingya greeted him in a circle, and saw a girl sitting beside him with her head lowered. After a while, she called out, "Le Tong?"
Le Tong raised his head, his face was pale and blue, his face was very poor, and his eyes were a little slack.
"What's wrong with Le Tong?" Mu Shan sat down and said in surprise, "It's been a while since I saw you, your face is so ugly, are you sick?"
Le Tong showed a blank smile, "It's okay."
Mu Shan and the others looked at each other and saw that the classmates who came first were also dazed, but everyone didn't think it was okay, she said carefully: "Le Tong, what's the matter with you?"
Le Tong shook his head: "It's really okay."
"...Okay." Mu Shan suddenly thought about whether she might have lost her love, and didn't ask any further in front of everyone, "Let's eat something, you look bad."
You can also order food here. Everyone eats and plays, and dinner is solved by the way.
Le Tong ordered something to eat casually, but Xie Lingya, who had been dragged and accused since she came in, looked at her a few times, but always felt that something was wrong. Le Tong was usually very cheerful, but today she seems to be a different person.
Are you sick or in a bad mood
At this moment, Le Tong suddenly raised her eyes and looked at Xie Lingya, she stared straight at Xie Lingya.
Xie Lingya suddenly felt a chill, and when he was about to tell the difference, he saw Le Tong stuffing food into his mouth, as if nothing had happened.
Xie Lingya was full of doubts, and was dragged by his classmates to ask him about his welfare in the Taoist temple.
"Okay, let's play the game first." Mu Shan said, "It's billed by the hour, let's play Werewolf."
When I was in college, many people in the class had played the werewolf killing game together, and now they all nodded their heads and took their seats. Because the number of them is not enough, they also fight a few strangers.
Werewolf Killing is a speech game similar to a police and bandit game. Players determine their identities by drawing cards and are divided into two camps, good and werewolves. Then fight each other, the werewolves need to kill the good guys, and the good guys need to find all the werewolves and throw out.
Because they are not newbies, Mu Shan and the staff asked about it and decided to play a more complicated template, "Let's play a board with a third-party camp... How about this "Ghost Bride"?"
It means to add an identity card. The person who draws the ghost bride card can choose two players, one to be his groom, one to be the witness, and the three of them will kill all the good guys and werewolves together to win. .
Everyone else is debating whether to play this or not, and one more faction will definitely increase the difficulty of the game. In particular, the ghost bride's selection identities are superimposed. She can choose a werewolf as the groom, or a good man as the groom, which is equivalent to the possibility of traitors in other camps.
Xie Lingya couldn't help but look at Le Tong, who was sitting opposite him.
Like him, Le Tong did not participate in the discussion, but looked around the crowd in a lively atmosphere. He seemed to notice his eyes, looked over, and even pulled his lips and smiled, but the smile did not enter his eyes at all. Very stiff.
Xie Lingya felt a chill in his heart, no, this is absolutely wrong.
Before Xie Lingya could think of anything, Mu Shan shouted, "Come on, come on, start, just play this."
The players are seated, and the judge presiding over the game is also in place, distributing the cards, and announcing the start of the game, "Please close your eyes when it's dark."
In the virtual dark night of the game, it is when other people close their eyes and the function cards open their eyes to exercise their abilities, such as werewolves killing people, or when ghost brides designate their own grooms and witnesses.
Before nightfall, Xie Lingya read it. His card is an ordinary villager, a good person, but he has no function. He can only speak and vote during the day, and close his eyes all the way at night.
Unless, of course... he's chosen by Ghost Bride.
"Ghost bride, please open your eyes."
After the judge finished speaking, Xie Lingya felt a gloomy gaze roaming the room, as if picking his own prey. He resisted the strong urge to take off the blindfold and escape from the darkness, but couldn't hold back.
"Ghost bride please choose your groom."
After the judge circled around, Xie Lingya felt that she had walked behind him and patted herself, which meant that the ghost bride had picked him as the groom.
Xie Lingya took off the blindfold and got used to the light. Everyone else was wearing blindfolds, but Le Tong looked over with wide eyes. She is the ghost bride.
coincidence.
Xie Lingya stared at her, and the judge had woken up the witness. The witness was a strange player. He made a gesture to indicate that he was a werewolf, and also compared the ID numbers of his teammates. Wanting to know the identity of Xie Lingya, the three discussed together. Tactics.
Xie Lingya looked at Le Tong, and Le Tong looked at him blankly, and neither of them paid any attention to the witnesses.
Witness: "???"
The player can't speak at night, otherwise his identity will be exposed if others hear it. He was so anxious that he cursed the two of them for being crazy and disrespectful to the game.
In the end, the witness didn't get any information. Just knowing who the teammates were, the communication time was over.
Xie Lingya has always cared about Letong's performance. In the "daytime", the players spoke one by one. He was absent-minded and didn't care about the game situation at all. He kept staring at Letong, and was soon detected his identity.
Mu Shan pressed her chin and said, "Xie Lingya's performance... It's like an identity card, and she's still staring at Le Tong. I said you two won't be a couple, right? Since I don't know who to vote for this round, I suggest to play Suspected couple. After all, the game can be lost, and the couple must die."
Everyone: "… "
Everyone thought, alas, you are the one who wants to play the third-party camp, and you are the one who wants to be a couple. What are your demands
After several players spoke, they all agreed that the two of them were in a wrong state, and it was okay to choose one of them. In the end, because of caring for the lady, Xie Lingya was voted out first.
"I am the bridegroom." Xie Lingya issued a "last words", he admitted his identity blankly, "It was Le Tong who joined me, she is the ghost bride, I asked the werewolf brother to cut her down and let her come with me You can observe, any werewolf disagrees with cutting Letong, he is our witness."
The witness who was suddenly sold: "… "
He instantly wanted to slap the table and shout, you two are playing ball!
…
Xie Lingya was out and stood on the sidelines to watch the battle. At this time, the game also entered the dark night again, and everyone closed their eyes.
Le Tong also put on the blindfold and sat upright.
The werewolves opened their eyes and discussed killing people, but they really proposed to kill Letong. The werewolf who was selected as the witness died, but he could only agree with cutting Letong.
At dawn, the news of death was announced, and Le Tong was out. She took off her blindfold and had no emotional ups and downs about her being out. He even stood up, smiled at Xie Lingya, and said softly, "I'll go get some air, husband, are you coming?"
Xie Lingya stood in the same place and looked at her coldly.
Everyone laughed, because it was the entertainment bureau, and they didn't care that she was out and reported her identity, "Le Tong, you are really a ghost bride, okay, let your 'husband' accompany you."
In this game just now, Le Tong and Xie Lingya were husband and wife cards, so it was okay for Le Tong to make this joke, everyone followed her.
"Yes, I'm the ghost bride." Le Tong said briskly.
At this time, Le Tong had already walked to Xie Lingya's side, and when he stretched out his hand tightly around Xie Lingya's arm, he almost leaned on him.
Xie Lingya's face changed a bit, Le Tong's hand was like cast iron, and it hurt his arm.
He wanted to say something, but Xie Lingya guessed that the people here wouldn't watch him beat women, so he half-dragged and half-voluntarily walked.
Le Tong's classmates, especially Mu Shan, also thought it was strange. It was like a joke just now. I didn't hear that the relationship between the two of them is progressing by leaps and bounds, and doesn't Le Tong have a boyfriend
But the two have gone out together.
As soon as the two of them went out, someone couldn't help but say: "What's the matter, Xie Lingya and Le Tong are not getting along, right?"
…
Xie Lingya followed Le Tong into the bathroom. Instead of going out, she came to the most foul toilet. Le Tong put the bag in front of the mirror and took out a comb to straighten his hair.
There was no one else in the toilet, Xie Lingya asked, "You're not Le Tong, why are you pestering her?"
"Le Tong" looked at Xie Lingya in the mirror, showing a strange smile, and said faintly, "Husband, am I not your bride..."
"Eldest sister, be more self-respecting! Don't take advantage of me!" Xie Lingya went out to visit the temple fair, and did not bring any magic tools or talismans. He suddenly attacked and reached out to press Letong's Shanyuan.
"Le Tong" turned his head very quickly and flashed, his fingers stretched out and pinched Xie Lingya's neck.
She is very strong, but her arms are thin but like steel. Xie Lingya, a big man, can't break it apart, so she can only continue to reach out and try to pinch "Le Tong" down the nose.
This is a waiter who came in and was shocked when he saw this scene, "What's the matter, you even beat a woman."
After speaking, he immediately came up to persuade him to fight, pulling Xie Lingya's hand.
Xie Lingya rolled his eyes and hit the woman, didn't you see that she was riding me and strangled my neck?
He didn't act immediately in the room, just because he was afraid that this situation would happen. Who would believe that he was going to "exorcise" Le Tong, but "Le Tong" obviously didn't have as much scruples as him.
"Husband, husband, come and accompany me." "Le Tong" muttered, her pupils shrunk, and the whites of her eyes took up most of her eyes.
"Beauty, beauty, relax too, your husband seems to be out of breath, talk well!" The waiter saw that Xie Lingya's face was flushed, and patted "Le Tong".
"Le Tong" raised his head and stared at the waiter with extremely white eyes. The waiter screamed in fright, took a few steps back, fell to the ground, knocked his head on the sink, and passed out.
Xie Lingya smashed "Le Tong"'s hand with one hand, to get himself some fresh air, and with the other hand, he bit his middle finger and went to press "Le Tong" Yintang.
"Le Tong" quickly bounced off at an incomprehensible speed.
"Cough cough!" Xie Lingya exhaled a few breaths, and quickly drew the spirit officer's eyes on the eyebrows. Looking at it again this time, there was an extra phantom on "Le Tong", which overlapped with her body.
Xie Lingya closed the door directly, locked it, then rushed to the toilet and chased "Le Tong", strangling her neck and drawing a talisman with blood on her face with the middle finger.
"Le Tong" is so powerful now that Xie Lingya managed to restrain her, but she is on the verge of breaking free at any time.
"It hurts..." The waiter woke up, rubbed his head, and got up together. What he saw was Xie Lingya strangling Le Tong. Le Tong's face was covered in blood, and his eyes rolled, Xie Lingya seemed to be still using his fingers to pick people's cruelty one scene.
Xie Lingya: "Hey you..."
Where did the waiter listen to him, he was so frightened that he almost didn't catch his breath, "Ah—killed!!"
Ignoring her dizziness, she rolled to the ground, quickly opened the door and rushed out.
"... Close the door for me!" Xie Lingya couldn't help, "Le Tong" kept twisting, and the talisman was not well drawn. He was afraid that someone would run away, so he jumped up and wrapped his feet around "Le Tong"'s waist and continued to work hard. She squeezed blood from her middle finger and tried to draw a complete talisman on her face.
…
…
Zhang Daoting rushed to the backyard with his mobile phone: "It's not good, Daochang Shi, the boss has entered the police station."
Shi Changxuan looked up, "?"
Zhang Daoting was also a little puzzled: "One of his classmates helped to use his mobile phone to call to inform him that he had an emotional entanglement with a woman and started it. No, Daochang Shi, the boss has a girlfriend?"
Shi Changxuan blurted out, "Impossible."
"I think so too, Daochang Shi, you really trust the character of the boss!" Zhang Daoting boasted.
"..." Shi Changxuan was speechless, stood up and thought, "I'll take something and go to the police station."
He went back to the room and took out Shang Lushen. It was too noisy. He endured it for a few days. He simply stuffed it in the drawer while reading to make it clean.
As soon as Shang Lushen was picked up, he said with grief and pride: "Look at you—"
Shi Changxuan: "..."