The houses of aristocratic families are gathered in one place. Usually no civilians come here. The tall courtyard walls form several quiet and deep alleys. The bluestone paved roads are cleaned and tidy by the family members.
The door with the plaque of the Chen residence opened slowly, and a young man walked out with a horse whip in his hand, surrounded by servants.
He glanced suspiciously at the end of the deep alley, where a few fallen leaves were blown to the ground by the wind, silent.
When the entourage brought him a horse, the man said inadvertently, "There has been some unrest in the mansion recently. You guys are strictly guarding the door, and don't let some Xiaoxiao take advantage of it."
Several gatekeepers nodded quickly, but there were some doubts and fears in their eyes.
In recent days, strange things have happened in the Chen family. The roof fell for no reason, and the fruit in the kitchen disappeared. The maid saw floating white shadows in the backyard in the middle of the night. The old lady of the Chen family was seriously ill in bed again.
The man got on his horse and walked away with his entourage.
After he left, only two servants whispered: "Do you think the eldest young master will go to Qiuye Temple to ask a monk to do the practice this time, or will he go to Huang Xuanguan to find a Taoist priest to exorcise evil spirits?"
"It should be very clever, no matter who it is, hurry up and collect the evil ghost here!"
"laugh."
With a chuckle, the servants jumped in shock, almost shaking into quails.
"Liuzi, you, did you hear anything?"
"It's the specter who is laughing, Buddha!" A servant boy knelt down and kowtowed repeatedly.
The people squatting on the eaves of the Chen family gate and on the courtyard wall all showed boring expressions.
The servant below looked around in panic and couldn't see them.
"It's been the seventh day, and you wait for the devil to figure out, who is the Lord of Fire in the Stone?"
"Each each other." A shriveled old woman smiled slyly, with a cyan scorpion lying on her face wrinkled like tree bark, she rolled her eyes and said, "The Heluo School is good at Zhouyi gossip, and is famous and authentic, so she must have known it long ago. In the end, why didn't you ask, but stayed here with us instead?"
The old men who were dressed in extraordinary costumes were stunned for a while, and their expressions were embarrassed.
- The golden elixir has not yet been achieved, only one foot has entered the door of the cultivation world. What face is there to inquire about the news from the famous sect? Usually it's fine to follow him around, but now I want to get a bargain and get lucky, I can only squat around the Chen residence to guard it.
There has always been a strange phenomenon in the realm of self-cultivation. People who are masters of the Tao don't care much about their appearance. The more ordinary you are, in order to increase your strength and save face, you must collect robes painted with talisman formations, wear magical instruments with powerful spiritual energy, and wrap yourself tightly.
Looking at the colorful appearance of these people standing together in front of them, you can see that there are no big people in them.
The magic cultivators are similar. Where does the prestigious and illustrious generation need to squat here, and shouting one or two naturally has the effect of flattering the little demon and the little devil.
"Once the fire in the stone overflows, the entire city of Yunzhou will be finished! I won't have time to get out of here, I'm afraid I'll be scared out of my head!" Someone on the right side of the road immediately sneered.
"Nonsense!" Granny Poisonous scorpion scolded, "Don't be hypocritical, thinking we don't know? You are lucky, even if you can't get the fire in the stone, you can save the ordinary people in Yunzhou City. This great merit, It's useless for the magician to do it, but you are eyeing it, and your intentions are sinister!"
"What do you mean by that! Fire in the Stone is not me waiting for it to recognize its master. It has nothing to do with us if it bursts!"
"Jie Jie, if you really want the common people, you should show up and drive the family out of the mansion, and let the governor of Yunzhou move the people out of the city!"
"What nonsense! You also know that Yunzhou is a county with a large population, so how can you say accommodating? It's easier said than done to make the people willing to leave their hometowns. If nothing happens in the end, who can afford to make such a big deal!"
The poisonous scorpion mother-in-law stopped arguing, just sneered: "All the major sects have arrived, according to the old man, we can't get any cheap, why don't we leave as soon as possible!" 's departure.
At this time, a group of people happened to come to the entrance of the alley, carrying a small box, surrounded by a young man in a brocade, as if they were going to visit the Chen residence.
"Wait!" Young Master Jinpao suddenly stopped, frowning at the Chen residence at the end of the alley.
"Master, what happened to you?"
The older entourage looked respectful, but in fact was extremely impatient.
The son of his own family didn't know what was going on. He was bedridden due to a fall from a horse a month ago. After he woke up, he was tossing around at home. First he spent a lot of money asking for Ganoderma lucidum, and then he told his wife that he wanted to come to Yunzhou Mansion. The girl of the Li family who had made a decision was left unattended, and the lady did not agree, so she ran out without authorization.
When I entered Yunzhou City, I just checked into the inn, and said that I wanted to pay a visit to the Chen family. On the way, I met a young man, and he insisted that the other person was the young son of the Chen family. It's a joke, who doesn't know that the direct line of the Chen family is weak, and the old lady has only one grandchild, Chen Shu.
The owner of the Chen family had vaguely heard that there was a son who drowned in a pond. The Chen family had invited many doctors and alchemists, but he was not cured. He heard that he died when he was six years old—
When the entourage thought of this shock, he couldn't help but wonder in horror: Could it be that my son has recruited something unclean
He looked up and saw Young Master Jinpao staring at the empty courtyard walls and eaves. The more he thought about it, the more worried he became, and he quickly persuaded: "Young Master, we are a little tired from the long journey, and it is inappropriate to visit now, why not..."
"shut up!"
Young Master Jinpao's face was ashen.
In the last life, although he was lucky enough to step into the Immortal Gate, until his death he was a small sect manager, that is, the leader of a group of people sweeping the floor, carrying water and chopping wood. particles.
Now that he has only been back for a month, he can only remember the formulas and formulas, which is better than nothing. It's not the problem of his talent, but the effect of the entry-level mental method.
Now it is even more mortal to the naked eye, unable to see through the cultivators guarding the Chen family mansion.
However, even the young servant of the Chen family could detect the strange aura, how could Young Master Jinpao not discover it
—It was densely packed and seemed to only surround the strange feeling of Chen Mansion.
His pupils shrank suddenly, and Young Master Jinpao blurted out a curse:
"Damn it! How is this possible, not two years later..."
It should be two years later, when the fool of the Chen family was nineteen, that the magic cultivator discovered the fire in the stone in the Chen family's pond!
The fire in the stone is already the biggest opportunity he knows. After Chen He obtained the fire in the stone, it took only a hundred years to become the leader of the magic cultivator and one of the six venerables. Before that, Chen He was a fool who couldn't even recognize the word. When Qiuye Temple was beaten by the local ruffian, he only shivered and didn't dare to cry out. He was just born with good luck, and there was a pond at home. Fire in stone!
Young Master Jinpao gritted his teeth, his face a little grim.
- He came two years early, why was the fire in the stone still discovered by the comprehension world
The poisonous scorpion mother-in-law who walked away slowly from stealth, noticed the strangeness, and immediately stared at her suspiciously.
Young Master Jinpao felt a chill on the back of his neck, and he immediately knew that he was being targeted by a demon cultivator with a high level of cultivation. At this point, he understands that it is difficult to get hold of fire in stone.
If you don't do it again and again, first stir the water to make it more mixed, maybe he still has a chance!
Taking a deep breath, the calm-backed Young Master Jinpao raised his head, and said to his entourage as if nothing had happened: "I am indeed a little tired, but we have already come here and turn around and go back. If the servants of the Chen family see it, it will be inappropriate. Bidding and gifts, it’s just another day to come to the door.”
This was a reasonable statement, and the entourage had no choice but to suppress his doubts, and followed Young Master Jinpao to the gate of Chen Mansion.
"The children of the Yao family in Linshui, passing through Yunzhou, came here to meet their family friends."
Young Master Jinpao looked at the young servant of the Chen family with a pale face and reluctantly came up to say hello, and said, "I saw the young son of your house lost on the street, so I was going to say hello..."
"Young master, there is no young master in the Chen family!" The entourage quickly reminded, "Everyone said it was a mistake, and that young master died a long time ago!"
It's okay if he didn't say it, the doorman was dazed when he heard it, and then his face turned pale.
In the aristocratic family, servants are rarely bought from outside. These servants are still young. Although they have never seen Chen He, they have heard about the death of the only son of the owner, but the Chen family did not mention Chen He for a long time, and they thought about it for a while. stand up.
Isn't this young master what happened in the backyard pond? What about the recent haunted backyard
"This... I saw that the young man looked similar to Brother Chen Shi, so I thought—" The Jinpao young man sighed and asked again, "I only heard that the three-year-old young son of your house was drowning in a pond and knocked on a stone. Confused but also saved, when did he die? I was in Linshui, and I didn't know it at all."
The doorman accepted the invitations and gifts, slurred a few words, and sent the uninvited guest away, wiping his sweat and mumbling to each other that Young Master Yao was too presumptuous, how could anyone ask about this at the door of the house, and the child who died was ominous , I can't even enter the genealogy, and no family will notify the family friend for this funeral.
"How did he die?" a voice asked.
"Who knows how he died, deep in the mountains, maybe he was carried away by a wolf."
"How did that little baby die?" Another eerie voice.
"What else are you asking—ah? Who, who is talking." The servants were so frightened that they all sat down on the ground, when they suddenly found that the steps were covered with poisonous scorpions, and some people were shocked.
"Tell mother-in-law carefully." The poisonous scorpion mother-in-law picked up a servant to threaten.
"Help!"
"Come on!" The cultivators on the wall also came.
The Chen family has strict rules, and they heard this for the first time after squatting for seven days.
"Forgive me, I said! The owner of the house has a child. When he was three years old, he was playful by the pond. He was drowning and knocked on a rock..."
"What stone, is there any blood? How much blood?" Everyone hurriedly asked.
The little servant was not possessed, so he had to beg for mercy: "I don't know, this is all... more than ten years ago!"
"What about the little baby? You want to see people and corpses when you live. Where are the corpses buried?"
"The Chen family went to the mountains to give incense, and when they came back, they said that the young master was lost, where can there be a grave?"
Before they could finish hearing it, a group of cultivators ran halfway. When they got the news from the big sect, they could get familiar with it without changing the benefits, and the same goes for the magic cultivators.
"The child is 80% not dead, and has returned to the city again, please inform Venerable Demon!"
"Search the whole city!"
Poisonous scorpion mother-in-law's eyes flickered, and she went to chase after Yao Gongzi quietly. She felt that something was wrong with that boy, so she happened to expose the matter at the door of Chen's house with ulterior motives.
***
At this moment, Chen He, who was about to enter the restaurant with his senior brother, suddenly paused and stared at the man passing by on horseback with his entourage. The latter also noticed the handsome young man on the street and looked down suspiciously.
Eye contact, both of them were shocked.
Chen He just felt a little familiar, but that person's heart was already roaring like the river and the sea collapsed.
- How could he forget the appearance of the cousin who killed the whole family!
Late that night, the Chen family's house was full of corpses, and even Thrush on the corridor died in the cage.
Chen Mi ran into the backyard in horror and wanted to hide in the woodshed, but suddenly fell to the ground with a pain behind him, only to hear someone talking.
"I killed so many, why haven't I found it yet? Are you sure it's in this mansion?"
"Can't be wrong, it must be here—"
Before he finished speaking, there was a loud cry in the distance: "I found it, it's that fool!"
The man lying on the ground struggled to open his blood-smeared eyes. A red flame suddenly appeared in the pond. The last thing Chen Ji felt was a scorching flame. die.
Chen Mi couldn't let out a scream, and sat up in panic, realizing that he was still ten years old.
The teacher of the private school scolded Chen Mi for being lazy in class, and the fool stood aside holding the brush ignorantly.
It was those eyes that just watched him turn to ashes without emotion in the flames.
- He remembered that the flames went straight to Chen He, wrapped Chen He in it, and burned everything around him.
Chen Ji's eyes were red, and the hand holding the reins was trembling with anger.
That Specter is not dead, that scourge is back! !