It had to start on that night three days ago.
That night, Young Master Qin returned to the mansion for entertainment, exhausted and drunk, and was about to rest when he heard a knock on the door.
Someone was slamming the door of Qin Mansion hard.
The house servant in the courtyard asked in a daze, then got up and carried the lantern to check. Just as he was about to ask, the knocker suddenly slammed on the door as if he had gone crazy.
Really hit. The door latch creaked, and the door panel seemed to be scratched by ten reinforced iron claws at the same time.
The movement was too loud, and in a short while, the yard was filled with awakened domestic servants. A group of people raised oil lamps, leaned on sticks, carried lanterns, looked at each other, and finally waited for the master who walked into the courtyard with only a coat and a sword.
Young Master Qin pulled out his sword and shouted, "Who is this!"
Immediately, the sound of the claws scratching the door became louder.
A servant was sitting in the corner with a broom. Young Master Qin pointed at him and said, "Climb up and look outside."
The servant did not dare to disobey, his face was ashen, while crawling and crawling, he looked back at Young Master Qin in embarrassment, only in exchange for impatient urging.
In the end, tremblingly, he put his hands on the eaves, probed, and after only one glance, he thumped his head down and fell down.
Qin Gongzi said: "He said that the person knocking on the door was a monster in a shroud. His hair was disheveled and his body was covered in blood. He was not a living person."
Hearing this, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji looked at each other.
Lan Sizhui said, "Young Master Qin, isn't there a more detailed description?"
Qin Gongzi is not a member of the Xuanmen, and he found the right person by mistake. He only knew that the few people in front of him were members of this way, and he did not know their identities and names. However, Lan Wangji's ice and snow attitude is extraordinary, Wei Wuxian's expression is agile, and Lan SiZhui is young, but his every move is quite graceful, so he does not dare to neglect, and said, "No, that stupid servant is timid, I was frightened and fainted when I saw it, and I pinched him for a long time before I woke him up, do I still expect him to see clearly and carefully?"
Wei WuXian said, "Allow me to ask a question."
Qin Gongzi said, "Excuse me."
Wei WuXian said, "Young Master Qin, you only let others see it, didn't you see it yourself?"
"No."
"pity."
"What's the pity?"
Wei WuXian said, "According to what you said, it was a murderous corpse that came to your door. Nine times out of ten, the murderous corpse came to someone. If you look at it, maybe you will find it. An old acquaintance."
Qin Gongzi said: "Maybe I'm one of the ten. Besides, even if it's for someone, it's not necessarily me."
Wei Wuxian nodded and smiled, "Okay."
Qin Gongzi continued: "That thing kept grabbing the door until it was dawn. When I went out to see it in the early morning, the door of my house was completely unrecognizable."
Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji walked around the door.
Lan SiZhui followed behind them, observing carefully. I saw that there were hundreds of mournful scratches on the gate of the Qin Mansion, all in a group of five, ranging from a few feet in length to a few inches in short, really beyond recognition.
Although it must be traces of human hands, no matter how you look at it, it does not look like a living person's fingernails can be grasped.
Qin Gongzi said: "Let's get down to business, since the two sons are members of the Xuanmen, can there be a way to expel this evil thing?"
Wei Wuxian said, "It's not necessary."
Lan SiZhui was quite strange, but he didn't say much. Young Master Qin also felt strange and asked, "Isn't it necessary?"
Wei Wuxian affirmed, "It's not necessary.
"The so-called 'house' has the mission of sheltering from the wind and rain from the moment it is completed and owned by others. The door of the house is a natural barrier that can not only block people, but also inhumans.
"Since you are the rightful owner of this house, as long as you don't speak or invite evil spirits to come in, they can't invade. Judging from the evil spirit left on the gate, it's not a rare thing to find your son in your house. The fierce corpse and the ghost, the first floor door is enough to resist."
Young Master Qin was dubious: "Really so powerful?"
Lan Wangji said, "Really."
Wei WuXian stepped on the threshold again and said, "Seriously. Besides, the threshold is actually a barrier. The corpse swindler can't live without blood and energy, so he can only walk stiffly, unless the walking corpse has amazing leg strength, It jumps three feet high, otherwise, even if the door is wide open, it will not be able to jump in."
Qin Gongzi was still worried and said, "Is there nothing else that I need to buy? For example, the town house talisman, the sword of exorcising evil, etc. I am willing to pay you a lot of money, money is not a problem."
Lan Wangji said, "Get a new latch."
"… "
Seeing Young Master Qin's disbelief, as if he felt that this proposal was perfunctory, Wei WuXian said, "Whether it's up to you, Young Master Qin can decide for himself. If there is any follow-up, welcome to ask again."
Leaving Qin Mansion, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji walked side by side for a while, walking around while hanging on to each other without a word.
Now the two of them can be regarded as semi-retired. If there is no important matter, they will wander aimlessly outside, at most for a month and a half, at least for three days or two days. Wei Wuxian had heard the name of Lan Wangji's "will come out when there is chaos" before, and he didn't feel any embarrassment. It is not difficult, on the contrary, it is too simple. He used to hunt the night before, and Jing liked to pick up those strange and dangerous places, all kinds of experiences and adventures, naturally turning back and forth, twists and turns. But Lan WangJi didn't pick and choose, he just did what he did, which would inevitably lead to some night hunting targets that were common to Wei WuXian. For example, this time, this murderous corpse is really not interesting compared to what Wei Wuxian hunted in the past. If you teach others to look at it, most of them also think that it is overkill and not worth doing.
However, because they were with Lan Wangji, even if the event itself was not so attractive, it was still relaxing to accompany each other.
Lan SiZhui led Xiao Apple and followed silently. After thinking for a while, he couldn't help but say, "Hanguang-Jun, Senior Wei, does it matter if Qin Gongzi's family just leaves it alone?"
Lan Wangji said, "It doesn't matter."
Wei WuXian smiled, "Didn't SiZhui think I was talking nonsense just now to deceive people?"
Lan SiZhui hurriedly said, "No way! Cough, that's not what SiZhui meant. I meant to say that although the gate of the house does have its own protection against evil, but the gate is about to fall apart. Will something happen?"
Wei Wuxian said strangely, "What's the point of that?"
Lan Sizhui: "Oh..."
Wei Wuxian: "Of course something will happen."
Lan Sizhui: "Ah? Why?"
Wei WuXian said, "Because that Young Master Qin lied."
Lan Wangji has a shallow jaw. Lan Sizhui was slightly stunned: "How did Senior Wei see it?"
Wei WuXian said, "I've only seen this young master Qin, and I don't dare to say that I can say nine times out of ten, but this person..."
Lan Wangji said, "Stubborn and cold."
Wei WuXian gave a "hmm" and said, "Almost so, in short, he's not a cowardly person. The situation that night was weird, but according to what he described, it wasn't so weird that it scared people to lose their minds and climbed up the eaves to see. Is it difficult for him to look outside?"
Lan Sizhui realized: "But he insisted that he didn't even look at it..."
Wei WuXian said, "That's right. If your door is being photographed wildly late at night, everyone is curious, and you're not too timid. It's normal to take a sneak peek. Wouldn't it be strange if you didn't look?"
Lan Wangji said, "I agree with it all."
Wei WuXian said, "Then you see the same thing!"
At the end, he smiled again, touched his chin and said, "Furthermore, the scratches left on the door by the murderous corpse are scary to look at, but the evil energy and blood energy are not heavy, it is definitely not for murder and revenge when it comes to the door, I can do that. I'm sure. So what's going on, we'll have to see it again."
Lan Sizhui said, "Since that's the case, why didn't Senior Wei directly summon the murderous corpse and find out just by asking?"
"Not summoned."
"what?"
Wei Wuxian said confidently, "Would you like to draw a Zhaoyin flag without blood? I'm weak."
Lan SiZhui thought he was really too lazy to bleed, and said, "Senior Wei, you can use my blood."
Who knows, Wei Wuxian burst out laughing.
He said, "SiZhui, that's not the problem. We're taking you out to practice this time, right?"
Lan SiZhui was stunned for a moment, and Wei WuXian said again, "Of course I can summon the corpse and let it roll. But, can you?"
Hearing this, Lan Sizhui immediately understood.
After going through a series of incidents, he and the younger generations of the Gusu Lan Clan were a little too dependent on Wei Wuxian. Asking when you are called, turning a corpse into a general, although it is the fastest method, but not everyone can use it, and he does not cultivate ghosts. Therefore, for him, this method should not be learned too much. If this time Wei Wuxian also used the old method he was good at to get through in two or three times, and he talked about the experience.
This time, Wei WuXian and Lan WangJi wanted to take him through the ordinary way, to see how this matter could be resolved according to the ordinary way.
Lan SiZhui said, "So, what Hanguang-Jun and Senior Wei mean is that Young Master Qin refuses to tell the truth, so why don't you just ignore him and scare him?"
Wei WuXian said, "That's right. Look at it, that door can last for two more days at most. Your family, Hanguang-Jun, asked him to replace it with a new one. This is a very conscientious suggestion. I don't think so. But if he's really hiding something important, it won't help even ten new bolts. He'll come back sooner or later."
Who knows, the latch didn't hold up overnight. The next day, Young Master Qin went to visit Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji with a dark face again.
The Xuanmen family has a lot of foreign property in various places. After the three of them came, they rested in a small and elegant building called Xiaozhuxuan under the family of Gusu Lan. Young Master Qin went very early, just in time to bump into Lan SiZhui, pulling a donkey and pulling a rein. Poor Lan SiZhui worked hard to pull the apple that was grinding his teeth out on the bamboo. When he turned around, he saw Young Master Qin twitching the corner of his mouth towards him, his face was slightly red, he threw the rope and asked Young Master Qin to enter the house.
He cautiously knocked on the bedroom of the two seniors, and when he saw the neatly dressed Lan Wangji opening the door silently, he shook his head, and knew that Senior Wei would not be able to get up for a while. Lan SiZhui was very embarrassed, but in the end, he bit the bullet and violated the family rule of "not lying", lying to Young Master Qin that the senior was still resting because of his health. Otherwise, you can't say the big truth like "Senior Wei is going to sleep, Hanguang-Jun let you wait by yourself"...
Wei Wuxian slept until the sun was up, and was rubbed and hugged by Lan Wangji. He barely managed to get up. He closed his eyes and put on the wrong Lan Wangji's coat in the bathroom. The sleeves under his coat were plain white. A few inches, and several rolls were rolled, which is really outrageous. Fortunately, Young Master Qin didn't have time to pay attention to his rudeness, so he dragged three people away.
The door of the Qin Mansion was tightly closed, and Young Master Qin went up and buttoned the door knocker, avoiding the greeting, and said, "After receiving the guidance of the two immortals yesterday, I felt a little relieved, but I still had no intention of sleeping, so I read in the lobby behind closed doors at night, and stayed there. Watch out for what's going on outside."
Soon, a domestic servant opened the door and welcomed the three into the courtyard. As soon as he stepped down the stairs, Wei Wuxian was slightly startled.
I saw a lot of bright red footprints scattered in the courtyard, shocking.
Qin Gongzi said gloomily: "Last night, that thing came again. It was scratching and bumping outside the gate, making a noise for nearly half an hour. I was getting irritated by it when I suddenly heard a clatter. , the latch was broken."
The moment he heard the door latch breaking, the hairs on Qin Gongzi's back stood upright.
He grabbed the door and peeked out through the crack of the wooden door in the lobby.
The moonlight was dim, and the gates were opened from a distance, and a figure stood in front of the gate of Qin Mansion, like a wooden stake with a spring at the bottom, bouncing around at the gate.
After playing for a long time, it still didn't come in. Young Master Qin breathed a sigh of relief, thinking in his heart that this thing was as Wei Wuxian said in the daytime. His muscles were blocked, his body was stiff, his legs couldn't bend, and he couldn't jump over the high threshold of his own door.
However, before he could let out his breath, he saw the human figure jumping up and down at the door suddenly jumped up and jumped high - it jumped into the door all at once!
Young Master Qin turned around abruptly, pressing his back against the door.
The evil thing crossed the gate, entered the courtyard, and jumped straight forward. Thump thump, thump thump, and after a few strokes, he threw himself on the door of the lobby.
Qin Gongzi felt the wooden door behind him swaying, and was shocked to realize that the thing was only one door away from him, so he hurriedly ran away.
Qin Gongzi said: "The shadow of the evil thing is reflected on the paper window as soon as it is shot by the moonlight. It can't get in, and it turns around the hall from front to back, left and right. The footprints in this courtyard are all left by it! The two of you Young Master, it's not that I don't believe your words, but you clearly said that this thing can't jump in."
Wei WuXian stepped on the threshold and said, "Young Master Qin, generally speaking, a rigid corpse really can't jump in. A dead person can't bend his knees if his muscles and blood are not alive. You can ask this question. The Xianmen aristocratic family stationed in town anywhere will tell you so."
Qin Gongzi opened his hands, as if to show him the bright red footprints in the courtyard, and said, "Then what is the explanation for this?"
Wei WuXian said, "It can only be explained that the thing that entered your door is unusual. Young Master Qin, you might as well think about it, you peeked at the murderous corpse last night, did you find something wrong?"
Qin Gongzi thought for a while with an ugly face, and then said: "Speaking of which, the posture of that thing when it jumped up was a bit weird."
Wei Wuxian asked, "What kind of weird method?"
Qin Gongzi said: "It seems to be..."
On the side, Lan Wangji had walked around the courtyard, returned to Wei Wuxian, and said in a low voice, "Lip and limp."
Young Master Qin immediately said, "Not bad!"
Immediately, he asked suspiciously, "How did this son find out?"
Lan SiZhui was also thinking about this question in his heart, but because he always knew that Hanguang-Jun knew everything, he was just curious and had no doubts, waiting for the answer.
Lan Wangji said, "Footprints on the ground."
Wei Wuxian leaned down, and Lan Sizhui also crouched down, carefully examining the footprints. Wei Wuxian glanced at it, then raised his head and said to Lan Wangji, "One-legged corpse?"
Lan Wangji nodded. Wei WuXian stood up and said, "No wonder it was able to jump over. These footprints are all one deep and one shallow, and this walking corpse has a broken leg."
He thought for a while, and then said, "Do you think it was broken during life or after death?"
Lan Wangji said, "In my lifetime."
Wei WuXian said, "Yeah. After death, it won't affect anything broken on the body."
They communicated without any obstacles, but Lan Sizhui couldn't keep up, so he had to stop and said hurriedly, "Wait, Hanguang-Jun, Senior Wei, let me sort it out, you are saying that this murderous Corpse, it has a broken leg and is crippled, and because of this, is it easier for it to jump over this high threshold than a two-legged... er, healthy corpse?"
Young Master Qin was obviously also thinking about this question, and said, "Am I right?"
Lan Wangji said, "That's right."
Qin Gongzi looked absurd: "Don't you mean that a person with one leg can run faster than a person with two legs?"
The two of them were discussing attentively over there, and Wei Wuxian took a moment to smile at him, "You're wrong. But if I say that, maybe you'll understand. Some people are blind in one eye, so they take care of them even more. There is only one left, so although he is blind in one eye, his eyesight is not necessarily worse than that of a person with two eyes, or even better. Similarly, if a person loses his left hand, he can only use his right hand frequently. If things go on like this, his right hand may become infinitely powerful, and one hand can be twice as strong as a normal person..."
Lan Sizhui really understood: "And this murderous corpse, because it had a broken leg during its lifetime, and has been jumping on one leg all the year round after death, so its bouncing power is stronger than that of a two-legged corpse?"
Wei Wuxian said happily, "Exactly."
Lan SiZhui found it quite interesting, so he secretly wrote it down. Young Master Qin said irritably, "It's my fault that I quarreled with my wife yesterday. It was too late to deal with the housework, and I didn't have time to rebuild the gate. I'm going to reinforce it now, I have to make this gate an iron bucket!"
However, Lan WangJi shook his head and said, "It's useless. 'Precedents cannot be set'."
Young Master Qin was startled, feeling that it was not a good thing to say, and said, "What does 'the precedent cannot be opened' mean?"
Wei WuXian said, "He's talking about our jargon. It means that against evil spirits, some defensive measures can only be used once, and the second time they won't work. If you rush to rebuild yesterday, you can last for a while. Day, but as long as you give it a door, it will be able to flow unimpeded from now on.”
Young Master Qin was shocked and regretful: "Then! What should I do?"
Lan Wangji said, "Just sit down."
Wei WuXian said, "Don't panic. You can enter the gate, but you can't pass through the second gate. Your mansion is like a city. Right now, only the first gate has been breached, and there are two more gates after that."
"Two more? Which two?"
Lan Wangji said, "The door to gathering guests, the door to privacy."
Wei WuXian said, "Your lobby, your bedroom."
While they were talking, the group had already passed the courtyard and entered the lobby to take their seats. There was no one serving tea for a long time, and the servants did not know where they had gone. Young Master Qin sternly called for someone to come up, and he kicked them away again. After letting out his anger, Young Master Qin's expression turned slightly pale, but he was not reconciled: "Can't you give me some spells to suppress it? Please rest assured, Young Masters, the reward is really not a problem."
He didn't know that when these people went out to hunt at night, they didn't care about any reward. Wei WuXian said, "That depends on how you want to suppress it."
"How to say?"
Wei Wuxian started.
He said: "Repression, it's a cure for the symptoms, not the root cause. If you just want to keep the evil spirits from getting in, it's okay to change a talisman in half a month, but it can still come to your house to shoot the shavings. I estimate that when the time comes, your door will be closed. It will be more diligent to exchange than talismans. If you want the evil spirits to stay away, you have to change them every seven days. Such talismans are also complicated and expensive to draw. And the longer the suppression period, the more resentful it will be... "
Lan Wangji just sat quietly listening to Wei Wuxian's nonsense, without saying a word.
Repression is not a good strategy in the end, but the production and use of repression charms and repelling charms are not as laborious and cumbersome as Wei Wuxian said. But when it comes to this, no one is more eloquent than Wei Wuxian's mouth. Even Lan SiZhui, who has excellent homework, was stunned when he heard it, and he almost believed it. Young Master Qin listened to what he said was very troublesome, as if he chose to suppress it would lead to endless troubles. He couldn't help but muttered in his heart. He kept looking at Lan Wangji, who was sitting beside him drinking tea with his head down, but because of Lan Wangji's face there was always no "he is alarmist" "The look on his face, he couldn't help not believe it, so he could only say: "Is there no way to do it once and for all?!"
Wei WuXian changed his words and said, "Whether it's possible or not, it depends on you, Young Master Qin."
Qin Gongzi said, "Why are you looking at me?"
Wei WuXian said, "I can make a special talisman for you, but it depends on whether you are willing to answer my question truthfully."
"what is the problem?"
Wei WuXian said, "Did you know this murderous corpse before he died?"
After a long silence, Young Master Qin said, "I know."