I was also surprised by his expression. It was not surprising that he knew this spell, because shamanism was very popular in the Northeast, but this pipe was quite special. He actually knew about it, and there was a ghost dragon tower in the yard. Could it be that he had some connection with the pipe
The pipe had already turned to ashes. If I told him the truth again, he would probably turn me down. I didn't answer this question, but frowned and said, "People in the Northeast are hospitable. I'm afraid that letting guests stand in the yard to talk is not Mr. Shi's way of entertaining guests, right?"
Mr. Shi looked at me with a puzzled look for a few times, then turned around and said to someone, "You go in." He stood up and stood by the door, making a gesture to invite us in and said, "Please come in and talk."
The three of us entered the house, and the situation inside was exactly as Mr. Gu had described. It was a very poor family. In addition to a brick bed, there was only an old eight-immortal table and two chairs, all of which were in tatters. A tattered curtain hung on the door of the inner room. The people Mr. Shi had just ordered to enter should be his wife and children. Although the family was very poor, it was very clean.
Mr. Shi waved his hand and asked me to sit on the left chair. He sat on the right chair and ignored Ya Zi and Shen Bing who were still standing. It seems that this guy is really weird. He never does things according to common sense. However, people who do Yin-Yang masters are called Yin-Yang immortals. This term has a double meaning. The other meaning is mental disorder, so I don’t regard Mr. Shi as a normal person.
"Mr. Shi, this Mr. Xi is from the south. He helped my uncle, Mr. Gu, cure his evil disease this morning. Now he comes here to ask you something." When Ya Zi spoke to Mr. Shi, his attitude was very respectful.
In the Northeast, we are considered southerners. In the Jin and Liao dynasties, people south of Yanmen Pass were called southern barbarians. Yazi was right, but we shouldn't say that we cured Gu Laozhong. Isn't that a slap in the face? But Mr. Shi said "Oh" calmly, without any change in his expression, as if he didn't care about it. Obviously, he knew about the three evil spirits returning to the Yin, which made me feel more at ease.
"Mr. Xi, that pipe..." Mr. Shi asked about it again anxiously.
"The pipe is broken!" Since we are already sitting here, why are we still beating around the bush with him? Is he going to kick us out
Mr. Shi regained his composure, nodded and said, "That should be the case. This magic spell is hidden in the pipe. Now that it is known to others, it must have been used to destroy the Twelve-story Ghost Dragon Tower. This is the best. This thing has always been a concern of mine."
I was stunned. How did the pipe become such a problem for him? Did he invent this thing? It doesn't look like that. Judging from his appearance, he is at most 44 or 45 years old. The Gao family has brought the Ghost Dragon Tower back to Longlou Town for many years. Could it be that his master or his great master invented this thing
Shen Bing couldn't help but ask curiously, "How do you know about the Ghost Dragon Tower and this pipe?" Her question was stupid enough. There was a Ghost Dragon Tower in the yard, and she asked how he knew about it.
Mr. Shi smiled bitterly, sighed, shook his head and said, "It's hard to explain in a few words. Besides, this is a secret of our ancestors, so it's not convenient to spread it to others."
This man does things strangely, but he is very measured in his words. This kind of thing must be a secret, how could he tell outsiders. I looked at the sun setting outside, so I got back to the point and asked him, "Mr. Shi, who are the people who used the Three Evils to harm Mr. Gu's family? What is their background? Can you tell me?"
Mr. Shi looked at me in surprise and said, "I don't know what the Three Evils Return to Yin are, and I don't know where they come from."
He answered decisively, but from the depths of his eyes, I could tell that he was lying. I smiled and said, "Since Mr. Shi doesn't know, we won't bother you." Then I stood up.
Shen Bing looked stunned, as if to say, "Can't you see that he didn't tell the truth? So you're leaving now?"
Mr. Shi nodded and just waved his hand to send the guest away, without even showing any intention of standing up.
I stood up but didn't move. Instead, I said to him, "You are wearing mourning clothes, but there is no corpse or memorial tablet in your home, which means there is no funeral. You are probably wearing mourning for yourself, your wife and children. Are you waiting to die?"
Mr. Shi's face flashed with surprise after hearing this. He stared at me for a long time and said, "How did you know I was waiting to die?"
I put my hands behind my back and said, "Because when you heard the story of the girl whose soul was lost, you left in a hurry, which shows that you are afraid of these people. And you clearly know what the evil magic of the Three Evils Returning to the Yin is, but you pretended to know nothing. Today you stayed at home and did not go out, wearing mourning clothes. If that is not waiting for death, what else could it be?"
After hearing this, Mr. Shi lowered his head and said nothing. It seemed that I was right.
I went on to say, "Originally, I came here to get the details of that group of people and then discuss countermeasures with Mr. Shi, but it seems that there is no need for that anymore." After saying that, I shook my head at Shen Bing and Yazi and was about to walk out the door.
"Mr. Xi, wait a minute..." Mr. Shi stood up and called me over. "Please sit down and talk slowly." He looked sincere at the moment, and it seemed that he had figured it out and wanted to tell me everything.
I looked at the sky outside again, sat back in my chair and said, "Mr. Shi, hurry up, because I'm afraid if I get back too late, Mr. Gu's family will be in danger."
Mr. Shi said with a gloomy face: "Before midnight, they will not be in danger, Mr. Xi can rest assured." This is believable, because it is impossible for these people to harm people in the first half of the night. After midnight, evil spirits are most likely to travel, and using evil spirits to kill people is the usual style of sorcerers.
Then Mr. Shi talked about this group of people. In fact, he didn't know what kind of sect they were. He only knew that they were a very mysterious evil sect in the Northeast. Since Taoism became popular, it has been difficult to distinguish between shamans and Taoists in the Northeast. Mr. Shi's skills were inherited from his ancestors in Beisanpo. His family has passed them down from generation to generation, but they strictly abide by the three rules of not being ostentatious, not traveling far, and not accepting money. The rule of not traveling far means that you can only walk around nearby to help people solve problems and not leave the mountains.
There is also a warning in the ancestral precepts that is not a rule. If you encounter the "Blood Night Demon", it means that the Shi family will die. So when he heard Wang Zijun talking about the evil spirit that the group encountered when they were being hunted, which was the appearance of the Blood Night Demon, and now that Wang Zijun led them to Nanwupo, they might have come to the end of the Shi family, so they hurriedly fled back home. At first, he still had a fluke mentality that the Blood Night Demon would not come here, but the day before yesterday, the Gu family invited him over, and he just wanted to find out about the Blood Night Demon. As a result, when he arrived at the Gu family, he saw that the blood words on the wall were left by the Blood Night Demon. After returning, he and his wife and children put on mourning clothes and waited for the death to come.