Hearing Beiquan's question, Qing Zhu and A Liu's expressions sank.
With their knowledge of metaphysics and the alchemy of various schools, even if they don't understand it, they can more or less see the inheritance of the master's school.
Although Zhu Hongcai's family used to be a big family, he was just an ordinary scholar. I have never heard of any famous alchemist.
What's more, Zhu Hongcai's magic technique is too sinister and vicious, far beyond the scope of knowledge that a folklorist can acquire, and even most of the magic family cannot master such evil secret techniques.
"You suspect that there is someone else behind him?"
Qing Zhu lowered his voice and expressed his speculation.
Beiquan nodded lightly.
Qing Zhu's eyes became a bit gloomy again, and even A Liu pursed his lips, seemingly lost in thought.
Beiquan didn't speak, just turned his eyes to the car window.
In fact, there is another conjecture that Beiquan did not resort to.
He always had a feeling, or should be said to be an intuition, that Zhu Hongcai's identity was definitely not as simple as his profile and resume showed.
"… "
Beiquan's lips moved silently.
— Maybe, Zhu Hongcai maybe... just like me.
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August 8, twelve twenty-five in the morning.
Wei Fuyuan was running deep and shallow on the mountain road.
The mountains and forests at night were too dark. It was the first time for Wei Fuyuan to come here. He was not familiar with the road conditions.
Black Shadow—or rather, the spirit of a lynx, is taking Wei Fuyuan back to Cai Mingjian and Su Lan’s Xiaoyanglou.
In the memory that Hei Ying showed Wei Fuyuan, its body was a lynx, which lived in the mountains and forests of Yueling Mountain more than 700 years ago.
Later, Lynx opened Tiancong by chance, and after a hundred years of practice, he gradually developed a little bit of Taoism. However, at the critical moment when He was about to transform, he happened to meet Qiu Shou, a nobleman, and was almost buried under the arrow.
Chased by hounds, the injured lynx escaped into the backyard of a mountaineer.
That household of mountain people is the ancestor of Su Lan. Thanks to their family's shelter, the Bobcats escaped a death catastrophe.
And this is just the beginning of the century-old relationship between the Lynx and the Su family.
Later, the lynx's cultivation became more and more sophisticated, and finally turned into a human form.
But at this time, he encountered the big hurdle of all the mountain spirits and ghosts - Thunder Tribulation.
The lynx hid in his lair and tried to escape the thunderstorm, but he failed to hide it from the sky.
The first celestial thunder collapsed his cave, the second celestial thunder scorched his body, and just as the third celestial thunder was about to fall, smashing his three souls and seven souls into ashes, the Su family was the second rescued him.
A daughter-in-law who married into the Su family not long ago carried her under-year-old son into the mountains to pick up mushrooms, and was forced to hide in a mountain col by the thunderstorm and torrential rain. The hiding place happened to be next to the cave of the lynx.
The two lightning strikes terrified the little daughter-in-law and the baby in the basket. In a panic, the girl remembered the story she had heard from Mr. Shu, and pulled out the copper hairbrush from the bun, trying her best to throw it as far away as possible.
The third thunder, instead of hitting the lynx, landed on the girl's hairbrush.
The little daughter-in-law's intention was to avoid lightning, but she saved the soul of the lynx with a crooked hit.
Owing to the life-saving grace twice, this lynx has since become the "protection fairy" of the Su family, protecting the descendants of the Su family from generation to generation.
It's just that the body of the lynx was scorched, and he could only stay in the statue of a boy in the Moon Lady Goddess Temple, steal some incense during the day to worship, and absorb the essence of the sun and the moon at night.
It's a pity that this little lynx's body was burnt by the thunder of the sky after all, and the image of the girl in the body is only a fragile red mud embryo, so although its Taoism is not weak, it has never been able to condense its real body.
Moreover, it is not easy to cultivate in the body of a ghost. If you don’t want to fall into the evil way, and you don’t want to take away one’s family, you can only maintain your true nature, accumulate virtue and do good deeds, and never do harm to others, let alone kill others. Humans are ghosts, demons are demons.
Such a "monster" has nothing to do with the Tao, but in fact its combat effectiveness is so weak that it is almost to the extent that the listeners are sad and shed tears.
And this time, the reason why the little lynx followed Su Lan was not because he wanted to kill her as Wei Fuyuan had guessed, on the contrary, he was protecting her.
Wei Fuyuan saw the real "culprit" in Lynx's memory - it turned out to be a gold lacquer bracelet with auspicious clouds pattern Dongzhu worn by Su Lan at the wedding.
The whole thing, the Lynx couldn't understand it, but Wei Fuyuan could understand it.
Su Lan planned a traditional European wedding for herself because she liked "Friends", so she had to have "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, and a silver sixpence in her shoe".
She prepared herself a brand new snow-white wedding dress, with a pearl brooch her grandmother had used, a bouquet of flowers tied with blue ribbons, and a sixpence silver coin in one of her shoes.
Finally, when it comes to the word "borrow", Su Lan's first thought is the best friend with whom he has a good relationship.
The two were roommates for four years in college, and they were bunks. After graduation, they both stayed in Fengxing City, and their companies were not far away.
So Su Lan asked her best friend if she could borrow a piece of jewelry to wear at the wedding. The other party agreed to her request and sent a gold bracelet with auspicious cloud patterns in person the next day.
The whole body of the bracelet is made of pure gold, the pattern of the auspicious clouds is very exquisite, and there is an east bead the size of a fingernail inlaid on it, which looks like a valuable antique.
Su Lan was startled when she saw the bracelet.
She thought that her best friend would give her a pair of earrings and other small objects, but she didn't expect it to be such a precious treasure.
Su Lan had planned to refuse, but her best friend said it didn't matter, she was willing to borrow it.
So on the wedding day, Su Lan really put on the golden silk bracelet.
It's just that she never imagined that this bracelet was the cause of her nightmare...
-I see!
As Wei Fuyuan ran, he quickly sorted out the information he had obtained from Lynx's memory fragments.
- Lynx didn't want to hurt Su Lan!
- Lynx is trying to protect her from the "thing" attached to the bracelet!
Yes.
For the past month, the shadow Su Lan saw was indeed a lynx, but the shadow was not an evil thing, but the guardian of their family.
The attack on Su Lan, as well as several near-fatal accidents, was not caused by the lynx, but by the "thing" attached to the bracelet.
If it wasn't for Bao Jiaxian's help at the critical moment, Su Lan would have died hundreds of times.
- As long as the bracelet is still in Su Lan's hands, the "thing" will never give up!
Thinking of this, Wei Fuyuan became more anxious.
Now that the lynx essence is not by Su Lan's side, it is the best opportunity for evil to take action.
He couldn't help but start to feel fortunate - fortunately, Jiang Nan'an didn't follow, so at least one person could stay by Su Lan's side!
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At this moment, the chaos in Cai Mingjian and Su Lan's third-floor apartment turned into a pot of porridge.
Things started five minutes ago.
Since Wei Fuyuan suddenly jumped out of the window and chased him all the way, Cai and Su, who were left in the house, especially Jiang Nan'an, who accidentally lost their partner, looked uneasy.
None of the three returned to their rooms, but stayed in the living room on the first floor, while Baba was waiting for Wei Fuyuan to come back.
It's a two-hour wait.
Wei Fuyuan is a real "rookie" who has not received systematic "professional" training at all. He directly fights a dark shadow with a strong Yin Qi. Jiang Nan'an is afraid that he will suffer a loss.
The more he thought about it, the more worried he became. Several times he couldn't help but want to chase him out to find someone, but was persuaded by Cai Mingjian.
Indeed, it was dark outside and the forest was deep, and the mountain road was rugged. Even if the locals entered the mountains in the dark, it was easy to go astray. He was an outsider who was unfamiliar with the place.
The key is that humans will get lost, but evil things will not.
Jiang Nan'an calmed down and thought about it, if the shadow turned back halfway, and neither he nor Jiang Nan'an were by Su Lan's side, then the problem would be a big one.
Moreover, Wei Fuyuan was born with a body of merit and virtue, and ordinary evil spirits couldn't do anything to him - even if he couldn't win, he should be fine to protect himself... right
While self-enlightening, Jiang Nan'an forcibly suppressed his anxiety and persuaded himself to stay in the house and wait.
The Taoist priest, who came to practice the day before yesterday, completely changed the layout of the living room, moved a set of leather sofas to the position by the window, and used a screen and a wine cabinet as a "shadow wall" at the entrance to separate a "shield". corner.
Now the people in the living room are sitting on the sofa and cannot see the situation at the door at a glance.
Jiang Nan'an seemed to have a nail stuck under his butt. He stood up every three or five minutes, walked out of the living room, passed through the dining room, and came to the entrance. He looked out through the cat's eyes, wanting to see if Wei Fuyuan had come back.
Just as Comrade Xiao Jiang was clinging to the door to look out for the 101st time, his cell phone finally rang.
The number showed that it was a call from Wei Fuyuan.
"Hey!?"
Jiang Nan'an pressed the connection in seconds.
"Xiao Wei?"
On the other end of the phone, there was a panting sound, and Wei Fuyuan's slightly hurried voice: "Hey, what's the matter with you?"
Hearing Wei Fuyuan's voice, Comrade Xiao Jiang breathed a sigh of relief.
Jiang Nan'an looked back.
Blocked by the wine cabinet, he could only see the northwest corner of the living room from his current angle. There was a TV cabinet standing there. A large 55-inch color TV was broadcasting a late-night movie. At the climax, the agent in a suit was there. Crazy racing in the sound of explosions - although no one is watching, it can be considered to add some sound to the quiet room.
"We're fine here!"
Jiang Nan'an said briefly:
"It's you, are you okay!?"
Just as Jiang Nan'an said these words, Cai Mingjian and Su Lan were sitting on the sofa, listening to the movement at the door with their ears pricked up.
They also heard the ringing of the mobile phone just now, and now they turned back together, their arms resting on the back of the sofa, and even if they couldn't see it, they subconsciously turned to the direction of the entrance.
The two judged from Jiang Nan'an's few words that the call might be Wei Fuyuan, but the conversation was not very real.
So Su Lan got up and took the remote control on the coffee table, wanting to turn down the volume of the TV.
And just as she turned around, a mug placed on the table suddenly moved from an angle that neither Cai nor Su could see...