The owner of this house is named Huai Mingrui, who is in his thirties. His great-grandfather once served as Zhongshu Ling as prime minister a hundred years ago, and held the title of Duke of the country.
However, the virtue of a gentleman will be cut off in five lifetimes.
In Huai Rui's generation, although he still lives in Shengyefang, which is in a good location, he relies on shops and fields to maintain a decent life.
But in the officialdom, one can only start as a junior official in the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Huai Rui was frustrated in officialdom, and his love affairs were not so smooth either. A few years ago, there was news that he had an affair with Zhao Sanniang, a married woman in the south of the city. That woman's businessman husband came to the Wannian County government office or outside the door all day long.
Noisy, making a fuss.
Huairui did not refuse to admit it, or shirk the responsibility to the woman.
Instead, he resolutely gave 20,000 yuan of wealth to the merchant and asked him to reconcile with his wife.
After Zhao Sanniang reconciled and divorced, Huairui held a grand wedding for her and officially married Zhao Sanniang.
A year later, Zhao Sanniang died of a serious illness, and Huairui did not marry again. He often wrote some sad poems in memory of his late wife.
The relationship between the two of them, in the eyes of the world, is also immoral and involves cheating in marriage.
It turned into a vigorous and undying love,
On the contrary, Huai Rui's reputation in Chang'an has improved, and his official career has become smoother. He is currently a doctor in the Ministry of Household Affairs and Finance.
Mr. Kanebu is in charge of the transactions in the East and West markets. It can be said that he is a first-class fat man. He does not even need to use the low-level methods of accepting bribes, but he has a lot of means to reasonably make huge wealth.
‘Emotion is still a kind of love.’
Li Ang was thoughtful as he listened to the descriptions of passers-by.
"Huai Dalang's mother, the old lady of Huai Mansion, is getting older and her brain is not very clear. She needs someone to take care of her. Some time ago, she kept talking about having nightmares."
"In order to make his mother feel at ease, Huai Dalang specially invited monks and Taoist priests to come to visit, open a dojo, and perform rituals. Today is the last day."
"Let me tell you, the old lady of Huai Mansion is afraid that no one will inherit the Huai family's family business, so she has nightmares - Mr. Huai has never married another wife or concubine since the death of Zhao Sanniang, and he has never had any children.
, if you don’t adopt one from a distant relative, you may really have to die.”
"Yes, it's impossible to have no children."
Outside the walls of Shengyefang, passers-by listened to the singing of monks and Taoists and chatted casually. The topic soon turned to the direction of carrying on the family line and having more children and more blessings.
Li Ang's name even appeared in the chat, saying that Li Ang is a literary star, a medicine king, and a fairy who sends children to the earth. Hanging a portrait of Li Ang at home can increase the probability of a couple getting pregnant, etc.
‘This is all a mess. Is my image among the public already like this?’
Li Ang's head was full of black lines, and he rode away silently, his mind spinning.
Shengyefang, Huairui...
Mo Si's induction points to that mansion.
If there really is an alienated object there, we have to find out what it is.
Li Angming's identity on the surface is that he is a disciple of the Academy and the owner of patent rights such as allicin.
There is no overlap with the Account and Finance Department in terms of business, and there is no overlap in social circles with Huairui.
You have to go into the mansion to find out what's going on, and you can't reveal the existence of the alienated objects, otherwise they will be taken away by the Town Secretary.
Maybe, special means have to be used.
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There were a lot less things to deal with during the winter vacation. After Li Ang returned home, he fed Mo Si some gold ingots, black iron and other materials as usual.
After nightfall, he walked to the restaurant outside Shengyefang, pretending to be a dandy boy who was frustrated in love and came to get drunk. He booked a high-rise box facing Shengyefang and monitored the movements of Huairui's residence from a distance.
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"It's Xu Zheng hour now, which is eight o'clock in the evening, and the Huai family's mansion still has no lights on."
Li Ang looked out the window and narrowed his eyes slightly.
It gets dark very early in winter, and the big houses in Shengyefang all light up their lights at this time.
Wait until the first hour of the first lunar month or the first hour of the twelfth lunar month, that is, around ten or eleven o'clock in the evening, before people generally turn off the oil lamps and go to sleep.
Li Ang waited for another two hours, until midnight, when the restaurant was about to close.
A carriage slowly drove into Shengyefang from far away and stopped outside the side door of the Huai family mansion.
"Huh?"
Li Ang instantly cheered up and stared carefully.
After the carriage stopped, a burly man quietly stepped out of the carriage. There was an object wrapped in cloth tied to his waist, which looked like a simple knife.
Afterwards, three other people got out of the car one after another.
An old man with a stooped body and a cane,
A scholar with a face like white jade and a folding fan in his hand,
A dwarf wearing a mask and carrying two swords.
The carriage drove away quietly, and the four of them stood in the shadow under the door. A burly man gently knocked on the side door.
As the door opened on the inside, the four people also stepped into the door and disappeared.
Strong man, old man, scholar, dwarf,
The four people's whereabouts are strange and sneaky, could it be...
"Because Chang'an City has recently strictly inspected private gambling houses, these four went to the Huai family residence specifically to play mahjong?"
An unreliable guess suddenly popped into Li Ang's mind. He shook his head, put the money for the box on the table, went downstairs to pay, and walked out of the restaurant.
During the New Year, every family celebrates,
In order to prevent the occurrence of fires, the Zhenfu Division, Bad Persons, Longwu Army and other departments have stepped up patrols.
However, at this level of patrol, Li Ang could hear the footsteps approaching from a distance. He turned around and hid in the shadow of the alley, then climbed up the wall, using the shadow of the building to avoid sight.
After easily avoiding the patrol team, Li Ang lay on the roof and silently woke up Mo Si.
Sha——
A large number of ink-colored silk threads snake out from the cuffs and collar.
In an instant, it covered Li Ang's whole body, weaving a night-walking garment as black as ink with a cloak.
In order to hide his identity, he also asked Mo Si to add several layers of height-increasing insoles, which made him look like an adult.
At the same time, a faucet-shaped mask is also generated and worn on the head.
I can't tell it's him at all.
'After repeated testing, the ink silk will not cause any spiritual energy fluctuations, and will not be detected by the monk's detection methods.
At the same time, the toughness of Mosi is far beyond that of ordinary iron, and it can be slashed with swords.
It’s more than enough to use as night clothes.’
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Li Ang silently straightened the black faucet mask on his head, quietly came to the roof of the Huai family mansion, and eavesdropped on the movement below.
"The four of you must be the strangers introduced by Brother Kou, right? The safety of my Huai family tonight is your responsibility."
There was a conversation coming from the room below. Listening to the content, the speaker seemed to be Huairui, the doctor in the Jin Department.
"Mr. Huai is so polite."
The burly man's voice was deep and powerful, "But we agreed in advance that the price for hiring the four of us for a day will be four thousand guan in total. Regardless of whether there are any changes."
"This is natural."
Huai Rui breathed a sigh of relief, "Although my Huai family is not a wealthy family, we still have this little money.
Then...what are the four going to do?"
"Let's talk about the old lady's situation first."
The white-faced scholar said calmly: "I heard that the old lady has been having nightmares during this period, dreaming about fierce ghosts biting her body. Even if the Chang'an monks held a water and land dojo for several days, it had no effect?"
"Yes."
Huairui smiled bitterly and said: "My mother is old and her memory has been bad for several years. She keeps forgetting things. Sometimes she doesn't even remember my son.
At first she said she had a nightmare, but when she woke up, there were inexplicable scars on her hands and feet.
I just thought it was a coincidence, or her amnesia had relapsed.
Later, when it happened more often, I felt something was wrong."
The scholar asked again: "Have you not asked someone from the Zhenfu Division to come to visit? With your official position as a doctor in the Jinbu Department of the Ministry of Revenue, you should be able to invite someone from the Zhenfu Division to come over, right?"
"We were invited, but they couldn't find the reason."
Huairui whispered: "I can't detect the demonic aura, so I have to blame it on my mother's hypochondriasis.
Said these are all imagined by my mother.
The wounds on my hands and feet might just be scratches caused by my mother unintentionally - after all, she suffers from amnesia and has a very poor memory."
"That's why you found us through Brother Kou."
The scholar nodded and said: "Zhenfusi will always be like this. They will only show up when something happens.
It's just about eating the emperor's salary and being loyal to the emperor.
We will definitely get things done after we collect the money.
So, the old lady has already drank herbal tea to soothe the nerves and help sleep, right?"
Huairui nodded and said, "I've had a drink."
The scholar continued to ask: "What about the servants in the mansion?"
Huairui said: "It's the Chinese New Year now, so they have been given a holiday and have gone home. The three remaining servants at home are also old people who are deaf or mute. I put them to bed early and told them not to open the door."
The scholar said: "That's good.
Mr. Zhuang and I will stay with you in the old lady's bedroom, and we will set up formations and talismans in the bedroom. If any aliens appear, we can capture and destroy them as soon as possible.
Brother Wei went to the courtyard to garrison,
Brother Sun is waiting in the lobby."
"Thank you, four of you."
Huai Rui breathed a long sigh of relief after hearing this, and led the way, leading the four of them towards the depths of the mansion.
"..."
Above the roof, Li Ang silently raised his eyebrows.
Listening to the conversation, it seemed that the old woman of the Huai family was haunted by nightmares. Huairui asked the Town and Fu Department to check to no avail, so he had to hire four "strangers" to come.
These four strangers should not be from the academy, and they all appear to be middle-to-low-level monks.
And there must be no official identity, otherwise there would be no need to be so sneaky.
From the ghost market in Chang'an?
There seems to be people in that place who take people's money and help them get rid of disasters.
Li Ang is a serious disciple of the academy, and he knows very well that the academy consumes astronomical amounts of resources every year to support an entire academy of monks at all levels.
Those low-level monks who have no inheritance and sect, because they have no cultivation resources, can only work hard as bodyguards, guards, or even construction workers, mercenaries, and private detectives.
Earn thousands of dollars at a time to buy yourself talismans and equipment.
For example, the two sword cultivators who followed Jiao Cheng back then.
And Brother Kou in Huai Rui's conversation...
Should it be some kind of intermediary that provides intermediary services?
Li Ang blinked. He was here to find the alienated objects. He had no interest in these aliens or the Huai family's family affairs.
Immediately sense the ink thread and point it in the direction of the alienated object.
Sha——
The silk threads stood on end like a black cat's frizzy hair, not pointing to a certain room, but to...Huairui himself, who was drifting away.
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