Tan Xuan was a little embarrassed when the operation was suddenly interrupted. What he thought he could easily find out suddenly became not so easy.
Soon Director Chang returned to the living room, his face filled with excitement. He had learned a lot today, and his attitude towards Tan Xuan had changed from respectful to solicitous. He sat next to Tan Xuan and whispered to Tan Xuan.
: "Xiaotan, the old man fell asleep again, we can continue."
Tan Xuan shook his head regretfully, "This soul-inducing method can only be used once, and it won't work if you use it again."
"What!" Director Chang had just seen some hope, but it was shattered in an instant. He really couldn't accept this fact.
"Then what should we do? Is there no other way?"
Tan Xuan thought for a while, pointed to the tea cup on the coffee table and said to Aunt Feng: "Aunt Feng, the tea has gone cold. Please make another cup."
"Do you want to drink tea? Okay, wait a moment."
Although Tan Xuan's request seemed a bit inappropriate, Aunt Feng still put away the tea cups on the coffee table and boiled water again to make tea.
"Thank you Aunt Feng. It's best to use new tea this time. Don't brew it in a teacup, just use a teacup." Tan Xuan warned from the side.
"Okay, it seems there are no new tea bowls here, I'll go back over there to get them." Aunt Feng didn't hesitate at all, stopped what she was doing, and went back to the opposite door.
Seeing Tan Xuan calling Aunt Feng and being picky, Qian Bo couldn't help but secretly nodded at Tan Xuan, frowned and asked, "Tanzi, what are you doing?"
Tan Xuan smiled slightly and whispered back: "You will know in a while."
Soon Aunt Feng came over with a brand new tea bowl. When she rinsed it and prepared to make tea, Tan Xuan stopped her again.
Tan Xuan took the tea bowl and said to Director Chang, "Director Chang, please take a drop of blood from the tip of the ring finger of the old man's left hand, and then take a piece of hair from the old man's temple."
Director Chang took the tea bowl and asked in confusion: "Why do you want the old man's blood and hair?"
"My spell was interrupted just now. Now I only know that the ghost who is holding my life is called Li Ying, but I don't know where he lives. We have to first find out where he is from and why the old man feels that he owes her."
"Then how to check?" Director Chang became more and more confused as he listened.
Tan Xuan waved his hand, indicating that he should not ask any more questions, "You will know this in a moment. Go and get the old man's fingertips and hair from his temples."
"OK."
Director Chang took the tea bowl to the bedroom and came back soon, handing the bowl and hair to Tan Xuan.
Tan Xuan looked at the dark red blood droplets at the bottom of the bowl. He didn't know how Director Chang got it. It didn't matter anyway. He directly put the tea bowl on the coffee table, took out the lighter, put the hair in the cup and lit it.
, and then said to Aunt Feng: "Aunt Feng, please use this tea bowl to make a cup of this year's new tea."
The tea was brewed quickly. Tan Xuan put the tea bowl in front of him, and then took out three cigarettes from the cigarette case on the coffee table. Tan Xuan stood up, held the three cigarettes to the height of his eyebrows, and muttered a few words in a low voice.
After hearing the words clearly, the person put all three cigarettes into his mouth, then lit all three cigarettes and took a strong puff.
The three cigarettes burned down to the butts very quickly. Tan Xuan was busy doing business now and did not care about his quality. He threw the cigarette butts aside and blew out a thick stream of smoke into the tea bowl.
Director Chang and the others had just seen Tan Xuan use this method. Unexpectedly, this time it was different. This time there was no lingering smoke ring. The smoke directly enveloped the tea bowl, but the smoke was not there.
The slightest spread, but it is gradually shrinking and solidifying.
Slowly, the smoke seemed to be attracted by the tea in the tea bowl. It gathered on the surface of the tea and condensed into a smoke film composed of smoke on the surface of the tea. The smoke film became thinner and thinner until it completely shrank.
Within the mouth of the bowl.
Suddenly, there were ripples in the smoke film. After the ripples dispersed, a human face appeared on the smoke film. It was a woman, very young and beautiful, with an oval face, a pointed chin, and big loving eyes.
Her small mouth was slightly open with a smile, and her two braids were hanging on her shoulders.
"ah!"
Director Chang and Aunt Feng were both stunned. When they saw the face of the woman appearing on the tea bowl, they were so surprised that they couldn't open their mouths. Although it was not particularly clear, it was shocking enough. What is incredible?
, this is truly incredible. Even Qian Bo, who has seen "the world", was completely dumbfounded at this time.
"This...she..."
The three people pointed at the portrait and were unable to say complete words for a while.
The smoke film shook again, the face disappeared, and the smoke film also burst, turning into smoke and scattering into the room.
Tan Xuan glanced at Director Chang and his wife who had not recovered from their surprise, and said: "She is the ghost that the old man saw, that is, the person named Li Ying."
"That ghost looks like this? How come it's not scary at all?" Director Chang asked curiously. This was far from what he imagined the green-faced fangs looked like. If his wife hadn't been standing by, he would have endured it.
I couldn’t help but praise how beautiful it was.
Tan Xuan smiled, "This is how he looks in the old man's heart. He can never forget him. There is no way he is ugly."
"She is the person that the old man is ashamed of? Then let's find her, ask the reason, and solve the problem, isn't that enough?" Aunt Feng said happily on the side. It's not terrible if there is a problem, as long as it can be solved.
Tan Xuan shook his head and poured cold water on Aunt Feng, "You can't find her, she's already dead."
"She's dead?" Aunt Feng opened her mouth. Not only her, Director Chang couldn't believe the news.
Tan Xuan nodded, "She is indeed dead, and has been dead for a long time. The old man also knew that she was dead, so he called her a ghost when he saw her in the illusion."
"Then what should we do?" Just as he had some hope, his hope was dashed, and Director Chang was about to collapse.
Tan Xuan said expressionlessly: "Find the place where she lived when she was alive, understand how she died, and find a way to relieve the old man's guilt."
"But the old man didn't mention this at all. We have no way of knowing where this woman named Li Ying lived or where she died."
Tan Xuan waved his hand, "Don't worry, I can show you a clear path and give you the general direction."
"Really?" Director Chang stood up immediately after hearing Tan Xuan's words. The twists and turns in Tan Xuan's words made him unable to calm down at all.
Tan Xuan waved his hand and motioned for him to sit down, "I'll give it a try."
Tan Xuan picked up the tea bowl on the coffee table, whispered a few mantras, breathed into the tea bowl, then raised his hand and poured the tea on the floor of the living room.
"check!"
The three people watched quietly. They had seen a lot of incredible things today. Now they were not surprised when they saw any of Tan Xuan's actions, let alone made a fuss. They had become accustomed to it. It was just this magic. He also played with homophonic jokes, which was somewhat beyond their expectations.
After the tea fell to the ground, it did not splash everywhere. Instead, it gathered into a puddle around the tea leaves. It was not round at all. There was only a sharp corner in the lower left corner, and a few drops of tea poured out from this direction.
Tan Xuan put down the tea bowl and walked to the tea to carefully look at the shape of the tea. Then he carefully checked the splashed tea, "One drop, two drops, three drops..."
Tan Xuan squatted on the ground and stretched out his hands to make gestures, mumbling words that others could not understand clearly, and frowned slightly.
"The northwest is the stem, the stem is the sky, and the five stars belong to gold...one drop and one house..."
After a while, Tan Xuan took a long breath, stood up again, and sat back on the sofa. "Have you found out any results?" Qian Bo was the first to ask, and he was the most active every time. It seemed that The one lying in the bedroom looks like his own grandfather.
Tan Xuan nodded, "Okay, it's been found out. Please help Aunt Feng clean up those dirty things on the floor."
"I'm sorry, Aunt Feng, for causing trouble to you." Tan Xuan said to Aunt Feng slightly apologetically.
Aunt Feng stood up and sat down again, "It's okay. You can tell me the results of the investigation first. This will be sorted out later."
"Okay then." Since they wanted to hear the result, Tan Xuan did not hide it, and directly explained what he had just discovered, "After my investigation, the old man and Li Ying should have met in a mountain village northwest of Jiangzhou. , that place is about three hundred miles away from Jiangzhou, you can check there according to these conditions, and ask more senior people, I think you can gain something."
"That's all the information?" Qian Bo almost cursed after hearing Tan Xuan's words, "Tanzi, what you gave me is too much. It's more than 300 miles northwest and it's still rural. This is the clear path you mentioned. This is too general, please check it in detail."
Tan Xuan shook his head, "Calculation is not what I am good at. What I just used was something I learned from others. It is not easy to be able to calculate these. Isn't it enough to have these instructions?"
Qian Bo opened the map software on his mobile phone and said to Tan Xuan: "Do you know how big the area is three hundred miles northwest of Jiangzhou? Look at how many villages there are. If you want to find a person in such a big place, how big is the area? There is no difference in finding a needle in a haystack.”
Not only Qian Bo was speechless after hearing Tan Xuan's words, but Director Chang covered his face and said nothing, and even Aunt Feng had a bitter look on her face, "Yes, this range is too big, how can we search for it, even if we search carefully? , I guess the old man won’t be able to survive that long.”
Tan Xuan said helplessly: "There's nothing I can do about this. Maybe there are others who are proficient in Zhouyi Yiyi. Otherwise, Director Chang can find someone else to make inferences, which may narrow the scope a lot. I really can't do anything in this regard, I'm sorry."
Director Chang rubbed his face vigorously, "You're welcome, Xiaotan. You've already helped me a lot. It won't be helpful to find anyone else. I already know where that place is."
"You know?" Now it was Tan Xuan's turn to be confused, staring at Director Chang and waiting to hear his next explanation.
Director Chang took out a cigarette from the cigarette case, lit it, took a puff, and said slowly: "The place you are talking about should be Luanshan County. The old man worked as an educated youth there when he was young. That is where I met Li Ying."
of."
"That's it. Then Director Chang can send someone or go there himself to investigate. After asking for the reason, he can find someone to get rid of the ghost in the old man's heart. Okay, it's getting late, and there's nothing I can do
It’s almost done, so I won’t bother you anymore.”
With that said, Tan Xuan stood up and called Qian Bo to leave.
He left immediately, which surprised Director Chang and asked: "Then won't you go with us?"
Tan Xuan shook his head, "I won't go. It will be easier to find out the cause. Then you can find someone who knows a little bit about this to solve it."
"Then wait a minute." Director Chang turned around and entered the study, quickly took out a bank card, and touched Tan Xuan's face with his hands, "Thank you for today. A little disrespect is not disrespectful."
Tan Xuan glanced at the card in Director Chang's hand. This card was different from the one given to Taoist Master Mao in the afternoon, but he did not accept it, or even glance at it.
"You don't need to do this. I came today just for Brother Qian's sake. If you want to thank me, just thank him."
"Everywhere, everywhere, it should be..."
"Okay, farewell."
Tan Xuan didn't give Qian Bo a chance to flatter the leader at all, and directly dragged Qian Bo away, leaving only Director Chang and his wife standing at the door with their bank cards.