A half-circle of red sun first appeared on the top of the mountain, and the morning sun shone on the pale yellow mist in the mountain, which gradually dissipated.
After the three donkey carts were inspected and entered the city, it was already dark and the streets in the city were noisy. Qingshan County is the most prosperous area in Shili and Baxiang. It is slightly near the middle section of the Canglan River. The convoys crossing the river often pass by the nearby official road, and occasionally
I will also go to the city to rest and stay overnight.
Street tea shops and wine shops are prospering. In front of the shops with flags and banners, the waiters are shouting hard to attract the passing caravans. The people in the city come in and sit down for a while, have a warm meal and a cup of tea.
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Chen Yuan followed the motorcade behind. This was not his first time in Qingshan County. The street scene in the city was nothing unusual. He followed Old Man Zhao to inquire along the way before finding the location of the Liu Mansion.
The long street is paved with ancient bricks and stones, and the courtyard wall with black tiles and blue bricks has square carvings every few steps. The old trees in the courtyard poke out from the wall and cast shade. The tall courtyard gate over there has a red lantern rising up to the eaves.
The painted red doors were open, and there was an endless stream of figures carrying gifts and gift lists. Most of them were merchants and gentry in the city.
Chen Yuan glanced at the plaque with the word "Liu's Mansion" hanging on the door, followed the senior brothers and turned to the alley next to it, and entered through the side door. Waiting there was a steward from the mansion, talking to Old Man Zhao,
Let everyone pick up their bags and follow a servant to wait in another courtyard. Chen Yuan was among them.
Following the servant into the side door, it was a large mansion with three entrances and three exits. Under the walls made of blue bricks, there was light moss crawling on the base of the walls. The high eaves of the long alleyway always gave people a somewhat eerie feeling.
Feel.
Because there was a big banquet, many guests brought their children over to play and play together, which dissipated the coldness in the courtyard.
"Brother, are your family members celebrating their birthdays outside? Or are they getting married?" Along the way, the eldest brother envied the grandeur of the courtyard and couldn't help but gossip with the servant leading the way.
The servant turned around and looked at the clothes of several people. Although they were decent, they were also old and not even as good as the clothes of the servants in the mansion. However, his tone was still polite.
"Happy."
The servant didn't speak much, and his expression was gleaming. When he arrived at another courtyard, he pointed to a row of three side rooms. The window lattice was old, and there were holes in many places and there were cobwebs hanging on it. When he opened the door, the dust suddenly started to rustle.
It falls on people's heads.
After brushing off the dust, the servant stepped aside.
"There are few people staying in the west wing. You are only staying for two nights anyway, so just make do with it. Someone will come over later to prepare the bedding."
Looking at the empty room, Chen Yuan probably understood that a few people were going to make the floor. He threw the baggage into the corner and smiled.
“It’s not bad, it can always protect you from wind and rain.”
The eldest brother and the second brother didn't say anything. They shook the dust off their bodies, and it was obvious that they were in a bad mood. Not long after, the steward from the mansion came with Old Man Zhao, and they bowed their hands to each other. The former apologized and left.
After sending away the manager of the Liu Mansion, the old man turned around and saw several apprentices still standing there, urging them impatiently.
"Why are you still standing there in a daze? The second manager of the Liu family just said that it will be lively tonight. Hurry and go to the back to move the belongings in the car and get ready."
Chen Yuan had long been accustomed to the old man's temperament. He smiled and greeted his three senior brothers to go to the back. Leader Zhao was also with him. He was probably ready to lend a hand. Moving things together would be faster.
"Master, if we don't get married in this house, and we don't celebrate birthdays, who will we celebrate?"
What the servant said before was still on the mind of the senior brother. While carrying the food in the car, he asked Old Man Zhao who was guarding them next to him.
The old man glared and shouted: "Stop asking!"
But after saying that, he looked around and saw that no one in the mansion was around, and he came closer again. Chen Yuan and others quickly stopped what they were doing and approached the old man.
Leader Zhao lowered his voice.
"Let me tell you, this is to celebrate the young master outside the party. You guys, if you have nothing to do, don't go to the east chamber and get dirty things."
Originally, he wanted to say that he was suffering from bad luck, but the previous incident of the Wang family being haunted made him think that this young master of his maternal family must have also provoked evil spirits. Otherwise, he would have been sleeping on the bed for several months, relying on some soup every day.
Hanging for one's life.
"I heard about it on the way here, and I just asked the second housekeeper about it. Two months ago, this young master of the Liu family was still alive and kicking, but for some reason, he felt sleepy every day.
After sleeping for a long time in one day, I simply couldn't wake up. The staff anxiously called in all the doctors in the city and looked at them. The prescriptions they prescribed could fill half the room, but I still fell asleep. What do you think?
Is it strange?”
"Could it be haunted again?" San'er's expression suddenly changed, and his body began to tremble.
The second senior brother, who has never been very talkative, couldn't help but say: "Then the Liu family didn't invite the mage to come?"
"Please."
Old Man Zhao stretched his neck and looked around again, and then continued: "We invited a lot of people, even the eminent monks from the nearby temple, and they recited scriptures at home for several days. In addition to donating tens of
Guan Qian, Mr. Liu is still the same, skinny and skinny."
Hiss~
Everyone took a breath of cold air. It was not haunted and it was not a serious illness. He was lying on the bed and sleeping alone. He was really evil. Chen Yuan has been practicing magic in the past few days, and his horizons in this regard are much wider than ordinary people.
'Could it be that I'm under a curse?'
'That's not right. We have invited monks and Taoists. Couldn't anyone see something fishy? Those who can't invite are probably fakes.'
If the crazy old man hadn't brought him into contact with this other world of Taoism, I'm afraid he would have thought that Mr. Liu might have become a vegetative state.
When Chen Yuan mentioned Taoism, he thought of a crazy old man.
'Master, where did he go?'
Thinking about it, he carried the box containing the wooden dolls to the side room. After making preparations, a servant came outside to ask them to have dinner. Before leaving, Chen Yuan opened the box and took out a man with a green robe and gold armor and a heavy face.
I put it on the box.
"Second Master, no one in this world knows about you. You are the only one left. Please protect me and live a long life."
Chen Yuan joked and lit three incense sticks, put them in the incense burner, bowed to the puppet opposite, and then went out. In the room, green smoke floated slowly over the puppet with a beard and heavy dates.
Those red phoenix eyes seemed to be staring at the back of Li Bi as he left the house.
...
It was almost noon, after dinner, Chen Yuan and others were strolling in the side yard. The lively sounds from the front yard could be heard, but they could only look at the corridor. After a while, when a maid passed by, San'er hurriedly stopped her and asked.
Why is the front yard so busy?
The maid rolled her eyes at them and left a message: "Most of the guests over there are distinguished guests from outside the Communist Party of China. You should stop asking." Carrying the plate, she walked towards a gravel path leading to the front yard with lotus steps and swaying her waist.
"Dogs look down on people." The senior brother cursed in a low voice, kicked over the potted plant next to him, and hurriedly squatted down to straighten the broken branches and leaves, for fear that people in the house would see him and ask him to pay for it.
"The seventh-rank officials in front of the Prime Minister's door, these maids and servants were born in the Yuanwai Mansion. They live a hard life easier than us, so naturally they will look down on them." Chen Yuan patted the man's shoulder comfortingly. At this time, there was a commotion there.
Not long after, I saw a group of people leaving the front yard and walking to the corridor, with many people surrounding them.
Um?
Why does that man look familiar? Since Chen Yuan has been practicing, he has sharp ears and eyes. He is more than ten feet away. He concentrates and looks. The bulging belly holding the Taoist robe first comes into view, and then the fat and short figure.
The gray-black Taoist robe was eye-catching. From time to time, he raised his hand to hold the Taoist hat on his head, and said something serious to an old man next to him.
"Hey, look, does that person look familiar?" The senior brother also had sharp eyes and saw a rough outline. San'er patted his thigh and said, "It looks like the Taoist priest who haunted the Wang family."
"What Taoist priest, he is just a fake." The second senior brother crossed his arms, looked at the sky, and looked at Chen Yuan and the others, "Let's go and take a look."
"But Master..."
"Whatever, if we reveal the identity of this fake Taoist priest, we won't let the other members look at him differently!" The senior brother thought clearly, rubbed his hands excitedly, opened his arms to hug San'er and the second junior brother, and motioned to Chen
Kite followed suit.
At this time, there were so many people and no one noticed that the four people followed them to the east wing and stood outside with the group of people in the front yard.
During the commotion, the old man who was probably Mr. Liu was standing by the wall, watching a fat Taoist priest clasping his fingers and moving around the room with his fat lips pursed.
On a carved wooden bed inside, a thin figure was sleeping on the mattress. He must be the young master of the Liu family.
"I understand." The fat Taoist said in a hoarse voice. His fingers shook wildly, and finally he stopped and took out his handkerchief to wipe the sweat stains.
"Taoist priest, how are you?" Liu Yuanwai looked at his bedridden son and hurriedly came over to ask. That was his lifeblood. If anything happened, it would cost him half of his life.
"It doesn't matter."
The fat Taoist waved his hand and put on the handkerchief, raised his face slightly, and said with a smile: "But a kid wanted to find a substitute, so he couldn't do it directly, so he used a trick to make your son unconscious.
I squatted in front of me and waited until I died."
The words that Yin Qingqi said made Mr. Liu stagger out of fright and almost fell over. The old wife beside him started crying and asked the Taoist priest to drive away the ghost.
A group of people outside were even more horrified, whispering outside the door.
"No wonder, I always feel gloomy when I come to Liu's Mansion recently."
"...It's so good, why did you recruit something dirty?"
"After I go home, I have to cleanse myself well. Don't bring ghosts back with me."
Outside the crowd, the three senior brothers squeezed forward, relying on their physical strength. They didn't believe the Taoist priest's lies, especially after the incident with the Wang family, and they didn't believe the fat Taoist priest even more, so they simply started shouting.
"Commissioner, don't believe him!"
Behind them, Chen Yuan looked at the room silently. After practicing, he was quite sensitive to Qi movement, and he clearly felt that there was a hidden magic power flowing in this room.
There is Yin Qi and magic power...
Looking at the sleeping Mr. Liu on the bed, Chen Yuan suddenly remembered that there was a story about a charm in "Miscellaneous Mysteries of Huangchuan".