"People who came back in the middle of the night are quite sensible now." Su Bai shrugged angrily: "What's the point of knocking on the door like this? It doesn't even give Boss Tang face."
Sure enough, a message came from inside: "Sorry, this Taoist temple does not accept female guests, please go back."
"We don't accept female guests, but there are male guests." Cui Ying said with a smile: "Then how about opening the door and letting the male guests in?"
The people inside were speechless for a moment, and it took them a long time to say: "This Taoist temple does not accept outsiders today."
"We won't accept you today, so let's wait until tomorrow to go in," Cui Ying said.
Yue Qing finally laughed out loud. Cui Ying made an OK gesture to Yue Qing. A Taoist is a Taoist. Maybe he has lived in the mountains for a long time and his brain is not very good at twisting things. She once again made the people inside speechless.
This time, the voice inside was much older: "You just go back. Yu Gui needs the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to nourish him. This is the best place for him to be stored. I will not let Yu Gui leave here."
"The aura of heaven and earth?" Cui Ying's mind turned around and she started talking nonsense: "But where is the aura here? Boss Tang, have you seen it?"
Tang Sancheng understood, this Cui Ying was really flexible, and immediately nodded: "That's right, even if Yu Gui doesn't leave here, it's hard to keep his spiritual energy. If the vitality is cut off, the vitality here will have already drifted to other places. This Taoist temple is quite old.
Well, as far as I know, it was destroyed in the 1960s and rebuilt in the 1970s. However, perhaps in order to distinguish it from the original, the mountain gate was specially changed. This is unnecessary. It is not good to walk around in anger!
"
It was silent for a while, and then the door opened again. An old Taoist with a white beard stood behind the door, and a young Taoist stood on each side of the door. They were staring at the door warily, as if what was standing outside the door was not a person, but a beast coming to attack.
Generally speaking, Tang Sancheng raised his hands and said, "Taoist Priest, I'm here again."
"Come in." The white-bearded old man glanced at Yue Qing, who was still lame: "I don't know what you think about taking the injured people up the mountain."
Yue Qing lowered his head and smiled. This is his greatest value at this stage.
The Taoist temple is very clean. No one goes up the mountain to add incense. At least now, there are no traces of the prosperous incense. Su Bai was curious about how these ten people survived. When he saw a vegetable garden in the yard, he immediately understood that they were self-sufficient.
Self-sufficient.
"Come in." The white-bearded old man opened the door and went in: "There is no place to sit, so you can just make do with it."
The old Taoist with a white beard was sitting alone on a worn-out wooden chair. The rest of the people were standing. Su Bai secretly thought that the old man was embarrassed, but he still coughed: "Taoist Master, Yu Gui..."
The old Taoist turned to look at Tang Sancheng: "Did you just say that our mountain gate is wrong?"
Fortunately, this was true, and Tang Sancheng was confident: "The mountain gate is actually not wrong, but there is a quarry on the east side, which hollowed out the original mountain, and the anger has changed."
"Is there a way to resolve it?" the old Taoist priest said, "When you came here yesterday, I discovered that you are no longer an ordinary person."
Just as Tang Sancheng was about to speak, Cui Ying said: "If it is resolved, can you lend us Yugui?"
The old Taoist priest shook his head: "It still doesn't work."
Yingning said aggrievedly: "We will definitely pay it back. Why does the Taoist priest treat us like thieves?"
"It is impossible to have a world without thieves. The most difficult thing to guard against is the human heart. If I trust you today, tomorrow I will be sorry for the person who entrusted us to take care of this piece of jade." The old Taoist said: "If you are willing to do it for me,
Of course it will be good if we change our feng shui. If you don't want to, I won't force you, just please come down the mountain."
Yue Qing suddenly said: "With all due respect, although I am not good at Feng Shui, there is a lot of yin energy in your temple. Have any of you Taoist priests felt cold recently?"
The old Taoist priest said in a deep voice: "We have already set up a execution ground..."
"It's in that well," Yue Qing said. What he was curious about was that Boss Tang should have discovered it when he came yesterday, but he didn't say anything. Strange!
Yue Qing saw a hint of a successful smile on Tang Sancheng's lips, and suddenly realized that Boss Tang was digging the hole deeper. Could it be that he said, "Taoist Master, did anything unusual happen in the Taoist temple last night?"
"
The Taoist priest's expression immediately turned gloomy, and Yue Qing heard Wei Jie say: "There is more than one ghost in that well."
Yue Qing also noticed it, but he just raised his eyes and looked at the Taoist Priest. The Taoist Priest snorted: "Yesterday, two young people were bedridden during the day and walked around like wandering ghosts at night. This situation has a tendency to spread.
Today, three more people of this age also have the same symptoms, and I originally didn’t want to ask for help from people outside the Taoist temple.”
"But now I'm afraid the entire Taoist temple will fall into the same situation." Tang Sancheng said lightly: "It's like an infectious disease."
"What is so powerful?" Yingning asked curiously: "This is a Taoist temple."
"That's a question to ask." Tang Sancheng said: "This is the real reason why Yu Gui cannot be lent, because it can suppress this thing."
Yue Qing completely understood the reason why Tang Sancheng took them up the mountain today. He came today to use everyone's efforts to get rid of the difficult thing and solve the worries for the Taoist temple. This was the reason why he lent Yugui. Boss Tang
Oh, Boss Tang, I didn’t tell them the reason in advance, maybe it was just to let the Taoist priest clarify the truth step by step.
Tang Sancheng saw that the Taoist priest remained silent and continued: "It's strange. When I came yesterday, there were very few people. Today there are even fewer people. Including the Taoist priest, there are only three people in total."
The Taoist priest's hand trembled slightly. He picked it up and said with trembling words: "Because, because except the three of us, everyone else has fallen ill."
Cui Ying understood that this Taoist temple was being slowly devoured by that thing. Tang Sancheng stood up and put his hands behind his back: "Taoist Master, let's make an exchange. Let's get rid of that thing. Yu Gui will lend it to us."
Returning it as soon as it is passed is still the condition I mentioned yesterday. To reassure you, I can exchange something with you and still exchange it back when the time comes. How about it?"
Yue Qing also looked at the Taoist priest's face. The Taoist priest's lips trembled a few times. There were two figures walking back and forth outside, refusing to stay away from the room. He thought they were the two Taoist priests who were standing with the Taoist priest just now.
Chang Shenchen was silent, and a voice from outside rang out: "Taoist Master, please let us go down the mountain. We, we don't want to be like our senior brother."
These words became the final reminder. The Taoist priest finally patted the table gently: "Let's make a deal..."
Tang Sancheng breathed a sigh of relief: "Please tell us the cause and effect."
"This happened about a month ago. A little Taoist priest fell into a well. After I rescued him from the well, things got out of hand. The little Taoist priest is eight years old this year and is an orphan. Last year,
He was abandoned at the gate of the Taoist temple." The old Taoist sighed: "You can leave your child in such a remote place. The parents are determined not to want it. Several Taoist priests in our Taoist temple are all abandoned children."
"Where is this child now?" Perhaps out of sympathy, Yingning was particularly concerned about the fate of this child.
"It's in the woodshed, the locked woodshed." The old Taoist's body softened: "It's been a month."
"What happened to the child after he came out of the well?" Cui Ying asked.
"A child who used to be quiet and obedient suddenly changed. He deliberately knocked over the bowl while eating, uprooted the vegetables planted by his senior brothers, deliberately contradicted him, and his eyes became fierce. After all, we have learned some Taoism.
"Yes, so I immediately exorcised the evil for him." The old Taoist priest said: "But instead of driving away the evil, it became more and more powerful. The first senior brother who came into contact with him was the senior brother who cooked. Because he saw how pitiful he was, he gave it to him.
While feeding him, he was bitten on the back of his hand, and the senior brother was also the second person to fall after him."
"The situation became worse and worse after that." The old Taoist said: "After four people fell down, I decided to use Yu Gui. The result was as you thought, Yu Gui could temporarily suppress the deterioration of their situation. Unfortunately, it was only temporary.
I am a Taoist, and I also know that the effect of a magic weapon is actually limited, and it mainly depends on the skill of the person who uses it. I have tried my best."
"Let's go see these sick people first," Tang Sancheng said, "as soon as possible."
The old Taoist priest opened his heart and immediately led a group of people over. The two young Taoist priests followed cautiously, not daring to come forward. There was a lock on the door of the woodshed, but it was just a look-alike. Tang Sancheng came yesterday.
At that time, I saw that there were very few Taoist priests. I once asked how many Taoist priests there were. The answer was that there were ten, but I only saw five. Today, it was better, there were only three left.
The woodshed opened, and the people inside shocked Ying Ning. She hurriedly hid. The people inside seemed to have had all their flesh and blood sucked away. They were so thin that only a layer of skin remained. Their eyes were sunken, and there were spots on the backs of their hands.
appear, they slump there listlessly in the daylight,
Seeing these dark purple spots, Yue Qing said solemnly: "They are corpse spots."
"That's not right. Corpse spots will appear at least two hours after death. Blood circulation stops after death. The capillaries and small veins in the lower parts of the body are filled with blood. The dark red to dark purple color appears through the skin.
Marks, these marks started out in the shape of clouds and strips, and finally gradually formed into sheets, which are corpse spots. Look at the corpse spots on the backs of their hands now, they have begun to appear in strips. Are they still alive?" Su
Bai felt a chill on his body: "It's so scary."
Tang Sancheng's brows knitted together: "Without further delay, let's release the poison from them first. Yue Qing, do you carry the silver needle with you?"
Yue Qing's backpack was a treasure chest, and he immediately took it out: "I'll come too."
"What are we going to do now?" Cui Ying asked.
"First release the poison in their bodies." Tang Sancheng said, "Yue Qing, Zhengyang Talisman."
"Understood." Yue Qing was about to walk forward when Cui Ying immediately grabbed his arm: "I'll help you."