After Mr. Xue vomited all the green mucus, he fell into a deep sleep. The dark-colored male ghost would say in a daze, "There's a fire..., there's a fire, and people will be burned to death."
Chen Mengsheng saw the green energy on the male ghost's head and knew that he was a ghost who resented death. The ghost's remnant soul was incomplete and it was difficult to find out anything for a while. He took the soul-absorbing bottle and collected the ghost's soul. When he opened the door, he saw Liu Datong with a worried face.
He paced around, looking at Chen Mengsheng expectantly.
"Your mother is fine. She has fallen asleep now." Seeing Liu Datong's suspicious expression, Chen Mengsheng turned around and asked Liu Datong to see for himself. Liu Datong entered the room and saw that Xue's pillow was covered with green mucus.
He took out a new pillow and put it on, and fetched hot water to wipe the corners of his mother's mouth. Xue had been exhausted by the inky black ghost these days, and she didn't even feel...
After Liu Datong finished his work, Chen Mengsheng said: "You are a filial son, and you will be rewarded with good things in the future."
Liu Datong felt relieved when he saw that Mr.
"My Excellency, Chen Mengsheng, your mother was possessed by an evil spirit. She is fine now." Since Chen Mengsheng picked up the tooth just now, he has been thinking that the tooth was burnt black and should belong to that man. It is impossible to let go of the alchemy.
A tooth. What if Yun Qingzi used the art of hating victory to imprison himself? It is unlikely. The only explanation is that the elixir has been transferred by someone...
Chen Mengsheng asked: "Liu Shanren, did your longevity pill be given to you by Taoist Master Yun Qingzi himself or by someone else?"
Liu Datong said: "Every year at 3:00 noon on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, it is the day when Yun Qingzi of the Danding Sect gives longevity pills. On that day, I got up at five o'clock to take a bath and fast. I wanted to get out of the car and take it to the Danding Sect, but it was not there yet.
At noon, I went to Yun Qingzi's place to get the elixirs. The thirty longevity elixirs were still in the temple and had not yet been given out. Yun Qingzi asked me to get one for myself, so I took one and put it in the brocade box.
It’s over.”
Chen Mengsheng frowned and said in confusion: "Since you took it yourself, it is impossible for Yun Qingzi to know which one you will take. It is unreasonable for you to sue Yun Qingzi for trying to harm your mother. After all, thirty longevity pills contain
It was only when your mother was convinced that something happened."
Liu Datong nodded in agreement when Chen Mengsheng said this, but at the birthday banquet that day, it was indeed his mother who took the elixir and became possessed by the evil spirit. He said: "Master Chen, I only know that my mother's body has always been strong, but because of
What's the explanation for why you became like this after taking the longevity pill?"
"Do you still have the brocade box you used to store the elixirs?"
"Yes, I bought it at Xinglong Silk and Satin Shop in Lin'an City. I liked the exquisite workmanship and bought it to hold the Yishou Dan. Why does Master ask this?"
"Go get it and let me see the brocade box." Liu Datong hurried out of the room, and after a while, he held the brocade box in his hand and handed it to Chen Mengsheng.
The brocade box is about an inch square, and is inlaid with gold lace. The cover is embroidered with a picture of pine trees and cranes prolonging life. The embroidery is made using the hanging needle technique, with distinct undulations and pine leaves and crane feathers. It is indeed a workmanship that is so ingenious that you can’t put it down. When you open the brocade box, there is a
The jade is hollowed out to create a picture of the bright moon and the rising tide of the blue sea. The bright moon in the middle of the jade is a white jade the size of a dragon's eye. Above the white jade is a hole half a finger deep, which must be where the longevity pill is stored.
Chen Mengsheng looked at the brocade box inside and out, and sniffed the box with his nose. In addition to the smell of the elixir, there was an additional smell inside the box. It was the smell of corpses that Chen Mengsheng was all too familiar with...
"Liu Datong, has this brocade box of yours been tampered with since it contained longevity pills?"
Liu Datong heard something wrong from Chen Mengsheng's tone. He thought for a while and said: "This brocade box has been kept in my study. Except for the family members, no one else can go in. Master, you mean that there is someone secretly trying to do harm.
My mother?"
Chen Mengsheng nodded and said: "I have carefully inspected this brocade box just now. Apart from the smell of elixirs, there is something else. Someone must have touched this brocade box. For what purpose, I can't.
And I know."
Liu Datong looked at his sleeping mother, his face gradually turned rosy. He cupped his hands and said to Chen Mengsheng: "Master, please come with me to the study." When the two of them left the room, the sky was already turning pale, it was time to get ready.
It's five o'clock, and I heard a rooster crow in the distance and it's time to start the morning...
After walking through the corridor and passing through the courtyard, we came to Liu Datong's study in the inner room. The maids and servants had already gotten up and were busy. There were more than a dozen people making tea, cooking porridge, sweeping the yard, and mopping the house. Liu Datong stopped one of the maids in the study and said: "Little boy
Cui, go and call all the ladies and gentlemen to the study." Seeing the sullen expression on the master's face, the teenage maid hurriedly put down her work and trotted up to the second floor of the inner room.
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Chen Mengsheng followed Liu Datong into the study. Liu Datong said: "Master, what do you want me to do to save my mother? There is no one here, master, please give me any instructions."
Chen Mengsheng laughed hoarsely and said: "Boss Liu, you thought I, Chen Mengsheng, was here to negotiate the price with you?" Liu Datong was a little embarrassed when Chen Mengsheng laughed, but how could anything good happen from the sky in the past?
"What I want you to do is go to the Pingyang Prefecture County Office with me. Today, Yun Qingzi will be escorted to Lin'an. Only you can save him. Now the Danding Sect has been closed down and deported.
Yun Qingzi had a narrow escape from death by going to Dali Temple."
"It is the rule in Dali Temple to kill the authority first. If my mother is indeed fine, I will go with the master to the county government office to exonerate Yun Qingzi." As he spoke, the sound of rings was heard outside the room, and four people
The woman took the girl and the boy into the study.
"Master Chen, here are my wives, concubines, children, and all my family members."
Chen Mengsheng looked at these women in their twenties and thirties and their three children. The youngest child was still in the arms of a woman, but he was only three or four years old. The oldest was a boy who was about fourteen or fifteen years old.
In the middle is a six or seven year old girl.
Liu Datong slapped the brocade box in his hand on the desk and said sternly: "Who has touched this box?"
It is common for a wealthy family to have three wives and four concubines, especially in the Southern Song Dynasty, because of the sudden increase in male casualties due to successive wars. The phenomenon of male superiority to women is even more serious. If a rich family does not have several wives and concubines, you
I'm too embarrassed to go out and say hello to people. But only the original wife can carry three matches, six gifts, and a red sedan from the main door. The other concubines can only be carried in from the side door. Even after the concubines consummate their marriage, they have to wait for the master at night.
You have to get up before dawn to drown your first wife at night. So the fight for favor and power between concubines has become a common thing, and the different methods are shocking...
When Chen Mengsheng saw that the four women were silent, he thought to himself, could there really be someone behind the scenes?
Liu Datong said angrily: "You are all mute? It's in vain that my mother has always treated you well, but you want to secretly harm her. What's the use of keeping you with such evil intentions?"
When the four women saw that Liu Datong was angry, they were all shocked and pale. The thirty-year-old woman standing at the head said: "Master, please calm down, our sisters are all good people, how could they do such an evil thing?"
The elixir in the box is what I asked for for my mother, how dare we touch it?" As soon as this was said, the other three women nodded.
"Huh, if it wasn't you, how could anyone else enter my study?" Liu Datong threw the brocade box on the table at the women on the ground. There was a crisp sound and the jade gall inside the brocade box broke into eight petals.
The hall was silent. The ladies looked at each other with tears in their eyes, and no one dared to speak...
"Brother, brother, the clay balls in that beautiful box are missing?" The six or seven-year-old girl didn't know what happened, so she said this sentence in a daze. Her voice was not loud, but it was like thunder in the hall...
This little girl was born to Liu Datong and his fourth concubine. Her surname is Liu and her given name is Han. Children from wealthy families will be given names after they are born. Children from poor families are better off if someone in the family is literate.
They usually give their children cheap names to make a living, such as stupid names like "Bitch" and "Erbald Man".
Liu Datong was surprised and asked: "Girl, what kind of clay balls are you talking about?" He stepped forward and walked up to his daughter Liu Han with wide eyes. The little girl was so frightened that she hid behind a young woman. The young woman was also frightened.
His face turned pale and he said timidly: "Master, Han'er is still young, so don't scare her."
Liu Datong raised his palm and cursed: "Do you know about this?"
The young woman closed her eyes and hugged the child tightly and said, "I don't know, Yu'er." She didn't realize the slap fell for a long time before she dared to open her eyes, only to see the stranger who had been silent holding Liu Datong's palm.
Chen Mengsheng said: "Boss Liu, let me ask." When Liu Datong saw what Chen Mengsheng said, he stopped talking and stepped aside.
"Little sister, can you tell me where those clay balls come from?"
Liu Han hid behind his mother and cried: "Brother Tianbao made the mud balls."
"What?" Everyone was shocked by Liu Han's words, and all looked at the boy who was fourteen or fifteen years old...
The boy was born to Liu Datong and his first wife Wang. He was Liu Datong's favorite because of his intelligence. When Wang heard that her son had caused the disaster, she grabbed the boy's ear and shouted: "Say
,what happened?"
Liu Tianbao knew that he was in trouble, and now he couldn't escape, so he could only say: "I...I..., I was playing with my sister in the study that day, and my sister saw a beautiful box in the cabinet. We put it in the box
I took out the clay balls to play with, but the ball fell into the pool in the courtyard for some reason. My sister and I searched for it in the pool for a long time but couldn't find it."
"You bastard, if you lose it, tell me, you almost killed your grandma." Liu Datong stamped his feet and cursed.
The half-year-old boy burst into tears when Liu Datong scolded him: "I don't know what kind of meatball it is, and I'm afraid of being scolded by my father. The meatball was red in color, so my sister and I searched many places before we found it.
I found some red mud in front of Guandi Temple, kneaded it into balls and put them back there."
Chen Mengsheng understood that Taoist alchemy requires adding cinnabar, and the elixir made from red boron is either red or black. His master Chi Jingzheng also taught him, but he didn't learn it well. Now he thinks about it and feels extremely ashamed...
Liu Datong did not expect that it would be his son who got into trouble in the end. He bowed to Chen Mengsheng in embarrassment and said: "It's Liu who didn't teach his son well, and he also made Yun Qingzi tired. Master, let's go to the county government to rescue Yun Qingzi."