Chapter 19: It is difficult for eminent monks to subjugate demons
Anyone who often listens to ghost stories must know that the scene Yun Shili is experiencing at this moment is a very common plot.
Generally speaking, the process of this section is: open the door, people enter the room, the lights go out, and the door closes automatically.
But...that's just "generally speaking".
Yun Shili is not an ordinary person, he is a master.
therefore……
It was too late, but it was too soon! But then... at the moment when the lantern was extinguished, Yun Shili, who reacted quickly, threw away the lantern in his hand, followed closely by Chua~chua~chua~ in succession
Here comes three high-speed backflips.
In the blink of an eye, Lord Zanyun exited the room again.
And almost at the same time that he "turned back" into the courtyard, the door of the room was blown by a gust of wind and closed with a "bang".
"Hiss—" Seeing the strange situation in front of him, even Yun Shili couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
After standing still, he took a few steps back, and then stared at the door with fear on his face, thinking to himself: "It's really dangerous... If I move slower, I will be locked in..."
Yun Shili didn't dare to think any more. Just thinking about it made his scalp numb and he was covered in cold sweat.
Even if he was like this, let alone the servants and maids who were watching... When the sinister wind blew up just now, all the servants turned pale with fright, and all of them instinctively stepped back, and some simply sat down with their legs weak.
On the ground.
For a moment, there was deathly silence in the huge west courtyard. Even the singing in the room stopped at some point. Only the whooshing wind was still whistling in the night sky, as if some indescribable creature was making noises in people's ears.
Creepy laughter.
"Oh, Brother Yun, that's okay." After a moment, it was Sun Yixie's somewhat mean voice that broke the silence. As he spoke, he walked up to Yun Shili and reached out to hold him.
The other party's shoulder, "I can only say that you retreated a little too fast, hahahaha..."
Although he was laughing and taunting, it was still quite effective in easing the atmosphere. With his words and smiles, Yun Shili's fear did disappear a bit.
"Yi Xie..." Yun Shili was not angry. He calmed down and asked, "You said you bumped into a demon a few months ago... Can you tell me more about that?"
"What can you do if you elaborate?" Sun Yixie raised his voice and said in a tone like a veteran driver, "Do you think you can deal with the goblin's methods if you know them?"
"What should we do?" Yun Shili asked, "Let's wait until daybreak?"
"What's the point of 'saying more'?" Sun Yixie said, "You have to strike while the iron is hot, and catch ghosts at night!" As he said this, he waved to a servant not far away, "Thirteen,
come here."
Let me explain here, the servants of the Sun Mansion are all named according to numbers, starting with "Sun San", "Sun Si", "Sun Wu", "Sun Liu" and so on... After all, the Sun Mansion is a big house.
, if there are many people, it will be easier to remember this arrangement.
In addition, the number in the servant's name has nothing to do with age or seniority, because occasionally someone will leave here, and when someone leaves, the vacant name will be replaced by a new person.
Seeing this, someone must be asking again, why are there no "Sun Da" and "Sun Er"?
It's very simple. "Sun Da" is the special name of the steward. Whoever becomes a steward is Sun Da. Of course, most of the time, everyone calls him "Steward" and does not call him by his first name; and "Sun Er"
Because the name is homophonic with "grandson", I was called to take advantage of it, and the name alone was "二Ah", which didn't sound good, so I didn't use it.
Right now, the "Sun Shisan" that Sun Yixie calls is the "stupid-tongued but nimble-footed" brother who went to the east wing to invite him and Yun Shili.
"Young... Young Master, what are your orders?" Sun Shisan was also in shock, but he still had to agree when the young master called him.
"Take the housekeeper on your back and go to Lingyin Temple immediately... to bring in reinforcements." Sun Yixie said.
Sun Shisan was also stunned. After hearing this, he actually asked: "Master, wouldn't it be faster for me to go directly by myself? Why are you carrying the housekeeper on his back?"
Sun Yixie laughed at that time: "Ha... you go directly?" He smiled and continued, "Then let me ask you... After a while you went there and knocked on the temple door, and a young monk came out to answer the door. What are you going to do?
Tell someone?"
Sun Shisan replied: "I just said that I am a servant of the Sun Mansion. Now there is a monster in our house. I hope all the masters will come to help me quickly."
"Oh, that's what you said?" Sun Yixie said, "What if the little monk breaks his tongue and leaks this word, and spreads it to ten, ten, and hundreds tomorrow, causing a storm in the whole city?" He paused.
After a pause, "What if... if someone with ulterior motives adds fuel to this matter and lies that all of us in the Sun family are possessed by evil spirits or turned into goblins, will our family still be able to do business?"
"This..." If Sun Shisan could think so far and detailed, he wouldn't be Sun Shisan anymore.
"Okay, okay, you are just dumbfounded. How can the young master be smarter than you? Just memorize it for you. I have so many questions." In the next second, Butler Sun had already walked to Sun Shisan and raised his hand.
He patted the latter's head and said, "If I were ten years younger, I wouldn't need you to carry me on my back."
"Hey, yes." Sun Shisan nodded immediately. He had a very good attitude, but his learning ability was a bit poor.
After Butler Sun taught Sun Shisan a lesson, he immediately turned to Sun Yixie and said, "Young Master, don't worry, I will definitely handle this matter for you."
"Well, let's go." Sun Yixie responded casually and let the two people set off.
After seeing off Sun Shisan and the old housekeeper, Sun Yixie said to Yun Shili: "By the way, Brother Yun, you have to make a trip too."
"Me?" When Yun Shili heard this, he was confused at first, but his mind was also fast, and he understood it on his own after a few seconds, "Oh... you want me to invite Mr. Lu?"
"Exactly." Sun Yixie responded.
"Okay." Yun Shili thought for a moment and then said, "It is indeed the most suitable thing for me to go...then you wait for me."
After that, without waiting for Sun Yixie to say anything else, he put his feet down, turned over and went up to the room. Then, Yun Shili showed off his Qinggong and disappeared into the night.
The reason why Sun Yixie went to ask Magistrate Lu was obvious, because the painting was sent by someone from Magistrate Lu. Now that something strange has happened, it is natural to find the person who gave the painting to ask for details——
Even if the other party has no malicious intentions, you can still get some information.
Of course, the yamen gate is not as good as a temple, so asking servants to go there to invite people is definitely not as efficient as asking Yun Shili to go there. Yun Shili also deduced from this point and guessed what Sun Yixie wanted to do.
To make a long story short, about half an hour later, all the people who came to invite me came.
Magistrate Lu came faster because Yun Shili was good at Qinggong and left quickly. Moreover, Yun Shili didn't go through the main entrance of the government office at all, but directly climbed over the wall and ran to Magistrate Lu's bedroom. In the middle of the night, he took a ghost photo
The door was opened like a door, almost frightening Mr. Lu to death.
Fortunately, Lu Wen's heart was still okay. After hearing what Yun Shili said about the situation, he quickly changed his clothes, woke up the several bearers in the house, and ordered someone to call the arrester Hu.
Qiu, then came over in a sedan chair.
As for Lingyin Temple, the first one in the temple came, with the name "Wo Jian".
As soon as you hear this name, everyone will understand - he must have been picked up by his master in the ditch when he was a child.
All joking aside, this Wojian master's abilities are not bad.
He has just turned forty this year. He has a Chinese character face, a medium build, good facial features, a solemn appearance, and a very profound Buddhist teaching. Originally, at his age, he can become the head of a thousand-year-old temple like Lingyin Temple, which is undoubtedly a success.
A man of both virtue and art...oh no...a man of both virtue and industry.
"Amitabha... The poor monk has seen Almsgiver Sun." As soon as Wojian entered the courtyard, he stepped forward to say hello to Sun Yixie.
In those days, all the famous temples had good relations with the local tycoons, and it was normal for the senior officials of the temples and the squires to know each other.
Monks are human beings after all. As the saying goes, they are short-handed and soft-mouthed. People from wealthy families usually send money and food to your temple. When people ask for help from you, you have to put in some effort.
Therefore, tonight the abbot of Lingyin Temple was also very considerate. As soon as he heard that evil spirits were causing trouble in the Sun family, he sent the chief of the temple to calm things down.
"Master, you're welcome. This way, please." Sun Yixie also immediately stepped forward to greet him, and immediately led the monk to Master Lu, "I'm here to introduce you to Master, this is the newly arrived prefect.
Lord Lu Wenlu.”
"Amitabha... The poor monk didn't know that the magistrate had arrived, so he was rude and rude..." According to the rules, when there are officials present, you must first salute to the officials and then say hello to the host (provided the host is not an official), so even if you lie down before
I don't know Mr. Lu, so he still has to apologize here.
"Master, there is no need to be polite..." However, Lu Wen was a younger brother on this occasion. He did not dare to show off, so he quickly stepped forward to support Wo Jian, said a few polite words, and then retreated to the side.
At this time, the rest of the people in the west courtyard... that is, the servants, maids, including housekeeper Sun... were all invited out; only Sun Yixie, Yun Shili, Lu Wen, and Wojian were left in the courtyard.
There were five of them together with Hu Captor, so they no longer had to hide their words and could just say whatever they wanted.
After a brief greeting, Sun Yixie began to tell Wojian about the current situation.
In fact, he didn't have much to say. Although Sun Yixie and Yun Shili had asked Lu Wen a few questions before Wojian came, Lu Wen only knew that the painting was made by the then young master Han Yu when he was young.
They didn't know anything at all; there were no phones or anything in those days, so it was impossible to contact Mr. Han right away, so they could only figure it out on their own.
"Master, the situation is like this." Not long after, Sun Yixie had already roughly explained the origin of the portrait, the strange singing voice, and what the old housekeeper and Yun Shili had seen, and then said, "
The abbot sent you alone, which means you must be strong, so there should be no problem in leaving it to you, right?"
After listening to this, Wo Jian chewed his teeth and said in his heart: "Donor Sun, you want me to die. Is there really a goblin here?"
This unfolding was indeed beyond his expectation, or perhaps beyond the expectation of the abbot who sent him here.
There is no problem for the monks in Lingyin Temple to recite sutras for salvation, but when it comes to "catching monsters and catching ghosts"... not everyone is the reincarnation of the dragon-subduing Arhat. How can there be so many monks who know magic?
Previously, when the abbot heard Butler Sun saying that the Sun Mansion was "troubled by goblins," he assumed that someone was hallucinating, so he sent Wo Jian over, preparing to trick him into using the trick of "pacifying the mentally ill". How could he know that it was someone who was having hallucinations?
Is there really something evil at work?
"Uh... Almsgiver Sun, I'm telling you the truth..." In desperation, Master Wojian began to lie, "The poor monk was in a hurry when he came just now and forgot to bring the magic weapon for catching monsters. Otherwise...
…The poor monk is going back to get it now?”
His excuse is not a bad one. If you really want him to go back, he can report it to the abbot and think of a way. If it doesn't work, just delay it a little longer until dawn.
"Huh?" Sun Yixi is such a keen person. He can tell that the other person is lying just by smelling it. "Master..." He immediately scanned Wojian's whole body with his little eyes.
, "Didn't you come here with Buddhist beads and wooden fish? Do you also need any other magical weapons?" At this point, he paused for a moment, raised his voice, and said in a strange tone, "I heard that Hai Ye of Jinshan Temple
~You can subdue demons with your fists and kicks, and I didn’t say what magic weapon you need~”
"Master Hai?" Wojian only knew that there was once a Daoji monk who was called "Lohan Master" by the people, but he had never heard of other monks calling him "Master". He also looked puzzled, "This... poor monk
I also went to Jinshan Temple to place orders, but I didn’t remember that there was an eminent monk with the word "Hai" in his title there. I wonder which one the donor Sun was talking about?"
Hearing his question, Yun Shili on the side almost laughed out loud. He laughed secretly in his heart and said: "Yes, this monk has never heard of "The Legend of White Snake"."
"Just... that one..." On the other side, it was the editor anyway, so Sun Yixie also opened his mouth, "He's in his early twenties, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, a wide nose, a body full of tendons, and two hairtail tattoos on his back...
"
This time, not only Wojian was dumbfounded, but Yun Shili was also dumbfounded. Both of them had questions in their heads, wondering, are you talking about a monk or a gangster?
But Wojian couldn't directly say that he didn't believe it, so he could only reply: "Well... I'm sorry for my poor eyesight... I've never seen this master." He paused, "It's true that the poor monk didn't bring any magic weapon at the moment.
,There is nothing you can do..."
They are still arguing with each other in this courtyard, and the goblin in that room can no longer listen to them.
At this moment, a soul-stirring shout suddenly came from the storage room, like an echo in an empty valley: "If you don't dare to come in, then I'll come out!"
It was a woman's voice, and her tone was full of resentment. It would make one's hair stand on end if she heard it during the day, let alone hearing it in such an environment in the middle of the night.
As soon as he finished speaking, the door of the storage room opened by itself again, and a strong wind blew in the courtyard again, causing all the lanterns hanging on the corridor to sway and go out one by one...
The moon in the sky happened to be obscured by dark clouds at this moment.
In the blink of an eye, the courtyard, which was quite bright just now, was completely shrouded in darkness.
And in the darkness, there was suddenly another sound of paper shaking.
Immediately afterwards, there was a painting, suspended like this, floating faintly out of the room.