Chapter 4: Snap and tear
Soon arrived at Hanjin City.
Chen Xiu was also worried that he would encounter monsters on the road, but fortunately he didn't.
After entering the city, Chen Xiu's hanging heart also let go.
This Hanjin City has monks from the Hanging Mirror Division sitting in town, and ordinary monsters dare not do it.
Today's world is under the rule of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
The Great Zhou court had an institution dedicated to dealing with demons and monsters, called the Hanging Mirror Division.
It is said that the Hanging Mirror Division has a treasure to shine on the demon mirror, any monster will show its original form in front of the mirror, and the immortal cultivators want to join the Hanging Mirror Division, they have to pass the level of the demon mirror, hence the name.
Hanjin City is surrounded by mountains and rivers, south of the Han River, there is a small hill in the north of the city, originally called Rat Mountain, later it was too good to hear, changed to Zishen Mountain, but the locals still call it Rat Mountain.
Yunze Academy is at the foot of Rat Mountain.
Although Yunze Academy is outside the city, it is located in the scenic spot, quite prosperous, with the academy as the center to form a small commercial street, the sedan chair carriage flows by, and on the way I also met a group of women dressed in flowers, staring at Chen Xiu for a while, and suddenly laughed and covered their faces and ran away.
"The sister in red is so good-looking...... Shu Yan said reluctantly.
"If you like it, chase it. Chen Xiudao.
"How can you chase them? I don't know anyone. Shuyan said embarrassedly.
"Girls like straightforward men, you just say it, I have a crush on you, and she naturally agreed. Chen Xiudao.
"Is this okay?" Shuyan said in disbelief.
"Of course, I succeeded every time. Chen Xiudao.
Shu Yan glanced at Chen Xiu's face and seemed to understand something, and then sighed faintly.
......
The gate of Yunze Academy is a single door with flying eaves, and the banner of "Yunze Academy" is hung high on the door, stepping into the door, passing the Xianxian Academy, Yushu Pavilion, and Minglun Hall, and then coming to the student dormitory in the backyard.
A row of dormitories is built next to Rat Mountain, and out of the back room, there is a winding mountain road leading to the top of the mountain.
Shuyan led Chen Xiu through a long corridor and came to a unique courtyard.
Chen Xiu thought to himself, the other students all slept in the Chase shop, and this customer lived alone in a small courtyard, so it seemed that his status was not low.
"My young master is filial piety, and his treatment is different from that of ordinary students. Shuyan said proudly.
Every year, local states and counties will recommend talents to the imperial court, which is called filial piety.
Xiaolian is an alternate official, so it's no wonder that Shuyan is proud.
As soon as I entered the door, I saw a scholar standing in the courtyard, staring at a bare rock wall in the northwest corner.
"Young Master, I invited Daoist Chen of Qingyun Temple!" Shu Yan said.
"Okay, in the long run, Xiaosheng has never been far away to meet ......"
The scholar turned his head and only said half a sentence, and when he saw Chen Xiu, he was stunned.
Chen Xiu saw that his hair was in a messy bun, his eyes were bloodshot, and he looked like he hadn't slept well.
This person should be Zheng Haowen, the patron of this mission.
"Shuyan, I want you to invite Daoist Cangsong, who do you invite to ?!!" Zheng Hao asked angrily.
Shuyan's head shrank, and he didn't know how to respond for a while.
"In Xia Chen Xiu, the family teacher is Cangsong Zhenren, I already know what happened to Zheng Gongzi, the family teacher sent me here, so I am naturally sure to handle this matter, and I will bother Zheng Gongzi here. Chen Xiu stepped forward.
Zheng Haowen was originally angry, but after seeing Chen Xiu's face clearly, he sighed in his heart, thinking to himself, this person has a beautiful appearance, and he is by no means vulgar, maybe he has some real skills.
"It turned out to be a high-ranking disciple of Cangsong Zhenren, and at first glance, he was a true Taoist! I was disturbed by ghosts and didn't sleep all night, so I was a little out of shape, so I was offended a lot, and I asked Chen Daochang to forgive me. Zheng Hao asked.
"It's okay, the sooner the exorcism is done, the better, let's start here, listen to the book Yan, this matter is caused by a yellow talisman?" Chen Xiu said.
"It's this mountain wall that is causing trouble!" Zheng Hao asked, pointing to the rock wall in the northwest corner of the courtyard.
Chen Xiu looked over and saw that the rock wall was part of the Rat Mountain massive, and the surface was bare, so he couldn't see anything abnormal.
"I can't get used to sleeping in a townhouse, so I asked the mountain chief for this small courtyard, and as soon as I moved in yesterday, Shuyan called me, young master, what happened to the kidney?" Zheng Hao asked and continued.
"I said what's going on, Shuyan pointed to the mountain wall, I looked at it! It turned out that there was a yellow rune paper pasted on this mountain wall, and I just moved to a new place when I encountered this strange thing, do you say bad luck or not?"
"I said, Shuyan, you tore this talisman paper. ”
"Shu Yan said, the rune paper is to ward off evil spirits, it is not good to tear it, I said that this rune paper is useless, Shuyan said it is useful, I said it is useless, he said it is useful. ”
"I'm not convinced, I have to tear it, I tear it with a snap, it's very fast, and then ......"
When Zheng Hao asked this, his face was extremely gloomy, and he seemed to have thought of something extremely terrifying.
"Then what?" said Chen Xiu.
"After tearing up, there was no abnormality, but at night, I got up to relieve myself, opened the door and saw a cloaked figure in the yard, standing there motionless, I was so frightened that the urine also retracted, closed the door and did not dare to go out, nested in the bed and could not sleep, in the second half of the night, I heard a very miserable cry outside, I looked through the crack in the window, the figure was still in the yard, was scratching the tree with my nails, I did not dare to come out, with tables and chairs to block the doors and windows, until dawn, the book Yan called the door outside, I dared to go out. ”
Zheng Haowen stroked his chest, and his heart palpitated.
"Young master, you really shouldn't tear that rune paper. Shuyan sighed.
"It's all torn, what else is there to say. Zheng Hao asked and looked at Chen Xiu again: "Daochang Chen, did you say that this rune paper suppressed something bad, and after I tore it, I summoned that thing." ”
Chen Xiu walked to the big tree, stared at the dense nail scratches on the bark thoughtfully, shook his head and said:
"I didn't feel the ghost. ”
A cultivator who has cultivated true qi has a perception far better than ordinary people, and if there is a ghost or evil in close proximity, he can easily detect it, which is also the reason why ghosts cannot hide from the cultivator's eyes.
According to Zheng Haowen, the ghost thing stayed in the courtyard for a night, and even if he left, he should still have the breath of the ghost thing, but Chen Xiu didn't feel any ghost thing's breath.
"Could it be a demon?" Shuyan interjected.
"That must be a monster!" Zheng Hao asked, thinking back to the long-haired monster, and shuddering: "Moreover, quite a demon!"
"It's also possible. ”
Chen Xiu nodded slightly, the aura of the demons was even more difficult to detect, and after some demons transformed into humans, even the monks could not distinguish them.
Chen Xiu thought for a moment and said in a deep voice:
"Since this monster is infested at night, please prepare a quiet room for me to wait for. ”
"Chen Daochang rested in my bedroom, the other rooms are too rough, I am afraid that the hospitality will not be good. Zheng Hao asked.
At that moment, enter Zheng Haowen's bedroom.
It's early winter, and it's cold, but it's warm in the bedroom, with a beautiful charcoal stove in the middle and cleverly designed copper pipes sticking out of the outside to vent the exhaust fumes.
The furnishings in the bedroom are brilliant, the couch chairs are covered with gorgeous brocade, and the pen inkstone on the desk is also a good Xuan pen and Chengni inkstone, and the price of this inkstone alone can buy Qingyunguan.
Since Chen Xiu came to this world, it was the first time he had seen such a rich and comfortable place.