It all started that night three days ago.

That night, Qin Gongzi returned home from entertainment, tired and drunk, and was about to rest, when he suddenly heard a knock on the door.

Someone was slapping the gate of the Qin Mansion hard.

The servant guarding the courtyard asked in a daze, and got up and carried the lantern to inspect it. Just as he was about to ask, the knocker slammed the door in a frenzy as if he had suddenly gone mad.

It's really a bump. The latch creaked, and on the door panel, it seemed as if there were ten steel claws scratching at the same time.

The movement was so great that in a short time the courtyard was filled with awakened servants. A group of people looked at each other with oil lamps, sticks, and lanterns, and finally waited for the owner, who was wearing only a cloak and carrying a sword, into the courtyard.

Qin Gongzi pulled out his sword and shouted, "What person!"

When he landed, the claws scratched the door louder.

A domestic servant nestled in the corner with a broom, and Qin Gongzi pointed at him, "You climb up and look outside." ”

The servant didn't dare to disobey, his face was pale, and while crawling, he looked back at Qin Gongzi in embarrassment, only to be urged impatiently.

Finally, he trembled and put his hands on the eaves, probed, and after only one glance, he fell headfirst down with a "bang".

Qin Gongzi said: "He said that the one who knocked on the door was a monster in a shroud. Covered in blood, not a living man. ”

Hearing this, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji glanced at each other.

Lan Sichai said, "Gongzi Qin, don't you have a more detailed description?"

Qin Gongzi is not a person from the Xuanmen, and he found the right person by mistake, but he only knew that the few people in front of him were people in this way, and he didn't know his identity and name. But Lan Wangji's ice and snow posture is extraordinary, Wei Wuxian's expression is as agile as if he is a bamboo in his chest, although Lan Sichai is young, his every move is quite graceful, he does not dare to slack off, and said: "No, that stupid servant is timid, I was stunned when I saw it, I pinched him for a long time before I woke him up, do you still expect him to see clearly and carefully." ”

Wei Wuxian said, "Let me ask." ”

Qin Gongzi said, "Excuse me." ”

Wei Wuxian said, "Gongzi Qin, at that time, you only let others see it, didn't you watch it yourself?"

"Nope. ”

"It's a pity. ”

"What's the pity?"

Wei Wuxian said, "According to what you said, the one who came to the door of your house is a murderous corpse. Nine times out of ten, the murderous corpse came to someone. If you look at it, you might find that it's an old acquaintance. ”

Qin Gongzi said: "Maybe I am the eleventual twelve." Besides, even if it's for someone, it doesn't have to be me. ”

Wei Wuxian nodded and smiled, "Okay." ”

Qin Gongzi continued: "That thing has been grabbing the door until dawn, and when I go out to see it in the early morning, the gate of my house has been changed beyond recognition." ”

Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji walked around the door.

Lan Si chased after them, observing carefully. I saw that on the gate of the Qin Mansion, there were hundreds of terrible scratches all over the place, and Sen Senran was a group of five, a few feet long, and a few inches short, which was really unrecognizable.

Although there must be traces of human hands, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a living person's fingernails can scratch it.

Qin Gongzi said: "To get back to the point, the two sons are from the Xuanmen, can there be a way to expel this evil thing?"

Wei Wuxian said, "No need. ”

Lan Sichai was quite strange, but he didn't say much. Qin Gongzi also felt strange, and asked rhetorically, "Don't you need it?"

Wei Wuxian affirmed, "No need.

"The so-called 'house', from the moment it is completed and owned, has the mission of sheltering from the wind and rain and defending against foreign objects. The door of the house is a natural barrier, which can not only block people, but also prevent non-people.

"Since you are the ruler of this house, then as long as you do not open your mouth or invite evil spirits to come in, they cannot invade. Judging from the evil aura remaining on this gate, the one who found Gongzi's mansion is not a fierce ghost that is rare in a hundred years, and the first layer of doors is enough to resist. ”

Qin Gongzi was skeptical: "Is it really so powerful?"

Lan Wangji said: "Seriously. ”

Wei Wuxian stepped on the threshold again and said, "Seriously." Moreover, in fact, the threshold is also a barrier. Unless this corpse has amazing leg strength before it is alive and jumps three feet high, otherwise, even if the door is wide open, it will not be able to jump in. ”

Qin Gongzi was still not at ease, and said, "Is there nothing else I need to buy?" such as the town house talisman seal, the sword to ward off evil spirits, and the like. In the next wish to pay a lot of money, money is not an issue. ”

Lan Wangji said: "Change the latch with a new door." ”

“……”

Seeing that Qin Gongzi looked incredulous, as if he felt that this proposal was perfunctory, Wei Wuxian said: "It's up to you whether to change it or not, Qin Gongzi will do it himself." If you have any follow-up, please feel free to contact us again. ”

Leaving the Qin Mansion, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji walked side by side for a while, strolling around each other, and accommodating each other without saying a word.

Now the two of them can be regarded as semi-reclusive, if there is nothing important, they will wander aimlessly outside, at most for a month and a half, or as little as three days and two days. Wei Wuxian used to hear about Lan Wangji's name of "coming out in trouble", and he didn't feel anything embarrassed, but now he followed Lan Wangji to practice it himself, but he found that it was really abrasive. It's not that it's difficult, it's because it's too easy. He used to hunt the night before, and he liked to pick up those strange places, all kinds of adventures, and naturally turned around and twisted and turned. But Lan Wangji didn't pick and choose, and he did what he wanted, so it was inevitable that he would sometimes encounter some night hunting targets that were not common to Wei Wuxian. For example, this murderous corpse came to the door this time, compared to what Wei Wuxian had hunted in the past, it was really not interesting. If you teach others to look at it, most of them also think that it is overkill and not worth a line.

However, because it is with Lan Wangji, even if the event itself is not so attractive, it is easy to accompany each other.

Lan Sichai led the little apple and followed silently, after thinking about it again and again, he still couldn't help but say: "Hanguangjun, Senior Wei, is it okay for Gongzi Qin's family to leave it like this?"

Lan Wangji said: "Don't worry. ”

Wei Wuxian smiled: "Didn't you think I was talking nonsense just now?"

Lan Sichai hurriedly said: "How can there be! cough, Sichai didn't mean that. I want to say that although the door of the house does have the effect of warding off evil spirits, but the door is about to fall apart, and not a single talisman will be given, will it really be fine?"

Wei Wuxian said strangely, "Do you need to say this?"

Lan Sichai: "Oh......"

Wei Wuxian: "Of course there will be something. “

Lan Sichai: "Huh?

Wei Wuxian said, "Because, that Qin Gongzi lied. ”

Blue forgets the shallow jaw of the head. Lan Sichai was slightly stunned: "How did Senior Wei see it?"

Wei Wuxian said: "I only saw this Qin Gongzi side, and I don't dare to say that I can assert eight or nine times out of ten, but this person ......."

Lan Wangji said: "Sex is stubborn and cold. ”

Wei Wuxian let out an "um" and said, "Almost, in short, it's not a timid person." It was a strange night, but it wasn't so weird as he described it that it would scare people out of their minds, and it was hard for him to climb up the eaves to look outside?"

Lan Si said: "But he insisted that he didn't even look at ......"

Wei Wuxian said, "Yes." If the door of your house is slammed in the middle of the night, everyone is curious, and you are not small, so it is normal for you to take a sneak peek. Isn't it strange that you haven't seen it?"

Lan Wangji said: "I agree with it all." ”

Wei Wuxian said, "Then what do you see is slightly the same!"

At the end, he smiled again, touched his chin and said, "Moreover, the scratches left by the murderous corpse on the door are scary to look at, but the evil spirit and blood are not heavy, and it definitely did not come to the door to kill people and take revenge, I can be sure of this." So what the hell is going on, we have to see again. ”

Lan Si chased: "In that case, why didn't Senior Wei directly summon the murderous corpse and find out as soon as he asked?"

"Not called. ”

"Huh?"

Wei Wuxian said confidently: "Draw a Yin Summoning Banner without blood? I'm weak." ”

Lan Sichai thought that he was really too lazy to bleed, and said, "Senior Wei, you can use my blood." ”

Who knows, Wei Wuxian laughed out loud with a "poof".

He said: "Sichai, in fact, the problem is not this. We're taking you out to practice this time, aren't we?"

Lan Sichai was stunned for a moment, and Wei Wuxian said again: "Of course I can summon the murderous corpse and let it roll directly." But can you?"

Hearing this, Lan Sichai immediately understood.

After a series of events, he and the juniors of the Gusu Lan clan relied a little too much on Wei Wuxian. Immediately called, the corpse is the fastest method, but not everyone can use it, and he does not cultivate the ghost way, therefore, for him, this method is not suitable for too much study, if this time Wei Wuxian also uses the old method he is good at to get through, what kind of experience.

This time, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji were going to take him down the ordinary doorway and see how this matter could be resolved according to the ordinary way.

Lan Si chased: "So, what Hanguangjun and Senior Wei mean is that this Qin Gongzi is unwilling to tell the truth, so just ignore him and scare him?"

Wei Wuxian said, "Yes." Look, the latch will last two days at most. Your Hanguangjun asked him to change to a new one, this is a very real conscience suggestion, so Qin Gongzi doesn't care about it. But if he really concealed anything important, even if he changed ten new latches, it would be useless. Sooner or later, it will come back again. ”

Who knows, the latch didn't last all night. On the second day, Qin Gongzi went to visit Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji with a black face.

The Xuanmen family has a lot of foreign products in various places, and after the three of them came, they rested in the elegant small building called Xiaozhuxuan under the Gusu Lan family. Qin Gongzi went very early, and just happened to bump into Lan Si chasing a reins and pulling a donkey. Poor Lan Sichai tried very hard to pull out the little apple that was grinding his teeth on the bamboo, and when he turned around, he saw the corner of Qin Gongzi's mouth twitching at him, his face was slightly red, he threw away the rope, and invited Qin Gongzi into the house.

He cautiously knocked on the bedroom of the two seniors, and saw that the neatly dressed Lan Wangji opened the door silently, shook his head, and knew that Senior Wei would not be able to get up for a while. Lan Sichai was very embarrassed, and in the end, he still stubbornly committed the family rule of "not talking", and lied to Qin Gongzi that his predecessor was still resting because he was ill. Otherwise, you can't say the truth like "Senior Wei wants to sleep, Hanguangjun lets you wait by yourself......

Wei Wuxian slept until three o'clock in the morning, and was rubbed by Lan Wangji thousands of times, so he barely managed to get up, and he wore the wrong middle coat of Lan Wangji in the bathroom with his eyes closed, and the sleeves under his coat grew a few inches plainly, and rolled up several rolls, which was really very unusual. Fortunately, Qin Gongzi didn't have time to pay attention to him like he didn't talk like a word, so he dragged the three of them away.

The door of Qin's mansion was closed, and Qin Gongzi went up and buckled the door knocker to avoid greetings, and said: "After being instructed by the two immortals yesterday, I was a little relieved, but I still had no intention of sleeping. "Demon Dao Ancestor

Soon, a servant opened the door and welcomed the trio into the courtyard. As soon as he stepped down the stairs, Wei Wuxian was slightly stunned.

I saw large bright red footprints scattered in the courtyard, which was shocking.

Qin Gongzi said gloomily: "Last night, that thing came again. It was scratching and banging outside the gate, arguing for nearly half an hour. I was getting upset by it, when I heard a click, and the latch was broken. ”

The moment he heard the sound of the door latch breaking, the hairs on Qin Gongzi's back stood upside down.

He grabbed the door and peeked through the crack in the wooden door of the lobby.

The moonlight was dim, and I saw the gate open from a distance, and there was a figure standing in front of the gate of the Qin Mansion, like a wooden stake with a spring on the soles of his feet, and he was playing at the door.

It's been playing for a long time, and it hasn't bounced in yet. Qin Gongzi breathed a sigh of relief, and his heart said that this thing was really as Wei Wuxian said in the daytime, his muscles and veins were blocked, his body was stiff, his legs could not be bent, and he could not jump from the high threshold of his own door.

However, before he could breathe this breath, he saw the figure that was jumping up and down the doorway, and leaped into the sky—and at once it jumped into the gate!

Qin Gongzi turned around abruptly, his back against the door.

The evil creature went over the gate and into the courtyard, and jumped straight forward. Plop, p

Qin Gongzi felt the wooden door behind him shrug, and was shocked to realize that the thing was only separated from him by one door, so he hurriedly ran away.

Qin Gongzi said: "The shadow of the evil thing was shot by the moonlight, and it was reflected on the paper window. It couldn't get in, and it circled the hall back and forth, left and right. The footprints in this courtyard are all left by it! Two sons, it's not that I don't believe your words, but you clearly said that this thing can't jump in. ”

Wei Wuxian stepped on the threshold and said, "Young Master Qin, generally speaking, a rigid corpse is indeed impossible to jump in. The dead are not alive and bloody, and naturally they cannot bend their feet and knees. You can take this and ask the Xianmen family stationed in the town anywhere, and the other party will tell you so. ”

Qin Gongzi opened his hands, as if to show him the bright red footprints all over the courtyard, and said, "Then how should this be explained?"

Wei Wuxian said: "It can only be explained that this thing that entered the door of your house is not ordinary." Qin Gongzi, you might as well think about it, you peeked at the murderous corpse last night, did you find anything wrong?"

Qin Gongzi's face was ugly and he thought for a while before he said, "Speaking of which, that thing's posture when it jumped up was a little weird. ”

Wei Wuxian asked, "What's the weird method?"

Qin Gongzi said: "It seems to be ......"

On the side, Lan Wangji had already walked around the courtyard, returned to Wei Wuxian's side, and said lightly, "Limp." ”

Qin Gongzi immediately said, "Not bad!"

Immediately asked, "How did this son know?"

Lan Sichai was also thinking about this question in his heart, but because he had always known that Hanguangjun knew everything, he was just curious, and he had no doubts, waiting for an answer.

Lan Wangji said: "Footprints on the ground." ”

Wei Wuxian leaned down, and Lan Sichai also squatted down with him, carefully examining those footprints. Wei Wuxian looked at it twice, then looked up and said to Lan Wangji, "One-legged corpse?"

Lan Wangji nodded. Wei Wuxian stood up and said, "No wonder I was able to jump over." The footprints were all one deep and one shallow, and the walking corpse had a broken leg. ”

He thought for a moment and said, "Do you think it was broken before life or after death?"

Lan Wangji said: "Before death." "Luoxia

Wei Wuxian said, "Hmm. After death, it will not affect anything broken on the body. ”

They communicated without any obstacles, but Lan Sichai couldn't keep up, so he had to stop, and hurriedly said: "Wait, Hanguangjun, Senior Wei, let me sort it out, you are talking about this murderous corpse, it broke one leg and limped, and because of this, it was more ...... than two legs Uh, able-bodied murderous corpses, is it easier to jump over this high threshold?"

Qin Gongzi was obviously also thinking about this question, and said, "I heard me right, right?"

Lan Wangji said: "I heard you right. ”

Qin Gongzi looked ridiculous: "Aren't you saying that a person with one leg runs faster than a two-legged person?"

The two of them were discussing intently, and Wei Wuxian took a moment to smile at him, "You want to go wrong." But if I say that, maybe you get the idea. Some people are blind in one eye, so they redouble their love for the only one left, so that although they are blind in one eye, their eyesight is not necessarily worse than that of a person with two eyes, and it may even be better. In the same way, if a person loses his left hand and can only use his right hand, then in the long run, his right hand may become so powerful that one hand can withstand twice the strength of an ordinary person......"

Lan Sichai really understood: "And this murderous corpse, because it broke a leg before it died, and jumped on one leg all the year round after death, so its bounce power is stronger than that of a two-legged walking corpse?"

Wei Wuxian said happily, "Exactly. ”

Lan Sichai found it interesting and secretly wrote it down. Qin Gongzi said irritably: "Blame me for having a quarrel with my inside-in-law yesterday, and it took too late to deal with family affairs, so I didn't have time to rebuild the gate." I'm going to strengthen it now, and I have to make this door solid into an iron bucket!"

However, Lan Wangji shook his head and said, "It's useless. 'No precedent'. ”

Qin Gongzi was shocked, feeling that it was not a good word, and said, "What does this 'precedent cannot be opened' mean?"

Wei Wuxian said, "What he said was our jargon. It refers to the evil spirits, some defensive means can only be used once, and the second time will not work. If you had rebuilt it yesterday, it would have been able to hold on for a while, but as long as you let it through the gate once, it would be unimpeded in the future. ”

Qin Gongzi was shocked and remorseful: "Then, what should I do?"

Lan Wangji said: "Just sit down." ”

Wei Wuxian said, "Don't panic. You can enter the gate, but you can't step through the second door. Your mansion is like a city, and now only the first gate has been breached, and there are two more to follow. ”

"And two, which two?"

Lan Wangji said: "The door of gathering guests, the door of privacy." ”

Wei Wuxian said: "Your lobby, your bedroom." ”

While talking, the group had already passed the courtyard, walked into the lobby and sat down, but no one served tea for a long time, and the servants didn't know where to run. After getting angry, Qin Gongzi's face was a little pale, and he was unwilling: "Can't you give me some charms to suppress it?" ”

But he didn't know that these people went out to hunt at night, and they didn't take any remuneration in their eyes. Wei Wuxian said, "That depends on how you want to suppress it. ”

"How?"

Wei Wuxian began.

He said: "Suppression, it is a symptom but not a root cause. If you just want the evil to be unable to enter the door, then it's okay to say, Half Moon changes a talisman seal, but it can still come to your house to shoot the door shavings, I estimate that your door will be more diligent than the talisman seal at that time. If you want to keep the evil at bay, you'll have to change it every seven days, and these sigils are complicated and expensive to draw. And the longer the repression, the greater its resentment......"

Lan Wangji sat quietly and listened to Wei Wuxian's nonsense without saying a word.

It is true that the suppression is not a good strategy after all, but the production and use of the suppression charm and the repulsion charm are not as laborious and cumbersome as Wei Wuxian said. But when it comes to this, no one can be more penetrating than Wei Wuxian's mouth, and even Lan Sichai, who is excellent in his homework, was stunned when he heard it, and he almost believed it. Qin Gongzi heard him say that it was very troublesome, as if he chose to suppress it, he would have endless troubles, and couldn't help muttering in his heart, constantly looking at Lan Wangji, who was sitting on the side and drinking tea, but because Lan Wangji never had a look of "he was alarmist" on his face, he couldn't help but believe it, so he had to say: "There is no way to do it once and for all?!"

Wei Wuxian's words changed sharply and said, "Whether you can or not, it's up to you, Qin Gongzi." ”

Qin Gongzi said: "Why do you look at me?"

Wei Wuxian said, "I can make a talisman specifically for you, but it depends on whether you are willing to answer my question truthfully." ”

"What's the problem?"

Wei Wuxian said, "Did you know this murderous corpse before it was alive?"

After being silent for a long time, Qin Gongzi finally said, "Yes." ”