Chapter 103: San'in Tao Mansion
"What do you mean by that?" Tao Xin came to the heart and said, how could there be no good and dignified. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"It's okay to tell you, it's just that some words aren't enough to be human. Our old Wang family is a small business, just supporting the family, and we don't want to cause family trouble. So girl, if the old man tells you, can you promise the old man to forget the old man and the people in this store, and not to come to the store again, and not to mention it to anyone other than you? β
Tao Xin nodded, she is not one of those monks who likes to kill people and seize treasures, this kind of morality exists.
The old man breathed a sigh of relief and said: "The cultivator promises, although the girl is young, but she is an understanding person, the old man will believe you." In this way, Lao Yu told the girl some news that Lao Yu knew. β
He paused and said, "This kind of grassland was originally guarded by several major families in Jincheng, and some of it was sold to the guests in need every year. But about two years ago, after the accident of the Tao family, the horseear grass dried up and died in patches, and now there is no living horseear grass in the steep wall of the mountain. We have sent many herbalists to try to revive the horseear grass, but to no avail. Not only that, but even the original stock of horsehair in our hands has dried up and turned into powder, losing its medicinal properties, and it is completely unusable. β
Elder Wang frowned, "We haven't been able to find a reason, and now we won't be looking for any reason." In the past few years, Jincheng has had frequent accidents, and the incident of horseear grass is not the first or the last. Guest, see if you are not from Jincheng, or don't stay in this place. β
Wang Lao told him about the horseear grass, and Tao Xinlai left a few fine spirit stones in order to express his gratitude. Wang Lao insisted that he would not want it, and he must return it to Tao Xinlai, Tao Xinlai thought of Wang Lao's request before, so he took back the spirit stone, leaving a fire attack rune seal and a defensive rune seal.
This time, Wang Lao accepted it after two resignations, so Tao Xin got up and left without staying.
After Tao Xin came and left, Wang Lao sat down on the table, and he was a little stunned.
The shopkeeper Wang said with some uneasiness: "Elder Wang, we ......"
Wang Lao shook his hand and pressed his hand, and said, "Fortunately, most of the goods have been transferred, you quickly pack up your things, we will leave Jincheng today and never come back." β
Shopkeeper Wang nodded cautiously and turned to leave. Wang Lao also hurried home to ask his wife and children to pack up some simple things, dispatch everything in the carriage that had been arranged long ago, and only said that he was going to visit relatives, so he took his wife and children to go to the king shopkeeper first, and ordered other relatives to evacuate Jincheng in batches.
Tao Xin came to keep his promise, and then he didn't come to this store again, so he didn't know about them quietly leaving Jincheng, but this matter had little to do with her, Wang Lao wanted to leave for a long time, and Tao Xinlai's arrival was just a fuse, but not the root cause.
This is the steep cliff that Tao Xin came to tell Wang Lao to tell him about thirty miles west of the city.
The cliff is really steep, almost perpendicular to the ground, and because the two mountain walls are facing each other, there is only less than ten meters in between, so whether it is sunrise in the east or sunset in the west, it can only shine on the upper part of the steep wall very limitedly, unless the sun is just above the middle of the two mountain walls, but even then, the sunlight is very weak.
Moreover, now there are fewer and fewer sunny days in Jincheng, and in the past two years, it has been either hazy or cloudy, which has made the city a lot darker.
Tao Xinlai knew that if the horseear grass grows on this steep wall, it will not grow on the upper part, it must grow in a dark and damp place below, because it likes shade and dampness, and it can grow well in that kind of place. So she stood on the cliff wall and adjusted her position, so that she walked down perpendicular to the cliff wall, just like an ordinary person walking on flat ground.
This kind of thing was unimaginable to her at first, but now it is easy to do. Tao Xinlai thought a little off the line, if this was on the earth, she had such a hand, what an interesting thing it would be.
To this day, she enjoys the fruits of her hard work and enjoys the feeling. She thought that there should be an element in her blood called adventure, so that she could find safety and happiness in her practice.
After going down for about a few hundred meters, the bottom of the cliff still seemed so far away. And this mountain cliff is very peculiar, what rises from the bottom of the cliff is something like a purple-black miasma, Tao Xinlai has already waved off the defensive cover and arranged it around, but he still feels uncomfortable, and I don't know if it is the impact of visual effects.
At this time, she found the horseear - the dead horseear.
Strangely, the place is actually very damp and dark, and the sun can't reach it at all, but the horse's ear grass is really dead!
Very dry...... Very dry...... But it didn't come into powder.
I think she has been looking for horsehair in Miaozhen for so long, and she hasn't seen a single one, and now there are so many on the mountain wall, but they are all dead...... And the master also said that he should look for the horsehorn grass, but now that the horsetail grass is all dead, what are you talking about......
Hey, that's frustrating.
Tao Xinlai reached out and tried to pluck a dry horseear grass, but as soon as her hand touched the horseear grass, it immediately turned into powder and dissipated on the tips of her fingers.
This...... In this way, it is impossible to go back with a piece of hay.
The strange wind whistling at the bottom of the cliff crashed against the mountain wall, and the further down it went, the more fierce the strange wind became, but the strange wind was so fierce, but the purple-black miasma seemed to be still, and it didn't seem to move.
Tao Xinlai felt more and more that this place was weird, so he returned to the top of the mountain for the time being, not wanting to rush down to test it.
So the day passed, and it was evening.
After Tao Xin returned to Jincheng, he quietly sneaked into the old lady's house.
The old lady slept soundly in the bed and was still snoring softly.
Tao Xin slapped a talisman on the old lady, and the talisman immediately disappeared into intangibility. Immediately after that, the old lady also disappeared.
Tao Xin came and said: "Grandma, I want to trouble you to sleep until the day after tomorrow, I have to do it, Grandma forgive me." Saying that, she opened the old lady's mouth and stuffed a pill into it, the pill melted in her mouth, it was like a nutrition pill for ordinary people, Tao Xin came to feed her the pill so that she would not go hungry, and at the same time, it could also remove the sickness in her body to a certain extent and maintain her body.
Then, Tao Xinlai took out an empty talisman and drew a few strokes on the old lady's face, those strokes were like words and symbols, she put it on her forehead after she finished drawing, and then turned into a puddle of water and took a photo, her face has become the appearance of an old lady.
Tao Xinlai pinched his wrinkled face, and said to himself: "The face change charm is really easy to use, and the master knows so many things." But there was a time limit, she thought, drew a few more and put them in her sleeve, and went out in the night.
It was necessary for her to pretend to be an old lady. In the past few years, it is definitely not by chance that the old lady has been able to come back safely every time she goes to Taofu to worship. If the enemies of the Tao family are nearby, and the old lady is let back every time, it means that the old lady is not a threat, and if the Tao family does not have an enemy on the side, it doesn't matter who enters the Tao Mansion.
Tao Xin came just in case, she also thought about taking the old lady to the sphere of influence of Miaozhenmen once there was danger, anyway, the families of many disciples of Miaozhenmen were also placed under the mountain, and she placed the old lady there as her own family, which must be safer than putting it here. But she still had to discuss this matter with the old lady.
At night again, Tao Xinlai was already completely an old lady.
It's still a bit scary to go to a decadent empty mansion at night, the night wind blows in through the broken door, and swings out again, even after so many years, it still seems to carry the smell of blood.
Tao Xin staggered in, found the small courtyard where the old lady frequented, and began to mourn the ancestors. And what she said was basically what the old lady usually said.
Tao Xinlai ostensibly learned from the old lady to pay tribute to the old man of her family, but in her heart she also mourned Tao's father and Tao's mother. At this time, when she saw this Tao Mansion in real time, the guilt in her heart became stronger and stronger. She felt that she was wrong, although she was not the original "Tao Xinlai", but she occupied her body, she and "Tao Xinlai" had neither relationship nor relationship, she wanted to completely strip herself away, so as to embark on a completely different path of fate from "Tao Xinlai", it is unrealistic and inappropriate.
She decided to find the reason for the Tao family's destruction and avenge the Tao family within her ability. She is self-aware and knows what she should be doing and what she can do. She wants to do something for "Tao Xinlai", at least to make up for the gratitude and guilt in his heart.
After that, Tao Xinlai shook his body and circled around the Tao Mansion, vigilantly feeling the breath around him, until he was sure that no one was peeping, and then sneaked into the study.
This place has always been one of the important places in every family, and she wants to see if there are any clues.
In the study, the table was covered with a layer of dust, there was a puddle of ink under the dust, and there was a brush with scattered hair and dried ink on the ground, and the chair was on one side, but the bookshelf was neat. Tao Xinlai took a closer look and came to the conclusion that it seemed that before the Tao family was destroyed, someone had been in the study, and he left the study in a panic.
She searched for a week and found nothing useful. And just as she was about to leave disappointed, the corner of her eye suddenly swept to a bulge somewhere on the beam.
She looked at it certainly, and when she turned around, it was flat and neat, and there was no bulge at all.
She looked at it strangely for a moment, and then suddenly she turned slowly as if she had thought of something, and then swept the bulge of that place again with the corner of her eye at a certain angleβit was transparent.
Tao Xin flew up, paying attention not to raise a trace of dust on the way, and then touched his hand, and when he came down, there was an extra thing in his hand.
It was a transparent cicada, thin, soft, complete, and eerie. (To be continued.) )