Chapter 7: The Shadow (1)
There was a sound of wooden fish in her ears, she turned her head, and at this angle she was standing just in time to see the blind monk plucking the Buddha beads, knocking on the wooden fish, and chanting words in his mouth. Pen Γ fun Γ Pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ info It was a series of Sanskrit words, and she could understand the pronunciation of each word when they were separated, but she didn't understand the meaning of half a sentence when they were read together.
The girl who had just stared at her in the hall walked out of the other room, clasped her hands and said, "Why, are you checking on the enemy?" Gu Changsheng only felt that her words were inexplicable, only the other party stared at her with hostility, and she was not hostile to anyone.
Changsheng wanted to leave, but the girl stretched out her hand to block the way. "Don't think that Master Yang can be smug if he praises your young master a few words, although he is the same age as us, his ability is high and low. We are from Sima Villa, where did your young master come from? β
When the girl mentioned her background, there was obvious pride on her face, and Changsheng guessed that it was probably something remarkable. also answered the question honestly, "I don't know where my young master came from." "The mysterious boy who is making a big fuss in the underworld, does this count?
The girl was angry and said, "You are playing with me, aren't you his maid?" β
Changsheng said, "I have been his maid for a short time. "The master-servant relationship that had been established only an hour ago had been forced.
"Anyway, you go back and tell him that this is not a place where he can come to cheat and eat and drink, so let him be smart and pack up his baggage and leave." The girl snorted and went back to her room and closed the door.
Changsheng went out to find the maid along the path of the hibiscus flower, asked the direction of the kitchen, and when he came back with food, he saw that the old Tao began to draw symbols on the yellow paper with a brush stained with cinnabar. Taoism does not have too many taboos like Buddhism, so he untied the gourd hanging from his waist and took a sip of wine.
Then he grabbed the money sword and danced it into the air a few times, flipped from the front of the table to the back, dipped it in a talisman with the money sword, stretched it out to the candle flame and lit it, and blew a breath towards it, and the flame suddenly became larger.
Changsheng was dumbfounded, she returned to the room, Xi Zi was drinking wine on an empty stomach and waiting for her dishes. She remembered the girl's warning, and wondered what this courtyard was all about. She asked, "Young Master, do you know what that Dao chief is doing outside?" β
Xi Zixu glanced out the window, "Have you ever seen a juggler on the street?" β
Gu Changsheng said, "No." β
"Then it's cheap for you, and you don't charge a penny until you get tired of it."
He brought the food to deliver the food, and the appearance of feasting made Gu Changsheng wonder what he was. If it is a person, it is impossible to casually say that if it is a ghost, he also has a shadow, and if it is a demon, it is impossible for a monk and Taoist priest not to recognize it......
Xi Zixu said, "You look at me so fixedly, do you want me to be unable to swallow?" β
"It's not. Young Masterβ" she said with some embarrassment, "Can I eat another bowl of rice?" β
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It's night, how long has the Taoist priest been playing outside, Gu Changsheng has been watching for a long time, she is a curious person, since she can't ask Xi Zixu anything, she simply looks at it herself, wanting to see some clues to figure out what the Taoist chief is dancing.
The next room was supposed to be reserved for her, but since she couldn't stay there, the steward made some transfers and moved the girl next door to them.
The manager asked Changsheng to spread a layer of mattress to the ground, and prepared a clean quilt for her. She was very grateful, smelling the faint fragrance on the quilt, although it couldn't be compared with Xi Zi's empty high bed and soft pillow, but she also felt that happiness was unreal.
Xi Zixu went to bed early, although the monk next door and next door had been knocking on the scriptures and chanting the Buddha without stopping, she doubted whether Xi Zixu could really fall asleep.
The floral fragrance of the wood hibiscus sneaked into the night with the wind, and Gu Changsheng took a few more sips greedily. I saw the chief holding the money sword in one hand and the compass in the other, and took a few steps to the left and a few steps to the right.
"Pretending." There was a scornful scolding from the next door, loud enough for her to hear. Apparently the girl was not asleep either, and stood by the window watching like her.
A gust of wind blew, Changsheng subconsciously squinted, and when he opened it again, the Taoist priest was facing her with his back, and on the blue-gray Taoist robe, there was a black and white gossip printed on it, and there was a triangular shadow on the gossip.
She thought it was the shadow of the tree, and the yard was full of tall hibiscus, and it was not strange that the shadow of one or two branches was projected on it by candlelight. But slowly, the shape of the triangle was getting bigger, and when it was so big that it covered half of the Taoist priest's body, it suddenly opened like a huge mouth, and she even saw a triangular jagged black shadow at the crack.
"Ahh She screamed, and the shadow was suddenly gone, like a startled mouse.
The disciple of the Taoist priest was about to sprinkle black dog blood, but she was suddenly so startled, her hand shook back, and she really responded to the dog blood.
The Taoist came over angrily and scolded, "What kind of mess are you making!" Now that there is no blood, how am I going to set up a formation! β
Gu Changsheng said, "I just saw something on your back. β
"Something?" The Taoist priest tugged at the robe, thinking that she was referring to something dirty on the back of the robe, and he turned around, and both of his disciples shook their heads, indicating that there was nothing behind him.
Gu Changsheng didn't know how to describe it, so he used his hand to compare the shape of a mouth, "It's like this shadow." β
The girl's laugh came from next door, "I've been watching, why haven't I seen anything." You masters and apprentices are really embarrassed, and they were frightened by a little girl's scream. β
The little Taoist priest who was drenched in dog blood asked, "Master, what should I do with this formation?" β
The Taoist priest glared at Gu Changsheng and said, "What can I do, I can only put it again tomorrow!" β
"It's no fun." The girl next door closed the window.
Gu Changsheng wondered, could it be that she was dazzled. Otherwise, how could she be the only one who saw it, but others couldn't. She glanced towards the courtyard again, but there was not a single living creature except for the wood hibiscus swaying in the wind, so where did that shadow come from?
On the second day, after the Taoist priest prepared all the props, he did it again according to yesterday's steps, everything was fine before, but it was the step of drenching dog blood, Gu Changsheng saw the shadow again, and he also opened his mouth, as if he wanted to swallow someone into his stomach, and then shouted without exception.
This time, the dog blood in the little Taoist's hand was not sprinkled, but the Taoist chief decided that Gu Changsheng was deliberately making trouble, and rushed in angrily to find Xi Zixuan, "How did you discipline the maid, or did you deliberately instruct your maid to harm me." β
Xi Zi smirked, "She is indeed my maid, but her mouth grows on her, and she wants to shout Do you want me to sew her mouth with a needle and thread?" β
The Taoist priest was noisy and attracted the head of the Yang family. The Taoist priest directly played with his temper and said, "If this is the case again, Poor Dao will think that he doesn't have the ability to eliminate demons and defend the Dao, so let Master Yang invite another master." β
Manager Yang soothed, "This little girl is young, and her courage is naturally smaller, she didn't mean it, she probably regarded the tree shadow as a monster, you are a cultivator, so forgive her." β
Gu Changsheng retorted, "I'm really not mistaken, that's not a tree shadow." "If you're dazzled, it's impossible to see the same thing twice.
The Taoist priest sarcastically said, "If you are not mistaken, you are deliberately lying." I have traveled abroad, and I have also seen some scammers boasting that they have supernatural abilities and can see demons and monsters, so as to defraud money. β
"I ......"
Xi Zi scolded, "Shut up." To say that you have read it wrong is to see it wrong, and what everyone can't see is only what you see, and that's not what is fake. He said to the priest, "I promise you to do it again tomorrow, this girl will not cause trouble for you again, I will close the window and not let her see it, and she will no longer use the shadow of the tree as a monster and roar and scream." β
Mr. Yang said, "Even if Mr. Xi has made a package ticket, the Taoist can rest assured." It's not too early now, so it's better to go back and recharge your energy, and come back tomorrow to cast spells and set up the array. β
Chief Yang sent the Taoist priest back to the room, Changsheng only felt aggrieved, she obviously didn't lie but just said what she saw, and muttered in a low voice, "I really saw a shadow that would crack like a mouth." β
Xi Zixu asked, "Do you think they will believe their own eyes or the eyes of you, a yellow-haired girl?" He didn't take off his clothes and shoes and went straight to bed, "I said that what everyone can't see is only what you see, and that's fake." β
The problem is that it's not fake, she's just true to her senses. Xi Zixu turned over and looked at her lazily, "You can only believe what the master says, and you are not convinced." Tomorrow I will stand under the sun until you admit that you are mistaken. β
Xi Zixu's punishment, even if she didn't accept it, she didn't dare not listen. The next day, I had to choose a place in the yard where I could get sunlight and punish myself. After standing for two hours, her legs began to weaken, and her heart was shaken whether to go to Xi Zi to admit her mistake, even if she was duplicitous, she didn't know what she was wrong with.
But then she remembered what her father had taught her before, as long as she felt it was right, she should stick to it, even if everyone didn't understand it, even if everyone thought that the insistence was fundamentally wrong and fruitless stupid.
So she continued to stand for an hour, until she felt a little dizzy, as if everything had a round halo of colors.
"What is that kid doing?" Changsheng heard a soft voice, and looked up to see a noble young lady, with a maid who was standing in front of her and watching her "crumbling".
The maid replied, "The slave seems to have seen this little girl standing here early in the morning, and she has not moved. β
Changsheng's feet were weak and he almost fell. The noble lady did not dislike her vulgar dress, and hurriedly came over to help her. "Are you alright?"
Gu Changsheng held her arm with both hands, the young lady was wearing a red rope on her wrist, and Changsheng was so carelessly flicked, revealing several scars of different lengths. It's just that the young lady didn't notice it, stared straight at Changsheng's pale face, and asked with concern, "Do you want to hire a doctor?" β
Gu Changsheng shook his head, he had already begun to feel that his consciousness was a little uncontrollable, and he could only rely on the most primitive instinct of his body, and said, "Hungryβ"