"This wicked woman, if she dies, she still harms others, don't pester the child!" Choi pulled the two children into his arms and shouted into the garden.

The surrounding servants looked uneasy, Guo Hong looked a little strange, and asked Lu Yu in a low voice, "What's the matter?" ”

Lu Yu shook his head and said that he didn't know.

Cui Shi shouted for a while, saw that there was no response, gradually calmed down, turned his head to see Lu Yu and the two, and then said embarrassedly: "Let the two of you laugh." ”

Lu Yu asked, "Cousin, what's going on?" ”

Cui Shi sighed: "This matter is a long story, my cousin should not go out and say to the outside world after hearing it, this house is haunted, otherwise how can it be so easy to redeem?" ”

Lu Yu slapped his thigh and said, "Isn't it about Liu Sanfu in the previous dynasty?" ”

"That's right, it was the fourth year of Huichang, Liu Sanfu, the servant of the Criminal Department, bought this mansion, at that time it was rumored that he wanted to pay homage to the prime minister, and later the court discussed the disposal of Lu Ze's rebellious Liu Congji's wife Pei Shi, Liu Sanfu also asked the first emperor to execute her, and later Pei Shi was tied up to show the head of the law field. When I got up early in the morning seven days later, I found Liu Gong hanging himself under a big tree in the back garden! Since then, it has been said that this house is haunted, and some people say that they have seen the female ghost, which is Ah Pei who was beheaded! ”

Lu Yu asked, "This Ah Pei is the aunt of Master Cao and the two of them." ”

"Yes, their mother died because of it......"

Cui touched the heads of the two children, and continued: "Then Liu Sanfu's family was defeated after his death, the money he used to buy the mansion was borrowed, and the creditor came to collect the house and resell it, his son Liu Ye Xiaolangjun was smart since he was a child, he was able to write poetry at the age of seven, and was taken in by Prime Minister Li Deyu, Liu Ye said before leaving that the tree emitted a strange fragrance at night. To Huichang five years, the mansion has not been taken off, when the first emperor ordered the destruction of the Buddha, several monks fled to live here for more than half a month, it is said that the current emperor is also hidden in it! At that time, they also learned about the haunting of the backyard, so they went over every day, and heard that Ah Pei, who had died in vain, had been sent to the Western Elysium, and they didn't expect to come out to harm people again today! ”

Master Cao shouted: "Aunt is a good person, she won't harm us, there is indeed something shining in the water!" ”

The maid also whispered: "In the past few days and nights, I have been hearing women crying in the back garden, which is strange and scary. ”

Guo Hong glanced at Lu Yu, and Lu Yu said, "Since this is the case, then you still need to do it to surpass the revenant." This Guo Xiaolian next to me is a disciple of Liu Yuanjing, the national teacher of the two dynasties, don't look at his young age but profound mana, please ask him to do it will definitely succeed! ”

Cui Shi frowned and said: "Cousin, you can also see that the mansion is now a little strapped ......"

Guo Hong hurriedly said: "Senior Brother Lu and I are like brothers, I don't need money to help this time, but if I pick up something in the pool, can I refer to one or two details?" ”

Cui Shi said: "Then it is a word, and the things that are picked up will be used as the reward for the refiner's practice." ”

Guo Hong asked Master Cao, "Where do you see the light?" ”

Cao Shi said: "That was left to me by my aunt!" ”

Guo Hong said: "Let's catch it and do it again, if it has nothing to do with my Daomen, how about giving it to you?" ”

Cao Shi thought for a while, nodded and said, "You can't lie to me!" ”

The two of them pulled the hook and said that it was settled.

Cui Shi asked someone to go into the water to salvage, and after a while, the maid called a dwarf.

"Zuo Kui, you are the best watery in the house, go down and take a look, and look for something shiny in the left corner of the pond."

"Yes, ma'am."

Zuo Kui and Guo Hong were slightly stunned, but immediately pretended not to know, he took off his clothes, jumped into the water wearing only a pair of nasal calf pants, and after a while floated up, holding something in his hand.

When he swam to the shore, Guo Hong took it and saw that it was a bamboo tube sealed with wax, tied with a red velvet rope, and a pearl inlaid on the rope loop, no wonder it would glow underwater.

Guo Hong peeled off the sealing wax, opened the bamboo tube, poured out a roll of silk silk from the inside, and spread it on the ground to see that it was a map.

Guo Hong and Lu Yu glanced at each other and said, "Master Cao, we want to rub this picture down and then return it to you, okay?" ”

Cao Shi nodded, and Zhu Ji said, "I want that bamboo tube!" ”

Guo Hong smiled and handed him the bamboo tube, and then said to Cui's family: "The practice requires sincerity to communicate with heaven and earth, and I have to fast for half a day, and I will come back tomorrow." ”

Zuo Kui had already gone ashore and whispered: "There is a corpse under the water, it has been soaked and rotten, and it can't be seen as a person!" ”

Cui Shi sent the maid and servant away and said to Zuo Kui: "Don't make a noise, quietly fish it up and find a place to bury it." ”

When Guo Hong saw the scooped up corpse, it was really difficult to distinguish.

Cui Shi sent Lu Yu and the others out of the house and returned to the house with the two children.

"What else do you have to tell your mother?" She had already seen that the two of them were hiding something, so she asked.

Zhu Ji glanced at his brother, hesitated for a moment and said, "I dug something under the big tree in the backyard." After he finished speaking, he stabbed his brother.

Cao Shi reluctantly took out a piece of blue jade from his arms, handed it to Cui's and said, "This is it." ”

Cui Shi took it and took a closer look, only to see two small characters engraved on the front "Xuanxuan", and then looked at it the other way, it was a strange pattern that he had never seen before.

The top of this jade is a little broken, it seems that someone used a knife to grind it off little by little, and there are many scratches on the fracture.

Cui Shi felt strange in his heart and asked, "Where did you dig it up?" ”

Master Cao said: "It's the haunted tree!" ”

"You two are not small, what if you really anger the female ghost and arrest you? Not next time! Remember? ”

"She's an aunt!"

"That's not good, the ghost doesn't know people, she wants to eat people, aren't you afraid?"

The two children were frightened by their stepmother, their faces turned white, and they hurriedly agreed.

"This piece of jade is left here for Weiniang, and I will show your father what the origin is!"

The Cui clan confiscated Lan Yuzhang, asked a few words, and sent them to play, but they were not allowed to go near the big tree in the back garden. She said to Ah Dou, who had just come back with the money on the side: "How are San Lang and Shiro today?" ”

Ah Dou replied: "San Lang is playing in the wing, Shiro is breastfeeding, and the nurse and Cui's mother are watching, everything is fine!" ”

Cui Shi breathed a sigh of relief, and at this time, Uncle Wei, the old servant who was guarding the door outside, entered the courtyard and stood under the porch and hesitated.

"What's the matter?"

"There was a person outside, saying that he wanted to see Lang Jun, I asked him for a long time, and then he said that he knew a woman named Ah Liu, who had seen people in the mansion in the county government, and he would move when he went back, so he came over and asked if he was a fugitive from the mansion?"

"What's the name of the person here?"

"It is said that it is a little envoy in the palace, called Li Jingchao."

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Guo Hong and Lu Yu left the Du Mansion, and Lu Yu asked, "Why did the junior brother look at me just now?" ”

"I heard a rumor the day before yesterday, saying that the first emperor of Huichang once found five pieces of jade, which is said to be related to a fairy mansion, and then there was chaos in the palace, four of which were missing, and just now Mrs. Du said that there may be the current emperor among those monks, so I thought that the underwater glowing thing should be a piece of jade, I can't guess wrong, but this map may also have a great history, go back to Senior Sister Yun and ask what the place is."

Lu Yu said: "Then you go back first, I still have dinner here with my eldest brother, tomorrow you come over to do it for Du Fu, and let's go back together after we are done." ”

Guo Hong said: "I arranged it tomorrow just to step on the point, the haunting should be someone secretly doing something, and I need to go into the Du Mansion to investigate tonight." ”

"Do you want me to go with you after drinking?"

Guo Hong groaned: "When the time comes, rely on drunkards to catch ghosts, what if you recognize the wrong ghosts?" ”

Lu Yu said: "No matter what you do, where are you going now?" ”

"Go to the West Market, buy some things to do, find another place to have dinner, and rub the map down by the way."

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Liu Yanniang moved to Chonghuafang in the southwest of Xishi, Zuo Kui followed Li Jingchao on the order of Cui's order, and found that it was indeed the direction of her house, and couldn't help but be secretly anxious.

After she moved, she felt that her life was back to normal, and she thought that she would stay away from the official settlement in the east, except for going to Wannian County every month to collect rent, and not go over, so that she should be able to live in peace for a while.

Who knew that it had only been half a day since she moved over, and Zuo Kuilai asked her to move again, saying that this place had been known by Du Mu, and she might bring someone to the door soon.

Liu Yanniang was so frightened that the six gods had no owner, and immediately hugged Xiao Xuanji and hid in the West Market, and when she ran into Guo Hong, she asked Hongrui to go to Yunxuansu Mansion to report the news.

Soon Yun Xuansu and Wang Du came over, Yun Xuansu listened to Yan Niang's description, thought for a while and said: "Then go to Huayang Temple, there should be a house for rent there, you can live for a while." In the future, she will go out less, and let Hongrui go to buy vegetables and rice, she will be raw, and no one will recognize her wearing a hat. ”

Guo Hong nodded, and also said: "This is called dark under the lamp, Huayang Temple is next door to Shengpingfang, and it is a female Taoist Temple, which is a good place to avoid disasters." ”

Thinking about it, Du Mu found that he couldn't find anyone, and he never imagined that Yan Niang would move to the vicinity of Huipingfang again.

Although Yan Niang came out in a hurry, she also took a few bags of commonly used clothes, she just moved to Chonghuafang, a lot of things are still in bags or boxes, I didn't have time to pack up, and now it is much more convenient to move again.

Hongrui has returned to her residence and is packing up and moving.

"Don't worry, if anyone follows, I'll knock him out! And most of it was Uncle Zuo Kui who came to investigate, so there was no need to fight at all. ”

Guo Hong looked at Liu Yanniang: Zuo Kui must have moved something, otherwise how could he protect her like this?

He shook his head, unwilling to bother with this idleness, if the two of them looked at each other, it would be okay to form a pair.

At this moment, it was evening, Guo Hongzheng was separated from Yan Niang and Yun Xuansu, preparing to find a place to have dinner, and then went to explore Du's mansion at night, but suddenly saw a familiar figure.

Jiao Fengming!

He quietly followed, and after walking a short distance, Jiao Fengming and his junior sister Russell entered a shop.

Guo Hong knew that his face was a little dazzling, he looked around, and suddenly found a monk walking into the alley, and followed him with an idea.

A moment later, Guo Hong came out of the alley and had turned into a monk with a pale face, very similar to Yizhen.

The mask he grabbed from Shi Quanyi's head that day came in handy.

He walked slowly on the streets of Xishi, and heard Orchid singing Li Bai's "Youth Tour" in the wine shop in the distance: "Wuling is young and in the east of Jinshi, and the silver saddle and white horse spend the spring breeze." Falling flowers step into the swim and laugh into the orchid restaurant. ”

The West Market, also known as the Gold Market, is mainly supplied to the common people, bringing together merchants from the Western Regions and Japan, and the Kaiyuan Gate is not far away, which is the starting point of the Silk Road.

It has a similar pattern to the East Market, and is divided into nine sections by a tic-tac-toe road.

However, due to the introduction of the east-west Cao Canal and the north-south Yongan Canal, several roads were split in half and connected by bridges.

The canal is very wide, like a river, and boats can be used on it.

Du Fu has a poem "Song of the Eight Immortals in Drinking" praised: "Chang'an City sleeps in a restaurant, and the Son of Heaven can't get on the boat." ”

Guo Hong had seen Jiao Fengming's close relationship with the false righteousness, so he thought about it, walked to the dock and sat cross-legged, blocking the traffic artery!

Next to this is the Di station where the goods are piled up, and the goods from the Western Regions are transferred to Weishui through the canal to transport to various places, which is very busy.

Guo Hong's surprising behavior immediately aroused onlookers, and people who looked like they were walking came up, and when they saw that he was a monk, they didn't dare to make a mistake, so they wanted to invite him away.

Then a big cannibal came over, seemed to be in a hurry, and commanded a dozen people to come up and try to drive Guo Hong away, and after a while, these people fled in embarrassment.

Jiao Fengming just left the store he had just entered, and when he saw that the door was crowded, Emei frowned slightly and said to his junior sister, "Let's go from the side." ”

Her junior sister's eyes were sharp, and when she saw Guo Hong, she snorted softly and said, "Senior sister, look at the monk in the middle, but the Yizhen we saved in Yuezhou?" ”

"That righteousness is true or false...... The matter of Qinglong Temple has been spreading wildly in Chang'an these days, and Jiao Fengming has heard about it.

She thought for a moment and shouted, "Master Yizhen, please come and speak." ”

Guo Hong was waiting for her, slowly got up, everyone in front of him got out of the way, and the two sides met.

Jiao Fengming asked, "Master don't come unharmed?" ”

Guo Hongheshi smiled and said: "Lao Qu and Nu Tanyue have never known each other, what you see is a gangster in disguise." "He has learned ventriloquism, and his voice tries to imitate Yizhen as much as possible, and people who are not familiar with it can't tell the difference at all.

Jiao Fengming said: "The matter of the master's punishment of disciples in Qinglong Temple has spread all over Chang'an recently, and the younger generations have also heard about it. ”

"Meeting is fate, the old man heard that the criminals are doing evil in Yuezhou, but they are all one-sided, recently I came to look for the daughter Tanyue, can you tell me what is going on?"

Jiao Fengming said in surprise: "Since the master doesn't know what his disciples are doing, how can he know that the juniors are involved?" ”

Guo Hong was slightly stunned, this woman was very thoughtful, and she didn't expect to find a flaw all of a sudden, he smiled indifferently and said: "There are many people here, can you find a secluded place to talk in detail?" ”

Jiao Fengming nodded, and the three of them walked into a wine shop together.

The orchids danced in front of the hall, and the skirts swirled like blooming flowers, attracting bursts of applause.

They went up to the second floor and entered a private room.

"Does the master have taboos?"

"It's okay, Lao Wei cultivates the ancient method of Tianzhu, he doesn't eat five meats, but he can eat fishy (meat), and it's okay to drink wine."

The three of them sat down to set the dishes, and closed the door when the dishes were finished.

"Does the master know who the big cannibal you just beat is?"

Guo Hong listened to Jiao Fengming's question, and said with a smile: "It's not impossible to touch any big cannibal, right?" ”

"The younger generation just heard from the bystanders that this person is a believer in Mingjiao, and his brother is said to be a Manichaean master, and he is very powerful in Xishi."

Guo Hong was taken aback and asked, "Mingjiao?" ”

Of course, he had heard of Mingjiao, but he didn't expect to meet Zhang Wuji's predecessors here.

Jiao Fengming said: "The master is in Chang'an, he doesn't know Mingjiao, right?" They will destroy the Buddha before the name of Manichaeism, the first emperor decreed the demolition of the world Manichae Temple, so it turned into Esoteric Buddhism, renamed Mingjiao. ”

Guo Hong nodded and said, "This ...... Of course, the old man knew. ”

Jiao Fengming smiled and said, "Master, let's make a long story short, lest that person gather the disciples to come and retaliate." ”

Guo Hong said with a smile: "A little bit of a thief is not enough to worry about, the female Tan Yue just said that the old man should not know about Yuezhou, but in fact, it is not: after the gangster fled back, he broke his arms, cried and begged me for help, and told me about the fight with the Hengshan faction, but the words were unknown, which mentioned that he had been able to get out of it by the favor of the female Tan Yue. ”

The corners of Jiao Fengming's mouth curled slightly, revealing a smile that was really like this, and said, "Then can the master know what Ling Tu Yuezhou has done?" ”

"Naturally, there are no outsiders here, and the old man will not admit it to others when he goes out." Guo Hong laughed.

"The master is really happy, this glass recipe was obtained from the disciple, and now it is returned to Zhao." Jiao Fengming felt that the other party must have come to cultivate the exercises, so he simply threw the exercises over first.

Guo Hong caught it and couldn't help but be overjoyed, and he couldn't imagine that there was an unexpected gain.

The mask on his face was a divine object, and this smile was completely revealed, Jiao Fengming saw that he felt that what he expected was not bad, and continued: "This sect has its own exercises, and it also has a relationship with the sect where the master is located. ”

Guo Hong didn't know what to do, but his face didn't move.

Jiao Fengming caught it and said: "I heard that the master did it with the flower-faced child of the Hengshan faction in Qinglong Temple that day, and his skills were high, and he got a topaz book, but is there such a thing?" ”

Guo Hong nodded and said, "Not bad." ”

"Is the master interested in exploring the secrets together?" Jiao Fengming picked up the wine glass and turned it in his hand, as if thinking about how to phrase it.

She saw that Guo Hong was silent, so she took out a piece of green jade jue from her sleeve, Guo Hong's eyes lit up when she saw it, there are also small characters on this thing, and the back is the kind of mysterious pattern that I don't know the origin.

Jiao Fengming took Qing Yujue back into his sleeve and asked, "I don't know if the topaz book obtained by the master can be around?" ”

"I didn't carry it with me today." Guo Hong coughed and said: "Forgive me for being clumsy, the things of the female Tanyue seem to have that kind of pattern, and the old man has never known the origin, can you tell me?" ”

Jiao Fengming said with a smile: "This is not a big secret, my green jade jue and the topaz album obtained by the master are one of the five treasures collected by the first emperor back then, and the back is the Kunlun talisman, only the jade found on the Kunlun Immortal Ruins will have this kind of pattern, and mortal craftsmen can't imitate it at all!" ”

"Kunlun Immortal Ruins!" Guo Hong was secretly shocked in his heart, and his tone was a little heavier.

Jiao Fengming raised his eyebrows, seemed to feel a little surprised, and asked: "That great master once obtained the relics of the Jade True Ancestor with my grandmother in Kunlun, and created the invincible glaze skill in the world, has the master forgotten?" ”

Guo Hong coughed twice and said, "Lao Wei naturally knows, but he didn't expect this pattern to be the Kunlun talisman!" ”

Jiao Fengming was relieved at this time, nodded and said: "This talisman is a secret transmission of the Daomen, and ordinary Taoists still don't know about it, let alone in the Buddhism." I don't know what the master thought of the junior proposal just now? ”

Guo Hong nodded and said: "Amitabha, the female Tanyue is going to explore the secret, and the old man should accompany her." ”