The head of the house motioned to the guards to arrest people, and I hurriedly raised my hand to stop them: "It's okay, first arrange the people according to what I said before!" ”

"No!"

The guards had all the men stand in nine columns hand in hand, as I had commanded, and the Jayman chose nine tall samurai to stand in the middle of each column.

"You are sick because you are stained with the breath of death, if you want to live, squeeze your hands tightly for me! Later, when the wizard casts the spell, no one is allowed to speak! The old man stood in the queue and shouted at the servants, the old man's hoarse voice was surprisingly majestic.

In an instant, there was silence in the courtyard. The cries and coughs were all gone, and only the bitter whimper of the cold wind was left in my ears. Everyone stared at me, and after I glanced around, I sprinkled a handful of incense in the copper furnace behind me. At this moment, a light snow fell in the sky, and the snowflakes disappeared instantly when they fell on the red-hot charcoal. I chanted witch words as I walked among the crowds. When I passed in front of the nine samurai, I would pause, recite a witch word, and then use the pre-mixed cinnabar to cut a red "heavenly eye" between their eyebrows.

Time passed slowly in the drifting snow and green smoke, and when I walked around and returned to the original point, something strange happened!

In the blood-red "Heavenly Eye" of the nine warriors, nine clusters of dark blue ghost fire suddenly appeared, and the ghost fire swallowed blue flames, swaying in the crowd.

"Ahh Seven of the nine tall warriors ran away, and two drew their swords and slashed at the ghostfire.

Amidst the screams one after another, I walked slowly to the middle of the courtyard, and the ghost fires seemed to sense something, and all of them surrounded the ground. I lowered my eyes and chanted a spell, then untied the red robe from my body as quickly as I could, and in a few turns, I put all the remaining clusters of ghost fire into the robe.

"Sorcerer—" Two warriors surrounded him with swords, and several of the more daring servants also surrounded him tremblingly.

"The fire didn't burn...... The fire didn't burn out! The dead soul has been taken in by the sorcerer! "Lao Zai ran out from behind a big tree.

"Shut it in, we're all right? We can live! The crowd recovered from their fear, some cheered, some fainted, and a few little maidservants hugged each other and wept silently.

Gradually, everyone gathered around, and when they got closer, I suddenly let go of my robe and folded my hands. In an instant, a blue ghost fire burst out of my palm, and several big men gasped and sat on the ground.

I chuckled and flipped my palm to put the ghost fire into a jade bottle that Si'er had prepared for me.

Quiet, deathly quiet. There were no cheers, no cries, no screams, not even breathing, and the more than fifty people in the courtyard froze.

Si'er, this person who knows all the truth behind it was also stunned. She looked at me dumbfoundedly, looking at me with a look of fear.

A whirlwind blew up the witch robe on the ground, and I reached out to take it and put the robe back on my body: "The dead soul has been collected, everyone disperse!" ”

"Son of God—" An old voice broke the silence. So, on this cold and dark night, more than fifty people rushed towards me. I don't know who tore my robe first, and after a cracking sound sounded, the whole robe was torn apart by the crazy crowd in an instant.

The red cloth fluttered in the dark night, and when everyone was huddled together and desperately scrambled, I quietly left with my four children.

In the room, I untied the crown and washed the cinnabar in the palm of my hand with water.

Si'er stood beside me blankly, looking at me without blinking: "Ah Shi, are you really the son of God?" ”

I gave her a blank look and smiled, "I'm not a god, I'm a liar!" Didn't I tell you earlier, I transferred the 'ghost bone powder' sent by Yichen into the cinnabar. This powder is taken from human bones, and it can be burned when heated, and no matter how big the fire is, it will not be hot. ”

"I know, but what I just saw...... Ah Shi, maybe you are really the son of God, but you don't know. Si'er lowered his head and muttered for a moment, and when he looked up at me, he still looked obsessed.

"Okay, then the god son will give you all the clothes and hair crown. That way, you don't have to go with the people out there to rob it! I put the clothes I took off on Si'er's hand, and lifted the quilt with a smile and got in, "Silly girl, hurry up and sleep, this god is sleepy!" ”

Si'er looked at me, then at the clothes in his hand, and blew out the candle with a confused expression.

I slept soundly that night, but before dawn the next day, a large number of people poured into the room. The temple man with the bronze robe, the maid with the beautiful witch robe, and the child with the deerskin boots all gathered around my bedside. Lao Zai smiled and handed Si'er a red lacquered phoenix-patterned box full of jewels and jade accessories, and then respectfully told me that Zhiyao wanted to see me.

Zhiyao, I'm finally going to see this Zhiyao. Afraid? Maybe a little.

I followed the housekeeper into Zhiyao's study where he usually met with his retainers, and the familiar white sandalwood burrowed into my nose the moment I stepped into the study. At the beginning, it was this mysterious fragrant wood from the far west that made me mistakenly think that Zhiyao was a beast-faced man hiding in the dark night. But a person's voice can change, the taste can change, and the feeling brought by gestures is difficult to change. My instinct tells me that the beast-faced man is not Zhiyao.

"Sorcerer, the head of the house will be here later, please wait here first." The old man led me to sit down on a blue and blue wool mat in the middle of the room, and he bowed down with the temple people and retreated.

I looked up and down the room left and right, and the only word "weird" came back and forth in my head.

Ever since I entered the Zhifu, I felt that this mansion was full of weirdness. It's not red, it's not black, it's not orthodox everywhere. No dragons, no phoenixes, the roofs are full of hideous bronze beast faces. And the strangest thing is the room in front of me, I have never seen anyone embedded dozens of large and small bronze mirrors in the wall.

At this moment, I was sitting in the middle of the room, and a dozen distorted faces were reflected on the walls to the left and right. I turned my head to look at them, and they looked at me sideways. Although the faces in those mirrors are my own, there is an indescribable weirdness when I look at them for a long time, as if someone is peeking at me through those mirrors all the time.

Just as I was sitting on pins and needles, the shrill singing of the temple people came from the door.

Then, a gust of wind passed, and the fragrance of white sandalwood became stronger.

A pair of slender and pale, ten-fingered feet slowly walked past me, I raised my eyes slightly, I didn't see Zhiyao, but I saw a white-clad blue-eyed woman standing in front of me carrying a hollow copper ball emitting green smoke. It was a foreign face, and she looked down at me, her blue eyes beautiful, but as dead as her pale face.

I looked up at her, she opened her lips lightly, and sang in a foreign language I didn't understand: "Yi Yi Hengshan, Baluan Qiang Qiang, the grandson of the fox family, in the other place, its yang heavy pupils, rejuvenate the country." Yi Yi Heng Mountain, Luan Ming mourns, the fox family gives birth to a grandson, in the head of the bull, its yin and blue eyes, lost the country and the state. ”

After the woman finished singing, she circled the bronze ball burning with white sandalwood around my head, and then gently moved the lotus step and sat down next to the desk on the high staircase. There was another sound of clothes fluttering behind me, and I quickly lowered my head, and a pair of feet in a blue soft leather foot jacket strode past me and walked up the stairs.

"You are the master disciple of Taishi?" Zhi Yao's voice sounded from the front.

I bowed down and said respectfully, "The sorcerer Zi is looking to see Zhiqing!" ”

"Well, have you ever heard of this 'Bamboo Book Ballad' wizard?"

"Xia Qing forgives his sins, he has never heard of it." I don't understand barbarian language, so when this foreign woman sang, I only felt that the rhythm was a little familiar, but I didn't expect her to sing the "Bamboo Book Ballad" born on bamboo skin. And it sounds like the lyrics are longer than the ones sung by Boru back then, and the other half of the lost song is also in it? But why did Zhiyao let me listen to this "Bamboo Book Ballad"? Knowing this, I should have learned the northern barbarian language back then, and now I am like a deaf person.

"It's better if I haven't heard of it, look up and let me see you!" Zhi Yao said with a smile.

I raised my head according to the words, and Zhi Yao, who was two feet away, tilted his head with one hand on his cheeks and looked at me, he only wore a red and black phoenix bird pattern collared deep coat today, did not tie his hair and wore a crown, only a half-foot-long green jade flute was inserted horizontally in the bun on the top of his head, and he did not look like a dignified old man at the banquet that day, but he was a full aristocratic son. Zhi Yao was a few years younger than Berushang, and the successive deaths of the two suzerains of the Han clan and the Wei clan in the past two years made him the commander of the Jin State at a young age. For the women of the Jin Kingdom, such a man is undoubtedly the husband they dream of in their hearts. But when I look at this handsome face, I can only think of the rumors of the medicine man and the servants of the Zhifu who are said to have been skinned and executed. What kind of terrible heart is hidden under such a beautiful skin......

"Zi Di...... is really as the family slaughter said, giving birth to a heavenly appearance. The word Taishi gave you really doesn't match your face! Zhi Yao looked at me and said with a smile, "You entered the mansion this time to solve my Zhi family's disaster, Zhi should have been rewarded a long time ago, but the state affairs were delayed two days ago, and today is free." Come on, someone, bring things in. Before he finished speaking, two people from Huangyi Temple carried a copper dendrobium to the door and placed it firmly in front of me. Zhi heard that sorcerers love pearls, so he specially prepared a Dong Zhu as a reward for this spell removal. The sorcerer looks, but can he still get into it? ”

The two-foot-high bronze dendrobium beside me is filled with white and round pearls, I see this pearl, my heart can't help but feel cold, I collect pearls just to sew a wedding dress for Si'er, since entering the palace, I have only asked Bolu in Zhao Mansion to ask for a few, how did Zhiyao know that I like pearls? Could he be hinting that my every move in Xinjiang City can't escape his eyes?

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I posted the wrong version before, and the part where Beru sang "The Ballad of Bamboo Book" was in the Qin State volume "Ten Years and a Dream (1)", interested students can go back and take a look, there is important information related to Ah Shi's life experience.