Chapter 1 Inquire
[The book continues from the above, the last book said that Mu Qingming's foreign aid quietly infiltrated the Immortal Dao stronghold, and no one in the Immortal Dao sect actually noticed that she had disappeared for a long time. And Mu Qing in the city couldn't sleep all night, trying to think of a way to get the best of both worlds, but he couldn't think of anything. I had to come according to the original plan first, and find the fantasy map first. led out Mu Shancheng to find his mother who was under house arrest, and asked his mother confidently: Did she deliberately inject the demonic energy on Mu Qingming's body back then? And the dragon lockers in Kunming City showed that there was no movement, but in fact, they had secretly begun to act, looking for the whereabouts of the Hundred Illusion Map. 】
The ancient trees are towering to the sky, the arrows and bamboos are clustered under the Ma'an Mountain in the black bamboo ditch, strictly follow the feng shui hole method planning, and secretly fit the layout of the unity of heaven and man.
In the thick fog, behind the gray high wall, there is a faint rockery and a swaying bamboo shadow, and the elegant and pleasant scenery of the courtyard has always been the place where the head of the Mu family lives.
Mu Qingming's home is in the courtyard where there are hanging pillars, lanterns and various ornaments in front of the eaves of each house.
Everywhere in the courtyard, there are memories of Mu Qingming's childhood.
After nightfall, the dragon lockers in the courtyard lit the lanterns in various parts of the house with fire. In the mist, the lights can't penetrate the night, and the thick mist rises in the mountains, and the firelight becomes hazy and hazy, and it also has a unique flavor.
After dinner, Mu Shan was in the practice room in the backyard, supervising the disciples who had just started to do their homework, then turned around and went out and went straight to the west across the courtyard.
In the huge mansion, it is the most heavily defended west courtyard. On the door, on the roof of the house, and on the fence, there are all arranged to stand guard by the dragon lockers.
In front of the main house in the courtyard, four advanced dragon lockers were arranged to stand at the door to guard the room.
Mu Shan walked into the courtyard and stood in front of the door of the main house, and the four dragon guards who guarded the gate saluted him in unison and said softly, "Patriarch." ”。
Mu Shan didn't say anything, just stopped in front of the door and stared at the gate, pasting it with a seal in the inscription. Under the cover of night, a faint blue light flashed on the two talismans that crossed the door, illuminating the hesitation between the eyebrows of the wooden mountain three feet away.
After thinking for a moment, Mu Shanshu still didn't directly step forward to open the seal, pushed the door and entered the room with a faint light behind the door. Instead, he froze in front of the door, not knowing what to think.
"The old lady hasn't gone out these days, has she?" After a while, Mu Shan turned his head and looked at the Mu family disciple beside him and asked.
"I only went for a walk in the mountains the day before yesterday, and I didn't go out at any other time." One of the disciples thought for a moment and said, "At that time, we also secretly followed, and there was nothing abnormal. ”。
"Hmm." Mu Shan turned his head to look ahead again, his arms crossed his chest, and pinched out a trick.
The talisman on the door dimmed as his hand took shape, and gradually became an ordinary yellow paper without light.
Mu Shan stepped forward without saying a word, put the talisman into his sleeve, and pushed open the closed door.
In the dim light of the candlelight, in the middle of the simple room, there was an old lady who was dressed plainly, with a little white wash and wrinkled face, sitting on the futon on the ground. Her naturally curly hair was covered with silver. The face is slightly ruddy, but it is full of vicissitudes.
When the old man saw Mu Shanjun enter the house, he opened his slightly closed eyes, glanced at Mu Shanshan with somewhat cloudy but calm eyes, and asked again and again: "Are you finally willing to come to see your mother?" Do you remember having me as a mother? ”。
Mu Shan stood behind the door, his sleeves flicked behind him, and a strong wind blew the door, causing the open door to slam shut.
Although the old lady in front of her is old, her back is not rickety, it is Mu Shan's mother, Mu Qingming's grandmother-Mu Yu's.
"Mother, I've found out something." Mu Shan, who didn't intend to answer Mu Yu's question, said straight to the point: "These things are related to you, and they are also related to Qing Ming. Please look at Qingming is your own grandson, you tell me honestly, are these things true? ”。
Mu Shan raised his head, and his expectant gaze went straight to his mother Mu Yu.
"Is it the Immortal Dao again?" When the old lady heard this, her eyes suddenly widened with excitement, and she said urgently with trembling hands: "How many times have I said it, I really haven't interacted with them anymore." The matter of Kunlun Death Valley, just to get rid of the demonic qi on his body, I was deceived by the Immortal Dao. Why, why would you rather trust outsiders than me, my mother? ”。
In a hurry, the old lady raised her hand, patted her chest again and again, and said, "I want to harm Qing Ming, can he live to be three hundred years old with my Taoism?" I really wanted to save him, I really wanted to save him. It was because I saved Sun Xinzhi that I was used by the Immortal Dao. ”。
As she spoke, tears welled up in the old lady's eyes, making her eyes even more blurry.
"I believed it." Seeing his mother say it, he became in pain, and Mu Shan couldn't bear it. It's just that he took a step forward, but he didn't make the next move.
"But I actually found out recently, it was you who injected the overflowing demonic energy into the newly born Qing Nether's body when my wife gave birth. So many of my children, only Qing Ming has demonic energy. Mu Shanjun, who wanted to stop talking, finally said in a deep voice the reason why he didn't believe his mother: "You obviously know that Qingying is not a demon, and his body can't withstand the erosion of demonic qi at all, but why do you still do this?" ”。
There was a little more disappointment on Mu Shanjun's face and eyes: "Tiger poison doesn't eat children, my old mother!" ”。
Mu Yushi on the other side cried even more, and in his eagerness, he could only cry, and he couldn't even say a word of rebuttal. But in the tears, there is a lot of innocence.
"I didn't, I didn't." Mu Yu shook his head desperately under the cry, the golden hairpin on his head fell to the ground, and his silver hair became fluffy and messy after a few strokes: "I am at odds with your wife Xiao Luo, but I have never taken the emotions brought about by this discord out on my grandson." ”。
After saying this, Mu Luo's eyes, which were full of tears, looked up at his son who had misunderstood her, and said bitterly: "If I really want to harm Qing Ming, how can I let the Nine Suspicious Immortals help you?" ”。
As soon as these words came out, Mu Shanshu in the faint light was suddenly stunned and stayed in place motionless.
The Nine Suspicious Immortals in her mother's mouth were Mu Qingming's aunt, the woman who was sent to Spring City to secretly help Mu Qingming.
"Do you think that by saving her life, with your reputation when you became the patriarch, you can make this worldly master who is both righteous and evil have the same hatred as our Mu family?" The candle flame flickered, Mu Yushi sobbed a few times, stopped his tears, looked at his son who was stunned like a rock carving, and revealed the secret hidden in his heart for many years: "It was I who secretly came forward and praised you and your daughter-in-law to the sky, in exchange for this friendship." It was also I who sneaked into the dungeon and found her in seclusion underground, telling her to hint that you could help Qing Ming by letting her out. ”。
This news not only came suddenly, but also broke Mu Shan's previous understanding, leaving him at a loss for what to do.
"As for the Miaomen who has been under my banner and is in contact with the Immortal Dao, he is indeed not my person, and I secretly revealed his escape." Without waiting for her son to come to his senses, the old lady said again: "I thought that Qing Ming would catch him and ask him about the master behind the scenes, but I didn't expect Qing Ming to kill him." ”。
"You're still here to question me about this, aren't you going to let the hidden inner ghost in our Mu family, the one who really wants to rebuild the corpse and bone woman, go to the enemy?" In the end, the old lady ended her defense with this resounding question.
The wind picked up outside, and the fog that spread in the courtyard changed with the wind.
Mu Shanjun in the house didn't say a word, still staying where he was, at a loss......
"Come, Master Mu and Mrs. Mu, please have tea."
In the ghost market of Happy Horse Mountain, the master of the city made a gesture of invitation to Mu Qingming and Mo Han on the opposite side. Straightening his five fingers, he pointed to the teacup on the table in front of him.
"This is the Longjing of Hangzhou West Lake that I spent a lot of money this year. It's this year's new tea, if it weren't for Master Mu's visit, I wouldn't be willing to take it out and invite others to drink it. In the dimly lit building, the lord of the ghost city said with a smile.
Mu Qingming smiled indifferently, lifted his teacup, gently scraped the tea powder with the quilt cover, took a sip of fragrant tea, and tasted it carefully.
"I heard that Young Master Mu's subordinates have not moved on the surface recently, but secretly they are secretly operating in various parts of the city, and they seem to be looking for something, is there a thief in the house?" The ghost city lord made a joke and opened up the topic.
"My family is poor jingle, how can any thief think about it." Mu Qingming put down the teacup in his hand and said to the ghost city lord: "But we are looking for something, which is exactly the purpose of my visit today." ”。
"Oh? What is it? The ghost city lord suddenly became interested, looked directly at Mu Qingming and asked.
"Master, have you heard of the legend of the source of the Panlong River?" Mu Qingming, who raised the teacup again, asked with interest.
"Black-scaled python?" The muscles in the corners of the ghost city lord's eyes trembled, and he asked in a deep voice.
"Exactly." Mu Qingming, who took another sip of tea, nodded.
According to legend, in Nanying Village in the upper reaches of the Panlong River, there is a clear spring surrounded by green trees. A long time ago, there was no such spring here. There is a huge dark cave in the green trees here, and a greedy and vicious python lives in the cave, so the locals call this cave "Python Cave". As long as someone walks through the hole, the python will open its bloody mouth and suck it gently, and the passerby will be swallowed into the belly of the python without knowing it. Since then, the village has been shrouded in the fear of death.
Later, a person killed the black-scaled python before returning the peace of Nanying Village.
When the pus and blood of the giant python flowed out, people were surprised to find that a clear spring gushed out here, which is the current spring water.
To this day, this legend has evolved many times, and the man who killed the black-scaled python is portrayed as a merchant riding a donkey.
As everyone knows, where did the merchant come from during the ancient Dian Kingdom. The person who killed the python was the high priest beside Zhuang Ji.
Mu Qingming knows the truth behind these legends, and it is because of this that he came from. The fantasy picture is depicted on that snake skin, so no matter how the legend evolves, there is a storyline of the python bleeding out of pus, which is the evolution of the scene where the high priest peels off the snake's skin.
And what Mu Qingming wanted to inquire about was the whereabouts of the snakeskin and the Hundred Illusion Map.
"Young Master Mu is looking for snakeskin?" The ghost city lord who frowned slightly thought that Mu Qingming's inquiry would only be to find these two treasures, so he asked bluntly: "Or the two orbs in the snake's belly?" ”。
Is what Mu Yu said true? Can Mu Qingming find out the whereabouts of the Hundred Illusion Map? If you want to know what happened, and listen to the next breakdown.