"Okay, let's help Mr. Pei go back to the mourning hall," when Qi Lu spoke, Ding Xiaolan had already taken out a handkerchief to bandage Pei Liping's wounds

"No," Pei Li said calmly: "Wait a minute, you two will go to my house to sit down, so I can explain the matter of raising Gu to you in detail."

"That's good, too"

Pei Liping first went back to the mourning hall to explain a few words to his relatives who played mahjong, and then hurriedly came over and invited Qi Lu and the two to his house

As soon as he entered Pei Liping's house, Ding Xiaolan was convinced of what Qi Lu said, his home was so spotless and clean that he thought the owner was a person with a habit of cleanliness

"Thank you Master Qi for helping me find the treasure Gu, otherwise, tomorrow I am afraid that I will also return to the underworld to see my deceased wife," the three of them had just sat down, and Pei Liping hurriedly got up and thanked him again

"You don't have to be polite about small things"

Pei Liping asked: "My treasure Gu is extremely hidden, and even my family doesn't know how the master can find it."

Qi Lu said lightly: "It's also a coincidence, when I helped you carry the furniture down during the day, I was drilled into my body by this little thing."

"Ah" Pei Liping asked in surprise: "My treasure Gu didn't hurt you, right?"

"It's fine, but it took a lot of work to force it out."

Pei Liping said apologetically: "Alas, it was all the misfortune of the family, so I neglected to feed it, so that it came out of the bottle to forage for food, fortunately, it met the master, if it was someone else, it would not die, and it would have to shed its skin."

Qi Lu Zhengse said: "I advise Mr. Pei to take care of this Gu carefully, if it is lost again, it will be infinitely harmful."

"The master's teachings are that I must keep them in mind," Pei Liping got up and walked to the left corner of the living room, where there was a refrigerator, he moved the refrigerator with a little force with both hands, Qi Lu curiously followed over to check, and found that there was a secret door behind the wall, the color was as snow-white as the latex paint of the wall, and ordinary people really couldn't see that there was a secret door if they didn't pay attention

Pei Liping opened the secret door, and there were two small blue and white porcelain vases several inches long, and after he took them out, he returned to the living room and put the porcelain vases on the coffee table in front of the three of them

"Wait a minute, you two, I'll take care of the Bao Gu food first," Pei Liping said as he pulled out the cork of one of the slightly smaller porcelain bottles with his rich hand

Under the bright light, a small snake head as bright as silver poked out from the mouth of the bottle, first cautiously stretched out the snake letter and kept probing around, and then the porcelain bottle shook a little, it drilled out of the mouth of the bottle, and landed firmly on the table

Ding Xiaolan trembled with fright, and her body unconsciously approached Qi Lu, she really didn't expect that such a big snake could be contained in such a small bottle

The snake was nearly a meter long, had a pure white head, and its whole body was covered with black and white rings, and as its fat body entrenched on the table, the entire coffee table became extremely small

Qi Lu patted Ding Xiaolan's fragrant shoulder with his hand, signaling her not to be afraid, and then asked Pei Liping with a smile: "Silver krait"

"Hmm," Pei Liping whispered, "It's not an ordinary silver krait, but a rare species of silver retribution in Yunnan."

Qi Lu frowned slightly, the silver krait snake is extremely poisonous, this silver retribution is more violent, the poison can reach the point of seeing blood and sealing the throat, where the person who has been bitten by it will die of breathing difficulties and heart palpitations in less than a minute, and there is no time to heal at all, so it is rumored that it is a death messenger sent by God to punish the wicked, so it is called retribution

At this moment, this silver retribution snake is holding its neck up, except for the snake letter in its mouth, but its body is not moving, Qi Lu also relaxed when he saw its well-behaved appearance, presumably Pei Liping had cursed it in advance, so the snake would not move

"Miss Ding, please don't be afraid, it will soon become Bao Gu's belly," Pei Liping began to recite the incantation vaguely, Qi Lu couldn't hear what incantation he was reciting even with his ears pricked up

The silver retribution seemed to be induced, and the snake's head began to swing non-stop, and then suddenly stopped, and the snake's eyes stared directly at Pei Liping, as if he sensed something

"Wow" Pei Liping actually spit out a mouthful of filth on the table, and Ding Xiaolan covered her nose in disgust

The filth actually moved, and finally turned into the golden toad that Ding Xiaolan was familiar with

As if sensing danger, the silver retribution arched its whole body, staring at the golden toad, and the bright red snake hyacinth was ringing

The golden toad stood upright like a human, with its little baby-like hands, dancing and swinging, and where it stood, it began to ripple in circles of golden ripples

Retribution was the first to attack the Golden Toad, and it opened its mouth wide to bite the Golden Toad, but the Golden Toad dodged and dodged

Silver Retribution changed its strategy in an instant, it rolled its body and wrapped itself around the body of the golden toad, making it unable to move, the golden toad struggled hard, the snakes and frogs fought with each other, and in a moment they rolled down to the wooden floor under the coffee table

Ding Xiaolan was so frightened that she stood up, her body shrunk into a ball, and her hand grabbed Qi Lu's arm

Qi Lu lightly hugged Ding Xiaolan and said to Pei Liping: "I think your money Gu is no match for this snake."

Pei Li responded calmly: "The winner has not yet been decided, and the master may wish to wait for the ending"

Silver Retribution's body became tighter and tighter, the snake's mouth opened again, and the two poisonous fangs in its mouth could be clearly seen, and the golden toad was about to fall into the wind, and its body became slender, like an ugly baby fish, easily burrowing out of the snake's body

The little hands that were as pink as babies had become sharp claws, and with lightning speed, they tightly grasped the seven inches of silver retribution with these claws, and the snake's blood poured down the snake's body like a fountain

The snake swayed violently and rolled on the ground, but there was no way to shake off the golden toad that was clamping on it

Holding on to each other again, the strength of Zhong Yin's retribution became smaller and smaller, and the golden toad also opened his mouth, and there were actually two rows of sharp fangs in the frog's mouth, just when Qi Lu and the two were surprised, the golden toad had already begun to bite the body of the silver retribution, and while gnawing and eating, the flesh and blood in the mouth did not even let go of the snake bones, as if this silver retribution was delicious to it all over the body

Ding Xiaolan saw the miserable appearance of the snake's bloody flesh and blood, and her stomach suddenly burst into nausea, so she endured it and didn't vomit

The golden toad finally ate the silver retribution without leaving even a little residue, its snow-white skin bulged like a round ball, and only then did Pei Liping smile, he opened another blue and white porcelain vase, and recited a vague incantation in his mouth, the golden toad turned into a golden smoke with the sound of the incantation, and drilled into the porcelain vase, Pei Liping immediately stopped chanting the incantation and closed the bottle tightly

Qi Lu said coldly: "Mr. Pei feeds a silver retribution every time, which is really a big deal."

"The master said with a smile, if it weren't for the sudden changes in my family in the past few days, Bao Gu was hungry and faint, I would have been reluctant to feed this rare thing, I usually feed it once a week, turtles, snakes, toads and bats, these things are common things, I don't have to work hard to find them."

Qi Lu understood why this money Gu would incarnate into a toad and a snake, and the form was originally related to the living creatures that Pei Liping fed, these animals were also symbols of fortune and treasure in Chinese tradition

"Mr. Pei, don't you think Ms. Su's death is a bit of a surprise," After Pei Liping put the porcelain bottle containing Gu back and hid it, Qi Lu finally turned to the main topic

"Accident" Pei Liping's eyes widened, and then he returned to his natural nature, and he sighed softly: "It's really unexpected, I can't believe that such a thing will happen."

"If you have doubts about the cause of your wife's death, it's actually easy to understand the real reason," it was Ding Xiaolan who spoke, and when she saw that both of them looked at her in surprise, she explained her thoughts in her heart: "Qi Lu and you are both proficient in spells, Ms. Su hasn't passed the first seven yet, why don't you summon her soul to find out the cause of her death."

She had long heard her uncle Chen Jixian say that on the seventh day after death, the soul of the deceased would go home to visit his family once because he was full of nostalgia for life, and this night the family would prepare a meal for the soul of the deceased before the soul returned, so that he could set foot on the Huangquan Road and reincarnate again after eating

Ding Xiaolan was smug about the good idea she proposed, but when she found that Qi Lu and Pei Liping were both looking at her with gloomy faces, she was suddenly shocked in her heart, and wondered if I had said the wrong thing

"Cough" Qi Lu broke the embarrassing scene with a dry cough

"Xiao Ding, do you know why there is a custom among the people, which is the reason why when the deceased dies on the fifth or sixth seven-day death day, his family will invite monks or Taoist priests to perform rituals, and invite relatives and friends to come and participate in the sacrifice?"

"I don't know," Ding Xiaolan replied honestly

"Alas, it seems that you still don't know much about yin and yang," Qi Lu told her: "This is to prevent the soul of the deceased from encountering an accident during the first seven days and not being able to reincarnate smoothly and make up for the transcendent rituals, if someone performs the soul restoration technique on their relatives before the first seven, the deceased will be attached to this life, and he will come to his relatives every night without returning to the underworld."

"Isn't this bad?" Ding Xiaolan didn't realize what was at stake

Qi Lu said coldly: "Doing this is against the way of heaven, and ghosts will eventually drive their relatives crazy or drive them to death."

Pei Liping also interjected next to him: "This is just a better ending, because the newborn ghost is like a newborn baby, he has no ability to resist all kinds of evil qi in the world, once he is contaminated with an unclean breath in the days of his stay in the yang world, the light one will be scattered, and the heavy one can turn into a powerful ghost and harm sentient beings."

Ding Xiaolan's pretty face suddenly became hot, and she regretted her unscrupulous behavior

"But you don't have to blame yourself, because we can't recruit Ms. Su's soul at all," Qi Lu didn't want to embarrass Ding Xiaolan too much, so he said to her: "Do you remember what I said to you on the first day we came here?"

"What are you talking about" Ding Xiaolan was confused and didn't understand what Qi Lu meant

"This community is a treasure of feng shui, the aura of Tiangang is extremely strong, if the ghost stays here, it will be beaten to ashes."

Pei Liping sighed, and he said slowly: "Actually, I have already checked the cause of my wife's death, and the hospital also showed me the video of the day of the incident, no one wanted to harm her at all, and there was no unjust ghost attached to her, maybe I was busy with business and didn't care enough about her, so it led to such a tragedy."

"In case Ms. Su's death is really strange," Ding Xiaolan was still a little unwilling

"Forget it," Pei Liping waved his hand and said: "Even if I have a thousand knots in my heart, if I have a lot of trouble with the hospital on this matter, it will be against the way of a gentleman."

Even her husband didn't want to delve into it, Ding Xiaolan naturally had nothing to say, and at this time, she saw Qi Lu stand up and said: "Mr. Pei, since you have collected the money Gu, you don't have to worry about the future, I see that it is too late, you are still busy with your wife's funeral, so it is inconvenient for us to disturb, so we should go home and rest first, and come over tomorrow to help."

Pei Liping thanked Qi Lu again and sent them back politely

When Pei Liping opened the door, Qi Lu inadvertently saw an unsealed carton next to the bookcase, with several eye-catching bold characters on it: The compound codeine syrup pill box was empty, there were no medicine bottles, presumably Su Ling had already drunk the potion inside

Qi Lu's lips moved, and he suddenly surged up and wanted to ask about the compound codeine syrup potion, but in the end, he still suppressed this thought in his heart and didn't say it