Before they knew it, it was dark, and the bustling streets had been left behind them.

The black cat that was moving forward suddenly disappeared, and Jiang Wenhao said with a sad face: "It dumped us?" ”

"I think it's the destination that has arrived." Qi Lu pointed ahead, the wind blew through the treetops, and a building emerged from the shadow of the tree.

"Someone's home?"

"Yes, it's probably not an ordinary family, otherwise this strange cat wouldn't have led us here."

The two of them quickened their pace, walked dozens of meters, turned a corner, and the building appeared in their eyes.

Qi Lu said in surprise: "Professor, don't you think this house is very similar to the strange building in the cave when you came?" ”

Jiang Wenhao nodded and said, "Yes." ”

"Could it be that this is an ancient temple where monks live?"

"No way." Jiang Wenhao shook his head and said: "We are now in the Zhou Dynasty, at this time Sakyamuni has not been born in India, where did the temple come from?" ”

Qi Lu scratched the back of his head and smiled embarrassedly, it turned out that it was a building that looked a bit like a temple.

In less than a moment, they were at the end of the road, and the man was standing in front of the door of the building.

Without pushing the door, their bodies passed directly through the door, and inside the door was a large courtyard with bright lights, and many young people were busy in the courtyard.

Around them were many strange contraptions, some of which were made of wood and covered with animal skins; Some were cast in bronze and some unrecognizable metal material, and were carved with animal patterns.

Even the knowledgeable Jiang Wenhao had never seen these devices, let alone guessed their exact purpose.

"Professor, what are these things" Qi Lu was dumb in the middle of his words, because he saw a very strange thing.

The young people who were working in the yard all had identical faces, except for the slightly different colors of their clothes, and they looked like twin brothers.

"One, two, three" Qi Lu counted the number of people, and found that there were nine people with the same appearance in the courtyard, and couldn't help but turn his head to the professor and say, "Nine triplets? It's impossible, how did their parents give birth? ”

Jiang Wenhao also noticed this phenomenon, and he wanted to pull a young man to ask them where they came from, but unfortunately he only had his soul crossed over to the Zhou Dynasty, and no one would notice their existence at all.

At this moment, a young man with a compass-like tool passed through their body to his workbench to continue his unfinished work, not feeling the slightest sense that there were two strangers in the courtyard.

Qi Lu was surprised, because when the young man passed by, he saw a pale face, without a trace of blood, and without any expression, cold like a puppet controlled by someone, even his eyes were dull.

Jiang Wenhao said in a trembling voice: "I think there is a big problem with these people. ”

"Of course there is a problem." Qi Lu replied with a wry smile: "It is likely that they were controlled." ”

Candlelight suddenly lit up in a room at the front of the courtyard, and with the "creak" of the door, two young men came out of it, their appearance was no different from the busy young people in the courtyard, except that one was dressed in white and the other was dressed in green.

Qi Lu couldn't help but be startled, and subconsciously pulled the professor to hide behind the rockery.

Jiang Wenhao smiled and said: "Do you still need to hide, they can't see us." ”

Qi Lu showed an embarrassed expression, and he said softly: "It's really not used to being a ghost, let's just see what these guys are doing here." ”

"Let's all rest and get back to work tomorrow." The man in white was like the leader of these men, and as soon as he spoke, all the young men put down their tools and stood in a row.

They stood still, motionless, lifeless as stone statues. But the two young men who came out of the room were different, they were at ease, and they had the demeanor of nobility in their gestures.

The man in white sat down on a stone bench in the courtyard and took out two musical instruments from under the stone table, one a jasper flute and the other a sheepskin drum.

"Tomorrow we are going to the capital to meet the king, are you ready?" The man in white asked the man in green clothes who looked exactly like him standing beside him.

"Ready." The man in Tsing Yi spoke in a humble tone, like his entourage.

Jiang Wenhao was nothing, he could hear their thick Guanzhong accent from the conversation between the two. Qi Lu was a little impatient, because he couldn't understand a word of the two men's words.

In a moment, the melodious sound of music sounded, and the flute sound was ethereal, like a heavenly sound. The man in white played the flute in one hand and beat the drum with the other, the drumming was sometimes eager, sometimes rich, like a raging wave crashing on the shore.

The people in Tsing Yi danced calmly to the beat of the drums, and their light posture moved slowly like a light cloud and turned like a whirlwind, and the beautiful dance steps could not help but make people intoxicated.

"Good music, good dance, it's a perfect match!" Qi Lu praised forgetfully.

"It turned out to be a guest." The music stopped abruptly, and the man in white said to the man in Tsing Yi who had stopped dancing, "Hong Yi, please invite our guests to come and sit down." ”

"Can you hear us?" Although Qi Lu couldn't understand the words of the man in white, he also realized that he had been discovered, so he and Jiang Wenhao walked out from behind the rockery calmly.

Seeing these two strangers who had trespassed into the courtyard without permission, the man in white frowned slightly, and then said with a smile: "These two are not locals, right?" ”

Jiang Wenhao replied a little embarrassed: "Yes, we are from the far south, and we accidentally entered your house, and I hope you will bear with us." ”

"Dongyi people?" The man in white bowed slightly, and immediately said in the same accent as the professor: "Everyone who comes is a guest, please sit down." ”

Now Zi Qi Lu no longer had to listen to his bird language irritably, he stepped forward and said with a grin, "It turns out that you can speak our dialect." ”

"I can speak thirty-six languages, you Dongyi are the descendants of Fuxi, and you are already connected to the Central Plains, so you can still speak a few words." The man in white bowed his hand.

"That's amazing!" Qi Lu's tongue swirled a little.

However, Jiang Wenhao was more steady, and he also learned the gesture of the man in white and replied, "May I ask the son's surname?" ”

"In the lower Yanshi, it is a scattered person in the countryside."

"Yanshi!" Jiang Wenhao and Qi Lu looked at each other, with a look of surprise in their eyes.

It is said that after seeing the delicate products left by Yanshi, Lu Ban never showed off his skills in front of others for the rest of his life.

Lu Ban is also a person, he is the ancestor of the carpenter, even he admires the skills of the master, no wonder this man in white will be called the world's first craftsman.

"I have admired the name for a long time. It is really a blessing to be able to meet the skilled craftsman who is known as the world's first. Qi Lu hurriedly saluted him.

Yan Shi sighed: "I have lived in seclusion here for decades, and the world does not know where I came from, and now even a stranger knows my name, no wonder the king will send someone to summon me into the palace." ”

Seeing that Qi Lu and the two were still standing, Yanshi smiled embarrassedly, "Oops, I almost forgot that you two are just living souls. ”

Yan Shi took out two spiritual runes made of grass from his long sleeves, and recited a spell, and the talismans immediately burst into flames. He covered the two flames at Qi Lu and the others, and Qi Lu only felt that his body was hot, as if there had been some kind of change. He hesitated and folded his hands together, realizing that he could touch each other.

Yanshi smiled and said, "Please be seated." ”

The two of them sat down hesitantly, this time they really sat on the stone bench, and they no longer felt like they were touched.

Qi Lu exclaimed: "I didn't expect the master to be able to spell." ”

"In my early years, I made a few Fang Shi friends, and I still know a little bit about the five elements of yin and yang."

Yan Shi's words were obviously too modest, Qi Lu had already seen from the soul rejuvenation solid spell technique in his hand just now that Yan Shi's spell cultivation was very profound, and it was very comparable to others.

The Yanshi asked again, "I see that your face should not be destroyed, why did you come to my house with a broken soul?" ”

"This" Jiang Wenhao was thinking about how to explain to him that he had come here through time and space, when he heard Qi Lu preemptively say: "It's all because I'm not good at learning arts, so I didn't come here in a daze." ”

The Yanshi said, "I'd better help you return to your body, otherwise you will be delayed, and you will only be afraid that you will really become a lonely ghost." ”

The soul of a living person is called a living soul after it leaves the body, and the soul of the deceased can be called a ghost when it leaves the body.

Because of the heavy yang energy of the living soul, it can also come out to wander during the day. However, if the living soul is separated from the body for too long, his yang energy will gradually disappear due to the sun's scorching for too long, and finally he will not be able to return to the body, and he will become a real ghost and go to the underworld to be reincarnated.

Yanshi naturally understood this truth, and heard Qi Lu say that his mana was not good, so he wanted to help.

"Then there's Master Lao."

Seeing that Jiang Wenhao hurriedly agreed, Qi Lu quickly rejected his kindness and made up a lie temporarily. "We've dropped something, and if we don't find it, the owner will punish us."

Jiang Wenhao then remembered that the bronze ancient mirror was gone, so he stopped making a sound and let Qi Lu pull in front of Yanshi.

"I don't know if my friend dropped something, can you help?"

"No, just land in the grass on the way we came, and we'll make a mark, and we'll find it when we get back." Qi Lu didn't want to be sent back to the modern age by Yanshi with a spell so soon, and he had a stomach full of questions waiting for this legendary celebrity to answer.

So Qi Lu's eyes rolled slightly, and he said with a smile: "Coming to your mansion today is really an eye-opener for us remote people." But I'm a little curious, and I don't understand some things, can I ask the master? ”

"If you have any questions, you might as well raise them, and if you can answer them below, you will naturally not hide them."

Qi Lu pointed to the young people who stood still and looked exactly like Yanshi and said, "Are they all your brothers?" ”

Hearing this, Hong Yi, who was standing next to Yanshi, couldn't help laughing.

"Hong Yi, don't be rude." Yanshi then said to Qi Lu: "I must have scared the two of them, but in fact, they are not human. ”

"Ghosts?" Jiang Wenhao's teeth suddenly fought.

"Don't panic, sir." The Yanshi glanced at Hong Yi, who walked up to one of the young men standing and unbuttoned his clothes.

Qi Lu and Jiang Wenhao's eyes widened, and they actually saw a wooden skeleton under their clothes, and there were gear-like things connected between the bones. Hong Yi took off the young man's face again, and it turned out to be just an elaborate mask made of animal skin.

"Oh my god, isn't this a robot?" Qi Lu secretly stuck out his tongue, hurriedly stood up with Jiang Wenhao, saluted Yanshi again, and said, "The master is a genius, and his skills are really unparalleled in the world. ”

"Alas, it's all something that doesn't go into the stream, and it's hard to be elegant." Yanshi's cheeks were slightly red, and he hurriedly got up and invited them to take a seat.

After the two sat down again, Jiang Wenhao also raised his own questions to Yanshi: "When I entered the door just now, I heard that the master said that he wanted to enter the king, and let your friend rehearse the dance, I don't know what the intention is?" ”

Yan Shi sighed, "I don't know who revealed my whereabouts, but the king knew that I lived here, so he sent an official to ask me to bring him the best handicrafts, and wanted me to help in front of the hundred officials." ”

The king mentioned in Yanshi's mouth is King Zhou Mu, the son of heaven in his time, Jiang Wenhao already knew this when he studied history, but what exquisite things will he take out this time to dedicate to King Zhou Mu? The professor's curiosity grew, and he asked again.

Yanshi smiled, pointed to Hong Yi, who returned to his side, and said, "My treasure is him." ”

"Are you saying that this brother's dancing skills are amazing, and even the king's concubines can't compare with him?"

"That's just one of the reasons, not the main one." The Yanshi smiled mysteriously.

At this moment, Jiang Wenhao remembered the record about Yanshi in "Liezi Tangwen", and he suddenly realized the meaning of Yanshi's words, and his face turned gray in an instant.