Zishan Daoist said: "Xiaolin, this is the situation now, the clue is broken. What are your plans? ”

I was dumbfounded when asked, I originally wanted to take his hitchhiker, and I would go wherever he went. I squeaked and whispered, and everything was arranged by the sermon.

Zishan Dao said patiently: "Don't listen to my arrangement." Let me ask you, what is the purpose of your visit? ”

He looked at me with a smile on his face. Of course, I can't say my purpose, but if I don't say it, it's equivalent to not trusting other people's Taoist leaders.

I scratched my head and didn't want to lie, and I didn't want to tell the truth, so I could only giggle.

Zishan Dao sighed, "Xiaolin, we can't do this, you and I have our own purposes, it's more convenient to do our own, you always follow me, it's not like that." Isn't your business done? ”

I'm red-faced, and I can't say that I can only get things done if I follow you.

Seeing that I didn't speak, Zishan Daoist said: "At present, this is the case, Old Man Fan is dead, and I don't know what to do next, it doesn't make sense for you to follow me." Let's go our own way. ”

The more he said that, the more suspicious I became, Zishan Daoist must have found the next clue, and he was in a hurry to get rid of me.

If I follow him again, if I don't talk about things that are not done well, it will still cause him to have strong resistance, and it will be too late when the time comes.

I came up with an idea and pretended to be helpless, "Oh, in that case, I have to listen to the sermon and go our own way." ”

"That's right." Zishan Dao had a teachable expression, "Okay Xiaolin, since you and I are here, I won't embarrass you, this place will be left for you to check slowly." I don't take it anymore, so I'll go. ”

As he spoke, Daoist Zishan put away all the written materials, re-locked them in the rattan box, and left with them. I was about to greet him, but the long one slipped fast enough, and the soles of my feet smeared with oil "swished" out of the stone chamber, and disappeared.

I don't think it's right, I want to keep up, think about it, it's not very good, and we're not such cheeky people.

I and the others are still in the secret room, the eldest son, the second wife and the housekeeper or something, wherever I go, these people will hide on the other side, as if they have seen a ghost. But don't say it, I'm not a ghost in this world.

I was impatient and waved my hand: "Hurry up, don't get in my way here." ”

If these people are pardoned, they will run out, the small door of the secret room is not big, they are crowded there, the eldest prince is angry, and he "snaps" at these housekeepers, and yells who dares to rob Lao Tzu. He was the first to run away, and the second wife also went out, and in the end, there was only one housekeeper left to leave, my heart moved, this old boy is the henchman of Old Man Fan, only he can enter and exit here freely, and he can't be allowed to go like this.

"You stay." I said hello.

The butler looked back at me, his face pale, his legs were limp, and he leaned against the wall and slipped straight down.

I walked over slowly, the housekeeper was a mouse gall, his face was as white as paper, and he held his fists: "I, I was wrong, give it to me during the New Year's holidays...... Give you the old burn paper, burn the boys and girls......"

"Don't talk nonsense." I came up to him and crouched on the ground staring at him. The housekeeper was really scared, and beads of sweat the size of beans oozed from his head and trickled down his cheeks.

It's good to see him like this, and he doesn't faint. I didn't want to scare him too much, so I said, "I'll just ask you one question, and I'll let you go when I'm done." If I'm not satisfied, I'll pester you, and I'll pester! ”

"I, I say it all, I say it all." The butler knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

"Why does Master Fan abuse the eldest lady so much?" I asked.

The housekeeper stopped moving, raised his head, and his head was bleeding, and he trembled and said, "Very, it is likely to be related to the life experience of the eldest lady." ”

"How?"

The butler's throat moved up and down, "The eldest lady is from an official eunuch's family, and her family was copied before she went to the Jiaofang Division to become an official prostitute." ”

"I know all of this." I say.

"Actually, it is not allowed to redeem oneself as an official prostitute," said the housekeeper, "and the lord spent a lot of effort and money to open the joint and redeem the eldest wife." ”

"It's cost so much, why don't you cherish it? And abuse. I asked, confused.

The housekeeper subconsciously looked at this gloomy stone house and said softly, "You always think about it, how did the master die?" It was the cultivator who went mad and died. Before he married the eldest wife, he wouldn't be able to cultivate immortals at all. ”

I was shocked, "You mean to say that the old man's method of cultivating immortals was learned from the eldest lady?" ”

"Exactly." The housekeeper shook his head and said: "I don't know what's going on here, but judging from the clues of serving the master, the thing should be like this: when the master met the eldest lady in the teaching department, he accidentally learned that the eldest lady's family originally had some cheats or formulas and mental methods about cultivating immortals. The old man was very interested, after all, he wanted to live longer when he was old, and like an immortal, he spent a lot of money to redeem the eldest wife. But the eldest lady's mouth is very hard, and if she doesn't say it, the old man will torture and abuse him vigorously. ”

"Then the eldest lady told him the fake secret book of cultivating immortals, and the old man went mad and died?" I asked.

The housekeeper hurriedly waved his hand: "I don't know about this." It's too secretive for us to ask. ”

"Let's go." I waved my hand.

The butler ran out with a rolling belt, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

When he was gone, I walked around the stone house, unable to touch the real object, so I could only stare dryly. The mind is quite confused, everything that happens here is not reasonable, nothing is right. But I can't say where it is unreasonable.

The most important thing now is to quickly find the whereabouts of Old Man Fan, if you want to see people alive or dead, you will see corpses, don't try to make a broken bamboo pole to fool me.

This stone house is that big, but I have an unconventional instinct that there must be something critical in this room, and I haven't discovered it yet.

I came to the cross, stood on it, and measured it. This cross is indeed custom-made, only for women, and it is slightly smaller for men to go up. I saw the whip thrown on the ground again, and imagined that Old Man Fan tied the eldest lady to the cross and whipped it...... To be honest, he is so old, if he really wants to pick up his arms and pump people, it is also a hard work, and it is really not something that ordinary old men can persevere.

There were braziers, soldering irons, and other things on the ground, and after the whip was whipped, they were then roasted and burned on the body,...... It occurred to me that something was wrong and grabbed a little thread tail.

In this world, Mr. Fan has become a rich and powerful man, enjoying a lifetime of happiness, catching a woman, getting the secret of becoming an immortal, and venting his desires and emotions by abusing women, all of which does not look like the setting of the bardo realm.

The bardo realm is quite sadistic, even heart-wrenching, I have gone through it many times, and almost every level is poking your heart. The most painful things in life that you don't want to face are all manifested in the bardo realm, which is called purgatory or judgment, which is more appropriate.

But in this world, Mr. Fan is a winner in life, what he wants to come, what he does, a bit like a dream of the Spring and Autumn Period. All wishes come true, and desires can be vented wantonly.

Isn't this the bardo realm?

Thinking of Zishan Dao Chang's mysterious smile, when I said that this is the realm of the bardo, his face was full of mocking expressions.

Ever since I came here, I've been suspicious that everything doesn't fit the setting of the bardo realm.

This isn't the bardo realm, so what is it?

It occurred to me that I had overlooked a fundamental and critical question.

The bardo realm can only appear within seven days of death, when the state of the person is the bardo body. And at this moment, Old Man Fan is not dead!

He was lying on the hospital bed and still breathing, and there was no actual death, so it was impossible for the bardo realm to appear, what kind of place is this?

I think the answer is about to come out, could it be some kind of fantasy or a dream that the old man had before he died?

I thought about it for a while, and the more I pondered it, the more it looked, if I deduced it like this, the old man would be able to make his wish come true, so that now he is likely to have become an immortal ...... If he wants to become an immortal, he can become an immortal, and he has become an immortal state that he thought he was.

Then, it's easy to find Mr. Fan. The clues are right in front of you.

Thinking of this, I hurriedly searched around the stone house, found nothing meaningful again, came out of it, and returned to the front yard.

The eldest son, the second wife, and the housekeeper are discussing countermeasures behind closed doors. They all knew that what happened to the old man was very strange and could not be handled with common sense, so they put aside their prejudices with each other and began to go through the process of peace negotiations.

I was invisible, they didn't know I was coming, watching these people discuss positive plans, I suddenly thought of a possibility, could this harmonious scene also be some kind of old man's wish and desire? This scene reflects reality, and the children of the old Fan family can live in harmony after the death of the old man.

At this time, I suddenly found that the chief of Zishan Dao was no longer in the house, and this old Taoist was nowhere to be found!