When I got home, it was late at night.

Hui Niang took out the brocade box that Xing Ruyi gave her. She thought that this box contained something like powdered medicine or ointment, but she didn't expect that it contained a piece of clothing.

Hui Niang looked at the clothes in the brocade box, a little distracted. I don't know what thread this garment is woven from, the fabric is light and thin, but the tentacles are extremely delicate, like ...... It's like touching a baby's skin. The clothes are milky white, but under the reflection of the lamps and candles, they glow with colorful light, much like the legendary neon clothes and feathers that only gods can wear.

Hui Niang was a little excited, because she had never seen or worn such delicate clothes. With trembling hands, she took her clothes out of the brocade box, and then carefully rested them on top of herself. Then he looked at the door with trepidation, and listened to the movement in his in-laws' room. It seems that the in-laws are still entertaining those guests in the front yard, and they will not return to the backyard until midnight. She let out a sigh of relief, walked to the stove, followed the temperature of the fire, took off the clothes on her body layer by layer, and finally carefully put on the one in the brocade box. Then, to Hui Niang's surprise, the dress gradually merged with her skin, and disappeared at a speed that was visible to the naked eye.

Hui Niang was first surprised, then frightened, and then turned to surprise. Because through the bronze mirror in the room, she could clearly see that the scars on her body were gone. Not only is it gone, but even its skin has become as delicate and silky as a baby. With a shy face, she put on her close-fitting coat and looked at the bed that had already been made.

At this moment, Hui Niang actually had some expectations, hoping that her father-in-law would come back as soon as possible.

Sending Huiniang away, Xing Ruyi directly pulled the fox into the room.

"Why do you want me to give that brocade box to Hui Niang? Do you know what's in that box? ”

"Since I asked you to send it, I naturally know what is in there."

"You know! How would you know? Xing Ruyi circled around the fox: "I just got the brocade box back, I haven't even opened it, how do you know, you don't have ...... Sky! Look at my urgency, I almost forgot that you are a fox spirit, and you are a thousand-year-old fox from Qingqiu. You can read minds, and you can see through. The first time you see the box, you know that it contains clothes? ”

"I can read minds, but I can't see through. Even the old fox of Qingqiu is not capable of anything. The fox circled Xing Ruyi, "Don't surround me anymore, okay?" I'm going to get dizzy when you turn around. ”

"How do you know what's in there?"

"The smell! Because I smelled the unusual smell in that box. The fox pressed Xing Ruyi to the stool and poured her another cup of hot tea: "The clothes in the brocade box were obtained from Yunfu, and this dress must be inextricably related to the disappearance of the lady in Yunfu, isn't it?" You are very obedient, and you didn't use your ghost magic all afternoon, otherwise you can see that there are strange things in the Cloud Mansion. If you see it, you won't bring it back, but if you do, you think I can help you take a look. ”

"Sure enough, it's an old fox, and you've guessed everything." Xing Ruyi breathed a sigh of relief: "Not only did the Yun Mansion lose a lady, just this afternoon, this Mrs. Yun's personal maid, a girl named Hongliu, also disappeared in the room for no reason. At the time of his disappearance, the doors and windows were closed, and there was no sign of the house except for a puddle of water stains and some silk. So, I suspect it's the garment. ”

"On the basis?"

"Is a woman's sixth sense okay?" Xing Ruyi took a sip of water: "According to Mrs. Yun's personal maid Hongliu, this Mrs. Yun has always been diligent and thrifty, and the purchase at home is planned, which can be regarded as a standard virtuous wife and virtuous internal helper." But since she bought the dress, her temperament has changed drastically, and her disappearance seems to be related to the dress. As for the maid Hongliu, when I first went to Yunfu in the afternoon, I had seen her, but after a short period of time, she disappeared, and the place where she disappeared was also Mrs. Yun's bedroom, and when she disappeared, the clothes that were originally hung on the screen also had some subtle changes. Not only the size of the clothes, but also the color of the clothes have changed. Fox, you say, can this garment also be made into essence? ”

"Everything in this world, as long as there is spirituality, can become essence." The fox smiled and looked at Xing Ruyi: "Okay, I won't test you, if you take the test again, I'm afraid you won't be able to sleep well tonight." ”

"Can I understand that you know what the secret is hidden in your clothes?" Xing Ruyi stretched out his hand and hugged the fox's arm: "Tell me quickly, you don't know how depressed I felt when I stood in the Yun family's bedroom and couldn't find any clues, or even had no clue at all." This person, sure enough, can't open the plug-in, once the plug-in is used, he will no longer refuse to follow the step-by-step, down-to-earth, and the rules and regulations have been upgraded. ”

The fox understood the first half of Xing Ruyi's sentence, but the second half of the sentence confused him.

"What is a plug-in?"

"It's a ghost! I think back then, when I didn't have this thing, I was so diligent, and I was reading books and learning knowledge very seriously every day. When encountering problems, they also face difficulties and use their own wisdom to overcome them one by one. But now, I want to use ghost magic at every turn, or rely on you, and I feel like I'm getting more and more wasteful. ”

Xing Ruyi glanced at the fox aggrievedly, and lay on the table: "What to do, fox, I think the reason why I became a waste is because I was spoiled by you." ”

The fox glared and laughed helplessly: "After talking about it for so long, it turns out that it's all my fault." Well, it's my fault, who called you the woman in my minister's courtesy? Only when you are spoiled, only when you encounter things, you think of me inattentively, and think that you can only rely on me, will you not have the heart to leave me. If you use the words of you mortals to make a summary, is this my wife cultivation record? ”

Xing Ruyi laughed out loud, and the little depression in his chest also lit up with a smile.

"Okay, tell me quickly, what's going on with the clothes in the brocade box? Could it be that it is really like what the housekeeper of Yunfu said, an old dress ripped from a dead person? If it were old clothes, how rich the dead man must be! I don't think ordinary people will have that kind of fabric. ”

"Do you remember Mu Xi?"

"Of course, in the morning, aren't we still talking about woods? Why, this dress also has something to do with Mu Xi? ”

"Nope! I mean, do you remember that Muxi's face? ”

"Of course I do! Mu Xi said that her original face was destroyed by the thunder during the catastrophe, and at the suggestion of the mountain god's grandfather, she found the grave of General Li's ex-fiancée, took her face, and made it into a human skin mask. I was still worried about what to do with that female ghost? Who knew that you were quietly sent back to the underworld, but the centipede I saw at my husband's house, you still haven't given me a clear statement. ”

"My family Ruyi's memory is really good!" The fox stroked his forehead: "Let me answer your question about centipedes first." It's not that I didn't want to tell you before, it's that I don't think it's necessary. Because General Li's fiancée, I have already asked Cui Fujun to bring it back to the underworld, and the centipede is already dead, whether to say it or not, in my opinion, it doesn't matter. Unexpectedly, in your heart, you are still thinking about it. ”

"It's easy to say. You are a thousand-year-old vixen, so naturally you will not be afraid of that little centipede. I'm different, I'm just a little mortal, if I don't have you by my side, let alone a centipede essence, it's a small meat worm, and it will make me walk around the road tightly. Xing Ruyi made a very nervous expression: "But what you said just now, I understood it, that centipede was brought by a female ghost?" ”

"It can't be said that she brought it, it's simple, but it's not something that can be explained clearly in one or two sentences. General Li's fiancée, who died miserably, was nailed to a coffin by a seven-inch wooden nail after her death, and was buried in a place of evil wind and evil water. When the resentment overflows, it will be absorbed by the spirits around it, and the centipede is one of them. ”

"I've only heard that this cultivation needs to absorb the aura of heaven and earth, why does this centipede not absorb the aura of heaven and earth, but it wants to absorb this ghost qi?"

"You, you've really read too many miscellaneous books, and many of your thoughts about this world are too simplistic. Cultivation is to absorb the aura of heaven and earth, and there is nothing wrong with this. But the world is so big, and there are very few places with aura, otherwise everything in the world can become a monster.

The centipede you saw was the same as thousands of centipedes, but it accidentally strayed into that tomb, and happened to absorb the demon qi pouring out of them when Mu Xi was fighting with the female ghosts, so it began to take on the form of a demon.

To paraphrase what you just said, if this person has a plug-in, he will be lazy, and the same is true for the centipede, once it takes on the form of a demon, it wants more. So, it followed the trail of Mu Xi and the female ghost to Yunjiaji. The post house, it can't get in, in addition to the wood itself is relatively strong, in the post house, there are also a lot of Taoist rune paper. This centipede is not stupid and does not hit stones with eggs, so it follows the breath left by the female ghost and finds the home of the husband. ”

"It's not stupid, it's just a little bit of bad luck!" Xing Ruyi stretched out his little thumb and compared: "This centipede has been counted for thousands of miles, but it has not been calculated, you will appear!" ”

The fox nodded his chin: "Hearing you say that, it is indeed a little unlucky." ”

(Education 123 Literature Network)