This time, Wang Ji visited, not alone, but with a large team of people and horses, there are more than a dozen of the old road alone, it is estimated that this Gan Xuguan is the whole army dispatched, and in addition to these old roads, there is also a group of five big and three thick strong men, even Master Lu, who has been mixed in Baoqing for decades, also looks at the face, it is estimated that they are all foreigners, "The people can be invited in Baoqing locally, why invite them from other countries?" Although Master Lu wondered in his heart, he didn't say it.

After some greetings, Wang Ji made another request to He Yongwan: he would take these people to "work" at night, hoping that He Zhixian would be able to make it convenient, and by the way, send a few officials to maintain order and evacuate the crowd of onlookers. According to Wang Ji, this work will take three days, and no one can watch the "work site" during this period, He Yongwan agreed without thinking about it, but after these people started to work, He Yongwan felt puzzled.

It turns out that the place where this group of people work is the most deserted vacant land in Baoqing City, not far from the city wall, according to the current standard there is an area of about five or six thousand square meters, no one has lived since the first Tang Dynasty, and no one has opened a shop to do business, and the strangest thing is that these people only work at night, and go back to the store to sleep during the day, leaving only Wang Ji alone at the scene to close his eyes and recuperate, and the guards everywhere work in three shifts, but only Wang Ji is one in a row, it seems that this person does not need to rest at all, and all the guards must face outward and cannot turn back, At first, there were some ordinary people around who wanted to see the excitement, but they were coaxed away from dozens of meters, and even He Yongwan wanted to go in and have a look, but he was blocked by Wang Ji outside the isolation circle; Originally, out of curiosity, He Yongwan wanted to ask the old Taoists and people who lived in the store, but he didn't expect that before he could speak, the people who were asked knelt down, and even begged the adults not to ask anything.

On the night of the third day, the old Taoists of the inn where they had stayed suddenly disappeared, and at this time, Wang Ji had the three iron coffins transported to the open space overnight. In the second half of the night, the missing group of old Taoists suddenly recited the scriptures and carried two coffins from outside the city gate, which seemed to be newly dug up, and after that, even the guards were sent home, and the next day, the old Tao and the people who lived in the inn left early in the morning. walked away in an instant, and the innkeeper handed He Yongwan a note: Lord He is the blue sky of the world, Shen my family is wronged, and there is nothing to repay the praise, only pray for the safety of Baoqing, in order to repay the grace of the reincarnation of the adult; Now the grievances have been removed, the heavens have been purified, and the people can live in peace. If the sky is as old as ever, the mirror is as good as yesterday, and the people's hearts are molded, then all ghosts will not invade. In addition, the place where we cast the spell must not be touched, and once we see the sky. Evil will turn back, and the source of praise will be gone, and there will be no restraint.

In the first few sycophantic words, He Yongwan didn't care very much. Only the last sentence "once you see the sky, you will turn back", which means that the "construction site" that put the officials under martial law must not break the ground, otherwise the evil will come back. Since then, there has been no evil incident in Baoqing. And after the common people heard that it was the three ghost immortals who personally expelled the demons, the people's hearts also stabilized a lot, and the news spread to the nearby Zhou Mansion. Some of the people who had previously moved away did come back quite a bit.

Later, He Yongwan came to Ganxuguan again, and learned that Baoyuan was Wang Ji's Taoist number, and when he wanted to see Wang Ji again to thank him in person, he knew that Wang Ji himself had long since disappeared, and the old Taoists did not say a word about the night of the spell. The people who witnessed the ritual were all foreigners, and their traces were nowhere to be found, and what happened that night became a mystery.

After Emperor Hui and Emperor Qin were kidnapped by the Jin soldiers, the rule of the Northern Song Dynasty came to an end, in order to avoid the war, a large number of people fled to the south of the Yangtze River, and many people settled in Baoqing, including some large families with thousands of wealth, and at this moment, the family dug out the iron coffin of Liu Weidi's ancestral family is one of them. At this time, He Yongwan's decree of "no one is allowed to break the ground" has long been remembered, and Baoqing Mansion is overcrowded, so Liu Jiazu bought this "no groundbreaking" vacant land and built a house.

Hearing this, Xue Laoxian's eldest apprentice Guo Fangru's face also turned white, the "resentment of the earth's eyes" has always been a "cancer" in the Daomen, even the famous Quanzhen Patriarch Chongyangzi can't do anything, how can a second-rate Taoist like Xue Laoxian do it? What's more, it is the apprentice of the "second-rate Taoist", although I don't know how the Wang Ji did it at the beginning, but since he left He Yongwan with the note of "the source of praise has gone, there is no restraint", it must also be the method of burning the jade and ending up together, at that time, He Yongwan had the great grace of redressing his grievances for his honor, and it is also logical for him to repay him with death, and now he doesn't even know the rich man Liu Wei, even if he knows the method of dying together, he can't put his life into it......

"How? Give him the money back? Guo Fangru asked the master tremblingly.

Xue Laoxian actually doesn't really care about the two hundred taels of silver incense money, but there is an unwritten rule in Daomen, that is, "if you collect money, you must do something", there is no such thing as returning the money, or you don't accept the money at all, as long as you collect the money, even if you take your life, you have to be hard-headed, otherwise don't mix it up in the local area, you will be laughed at by the people, and the current situation is: this so-called "resentment of the earth's eye", even if you really take your life, you may not be able to get it......

In the "Historical Records", Chen Sheng and Wu Guang once said such a famous sentence when they were in Daze Township: "If you die now, you will die, and if you die, you will die if you die!" "It means that running away today is death, doing great things is also death, and it is also death, so why not die vigorously?

And Xue Laoxian's thoughts are somewhat similar to Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's, but the meaning is the opposite: it is notorious to return the silver today, and it is also notorious not to return the silver, since they are all notorious, why not roll up the silver and slip away?

After thinking about it, Xue Laoxian took his two apprentices and apprentices and grandchildren, as well as all the valuables and silver that could be taken away, rented a big car and left Baoqing overnight, and when Liu Wei was able to send someone to Tongyunguan to urge him the next day, the Taoist temple was already empty.

After learning the news that these stinky Taoist priests took the silver and slipped away, Liu Wei was half angry, although it was a big family, but this silver was not blown by the wind, two hundred taels of silver was serious! In anger, Liu Wei simply began to find someone to build a shelf and install a hanging lock, preparing to dig out the coffin and get it away......

Ten days later......

Liu Zhaotong, the twenty-second generation of Maoshan Prison Hospital* traveled to Baoqing, and his waist was almost used, and he happened to see a large family doing a funeral, so he came forward and knocked on the door to ask if he wanted to use the method to make up some entanglement, but he didn't want to enter the courtyard, and found that there were five large coffins parked in the mourning hall at the same time, and there were few people in a huge courtyard, only an elderly housekeeper and two or three little scholars were busy coming and going.

With a kind of professional sensitivity, Liu Zhaotong feels that the family seems to be a little strange, if it is not an infectious disease, it is basically impossible for a family to die five people at the same time, but if it is really an infectious disease, this place should have been sealed off by the government, how can there be a family working in the yard?

After asking the old housekeeper about the cause and effect, Liu Zhaotong knew that the original family's surname was Wang, and a few days ago when digging the wine cellar dug out a few iron coffins, at first wanted to invite the Taoist, but the Taoist priest in the city received the money and ran away, the old man moved the coffin himself in anger, but because the coffin was too heavy, the rope broke when hanging out with a sling, and the coffin was inserted in the soil after it fell, and it could not be hung up again anyway. The old housekeeper left behind is named Zhou Liang, because the master has been kind to himself, so he stayed alone to collect the corpse of the master and guard the spirit, these little scholars are also orphans adopted by Zhou Liang, but at night, even Zhou Liang did not dare to continue to live in the Wang family, but took a few little scholars out to live in the store, according to the surrounding people, at night, the Wang family from time to time will come to the sound of several people crying at the same time, and it is impossible to distinguish whether it is a man or a woman. For this matter, Zhou Liang also went to Ganxu Temple, but as soon as the Taoist people in Guanzhong heard that three iron coffins had been dug up, they all shook their heads like rattles, saying that they could not do anything about this matter.

This Liu Zhaotong is also an unconventional person, listening to Zhou Liang said this is also fresh, so he personally went to the excavation site of the iron coffin to see, although as the Maoshan Education and Supervision Institute, it can be regarded as well-informed, but this Liu Zhaotong has indeed never seen this kind of iron coffin but what it is, helpless, Liu Zhaotong also came to Ganxuguan after asking Zhou Liang for some travel expenses.

Knowing that it was the prison of the Maoshan Sect, Chen Guanyun, the host of Gan Xuguan at that time, was of course polite, but he was reluctant to mention the matter of the iron coffin, but this Liu Zhaotong kept asking questions, in order not to be accused of the big faction, Chen Guanyun told Wang Ji about going to Baoqing Mansion that year, only to hear that Liu Zhaotong was also stammering......

In the principle of Taoism, the living beings in the world are roughly divided into three categories, namely people, animals and evil ghosts, the word "living souls" in the early period of Taoism is actually explained separately, that is, "life" and "spirit", life is the living creatures of people and animals, and the spirit is the evil ghost*, and among the three, animals and evil ghosts are the closest, and even some animals can show the same characteristics as evil ghosts, such as liking yīn qi and even being able to exude yīn qi and so on. The boundary between animals and evil spirits, but because the previous presiding officer who was present at the scene at that time had been feathered for many years, the specific situation was not very clear......

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Note*:

Prison Yuan: The title of the position of the Daomen, the host of the Ping era narrated the classics for the Guanzhong people, and during the major Zhaijiao period, he was the assistant to the host.

Evil ghosts: In the theory of Taoism, ordinary wandering ghosts are not considered "evil ghosts", the so-called evil ghosts refer to the souls that cannot be reincarnated because of grievances, ordinary wandering ghosts and wild ghosts can be reincarnated quickly because they do not have grievances, and they do not exist in the world for a long time, so the ancestors of the Taoist sect did not classify these souls into a large category like humans and animals, and evil ghosts often have to wander the world for decades or even hundreds of years because of their resentment. Therefore, Daomen classified these sub-ghosts, which can exist all year round like humans and animals, into a separate category, and together with humans and animals, they are collectively referred to as "living beings"