The artist chatted with Qi Zihuan, who was chattering with the gods, for a while, and then took the bamboo frame and left, saying that today's wine money had been earned.

Qi Zihuan didn't have to follow in vain, he still sat alone under the willow tree, looking at the river passing through the city and the pedestrians weaving back and forth, but he was also relaxed.

After hanging around here for a long time, I also broke with the artist for a while, so naturally I didn't ask for any important information.

That's normal.

Not to mention the hidden identity behind this person, even if he is an entertainer who walks the rivers and lakes and eats mixed food, he should have already practiced Tai Chi Kung Fu to see people talk, how could it be so easy to be tricked out of words.

Qi Zihuan came to see him perform melon planting every day for the past two days, and occasionally chatted a few words when he was free, also because the black cat did not appear and had nothing to do.

You can't go to the theater anymore to do some copying work.

Besides, now that the Tang Dynasty has just passed, almost all the best poets in the entire Tang Dynasty have come out, and if they only say poetry and not words, Qi Zihuan can't actually come up with any works that can shock the four seats.

After sitting quietly for a while, Qi Zihuan patted the dust on his body, and Shi Shiran walked towards another place where his daily life trajectory was fixed-Qinglong Temple in the east of the city.

Look at the tricks and visit the temple, this is Qi Zihuan's idle life.

The monks of Qinglong Temple are different from the Zen monks of later generations, and their practice is Tantra, also known as Tang Tantra. Master Huiguo, the abbot of the temple, is a national teacher today, and it is said that he has great power. One of the important purposes of the Tang Dynasty sending Kuhai into the Tang Dynasty was to worship under the Huiguo Sect and learn Tantric Buddhism.

Of course, according to the timeline, it didn't take long for him to fulfill his wish, and finally returned to China after completing his studies, founded Shingon Buddhism, and formed the Dongmi sect.

In addition to the inheritance that flowed to Japan, there was also the marriage of Princess Wencheng in Tibetan Province during the period of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and also brought many Tantric classics into Tibetan Province, combined with the Indian Buddhism brought by Guru Padmasambhava and the local beliefs of Tibetan Province, and gradually formed a Tibetan Esoteric system.

On the contrary, Tang Mi, who was extremely prosperous at this time, basically broke off its inheritance in Middle-earth after a few years due to Tang Wuzong's extermination of Buddhism.

Probably because of the cat demon for the sake of the haunting, there are more pilgrims who come here to worship the Buddha and worship the Buddha, plus some visitors who come to visit, the Qinglong Temple can be described as crowded, and the incense is prosperous. Qi Zihuan walked around in the middle of the crowd at will, and when he encountered some forbidden places, he didn't force them, and he turned around and left very well-behaved.

With his identity as a small Ming Jing Kejinshi, he has no official or position, so naturally he will not be able to see Master Huiguo, the national teacher of the dynasty.

He didn't care very much, but took out a small half of the money he mortgaged the mansion in exchange for donating merit, and soon a monk came to express his gratitude and invited him into the guest room for tea.

At this time, the method of sencha was just spreading, and the temple was the first to drink more authentic tea, unlike restaurants and liquor stores that add all kinds of strange things such as star anise, cloves, oil, salt, and even diced meat.

Qi Zihuan drank tea slowly, pretending to have no intention of talking about the demon cat, and the monk who accompanied him said that Qinglong Temple actually sent a few powerful monks to Chen's mansion to help that night, but Chen Yunqiao had always liked and hated Buddha, and after a few words of ridicule, he drove them out, so they couldn't do anything about the tragedy in the mansion later.

It's just that after that, Qinglong Temple still sent some people to the street every day, on the one hand, to explain Buddhism to some believers, to calm the people's hearts, and on the other hand, to pay attention to the traces of demon cats, but there is nothing to gain for the time being.

Qi Zihuan nodded slightly, which can be regarded as a little unraveling the previous doubts.

When he watched the movie, he always wondered why the big temple, as a national teacher, was indifferent when the demon cat caused trouble to Chang'an.

At this time, it seems that the scene of the monk going to the street can't do any earth-shattering special effects, and it was all deleted by the director.

Qi Zihuan wanted to ask Master Huiguo about the situation again, but suddenly his face moved, as if he was using brain waves to communicate with others, and after a moment of daze, he put down the tea bowl and hurriedly left.

……

Chen's house.

Bai Juyi and Monk Kukai were also drinking tea.

With that eternal smile on his face, Kukai took the tea bowl and smelled it before bringing it to his lips and savoring it.

Bai Juyi sat on the side and watched Kukai drink tea, looking constipated.

From his point of view, they were now living in a spider cave. I hadn't seen it for two days, and Chen's Mansion was already covered with vines and dust, and there were three tea bowls on the dirty round table, full of cobwebs and branches, and even a black spider crawling slowly.

But Kukai just didn't see it, and he picked up the tea bowl and drank it without changing his face.

Bai Juyi watched as the spider took the opportunity to crawl into his mouth, and even had four feet exposed outside his mouth, constantly bending and stretching.

Then he grunted and was swallowed by Kukai.

"Come, tea, please." Chen Yunqiao sat across the table and greeted Bai Juyi very politely.

Bai Juyi probably thought that what he saw was an illusion at this time, but he looked at the tea bowl in front of him and squeezed out a few words with his face twitching: "Uh...... I'm not thirsty. ”

Chen Yunqiao laughed, not at all looking like he had just lost his wife.

Kukai also covered his mouth with his long sleeves and laughed along.

After laughing for a moment, Chen Yunqiao opened his mouth and asked, "Bai Juyi, have you finished writing your long-hatred song?" ”

Bai Juyi's face was pale, and he did not answer.

"I said it a long time ago, it must know that you are writing long hatred songs." Kukai also suppressed his laughter and began to drink tea by himself again.

"Not only do I know you're writing a long hate song, but I also know that you've already finished writing it, but you've just been dissatisfied." Chen Yunqiao leisurely stepped his right foot on the bench and continued: "It's no wonder that what you wrote is fake. ”

"You talk nonsense!" Bai Juyi was a little angry.

"Don't be annoyed...... Not to mention your long-hated songs, even the poems written by Li Bai to the concubine are not fake. ”

Bai Juyi was even more angry, slapped the case, and shouted: "You just say I'm fine, I dare to say that Li Bai's poems are also fake!" ”

As everyone knows, it was Li Bai's sentence "Clouds want clothes, flowers want to look" that aroused his interest in the past of the Xuanzong Dynasty, and at first he was just envious of that wonderful love, until he began to write long poems with all his heart, and it can be said that the whole person has fallen into it.

"Li Bai didn't see the concubine Niangniang at all when he wrote the poem, he just wrote a beautiful poem according to Gao Lishi's request." Chen Yunqiao spread his hands, "It wasn't until Li Bai finished writing the poem and threw the pen into the wine pool that he really saw his mother." But this poet Niangniang likes it very much. ”

"Why do you know what happened, who are you?" Kukai asked.

"For I was there, at the feast of bliss." Chen Yunqiao stood up and walked to the window, but there was the shadow of a cat on the ground, "I am Emperor Xuanzong's imperial cat, he was supposed to be with me for life, but he abandoned me after just one military accident, and ordered someone to bury me alive, but fortunately I escaped with my life." ”

"That's why you're harming the court?" Kukai clasped his hands in his sleeves and stood up as well, "What about Chen Yunqiao?" What kind of enmity do you have with him? ”

"It was his father who buried me."

Bai Juyi frowned and asked, "Why did you come out for revenge after so many years?" ”

"Although I had a grudge back then, I was trapped in the body of a black cat, and I could only blind Xuanzong's eyes when I broke into the palace...... Oh, you all say that he cried blind for the death of the concubine. Chen Yunqiao turned around, his expression was indifferent, as if he was stating something that had nothing to do with him, "Later, I sneaked into Chen's mansion and wanted to seek revenge on Chen Xuanli, but I accidentally ate the raw fish he poisoned, and I died under the bed in this room." Maybe the heavens see that I am pitiful, and let me not go away with a trace of resentment, and after all these years of accumulation, then I can turn into a black cat again, and let the heirs of those wicked people pay the price...... From then on, I only ate eyeballs. ”

"Then why do you always mention Yang Yuhuan? What exactly are you trying to tell us?"

Yang Yuhuan...... Isn't her fate the same as mine......"

At this point, Chen Yunqiao suddenly fell crooked, and there was no movement.

A somewhat familiar voice came from behind Bai Juyi.

"Ahem, the two of you are so leisurely, did you come to Chen's Mansion to drink tea again?"

As Qi Zihuan slowly stepped in, the vines and dust that had been tangled and spread were all gone, and the warm sunlight outside the house shone into the house, and the layout and furnishings inside the house were still the same as two days ago.

On the table, there are three bowls of fragrant tea.

Qi Zihuan glanced at Chen Yunqiao, who had fainted on the ground, and then began to look around the room.

"Don't look for it, it's long gone." Kukai knew what Qi Zihuan was looking for, and said with a smile.

"You see it?" Qi Zihuan squinted at Kukai.

"No, we received an invitation from Chen Yunqiao to come, and we should have been hit by the operation as soon as we entered the door."

"Can't you see through it?"

"Well, it's pretty powerful." Kukai shook his head and said with some loss, "There is more than one layer of illusion in it, and I thought I could see through it when I came in, but it wasn't until I saw the shadow on the ground that I realized that I was still in a deeper layer of illusion." And it didn't know when, it was long gone...... Lord Bai and I thought we were talking to it, and I was afraid that it was also the message it left for us when it cast the spell. ”

Bai Juyi was trying to move a heavy wooden bed by the window at this time, but let him grin his teeth, the wooden bed just didn't move.

Qi Zihuan and Kukai looked at each other and smiled bitterly, and stepped forward to help.

The bed moved away, and there was a dry cat skin under the bed.

"If so...... It died tragically here, so it's ...... to take revenge" Bai Juyi's expression was a little dazed.

Qi Zihuan carefully pinched the tail of the cat's skin with two fingers and lifted it up, with a look of disgust.

"Okay, okay, this is just a dead cat, if it's really a black cat, can it give you its bones like this? It's said that this monster understands illusion, why do you believe everything it says! ”

Qi Zihuan was smoked by the smell of the cat skin in his hand, and threw the cat skin out of the window with a wave of his hand, and taught Bai Juyi a lesson by the way.

Bai Juyi thought that the two masters were present, and they should have a ceremony to overtake the corpse of the black cat, but he didn't expect it to be thrown away like garbage by Qi Zihuan so casually, and he was still muttering: "But it said that it was the royal cat of the year...... It says that the feast of bliss is all fake......"

"I don't care what kind of cat it is, but the royal cat definitely doesn't look like this." Qi Zihuan rubbed the fingers that had just lifted the cat's corpse on the sheets.

At this time, even the Kukai monk was interested, leaned over and said, "Oh? I would like to hear about it. ”

Qi Zihuan glanced at Kukai and felt that he needed to popularize traditional Chinese culture for him, which could be regarded as a cultural export.

He stood up straight, his back to the setting sun, his whole face sinking into shadow, and said in a rare serious voice.

"A long, long time ago, there was a place called Kaifeng Mansion......"