"Scholar, you're awake!" Yan Chixia looked at Ning Caichen who woke up and said.

Ning Caichen looked up at the sun shining in outside the window, rubbed his head, and asked Yan Chixia on the side in a daze; "Where is this? How am I here! ”

After hearing Ning Caichen's words, Yan Chixia replied; "Of course, this is Lanruo Temple, you brought it here by me."

"Lanruo Temple! Didn't you say this place was haunted? Ning Caichen exclaimed in surprise when he heard it, and looked around in fear.

Yan Chixia nodded and said; "It's because I'm haunted that I brought you here. And we're going to share it with them tonight. ”

"Ahh We! After Ning Caichen pointed at Yan Chixia, he pointed at himself, but he really couldn't think of what he had to do here.

Yan Chixia got up and pushed open the window and explained; "Of course, without you, a scholar with fine skin and tender flesh, they wouldn't bother me. So tonight I'm going to use you as a primer to lure them out and get rid of them all. ”

Ning Caichen listened to Yan Chixia's words and said weakly to himself; "We don't have to do such a desperate job, in fact, it's not easy for them ghosts. Why don't we sit down and talk, have a good talk at the table and banquet, and then turn the conflict into a jade silk. ”

"You big-headed ghost! That old demon has put up with me for a long time, and if I don't take this opportunity to get rid of him, I won't be able to stay here here. Yan Chixia looked at Ning Caichen, who was retreating, and scolded angrily.

Ning Caichen looked at Yan Chixia, who had a resolute face, touched his head, and asked with some hesitation; "Bearded, is that Xiaoqian really a ghost?"

Yan Chixia looked at Ning Caichen, who was a little sad, then waved her hand at him and said; "Since you still have illusions, come with me." After saying this, Yan Chixia pushed the door and walked out.

"Bearded, where are you going? There are ghosts here! Bearded? Ning Caichen looked at Yan Chixia's disappearing back and quickly got up from the ground.

"What's going on! My head is so dizzy! Ning Caichen, who stood up in a hurry, held the table next to him with his hand, and couldn't stand staggeringly.

Just when Ning Caichen shook his head and wanted to be sober, Yan Chixia, who had originally left, retreated again.

"Open your mouth." Yan Chixia, who returned to the house, held a green paste-like object in her hand and approached Ning Caichen's mouth.

"Gross!" Ning Caichen looked at the green unknown object on the tip of his nose, retched, covered his mouth, and shook his head again and again.

"What is this? It smells so bad! Ning Caichen looked at the things in Yan Chixia's hand in disgust, and twisted his head to the side.

Yan Chixia looked at Ning Caichen's appearance, shook her head helplessly, and then explained; "Your body was cold, and yesterday you were a little angry, and you fainted. This is the herb I have for you, if you want to be okay quickly, just eat it, this is my unique secret recipe, it works. ”

"Herbs!" Ning Caichen looked at the thing in Yan Chixia's hand, which looked like green stool, and said with some fear; "It stinks, doesn't it? Can I not eat it? ”

Yan Chixia slapped the herbs in her hand on Ning Caichen's hand, and then replied affirmatively; "You don't want to eat it, do you? No problem. Anyway, you're going to lure that dryad out later, and if you want to die in Lanruo Temple tonight, then you don't have to eat it! ”

"Ahh Ning Caichen looked at the herbs in his hand, hesitated for a while, put them in his mouth, and then swallowed them desperately.

"It stinks! It stinks worse than stinky tofu! Ning Caichen covered his mouth with an ugly face, and the expression on his face was like eating a fly.

Yan Chixia looked at Ning Caichen's appearance and said unhappily; "Don't cry with a sad face, my medicine is very expensive, you should be able to eat it for anyone!"

Wiping the residue from the corners of his mouth, Ning Caichen kept stroking his stomach. Then while following Yan Chixia out of the door, he asked carefully; "Bearded, do you think Xiaoqian is really a ghost? And I'm sick, where are you going to take me? ”

Yan Chixia replied as she turned over her horse; "Take my medicine and you'll be fine. We are now going to get rid of the Dryad's imps, who are hiding in their respective urns during the day, and if we break the urn, we will be able to break the Dryad's arm, so that it will not be able to command these demons. As for the question of whether Xiaoqian is a ghost or not, you can see for yourself later. ”

After Ning Caichen listened, he felt a sense of relief in his body, and then he also turned over on another horse.

With the wielding of the horsewhip, the two walked down the beaten path.

"Bearded, why do you have to kill them? Do you have a grudge against that dryad? Ning Caichen looked at Yan Chixia, who kept turning direction, and asked loudly.

"I am right, he is evil. Since ancient times, good and evil have not been separated, if I see them harming others, and I don't get rid of them, what is the use of learning this ability? When Yan Chixia heard this, she tightened the bow and arrow on her back and replied.

After Ning Caichen heard these simple words, he looked at Yan Chixia with admiration on his face, not only for his mind.

"Bearded, can you beat them?" Ning Caichen slapped the mount under him a few times and chased after him.

"That tree spirit is a thousand-year-old tree, and its mana is on par with mine, and I don't know if I can get rid of the demon tonight." After saying this, Yan Chixia looked at Ning Caichen who ran to her side and asked; "Scholar, we may not be able to come back today, are you afraid?"

"Afraid, and not in general. But I figured it out, so I'm afraid I'm going to go, I can't forget Xiao Qian, so I want to see with my own eyes, Xiao Qian, whether she is a human or a ghost, and whether she was forced to drive by the tree demon" Ning Caichen finished speaking, patted the horse's head, and ran out quickly towards the front.

Looking at Ning Caichen who rushed out, Yan Chixia laughed quietly while speeding up; "Hahaha, when it comes to Xiaoqian, you kid is not even afraid of ghosts! You're so infatuated! But someone has taken a fancy to that Xiaoqian, I don't think you have any hope. ”

"Bearded, we seem to be lost!" Ning Caichen, who had been running for a while, looked at the path in front of him that had been running back and forth three or four times, turned back to Yan Chixia and said, not at all hearing what Yan Chixia was saying just now.

"Huh" Yan Chixia grabbed the horse rope, and then looked at the surrounding environment without blinking. After observing for a while, Yan Chixia smiled at Ning Caichen who came over; "It seems that the old tree spirit is not as strong as we think, otherwise it wouldn't have used the method of changing the position of the tree against us."

Ning Caichen listened, frowned and asked; "Change your bearings! Who of you said that this old tree spirit changed the position of the big tree and used it to mislead us? ”

"No big deal, watch me break his spell." Yan Chixia said, took off the big bow behind her back, and then put on a long arrow with a Taoist talisman painted on it.

With a loud shout, Yan Chixia filled her bow and arrows, and then shot towards the big tree beside her.

"Knock, knock, knock, knock." After four muffled sounds in a row, Yan Chixia, who shot four arrows at the big tree, rode her horse and galloped; "I've fixed the minions of these dryads with talismans, and now that the road ahead is open, let's go."

In this way, with a small episode, Yan Chixia and the others came to the mass grave all the way unimpeded.

Yan Chixia turned over and dismounted, and then said while walking in the mass grave; "Take a look for yourself, this is a mass grave, the ashes of those ghosts are here, there should be one inside, the tombstone you said is called Xiaoqian."

"Xiao Qian, Xiao Qian!" Ning Caichen was eagerly looking for the tombstone, trying to find the answer in his heart.

An hour later, Yan Chixia, who was disgraced because of the destruction of other urns, found Ning Caichen with a sloppy face.

Yan Chixia looked at the seven words written on the tombstone, the tomb of her beloved daughter Nie Xiaoqian, and asked with Ning Caichen, who was kneeling on the ground; "How! Now you know. ”

Ning Caichen looked at Yan Chixia with a look of embarrassment, and asked obsessively; "Xiao Qian's piano sound is so clear, clear like the water of a small river, how can she be a ghost, how can she harm people?"

Yan Chixia thought for a moment and replied; "You have to ask herself, but these lonely ghosts have no fixed place to live, and their lives are also very sad."

Ning Caichen nodded and said firmly; "Let's go, let's go back to Lanruo Temple, I want to see Xiaoqian tonight and ask her what's wrong." After saying this, Ning Caichen looked at Yan Chixia with a smile on her face, and spoke again; "Bearded, what do you mean by love?"

"Love!" Yan Chixia listened, thought about it and thought about it, and said helplessly; "I don't know, people like us are not suitable for love, otherwise we will harm others and ourselves."

Ning Caichen stroked Nie Xiaoqian's tombstone and asked confusedly; "I have only met Xiaoqian a few times, but whenever I close my eyes, I can't help but think of her smile when she smiles. Bearded, do you think I'm in love? ”

"I don't know," Yan Chixia shook her head dryly.

"I'll accompany you back to Lanruo Temple, even if it's death, I'll look at Xiaoqian again and ask her what she thinks." After Ning Caichen finished speaking, he left without looking back.

"Alas! Scholar, why are you so troubled! Could it be that the word love really has such a great charm that it can make people forget life and death? Yan Chixia looked at Ning Caichen's back, and couldn't understand the meaning of this love word.

After thinking about it for a while, Yan Chixia, who couldn't figure it out, couldn't help but look at the white clouds above her head and fell into deep thought.

With the rapid march of the two, Yan Chixia and Ning Caichen rushed all the way back to Lanruo Temple.

After returning to Lanruo Temple, Yan Chixia handed over a Diamond Sutra and a bell to Ning Caichen's hands and said; "As soon as you see that things are not good, you will ring this bell, as long as the bell rings, I will come to save you, and this Diamond Sutra you can put on your body to defend yourself."

Ning Caichen looked at the Diamond Sutra handed over by Yan Chixia, shook his head, and said with a firm face; "Bearded, can you give me a weapon? I know that Xiao Qian doesn't like my book to be angry, so I don't want this Diamond Sutra, and I don't want Xiao Qian to see my cowardly appearance. ”

Yan Chixia looked at the Diamond Sutra that was pushed back by Ning Caichen, and asked a little heavily; "Scholar, are you sure you don't want to? You don't know martial arts, if you don't hold this Diamond Sutra, you will die at that time. ”

"Die! What is the point of death? Ning Caichen looked at the bamboo basket behind him, then untied it with a smile, and in Yan Chixia's surprised eyes, he directly threw the bamboo basket out of the window.

Yan Chixia looked at the bamboo basket that fell to the second floor and shattered, and asked Ning Caichen strangely; "Scholar, what's wrong with you? Don't you want your sages? ”

"Hehe, people always have to have a pursuit in life, I used to hope that it was the title of the gold list, but now it is not." Ning Caichen said, took out a small white flower from his bosom, and then inserted it on his head.

Yan Chixia looked at Ning Caichen's appearance, and explained while telling Ning Caichen a golden needle; "Scholar, this is the golden needle of breaking the demon that I cast, and it is the nemesis of a qiē demon, but I really hope that you will not be useful." After saying this, Yan Chixia looked at Ning Caichen, who was holding the golden needle tightly in her hand, and shook her head; "Scholar, don't be stupid, you've only known that Xiaoqian for a few days! It's not worth it. ”

Ning Caichen heard the sound, looked at the sunset that was about to set outside the window, and said with a smile; "You are an abstinent Taoist priest, and you don't have this feeling from me, so you won't understand my thoughts now."

Yan Chixia looked at Ning Caichen deeply, because he really couldn't understand what love was and why it could bring so much strength to this weak scholar.

"Take care," Yan Chixia sighed, and then flew out the window.

Ning Caichen looked at the departing Yan Chixia, then looked at the sunset outside the window, and sat motionless on the floor.