On the second day, Yuehua slept lazily, and after sending Mo Guhan away, she slept until three poles in the sun before getting up. After washing, Shui Yu came in and asked her what she wanted to eat.

She thought for a while, and suddenly remembered that she went out yesterday and passed by a Shanxi noodle restaurant, and a few kinds of noodles written on the signboard were quite unique, as if it was a turntable to pick the tip, noodles, scissors noodles, etc., and she was a little curious when she heard the name, so she asked Shui You to go to the imperial dining room to ask, can you know this craft?

After a while, Shui You came back from the imperial dining room, and really brought two bowls of noodles, saying that there happened to be a master from Shanxi in the imperial dining room, but the ingredients were not together, so he only made a bowl of scissors noodles, and a bowl of bean noodles was called a slicing of bean noodles.

Yuehua saw that the bowl of hot cabbage bean noodles was rare, added a little sesame chili oil and Shanxi old vinegar, tasted a particularly strong and slippery, and the bean noodles were fragrant, so she couldn't help but think about Zijin and wanted to tell the girls to call her over to taste it.

The courtyard outside was silent, Yuehua felt strange, at this time in the past, Zijin had already been shouting outside and chatting with a few girls, why was there no movement today?

She looked up and asked Shui You, "What about Zijin?" Why don't you see anyone today? ”

Shui You was busy packing up the mattress, and said casually: "Early this morning, Master Lan came over and called Miss Zijin away. ”

"Didn't the two of them say what to do?" Yuehua had a great appetite and ate with a hot sweat.

"The two of them are mysterious, and they don't say it. But I heard that two Taoist priests came to the palace to open the altar today, and they must have gone to see the excitement. ”

"Daoist?"

Yuehua was a little strange. Yesterday, Mo Guhan was indeed supposed to find someone to enter the palace to give Concubine Crane an excess, but according to common sense, it should be a monk, how could he invite a Taoist priest into the palace?

"Isn't this kind of thing in the palace all invited to be a monk? Why did you change to a Taoist priest? ”

Shui You on the side disagreed: "Aren't monks and Taoist priests the same?" ”

Yuehua shook her head: "Naturally, it's different. Monks pay attention to compassion and purify all sentient beings, so if there is any funeral, they all invite monks to come and recite the scriptures and do a ritual, hoping that the deceased can ascend to bliss as soon as possible.

The Taoist priest is different, the Taoist priest opens the altar to subdue the demon and eliminate the demon, a foolish statement, if there is any filth, the Taoist priest can surrender, or get rid of it, the means are more cruel than the excess.

It is because of this that the royal worship of the Buddha and the Buddha, the big Buddha hall built in the palace, has always invited monks into the palace, this invited a Taoist priest to come in, and it is to go to the leisurely hall, in our opinion, it is generally the same, but spread out, if it is known by the family of the crane concubine, the idea is a world of difference.

It is the emperor's kindness to invite monks to exceed, but asking Taoist priests to do it is to suppress the undead, can the Jiang family be happy? ”

Shui You suddenly said: "I didn't know that there was such a statement as a monk." I heard that it was Concubine Li Ling who went to Ruian Palace yesterday and said something to the Queen Mother, and then the Queen Mother made the decision to invite the Taoist priest into the palace today. ”

Concubine Ling also came in, it can be seen that Yajieyu shouted about haunting yesterday, and her words were conclusive, and Concubine Ling was a little weak in her heart.

Yuehua thought for a while, put down the chopsticks in his hand, and stood up: "No, I'd better take a look." ”

"After all, Concubine He's mother has just been newly mourned, those places are not very clean, and Niangniang is pregnant, so it's better not to go."

Yuehua just ate a hot sweat, shook her head, wiped it clean with a handkerchief, took a cloak from the side, and covered her head together: "You don't know, although this Crane Concubine has gone, but the brother of Concubine Crane's mother is still in an important position in the court, and the emperor will continue to rely on it." This is a little wrong, but don't make anything wrong and make the emperor embarrassed. ”

Shui You hurriedly stopped what he was doing: "It's still the mother who is thoughtful, and the slave and maid will go with you." ”

Yuehua nodded, didn't dare to delay, and went out of the Qingqiu Palace with Shui You, and inquired, as soon as the Taoist priest entered the palace, he first went to Yajieyu's dormitory, and then after a moment's delay, he went to Concubine He's leisurely palace.

Yuehua immediately limped and went straight to the Leisurely Palace.

In the leisurely hall, there were a lot of palace people gathered at the door, stretching their necks and quietly looking inside. It turned out to be the palace people who were waiting in the palace of the Queen Mother and Concubine Ling, and they must have been here when they thought that the Queen Mother and Concubine Ling must have been there.

As soon as Yuehua and Shui You came, the palace people naturally knelt down and said hello in unison, and Yuehua hurriedly entered the hall.

A white-eyed Taoist priest wearing a Taoist robe was sitting cross-legged on the futon in the courtyard, with a gossip diagram under his body, a copper coin sword on his back, a Taoist crown on his head, a one-handed decision, and muttering to himself with his eyes closed. Behind him stood a little Taoist boy, with a double bun on his head, decorated with two strings of copper coins woven with red ropes, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, full of aura.

The Queen Mother and Concubine Ling stood not far from the two of them, Huai En stood aside, Zijin mixed in the palace pile, saw Yuehua come in, and smiled at her with eyebrows.

Yuehua stepped forward to see the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother raised her hand and motioned for her to get up. His eyes were still fixed on the two Taoist priests, and he didn't say a word.

Zijin sneaked up to Yuehua's approach, and Yuehua asked in a low voice, "How is it?" ”

Zijin covered his mouth and snickered: "The show hasn't started yet." ”

Zijin has also been on the rivers and lakes for a long time, and he has seen all kinds of tricks to deceive people, and he doesn't believe in ghosts and gods. Others looked at the Taoist priest with a pious face, but she was watching it as a lively one.

"What is this for?"

Zijin leaned forward to Yuehua again: "This Taoist priest still has two brushes, and he stopped them as soon as he made a move, do you see how nervous they are all in?" I couldn't take my eyes off it, and I was shocked. ”

"How?"

"As soon as I entered the palace, I went to Jinse Palace, and after checking Yajieyu's complexion, I was full of nonsense, saying that Yajieyu had hit an evil spirit."

Yuehua naturally didn't believe in these fictitious things, and sneered: "Don't say it's a collision with evil, how can you show your ability?" They are accustomed to two kinds of tricks, the same is to observe words and feelings, and the same is to see the wind and steer the rudder, and talk nonsense. ”

"Well," Zijin nodded mysteriously and said, "The Taoist priest took an egg at random, rolled it around Yajieyu's back, and then knocked it open, and there was really a black villain-like thing in the egg yolk." He said that it was the sneak that Yajieyu bumped into. I still don't know what it is. ”

Yuehua smiled: "This is simple, I have seen relevant records in the miscellaneous records, it is to soak the eggs in vinegar in advance, and the eggshell will become soft, and you can use a fine grass stalk to pierce it and pour ink and other things into the egg yolk." After a while, the shell will be hard again. When the time comes, after using a trick and changing the eggs in your hand, no one will suspect that you have done it in advance. ”

Zijin suddenly realized: "No wonder people say that reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles, I have seen a lot of this kind of trickery in the rivers and lakes, and it is not as much as you know without leaving home." ”

Yuehua stretched out her finger and poked her forehead: "After entering the palace for a few days, I learned to flatter." ”

Zijin pursed his lips and smiled, pointing to the old road in the courtyard, indicating that there was a good show.

Yuehua turned her head and saw that the Taoist priest in the center of the courtyard was pretending, so she opened her eyes and said to the Queen Mother: "Please ask the Queen Mother to send someone to prepare a piece of red paper, an empty bowl, and a pot of water." ”

The Queen Mother didn't ask much, and immediately ordered the palace people to do so, and in a few moments, the things were ready.

The white-eyed Taoist priest nodded at the Taoist boy behind him: "Please God." ”

Dao Tong took the red paper, lowered his head three or two times and tore it into a human shape, took the pen and read the words in his mouth, and wrote a few big characters on the back of the paper man. Yuehua can't see it really, it's probably some kind of Tianzun or something.

The white-eyed Taoist priest took the paper figure, turned around and walked to the door of the dormitory, stretched out his hand at the Taoist boy, and the Taoist boy took out an iron nail from the baggage he was carrying and handed it to the old Tao. Lao Dao took it in his hand, pierced the iron nail into the mouth of the paper heart, and then turned around and pressed the nail into the door frame with his bare hands.

Xiao Daotong and Lao Dao cooperated quite tacitly, and without the command of Bai Mei Lao Dao, he handed the empty bowl to his master.

Lao Dao took the water bowl and placed it a little lower than the mouth of the paper man's heart, and then raised the two arms of the paper man and circled the water bowl.

Yuehua looked inexplicably and didn't know what he meant.

A miracle happened, Lao Dao slowly put down his hand, and there were words in his mouth, and the water bowl was firmly held in the arms of the paper man, and it was stable!

Paper people, the power of a piece of paper.

It even withstood the weight of the water bowl!

Everyone gathered around was amazed.

And that's not all! Lao Dao took the kettle and slowly poured water into the empty bowl. And more than half a bowl of water was poured into a row, and the water bowl was still hanging empty in the paper man's arms, steady.

This time, even Yuehua couldn't stay indifferent. Although I know that there are no such strange things in the world, this magic is really magical. I've heard before that paper-cutting is a horse and sprinkling beans into a soldier, is it possible that this kind of spell is it?

There were exclamations all around, one after another.

The Queen Mother and Concubine Ling were even more dumbfounded, and they were amazed again and again.

The white-eyed Taoist priest could not hide a touch of pride in his eyes, the corners of his lips twitched slightly, and he tried to endure it, pretending to be a fairy wind bone, and the clouds were light and light.

Zijin behind Yuehua whispered: "What kind of trick is this, but I really haven't seen it." Could it be that the bowl and paper figure are weird? ”

Yuehua shook her head: "Impossible, the water bowl was just brought by the palace people, what can be weird?" If there's anything wrong, it's on that nail. ”

Zijin nodded: "This old Taoist has some skills, he can drive nails into the wooden board with his bare hands, it seems that he is a practitioner." ”

The white-eyed Taoist didn't realize that Yuehua and Zijin were studying his tricks, and twisted his beard and chin inscrutablely: "The immortal carries the bowl, and the water shows the way, it really has yin qi." ”

Zijin snickered again: "Pretending." It's kind of similar. That bowl of paper must be greasy, see how I expose him. ”

With a flip of her wrist, Yuehua lowered her head and saw that there was already an extra mung bean on her fingertips. Immediately understood her intention, she wanted to shoot the water bowl with mung beans, as long as it fell to the ground, she would definitely be able to understand what the mystery was on the paper figure and debunk the tricks of the Taoist.

Zijin is clearly prepared.