Chapter 5: The Strange Courtyard
The summer rain continues, and the alleys in the south of the city are blue brick paths, but the pedestrians are all in a hurry.
Under the oil umbrella, Li An walked on the water, and after a quarter of an hour, the copper lamp swayed, and the earthen house was green tiles. The two elderly men were cleaning up the leftovers, and Li An stood outside the window quietly watching the busy figures of the two.
"Lao Huang, why are you restless today, I always feel that something bad is going to happen." The old woman said worriedly as she wiped the wooden table.
"Old woman, you miss your son. Thinking about being away from home for two months, I don't know how I'm doing now. The old man smiled, but there was clearly a sense of thought in his cloudy eyes.
"Tomorrow I'll kill a chicken and send it to Xiao Nan." The old woman smiled and went on to get busy.
Looking at the two people in the house, Li Ang was inexplicably touched, he had never experienced human love since he was a child. Because of his special personality, he has overcome his father and mother in his life, and what he envies most is the scene of other people's family reunions.
Think about the first half of his life, he lost his father at the age of three, lost his mother at the age of five, and died in a car accident when he was the teacher who took the most care of him in elementary school when he was seven years old. When I was eight years old, the bad luck was even worse after the accident, and my friends, relatives, and girls who had feelings for each other left me one after another. Even the master on Longhu Mountain didn't survive half a year......
In the distance, the rain splashed the corners of the servants' clothes, and Chongshan walked briskly, holding a wooden box in his hand, and the body was wrapped in white cloth on a cart behind him.
The raindrops fell on the white cloth, faintly scorched black washed away along the rain.
"Sir, why are you here?" Chongshan was surprised.
Li An nodded, took out a blank piece of paper from his arms and handed it to Chongshan, "This piece of paper was given to the two old men together, and I can't escape the blame for the death of me." ”
Li An said that he walked towards a place in the city, Chongshan looked at Li An's back and didn't know what he was thinking, and sighed after half a sound. "It is said that the master has a cold temperament, and Mr. Li is really an outlier."
Half an hour later, Chongshan and the cart boy turned back, and the crying in the hut was heartbreaking. The white-haired person sends the black-haired person, and this kind of pain is even worse than the punishment of the heart.
Ang Lee didn't go far, he watched it all from a shadowy place on a rainy night. Maybe he couldn't bear it, or maybe he had experienced the same thing. All he could do was give the two old men a stable old age.
What is recorded on that white piece of paper is a feng shui terrain, where people are buried to ensure that their families are worry-free, and they are clothed and fed. As for whether the two old men can do it, it is no longer within the scope of Ang Lee's consideration.
In a dilapidated courtyard in Jiuli Capital City, Li An pushed open the wooden door, and the smell of decay greeted him. After standing at the door for a while, Ang Lee looked back at the empty street and strode inward.
Several black-clothed people on the beams in the distance looked at each other, and the leader stared at the small courtyard with frowning brows and was silent for a long time.
"Big brother, what is he doing? Don't you know that this place is very evil? A man in black was surprised.
The leader did not speak, and the other man in black said again. "In the past 50 years, the people who have stepped into the palace have either gone mad or died. He made it clear that he was sending us to death, and it didn't save us trouble. ”
"He's found us, and this man is not simple. Since you dare to go in, there should be some doorways. We'll wait for him to come out. The leader spoke.
The small courtyard is overgrown with weeds, and the spring breeze blows and is nourished by the summer rain, and the tender grass has covered the knees. Here, the central axis of the annex is facing the lobby, the two sides of the hall are symmetrical, and the back side is connected to the side rooms.
Li An took a general look, and finally stopped his gaze on the rockery in front of him. This rockery blocks the door of the main hall, and from the perspective of feng shui topography, it has the effect of blocking evil. And this courtyard is located on the back of the capital, there is a dragon head in front of it, and there is a dragon luck in the back, which is a treasure land.
And this is only from the perspective of feng shui topography, if the owner of the other courtyard was a relative of the emperor and the country during his lifetime, he will also have the blessing of national luck. However, Li An couldn't feel the blessings of the treasure land at all at this time, and the gust of wind in this place sent chills down his spine.
"At that time, I sensed this place, and it seems that it has been abandoned for a long time. Why does the lost fortune have anything to do with it? Ang Lee muttered to himself.
Bypassing the rockery, Li An walked towards the main hall, where the tables and chairs were neatly arranged, but a thick layer of dust had fallen. The original owner should have moved away, and the furniture was left here.
Li An went around the main hall and side hall, but he didn't find anything abnormal. Connecting the wings are two circular corridors, made of wood. There seems to be a lotus pond in the middle, but now it is also deserted.
The wings are on the east and west sides, and there are twenty or thirty rooms at a glance. The middle part is the main, and it is divided into one on the left and one on the left. This layout completely follows the central axis, with the rockery to block the evil, and the lotus pond behind to collect money.
Since evil qi can't come in from the front, it can only be ...... Ang Lee looked at the main room in the middle.
The door was pushed open, and the same rotten smell. The owner of the house may not really care about the furniture, and he didn't take any of it with him.
Ang Lee paced around the room, the sound of ticking rain falling on the tiles as if someone was moaning. After a brief inspection, Li An walked to the bed, the wooden bed was covered by a layer of gauze curtains, and the futons could be vaguely seen.
When the curtain was lifted, a yellow sheet was displayed, but a five-clawed golden dragon was embroidered on the sheet.
Li An was stunned, and the five-clawed golden dragon was a symbol of the Son of Heaven and was carried by heaven. The owner of this house is obviously not the king of Jiuli, and this thing ......
"It's not a small ambition!" Ang Lee chuckled and was about to look away when a red belly pocket caught his attention.
The belly pocket was at the end of the bed, and only one corner was exposed, and Li Ang lifted the quilt, and there were still some women's underwear. It's just that these intimate things are stained with blood, and they have turned dark and brown with the erosion of time.
Ignoring those underwear, Ang Lee picked up the red belly pocket, and a pungent smell of blood hit. This red belly pocket was not originally red, and from some points, it should be milky white. However, when soaked in blood, it becomes scarlet.
The belly pocket was still a little sticky in the hand, and the blood stains on it looked like it had just been dyed and had not yet dried.
"Bang!"
Suddenly, a dark wind blew, and the door slammed shut. There was no moonlight, no candles, and the room was pitch black and silent.
"Get out!"
Li An's shoulders were cold, and then he snorted coldly. The sun fire burst out from his shoulder, and a miserable cry rang out.
Yang fire can burn ghosts, and all evils retreat. But unlike ordinary fire, it does not illuminate the surroundings and does not burn anything.
Just now, Li An obviously noticed that something was lying on him, and as soon as the yang fire came out, the ghost naturally suffered a lot of damage.
It's just that from the miserable scream, Li An heard that this was a child, and it should not be the owner of the red belly pocket.
It was pitch black all around, and Li An took out a piece of rune paper, and drew a rune mark on it with blood stained with his fingertips. Fu Cheng, Li An's fingertips beat a flame and ignited it.
The ignited rune paper was thrown out by Li An casually, and the rune paper did not go out when it landed, and it seemed that it would never be extinguished. The room was illuminated, and no one could be heard.
"Yuan Shi Zhen Cai Palace, wishful thinking with my heart. Sanqing Town Dragon Trick, ghosts and ghosts manifest themselves. The spell fell on Li An's ears, and his eyes were golden, and the scene in front of him changed dramatically.
The room is still the same, the furniture is still the same. There were only four more corpses in the silence, and the blood stained the ground red, as if it had not dried up, and was still flowing slowly.
Behind the four corpses, a child rolled on the ground, his arms burning with fire, and no matter how much he pounced, he could not extinguish it.
Ang Lee ignored the misery of the child and looked carefully at the four corpses. These four people are all women, and they can be called stunners when they are alive. Even at this time, it can still be seen that they are graceful and charming.
"A sword seals the throat." Li An frowned slightly, the so-called one sword to seal the throat was not one sword, but one sword, and four people were killed at the same time. This is not something that ordinary swordsmen can do, I am afraid that only immortal cultivators can have such precise power control.
"No, even a tragic death should be a grudge, and here it is evil. Moreover...... It's hard for these four people to have such a big evil spirit! Li An thought about it for a while, and suddenly felt bad, and took two quick steps to push the door open, and the sight made him gasp.
Outside the door, it was scarlet, and it seemed that the sky and the earth were the same color. The entire land of the annex was dyed red with blood, and the lotus pond became a pool of blood, and the blooming lotus flowers were like flowers on the other side of the river, persuading people to die.
"One, two, three, four......"
After half a ring, Li An stayed at the number fifty-six, and there were fifty-six dead bodies in the entire courtyard. Although the corpses have been disposed of in reality, the souls remain here.
"How can this be, so many people died in the same place, it is impossible for the underworld not to know. And they didn't send Yin soldiers to hunt souls, why is that! Li Anzheng frowned and thought, he had thought that this place was similar to Yinshan, isolated from the heavens.
But...... The terrain of Yinshan Mountain is special, and the four ghost kings have joined forces to cover the sky, in order to create a way to survive. It's obviously impossible here, who will isolate them from heaven. The people who killed them wished that these people would be reincarnated soon.
Thinking of this, Li An suddenly thought of heavenly luck, and vaguely he caught something, but he couldn't connect with it.
"Snorr~"
Like the sound of boiling water sounding in the courtyard, Li An came back to his senses. Blood bubbles bubbled up in the lotus pond, and faintly gas rose into the air and disappeared.
Li An stood in the room without moving, quietly watching the changes in the blood pool. The little ghost's screams were still there, but surprisingly, he didn't show any signs of being burned except for the pain of being burned.
"Puff, puff......"
The sound of breaking water came one after another, and dozens of ghosts rose from the lotus pond, and this did not stop.
Li An did not stop the evil ghost from coming out, and the evil ghost in front of him who was about to break the hundred spells did not make him afraid. Instead, Ang Lee looked at them curiously.
"It seems that there are also a lot of bones in the courtyard of the main hall, but fortunately they are all resentful spirits, if they are really evil ghosts, it is indeed a little troublesome." Ang Lee muttered to himself, but he still hadn't figured out the origin of the evil spirit.
When the last ghost rises, heaven and earth seem to stand still. The rain stays in the air, and the leaves blow to the side but don't return.
Li An's scalp tingled, and the next moment all the ghosts disappeared along with the corpse. If it weren't for the roar of the imp, it would have made people suspect that nothing had happened here.
The stinging pain lasted for a few moments, and when Li Anzheng was wondering what was going on, his eyes suddenly closed, and his whole person became extremely cold, and a thick black qi came out of his body.
"Tick! Tick! “
Water droplets dripped to the ground, and a servant walked towards the kitchen with two buckets of water. There are many people around, all busy and peaceful. Not far away, two children frolicked, and four enchanting women stood aside and talked to each other.
"What am I?"
Suddenly, the little man who carried the water stopped his steps, and the two buckets of water fell out of his hands.
Li An looked around blankly, the scene was so familiar, rockeries, wings, familiar people, familiar things. It's just that the ruin just now has been replaced by prosperity.
"Ding San is in a daze, quickly bring the water." Suddenly, a strange man's voice rang out.
Li An looked at the man in a daze, and then thought of something and walked to the bucket and squatted down. "It's!" Li An looked at the strange reflection in the water, he knew that it was a resentful spirit, but he was not sure why.
"Here it is." Ang Lee responded, lifting the bucket and walking towards the kitchen. Li An frowned as he passed by two children, one of whom he had seen, the one who had been burned by the sun. And the other one he always felt was a little unsimple, but he couldn't be specific.
The bucket was poured into the water tank, and Li An turned back again, and this time he learned about the house from the conversations of the people around him. Linyang Palace, the second uncle of the King of Jiuli, can be said to be above 10,000 people under one person.
It's just that this prince is usually idle and doesn't like to get involved in the affairs of the court. And his mansion is much smaller than other princes and even ministers, he is low-key and close to the people externally, and he is sympathetic to his subordinates internally.
If it weren't for Ang Lee who found the five-clawed golden dragon on this prince's bed, he really felt that this prince was a peaceful person.
Ang Lee didn't know why the resentful spirit was like this, so he had to follow this identity. While he was fetching water at the well, a suffocating pressure suddenly struck.
Li An's heart tightened, and it became extremely difficult to breathe, and everyone looked at the sky in unison. I saw that the clouds above the sky seemed to be blown open, and an old man came with a sword.
"Who's coming?"
A middle-aged man in the mansion rose into the sky, and the leakage of this person's breath was also extremely terrifying. In Ang Lee's opinion, this man belongs to the category of masters, masters, and masters, compared with those people three years ago.
The man was opposed to the old man in the air, and Li An realized that he couldn't see the old man's face clearly. "Clear heart and clear eyes, see thousands of miles. The beginning is in the heart, and the god is at will. Li An silently recited the mantra, his eyes like torches, and everything became clear in his eyes.
But when I looked at the old man again, I still couldn't see his face clearly, and I could vaguely see something like a mole on his chin.
"Huh?"
The old man seemed to sense something, and looked at Li An. Just a glance at Li An's fierce upsurge of blood and a mouthful of sweetness spurted out, and the eyes where the body was located shed two lines of blood and tears.
"Outrageously strong!" Li Anxin secretly said that at this time, he didn't know that his body had also been injured, otherwise this evaluation would be even higher.
In the endless galaxy, this place is desolate and gloomy, there is no sun and moon in the sky, and there is no grass and trees on the ground. On the ground, an old man was throwing something with a hoe, and suddenly the old man had a blow in his hand and looked at the sky.
"The heavens have been disrupted? Who has the ability to tear through time and space to peep at me! The old man muttered to himself, and then continued his work.
In the illusion, Li An sat on the ground, and just one peep at it exhausted all his physical strength. I don't know if the old man is too strong or this body is too weak.
Above their heads, the middle-aged man and the old man didn't know what they were talking about. Li An could clearly sense that the man's aura was gradually rising, and his leaking aura caused a gust of wind that swept through the entire Jiuli Imperial City.
This accident shocked many people in the imperial city, and ordinary people naturally hid early. And how could the Son of Heaven in the palace allow someone to make a mistake above his head, and six figures flew out of the palace in a row and went straight to the Linyang Palace.
The conversation between the two in the air had stopped, and the conversation had collapsed by looking at the man's floating breath. The man was the first to strike, and he clenched his fist, and the Qi visible to the naked eye gathered on top of the punch from all directions.
A punch was thrown, and the wind was even worse, and a man flying from the palace was forced back by a terrifying momentum before he could get close.
In the face of such a heavenly might, the old man stretched out his palms unhurriedly, and his fists and palms intersected, without sound or other fluctuations. For a while, the wind was calm, and the barking of dogs in the imperial city came and went.
The man was shocked that his full force blow was so easily taken by the old man, and it dissolved all his momentum. At this moment, he also clearly felt the bottomless strength of the old man, facing him as if he was standing in the vast galaxy, he was so small.
Several people flying in the distance were dumbfounded, the man was obviously very famous, and the old man took the blow so easily that made their hearts tremble.
After the blow, the old man's arm waved, and the flying sword under his feet fell into his palm. "Since he doesn't want to, the old man can only take it by force."
When the words fell, the old man waved a sword very casually, and the sword went out of the sky and the earth, and the sword spanned dozens of miles. The man and several people in the palace were shocked when they saw this, this sword was invincible.
Everyone avoided it at the first time, and this sword was not to kill the enemy, but to deter. The sword flew away to the horizon, although it did not hurt everyone in the slightest, but everyone was terrified, this old man was beyond the scope of their understanding.
Li An looked at the direction where the sword disappeared in a daze, the impact that this old man brought to him was not small. I thought that the people who pursued him three years ago were considered top powerhouses, but now it seems that those people are still the same, but they are not enough to see in front of the old man.
"Now you can think about it." The old man's voice echoed in the capital, and several people in the air looked at each other, and the same was true in the palace.
"You're so warm-hearted!"
Suddenly, a person flew in the sky again, and he couldn't see his face clearly, but judging from his voice and outfit, this person was a middle-aged man.
"What do I have to do with you?" The old man said contemptuously.
"How can you say that it has nothing to do with me, although I don't know what you want. But if you don't, I'll be glad to come. The man said that he looked at a few people in the distance, and then looked at the Linyang Mansion at his feet. Harmonize with a group of ants, and the more you live, the more you go back. “
The man's words were casual and contemptuous, but the people in the distance did not dare to refute them. On weekdays, they are admired by others, who would have thought that one day they would be despised by others but dare not say a word.
"I don't care what you do on weekdays, but if you mess up my game today, we won't die." The old man's voice was very flat, but when he said that, an invisible murderous aura instantly filled the entire capital.
For a while, the baby stopped crying, the wild dog clamped his tail, and ordinary people had their hair standing on end for no reason.