Chapter 012: Fished up
Back then, Shen Lingxi worshiped the Xuanqing Female Crown as a teacher, and he also wanted to have one more ability, which would be convenient for others to do white things, and he could also turn his coffin shop business into a "funeral one-stop" industry.
She learned to draw talismans, pinch tricks, and step on the gang for a year.
It's not this piece of material, I'm not good at learning, I can only take it out to do chores and fool people.
never said to the outside world that she was a disciple of the "wonderful" generation, and she didn't want to affect the reputation of the teacher.
The Houfu treasury is in the northeast corner of the Hou Mansion, and Shen Lingxi's meditation courtyard is just a symmetrical position between east and west, with a Houfu ancestral hall and a small garden in the middle, and you can reach it by walking to the end.
There are a few burly Hou Mansion guards in front of the door, which can be regarded as a heavy guard.
Mother An pointed to the open space in front of the door, "There is no need to do anything in the courtyard of the treasury, so the Taoist elders will open the altar here." ”
Ming An smiled and said yes, the four of them set up the altar to do it, rattle the bell and chant the mantra, and soon made the movement.
The treasury is not far from the back house, and it does not belong to the front yard, plus it is the Kun Dao of the Golden Immortal Temple who is doing things in front of the courtyard, and this movement naturally causes many idlers in the house to come and watch.
Shen Lingxi saw that the people were almost gathered, so he glanced at Ming An.
Ming An took out the prepared willow branches, cleaned up in front of the open space, and walked in front of An's mother, "The treasury is the most unfortunate place, has my mother ever heard of the fire in the treasury of An Changbo's Mansion last year?" That's what evil is at work. In this courtyard, as long as there are people living in the wings, they must be swept with willow branches, so as to drive away evil spirits and avoid disasters. ”
When Mother Ann saw that what she said was the truth, she put away her contemptuous thoughts.
After all, this matter was approved by Xuanping Hou, she would not stop her, so she nodded in response, stepped forward to explain to the guards twice, and led the two into the courtyard.
The storehouse is a two-entry courtyard, with three upper rooms and an east and west wing room in the north room, which store the dowry and valuables of the owners of each house, and the south side is inverted for the steward on night duty.
According to what Liu Si said last night, what he rested before he died was the south house that entered the courtyard for the second time.
When Shen Lingxi walked into the house, he smelled a strong smell of wine in the air, and there was a strange fragrance wafting in the wine.
On weekdays, she embalmed the corpse, and came into contact with a lot of spices, and knew the smell and efficacy of most of the spices well.
This strange fragrance comes from the Western Regions, and the fingernails cover a little bit, all need one or two gold, and the price is extremely expensive, so it is called "Qianjin Xiang".
No wonder Liu Si didn't know how he fell into the well until he died.
Incense is the most expensive and best drug in the world, as long as a little dip, it can make people fall asleep for two days unconsciously, let alone be thrown into a well.
It's just that this wine smells ......
Shen Lingxi walked around the house, and saw that the house had been cleaned very thoroughly, and there was no trace left, so he had a plan in his heart.
She withdrew from the room, and while An's mother was not paying attention, she leaned close to Ming'an's ear and whispered.
Ming An nodded, stepped forward in person, closed the door, took out a lot of yellow and clear rune paper from his sleeve, and pasted it on the cracks of the door and window.
Then with Shen Lingxi, the two of them, cranked the soul bell, stepped on the Tiangang step, and recited words in their mouths, and walked around the door.
Mother An's eyes widened, and she didn't know why, "Dao Chief, what's wrong with this house?" ”
"There's a very heavy sinister aura in this room." Ming An told in a matter-of-fact manner: "Seal the doors and windows with talisman paper, and wait for the evil spirit to dissipate before you can live in people." ”
Mother Ann shuddered, looked at the door frame covered with charms, and felt that there was a little more evil in this courtyard.
Shen Lingxi saw that the fire was almost over, and glanced at Ming An again, and then he rang the bell by himself, chanted a mantra, and walked towards the outside of the courtyard.
"Hey......" Ming'an Chao'an's mother whispered, "Look, our uncle hasn't been like this for a long time, and I can't say that there are really evil 'things' hidden in your mansion." ”
Ann's Mother: ???
Her eyelids began to pound again.
"Please come with the poor." Ming An deliberately pressed his steps and led An's mother towards the door.
Shen Lingxi walked out of the courtyard door of the warehouse with a paper mask on his face and a bell, instantly attracting the attention of everyone outside.
What's more, the two Kun Dao who had been left outside before, when they saw her come out, they also followed her with a bell, the scene looked ridiculous, and there was a little weirdness, which whetted everyone's appetite.
Shen Lingxi didn't stop until he walked to the abandoned well that Liu Si said.
She shook the bell, circled around the well, and saw that the onlookers were almost there, so she stopped what she was doing, pointed to the well, changed her rough voice, and cut off the iron mouth: "There is a very heavy resentment in this well, it should be hiding a corpse, and you must report to the official to scoop up the corpse and solve the grievances of the corpse, otherwise there will be a bloody disaster in the house." ”
An's mother followed behind Ming An, and when she heard this, she stumbled on her feet.
Oh, my ancestors.
What are these sisters-in-law doing!
Isn't this a matter of intention?
In the well of the dignified Xuanping Marquis Mansion, will there be dead corpses?
It's a joke.
"Dao Chief, you can eat things indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense......"
Before An's mother finished speaking, she was directly interrupted by Shen Lingxi, "Mingyuan, you go to report to the official and ask the prefect to bring a servant to the autopsy." ”
The youngest Kun Dao listened to the order, turned around and walked towards the mansion gate.
It was as if the body had been fished out of a well.
"Huh...... Eh......"
Mother An had never seen such a thing, and she was in a hurry, and she didn't know whether to stop the sister-in-law or the masked "uncle" first.
The reputation of the Golden Immortal Temple, in this Taoist temple in the capital, is also a little famous.
Seeing that Shen Lingxi was so determined, the onlookers already believed a little bit in their hearts.
"Mother An, since the Taoist chief said, let's take a fish, if there is really a ...... It's better than the government to get people! In the crowd, I don't know who said something, but many people echoed it for a while.
It's all on this, what can An's mother do? I could only glance at the girl wearing the mask, gritted my teeth and asked people to take things to dig the well.
Everyone was as curious as a cat, and the speed of fishing the well was several times faster than the speed of working on a normal day.
Sure enough, a swollen and white body soaked in water was fished out of the well!
"Ahh It's a dead body! It's a dead body! ”
The onlookers were so frightened that they retreated, but they couldn't help the curiosity in their hearts, and looked at the corpse from a distance.
Still whispering.
"Who is this...... It's all soaked like this, and I can't tell if it's a person from the house......"
"No one is missing in the house, maybe some thief killed someone and threw the body into this well through the wall."
"Don't be nonsense, this is a warehouse, and there are guards guarding it at twelve o'clock, so you are a decoration as a guard of our Hou Mansion."
Shen Lingxi looked at Liu Si's corpse and frowned.
The murderer stripped Liu Si to the point that only a plain white shirt remained, and there was nothing on his body that could identify him.
At this time, it was the height of summer, and the face of the corpse had been soaked in well water to swelling and deformed, which was intended to blur Liu Si's identity......
can afford to buy "Qianjin Xiang", and can hide Liu Si's disappearance seamlessly.
The murderer's status in this mansion is not low......