Chapter 106: Once Upon a Time in the Manor
I shouted in the direction where Little Joe had disappeared, but there was no response, and the female resentful spirit didn't know where she had taken Little Joe to hide.
In desperation, I had no choice but to go up to Bai Ze and Langnie and ask for their opinions.
"In the vast sea of people, looking for a man with a black mole on his back is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, is this female resentful spirit playing tricks on us?"
Bai Ze said with an unhappy face.
"Yes, do you think she will take advantage of these two days to be unfavorable to Xiao Qiao?"
I was also a little worried, after all, Xiao Qiao only came with me after I had promised, and if something really happened to her, I couldn't explain it to myself.
What's more, one of our disciples and two great immortals can't even protect an ordinary person, and if it spreads in the future, our reputation in the Ma family in the north will also be affected.
"Don't worry, that female resentful spirit is now highly integrated with Xiao Qiao's body, if she wants to kill Xiao Qiao, she will also be destroyed, not to mention that we agreed to her request, she doesn't need to kill herself."
Lonnie said: "For now, we still have to hurry up and find the man's clues as soon as possible." ”
"According to what the female resentful spirit said, what happened back then should be in this manor, I think we can continue to start with this manor and see if we can find any clues."
As soon as Lonnie said this, I came to my senses, and I turned my attention to the ruined manor again, taking a closer look at the situation in the manor.
After the battle, the manor was now in ruins, but I could still see something in the collapsed buildings, the layout of the streets, and the broken tree trunks.
"The manor has a square layout, the streets are neatly arranged, judging from the broken trunks, they are at least more than 100 years old, and judging from the stone used in the construction, there is a lot of white marble."
"So we can basically conclude that this manor should be the residence of a large family a hundred years ago."
Lonnie nodded: "Xiao Chengzi's analysis is very reasonable, but if this is the case, the person who the female resentful spirit asked us to look for should also be a person from a hundred years ago, even if this person died without illness or disaster, I am afraid that he has already died of old age now, and maybe he has been reincarnated." ”
"In this way, it will be much more difficult for us to find this man."
I sighed: "Yes, for now, it seems that the only way to do this is to ask the local earth immortal, maybe he will tell us some valuable information." ”
So we walked outside the manor and summoned the earth immortals directly.
When the old earth fairy saw us, his attitude was very respectful, and he quickly bowed his head and made a gesture.
"I don't know what the three summoned the little immortals to do?"
I arched my hand and said, "Senior Earth Immortal, I am waiting for this disturbance because I want to know about the situation of the manor behind you, and I hope that Senior Earth Immortal will tell me one or two." ”
"Cheng Chaofeng, this manor has existed for more than a hundred years, and it is said that there was a tragedy back then, about its history, it was the previous earth immortal who told Xiaoxian."
Then, the old earth fairy told us what he had learned about the manor from the previous earth fairy.
It is said that in those days, this manor belonged to a local medicine merchant surnamed Wang, who controlled the supply and sale of medicinal materials in more than a dozen nearby towns.
The pharmacist has a daughter, twenty-eight years old, who is beautiful and moving, and many people want to become the son-in-law of the pharmacist, but the pharmacist's daughter is disdainful of those who pursue it, and none of them can look at it.
As the business grew, the pharmacist hired some people to help in the manor, and among them was a young man, heroic, powerful, kind, and knowledgeable in writing and hyphenation, which was deeply appreciated by the pharmacist.
It just so happened that during that time, the tutor hired by the pharmacist for his daughter left because of something at home, and the pharmacist asked the young man to try to teach his daughter to read and write, and if the teaching was good, he would no longer have to do coolies.
Unexpectedly, the young man did a perfect job in the position of a tutor, not only taught the eldest lady to read and write, but also taught her many ancient poems, making the daughter of a medicine merchant a well-known lady.
With the in-depth contact between the two, the eldest lady of the Wang family gradually became dependent on this young man, and an inexplicable feeling secretly grew.
However, she never imagined that this young man came to her house to help, in fact, there was another purpose.
It turned out that this man had already been married, and he loved his wife very much, but not long ago, his wife was seriously ill and needed a few precious medicinal herbs to be cured.
Because these herbs are very valuable and cannot be bought in ordinary pharmacies, in order to treat his wife's illness, he set his sights on the medicine merchants.
As the largest local operator of medicinal materials, the medicine merchant has countless genius treasures stored in it, and there must be medicinal materials for their own needs.
After making up his mind, the man disguised himself and infiltrated the royal manor in the name of a helper, and privately inquired into the storage of precious medicinal materials.
After realizing the eldest lady's feelings for him, the man did not refuse, but took the initiative to fall in love with the eldest lady, and took the opportunity to find out the storage of precious medicinal materials from the eldest lady's mouth.
In the middle of the night, the young man slipped out quietly and ran to the medicine storage room after the sleepers were asleep.
He held a candlestick in his hand and rummaged through the storeroom, looking for the medicinal herbs he needed, but unexpectedly, a patrolling housekeeper heard the movement here, walked in, and bumped into the man.
The two sides soon clashed, the man accidentally dropped the candlestick on the ground, and before he could think of it, the ground was filled with flammable herbs such as realgar and rosin, and in an instant, the entire storage room was on fire, and soon spread to the entire manor.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the man took advantage of the chaos and slipped out, but the hundreds of people in the manor were all engulfed in fire because they were asleep!
After listening to the story of the earth immortal, I am also embarrassed, this man was not wrong in his original intention in order to save his wife, but because of his own selfishness, he killed the people of the entire manor, and it is indeed hateful.
No wonder the female resentful spirit has been wandering for a hundred years, refusing to give up the obsession in her heart, such a resentment is estimated to be difficult for anyone to eliminate.
"Senior Earth Immortal, do you have any clues about that man?"
The earth immortal shook his head: "It's been a hundred years, and the little immortal doesn't have the slightest trace of that man." ”
Seeing that there was no other information about the Earth Immortals here, I thanked the Earth Immortals and let them leave first.
"It seems that it is indeed not easy to find that man."
Time has passed, and even the earth fairy has no clue about the man, so how can we find it?