"Dad, what's wrong with you?"

Zhao Bin grew so big, he had never seen such an uneasy expression on his father's face. He asked cautiously.

"Alas, it turned out to be for that kind of thing, I should have thought of it a long time ago......"

Master Zhao sighed, he was helped down from the bed by his own son, and after getting dressed, he looked at his son who was now able to take charge on his own, and then said:

"Come with me, let's go and say hello to your grandmother."

Zhao Bin's grandmother, that is, Master Zhao's wife.

The two came to a Buddhist hall in the back hall one after the other, and after the maid reported it, the two of them sat down first and waited for the old lady.

The old lady is reciting scriptures in the back hall, since the accident of the little sister of the Zhao family, the old lady made a wish in front of the Buddhist hall, if Zhao Xiaomei can survive this catastrophe safely, she is willing to recite the Buddhist scriptures for a hundred days in cloth and vegetarian clothes.

Now today's Buddhist scriptures have not been recited yet, so Master Zhao's father and son can only wait honestly.

After a cup of tea, I heard footsteps coming from the back hall.

"Son, is my little sister really okay?"

The old lady was only wearing plain cloth monk shoes, and only a simple wooden hairpin was used in the bun on her head.

"Mother."

"Grandmother."

The two hurriedly got up and saluted.

"Sit down, the family is impermanent. Bin'er, is your sister really okay? ”

The old lady sat down on the main seat, and the maid hurriedly brought a cup of hot tea.

"It's okay, Xia Lingguan has removed all the demons in the backyard, but the little sister still needs to rest for a few days, and after a while, I asked her to come and greet you."

Zhao Bin naturally didn't dare to tell the things that his little sister had done, he could only tell his family that it was Xia Zhician who helped them get rid of the demons and ghosts in the backyard.

"Alas, no, I'm relieved that the girl is fine, so please don't have to. Dispel evil spirits, even if you don't lose your life, you will be seriously ill, you have to take a good look at her for me, don't have an accident. ”

"Yes, my grandson obeys."

The old lady was open-minded, she waved her hand, then glanced at her son with a gloomy face, and asked with some puzzlement:

"Son, what's wrong with you? Okay girl, why are you still unhappy. ”

"I ...... It's okay, mother, I ......."

Old Man Zhao was spitting, he didn't know how to speak.

"Grandmother, actually...... You see that Xia Lingguan helped our family solve such a big matter, shouldn't we thank them......

Zhao Bin saw that his father was not easy to speak, so he took the initiative to take over the conversation and started with Xia Zhicicada.

"Well, it's time to thank people......"

The old lady picked up the teacup and took a sip of hot tea before continuing:

"Son, how about we marry the girl to Xia Lingguan?"

"No way!"

It was Zhao Bin who shouted.

"Huh?"

The old lady looked at her grandson with an excited face, looked at her son with some puzzlement, and found that her son was also puzzled.

"Uh, grandmother, I mean...... Xia Lingguan is a half-immortal, and he ...... Soaring through the clouds and fog, riding a crane and flying up or something, where can you look at our ordinary girls? ”

Zhao Bin was so frightened that he was about to talk nonsense, if the old lady messed up the mandarin duck score, it would be a big trouble.

"Well, what Bin'er said is reasonable, people are immortals, and they don't look down on our ordinary women...... So what can we give to others? People don't need money if they're immortals......"

The old lady listened to the persuasion, she thought about it and felt that what her grandson said also made some sense.

"Well, Xia Lingguan said that he wants a piece of jade......"

Zhao Bin followed the conversation and said the matter.

"Jade?"

The old lady seemed to remember something bad, and her face became bad. She stopped the beads that had been spinning and glanced at her son.

The latter was speechless and nodded slightly.

"Go down, all of you."

This sentence was addressed to the maids and servants who were waiting around, and those people withdrew from the temple one after another.

There were only three people left in the house.

"Grandmother, you're ......"

Zhao Bin was puzzled and wanted to ask, but was interrupted by his father.

"Wait, I'll get it."

The old lady walked to the Buddha statue enshrined in the back hall, and reached out and took out a six-inch square rosewood box from a secret box behind the Buddha statue.

There was dust visible to the naked eye, and the old lady wiped it with the corner of her sleeve, her eyes flashed with remembrance, and after a while she walked out with the wooden box.

"This ...... It should be what Xia Lingguan wants. ”

The old lady handed it to Zhao Bin, who hurriedly stretched out his hands to take the rosewood box, and then looked it up and down.

"It's ......"

The old lady sighed, and sat down in her chair without speaking.

Master Zhao looked at the wooden box, then at his puzzled son, and then groaned for a while before saying:

"This ...... Thirty years ago. ”

Thirty years ago, Mr. Zhao's father, that is, Mrs. Zhao, was doing business abroad, and I don't know where he bought a piece of jade with a strange shape. He had planned to polish the jade into several pendants and beads, but he hired many jade craftsmen, but none of them could cut through the strange jade.

What's even more terrifying is that most of those jade craftsmen suddenly died when they returned home, and their deaths were miserable. Later, even Mrs. Zhao fell ill and died suddenly within a few days.

Since that day, the Zhao family has been dead and has never stopped.

Later, he passed by an unknown old way, and he took action to seal this strange jade into a rosewood box, and the strange things of the Zhao family stopped.

Because of this, Mr. Zhao, who was only a teenager at the time, had to take over his own business, and went south and north at a young age.

"So that's what happened, then ......"

Zhao Bin nodded, and with some anxiety, he put the rosewood box in his hand on the tea table on the side.

"Since it is said to be jade, I think Xia Lingguan is referring to this piece of jade."

Master Zhao twisted his beard and said.

"Alas, if it weren't for the fact that your father bought this piece of jade back then, which led to the things that happened later, you wouldn't have had to go south and north to do business when you were just eleven or twelve years old."

The old lady wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and sighed.

"It's okay, mother. Haven't we all survived all these years, it's okay......"

Master Zhao has been out doing business since he was a child, and he doesn't know how much he has suffered and how many sins he has suffered, but he has always reported good news and not bad news in front of his wife.

Zhao Bin reached out and touched the top of the rosewood box, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

It turns out that there is such a past in his family.

……

"Xia Lingguan, do you see if it's this?"

Zhao Bin put the rosewood box on the table in front of Xia Zhicicada, and he gestured:

"My dad said this is a strange piece of jade, I haven't seen it, and I can't open this box......"

He was telling the truth, he had tried it after getting it, but there wasn't even a crack in it, and he really didn't know how to open it.

"Just give it a try."

Xia Zhician shook her sleeve robe, and the black cat came out of the left sleeve robe, she yawned lightly, and then stared at the rosewood box for a moment.

Meow~

The black cat leaped and landed on top of the wooden box, leaning down and leaving scratches of varying shades on the wooden box with her claws and teeth.

"It seems to be true."

Xia Zhicicada could tell from the black cat's impatient appearance that the things hidden in this rosewood box were what he was looking for.

He stretched out his right hand and patted the rosewood box, which disappeared in plain sight.

"Okay, the matter here is done, and it's time for Xia to leave......"

"Don't, Xia Lingguan, why should you stay longer, let's repay you well......"

Zhao Bin wanted to stay, but looking at Xia Zhiciao's attitude, he had no intention of staying at all, and he just said a few kind words.

After Xia Zhician had lunch with Nan Er, he said goodbye to the Zhao family and left.

Except for the little sister who stayed in the attic and couldn't come out, the Zhao family all came out to see each other.

Zhao Bin personally sent him out of Zhendian, and watched the figures of Xia Zhicicada and the two disappear from view before they went home.

On the way, he also picked up a man, and the two rode side by side.

"Bin'er, sent Xia Lingguan away?"

Zhao Bin and the people beside him turned over and dismounted together, and bowed to the old lady Zhao who was standing at the door.

"Yes."

"Then this is ......"

Zhao Bin patted the shoulder of the person next to him, and the latter was even more respectful and saluted Master Zhao.

"Hello uncle, here...... Li Yan. ”

……

Xia Zhicicada and the two galloped on the road, raising a puff of smoke and dust.

"Where are we going? If you dare to say anything, I'll blow your head off. ”

There was a fork in the road ahead, Nan Eryi pulled the silk reins, he turned his head and asked Xia Zhicicada.

"Uh......"

Xia Zhician also stopped his horse, he looked at the two roads in front of him, scratched his head rarely, and then pointed to one casually:

"This way."

"Oh, then go the other way."

Nan Er didn't even have time for Xia Zhicicada to react, so he urged the horse to run on the other road opposite to Xia Zhicicada.

The sound of horses' hooves raised a puff of dust.

"Uh, if you don't listen to me, then what are you asking me for?"

Xia Zhician thought about it and thought that he was able to find the fragments sealed in the rosewood box, all because of Nan Er's messing around, maybe listening to him would have unexpected gains.

Drive!

One urged the horse to sit down, and chased after Nan Er.

After several days, the two of them never met any Zhendian.

"W-what is this place?"

After several days of traveling, if Zhao Bin hadn't prepared enough dry food and water for them, I am afraid they would have been hungry.

Nanji reined in his horse and looked up at the sky.

At the foot of the sky there was a dark cloud, and it seemed that there would be a heavy rain.

"You chose the road, you can't blame me this time."

Xia Zhician also reined in the horse, but he was not in a hurry, but he was in a hurry for several days, and his butt hurt from riding a horse. He simply rolled over and led the horse.

Nan Er could only come down and lead the horse away, but he continued:

"I'm afraid it's going to rain heavily for a while, you and I don't even have a place to shelter from the rain, and then we will become soup chickens, no one will laugh at anyone!"

"Don't be afraid...... I'll avoid the water, and in the end, you'll just be left alone. ”

"Xia Zhicicada you!"

As the latter spoke, a strong wind blew suddenly.

Whew-

There is a poem that says: The mountain rain is coming, and the wind is full of buildings.

This wind can be said to be the vanguard of rain, when the wind blows, it is followed by lightning and thunder.

The wind was so strong that it was gradually impossible to open your eyes.

"What's going on?"

Nan Er pulled the reins of the horse, and he shouted at Xia Zhicicada not far away.

The latter was close at hand, but did not reply to his words.

"Hey! Xia Zhi Cicada! Can you hear me? ”

Nan Er's heart suddenly swelled up with a sense of unease, he took the lead in holding down the handle of his black sheath long knife, holding the reins of the horse in his left hand, and ready to draw the knife in his right hand at any time.

The wind was blowing tighter and tighter, and both of them felt that they were being pushed forward by a pair of invisible hands without touching their feet.

Until the wind runs out.

The two finally stood still, and a huge abandoned mansion appeared in front of them.

Darkened gates, broken grassy walls.

Looking up, the plaque at the door was no longer legible, and the knocker on the door had long since decayed and disappeared.

The two beast heads on the door were missing their knockers, as if they were opening their mouths wide and trying to devour everyone who came to the door.

Click!

A flash of lightning swept through the sky, lighting up the sky in an instant.

Immediately after that, the bean-sized raindrops fell down.

"Get in and shelter from the rain, quick!"

Xia Zhician took the lead in pushing open the door and led the horse in.

Nanji followed closely behind.

Pushing open the dusty wooden door of the lobby for a long time, the two walked in one after the other.

In the center of the lobby stood a huge sculpture that was as tall as a foot, and the sculpture was covered by a cloth as red as blood, and only a faint silhouette of a human figure could be seen.

"Okay, let's rest here for the night tonight, and wait until it's dawn and rain before we leave."

Xia Zhician untied his burden, found a fairly clean place and sat down, he lowered his head and looked for something from the baggage.

Suddenly, there was a click outside the house, and a bright electric light flashed, illuminating the whole room.

Warehouse –

It was the sound of a knife coming out of its sheath.

Nan Er's knife stepped forward, and he swung a knife through the cover of electric light, slashing directly at Xia Zhicicada's face.

At the same time, he gritted his teeth and said:

"Who are you!"