Tongzhou is a second-tier city next to Jiangning City.

Although it is only second-tier, in a super province like Jiangbei Province, the scale of second-tier cities has far exceeded that of some so-called "new first-tier" cities, even in the fringe of Jiangbei, Tongzhou's urbanization process is developing very fast throughout the country.

Although Hu Shouyu's Hu family can be regarded as a big family that can be ranked in Tongzhou, due to the characteristics of the family industry, the Hu family did not choose to live in the prosperous area of the city, but found a piece of mountainous land in the southern edge of Tongzhou.

It was not far from Jiangning to Tongzhou, and Su Jianxia had no concept of speed when driving, and he was always speeding on the highway, so it only took forty or fifty minutes to reach the area where Hu's house was located.

Pushing the car door and getting out of the car, a boulder about three meters high was inserted vertically into the ground and placed in front of the two of them, with two large characters written in extremely smooth lines.

Hu Zhai.

"The name is like some kind of scholarly family, who would have thought that there was a group of tomb robbers living there." Su Jianxia raised his head and looked at Hu Zhai behind the boulder through the big sunglasses that could cover half of his face, but found that there was a huge fog that seemed to envelop the entire Hu Zhai, and when he opened his eyes wide, he could faintly see the eaves of several houses not far away, and the clouds and mist were shrouded, which had the meaning of a fairyland in the mountains.

"It seems that the Hu family still has some masters, and they can lay out such a formation to hide the traces of the family." Wei Ziqi walked to Su Jianxia's side and looked at the depths of the clouds and mist together, "If there is such a thick fog gathered here all the year round, if there is no family member to lead the way, you may lose your way after entering, and it is difficult to say that there is something hidden in the fog."

It can not only block the line of sight, prevent outsiders from peeping inside, but also cover up the traces, which ordinary people do not have. ”

"Who dares to let people know about this business." Su Jianxia pursed his lips, "Hu Shouyu was in a hurry when he called, and he didn't know how to send someone to the door to follow, if it was an ordinary person, his son would not be dead when he went around." ”

"It's really not his fault to say it, it's good that a few of them can still stand up now."

Wei Ziqi snapped his fingers, and the fog floating in front of the two began to parted regularly, revealing a wide cement road in the middle, and even the houses at the end of the road could be seen clearly.

I walked along the main road, and after about twenty minutes, I came to the houses in the outer circle.

It seems that because of the long history of the family, the architecture of the house has always retained the ancient style, and there are no modern high-rise buildings, all of which are low-rise bungalows.

Probably because of the daytime, the surrounding houses don't seem to be home, and the doors are closed.

The houses are connected end to end in a circle, without any gaps in between. But Wei Ziqi walked around several houses in front, and soon saw a stone path between two of them that could only pass through one person.

"The outside circle is supposed to deal with outsiders, right? For example, a business partner, or a police check. The inside that this road leads to is the real core of the Hu family. Su Jianxia took two steps back and looked at the left and right, "If you don't follow a specific law, you won't be able to find this road if you go around this pile of houses dozens of times." ”

"It reminds me of an old friend." Wei Ziqi smiled and took the lead to walk forward.

The two walked for another ten minutes or so, and the stone road came to an end.

In contrast to the circular layout outside, it looks like the layout of some temples, and in front of them is a two-story stilted building, with a simple decoration and a road in the middle, making the stilted building look a bit like a house-style gate.

Behind this stilted building, there are three tall houses, one higher than the other.

The stilted building at the end is about 30 meters high, and the decoration is even more luxurious, with red lanterns hanging from top to bottom, and even the flames inside are beating excitedly during the day. There are also some seemingly precious gold ornaments hanging on the wall, which makes the whole building shine with gold.

In addition to the original decoration, the whole building was covered with unknown charms written in huge yellow banners, and the places that were not covered by the banners were simply written directly on the walls of the building.

Even in the daytime, you can see that the blood-red font on the banner is constantly flashing with a bewitching light.

Looking through the gate formed by the three buildings in front, you can also see a three-meter-high incense burner in front of the fourth building, in which three huge sandalwood sticks of one person high are inserted, and about a dozen Taoist priests circle around the incense burner, with their heads bowed and chanting words in their mouths. Judging by the incense ash that was about to overflow in the furnace, sandalwood of this size should have been burning for several days.

"Isn't there no money, and can you still find someone here to cast spells?" Su Jianxia looked at a few Taoist priests on the ground, "It looks no different from those charlatans who are abducted and deceived, you can get a day's money by sitting here for a day." ”

"It's also good to have psychological comfort." Wei Ziqi didn't pay attention to those Taoist priests, but looked at the tall building and sighed, "Let's go, I'm going to rob people from the underworld." ”

"Already dead?" Su Jianxia was a little surprised, but he didn't feel pity in his tone, "Also, I went back and thought about it for so long, and I wanted to solve the matter without any cost, no wonder it was like this." ”

"You won't say that to your face, will you?"

"What are you afraid of, don't listen when you give him ideas, now that something has happened and found us, if he doesn't want to listen, let's leave, let him fend for himself."

The four buildings were not very far apart, and the two had passed through the first three doors before they could say a few words.

"Donor, this place is casting spells to drive away demons, and please return the same way, otherwise it is very likely that you will be entangled by that demon and cause trouble."

Su Jianxia was stunned for a moment, his eyes swept around, only to find that it was a Taoist priest sitting on the ground who was looking at the two of them, with a serious face.

"What's the matter, if I don't come, you'll be able to drive that demon away?" Su Jianxia sneered, "You have been sitting here for a few days and reciting the mantra for a few days, but there is no such thing as a demon and evil fart, and you have read your own people to death?" Make money and make your money, and other things have nothing to do with you. ”

"Hu Shizhu is my Taoist friend, I waited to see Hu Shizhu in trouble before coming down the mountain to help, what makes money or not, the donor can't help but think of us as too vulgar." The Taoist priest said in a deep voice.

Su Jianxia didn't even look at him, and walked straight forward, "I didn't see that you were so helpful, so is your method useful?" If it's useless, just get out of the way. ”

"The little girl is sharp-toothed, she really has no tutor at all when she speaks, and she can't enter if she says she can't enter!" The Taoist priest was a little angry, and stood up from the ground to stop in front of the two of them.

"You just said she doesn't have a tutor?"

The Taoist priest was stunned for a moment, looked at Wei Ziqi, who had not spoken just now, frowned, and was about to speak, when he suddenly found that the scene around him was no longer in front of the tall stilted building, but standing in an endless ice field. The surrounding fellow doors, as well as a man and a woman who had just broken in, suddenly disappeared somehow.

Before the Taoist priest had time to think about what was going on, the sub-zero cold in the ice field quickly invaded his body, the original summer Taoist robe was already thin, but at this temperature, it was useless, and the skin on his body even began to be quickly frozen to dry and crack, and small wounds collapsed on the surface of his body, and his blood quickly flowed all over his body in just a few seconds.

Just when the Taoist priest felt desperate and thought that he was about to die, he suddenly found that a fire appeared not far from him, and under this ice and snow, the high temperature generated by the fire also reached the Taoist priest's body.

The power of hope generated in the desperate situation is huge, and the Taoist priest can't care about the pain in his body at this time, and the body that he felt weak just now suddenly produced an inexplicable strength, supporting the Taoist priest to crawl towards the fire.

There was no such thing as a person in the desert who could see a water source but never reach it, and after crawling with difficulty, the Taoist priest soon approached the fire, and he was almost one last step away from reaching the edge of the fire and feeling the life-saving temperature.

"Daochang Li, wake up! Daochang Lee! Can't go any further! ”

In a trance, an anxious voice reached the Taoist priest's ears, and the originally vague brain suddenly regained consciousness.

There is no endless ice field around, he returned to Hu Zhai's stilted building, and the surrounding fellow disciples and brothers pulled their legs and waists behind them, with a frightened face, and the roar in his ear was Hu Shouyu, who had been thinner in the past two days, and the shouting just now also took him a lot of effort, and he was relieved to see that he was awake, but he was also panting involuntarily, and his face was flushed.

The Taoist priest was about to ask something, when a scorching temperature came from above his head and he immediately shut up.

With some difficulty, I twisted my neck to look, only to realize that my head had touched the edge of the fire under the stove, and if I had climbed one step further......

Thinking of this, the Taoist priest couldn't help but shudder, "Why don't you hold me?" ”

"All of us came over and hugged you, but I don't know how you had so much strength just now, even if we were combined, we couldn't pull you." A female Taoist aunt beside her replied, "And your body is bleeding while crawling, and we can't hold it anymore." ”

The Taoist priest looked down, although he could be sure that the scene just now was an illusion, but at this time, his body was the same as in the ice field, his whole body was covered with small wounds, blood was constantly gushing out, and even the same people who hugged him were all covered with blood on their hands, and this scene was inevitably a little terrifying.

"Daochang Li, it's all my fault for this, I didn't tell you in advance that I invited two masters, and I am really sorry that I will bear the expenses for the injuries, medical expenses and mental damage you suffered today." Hu Shouyu looked at the injuries on the Taoist priest's body and said sincerely.

The Taoist priest was silent for a while, waved his hand, and motioned for everyone to put themselves down.

"It's no wonder that you are in this matter, you are all poor and blind, you have offended the masters, you deserve to end up like this, Hu Shizhu doesn't have to blame himself."

The Taoist priest hesitated for a moment, and looked past everyone to look at Wei Ziqi and Su Jianxia behind him.

Su Jianxia was sitting lazily on a gluttonous statue, and he didn't seem to have any awe for this legendary dragon, but leaned on its body, stretched out his legs and stepped on his head.

Wei Ziqi leaned against the tail of the gluttonous statue with his back to everyone, and he was in that position to catch Su Jianxia who fell down if he couldn't sit steadily.

"Fang Cai Xiaodao has eyes and ignores Mount Tai, and offended the two masters, and it is also appropriate to be punished by this, and please ask the two masters to ignore the past suspicions and spare Xiaodao a way out." The Taoist priest hesitated again and again but walked in front of the two of them, bowing his head and admitting his mistake.

Just glanced at himself and put himself in an illusion, if it weren't for the senior brothers and Hu Shouyu desperately blocking them, he might have died on the spot at this time, and he must not have the idea of running away directly when he encounters such a master, unless the other party is willing to let him go, no matter where he escapes, it is a dead end.

"It's true that the Taoist priest is helpful, but how many catties and taels do you have? If you can't solve it, don't stay here, and give people an illusory hope. Su Jianxia looked at the horizon in the distance, and didn't lower his head to look at the Taoist priest, "Also, don't look down on people casually, what you can't solve doesn't mean that others can't solve it either." ”

"What the girl taught me is that Xiaodao should be remembered." The Taoist priest nodded, and looked at Wei Ziqi with his back to him with some fear, thinking about how to speak.

As if sensing the thoughts in the Taoist priest's heart, Su Jianxia waved his hand, "You don't have to worry about him, if you don't have that sentence of 'no tutor', he may not even bother to look at you, because I am taught by him." ”

"Alright, let's take your people with you, it's none of your business here."

Without waiting for the Taoist priest to answer, Su Jianxia beckoned again, "Mr. Hu, come here." ”

Hearing Su Jianxia call himself, Hu Shouyu hurriedly trotted to the two of them, but he didn't know how to speak.

"How long has your son been dead?" Su Jianxia asked directly.

Hu Shouyu was stunned, as if he didn't expect to ask so directly.

"Not long after I finished calling the two of you, he ......" Hu Shouyu was halfway through his speech, and when he thought of his son's breath, he couldn't say any more.

"Why didn't you see the rest of your family?" Su Jianxia glanced at the back of the group of Taoist priests leaving, "Although it's daytime, it's not like there are no people in such a big place, right?" All out to work? ”

Hu Shouyu shook his head, "The rest of the family is in their own homes, but because they are all infected with the same disease as my son, they closed the door, saying that they didn't want this disease to spread in the family, but in fact, everyone knows that they are just waiting for death at home." ”

Su Jianxia frowned, stretched out his hand to support Wei Ziqi's shoulder and jumped down, "Go in and take a look, maybe your son can still be saved." ”

"Is what Miss Su said true?" Hu Shouyu's eyes widened, and he couldn't believe what he had just heard.

Su Jianxia didn't answer, but just made a gesture for Hu Shouyu to lead the way.

Hu Shouyu forcibly endured his excitement, and staggered to the house with the two of them.

Similar to the situation outside the house, the walls of the house are covered with yellow rune paper or strange charms written directly on the wall, so many that you can't see the original decoration style of the house.

Hu Shouyu took the two to the fourth floor, and walked behind a pale cyan screen painted with Jiangnan landscapes, where a large wooden bed was placed, and a middle-aged woman with a gloomy expression was kneeling on the edge of the bed, holding the hand of the little boy on the bed and crying silently.

Seeing his grieving wife and son who had lost his life in bed, Hu Shouyu only felt a sharp pain in his heart, forcibly stabilized his mind, stepped forward and pressed his wife's shoulder to comfort, "Lianzhi, our child may be saved." ”

The woman shook her head, "Don't comfort me anymore, Xian'er's situation is already like this, even if I am in pain, I will not fail to recognize the reality." ”

"It's not to comfort you, I invited two masters, and they said that there was a way to save Xian'er."

The woman's body trembled, and she turned her head to look at Wei Ziqi and Su Jianxia who were standing behind Hu Shouyu, and said with some doubts, "What kind of master can you be so young." ”

Hu Shouyu hurriedly waved his hand to signal the woman to be quiet, turned around and smiled apologetically at the two, and then whispered what happened at the door to the woman.

"Is this true?" The woman's eyes widened.

"I saw it with my own eyes." Hu Shouyu affirmed.

The woman looked at her son on the bed, quickly wiped her tears, and stood up, "Hello two, my name is Cheng Lianzhi, I am Shouyu's wife, I heard Shouyu say that the two of you can save our son?" ”

Su Jianxia looked at the woman's pale face and sighed.

It can be seen that the woman's foundation is good, and her appearance alone is not even worse than Xu Chenxi, who she saw in the morning, but it is only because of family changes that a woman looks so haggard.

"You can keep him for a few days temporarily, but if this matter is to be completely resolved, it will be on Mr. Hu at all."

"My husband? But this matter has nothing to do with him, and he doesn't know why it's like this all of a sudden, and our family is a victim. Cheng Lianzhi was a little puzzled.

Su Jianxia glanced at Hu Shouyu, Hu Shouyu immediately understood, and stepped forward to comfort, "Don't worry about those things first, the most important thing is to rescue Xian'er first." ”

Cheng Lianzhi hesitated for a moment and nodded.