The old mansion where the accident occurred belonged to Yu Xiaohai's family, and their family was a craftsman who came to Jixiang County after the war, and it is impossible to verify who the original owner of this old mansion was.

At that time, the world was full of heroes and rebelled against the Yuan, which led to a scuffle in various places. A strategically important city like Jixiang County has changed hands repeatedly, and the inhabitants of the city have either died or fled.

Later, Emperor Taizu pacified the world, and in order to stabilize people's hearts and restore production, he rewarded some ownerless houses and fields to the earliest people who were willing to work hard.

The old house is in the place where the inner and outer city meet, there is a circle of blue brick courtyard walls, and the roof is red tiles, which can be seen that the family to which the house belongs is also a large family with scenery.

However, the days are long, the wind and the sun are exposed, the old house is in disrepair, the roof tiles are broken, the courtyard wall is broken and the green bricks are broken, and the yard is overgrown with weeds.

Wang Qilin stood at the door and watched, there was a faint red handprint on the wooden door.

He leaned in and sniffed, smelling the blood with yin in it.

This is the mark left by a capable ghost.

At this time, there was no gloomy atmosphere in the old house, and more than a dozen people were very lively back and forth, some were wiping tears, some were crying, some were scolding, and some were scolding.

Worry about!

The scene was destroyed again, and the six dejected students were also taken outside, sitting on chairs that they didn't know where to find them, with expressionless faces and dazed eyes, which matched the dilapidated and treacherous atmosphere of the old mansion.

Xu Da entered the door and shouted: "Who let you in? What are you doing here? Destroy the scene? Hurry up and let me out, you will destroy the clues on the scene!"

Someone said to him with tears in his eyes: "What are these words, my lord? What have we destroyed, destroyed? We are all sad." My son, my son, bless the Bodhisattva, bless the Buddha, bless my son's soul. ”

There are also people who are irritable because of the accident in their family, and he yells at Xu with a stalk in his neck: "Your mother, what are you talking about here......

"Gorou shut up, this is the official who listens to the heavenly prison. An old man behind Xu Da hurriedly scolded him.

Xu Da raised his hand to stop the person behind him from making a sound, he showed his mace and thumped it on the ground, and said: "Don't talk, who said that the uncle was talking about the wind and cold just now? Come over to the uncle, the uncle wants to talk to him." ”

The old man hurriedly groveled: "My lord spares my life, my lord ......"

Xu Da stopped him and said, "What do you say to spare my life? As if I am some kind of unreasonable person, don't worry, uncle likes to convince people with his strength the most, who scolded me just now? Come over to me!"

His leopard head turned and his eyes widened angrily, and the people who had been making noise in the house were frightened and silent, and they fled out of the door one after another.

Now the old house is finally quiet and deserted.

Xu Da put away his mace and said, "Seventh Master, please come in." ”

"What a sycophant. Someone in the crowd muttered.

Monk Shen Yi, who came with everyone, opened his eyes angrily and said sharply, "Who is talking?"

There are many people outside the door, and the relatives of the scholars and the people who came to see the excitement are afraid that there are not hundreds of people, and there is no one to speak up at all.

Monk Shen Yi regretted: "The monk still wants to see who is so straightforward and dares to expose the true face of Xu Da." ”

Xu Da pointed at him and said, "Amitabha, you are really not a thing. ”

Shen Yi said proudly: "Of course, the monk is a disciple of the Buddha, a person, of course not a thing, then are you a thing? What are you?"

Xu was annoyed: "What do you mean by chasing me and biting?

Shen nodded and said: "Yes, I told you that since our village was slaughtered by ghosts, I have a problem with my brain, but I told you, why do you still ask?

Xu was speechless when he was a freshman.

Fighting with someone who admits to having something wrong with his brain was the worst choice he made today.

He thinks that he has been a troll all his life and is not weaker than others, but the 'people' here refer to normal people, and crazy people like Shen Yi are called fools, not normal people.

Wang Qilin closed the door and locked them out together, and then he walked into the house by himself.

Without the noise of the crowd, the old house returned to a cold and silent atmosphere.

He walked around the yard with knee-high weeds, the yard was quite large, and he walked west against the wall, and under the west wall there were several dilapidated huts built out of stones and broken bricks, which were chicken coops, where the women of the Yu family used to raise several litters of chickens, and they would come to touch the eggs every day.

To the north, there is a wing room attached to the chicken coop, the doors and windows are closed, and the paper pasted on it has been broken by the wind and rain.

Wang Qilin stuck to the window and looked in, it was pitch black inside, and he couldn't see anything clearly, only the heavy musty smell passed through the window edge paper and casually drilled into his nose.

He walked to the door again and peered through the crack in the door.

"Crunch!"

The door was opened.

The door was opened, to be exact.

Wang Qilin subconsciously turned around to look, it was Xu Da who appeared, and he waved at Wang Qilin very excitedly: "Seventh master, come out, look at who I found!"

"Who?" asked Wang Qilin as he walked out the door.

Xu Da pushed a middle-aged scholar out, and the scholar muttered: "What are you doing, what are you doing......?"

"Uncle is a villain. Xu Da suddenly blocked his mouth.

Wang Qilin was taken aback when he saw it, this scholar was the Qin Tao they had met in Duowen Temple!

"It's you!"

Qin Tao's face was inexplicable: "It's me, but do you know who I am?"

"What kind of garlic are you pretending?" Xu Da stretched out his hand to push him, "You sour Confucianism is still pretending to be stupid in front of us, do you know who the uncle is?"

Wang Qilin stopped him and said, "The last time we went to Duowen Temple, we changed our face, and he didn't recognize us." ”

Xu Da scratched his head, that's really the case.

As a result, Qin Tao was extremely smart, and when he heard this, he immediately reacted, clapped his hands and smiled: "You are the young master, this big black man is your horseman, right?

Wang Qilin also smiled and said: "Qin Jialangjun has a good memory, so it saves me from a mouthful, come on, you explain what your identity is, what you want to do when you came to Jixiang County, and what happened to you last time in Duowen Temple." ”

Qin Tao frowned and looked confused, and asked, "My lord, I have made an introduction, my name is Qin Tao, my words are omitted, and I am a sour Confucian who travels all over the world." I came to Jixiang County this time to be invited by my classmates, to come to drink and talk about friendship, what happened to me last time in Duowen Temple?"

Wang Qilin sneered and asked, "Don't pretend to be a fool for me, Lao Xu, Shen Yi, bring him in for me!"

Duowen Temple is a matter of confidentiality, and there are many people outside the door, so it is inconvenient for him to say more.

Entering the old mansion, Wang Qilin waved his hand at Xu Da and Shen Yi again, signaling them to close the door and go out.

Shen Yi was not happy and said, "Does this count as unloading the mill and killing the donkey?"

"I'm really!" Xu Dayi, who was originally unhappy, was even more unhappy when he heard this, "Spray monk, you don't have the culture, don't use words indiscriminately, use it blindly!"

The two of them scolded and went out, Wang Qilin violently pulled out the demon knife and put it on Qin Tao's neck: "Let's talk about it, what happened last time in Duowen Temple?"

There are stains of rust on the demon knife, these rusts are bright red like blood, Wang Qilin pulled the knife out of the sheath fiercely, and there are rust marks on it that are still twisting, as if this knife is bleeding.

Qin Tao was frightened, and he took three steps back and leaned against the wall, his face pale: "My lord, what do you mean?"

Wang Qilin followed up and nailed the demon knife into the wall and said coldly: "I don't have time or leisure to play dumb riddles with you, let me ask you, why did you enter Duowen Temple last time?"

Qin Tao shouted: "Because I thought there were demons and monsters in the temple, I wanted to go inside to see what was going on." ”

Wang Qilin sneered: "Then you are so bold, what magical powers do you have, not only are you not afraid of demons and monsters, but you also dare to take the initiative to come to the door?"

Qin Tao pushed him away, dusted off his clothes, shook off his long sleeves, he tidied up the Zhuge scarf on his head and said: "The student doesn't have any magical powers, only a warm blood, full of righteousness, never afraid of any demons and monsters, and has never encountered any demons and monsters. ”

"I say from the bottom of my heart, my lord, in fact, I have been chasing demons and monsters all these years, I hope to meet a female ghost, fox, fairy, beauty, snake and the like, and then achieve a marriage, and become an infatuated scholar in the mouth of the storyteller!"

Wang Qilin was stunned when he heard this, Shen Yi has a partner, and there is another person with a brain problem.

Qin Tao continued: "When I saw the thunderstorm and the dry bones exposed, I thought there must be demons in that temple, so I wanted to go in. As a result, I learned from you and Nasami that there were no demons in the temple, only a group of bandits, and I was disappointed, and when you left, I also left. ”

"What about the novice?" Wang Qilin then asked.

Qin Tao shook his head and said, "I don't know, I didn't look at him all the time. ”

Wang Qilin didn't believe his words, there must be something strange about this sour Confucian, and he wanted to try it again, but he saw a trace of panic flashing on Qin Tao's face on the opposite side, and his eyes looked at the room behind him vigorously.

He quickly turned around and asked, "What do you see?"

"A dark shadow flashed through it. Qin Tao hurriedly said.

Wang Qilin looked at the dark old mansion, and suddenly sneered: "Haven't you been looking for ghosts?

Qin Tao said weakly: "What I want to find is a female ghost fox fairy, the image just now is a male ghost." ”

Wang Qilin didn't talk nonsense with him, and directly pushed him out and stuffed it to Xu Da, saying, "Put me in a small prison and lock me up, and I will be tried again later." ”

Qin Tao shouted: "Wronged, adult, the student is wronged......"

"Go to the prison and shout again, there are many people shouting injustice, you can get together and compare your voices. Xu Da twisted his arm and pushed him away.

In the old house, Wang Qilin walked into the main house.

The main house is very large, 12 rooms wide, and in the middle of it is the living room, and there are five rooms on each side.

Every house is in tatters, and the north and south are transparent without opening the window, and Wang Qilin is standing at the door and the wind is sweeping through the hall.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is already a little cold through the hall.

This is the scene of the murder.

In the living room, there was an old table of eight immortals, and on the black and brown table was stacked a large bowl, which was stuffed with rice.

There were coagulated blood stains on the table outside the bowl, and there were also blood stains on the ground, among which the blood stains on the ground were located in the southeast corner of the Eight Immortals Table one by one, while the rest of the place was a large patch.

He didn't know how long the blood had solidified, but the color was still bright red, spreading from the table top to the ground, and there were still a few bowls under the table of the Eight Immortals on the ground.

It's all broken bowls, stained with rice, black and red rice.

Wang Qilin leaned in and sniffed, and his nose smelled a strong smell of blood.

There was a sour smell of blood in it, not human blood, but more like the blood of poultry.

If it was human blood, he would smell a strange sweet smell.

If it is the blood of pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep, it will be fishy or smelly.

Under the nose god, the blood of all things has a thousand tastes.

"Please God eat food. A voice suddenly remembered.

Wang Qilin was engrossed in sniffing the smell of blood, and suddenly such a voice sounded behind him to startle him.

It was Xie Toad who made a sound, and he said innocently: "I entered the house just now, didn't you see me?"

Wang Qilin said angrily: "Report to me before you act next time, how do I know that you have entered the house? ”

Just now he noticed that Xie Toad was gone, but he didn't know that he had already entered the house.

Xie Toad sneered: "As soon as I entered the door just now and saw these bowls and rice, I guessed what was going on, so I wanted to find the lost souls of these scholars. ”

Wang Qilin understood at this time that the black shadow that Qin Tao saw just now was Xie Toad passing through the house.

He asked, "You just said that this is a technique of inviting the gods to eat food? What kind of evil art is this?"

Xie Toad shook his head and said, "This is not an evil technique, but an orthodox method of inviting the gods to the upper body." It is common to see the gods and goddesses in the snowy mountains of the northeast, and they generally invite family immortals, which can be regarded as going off the rails. The most orthodox is to invite the Eight Immortals to the upper body, and in the earliest days, this technique was also called the Eight Immortals. ”

Wang Qilin's sniff of blood is correct for poultry, but it is not an ordinary poultry, Xie Toad said that this is the blood of a female pigeon.

The pigeon is the only kind of flying creature raised by man, and others such as the starling parrot falcon are also tamed, but many means are used in the taming process, and even if they are tamed, it is easy to escape once they are released.

The only thing is that pigeons, as long as they are raised from a young age, they will remember the location of their home and will go home no matter how far they fly.

Xie Toad continued: "The technique of inviting the gods to eat food is as simple as offering food to the gods, adding pigeon blood into it, and then several people circle around the offering table, and while turning in circles, they silently recite a sentence in their hearts, called 'The past gods, please come and eat food, if you eat my food, please solve my difficulties'." ”

"If a god passes by, he will be attracted to the grain and go and eat it. Because the food is mixed with pigeon's blood, as I said earlier, the pigeon will come back no matter how far away it is from the nest, and the gods will be infected with this cause and effect when they eat the grain stained with the pigeon's blood, and they will not be able to leave freely, and even if they leave, they will have to come back, and then they will be driven by the almsgiving. ”

Wang Qilin was stunned: "There is such a simple Taoist technique?"

Xie Toad sneered: "Simple? I haven't finished the conditions yet." ”

"I said that mantra just now, that mantra needs to be recited silently, and it needs to be recited silently by several casters, and only when everyone's minds completely coincide, the spell can be considered successful. ”

"That's not all, do you think that ordinary grain can attract the gods? Of course not, this requires the use of six grains, that is, rice, millet, millet, sorghum, wheat, and mushrooms. Moreover, the six grains used are not ordinary grains, they must be produced under certain conditions!"

Wang Qilin said: "They use rice?"

"Yes, they use rice," Xie Toad suddenly got angry when he said this, "Are these six scholars stupid to read? Do they think they came out for a picnic?

"It's just rice, and it's cooked to make rice! What a bunch of rotten people! Don't they know that rice is used for memorials or something?"

"Ghost!" Wang Qilin said.

"That's right," Xie Toad slapped on the table with a gloomy face, "They don't know where they learned this spell, and then they came out to use it, and they couldn't find the six grains and used rice, but how can rice attract gods? This can only attract ghosts, and it is estimated that the ghosts have taken away their souls." ”

Wang Qilin asked, "Is this going to be called a soul?" Just like when he called Ding Liufeng's soul? ”

Xie Toad said: "No, Ding Liufeng was so frightened that he lost his soul at that time, what frightened him was a lonely soul and a wild ghost, and he had no ability, but the soul of these scholars was taken away by a ghost, so it is useless to call the soul, and the soul has to be taken!"

Wang Qilin's heart sank, and he understood what he was worried about: "If you want to take the soul, you have to get this ghost back first, right?"

Xie Toad nodded and said, "Yes." ”

Wang Qilin frowned and said, "This is troublesome, if this ghost doesn't appear again, won't the few scholars outside never wake up again?"

The loss of the soul is the walking corpse, these scholars were originally the hope of the family, but after becoming the walking corpse, they will become a drag on the family.

At least six families are going to collapse!

Xie Toad said: "Actually, it's not particularly troublesome, that ghost took away the souls of six people here last night, which is a big advantage for it, just like a person who picked up a sum of money somewhere, if you are the one who picked up the money, what would you do?"

Wang Qilin said: "Hand it over to the yamen." ”

Xie Toad blinked and asked, "Are you so honest?"

Wang Qilin said: "I can't take money that doesn't belong to me, and it's a lot of money, who knows where it comes from?"

Xie Toad said, "If you are a very greedy person, what will you do after you pick up this money?"

Wang Qilin understood what he meant: "I will go to the place where I picked up money in the future to see if I can still pick up money." ”

Xie Toad nodded and said, "Yes, this ghost should come back tonight." As long as he returns, you will have a way to lure him to appear. ”

"I have a way?ah, use eight meows to find it?" Wang Qilin asked.

Eight Meow jumped out of his arms, stood on the table of the Eight Immortals, held his head high, and set out at any time.

Use me in the first battle, use me to win!

Jiuliu followed it out, Wang Qilin put it on the table of the eight immortals, it rubbed beside Eight Meow like a small tail, and Eight Meow pushed it away in disgust.

Jiuliu was very dissatisfied with this, and opened his mouth to yell at it for a while.

Eight Meow flashed his claws and scratched on the wooden table in front of Nine-Six, and the four paw prints were particularly clear.

Jiuliu was coaxed, and the aggrieved low eyebrows and cheeked eyes whispered 'Liuliuliu', just like the aggrieved little daughter-in-law.

Xie Toad smiled and said, "No, Xuan Mao and Tengu are both spirit beasts that will scare away ghosts." I say you can lure it out because the post has a spirit table, and that table is a good thing for spirit beasts, and the same is true for ghosts. ”

Wang Qilin suddenly forgot that there was such a thing.