Xu Da carried the table table, and Wang Qilin opened a shelf and put the table up.

Eight Meow was in good spirits and ready to worship, and it washed its face first.

Very pious.

Ninety-six is still immature, it treats the eight meows as a mother, and learns to wash its face, but the dog's front paws are not as flexible as the cat's, and it pulls it twice only to the mouth, so it thinks about it, and sits on the ground and changes it to lick after jio uses jio to scratch itself.

Wang Qilin glanced at Ba Meow helplessly and said, "Why do you still worship it? It's a spirit, not a god or Buddha, don't worship it, and don't bring it badly, don't take it with you, don't like to kowtow around." ”

Eight Meow pretended not to understand him, and then went up to lick Nine-Six's face and wash it face.

Jiuliu was very moved, stretched out his pink and tender little tongues to lick each other, and Yameow gave it a jio, and then Jiuliu didn't dare to move.

After washing Jiuliu's face, it patted Jiuliu's head with its furry round paws, and looked up at Wang Qilin, meaning that you see me taking care of it like a sister.

Wang Qilin squatted down and said, "You have to be better with it, this is your child daughter-in-law." ”

Shen Yi said kindly: "Amitabha, this bunch of seeds, right?"

Wang Qilin said unhappily: "Don't insult the pure feelings between spirit beasts, love can transcend the race!"

Eight Meow took Ninety-Six to the offering table, pouted his butt and knelt, pressed his front paws on the ground and kowtowed, and a set of skillful movements took shape.

Ninety-six farts follow along.

Wang Qilin reluctantly lifted them up and stuffed them into his arms, and said to Shen Yi: "Monk, go back to the post house first, you don't have to stay here." ”

Shen Yi said unhappily: "Seventh Master, look at the honorific title I have for you, why do you have to give me an honorific title, right? ”

"Brother Monk, Brother Monk is angry!" Wang Qilin changed his name.

Shen Yi clasped his hands together: "Amitabha, this title is okay." ”

Xie Toad waved his hand and said impatiently: "Okay, okay, get out of here, there's nothing for you here." ”

Shen Yi shouted: "Unload the mill and kill the donkey again?"

"You didn't grind!" Xie Toad said.

Shen Yi thought about it and felt that this was right, so he went back happily.

Xu Da looked at his back with pity and said: "Seventh Master, let's go and see the case in their village, he is quite pitiful, obviously the boss is a master, but he turned out to be crazy." ”

Wang Qilin said: "It's not that I don't want to take care of the case in their village, but I don't know how to deal with it! First, it is not our jurisdiction, and we can't speak; second, do you think I am a high-ranking official of Dali Temple who solves the case like a god? Shen Yi's case has been separated for many years now, and even the three groups of Bao Zheng, Di Renjie, and Song Ci may not be able to solve it!"

Xu Da couldn't help but sigh and said, "Then you can give me a vacation, and I'll accompany Shen back to his hometown to see what's going on." ”

Wang Qilin said: "Okay, I'll go if I have a chance, let's catch this ghost tonight first." ”

Night falls, and the stars rise into the sky.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is just around the corner, the night is dark, and the moon is huge.

Thousands of miles away in the twilight, the lights are thousands of homes.

Wang Qilin sat on the roof and watched this scene and felt extremely quiet in his heart, as an official, all he wanted was for the people to live and work in peace and contentment.

He didn't have much luxury.

The technique of inviting the gods to eat food can be used at any time of the day, but Xie Toad said that these scholars did not use the orthodox technique of inviting the gods to eat food, and they did not have six grains, so they changed this spell to invite ghosts, and the best time to invite ghosts is Zishi, and there is still a period of time before Zishi, and they can rest.

Wang Qilin saw the scene of the lights of thousands of homes and began to practice the nine-character mantra, Eight Meow cooed on his shoulder and cooed the Buddha, while Nine-six turned his belly and slept soundly under his crotch.

The puppy sleeps unsteadily, kicking his legs from time to time, grinning, and sometimes shrinking and humming.

At this time, Wang Qilin knew that it was a nightmare, so he had to pick it up and gently pat it on the back to comfort it.

The moon wheel goes west.

The night was dark.

Wang Qilin stuffed Bameow and Jiuliu into his arms and returned to the house, Xie Toad, who was meditating and practicing, slowly opened his eyes and said, "The time has come." ”

Xu Da was still sleeping, and his snoring rattled.

Xie Toad said: "It doesn't take too many people to ask the ghost to eat food, just let the two of us operate it, but don't do it if there are too many people." ”

One of the prerequisites for the spell to work is that the caster's voice is in rhythm so that the ghost can hear it.

The more people there are, the louder the rhythm will be, and the wider the spread, the easier it will be to attract capable ghosts.

But the ghost they are trying to seduce today has already come yesterday, and it is not surprising that it will come again today.

And they have a spirit table table bonus, so that the accident is eliminated, and Xie Toad is confident that it will attract ghosts.

Wang Qilin took out a bowl of white rice, and after Jiuliu smelled it, the chrysalis came out and wanted to eat it, and Wang Qilin pressed it back again.

He sprinkled pigeon blood on it, and the rice immediately turned scarlet.

Seeing this, he said strangely: "How much pigeon blood did they use yesterday? There was blood on the table and blood on the floor, shouldn't it?" ”

Xie Toad frowned and shook his head, which he thought was also strange.

The two of them packed up, began to circle around the offering table, and at the same time silently recited in their hearts: "Past gods, please come and eat food, if you eat my food, please solve my troubles......"

At this time, the moon was in the middle of the sky, and the snow light shone in through the broken window edge paper, and scattered on the ground like silver-white paper money.

At the base of the wall were six students leaning crookedly, their faces pale and dull, and their stunned eyes did not look like they belonged to people.

There was a candle lit on the table, and when they made the first circle around the table, the flame of the candle was abruptly extinguished.

There was no light in the room.

Wang Qilin walked slowly around the table, he kept saying a sentence in his heart, and then felt that his mind was a little trance.

Occasionally, he felt someone behind him slowly spin around the table with him.

It's a strange feeling, just like if someone shakes their hand on their face after closing their eyes, they can still feel the presence of their hand, he can't see anyone behind him, he can't hear footsteps, but he can feel a figure behind him.

There's a ghost coming!

But Xie Toad didn't give him a signal, which means that the ghost who came was not their target.

The autumn wind was bleak, blowing the remnants of the window edge paper and swaying, and then the spots of light on the ground were also shaking.

It's like someone throwing paper money in the wind.

Xie Toad said abruptly: "Lord Wang, stop." ”

Wang Qilin thought that the ghost was coming, and immediately turned around to draw a knife to open A.

Almost A was on Xie Toad's face, Xie Toad waved his hand and said, "That ghost didn't come." ”

Wang Qilin was stunned and asked, "What's wrong? There have been no ghosts?"

So what's the feeling behind that?

Xie Toad said lightly: "It appeared, it was a lonely ghost who was driven away by me, and the ghost we were looking for did not appear." ”

Wang Qilin frowned and asked, "Why?"

Xie Toad laughed and said, "It's very simple, the rhythm of our inner prayers is not uniform, and it fails to attract him. ”

Wang Qilin said: "What's the matter with the lonely soul and wild ghost that appeared? Ah, I know!"

A flash of inspiration!

Xie Toad bowed his head and said, "Yes, it was just attracted by this offering table......

Wang Qilin waved his hand and said: "No, the second half of my sentence just now was not talking about the lonely ghost, but about the blood on the ground! Do you remember? There was a table corner where some blood droplets were splashed on the ground, and I never understood what was going on, but now I figured out that it was those students who were using blood to drop on the ground to give themselves a rhythm!"

A bowl poked out of the corner of the table, and the sound of pigeon's blood dripping on the ground made a sound that they quietly circled, using the sound as the line to adjust the rhythm of their silent prayers.

Xie Toad nodded after understanding what he meant, "Yes, that's exactly the case, otherwise how could the six students unify the rhythm of the silent recitation of the prayer?"

Wang Qilin said: "So, six students escaped from the study and came to an old mansion that had been abandoned for many years, and at midnight they used pigeon blood as a drum to circle around a table to invite ghosts, this scene is quite terrifying, right?"

Xie Toad nodded again.

This scene is that the old rivers and lakes are also panicking.

Wang Qilin said: "The problem is, the six of them are just ordinary students, they have not experienced big storms and waves, and they have no boldness, so what supports them to do all this?"

There was no answer to this one, and the six students sat diagonally by the wall, their faces expressionless.

Wang Qilin glanced at them and said, "What they are seeking must be huge!"

Xie Toad said, "Let's continue to cast spells, we have to lure that ghost out as soon as possible." ”

Wang Qilin frowned and said, "We have to unify the rhythm, we have to find a reference point." ”

Speaking of this, the two looked at Xu Da who was sleeping soundly.

The purring is rhythmic.

The two smiled at each other and walked around the table.

"Gah!" "Past gods,"

"Gah!" "Please come and eat,"

"Gah!" "If you eat my food,"

"Gah!" "Please solve my ......"

Based on the sound of snoring, Wang Qilin silently recited the prayer.

As a result, they had just circled around the table a few times when there was a knock on the door outside: "Bang bang!"

Xie Toad blinked and said, "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, this ghost is quite polite, he knew to knock on the door before coming in?"

Then Dou Dachun's gentle voice sounded outside the door: "Seventh Master, Xu Ye, Dao Chief, are you inside? Don't be scared by me, I'll tell you something." ”

Wang Qilin angrily went to open the door, and saw Dou Dachun with two servants escorting Qin Tao to appear outside the door.

Seeing him appear, Dou Dachun hurriedly explained: "Seventh Master, I didn't mean to scare you......"

"I asked him to come to you," Qin Tao interrupted him and said, "Lord Wang, have you ever encountered that ghost?"

Wang Qilin said coldly: "What do you have to do with it?"

Qin Tao shouted: "During the day, if I didn't make it clear, you put me in prison! I came here to be invited to solve this strange matter, I have encountered this kind of thing, so I have experience!"

Wang Qilin asked, "What do you mean?"

Qin Tao didn't answer and asked, "Have you met the ghost who took away the souls of the scholars?" or have you killed it?"

Then he hurriedly said: "Don't kill it, it takes away the souls of the scholars, and if you kill it, the souls of the scholars will also disappear!"

Wang Qilin sneered and asked, "You seem to know a lot of ......."

Dou Dachun's expression, who was standing opposite him, changed suddenly, his face showed a look of panic, and he said in a low voice: "Seventh Master, inside!"

Wang Qilin hurriedly looked back.

In the white moonlight, a column of people appeared in the courtyard.

The men were dressed in robes, barefoot, and walked slowly and in strange postures: the people in the back crossed their arms on the shoulders of the people in front of them, and walked towards the door one by one with their heads bowed.

The souls of the scholars!

There are a total of seven ghosts, one of which belongs to a ghost, but they are all dressed the same and have their heads bowed, Wang Qilin is not familiar with the scholars, and he really doesn't know which one is a ghost.

Qin Tao stood on tiptoe and stretched his neck to look in, he was really not afraid, his face was full of curiosity at this time.

There was a toad in the house, so Wang Qilin took out the demon knife and walked over quickly, blocking the ghosts and scholars at once.

Xie Toad's voice rang out from the room: "Lord Wang, don't do it!"

Wang Qilin said in a deep voice: "Why?"

Qin Tao shouted: "Because once you do it, these scholars will die!"

Xie Toad said: "Yes, the scholar's soul was not snatched away by this ghost, but it was taken away reasonably. You see that they use their arms to put each other together, which is equivalent to being linked, which is called a yin lock, which is a means used by ghosts to lock their own things. ”

Now that he didn't have time to inquire about the importance of fighting the Yin Lock, Wang Qilin asked, "What should I do then?"

Xie Toad said: "Don't worry about it for now, we have to investigate something." ”

He dragged Xu Da out of the window, Xu Da opened his eyes in a daze and asked, "Seventh Master, are you going to work?"

Wang Qilin said: "No, continue to sleep." ”

Xu Dadao: "Oh, then you call me when you have to work, uncle is not a lazy person." ”

He gathered away his clothes, shrunk under the wall, and fell asleep again.

Qin Tao was very envious: "People who have no brains live really chic and comfortable." ”

Dou Dachun pushed him dissatisfiedly and said, "What do you say about our Xu Ye? Xu Ye is a talent, why is he brainless?"

Qin Tao was stunned: "He's a Xiucai?" I haven't been admitted to Xiucai after reading sage books for more than 20 years, this rough embryo is actually Xiucai?"

"Have you read all the sage books in the dog's belly?" Dou Dachun laughed at him.

Wang Qilin was surprised, and asked Xie Toad: "You said that he is as talented as a pagoda soaring into the sky......

Xie Toad said: "Talent is not fame, Li Taibai is an example, he doesn't have much fame, but his talent spans three thousand miles, when he walked all over the Tang Dynasty with a sword, from the Western Regions to the south of the Yangtze River, the sword in his hand has never been unsheathed, why? Because whether it is a demon or a monster, it will be refined into poetry by talent before it reaches him!"

He looked at Qin Tao again and asked, "You said that you have experienced this kind of thing, tell me in detail." ”

Qin Tao still didn't answer, he asked, "When you arrived during the day, did you see a bowl of bloody rice on a table, a broken bowl on the ground, and blood and a lot of paper on the table?"

Wang Qilin said: "There is blood on the table, rice and blood, and broken bowls on the ground, but there is no paper. ”

Qin Tao was stunned and said, "That shouldn't be, how can there be no paper?"

Wang Qilin said impatiently: "You hurry up and tell what you know, otherwise don't blame the official for being ruthless!"

Qin Tao said sullenly: "I have experienced this kind of thing, about twenty years ago, a classmate of mine learned this evil art, and then used it to invite ghosts to do bad things. Oh, you don't know about this sorcery, do you?"

Wang Qilin said what Xie Toad told him, and Qin Tao said with a smile: "Listening to the Heavenly Prison is worthy of being an institution that arbitrarily administers evil things, you know a lot, yes, what you said is right, but it is not complete." ”

"This evil art is indeed born from the art of inviting the gods to eat food, so its name is the art of inviting ghosts to eat rice, and the process of casting the two spells is the same, the difference is that the art of inviting gods to eat food can call on the gods to help themselves, and the art of inviting ghosts to eat rice is to invite ghosts and let it tell them some things. ”

"But people and ghosts can't talk, so how can the ghosts tell the story? It's like this, when the ghosts are invited, the pigeon blood in the rice bowl will spill out, which is to spread a piece of paper on the edge of the rice bowl, and everyone turns their backs, and then one person asks a question. ”

"If the ghost is willing to answer the question, he will write it on a piece of paper, and if the question is too difficult for the ghost to answer or the ghost is not willing to answer, then it will break the rice bowl, and then he will have to change the rice bowl and ask the question again, and now you know the reason why there are broken bowls on the ground, right?"

"But what if the ghost invited is illiterate?" What if he can't write?" Xu Da's voice sounded, and he hit the nail on the head as usual.

Wang Qilin looked back in amazement: "You woke up?"

Xu Da said solemnly: "Uncle hasn't actually fallen asleep all the time......"

"At this point, what are you going to do with me?"

Xu Da said stupidly: "Okay, the uncle fell asleep at first, and I woke up after the Taoist chief dragged me out just now, but I didn't know what the situation was, so I decided to pretend to be asleep first, and then help the seventh master to gain insight into the situation from an outsider's point of view." ”

After speaking, he pointed to Qin Tao and said, "I heard what you scolded me behind my back just now!

Qin Tao didn't take his threat seriously, and asked, "Are you really a showman?"

Xu Da said disdainfully: "What's fake about this? Ten years of talent in this dynasty, Tong Suo is not bullied!"

Qin Tao was stunned, and suddenly scolded in frustration: "Master Wenquxing doesn't open his eyes!"

Wang Qilin said: "Don't change the topic for me, why do you know so much about this evil art, and you came to the scene immediately after this evil art harmed people? What does this have to do with you?"

Qin Tao said angrily: "Why do you always doubt me? I am innocent, the reason why I understand is because I have experienced it, I told you this just now." As for why I was able to come during the day, it was because the hotel where I was staying happened to be spreading about it, and then I heard about the scene in the house and knew what was going on, so I wanted to help. ”

Wang Qilin asked, "How can you help?"

Qin Tao said: "I can tell the master how to remove this evil spell, it seems that you don't know, just now I said that there is paper on the table, and this paper will not only leave the answer given by the ghost, but also write down the request made by the ghost! Yes, the reason why these scholars lost their souls is because they did not complete the ghost's request!"

Wang Qilin looked at Xie Toad, Xie Toad frowned and said, "What do you mean? Why didn't I know that there were still these things?"

Qin Tao said: "There must be, I have experienced it." ”

"If they just ask the ghost something, it won't have any serious consequences, and the ghost won't answer at most. It must have been that they had asked the ghost to do something, and they had to entrust the ghost to do something for themselves, and the ghost helped them, and then according to the law of this evil magic, they had to do one thing for the ghost as well. ”

"If they're done, then they're happy to work together. If they don't help the ghosts, then they have to compensate the ghosts for their souls!"

Wang Qilin said: "So, there should have been some paper in this room, and it was those papers that were the point?"

Qin Tao nodded and said, "Yes, I want to tell the master's family to let them do things for the ghosts tonight according to the description on the paper, as long as it is done, there will be room for maneuver." ”

Wang Qilin said: "But when we arrived, there was no paper in the house, not a single one. ”

Qin Tao was stunned for a moment, and said categorically: "There is absolutely no way, there must be paper, and it is written in pigeon blood! You believe me, I will not be mistaken!"

Wang Qilin said: "I didn't doubt you, what I want to say is that someone must have snatched the paper before us, we have to find this person!"