08 New tablet in the mourning hall
You must know that Lao Ye and Lao Chen didn't know Xie Yixiang's dream, but they just heard Xie Yixiang talk about looking for such a place, so according to her description, they led Xie Yixiang to this abandoned Yao family's ancient mansion, who knew that it was really the place she was looking for. www.biquge.info If the two of them knew that Xie Yixiang had been here in a dream, so they would have led the way, and the two of them would probably have decided that Miss Xie San in the General's Mansion was a madman.
At that moment, the three of them stepped forward and pushed open the courtyard door of the ancient house, stepped lightly into the courtyard, and saw that the courtyard was full of traces of corruption, exuding the smell of rancid animals and plants, and there was nothing worth investigating, so they discussed a few words with each other and walked into the attic together.
Xie Yixiang still clearly remembered what she saw in her dream, the bottom floor of this attic was a huge hall, and there were more than a dozen pitch-black signs on a large nanmu table against the wall, which seemed to be a spiritual seat for the deceased. At this moment, when I entered the attic, it was exactly what I saw in the dream, and directly opposite the door was an offering table placed against the wall, on which more than a dozen dark wooden tablets were enshrined. A little counting shows that there are 12 spiritual places on the table, and as for the incense burner and candlestick used for worship in front of the spiritual table, it has long been abandoned and is full of dust.
Seeing this scene, I thought that the ground floor of this attic was used as a mourning hall for the deceased. The three of them couldn't help but be secretly vigilant, and approached the offering table to take a closer look, hoping to find some clues based on the names on the spiritual table. Unexpectedly, the twelve spiritual tablets on the offering table were all empty on the pitch-black wooden plaques, and the names of the deceased were not engraved.
The three of them couldn't help but glance at each other, and they were all a little inexplicable. After all, Xie Yixiang had experienced the nightmare of yesterday, and had "seen" some things that Ye and Chen didn't know with her own eyes, and couldn't help but secretly speculate: "Could it be that these twelve spirit positions right now are the spirit positions of the more than ten faceless monsters I saw in my dream?" And the reason why they don't have facial features on their faces is because their spirit seats are empty, and their names are not left on the wooden plaques, so they can't see their faces in their dreams?"
When Xie Yixiang was thinking about it, he heard Lao Chen next to him suddenly say "Huh", and said with some surprise: "This is strange, you see that these spiritual positions seem to have been put into this ancient mansion recently." ”
The fast old Ye next to him didn't understand Lao Chen's words for a while, Xie Yixiang nodded and said slowly: "What Lao Chen said is not bad, looking at the degree of abandonment of this ancient mansion, I am afraid that it is really as you said, it has been vacant for hundreds of years." Nowadays, it can be preserved like this, mostly because this ancient mansion was built in the valley of this Huolong Mountain, and with the help of the shelter of the surrounding mountain walls, it saved a lot of wind and rain, so that this ancient mansion can survive to this day. But looking at the more than ten wordless spiritual positions on the offering table, the paint color on them has not faded, but it is much newer than this ancient house, and it was obviously put in later. ”
When she said this, she went to carefully examine the spiritual positions on the offering table, and said with some hesitation: "However, according to Lao Chen, these spiritual positions have only been placed here recently, and I am afraid that they may not be. If you look at the small hole under the spiritual seat on the right, it is clearly the scar of a winter insect, and it has been eaten more than once. There are signs like this on the wood, and in my experience, these spiritual tablets must have been placed here for nearly ten years. ”
When Ye Chen and the others heard Xie Yixiang's analysis, they couldn't help but nod their heads. I thought that this Miss Xie San was young, and most of them dared to come out alone because of the prestige of her father, General Xie Fengxuan, but she didn't expect that she had such a sophisticated eyesight, and she didn't lose to those experienced catchers, but it was unexpected by them, and the two of them were immediately impressed.
Xie Yixiang saw the two quick looks, and could roughly guess what they were thinking, so she immediately smiled slightly, and didn't care. I only heard the old Chen ask: "Since these spiritual seats were placed here later, but this ancient house of the Yao family has been abandoned for nearly a hundred years, and the original owner has naturally passed away for many years, who else will place the enshrined spiritual seats here? Could it be that the owner of this ancient house of the Yao family, or the descendants of the ancient house, has actually been hidden near this ancient house?"
Xie Yixiang said lightly: "This is exactly the answer I am looking for." And the answer to that may lie upstairs. With that, she ignored the wordless seats on the offering table and walked to the staircase in the corner of the hall. The two catchers hurriedly followed behind Xie Yixiang and stepped on the dilapidated wooden ladder in turn, and there was a "squeak" sound, which shook the dust and fell straight down.
When the three of them went up to the second floor of the attic, the scene in front of them naturally coincided with Xie Yixiang's dream again, it was an extremely low walkway, not even as tall as ordinary people. Although Xie Yixiang only had to bow her head slightly to walk upright in the aisle, with the height of Ye Chen's two normal men, she had to bend down, and it was very laborious to walk.
Xie Yixiang still remembered that the room she saw in her dream was on the right side at the end of the corridor, and she took the lead at the moment, pushing open all the doors of the rooms on both sides of the corridor along the way. Seeing that the other houses were empty, and there was nothing unusual to see, Xie Yixiang went straight to the door on the right side of the aisle at the end of the corridor. saw that the door of the room was empty, but fortunately it was intact, but he didn't imagine that Xie Yixiang was smashed by a head with ponytails on both sides as he saw in his dream yesterday.
Thinking back to the night of horror in the dream yesterday, Xie Yixiang hurriedly took a deep breath, trying to leave those terrifying scenes behind. She pushed the wooden door open slowly, and the first thing she saw was a bronze oil lamp, which was placed alone on the floor of the room, but the oil lamp had not been lit, and the oil that had been contained in it had long since dried up and solidified.
Everything I saw along the way today was clearly consistent with what I saw in my dream yesterday, and for a while, Xie Yixiang felt three points of surprise in addition to seven points of fear in her heart. But she tried to keep her face calm, and said calmly to the two catchers, "This is the room I'm looking for." ”
Lao Ye and Lao Chen naturally didn't understand the reason, and hurriedly followed Xie Yixiang into the house. You must know that Xie Yixiang's identity is after all the imperial court, and among the emperor's bans in this dynasty, there is one article that "those involved in witchcraft Gu are dead", so it is inconvenient for her to mention the strange power and chaos in these places, even if she came this time, she only roughly described the appearance of the ancient mansion she saw in her dream to Ye Chen and the others, and asked them to help find such a place, as for what she saw and heard in her dream yesterday, she omitted it. So now, although Ye Chen and the others are in the attic room, they don't know what Xie Yixiang has seen and heard in this room, let alone what she is looking for this time.
However, don't say that Ye and Chen are fast, and even Xie Yixiang herself doesn't know what she is looking for. At that moment the three of them searched the room carefully, except for the dusty bronze oil lamp on the floor, there was nothing else in the room, only the moldy wooden walls on all sides, and on the wooden wall facing the door, there seemed to be a wooden window, the window and door had long since rotted and fallen, only an empty window hole, and there was nothing unusual when I looked out of the room. Xie Yixiang remembered that yesterday in the dream, under the guidance of the strange old man, she saw the pale light reflected in this room outside the ancient mansion through this window.
Seeing that there was nothing worth studying in this room, the old Ye hesitated slightly, and then reached out to get the bronze oil lamp on the ground. But when Xie Yixiang and Lao Chen stopped drinking at the same time, they said in unison: "Don't move that lamp!"