Volume 1 The Road to Enlightenment Chapter 67 Nie Xiaoqian
"Who are you to know my name? Yan Chixia took back the Xuanyuan sword that was knocked away by Tianxuan, and vigilantly held the sword to defend Tianxuan, for fear that Tianxuan was the cultivator family who had offended.
"I forgot to introduce myself, the deity is called Tianxuan Daoist, and he is also the national teacher of the dynasty, this is the first time you and I have met, so you don't have to be so cautious. Tianxuan waved his hand at him to show that he was not hostile to him.
"Are you simply eating white rice when I am Yan Chixia? Even the national teacher of the current dynasty will not recognize it, and I will not tell you that I used to be an official of the imperial court, how can I accept you and deceive you. Hearing Tianxuan say this, he became more vigilant.
"You Yan Chixia don't eat rice, but it has been less than half a month since I became a national teacher, and it has taken half a month to spread the news from Kyoto to this Jiangnan, if you go to the market now, you can understand. Seeing that Yan Chixia still didn't believe what Tianxuan said, Tianxuan didn't say a word, and directly took out the jade pendant given by the emperor from the savings space.
Yan Chixia didn't believe it anymore, but the jade pendant was right in front of her, and the aura of national fortune in the jade pendant would not deceive people, so she hurriedly bowed her hand to Tianxuan.
"You are really a national teacher. Yan Chixia seemed to have heard the most bizarre thing in the world.
"You just said that you have been in office for less than half a month, why is this, has there been any major changes in the human race now? After Yan Chixia thought for a while, she suddenly realized that it must have been a major accident in the country that would make the national teacher change.
"It's not a big deal, it's just that I beheaded the centipede spirit's national teacher and reluctantly took up the position of national teacher, that's all. Tianxuan lightly described what happened and the process.
"I didn't expect the national teacher to be a monster, it's really unfortunate for the human race. With a compassionate look, Yang Tian picked up the gourd hanging from his waist and poured it into his throat.
It seems that it is too much of a failure to think of my own cultivation and travel all over the world to do chivalrous deeds, but in the end I don't even pay attention to my own country.
"Tianxuan Daoyou, Chixia respects you on this generation. After drinking the wine, he took out a pot of fine wine from there and handed it to Tianxuan, who picked up the wine and drank it with his head up.
The two sat in the dilapidated temple, confirming what they had learned with each other, and secondly, although Yan Chixia had a serious face, her knowledge was extremely broad, she knew the world and knew the geography, and it could be said that it was too late to meet each other when she talked to Tianxuan.
It was a hazy light rain outside, but suddenly it was pouring down, and a white-faced scholar with a bamboo basket on his back hurriedly walked in the door, and saw Tianxuan and Yan Chixia sitting there drinking, so they simply came forward to say hello.
"The two brothers are also sheltering from the rain here, Xiaosheng Ning Caichen, polite. After finishing speaking, seeing that the two of them were still drinking, they also stepped aside, took out the book from the bamboo basket, and by the faint light of the fire, familiarized themselves with the words in the book, sometimes shaking their heads and reciting, sometimes closing their eyes and reciting.
"You scholar, know that this place is haunted, and don't leave quickly, lest you add to the world's vain affairs. Yan Chixia was not ambiguous, and her upright personality made him walk up to Ning Caichen and say loudly.
"Brother Tai's words are wrong," Zi is silent, strange and chaotic, "What is strange and what is the ghost in this world, if Brother Tai dislikes me for reading and noisy, I will go to the side hall and no longer stay." Ning Caichen thought that Yan Chixia thought that he was reading too loudly.
"Since you think so, then if I didn't say it, my friend and I will go to the side hall, and there is fire here for you. Since Ning Caichen didn't listen, Yan Chixia had no choice, so she had to retreat and go to the side hall with Tianxuan.
It made Daoyou smile. After coming to the side hall, Yan Chixia sat down and cast a spell to light the flames.
"It's okay, it's just that most of the mortal people don't believe in ghosts and gods, so don't be too careful. Tianxuan was thinking at this time that the plot of this world was about to begin, and he had kept up with the development of the plot so cleverly.
"Since this place is haunted, we might as well take a look here to see how this little scholar who is not afraid of ghosts will react when he encounters ghosts. "It's very interesting to think about it, Tianxuan and Yan Chixia simply sat in the gap on one side of the side hall, wiped off their breath and hid there.
When the sun was slowly setting, Ning Caichen braved the rain to get straw from outside and spread it on the ground as a bed with fire to evaporate the water, and put a wooden board as a table, it seemed that he planned to live here for a long time.
At night, the moon is bright and clean, and the light is like water.
Ning Caichen couldn't sleep for a long time because he lived in a new place. Suddenly, I heard a whispered voice on the north side of the house, as if there was a home. Ning Caichen sat up and knelt down under the stone window on the north wall of the main hall, secretly inspecting.
There was a small courtyard outside the short wall, there was a woman in her forties, and an old mother, dressed in dark red, with silver comb-shaped jewelry on her head, hunched over, and an old dragon clock, and the two were talking in the moonlight.
I only heard the woman say, "Why hasn't Xiaoqian come for so long?"
The old mother said, "It's almost coming!"
The woman said, "Do you have a complaint against your grandmother?"
The old mother said, "I haven't heard of it, but it looks a little uncomfortable." “
The woman said, "That girl is not easy to get along with!"
Before he finished speaking, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old woman came, who seemed to be very beautiful. The old mother smiled and said, "Don't talk about people behind your back." While the two of us were talking, the leprechaun came quietly, thankfully not talking about your shortcomings. “
He also said: "The little lady is really beautiful like the person in the painting, and if the old body is a man, you have also hooked her soul." The woman said, "If Grandma doesn't praise me, who else will say that I am good?"
The woman and the woman did not know what to say. Ning Caichen thought that they were Yan Chixia and Tianxuan's family members, so he lay down to sleep and stopped listening. After a while, there was silence outside.
Ning Caichen was just about to fall asleep, when he felt that someone had entered the house, so he hurriedly got up to check, it turned out to be the woman from Fang Cai. Ning Caichen asked her in surprise what she was doing, and the woman said, "I can't sleep on a moonlit night, and I am willing to share the joy of husband and wife with you." “
Ning Caichen said solemnly: "You should beware of others talking, I am also afraid of people gossiping." As long as the slightest mistake is to lose morality and lose face. “
The woman said, "No one knows during the night." Ning Sheng reprimanded her again. The woman hesitated as if she had something to say, but Ning Caichen scolded loudly: "Hurry up! Otherwise, I will call the scholar of the side hall!"
The woman was scared and left. He walked out the door and came back and put a piece of gold on his mattress. Ning Caichen picked it up and threw it on the steps outside the court, saying, "Ill-gotten gains, dirty my pocket!"
The woman withdrew in shame, picked up the gold, and said to herself, "This man is really hard-hearted!"
The next morning, a scholar from Lanxi came with a servant to prepare for the exam, lived in the east wing of the temple, and died suddenly at night. There was a small hole in the center of the foot, like an awl piercing, and blood flowed out thinly.
Ning Caichen and the servant didn't know what the reason was. The next night the servant also died, with the same symptoms as the scholar. At night, Yan Chixia couldn't bear to come out of the secret place, and Ning Caichen asked him about it.
Yan Chixia said to Ning Caichen again: "It was a ghost who did it." Ning Caichen was plain and upright, and he didn't take it to heart. Yan Chixia had no choice but to leave.
In the middle of the night, the woman came again and said to Ning Caichen: "I have seen a lot of people, but I have never seen such a straightforward person as you. You are really a sage, I dare not bully you. My name is Xiaoqian, surnamed Nie, died at the age of eighteen, buried next to the temple, often coerced by monsters to do some cheap things, cheeky to serve others, it is really not what I am willing to do. Now that there is no one to kill in the temple, I'm afraid the Yaksha is going to harm you!"
Ning Caichen felt scared at this time and begged Nie Xiaoqian to think of a way. Nie Xiaoqian said: "If you go and live with the two people in the side hall, you can avoid disaster." “
Ning Caichen asked suspiciously, "Why don't you confuse the two people in the side hall?" Xiaoqian said: "He is a strange person, I dare not approach, and the rich family who came later is dressed even more so." “
Ning Caichen asked, "What method do you use to confuse people?" Xiao Qian said: "The person who is intimate with me, I will secretly stab his foot with an awl." When he passed out unconscious, I would take his blood and offer it to the demons to drink, or lure him with gold, but it was not gold, it was a rakshasa bone, and if anyone left it, it would be cut off from the heart and liver. Both of these methods are to the people's liking. “
When Ning Caichen heard this, he hurriedly thanked her and asked her the date of her vigilance. Xiaoqian replied that it would be tomorrow night.
At parting, she said with tears in her eyes: "I have fallen into a sea of misery, and I cannot find the shore." Lang Jun is angry, and he will definitely be able to save the suffering. If you are willing to bury my rotten bones and go back to be buried in a quiet cemetery, your great kindness will be like giving me life again!"
Ning Caichen resolutely agreed and asked her where she was buried. Xiao Qian said: "Just remember that there is a crow's nest on the poplar tree. After saying that, he walked out the door and disappeared all at once.
The next day, Ning Caichen was afraid that Yan Chixia and Tianxuan would not be there, so he invited the two from the side hall early. After the hour, he prepared food and drinks, paid attention to the behavior of the two of them, and asked the two of them to sleep in the same room.
Yan Chixia excused herself and said that she had a lonely temperament and loved to be quiet. Tianxuan did not take a stand, and let it be. Ning Caichen didn't listen to what Yan Chixia said, so he just moved Yan Chixia's luggage from the side hall.
Yan Chixia had no choice but to move the bed over and instructed: "I know that you are a big husband and admire you very much." There are some hidden meanings, and it is difficult to explain them all at once. I hope you don't look through my box baggage, otherwise, don't blame me for being ruthless!" Ning Caichen respectfully agreed.
The sky gradually darkened, the moon hung high in the sky, Yan Chixia and Ning Caichen, the two destined characters, the two of them slept in one room, and Tianxuan sat alone on the top of the hall to enjoy the moonlight.
Yan Chixia put the box on the windowsill and lay down on the pillow, and after a while, she snored like thunder. Ning Caichen couldn't fall asleep because of this loud snoring, and when he was on the fast track, there was a faint figure outside the window.
After a while, the shadow peeked in close to the window, its eyes shining. Ning Caichen was very scared when he saw the hair in his heart, and was about to call Yan Chixia, when suddenly something broke through the box and flew straight out, like a dazzling Bai Lian.