On the outskirts of Chang'an, flower crabs live separately.

This is a single courtyard, surrounded on three sides, put a ring in the middle, three zhang square, spread a huge twill linen carpet on the ring, dyed with "Feipeng Martial Arts Hall" four big characters. Around the ring, there are two weapon racks on each side, swords, guns, swords, halberds, axes, hooks, forks, and abduction meteors. Next to the shelves, from small to large, there are seven pairs of stone locks of different sizes and ten stone balls. They are all used by Ma Xuewen to exercise his strength on weekdays.

The four corners of the courtyard are four small gardens, and the other plants are still bare, only the vine has budded in spring.

This is the place where Ma Xuewen and the concubine live alone, and there are no outsiders except for the two little maids, so it is a very secluded place.

Tomorrow the sun is shining high, hanging in the middle of the sky in all directions, but the courtyard is gloomy and makes people's backs chill, and I always feel that there is an invisible layer of cold aura above my head.

Li Bing put the burden of the "Three Treasures Tuanjin" behind his back, and the things in the baggage moved for a moment, and then quieted down again.

The three of them stood in the courtyard and looked at it casually, and they all felt that it seemed that the courtyard was not quite right, as if someone was staring at them from a distance, but at a glance, there was indeed nothing in the garden.

Li Bing knocked lightly on the door, and the one who opened the door was Xuewen's favorite concubine - Qingqing, a weak and delicate girl.

She originally looked solemn, and there were faint tears on her cheeks, but the moment she saw Li Bing, she couldn't help crying again, and whimpered: "Brother Li, you're finally back!"

Yinglan'er went shopping with her twice during the New Year's Festival, knew each other, and hurriedly hugged her when she saw this, comforting: "What's the matter? Why did you cry when you first met!"

As soon as the words fell, Qingqing cried even more, and sobbed: "Brother Li, let's take a look...... Xuewen, he can't do it!"

As she spoke, Qingqing glanced back at the bed in the room: "When Xuewen was awake yesterday, the last thing he said was, I want to see the big brother of the Li family again......! Ahhhh......h

The desperate crying couldn't be stopped, and Yinglan'er couldn't stop giving her relief, for fear that she would faint under sadness.

Li Bing never expected that the matter had become so serious, and he hurriedly entered the door.

Ma Xuewen slept on the bed, his eyes were sunken, his eyes were dark blue, his skin was sallow and shriveled, how could he suddenly come to this step of the field.

Li Bing gently pushed Ma Xuewen, but he didn't wake up. Rimai reached into the quilt and grabbed Ma Xuewen's arm, took a pulse, and shook his head slightly at Li Bing, not knowing what it meant.

"What the hell is going on, what kind of disease is this?"

Qingqing cried so hard that she gasped for breath even when she spoke, panting rapidly: "I don't know ......! Yes...... I don't know what the disease is! I don't even know what it is...... I don't even know if it's a disease!"

She was so uncomfortable that she could barely speak, and only said to the maid behind her: "Pick ...... Apple, you ...... You...... Come!"

When the little maid saw Lili, she said to a few people:

"It started 10 days ago. The young master occasionally gets dizzy, and there are double visions when he sees things, and sometimes it seems to be ...... I still seem to be able to see something strange. Cai Ping said this, becoming a little slurred.

"Strange stuff?

The little maid hesitated a little and didn't dare to say it, but Qingqing said again: "He...... He said...... Sometimes when I see the yard, I see ...... When I saw a fox fairy or something, I flashed...... In a flash, it was gone. I haven't seen it, it's all ...... It's all about him. Still...... Another time, he said...... See my face...... Change...... Turned into a grimace......"

She couldn't stop sobbing, she couldn't calm down at all, and Yinglan'er's constant comfort was useless, so she could only rest and let Cai Ping continue.

"The young master initially found a few doctors, and they all said that they were too diligent in practicing martial arts, and it was good to have a good rest. But after cultivating for a day or two, not only did it not get better, but it became more serious, not only did I see things with double vision, but people also became weak, sleepy, and very easily tired. The young master has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and he hasn't even provoked the wind and cold a few times, so there must be something wrong.

Later, the old man also knew about this, so he asked someone to find the 'Qianjin Pavilion', which was the pharmacy in the Chang'an Kaihua Workshop. The old man said that he was a well-known sect in the Qingmiao lineage on the rivers and lakes, and he was very capable.

After going to the Qianjin Pavilion to see it, he said that the pulse signs and signs were fine, and he didn't know what was wrong, so he prescribed some medicine and let him come back.

Those medicines were still somewhat effective at first, but after a day, the condition became more serious. The two deputies of the young master said that they were afraid that they had bumped into something unclean, and they wanted to find a Yin Yang Taoist priest to take a look, and the young master also ordered them to do it. As a result, that day, I happened to meet a monk passing by knocking on the door, saying that it was not right to look inside the Zhuangzi, so I came in to have a look.

Since it happened to happen, the monk also saw that something was wrong, so the young master gave him fifty yuan and asked him to do a ritual. ”

Although Li Bing doesn't believe that there is anything unclean in this world, he also knows that people who mix in the underworld of the rivers and lakes are convinced of these ghosts and gods, and it is common to worship them in the morning and evening.

He interrupted: "What kind of monk is a monk? Is it from Chang'an? Which temple is it?"

"I don't hear the accent like it is in Beijing, it seems to be 'Bujie Temple', and the Dharma name is 'Buxiang', I remember it very clearly!"

When Qingqing heard this, she couldn't stop nodding her head in confirmation. Cai Apple went on to say:

"The monk was dressed quite normally, but he didn't look like a serious monk no matter how he looked, he spoke very vulgarly, he was full of swearing, and he was fat. He looked around the courtyard and went around the house with a golden bowl and chanted sutras. said that there were imps in the yard, and they were recruited by others. It's all gone!

Then he asked the young master to sit in the ring, and gave him a whole body to get rid of his resentment. Before leaving, he also took one from his Buddha beads, strung a red line bracelet, and asked the young master to wear it. ”

Speaking of this, Li Bing glanced at Ma Xuewen's arm, and there was nothing on it.

"Why didn't you put it on?"

Qingqing had calmed down a little and replied, "It's already burned." After speaking, he said to his maid: "I'll tell you!"

"As soon as the ritual was finished, I felt that the study of the text was a little lighter. But the next day, his condition took a turn for the worse! Not only did all the previous symptoms come back, but he also had chills all over his body, coughed all the time, and even his eye circles were black, and he couldn't speak clearly.

This frightened me, and I immediately asked Xuewen's two deputies to find the monk, and I also found someone from the Qianjin Pavilion to come and see it.

But the monk was nowhere to be seen. When the Wei Ze brothers learned about this, they also came once, and brought a Taoist priest.

The Taoist priest looked at Xuewen's condition and said that someone else had cast a spell in the courtyard, and someone had lured ghosts to harm Xuewen. I did a ritual and hung Taoist talismans at home. also said that there must be something to attract ghosts, and as a result, he found the sandalwood Buddha beads on Xuewen.

The Taoist priest said that the inscription on this bead was different from all the Buddhist inscriptions he knew, neither the Pure Land sect, nor the Zen sect, nor the Faxiang sect, and he also said many other sect names, I can't remember. Anyway, this bead is weird, so let's burn it. ”

Qingqing said this, and held Ma Xuewen's hand: "Brother Li, you also know that the 'Feipeng Martial Arts Pavilion' has some enemies outside. Xuewen's deputy listened to the words of the Taoist priest and said that he was afraid that he was in the enemy's way.

This monk's behavior is so strange, maybe he was sent by the enemy to harm us, and the time for the study of literature to become serious is also right. So he went out to find the enemy.

After that ritual was completed, the situation of Xuewen had stabilized, and he could speak, so he guessed that it was the ghost of the 'Guo family in Lantian County'. ”

There are 22 counties under Jingzhao Mansion, all of which are around Chang'an, and Lantian is one of them. There are many Lantian jade mines, the quality is good, and the jade produced is called Lantian jade, which is famous all over the world.

Xuewen said that during the New Year's Festival, the martial arts hall came forward and smashed the gambling hall of the Guo family in Lantian County. The ancestors of the Guo family were born as onmyoji, and this matter may really have something to do with them.

Xuewen's deputy immediately went to Lantian County and found that the Guo family had been empty. This matter is even more certain.

Things got better, but that night things got weirder. All the runes left behind were burned, and the situation of Xuewen took a sharp turn for the worse, and it became what it is now, and the courtyard became gloomy. ”

Saying that, she became sad again, Yinglan'er persuaded her, but she waved her hand and said:

"Fortunately, there are medicinal materials from the Thousand Golden Pavilion to hang their lives, and Brother Wei Ze has found that Taoist priest again. That's to say that he was originally a demon catcher and not a ghost, and this time the thing was too powerful for him to deal with. Let's find someone else, saying that the Buddhism Pure Sect, the Bodhisattva Sect, or the masters of the Yin and Yang lineage have all have a way. ”

Wei Ze said that people in the yin and yang veins have no fixed place to live, and it is difficult to find. But Chang'an has the 'Xiangji Temple', which is still the ancestral court of the Pure Land Sect. So he went to the door and asked for help.

As a result, the gate of Xiangji Temple was closed, saying that there was something important and that there would be no guests this month. The Wei Ze brothers used some means to find the abbot, but the abbot only said that it was an extraordinary time and could not do anything. But he helped us to pass the book to the abbot of 'Luoyang Beiluo Temple' and asked him to help.

Beiluo Temple is a big temple of the Bosha Sect, the Wei Ze brothers have gone to Luoyang to pick up people, count the time, they should come back this afternoon, I hope there will be salvation, otherwise...... Otherwise, I don't know what to do......"

The little girl cried with pear blossoms and rain, and Li Bing couldn't help it, so he just said: "Xiangji Temple and Royal Ximing Temple have a good relationship, I'll go to Ximing Temple in a while to see if I can ask them to help!"

While talking, another maid came in with a decoction and medicine: "Young grandma, it's time for the young master to drink the medicine." ”

Qingqing wanted to push Xuewen to get up, but Li Bing said, "I'll come!"

He pushed Xuewen to sit up, and tried to feed the medicine but couldn't, so he could only open his mouth and pour the medicine in.

The maid took the medicine bowl and said, "Fourth Uncle Ma is here, and he brought someone back, locked up in the firewood room, and is questioning! That person, with his head covered, but looking at his clothes and body shape, it seems that he is a fat monk who came to the house to cheat that day!"

"Oh, I'll take a look!" Li Bing helped Ma Xuewen to lie down, gave Rimai a look, and said to Yinglan'er: "You are here with the young girl, I will come when I go!"