Early in the morning, Mo Yan found Du Yuanwai and asked him to buy a few bags of quicklime and come back, he was going to get rid of the shrimp toad.

At noon, when the yang energy was at its peak in the day, Mo Yan asked the servants to untie the bag and pour all the lime into the ancient well. Immediately, the water in the well was rolling, and bursts of white smoke and heat were steaming, and it took about a stick of incense to slowly calm down.

Quicklime is the best thing to expel yin, and in the past, white ash was sprinkled on the graves in the countryside, which was to play the role of removing yin and dampness.

"Little brother, this time the shrimp toad should have disappeared. ”

"I hope so. Mo Mo still vaguely felt that something was wrong in his heart.

"We can finally leave the Du family. ”

"No, we'll have to see again tonight. Mo Yan said.

At night, the moon still hangs high in the night sky, and it is as cool as this, Mo Yan and Liu Youhuai have been waiting from the end of the day until the dawn of the rooster crows three times, and there is no movement in the ancient well, and the shrimp toad that has gathered four hundred years of yin qi has completely dissipated.

It's a pity, if it can be refined into a kind of artifact, it would be nice to collect this evil thing, maybe the old yin qi can be used for your own use. When Mo Yan was looking through the ancient books in the Zhenwudao Temple Library Pavilion, in the earliest version of the "Zhou Yi Shen Tong Deed" version of Wei Boyang in the Eastern Han Dynasty, he found a method of refining and collecting Yin and Yang Qi utensils, and he memorized it in his mind, but where to get a big Ding furnace.

"Little brother, don't worry about it now. Liu Youhuai said.

"Yes, where can I get a big Ding furnace?" Mo Yan muttered to himself.

"Dading Furnace?"

Mo Yan came back to his senses and smiled embarrassedly: "Senior, what did you just say?"

"Dading furnace, you said it. ”

"Oh, it's the kind of furnace that can refine pills. Mo Yan explained.

Liu Youhuai said: "Some of the copper and iron shops on the street sell about a few taels to a hundred taels of silver. ”

Mo Yan shook his head: "The Alchemy Ding Furnace has to have some spiritual energy, and the ones that are poured into water with some scrap copper and rotten iron are not very useful." ”

"Then you can only go to some old Taoist temples to find it, there may be hundreds of years of old ding, and the Dan furnace will naturally have aura after refining for a long time. Liu Youhuai reminded him.

Yes, I don't know if there is an ancient tripod in the True Martial Arts Temple, Wei Boyang said that the Ding furnace is good for alchemy and pure, and it has the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort.

After returning to the guest room, Liu Youhuai began to pack up, and Miss Du's illness was eradicated, and they could leave.

"Little brother, where are you going to go after you leave Jingzhou?" asked Mo Youhuai.

Mo Yan hesitated and said, "I'm still not at ease, I want to go to Miss Du's place again." ”

At this moment, the servant hurriedly ran to say that the young lady was sick again.

When Mo Yan and Liu Youhuai arrived at the boudoir, Du Yuanwai was already in the house, and when he saw Mo Yan, he hurriedly said, "Mr. Mo, Miss is starting to go crazy again for some reason." ”

Sure enough, in Hui Lan's eyes, I saw the living master again, dancing and squirming wildly, the root of the disease was not the shrimp toad in the ancient well, Mo Yan realized it at this moment.

Miss Huilan was lying on the bed with her back to the sky, her limbs curled up and foaming at the mouth, and she was babbling nonsense in her mouth: "Twenty-four bridges, forty-two bridges are still silent in the cold moon Huilan every year, I know who is born every year, Shen Lang is handsome, cardamom word work, Qinglou dreams are good, it is difficult to be affectionate"

"Sir, Miss used to mutter these words when she was sick. The maid said on the side.

"Alas," Du Yuanwai sighed, "Hui Lan has loved Jiang Kui's 'Yangzhou slow' word in the Southern Song Dynasty since she was a child, and she didn't forget it when she was crazy. ”

Mo Yan also liked this song ci very much when he read the private school, but he had some doubts in his heart at the moment, so he said: "It's not strange that the sentence is reversed when the young lady is sick, but I will never say that Du Lang in the words is Shen Lang, I think this is probably related to the Yangzhou scholar surnamed Shen on the Mid-Autumn Festival, maybe this is the real cause." ”

"Yes, the old man also felt awkward when he heard it, the original Du Lang who contrasted with the late Tang Du Mu in the words was changed to Shen Lang. Du Yuanwai suddenly realized.

"For now, the only way to stabilize the young lady's condition is to find out the cause of the illness first, and then to investigate the cause, please Du Yuanwai hurry up and kill a big rooster and use the chicken blood to be useful. Mo Yan returned to the guest room after the order and took out the yellow paper and cinnabar from the medicine box.

After a while, half a bowl of rooster blood came, Mo Yan mixed it with cinnabar, and then smoked it with his fingers and wrote a forbidden charm on the yellow mounted paper, and sprinkled it in a bowl of water after cremating the ashes and poured it into Huilan. Suddenly, Miss Du's condition stabilized and fell into a coma.

After returning to the living room, Du Yuanwai looked at Mo Yuan worriedly.

When he was in the Black Witch Liao, Ni Oh once said that some spirit beasts that have been cultivated for more than a thousand years can transform into human form, but they still need to be attached to the human body and mingle in the market, and generally they will not take the initiative to harm people, and some evil ones will take yin to supplement yang and absorb the girl's yin # essence to increase their strength, this Mr. Shen is very likely to belong to the latter category. In Wuling Mountain for more than a year, I haven't encountered a spirit beast that transforms into a Chengren form, and I don't know how powerful it is, I just have a soul eye and can identify them.

"Little brother, is there any difficulty?" Liu Youhuai saw Mo Yan's hesitant appearance of bowing his head and not saying a word, so he asked.

Mo Yan raised his head and met Du Yuanwai's tearful and helpless eyes, which was a father's sad expression, which made him moved.

"It seems that the only way to go is to Yangzhou. He made up his mind.

"Yangzhou?" Du Yuanwai hurriedly said when he heard this, "Yangzhou Governor Yi Bingshou is an old man's best friend, so you can ask him for help if you have anything." ”

"Du Yuanwai, I won't tell you anything, the root of Miss Huilan's illness can basically be determined to be in the Yangzhou scholar surnamed Shen, and she must be found in person to be completely cured, I wonder if you are willing to take Miss Du with you?" Mo Yan asked.

"Of course you can, otherwise Mr. Mo is gone, and if the young lady is sick again, the old man will be helpless. ”

"Then please get ready, let's leave early tomorrow morning. ”

"Well, Yangzhou is my hometown, and I should go back to see it after two years. Liu Youhuai was gladly willing to go along.

The road to Yangzhou is long, almost 2,000 miles, and Du Yuan hired a boat to take the waterway. Early the next morning, everyone boarded the boat and went down the Yangtze River.

Yangzhou, known as Guangling in history, is the most prosperous and prosperous place throughout the ages. It is not only the hub of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, but also the throat of north-south transportation, and the capital of the local salt merchants alone is equivalent to the number of silver deposited by the household department that year, which can be described as the richest in the world.

The further down the river, the more open the water surface becomes, the smoke waves are vast, and the water and sky are the same. On the boat, Mo Yan had a general understanding of Yi Bingshou, the prefect of Yangzhou, from Du Yuanwai's mouth. This person's name is Moqing, he is a Jinshi of this dynasty, good at poetry and painting, and he is very fair and honest as an official. During the period of the prefect of Yangzhou, he once created his own "Yifu noodles", referred to as "Yimen", which is a kind of egg noodles that are first cooked and fried, which can be eaten when they are hungry and can also be eaten raw, which is the earliest instant noodles in the Central Plains and is deeply loved by the local people.

After a few days, they finally arrived at Yangzhou Mansion, hired two carriages after going ashore, and went straight to Yangzhou Mansion.

The prefect Yi Bingshou was pleasantly surprised to see his old friend Du Xian's visit, and he was sure to stay in the palace, Du Yuanwai excused himself but had to agree, and Lu Ju first helped Miss into the guest room to rest in bed, and the rest of the people came to the living room to drink tea.

Yi Zhifu asked Ming Yuan, and said: "There are many rich merchants in Yangzhou, the first salt merchants, followed by tea merchants, there are hundreds of tea merchants in the city, among which there are not many surnamed Shen, this matter is easy to investigate, and you can reply to it when you say it." ”

In the evening, Yizhi Mansion set up a family banquet for Du Yuanwai and his entourage to catch the wind, Yangzhou is rich in products, the dishes are very delicious, as usual, each person in front of a small bowl of Yifu noodles, really has a unique flavor.

During the banquet, hearing the origin of Miss Huilan's illness, Yi Zhifu was greatly surprised, and asked Mo Yan: "Mr. Mo, what basis do you have for suspecting this scholar surnamed Shen in Yangzhou Mansion?"

"It's just speculation at the moment, and you have to see me to be sure. Mo replied.

The next afternoon, the head catcher king of Yangzhou Mansion came and went back by the way, there were 16 tea merchants surnamed Shen in Yangzhou Prefecture, including five families of scholars about 30 years old, please ask the prefect whether to bring them all to the government for questioning.

"Don't disturb the people at will, you can take the maid green chrysanthemum to be secretly identified, don't startle the snake. Yi Bingshou commanded.

"Yes, sir. Wang Shun went down and took Lu Ju to the five families surnamed Shen to identify the suspect in private.

Lu Ju sat in the carriage, secretly observed through the curtains, the first two days to see the four households are not, the third day in Yangzhou City next to the slender West Lake outside a courtyard gate, a full number of hours, only to finally see the scholar surnamed Shen go out, it is the Mid-Autumn Festival night to see the middle-aged man in brocade.

Green Ju tapped the car board lightly and said, "It's him." ”

Wang Shun, the head catcher disguised as a coachman, nodded and drove the carriage back to the mansion.

"My lord, this person's name is Shen Yilang, and his father Shen Wan is the largest tea merchant in Yangzhou City, with a family fortune of thousands of dollars, and he is good friends with many important ministers in the court. Shen Yilang is the only son of the Shen family, he has read poetry and books since he was a child, and he is currently responsible for taking care of the family business, often going back and forth to Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei and other tea producing areas, and has just returned to Yangzhou from the capital. It is said that every year when the spring tea is fresh, he will go to the capital to make a point. There is also a strange thing. Wang Shun said.

"What's the strange thing?"

"A few years ago, Shen Yilang died of typhoid fever, and on the eve of his burial, he suddenly came back to life, and he seemed to be a different person. It turned out that he only wanted to study for a career, and he disdained the tea marketing at home, and then he was obsessed with the family business, and he was very happy, and the only unhappy thing was that Shen Yilang was always unwilling to marry, and he was still single in his thirties. ”

"Well, that's a bit unreasonable, so you go down first. Yi Bingshou turned around and came to the inner hall and told Du Yuanwai and Mo Yan and others about the situation.

"The government can send him over for questioning. Yi Bingshou said.

"My lord, I don't need it for the time being, I want to go to the vicinity of Shen Yilang's house at night to investigate. Mo Yan replied.

"It's fine. Yi Bingshou immediately instructed the king to follow the people to lead the way for Mo Yan.

In the evening, Mo Yan was ready to leave, and Liu Youhuai said, "Little brother, the old man will go with you." The two of them followed Wang Shun's young catcher and set off in a carriage.

An hour later, they came to the shore of Slender West Lake.