Dai Luan and Liangqiu Muwan ran out of the back door. There are more things piled up on the street. With vague memories, Dai Luan overturned many things placed on the tree stump. Pots and bowls and other small items were broken on the floor, but she still looked for them in a panic, and finally found the pile in her memory. Pushing open the heavy solid wood stool above, she saw the familiar growth rings.
Now it seems, isn't this just a painfully distorted human face?
"Mu Wan, can you...can you split this thing?"
Dai Luan pointed to the pile on the ground. Mu Wan stepped forward to take a look, and by gesturing, the tree stump was only about as thick as a person.
"Okay." She said, taking out her umbrella.
"Chop it off by the roots."
"...That won't work."
She put the umbrella back. Dai Luan panicked again.
"Then, what should we do...ah! Mu Wan, Mu Wan, you know how to spell, right?"
After hearing this, Mu Wan felt a little relieved. She also took out a blank talisman and asked, "I know a little bit about it. What do you think we should do?"
"Can you write the Thunder Summoning Talisman?"
"This... this kind of advanced talisman is very complicated. However, I have a lightning protection talisman written by someone else in my umbrella." As she said that, she opened the umbrella and took out a talisman from the inside of the umbrella. The charm is a bit old, and the lines on it are a bit complicated, making it completely incomprehensible to outsiders.
"This is easy to handle! I just need to change a few things!"
"But we don't have that..."
That kind of ink.
But before Mu Wan could say anything, she saw Dai Luan biting her finger without hesitation. Dark red blood oozed out, and it hurt just to look at her. Blood can indeed replace many kinds of ink.
She just didn't expect Dai Luan to be able to do this for her master.
But this is not the time to sigh. She immediately handed the two talisman papers to her and asked Dai Luan to draw one. After writing it, she pointed the thumbs of both hands at the Yin pattern and held the charm tightly.
"Holding the Nine Heavenly Qi in your hand, howling wind whips thunder; transforming yourself into the True Monarch of Tzu Chi, unleashing your magical power as quickly as a law or order!"
The moment the talisman was thrown on the wooden stake, a bolt of thunder like a dragon fell from the sky and exploded towards the place where the talisman was. In an instant, the sky was shattered, dust was scattered, and the two of them were blasted two feet away by this inexplicably powerful force. By the time I could move, my body was still in terrible pain.
Dai Luan ran on her hands and knees towards the tree stump just now. There was a puff of black smoke and a large crater was blown out. Not to mention the tree stumps, it was not easy to even find the blown pieces of wood.
A crouched skeleton was exposed at the bottom of the pit.
"It turns out...it's buried here..."
"...You, you can?"
Mu Wan marveled. Dai Luan turned around and smiled silly at her:
"The mountains and seas are more powerful. The Nine Heavens should respond to the thunder and transform the Heavenly Lord. He can also invite him."
"Then go back!"
There were shouts, burning sounds, water splashing, cock crows and dogs barking in succession. After an extremely difficult night, the noisy and chaotic compound finally ushered in daylight.
The servants were exhausted, having put out fires all night, and now they were all disgraced. Taking advantage of the chaos, many people escaped secretly, and the cook was one of them. The demon fire could not be extinguished by water, but since the tree stump was struck by lightning, the fire quickly became smaller. With the efforts of the servants, the person was quickly rescued.
Except for some burns on his arms, Shan Hai was fine and was applying medicine to himself. As for those three people...
"The old lady was carried back to the house. She is still breathing, but she has been falling asleep. I don't know when she will wake up. As for the madam, she has..."
The person who brought them face wash was the maid Shan Hai had spoken to yesterday. She was explaining the current situation to them, and the death of Bai Gu's wife was certain.
"As for the young master... he seems to have gone crazy. He is talking nonsense and wants to see the young mistress. He is jumping around the yard, grabbing the dirt on the ground and stuffing it into his mouth. If he stops him, he will say that he is a tree. A tree should eat mud; after a while, he said he was a dog and bit people all over the yard... Now, he is being held in the house by some servants."
"Retribution!" Dai Luan scolded while wiping the sword blackened by smoke.
"This is the end."
I don’t know how many meanings there are in this statement. Shan Hai's tone was calm and he didn't sigh. It's like I don't feel sorry for this, but it also seems like all the mourning has been done. After finally washing her hands, Mu Wan took a cloth and asked her while wiping her hands:
"Little girl, how long have you served the Baigu family? How much do you know about their bad things?"
"...To tell you the truth, it was the old lady who suppressed us in the past and prevented us from speaking out. Anyone who was suspected of speaking out would be disabled by family law, so I didn't dare to speak. But, as Taoist Master Lin said , the Baigu family is going to be over, and we servants have to go our separate ways, so it’s okay to tell you. In fact..."
"I know that during the Dragon Boat Festival that year, it was Bai Gu's wife who killed Miss Songyun." Shanhai interrupted, "The old lady disposed of the body. The young master also knew about the whole thing. He probably told her about the family's fortune not long after he met her. He was clean, and because he had no relationship with Miss Songyun and only wanted her dowry, he agreed to this conspiracy."
Mu Wan looked at him with a strange look, as if Shan Hai had really talked face to face with the dead man. The maid was stunned for a moment, then nodded and continued:
"Back then, the young mistress's son was the real young master. He didn't want to be drafted into the war. But the old lady got him drunk, and while he was confused, she pushed him to the soldiers, saying that this was her son. And before getting married, The Songyun family in the Songyun family thought that the eldest young master was still at home, so they married their daughter over. The eldest young mistress also came and realized that he was not her wishful husband..."
"And the cook who was bribed by the old lady has been pretending to be Miss Songyun to reply to the letter," Mu Wan thought, "until she died, she continued to lie to them as instructed..."
"Yes. In fact, the young master's business is not profitable at all. It is the cook who keeps asking the young mistress's mother's family for... In fact, one day the cook was talking in her sleep and said that the principal's wife was also the one who was killed by the old lady... …”
"You are so vicious, you deserve a bad death!" After cleaning the sword, Dai Luan was still cursing.
Dirty, people’s hearts are so damn dirty.
"Hey, Taoist Priest." The servant who had introduced them in the first place walked in. "Your horses have been fed and ready to set off at any time. I'm really sorry for dragging you into such a thing... By the way, we are here A pit was found at the back door, and the bones of the young mistress were exposed in the pit. We brothers decided to pool together the money, bury her, and then go our separate ways. It was also... to excuse our cowardice back then..."
Shan Hai packed his bags and said nothing. He nodded slightly and stepped out of the door. Mu Wan and Aluan thanked them and followed them out.
Along the way, no one said anything.
At noon, they arrived at the inn where they had rested for the previous two nights. There was a noodle shop at the door. They dismounted and prepared to have lunch here.
No one said anything at the table, and none of the three of them was in any mood. As he ate the meal, Shanhai gradually felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere. Although he experienced unpleasant things, he was still keenly aware of the atmosphere around him.
The store was full of people passing by, and it wasn't lively, but you could hear some conversation. But now...it's too quiet.
Shan Hai raised his head and looked around, and immediately saw a familiar face standing at the window nearest to them, which looked strange to everyone. People at two or three tables in the noodle shop looked at him from time to time and didn't dare to gossip.
Seeing Shan Hai stopped moving his chopsticks, the other two people also stopped and followed his gaze.
"Jiyue Lord? What are you doing standing there?"
"Come in and sit down?" Dai Luan greeted.
Mr. Jiyue nimbly rolled in through the window without going through the main entrance, and sat down unceremoniously on the remaining side of the four-corner table.
"I've been waiting for your words." He smiled.
Shan Hai frowned, his expression ugly.
"What's the matter? Just tell me."
"Tsk, why are you so cold?"
"not in the mood."
"I heard that a house in the north was burned down..."
"Shut up." Mu Wan said rudely, tapping the edge of the bowl with his chopsticks.
Jiyue Jun's icy eyes quickly swept across the faces of the two girls, making people wonder whether he could see them. But he seemed to read the atmosphere at the table and didn't say anything more.
"Ahem. I just finished busy with the things arranged by that adult and came back to find you in a hurry. I thought you had gone far away, so I followed the spiritual veins but didn't see you. I asked the local little demon and he said he didn't see you. I have to go all the way back through you."
Shan Hai gave a perfunctory hum, but Dai Luan raised her head and asked him seriously:
"Can't you really lend us your six spiritual veins? It would be much easier. Or, you can go find Lord Liangyue in advance to see if he is still there..."
Lord Jiyue closed his eyes and shook his head.
"Even with the protection of my bell, I can't send so many of you at the same time. If you want that adult to know, you have to blame me. Besides, spiritual veins can't be found everywhere, and Liangyue-kun may not be nearby. It’s not easy for me to find him, we only met once we returned to Hades.”
Mu Wan seemed to have calmed down, and felt that she shouldn't have been too harsh to him just now, so her tone softened a lot.
"So you came to us just to see where we went?"
Lord Jiyue put his arms on the edge of the table and spoke in a more serious tone.
"I was able to find you quickly because if we go further, there will be no resting place for six or seven days. I'm afraid you won't be able to bring enough dry food."
"How could it be?" Shan Hai put down his chopsticks.
Lord Jiyue shook his head.
"There was a village a few decades ago, but now it is a dead village. I suggest you take a detour and go to the neighboring Xuan first..."
"Dead Village?"
"Well, there are monsters causing trouble. However, things in this area are not under my control. You just need to..."
"What monster?"
Mu Wan's heart felt cold. Listening to this attitude, Master Lin is looking for additional trouble.
She stared at Mr. Jiyue's face, and she could clearly see a smile from the corner of his mouth, which was clearly a trick he had chosen based on Shan Hai's temperament. Shan Hai was afraid that he had noticed it a long time ago, but he didn't say anything.
Oh, it's over.
