Qingyan felt that the village chief's son might have been deceived. This Taoist priest did not look like he was a profound Taoist.
At least when she thought about it, those Taoists with profound Taoist practices would just go up to them and do it without saying anything. But unlike this, chanting spells and casting spells at the entrance of the village, and letting the villagers watch, wouldn't they be afraid of accidents?
Huang Jin stood outside, watching the excitement over there, and couldn't help curling his lips after hearing the old lady's words.
This Taoist priest is far behind his master. Wherever his master stands, people can feel what the Taoist spirit of immortality is. (This is just what it thinks. Its master is very similar to its transformed appearance. They both have a very wretched look with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks←_←)
This Taoist priest's Gang steps have flaws, and I'm afraid even his nephews can't compare to them.
At this time, the old lady asked Qingyan: "Girl, you said you are also practitioners. Which Taoist temple are you from? If there is an emergency, I wonder if some of you can help me?"
She was also a little nervous because the village chief's son was boasting so much about the Taoist priest, but she always felt that it was a bit unreliable.
You must know that when the Taoist priest found the snake demon cave and sealed it, she had seen it with her own eyes. Although it was far away, it was not so fancy.
She remembered that the other party used a compass and a talisman. When calculating, he pinched his fingers. When sealing the hole, he moved a few stones and put the talismans on them.
So she thought about making two preparations. If the Taoist priest couldn't do it, she would talk to the village chief and let these people try it.
Although there is one person outside who doesn't look like a good person (referring to Gold), this little girl looks like a fairy, and the other two young men are also like golden boys. At first glance, they are not ordinary people.
If Huang Jin knew what the old lady thought of him, he would probably be sad. He always thought that he was as celestial as his master, and he looked like a master at first sight.
Qingyan first sent a message to Chou Chou to make sure that it was not the dragon or some snake monster, but a man-made trouble that could be solved, and then nodded to the old lady.
"If the Taoist priest can't solve it, my senior brother and junior brother can help. They are very powerful."
Qingyan didn't know who did it, but now was not the time to ask, because the rituals over there were over, and the Taoist priest was selling his talismans.
It was said that if you carry it with you or stick it at home, you can keep evil spirits away. Qingyan heard the price and found that it cost one or two silvers each!
This is really expensive. Of course, if it is really useful, it would be fine, but if it is not useful, it is purely a scam.
She asked Huang Jin to see if the talismans were real.
Gold came back soon, saying that the talisman was just an ordinary peace talisman and had no effect in exorcising demons.
The old lady also heard what Jin Jin said. She told Qingyan and asked them to wait for her first, and then ran directly to the village chief.
Qingyan's consciousness followed her, and only then did she realize that the old lady was actually the village chief's sister.
She told her brother what Qingyan and the others said, and of course they said it very skillfully, so as not to make people think that they were deliberately slandering each other in order to steal business.
The village chief's son was a little unhappy. He ran for several days to find this. He specifically inquired about it nearby. The Taoist temple was very efficacious. Taoist priest Tianji often went down the mountain to help people exorcise evil spirits. He was very powerful.
The reason why he went to the Seven Stars Temple was because the Taoist priest Yu Heng who helped them seal the snake demon came from the Seven Stars Temple.
Otherwise, how could they know about the Taoist temple hundreds of miles away and go all the way to find it?
They originally wanted to ask the temple master, their master, to get rid of the demon. After all, Taoist Yu Heng said at that time that his Taoism was not good enough and that they had to ask his master to get rid of the snake demon.
Unfortunately, when they went to find him, the temple owner had been traveling for several years and had not returned. Even Taoist priest Yuheng had not heard from him five years ago.
Now the only two Taoist priests Tianji and Yaoguang were left in the temple. Taoist priest Yaoguang still wanted to stay in the temple, so he invited Taoist priest Tianji over.
He also told this to his aunt, the old lady, who was surprised. She didn't expect that they were from the same family, but the difference was probably too big.
Qingyan and the others were looking over there with their spiritual consciousness, and they heard it by the way.
Qingyan had already left the carriage and was sitting next to Chou Chou. The two looked at each other. It seemed that the problem was with the Taoist priest of Qixing Temple.
Chou Chou sent a message to her: "When the old lady talked about the landslide here and that cave, I used my spiritual sense to investigate it.
There had indeed been landslides, and there were many broken walls and bones buried underneath. It looked like they were from more than ten years ago.
That cave is a bit interesting. The bones inside should have been brought up from the ground, and the date of death of those people is the same.
I'm afraid those bones were used to deceive the trust of these villagers. As for the slippery and fishy smell inside, it was originally a cave inhabited by snakes. The fishy smell and snakes are normal.
As for sealing the snake demon, it is probably just a blind trick. This can be done with some Taoism. "
Qingyan: "What about those children and little girls? Were they abducted?"
Could it be that it is a Taoist temple on the surface but a den of personal traffickers secretly?
Chou Chou shook his head, "I don't know. After all, it has been so long and there are no clues left. You have to ask the Taoist priest what he should know."
The old lady over there has been convinced by the village chief and his son. There should be no problem if they come from a Taoist temple. As for why this Taoist priest Tianji casts spells differently from the previous Taoist priest Yuheng, maybe the way they cast spells is different. Be different.
Qingyan and the others also saw this situation and did not force it. They would help the other party if they asked for it. If they were not willing, they would just let it go.
But Taoist Priest Tianji and the others would still come and ask, who made Qingyan curious.
After the villagers dispersed and removed the altar, their carriage could pass through it.
During this period, the old lady came over and told Qingyan that they didn't need their help. Qingyan said it didn't matter.
They passed directly by the entrance of the village, got on the official road and continued walking south.
The walking speed is not fast, so Qingyan can continue to observe over there.
Because they had wasted a lot of time, it was almost ten o'clock when they left. In addition, it had just rained heavily last night, and the stone slabs on the road were quite slippery. After walking for more than ten miles, it was already noon.
They found an open space next to the official road and planned to have lunch here while waiting to see if Taoist Master Ji would leave the village that day and see if they could kidnap him and ask him.
Qingyan asked Jin Yang to get out the trained magpie, tie the letter he had written before to its leg, and gave her instructions again before watching it fly towards the north.
Jin Yang and Huang Jin were responsible for setting the meal. The staple food and dishes were all ready-made. All they had to do was take out the table and set it up.
Because the weather was a bit cold, I was afraid that the meat dishes would get cold quickly, so I placed a mini charcoal stove for making tea on the table and placed the pottery basin on it to heat the dishes.
It doesn't matter if it's a vegetarian dish, but it will cool more slowly if placed next to the charcoal stove.
Because Chou Chou wanted to keep an eye on the island in the middle of the lake, Qingyan and Jin Yang took turns keeping an eye on the Shangenzi Village side.
That's right, that village was called Shangenzi Village before, and the name is quite special.
While eating, Chou Chou talked about the situation on the island in the center of the lake. The officers and soldiers in the past were already preparing to leave. Each of them brought a leather bag with a dozen knives in it, a total of three to four hundred. .
Qingyan asked Chou Chou to keep an eye on them to see where they were going to take the weapons, and maybe there would be unexpected discoveries.
It wasn't until they finished eating and packed up that Taoist Ji left the village chief's house that day and came right in their direction.
Qingyan thought of the names of the three Taoist priests mentioned and said to them: "This Seven Star Temple seems to be named after the Big Dipper. I don't know what the name of the temple master is. He just accepted seven disciples and changed the name of the Seven Stars." Have you taken them all?”
Huang Jin curled his lips and said, "This name is quite arrogant. I don't know if the Taoist temple is big enough to deserve these names.
Our Cultivation Temple is very big, and there are many people in it, including more than a dozen of my nephews and nephews, not to mention the disciples of my uncles and uncles! "
Qingyan: "..."
It's a lot like asking it, do you still remember that you were just a yellow-skinned person before?
If you think of someone as your uncle, uncle or nephew, they may not even know you. It means your master has an impression of you.
Needless to say, Qingyan was absolutely right. When Gold was in the Taoist temple, its master thought it had spirituality and often talked to it about spiritual practice. No one else knew there was such a "master's nephew or master's uncle." "
Now that people are coming this way, they are going to wait here and wait for them to come over before taking it down, so as to save Chou Chou from having to take action.
That person must have some skills on his body, and he was quite fast. He arrived near them in more than half an hour.
Gold said it would meet the other party without them taking action.
Qingyan and the three of them had no objection at all. Only Yuanbao was a little eager to try, but Qingyan suppressed him.
In just a few moves, Jin Jin took down the opponent. When he was escorted over, he looked confused, not knowing how he had offended these people.
But he quickly came to his senses and immediately begged for mercy: "Guys, I don't know when I offended a few of you, so I am here to apologize to you, and I hope you will spare a lot of time for me, a little Taoist. "
Qingyan raised her eyebrows. It seemed that this person had offended many people, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to beg for mercy so smoothly. He must have practiced it many times.
Jin Yang stepped forward directly and asked: "Where did you take those children and women in Shangenzi Village?"
Taoist Tianji was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that the other party would ask this. He almost couldn't turn around for a moment, especially when the people in front of him were looking at him, he always had the illusion that he was being targeted by some ferocious beast.
His eyes flashed, and he said with a smile: "Pindao doesn't know what this little brother means by saying this. Just now, Pindao did go to drive away the evil spirits in Shangenzi Village, but it was people from their village who invited them. Poor fellow, weren't all those dead children and women eaten by the snake demon?"
Jin Yang narrowed his eyes slightly and released a little pressure, "You'd better tell the truth. Where did your junior brother Yu Heng go?"
Taoist Tianji felt as if he weighed a thousand pounds. If he hadn't been carried by the person next to him, he would have fallen to the ground.
Huang Jin lifted him up and said to him: "You'd better tell the truth. If we didn't know something, why would we be waiting for you here? Those children and women were not eaten by the snake demon at all. It should be said that there is no snake demon at all.
We won't make it difficult for you to tell you where those people are. If you don't tell them, we will have to use extraordinary measures. "
Taoist Tianji was a little surprised and confused. He didn't know how much these people knew. If they were just deceiving him, then if he confessed everything, wouldn't he be asking for death?
Seeing that he had no intention of explaining, Chou Chou nodded to Gold, indicating that it could take action.
Don't look at Dao Xing and Chou Chou Jin Yang, but they are also spirits that can transform. They are orthodox cultivators, and they still have some innate skills.
Like illusion, it allows people to create an illusion in a short period of time, and then speak their innermost thoughts. Afterwards, they will only think that they are thinking in their hearts and will not realize what they have revealed.
Then he asked Qingyan and the others to stay a little further away, and Huang Jin released a thin stream of yellow smoke, which quickly enveloped the two of them.
Qingyan's eyes twitched. Isn't this the stench released by a skunk?
When the yellow smoke dissipated, when he looked at the two of them again, Taoist Master Ji's eyes were blurred.
Huang Jin asked the question again, and Taoist Tianji replied honestly: "Those people were all taken away by Senior Brother. Not only this Shangenzi Village, but also within a hundred miles of our Taoist temple, as long as there have been natural or man-made disasters Every village has it.”
"Where were those people taken? Where is Taoist Yuheng? Are they with your senior brother?"
Gold continued to ask.
Taoist Tianji shook his head, "I don't know, I am the weakest in Taoism among the brothers, so I stayed with my brother Yaoguang to look after the Taoist temple.
Junior Brother Yu Heng is the strongest among us besides the senior brother. He should have gone out to practice on his own. The senior brother came back once in the middle, but he was not with us. "
Huang Jin looked at them, not knowing what else to ask.
Qingyan said to it: "Ask how many brothers they have in total, where the others are, and whether he and that Yaoguang have done anything evil."
Huang Jin asked again according to Qingyan's words, Tianji Taoist said, "We used to have a total of seven brothers, but three of them died and now there are only four of us left.
I don’t know the whereabouts of Senior Brother and Junior Brother Yu Heng. We just help the villagers exorcise ghosts and evil spirits. In fact, most of them are imagined by their own consciences, and some are man-made.
We took the opportunity to earn some money for doing rituals and selling talismans. Our talismans were real. If there were really evil spirits, the peace talismans we sold to them would be able to ward them off. "
"Didn't you just say that you would take advantage of natural and man-made disasters to take away the children and girls in other villages? Why don't you say it now?" Huang Jin frowned.
(End of chapter)
