It was Yunkong's cloth bag, embroidered with the Innate Eight Trigrams, and inside were all kinds of Taoist supplies.
Yun Kong turned around, took the cloth bag over with one hand, and gestured to put his hand in it.
The child cowered in fear and said coquettishly: "Grandpa!"
"Taoist Priest, please stop scaring my grandson."
"No, children are just afraid of life." Yun Kong said as he took out the bronze mirror.
The child screamed and began to cry.
"Master Taoist!" Mr. Xu hugged his grandson and patted his back.
"It's just a bronze mirror, a bronze mirror." Yun Kong showed the object in his hand to prove his innocence.
Yun Kong's doubts became more and more serious, until they became overwhelming.
Now, even if the Xu family wants to drive him away, he doesn't want to leave.
"My dear, go back to your room and sleep, go..." Mr. Xu urged his grandson to leave, then sat upright and looked at Yunkong: "Taoist Master, what are you thinking about?"
"I have no idea."
Mr. Xu showed a distrustful expression.
"I should say...I'm not sure yet."
"Tell me, tell me."
"No, no, lest you, Mr. Xu, preconceive it." Yun Kong walked to the corner of the room and took out the bronze mirror hanging on it from the grooming rack. "You can sleep with the bronze mirror. If there is another evil spirit, just look at it." yes."
Mr. Xu was mentally prepared this time and was no longer so afraid.
"I hope you have a safe night."
"Thank you, Taoist Master... Mingxiang!" Master Xu shouted, and the maid answered outside the door, "Take the Taoist Master back to the guest room."
"Yes." Mingxiang's voice was still soft and crisp.
It was night, and Xu Mansion was very peaceful.
It happened the next morning.
Mrs. Xu is dead.
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Mrs. Xu also contributed a lot to the success of the Xu family.
She managed Mr. Xu's home in an orderly manner, allowing him to do business with peace of mind, and the Xu family gradually became wealthy.
Although the Xu family had no worries about food and clothing, Mrs. Xu still did not dare to be lazy. She got up early every day to take care of things and arrange everyone's work for the day.
The day after Yun Kong came to Xu's house, Mrs. Xu got up before dawn as usual and went directly to the kitchen.
She heard an annoying buzzing sound.
It's a wasp.
The wasps circled around her, clinging to her.
She took out the folding fan from her waist, aimed at the flight path of the wasp, and shot down the wasp with a heavy wave of her hand.
But what fell to the ground was not a wasp.
It's walnut.
Mrs. Xu was puzzled, picked up the walnuts, and put them on the stove.
She did not pretend to be a subordinate and made breakfast herself. While she was busy, she did not notice anything strange around her.
The walnut has grown in size.
getting bigger.
Mrs. Xu had just finished washing the rice when she finally noticed something was wrong.
Hutao jumped up, split in half, and rushed towards Mrs. Xu.
She screamed at the top of her voice, threw the wooden basin she was using for washing rice at Hu Nuo, and immediately rushed towards the kitchen door.
She was too late.
She has been very good at running since she was a child. Every year during major festivals, she would run around the house to supervise the work of her subordinates.
But she was still too late.
She screamed for help, hoping that someone would hear her and come to her rescue in time.
She was still too late.
The two halves of the walnut struggled to close together, clamping half of her head.
There was a crisp cracking sound inside the walnut.
Mrs. Xu herself heard it.
She also felt that her entire nose was sinking into her head, and hot fluid spurted out from her ears and flooded her eyes.
When the servants found her, her hands and feet still had reflexes and were shaking constantly.
She had successfully rushed out of the kitchen and collapsed under a big tree.
Somehow, her teeth were biting on the tree trunk, and her chin was stuck to the trunk with her body, looking a little precarious.
The family picked up the big walnut and peeled it open.
While peeling it open, two eyeballs fell out, a pile of hot liquid mixed with blood and brain matter, countless broken bones, and a scalp with black hair.
This is Mrs. Xu’s death.
After hearing this, Mr. Xu was so excited that he almost fainted again.
Because his body was too weak and he didn't even have the strength to get excited.
He whimpered quietly, and his family hurriedly brought him ginseng soup to prevent him from being unable to support himself.
After a long time, Mr. Xu calmed down, but his back was still twitching.
Mrs. Xu is his good partner from childhood to today.
When Yun Kong heard the news, he immediately rushed to Master Xu's bedroom. After comforting him, he asked, "Master Xu, can you still speak?"
Mr. Xu nodded feebly.
"I want to tell you something."
"Tell me..."
"I just went to see your lady's body."
"Um……"
"You also know that she was pinched to death by a big walnut for some reason."
"..."
"The tree she had her teeth on was a walnut tree."
"There is indeed a walnut tree at the other end of the courtyard." Mr. Xu responded.
"Three nights ago, you said that after the whole family fell asleep, you saw a child pour out a lot of eyeballs, and the eyeballs were crawling around. Where were those eyes?"
"...I don't know," Mr. Xu stared blankly at the sky, "My family didn't say anything."
"It's not like they picked it up and threw it away, right?"
"have no idea."
"I've been to your study and found these in the gaps between the floor and the wall." As he spoke, Yun Kong poured out a large pile of dried walnuts from the cloth bag, all of which had not yet had their outer pulp removed.
"walnut?"
"Yes, Hu Tao, so far...if I'm right, there are already two things related to Hu Tao."
Mr. Xu was at a loss, and his doubts were ignited by Yun Kong.
"Moreover," Yun Kong continued, "My lady was already decayed when I arrived..."
Mr. Xu was stunned for a moment and then said, "How could that be?"
"Yes, there is already a corpse stench, and even the bones are clearly visible." Yun Kong said affirmatively.
"Taoist Priest..."
"Please say."
"how do you want to do it?"
"I do not know yet."
After saying goodbye to Mr. Xu, he walked to the kitchen to take a look around.
He looked around for a while, but found nothing strange, and the walnut tree did not emit any of his usual "grievances".
He doesn't understand.
There is no sinister atmosphere here, and the surrounding air is very calm.
There is no trace of enchantment, yet so many strange things have happened in the past few days.
Yun Kong was busy thinking and had already forgotten about the rush.
He paced and then sat under the walnut tree outside the kitchen.
"Why?" he asked himself, covering his face.
A walnut fell, hit his hat and bounced a little.
He ignored it.
A second walnut fell and hit him on the shoulder.
He still ignored me.
Suddenly, dozens of walnuts fell down at the same time, hitting him randomly.
He couldn't ignore it anymore and quickly looked up.
There was no one in the tree.
He just felt something strange, but he didn't know what the problem was.
He turned his raised head back to its original position.
This time, he noticed.
About five steps away from the big tree, there was a well, the mouth of which was covered with a wooden board.
Yun Kong stood up unconsciously, staring at the well and walking slowly over.
An urge to lift the manhole cover was rushing to his arm.
He really wanted to open it...
He had already taken four steps to the well five steps away.
"Taoist Master."
Yun Kong quickly turned around and saw Ming Xiang approaching with a smile.
"What are you doing?" Mingxiang twisted her waist, with a hint of uneasiness in her charming eyes.
Yun Kong ignored her swaying waist and her soft voice, only noticing the hint of uneasiness.
"I want to see that well."
"Oh?" The uneasiness in Mingxiang's eyes increased a little more, "Why? It's just an ordinary well. Can I come and chat with you?"
"No." Yunkong was a little uneasy about his tough answer, but he noticed that his answer made Mingxiang's uneasiness tangled into a tangled thread of fear.
Mingxiang stayed where she was, not daring to move forward.
Yunkong asked: "What are you afraid of?"
"Am I scared?" The affectation in her tone had disappeared, and she began to tremble a little.
"What are you afraid of? Are you afraid that I will look at this well?"
"I have no idea……"
Yun Kong looked at her for a while, then said with a gesture: "I'm going to open."
"No! No!" Mingxiang shouted in fear, shaking her head violently in fear, but did not dare to step forward.
"Okay." Yun Kong turned his hand and took it back, taking a few steps back.
Mingxiang slumped down and breathed a heavy sigh of relief.
"Okay, I won't open it... tell me why you are so scared?" Yun Kong said softly.
Mingxiang shook her head, saying she really didn't know.
"Is it because I don't know, or because I can't remember?"
Yun Kong asked the right question.
"I can't remember..." Mingxiang looked at the well in a daze, "I can't remember... It seems that there is something I really can't remember..."
