"Taoist Priest Qingchen." When Xie Lili saw the Taoist, he saluted him.
"Miss Lili." Qingchen returned the courtesy, then walked to the opposite side of the stone table, put down his Taoist robe and sat down, then stretched out his hand to mess up the chessboard in front of him, separating the white stones and black stones.
Xie Lili helped Qingchen put the chess pieces back into the chess case, and then asked casually, "Who was the Taoist playing chess with just now?"
"Myself." Qingchen said.
"Can I also play chess with myself?"
"Who says it can't be done?" Qingchen smiled, "Aren't you playing chess with yourself most of the time in your life?"
"But when did your chess skills become so good?" Xie Lili didn't believe it.
"It's been three days since I left. You should be very impressed. What's more, the last time you came to play chess with me was a month ago." Qingchen said. After speaking, he looked at Lu Jing again, "This friend is your new friend." A helper? I heard Duanwu say that you are going to have two against me."
"Is the Taoist afraid?"
"Pindao's chess skills have improved greatly recently. It's you who should be afraid."
As Xie Lili said, Qingchen's eyes lit up when he mentioned playing chess. He couldn't wait to roll up his sleeves and planned to have a night game.
At this time, Dragon Boat Festival also brought the two bowls of water over.
Lu Jing and Xie Lili each took a bowl, and Xie Lili took a small sip. Lu Jing just had a fight at Jingou Gambling House and was a little thirsty, so he drank directly after taking the bowl.
At this time, Qingchen also packed up the chessboard, stretched out a hand, and made a fist.
"Take a guess."
"Single." Xie Lili said without hesitation.
Qingchen opened his palm, holding a chess piece in it, "You win, the black piece is yours."
Xie Lili didn't rush to make a move, but turned to Lu Jing and said, "I'll go first in this game."
"What, didn't you say you wanted to come together?" Qingchen raised his eyebrows.
"I said it was two against one, but I didn't say we'd play together." Xie Lili said, "I'll play with you first. If I lose, my friend will play next."
"Wagon game," Qingchen said, "That's okay... Just when we play chess, will your friend get bored? How about I let Duanwu take him to the living room to rest first, or does he want to stay in Qixia Temple?" Take a walk?"
Lu Jing and Xie Lili looked at each other, and both saw a hint of surprise in each other's eyes.
Their original plan was for Xie Lili to hold back Qingchen, the temple owner, and then Lu Jing would find an excuse to secretly search Qixia Temple.
Unexpectedly, Xie Lili had just pulled Qingchen to sit beside the chessboard, and the latter had already helped Lu Jing find an excuse to leave.
Should we say that he has no conscience or that he is confident?
"Then let me take a walk first." Lu Jing said accordingly.
"Okay." Qingchen nodded, and after saying that, he focused his eyes on the chessboard again, as if he really wasn't worried about what Lu Jing would find.
Seeing this, Lu Jing was no longer polite, left the small courtyard where the two were playing chess, and started walking around the Taoist temple.
Qixia Temple is very small, less than 60 feet from the mountain gate to the backyard. It doesn't even take half a stick of incense to go around.
Lu Jing quickly searched the Taoist temple and found no one anywhere except the dormitory.
So Lu Jing focused on those dormitories.
Xie Lili said that there are six Taoist priests in Qixia Temple, among whom Duanwu and Qingchen Lu Jing have already seen, there are four Taoist priests left, which correspond to four dormitories.
Lu Jing cast a lightening technique on himself, then jumped up to the roof, gently lifted the tiles, and looked at each room, but he didn't see any other suspicious people in those rooms.
Already run away?
Lu Jing frowned. It took him and Xie Lili some time from calling the door to entering the Taoist temple. If there were any strange objects hidden in Qixia Temple, they could indeed use the time to escape.
This can also explain why Qingchen didn't panic at all even though he was telling lies with his eyes open.
But Lu Jing always felt that the other party should not be so sensitive.
It has nothing to do with vigilance. Qixia Temple itself is a Taoist temple. There will definitely be a lot of people coming and going on weekdays. If someone comes to visit, the person will run away, but it will be more dangerous, because the official office of Si Tianjian is next door. yamen.
Lu Jing was still more inclined to think that the man was hiding somewhere.
That place must be secretive enough to make people unexpected. Even the other five Taoists in the Taoist temple don't know about it.
In this way, when the two of them knocked on the door, Duanwu would say that his master was in the room. The little Taoist obviously didn't know that Qingchen was playing chess with someone in the backyard.
It really seems that Qingchen's own dormitory is more suspected.
When Lu Jing thought of this, he jumped off the roof again and walked outside Qingchen's room.
He just pushed lightly and the door opened.
There was no one inside.
Lu Jing looked around. The display and furnishings in the room were very simple. There was only a bed, a square table, two chairs, and a box.
Lu Jing first flipped through the books on the table and found that they were all Taoist books or chess records. Then he turned his attention to the box and saw that the wooden box was large enough to fit an adult.
Lu Jing took out the flying sword, held it in his hand, took two steps forward, and carefully opened the top cover of the box.
It turned out that there were only some magical tools used in rituals.
And they all look quite new, they must have been built not long ago.
Lu Jing carefully looked at other places in the room, but still could not find any trace of the second person's life.
In the end, he could only close the wooden box and exit Qingchen's dormitory.
In this way, he has searched Qixia Temple all over.
But except for the previous chessboard, Lu Jing could not find even the slightest clue related to the seventh person. There were even only six pairs of chopsticks in the kitchen.
So Lu Jing could only return to the backyard, planning to ask Xie Lili to leave.
Since no clues could be found here, any further delay would just be a waste of the time Aoi bought for them, so Lu Jing planned to deal with the strange objects elsewhere first.
"You want to leave? But we've just started." Qingchen pointed at the chessboard.
"I just remembered something important. Why don't we fight another day?" Lu Jing said.
"Alright." Although Qingchen felt a little regretful, he did not force the two of them. He put down the chess pieces in his hands and said, "I will send you two out."
However, as soon as Xie Lili stood up, he didn't know whether it was because he had poor blood after sitting for a long time, but his body swayed, and then he felt his head swaying along with it, and everything he looked at was spinning.
He gritted his teeth and squeezed out half a sentence, "Water, there's something wrong with the water."
However, before he finished speaking, he fell to the ground.
As soon as she fell down on her front feet, Lu Jing also fell to the ground on his back feet, and soon he closed his eyelids.
When Qingchen saw this, not only did he not show any joy on his face, but he showed a hint of sullenness.
"You...what do you mean?"
