Before Qi Jingzhi could turn around, a fresh and elegant fragrance had penetrated into his nose, wisps of it, refreshing.
His heart moved, and he immediately turned around and saw a girl in green clothes standing in front of him. Her clothes were somewhat similar to those of the maids of the Jiao Mansion. Her complexion was fairly fair, and her appearance could barely be called delicate.
Qi Jingzhi couldn't help but be startled, and took a closer look at the other person's features. He felt that every part of him seemed familiar, but when combined together, he became unfamiliar. He was very different from the person he thought of just a moment ago.
He frowned and quietly opened his brows and mind, only to see that the appearance of the girl in front of him changed again and again, as if separated by a layer of clouds and mist, and could not be seen clearly. , leaving no trace of impression.
In this way, even if Qi Jing is one of the people who refuses to accept others, he has to admit that this girl Mu's methods are indeed mysterious and incomparable, which is beyond his current ability.
He suppressed his surprise and sincerely praised: "Young girl, what a trick! We have only met her a few days ago, but she managed to make me unfamiliar with her on the other side."
"Hey, why did you think it was me?" The girl in green shirt was a little surprised.
She looked around and saw that all the guests around her had dispersed. Po Jiao, Yuan Shaojun and others had also entered the main hall. Then she asked softly: "Although I only covered it up a little, not everyone can see through it." Yes, I wonder where the flaw is?"
Qi Jingzhi did not answer her question in a hurry. Instead, he hesitated slightly and asked, "How did you see through the fact that I look like this now?"
"What's so difficult about this? Not to mention the knife on your back. Although the scabbard is of ordinary style and doesn't look very eye-catching, I only saw it a few days ago, and I still have some impression..."
As the girl in green shirt spoke, she suddenly raised her hand and tapped the bridge of her nose a few times: "Just the aroma of pine and cypress wood on your body can be smelled from a long distance away. It's hard for me not to see through it!"
After saying these words, she suddenly paused, moved her slender fingers away from her face, which had lost nine points of its appearance, and pointed at Qi Jingzhi's pale blue faceless face, and couldn't help but smile.
At this Dragon Mother's birthday banquet, the two of them actually showed themselves in disguise, and they spoke in a tacit understanding of each other only as you and me, without even mentioning the origin of each other's name. This girl couldn't help but laugh.
Qi Jingzhi immediately understood what the other party meant, and couldn't help but smile knowingly. However, seven parts of his smile were first covered by the soul mask, and the remaining three parts were also distorted, becoming eerie and strange.
The girl in green shirt frowned slightly, and her tone showed a lot of disgust: "You have such an ugly face!"
Hearing such a sentence suddenly, Qi Jingzhi couldn't help but be stunned. The smile immediately froze on his face, making him look even more weird and ferocious.
This was the first time since he got the Soul Mask that someone commented like this.
The girl in green shirt seemed to realize that she was a little carried away. She immediately coughed lightly and said with a straight face, "I'm really sorry. I was so quick to speak out that I actually said what was on my mind!"
After saying that, she couldn't help but smile slyly, and repeated the old talk: "Then tell me, what are the flaws in me?"
Qi Jingzhi naturally wouldn't care about such trivial matters, not to mention that the other party was telling the truth, and the soul mask was indeed ugly.
He remembered the scent of pine and cypress mentioned by the girl in green shirt just now, and he couldn't help but be surprised. Even he himself would not be able to smell the aroma unless he was refining and swallowing the air of pine, cypress and armor wood.
Although not long ago, the green python named Shengqing also said that Qi Jingzhi's breath was fresh, with a faint aroma of pine and cypress, but it was a spiritual creature in the mountains and was familiar with various smells in the mountains and forests. It was just that it could distinguish them. I thought that the girl in front of me could actually smell it, and she seemed to be much more sensitive than Sheng Qing.
Could it be because of "Wind in the Pines"?
Thinking of this, Qi Jingzhi stretched out his hand and pressed the position of his nose bone, and said as tactfully as possible: "The girl can recognize me because she smells the fragrance and recognizes the person. By chance, I can recognize the girl, and she is just the same." "
The girl in green shirt was startled, and a blush suddenly appeared on her face.
She raised her forearms, put her sleeves across her nose and sniffed, her expression turned suspicious again, she raised her eyes and asked, "
My clothes have not been scented. What kind of smell do you smell? "
Hearing this, Qi Jingzhi really thought about it carefully, half recalling and half considering the words, and said: "There is a swampland with water all year round in the back hill of my house. There are several lotus plants growing in it, and they will bloom every summer. .”
"After these lotus flowers bloom, they will emit a light fragrance. You can only smell it if you get close. I only smelled it a few times by chance, so I couldn't remember it immediately before. Now I can distinguish it carefully. The delicate fragrance is quite similar to the fragrance on the girl's body."
After hearing this, the girl in green shirt put down her sleeves, and most of the suspicion on her face had disappeared.
She took a deep look at Qi Jingzhi, and her eyes revealed the complex emotions that seemed familiar to the young man, including six parts surprise, three parts joy, and one part undisguised shame.
Although Qi Jingzhi grew up in the mountains, he also knew that he should not judge girls casually. When he saw this, he coughed lightly and said curiously: "Just now, in full view of everyone, that short fat man was broken into five bodies by Yuan Shaojun one after another. The divine light It is depleted, its spiritual energy is gone, and there is no trace of energy left, so why do you say it is not really dead?"
Hearing this, the girl in green shirt's eyes flashed, and all the emotions in her eyes converged: "If you don't believe it, I will go and find its true form. You will know if it is true or false at a glance!"
After saying these words, she actually turned around and walked away, quite resolutely and capablely.
Qi Jingzhi thought that the girl was angry, and quickly followed him, saying in a low voice: "It's not that I don't believe you, but I didn't expect that fool to hide it from everyone in the courtyard, even Mr. Dajiang." You can see the slightest flaw."
The girl in the green shirt paused in her steps and glanced sideways at the faceless man beside her, with a half-smile on her face: "I think you are really dissatisfied. If you still don't believe it, you can turn around and go back to drink wine and enjoy the singing and dancing. Why go out to eat and drink with me when you are hungry?"
In fact, just when he thought of his grandfather, Qi Jingzhi had already thought about leaving. He immediately shook his head and said, "There are many children of the Jiao family, but I only know one, so I don't have to rush to fawn over him. Just because I have A friend lost his life because of this birthday party, so I came here to pay him a visit, but now that my wish has been fulfilled, I should have left."
He paused and then asked: "That short fat man caused a scene, but since he has sent the greeting card, he must have left by now. We have been delayed for a long time, can we still catch up?"
The girl in green shirt knew that Qi Jingzhi didn't want to talk more about that friend, so she deliberately changed the subject, nodded immediately, and followed his words and said: "It's not like you didn't see it just now, that idiot moved very slowly. , it only takes a while, I don’t think it can run very far!”
However, as she said this, her pace suddenly accelerated.
Qi Jingzhi also started to walk quickly, and he was quite curious about what kind of magic method the girl would use to find her location.
Unexpectedly, until the two of them walked all the way south out of the main entrance of Jiao Mansion, the girl in green didn't show any signs of using Xuan Gong. Instead, she turned her attention to the long horse post on the west side of the door.
Qi Jingzhi followed her gaze and saw that these horse-tying posts were all square pillars made of bluestone.
The tops of the stone pillars are carved to look like soldiers riding lions. Each soldier and each lion has a different and lifelike posture.
At this time, almost all the stone lions had horse reins tied to their legs, except for the horse tethering post on the far west side which was empty.
The girl in green shirt was aiming for that one and walked straight over.
Qi Jingzhi followed her, silently comparing this neglected horse-tethering post with the ones next to it, and soon discovered the difference.
Among these statues of soldiers and lions, almost all the soldiers and lions are facing the direction of the main entrance of Jiao Mansion, either with a respectful face, a smile on their face, or a smile on their face, as if welcoming guests.
Only the man and the lion on the horse-tethering post in the far west stand alone, with their backs almost facing the south main entrance of Jiao Mansion, and all facing the southwest. The soldier among them even drew his sword out of its sheath, and the two men stood alone. Its eyes are wide open with an angry look, and the lion under its crotch is also showing its fangs and a fierce look.
Qi Jingzhi couldn't help but turn his head and look towards the southwest where they were glaring.
, but what you see are ordinary streets and alleys, no different from anywhere else.
"No need to read, this is just the most common way to suppress evil spirits. The door to the south is the Li position, and its southwest is the Kun position, which corresponds to Yin. The five elements belong to water, which is the second evil of the six evil spirits. According to the direction talisman, the method of suppressing evil spirits is If you place a spiritual stone here, you can avoid evil spirits. There are many such arrangements outside the houses of famous families, so it is not unusual."Z.br>
The girl in green shirt explained concisely and concisely: "This one looks like a horse-tying stake, but it is actually a suppressing stake and cannot be used to tie horses. There should be many similar arrangements inside and outside Jiao Mansion."
After hearing her explanation, Qi Jingzhi was confused: "Since there are so many arrangements, how did the messenger of the God of Mount Dai sneak in without telling you?"
The girl in green shirt smiled when she heard this: "If it were another spirit, it would be extremely difficult to do it. But if I guessed right, the idiot earlier was a mountain bone man with extremely pure blood. It wants to bypass It is not difficult for this evil-suppressing stake to connect to the long-lasting bluestone troughs in Jiao Mansion's stables."
"Sangokuro?"
Qi Jingzhi read it softly and immediately asked, "What kind of monster is Shan Gulang?"
The girl in green shirt looked at the stone carvings on the top of the evil-suppressing pile and explained casually: "It is said that mountains use stones as bones and stones as the essence of soil. Shangulang is an extremely rare stone essence in the mountains. You can Think of it as the heart and soul of a mountain range.”
"If you want to be successful, you have to have requirements for your own qualifications and even the shape of the mountain and the quality of the soil. If you hadn't been overtaken by the God of Daishan, that fool might not have had the chance to ascend to the throne of Daishan God a few years later."
She paused and then added: "Most of the stone spirits in the world are named Shi, and they are all related to each other. Shangu Lang is a rather special kind among them. This evil-suppressing stake in front of the Jiao Mansion is connected with It’s not even a stone spirit, so it certainly can’t stop it.”
"As for Mr. Dajiang, he looks like a man with high eyesight. He is also a dragon from Shuifu. He must have never paid attention to the little stone spirit in the mountains. I don't know that this is unusual. Hmm... guests There may be people who know about it, but they won’t be stupid enough to expose it to his face and bring shame on that young gentleman or even Dajiang Shuifu Mansion.”
"Stone spirits in the mountains? Most of them are named Shi?" Qi Jingzhi thought of the appearance and behavior of the short fat guys before, and he was already 90% convinced.
He couldn't help but secretly think: "That idiot is obviously mentally retarded and can't even speak human words, yet he was entrusted with the task of envoy. He could not possibly be a relative of that three-eyed stone doll..."
"Yes, all the stone spirits I have met have the surname Shi."
The girl in green shirt didn't know what was going on in Qi Jingzhi's mind. She pointed at the unsheathed stone sword in the hands of the soldier in front of her and said, "Look, the so-called inheritance of aristocratic families is often reflected in these inconspicuous things. place."
As Qi Jingzhi looked, he saw four small, inconspicuous characters engraved on the stone sword: "Stones are as diverse as each other."
The girl explained: "This person should be the ancestor respected by the stone spirits of Qi State. His name is engraved here, not to mention warding off evil spirits and suppressing evil spirits. Even ordinary stone spirits will not be able to do it easily if they see it." What a mistake. However, that idiot is obviously a heartless person, and he really doesn’t take his ancestors seriously.”
When Qi Jingzhi heard this, he couldn't help but be surprised: "Is this "Stone of Colors" actually a name? It’s really weird! "
The girl in green shirt nodded lightly: "From what I have seen in my travels, people in some places in Qi will follow suit. If they don't have money to hire craftsmen to carve stone statues, they will settle for the next best thing and erect them at the entrance of villages, streets, alleys, or even at the door of their own homes. The next piece of bluestone also has these four characters engraved on it. They only know that this can ward off evil spirits and suppress evil spirits, but most of them know it but don't know why."
Qi Jingzhi was suddenly enlightened, nodded and said: "Although I have never seen such a custom of standing stones and carving words in Linzhou, I have seen some wealthy households build small pieces of bluestone into the walls, and they will also carve words on the stone, but it is not "Stone of the Stone". "Fan Ru", but the words "General Shi is here". But there are different opinions and disagreements about who this General Shi is. "
In fact, now that Qi Jingzhi thought about it, Master Meng must have known about it. However, when he asked Master about it, he was scolded: "What do you do with these strange forces and chaos? Don't you hear what the sages say, respectful Keep away from ghosts and gods?"
"Well, it's pretty much the same. Perhaps this Shi Zhifanru once served as a general of Qi."
As the girl in green shirt spoke, she suddenly raised her right hand and plucked the strings with her slender fingers. The originally dark and chaotic auras on the Suppressing Stake began to separate and become more coherent.
Qi Jingzhi, who had already secretly opened his spiritual orifice, looked at it and was quite amazed.
In fact, the "Secret Technique of Qiu Zhi Cheng Yun" also has similar effects. However, he has not practiced it for a long time, and he cannot be so meticulous.
The girl in green shirt recognized it briefly, pointed to a cyan spiritual light thread tied to the evil-suppressing stake and said: "Except for those who have penetrated into the Jiao Mansion, only the breath on it is the freshest. If we follow the clues, we will find it naturally. That idiot!"
Hearing this, Qi Jingzhi concentrated his attention and felt that the aura on the silk thread was exactly the same as that of the short and fat man with green turban and cloth robe. He couldn't help but nodded slightly.
He looked at the other end of the thread floating in the air, and it was clearly pointing to the southwest, which was the location of the second evil of the Six Evils corresponding to the so-called southward door.
When the girl in green shirt saw him nodding, she immediately reached out and grabbed the green silk thread and gently pulled it.
The thread suddenly straightened, and then something seemed to pull in the opposite direction at the other end. The originally continuous ethereal thread suddenly broke.
