I am a fairy

Chapter 157: Ghosts Knocking on the Door
It's just dawn.

The group waited in front of the Shili Pavilion outside the city and waited until after noon.

Everyone prepared a welcoming guard of honor, which included flag bearers, drummers, actors, and many musicians waiting in formation, which looked quite grand.

Many people in the crowd were asking questions.

"Is it really His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who is here?"

Some people held low-ranking officials and came hurriedly after receiving the order. Only at this moment did they know who was going to greet them.

"What? His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is here in person?"

At the front of the crowd, in front of the pavilion, were Prince Lucheng Wen Ji and the eunuch Ma Fu from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The two received the news many days ago, and learned at dawn today that the prince had arrived at the post station. They thought that the prince would not enter the city until tomorrow, but they did not expect that he could not wait even a moment.

As soon as we arrived at the post station, they sent someone to say that we would be entering the city today, so we hurried here to wait, and the welcoming ceremony seemed a little flustered.

The two of them were talking while waiting.

Ma Fu: "It can be seen how much His Majesty values ​​this time."

Wen Ji: "Yes, yes, yes, Your Majesty values ​​the Divine Witch so much that he actually sent His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to welcome the Divine Witch. This is a blessing for our dynasty and for the people of the world."

Having said that, it was still somewhat beyond Wen Ji's expectations. After all, what the emperor saw and heard was written on paper, not what he saw with his own eyes. After all, he was different from people like them.

But letting His Royal Highness the Crown Prince come directly here felt like the game had just started for only two rounds, and he was impatient to throw the biggest weight on the table.

Ma Fu: "I heard that it was the elixir presented to you last time. After your majesty took it, your back abscess got much better, and there are signs of healing."

"Your Majesty sensed the power of the gods and asked the prince to come to Lucheng on his behalf, just as if he came to welcome the gods in person."

The so-called elixir of life was the medicine that Xihe County Magistrate Jia Gui had requested from the shrine when the plague broke out before.

Half of it was used at that time to cure Jia Gui's wife's illness.

The remaining Jia Gui stayed behind at that time, and later when someone from the imperial court came, Jia Gui took the opportunity to offer the magic medicine to them.

It should have been considered a symbol of good fortune. After all, although it was claimed to be an elixir of life, few emperors dared to take it directly.

If it weren't for some special reasons, or if it was at some critical moment.

Such as this time.

Unexpectedly, not long after the medicine was presented, the emperor's back carbuncle flared up one day and the pain was unbearable.

He suddenly remembered the elixir and ordered someone to get it.

The court doctors advised the emperor not to use this medicine because they did not know its effects and could not recognize what it was.

However, the emperor still used the medicine despite the pain, and it finally worked miraculously.

So the emperor read the secret letter sent by Ma Fu again and again, and finally, acting arbitrarily and against the opposition of all court officials, he approved all of Ma Fu's requests.

He even sent the crown prince directly to Yinzhou to bring the divine wizard into the capital.

Wen Ji now understood.

No wonder.

Wen Ji: "It really is a magical medicine that can cure all diseases."

Ma Fu: "It's a pity that the elixir is only half. If you could offer the whole elixir, Your Majesty would have recovered by now."

What I meant was that the half that was used to save Jia Gui's wife's life, how could it be complete?

Moreover, Jia Gui exchanged his own immortal fate for that medicine, which can be said to be a huge price he paid.

However, in the eyes of the eunuchs, other people's lives are naturally not as important as the emperor's life.

Wen Ji said: "If we can welcome a divine witch to the capital, these earthly diseases can be cured with a wave of the sleeve."

Ma Fu nodded: "That's right, that's right."

As Wen Ji spoke, he turned his head and looked at Jia Gui who was at the back of the crowd.

Then he ordered his subordinates behind him: "Go, invite Magistrate Jia to the front."

Jia Gui now moved directly from the back to the front and stood directly behind Wen Ji and Ma Fu.

Everyone was talking about it. Although they didn't know what the Prince of Lucheng meant, and they didn't understand what qualifications this small county magistrate had to stand behind the two of them, everyone roughly understood what was going on.

I'm afraid Jia Gui is going to be very successful.

The wait didn't last long.

After rounds of people coming to report the news, someone finally arrived from afar.

From afar, dust and smoke were rising.

The number of troops at the vanguard alone was huge, definitely more than a thousand.

The ceremonial guard leading the way led the way, and then slowly a huge carriage pulled by a group of horses came forward.

The most prominent among them is Wen Shenyou, the son of Wen Ji.

Yesterday.

He had been waiting at the post station early in the morning with a large number of men and horses, just for the purpose of driving the prince at this moment.

The fact that the prince employed him also showed that he valued and loved him.

As they walked along, the neat procession was accompanied by music.

The prince sat upright in the carriage. No one could see his face, but they were already shocked by the noise.

After the prince arrived, he watched the drums, music and dances presented by the Prince of Lucheng and other officials in the carriage before the ceremony was finally declared over.

After entering the city, we went straight to the mansion that the Prince of Lucheng had cleared out.

The Crown Prince finally started reminiscing about the past with the Prince of Lucheng, while Wen Shenyou stood obediently by the side.

Ma Fu served on his left and right like an old servant, but the prince did not seem to dare to treat him as a servant.

Finally, the prince talked about the interesting thing that happened to him.

"Prince, Horse Supervisor, it is really as you two said."

"This Lucheng is indeed a treasure land!"

Ma Fu was stunned and looked at Wen Ji.

Finally, Wen Ji asked, "Your Highness, the place you are talking about, is it the other side of the Danlong River?"

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince nodded: "That's right."

Ma Fu's expression changed: "The prince did not come from the main road, but came through the mountain?"

The prince asked: "Why does the horse supervisor also know about this?"

Ma Fu: "Your Highness the Crown Prince should not have brought that thing back!"

The prince said: "Of course I brought it back. If the prince and the horse supervisor want to see it, I will have it brought to you immediately."

In the yard, everyone looked at the extremely heavy gold and iron object with different expressions.

The prince said: "You two, do you know what this is?"

The two shook their heads and said nothing.

The prince nodded: "It seems that I really got a rare item. It seems that not only you have the fate of immortals, but I also have the fate of good fortune!"

Ma Fu seemed to want to say something but stopped herself, Wen Ji just looked at her without saying anything.

It was late at night.

In the mansion where the prince was temporarily living, a dark shadow suddenly emerged from the darkness and gradually merged into the darkness.

Gradually, the shadow walked to one of the doors and stopped.

The people in the house were already asleep when they heard a knock on the door.

"Boom boom boom!"

Then he opened his eyes and shouted outside.

"who?"

However, no one responded.

The person in the room was about to lie down when he heard another knock on the door. He called out again, but still no one responded.

The visitor was very angry and finally stood up.

When he opened the door, what came into view was a huge figure wearing a ghost robe, with a black hand exposed outside that could crush his head. It was obvious at first glance that this thing was not human.

Only its strong torso could be seen. The visitor had no idea how tall it was because its head was already beyond the range of the door and was on top of it.

"what!"

After a scream, he lost consciousness.

The scream startled everyone in the mansion. Everyone gathered together and waited for him to wake up and talk about what he had seen and heard. They were all shocked.

However, after searching everywhere, even in every corner of the mansion, he could not find the person who was wearing strange robes and was nearly a meter tall as the other party said.

The crowd made a fuss for a long time, but finally had to rest.

But at this time, the door of a house next door was knocked.

The person in the house learned his lesson this time and did not dare to open the door. He secretly looked outside through the crack in the door and saw the scary shadow as well.

The shadow was a pitch-black mass, looming outside. I couldn't see what it was at all, but it seemed extremely tall.

Unlike the previous person, what he saw was just a shadow, hazy and unreal.

However, with the situation described by the previous person, the atmosphere of horror has been created strong enough.

"Giggle cluck!"

The person in the house didn't dare to open the door. He tried desperately to hold his breath and cover his mouth, but his teeth were chattering and making strange noises.

He became more and more frightened and covered his mouth tightly, as if he wanted to suffocate himself.

Until the figure left.

This goes back and forth several times.

The whole night was filled with chaos in the mansion. In the end, everyone was so frightened that they no longer dared to look for the figure.

"It must be a ghost. If it wasn't a ghost, how could it come and go without a trace?"

"If he was alive, we would have found him long ago. How could he come and go without a trace?"

"Why is that nearly ten-foot-tall evil ghost knocking on the door? Could it be the ghost of someone who died unjustly here, looking for a scapegoat?"

"I don't think so. We have just looked for so many people. If they were looking for a scapegoat, they would have found one long ago. The ghost is higher than the door frame and must be nearly ten feet tall. In my opinion, it is definitely not an ordinary ghost."

"What is that ghost looking for? Someone, or something?"

"Remember the strange thing that happened before?"

"I think it's the thing we brought back. You can tell at a glance that it is not an ordinary thing. Maybe it was dropped by a ghost, and now the ghost has come to us." Everyone was scared and couldn't sleep.

Everyone was on high alert, fearing that they would be the next person to have their door knocked by the ghost.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was also frightened.

Because based on the information that kept coming in, he discovered that the ghost that was knocking on the door would get closer to where he was every time it knocked on a door.

as if.

It was as if it was looking for him.

The ghost was probably not only looking for something, but also looking for him, the person who brought back the magical object made of gold and iron.

In the yard, there were attendants giving advice.

"Your Highness, that ghost is getting closer. Should we leave immediately?"

Although he was frightened, the prince looked outside and immediately rejected the attendant's suggestion.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was terrified at the moment. After hearing the attendant's words, he immediately withdrew his gaze from outside and shook his head repeatedly.

"No, no."

"It's possible that the evil ghost is wandering around, looking for me."

"When I went out, didn't I just bump into that ten-foot-tall evil ghost?"

"Turn off the lights quickly. We can't let the evil ghost find this place."

After hearing what the prince said, the attendants stopped trying to persuade him. Instead, they called everyone outside back into the house and surrounded the prince, as if forming a circle.

At the same time, he ordered the servants in the mansion to patrol everywhere and ordered everyone to beat drums and gongs to intimidate the other party.

In this panic, even the ancient method of driving away the solar eclipse by the heavenly dog ​​was used.

But even so, it still couldn't stop the "evil ghost".

That's it.

When it was almost dawn, accompanied by bursts of knocks on the door, the evil ghost had already arrived at the courtyard next to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's house.

It's quiet at night.

Even the prince clearly heard the knock on the door.

"Boom!"

"Dong dong!"

"Boom!"

The knock on the door was steady and powerful, without any panic or confusion.

However, each blow not only hit the door panel, but also seemed to hit the prince's vital point and everyone's heart.

The guards could not help but hold their weapons. The prince hid in the crowd, his facial muscles tensed with fear and he twitched unconsciously.

Not until the knocking on the door subsided did everyone breathe a sigh of relief. They looked outside and listened carefully.

"gone?"

At this time, the prince pushed away the attendant beside him and said excitedly.

"No, it's not gone. This is where it's going to come next."

"Let's go, let's get out quickly."

"Protect me, and go out together."

However, just as he finished his words, a shadow squeezed in from the endless darkness and broke into the courtyard outside.

Everyone looked over, their eyes piercing through the dark without lights.

Then I saw a tall, dark figure passing through the paper window and walking slowly along the corridor outside under the moonlight.

Just as I heard before.

Everyone only saw the other person's body and couldn't see the head at all.

It's too late to do anything now.

No one spoke anymore.

The prince and everyone else in the gate stared outside intently. It was visibly that their eyes were getting wider and their pupils were dilating.

Bloodshot unconsciously filled the whites of his eyes, making his eye sockets red.

The shadow was about to reach the door.

I watched as the shadow stood in front of the gate.

Then he stretched out a hand that was almost several times larger than an ordinary person's and placed it against the door.

this moment.

Everyone felt their scalp bursting.

At this moment, someone in the crowd was so frightened that he forgot to hold the knife in his hand and dropped it on the ground.

"Bang!"

The sound of the knife falling to the ground did not scare the ghost outside, but instead broke the hearts of the people in the house. In an instant, everyone felt that they could no longer hold back.

"what!"

"Ghost, ghost is coming."

"It's coming, it's really coming."

Some people collapsed on the ground, some looked crazy, and some retreated again and again.

There was a panic in the house.

At this time, the rooster crowed at dawn.

"Oh oh oh!"

The shadow stopped and did not move.

A ray of light sprinkled onto the earth from the distant horizon, and the dark shadow outside the door also twisted and changed along with it, and finally dissipated into nothingness.

After a long time, someone finally pushed the door open cautiously and looked outside.

There was nothing outside the door, only the morning sun and an empty courtyard.

Seeing this, everyone's tense bodies relaxed in unison. The prince, who was tightly surrounded by the crowd in the center, felt his legs go weak all of a sudden and he could hardly stand.

However, he immediately stood up again.

"No, no, no."

"The ghost has left now, but I'm afraid it will come back again tonight."

"If this continues, I'm afraid it will find us sooner or later."

As for what the consequences would be after being found, although the prince did not say, everyone seemed to be able to imagine it.

Attendant: "Your Highness, what should we do?"

The prince shouted, "Go and invite the Prince of Lucheng and the horse supervisor."
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His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who had been so frightened that he could not sleep all night, finally saw Prince Lucheng and Ma Fu who had hurried over.

In fact, the two of them had already realized something was wrong when they heard the sound of gongs and drums coming from where the prince was at night.

I rushed here early in the morning.

As soon as the prince saw the two of them, he immediately started talking about what happened last night.

After the prince finished speaking, he couldn't wait to ask the two of them.

"Prince, the Horse Supervisor."

"I am new here, and it is really hard for me to understand the mysteries of this land of Chu. Could you two please tell me?"

"What on earth was that thing that haunted the night?"

Wen Ji and Ma Fu certainly knew what that was.

Finally, Wen Ji spoke first: "It must be a ghost."

Prince: "Who is this ghost?"

Wen Ji: "Looking at the ghost god's appearance described by Your Highness, he is wearing a ghost god robe, and he looks like a ghost god from the underworld."

After hearing this, the prince's face turned pale instantly.

"What? Ghosts and gods from the netherworld that take souls and take lives?"

The prince stood up and asked quickly.

"But you came here for the things I got yesterday. If I go back now, can you stop the ghosts and gods from coming and calm the commotion?"

The prince was very clear about why this happened, and he regretted it immensely at the moment. It seemed that not everyone could have this blessing.

Some people pick up treasures on the road, that is a blessing.

Some people pick up treasures on the road, but they turn out to be disasters.

Wen Ji: "This is really hard to know. After all, we are just mortals and we really can't guess the intentions of the ghosts and gods."

At this time, it was Ma Fu who stepped forward to persuade.

"Your Highness."

"As of now, only one person can calm this matter down."

The prince looked over immediately: "Who is it?"

Ma Fu: "It is the person His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wants to see this time, the witch of the Cloud Temple."

The prince said quickly: "Go and ask the witch for help!"

Wen Ji didn't say anything. This sorcerer didn't even accept the decree last time. He didn't think he could invite the sorcerer if you sent someone to invite him.

However, Wen Ji would naturally not tell the prince about this matter in person.

In the end, it was Ma Fu who spoke up and stepped forward.

"Your Highness, the ghosts and gods are coming to claim your life, and no one knows when they will come again."

"Without further delay, we will go to the place where the divine witch is. The divine witch possesses boundless magical powers and will surely protect Your Highness."

After hearing this, the prince immediately nodded and said.

"Yes Yes Yes."

"That ghost is extremely vicious, who knows when it will come again."

"No time to waste, I will go see the witch immediately!"

(End of this chapter)