Jiajing Spiritual Records

In the capital city, inside the Yamen of Fusi, Jinyiwei Town.

Guo Yanqing, the fellow magistrate of Jinyiwei, frowned, and quickly read the documents submitted by Su Xian: "I didn't expect this trip to be so dangerous." He turned his hands away, and sighed as Su Xian stood in front of the desk and returned to his order, " Remember that the task I sent you this time is just to investigate. Since the investigation has been clear, why do you have to take the risk alone? Thanks to you, everything is fine, otherwise how should I explain to your master? The emperor just promoted you to be the governor Shi, you have a great future, why don't you cherish it like this."

Su Xian said in a deep voice: "This time is certainly dangerous, but the two major scourges of wet corpses and human-faced spiders must be eliminated. One more day's delay, and countless innocent people will die."

Guo Yanqing looked at Suxian, sighed helplessly and said, "You—"

Someone from outside the door reported that the servants of Su's mansion had come to deliver a message.Said that Suxian's brother, Daoist Xukong, has come and is waiting for him at the private house.Guo Yanqing waved his hand and said to Suxian: "Forget it, let's go, let's give you three days off."

Inside the back room of a private house.Yinchuan has been hiding in the soul-suppressing bell since he was injured by the wet corpse, and now he is almost recovering from the injury. At this time, he is applying rouge to the bronze mirror in the room.

"Although I am a monk who doesn't understand these girls' things, when have I ever seen a girl on the street who would put on rouge and powder like you." The young priest in white was sitting on a chair in the middle of the hall, dragging his cheeks, I was bored watching the paper figurines put on makeup.

Yinchuan had just put a layer of bright red lip balm on her lips, and she slanted her eyes and let out a heavy snort: "My girl was the most beautiful girl in Jiangling Mansion 300 years ago. What do you know, a yellow-haired boy?"

The Taoist priest in white twitched the corners of his mouth: "You are the only one who stands out from the crowd, don't lie and bluff people."

Yinchuan "hummed" and said: "How can I understand the demeanor of my old lady back then, a stinky Taoist like you, I am wearing a new makeup, natural and vulgar."

"Don't forget to put gold on your face. It's a poem written by the talented Qin Guan to Li Shishi." The white-clothed Taoist put his chin in his hands and smiled jokingly, "But Yinchuan, you are a girl and a girl. Old lady. Are you a 300-year-old girl or an old lady?"

Yinchuan Huamei's hands shook, she turned her head and spat at the Taoist priest in white, and bared her teeth viciously: "I am a female ghost for 300 years, and I specialize in eating stinky Taoist priests like you who can't speak!"

There was a rush of footsteps outside the door, and Su Xian pushed the door in from outside the house: "Brother, why are you here? But what happened to Sanqing Mountain?"

"Don't worry, everything is fine in Sanqing Mountain." The white-clothed Taoist stood up and looked at Su Xian carefully: "Just a few days ago, my uncle made a fortune for you. It is a sign of great evil, and I may be in danger of life, so I asked me to come down the mountain. Take a look. Seeing that you are safe and sound today, senior brother can rest assured."

"Big evil?" Su Xian frowned, "But because I met a 'wet corpse' a few days ago?"

The Taoist in white frowned when he heard the words: "There is such a thing! Then how did you deal with it?"

Su Xian replied: "When I was killing the Spider King with Killing Face, I didn't expect that there would be a wet corpse there. Fortunately, I met a person on the road, which attracted the red lotus fire, and burned the wet corpse and the Spider King to ashes together. "

The white-clothed Taoist was startled: "Honglian Yehuo, which expert did you meet, who did he learn from?"

Su Xian recalled the first time Ning Huan saw the man-faced spider, he was so frightened that he wished he could dive into the ground, and the corner of his mouth curled into a smile: "It's just an ordinary scholar. The red lotus petals are said to be his family's ancestral Baby, he happened to hit him right on the wrong side."

The Taoist in white sighed for a while: "I didn't expect such treasures to be hidden in ordinary people's homes. You really have to thank them."

Yinchuan pouted and jokingly said, "That's right, I gave away all the Nine Heavens Mysterious Talismans I carried since I was a child."

The Taoist in white raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "Yo, junior brother, but how did I remember that you said before that you are going to give this Nine Heavens Mysterious Talisman to your future daughter-in-law, senior brother won't even touch it."

Suxian coughed unnaturally: "How can you take what you said when you were a child seriously. It's just that he looks like a troubled person, and now he doesn't have the protection of the red lotus petals, so I just thought of giving him the Nine Heavens Mysterious Talisman .”

Yinchuan finished applying the last layer of rouge, and was holding the bronze mirror to look around: "That's right, my family is a bodhisattva. It's just that I happen to meet a person with a little less luck on the road, so I'm willing to give away my treasures."

The Taoist in white couldn't help but gritted his teeth: "When Yinchuan painted your facial features, I really shouldn't have drawn your mouth."

The Taoist in white sat in Suxian's private house for less than a stick of incense, then got up and said goodbye.Before leaving, he said to Su Xian: "I have come here this time to confirm your safety, and I have one more important thing to tell you. Not long ago, Master watched the stars at night and found that there are luminescence flickering around the Ziwei Emperor Star, and there may be strange signs. Chunyue Temple is coming soon, I remind you to be more careful in everything. Also, it seems that a lot of Gu people have come to the capital in the past few days, including the red and blue families in Miaojiang. Although Sanqing Mountain is not involved in their disputes, it must always Be wary."

Su Xian nodded cautiously and said, "Understood."

Ning Huan stayed at home for about half a month.That night, Master Ning called Ning Huan into his study, and with a serious face, he took out a letter from the dark box of the bookcase and handed it to him: "Huan'er, you have nothing to do these few days, help Dad to the south of the city, your Uncle Yan's Send a letter from the family. Remember, the letter must be delivered to him in person!"

Ning Huan took these unsigned envelopes and asked in puzzlement: "Father, what happened?" Yan Ziyan from the south of the city is a well-known merchant in the capital, and he is a family friend of the Ning family.Master Ning asked Ning Huan to deliver the letter so solemnly, it must be because of some serious incident.

Master Ning sighed: "A month ago, your Uncle Yan suddenly came to me and said that in the next few days, he would close the door to thank customers and do a business. This business is extremely dangerous, and he is afraid of his life. So he left behind Give me a letter and a sachet, so that if I can't contact him, I can take the letter and go to the old mansion in the south of the city to look for him. Now, I haven't contacted him for three days and three nights, and the pigeons I sent are all gone. There is no return. Tomorrow, you bring a few servants and go to your Uncle Yan's house for me to see what happened?" Master Ning anxiously paced back and forth in the ovary, thinking for a while, "If you feel something is wrong, come back quickly."

Ning Huan nodded and said: "Father, don't worry, I will definitely deliver the letter to Uncle Yan personally." Ning Huan took the letter, sniffed the sachet for a while but couldn't smell anything.

Yan Mansion is in the south of the city. Early the next morning, Ning Huan ordered a few strong servants and went out.

Ning Huan rode a horse on the street in the south of the city. The south of the city is farther away from the imperial city, and it is not as lively as the north of the city.The left and right sides of the street are covered with notices, with the heads of different women painted on them, there are dozens of them at least.An official took several new notices, hurriedly walked, and pasted a new one among the dense notices.

Seeing the notices all over the street, Ning Huan asked in puzzlement, "What's going on? Why are there so many notices?"

Ning Shun, who was walking by the side, saw his young master asking questions, and said: "You don't know something, young master. This is the government's missing person notice, and it has been posted here for several days."

Ning Huan was startled: "Missing notices? Why are there so many?"

Ning Shun said: "A lot of fireworks girls have disappeared in the south of the city. The government doesn't care about the land of smoke and willows. They just disappeared and posted a notice here to finish things in a hurry. The nearby brothels and Chunlou have closed their shops. The old bustards have said this. After a gust of wind, we will open the door to receive guests."

Ning Huan looked at the missing young women on the notice, and sighed slightly: "That's it."

The old house of Yan's Mansion is located in the suburbs of the south of the city, and the land with a radius of five miles was bought by the great businessman Yan Ziyan as part of the house.When Ning Huan arrived at Yan Mansion, it was past noon: "Ning Shun, knock on the door."

Ning Shun trotted to the gate of Yan Mansion, knocked twice on the door with "Dong Dong", but no one answered.

"Is anyone there?" Ning Shun knocked for a long time but no one responded, then turned around and said, "Young master, how come such a big family in Yan Mansion doesn't even have a servant to answer the door?"

Ning Huan frowned, and looked up at the eight-foot-high screen wall in front of the gate of Yan Mansion.Moss has already covered the entire outer wall of the old house, and various trees are planted around the mansion, which are more or less covered by the lush greenery.Ning Huan suddenly thought: "Did you see someone on the way here?"

Everyone shook their heads with doubts on their faces.

Ning Huan was in a bad mood.The gate of Yan's mansion is closed during the day, but there is no one on the land of Yan's house within a radius of five miles. Everything is unreasonable: "Who of you is good at climbing walls, help me go in and open the door from the inside."