Bone

The colorful flowers and green leaves planted in the courtyard seem to have lost their color in an instant, shock, surprise, astonishment... It is difficult to describe Tan Fengyue's mood at this moment.

But in this complicated and unspeakable mood, what is more, what has the upper hand, and what can be easily discerned by him is a deep vigilance.This vigilance was accompanied by a bit of horror, as if it had penetrated into his bones——

...How could there be such a coincidence?

It is said that forgetting words is lingering in his heart, and the front edge is completely erased... But he didn't remember the past at first, but along the way, he gradually remembered some fragmentary images, and gradually recalled a little bit of the past, and he met all the things he met along the way impartially. The oddities of the two are closely intertwined...

A single coincidence is a coincidence, but when too many coincidences are piled up, it is inevitable to be horrifying.

Everything seems to be unable to be explained by God's will, but it can only be explained by God's will - his hand holding the fan was still stiff, and even the fingertips were cold and white, and Qin Nianjiu lightly bumped him. When I came back to my senses, I looked at the past in a blink of an eye.

Qin Nianjiu didn't understand how ridiculous the "sister" thing was, so he wanted to ask him a question in a low voice, but caught the turmoil and bewilderment in his eyes that he didn't have time to put away, and couldn't help being slightly taken aback.

"...Cough." Tan Angzhi just told a funny story that he thought was extremely interesting, and he choked on laughter, but seeing that none of the two immortals laughed, they could only cough a few times in embarrassment. With a voice, he took two quick steps to get rid of the topic, "The old lady has already taken her seat, you two should follow me in for dinner."

"..."

The eyes of the two still meet, Qin Nianjiu has developed a tacit understanding with this ancestor, and has some guesses in his heart, but before he has time to say anything, Tan Fengyue's eyes have returned to calm, pulling him along with Tan Ang He stepped into the dining room.

It has been explained before that the back kitchen is here to entertain distinguished guests. The dishes on the table are dazzling, fresh and attractive.

It was a delicious meal with all five flavors, but Tan and Qin both had their own affairs in their hearts, because they didn't know the taste of the food, and they rarely even moved their chopsticks. .

Tan's family members are easy-going, and there is no such strict rule of "you don't talk when you eat". Mrs. Tan serves vegetables for everyone, and at the same time persuades them to eat more. Jun took a few more sips of pigeon soup, and he was very happy.

Tan Angzhi spoke wittily, and with just a few words, he could make his wife cover her lips and grin. He finally calmed down some of the grievances that he had just told something interesting but no one was cheering him on. The soup is delicious, even more mellow than the fine wine at the palace banquet!"

"What are you talking about?" Mrs. Tan scolded him, "Let the guests laugh!"

"Hmph," Tan Angzhi took another gulp of the soup, "This is the truth!"

Now that we have talked about the palace banquet... He put the spoon aside, turned his head to look at Tan and Qin, and asked them with probing eyes: "Well, you two, don't blame me for asking... I don't know the palace. What kind of strange ghosts and spirits have appeared in this time?"

Before the two could reply, Mrs. Tan patted him with feigned anger, "Don't talk too much!"

"..." Tan Fengyue caught a word from his words, and raised her eyes to look over, "Why did you say 'again'?"

Hearing him ask this question, Tan Angzhi seemed a little surprised, "Could it be that the Xian family has never heard of the fox demon rebellion during the reign of the late emperor—"

... I heard Ji Zhuoran mention it, but I don't know the details.Qin Nianjiu shook his head, "No."

"Then I'll tell the two of you!" Tan Angzhi was always talkative, and when he saw a story to tell, he opened up his chatterbox again, "—cough, let's listen to it as a fairy tale, regardless of whether it is true or not ..."

After all, it was related to the previous generation of emperors. The ministers of the current court were talking about the royal family behind their backs. If it spread out, they might cause trouble for the upper body... Tan and Qin nodded to show their understanding, and heard him speak freely.

Still in that vivid and ups and downs tone, "It is said that 62 years ago, the first emperor succeeded to the throne—"

It is said that not long after the former emperor first ascended the throne, one day when he was reviewing the memorial in the palace, blood drops fell from the beam for no reason, which made the first emperor terrified. Strangely, I saw all kinds of bloodstains, and after looking for them, I found piles of rat corpses and snake corpses—they were all mutilated, bloody and bloody, and had an unpleasant stench, causing people to panic for a while.

"At this time, it happened that a Taoist named 'Wu Ming' wandered to the imperial capital and asserted to the late emperor that there was an eight-tailed fox demon in the palace—"

Speaking of this, Tan Angzhi remembered the prince's entrustment, asking him to pay attention to the abilities of these two people, so he paused slightly and coughed softly, "... dare to test the two immortal families, you know that the Bawei Fox demon, how should I subdue it?"

The tentative meaning in his words was too revealing, Tan Fengyue glanced at him lightly, and said with a sneer: "If the Taifu wants to test the depth of the two of us's abilities, he can speak bluntly, and there is no need to beat around the bush like this."

Tan Ang choked, his old face flushed slightly, "This..."

... This patriarch, once he is in a bad mood, it seems like he has taken gunpowder... Qin Nianjiu hastily tugged on Tan Fengyue's cuffs and smoothed things over, "It's okay, it's okay... Uh, as far as I know, An eight-tailed fox demon can become a fox fairy by repairing one more tail, and it cannot be killed if it is cut directly, only by cutting off its eight tails first can it be exterminated."

"...That's right." Although the two of them didn't intend to argue with him, Tan Angzhi still held a handkerchief to wipe the cold sweat from his brow, and continued to tell his story, "... ...The nameless Taoist was entrusted by the late emperor to investigate the palace, and then pulled out the fake body of the fox demon—who would have thought that it was the late emperor who grew up with him when he was a prince? Accompanying reader! Hey, that's been a long-cherished—"

Qin Nianjiu was a little startled when he heard that, he always felt that something was wrong, and he couldn't explain it, so he continued: "Then the unknown Taoist tricked out the eight tails of the fox demon, and after cutting off all the tails, the fox demon He also lost his mana, and was pushed out to cut him with his hands tied... Later, the Taoist was also named a national teacher because of his meritorious service in saving him."

Finally finished telling a story, Tan Angzhi drank two mouthfuls of pigeon soup to moisten his throat, and did not forget to comment emotionally, "——If it weren't for this, I really don't know what kind of disaster that fox demon would cause."

...Is that so?Qin Nianjiu silently met Tan Fengyue's eyes, and they both saw disbelief in each other's eyes.

Without it, there would be too many flaws in this story.

Leaving aside the fact that the fox demon is a demon, and not a fox beast, it would be good if it does not eat people and drink blood. How could it catch some rats, snakes and insects to eat them? , if it wanted to bring trouble to the imperial court, why didn't it make trouble early on, instead of doing some confusing and harmless little tricks until the first emperor succeeded to the throne... Besides, the fox demon has a cunning temperament, so he will never reveal his most important tail easily. How could he be "deceived" by a stranger, so that he lost his mana and life?

What's more, it has already cultivated the eight tails, and it only needs to go through another calamity to cultivate the nine tails, and then it can become a fox fairy in one fell swoop. Instead of hiding in the mountains and practicing, it would rather go to the palace as a companion.

And the former emperor, really disregarded old feelings at all, just because some innocuous visions appeared in the palace, he wanted to put his former companion to death? ...

Qin Nianjiu didn't have so much thoughtfulness, he just said that the old master Tan talked eloquently and disregarded common sense when he told the story, so he just shook his head and put the story behind him, and asked Tan Angzhi, "There are only people who have come out of the palace. Are the White Walkers weird this time?"

But Tan Fengyue thought secretly, she scoffed at the fact that most royal people are ruthless and ungrateful, if what Tan Taifu said is true, I'm afraid this is actually a story of a thief shouting to catch the thief, unloading the mill and killing the donkey.

"Where are you?" Tan Angzhi answered Qin Nianjiu with a wave of his hand, "What is the dry well bubbling blood, the sound of the zither coming from the Liuhua Lake in the middle of the night, and the shadows of people passing by in a row on the palace wall... There are too many, after all. It's in the palace. Thanks to the presence of the national teacher, it was easily resolved."

Mrs. Tan, who had been listening quietly, couldn't help but interjected, "Just recently, there was a strange incident more than 20 years ago, and Ruo'er told me about it—well, then It was the prince’s deceased mother and concubine, Concubine Rong—it was said that after a concubine in the palace gave birth, the baby that was born was a civet cat-like baby, which scared her out of her wits, and she wrapped the child and escaped from the palace overnight... Listen later Said that both of them died outside with their children... Alas, what a crime."

"..." I really don't know how true or false, how much water is involved in this kind of strange incident that has been reported outside the palace, Qin Nianjiu just nodded in cooperation, "It is indeed a crime."

In his heart, he wondered why they didn't feel surprised when they heard that there were strange things in the palace. It turns out that the palace has always been so uneasy... It's no wonder they believed the prince's words and the two of them so much.

After sighing a few times, everyone at the table was full.Tan Angzhi felt that his slip of the tongue just now offended the fairy family surnamed Tan, and he didn't have the nerve to keep them chatting any longer, so he showed them the location of the wing, so he took a lunch break as an excuse and retreated with his wife and grandmother.

The weird stories on the dinner table passed by, Qin Nianjiu was still paying attention to Tan Fengyue's momentary loss of consciousness before, and quickly dragged Tan Fengyue into the courtyard after saying goodbye to Tan's family, and asked impatiently: "Did you just... ..."

The matter has come to this point, Tan Fengyue has no intention of hiding it from him, but seeing that the courtyard is vast, and there will be servants coming and going from time to time, so he took a silver fan and tapped him lightly, "Go back to the room and talk about it."

"Okay," Qin Nianjiu was always impatient, and dragged him to walk quickly, "Go this way faster."

……

As soon as he arrived at the room and closed the door heavily, Qin Nianjiu pushed Tan Fengyue onto the wooden chair, leaned on the armrest to look at him, and said threateningly, "Quickly tell the truth, what is Mr. Tan talking about? Immortal Venerable, is it you, Patriarch?"

...How could it be like interrogating a prisoner?Tan Fengyue stretched out her hand to grab him lightly, pulled him to the armrest of the chair and sat down, nodded reluctantly and said: "...it should be."

Although he had already guessed this in his mind, Qin Nianjiu was inevitably a little tongue-tied after hearing his answer personally—this "Old Ancestor" and "Old Ancestor" called all the way, just as a joke, who would have thought that he was really The ancestors of the family!

After turning his mind for a few rounds, he thought about the important point, and he said slowly: "...then you and Gong Bujue their sect...and the authentic Jiuling Tianzun—"

"...Yes, we should be acquainted." The more he wanted to avoid the elusive past events, the more he wanted to bump into them one by one, forcing him to face them directly...Tan Fengyue felt a little headache and pressed Pressing the corner of his forehead, he was silent for a moment, and finally told the ghost all the things he remembered along the way.

He and the real Jiuling Tianzun Qin Nianjiu were friends who grew up together since childhood, and they also had some contact with Gong Buwang and the others—at least Gong Buwang once gave him a glazed pendant in the shape of a bamboo leaf. Tianzun once gave him a silver fan to repay him for carrying him back from Risheng Huangquan and healing his wounds...

And judging from this friendship, the old master Tan said that "Tan Xianzun often brings friends home for a reunion dinner", that friend... should be this Qin Tianzun.

……

"..." After Qin Nianjiu listened carefully, he felt strange, too coincidental, and felt a little astringent in his heart. It was really all kinds of feelings gathered in his heart, and he wanted to say a lot in his mind, but the only one who finally said it out There is a line of admiration that cannot be concealed: "The ancestor is really good."

I was afraid that he would blame me for hiding from him for a long time, but when I heard this unexpected sigh, Tan Fengyue paused for a while, raised her eyes in confusion, "...why did you say that?"

Qin Nianjiu narrowed his eyes lightly with a half-smile, pinched his handsome face, and teased him intentionally: "There is no way to coax that Qin Tianzun to give you a silver fan and go home with you for a reunion dinner." ..."

You have to know that people are practicing the ruthless way, and they don't have the seven emotions in their hearts——

"..." Thinking of the white-clothed man who was stingy at throwing a wink at him in those scenes, and the noisy and entangled self, Tan Fengyue couldn't help feeling even more headache, grabbed Qin Nianjiu's hand and rubbed his temple, With a serious look, he said: "Madam, believe me, the fact is absolutely not the case."

...Who is your wife!Qin Nianjiu patted him slightly annoyed, and withdrew his hand, "Stop making trouble, let's get back to business."

The authentic Qin Tianzun owed him a name, and he was also a friend of this ancestor, so if he rounded it up, he would be considered his friend, and it was reasonable for him to investigate to the end the death of his fellow disciple... Speaking of which - since the genuine Qin Nianjiu has ascended to Jiuling Tianzun, why didn't he protect his fellow disciples, and really watched them all become ghosts carelessly?

...Ascension?

Trying to go through the whole thing again, he tapped his forehead with the back of his hand, and the dilapidated temple in the deserted village he saw for the first time when he was reincarnated, and the list of meritorious deeds that had accumulated thick dust in the temple, read it from the beginning. Said: "... Qin Nianjiu, the Immortal Venerable of Guan Shizong, with a fairy bone and spirit body, raised by nature, with eyes that can detect yin and yang—"

"Wait," he paused in surprise, turned his head to look at Tan Fengyue, "...you can't see Yin and Yang?!"

Tan Fengyue also realized something from this sentence, stared into his eyes, "The pair of eyeballs in the Hongling sacrificial formation..."

And the endless blood flowing in the Qingyuan sacrificial formation——

"Could it be..." The corner of Qin Nianjiu's mouth was very stiff, "That Jiuling Tianzun didn't actually ascend...?"

Since Qin Tianzun is a fairy bone spirit body, all the bones and blood in his body are alive, and it is perfect to use it as a sacrificial eye. If so, it is not to blame that the Jiuling Tianzun temples are not effective at all, and it is not to blame him alone The body of resentment is attached to the gold-plated statue, and there is no difference at all - because there is no such thing as "Jiuling Tianzun" in the fairy palace in the sky!

Tan Fengyue was still stunned, and panic rose in her heart for no reason, "But why do all the records say..."

"Oh, they also recorded that Gong Bu Wang Heng had been promoted! Aren't they all lies?" Qin Nianjiu stared at him in a daze, and then began to think, "Let's think about it... Gong Bu Wang himself is Zongmen people, and they hate Zongmen people so much...Could it be the fault of Zongmen people? Didn't Chen Wenyu say before that the formation at the back of the Chen Mansion was set up by a Zongmen elder..."

He was used to jumping in his thoughts, and suddenly felt that this was not the case, "No, no, then Qin Tianzun killed so many ghosts, with profound merits and high cultivation, how could he be easily caught and used as an eye... Besides, Zongmen people There is no reason to do this? Could it be that he voluntarily dedicated himself to peace the world? That is too great... Hey, he is practicing the ruthless way, maybe it is really possible to do this. But what about his fellow disciples? ...Hey! Could it be that senior brother in blue, Xu Yanqing, was a stalker?"

Feeling more and more that this was the case, he thumped his palms, and said to Tan Fengyue: "Look at Lao Tan, that day in Gong Buwang's dream, how did Gong Buwang praise her junior brother—that is, Qin Tianzun, Xu Yanqing He didn't show his displeasure at all, only when she praised his younger brother's cultivation level as higher than them, he clenched his fists... Could it be that jealousy breeds hatred? Didn't Gong Buwang say that seven emotions cause trouble—"

Talking about Fengyue's mood is hard to calm down, and his usually flexible mind is rarely rusted. Hearing him say a bunch of random things, I don't know which sentence is right and which sentence is wrong, so I can only say: "... Listen to what the prince said. He said that he still needs to live in this mansion for three or four days before he can enter the palace for a banquet and meet the national teacher."

Qin Nian groaned for a long time, "Then you can't be idle for a few days, you have to find a way to find out the details of the national teacher in advance... Zuo Sanjiu can't stay in this mansion, why don't we go out of the mansion tomorrow, in the city Go around and see if you can find some clues?"

... that's all there is to it.Tan Fengyue pursed her thin lips and nodded, "Okay."

It is rare for him to be so obedient, Qin Nianjiu nodded his face with amused yet soft heart, wanting to brush off the worry on his face, "Don't worry, sister, brother will help you find out the truth, give your friend a Confession—what do you mean, sister? Are you okay, sister?”

Tan Fengyue: "..." I really regret that I shouldn't have told the whole thing to this ghost.

Remembering the account of being called "Madam" just now, Qin Nianjiu still laughed heartlessly and shouted: "—How are you, sister?"

The back of his neck was almost numb from being called out by his joking sister, and the worry on Tan Fengyue's face was a little bit, and she looked at him speechlessly, before he opened his lips again, he stretched out his hand and pulled him over, sealing his mouth with a kiss. voice.