Qingguan Nightmare Shadow

The old couple Cheng arranged a room for Yunli and Nie Qiu, and they stayed here on their first night in Xiuzhu, Shuzhou.

Yunli was still dozing, when Nie Qiu who was lying on the other side of the room suddenly got up and shouted in his ear, "Brother, wake up".Yunli, half asleep and half awake, pushed Nie Qiu's face, ignored him, turned sideways and pulled the blanket over to cover his face, blocking Nie Qiu's annoying voice.

Nie Qiu dragged away the thin quilt, and said nervously, "I saw an evil spirit."

Yun Li casually replied "Oh" and ignored him.It's not that Yun Li doesn't believe what Nie Qiu said, after all, wizards' eyes are different from ordinary people's, and they can indeed see many things that ordinary people can't see.But, at night, it is normal to encounter a ghost floating around, so there is no need to make a fuss.

Nie Qiu doesn't have Yunli's composure. He professionally feels that ghosts are not good things. Since he encounters them, he must get rid of them. But he has neither magic weapon nor charm, so he has to pull Yunli up to help him no matter what. "People from harm".Nie Qiu babbled: "Brother, aren't you a disciple of the immortal sect? How can a disciple of the immortal sect be indifferent to this? Brother, you represent your sect when you go out, and your sect represents your sect in the eyes of Bai Xin." There are different sects in the Xian family. If the evil spirit is here to do evil, and you ignore it, it will damage the image of the Xian family..."

Nie Qiu opened his mouth to talk nonsense, Yun Li was awakened by his anger, no sleepiness at all, he opened his eyes and glared at him, "Where is the ghost?"

"Floated over there."

"In there" is Su Tong's bedroom.

Nie Qiu dragged Yun Li, lay on the door of Su Tong's bedroom and looked inside.There is really a ghost in the room, but it’s not an “evil ghost”, it’s just a tear-picking girl who comes out to work for Po Meng at night, its level in the underworld is so low that it’s not worth a wizard’s shouting at it Call.

Holding the iron hook in her hand, the tear-picking girl wandered around the sleeping Su Tong for a while, and then went into his dream.

Nie Qiu: "Eh? It's gone, it's gone!"

Yun Li said: "It's just a tear-picking girl, it can't hurt anyone."

"The girl who picks tears?"

Yunli explained it to him, saying that the tear-picking girl is a subordinate of Granny Meng, who uses the iron hook as a weapon to collect tears for making soup for Granny Meng, adhering to the principle of "scaring does not hurt".At the end, Yunli asked: "As wizards, haven't you learned something similar to 'A List of Ghosts in the Underworld'?"

List of ghosts in the underworld?

Nie Qiu shook her head: "Uh, I haven't heard of it."

Yun Li said: "Then the teaching in your wizarding circle is really problematic. Hey, I'm not afraid that your master has not taught you, but I am afraid that you will return everything you have learned as a gift, and tell people what you forgot. , is something that Master never mentioned." Yun Li's old-fashioned words made Nie Qiu blink again and again, and quickly beat himself with the holy words of "Isn't it good to pass it on?" Take it to heart.

After a while, Nie Qiu just wanted to say "I've never heard of it" firmly, but a muffled groan made him swallow the words back.

Over there, Su Tong seemed to have dreamed of something, and called out "Mother" heavily, showing helplessness on her childish face.Tears-picking girl can best grasp people's painful memories. Once a person is selected to enter her dream, she must weave fragments of the person's gloomy experience to make people cry.

Yun Li looked at Su Tong who was frowning tightly, couldn't move his eyes for some reason, and frowned along with him.

Nie Qiu suddenly said: "So, the evil spirit that possessed the boy's father that day was also a 'tear-picking girl'?"

Yunli: "Huh?"

Nie Qiu said: "The ghost I came out that day was holding this kind of hook."

Yunli was puzzled: The tear-picking girl didn't hurt anyone, how could she attach herself to the body and cause the plague?Just as he was thinking, Su Tong in his peripheral vision woke up and sat up, with a crystal drop of water in the corner of his right eye.The tear-picking girl appeared again, floating, but Su Tong couldn't see her, and didn't know that she picked the teardrop on her face that hadn't fallen for a long time with her fingers.

Su Tong saw that the night was getting dark outside the window, calmed down in the darkness, and just about to fall asleep, the silence in the room was suddenly torn by the sound of "rustling".The tear-picking girl originally wanted to float away from the wall, but when she heard the sound, she didn't leave. Driven by curiosity, she walked around the room a few times and searched from floor to ceiling, but she couldn't find her. The source of that voice.

Yunli has good eyesight, and was the first to notice something strange.

There are several books piled up next to Su Tong's pillow. Now, one of the books is supported by an "invisible force", and the "rustling" sound is made when the pages of the book are slightly rubbed.

wow.

The book fell to the floor.

Su Tong and Cai Lei Nu finally turned their attention to the right place.The book that fell on the ground seemed to have grown its own legs, and it "walked" by itself, but aimlessly, it just turned around blindly.Su Tong was quite courageous, leaned over and picked up the book, flipped it left and right a few times.Books are just ordinary books, neither having long legs nor hands that can support the body to walk upside down.

Su Tong adjusted her thinking in time and looked towards the place where the book fell.

Yunli saw that there was a spinning "ball".

Su Tong put on her shoes, fumbled to light up the lamp on the table next to her, and then brought the lamp closer to the "unidentified object" under the bed.The unknown object was the size of a fist, and it was a hollow carved wooden ball. At first glance, it looked like an unremarkable handicraft.After the wooden ball was discovered, it flew into the air.There was no surprise on Su Tong's face, as if he had dealt with this kind of thing, he naturally reached out and stopped the wooden ball.

What is this?

Yun Li was thinking about it when he suddenly heard Nie Qiu spit out a harsh swear word in a low voice.

Yun Li whispered: "Who are you scolding?"

Nie Qiu: "That's my magic weapon!"

The wooden ball in Su Tong's hand was very restless. After pretending to be good for a while, he broke free from the restraint with all his strength, and flew towards Nie Qiu with a clear target.Nie Qiu stretched out her hand to hold the wooden ball, regardless of the current situation, and said loudly: "You still recognize me? Just as long as you still recognize me! Do you think I don't want to?"

Su Tong turned the direction the lamp was facing: "Who?"

It was impossible to slip away, so Yunli and Nie Qiu could only stand still and put on an "upright" expression, at least not to make the other party mistakenly think that they were doing something shady and bad.

The tear-picking girl Xu thought the two hiding in the dark were quite interesting, so she dodged and floated in front of Yunli and Nie Qiu to make faces.But she immediately found that the eyeballs of the two were moving with her: these two people can see themselves!In addition to being close, she could clearly feel her taboo on Yunli and Nie Qiu's wooden balls, she was immediately embarrassed and scared, covered her face with her sleeves, and walked out of the window with her tear-collecting vessel.

Just now when the tear-picking girl approached, the wooden ball spun, and there was a mouth-shaped opening at the "half waist" position; if you observe carefully, you can see that the space near the opening is distorted and deformed.As soon as the tear-picking girl disappeared, the wooden ball closed its mouth and slipped into Nie Qiu's sleeve.

Nie Qiu said: "Young master, do you know that there is a female ghost just now?"

Su Tong: "I didn't know there was a female ghost, but I saw with my own eyes Mr. Mie who was stealing here... Mr. Yun."

Yun Li is so proud, how could he bear such an accusation: "Talk about evidence!"

Su Tong said: "The evidence is being held by Mr. Nie."

Nie Qiu laughed and said: "Haha, young master, you are too serious. What is 'stealing'? 'Taking what others have as your own' is stealing. My magic weapon was snatched by you at the beginning, and now it is back to me. In my hand, it’s just returned to the original owner.” After finishing speaking, he glanced at the wooden ball in his sleeve: “This guy is full of energy, I think it’s because he didn’t suffer badly during the time he was taking care of you, and I thank you so much! "

Su Tong silently put down the lamp, then slowly raised her head and said, "After the property of a sinner is handed over and confiscated, the property does not belong to the sinner."

This Su Tong seems to be a gentle gentleman, but he speaks ruthlessly, speaks bluntly, and does not frustrate the barbed words with more euphemistic words first.

Nie Qiu's face froze, knowing that the conflict between him and the bamboo cultivator would always revolve around the failed ceremony, but before he really proved himself, no matter how much he complained, it was useless.

Surprisingly, after Su Tong stabbed Nie Qiu a few words, she stopped holding on to the magic weapon, walked over quietly, and closed the door.

Nie Qiu laughed at Yunli outside the door: "Young master, I think we are unable to escape under the eyes of the bamboo repairman, so don't bother with us for the time being!"

Yun Li folded his arms and stared at the door for a while, then sat back on his couch in a muffled voice.

Nie Qiu came back and lay down with his wooden ball in his arms: "Brother, aren't you going to sleep?"

Yunli: "..."

Nie Qiu said helplessly: "Brother, you are one day a day, three days a day, if you go on like this, you will push yourself up, and I will wait to shoot the ball! Brother, look ahead in everything, wait for us to come It's raining, it's too late for the young master to thank us, how can he remember what happened tonight. Even if he remembers, he must regret it, wishing to take back all the words. Besides, so what if someone scolds you as a 'thief'! Brother, you It is because you are used to your ears too delicately in the clean fairy gate, so that you cannot hear people say that you are not good. If you want me to say, put down your figure and walk with me once, go all over the world, you can say anything bad Take it all as a gust of wind!"

Yun Libai said: "He said you, why did you bring me along!"

Nie Qiu chuckled and said, "Young master is well versed in the principle of 'those who are close to ink are black'!"

"You have the face to say it!"

Nie Qiu: "Change another face, close to the vermilion! When you speak with your strength, little brother, and smear yourself to the point where you can't be redder, the ink spots you stained on me will naturally disappear, and I, too. To be able to touch the light of my brother is 'red and red'."

"..."

At Maoshi the next day, the sky dawned.

Nie Qiu was snoring, Yun Li, who woke up early, saw Su Tong's door, which was closed tightly last night, opened a crack.Yun Li walked over, glanced into the room, and saw that Su Tong had changed into a new dress, and was now wearing a belt.Su Tong's clothes are not ordinary clothes, and I can't tell whether they are too big or too small, anyway, they don't fit well.Yunli guessed that the clothes were left by the old couple's son, and the style was used for sacrifices; Su Tong was adopted by the old couple not long ago, but when praying for rain, Cheng didn't have time to cut him a suit according to his stature clothes, so I gave him the clothes.

It will take another hour before the old Cheng and his wife will leave to visit the prefect's mansion.Yunli got up early, and was idle when she was idle, so she simply skipped knocking on the door, and started to "tour" when she entered Su Tong's room.

Su Tong straightened her clothes, turned around, and saw Yun Li, who appeared at some unknown time, pacing leisurely there.

"Master Yun?"

Yun Li glanced at him and said, "Yes."

"Young Master Yun, this is..."

Yun Li said: "I have nothing to do, I'm looking for you to relieve my boredom."

Su Tong ignored him and took a book for morning reading.

Although Yunli is in control of Su Tong's life book, he has been just putting on a play for her in Si Ming Wonderland and adding events that change the path of the characters in Su Tong's life, with the purpose of shaping people into something that he can control. appearance, so that he can write dramas that suit the tastes of various gods in the future; therefore, he does not know what the people in his notebook are thinking.

At first, Yunli restricted Su Tong under the control of his father Su Qiuguang, imprisoned him in a small room, and only read and practiced essays according to his father's wishes, in order to arouse Su Tong's rebellious mind, so that he could "go far away" in the future. Doing business in a foreign land" or "meeting a tourist by chance and practicing martial arts with relatives" paved the way for the drama.Unexpectedly, several newly promoted Siming Xiaoxian arranged a plague, and the hopeful Su Qiuguang was buried in it, which made the foreshadowing in Yunli's book come to naught.

After the death of Su Tong's father and mother, Su Tong's heart changed.Yunli once tried to arrange things for him in the notebook other than "concentrating on studying", but Su Tong's wish was too strong, and the words Yunli wrote on the notebook that contradicted his wish disappeared by themselves.

When Yunli came to the mortal world to find inspiration, one of his tasks was to understand where Su Tong's wishes took root.Only by knowing this level, can his plays be based on this and play a role.

Yun Li looked at Su Tong who was standing by the window reciting, and felt that he couldn't let him ignore him anymore, otherwise his viewing mirror would only be able to broadcast the picture of "scholar studying hard" all the year round, which would be boring to think about.If Su Tong kept his ears shut and only read the books of sages and sages, Yunli's book would become an inspirational book to educate immature immortals...Will there be any immortal gods with rich pockets hanging on their heads and stabbing their buttocks? Are you spreading fairy silver in the drama?

Terrible Terrible!

Yun Li pulled back his thoughts from a thousand miles away, and said, "People in the sky don't read these things."

Maybe it was because of Yunli's doubts about "people in the sky", maybe because the word "thing" insulted the sages and felt inappropriate, Su Tong inserted his index finger into the page, closed the book, turned and looked directly at Yunli and said: "I've heard that none of the disciples of the Xianmen sect are as arrogant as Mr. Yun." He thought that the "heaven" that Yun Li said was referring to the Xianmen sect.

People who first met Su Tong would say that he is jade and soft cotton, but in fact he is not easy to get close to. Inside the jade and cotton are green and cold iron and ice that can freeze people's hands back at any time.

However, Yun Li does not believe that there is nothing deeper in iron and ice.

Yunli said: "I'm talking about immortals. Immortals don't like to chew words like 'you say what I say'. Immortals like interesting things. Do you like interesting things?"

Su Tong's eyes said: Ridiculous.

Yunli: "I think you like interesting things." He glanced at a painting on the table and said, "Here, that's what you drew, right?"

In the painting, a distant mountain, a black stone, a bird, and a bamboo.

Bamboo grows in an unconventional way, it breaks through the stone and drills out of the gap.

Yunli said: "Bamboo grows through rocks, which has meaning and meaning."

Su Tong: "..."

Yunli: "I see that you look nervous, is there something more interesting underneath?" As he said that, he stepped forward and lifted the picture on the surface, revealing several other pictures that were not neatly stacked underneath. Zhang Hua.Anyway, he was already a rude person in Su Tong's heart, so he was not afraid to be a little more rude.

It was not in vain that Yunli was soaked in the naughty spirit of the stinky wizard Nie Qiu, and Su Tong's perfectly indifferent expression was finally pried away by him, revealing a strange color.

The style of the second painting is quite different from the first one. Far from being elegant, it is even close to comical.

This painting is divided into two by a stroke of thick ink. The upper part is a shepherd boy blowing flute on the back of a cow, and the lower part is the cow's buttocks pouted, throwing the shepherd boy into the air.The brushwork in this painting is not thin, but the image is vivid, and the dynamics of the cow and the shepherd boy are outlined in a few strokes.

Yun Li smiled and said, "Not bad, not bad."

Su Tong looked at the painting, suppressed her abnormal expression, and remained silent.

Yun Li flipped through the pictures below again, they were all in this simple style.He held up the painting of Shizhu and the painting of the shepherd boy one by one, and compared them: "You were much more interesting a few months ago than you are now."

Su Tong put the book aside, ignored the first painting, only took back the second painting from Yunli's hand, and put it away.

Yunli said: "I know that you painted these secretly in your room when your father locked you up and didn't allow you to go out. Why, you couldn't bear to still, so you brought the book to Grandma Cheng and Uncle Cheng's house... Well, don’t be too surprised. I know a lot about you. Can you listen to me? Where should I start? Let’s talk about something that happened when you were five years old. .One day you sneaked out to play, but was stared at by a big yellow dog, so scared that you climbed up the bamboo. Bamboo is not like a tree. People are afraid of being unstable on it. On the way to find your father's face..."

Su Tong: "You..."

"How did your father teach you a lesson, I don't need to talk about it. Well... I just ask you if you think it's funny when you think about it now?"

Su Tong and Yun Li remembered this matter deeply.

Su Tong remembers it deeply because Su Qiuguang beat him badly that day, made him lie down for two days, and didn't want his mother to talk to him.

Yun Li remembered it deeply because it was a scene he wrote in his notebook. He earned a considerable amount of fairy silver with this scene, and it pushed Su Tong's rebellious psychology a step further.

After all, Su Tong was still a boy of fifteen or sixteen years old, finally he could not hold his breath, and asked in surprise: "Who... are you? Why do you know this?"

Yunli: "You are my person, I know everything about you." He said quickly, and omitted the words "in the notebook", and then realized that there seemed to be ambiguity in saying this, so he couldn't help but put himself Choked.

After another thought: nothing wrong!If it's not his, whose is it?

Yun Li said again: "Your fate is in my hands, so be careful in front of me in the future!"