Becoming a fox fairy from Liaozhai

Chapter 3 Exploring the Temple
When the sun was at its peak, a flock of sparrows flew over from the Shen residence, chirping on the branches of the East Garden.

Gong Mengbi swayed, with his big tail barely tucked under his body, he took the shape of a human, and sprinkled a handful of grass into the courtyard, and the sparrows flew down to peck at it.

While pecking at the grass valley, the sparrows chirped, rising and falling.

Gong Mengbi listened intently, and what he heard was not the sparrows, but the ghost language of wandering spirits.

This is the magic of Niaoyu, which turns the words of gods and ghosts into a universal language, acting as a decoder and converter.

Just listen to Wandering Soul: "There are a lot of people who have entered the city recently, but there are only three who are particularly famous."

"There is a father and son performing arts on Tianqiao. They can chew iron and swallow soldiers without getting hurt. They can capture objects in the void and hide at any time."

"There was an old Taoist priest who lived in Shanwang Temple outside the city. During the day, he would walk the streets and alleys to tell people's fortunes. He called himself 'Xu Banxian', and his fortune-telling was accurate."

"There is also a doctor who sells medicine, who knows some thaumaturgy, and specializes in treating difficult and miscellaneous diseases, such as headaches, malignant sores, and hidden diseases. Once the medicine is applied, it will immediately rejuvenate. It is hard to find a medicine."

Gong Mengbi narrowed his eyes: "It's all small tricks, you guys continue to investigate to see if there are any other strange signs, and report back at night."

The sparrows chirped and flew away.

Gong Mengbi was thinking: "A performer, a fortune teller, a medicine seller."

He already had the answer in his heart, so he put his mind on the straw man and observed the situation of tool man No. [-] Shenshan.

There is a straw figure hidden in Shen Shan's sleeve, it looks like a solid straw figure, but it feels light when held in his hand, and there is no abnormality hidden in the sleeve.

Shen Shan is still searching for the whereabouts of Shen Qiao and Shen Yan.

Except for the old lady, the whole family, servants and servants were all sent out.

After one night's work, Shen Shan was quite haggard again, with blisters on the corners of his mouth.

Holding the portraits of Shen Qiao and Shen Yan, he asked everyone he met, but got nothing.

At this time, someone shouted on the street: "Xu Banxian is here!" Many people turned around to watch the fun.

Shen Shan's heart moved, and he also squeezed into the crowd, and saw an old Taoist priest who set up a fortune-telling stall on the spot.

The Taoist priest is old, with ravines on his face, gray hair, wearing a square scarf, and a long beard.He was dressed in sackcloth, and his demeanor was uncommon, a bit like a fairy.

Standing beside the old Taoist priest was a bamboo pole with a yellow streamer hanging on it, and wrote: Count plum blossoms, and you will know your fate early; a few stalks of yarrow, you can know good or bad.

The crowd rushed over, but stopped in front of the old Taoist, not daring to offend.

Xu Banxian said: "Everyone loves you, fortune-telling reveals the secret, you can't do too much, Pindao still has two hexagrams today, just finish the calculation."

Immediately someone rushed forward and shouted: "I want to count, I want to count!"

When everyone took a closer look, it was a tall woman with a broad back and round face.

"Isn't this Miss Yu? Are you going to count the marriage?"

Big Sister Yu blushed a little, and she said in embarrassment when she heard the words: "My old lady likes to make calculations, so what's bothering you!"

"Xu Banxian, I want to ask about marriage."

Xu Banxian looked at Sister Yu carefully, and said: "From your face, it is a wooden life. You have no worries about food and clothing, and you have little money. Wood thrives on water, so you must be living in the water."

Sister Yu said: "Exactly, the family sells fish."

Xu Banxian said again: "You are destined to have a peach blossom, but the peach blossom died young, is it because your husband passed away?"

"Hitted again." Shen Shan heard the whisper of the person beside him.

Sister Yu sighed, and said, "It's just a dead man, and he's too old to marry."

Xu Banxian laughed: "I don't think so. Your husband is dead, but you still serve your parents-in-law wholeheartedly, and you are quite famous. The old flowers withered and new flowers bloomed. Your marriage is just around the corner."

Sister Yu was puzzled: "Please ask the half-immortal to clarify."

Xu Banxian twirled his beard: "You can go home first, if you see any man at home, it means you are destined for marriage."

Sister Yu was overjoyed: "If it's true, I will come to fulfill my wish." Then, she took twelve taels of the divination gold and put it on Xu Banxian's booth.

Only then did Shen Shan understand why everyone said that Xu Banxian's fortune-telling was accurate, but he was just watching the fun. If it wasn't for a wealthy family, who could take out ten taels of silver to calculate the fortune-telling of these few words.

Shen Shan hesitated in his heart whether to go to fortune-telling, but thought of the fox fairy at home, so he wanted to leave.

It's a pity that he wanted to leave, but he couldn't.

Xu Banxian said loudly: "Stay."

Shen Shan looked back, only to see Xu Banxian looking at him.

Xu Banxian said: "This good believer, please come forward and take a look."

Shen Shan was hesitating, when he suddenly heard a shrill voice beside his ear saying: "Hold him."

Shen Shan thought for a while, then cupped his hands and said: "I never count my fate, so don't bother Jinkou."

Xu Banxian laughed and said: "Whether you don't believe in fate or not. In the world, there are few people who can count, and there are many people who sell fame. If you are a good believer, please come forward and take a look. If you are not sure, you will not get a penny."

Shen Shan stepped forward and was carefully sized up by Xu Banxian.

"Good believers look so sad, you don't need a poor person to figure it out, you also know that something has happened in your family." Xu Banxian said.

Shen Shan asked: "I don't know what kind of accident Chang Ke can calculate?"

Xu Banxian grabbed the yarrow and began to calculate.

Taking advantage of this time, Gong Mengbi withdrew his thoughts on the straw man, smiled, and left Shen's residence holding an oil umbrella.

When the oil umbrella is opened, immediately the person holding the umbrella and the umbrella become invisible.

The shade technique is cast on the oil umbrella, which is very useful for covering the eyes of ordinary people.

Although Gong Mengbi has a hobby of forming karmas, he doesn't often take his form in front of people. One reason is to maintain mystery, such as not revealing his body, deliberately speaking in a high-pitched voice that resembles a human being but not a human being. It can't really transform into shape, it's just transformed by shapeshifting. It's often mixed with immortal energy and monster energy, which is too easy to confuse people's hearts.

Therefore, even if he is beautiful, he would rather appear in front of others with the fox body or the shadow shape technique.

All the way out of the city, to the Shanwang Temple outside the city.

The Shanwang Temple was originally used to worship the mountain gods in the mountains, but there was no imperial edict, just wild gods. Later, because they asked for blood food, the monks of Huaguang Temple asked the county magistrate to destroy the temple, and it fell into ruin immediately.

Shanwang Temple is far away from human habitation, and occasionally there will be wandering spirits of wild gods staying in it, so the accommodation of fortune-telling Xu Banxian was only found out by wandering spirits.

Gong Mengbi stepped forward and kicked open the gate of the Temple of the Mountain King, and saw two ghosts and gods entrenched on the toppled statue of the Mountain King.

A green-faced ghost and a red-faced ghost.

The green-faced ghost was short and stooped, with sunken eyes, like a sick and dead ghost.

The red-faced ghost was bare-breasted, with red hair and red eyes, wide-eyed and scorched all over.

"Five Elements and Five Ghost Art, Xu Banxian is really not a good thing." Gong Mengbi sighed.

"Who dares to break into this place!" The red-faced ghost roared angrily, roaring at Gong Mengbi.

Shading technique is a relatively low-end invisibility technique, it can cover the eyes of ordinary people, but it cannot cover the eyes of ghosts and gods.

"Two little devils, let me ask you, did that Yao Dao kidnap two children here?" Gong Mengbi gathered the oil-paper umbrella and asked.

Before the blue-faced ghost could speak, the red-faced ghost was furious: "Bold! Eat me!"

The red-faced ghost rushed over, pulled out a nine-ringed gold-backed machete from behind, and slashed at Gong Mengbi's head.

Gong Mengbi sneered: "I'm not very capable, but I have a lot of temper."

Gong Mengbi's movements were extremely fast, he only turned slightly sideways to avoid the slash, and then stretched out his right hand, like plucking the strings of a piano.

"Ding! Ding! Ding!"

The fingernail brushed against the back of the knife, making a pleasant sound of metal and stone intersecting, as crisp as a spring.

But what the red-faced ghost felt was completely different, as if being hit by a huge boulder flying head-on, and fired three times, the nine-ringed gold-backed machete spun and flew out.

The red-faced ghost's muscles and bones were soft, his five fingers were cracked, and his expression became dull.

　Nothing to save, a bit banana green, woo woo woo
　
(End of this chapter)