Start from Liaozhai to brush the gods and demons alone

Chapter 44

There was a soft knock at the courtyard door, and the butler walked in first, followed by two servants pushing a maid, who was tightly tied up.

The servant girl was only seventeen or eighteen years old, with a thin body and flustered eyes. The scene in the courtyard brought back the most terrifying memory in her heart.

A servant raised his hand to slap him, but the housekeeper waved his hand and sighed, "Forget it."

The steward walked up to Xu Ran and said, "My lord, this is the girl who survived the night of the incident, her name is Xiao Cui. It's useless to ask you, she has lost her mind."

Seeing two strange men staring at her, Xiao Cui trembled with fright, turned around and was about to run, but was dragged back by her servants.

"Leave it to Master Wang."

Xu Ran's eyes lingered on the two servants for a moment before pretending to look at Old Wang.

With a thought, I added a skill point to Huizhao Daqian, so that it can increase the amount of blood returned and at the same time get rid of negative effects.

Then I added a flashback Daqian to Xiao Cui, and the effect was immediate.

Xiao Cui was stunned for a moment, then glanced over everyone one by one, and finally landed on the housekeeper, plopped on the ground, "Uncle housekeeper, save me, save the old lady..."

The housekeeper was overjoyed, and stepped forward to help her up, "Quickly, untie the rope for Xiaocui."

Xiao Cui moved her arms and immediately burst into tears, Xu Ran said softly: "Your name is Xiao Cui, what happened that night, you can tell it in detail, with this Master Wang here, you don't need to be afraid anymore."

Xiao Cui stopped crying, and choked up her experience that night.

A few nights ago, Xiaocui and another maid, Xianglan, were chatting with Mrs. Song in the house when they suddenly heard a "plopping" sound in the yard, as if it was the sound of a woman spraying water on her clothes.

Mrs. Song ordered Xiaocui to get up and have a look. Xiaocui cut a small hole in the window paper and peeped out. She saw an old lady with a hunchback, white hair like a broom, and a small bun on her head. She was as short as three It's as long as a foot.

The old lady walked around the yard in a circle, striding forward like a crane, spraying water as she walked, and there seemed to be endless water in her small body.

Xiao Cui was very surprised and told Mrs. Song in a low voice.After hearing this, she also got up in horror, and was supported by two maids to the window to look out together.

The old lady in the yard suddenly approached the window and sprayed water on the window lattice, making a crackling sound like a rainstorm hitting the paper on the window lattice. Xiao Cui only heard Mrs. Song scream and fell to the ground, and then she did nothing. I don't even remember.

After telling the story, Xiao Cui seemed to hear something, staring at the butler and asked: "Uncle Butler, where is the old lady, how is she doing?"

The butler sighed and waved his hands at the two servants, "Take Xiaocui to the old lady's mourning hall to watch the spirit. The old lady likes Xiaocui the most when she is here."

Xu Ran walked out of the room slowly, came to the courtyard and stood still, looking around.

According to the story of "Water Spray" in "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio", the Song family dug three feet in the yard, and finally dug up the corpse of a white-haired dwarf, which was exactly what the maid said, with a fat and swollen face. a living person.

Afterwards Patriarch Song ordered his servants to smash the corpse, only to see that the flesh and bones were immediately torn, and the skin was full of clear water.

But under the ground under his feet, would there be that corpse?

My system didn't find any abnormality, so even if there is, it can only be an ordinary corpse, not a demon that can walk and move, and can scare people to death.

Xu Ran pondered for a while, and asked Lao Wang beside him, "Can you notice anything unusual?"

Old Wang shook his head, "I can only smell the smell of the Song family's kitchen. As expected of a family of officials and officials, the cook's skills are really good."

Xu Ran: "..."

Not long after, the housekeeper had gone to inform Song Yushan and Zhong Xianwei. They brought more than 20 young and strong servants and rushed into the yard with shovels and pickaxes in their hands.

Song Yushan waved his hand, "Dig it for me, even if you dig three feet, you have to dig it out!"

Then Lao Wang, Xu Ran and Zhong Xianwei were asked to sit on the chairs under the window, and asked, "Master Wang, what do you think of this matter?"

Xu Ran glanced over the busy servants one by one, then looked at Lao Wang and nodded at each other.

Lao Wang pointed at Xu Ran, "I'll do the job of subjugating monsters and catching monsters. If you use your brains and talk, you can just find me, my good brother."

Xu Ran said: "I have some questions, please ask Patriarch Song face to face."

Song Yushan nodded, "Please tell the messenger."

"Does the Song family have any enemies?"

"No," Song Yushan shook his head repeatedly, "The Song family has never had any enemies, and I have thought about it these days, and there is indeed no possibility of seeking revenge."

Xu Ran nodded, "These people are all servants of the Song family, have they been invited from outside?"

The housekeeper at the side said, "No, these people live in the Song family all the year round, and some of them were even born and raised in the Song family."

Xu Ran said again: "How long has the Song family lived in this old house?"

Song Yushan said like a few treasures: "According to the genealogy records, the ancestors are hard-working, well-read poems and books, and won the Jinshi, which made the Song family rich from a poor family in one fell swoop, and settled here for generations. It has been a full 300 years."

Xu Ran hurriedly cupped his hands to show his admiration, and said again: "Brother Ling is the Minister of the Household Department of the current court. Didn't the Song family consider going to the capital to settle down? In the prosperous age, the capital has a population of 300 million, and its prosperity is far from that of a small county in Taoyuan."

It seemed that Xu Ran asked something irrelevant to the case, Song Yushan was displeased, "Is this also related to the case?"

Xu Ran raised his face and said: "This matter is both related and irrelevant. Let's see how Patriarch Song answered. Master Wang is a master of Taoism. How can he think about problems from the same angle as ordinary people?"

Lao Wang yawned, "It's fine if you don't tell me, let's not ask."

The housekeeper at the side hurriedly signaled Song Yushan with winks, don't disobey the master, he rescued Xiao Cui who had lost her soul with a single word, am I waiting for mortals?
Song Yushan understood, and quickly said with a smile: "This matter involves the Song family's ancestors' training, so I am a little hesitant."

Ancestral training?

Xu Ran asked Song Yushan with his gaze, and he smiled and said, "Actually, it's nothing. The family ancestor left a legacy saying that this house has excellent feng shui, which can protect the descendants of the Song family from becoming famous. Don't abandon it or sell it to others."

Xu Ran nodded, and stopped asking, which made Song Yushan a little confused.

Seeing that the guys were digging extremely slowly, he said: "Why don't you invite the master and the two officials to have lunch first, and they won't be able to dig much in a while."

Lao Wang rubbed his nose, "It's so good."

……

The place for lunch is next door to Song Yushan's study.

The dishes are rich, and the color, fragrance and taste are very particular.

There were only Song Yushan, Zhong Xianwei, Xu Ran and Lao Wang on the table, and the old housekeeper was waiting on them.

Seeing that Xu Ran picked up the chopsticks and put them down again, Song Yushan seemed to be preoccupied, so he asked, "Has officer Xu Chai thought of anything?"

Xu Ran cupped his hands and said, "Xu hopes that, except for the members of the Song family whom I met just now, I would like to trouble Patriarch Song to invite everyone in the house, no matter women, children, old or young, to pass by the table one by one."

"This..." Song Yushan hesitated. There are more than a hundred people in the Song family, especially the wives and concubines in the inner house, it is really inconvenient to see outsiders.

Old Wang picked up a piece of fish and stuffed it into his mouth, nodded and said: "Do as my brother said, this is very important."

"Homeowner..."

The housekeeper also urged Song Yushan with his gaze, he already believed in Lao Wang's Dharma, seeing Song Yushan nodded, he hurried out to call someone.

Xu Ran simply asked someone to move the table to the door, so that everyone only needed to walk through the door.

After a while, starting from the maids and mother-in-law, followed by the female relatives and children in the inner house, and finally the cook, servants and others, a long line of people walked past the door one by one.

Xu Ran nodded while watching, and seemed to be counting strange numbers. Song Yushan asked with his eyes, but Xu Ran seemed to be invisible.

Finally everyone finished walking, Xu Ran looked at Old Wang, "Master Wang, do you or should I?"

Old Wang said: "It's already agreed, except for eating and drinking, I will leave everything to you."

"Alright then," Xu Ran put down his chopsticks, and said to Song Yushan, "Patriarch Song, have any strange things happened in your residence in recent years?"

Uncle Song Yu hesitated, "What does Xu Chaiguan mean?"

Xu Ran smiled, "There are monsters in your mansion, and they have lived there for quite some time."

(End of this chapter)