[Liao Zhai] Lanruo Temple

Not long after Zhang Litang woke up, the yamen summoned him to go over.

The head catcher Li Yuanliang looked solemn, and took Zhang Litang to the back hall, where a corpse was covered with a white cloth.

Zhang Litang suddenly felt something was wrong, when Li Yuanliang lifted the white cloth, sure enough, it was the bandit leader lying there.

Li Yuanliang said: "Yesterday I used their code words to contact the person who wanted your life, and agreed to meet him in a broken courtyard in the west of the city at dawn. This guy suddenly fell to the ground, and when we went to see him, he was already dead."

Zhang Litang frowned, "How did he die?"

"Being poisoned."

Li Yuanliang poked the bandit leader's head away with a scabbard, exposing half of his neck, and saw a small hole in his neck that looked like a needle prick, and the veins around the small hole were covered with blue lines.

Witchcraft!

Zhang Litang took a few steps back.

Li Yuanliang thought that he was timid and didn't want to see the dead, so he covered the white cloth again.

Zhang Litang asked: "The bandit leader is dead, what should I do next?"

Li Yuanliang said: "I'm going to ask you now, Mr. Zhang, have you ever made enemies with others?"

Zhang Litang's heart moved, he knew that the Chen family's distress was not something he could stop, it would be easier to break the situation by simply starting from the outside.

It's a pool of muddy water, so it's better to make it a bit muddier. It's best to startle all the ghosts and monsters hidden in this room, so as to find a chance to attack.

So Zhang Litang told the whole story about the Chen family, and didn't say anything about witchcraft causing trouble, but only said that there might be revenge or murder.

According to what Zhang Litang said, Li Yuanliang immediately reacted and said, "Master Zhang, no one will know that you came to Jinhua. If someone harms you, it must be an internal thief."

Naturally, Zhang Litang also knew that the thief was hiding in the Chen Mansion, and said, "I don't know what advice Captain Li has to offer?"

Li Yuanliang pondered: "Although this is a murder case, it does not actually involve the Chen family. It is just a guess as to whether the murderer is hiding in the Chen residence, and I cannot forcibly intervene."

Seeing that Zhang Litang seemed a little disappointed, Li Yuanliang said again: "But in the near future, I will send people to watch the Chen residence and step up patrols. But if this happens, I'm afraid it will scare the snake away. Mr. Zhang must be careful."

"It's enough." Zhang Litang thought in his heart, but he still put on a preoccupied look on his face.

If what he saw in his dream was real, then obviously the body he occupied in the dream was the key.

Originally, he suspected that it was Chen Ning, but Chen Ning was not occupied by him. Instead, he watched the whole tragedy from the sidelines.

Although I couldn't see my face in the dream, judging from the clothes and hands, it must be a man.

It is not an easy task to find this man in Chen's residence.

After Zhang Litang returned to the Chen Mansion, Chen Ning asked him what happened.

Most of the people in the yamen came to the door, but nothing good happened.

Zhang Litang wanted to lure the snake out of the hole, so he naturally didn't hide it, and told the story of someone hiring a murderer to kill him.

Chen Ning was still suspicious of ghosts. He learned half-baked witchcraft. Although he could use some small spells, he didn't have the talent to know yin and yang.

But what Zhang Litang said undoubtedly told him that this was not retribution from ghosts and gods, but someone's conspiracy to retaliate, not only that, this person was still in the Chen family!

Chen Ning's face was ashen, his heart full of anguish and anger had nowhere to vent.

Zhang Litang hadn't said something yet, he knew that the person in the dark was proficient in witchcraft, so if he said it, he might be alerted.

It is a good thing to invite you into the urn, but if you suffer backlash because of this, it will inevitably be unsightly.

While Zhang Litang was scheming secretly, Huai Xu cast spells in Ruoshui Mansion to observe the secrets of heaven.

In fact, the mystery is too vague for Huai Xu, what he thinks and gains is not so much the mystery, but the induction.

It is said that the Tathagata's Dharma Eye can observe the nine heavens and ten places, explore the past and the future, and see the number of lives is as easy as observing the lines on the palm of your hand.

This is still far out of reach for Huai Xu, but the Buddhist and Taoist Dharma door of the Twelve Karma-Twinkling Sutra is also beginning to show its power in Huai Xu's hands.

Twelve karmic conditions engulf all living beings, and the six paths of reincarnation rotate the three realms.The karma that others could not see was already faintly visible in Huai Xu's eyes.

If Zhang Litang hadn't broken into Montenegro, or if Huai Xu still acted like his grandmother, Zhang Litang should have died at the hands of the bandits.

Zhang Litang's death would not cause so many changes, and the Chen family should also be destroyed later.

But after thinking about it, Huai Xu took Zhang Litang in and saved his life. Fate was established, and cause and effect were entangled. At the moment of the catastrophe in the Chen family, Huai Xu would inevitably be entangled in it.

This is not a bad thing. If there is no causal relationship, how can we practice the Sutra of turning the wheel with twelve karma?

"There is a connection between karma, and Zhang Litang and I will be related in the future. If he does good, I will get good rewards. If he does evil, I will not escape the consequences of the crime." Huai Xu secretly said.

One stone stirs up thousands of waves, and when Huai Xu is thrown, countless ripples and turmoil will inevitably be generated. As for what kind of results these turmoil will eventually evolve into, it depends on Huai Xu's practice.

Huai Xu hooked the corners of his mouth, and sank the blue beetle he was holding into the washbasin. The six legs of the blue beetle were tightly locked, and the mouthparts bit a strange poisonous bee in his arms.

This poisonous bee is the chief culprit in the death of the bandit leader.

The beetles and poisonous bees sank into the basin, and Huai Xu reached out and knocked on the copper basin.

Ding.

With a crisp sound, the two worms in the basin exploded into a blood mist, and strands of black and red blood mist melted into the water, dyeing the water a thin red.

The body fluids of beetles and poisonous bees should not be red and black, this is the result of the sacrifice of witchcraft.

Huai Xu used the two insects to trace that point of induction, and countless images flashed in the copper basin, reflected in Huai Xu's green eyes.

Huai Xu narrowed his eyes, "So it was him."

"To make him jump out, we need to use some means."

Huai Xu rolled his eyes, gathered the loose hair on his head, tied it in a bun, shook his clothes, turned them into a Taoist robe, and turned the jade ring into a seven-treasure lotus crown.

"Da Lang, follow me out to make friends."

Huai Xu stretched out his hand and cut off a green bamboo from the bamboo clump in the corner, and turned the bamboo leaves into a long blue flag.

Letter to the letter: Medicine and medicine will not kill the sick, and the Buddha will save the predestined people.

"My lord, you are wearing a Taoist robe." Huang Dalang whispered.

Huai Xu stuffed the long banner into his hand, pushed him two steps, and said, "Tong'er, there is no separation of monks and Taoists in the world."

Huang Dalang had no choice but to use illusion to transform himself into a Taoist boy. The two left Ruoshui Mansion and went straight to Chen Mansion.

Huai Xu turned himself into a swindling Taoist priest, and stood firmly at the gate of the Chen residence, motionless.

Huang Dalang turned his eyes, and suddenly yelled: "Ah, master, I heard you say yesterday that there must be Yuqing in a family of good deeds. I think there is a lot of yin in this mansion, and there is a lot of bad luck. I think this must be a lot of unrighteousness." ?”

Huang Dalang turned into a Daoist boy, and he spoke freely. As soon as he said this, someone else shouted: "Little Daoist boy, don't talk nonsense. This is Mr. Chen's house, Mr. Chen. Mr. Chen is a decent person. Don't talk nonsense."

"That's right, look at this Taoist priest who looks like a human being, but writes something like 'Buddha saves a destined person' on the banner, and he is not afraid of being blamed by the gods. Could it be that he came here by bluffing?"

With this yell, spectators immediately gathered around.

Huai Xu rolled his eyelids, and scolded: "I told you to talk nonsense! You only learned something for a few days, and you came to show off? Don't take a good look, there is evil hidden in this mansion, and the master is doing evil there! "

Huang Dalang lowered his head knowingly, he dared not speak.

"If you don't talk nonsense, let's just walk over and tell you to point it out. The poor will have to show his hand, so as not to be looked down upon by others! Hurry up and knock on the door."

There was a lot of noise at the front door, and the doorkeeper didn't want to pay attention to it, but after hearing Huai Xu's mysterious words, and thinking of the master and wife in the mansion, he inevitably had some thoughts in his mind.

Huang Dalang knocked on the door, and the servant opened the door, but he didn't dare to act without authorization, so he invited Chen Ning to deal with it.

Huai Xu glanced at Chen Ning, and said quietly, "Master, your house is not peaceful."

Chen Ning's face changed, thinking that he had encountered a bluffer, and was about to push Huai Xu out.

"Don't push, don't push, you can push me out, but you may not be able to invite me back."

Huai Xu gave Chen Ning a meaningful look, and pointed to Chen Ning's left arm.

Chen Ning stopped immediately, he stretched out his hand to cover his left arm, and said, "What advice does the priest have for you?"

Huai Xu sneered: "You have a baby spirit planted on your arm, you are not timid!"

Chen Ning knew that the Taoist in front of him had magical powers, so he silently stepped aside and invited Huai Xu and Huang Dalang in.

"Everyone, it's not peaceful in the mansion recently, it's inconvenient to entertain, please don't crowd around."

As Chen Ning said, he ordered the servant to close the door.

Huai Xu looked at Chen's mansion, reached out and took out the whisk that was pinned to his waist, and wandered around the mansion.

"Master, where are you going?"

Seeing that the Taoist didn't say anything, Chen Ning walked into the mansion and quickly followed.

Huai Xu didn't answer, but just asked him: "My lord, do you know what Fu Chen means?"

Chen Ning was not ignorant of monkhood, so he replied: "Washing the dust means getting rid of the dust and getting clean."

Huai Xu nodded, and said: "It means to wipe away the dust and keep it clean, and it is also to sweep away the evil and keep it peaceful."

As Huai Xu spoke, he scanned his eyes, gave a sneer, and swung the whisk, sweeping it over a flower bed.

Chen Ning couldn't feel it, but Huang Dalang could clearly feel that Huai Xu swept away the entanglement of filth in the flower bed with a whisk, and wiped out a nest of Gu worms.

Chen Ning followed Huai Xu and saw him wave his whisk seven times, either on the tree, or on the wall, or on the ground.

Huang Dalang and Chen Ning walked side by side, and said: "Young master, if you have spare time, you might as well dig up these places, and you will naturally understand."

Seeing Huai Xu stop and go, stopping in front of Zhang Lanniang's attic, Chen Ning's heart tightened, and as soon as he stepped forward to speak, Huai Xu blocked him with his hand.

"Hush." ​​Huai Xu's face was full of interest, and Chen Ning looked at it from the side, only thinking that this man looked like a god.

"Needless to say, I have already seen the snake spirit."

Huai Xu motioned for Chen Ning to lead the way, and Chen Ning opened the door, leading Huai Xu to the attic.

It was dark in the attic, and even in the daytime, not a ray of light penetrated the curtains.

Huang Dalang followed them in, Huai Xu suddenly put his hand on his shoulder, "Don't move."

Huang Dalang is a weasel, and weasels and snakes are also related to each other to some extent.

The snake spirit attached to Zhang Lanniang reacted so strongly to Zhang Litang precisely because it smelled the weasel's breath.

Huai Xu approached Zhang Lanniang, his footsteps were like falling feathers, inaudible.

Even if he sat by Zhang Lanniang's bed, it didn't cause any reaction.

Huai Xu pointed to Zhang Lanniang's forehead, read scriptures, and drew a mantra on her forehead.

Huai Xu chanted the mantra, and a gray thread came out of Zhang Lanniang's ear.

The gray line meanders, climbing up along Huai Xu's fingers.

In a room in the Chen residence, when Huai Xu came, the people in the room sensed it, and then Huai Xu wiped out seven of his Gu nests in a row, which immediately made him furious.

"Where did the wild way come from, come and spoil my good deed!"

Realizing that Huai Xu was using a spell to force out the snake spirit, the man sneered, "You want to save her, but I want to kill her!"

As he said that, he chanted a spell in his mouth, controlling the snake spirit to bite back.

In the attic, the gray line crawled out half way, suddenly stiffened, and retracted at a faster speed.

"Ok?"

Huai Xu let out a threatening sound from his nose, his eyes were half-opened, revealing his green pupils, turning murderously.

Under the pressure of Huai Xu's murderous aura, the gray thread immediately languished, drooped down, was picked up by Huai Xu, and retracted into the sleeve.

The snake spirit left Zhang Lanniang's body, the witchcraft was immediately broken, the man in Chen's house was interrupted, coughed suddenly, lay on the bed and twitched a few times before recovering.

The man noticed how powerful Huai Xu was, and he didn't dare to fight with Huai Xu anymore, secretly ordering all the Gu insects to hide, so as not to be caught by Huai Xu and break his Gu technique.

Just waiting to send this plague god away, and then try to get revenge.

Huai Xu stood up and said, "Ling Tang is fine, just need to rest and recuperate."

Chen Ning breathed a sigh of relief, bowed to Huai Xu and said, "Thank you, Daoist, for subduing this ghost."

Chen Ning was overwhelmed by Huai Xu's spell, and begged him to save his father.

After seeing Chen Daonian, Huai Xu secretly thought that it was really a Gu insect.

Chen Daonian did not know how many Gu insects had been planted on his body. Many of these Gu insects were already connected to him by flesh and blood, and Huai Xu had no way of attacking him.

Huai Xu curled the corners of his lips with a half-smile, "Young master, your family has made a formidable enemy."

Chen Ning smiled wryly, not daring to hide anything, and told what happened at home one by one, "I don't know if Chang can help me find that person?"

Huai Xu waved his hand, "Evil law can be destroyed by righteous law, but the grievances and grievances in the world should not be meddled by poor Taoists. Moreover, the Gu worms on your father's body can't be cured."

"Pindao can temporarily stop the Gu worm from attacking, but the person who tied the bell needs to be untied. If Pindao takes out the Gu worm by hand, as long as the person who made the Gu worm has a thought, he will definitely take his father's life."

Chen Ning frowned, "My family's life is in his hands, why can he bear it until now and not do anything?"

Huai Xu said quietly: "Because of resentment. Resentment, so I can't let you die too cheaply. Only let you suffer, push you step by step into desperation, and watch you struggle in fear and cry out in helplessness. Get rid of this hatred."

"Let your father feel the fear of Gu worms traveling through his body, and taste the despair of being emptied bit by bit, and let your mother linger in nightmares, sinking in endless darkness, and suffering a lot."

Chen Ning's temples were throbbing, obviously trying to suppress his anger.

Huai Xu took out a seed and fed it to Chen Daonian. The seed stayed in Chen Daonian's body, and then the seed ruptured, protruding countless invisible roots, engulfing all the Gu insects like a spider's web, and then slowly sinking sleep.

The technique of pulling the machine.

Huai Xu said: "My lord, if you catch an enemy, you can feed your father a cup of his blood, and then the Gu technique will be destroyed by itself. It is inconvenient for me to stay for a long time, so I will leave first."

Huai Xu was about to leave, but Chen Ning hurriedly stopped him, saying: "The priest saved my parents, please wait for a while, Chen Ning will reward me generously."

Huai Xu had a gray snake spirit hovering in his hand, "No need, the poor Taoist has already received his reward. Also, Mr. Chen, you might as well look after your father. I have broken the witchcraft of that thief, so he must come over to check it out." .”

Chen Ning's heart moved, and he quickly thanked him. When he got up again, Huai Xu had already led Huang Dalang away.

"It's really a strange person." Chen Ning praised.

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Sleepy baby! ! ! ! !

How do I get up in the morning (=＿=)