Jiajing Spiritual Records

The night was terrifyingly quiet, surrounded by blue mist.Ning Huan opened his eyes, looking around in confusion.The dark blue bed curtain was gone, and Ning Huan was standing on an ancient road paved with bluestone slabs. The bustling night market in front of Ningfu Gate had turned into rows of old blue brick and tile houses. There was less than a ray of light, and the ground was covered with white paper money for the dead.Ning Huan was stunned, suddenly lost sleepiness, swallowed a mouthful of saliva: "Where is this?"

The pale moonlight shone faintly on the ancient road, and in the silent night, only the sound of Ning Huan's footsteps could be heard.

After walking for a stick of incense, a group of figures appeared in the hazy mist, all dressed in white, and their steps were a little stiff.Finally seeing someone, Ning Huan breathed a sigh of relief, chased after him, patted one of them on the shoulder and said, "Brother, what is this place?"

The man in white slowly turned around.His face was strangely long, his complexion was white, his lips were black and bruised, and his eyes were gouged out, leaving behind two black bloody skeletons. Ning Huan was startled and took a few steps back.At this time, all the men in white stopped. They had ferocious faces, some had their eyes gouged out, and some had their mouths cut off.In this eerie silence, Qi Qi looked at Ning Huan.

Ning Huan's head exploded with a buzzing sound, his teeth and tongue were fighting, "I'm sorry to bother you." After speaking, he turned around and ran away.

The group of white-clothed men did not catch up, and Ning Huan wandered on the ancient road for a long time alone. The road seemed endless, and Ning Huan sat on the ground exhausted.

A bright light in the distance slowly approached him in the darkness, Ning Huan stood up, and saw a boy in yellow standing by the roadside.Seeing Ning Huan, he saluted respectfully: "My lord, this way please."

Ning Huan frowned, and asked suspiciously: "Who are you?" The boy didn't make a sound, but just waited by the side of the road holding a lantern, as if waiting for Ning Huan to leave.

Ning Huan looked at the winding ancient road in front of him, thought for a moment, and finally motioned to the boy in yellow to lead the way.Ning Huan followed him and walked for a while, the mist gradually cleared, and the boy led Ning Huan to a rather imposing mansion.Ning Huan raised his head, and saw the big gilded characters on the plaque in front of the mansion, his heart was shocked, and he wrote "Yao Zhuang".

Ning Huan was confused, for a moment he couldn't tell whether it was a dream or real.He pinched his thigh and it hurt, but why is this mansion different from what he saw yesterday?Or are there two Yao villages in the capital?

Ning Huan looked carefully to the left, but there was no statue of the witch and ghost.

The boy in yellow led Ning Huan into the door.Different from what I saw yesterday, there are many people living in Yao's house here, from the elderly to the young.But Ning Huan soon realized that something was wrong. This scene, which was supposed to be lively in Xiangning, had maintained a picturesque silence all the time.

The elders are playing chess, the children are frolicking, and their boots are "tapping and tapping" on the bluestone road, but they can clearly hear the sound of footsteps, the sound of a person's footsteps.

The boy in yellow stopped in front, pointed to the inner room and said, "Go in, mother-in-law is waiting for you inside."

Ning Huan nodded, but his hand clenched the dagger in his sleeve.After returning from the Yan Mansion, Ning Huan hid a dagger on his body, unexpectedly it came in handy.

"Young Master Ning, are you here?" Ning Huan entered the house, and the voice of a vicissitudes old man sounded in the room. The voice was very familiar, and Ning Huan recognized it as the old lady Yao from yesterday.

"You, what do you need from me?" Ning Huan looked around but could not see the old lady.

"Ahem." The old woman said, but her voice sounded much weaker than yesterday, "Don't be nervous, I won't hurt you. I left my Gu on you when you left last time, and I let it take you here."

Ning Huan suddenly realized that the thing that brushed the trouser leg was not his illusion.But what does this old woman want to do with herself?

"What's the matter with my mother-in-law looking for me?" Ning Huan asked.

"Cough cough." The old woman coughed a few times: "You came with the Su family boy earlier, there are some things that I can't say." Ning Huan's heart trembled, and the mother-in-law continued, "I know you are investigating Ziyan. He is kind to me, and he did buy a batch of rare goods from me a month ago."

Ning Huan collected himself and asked, "What did Uncle Yan buy from you?"

"The five poisonous insects of the Gu King." The old lady's voice paused, "Yan family, are you okay now?"

Ning Huan pursed his lips and shook his head.

The old woman was silent for a while, and then sighed: "Confused! When I saw you, I knew it would be like this. I tried to persuade him, but it was useless."

"Mother-in-law, do you know why Uncle Yan wants to practice Gu?" Ning Huan asked.

The old woman's voice sounded very helpless: "I asked him, but he didn't say anything, he just said it was to save people."

save people?Ning Huan originally thought that Master Yan was forced to practice Gu by Qian Mian, but now it seems that this is not the case.

"Gu King is still in the Yan Mansion?" the old woman asked.

"Yes, I don't know how my mother-in-law can lure the Gu King away. Uncle Yan's body is still in the Yan Mansion and has not yet been buried. I think if..."

The old woman naturally understood what Ning Huan meant: "I brought the five poisons from Miaojiang, and I have kept them in the house for 40 years. After eating human blood, they can grow more than ten feet a day. You take the blood of my heart, Just use a sharp knife to pierce it within seven inches."

Ning Huan frowned: "Take the blood of your heart, what about you?"

The old woman sighed: "Young Master Ning, you don't have to worry about me as an old woman. I have lived too long. If Ziyan hadn't saved me, I should have died. This is all a debt."

"Refining Gu cost me too much energy, I didn't expect the shameless Lan family to take advantage of this to plot against me. I am approaching my deadline, I should have taken care of the matter of Gu King, but now I can only entrust this matter to you."

Ning Huan was a little surprised: "Mother-in-law trusts me so much?"

The old woman smiled: "I guessed right that the smell on your body is fragrant magnolia, right? Since Ziyan has entrusted everything to you, I will trust you. When you come, I can leave with peace of mind..."

"It's just that I still have one thing to worry about. I heard that the real statue of the Wugui God in the Wugui Temple disappeared and was brought into the capital. The Gu Mother King was sealed there, and now it is coveted by many people. If it is released , but there will be endless troubles. The old lady also asks Mr. Ning to find his real body and return to the temple. Cough cough..."

"Mother-in-law? Mother-in-law?" Ning Huan shouted several times, but no one in the room responded.Ning Huan circled around and finally saw a black figure in the corner. He saw a black snake as thick as a man coiled above the wicker chair, with its head hanging down, as if it was dead.

Ning Huan suddenly thought of something, an anecdote that he had almost forgotten when Uncle Yan came to Ning Mansion as a guest and told him when he was a child. He said that when he was a teenager, he had rescued a black snake under the hands of a Taoist priest.

"The poor Taoist insisted that the black snake was a ghost. The black snake was huddled in the cage. I saw it was really pitiful, so I bought it from the snake seller for ten taels of silver and released it. I didn't expect that at night, I dreamed of a black snake. A slender woman in black, she said that she is the black snake, and in return for saving her life, she will give her body..."

"Brother Yan, don't talk nonsense about your strange things in Liaozhai. The beauty snake you mentioned last time scared Huan'er so much that he didn't dare to go to the courtyard for a month."

"Hahaha, a dignified man can't be so timid..."

After recognizing the identity of the black snake, Ning Huan couldn't help feeling a little sad.With a solemn expression, he knelt down and performed a big salute, kowtowing three times in succession.Before leaving, he took out the short knife hidden in his chest, the blade sank seven inches into the snake, blood splashed all over Ning Huan's front, and he carefully inserted the short knife, which was stained with the old woman's blood, back into the scabbard .

Ning Huan left the back room, and Yaozhuang returned to the dilapidated appearance it saw yesterday.The people in the garden disappeared without a trace, leaving only a swarm of snakes like a swarm of insects.As soon as Ning Huan took a step, the group of snakes surrounding the inner room retreated automatically, leaving a gap leading to the gate.A golden python stood out especially among the black snakes, slowly swimming towards Ning Huan with a plain brocade bag in its mouth.

Ning Huan was slightly taken aback, and took the kit, it was the one Suxian gave him before, Xu Shicai accidentally dropped it on the ground while running desperately: "Are you that boy in yellow?" The golden python vomited Snake letter swam to one side.

Ning Huan walked out of Yaozhuang, and happened to see Su Xian riding a horse waiting outside the door, he asked suspiciously: "Why are you here?"

"Wait for you." Su Xian replied.

Ning Huan raised his head, looked straight at Su Xian and said, "You already knew?"

Su Xian pursed his lips and said nothing, Ning Huan was a little angry, he didn't want to see him now, so he walked around him and walked behind him.

Seeing this, Su Xian hurriedly jumped off the horse, "I just smelled the scent of magnolia on your body at first, so I was a little suspicious." The tall body blocked Ning Huan's way, and Ning Huan walked neither left nor right. "You're angry?"

Ning Huan shook his head with a cold face, pushed Su Xian away and left again.Suxian grabbed one of Ning Huan's sleeves: "It was my grandfather who almost killed Mrs. Yao 40 years ago. You must know that she is a black snake that has become a spirit and is escaping from Miaojiang. Hiding in the snake catcher's cage. If Yan Ziyan hadn't saved her at that time, she would have been killed by my grandfather long ago. So as a member of the Su family, she hated me to the bone, let alone told me about Miaojiang Gu. But You are different, you are the son of Yan Ziyan's best friend, she will naturally tell you the matter."

Ning Huan puffed his cheeks, raised his head, and looked at Su Xian with his dark eyes without blinking.

Suxian hooked Ning Huan's shoulders and pulled towards him, but Ning Huan couldn't hold his hand and was pulled back.Su Xian sighed as if he was discouraged: "Mr. Ning, do you see that I came to pick you up on purpose, did I ask you to make amends?"