Jiajing Spiritual Records

Early the next morning, Ning Huan and Su Xian went downstairs.Perhaps it was because he didn't sleep well last night, Ning Huan was still groggy.The rain outside the house has completely stopped, and the entire inn is empty, only the shopkeeper is downstairs.

The shopkeeper raised his head to see the shock on the faces of the two people who came downstairs, and hurriedly got up to meet him and asked, "You two guests, I was just looking for you. Did you sleep well last night? Did anything strange happen? "

Ning Huan rubbed his eyes, opened his mouth and yawned, muttering in his heart.Last night when he proposed to stay in the inn, the reaction of the old man and the big guys in the inn was weird.Now seeing them going downstairs, with such a surprised expression on their faces, they must know that there are ghosts in that room.

Ning Huan glanced at the shriveled old man in front of him, and snorted, "Why is the shopkeeper surprised that we are still alive?"

The shopkeeper's face changed greatly when he heard the words, and he quickly denied: "Misunderstanding, two guests. The guest room is indeed weird, but it never happens on a sunny night. I really didn't expect it to rain last night." The shopkeeper burst out of panic. The widened eyes almost opened the creases at the corners of the eyes.

"Rain? What does it have to do with rain?" Ning Huan asked suspiciously.

"Those things will follow the sound of the rain!" The shopkeeper's withered body trembled slightly in front of Ning Huan.

"When did those things start to appear?" Su Xian, who had been silent beside him, suddenly made a sound.

"It started half a year ago. At that time, boats began to disappear one after another by the river." The shopkeeper raised his head and replied.

"Half a year ago..." Su Xian's eyes were dark, and he didn't know what he was thinking.After a while, he asked aloud, "Is there a boat near here?"

The old man was taken aback, sighed, pointed his haggard finger at the side of the guidebook and said: "Since the guest officer insists on crossing the river, there are two fishing boats at the ferry a mile away, but no one has used them in the past year. Just pick one and use it if you need it.”

Su Xian nodded.After breakfast, the two set off along the river.

"Could the troublemaker in this river be the water monkey we saw last night?" Thinking of that strange face covered with green scales, Ning Huan's scalp tingled for a while.Su Xian didn't get a response, Ning Huan looked over suspiciously, only to see that he was thinking about something with lowered eyelashes.

Along the way, in order to avoid trouble, Su Xian was always dressed in plain clothes, without the brown cap that was standard for Jin Yiwei, and the black hair behind him was combed into a high ponytail.Seeing this, Ning Huan directly pulled the wobbly ponytail in front of him.Su Xian narrowed his eyes, and squinted over: "Let go."

Ning Huan let go of his hand with a smile, walked over and asked, "What are you thinking?"

Su Xian's tone was hesitant: "I suspect that what I'm looking for is in this river."

Ning Huan was taken aback, remembering that Su Xian said that he came to Tanzhou for a mission, so he asked, "What are you looking for?"

Su Xianwu stopped in his tracks, turned around and looked at Ning Huan: "I'm looking for the elixir of life."

"The elixir of life? Oh oh, the elixir of life!" Ning Huan gasped, "Is there really such a thing?"

Su Xian nodded, and said: "After Qian Mian fell from the horse, the Zhennan Palace was searched by the government. A handbook was found in the secret compartment of Qian Mian's study, which contained records about the elixir of life."

Ning Huan frowned: "The emperor's letter?"

Suxian said: "The emperor's obsession with alchemy is also to find the prescription of immortality. He can only believe in its existence, not its non-existence. So I was sent to verify whether some records in the booklet are true."

"Is that true?" Ning Huan asked.

Su Xian looked sideways at the looming river in the distance, and the broken hair on his forehead blocked half of his cheeks. He said in a low tone: "According to the handbook, the gate of the Immortal Village opens once every hundred years. As for the location, just In the middle of this river."

Ning Huan thought for a while, then put his right hand on Su Xian's shoulder calmly: "Then I will go with you."

Su Xian turned to look at Ning Huan, a look of surprise flashed between his brows. "What's wrong?" Ning Huan asked puzzled.

"I thought you were going to slip away after listening." The tone was serious, and there was no trace of joking in his eyes.

Ning Huan squinted at him, and snorted, "Am I that kind of person? I thought you were determined to go after eating the weight, so don't worry, follow me to see!"

"Isn't it because you don't have access to the village and the land, you don't know the way to go forward, and you are afraid of being tricked by the boss of the black shop when you go back, so you make up your mind and resolutely follow me?"

"no!"

Su Xian chuckled lightly and fell silent.

After walking south for a mile, I saw a fishing boat among the weeds by the river.Ning Huan just wanted to untie the rope tied to the fishing boat, but Su Xian covered his mouth and pushed his head into the surrounding reeds. "Shh, someone."

Ning Huan poked out half of his head, and saw a group of people approaching the bank of the river not far away, about seven or eight people, they didn't seem to be easy to get along with.

Only one of them said in a rough voice: "Uncle Wang, we have been away for three days, where is the Immortal Village you mentioned?" Su Xian frowned slightly when he heard "Eternal Life Village".

"Uncle Wang won't trick us into coming here. In fact, there is no such place at all." The speaker was a strong man with a long scar on his face and a big knife on his back.

"What's the rush? Isn't this already here!" The black and thin man named Uncle Wang looked around, and then said, "Go, find a boat first."

Someone muttered in a low voice: "After finishing this vote, I will not do it."

"Heizi, why are you talking like that! If Uncle Wang wasn't there last night, you would have been dragged down by the water monkey long ago to become a dead ghost."

"Hey, I'm not just complaining!" As he spoke, he walked in the direction of Su Xian Ninghuan, and soon found the two boats hidden in the weeds: "Uncle Wang, Uncle Wang, there are two boats here. Boat."

Uncle Wang came over. His skin was dark, and half of his face was covered by a black birthmark. His body was as thin as old bacon hanging from the beams of the house, but there was a tremor in his eyes. He swept around the reeds, Ning Huan gasped for breath, just when he thought he would be discovered, Uncle Wang said: "One boat is enough. Tell everyone that we are ready to go."

"okay."

As the voices gradually faded away, Ning Huan straightened up and let out a long sigh of relief.He turned his head to look at Su Xian, but saw that he looked thoughtful, so he asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Su Xian thought for a while and replied, "I've seen that 'Uncle Wang'."

Ning Huan was taken aback: "Who is he?"

"It's not who, but where. Ten years ago, there was a homicide case in Chaozhou that shocked the capital. The murderer killed dozens of members of the local family members, old and young. The method was cruel. It took several months to find out who the murderer was. , and has not been successfully captured and brought to justice, his portrait is still on the imperial court's reward order."

"You mean he's a court prisoner?"

Su Xian nodded, "I won't admit it, because the birthmark on his face looks like a scar, so they call him Wang Scar." Su Xian looked back, saw Ning Huan's staring eyes, broke his smile, and hooked his eyes. He rubbed his head vigorously with the corner of his mouth in revenge: "Good thing, we caught him, and we can also go to the Chaozhou prefect to ask for a reward." After finishing speaking, he turned over and jumped on the boat, checking around the hull. After walking around, he said to Ning Huan who was still dazed on the river bank: "Come up quickly."

The evergreen leaves on the banks of the river rustled as the breeze blew by.I don't know if it was Ning Huan's illusion, but the fog on the river seemed to be getting thicker and thicker.Ning Huantiao stepped on the pedal and jumped onto the boat, "Can you punt?"

Su Xian picked up the idle wooden paddle on the boat, tried paddling it a few times, nodded and said, "Yes. By the way, do you still have the mermaid beads that the woman in the Song tomb gave you last time?"

Ning Huan nodded, and Su Xian said: "Hold it in your mouth, and you won't be afraid of drowning if you encounter a water monkey."

The fishing boat gradually moved away from the shore, and the water waves rippled away from the bottom of the boat.Ning Huan bent his knees and leaned sideways beside the ship's mast.The river is vast, and the feeling in the heart of the river is quite different from that on the shore.Su Xian stopped paddling, only to hear him say in a deep voice, "Here we are."