Jiajing Spiritual Records

"I just said that old man is very bad. I ran into him when he sneaked to Yichun Courtyard last time, and lied to me that the young man with thin skin and tender flesh was his servant." I knew Ning Huan's heartbroken face typical.

The crackling sound of the wood being burned in the fire is very clear in this silent night, and the Yizhuang is not as cold as before.

Su Xian closed his eyes, resting his head on a long knife that Ning Huan had never seen before, lying on the ground with his legs crossed, his eyes closed and resting his mind.He seemed to feel Ning Huan's gaze beside him, so he opened his eyes impatiently: "What are you looking at?"

Ning Huan was taken aback, seeing that the peeping was caught, he scratched the back of his head in embarrassment, and said in a low voice, "You are a little different from the Jinyiwei in my impression."

"Why is it different?" Su Xian turned his head slightly, squinting at Ning Huan.

"I think you are a good person." Ning Huan replied.

Su Xian snorted coldly, he cast a sideways glance at Ning Huan, and asked, "Why, so Jin Yiwei is not a good thing in your heart?"

Ning Huan also realized later that he had said something wrong and felt bored.He glanced at the corpse of the monster with its head detached on the ground, changed the subject guiltily, and asked, "What kind of monster is this?"

Su Xian was silent for a while, and just when Ning Huan had given up and was about to fall asleep, Su Xian Wu replied: "Half a month ago, Jin Yiwei received a case, saying that there was a murderer in a village thirty miles south of the imperial city. A village household is missing, and the officials sent to investigate have not come back for a long time, Master Tongzhi suspects that evil spirits are responsible, so he sent me to come and see."

"Jin Yiwei is really in charge of eliminating demons?" Ning Huan's eyes lit up.

"Do you know the "civet cat for the prince" incident that shocked the government and the public in the 12th year of Yongle? Concubine Li teamed up with the demons who were trusted by the emperor at that time to frame Concubine Lu. Since then, the emperor has been wary of practitioners, especially Send out a branch of the Jinyiwei to study the Taoism of the Three Purities, in case they have any disagreements." Su Xian explained.

Ning Huan was dumbfounded when he heard it, and he couldn't calm down for a long time in the shock of "Jin Yiwei really knows how to subdue demons and demons".He suddenly thought of the reason why Suxian appeared here, and he was afraid after knowing it: "Then if you don't come today, then...then I won't see anyone alive or dead?"

The corners of Su Xian's mouth curled up slightly, and a smug look flashed across his black eyes, as if he was very satisfied with Ning Huan's belated discovery that he was his benefactor: "Ordinary people don't. Man-faced spiders want to parasitize It will take at least ten days, and the one in front of us has only been parasitized for about five days at most."

"Then...then why did it come out?" Ning Huan asked puzzled.

"I said that ordinary people can't, but you are not ordinary people." Su Xian squinted at Ning Huan, and looked him up and down critically.He raised one corner of his mouth slightly, as if he had discovered something interesting, "The human lamps on the left and right shoulders are dim, indicating that you have a very yin physique; the darkening of the Yintang indicates that you have a face that has suffered a bloody disaster recently. You said——if the man-faced spider doesn’t look for you, who will you look for?”

Ning Huan was stunned, unable to speak for a long time, so he hummed and said: "Then why were you dressed like that when you came in just now?"

Su Xian said disapprovingly: "Naturally, it is to cover the yang energy in my body. My yang fire is too strong, and the human-faced spider may not come out when it sees me."

When Ning Huan heard this, he curled his lips: "So this isn't 'Corpse Coffin'?"

Su Xian was lying beside the match pile, with his head propped up on his right hand, he raised his eyebrows a little surprised: "Do you still know about 'Corpse Coffin'?" The fine strands of hair on his forehead covered his eyes His eyes were extremely cold, and under the firelight, his eyeballs appeared extremely black and extremely bright.

Ning Huan pursed his lips, and he said proudly: "I heard it from my grandfather before, he saw it when he was a child."

Su Xian was taken aback, and coughed unnaturally: "'Corpse coffin' is the name for touching the blond mound." He stood up, walked to the coffin that the monster crawled out of just now, and kicked the coffin with his feet. Kicked the body of the coffin: "The smell of earth has not dissipated, it seems that it has not been unearthed for a long time."

"So what's in here?" Ning Huan followed behind Su Xian, he poked his head out from his shoulder on tiptoe.

Su Xian turned around: "Didn't you see it all?"

Ning Huan found that this man was even more difficult to chat with than his father, so he secretly rolled his eyes in a place where Su Xian couldn't see: "I mean, what kind of thing will become this kind of thing." Ning Huan emphasized.

"Xiangxi has a secret technique that allows pregnant women to give birth to a monster with a human head and a spider body. But this monster is extremely ferocious and extremely poisonous, so it is usually used as a vigil in the tomb. Usually they will feed pregnant women who are not yet full-term. When these pregnant women are about to give birth, they will drown them, and finally seal them in such a black gold coffin. It’s just that the human-faced spider I saw just now, the host is probably fresh.”

"But didn't you just say that only pregnant women can eat worms?" Su Xian frowned, lost in thought.

Seeing that Suxian had been silent for a long time without responding to his own thoughts, Ning Huan turned over and fell into a drowsy sleep.

The sky was getting whiter, and the snow that had fallen all night last night showed signs of stopping, and a ray of morning light fell down through the gaps in the roof.Ning Huan let out a long breath, thinking that the night was finally over.

"Are you planning to go back to Beijing?" Seeing Su Xian getting up, Ning Huan hastily followed.

Su Xian shook his head: "The matter of the human-faced spiders has not been resolved. The black gold coffin has been opened for several days. This kind of human-faced spiders have the habit of building nests and laying eggs. I must find their nests, otherwise there will be endless troubles. From then on You can see people five miles north, where you can borrow food and horses to return to the capital."

The human-faced spider had been removed, and Su Xian took off the plain white shroud around him.A red flying fish suit is worn with a black cloak, with golden four-clawed flying fish patterns embroidered on the chest and shoulders respectively, and two embroidered spring knives with slender tassels, one long and one short, pinned to the sides of the waist respectively. He was handsome when we first met yesterday, but now he is a bit more majestic and majestic.A high ponytail was tied behind his head, and the soft red hairband was dotted in the black hair, which was gently blown up by the wind, making the domineering aura reveal a bit of youthful air.

The two parted in front of Yizhuang.Ning Huan looked at Su Xian's receding figure, and vaguely saw the slender white figure from last night following behind him.But when he looked over again, there was only Su Xian left as far as he could see.Ning Huan shook his head, thinking that he must have made a mistake.

Ning Huan walked five li to the north, and indeed he saw a village.

The sky gradually darkened, but it was strange that there were no traces of fireworks in the whole village.After the experience of Yizhuang last night, Ning Huan really didn't dare to rush into this strange village.The sun was sinking, and the scattered mist blocked the last rays of light in the sky.Ning Huan was cold and hungry, so he had no choice but to knock on the door of the family near the entrance of the village.

"Boom-thump-"

"Squeak--" A seven or eight-year-old girl suddenly leaned out from behind the door. She tilted her head and looked at Ning Huan and asked, "Who are you? Are you here to worship Empress Xizi? But Grandma Said that the guests are full today, so we can’t keep any more guests.”

The moonlight reflected the girl's pale complexion. She was wearing a bright red double-breasted mandarin jacket with a two-cornered braid.I don't know if it was Ning Huan's illusion, but he seemed to smell a faint earthy smell from the girl's body.

Ning Huan was taken aback for a moment, thinking that such a desolate place would be full of customers, he really felt strange.

Just when Ning Huan was about to bid farewell and go to another house to try his luck, there was a "rustling" sound in the house. The sound sounded weird, as if something was crawling quickly on the ground.

The girl turned her head to look inside the house, and after a while she turned her head to look at Ning Huan, a stiff smile slowly appeared on the corner of her mouth, which looked very strange under the bleak moonlight: "A guest has checked out, and grandma told me You come in." The clear and crisp voice greeted Ning Huan, but for some reason, Ning Huan felt his scalp go numb.However, there is no one around here, if you don't want to encounter what happened last night, you can only find a place to stay first.Ning Huan gritted his teeth and followed the girl into the house.

It was pitch black inside the room, and the girl walked ahead holding a candle.

"Why don't you light the lamps?" Ning Huan asked.

"Mistress Xizi hates fire, so she won't let you light the lamp."

"Who is Empress Xizi?" Ning Huanfu asked again.

"..." The girl fell silent, and Ning Huan had no choice but to give up.

The girl quietly led the way, walking so fast that Ning Huan could only keep up with her by trotting. "Da, da, da", the sound of Ning Huan's footsteps was left in the narrow and long corridor.

They walked for a long time, Ning Huan didn't know that there were so many roads in the small earthen house.In the end, the girl led him to a gloomy lobby. A faint candle was burning in the empty hall, which just illuminated the wooden table and six chairs in the center.

Pointing to the only empty chair, the girl said to him, "Sit down, Mom will be here in a while."

Ning Huan originally wanted to ask Nvwa if there was any place nearby where horses could be rented, but Nvwa had disappeared as soon as he turned around.

"Are you looking for this?" The cold voice was as pure as jade, even though there was a hint of gnashing of teeth in it, it was even a little familiar after listening carefully.

As soon as Ning Huan raised his head, he saw Su Xian was sitting on another chair beside the table, frowning and looking at him with dissatisfaction.

"Why are you here?" Ning Huan was a little surprised.

Su Xian raised his eyebrows and looked behind Ning Huan.And following his eyes, Ning Huan saw a paper lantern slave standing in the corner, wearing the same double-breasted mandarin jacket as the girl just now, looking at him with a cold smile.

"Mother!" Ning Huan was startled, his back was soaked in cold sweat, he sat stiffly on the chair, and asked in an out of tune voice, "This... what the hell is this place?"

"What place are you talking about? Have you ever seen an ever-burning lamp made of yellow phosphorous in the hall?" Su Xian stood up and looked around, "The red brick carved octagonal lotus ceiling looks like the tomb style of the Song Dynasty."

"grave?"

"There are six parts to the Song Dynasty tomb. The little boy who tied the paper led us through the tomb passage and turned left into this place. This should be the north ear room, which is a place specially used to put offerings."

"For...offering!"

Ning Huan was stunned, recalling the strange situation he encountered just now: "I followed what you said and walked north and came here, and met... wait, why are you here, but I clearly see that you are walking south of!"