Strange Records of Xijing

"Taoist Wan? Could it be the Taoist surnamed Wan that Gao Zekai mentioned?" Pei Jingxing recalled Gao Zekai's guarded face when he mentioned this person in the carriage, patted Su Yan on the shoulder, and whispered, "Be careful."

Su Yan nodded, pointed to the small building two floors ahead, and made a mouth shape.

In the room, Shangguan Yun continued to comfort Yunniang, waiting for Wan Daochang to come, but he didn't know that just outside the room separated by a window, Pei Jingxing and Su Yan ran up the two-story building next to them with their waists bent.

There is a protruding terrace on the second floor of the small building, which should be used by the owner's family to enjoy the moon. It can accommodate more than ten people and is very spacious.Pei Jingxing and Su Yan were standing against the wall. Unless they specially used lights to illuminate them, they would never notice that there were two big living people hiding here at night.

After a while, a young servant came with a lamp and led two people in a hurry.

The stars were sparse tonight, and the crescent moon was covered by dark clouds early on. Fortunately, the courtyards of Shangguan Yun and Yun Niang were brightly lit, which brought Pei and Su a lot of convenience.

With the help of the light, Su Yan and Pei Jingxing clearly saw that the old man in the middle was missing his left ear, which was in line with what Gao Zekai said at the time, but the old man's hands were folded in his sleeves, so it was not possible to confirm whether his right hand was missing two fingers.

When the three of them entered the courtyard, Su Yan took out a palm-sized bronze mirror, muttered something, then lightly brushed the mirror with his right hand, and the situation in Shangguan Yun's house appeared in the mirror.

Standing behind Su Yan, Pei Jingxing poked his head out to observe the bronze mirror tentatively. Seeing that the bronze mirror could not reflect the reflection of the two of them, he felt relieved. He came out from behind Su Yan and stood beside Su Yan to watch together.

Seeing the old man in the mirror and the young man behind him enter the room, Shangguan Yun greeted them, the two seemed to be polite, and then Shangguan Yun took the old man to the imperial concubine's bed to check on Yunniang's situation.

"Shangguan's wife doesn't need to be sad, this is the fate of Miss Shen's family. She should have died half a year ago, but thanks to Shangguan Shaoqing's rescue, she gained another half a year of life." Pei Jingxing understood lip language, and he looked into the mirror The lips of the old man repeated what the old man said.

While wiping her tears, Yunniang asked in disbelief: "Really? Then why does her soul come to ask for my body?"

"Mrs. Shangguan misunderstood." The old man smiled kindly. "Miss Shen's soul just wanted to see if her body was damaged. She saw that Mrs. Shangguan had a happy life and a happy marriage, so she has already left."

Yunniang looked at Shang Guanyun with a dazed face, who quickly comforted him, "Daoist Wan is a man of Taoism, with powerful mana, how could he lie to us?"

Wan Daochang smiled and said: "Mrs. Shangguan has been thinking too much these days. It is not good for adults or the fetus in the body. It happens that I have a medicine here, which can help sleep, and it is harmless to the mother and fetus. Why don't you go to bed for a while?" Bowl, rest early after drinking."

Shangguan Yun respected Taoist Wan very much, nodded immediately and said: "Thank you, Taoist."

"Shangguan Shaoqing, you are welcome. I was fortunate enough to be taken in by Shangguan Shaoqing, and I barely got a bite to eat. It should be our side to thank you. It is late at night, and Shangguan Shaoqing doesn't have to send it off. I will go early with my wife have a rest."

Shangguan Yun personally sent Daoist Wan out, only to see the three people walking halfway in the mirror, Daoist Wan turned his head and said a word to the young man who had been silent behind him.

Pei Jingxing's lips moved slightly, and his complexion changed drastically. Before Su Yan could react, he put one arm around Su Yan's waist, and led him to turn over and jump down from the balcony on the second floor.

Pei Jingxing's skills were so strong that he didn't even break a roof tile by holding Su Yan in his arms.He took Su Yan to hide directly under the balcony, pulled the person in front of him, and pressed him face to face.

"Put it away!" He warned Su Yan in a low voice, and the latter understood, and quickly put away the bronze mirror in his hand.

With a whoosh, a figure skipped below them, vaguely the young man who had been following Daoist Wan.

From this angle, Su Yan could just see the young man's back.I saw this young man wandering around under the two-story building where Pei and Su were hiding, checking the surroundings to see if there were any Tibetans.

With great difficulty, Su Yan pulled out a hand from Pei Jingxing's arms, blinked at Pei Jingxing, implying that he would not do anything out of line, and then made a trick.

Pei Jingxing only felt that everything behind Su Yan looked as if it had returned to the old house in Deningfang. It was hazy, as if there was a gauze in front of him, so it couldn't be seen clearly.

Su Yan put his head on Pei Jingxing's shoulder, and whispered into Pei Jingxing's ear, "Cheater, don't move."

Pei Jingxing understood everything, he hugged Su Yan tightly, and pressed himself against the wall behind him as much as possible.

It's just that the part of Su Yan's chest that was close to him was so hot that he could feel the heat through layers of clothing. Pei Jingxing couldn't help but asked in Su Yan's ear, "Why is it so hot?"

Su Yan shook his head, and was about to explain, when out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of the young man who had been wandering downstairs entering the building, he quickly closed his mouth, and blinked at Pei Jingxing.

They hid under the protruding balcony on the second floor of the small building, which happened to be a visual blind spot. Unless the young people also jumped off the balcony, it would be difficult to see whether they were looking up from the first floor or looking down from the balcony. to them.

The young man quickly went up to the second floor and walked to the terrace where he could enjoy the moon.He clasped his hands on the railing of the balcony and looked down.

The young man maintained this posture for a long time, and his eagle-like eyes swept Su Yan back and forth.

Su Yan was like a light on his back, and could hardly breathe.

Even though he knew that there was his own blindness, even if the young man stood behind him, he could only see an ordinary outer wall in front of him, but he still couldn't help wondering whether the young man had seen through his own blindness.

If this young man turned over from the balcony and touched his back with his hand...

This idea has been lingering in Su Yan's mind. His blindfold method only allows others to see what he wants others to see, but it cannot change the essence.So others can only see an outer wall when they see him now, but if they touch it with their hands, what they touch is his back.

Just when Su Yan's heart was fluttering, he felt a gust of cool wind behind him, and the pupils of Pei Jingxing in front of him suddenly shrank, and he immediately understood that the young man turned over and got down.

If it wasn't for Pei Jingxing hugging Su Yan tightly in front of him, and his hot breath sprayed on Su Yan's forehead, reminding Su Yan that he was still there, Su Yan might not be able to help but run away immediately.

Fortunately, the young man just stepped on the roof tiles and turned around. He didn't see anyone, so he immediately turned over and went downstairs.

The young man found nothing, so he went back anxiously to report to Taoist Wan.Daoist Wan showed doubts, and took a small circle around Shangguan Yun's yard, then smiled and said to Shangguan Yun who accompanied him, "I'm afraid there are some evil spirits passing by at night, I'm overthinking. "

"Thank you, Daoist Wan, for your trouble," Shangguan said to Yun Niang, who was in the house of his heart, and called the servant who was accompanying him, "Send Daoist Wan back."

When Taoist Wan and the young man walked away, Pei Jingxing and Su Yan both let out a long breath.

Pei Jingxing let go of his hands in embarrassment, facing Su Yan's flushed face, he was a majestic Jinwu guard, and in this windless night, he felt a sense of guilt for eating beautiful boy tofu for no reason— —Actually, it was the first time for him to be so intimate.

Su Yan was a stagnant person, he just felt that his waist had been surrounded by Pei Jingxing for a long time, he was a little hot, and he couldn't breathe, his face was a little hot, and a piece of his chest was so hot that it was about to explode.

At this time, he was finally able to reach out to touch it, but he pressed a few glass beads through his clothes.

Could it be that Liu Lizi is having a fever?

Su Yan had never encountered such a situation, and when his master handed Liulizi to him, he never said that Liulizi would get hot.Just when Su Yan was confused, Pei Jingxing who was at the side patted him on the shoulder: "Go, go down."

Su Yan had no choice but to temporarily forget about Liulizi's matter, and jumped downstairs together with Pei Jingxing.

Perhaps it was Taoist Wan's words that had an effect, Yunniang's cry was no longer heard in Shangguan Yunwu, but the lights inside were still bright.

The window paper reflected the movement of the two people undressing and undressing. Although Shangguan Yun was old and well-maintained, his shadow on the window paper was full of masculinity. As for Yunniang's shadow, Pei Jingxing moved away after just one glance.

Su Yan stared at the window paper without blinking, and asked Pei Jingxing next to him to look at it together: "Let's sneak back and see what they are talking about."

Pei Jingxing almost didn't come up in one breath: "Don't look, they all took off their clothes and went to sleep. I looked at the evil door for that Taoist Wan, but I haven't found us now. It's hard to guarantee that there will be a comeback. Let's go out first."

Su Yan saw that the investigator had spoken, so he didn't stay for long, followed Pei Jingxing along the original road, and left the Shangguan mansion.

Standing on the avenue between Chunming and Yong'an, the night wind gusts, making goose bumps on people's necks, and they both let out a long breath at the same time.

"what should I do now?"

"Go to the National Teacher's Mansion and find Gao Zekai," Pei Jingxing thought for a moment, then said, "He mentioned the Taoist surnamed Wan, so he must know something."

Looking at Pei Jingxing who was sitting in front of him with a big horse golden knife, and listening to the sizzling sound of Su Yan Maliu eating noodles next to him, Gao Zekai, who was awakened halfway through his dream, wanted to beat these two people out with a broom from the bottom of his heart.

"Why are you here so late?" Drinking ginseng tea, Gao Zekai repeatedly warned himself in his heart, getting angry at night hurts his body and mind, and it is not beautiful to have a few small bumps on his face tomorrow.

"We saw that Taoist surnamed Wan in Shangguan Mansion."

Snapped!

The teacup in Gao Zekai's hand fell to the ground, and half of the still hot ginseng tea fell on Gao Zekai's shoes, but Gao Zekai didn't care about it at all.

"When?"

"Just now." Pei Jingxing told the story of himself and Su Yanye visiting the government, and finally asked, "Who is that Taoist Wan?"

"I don't know about this, but Master told me before that if you see him, you should stay away." Gao Zekai said thoughtfully, "He is involved in this matter, you all be careful."

Pei Jingxing had a question that he couldn't figure out all the time: "Since he is so powerful, why did Shangguan Yun ask Li Laodao to collect the 'half-faced ghost'?"

"Maybe he doesn't want to show up." Gao Zekai guessed, but his attention was quickly focused on the clues revealed in the conversation between Shangguan Yun and Yun Niang, "That is to say, the newly married Miss Shen's family, Shangguan Yun's body Is it the soul of his previous wife, and the real soul of Miss Shen is the 'half-faced ghost' caught by us?"

"Isn't Shangguan Yun's last wife dead?" Pei Jingxing asked with a frown, "How could you snatch someone else's body?"

"Tsk tsk, when Shangguan Yun's beloved wife died of illness, he drew his sword and killed himself to follow his beloved wife, and then wandered around Pingkangfang. You almost lost your official position. You don’t know about such a big thing?” Gao Zekai looked surprised, “I remember that you came back from the Western Regions when Shangguan Yun was in a state of chaos. At that time, the people in Xijing talked about him after dinner. Never heard of it?"

"I seem to have heard a little bit." Mentioning the Western Regions, Pei Jingxing avoided talking about it. "According to the clues we have now, it should be that Shangguan Yun missed his wife who died of illness. He found Taoist Wan, and there was a scene of returning the soul with a borrowed corpse. Miss Shen's The soul has lost the body it can rely on, so it has been wandering around the Shangguan Mansion and the Shen family, hoping to regain the body."

"That's probably it," Gao Zekai clapped his hands and concluded, "Since the case is solved, you should go back quickly and don't disturb my sleep."

"No." Pei Jingxing picked up the horizontal knife and blocked Gao Zekai's way, "The case has not been solved yet. These are all your guesses, and Shangguan Yun will not be stupid enough to tell the truth, and Li Laodao's words can only be used as circumstantial evidence .”

"Then you go find the evidence yourself." Gao Zekai gritted his teeth in hatred for this guy who disturbed people's dreams and wanted to make an inch of it. "What did you ask me for?"

Pei Jingxing simply acted like a rascal: "Didn't you promise me that I would try my best? Could it be that your trying your best is all there is to it?"

Gao Zekai was so angry that his teeth itched: "Go away! Don't let me see you again!"

Pei Jingxing didn't say anything more, and got up directly: "Su Yan, let's go."

"..." Su Yan, who was eating noodles happily, felt innocent.

Reluctantly, he sucked the last two noodles into his mouth, took another two mouthfuls of hot chicken soup to warm his stomach, and then put down the bowl, wiped his mouth, and was barely half full.

Gao Zekai stiffened his neck, but didn't look at Pei Jingxing.But when Pei Jingxing really walked out of the room, he jumped up like a rabbit, lifted the hem of his robe and chased him out: "Wait, did I say I won't help you?"

Pei Jingxing and Su Yan both stopped and turned to look at him.

Gao Zekai twitched, and waved his hand: "First serve three bowls of chicken noodle soup, let's talk while eating."