Strange Records of Xijing

When Pei Huaiyu came here, because he wanted to pretend to be a melon farmer, Axue, his beloved horse, stayed at the melon farmer's house.

Hearing that the evil spirits haunting the melon fields had been removed, all the melon farmers were overjoyed, and some even beat drums and gongs in the middle of the night.

It's just that Pei Huaiyu wasn't happy at all.

According to what Su Yan said, Wei Zhongmou was in Xijing at this time, but one hour ago Wei Zhongmou obviously went to the melon farmer's house with him, and made a plan for the mantis to catch the cicada and the oriole.As a result, his cicada performed decently, but Wei Zhongmou, who was supposed to be the oriole, turned back to Beijing.

Su Yan went down the mountain for the first time three months ago, and it was the first time he saw living people other than himself and his master. He didn't know how to read words, and he didn't know when to comfort others, so even if Pei Huaiyu's bitter face was about to cry, he still calmed down. Standing beside him quietly, without saying a word.

Pei Huaiyu thought that it was Su Yan who caught him. Although the money was still with Wei Zhongmou, he couldn't let Su Yan suffer.Of course, Pei Huaiyu didn't like the money paid by several melon farmers, so Pei Huaiyu still had a bitter face, and threw one of his own jade pendants to Su Yan, taking it as the reward for catching the monster this time.

Su Yan heard that it was the reward for this ghost hunt, so he didn't refuse, nodded towards Pei Huaiyu, and simply put the jade pendant away.

Pei Huaiyu quietly glanced at Su Yan again, seeing that the other party didn't intend to comfort her at all, her depressed heart felt better instead.

Having grown up so big, she has always been well-clothed and served by a group of people, and it is rare that someone does not buy her account, Pei Huaiyu finds it new.

To say that this Pei Huaiyu is also a strange flower in another sense of the Pei family.

He came from a noble family, his father was Pei Qiong, a general of the Zhou Dynasty, and his mother was the princess of Minglang who was loved by the late emperors successively.Princess Minglang's body is quite good, but it was extremely difficult to conceive, and Pei Huaiyu was born with great difficulty.Pei Qiong and his wife are very affectionate. Pei Qiong thinks that it is enough to have a son to carry on the family line to take care of the ancestors. He has never thought about taking concubines at all. Naturally, Princess Minglang will not take the initiative to join her to make her unhappy, so the husband and wife are very happy Watching Pei Huaiyu grow up happily.

Pei Huaiyu lived up to expectations, with red lips and white teeth, very good-looking, not as arrogant and domineering as some big boys who grew up in honeypots, and very intelligent, no matter what he learned, he was faster than others.

There is just one thing, Pei Huaiyu's temperament is too erratic, and he never stays on one thing for too long.Fortunately, Pei Qiong didn't want her only son to go to the battlefield, and Princess Minglang regarded Pei Huaiyu as her most beloved one. Pei Qiong didn't care about his son's new ideas from time to time, but Princess Minglang fully supported her. .

More than two months ago, Pei Huaiyu saw a shadow puppet show in which a Taoist priest catches a demon, and he had the idea of ​​learning from a teacher.As soon as Princess Minglang heard this, he immediately thought of the national teacher—if you want to say which of these Taoist priests is the most powerful, it is the national teacher!

It is difficult for ordinary people to meet the national teacher, but Princess Minglang is different, and immediately enters the palace to ask to see the current emperor.The emperor also liked Pei Huaiyu, his distant nephew. Hearing that this kid wanted to learn from a Taoist priest, he recruited the national teacher without saying a word, and asked the national teacher to accept Pei Huaiyu as his disciple.

However, the emperor was worried that Pei Huaiyu would be injured, and he would not be able to explain to Princess Minglang, so he just asked the national teacher to put on a show, and there was no need to really take Pei Huaiyu on an adventure.

Pei Huaiyu didn't know what the emperor's uncle and his old lady were thinking, and thought that he was going to embark on the road of catching monsters, exorcising ghosts, summoning thunder and chasing water. It was reported in the teacher's residence.

Pei Huaiyu is a little naive, but not stupid.

Combined with Wei Zhongmou's attitude towards himself in the past two months, Pei Huaiyu originally thought that Wei Zhongmou was so strict with himself because he was doing it for his own good. Make things difficult for him.That Wei Zhongmou thought he was not pleasing to the eye, so he wanted to use the incident of Guadatian haunting to give him a bad reputation.

What Pei Huaiyu is best at is to comfort herself, make big things into small things, and make small things into small things.After figuring this out, he didn't worry about it, and comforted himself: "I worshiped the national teacher as my master because I lost my relationship. Don't talk about the second senior brother when I talk about it. People who envy me in the world will be ashamed of me every time I spit. It can drown me. Well, don’t blame the world for this, if you want to blame me, blame me for being too favored by the heavens, it’s fate.”

As he spoke, he touched his neck, where the scars left by the vines were still there.Thinking that he almost died because of this, while Wei Zhongmou stayed in Xijing safely, Pei Huaiyu took a breath of rest.

It's nothing more than a small fight, if someone really has bad thoughts about him, he is not easy to mess with Pei Huaiyu.

Thinking of this, Pei Huaiyu narrowed his eyes, thinking about how to teach Wei Zhongmou a lesson after returning.

Su Yan walked side by side with Pei Huaiyu who was holding Ah Xue. About two arms away in front of them, there was a glowing sphere floating up and down—Su Yan specially took it out for lighting.Su Yan heard Pei Huaiyu's helpless and secret joyful voice, and did not speak, but kept looking at the ground about three feet ahead, thinking about how he would defeat him after the national teacher returned to the capital.

On the other hand, Pei Huaiyu felt that the two of them had been silent all the way and it was boring, so he couldn't help but start to be close: "Master Taoist, my name is Pei Huaiyu, and my name is Xuande. Where is the Taoist leader from? I don't know how to call him?"

Su Yan replied briefly: "My surname is Su, and my name is Su Yan."

Pei Huaiyu asked again: "Who is Daoist Su's teacher? Although my master is not in Beijing, there is still me. If Daoist Su encounters any trouble, he can come to me."

Su Yan just shook his head: "No need."

"Oh." Seeing that Su Yan was not interested in chatting, Pei Huaiyu obediently shut up.

As the capital of the Zhou Dynasty, Xijing had a permanent population of one million.Among them were not only people from the Zhou Dynasty, but also envoys, businessmen, dancers and jugglers from the Western Regions and Japan.Xijing implements a strict curfew. Generally, [-] "closed door drums" are knocked on the second watch, and the [-] squares in Xijing and the East and West markets are closed until the [-] "open door" on the fifth watch. "Drum", the square market can allow people to come and go.

After the "closed door drum", all the twelve city gates in Xijing were closed and no longer allowed people to enter and exit. The keys of the gates will be sent to the inner office of Jing Zhaoyin, and no one can open them in advance unless there is an order from the emperor. city ​​gate.

Shen Shi was when Pei Huaiyu and Wei Zhongmou set off.Originally, according to Wei Zhongmou's statement, the haunting in the melon field is not a big deal, and he will be able to return to Beijing soon.But Pei Huaiyu didn't expect that he would be tricked by Wei Zhongmou. At this time, Xijing had already knocked on the "closed door drum", so he had to take Su Yan to an inn outside Xijing to spend the night.

As a result, Su Yan ignored him at all. Seeing him walking towards the inn, he simply turned around and leaned against the big tree next to the inn. He put the long sword by his side, took off the bamboo hat on his head, folded his arms around his chest, and swayed. Mingming planned to spend the night under the big tree.

When Pei Huaiyu saw him, he thought Su Yan had no money.He was worried that he would not have the opportunity to please this young and powerful celestial master, so naturally he would not miss the opportunity at this time, he hurried to Su Yan and whispered: "Su Daochang, the dew is heavy at night, why don't you go to the inn for one night, I'm leaving money."

Su Yan shook his head: "Thank you."

Pei Huaiyu refused to make a fuss, and continued to say with a smile: "Su Daochang saved my life, so I naturally want to repay you. I think Su Daochang is covered in dust, so he must have come from far away. "

Su Yan was taken aback: "How do you know?"

Pei Huaiyu made persistent efforts and continued: "I don't think Daoist Su's accent sounds like someone from Xijing. This is the first time for Daoist Su to come to Xijing. The Taoist chief wants to wait for my master to come back, but he needs to know some of the rules of Xijing, so as not to inadvertently commit a crime and be caught by those Jinwu guards or Marquis Wu in Beijing."

Su Yan was really moved. He had been in the mountains since he could remember, so he didn't know the rules of the world.There are only two living people in the mountain, and there is only one rule, that is, he will do what the master says.In the past three months after going down the mountain, Su Yan was often hunted down by the local Marquis Wu, and he always relied on his own ability to get away with it.

Su Yan heard that there are quite a lot of capable people in Xijing, even those Marquis Wu with guns and knives, there are many people with unusual abilities. His blindfold and scud may be able to fool Marquis Wu from other places, but he doesn't. We must be able to escape Xijingli.Since there was this guy who didn't even know much about the skin in front of him who offered to offer it to him, Su Yan felt that he had no reason to refuse.

"Thank you very much then."

Seeing Su Yan let go, Pei Huaiyu grinned and said, "Please, Daoist Su."

Although it was not long before he was severely teased by a ghost in the melon field and almost lost his life, Pei Huaiyu, who remembers eating but not beating, has already forgotten the fear at that time, and only felt that his first ghost hunting was really exciting.He tossed and turned on the bed and couldn't fall asleep, so he planned to get up and go to the next door to chat with the Taoist priest who seemed unpredictable, and took the opportunity of explaining the rules of Xijing to the Taoist priest to find out which family he studied under and whether he was an old acquaintance with his master. , or enemies.

Su Yan next door took out a small leather bag from his bosom, opened it, and shook out a few colored glazes from it.Among these glazed stones, three of them have turned pitch black, and occasionally various lights flashed inside them, which looked like screaming or roaring skulls.

Su Yan picked up one of the colored glazes with black ripples flashing from time to time, put it in his hand and observed it for a moment, then took a deep breath: "It's still not enough."

At this time, someone knocked on the door, Su Yan put the glazed glass back into the cowhide bag, put it in his arms and put it away, and then went to open the door.

Outside the house, there was Pei Huaiyu's handsome face with red lips and white teeth.

"Su Daochang, tomorrow is going to wash Xijing, I will tell you the rules of Xijing."

While Pei Huaiyu was talking to Su Yan, a Jinwu Guard who was on duty tonight was walking neatly on the avenue between Chunmingfang and Yong'anfang.

"Stop." The leader raised his right hand, and the five Jinwu guards who followed stopped immediately.

"Xiang Jiedian, what's wrong?"

The leader pointed to a place on the left and said, "There is someone on the corner of the street."

Behind him, a Jin Wuwei who was only in his early twenties said, "I'll go and have a look."

He drew out the horizontal knife, ran over and yelled at the figure on the street corner: "Who is it!"

——The rules of the Zhou Dynasty, as long as anyone who commits crimes at night, the Jinwu Guard can arrest him and put him in prison according to law, and even execute him on the spot when necessary.

Except for a few festivals such as New Year's Eve, Shangyuan, Zhongyuan, and Mid-Autumn Festival, on other days, you can continue to walk on Xijing Road after the curfew if you have an amnesty, or you are sick, giving birth, or dying.Otherwise, no matter whether the person is a street vendor or a third-rank official, he will not be able to escape the pursuit of the Jinwu Guard.

Most of the people living in Chunmingfang and Yonganfang are wealthy families, and occasionally there will be robbers who will take risks, avoid the Jinwu Guards, and even hide in the smelly sewers outside the workshops to make a fortune with their lives.

It is precisely because of this that the Jin Wuwei dare not be careless.

The figure on the street corner has not moved for a long time, which is obviously not one of the above-mentioned situations where people can move around during curfew.The Jinwu Guard drew out the horizontal knife, firstly to deter the prisoner, and secondly to prevent the prisoner from escaping.

I don't know if the people on the street corner were scared stupid, or they just didn't pay attention to the incident of committing the night, but they still stood where they were, leaving only a back for the Jin Wuwei who rushed over.

Jin Wuwei was furious, and kicked the man hard: "Bold, you... What, what's going on!"

He was not mistaken, his right foot passed through the man's body, without mentioning any real thing at all.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the colleagues behind him immediately drew out the horizontal knife they were wearing, rushed forward and surrounded the "person".

The "person" finally turned around. The half of the face covered by black hair had no eyebrows or mouth, the right eye was gone, and only the left part of the mouth remained.

"People" saw these dumbfounded Jinwu guards, their only half-open mouths turned up, as if they were laughing silently.