Strange Records of Xijing

Generally speaking, a domestic servant will never take a guest to the master's bedroom without the master's permission.But Uncle Fu was not an ordinary domestic servant. After Pei Jingxing's father Pei Jin passed away, Uncle Fu took charge of the Pei family, taking care of Pei Jingxing's daily necessities, and supervising his civil and military studies.

More importantly, Uncle Fu was really worried about Pei Jingxing's abnormal behavior in the past three years. Once he just asked Pei Jingxing why he always patrolled at night and returned to the house after sunrise to rest. Pei Jingxing reprimanded him - this was the first time that Pei Jingxing got angry at him.

Uncle Fu watched Pei Jingxing grow up and knew that it was impossible for him to lose his temper for no reason, so there could only be one explanation for Pei Jingxing's abnormal behavior, and this explanation directly pointed to the trip of Prince Wei to the Western Regions.

Pei Jingxing hated monks and Taoists, so Uncle Fu waited for Pei Jingxing to go out, and quietly invited a few well-known monks and Taoists in Xijing into the mansion to take a look for him, but he didn't notice anything unusual.

Originally, Uncle Fu had stopped thinking about it, but he didn't expect Su Yan to appear.Every time Pei Jingxing mentioned Su Yan, he would say that Su Yan was extremely capable and superb, different from ordinary Taoist priests.Perhaps Pei Jingxing just admired Su Yan purely, but he did not expect that Fu Bo's restless thoughts would be revived by his words.

In order to know the truth behind his young master's abnormal behavior, Uncle Fu didn't care about any irregularities. Taking advantage of Pei Jingxing's just sleeping for more than an hour, he took Su Yan into the backyard and went to Pei Jingxing's bedroom.

Uncle Fu put his hand on the door, turned his head and whispered to Su Yan, "Daozhang Su, the young master should be asleep, so go in and look for me to see if there is any evil in the young master's room."

Su Yan didn't answer, just nodded.

Forbe gently opened the door a crack, following his movement, a crisp bell sounded from the room.The sound of the bells was only sporadic at first, but it spread in the blink of an eye, as if hundreds of bells were making rapid sounds together.

Su Yan moved his ears and caught an exception in the deafening bells.

"Go away!" Su Yan grabbed Uncle Fu's shoulder with one hand, pulled him behind him, and then pulled out the mahogany sword behind him, and lightly tapped it on the ground: "Get up!"

A huge bluestone brick rose from the ground with the tip of the sword, blocking Su Yan and the others!

"Back!" Su Yan pulled Uncle Fu back a few steps, and fell down on Uncle Fu's head.

Before Fu Bo had time to react, he felt a chill on the top of his head, as if something flew past his scalp.And the bluestone brick in front of them has been torn apart and fell back to the ground.

Uncle Fu tremblingly looked behind him. A familiar pistol still had enough strength to pierce a big tree in the yard with two people hugging each other before stopping. The barrel of the gun was still shaking up and down.

Fu Bo stood up tremblingly, stretched his neck at the door, and shouted into the room: "Master?"

"Uncle Fu?" Pei Jingxing's surprised voice came from the room, and then he said angrily, "Didn't you say that no one is allowed to approach my room when I'm sleeping?"

"This..." Fu Bo was at a loss for words, and stood there blushing, answering no, no answering no.

Su Yan saw that the old man was in trouble, so he opened his mouth and answered for him: "Mr. Pei, let me see if there is any evil in the house for you."

Uncle Fu wanted to cry but had no tears. Although his young master praised Su Yan for being honest and kind, he never expected that Su Yan would be so honest!

On the other hand, Pei Jingxing in the room was furious at first, but when he heard Su Yan's words, he was stunned, and the anger in his heart was extinguished.

Su Yan has a special status in Pei Jingxing's heart. Although the two have only known each other for a few months, they are far inferior to Pei Huaiyu, Uncle Fu, and even Gao Zekai, but Su Yan seems to have a special charm, or Su Yan Pei Jingxing subconsciously regarded him as his most reliable person due to his attitude towards others.

Su Yan's words today made Pei Jingxing suddenly feel that the burden he was carrying, which he was already accustomed to, was too heavy, and he wanted to find someone to confide in.

Pei Jingxing pondered for a moment, and said, "In that case, please come in, Daoist Su."

Su Yan and Fu Bo entered the house, only to find several red strings tied behind the door, with many silver bells wrapped around them, as long as the door is slightly moved, the red strings will be moved, and the silver bells on the red strings will immediately ring .

Why are you so vigilant when you are clearly in your own home?

Puzzled in Su Yan's heart, he followed the red rope around the screen and found that the other end of the red rope was tied to a huge wooden lattice in front of Pei Jingxing's bed.

This wooden lattice is made up of nineteen pieces of wood horizontally and vertically, with a lot of red strings densely wrapped around it, and many bells are tied to the red strings. At a rough glance, there are probably more than a hundred of them.

Pei Jingxing had already got up at this time, put on his coat, and tied his messy long hair behind his head.He walked to the wall and reached out his hand to turn the mechanism on the wall. Amidst the dense ringing of bells, the strange wooden lattice slowly rose and stopped under the roof.

"Daozhang Su..."

Just as Pei Jingxing was about to speak, Su Yan's stomach made a loud grunt. The three people in the room were all taken aback, and the solemn atmosphere dissipated for a little while.

Looking at Su Yan's pale face, Pei Jingxing suppressed a smile and said, "Uncle Fu, ask the kitchen to bring some food."

Uncle Fu knew he couldn't hear the next words, so he went.

After Uncle Fu left, Pei Jingxing heaved a sigh of relief and asked, "Daozhang Su, do you think there is something evil in my room?"

Su Yan neither recited the mantra nor practiced it. He just raised his hand to cover his right eye, and observed the room with his jet-black left eye.

When Su Yan's eyes fell on a corner of the room, the corner of his mouth twitched: "There is something there."

"Sure enough." Pei Jingxing looked solemn, pulled out the horizontal knife beside the bed, and started to walk towards the direction Su Yan pointed at.

"Don't go!" Su Yan pulled him back, and then took out a talisman paper from his bosom, but before he could do anything, the monster with a head full of snakes escaped.

Seeing Su Yan take back the talisman paper, Pei Jingxing felt a little regretful and asked, "Did you escape?"

"Hmm." Frustrated, Su Yan lowered his hands and asked, "Did you arrange these just to prevent it?"

"That's right." Seeing that Su Yan found out, Pei Jingxing no longer concealed it, pulled Su Yan to sit down, and replied, "This monster has been following me since I came back from the Western Regions. I didn't know at first that it appeared In my dream, I just thought I was having a nightmare. But once I looked in the mirror and found it in the mirror, I realized that this monster has been following me. Do you know what it is?"

"I have never seen or heard of such a monster." Su Yan shook his head and said, "Maybe my master knows."

"Is your master?" Pei Jingxing recalled the conversation between Su Yan and the national teacher, frowned and said, "I went to see the national teacher, and he only said that all of this was an illusion after I narrowly escaped death."

Su Yan became anxious when he heard this, and pointed to the corner and said, "How is it possible, that monster was clearly here just now!"

Pei Jingxing's eyes darkened all of a sudden.

The national teacher has a lot of prestige in Xijing. When he returned from the Western Regions, the emperor issued a sealing order. The prince lived in the palace and rarely showed up. The other surviving colleagues went to their own places. Pei Jingxing never contacted them again. .He was entangled by monsters in his dreams all night and night, and was tortured like a frightened bird. In desperation, he sought help from the national teacher, but the national teacher said that all this was an illusion produced by his experience in the Western Regions.

Because of this incident, Pei Jingxing lost trust in those Taoist monks.

Su Yan would not lie about this kind of thing, and he did see the monster in the mirror, but why did the national teacher lie to him?

Reminiscent of the small actions of Guo Shi and Gao Zekai in the "Half-faced Ghost" case, Pei Jingxing keenly felt that the Western Regions and his party seemed to give the prince more weight, and there might be other secrets behind it.

Seeing Pei Jingxing's sudden silence, Su Yan thought he was stupefied, and comforted him: "This monster has been with you for three years, and it only appeared in your dreams, but it didn't hurt you in reality. To torture you by dreaming. Or..."

When Su Yan said this, he suddenly stopped, as if he didn't believe this inference.

Pei Jingxing's heart trembled: "Or what?"

"Either," Su Yan bit his lip, and still made an unbelievable deduction, "The original intention of this monster is not to hurt you, but to have another purpose."

"Another purpose?" Pei Jingxing repeated Su Yan's last words several times, then got up suddenly, walked to a bookshelf beside him, and found a scroll that was rolled up.

He put the scroll on the table and spread it out. Su Yan leaned over to see that it was a map.

"This is the map when we set off to the Western Regions. Look here," Pei Jingxing pointed to a city on the map and explained, "This is Xijing. We set off from Xijing, via Lenan, and then headed west all the way. We met Northwest bandits here. As a result, when the two groups of people were fighting, the sky suddenly became dark, the wind was strong, and the sand blown up was all over the sky. It was impossible to tell whether the people in front of us were enemies or friends. We were lost in the wind and sand I lost my way and bumped into an ancient city by mistake. If I know which ancient country in the Western Regions this ancient city belongs to, I might be able to know how this monster came from and what its purpose is."

Su Yan asked him: "Where is this ancient city on the map?"

Mentioning this, Pei Jingxing's eyes became three points more confused: "I don't know. After entering the ancient city, I lost contact with other people, and later fell into a coma due to lack of food and water. When I woke up, I found that I was already in my In the barracks where Master Zhang Feiran is stationed, as for the ancient city, no one has seen it, and no one has heard of it."

Su Yan was even more confused about this map: "I'll go back and make you an amulet. You can carry it with you. At least this monster can't get close to you, and it can't enter your dreams."

"No..." Pei Jingxing wanted to refuse habitually, but he only said one word, and the gaze he cast on Su Yan made him swallow the rest of the words of rejection involuntarily, "Okay, thank you very much."

Su Yan smiled, then pointed to the map and said, "I'll figure out a solution with you when I'm free in a while."

"After a while?" Pei Jingxing knew that Su Yan was not a polite person. After he said it for a while, he would definitely help him find out the origin of this monster. "Is there anything you need to do recently?"

Su Yan nodded and said: "There is something I want to ask you, whose residence was the Prince Jin's residence before?"

"Prince Jin's Mansion?" Pei Jingxing was even more puzzled, "Why are you asking this politely?"

Pei Jingxing is not stupid. Now that he has calmed down from his previous false alarm, and put together the pieces of his mind, he realizes that there is something wrong with Su Yan in front of him. It is impossible for Fu Bo to take the initiative to invite Su Yan, and early in the morning, Su Yan How could Yan come to his house at this time?

"Prince Jin is looking for you again?" Pei Jingxing spoke again, with three or four points of anger added to his words.

Seeing that Pei Jingxing had discovered this matter, Su Yan no longer concealed it, nodded and said: "Yesterday afternoon, when I left the West Market, I was knocked out. Only when I woke up did I realize that King Jin sent someone to arrest me."

"Yesterday afternoon?" Pei Jingxing nervously looked Su Yan up and down, "Are you injured?"

Su Yan hesitated for a moment, shook his head and said, "No."

Although his hesitation was only for a moment, it was caught by Pei Jingxing, and the anger in his words became [-]%: "What's going on?"

Su Yan had no choice but to roll up his sleeves and show Pei Jingxing the red line on his arm: "Yesterday he tied me up, and at night, I entered the illusion of a female ghost at the bottom of the lake. That female ghost cast a scar on me. Curse, if I can't get her clothes back for her within fifteen days, this red thread will turn into a snake, burrow into my heart, and eat my heart clean."

Pei Jingxing hurriedly asked: "Can't you untie it?"

"That female ghost, oh, she calls herself Immortal Nu, and Immortal Nu said that this spell was taught to her by Taoist Wan. I tried to undo it, but the red thread grew an inch longer." Su Yan put down his sleeve and said, " That fairy slave refused to reveal her husband's name, so I came to you to find out who lived in that place before King Jin."

"As far as I can remember, it's the Prince Jin's Mansion," Pei Jingxing said with a frown, "The curse cast by Taoist Wan, the national teacher may..."

As soon as the words came out, Pei Jingxing hesitated - the last time he begged the national teacher to save Su Yan, but was rejected by the latter, if it wasn't for Su Yan's special constitution and strong resilience, he might have died long ago.Moreover, the national teacher has an old enmity with Su Yan's master. Will the national teacher come to the rescue of an enemy's apprentice?

"No need," Su Yan refused without thinking, "He is my master's enemy, so I don't want to owe him anything. There are still fifteen days, enough."

Without even thinking about it, Pei Jingxing said, "I'll help you."

Facing Su Yan's puzzled gaze, Pei Jingxing repeated: "I'll help you, and start the investigation from Prince Jin's Mansion!"

The author has something to say: Thank you Huayu girl for mine X2╭(╯3╰)╮