Strange Records of Xijing

Tonight, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and there was no one else on the road except for the Jin Wu Guards who were on routine patrol, and this just happened to give Su Yan and Pei Jingxing a chance.

"Wait." Su Yan called to stop Pei Jingxing, took out a small bottle from the kit at his waist, unplugged it, and poured out some transparent liquid from it.

"what is this?"

"Cow's tears." Su Yan replied, while wiping Pei Jingxing's face with his hand, "Close your eyes."

Pei Jingxing closed his eyes as he said, and felt that Su Yan's fingers brushed his upper eyelids, leaving a chill, and he couldn't help asking: "What's the use of this?"

"I can see ghosts." Su Yan said concisely.

"Cough, cough, cough." Pei Jingxing was about to speak, but when he heard Su Yan's answer, his tongue froze, and he swallowed a few words again. As a result, he didn't catch his breath, and now he coughed uncomfortably.

Su Yan stood by the side gloatingly, and when he had seen enough, he took out a large piece of clothing from the bag he had been carrying, and handed it to Pei Jingxing: "Put it on."

"What is this?"

"Anyway, just put it on." Su Yan didn't have the nerve to tell Pei Jingxing that he slept with this dress in his arms yesterday, "You have too much evil spirit on you, and this dress can temporarily cover up your evil spirit. Otherwise, you will be like this now." If you go to the ghost market, you will be discovered by the ghosts as soon as you enter."

In the middle of the night before yesterday, Su Yan was invited into the palace by the Taoist boy sent by the national teacher. After knowing the whereabouts of Bainiao Chaofengyi from Pei Huaiyu, he decided to go to the ghost market to inquire about the whereabouts of Huapi.

As a result, after he told Pei Jingxing that the latter had to accompany whatever he said this time, Su Yan had no choice but to agree, and prepared Niu Tear in these two days, and then presented it to a person who was similar in stature to Pei Jingxing in the Taixuan Temple. A fellow Taoist begged for a new dress, and slept with the new clothes last night.

He was once led by a fox girl to slip into a ghost market, and no demon or ghost in the ghost market noticed that he was different.Afterwards, he asked the fox girl about it, and the fox girl said that Su Yan's smell was similar to that of a ghost, so the ghosts would regard Su Yan as a companion.

Pei Jingxing's evil spirit was too heavy, Su Yan would have no other way for a while, if he missed the ghost market this time, he would have to wait another half a month.He couldn't afford to wait for such a long time, so he had to resort to this trick to cover up the evil spirit on Pei Jingxing's body.

It's just that Su Yan wouldn't say this kind of method even if he was killed.

Su Yan has lived in Xijing for a few months, and he has long heard that there is a ghost market in Xijing every half a month.When Su Yan entered the ghost market when he was a child, it was the time when he was innocent, with no taboos, and was led by a fox girl.Now that the backbone has become himself, Su Yan feels somewhat trembling in his heart,

But the red line on his arm was already longer than his elbow. According to the current speed, the red line would reach his shoulder in a few days.When the time comes, the red thread will turn into a small snake, get into Su Yan's flesh and eat his heart, and Da Luo Jinxian will not be able to save him.

Thinking of this, even Su Yan could not help but shudder.

Pei Jingxing only stood there feeling the cold for a while when he was blown cold by the night wind, then moved his steps to block the night wind for Su Yan.

Su Yan took a deep breath, because he was worried that the mahogany sword he used was too strong, so Su Yan didn't bring it with him this time, but just brought a few more talisman papers, and quietly took a glass on his body.

Pei Jingxing's body was full of evil spirits, ordinary ghosts did not dare to get close to him, even the monsters he provoked from the Northwest back then only dared to dream at night.And since Pei Jingxing changed to patrol at night, the monster could only wander around Pei Jingxing, not daring to approach him.Not to mention that Su Yan specially carved a peach talisman for Pei Jingxing, which is hanging on Pei Jingxing's waist at the moment, it can be said that there are no ghosts.

"Let's go."

In the middle of the night, the gate of the ghost city opened, and clouds of black air slowly poured out from the ghost city, firmly covering the area.

Su Yan and Pei Jingxing slowed down their breathing, and slowly entered the ghost market together with the ghosts around them.

The permanent population of Xijing is one million, and there are more ghosts and ghosts entrenched here than in other places, which actually brings a lot of convenience to Pei and Su.The ghosts passing by them didn't become suspicious when they saw their unfamiliar faces, they just thought they were new companions from the countryside, so they took a second look and went to themselves.

There are many small stalls on both sides of the ghost market. Needless to say, most of the stall owners are ghosts.Su Yan would occasionally pull Pei Jingxing to keep people away from a certain paving.

"what happened?"

"There are people there." Su Yan explained in a low voice, "The things that circulate in the ghost market cannot be bought in the world. Come to buy."

"And that one over there, don't look there!" Su Yan said while pulling Pei Jingxing in, "The stall owner is a human being, but he has strayed into the devil's way and lost his temper. He can't be left in the world, so he had to come here Avoid the ghost market. The fox girl said, as long as there is a white lantern in front of the shop, it means that the stall owner here has turned from a human into a demon, and you must not go there."

Pei Jingxing saw that what Su Yan said was serious, so he didn't dare to be perfunctory, so he hurriedly followed Su Yan's example, staring straight ahead, and walked past the stall from a distance.

At this time, they had come to the center of the ghost city, and the pavements on both sides gradually disappeared. A huge Yaksha stood in the middle of the road, holding a trident, watching closely the ghosts and monsters passing by.

Pei Jingxing didn't dare to make any big moves, so he had to look around from the corner of his eye and asked, "Will the painted skin come?"

"Painted skin is greedy for the beauty of the world, and likes to collect beauty skins. In order to better maintain the human skins she collected, Huapi usually chooses to spend the day in the ghost market, and then the ghostly spirit is full, leaning on the locust tree, and replacing her favorite Makeup on a piece of human skin." Su Yan dragged Pei Jingxing to escape Yaksha's inspection, and said, "Let's go to the river to look for it, water is also something that condenses yin energy, and the painted skin is likely to be there."

The two arrived at the river, walked along the river bank for a while, and saw a young woman leaning on the river bank, staring at the river in a daze.

"It's the Third Madam She, let's avoid it." Su Yan had dealt with her more than a month ago, when he saw the Third Madam She, he was about to drag Pei Jingxing to hide, but unexpectedly, the Third Madam She had already turned his head away , saw Su Yan.

It was too late for Su Yan to hide at this time, so he could only let Pei Jingxing wait behind, and stepped forward: "Third Madam She is well."

"Very good." Mrs. She raised her right hand and covered half of her face with her sleeve, only showing a pair of affectionate eyes, "Why did Daoist Su remember the ghost market tonight?"

"Looking for something." Su Yan didn't have a deep friendship with Third Madam She, and he didn't want her to know, so he just found a reason, "Did Third Madam She find something she likes?"

"They're all common things," Mrs. She sighed, "I heard that Xijing is very lively these days, and the Hundred Birds Chaofeng Clothes were mentioned more than 30 years ago, which reminded me of the past. "

Su Yan hesitated for a while, and decided to stop him: "Mrs. She has seen Bai Niao Chao Feng Yi?"

"I haven't seen it before," Mrs. She sighed again, "Back then, the phoenix clothes of Bainiaochao were rumored to be extremely gorgeous, and other banshees took advantage of the opportunity to find ways to sneak into the Prince's Mansion, let alone wear them. It’s good to take a look. I was young and energetic back then, and I didn’t like those people, so I deliberately ignored them, but now I want to take a look, but Huapi refuses to give it.”

Su Yan slowly figured it out: "The abolished prince has ten thousand Taoist priests sitting in the town, so it would be better if Third Madam She didn't go."

"You know Daoist Wan at such a young age?" Mrs. She looked at Su Yan playfully, and then said, "From what you said, could it be that Daoist Wan fell into his hands?"

Su Yan pretended to be displeased: "It's nothing."

Third Madam She was most curious. Seeing Su Yan hesitating now, she knew that he must have been defeated miserably by Taoist Wan, so she couldn't help asking: "Daozhang Su, you brought people into the ghost market today. If I tell the patrolling Yasha, what should Daoist Su and that young master do?"

Su Yan said angrily, "Third Madam She, it's useless to threaten me."

It's just that at the end of his speech, his voice became smaller and smaller, and it didn't matter at all.

Third Madam She rolled her eyes, stuck out her tongue, and hissed: "I'm not going to report Yasha, but you want to do something for me."

Su Yan had no choice but to say, "Third Madam She, please raise your hand high."

"I'm a snake, where did I get my hand?" Third Madam She winked at Su Yan slyly, "Huapi thinks very highly of her phoenix dress, if you steal it for me, I won't report on you." .”

Su Yan hesitated and said: "Where is Hua Pi, I don't know yet, how can I steal Bai Niao Chao Feng's clothes for Third Madam She?"

Third Madam She's eyes fluttered: "It's not difficult, I'll tell you it is."

Just as Su Yan was about to agree, he suddenly remembered something: "I heard that painted skins like to put makeup on her precious human skins by the river bank in the ghost market, why don't you see her today?"

Third Madam She said angrily, "How do I know this? I just want to ask you a question, are you going or not?"

After that, she looked past Su Yan and Pei Jingxing, looked behind her, raised her head with a smile: "Look, Yasha is coming."

As Yaksha approached behind him step by step, Su Yan became nervous, and the thought that had popped up in his mind suddenly shrank back, and he couldn't catch it anymore.

He faintly felt that something was wrong, but there was the Third Madam She pressing forward step by step, and the Yaksha gradually approaching behind him, the situation at this time did not allow him to think too much, nodded and said: "Please also ask the Third Madam She to enlighten me."

Third Madam She raised the corners of her mouth and told Su Yan with her ears: "Walk all the way to the west of the ghost market, and find a courtyard with strings of red on the bank of the river. The painted skin is there. I heard that she likes to put makeup on human skins there recently. , especially when Bai Niao Chao Fengyi's wind eye has risen again, she doesn't like to come out very much."

Su Yan cupped his hands and said, "Thank you."

At this time, Yasha was close behind him, so Su Yan hurriedly pulled Pei Jingxing and turned to the left to avoid Yasha's patrol route.

When there was no one else on the river bank, Mrs. She walked gracefully to the locust tree, scratched her scalp with her sharp nails stained with Impatiens flower juice, then carefully moved her hands to both sides, and then pulled it down smoothly, Third Madam She's skin was peeled off.

"Su Yan, hehe, that's all." The evil ghost lost the third wife's skin as a cover, revealing a whole body of flesh and blood, with a green face and a pair of jagged teeth, it was even scarier than a Yaksha.

She didn't know where to take out an eyebrow pencil, and carefully touched up the makeup on Mrs. She's skin, while sighing: "You and I are always in the same place, but why did you come to snatch my treasure? Niao Chaofengyi, do you think I will give it to you? Well, from now on, I will be Mrs. She."

"Bainiao Chaofeng Clothes are in your hands?"

The evil ghost heard a sound coming from his ear, and immediately threw out the eyebrow pencil, flying towards the direction of the sound!

I saw a woman hastily twisted her slender waist, narrowly dodging the blow.The eyebrow pencil brushed the top of her head just enough to knock off her hood, revealing a head of golden curls.

After seeing the woman's appearance clearly, the evil spirit called Painted Skin by the world turned from anger to joy: "It's a beautiful person."

If it was Su Yan or Pei Huaiyu present, they would definitely recognize this blonde woman as the yellow-gauze woman from the barbarian juggling troupe that day.

Today, she was dressed in black casual clothes, and asked eagerly: "I heard what you said, the Bainiao Chaofeng Yi is in your hands, right?"

"So what?" Facing Jue Se, Hua Pi was very patient.

Hu Nu hurriedly bowed to Huapi: "That dress is my aunt's old item, it is very important to my clan, please return it to me."

"Give it back to you?" Huapi sneered, "It's mine once it's in my hands, and there's no reason to take it out."

Hu Nu hurriedly made amends: "I am willing to exchange with other things!"

Hua Pi looked her up and down, nodded and said: "That's a good idea, anyway, I've owned the Bai Niao Chao Feng Yi for more than 20 years, and I'm tired of it."

Hu Nu heard that she was about to let go, and hurriedly asked, "Excuse me, what do you want?"

Hua Pi stared into Hu Nu's eyes, with a cruel smile on the corner of his mouth: "I want your skin."

Hu Nu was shocked when she heard the words: "What did you say?"

Huapi taunted wantonly: "It's just human skin, and you don't even want to give it to me. It can be seen that the hundred birds and phoenix clothes are not the most important thing. You are all lying to me. People, it's all good words, but What do you really want to do, escape faster than rabbits one by one."

"That dress is very important to me!" Hu Nu said angrily, "My father, mother, and brother are all dead!"

Huapi took out another eyebrow pencil indifferently, and continued to apply makeup on the skin of Mrs. She: "Your body and skin are from your parents. If your parents really died because of a hundred birds and phoenix clothes , why don't you give me the human skin they gave you? You know, the clothes are in my hands."

Although Hua Pi misunderstood, these few words deeply touched Hu Nu.

According to the custom of this clan, all clan members are sent back to the Holy Land after death. Only when they are buried in the Holy Land can their souls be cleansed and enjoy the bliss after death.And those who are buried outside the Holy Land will be regarded as traitors. Instead of enjoying bliss after death, they will suffer endless torture. This is the punishment from the gods.

Hu Nu stared at Hua Pi fiercely, and asked, "Give me the Bai Niao Chao Feng Yi first, and I'll give you the skin."

Huapi shook his finger: "That's not okay, you people, there are too many liars, I don't believe it. If you peel off your skin, of course I will send Bainiao to Fengyi."

"You don't believe me, and I don't believe you either!" Hu Nu said again, "Give me the Bai Niao Chao Feng Yi, and I will come back after I hand it over to the tribe."

"Why bother?" Huapi put away the eyebrow pencil, put on Mrs. She's skin again in front of Hu Nu, and looked at Hu Nu with a smile, "You and I find someone to testify, and we each make an oath, how can we Like? I think you look good, and I've given you a lot of face. After tonight, maybe I'll change my mind? You should think about it yourself. "

Hu Nu hesitated again and again, and struggled several times in her heart. The mournful cries of her relatives before they died kept ringing in her ears, and the dying struggles of her clansmen when they were dying were vividly remembered.

In the end, it was Bainiao Chaofengyi who had the upper hand.

Hu Nu has calmed down, there is no sadness or joy on her face, and her blue eyes are no longer angry: "Okay, but I want to take a look at Bai Niao Chao Feng Yi."

Huapi raised one corner of his mouth in satisfaction: "Deal."