Strange Records of Xijing

Standing in the yard, Su Yan saw him stretch out his hand and grab the ground in front of him, as if grabbing something, then stuffed the invisible thing into a wooden box held in his left hand, and quickly took it aside with his right hand. With the closed lid, cover the box tightly, then pull out a piece of talisman paper and stick it on top.

"Okay." Su Yan finished all this and put the wooden box in his hand on the table.

This wooden box is square and long when viewed from the side, and with the slightly arched lid, it looks like a small coffin after a little identification!

Pei Jingxing still had the peach talisman Su Yan gave him hanging on his waist, and after hearing from Su Yan that it was done, he approached: "Is it okay for you to take this back?"

"It doesn't matter," Su Yan put the small coffin into his cloth bag, and said, "There are so many Taoist priests in Taixuan Temple, this monster cannot escape."

What Su Yan received was the monster that Pei Jingxing provoked in the Western Regions more than three years ago.

He promised Pei Jingxing, but Su Yan didn't have time to take this monster in order to find Bai Niao Chao Fengyi.Now ten days have passed since the conclusion of Xiannu's matter, Su Yan first found a piece of pagoda tree wood, and then found a coffin shop in Xijing, and asked the craftsman in the coffin shop to carve such a small coffin for use Hold that monster down.

Only then was Pei Jingxing relieved, and let out a long breath: "Now I can finally sleep well at night."

Su Yan smiled, a small dimple appeared on the right corner of his mouth, he lowered his head to put away the cloth bag, and then raised his head to talk to Pei Jingxing: "Although I took the monster away, it's best to keep the Taofu with you."

In the past few months of acquaintance with Su Yan, Pei Jingxing has gradually stepped out of the shadow of the past, and he is no longer as opposed to things like Taoism as before.

He nodded with a smile and said, "Naturally, the peach talisman made by Daoist Su himself must be carried with him."

While the two were talking and laughing, Uncle Fu came suddenly: "Young Master, Daoist Su, Master Huaiyu is here."

The two looked at each other, neither of them knew why Pei Huaiyu came here at this time.

Ever since Pei Huaiyu accidentally entered the underworld in the emperor's private treasury that day, Princess Minglang fainted afterward.After she woke up, Pei Huaiyu was strictly prohibited from leaving the house, even from the bed.

Two days ago, Pei Qiong returned to Beijing to appease his wife, so Pei Huaiyu was allowed to leave the residence.He took a few entourages to a Zhuangzi hot spring in the suburbs of Beijing, and invited Su Yan in advance, but at that time Su Yan was busy looking for suitable wood, so he declined.

According to Pei Huaiyu's temperament, after being detained at home for so many days, he will not come back unless he goes crazy outside for seven or eight days.Today, I don't know what kind of wind is blowing, but it actually blows people back from the suburbs of Beijing.

As soon as the two of them left Pei Jingxing's courtyard, they heard Pei Huaiyu's heartless voice from afar: "Daozhang Su, cousin, let's go for a drink."

Pei Jingxing saw that Pei Huaiyu was wearing a fox fur hat on one side and was dressed in dusty clothes. He obviously just came back from the suburbs of Beijing, and asked, "Why are you back?"

"Staying in Zhuangzi is boring." Pei Huaiyu took the opportunity to complain to Pei Jingxing, "I don't know what's going on, that Zhuangzi is extremely cold at night, and I always have nightmares there. Sigh, let me think about it , Maybe it has been unoccupied for a long time, and it is haunted, so I will come back."

After all, it was the person who passed by the crossing of Huangquan. When Pei Huaiyu talked about this incident, there was no fear on his face. Why don't you go to the Zhuangzi, and I'll ask my aunt to give you some more gold."

Su Yan shook his head and said, "I won't go. It's too cold in winter, so I don't want to go far. Let me ask you, is your village very big, and has no one lived there for a long time?"

Pei Huaiyu clapped his hands and praised: "Daozhang Su is really good at predicting things! That's right, it is a Zhuangzi under my mother's name, and there are several hot springs next to it. But the Zhuangzi's terrain is too remote, and it's on the mountain. I don’t usually like to go there, so I just go to the hot spring once or twice in winter.”

Su Yan said: "That's it. Since there is a hot spring over there, there must be a heat source under it. It is a good place for ghosts to practice. There are no people living in your village on weekdays. It should be occupied by some ghosts. As a place to practice."

Pei Huaiyu is the standard Ye Gong who loves dragons, before seeing the ghost, he said it like a spitting star flying around, and when he really touched it, he immediately fell silent.

"This..." Pei Huaiyu was really frightened, and said, "Daozhang Su, why don't you just go and exorcise that Zhuangzi? How many families still live in that Zhuangzi, are they all right?"

Su Yan shook his head and said: "If it is a demon who has devoted himself to cultivation, he will never do anything harmful to others. It will only damage their morality, and the gain outweighs the loss."

Pei Huaiyu trusted Su Yan very much, and he was relieved to hear what Su Yan said: "That's good, that's good."

"But..." Su Yan was halfway through his words, and Pei Huaiyu's let go of his heart raised his throat again.

"But what?"

"But it's better to invite a Taoist priest to take a look." Su Yan smiled at Pei Huaiyu, signaling him not to worry, "Those ghosts don't intend to harm people, but those who live there for a long time will be hurt by the ghosts' Yin Qi. Yin Qi It has been accumulated in the body for many years, and when you get older, all kinds of problems will burst out."

Pei Huaiyu immediately expressed his opinion: "Okay, I will listen to Daoist Su. I will send someone to Taixuan Temple right away, and ask some Taoist priests to go to Zhuangzi to have a look."

He did what he said, and immediately called a servant who was waiting at the front, and told him to go to Taixuan Temple, and asked him to invite four or five Taoist priests to visit the hot spring village on the mountainside.

After explaining this matter, Pei Huaiyu smiled again and said to Pei and Su: "Where did you just say that? Oh, drinking, that's right, drinking! Daoist Su, cousin, the Dukang Building has been renovated for more than two months , I heard that it just reopened for business yesterday, so let's join in the fun. Daoist Su, you haven't been to Dukang Building yet, have you?"

Pei Jingxing wanted to refuse, but when he heard Pei Huaiyu's last words, he turned to look at Su Yan.

Su Yan, who was stared directly at by the Pei brothers, nodded: "It is true that I have never been there."

Seeing that there was something going on, Pei Huaiyu hurriedly said: "Then let's go, I have asked people to go to the Dukang Building to wait in advance, let's go there now, and we will have hot wine immediately."

Su Yan is not greedy for drinking, but he is always afraid of the cold. It is really a kind of enjoyment to eat some mutton pot with hot wine in winter.

Thinking of this, Su Yan had no reason not to go, so he nodded and said, "Okay."

Su Yan agreed, Pei Jingxing had no reason not to go.

This made Pei Huaiyu proud. You must know that Pei Jingxing was famous among the young masters in Xijing for not socializing. Except for the fact that he had to go out because of official business, he was like a lady of every family. The door does not move.This time Pei Jingxing went to Dukang House for a drink with him for the first time in the winter, enough for Pei Huaiyu to go back and brag for three days!

Pei Jingxing changed into casual clothes, because he was going out for a drink, so he kept the horizontal knife and the dragon head and tiger tooth spear that he inherited from his family at home.

As for Su Yan, there was also a small coffin that sealed the monster in the cloth bag he brought, but it was suppressed by the talisman paper, so carrying it with him was more reassuring than staying at Pei's house, so he carried the mahogany sword on his back, Hanging the cloth bag, he got into Pei Huaiyu's carriage outside the gate.

Among the three, Pei Huaiyu, who was most often happy outside, was the happiest. Sitting in the carriage, if it weren't for the fact that there were men on both sides, he would almost have the illusion of hugging left and right.

Pei Huaiyu used to talk a lot, but now she was very excited and talked even more.

Along the way, he first talked about the reopened Dukang Building, and then he talked about the history of wine from the word Dukang. There were also many anecdotes and anecdotes about celebrities and refined scholars in the middle, and he didn’t know that he read it from the book. Well, I heard it from the streets, or it was simply fabricated by him.

Pei Jingxing has long been used to Pei Huaiyu's mouth, and now he is sitting on the carriage with a stern look, without looking sideways. Pei Huaiyu's words come in from his left ear and come out from his right ear, just like when he talks about spring, he always loves to go out of the window Chirping sparrows are no different.

Su Yan was even more unlucky.

Because this is Pei Huaiyu's carriage, Pei Huaiyu took advantage of the favorable terrain, and as soon as he got on the carriage, he seized the favorable terrain and insisted on sitting between Pei and Su.Pei Huaiyu liked this Daozhang Su who had saved her twice more than her cousin, who would put on a straight face without knowing when. Naturally, most of the firepower along the way was concentrated on Su Yan.

Although Su Yan has read a lot of books, most of them were deliberately selected by his master, and the remaining few are all kinds of lingering stories between scholars and banshees that the bewitching mother scavenged. How could there be Pei Huaiyu now? What did you say?

With Pei Huaiyu's voice and the friction of the carriage wheels against the ruts on the road, Su Yan became groggy after a while.

Just when Su Yan couldn't stand it any longer, the carriage finally stopped.

Only then did Pei Huaiyu stop talking: "I was just talking about excitement, why did you stop? Daoist Su, let's talk about it in the private room."

Su Yan was rejoicing that he had escaped, when he heard Pei Huaiyu's words, he staggered. If Pei Jingxing, who had already got off the carriage, had quick eyesight and quick hands to help him, Su Yan would have almost fallen off the carriage.

Pei Huaiyu only thought that Su Yan was anxious, and laughed loudly: "Daozhang Su, don't worry, I have already sent someone over, we will have a place as soon as we go up."

Facing the innocent Pei Huaiyu, Su Yan could only smile wryly.

On the other hand, Pei Jingxing couldn't stand it any longer, and shouted from the side: "It's hard to come out for a drink, so you should not say a few words, so as not to spoil your mood."

Pei Huaiyu only felt aggrieved, most of his smiling face collapsed, and after getting off the carriage, he was able to go around to the other side of Su Yan, relying on Su Yan as a cover in the middle, he made a face at Pei Jingxing: "I'll just say , cousin refuses to accept, so don't go up to drink."

"..." Pei Jingxing was so angry that he lost his temper, followed behind Pei Huaiyu and Su Yan, and went up to the second floor together.

As soon as the waiter in Dukang Building saw Pei Huaiyu, he recognized this regular visitor and greeted him with a smile: "Young Master Pei is here, the private room upstairs has been prepared for you, please."

Pei Huaiyu also recognized this mistress: "Hey, Wen Ming, why are you dressed so happily today? It's still new clothes, your boss isn't stingy?"

"Young Master Pei is joking, please come inside." Xiaoer did not accept Pei Huaiyu's joke, but directly led the three of them to the private room on the second floor.

He is an honored guest, so of course he can make jokes about the shopkeeper, Wen Ming is just an errand runner, how could he dare to make fun of his own shopkeeper with Pei Huaiyu?

He led the three of them into the private room that he had prepared earlier, served tea for the three of them, and stood aside and announced the names of the dishes in a loud voice.

Among the three, Su Yan had never been here, and Pei Jingxing's visits were pitifully infrequent. In the end, Pei Huaiyu, a regular customer, made the final decision. First, he ordered a pot of Xinfeng wine to warm up, and then served it with a few appetizers such as peanuts. Wen Ming was also asked to order the kitchen to prepare a pot of mutton, served with rabbit meat, fish balls, spinach and so on.

Wen Ming's hands and feet were nimble, and Xinfeng wine and several appetizers were served in a short while.Pei Huaiyu asked Wen Ming to lead the few servants he brought along with the groom to the first floor for a drink, and there was no need for anyone to serve in the private room.

In the end, the three of them took a sip without moving their chopsticks. The door of the private room suddenly opened, and a person came in from outside.Taking a closer look, this person is an acquaintance—Niu Chunhui.

The author has something to say: The third story begins =v=