Strange Records of Xijing

It was said that it was a New Year's day, but Pei Jingxing came to pick up Su Yan in a carriage two days in advance.

The day before the emperor sealed the pen, all the officials had a ten-day holiday. As the envoy of the Jinwu Guard, Pei Jingxing could be considered a leader, so of course he didn't have to patrol the streets during these ten days.There were few people in Pei's mansion, so Uncle Fu became more and more suffocated to celebrate the lively New Year. At this moment, all the people in Pei's mansion were busy arranging purchases, and Pei Jingxing became the only idler.

The Jinwu Guard's Pei Street Envoy has never been a hands-off shopkeeper. He first helped hang the lanterns at home, and then helped carry a few bags of rice, and was assigned a task by Fu Bo with a smile—to take Su Yan to Pei's mansion early .

As the New Year approached, many Taoist boys in Taixuan Temple went home, and some Taoist priests met to enjoy the snow outside the city, and Taixuan Temple suddenly became deserted.Su Yan's eyes were inconvenient, he saw the cold weather, and heard the sound of snow falling outside, so he asked the Taoist boy assigned by Zhou Yuyi to take care of his daily life, so he didn't have to come here except for three meals a day.

When Pei Jingxing came, he happened to see Su Yan sitting by the bed alone, with his head tilted, as if he was listening to something.

"Are you here?" Su Yan's eyes were obviously blind, but for some reason, Pei Jingxing always felt that Su Yan was looking at him.

"Well, Uncle Fu is impatient, let me pick you up earlier." Pei Jingxing didn't go into the house, but stood at the window, using his body to block the north wind outside.Seeing that Su Yan's clothes were thin and the cloak was not neat, he knew that Su Yan was wearing it himself, so he couldn't help frowning: "It's cold, you should wear more."

"It's warm in the room." Su Yan smiled, grabbed the edge of the table with both hands, got up, groped to the door, and opened it for Pei Jingxing.

As soon as Pei Jingxing stepped into the room, he found that there was only one brazier that had been extinguished long ago, and the word "Chuan" on his brows became deeper and deeper: "The brazier has long been extinguished, why no one came to add charcoal? I remember Taoist Zhou specially A Taoist boy has been assigned to take care of your daily life."

"It's cold, let him rest for a while." Su Yan didn't feel anything at all. In the past, there were even colder days in the mountains, and he used to rely on his legs to tremble.

Pei Jingxing thought of the reason for Su Yan's blindness, and his heart sank. He didn't continue to talk about it, so as not to arouse Su Yan's sadness, or hurt his self-esteem. Instead, he said: "There has been heavy snow these days. It will freeze overnight, and the road will be slippery and it will be inconvenient to walk, shall we go there today?"

Su Yan was also bored to pass the time in Taixuan Temple. Ever since he became blind, the little boy assigned to take care of him treated him like a person made of colored glaze. Su Yan felt very uncomfortable.Even if he wanted to go out for a walk, the little boy would let Su Yan hold his hand so as not to slip or get lost.

This made Su Yan feel like a waste, so boring, except for the few times when Pei Jingxing came over, he didn't bother to go out anymore.However, as the Chinese New Year was approaching these days, Pei Jingxing had to deal with many trivial matters at the Jinwu Guard himself. After careful calculation, Su Yan hadn't gone out for seven or eight days.

Now that Su Yan heard Pei Jingxing's invitation, he was like a child who finally got a piece of candy, his eyes were almost smiling into two lines: "Okay."

Although he didn't know why Su Yan was so happy, Pei Jingxing also laughed for no reason. He stretched out his hand to tidy up the cloak Su Yan was wearing, and said, "I'll tidy up what you want to bring."

In Pei's residence, the concierge reported that his young master had brought Daoist Su over. Uncle Fu hurriedly put down his work and greeted him with a few servants.

When he saw his young master leading Daoist Su walking over cautiously, and reminding him to be careful with his steps from time to time, Uncle Uncle felt as if someone had poured ice water on his head in this cold winter—Su Dao At such a young age, this eye is blind, what should I do in the future!

Ever since Pei Jingxing, the Pei family has never had any children. Uncle Fu himself has no children, and his paternal love has nowhere to vent. After seeing Su Yan and hearing that he came to Xijing alone, he unconsciously loves this child more .

In fact, if it were someone else, Forber might not care so much about an irrelevant person.First of all, this is the first time that Pei Jingxing brought back a friend on his own initiative in four years. For this young man who is favored by his young master, Uncle Fu will inevitably take a high look at him; Su Yan is good-looking, but he has an invisible advantage over others.

When Uncle Fu thought of this, the corners of his eyes were already wet. After wiping them off with his fingers, he greeted him, and said with a smile, "Daozhang Su is here. I just got two crucian carp yesterday, and I'll make you a dish for the first one today." Stewed crucian carp."

Su Yan turned his head when he heard the words. Although he still couldn't see anything, he still followed his voice and replied with a smile: "Thank you, Uncle Fu."

Hearing these words, Uncle Fu became more and more distressed, and said, "Where is this? As long as it is not dragon liver and phoenix marrow, Uncle Fu will give you whatever Daoist Su wants to eat."

Su Yan's smile became wider and wider. At this moment, a gust of north wind blew in. Pei Jingxing felt Su Yan's body under the cloak tremble a little, so he said, "Uncle Fu, let's go in first."

Uncle Fu just remembered, and hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, I was negligent in this winter. Someone has already placed three smoke cages in the house, and the earth dragon is also burning, so I promise it will not be cold."

The dinner was exactly as Fu Bo said, a pot of hot and thick stewed crucian carp was placed in the middle of the table, surrounded by a circle of meat such as boiled chicken, sauced duck, bacon, etc., dotted with some rare fresh vegetables in winter , quite attractive.

Pei Jingxing asked Su Yan to sit down first, and said to Uncle Fu: "Uncle Fu, let's eat together."

Uncle Fu waved his hands again and again: "Young master, stop joking, how can I eat with you?"

"Uncle Fu," Pei Jingxing felt a little helpless, "I've been talking about it for so many years, I treat you as an elder, so naturally you can eat with me."

Faber still refused.

Su Yan was listening, and suddenly said: "It smells so good."

"That's not it." Uncle Fu introduced to Su Yan with a smile, "Today we have stewed crucian carp, boiled chicken, duck in sauce, bacon, fried vegetables, and braised bamboo shoots in oil."

"There are so many dishes, wouldn't it be a waste for two people to eat more than all?" Su Yan said again, "Uncle Fu, let's eat together."

Uncle Fu was taken aback for a moment, and then realized that he had accidentally been fooled by Su Yan, and Pei Jingxing who was on the side had already clapped his hands and laughed: "Su Yan is right, Uncle Fu, let's eat together."

For those who celebrate Chinese New Year, Uncle Fu is not too disappointed: "Yes, I will serve the young master and Daoist Su for dinner today."

The abdominal meat of crucian carp is tender and smooth, mostly with large thorns; the meat on the back is more chewy, but there are too many small thorns. If you talk while eating, you may accidentally eat it and get stuck in your throat.

Su Yan, who has been blind for more than ten days, is already proficient at picking up rice in his own bowl with chopsticks, but when it comes to eating fish, it is much more troublesome.He sniffed the dish in front of him, guessing it was either bacon or sauced duck, and when he was planning to rely on this dish for this meal, someone stretched out chopsticks from the left, as if putting something into his bowl .

Just as Su Yan was thinking, Pei Jingxing's voice came from the left: "I picked the thorns out of your favorite crucian carp."

Su Yan felt warm in his heart, tried it a few times with chopsticks, picked up the fish and put it in his mouth, it was indeed more delicious than what he usually eats.

Seeing this, Uncle Fu was about to speak, but he saw Pei Jingxing on the opposite side shaking his head gravely at him, his eyelids twitched inexplicably, and decided not to meddle in picking fishbone, and only cared about eating with his head down.

On the other hand, Su Yan even ate a few pieces of fish, and at the same time, he felt a little doubt: "Aren't you going to eat it yourself?"

"I'm a fast eater, and I'm also quick to be picky." Pei Jingxing replied without blushing to the bowl of rice with small spikes in front of him, "Eat quickly, and I'll scoop you a bowl of soup."

There is also some tofu added to the stewed crucian carp. The fish soup is still a little hot at the moment. When eaten with the tofu that has completely absorbed the delicious fish soup, a burst of heat falls into the stomach and spreads along the blood to the limbs. Su Yan's internal organs began to heat up, even his feet were warmed.

Seeing that Su Yan was satisfied, Pei Jingxing scooped another bowl of fish soup for him, then picked out the fish bones from the small pieces of fish, put them into Su Yan's bowl, and then started by himself.

Su Yan was very satisfied with this meal, and Pei Jingxing was also very happy. Only Uncle Fu had a gloomy expression after finishing the meal, and asked his servants to come in to clean up, while he left in a hurry on the pretext that he still had some errands to deal with. .

In the evening, Uncle Fu brought a clever boy over, and said to Pei Jingxing and Su Yan: "Su Daochang is inconvenient right now, the old slave decided to find a nimble boy to sleep outside the screen at night. Su Daochang wants to drink water in the middle of the night, so he can let this boy take care of him."

Su Yan wanted to refuse at first, but he was just blind, not disabled.But he thought about it again, when he was in the Taixuan Temple, he was used to the layout of the room, so it was convenient for him to move.I am not familiar with this Pei Mansion, if I reject Uncle Fu's kindness, it will cause trouble for the master.

Pei Jingxing had already made his own arrangements, and said, "Uncle Fu, it's enough for Su Yan to sleep with me these days."

Uncle Fu's face became more and more ugly, and he said with an embarrassed smile: "Master, Daoist Su is a guest after all, how could..."

"It's not strange for a guest to talk with the host at night by candlelight." Pei Jingxing looked at Uncle Fu with some doubts, but he couldn't speak because of Su Yan's presence. Let Su Yan sleep with me."

Xiao Tong felt a little wronged. Although he was young, he could still tell the difference between good and bad. Since he had to take care of the guests, there was no reason to worry about his deep sleep.

But he was just a servant, so he was not good at arguing with his master, so he just lowered his head and pouted quietly.

Uncle Fu couldn't be too tough, so he could only take a step back and said, "Forget it, just let the old slave stay outside tonight."

Pei Jingxing felt more and more that Uncle Fu had been behaving strangely since dinner, but he didn't know what went wrong, so he couldn't refute Uncle Fu's face in front of Su Yan, nodded and said: "Alright, there will be earth dragon burning at night." Let’s get someone to prepare two more smoke cages, so as not to catch a cold.”

Uncle Fu breathed a sigh of relief, but then he brought it up again, and silently worshiped the Jade Emperor, the Queen Mother, Tathagata Bodhisattva and other gods and Buddhas in his heart, praying that nothing like what he thought would happen tonight.

What made Uncle Fu feel relieved was that there was nothing wrong with Su Yan going to bed early, but Pei Jingxing was suddenly woken up in the middle of the night by the Jinwu guard who came to knock on the door.

The Jinwu Guard who came to report the news looked nervous, and was still trembling after being welcomed into Pei's mansion.According to him, a team of Jinwu Guards patrolling at night found a male corpse in a place in Xijing. The male corpse did not have the left ear and two fingers of the right hand were missing.But the strange thing is that after a quarter of an hour, the person who was sent to collect the corpse came back and reported that there was no male corpse there at all, only a mat that had been used to wrap the corpse.

The male corpse was seen by everyone, it was impossible to hallucinate collectively, and it was freezing cold, even if there were wild dogs gnawing on it, it was impossible to eat up all the bone fragments.As New Year's Eve was approaching, the patrolling Jinwu Guards did not dare to hide anything, so they had to come to Pei Jingxing and ask him for a countermeasure.

After hearing Jin Wuwei's description of the male corpse, Pei Jingxing knew that this male corpse was that Wan Taoist. He did not expect that Wan Taoist was still hiding in Xijing after repeated misses.When he heard Wan Daoshi's body suddenly disappeared, his heart sank, and he felt that things were definitely not that simple.

As the envoy of the Jinwu Guard, Pei Jingxing has a lot of prestige among his subordinates.Seeing that the young Jinwu Guard was pale with fright, he could only pretend to be calm, and said: "The place is marked by people, don't let anyone approach it these days. It's too dark today, and I didn't find anything in the past. I'll check it out tomorrow morning."

Jin Wuwei nodded and accepted the order: "Yes."

But the next morning, Pei Jingxing had just got up, and before he had time to investigate the place where Taoist Wan's body was found, an angel came to the palace, and Xuan Pei Jingxing immediately went to the palace to face the saint.