Strange Records of Xijing

After getting a small broken gourd accidentally left by Li Laodao from Mrs. Xue in Pingkangfang, Pei Jingxing was inconvenient to take Su Yan to the inner office, so he simply took him to the National Teacher's Mansion.

Gao Zekai had been busy all night, and he was still tossing about the "half-faced ghost". He heard that Pei Jingxing and Su Yan had arrived, and he waved his hands. He obviously didn't have the energy to go out and scold Pei Jingxing for being shameless. .

Su Yan spread out a map of Xijing on the table, and asked for more ink and a basin of water.

"Is this enough?" Pei Jingxing watched Su Yan fiddle with all this, wondering how he could find Li Laodao with these things alone.

"If you don't leave Xijing, that's enough." Su Yan replied, dipping his brush in ink, and then drew a butterfly out of thin air under the water.

It's strange to say that water is the softest thing in the world, but when Su Yan wrote the pen, the water was steady, with no ripples except for the fine ripples that the pen tip brushed aside.

Not long after, a black butterfly in Su Yan's pen took shape.The butterfly flapped its right wing first, and one or two drops of water splashed on Pei Jingxing's feet, as if to remind him that the butterfly really existed.

The two wings of the butterfly broke through the water one after the other, circled around Su Yan, shook off the excess water droplets on his body, and finally landed on Su Yan's shoulder.

The sun shines through the wings made of butterfly water, refracting colorful rays of light, making the small piece of skin exposed on Su Yan's neck even whiter.

Su Yan followed the same pattern and drew three more butterflies on the water.It wasn't over yet, he picked up his pen and walked to the table, marked four ink dots on the map where the National Teacher's Mansion was located, and then stopped writing.

Su Yan picked up the little broken gourd, muttering words in his mouth, the butterflies that were originally on his shoulders and arms gathered on the gourd in his hand, fluttered their wings a few times, and then flew out from the open window one after another .

Holding the gun in his arms, Pei Jingxing watched Su Yan finish all this, and suddenly waved to himself: "Come here"

Perhaps it was the experience of the Western Regions four years ago that made Pei Jingxing more resistant to these ghosts and ghosts. When he saw the four black dots on the map start to move, his heart skipped a beat: "Are those four butterflies? "

"Yes," Su Yan looked at the map and explained, "These four butterflies will search for Li Laodao's scent all the way. If he is still in Xijing recently, the butterflies will definitely find him."

At this time, Pei Jingxing had forgotten those bad memories in his heart, walked to the table, stood opposite Su Yan, and observed the movement of the four ink dots on the map with Su Yan.

The waiting process was long and painful. This was the fifth time Xiao Daotong replaced the cold tea for the two of them, while the four ink dots on the map were still moving.

Su Yan's face was covered with sweat, and there was a bead of sweat on the tip of his chin, which couldn't fall off, and even the skirt of his clothes was soaked.Pei Jingxing caught a glimpse from the corner of his eye, and handed over a sweat towel he was carrying with him: "Wipe off your sweat, it's clean."

Su Yan didn't move, but Xiao Daotong explained in milky words: "Pei Jieshi, this Taoist priest has been supporting this spell with all his energy for almost three hours, so he can't be distracted now."

Pei Jingxing was taken aback for a moment, glanced at Su Yan, then at Xiaodaotong's figure, and finally moved to Su Yan's side to wipe the sweat off his face.

Pei Jingxing looked down and saw the sweat beads on Su Yan's Baijing's neck, and just wanted to wipe it off for him, but there was nothing wrong with it, so he stopped.

Forget it, if you touch his neck rashly, if you scare him, wouldn't the spell come to naught?

Thinking so, Pei Jingxing put away the sweat towel - it's not easy to let Xiao Daotong wash the sweat towel for him - and simply stood beside Su Yan.

Just when Xiaodaotong stretched out his little hand to the third glutinous rice cake, three ink dots on the map changed from thick to light, and finally disappeared on the map.

"What's going on?" Pei Jingxing asked hastily when he heard Su Yan beside him heaved a sigh of relief.

Su Yan pointed to the only ink dot left on the map, and said out of breath, "I found it, it's here!"

"De Ning Fang?" Pei Jingxing saw where the ink dots were, "West side? Let's go!"

Su Yan put away the map and followed it out.

Xiao Daotong, who was guarding the door and eating glutinous rice cakes happily, saw Pei Jingxing and Su Yan walking out as quickly as the wind was blowing under their feet. He swallowed a mouthful of steamed buns in surprise, coughing while coughing. , while chasing after him: "Mr. Pei, where are you going?"

"Speak to your uncle for me, let's go to Dening Square, Li Laodao is there."

Pei Jingxing's footsteps were naturally beyond Xiaodaotong's pace, he dropped these words and disappeared around the corner.

Su Yan, who was behind him, noticed Xiaodaotong's predicament, and slapped Xiaodaotong on the back with his right hand, and the naughty mochibaba was spit out.

"Thank you, Daoist." Xiao Daotong thanked Su Yan's back, picked up the dirty mochi cake on the ground, stepped on his short legs, and ran to find Gao Zekai.

Deningfang is located in the southwest corner of Xijing. Because of the remoteness, there are not many people living here, and few people will set foot here on weekdays.

The Wuhou Shop in De Ning Fang is also the smallest, there is only one person all year round, even when Pei Jingxing and Su Yan rode into De Ning Fang on horseback, Wu Hou in the Wu Hou Shop was still sound asleep.

Seeing that the person who came was the envoy from left and right of the Jinwu Guard, Marquis Wu lowered his head and didn't even dare to wipe the saliva from the corner of his mouth, for he was afraid that his every random move would attract Pei Jingxing's scolding.

Pei Jingxing asked Su Yan to unfold the map, pointed to the motionless dots of ink on the map, and asked, "Do you know where this is?"

Marquis Wu was eager to make amends, wiped his eyes, carefully identified for a while, and replied: "Pei Jieshi, this should be an abandoned house in Dening Square."

"Abandoned? How long has it been unoccupied?"

"It was already abandoned when I came here on duty. Dening Square is in a remote location, and there are not many wells here. Unless you really have no money, who would want to come to this dilapidated place."

Pei Jingxing said coldly: "There are still fugitives who love to come here. Anyway, Marquis Wu here are lazy bastards who only know how to eat and sleep. Wouldn't it be good to hide here?"

Marquis Wu kept silent, not daring to touch the angry leopard.

"You stay here." Pei Jingxing was too lazy to argue with the lazy Marquis Wu at the moment, "If I haven't come out in three quarters of an hour, take this big disciple Gao Zekai who went to the National Teacher's Mansion to find the National Teacher, remember ?”

Marquis Wu took a token thrown by Pei Jingxing, his heart trembled, he nodded and said: "I remember, I remember."

Pei Jingxing took the map and greeted Su Yan: "Let's go."

In order to avoid alarming others, Pei Jingxing and Su Yan left the horse in Wuhou's shop, and they walked to the old house indicated by the ink dots on the map.

As Na Wuhou said, no one has lived in this house for a long time, and the weeds at the door alone are as high as an adult's knee.There was only half of the plaque left, hanging obliquely above the gate, as if it would not fall off.The door of the house was wide open, and most of the paint on the door had peeled off, exposing the blackened wood inside.

Su Yan stretched out his hand to attract the butterfly, and teased the butterfly's wings a few times with his index finger. He said to Pei Jingxing, "Someone cast a spell inside. Once someone enters, they will be discovered."

Saying that, Su Yan let go of the butterfly, took out a piece of yellow talisman paper, and took out a pen filled with cinnabar.He licked the tip of his hair with the tip of his tongue, wrote a series of incomprehensible cloud seal characters on the talisman paper, and handed it to Pei Jingxing: "Bring this, you can temporarily hide your body shape and smell."

Pei Jingxing hesitated for a while, but finally took it.

Strange to say, as soon as Pei Jingxing took this piece of talisman paper, he felt that his eyes seemed to be covered with a thin layer of gauze, and he was not used to seeing everything with a hazy feeling.

Su Yan didn't pay attention at first, but when he found that Pei Jingxing was almost tripping over the threshold of the gate, he realized: "Can't you see clearly?"

"I'm not used to it," Pei Jingxing said stiffly, "It will be fine later."

Su Yan's lips moved, but without saying a word, he stretched out his hand to grab Pei Jingxing's arm: "Then I'll take you away first, and let you go after you get used to it."

"..." What does it mean to shoot yourself in the foot with a rock, Pei Jingxing has personally experienced it this time.

This is a house with two entrances. The weeds inside are taller and more lush than those at the entrance, and they have the potential to flood the entire yard.

"Strange," Su Yan pulled Pei Jingxing and led him around the place in the yard where the spell would be triggered, while carefully observing the surroundings, "Why is it so quiet here?"

Pei Jingxing also discovered this.

Indeed, this house is really too quiet.

Generally speaking, abandoned houses often become a paradise for small and weak animals, such as mice, wild cats, and wild dogs are common residents, not to mention beetles and birds that can be seen everywhere.

Pei Jingxing looked around and was used to seeing things with his eyes covered with gauze. He patted the back of Su Yan's hand, motioned for him to let him go, and whispered, "Find someone first, be careful."

The two courtyards are not big, but they are not small either. For Pei and Su, it would take a lot of effort to find a hiding Li Laodao in such an abandoned house. Needless to say, the two of them had to be distracted to watch out for the various mechanisms in the yard.

Su Yan searched for a while, then stopped suddenly, pointed to a room in front of him and said, "The spell in there is very strong, he should be hiding there."

Pei Jingxing stretched out his hand to protect Su Yan behind him: "Follow me."

Su Yan hesitated to speak for a few times, but it was Pei Jingxing who saw his aggrieved look, stopped in his tracks, and asked impatiently, "What's wrong?"

Su Yan pointed to the half-open door, and said, "I think I'm better at this."

It was only then that Pei Jingxing realized that although Su Yan was younger than him, he was a celestial master in the final analysis, and he was indeed better at this matter.

The two exchanged positions, this time it was Su Yan in front, Pei Jingxing followed closely behind, holding the gun tightly, ready to step forward to block the enemy's attack for Su Yan at any time.

Su Yan picked up a larger stone, pulled out a hair from his head, tied the hair to the stone, and threw the stone into the door.There was only a sound of ping-pong-pong from inside, and the stone thrown in was obviously crushed by something inside.

After a moment of silence, a figure suddenly sprang out from the room!

The man let out a sharp cry, swung the knife in his hand, and rushed straight at Su Yan!

Pei Jingxing's pupils shrank, and he grabbed Su Yan's shoulder with his left hand, and pulled him behind him. Holding the gun in his right hand, he leaned forward and stabbed Su Yan straight!

That man actually regarded Pei Jingxing as nothing, did not dodge, and continued to charge towards the two of them with a knife!

The moment the dragon-headed tiger-tooth spear pierced the enemy's body, Pei Jingxing only felt that the feeling from the spear head was not right.He was just about to look up, when Su Yan behind him pulled him back to the right, and a few short arrows with poisoned arrows flew past Pei Jingxing's eyes.

Pei Jingxing wanted to pull out the gun, and cut off the head of this neither human nor ghost first, but found that his spear was stuck in the body of this thing, and he couldn't pull it out at all.

"It's a puppet!" Su Yan pulled out his long sword, "There are many organs in the puppet's body, hold on to the gun and don't move."

While speaking, Su Yan had already rushed behind the puppet, and saw his wrist flying, and the long sword stabbed fiercely at several places on the puppet's body.There were several ear-piercing rubbing sounds from the puppet's body, its head and limbs separated from the body one after another, fell to the ground, and never moved again.

Pei Jingxing pulled out the dragon head and tiger tooth gun, feeling a little annoyed: "It was tricked."

Su Yan's ears moved: "Behind!"

The two walked through a dusty room and ran to the back of the house. Sure enough, they saw a gray figure running towards the back door with his legs spread.

Seeing someone chasing after him, the gray figure turned his head and looked, who is it if it's not Li Laodao?

"Where are you running!" Pei Jingxing yelled, and the dragon-headed tiger-tooth spear in his hand came out in response, stabbing straight at Li Laodao's back!

Li Laodao said "Ouch", as if he had slipped on a stone under his feet, and when Pei Jingxing's spear was about to stab him, he fell to the side.

Pei Jingxing missed a move, and the long spear turned halfway, and the tip of the spear pointed at Li Laodao's throat. If he went in half an inch, a hole would be pierced in Li Laodao's throat.

When Li Laodao fell down, the yellow dog in his arms jumped down. At this time, he stood by Li Laodao's side, not daring to bark at Pei Jingxing, but whining in the direction of the back door.

Li Laodao squinted his eyes for a long time, and suddenly laughed: "So it was Jie Jie, who did I think it was? "

dark?

Pei Jingxing and Su Yan looked at each other, only then did they realize that it seemed that just as they walked through the house to the backyard, it suddenly became dark.

Have they been here all afternoon?

"Emissary Pei, hand over the prisoner to me."

Shen Congjian's voice came from outside the back door.

The yellow dog was still whimpering, but Li Laodao was smiling wryly.