Urban Night Returner

Xiao Shiqi left Zhou Wen to deal with the group of people waiting for the will at the door of the ward, and went to the old house in Beishan by himself by car with Shen Gu, Zhong Lecen.Both Shen Gu and Zhong Lecen were unwilling to take his car, and would rather take a taxi by themselves and follow behind.

"Do you think what he said is credible?" Sitting in the taxi, Shen Gu looked at the car in front and asked Zhong Lecen in a low voice.

Zhong Lecen didn't sleep all night, but he was not as energetic as Shen Gu, his eyelids were a little heavy, he leaned his head on Shen Gu's shoulder, and murmured: "You can believe half of it."

"Is there really such a thing as the Monument of King Yu? What other golden books and jade slips are there?"

"The things about King Yu's Stele and the Yin-Yang Realm are recorded in "Zibuyu", which is true. But the gold and jade slips may not be in Qionglai Mountain, that is to say, what they dug out may not be the gold and jade slips, it is more likely It's a tomb."

"Is there really a golden book and a jade slip?" Shen Gu thought it was Xiao Shiqi's nonsense.He also felt that Xiao Shiqi's words should not be fully believed, but he did not expect that the golden book and jade slips of ascending immortals and exorcising gods that sounded unbelievable actually had something to do with it.

"Yes. There are not only such things as golden books and jade slips, but there are more than one copy. It is said that this kind of thing started with the Yellow Emperor. Later, Shun and Yu, who were promoted to immortals, also followed him to bury golden books and jade slips, but they had never heard that such things would be in Qionglai Mountain, so I think those eight characters were just a coincidence, and it should be that the owner of the tomb wanted to stop A method of grave robbers. Unfortunately, in the eyes of people who are obsessed with money, the more such words, the more greedy they will be."

"If it wasn't the golden book and jade slips, then what did they encounter in the stone room?"

"I think that the owner of the tomb is probably also a master who knows how to gather spirits and exorcise ghosts. The so-called golden box should be his coffin, and there should be a curse on the coffin. All of his wives died. However, the death of the other three people at that time was probably more due to their greed."

Shen Gu hugged him to make him lean more comfortably: "That's right. When I saw so many gold and precious stones, I'm afraid everyone wanted to swallow them all. Driven by greed, they killed each other. I was afraid that it would not sound good, so I said What is a golden book and a jade slip. But what is that curse?"

Zhong Lecen closed his eyes and shook his head: "There are many kinds of curses, except for the person who cast the curse, it is difficult for outsiders to know. Especially if the person who cast the curse is advanced, it is even more difficult for outsiders to understand."

"Do you think that the curse is very deep?"

"The relief on the gold box is Candle Dragon."

"Pig dragon? Alligator?"

Zhong Lecen chuckled: "The alligator is a pig dragon! I'm talking about Zhulong, also known as Zhuyin, with a human face and a snake body, in the north of the poor family. Eyes open for day, eyes closed for darkness, eat without rest The breath is the wind. It is one of the gods in ancient times. The so-called figure is actually a kind of borrowing spirit. If the owner of the tomb can borrow the spirit of the candle dragon, then his Taoism is not trivial."

Shen Gu was a little puzzled: "Doesn't that mean that it is enough to draw like?"

Zhong Lecen shook his head: "That's two different things. You may not be able to borrow a spirit if you paint like one."

"Then how do you know if he borrowed the candle dragon's spirit?"

"Because of that emerald. Isn't that emerald the one you wore all the time? Back then you didn't have yin and yang eyes, so why can you see ghosts as soon as you take off the emerald?"

"That's true. Why do you say?"

"Candle Dragon opens his eyes to become day, and closes his eyes to become darkness. This cannot be expressed on the statue, because the statue is a dead thing after all, and it is impossible to really move. However, rubies and emeralds are inlaid on the gold box to form two eyes. It is expressing the characteristic of Candle Dragon. So I think, pigeon blood red means day, emerald means dark, and this emerald should be filled with yin energy, so Zuo Mu specially picked this emerald for you to wear."

"The question is, can the gathering of Yin Qi make me unable to see ghosts?"

Zhong Lecen opened his eyes all of a sudden: "By the way, there is something strange in it. It is not surprising that jadeite can suppress your yin and yang eyes. It actually uses yin to break yin, as if it has erected a barrier in front of you. As long as you can't pass this barrier, you won't be able to see it. I'm surprised that if the Xiao family is cursed, the general curses are Yin and cold arts, and they need the Qi of Zhongzheng and Yang to undo them. You don’t use Yin objects to town your house. Zuo Mu should find a way to increase your Yang energy instead of getting a most Yin object to wear on your body.”

Shen Gu was really confused, but logically he understood: "Could Zuo Mu be lying to Xiao Shiqi?"

"Well - we have to go to the house to see what's going on with that array."

"So, this Zuo Mu is the Zuo Mu we saw in Sanshengquan. No wonder I saw him once or twice a year before I went to the military academy. That's why. How many years did he live?"

"Using the method of nourishing yin, it is possible to live for as many years as possible. But this can no longer be called living. He is actually just a dead person who can walk and jump."

Thinking about it, Shen Gu couldn't help but shook his head, and hugged Zhong Lecen a little tighter: "What's the point of living like that? Everyone close to me is dead. If you live alone, it's better to go to reincarnation."

"Perhaps, he has something he doesn't want to forget. Before re-entering reincarnation, he must drink Mengpo soup first, and the memories of his previous life will be forgotten. There are too few people like us who can go to Sanshengquan."

Shen Gu smiled slightly: "Didn't I already know you when I didn't remember the previous life? It can be seen that there is fate and we can always meet again."

Zhong Lecen pursed his lips in disdain.Shen Gu chuckled, hugged him and said in a low voice, "I'm coming to chase you right away."

Zhong Lecen glanced at him sideways from the corner of his eyes, with a smile in his eyes, and slightly raised his eyelashes, which made his heart itch slightly.Zhong Lecen closed his eyes and put his head back on his shoulder, muttering in a low voice: "Virtue! I'll come after you immediately—" The second half of the sentence suddenly fell silent, Shen Gu only felt his body tense suddenly, Can't help but ask: "What's wrong?"

Zhong Lecen opened his eyes and looked at him, his eyes were full of surprise.Shen Gu felt a little nervous when he saw him, he frowned and said, "What's the matter?"

Zhong Lecen's lips trembled slightly, before he could speak, the car stopped suddenly, and the driver turned around: "Here we are."

This is the second time for Shen Gu to come here, but it is the first time to step into the door of the house.Zhong Lecen walked in front of him, he couldn't see his expression, but the look in his eyes just now was engraved in his mind, it was a kind of panicked and alienated expression, as if you suddenly found that the baby you looked at every day in your hand was actually It's a counterfeit.

What happened?Shen Gu secretly recalled all the conversations in the car just now, and couldn't think of anything wrong.Although Zhong Lecen said it was fine, there must be something wrong, and he always felt that it was not good for him.

Xiao Zhai is a two-storey small villa, with a European-style exterior, but an antique flavor inside, full of antique rosewood furniture, calligraphy and paintings hanging on the walls, and large multicolored porcelain vases with peacock feathers in the corners.The tea set served was made of blue and white porcelain, and the fragrance of new tea wafted out of it. There were also four snacks of lychees, longan, lotus seeds and red dates.Zhong Lecen held the cup in his hand, sniffed it lightly: "Maojian."

Xiao Shiqi smiled: "You are an expert, please try it." After driving on the road for such an hour, his complexion was much worse than when he was in the hospital. The rosy complexion in the hospital seemed to be completely shaken by the car. Gone, even the wrinkles seem to have a few more, as deep as a knife.

Zhong Lecen didn't drink, and looked around: "There is no need for tea, this house is interesting, where is the eye?"

Xiao Shiqi leaned on the back of the sofa wearily: "At the beginning Zuo Mu said that the formation eye is on the second floor, but I don't know where it is. I'll ask the housekeeper to take you up to have a look."

The furnishings on the second floor are more gorgeous than those on the first floor. At the top of the stairs is a crystal money tree, more than half a meter high. The money hanging on it is shining golden. Zhong Lecen took a look: "Is it gold-plated?"

The butler bowed slightly and said expressionlessly, "It's 18K."

"Oh—" Zhong Lecen pondered, looked around, "Go downstairs."

The housekeeper was a little surprised: "You didn't read it?"

Zhong Lecen smiled.The corridor on the second floor is straight, and there is a floor-to-ceiling glass window facing the stairs. Zhong Lecen looked at the window: "Don't look, it's not here."

Xiao Shiqi was a little surprised to see them coming down from upstairs so quickly: "Have you found the eye?"

Zhong Lecen looked out: "Is there a backyard here?"

Xiao Shiqi frowned: "There is a backyard. But when Zuo Mu built this house, he said that the backyard is too cloudy. Usually there is nothing to do, and no one goes in. The servants go in to clean it, that is, between twelve o'clock in the noon and one o'clock. You can go in."

Zhong Lecen nodded: "That's right, I'll go and have a look."

Xiao Shiqi is not a fool either, he immediately realized: "Zuo Mu is lying to me again, the formation is in the backyard?"

Zhong Lecen hummed: "But he's not all lying to you, at least the backyard is really dark, ordinary people should not go in."

Xiao Shiqi hesitated: "Then I—"

"You'd better not go in."

There is a wall of flowers between the backyard and the front yard, covered with vines, but strangely, they are all concentrated on the wall, with a thick layer on the top of the wall, but there is no vine on the side facing the front yard.The housekeeper was instructed by Zhong Lecen to stand far behind, Shen Gu followed Zhong Lecen, and frowned when he saw the wall: "This vine grows strangely."

"The vines tend to be yin, this wall is the boundary between yin and yang." Zhong Lecen said, and had already pushed open the door on the wall.Shen Gu grabbed him and said, "Does it matter if you go in?"

Zhong Lecen smiled: "Isn't there you?"

Shen Gu felt that his smile was a bit forced.If it had been changed before, Zhong Lecen would have been naughty when he said this.Probably because he lost his parents when he was young, and suffered a lot later, although he looks young, his personality is much gentler and calmer than his peers, only in front of Shen Gu, he occasionally showed a little naughty appearance, Only then can people see that he and Zhong Leyang are brothers.Shen Gu likes to see his mischievous appearance, that is the true disposition that only people who are the most trustworthy and close can have, instead of the current situation, which seems a little polite and unfamiliar.

"What's the matter?" Shen Gu took his hand, pulled him behind him, stepped on the threshold, and looked back at Zhong Lecen.

Zhong Lecen lowered his head and said nothing, and began to bite his lips again.Shen Gu sighed: "Forget it, I'll wait until you are willing to talk. Go, go in."

The backyard looked normal except that it was a little barren, but as soon as Shen Gu stepped into the door, he felt that the surrounding temperature seemed to drop by two or three degrees.With his body trained in the army, he doesn't care about the winter in Binhai at all. Even if he is ten or eight degrees lower, he still seems to be playing.But now, the temperature only changed by two or three degrees, but he felt a chill as if it was about to soak into the marrow of his bones.

"Be careful, something is wrong."

"You feel a little colder, don't you?" Zhong Lecen followed into the backyard, already holding Zhang Fu in his hand.

"Is this what you mean by being overcast?"

"Yeah. Here, it's probably all ghosts."

"Ghost? Why didn't I see it?"

"Not all ghosts can show their bodies. Although there are many ghosts here, they are not mature enough to show their bodies, but the yin energy is much heavier than other places, so you will feel cold."

"No wonder the cleaning comes at noon, when the sun is strong, right?"

"En." Zhong Lecen looked around, "The eye of the array is here."

Shen Gu looked around and found that the backyard was smaller than the front yard. There was an artificial pond next to a small house that looked like a thatched cottage. There was a small water mill beside the pond, turning intermittently.The whole backyard looks like a farmhouse in the south of the Yangtze River, with a very watery style, but it is surrounded by blue brick courtyard walls in the north, which completely destroys this atmosphere.Shen Gu could tell something was wrong at a glance: "How can the mill turn?"

The water mill can only be turned with running water, and it must have a considerable flow of water.But now, although this artificial pond has a channel connected to the front yard, it is considered running water, but the flow rate is pitifully small, and the water mill is made of real stones. No matter how you look at it, it is impossible for this water to turn the millstone.

Zhong Lecen looked at the turning millstone, squeezed the talisman tightly in his hand, and said softly, "Have you ever heard the saying 'money can make a ghost turn a mill'?"

Shen Gu was stunned for a moment: "You said the millstone was a ghost?"

"To be precise, it's a substitute gathered by this formation."

"Like that stand-in?"

"Yes." Zhong Lecen breathed out lightly, "Zuo Mu has been lying to the Xiao family. He can't undo the Xiao family's curse, but he has been buying substitutes for the Xiao family with the wealth gathered by the fortune formation, so the Xiao family The talent is Ding Pingan. When they first arrived in Binhai, they must have not been lucky enough to buy enough substitutes, so Xiao Nan was in poor health, and that child was born weak and could not live long. However, from the fortune line of the Jinyu Building After the cloth is up, he can buy a substitute again, and the Xiao family will be safe."

"That is to say, if there is no Lucky Array, the Xiao family will be finished?"

"Yes. In fact, many times in the lucky formation, the wealth fortune of the descendants is borrowed in advance. Don't look at the wealth fortune at the moment, and you may be poor after a few generations. Therefore, the fortune should not be too full. If it is full, it will always be in other places. The place will be damaged a little bit, but as to where the damage is, it’s hard to say.”

"Then even if I live in this house, it won't be of much use?"

"Yeah. I saw it just now when I went up to the second floor. The corridor leads directly from the door to the window. The money tree does attract wealth, but the wealth it attracts comes in through the door and exits through the window. It can't be kept at all. If it can be kept, Taking Jinyu Mansion's formation as an example, the Xiao family is by no means larger than it is today. Because they didn't have much money, most of it was used to buy substitutes."

Shen Gu looked at the stone mill that was turning intermittently at that time: "When the stone mill stops completely, the curse will really work, right?"

Zhong Lecen sighed deeply: "Yes. Even if all the current property of the Xiao family is consumed, it won't be able to last for a year or so. And the ghosts that will be recruited at that time will have nowhere to go and will cause trouble. Although they are not very good, But getting together is also a trouble. Now the house must be demolished and let the sun shine in order to dispel all the yin. But in this way, without a substitute, the curse will immediately occur.”

"In my opinion, Xiao Shiqi will not demolish the house. Even if there is only a little hope, he will not let go."

After hearing Zhong Lecen's words, Xiao Shiqi's face was completely pale: "Is there any other way?"

Zhong Lecen shook his head: "At least for now, I still can't think of any way."

Xiao Shiqi was stunned for a moment, then suddenly waved his hand forcefully: "You guys go." Then he turned his head and said to the butler, "Call me back Zhou Wen immediately, I want to change my will."

Zhong Lecen sighed: "Mr. Xiao, even if you take all the property of the Xiao family, it won't last long."

Xiao Shiqi's face turned livid: "It's only a matter of time if I can hold on for a while. If I have time, I will find a way."

Shen Gu and Zhong Lecen walked out of the gate of Xiao Zhai, looked back, Xiao Shiqi was still sitting there, looking from a distance, like a posthumous photo.Zhong Lecen lowered his head and thought for a while: "I want to contact Le Yang and Captain Zuo. If Zuo Mu really belongs to Captain Zuo's family, maybe the Zuo family will have a solution. The Zuo family is better at these unorthodox techniques." He looked at Shen Gu worriedly, "You have to be careful, if there is anything wrong, you have to say it immediately."

Shen Gu looked into his eyes, his worry was real at the moment, and he couldn't hide it.

"Didn't you say that I am very angry? Don't worry."

"But the curse is another thing. Although you are very angry, I don't know if you can..."

"Don't think about it first, it's useless to think too much. Instead, you said, since my house doesn't need town at all, why did Zuo Mu put that piece of emerald on me?" Shen Gu said, with a flash of inspiration, "That's right Xiao Qingfan asked me about the jadeite several times when he saw me, if it was another soul in his body who asked the question, then it must be Zuo Mu."

"Since it's not for the town house, it has another purpose. However, wearing such a yin thing on a person will erode yang energy. If you can't hold back the evil spirit, an ordinary person would have died of yang exhaustion."

"Xiao Qingfan wasn't in the hospital just now, where did he go? Could it be like what Zuo Jian said, his soul has been completely dispelled by Zuo Mu, and his body is no longer his."

"Maybe...he is alive, but why doesn't he care about the Xiao family's affairs anymore?"

Shen Gu pressed his temple: "I'll ask Xiao Nan later on about this matter. You've been tired all night, go home and go to sleep."

"I have to contact Le Yang and ask him to ask someone to see if there is a way." Zhong Lecen said, taking out his mobile phone, but before he could dial the number, the phone rang, "Le Yang?"

"Brother—" Zhong Leyang's voice sounded like he was going crazy, "I, I got into trouble!"

"Ah?" Zhong Lecen was startled by him.Although Zhong Leyang usually looks lawless, he is actually very measured in his actions. Now he says that he has caused trouble, and it must be a serious matter. "What happened?"

"I, I... I fucked that Konghua..."