old grace

The backyard of Anji Buzhuang is a typical pattern of houses in the northwest. It is a small courtyard with a single family. The front building is used for business, and the side room is connected to the backyard. anti-theft.

The so-called An Xiangu's incense hall is placed between the gatehouse and the atrium, with sidewalks on the left and right, and a lock on the door.

The guy approached and twisted the lock, and opened it directly without a key.It turned out to be a virtual lock.He pushed the door and hurriedly greeted Fu Chuan and Xie Qinghe: "Your honored guest, please come in quickly."

As soon as the door was opened, there was a faint fragrance coming out of the room.

Xie Qinghe entered the door first, looked at the incense hall, and found that this place is not a normal place for worship, but more like a living room.Entering the door is the table, chairs and benches for entertaining guests. There is a bottle and hat rack on the table against the wall. The painting on the wall is not a "god statue" or a "god seat", but a landscape painting with a slightly immature and clumsy brushwork. , the author signed "White Deer Walker".

On the west side is a book case, with four treasures of the study, and two elegant objects hanging on the wall, the lyre is in the south, and the Qingfeng sword is in the north.The couch by the window is covered with pink goose-yellow cushions and tasseled pendants, all of which are very cute colored glazed white rabbits.

There is a couch separated by a screen on the east side, and the seats and soft pillows on it are so soft and soft that Xie Qinghe has never seen it before.

——Xie Qinghe really doesn't have much experience in going in and out of girls' boudoirs.

Fu Chuan followed around and asked the guy who was locking the door: "Could it be that my brother is coaxing me? How is this place like Xiangtang?"

The clerk hurriedly took a silent gesture, bowed to all sides to apologize, and then explained to Fu Chuan: "This is the place where Fairy Maiden sits and rests when she manages the shop. It's full of old things of her old man. Is it not the respected guest?" Do you think that only sticks of incense are considered incense? Isn’t the incense stick thicker than the waist of a person in the temple and the large plate of incense hung in the main hall and burned for a day? Isn’t it all incense? It's the daughter's fragrance."

He was stunned by the legend of Fu, the clerk bent down, took out a wooden box from the side door cabinet, took out the incense powder inside, pressed out three sticks of tower incense on the spot with a copper mold, and put it in an extremely small dish , carefully lit it, and handed it to Fu Chuan: "The respected guest holds the incense and faces the front...it doesn't matter which chair or couch you sit on, but wherever you can sit, the fairy girl has sat there, just pray!"

Fu Chuan also served many gods and sages in the Hanshan Patriarch Hall, and it was the first time he saw such a casual and creative worship, holding the pocket dish that curled up with smoke, and turned to look at Xie Qinghe's face: Eldest brother, you See what's going on?

The clerk was frantically filling the copper molds with incense powder, and he took all of them: "I have all of them, and this incense will be ready soon, honorable guest, don't worry."

Seeing that Fu Chuan was still holding the plate of incense sticks, the clerk thought he had guessed the reason: "Oh, yes, look at my little memory..."

He put down the incense box in his hand, opened the second cabinet nearby, took out two prayer mats, followed Fu Chuan and asked, "Which one do you want to worship? Ordinary people like to worship in front of this painting. You may wish to tell you the truth. I heard from the old guy in the store that the fairy girl usually sits here on the couch to read the account books and ask about business matters. .”

Fu Chuan thought it was funny silently, and didn't show it on his face, and followed the clerk to the couch facing the window in the west study.

The clerk put the prayer mat in front of the couch, and Fu Chuan actually knelt down while holding the pocket incense dish.However, just as he bent down to salute, the room felt like an earthquake, and things fell down——

The glazed rabbits on the tassel pendant fell to pieces one after another, and the lyre and Qingfeng sword on the wall also fell to the ground.

Xie Qinghe stood in the middle with his hands behind his back, and the landscape map hanging on the wall behind him also slid down, smashing the vase on the table to the ground, and the ground was covered with broken porcelain and clear water.

A gust of dark wind blew past, extinguishing the sparks in the incense dish in Fu Chuan's hand with a puff, leaving a wisp of residual smoke that disappeared.

The guy was so frightened that he looked around in a panic. It took him a while to kneel down on the ground and cried, "Grandma Xiangu, I shouldn't be so greedy for money to lure people in here. Calm down, old man! I won't dare again!" !"

Just then Fu Chuan withdrew and stood up, glanced at Ta Xiang who was blown away by the dark wind, and laughed, "It's really a bit of a virtue."

Xie Qinghe didn't like squatting in the Patriarch's Hall to serve the gods since he was a child. Other inner disciples such as Li Nanfeng and Chen Yiwei couldn't escape the experience of honestly going to various places in Hanshan to be on duty. Only Xie Qinghe was "busy in practice". The affairs are shared by the juniors.

Fu Chuan's growth process was much more honest and well-behaved than Xie Qinghe's. It was customary to go to the Patriarch's Hall, but for ordinary people on the mountain, he would go to the Patriarch's Hall to burn incense and worship on the birthdays and birthdays of the ancestors of all generations.After establishing the foundation and entering Taoism, Fu Chuan quickly participated in the various consecration ceremonies held by the Hanjiang Sword Sect every now and then, and paid homage to all the heavenly ancestors enshrined by the Hanjiang Sword Sect.

In layman's terms, the Hanjiang Sword Sect can be regarded as the office of the Heavenly Court in the mortal world.Xie Qinghe is a temporary worker who speaks with his strength, while Fu Chuan is a civil servant who has been registered and established.

It is a matter of course for Fu Chuan to pay respects to gods, parents and relatives.When encountering a "ghost" such as "An Xiangu" who is worshiped by the people and whose origin is unknown, since he dared to put up in the incense hall to receive incense, Fu Chuan said that as long as he bowed his knees at her obscene shrine, the other party would die immediately.

"An Xiangu" was not directly knelt down to death by Fu Fan, and she was able to blow out the tower incense in his hand to save herself, which shows her extraordinary ability.

There was a local sound.

Something seemed to hit the solid wall, and all kinds of wall decorations in the house fell down again.

The house was full of gloomy winds and ghostly atmosphere, and a period of horror was born for no reason.The guy was already frightened and dumbfounded. He heard noises from the left and right. There seemed to be something bumping up and down the front and back, but he couldn’t see or hear anything. Only the decorations in the room were crackling and falling apart. Suddenly, something touched him, and he let out an ouch in fright, and pouted straight up.

Fu Chuan took a step forward, wanting to grab something: "You are not cowardly, and you still want to harm others?"

That thing turned into a quiet wind and slipped away from Fu Chuan's fingers, but it was blocked in all directions, and it couldn't get out of this room no matter what. It seemed like the whole room was scurrying around.

"Eldest brother, this seems to be something we know." Fu Chuan was only in awe of the unknown.He thinks he can handle most of the known things in the world, but he really can't handle it. Isn't there a senior brother by his side?

The "thing" was running wildly in the room, and Fu Chuan was not in a hurry to catch it. He sat down by the desk and found that besides the four treasures of the study, there was also a white jade paperweight carved into the shape of a jade rabbit pounding medicine. The table is very delicate and cute: "This is the paperweight you used before? You like rabbits so much? Don't you belong to the rabbit?"

Seeing him reaching out to touch the rabbit's ears, the thing seemed to be mad, and it blew a dark wind over, flipping the paperweight out.

Fu Chuan stretched out his hand to catch it, and caught it firmly.

"Why are you so angry? Would you rather not let me touch it if you drop it?" Fu Chuan put the paperweight back on the table, "I just don't touch it. Don't be angry, let me see, what are you?"

The other party did not intend to calm down and communicate well at all. As soon as Fu Chuan finished speaking, there was a loud noise in front of him.

Fu Chuan was not defenseless either, Chuan jumped and turned back to Xie Qinghe's side.

——He wanted to take out the Muhe Spear from the portable space, but suddenly realized that the space was no longer with him, so he had to run back hastily.

The room suddenly became quiet, and the ghostly aura poured out in an instant.The sunlight penetrating through the window paper became bright and warm again, and the sounds of the human world that were isolated from the outside also penetrated in. The footsteps, voices, and cries of pedestrians and vendors outside the wall...returned to the human world.

Fu Chuan glanced back, the white jade paperweight on the desk had been smashed to pieces, and it no longer had the lovely shape of the old days.

Next to the paperweight, there was a dark, wet stone with a fishy smell.

"This is..." Fu Chuan took two pens from the pen holder, picked up the stone, took a closer look, "Stone becomes fine?"

"Eldest brother, this thing has its tail cut off to survive, it's just a thought here. We have to find its real body." Fu Chuan pulled a pillow and pillow towel from the couch, wrapped the stone up and wiped it several times, still There was a lingering smell of rancid fish.

He held the pillow towel as far away as possible, then turned around and asked Xie Qinghe: "Eldest brother, do you want to take a look?"

Xie Qinghe shook his head: "It's a river rock. Go to the river for a walk."

The fairy girl legend in Xingcheng has been going on for more than ten years. Earlier, some outer disciples came to investigate several times. After Fu Chuan saw the problem, he sorted out the records of the outer disciples' visits to Xingcheng and handed them over to Xie Qinghe. The two of them I have a rough idea of ​​what happened in the previous ten years.

Foolish men and women are superstitious about all kinds of rumors, and there are some people among them who deliberately use ghosts and gods for profit, so the story of the fairy girl becomes more and more bizarre.

When the waiter in the inn told the story of Miss Wang's elopement with Buddy Xia, she mentioned that Miss Wang went to the river to worship the fairy girl.However, according to the investigation records of the cold river sword sect's outer sect, "An Xiangu" did not ascend to immortality, but was stuffed into a pig cage and drowned in that secluded river.

The place Xie Qinghe wanted to see was "An Xiangu", or in other words, the secluded river where Miss An was drowned.

When the two of them went out, Fu Chuan saw the buddy who fainted from fright: "Senior brother, wait a moment. This unlucky guy is lying on the ground in winter, and he doesn't know when he will wake up. If he freezes to death, I will tell you He moved it inside, and there seemed to be a quilt over there."

Xie Qinghe nodded.

Fu Chuan carried the unlucky guy back into the inner room and put it on the bed, and pulled the pink butterfly quilt that was folded on the bed to cover him up.

After setting up the buddy, Fu Chuan turned to leave, but was caught by the silver hook hanging on the bed.He subconsciously stretched out his hand to hold it steady, only to find that the silver hook was exquisitely crafted, and a little rabbit eating carrots was squatting bluntly on the tip of the hook.

Fu Chuan's heart suddenly felt sour, which reminded him of the neat and cold pages in the documents of the outer sect.

He had read the documents before, and also had an interview with the outer disciples who came to Xingcheng to investigate the matter, and he knew that this "Miss An", "An's family", was called "Xiang An" by the people.However, until today, when I stepped into this small room, I saw the house where she lived, saw the paintings she made by herself, and saw her girly bedding and cushions and various pendant decorations...

The name on the paper, the address in the conversation, suddenly, becomes a living person.

"Little brother?" Xie Qinghe reminded.

Fu Chuan stabilized the silver hook in the air with his hand, promised to go out with Xie Qinghe.

The clerk sent everyone away before, but now Xie Qinghe and Fu Chuan went out without bumping into any outsiders, walked along the eaves to the front shop, there were still no other guests, only the clerk's little apprentice squatted in front of the brazier warming the fire, the clouds turned The waist moves on the tailor's table that Xie Qinghe used.

Fu Chuan took a curious look and found that Yun Chao was making a strange little dress.

"...Master." Yun Chao stuffed the little dress into his bag.

Is that making a padded jacket for Ah Shou?Fu Chuan immediately remembered Yun Chao's stupid way of petting a cat before going to bed, and his slightly depressed mood quickly cleared up. He moved closer and took out Yun Chao's little clothes stuffed into his bag, and found that the stitches were quite even: "I figured it out. All hands are steady."

However, Yun Chao will not close the needle.He tied all the threads into long knots, and when there was no way to finish it, he tied a dead knot.

Fu Chuan took out the needle and thread, and helped him tidy up the finishing place again: "This is how it looks."

Yun Chao was very surprised: "You can also stitch?"

"Eldest brother has done it." Fu Chuan could remember it after reading it once, and once he remembered it, there would be no problems in execution.

Xie Qinghe had already drank a couple of sips of the cool tea, and even ate half of the peach cake in the shop, and said: "Put away the clothes, let's go."

Yun Chao and Fu Chuan often work together to do housework, and the young apprentices in the shop hurried over to spread the fur skins, Yun Chao lifted up the clothes, Fu Chuan folded them up, and the few cotton robes were quickly packed.In addition, both Fu Chuan and Yun Chao were wearing one, and there were fewer and fewer clothes to take away.

Fu Chuan was very concerned about Xie Qinghe: "It's too late for senior brother to change his clothes, so why don't you wear one casually?"

Xie Qinghe didn't want to be surrounded by people, so he nodded: "Okay."

The unaltered padded gowns are outdated, hanging on the side in such a level that Fu Chuan doesn't even want to take a second look.

Xie Qinghe lifted it up and put it on his body. With his straight waist and broad shoulders, he straightened up the limp padded gown—no one could distract himself from paying attention to the style of the padded gown itself, it just An insignificant part of Xie Qinghe's elegant demeanor.

Fu Chuan was in a complicated mood.So it's not that the clothes are too ugly, it's that I'm not handsome enough to take it away!

Worried about the "ugly face" that "doesn't match the big brother", Fu Chuan looked down at the Chusha padded robe on his body, and remembered that the clothes had been changed by the big brother. robe!He is happy again.

The beauty is not enough, let the big brother come to make up for it!I can't even be worthy of Eldest Senior Brother, who else in the world is worthy of it!

Xie Qinghe just put on a piece of clothes, not quite sure what the little junior brother was thinking.

I only know that Fu Chuan hesitated for a moment, but after looking down at the crane pattern (?) on his body, the little junior became inexplicably happy again, and wanted to take his hand to go out together—he still had a button unbuttoned, so he had to Coaxing Fu Chuan to switch hands: "This way."

Yun Chao picked up the two big bundles containing the cotton robes, and followed them hard-workingly, occasionally grabbing a handful of pine nuts from his bosom and nibbling.

Not long after going out, Xie Qinghe found a dark alley with no one there, and stuffed the big baggage carried by Yun Chao into the portable space.Two large bags of things suddenly disappeared and it was not easy to go back as they were, so the three walked for a while and took a detour out of the city through another street.

Walking along the river for a while according to the location recorded by the outer door, I saw two or three women carrying baskets and selling incense candles from a long distance.

Seeing Xie Qinghe and others approaching, a woman came to ask: "Would you like incense candles? Are you here to pay homage to Xiangu? Going further inside, incense candles are not very easy to buy. The old woman here has a pair of incense and a pair of candles. It only costs [-] yuan to put on a bundle of yellow paper." She made a gesture of pointing to the sky in a mysterious way, "The county is strictly checking, and no one is allowed to burn sacrificial temples and prostitutes, and no one dares to sell them inside! Pass the old woman There is no such shop in this village."

Before Xie Qinghe could speak, another woman carrying a basket rolled her eyes, snorted from afar and said, "Don't let this unscrupulous woman coax you away! Over there only accepts incense from women and children, why do you three men come from here?" Is it boring? It is useless to burn mountains of gold and silver."

The woman who was selling joss sticks got angry and gave a bah sound, about to quarrel.

Seeing that Xie Qinghe and the others were all young and handsome offspring, the women next to them inevitably felt pity, took the opportunity to talk and surrounded them, accusing the woman selling incense candles: "You Even if you want to earn some money for your own family, you shouldn't talk nonsense."

"Exactly. There are also incense sellers inside. Everyone sells them for [-] yuan, but you want to sell them for [-] yuan. You are deceiving people every day."

"The fairy girl doesn't accept incense from men at all, why do you lie to people to burn incense? I'm not afraid that the fairy girl will ruin your job."

……

Seeing that the women were about to start a fight, Fu Chuan hurriedly stopped him: "Mother, grandma, don't do anything. We don't go to burn incense, we come here just because of the reputation, and we just leave." The woman stood behind her and bowed to thank the other women, "Thank you, thank you, thank you aunts and sisters for your advice, I will buy you a bowl of hot tea with this money... It's really cold, too cold... "

When he said to give money, the women who surrounded him were not very happy, who cares about how much tea money you have?

Unable to hold back Fu Chuan's quick hands, these women watched helplessly as a piece of silver suddenly appeared in the basket.This is no longer "a few dollars". Selling incense candles with a basket every day, standing hard for ten days and a half months, excluding the cost of labor, may not be able to earn such a dime of money.

These women knew that the young man in front of them was of extraordinary background, each of them happily pocketed the money, thanked them repeatedly, and stopped arguing with the besieged woman, and dispersed in twos and threes.

Fu Chuan looked back at Xie Qinghe.

Xie Qinghe understood what he meant in seconds, so he grabbed a handful of coins from his portable space and handed them to Fu Chuan.

Fu Chuan really counted eighty coins, gave the woman no more and no less, and said, "Ma'am, I'll buy your incense candles. It's just that there are not many good people like me in this world. Be careful when doing business outside.”

The woman looked at Fu Chuan with only one emotion in her eyes - how could there be such a fool in this world!

Fu Chuan didn't care either.

The woman hastily counted the joss sticks and yellow paper out of the basket, grabbed the copper coins passed by Fu, and hurried away with the basket.

Fu Chuan approached the woman who was the first to remind him not to be deceived, and bowed: "Hello, ma'am. How many incense candles do you have in this basket? I'll buy them all for the same price. It's cold in winter, You stopped your business and went home early."

The woman glanced at him holding the basket and said, "Young official is kind-hearted. If you don't go to burn sacrifices, why buy my incense candles? I'm doing business in an upright manner, and I don't want to see that swindler scolding her and disturbing her." Her unscrupulous business is for my own pain, and has nothing to do with petty officials. I don't want your thank you money for nothing."

Fu Chuan said with a smile: "Just now I was worried that there would be a fight over there, so I lied. I was going to worship the fairy girl. Madam, can you sell me the incense candle?"

The woman still shook her head: "I just said that fairy girls don't accept men's incense, she only cares about women's sufferings. Even if you take incense candles to worship, she will not eat your incense." She said, He and Xie Qinghe and Yun Chao behind him all looked at each other a few times, "Young officials are not like locals, I think they don't know about the accidents in previous years."

"There is a family in the north of the city named Ma. They have hired women for more than ten years, but they haven't got a man and a half woman. This Ma Dalang came to Xiangu Stone to burn incense. He wanted to have an heir and pass on the incense passed down from three generations of his family. His family is white, and he is not allowed to take concubines under forty, and he is afraid that he will die early like his father and grandfather, so he cried to Xiangu, saying that he was reluctant to part with young couples, and he was unwilling to stop his wife and marry again."

Speaking of this, the woman looked at Fu Chuan's expression again, as if she wanted to know his opinion.

Fu Chuan was particularly helpless.

He knew about this incident, and he also knew the truth behind it. Han Jiangjian sent someone to investigate.

It happened 11 years ago, and the essence is very simple, that is, production dispute.

The Ma family is considered to be a poor family in Xingcheng. When the ancestors were the richest, they had a hundred acres of fertile land in the north of the city. Unfortunately, the population was small and the generations died early. Lang's generation can still be regarded as a small landlord who calls his slaves and servants.

Ma Dalang has been married for ten years and has not given birth to a child. His grandmother's natal family and his mother's natal family, that is, Ma Dalang's uncle Wang and uncle Fang, all want him to adopt his own children to inherit the family business.

Of course Ma Dalang refused.

However, his wife could never give birth, and Ma Dalang was very anxious.

The Zhou Dynasty had strict regulations on marrying wives and taking concubines. In order to support people, the imperial court did not allow white people to take concubines casually.Ma Dalang has no official or title, and he must be over forty and have no children before he can take a concubine.

Ma Dalang's grandfather died at the age of 36, and his father died at the age of 33. Ma Dalang felt that he could not wait until he was 40.

So, this smart man came up with an idea.

He secretly raised two women in the countryside, and took the opportunity of collecting rent to have a private meeting with them. After one of the women became pregnant as he wished and was about to give birth, he ran to the river outside the city to visit the fairy girl with great fanfare, crying and telling how virtuous and gentle his wife was. , he really didn't want to disappoint his virtuous wife, stop her and remarry, he just wanted to support her until they grow old.

——Anyway, Xiangu, if you don’t want my virtuous wife to be divorced, then you have to impregnate my wife!

After the performance, when the country woman gave birth to a child, Ma Dalang ordered someone to secretly take the child home and asked his wife to pretend to give birth.His wife yelled ouch, and when the old mother and grandmother arrived, the "child" was born.

This incident made Ma's mother and Ma's grandmother very confused. The daughter-in-law was still alive and kicking at noon, and gave birth to the child in the afternoon?

Ma Dalang swears to the sky that it is the blessing of the fairy girl. He saw his wife grow up as if her belly was blowing, and gave birth instantly!He delivered his wife himself, how could it be false? !

The two old ladies were half-suspicious, or they might have guessed something, but neither of them said anything.

Now that you have a child, you have to celebrate and invite your relatives and friends to drink.Word spread quickly.

Uncle Wang of the previous generation, Uncle Fang of the previous generation, both sides of the family had dreams of adopting their children and grandchildren to Ma Dalang and embezzling the property of the Ma family. After hearing the news, Uncle Wang and Uncle Fang were both Be furious.Uncle Wang's house is very close, so he went to Ma's house first, pierced through the window paper and said harsh words to Ma Dalang: Don't think that you can figure out the thing of raising an outhouse and making a villain, looking at your uncle and grandpa is a fool Nah?You are breaking the law of the king if you dare to take a concubine in vain!Uncle and grandpa go to the Yamen to sue you, you little bastard is waiting to be punished!

Ma Dalang refused to admit it to death, insisting that the child was given to him by An Xiangu's pity that his family had a good wife but no children.

—He also did not take concubines.

As long as you don't go through the legal procedures for taking concubines, and you are determined to keep the mother and keep the child, and get an illegitimate child from outside to raise it, the government has nothing to do with it.

The Ma family is not as good as one generation after another.When my grandfather married my grandmother, the family still had some property, so Uncle Wang was still a decent person after all.

Uncle Fang, who came a step late, was much more ruthless. While Uncle Wang was arguing with Ma Dalang, Uncle Fang contacted his own sister, took the family with him, and a group of magic sticks and witches, rushing around in a hurry When they entered the backyard, they threw the child to death on the ground, tied Ma Dalang's wife and the child together, put firewood on it, and lit it directly.

When Ma Dalang heard the news and arrived, his wife and children were all burned to charcoal.

The sorceress brought by Uncle Fang spoke convincingly, saying that Uncle Fang felt that the children had a strange background and specially invited them to come and see them.

Who would have thought that when he took out the bronze mirror and took a picture, he would actually find that the child showed the original shape of the blue face and fangs in the mirror, and this child "it" is still very sensible, seeing such "superior people" as the god stick and the witch, it is frightening. Even the tail of the wolf is exposed, it must be a monster!However, Ma Wife was fascinated by the monsters and refused to let them get rid of the monsters. She was already an incurable ghost. In order to kill the evil spirits, she had to be burned together with the monsters.

Ma Dalang knew that Uncle Fang was talking nonsense, so he insisted on dragging Uncle Fang to an official and accusing him of disregarding human life.

Relying on his large number of people, Uncle Fang never stopped doing one thing, so he ordered the magician to tie up Ma Dalang and beat him crazily with a two-foot-long steel whip, which is called exorcism.Ma Dalang was beaten to death. However, his family members were weak, and no one dared to rescue him—even his mother dared not come to intercede.

In the end, it was the old grandmother who came in a hurry with Uncle Wang and the Wang family, and just stopped Uncle Fang from beating Ma Dalang to death.

Ma Dalang died within two days of lying in bed.

No one knows whether the old grandmother and mother had quarreled and fought at home. The fact is that both of them kept silent and kept silent about the truth.

"Your official heard this, do you also feel that Ma Dalang has a strong relationship with his wife, which is very touching?" asked the woman.

Before Fu Chuan responded, she shook her head and said, "This is the difference between a man and our women. He went to Xiangu Stone and cried to ask Xiangu for a child. Nearly thirty childless old wives divorced, and then married a young, healthy woman who can bear children... He never thought about how his wife would deal with her if he really divorced her. I don’t know if the fairy girl doesn’t recognize this truth.”

"This Ma Dalang returned home after crying a lot, and the good news came immediately, saying that his wife was pregnant and giving birth immediately."

"He went to deliver his wife joyfully, and invited his relatives and friends to have dinner and celebrate. Who would have thought that the child would be born, and it crawled out of his wife's stomach, but what crawled out was a monster with a blue face, long fangs and a dog's tail. He bit his wife to death, and chased Ma Dalang all over the house."

"Now the grass on Ma Dalang's grave is three feet high." The woman persuaded earnestly, "Young official, you don't understand the woman's mind, and the fairy is not the god of 'Amitabha' in ordinary temples. Don’t ask for trouble when you’re a man. If your prayers don’t come true, you’ll end up in a fatal disaster... I will never sell this incense candle to you.”

This is the story of Aunt An's apparition that has been widely circulated in the outside world. It was so strange that it alarmed the Hanjiang Sword Sect, and hurriedly sent people to investigate.

At that time, Xie Qinghe was living in seclusion in the dense forest, Fu Chuan was still young, and Li Nanfeng and Chen Yiwei were in charge of the affairs of the Hanjiang Sword Sect's outer sect, completely implementing the demeanor of Shangguan Shiyi - only care about foreign affairs, regardless of worldly affairs.

After it was verified that the shocking rumors of the Ma family were due to the dispute over property by the outer family, the outer disciples wrote a report and recorded it, and the matter was over.

"I've been educated, thank you for your guidance." Fu Chuanming knows the truth, and it's not easy to help this woman who sells incense and candles with a basket to break the superstition. Compassion taught me, and I have nothing to repay, so please treat me to some hot soup and rice."

Without waiting for the woman to refuse, Fu Chuan took out one or two small golden cakes, put them in her basket, and bowed: "Farewell."

The woman was very surprised. She hesitated for a moment while holding the small gold cake, but still put it away: "It's a lot of favors from the officials! Thank you, old lady."

When Fu Chuan saw that she had received the little golden cake, he didn't rush back and ran back. He turned around and talked to her again, and then walked back with a smile.

Xie Qinghe has been watching him deal with this matter with a gentle expression, watching him protect the first woman behind his back to prevent them from fighting, watching him politely call aunt, aunt, and sister, watching him thank the woman An old lady who speaks out.

The problem of throwing money away when there is nothing to do, Fu Chuan has had it since he was a child.When Xie Qinghe was young, he pointed at the Zongmen to hand out pocket money, and when he ran out of money, he had to go to his master to get some cheap money, but Fu Chuan didn't have to.He has the property left by Mrs. Liu, and Li Qian helps him make money, so his hands have always been loose.

However, when Fu Chuan was young, his temper was not as good as it is now.

When they were in Luoma City, Shi Shi from Zizhu Villa took his younger brothers and sisters to speak for Fu Chuan, and Fu Chuan had to ridicule them first.

Talking to people who don't deal with it will be even more choking. I caught some Hemen Zuo brothers halfway and sent Xiong Chuchen's head to Zizhu Mountain Villa. Xie Qinghe was stunned when he heard the arrogant and bossy tone of the Zuo brothers. Ears - fully worthy of his status as a junior and senior disciple of the Hanjiang Sword Sect.

"Ah, this incense..." Fu Chuan came back and thought about throwing his hands away. He looked down and saw that there were less than ten sticks in a handful of sticks, and there were several broken sticks inside.He rummaged through it, and found that there were two small candles, and one of them was broken, "This old woman is really mean-spirited, she sold me eighty yuan for fifty yuan, and gave me back everything." It sucks."

Xie Qinghe couldn't help laughing: "Didn't you rush to buy it yourself?"

Fu Chuan wrapped the joss stick and threw it on the ground, followed Xie Qinghe and continued to walk forward, saying: "I think it is difficult for a woman to live. She seems to be getting older, and she still has to come out to sell things in such a cold day." ..." There was thin ice forming on the road ahead, Fu Chuanming knew that Xie Qinghe would not slip, so he subconsciously gave him a hand, "She is such a coquettish person, she will be beaten sooner or later. It is pitiful to be beaten."

The more Xie Qinghe listened, the more he wanted to laugh.

"Eldest brother, tell me, if people have a choice, who would like to live such a horrible life? The big girls who live here with her don't like her, and when everyone gathers around to scold her, no one likes her." Speak for her. It is the most unfortunate thing in her life for her to live in such a nasty way at such a young age. "

"Besides, I didn't give her much money."

"However, she is really bad enough. She actually gave me all the broken and rotten incense candles. This is for looking at her and I won't beat her up."

Fu Chuan cursed resentfully: "This bad thing, sooner or later she will be beaten up and spit on her face."

Xie Qinghe likes to listen to his junior brother chatting.

Every time Fu Chuan babbled, he would inadvertently reveal a lot of thoughts and habits that he would never talk to Xie Qinghe when he was serious. Just talk about it.

"The aunt who first reminded us not to be deceived, I think she came from a good background, and she must have studied when she was young. I don't know why she fell into the situation of carrying baskets. However, I saw that her eyebrows were relaxed, and she didn't have any complaints. , I thought I had a good time."

"Eldest senior brother, did you hear what I said to her over there just now?" Fu Chuan suddenly turned his head.

Xie Qinghe was looking at him, and suddenly he caught him straight, so he smiled at him: "I heard."

"Senior Brother Xu and Senior Brother Bi came to verify the truth about the matter of the Ma family. It was clearly caused by people's hearts, but they wanted to infer that it was caused by ghosts and gods. It was passed around, and the more they said, the more they exaggerated, and the more they said, the more they believed it. Of course I know We shouldn't meddle in the secular world..." It was difficult for Fu Chuan to continue.

This involves Shangguan Shiyi's demeanor.

Under the leadership of Shangguan Shiyi, the Hanjiang Sword Sect is not allowed to interfere with secular affairs, and there is no reason to say so.

According to Shangguan Shiyi, there are countless people who have used the theory of ghosts and gods to profit and harm people throughout the ages, and they all want the Hanjiang Sword Sect to uphold justice. What is the Hanjiang Sword Sect doing squatting in Hanshan?Go directly to Weiyang Palace to be the emperor.

Xie Qinghe's thinking is different from Shangguan Shiyi's.However, he has always been consistent with Shangguan Shiyi, keeping silent but consistent.

What's more, when Ma Dalang's family had an accident, Xie Qinghe was living in seclusion in the dense forest.If Xie Qinghe personally came forward to investigate this matter, there would never be so many ghosts and legends related to "An Xiangu" in Xingcheng.

Xie Qinghe understood what he dared not say, and after a moment of silence, he said, "I will talk to Master again when I go back to the mountain this time."

Fu Chuan came over.

Xie Qinghe patted him on the shoulder reassuringly: "It's okay. I just ordered Longcheng to sort out the matter of handing down Taoism. Sooner or later, I will have to talk to Master again. During the Chen Dynasty, Master and us did not have a good time. Decades? Gradually, the old man got used to it."

"En." Fu Chuan took Xie Qinghe's arm and said softly, "I was in Anji Buzhuang just now, and I thought about many things."

Xie Qinghe knew right away that this was not a unilateral chatter from the younger brother, but a conversation that needed to be responded to and listened to.He didn't know what Fu Chuan was thinking, and asked, "Did you think about that river stone?"

Fu Chuan shook his head and denied: "I'm thinking of Miss An. The 'An's' recorded on the outer documents, the 'An Xiangu' in the mouth of the people."

"She is Miss An's family."

"When she was not out of the cabinet, she appeared in public and took care of the business of the cloth shop herself."

"She painted a landscape painting signed 'White Deer Walker' and hung it in the living room and lobby of the cloth house. I wondered if she yearned for the distant landscape, imagining herself like a white deer on a green cliff, free Free, you can go if you want?"

"There is a lyre hanging in her study... It's not surprising. Every lady is not flattering or flattering, and most of them play the qin for self-entertainment. However, there is also a sharpened Qingfeng sword hanging in her study. She wants Traveling all over the rivers and lakes, how can you not have a sword to protect yourself?"

"She was born in the year of Yimao, and her zodiac sign is rabbit. She used colored glaze