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The weather in summer is hot and dry, especially today, it is a kind of sultry heat before the rainstorm.

The room was filled with heat, and the back of Mu Yun's neck was already drenched with sweat. Looking at Qi Zhong in front of him, sitting obediently on the ground, the broken hair on his forehead was also wet with sweat, and it became spiky. With a rare and quiet posture, he couldn't restrain himself for a moment, and glanced at him several times intentionally or unintentionally, and his writing speed slowed down.

"It's so hot, do you have something to drink here?"

Qi Zhongfa was stunned for a while, he was so hot that he felt thirsty, so he asked someone for water.

Mu Yun put down his pen after listening, and got up to pour water for him.

A cup of plain porcelain was filled with water, and he handed it to Qi Zhong, who smiled and said, "It's cold and white?"

Mu Yun hummed: "The color of his tea is different, I changed it on purpose."

"In this world, apart from wine, cold white water is the most delicious, better than fine nectar and jade dew."

Gulu Gulu drank a few sips, Qi finally wiped his mouth, smiled contentedly and rolled his eyes.

Mu Yun twitched the corner of his mouth for no reason, and returned a smile.

At this time, Min Zhi's voice came from downstairs: "Uncle Qi, come down for dinner."

"Know it."

Covering his ears, Qi Zhong responded, then looked at Mu Yun and smiled: "Let's go, it's time to eat."

"You go first. I'll come later."

"Then don't be late, or I won't save the delicious food for you until the end..."

After the laughter faded away, Mu Yun tidied up the desktop. Seeing the strong wind blowing down on the trees outside the building, he knew that the summer rain was coming, so he pushed all the windows open, allowing countless cool breezes to pass through the hall, and a lot of the heat dissipated.

In the middle of the night, thunder roared outside the window, heavy rain poured down, water from the eaves rushed down, and the dry heat in the air was gradually subdued by the rain.

Qi Zhong was so hot that he couldn't sleep in the first half of the night, and finally cooled off in the second half of the night. Just when he was about to fall asleep, there was another burst of rain. Icy water.

He hurriedly sat up, awakened a lot from drowsiness, and saw that the window had been blown open by the strong wind, and the ground had swelled with water, and the foot of the bed was covered a lot.

Qi Zhong looked up and saw that there were leaks in several places on the roof?

If I had really slept well just now, I would probably have to swim in the water for a while when I woke up.

He was quite dissatisfied: "This unscrupulous shop actually gave me a bad house, tomorrow morning, let's see if I don't settle accounts with you."

Standing in the water with bare feet, he picked up the coat at the end of the bed and put it on, and then went outside. As soon as he opened the door, a refreshing cool breeze blew in, making him stretch comfortably, feeling much happier.

Suddenly, he found that there was still a light in the next room, and he couldn't help thinking of taking refuge.

"Boom bang bang-"

Hearing the knock on the door, Mu Yun hesitated.

"Master Yun, it's me."

"It's late at night, can we talk about something tomorrow?"

After receiving such a reply, Qi Zhong gritted his teeth and thought, who wants to talk to you?I'm here to rub the bed.

"Not good. Will you open the door? If not, I will come in by myself."

"you……"

Before Mu Yun had time to refuse, he stooped, grabbed a coat on his shoulder miserably, and groped into the room lightly.

"what happened to you?"

Looking down, Mu Yun was a little worried when he saw the man running over without shoes on.

Qi Zhong shrunk his pale toes, and said miserably: "Oh, you don't know, this unscrupulous shop let me live in a crappy house. It leaked in the middle of the night, and the bed was wet. How can I sleep? I see you Didn't sleep, just wanted to spend the night."

"..."

Mu Yun hesitated, as if he was still considering the authenticity of his words.

"But there's only one bed here."

"It's okay, it's fine if we don't sleep together, the bed is big anyway. The two of us can make do with it."

Frowning slightly, Mu Yun felt that there was nothing wrong with these words, but there was always a strange feeling in his heart.

Seeing that he didn't speak for a long time, Qi Zhong flattened his mouth and folded his hands pitifully: "Please, please. I really have nowhere to go."

"Okay. Okay, you go to bed."

Knowing that the other party had the possibility of acting, Mu Yun felt soft-hearted and agreed without hesitation.

Qi Zhong, who had succeeded, smirked twice, and cheered, "That's great!"

After finishing speaking, he jumped onto the bed twice, grabbed the quilt and pillow that Mu Yun had arranged, and it was a "toss", making a mess everywhere, lying on the bed, moving around like a cat.

Mu Yun wanted to help his forehead, but he didn't restrain him too much.He sat back at the desk and continued writing.

Qi Zhong played alone for a while, and became bored, his eyeballs rolled around, a rain woke him up from sleepiness, now, with a bed, he also suffered from insomnia.

Hearing the sound of pen and paper fighting, Qi Zhong joked: "I said Mr. Yun, why are you writing love letters again?"

Mu Yun frowned slightly, kept writing, and said lightly: "I don't seem to agree that you can make fun of me now."

"Ah, I... I was wrong."

Unexpectedly, the other party would reply like this, Qi finally turned sideways deflatedly.

Hearing his mistake, Mu Yun took a few glances at his reaction unwillingly. He didn't seem too unhappy, so he coughed lightly: "The rain has stopped, go to sleep."

"Hmph..." Qi Zhong put his hands on his pillow, blinked, and looked out the window.

Suddenly, a black shadow passed by.

"thief?"

Qi Zhong exclaimed, and seeing a trace of evil spirit passing by, he changed his tune and said, "Monster!"

"You rest here first, I'll go after you."

After Mu Yun finished speaking, he stepped out of the window and left.

"How about that? I'll go too."

Qi Zhong hurriedly got out of bed, forgot to put on his shoes, and also turned over the window eaves, followed closely behind.

After the rainstorm stopped, the ground was completely cool, and Qingwa Long Street was washed again. At that time, the cool moon also rose after the rain, shining water in the stone alley.

The coolness was blowing on the face, and the cool breeze filled the sleeves. The two stepped on the tiles of the eaves and chased the shadow out of the town.

……

"Hmph, let him run away."

On the small road outside the town, Qi Zhong waved his hands violently and said unwillingly.

Unfamiliar with the terrain, Soi Ying took advantage of the woods and escaped in two strokes.

The two stood under a willow tree at the three-way intersection, and looked around. There was only the chirping of frogs and insects, and the cool night was silent.

At this time, a thin line of green smoke suddenly appeared from under the willow tree. Qi Zhong took a vigilant look, then patted Mu Yun on the shoulder, signaling him to hide in the nearby grass with him.

"It's a bit strange here, let's keep quiet and see what is causing the trouble."

Qi Zhong paid attention to the movement under the willow tree and reminded the people next to him.

When the two looked up again, they saw the backs of two young women suddenly appearing under the ancient willow at the three-way intersection.

I saw these two women with disheveled hair, wearing colorful costumes, waving their water sleeves under the willow tree, dancing without singing.

Can't see the face, only feel weird, Qi Zhong whispered: "Is it a demon or a ghost?"

"They look like ghosts." Mu Yun observed for a moment, and felt it.

"Huh? I'll take a look again... Oh, it's so scary. It scared me."

After listening to Mu Yun's words, Qi Zhong raised his head to observe carefully, and found that the other party had turned his head around, revealing two weird cheeks, eyebrows, eyes, nose and mouth, but except for the hair, the whole face was only two fingers wide, with a pointed chin Pretty, longer than the neck.

"They saw us." At this moment, Mu Yun honestly reminded.

Qi Zhong turned his head and saw that the two 'women' had stopped dancing and floated towards them. Their eyes, long and thin like willow leaves, looked at them coldly with a faint green light.

"Looking so scary, how did we become ghost hunters along the way?"

"Ah, never mind. You go and drive them away, I'll wait for you here."

Mu Yun knew that he was doing these tricks on purpose, so he didn't pay much attention, jumped out of the grass, and faced the two monsters.

I saw them bowing their heads and raising their eyes, pretending to be hanged ghosts, stretching their arms, and floating slowly.

Mu Yun's expression was calm, and he exerted some spiritual power slightly, and with one finger, he drew a Taoist talisman, fixing them in place and not moving.

Only now did Qi finally stand up with confidence, wanting to take a closer look at the weirdness of the two.At this time, the sky was darkened by dark clouds, and the surroundings became dark, and the two monsters instantly disappeared into smoke and fled away.

Only the branches and leaves of the willow trees fluttered and the breeze was blowing, as if it was the home of the two.

"Run away? Or hid." Qi Zhong murmured.

Mu Yun withdrew his spiritual power and said lightly, "Go back first."

"Hey, wait for me, I don't have shoes on."

Hearing this, Mu Yun turned sideways slightly, lowered his head, and saw that he was stepping on the grass with two bare feet, and came in small steps. After the rain, the soil was wet, and there was a lot of mud on the soles of his feet.

Seeing this, Mu Yun frowned slightly, looking a little sad.

Qi Zhong blinked, and said to himself, is his expression disgusting?

Humph.

Unconvinced and snorted in his heart, Qi Zhong suddenly started acting up and wailed: "Oh, my foot was scratched by a stone, it hurts like hell, I can't walk anymore."

"Where is the injury?" Mu Yun stepped forward and observed carefully.

Being stared at his feet, Qi Zhong felt weird, he couldn't help hiding his toes, and complained, "It's an internal injury."

"..." Mu Yun lowered his eyes hesitantly.

Qi Zhong whispered again: "How about...you carry me back?"

"it is good."

Um?He readily agreed.Qi Zhong was relieved for a while.

Looking at the tall and warm back in front of him, Qi Zhong seized the opportunity and hung it up like a rabbit without hesitation. He immediately found the joy of being carried for a walk when he was a child. On the side of Mu Yun's shoulder, he greedily sniffed the fragrance of tea mist on his clothes.

Mu Yun hugged him with his backhand worryingly, as if pinching two soft lazy bones, and walked a few steps, feeling no different from carrying things normally, he thought to himself, this person is so light.

At this time, a few suppressed laughter suddenly came from my ears: "Hmm...my place is itchy, don't pinch it."

"Uh, I'm sorry." Realizing what he did just now, Mu Yun relaxed his strength, regretting that his actions were a bit offensive.

Qi Zhong tilted his head and glanced at him, thinking, why are the roots of this man's ears so red?

Then, the two returned along the road, Mu Yun walked steadily, but the two little feet behind him kept shaking and bouncing back and forth.He sighed, feeling that he had to go back and do his laundry.

……

Walking back to Liuxi Town from the suburbs, the two of them were on North Street, and saw a group of people pointing and pointing at the door of a house, and the sound of tragic cries came from the crowd intermittently.

"Is there a dead person in front? Crying so sadly."

Qi Zhong pushed Mu Yun's shoulder, motioning him to lean forward.

Mu Yun didn't like a scene that was too lively, so he stopped after taking two small steps.

At this time, the people next to him noticed the state of the two of them, and the accompanying child laughed softly: "Look, mother, this brother is so lazy, such a big man, he still needs to be carried on his back..."

"Then you can't imitate him, lazybones..."

After a question and an answer, the two blushed immediately after listening to it.

Qi Zhong hurriedly said in a low voice: "Quick, let me down quickly."

"That's exactly what I mean." Mu Yun let him go gently.

Qi Zhong stood up as if nothing had happened, his expression became normal again.

At this time, a shout came: "Rogue Qi."

Qi Zhong turned his head and saw that it was Min Zhi, so he smiled dryly.

"Where did you go? No one was seen early in the morning."

"Uh……"

Min Zhi couldn't help lowering her head again, and said in surprise, "Wow, why did you come to the street without your shoes on?"

"Shoes, the shoes got lost by themselves."

Min Zhi laughed out loud, curled his lips, and didn't ask any more questions.

"What happened in front? There are a lot of people around." Qi Zhong asked.

"I don't know, I just came here too. It seems that the bride who had a family to marry died."

Min Zhi truthfully reported the information he had.

Qi finally thought about it, and asked again: "Do you still have the peanuts I ate last night? I'll ask you to bring me some more."

Min Zhi was speechless for a moment: "Who would give you these things? You're so bored all day long."

"Hey you, of course I'm useful, hum, forget it."

Just as he was about to withdraw his hand and come back, a small bag of peanuts was safely placed in Qi Zhong's hand. Qi Zhong looked at him in surprise: "Damn, I knew you cared about me the most."

Min Zhi didn't expect Mu Yun to have peanuts, so he glanced at the two of them strangely, coughed, and asked, "What do you want peanuts for? There's no liquor sellers around here."

Without answering, Qi Zhong snorted softly, poured out all the peanuts in his pocket, then threw them into the air, and instantly turned into rain of money, and then shouted: "Money is falling from the sky, pick it up quickly."

Hearing this, a bunch of people who were still chattering and discussing all looked at the sky, immediately smiled and scattered to pick up money.

Only then did Min Zhi understand what he was doing, and with a little trick, he greeted these blocked people.

The three of them walked to the front and saw the corpse of a woman in a red wedding dress parked at the door of that family's house. She had a fair complexion and red lips with makeup, and it seemed that she had died not long ago.

The two old people around her were already in tears. The groom came in a hurry and sat down on the ground, and a group of maids and women were also sobbing.

"My daughter, why did you go like this?"

The old woman sitting on the ground beat her chest and stamped her feet, in pain and anger.

"It's all you, why are you so concerned? Everyone in the town knows it, and they all know that they can't make it public. It's you, you killed my daughter..."

The old woman jumped up and ran over to beat the groom, but the groom didn't fight back, his expression was numb.But the old man at the side hurriedly told the old woman to stop, and the housekeeper on the groom's side also came to stop her.

"Master, master, let's go back."

The butler pulled him, but he didn't move, he just looked at the bride's body without moving.In the end, he could only sigh, and stood helplessly aside.

"Hey, it's really pitiful." Min Zhi regretted.

Qi Zhong stepped forward to pat the butler, hooked his hands, and motioned for him to take a step to speak.

"Who are you? What can I do for you?"

Coming to a secluded alley, the butler asked strangely.

Qi Zhong asked: "What's going on over there? How can a happy event suddenly turn into a funeral? Is it because you didn't choose the right date?"

"Oh, foreigners, don't ask about this matter. Anyway, if you want to get married, you can keep it as secret as you can. Otherwise, it will be like this today."

The butler understood that these people were curious, so he didn't say much, but just wanted to dismiss them earlier, so he finished vaguely.

"Listen to you, is there any curse in this town? So you can't do marriage?"

"I don't know, you should find out elsewhere."

"We are cultivators from Shangjiang, and we have dealt with many strange things. You might as well tell us the origin of the matter, and maybe there is a remedy."

Qi Zhong stopped him again and continued to ask questions.

"Everyone is dead, what else can we do? Hey, I'm used to you liars. Don't be ridiculous. Shangjiang is where the gods stay. The gods don't care about our lives. Let's go."

The butler looked disgusted, didn't believe what they said, and waved them away.

"Please stay still. We are indeed tourists who have just arrived in Liuxi Town. Just now, I saw that the deceased's face was normal, but there was a little evil spirit lingering around him. It didn't look like an ordinary sudden death. What's so strange about it?"

Mu Yun called the man to stop, the butler's face changed when he heard the word evil spirit, and then he looked back at them carefully, his eyes became more hesitant.

"This……"

"Yeah, if you don't tell me, we won't be able to help you. I think you are already old. If you have children, you will have to get married in the future. If you don't solve it now, you will have to worry about it in the future."

Qi Zhong added.

The old housekeeper compromised: "Hey, let me tell you. This Liuxi Town is a historical town. Our ancestors have lived here for generations, and nothing strange has happened. But in the past two years, I don't know what happened. Whenever When someone’s family wants to hold a wedding banquet, one of the two families must die suddenly for no reason, we call this a new marriage evil here, and we have to admit it when it is held, there is no way to explain it.”

Qi Zhong pinched his chin and repeated: "Newly married?"

"So it's this." Min Zhi had the answer in his heart.

"you know?"

Min Zhi nodded: "It's a kind of number, it may be the numerology of the newlyweds, or it may be the time and space, but these are generally rare, and before the wedding, they will first divination to calculate whether there is Ma Yisha, the newlyweds It is possible for evil to happen, and then the marriage date can be staggered, or if you don’t get married, at least there is no danger to your life. But the kind of unacceptable things he mentioned, and it happens very frequently, I have never seen. "

"This heroine is right, it's just so strange. In the past two years, I have consulted many magicians to check Feng Shui and they all said that the weather is good, but I just don't know why this kind of thing happens all the time. People in the town Gradually, the marriage is no longer publicized, and it will be fine if it is quietly married, but today my head of the family didn't know why it happened."

The butler shook his head helplessly.

"Is there any difference between this dead family and the one that was quietly married before?" Qi Zhong asked again.

"No. They didn't do the wedding, but the bride insisted on wearing a wedding dress. I just went to the tailor shop to get it last night and sent it to her later. I didn't expect that she would die as soon as she put it on, and it was only in the morning." Discover."

The housekeeper sighed again: "There is no solution to this conflict, and it has already made people uneasy. The most special point is that often only one of them dies, and the other must live well. For the rest of his life, he must not remarry or remarry, otherwise his family will be affected. ah."

"Is there such a follow-up?"

Min Zhi was a little surprised, she thought she knew a lot of secrets about Dijiang.

"Maybe it's not some evil spirit, but it's not impossible for some evil spirit to cause trouble."

Qi Zhong thought for a while, then grabbed the butler again, and asked, "By the way, let me ask you another question. Last night we passed the three-way intersection outside the town and found two actors dancing under the old willow tree. You know What's the matter?"

The housekeeper's face changed suddenly when he heard this, and he said in horror: "You are really bold, no one dares to go down that road anymore, just because they are afraid of seeing that thing."

"Huh? What is it?"

"There are two jars buried under the willow tree. There are dirty things in the jars. Once the moon is full, they will come out to make trouble."

The butler shook his head, his hairs trembling.

"Who buried it there? Why didn't you find someone to save it? And leave it there to harm people?" Qi Zhong was even more suspicious.

"No relatives and no reason, who would be taken advantage of by this? There are many foreigners in the town, and naturally there are many people who died from other places. I'm used to it."

"Hey, the stranger is such a poor existence."

Qi Zhong shook his head and sighed.