The fog seemed thicker in the dark night.

The blood-red welcoming team loomed in the night, and the shrill sound of suona pierced the night, making people feel horrified.

Fusu sat on a maroon horse in front of the team. The horse looked tall and majestic, but when the horse's hooves fell to the ground, there was no sound.

His face was a little pale, and there was still a habitual smile on the corner of his mouth, but his eyes were chaotic.

"Eldest son..."

Wang Mang just wanted to go forward, but was held back by Ruan Tao.

"Don't act rashly!" Ruan Tao said with a serious face, "This thing is too fierce!"

Ghosts are the result of human resentment, except when the underworld is under the control of the underworld, they will not appear in groups except in the seasons of Zhongyuan and Qingming.

Even in seasons like Qingming and the Central Court, they just get together to catch up with the day, there will be no intersection with each other, and everyone will go back to the underworld after receiving their share of offerings.

Ruan Tao had never heard of a group of little ghosts and zombies being sent by a ghost like the one in front of him.

The scene in front of him has never been seen in his master, grandma, or even the pile of ancient books including his master.

As a non-underworld official, able to drive so many ghosts to work for her...

A drop of cold sweat ran across Ruan Tao's forehead, the cultivation level of this ghost is probably before Liu Zhao's, and it is comparable to Hu Chang who has now swallowed Liu Zhao's Neidan!

This is definitely not something he can solve with a half-pot of water and two little boys who don't know anything.

Even if all the blood of the three of them is drained, it is estimated that a few hairs of her hair will be burned at most.

Ruan Tao is puzzled now, what did he and the eldest son do that day?Actually attracted such a fierce thing?

Wang Mang, who was stopped, glanced at Ruan Tao, and finally he was obedient and did not act rashly.

He is not an impulsive character. He has been in the officialdom for so many years and understands the meaning of the words "judging the situation". At this time, they can only choose to listen to Ruan Tao's words, and they have no other choice.

The three of them stood in place, watching the changes.

Following behind the groom and the person playing musical instruments in the front row, the eight people carrying the bridal sedan chair had stiff limbs, dark green skin, and straight arms, moving forward by jumping and jumping.

"jingle--!"

"jingle--!"

"jingle--!"

The person who carried the sedan chair jumped forward, and the silver bell on the sedan chair rang along with it.

Behind the sedan chair followed a group of children, all dressed in red auspicious uniforms, with buns on their heads, bouncing along with the team.

As he walked, he sang creepy ballads.

The singing children's faces were pale, but their cheeks were painted like monkey butts by rouge, their scarlet mouths were split into the same arc, and their little heads swayed rhythmically with the singing.

The surrounding fog seemed to be much thicker, and the welcoming team was getting closer and closer to them, and a sweet and rotten stench began to linger at the tip of their noses.

"Brother Ji Zhen..." Wang Mang couldn't help but tugged on Ruan Tao's sleeves. At this time, even though he was the powerful prime minister in the court, he made countless amazing objects and things, and met many people. A scene never seen in this lifetime.

Naturally, it's not like he hasn't seen those murderous and bloody things before.

However, this is the first time he has actually seen this kind of thing in front of him. He used to watch it in horror movies and listen to the supernatural anecdotes from others.

In this way, he couldn't help being nervous.

The dense fog seems to drill into the bone marrow of a person, and it is so cold that people can't help but shiver.

Ruan Tao patted his hand gently to show comfort.

After all, the other party's psychological age is several years younger than his own, and he is a child who grew up under the red flag, and it is the first time he has seen such a scene.

In the darkness of night, this scarlet swaying wedding reception team looked extraordinarily eerie and treacherous.

"Where are they taking the eldest son?" Du Zimei asked in a low voice.

"Get married." Ruan Tao's eyes darkened, "Now that we have brought the newlyweds there, naturally we are going to pay homage."

"Get married? Where are you going to get married in the wilderness?" Wang Mang asked puzzled.

What Wang Mang said was reasonable, this ghost lady made such a big gesture, she was also a bridal sedan chair and a flower girl, so she couldn't just find a remote place and get things done.

It stands to reason that yin marriages are held either in one's own wedding hall or temple, or under nine yin trees such as willows and pagoda trees.

However, they saw this wilderness along the way, and most of the trees on this hill were yellow pines. Where did the ghost willows come from?

Ruan Tao suddenly remembered something: "When we came, did we see a mountain temple over there?"

Du Zimei was stunned, and then recalled carefully: "Yes! Although it is far away, you can see the lights on the mountainside. It is reasonable to say that there will be no people living there, so it should be a temple!"

Ruan Tao thought for a moment, then said to the two people beside him, "Let's go! Let's go to the mountain temple!"

"What are you going there for?" Wang Mang asked puzzled.

Go seek the blessing of the mountain god, and let the mountain god come forward to deal with that ghost lady?Is this possible?Does Ruan Jizhen really think she is the reincarnation of Avalokitesvara?

Thinking of this, Wang Mang's eyes flashed, his eyelids drooped, and in the end he didn't say anything, and silently followed Ruan Tao towards the mountain temple.

The three of them groped all the way back, and when they got back to a fork in the road, they saw the place with lights on the mountainside.

The pitch-black mountain tops, the endless wilderness, and the flickering light did not make people feel at ease, but instead made people feel that it was like a trap of a demon, and they dare not approach easily.

"Are we really going?" Wang Mang asked cautiously.

"Is Wang Xiang afraid? It's too late to go back now." Ruan Tao persuaded.

Du Zimei ran with him several times, so he was not worried about Zimei's situation.

But Wang Xiang is different. Even if the person in front of him is the chosen one, he will definitely be able to save the day if he encounters danger, but he, Ruan Taoji, will probably be charged with persecuting an important official of the court after persecuting the eldest son.

Ruan Tao looked at the sky helplessly, the way of heaven is often so unfair.

"Brother Ji Zhen must have underestimated Wang." Wang Mang took a few deep breaths, pretending to be calm.

Seeing this, Ruan Tao raised his eyebrows: "Xiang Wang is worthy of being a high official!"

After all, several people headed towards the halfway up the mountain in the night.

**

Zhao Mansion:

At this time, the sky was completely dark, Ruan Ji and Ji Kang's cheeks hurt from playing the suona, they packed up their things, and just lay down on the couch after bathing, when someone knocked on the courtyard door.

At that time, Ruan Ji was lying on the couch fanning the people around him, and the light veil on the bed fluttered gently with the breeze.

Ji Kang half-lyed with his eyes closed, feeling the slight cool breeze from the people around him, mixed with the fragrance of the grass and trees in the yard, he was already half asleep, but he didn't want to be awakened by a knock on the door.

He frowned slightly, but he never opened his eyes, but turned over and said: "Are they here to use their own methods to treat their own body?"

Ruan Ji rolled his eyes: "If he has the ability, he will knock here all night."

Hearing this, Ji Kang opened his eyes and looked at the people around him a little amusedly, he stretched out his hand to tuck up a strand of long hair that fell on the chest of the people around him, and said with a smile: "There are many families, and we take turns going to night, can we bear it?"

"It's a big deal, I won't sleep tonight." Ruan Ji said with a smile as he held the other party's hand.

After a while, the knocking on the door stopped, and it should be the waiter who served tea in the courtyard opened the door to the outside.

The two of them paused and listened with their ears upright, but the distance was too far and they didn't hear anything.

After a while, the waiter serving tea knocked on the door of the two of them: "Two gentlemen, Eunuch Zhao said that he has some important matters to discuss with you, so please come to Xitai Pavilion to discuss."

"Tell Eunuch Zhao that we are tired today and we don't see any guests." Ruan Ji raised his voice.

Hearing this, the corner of the servant's mouth twitched slightly.

my sir!This is the Zhao Mansion, to be precise, you two are the guests!

He came to Shangjun from the middle of Beijing with the eldest son, and he has seen a lot of the market, so he naturally knows the personalities of the two gentlemen in the house, which is not what ordinary people think of.

only……

The waiter knocked on the door again, somewhat confused: "Sir! Eunuch Zhao must invite the two gentlemen to go."

"Tell Eunuch Zhao that even if His Majesty comes at this moment, the two of us will go to bed too," Ruan Ji said.

"Eunuch Zhao said it was about Mr. Ruan," said the servant.

Ruan Ji was lying down at first, but when he heard this, he sat up and said dissatisfiedly, "Isn't he locked up in the Yamen of the prefect's mansion? What's the matter? He's going to pull him out tonight and kill him for the two of us to see?"

These words are really harsh, Eunuch Zhao is an old man beside His Majesty, even the maids in the palace dare not offend the existence, if others say such sarcastic words, people's jaws will surely drop!

However, it doesn't seem so surprising for the gentleman in the room to say it. After all, everyone in the world knows his rampant personality, and even His Majesty condones him somewhat.

The little waiter twitched his brows, thinking of what the little eunuch said to him just now, the hearts of those who heard it jumped sharply, I wonder if everyone with the surname Ruan is like this

Said: "No! It's Mr. Ruan who escaped from prison."

"?!!"

Hearing this, the two people on the couch were all taken aback.

The two pairs of dazzlingly beautiful eyes looked at each other for a moment, and laughed at the same time.

"It's really your cousin!" Ji Kang sat up, leaned against the head of the bed, and said with a smile.

Ruan Ji's smile became more meaningful. Originally, he was just here to join in the fun, but he never thought that this little Guanyin in their family was really constantly surprising people.

Losing the eldest son and crossing the Qin prison, does he know how much it will cost?How many people would never dare to think about this?

At such a young age, what he did was really ridiculous.

"You're still laughing, I'm going to be punished by the nine tribes." Ruan Ji said with his arms around the waist of the person beside him.

"My surname is not Ruan, so I'm happy to watch the excitement." Ji Kang joked.

"Ready to stand on the dry shore?" Ruan Ji lowered his head, and the two of them touched their foreheads and touched their noses lightly, "The little Guanyin will naturally move the genealogy when he comes back. I will quietly add your name to it while my father is not paying attention. Let's see if you can keep watching this excitement."

The night wind blows from the window, making the veils fly wildly.

On the couch, two handsome men hugged each other and sat at the head of the bed, their intertwined breath was much hotter than the night wind blowing into the room.

"Okay!" Ji Kang pushed the person who was hugging him, and said, "Stop hugging me, it's so hot! Let's go and have a look, we can't really watch you being punished by the nine clans, can we?"

As he spoke, he chuckled lightly: "This little Guanyin is really courageous. It's even worse than when you refused to marry the princess before."

Ruan Ji smiled and took the robes of the two of them: "As the saying goes, young people are awesome!"

**

A sheep intestine path goes straight to the middle of the mountain, the path is covered with long sand, Artemisia argyi is like hemp, and the whole sky is as dark as a chime.

Several people drove the wormwood with sticks all the way, and the night dew covered their robes finally came to the mountain temple.

The temple is not big, and it looks like it has been abandoned for a long time.

The gate of the temple is slanted and tilted to one side. Outside the temple are ruins and broken tiles, and the courtyard is full of weeds and gravel.

The night was very quiet, so quiet that I didn't even hear the chirping of insects in this summer.

After entering the small temple, Ruan Tao looked around the inner room full of dust and cobwebs.

Entering the temple, one can see an unrecognizable statue of a deity on a dilapidated wooden altar table, a red candle is lit on each candlestick on both sides, and the swaying flame illuminates the mottled and hideous murals around. Added a touch of chill to the night.

There are mottled rubble on the top of the head, and a tattered, colorless silk can be seen hanging on the beam. I don’t know which poor person who has nowhere to go hangs the southeast branch here.

"It should have been deserted for a long time, and the surrounding villagers don't seem to come to worship. So, who lit the candles?" Du Zimei asked puzzled.

"Who else ordered it? They are going to get married, so they can't have wedding candles?" Ruan Tao smiled teasingly.

He then said it was all right, why did the ghost kidnap the eldest son?Was he here to be the groom?

Never thought that Daqin's eldest son would be reduced to a day when he would fly side by side with lonely ghosts. I don't know what will happen to him when he wakes up, or what will everyone in the court look like when they learn about it?

I have to say, this ghost lady has really good eyesight!

There were so many handsome young gentlemen on the night of the Chinese Valentine's Day, and she picked up the one with the highest status just by picking it up!

Ruan Tao asked Du Zimei beside him, "Is everything ready?"

"It's ready!" Du Zimei nodded.

He handed the burden in his hand to Ruan Tao, which he prepared according to what Ruan Tao said these days.

In order to avoid Eunuch Zhao's eyes and ears, he did not hesitate to use his own reputation, and thanks to the girl Xu Yu in Qinxiang Pavilion for helping him hide it for so many days.

These absurd things were reported back to Beijing to let his grandfather know, but he still doesn't know how to punish him!

Thinking of this, Du Zimei swallowed a bitter tear in her heart.

Wang Mang looked curiously at the bundle in Ruan Tao's hand, and saw that Ruan Tao took out paper figurines one after another from the bundle and put them on the ground.

Some paper figurines are simply cut out of paper, some are tied with bamboo strips, and paper is pasted on them. The movements of the paper figurines are also different, some are lying down, some are standing.

The snow-white paper figurines were neatly placed in a row on the dusty ground, looking terrified.

Ruan Tao ignited the fox fire in his palm, twisted a beeswax bead full of charms painted with cinnabar, threw it into the fox fire in his palm, and then blew on the paper figurine in front of him!

Bits of streamer blew from the flames towards the paper figurine in front of him, and for a while the paper figurine in front of him seemed to be alive.

One by one, they stood up on the ground, bent over and stretched their legs, and ran towards the outside of the temple with childish laughter.

Seeing this, both Wang Mang and Du Zimei couldn't help being dumbfounded.

"Could it be that you are really the reincarnation of Avalokitesvara?" Wang Mang exclaimed.

Ruan Tao chuckled and didn't answer. Speaking of which, these two people can be regarded as peers in the true sense.

Then he stood up from the ground, looked at the paper figurine who had disappeared into the night and said, "Okay! Let's hide here now and wait for the welcoming team to arrive."

"Are you sure they will come?" Wang Mang held Ruan Tao's arm and asked, "What if we guessed wrong and they didn't come, but instead took the eldest son to some graveyard and devoured him alive? What should I do?"

"Originally, I was only [-]% sure, but after seeing this pair of red candles, I was sure." Ruan Tao said.

"Is there any difference to the red candle?" Du Zimei was puzzled.

"Smell it carefully," Ruan Tao said.

Du Zimei leaned in and smelled a fishy-sweet scent from the tip of her nose, with an indescribable smell of corruption.

He frowned slightly: "This is?"

Ruan Tao replied: "Corpse wax."

Hearing this, Du Zimei shuddered, and quickly took two steps back, away from the candle.

Ruan Tao raised the corners of his mouth in a mischievous manner, and said to Wang Mang behind him, "Guess why it's red?"

Du Zimei tightened Ruan Tao's arm: "Dad! Don't scare me!"

Ruan Tao laughed a few times, and then said seriously: "Wait for the welcoming team to arrive in a while, we'll go up and snatch the bride, and we'll run away if we snatch the groom!"

Ruan Tao warned: "I can't afford to offend that ghost who has practiced for hundreds of years, and there are so many little ghosts and indolent ghosts around him. Otherwise, if you really haven't touched a girl in your life, you will have to break here!"

"This... how to grab it?" Du Zimei was a little confused, "Let's run away with the eldest son in our arms? Although the eldest son is handsome, he is more than eight feet and one inch tall. Just because the three of us can carry the eldest son and retreat successfully?"

"Of course not by force."

As he said that, Ruan Tao took out the last paper figurine from his sleeve, which was different from other paper figurines—there were many robes, crowns, and waistbands.

The robe and crown were painted red with cinnabar, and Bai Sensen's face was also dotted with cinnabar.

Ruan Tao was very meticulous. Although his craftsmanship was not comparable to those of the superb paper maker, he could tell he was a bridegroom official.

"At that time, let's exchange this for the eldest son." Ruan Tao said.

Du Zimei looked at the paper figurine in front of her in surprise: "You made this? It doesn't look any worse than the masters you asked me to find!"

"People who eat our food have to know a little bit of this kind of craft." After speaking, Ruan Tao took out two more talisman papers from his pocket.

He stretched out his fingertips, and one sheet dripped with a cluster of dark green fox fire, then wrapped it into a triangle shape and handed it to the two people in front of him respectively.

"When the time comes, after stealing the eldest son back, swallow this talisman paper, and let's leave here quickly," Ruan Tao said.

Wang Mang frowned, looking at the triangular talisman paper bag wrapped in a cluster of flames in his hand, but it was neither hot nor burnt: "If you eat it, she won't notice us?"

"This is the transfiguration talisman I drew out with the help of Senior Hu Chang. Because Hu Chang is the body of a fox, we can transform into a fox after swallowing it." Ruan Tao explained, "The ghost lady will only If we are beasts in the mountains, they shouldn't make things difficult for us, we should just run away!"

"Fox?!" Wang Mang and Du Zimei said in surprise at the same time.

Ruan Tao nodded: "I figured this out in the past few days. I tried it myself, and I can only manage it for an hour. So we must escape into Dongping Gate from here within an hour."

How many days?It turns out that this person has been squatting in the prison of the Yamen in the past few days and has not been idle.

Drawing talismans, writing seal characters, making paper, and Du Zimei have done so many things!

Wang Mang looked at the young man in front of him in surprise, and then the corner of his mouth hooked up slightly without a trace.

That's it!

He gave up using science to explain the principles, and tonight allowed him to betray his materialistic worldview.

At this time, only the faint sound of suona in the distance can be heard outside.

Ruan Tao hurriedly said, "Hurry up! Hide!"

**

Zhaofu Xitai Pavilion.

This place was originally used to listen to the snow and enjoy the rain in the backyard of the Zhao Mansion. It has always been a leisurely place, but the atmosphere here tonight is particularly heavy.

Inside the pavilion, Luo Qi is still light and jade smoke is curling up, and all the guests are full of tea, melons and fruits, but the expressions on their faces are different, and each of them has their own calculations in their eyes.

Zhao Gao sat on the right side of the main seat, Kong Ming and Li Taibai sat opposite him, and sat on the left side of the main seat.

Sitting next to Zhao Gao was a group of people dressed in blue robes, wearing jade lotus crowns, and holding whisks. This was Zhuo Lingge's attire, but among them was a man wearing a green veil, which was particularly eye-catching.

Wu Taishou was holding tea and sitting beside Li Taibai, it can be said that the difference is clear.

"Why don't Mr. Ruan and Ji disappear?" Zhao Gao raised his voice, his voice was slightly shrill.

"This……"

The little eunuch next to Zhao Gao was just trying to say something in Zhao Gao's ear when someone outside the door said loudly:

"Trouble Eunuch Zhao for thinking about it, aren't we here right now?"

Everyone heard the reputation and looked around, only to see two long and tall men stepping in the door, both of them had their hair loose and their robes unbuttoned, with a flirtatious attitude.

Ruan Ji and Ji Kang were seated together, and Prefect Wu raised a teacup to greet them, "Ruan Bubing, Ji Zhongsan."

Ruan Ji and Ji Kang nodded to Prefect Wu.

Zhao Gao pretended to cough, "Where is Prime Minister Wang?"

The little eunuch next to him quickly said: "Go back to Godfather, the little servant in Wang Xiang's courtyard said that Wang Xiang just went to Mr. Du with a box of things. It's just that the little one went to Mr. Du's courtyard again, and the little eunuch in Mr. Du's courtyard The waiter said, Mr. Du was still taking a bath in the wing room in the courtyard just now, when he turned his head and saw Wang Xiang go in, the two of them were still talking, for some reason, they disappeared together."

Hearing this, Zhao Gao made a startled look: "Could it be that Wang Xiang and Mr. Du are also involved with that monster?!"

"Monster?" Li Taibai also made a puzzled look, "Where did the demon come from? Why didn't Zhuoling Pavilion go through the formalities all the time, so he didn't care about the safety of the eldest son, so he went to investigate some unwarranted demon?"

"Master Li, be careful!" Zhao Gao hurriedly said, "Master Li speaks empty words, how can he slander all the immortal families in Zhuoling Pavilion!"

"Eunuch Zhao Gao doesn't care about the eldest son's whereabouts, how can he turn into a monster with empty teeth?" Li Bai choked.

"Huh!" Zhao Gao put the teacup in his hand heavily on the table and made a "dong" sound, "Ruan Jizhen disappeared into the prison of the prefect's yamen out of thin air. Disappear out of thin air?!"

"The demon said that the disappearance of the eldest son has nothing to do with Qi, why is he fleeing in fear of crime?!"

As he said that, Zhao Gao jumped up excitedly: "Just now I took the gentlemen from Zhuoling Pavilion to the place where Ruan Jizhen was imprisoned, and they all said that there were traces of casting demons! It's true, the eldest son was arrested Killed by this monster!"

"Eunuch Zhao!" At this time, Kong Ming, who had been silent all this time, spoke, his face still had his usual indifferent and elegant smile, but his gentle tone made people shudder. Do you know that the eldest son was killed?"

Without waiting for Zhao Gaoduo to say more, Kong Ming said loudly: "Remember! On the tenth day of the seventh lunar month in the year of Zixu, the eldest son Fusu's whereabouts are unknown. Zhao Gao, the order of the Zhongche Mansion in the palace, asserted that the eldest son has passed away!"

"Yes!"

At this time, people discovered that a table had been set up behind the curtain at some time, and a person was sitting on the bank, holding a pen in his hand, and was memorizing Zhao Gao's words just now.

Kong Ming smiled calmly and said, "This is Mr. Gan Menggan, the foreign minister. He happened to come to Shangjun with Mr. Ruan and Mr. Ji. Liang thought that it was a big deal for the eldest son to be involved in this matter, so he asked Mr. Gan to listen and record me. Wait for words and deeds."

"If your majesty asks about the crime in the future, there will be evidence to rely on; or if future generations have doubts about this matter, there will be history to check. What are you, Eunuch Zhao?" Kong Ming's smile is as bright as the moon.

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Taibai laughed loudly and unceremoniously.

But Zhao Gao's originally pale complexion instantly turned green and white, white and green again.

Everyone in the room couldn't help but get chills down their backs, Ruan Ji whispered to the people around him: "Brother Kong Ming is still so cunning after all these years, look at that Eunuch Zhao is so angry that the powder on his face is almost shaking off."

Ji Kangqing coughed, but did not speak.

If you talk about the people around the eldest son, this little fox is the most difficult to deal with. He is full of bad water at such a young age!

Zhao Gao tried his best to maintain his demeanor, gritted his teeth and said, "Lord Zhuge, you are really thoughtful."

Kong Ming said calmly: "Eunuch Zhao is absurd."

Zhao Gao's eyes are full of killing intent, just wait!Being too smart at a young age is not necessarily a good thing.

Afterwards, Zhao Gaolang said in a loud voice: "Lord Gan! Remember! The demon Ruan Taoyue went over the Qin Prison and persecuted the eldest son! Zhuo Ling Pavilion will find his trace tonight, and he will be punished!"

The author says:

There is no other person like me in Jinjiang. After finishing writing, I fell asleep very peacefully. When I woke up the next morning to go to the toilet, I realized that I was not a stupid author who sent the update at all...

感谢在2021-08-1722:49:49~2021-08-1806:46:37期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

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Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!

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