Brother, why is he like this?

Cold comes and summer goes, three years pass by in a hurry.

The sky was a bit gloomy, with dark clouds pressing down low, and there were a few muffled thunders from time to time.The street was quiet, there was no one there, only some dead leaves were blown up by the wind and flew all over the sky.There are low houses all around, and there is even a dilapidated courtyard at the end of the street, with burnt marks everywhere on the ruined walls.

But beside this dilapidated courtyard, there was a big house, the gate was closed at this time, and there were two miserable white lanterns hanging on the gate, which were constantly swaying and colliding with the wind.

"It's here."

Following the voice, two people came out from the side of the house.The first man was very young, with a handsome face and a gentle temperament.Wearing a green shirt and a jade belt around his waist, he outlined a very neat figure.

The man behind is a young man, wearing a snow-white wide-sleeved gown, with a slender figure and a biting chill, which for no reason reminds people of the ice and snow on Kunlun Mountain that never melts all year round.However, the boy's eyes were covered with a white ribbon, presumably he had an eye disease, which made people sigh inwardly as a pity.

These two were exactly Shen Lingyuan and Ye Tan who had been entrusted to go down the mountain to get rid of the evil spirits.According to the jade sign, there is a small town next to Changle City called Qiandeng Town.Qiandeng Town was infested by ghosts, and three people were killed.

The strange thing is that the person who made the entrustment was not the family where Li Gui appeared, but other residents of the town.

Shen Lingyuan rarely went down the mountain in the past three years.The entrustment was assigned to Ye Tan, and he felt strange after hearing about the situation here, so he couldn't rest assured that Ye Tan was alone, so he went together.

They go to the commissioner first.However, the doors of every household in the town were closed, no one answered no matter how hard they knocked, as if no one was at home.

Shen Lingyuan couldn't, so he had to come to see the evil Gu family first.

He stepped forward and knocked on the door.

After a long time, the door creaked open, and a face was hidden in the darkness behind the door, asking hoarsely, "Who is it?"

Shen Lingyuan said: "We are members of Jianzong, and we were invited to come here to get rid of evil spirits."

A haggard old man appeared from behind the door.The old man's face was pale, his eye sockets were sunken, and he looked at Shen Lingyuan and Ye Tan with gloomy eyes: "I don't have anything in my house, you went to the wrong place." He was about to close the door.

But Shen Lingyuan couldn't help but step into the door, and said with a smile: "The dead are the most important, let's come in and burn incense for the young lady."

Ye Tan followed in.

Seeing the sword in Ye Tan's hand, the old man turned blue with anger, but he didn't dare to say anything, so he had to lead the two forward.

I saw the dead branches and fallen leaves all over the courtyard unattended, and the white mourning flags swaying in the wind, which was extremely bleak.The old man led them into a hall, but it was a mourning hall.The mourning hall was empty, only a coffin was placed in the middle, with tablets, incense tables, candles and other things in front, and an elderly woman sitting beside the coffin.

Shen Lingyuan sized up the mourning hall, turned to the old man and said, "Can I ask Master Gu to come out and see you?"

The old man said gloomyly: "I am."

The crying woman was Mrs. Gu. At this moment, when she noticed someone coming in, she looked up at Master Gu with red and swollen eyes.

Master Gu winked: "The immortals on Kunlun Mountain said they would burn incense sticks for Yan'er."

Mrs. Gu hesitated for a while, but still gave the two incense candles.

The coffin was not tightly closed, Shen Lingyuan peeped through the incense and saw a young girl lying in the coffin, her remains seemed to have been tidied up, her hair was tidy, her face was thickly smeared with powder, and there was a tearful mole under her left eye .Except for the puffy lips and bruised lips, he looked as if he was asleep.

Shen Lingyuan said: "I heard people here say that Miss Gu's soul has appeared before, I wonder if the two of you have seen it before?"

Master Gu said blankly: "No."

Shen Lingyuan then cupped his hands and said, "So, take my leave."

"Wait a minute!" Master Gu said, "Where are you two resting?"

Shen Lingyuan was surprised, but still replied: "I haven't found a resting place yet."

Master Gu smiled and said, "Why don't you just rest here for one night, and go on the road tomorrow morning."

Shen Lingyuan glanced at Ye Tan and saw that he had no objection, so he said: "Then I will bother you."

Master Gu turned around and said, "Follow me, you two." There was a gloomy smile on the corner of his mouth, which quickly disappeared again.

The two followed Mr. Gu to a room, Mr. Gu let them in, stood at the door and said, "Please wait a moment, I will ask the old lady to bring you some food."

Said and closed the door.

The room was dark.Shen Lingyuan looked at it for a moment, only to see that a thin layer of dust had accumulated on the tables and chairs.He didn't care, sat down at the table, and asked Ye Tan, "How is it?"

Ye Tan frowned and said, "The Yin Qi is wrong."

Shen Lingyuan said: "Indeed."

As soon as he entered the door, he noticed that there was no yin in Gu's house.If it was a ghost who had killed three people within seven days, it would be impossible for him to be so light.Either the ghost has disappeared, or it is not Miss Gu's ghost that is causing the trouble.After seeing Ms. Gu's body, she was even more sure. There was only a faint dead air on the body, and there was no Yin Qi.

"Then Master Gu's eyes flickered, and what he said was incomplete and untrue. What's more..."

Ye Tan said: "The evil spirit is heavy."

What's more, Mr. Gu has a very evil spirit on his body, and it is very likely that he is carrying his life on his back.The change in his attitude towards the two is also suspicious.

Could it be that the deaths of Miss Gu and the three servants in Gu's mansion are all related to Mr. Gu?

Shen Lingyuan frowned and thought.

Ye Tan frowned and sat on the other side.

Except for the frequent bouts of Shen Lingyuan's illness at the beginning, it became less and less common in the future.However, Ye Tan didn't dare to be careless, and still guarded the door from a distance every night, and didn't dare to leave too far during the day.This commission cannot be shirked, so after thinking about it, she can only ask Shen Lingyuan to accompany her for a walk.

Ye Tan's facial expression softened.It's also good to go down the mountain with my senior brother.

Not long after, Mrs. Gu pushed the door open and entered, lowered her head and set out the hot food, then walked out without a word.

Shen Lingyuan glanced at the food on the table, and said lightly: "It's poisonous. These two people really don't have good intentions."

In any case, they couldn't find anything in Gu's house for a while, so the two decided to go to the town to find someone to ask.

However, no one answered the door.

Shen Lingyuan frowned slightly.Where have all the people here gone?Could it be that something happened in a short time?

Suddenly feeling something strange behind him, Shen Lingyuan turned his head and asked, "Who?!" The Liuyun sword in Ye Tan's hand beside him had already been unsheathed, and he went behind him whistling.

Obviously being a spirit race, it is more convenient to make grass and trees, but Ye Tan has been carrying Liu Yun with him, never leaving his body for a moment.

A Yuan was hiding in a corner, and a white robe seemed to flash in the corner of his vision.In the blink of an eye, a ray of sword light came through the air, and with a bang, it stuck A Yuan's face on the pillar behind him.

A Yuan screamed, and sat down on the ground in fright, turning his head to look at the trembling sword.At the same time, a piece of blue color drifted by the side, and I saw the layered sleeves billowing like flowing clouds, but it was a man in a blue shirt flying along with the sword, standing still by his side, the hem of the clothes and the streamer on his body slowly drooping.

The man looked down and said in a clear voice, "Why are you following us?"

For a moment, A Yuan seemed to forget to breathe, and just stared at the man in a daze.

A white-clothed boy walked by, with his good-looking eyebrows frowned, pulled out the sword, and pointed the tip of the sword at A Yuan's throat: "Speak."

A Yuan swallowed, then turned to look at the man in the blue shirt who came first, grabbed his sleeve and said, "I... used to live here, and saw you coming out of that haunted house... curious to follow have a look."

"You live here?" Shen Lingyuan motioned Ye Tan to put away his sword, and he didn't care that his sleeves were dirty, he squatted down and looked at the boy sitting on the ground, and asked, "What's your name?"

Seeing Ye Tan put the sword back into its sheath, A Yuan breathed a sigh of relief: "My name is A Yuan."

Shen Lingyuan asked: "A Yuan, where have all the people in the town gone? Why is no one here?"

A Yuan said: "Yes. It's just that the town is haunted by ghosts. Everyone is afraid and dare not go out."

Shen Lingyuan said: "Aren't you afraid?"

A Yuan said indifferently: "I'm not afraid."

As soon as the words were finished, the door of the next door suddenly opened, and a woman stood in front of the door.

"Mom!" A Yuan called out to the woman.

After Shen Lingyuan reported his identity, he asked the woman about the haunting of Gu's family.

The woman seemed extremely frightened, her lips were trembling and she couldn't speak.

A Yuan snapped, "The Gu family... has ghosts."

As if responding to what A Yuan said, a gust of wind suddenly blew up on the flat ground, and the fallen leaves rolled on the ground and rolled away.The lantern hanging on the side of the road kept swaying, the candle was extinguished suddenly, and the surroundings suddenly fell into darkness, only the rustling wind and A Yuan's voice were heard.

After Mr. Gu resigned, his family moved back to their hometown and built a new house next to the old one.Master Gu often helps some homeless people, and anyone who mentions Master Gu must say a good person.Dashan has only one daughter under his knees. He was originally engaged to a young man in the capital, and he will get married this year. He was originally happy.Unexpectedly, Miss Gu fell into the water and died later, and then the old house next to Gu's house caught fire and burned to nothing.Later, it was that Miss Gu died unwillingly, and it became a rumor that a ghost was killing her.Someone saw the death of his family's servants with their own eyes. Everyone was afraid, and no one dared to come to the Gu family.

The people in the town were afraid and wanted to find someone to get rid of the evil spirits, but Mr. Gu refused, insisting that there was no haunting.Everyone forcibly invited Taoist priests to Gu's mansion to catch ghosts.The Taoist muttered something in Gu's house, and finally found a portrait of a young lady, saying that the ghost was possessed in the portrait.The Taoist practiced and burned the portrait, and no one died that night.Before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, the Taoist priest was found dead in the room, and the burnt painting was hung on the wall again.

This passage was spoken by A Yuan vividly and eeriely, as if he had witnessed it with his own eyes.

Shen Lingyuan thought to himself: Ms. Gu obviously has no resentment, so how can she talk about possessing the painting?I'm afraid that painting has another mystery.

He asked A Yuan: "Do you know what happened to those three people who died?"

A Yuan said: "There are no wounds on the body, and the body is dry, it is said that he died of being sucked in Yang Qi."

"Where is the body now?"

"It has been taken away by various families."

Shen Lingyuan had a decision in his heart, stood up and said to Ye Tan, "Let's go."

A Yuan grabbed Shen Lingyuan's sleeve again: "Hey - where are you going?"

Shen Lingyuan: "Go catch ghosts."

A Yuan: "I want to go too."

Shen Lingyuan smiled at him: "It's too dangerous, don't go, your mother will worry about you."

The woman's lips moved slightly, as if she wanted to say something, but she closed her mouth after a few mumbles.

A Yuan refused to obey, and clamored to go.

With a sound of "choking", the Liuyun sword was half out of its sheath and pressed against his throat.

A Yuan swallowed again, stopped talking, but glanced at Shen Lingyuan.

Shen Lingyuan nodded his nose and said with a smile, "Why are you so courageous?"

Then he pulled Ye Tan's wrist, and the two disappeared in place.

It was rumored that Miss Gu's soul always appeared at midnight, so they went back to the mansion and waited patiently until night, sneaking into the dead Miss Gu's boudoir.

There is a small courtyard in front of the house, and there is a small pond in the courtyard.The lotus leaves in the pond are withered and yellow, and the lotus flowers have all withered, leaving only a lotus pod standing upright.The interior of the boudoir is exquisitely furnished. There is only a carved red sandalwood bed, a large chest of huanghuali, a treasure chest and a rhombic mirror on the dressing table.

The most conspicuous thing is a painting next to the dressing table.

The woman in the painting has affectionate eyebrows and eyes, lifelike, as if she is about to step down from the painting, it is Miss Gu.

The painting is dark, but not heavy.However, there is indeed a soul attached to this painting.

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