Well of Mystery

After dinner, Bai Xiuqi brought up the matter of inviting everyone in the apartment to dinner again in a discussion tone.Jiang Chenglu immediately stood in the perspective of an expert and began to criticize and educate him cordially.

The main part of the education is that the so-called "treat" is more than just rushing to the supermarket to buy a lot of ingredients.

"When you're shopping, have you thought about how to mix meat and vegetables, and what dishes to cook?"

Bai Xiuqi was silent for a second, and gave up the idea of ​​sophistry: "No."

"Have you ever wondered what kind of food needs to be cooked in what kind of container?"

"No."

"Then have you ever thought about how many hours in advance the bought ingredients need to be processed and..."

"No, no, none!"

Bai Xiuqi rushed to answer, as if the villain would sue first: "Don't ask, just tell me what to do!"

Jiang Chenglu was waiting for his words, and immediately threw the paper and pen over: "Let's make a recipe, first write down the dishes and seasonings you bought today, and then arrange and combine the dishes you want I'll check it later."

This trick was really useful, Bai Xiuqi flicked his brush, and after a few minutes, he handed over a note full of writing.

Just as Jiang Chenglu wanted to praise him for his "decisiveness in killing and attacking", he picked up the note and glanced at it before being embarrassed: "What is this? Yipin Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, Wensi Tofu, Pagoda Meat...you can do it?!"

"Isn't there still you?" Bai Xiuqi replied as a matter of course.

"This... I can't figure it out either."

With that said, Jiang Chenglu ran to the bedside to search again, and found a hardcover notebook with a yellowed cover from under the bed and put it in front of Bai Xiuqi.

"This is the recipe left by your grandfather. I'll give you a reference. It's not recommended that you choose one with too many words. Show me after you've chosen."

"Trouble!" Although he muttered reluctantly, Bai Xiuqi obediently took the notebook and opened it.Lines of powerful pen characters with a few simple but vivid illustrations are indeed grandfather's handwriting.

If this cookbook were sent to the auction house, it should fetch a price of more than one million yuan, but now it was casually stuffed under the bed by Jiang Chenglu.Thinking of this, Bai Xiuqi suddenly felt a little annoyed.

But obviously, even being stuffed under the bed by Jiang Chenglu is more meaningful than being put away by a certain collector.

In this way, he flipped through and looked at, picking and choosing seven or eight dishes that seemed to be fairly close to the people, and especially took pictures of the recipes and so on with his mobile phone.Seeing that it was rare for him to be so attentive, Jiang Chenglu found an excuse and ran outside.

It was getting late outside, but the lights inside were not turned on.After about half an hour or so, the light was no longer enough to illuminate the old paper and handwriting.Bai Xiuqi rubbed her eyes a few times, but in the end she couldn't resist the power of sleepiness, fell on the table and fell into a short, unsteady sleep.

It was a bit of a shame that his light sleep was interrupted after only 10 minutes.

Bai Xiuqi was woken up.

When I opened my eyes, the room was already pitch black.But the soul fire outside the corridor was "resplendent and resplendent".Not only that, the Xuanjing apartment, which was always very quiet in the past, was filled with countless noisy sounds, as if all the rooms up, down, front, back, left, and right were suddenly full of people.

Could it be that the soul fire was released again? !

Bai Xiuqi's drowsiness had already been frightened away. He took off the note sticking to his face, grabbed the crutch beside him, stood up, moved out little by little, and came to the edge of the corridor railing to look out.

It's so colorful.

Bai Xiuqi suddenly remembered what he saw underwater when he was diving in Pattaya a few years ago—clumps of colorful, long and short corals clinging to the reefs, forming seabed gardens.The sun shines through the clear shallow sea, as if these corals can emit all kinds of colorful light.

In front of him, under the night as deep as sea water, the Xuanjing Apartment in the darkness just looks like a huge underwater reef.And the colorful soul fire seemed to be more dazzling than the previous nights, like clumps of strange huge corals.

However, unlike the thousand-year silence at the bottom of the sea, the soul fires are still making different sounds at this moment.

Bai Xiuqi listened attentively, he heard laughter, crying, singing, clapping, talking to himself and roaring.And those who made these voices were men and women, and some even spoke foreign languages ​​that he couldn't understand.

He followed the sound and raised his head little by little.Above the seven-story building of the apartment building, a full moon is rising from the east.

Is this the power of the full moon that Jiang Chenglu said before?

Bai Xiuqi was startled for a few seconds, and then began to look for Qi Jiang Chenglu's whereabouts.

There was no one in the compound, and there seemed to be no lights on in the rented apartments up and down.Bai Xiuqi was wondering where everyone had gone, when he suddenly remembered his cell phone.

After dialing the number, the waiting time for the call was a bit long.But it didn't matter, because he could already hear the default ringtone of his new phone ringing directly above his head.

"Hello." After five seconds, the call was finally connected, and Jiang Chenglu asked him in turn: "How is it, the menu is ready?"

"It's almost there." Bai Xiuqi nodded and asked again, "Can I come up?"

"...Well, come on."

After receiving an affirmative answer, Bai Xiuqi went upstairs on crutches.As soon as he stepped through the iron gate, he saw Jiang Chenglu standing at the entrance of the corridor waiting for him, holding a paper bag in his hand, filled with handfuls of incense sticks.

"This is a homework that must be done once a month, and it is actually very interesting."

Bai Xiuqi followed Jiang Chenglu along the corridor, and those colorful soul fires were shining in the room about one meter to his left.He heard a childish voice reciting nursery rhymes in the first room, and another old man seemed to be trying to figure out the formula of some Chinese herbal medicine.During the period, there was also the sound of playing an instrument similar to the erhu.

In a blink of an eye, Jiang Chenglu was already standing in front of the third door. He took out a handful of incense sticks from the paper bag in his hand and lit them with a lighter. After shaking off the open flame, he slowly inserted it into the crack of the door.

Strange to say, in the next second, the rustling sound in this room disappeared.There was obviously no wind around, but the white smoke emitted by burning incense sticks did not rise in a straight line, but turned around and floated into the crack of the door—as if someone was hiding behind the door and sucking.

"Remember the Hutian I told you about before?"

Seeing Bai Xiuqi's astonished expression, Jiang Chenglu took the initiative to explain: "Usually, these tenants hide in their own Hutian to practice. But even if they hibernate in the Hutian, they still need to replenish their energy. Every full moon night, it is They wake up from hibernation, and it's time to replenish their energy."

Jiang Chenglu said that every night when the moon is full, several tenants of Xuanjing would help him to place incense in so many rooms of the apartment.So it doesn't take much time.

While speaking, he inserted three cracks in the door, and was about to go forward when he heard a voice from inside the door stop him.

"Is it Ah Jiang...?"

"It's me, Uncle Yun." Jiang Chenglu nodded with a smile, "Is the incense you like today? It's a new variety from the Wei family."

"I just said why the taste is different." The voice seemed to take another deep breath: "The weather is hot, it's time to change to a lighter taste. Not bad, not bad."

Hearing this, Bai Xiuqi couldn't help asking: "Why is this so particular?"

"It's important to pay attention."

Jiang Chenglu chuckled, and counted with his fingers.And the guy at the door heard Bai Xiuqi's voice, and asked, "Is there anyone else with you?"

"Yes." Jiang Chenglu patted Bai Xiuqi's shoulder, and said abruptly, "My wife."

Bai Xiuqi was startled, Jiang Chenglu covered her mouth before she opened her mouth.

The voice inside the door suddenly raised its pitch: "Oh?! You are begging for a wife. Congratulations! The old man must get some presents to congratulate."

"Hey, thank you very much." Jiang Chenglu didn't refuse, and after a few casual greetings, he continued to insert his incense.

After a while, all the cracks in the doors on this floor were penetrated. He shook the lingering fragrance in the bag, threw it into a large enamel washbasin, and burned it all up.

"Let's go." After finishing these things, Jiang Chenglu clapped his hands, took Bai Xiuqi's arm and went downstairs.

"Why do you say I'm your wife?" Bai Xiuqi complained as soon as he entered the house.

"Hey, can't you?"

Jiang Chenglu washed his hands, and teased the black fish that was raised in the pool by the way: "You haven't forgotten the last time you were hit by a rouge box, have you? Those guys haven't seen strangers come up for a long time, one by two They all stretched their necks and wanted to catch you in for a taste, I am declaring ownership and saving your life, do you understand?"

"I don't understand, why don't you just say 'this is my friend, please don't make trouble with him'?"

"What? So I'm just an ordinary friend in your heart?" Jiang Chenglu immediately held his heart and pretended to be injured, his acting skills were not a little bit exaggerated.

Fortunately, Bai Xiuqi already had some immunity: "Don't be disgusting, you know what I mean."

Seeing his frown, Jiang Chenglu reluctantly became more serious: "Do you know who I was talking to just now? Tsk tsk tsk, in 755 AD, Li Longji went south to seek refuge on the road of Shu. A little eunuch stole it from the palace. The golden vessel was sealed in a jiegu, and secretly put into the ancient well of the temple to hide. Later, the wolf tooth entered the city, Chang'an was on fire, and the temple was burned. This wooden jiegu, which survived by luck, has the aura of gold, water, fire and earth. , practiced for thousands of years, and just completed the magical power... Tsk tsk tsk, and then he was caught and sent here to be locked up."

"..."

Bai Xiuqi always felt that the stories of ghosts and ghosts from Jiang Cheng's intersection always revealed such a sense of nonsense, but he endured it and asked along with him: "So what's the matter? What does it matter to us?"

"It's all about this, you still don't understand?"

Jiang Chenglu laughed a bit like a thief: "I have been in Laogu's Hutian World, and it looks like the Daming Palace. Don't you expect him to give us something as a congratulatory gift?"