Strange Records of Xijing

When the two came out of Deyi Building, there were still four hours before Zi Fashion.Seeing Su Yan's eyes turning blue, Pei Jingxing thought that he hadn't rested since last night, so he said, "Where do you live now? I'll look for you at Xushi. After the curfew, don't walk around casually. If you meet other Jinwu guards, you will commit a crime." It's not that simple at night."

Su Yan replied: "I'm currently living in Taixuan Temple in Jiaxingfang."

Buddhism and Taoism were very popular in the Zhou Dynasty. There are many Buddhist temples and Taoist temples in Xijing. The common people like to visit Buddhist temples on weekdays and pray for the Buddha to bless their homes and houses.

Taixuan Temple is one of them.

Chief Zhou Yu in Taixuan Temple is as famous as the national teacher. If the national teacher is an indestructible barrier for the royal family, then Zhou Yuyi is the existence that can best protect them in the hearts of the people of Xijing.

The reputation of Taixuan Guan was so great that even a person like Pei Jingxing who was not interested in Taoism had heard of it.

"Okay, I'll go to Taixuan Temple to find you in Xushi."

Su Yan was also polite, nodded, and said goodbye to Pei Jingxing, then followed the directions on the map and walked towards the direction of Taixuanguan——Xijing is very big, Su Yan is new here, it is really not easy to travel without a map.

Pei Jingxing's home is in Ankangfang, two streets away from Chunmingfang.

Seeing Pei Jingxing coming back, the guard at the gate hurried up to meet him, welcomed Pei Jingxing into the mansion, and then closed the gate.

"The young master is back, Uncle Fu, the young master is back!"

The people inside heard the boy's voice, and came out to greet him: "The young master is back, hot water is ready, young master, let's wash up first."

Pei Jingxing first put the dragon head and tiger tooth gun back into the house, took off the armor on his body, and said, "That's fine. Uncle Fu, I'm going out tonight, and I won't be coming back."

"Master, you can't do this." Uncle Fu is already in his early fifties, and his wrinkled forehead can kill flies at this time. "I don't sleep every night, and I've been haggard for three years. .”

"I didn't see that I was sick, why am I haggard?" Pei Jingxing didn't care, and comforted Uncle Fu with a smile, "Since His Majesty trusts me, I can't let His Majesty down. Those thieves come out to commit crimes at night, of course I have to pay more attention Another day, I will go to the suburbs of Beijing to hunt two deer for you, to show off my skills, so that you can rest assured."

"Farewell to the deer." Seeing that he couldn't say anything to Pei Jingxing, Uncle Fu frowned, "I'll ask someone to prepare hot water for you right now, and I won't even look at the black circles under your eyes. It's two eyes. I haven't slept in the sky. Before it's dark, the young master hastened to rest."

After finishing speaking, Uncle Fu shook his chubby belly and went out.

Pei Jingxing touched his face, hesitated for a while, then picked up the upside-down bronze mirror on the table with a slight trembling, took a deep breath, and pointed the bronze mirror to his face.

Pei Jingxing's eyes in the mirror were bloodshot, and there was a circle of blackness under the eyes. It was obvious that he lacked sleep for a long time, which led to his lack of energy.What is frightening is the lower left corner of the mirror, where a black figure crawls, raising his head to the bronze mirror, revealing a mouthful of black teeth, laughing silently.The man's head was covered with yellow and black snakes, replacing the hair that should have been there, covering the upper half of the man's face.

Pei Jingxing was used to seeing it, so he simply put down the bronze mirror, turned it upside down on the table, then picked up the dragon head and tiger tooth spear at the side, turned around and stabbed at the direction reflected in the bronze mirror!

"Get out!" Pei Jingxing roared towards the empty ground, only to hear a mournful cry, as if something had really been driven away by Pei Jingxing.

After taking a shower, Pei Jingxing wiped his hair while turning the mechanism in his room.

A wooden lattice made of nineteen horizontal and vertical pieces of wood came down from above. Each lattice was about the size of a palm, and it was wrapped with red strings. Many small silver bells were hung on the red strings.The organ stops at a distance of about two feet from the ground, completely occupying the space from the bed to the screen in the room.Whether you are crawling under the shelf close to the ground, or looking for a place to stay in this dense grid, you will always encounter the red rope, which will affect the silver bell hanging on the red rope.This organ can be said to affect the whole body with a single trigger, when any silver bell rings, all the bells on the shelf will jingle crisply, warning Pei Jingxing.

Pei Jingxing dried his hair, put the dragon head and tiger tooth gun on the inner side of the bed, and put the horizontal knife on a short pier beside the bed, so that he could grab it without too much effort.

After arranging all this familiarly, Pei Jingxing reluctantly lay down and seized the time to rest.

At Xu time, Pei Jingxing was dressed in black and strong attire, and arrived at Taixuan Temple as promised.

Dao Tong heard that Pei Jingxing came to look for Su Yan, so he asked Pei Jingxing to wait in the courtyard, while he hurried to the back to look for Su Yan.

Taixuan Temple was built in the reign of Emperor Taizong, and it has been a hundred years now.The pine and cypresses in the view are lush and lush, and without the monks and believers in the daytime, the night here seems to be much quieter than anywhere in Xijing.

There were light footsteps coming from behind Pei Jingxing. If one didn't pay attention, ordinary people would think it was the rustling sound of the cool wind blowing through the grass and trees at night.

The voice was extremely fast, and it came straight towards Pei Jingxing, and it was behind Pei Jingxing not long after.

Fortunately, Pei Jingxing's hearing was excellent, and when the sound got close, he immediately noticed the unusual sound.

This is not Su Yan's steps!

Pei Jingxing reacted, put one hand on the horizontal knife hanging on his waist, his whole body tensed, turned around and entered the state of preparation, ready to meet the opponent's attack at any time.

Unlike Pei Jingxing, standing in front of him was a middle-aged man with a goatee, wearing a Taoist robe and holding a fly whisk: "Did the poverty scare Pei Jie?"

Pei Jingxing still rested his hand on the horizontal knife, and asked cautiously: "I don't know your surname."

"The impoverished Zhou Yuyi has long admired Pei Jie's great name, and seeing him today, he really deserves his reputation." Zhou Yuyi didn't seem to see Pei Jingxing's hand on the horizontal knife, so he took a few steps closer and asked, "I don't know Pei Jie What is the purpose of coming here today? Is there a place where the poor can help?"

Pei Jingxing was only brought to Taixuan Temple once by his mother when he was a child, and it was so long that he couldn't even remember whether he saw Zhou Yuyi at that time.

Seeing that Zhou Yuyi was not malicious, Pei Jingxing let go of his hands and said, "I'm here to find a friend of mine."

"Oh, but Fellow Daoist Su?" Zhou Yuyi asked while stroking his beard.

Pei Jingxing wondered, "How did Daoist Zhou know?"

Zhou Yu laughed out loud, and pointed behind Pei Jingxing: "Isn't this here?"

Daotong led Su Yan out from the round door, saw Zhou Yuyi was there, and hurriedly saluted.

Zhou Yu looked at Su Yan with a smile: "Fellow Daoist Su, are you still used to living these few days?"

Su Yan nodded and said, "Thank you, Daoist Zhou."

"It's okay, I have some friendship with your master, if there is any inconvenience in Xijing, you can tell me." Zhou Yuyi's words revealed his love for Su Yan, "It's so late, are you going out? "

Pei Jingxing just replied vaguely: "I need Su Yan's help with some things."

"Very good, very good." Zhou Yu nodded in praise, "You Daoist Su is new here and has no relatives in Xijing. It's always good to have one more friend. But I think there are few stars tonight, and the moonlight is covered by dark clouds. There are many heavenly dogs." The appearance of the eclipse, you two should be more careful."

"Thank you, Daoist Zhou, for your reminder." Pei Jingxing cupped his hands in thanks, and Su Yan at the side also followed suit.

"Then I'm relieved." Zhou Yuyi nodded in satisfaction, and patted Daotong on the shoulder, "Let's go, call your seniors, and I'll bake rice cakes for you."

In Chunmingfang, Pei Jingxing and Su Yan leaned against the wall, escaped another group of Jinwu Guards' inspections, and came to the backyard of Shangguan Mansion.

Pei Jingxing built a bridge with his hands and sent Su Yan into the Shangguan Mansion, while he jumped up high, holding onto the wall with both hands, and easily rolled in.

After several generations of management, Shangguan Mansion not only occupies a huge area, but also has a lot of winding paths inside, and there are also various strange rocks and pines dotted in it, with colorful flowers and verandas winding back and forth, connecting pavilions and pavilions. People can easily lose their way.

Most of the heads of the family lived in the central courtyard of the backyard. Pei Jingxing led Su Yan, carefully avoiding the patrolling servants in the Shangguan Mansion, and sneaked into the main house in the backyard.

To Pei Jingxing's surprise, even though it was late at night, the yard was still brightly lit, especially the main house, which was illuminated like daylight, and two shadows of a man and a woman were reflected on the window paper, which saved Pei Jingxing a lot of effort.

Su Yan and Pei Jingxing bent their backs together, feeling a faint heat in their chests.He subconsciously wanted to reach out to touch it, but Pei Jingxing, who was at the side, noticed his action, pressed his hand, and said in a low voice, "Don't move."

Su Yan looked up at the two figures on the window paper, nodded, and put his hands down.

"Yunniang, why don't you take a break at this late hour?" Shangguan Yun's words were full of tenderness and sweetness, not a single bit of questioning, and he was completely different from usual.

"How could I sleep well," the woman called Yun Niang sighed, "I still don't understand who the child in my belly belongs to."

Su Yan, who was squatting under the window to eavesdrop, froze—did he accidentally hear that Shangguan Yun was wearing a cuckold?It's just that this Yunniang is too courageous to say it in front of Shangguan Yun. Are you crazy?Or did he lose his head for a while relying on Shangguan Yun's favor?

He subconsciously raised his head to look at Pei Jingxing who was on the side, only to see that the corner of the other's mouth twitched, obviously like himself, he was shocked by Yunniang's actions.

What surprised the two of them even more was that after listening to Yunniang's words, Shangguan Yun didn't get angry at all, but coaxed him more intimately: "Of course it's your child, Yunniang, you're talking nonsense again. "

"No!" Yunniang's voice suddenly rose, and the figure on the window stood up immediately, "It's hers, it's her child! This body is hers, the child is hers, and you are hers too! You are all Hers, not mine!"

"Yunniang!" Shangguan Yun's voice became two or three times louder, "What's wrong with you these days, why do you keep mentioning irrelevant people? We finally got together, why do you say such things to anger me?"

"What is an irrelevant person?" Yun Niang said with tears in her voice, "All of this is hers, and I am like a shameless thief who shamelessly stole her life and her husband. Now She also stole her child. Yunlang, you know, I dare not go to Shen’s house, dare not look into Mrs. Shen’s eyes. She treats me so well and loves me like her own daughter. I’m really afraid that she will know The truth. If she wants to cut me into pieces, I will be willing!"

"Yunniang, I used to be your husband, when did I become hers?" Shangguan Yun hugged Yunniang tightly, pressed against her cold and wet cheek, and comforted her, "I can't forget you, Yunniang, I really can't forget you. Do you know how hard it was for me in those years? If Master Wan didn't find me, we would have been separated forever. I'm so scared, so scared, I'm afraid you won't be here Wait for me on Huangquan Road, I am afraid that you will leave me and be reincarnated early, I am afraid that I will never see you again! But now I am not afraid, you have returned to me, and you are pregnant with my child, our family will last forever We are together. Don't worry, there are thousands of Taoists around, no one can hurt us. As for the Shen family, if you don't want to see it, then don't go. "

Yun Niang shook her head again and again, her face covered with tears: "I stole these, Yun Lang, you know, she's back! I know, she's back, and she's here now! She's coming to find Back to her body, her husband, her child! I am afraid, I am so afraid, I dare not look in the mirror, wash my face, or take a bath. When I see this face, I seem to see her Question me, question why I wanted to kill her."

"Yunniang, listen to me," Shangguan Yun carried Yunniang to the concubine's couch, covered her with a blanket, and kissed her smooth forehead, "She is the one who is willing to marry me, and she is the one who said she is willing to do it for me." Everything. People have to die sooner or later, but she just died at the age of 16. What a good age, carefree, when she gets older, she will have to worry about her husband's backyard, children's marriage , it would be better to die at this age. What's more, her parents are taken care of by me, what can she not let go of?"

"Shameless!" Hearing Shangguan Yun's confusing words, Pei Jingxing who was outside the window couldn't help it, and cursed fiercely while holding the blade.

Su Yan deeply felt the same way, and nodded emphatically in agreement.

The people in the room didn't know that there were two uninvited guests eavesdropping outside the window. Shangguan Yun kept trying to comfort Yun Niang, but Yun Niang kept repeating "she is back, she came to get her body back, her husband , her child" or something like that.

Shangguan Yun couldn't help it. He drove the maids and servants who were serving him to a distance to listen to the orders. Now he can only leave Yunniang alone in the house for the time being, while he opens the door and takes the servants who are waiting in the distance. shout over.

"Go ask Taoist Master Wan to come over."