I quit my job after working part-time at the Demon Management Bureau

The temple, which is always in the daytime, is so quiet that only the voices of small animals can be heard.

Chi Mu patiently explored the temple, and found that in the central courtyard of the temple, there was actually a huge peach blossom tree with countless red silk and bells hanging on it. When the wind blew, no sound could be heard.

The bell was engraved with the traces of the passage of time, which looked old and full of charm. Chi Mu stood under the tree and looked up at the tree, but only saw its peach blossom branches that seemed to be integrated with the dome.

Chi Mu stayed for a while, and was about to leave when he suddenly felt a faint phoenix breath in the air, but it disappeared quickly.

Delusion?

Chi Mu dazed for a moment, looked up and saw Xiao Qi standing on the tatami, looking at him expressionlessly: "Don't touch the bell on the tree."

Chi Mu, who was naturally rebellious, immediately rang the bell, and even leaned against the peach blossom branch and yawned: "Is there a place to sleep?"

Roughly counting, he probably hasn't closed his eyes for almost 24 hours, even a divine beast needs to rest.

The group of little rabbits surrounded Xiao Qi's feet all the time, like patron saints. She stood on it, looked down at Twilight for a while, then turned and walked inside.Chi Mu stretched her waist all the way and followed, and came to a shoji door, Xiao Qi opened it.

"Wake up and eat, and you will knock the wooden fish in the temple from now on."

Chi Mu didn't expect that he would be reduced to the job of knocking wooden fish when he was a monk in the painting. He looked at Xiao Qi in front of him carefully for a while, and then turned his eyes to the anklet on her ankle to confirm the truth. After Liang Yuqi, he was thinking about how to settle the score, and asked by the way: "What are you doing knocking on the wooden fish?"

"Knock as long as you want, don't talk so much nonsense." Xiao Qi said coldly.

Okay, when I didn't know him, I was quite courageous, daring to talk to her dear cousin like that.

Chi Mu held on to the barrier door, looked past her at the bell under the peach blossom tree in the courtyard, and said with great interest: "I don't know how to recite scriptures, are you sure you only let me knock on the wooden fish, the group of undead trapped in the bell can be killed?" Excessive?"

Hearing this sentence, Xiao Qi, who had been expressionless all this time, took a step back and stared at him guardedly: "What are you talking about?"

"You don't understand what I said? Okay, then I'll ask in a different way." Chi Mu changed her posture, leaning against the shoji door, her slender legs gracefully folded, her posture lazy and noble, "Bing Ding The undead inside are the dead villagers of Taohua Village, why are their dead souls trapped in the bell? I think you hate them, why do you want to save them?"

"Oh, that's not right." With Xiaoqi's gradually cracking expression, Chi Mu curled his lips and smiled contemptuously, "You don't actually want to save them, otherwise why did you let me, a layman, knock on the wooden fish? What kind of hatred is that?" ah."

Xiaoqi's pupils opened suddenly, and after listening to Chi Mu's words, she quickly calmed down, like a doll without any expression: "I don't know what you are talking about, if you don't want to sleep, then go knock on the wooden fish now."

"You really don't know?" Looking at Xiao Qi's back, Chi Mu said, "Liang Yuqi."

Xiao Qi stopped, turned around and looked at him with a confused expression: "Why do you know my name?"

"This is enough to prove that you can't hide anything from me." Chi Mu continued to fry fish, "Even if you hide some secrets, they will all be exposed to me in a few days, so you might as well tell me obediently. "

Looking at each other quietly like this, Xiaoqi was silent for a while, and left the courtyard.

Where she was standing, the peach blossom branch she had taken away lay quietly on the floor, Chi Mu stepped forward to pick it up, and saw that the peach blossom petals on it had withered a lot.

Phoenix divine power, release.

These two nouns echoed in Chi Mu's mind over and over again along with the peach blossom branches, he yawned, he was the biggest sleeper in the world, turned around and entered the room, ready to sleep first, and wake up to talk about the rest.

...

The soft wind blew, shaking the bells on the peach tree in the courtyard, but they couldn't make any sound.

Xiao Qi stood under the tree, stroking the branch, looking up at it, with a sad and desperate expression, all the pain that had never been spoken into words turned into moisture in his eyes.

Suddenly, her expression changed abruptly, she lowered her head suddenly, her thick hair hung on both sides of her cheeks, hiding her expression under her hair, her sharp fingertips dug deep into the tree trunk, as if she was resisting something, her voice was painful And full of pleading: "I'm sorry... I'm sorry... just wait..."

The rabbit felt the change in the aura around her, and everyone was uneasy and didn't dare to approach, so they could only stand not far away and bounce around anxiously.

It wasn't until her slightly twitching body calmed down and turned into the indifferent and quiet her that the rabbits surrounded her, rubbed against her legs, and bounced around.

"He will be released soon, you guys..." Xiao Qi looked at the bell, and his voice was so soft that only the wind could hear, "It's coming soon..."

...

When Chi Mu woke up, he didn't know whether it was morning, noon, or night, but it was true that he was hungry.

The problem of food and clothing must be solved, and other matters must be left behind.

He glanced at the completely withered peach blossom branches, and wandered boredly to the first room he entered. Xiao Qi was still sitting cross-legged, with rabbits sleeping around her. There were many wild flowers and plants in her basket, and she moved skillfully. Slowly weaving the wreath.

It doesn't seem like it took long, it's just taking shape, and it's not finished.

Chi Mu sat down at the table, propped his chin, and asked in a lack of interest, "What do you eat?"

Xiaoqi stopped weaving the wreath, nodded one of the little rabbits on the head, said nothing, it seemed to understand the human words, it ran away in a hop, and came running several times in a short while The little squirrels with the food came in one after another in an orderly manner, and left the room after putting down the food. The whole process took only 3 minutes, which was extremely fast.

After all, I am not a human being, so it is nothing unusual to see such a scene, Chi Mu didn't even wait for Xiao Qi, and moved the chopsticks very fast.

But they were just ordinary meals, and Chi Mu couldn’t eat any delicious delicacies. He even poured himself a glass of peach blossom wine, and when he put down the jug, he interrupted: “Peach Blossom Villager said that the connection between the outside world and Peach Blossom Village The mountain road is opened once a month, so is there any way to make it open again? My wife is still outside, so it would be bad for him to wait for me."

"There is no way." After weaving the wreath, Xiao Qi put it in the flower basket.

Chi Mu looked at her for a long time, and seeing that she really didn't look like a liar, he didn't continue to talk about this topic, he raised his glass to his mouth, raised his head and took a lonely drink.

Ok?

Uh-huh?

What about his full glass of wine?

Where did it go?

Holding the empty wine glass, Chi Mu hesitated for a while, turned the glass down, filled it with wine, stared at it intently, but this time it did not disappear out of thin air again.

Strange, the rabbit is not with him, who else can drink it?

Chi Mu, who couldn't figure it out, didn't care anymore, no matter who drank it, he didn't touch the glass again.

After finishing the meal slowly, his eyes fell back to the glass filled with wine, the wine was still there, not missing.

Chi Mu looked at Xiao Qi, and the wooden fish that had been randomly thrown on the tatami mats were neatly placed aside, with a sense of 'you should work after eating', and there was no room for laziness and perfunctory.

This kind of boring post-dinner exercise was never delayed. After the little squirrels took away the food, he picked up the wooden fish and knocked three times to make sure that it was the sound that attracted him to the room.

Every time he knocks, he will have a strange feeling, as if he has completed some task. This feeling is very subtle, and if you don't think carefully, you won't find it at all. It's like a transparent silk thread, which can't be seen at the wooden fish. that end.

Could it be the undead trapped in the bell?

It is preliminarily estimated that the villagers trapped inside are the villagers of Peach Blossom Village, but what kind of things have they experienced, so that they become like this as if nothing happened, men farming and women weaving, are they so happy?

I really can't learn it.

After knocking for a while, Chi Mu stopped knocking and threw the wooden fish aside.

After all, the reason why he knocked on the wooden fish so obediently was to find a way to get out and join the Hu Zili, but now he still couldn't figure out any clues, and noticed a lot of strange things, but he didn't find where to start, which made him A little annoying.

If it weren't for the fact that the current Xiao Qi was not the previous Xiao Qi, he would have just beaten him up.

The trouble should end it.

Chi Mu never believed in a prison cell without any life gates, so in Peach Blossom Spring, there must be a way to leave.

So what is it?

With a head full of doubts, Chi Mu couldn't leave the temple, but instead wandered to the courtyard outside, standing on the edge of the cliff and looking down.

The people in the village have already got up, and everyone seems to have not noticed Chi Mu's disappearance or doesn't care about it, as if nothing happened.Thanks to the good eyesight that is not human, Chi Mu can clearly see the happy smiles on their faces and the joy of the harvest in the distance.

He turned his gaze away, and was about to return to the temple, but he was attracted by a man walking up the steps with a cane.

If Chi Mu remembered correctly, this old man was Uncle Song called by the villagers during the banquet.

What is he doing?

Do you mean to come to the temple?

Chi Mu leaned against the tree trunk, as if to pass the time, watching him wobbly climb to the halfway up the mountain, and then stopped going up.Instead, he put down his crutches there, bowed in the direction of the temple, and left.

"The phoenix has guarded Taohua Village for thousands of years and blessed this paradise. They have no face and are not worthy to come. The curse will keep them out. After that, they can only look at this temple from a distance for many years until the power of the phoenix dissipates."

What Xiao Qi said suddenly resounded in his mind, and Chi Mu slowly stood up straight.

He who couldn't leave, the villagers who couldn't come to the temple, and the undead trapped in the bell and found by him, and the superseding who needed to ring the wooden fish Xiaoqi but was perfunctory...

Everything is this so-called curse.