The master said not to judge people by their appearance

Dreams can only be dreamed at night, and it is only in the afternoon, and it is still early before dark.Xie Yunlan was not idle, Huang Yaowu wanted to hold a reception banquet for him, but he directly refused, saying: "I'll drink the wine later, I have to find out this dreamer first, Lao Huang, you arrange people to count the current dreamers The list, please be more detailed, when did you start dreaming, where did you sleep when you were dreaming, and find out everything.”

"But..." Huang Yaowu wanted to say that the statistics were not complete at all, and many people ran out of the city.

"I know, let's take a look at the statistics first." Xie Yunlan said.

This statistical list may not be useful. It may be as they guessed that the dream master just randomly lured people into the dream, but Xie Yunlan has no clear direction of investigation at present, and he is not even sure whether the other party is possessed by a demon. He has to do a lot of preparation.

Perhaps Huang Yaowu's side was short of manpower, so Xie Yunlan called Wang Tai and the others to help. After the group left the prefect's mansion, Xie Yunlan and Shen Fan also left the house, and they went to the wing next to the main hall.

Xie Yunlan didn't know that there were so many and common people who had dreams in Yazhou City, so he brought Cao Jinyu to the prefect's mansion and asked if he had anything to do.When he was talking to Huang Yaowu, Cao Jinyu was waiting in the side room.

Cao Jinyu was a little restless in the room. When he saw Xie Yunlan coming in, he immediately stood up and saluted: "Master Xie, the grassroots have eyes that don't recognize Mount Tai. They were negligent before. I apologize to Mr. Xie."

Cao Jinyu only found out the identity of Xie Yunlan and his party at the gate of the city. It turned out to be the famous Xuanwuhou, and the young man in white was actually the envoy of the Dragon God who subdued the two monster dragons in Jingzhong and Cangzhou one after another.

Xie Yunlan raised his hand to stop him and said, "You don't need to be too polite. Mr. Huang just told me about the things in Yazhou City. There are many people involved in this dream. There are also other merchants who started dreaming because they passed Yazhou City. This dream is not Regarding you, the specific truth needs to be investigated carefully, do you have a residence in Yazhou City?"

"Yes." Cao Jinyu said hastily, "We often take this route to exit customs, and we have a house in Yazhou City."

"Then go back and wait for the news. Don't worry, I will lead someone to investigate this matter." Xie Yunlan said.

"Thank you, my lord!" Cao Jinyu saluted again, he didn't pull Shen Fan down, and turned his head to salute Shen Fan, "Thank you, Master Shen Fanfan!"

He didn't know Shen Fan's name, but he heard what Huang Yaowu said at the city gate.

Not only Cao Jinyu heard it, but all the guards at the gate of the city and the people who entered the city heard it. During the time Xie Yunlan was talking in the room, the news of Master Shen Fanfan, the envoy of the Dragon God, came to Yazhou.

On the way out of the mansion, Xie Yunlan and Shen Fan would call out to all Yazhou officials and servants they met: "I have met Mr. Xie, I have met Master Shen Fanfan!"

Xie Yunlan: "..."

He tried to explain to everyone: "His name is Shen Fan."

Everyone suddenly realized: "It turns out that the master's name is Shen Fan, and his name is Fanfan. I have met Master Shen Fanfan!"

Xie Yunlan: "..."

He didn't dare to look at Shen Fan's expression.

In fact, Shen Fan didn't have any expression on his face, he was probably numb from being called, even when they came to Wei Chengzhi's residence and Wei Chengzhi called "Master Shen Fan", he was stunned for a moment.

"Hou Ye? Master Shen Fan?" Wei Chengzhi was hoeing in the courtyard, when he saw them coming, he immediately threw down the hoe and called out, "Please!"

He wanted to pour tea for Xie Yunlan and the others, but found that his hands were not clean, fingering that his sleeves were covered with dirt, he said, "Master Hou, sit down for a while, I'll go change my clothes."

When Wei Chengzhi went to the back of the house to change clothes, Xie Yunlan looked at the courtyard. It was not big, and the location was not good in the middle of the city. The outer wall was simply surrounded by bamboo. It was still a black mud floor, and there were only two houses, which looked a bit shabby.

But it can't be that Huang Yaowu didn't take care of him. Wei Chengzhi probably chose such a place himself. He likes to be quiet and not to move, otherwise he wouldn't leave the bustling capital and come to this remote and desolate Yazhou.

The small land in the courtyard was divided into several pieces by him, some of which were planted with flowers and some of which were grown with vegetables, and the red and green complement each other, which was unique. Although the place was poor, Wei Chengzhi probably lived happily.

Xie Yunlan saw two memorial tablets enshrined in the house, on which were written the names of Wei Chengzhi's wife and daughter, and on the table next to the memorial tablets, there were some palm-sized wood carvings, carved into the shape of animals, with small There are many kinds of birds and rabbits, as well as kittens and puppies. Some of them are rough in workmanship, and they are probably just learning it.

Xie Yunlan picked up a wood carving of a kitten. The wood carving made the kitten's lazy expression so vivid that he unconsciously thought of a person. When he was holding the wood carving to compare with Shen Fan, Wei Chengzhi came back after changing his clothes. He asked casually, "Sir, do you like woodcarving?"

"No, it's my daughter who likes it. She just stood there when she met someone selling this in the market. When I left Yazhou City, I promised to come back and buy one for her..." Wei Chengzhi forced a smile and didn't say anything. go down.

Xie Yunlan also knew that he accidentally touched Wei Chengzhi's sad matter, so he quickly put down the kitten wood carving.

"It's okay, it's all over." Wei Chengzhi poured a cup of tea for Xie Yunlan and Shen Fan, and then got straight to the point, "Master Hou came to Yazhou this time because of that strange dream?"

"Not all of them." Xie Yunlan explained, "We are looking for the inner demon, but we happened to be involved in this dream, so we came to find out."

"Master Hou also entered this strange dream?" Wei Chengzhi asked in surprise, "When is it?"

"Just last night." Xie Yunlan said.

"Master Hou didn't enter the city last night," Wei Chengzhi said, stroking his beard. "It's strange. According to my observation, the people involved in this strange dream only started dreaming when they came to Yazhou City."

This is also what Xie Yunlan found strange. He looked at Shen Fan and said, "Maybe it's because I was not too far away from Yazhou City at that time?"

But why are there so many people in the company, Shen Fan and Wang Tai, none of them were dreaming, but he was the only one involved in this dream?

"The connection of the dream realm has nothing to do with the distance." Shen Fan said, "Those who have been involved in the dream realm will not be able to escape even if they go to the ends of the earth."

Just like Cao Jinyu and his group, they have been in Yunzhou for a month, but they still have nightmares.

"It is the consciousness of the dream owner that really determines the connection object of the dream realm." Shen Fan explained, "Just like the people you dream about are generally familiar people in reality, the people who are involved in this dream come to you. Going to Yazhou is not a necessary condition. It should be that the dreamer is familiar with the people in Yazhou, or he has met people, so he has an impression in his heart, and he can establish a connection in the dream and swallow it into his own. In the dream realm."

Xie Yunlan's heart moved: "It means that the dream master is likely to be in Yazhou, and he should know me?"

Shen Fan nodded.

Xie Yunlan thought for a moment, then asked Wei Chengzhi, "Sir, have you ever heard that there are still remnants of Targu?"

This is the purpose of his special visit. On the one hand, he wants to reminisce about the old days, and on the other hand, he wants to inquire about the news of the Yuanrong people. Although Huang Yaowu is the prefect of a city, Wei Chengzhi has a wide network of contacts and knows many people in the world. In fact, he has more sources of information than Huang Yaowu.

"No." Wei Chengzhi immediately guessed what Xie Yunlan was thinking, and he said, "Master Hou thinks that this strange dream was made by Yuanrong people?"

"That's right." Xie Yunlan roughly repeated Shen Fan's previous statement about the dream, and he analyzed, "Most people don't know so much about the massacre of the city eight years ago. But I think this action itself may also contain a kind of hatred he has towards the Xia people, and he still knows me, so it is very likely that the dream master is from Yuan Rong."

Only Yuanrong people would hate Xia people like this, and hate Xie Yunlan. If Xie Yunlan hadn't obstructed them, Yuanrong's iron cavalry would have galloped in the Central Plains.Among the Yuanrong people, Targu's cronies and subordinates hated him the most.

Wei Chengzhi thought for a moment, and agreed with Xie Yunlan's conjecture, he said: "But I have never heard that there are still remnants of Talgu, so how about it, I will contact some friends in the rivers and lakes to help find out."

"Then please sir." Xie Yunlan said.

He chatted with Wei Chengzhi for a while, and then returned to the prefect's mansion.

It was night, and Xie Yunlan went back to the house after dinner. He was lying on the bed, but he didn't take off his shoes and socks. He even wore a light armor and a weapon around his waist.

When he fell asleep last night, he was only wearing unlined clothing, barefoot and empty-handed, he was really terribly cold, but tonight he was wearing a lot of clothes, but he was sleepy.

Not only did he feel sick, but Shen Fan who was sleeping next to him and next to his shoulder also felt sick, he couldn't help saying: "What clothes you wear in your dream has nothing to do with what you wear before going to bed."

Xie Yunlan: "Then why did I only wear the unlined clothes before going to bed when I fell asleep last night?"

"Because you feel that you are wearing unlined clothes," Shen Fan said, "The dream itself is actually a manifestation of human consciousness. It does not follow any logic and rules of reality, but your consciousness still has the impression of the rules of reality. That’s why dreams behave like reality.”

"According to what you said, if I feel that I am omnipotent in my dream, I can really be omnipotent?" Xie Yunlan turned over, looked at Shen Fan and said.

"Yes." Shen Fan looked back at him, "But you can't really feel that you are omnipotent, this impression is hidden in your deep consciousness, related to your past experience and cognition, you can't easily change it. The talent to control dreams is actually the talent to be able to control this kind of consciousness, ordinary people can only control it by instinct, but those with talent can control it according to their own ideas."

Xie Yunlan was a little puzzled, he tried to understand, and said: "The Yazhou City in the dream, the glaciers outside the city and the Yuan Rong cavalry on the glaciers are all products of the dream master's consciousness, and this dream is completely controlled by the dream master of?"

"No..." He suddenly denied it again, and said to himself, "The unlined clothes I wore when I fell asleep definitely did not come from the consciousness of the dreamer, but from my consciousness."

"Yes, when there is a single dream, the dream is completely controlled by the dream owner, and the characters that appear in the dream are just phantoms in the dream, without self, and the shape is completely determined by the dream owner, but when the dream domain is formed and swallows many other dreams, then others Although the current dream masters do not have the talent to actively control the dream, their instinctive consciousness will still affect the composition of the dream to a greater or lesser extent." Shen Fan said, "It's like the clothes you wear in your dream, and the clothes you wear in your dream. The actions and performances in the dream are the influence of your consciousness on this dream realm."

Xie Yunlan was thoughtful. He roughly understood what Shen Fan meant, but he still didn't take off the light armor. As Shen Fan said, he couldn't actively control his consciousness, so the clothes he wore when he fell asleep were probably based on his What he wears before going to bed is his subconscious perception of himself.

Shen Fan had no choice but to endure the harsh light armor. He tried his best to stay away from Xie Yunlan, but because the bed was too small, he could only lie on the bed side by side with Xie Yunlan.

He didn't have the ability to come and go freely in the dream realm, and that little dream realm wasn't connected to his dream. The only way for him to go to the little dream realm was through Xie Yunlan's dream, so they had to sleep together.

"By the way, why can you only enter my dream?" Xie Yunlan thought of this question again.

Shen Fan didn't speak.

Xie Yunlan stood up and took a look. Shen Fan was not asleep, so he poked the other person's shoulder.

Shen Fan spoke, and he said, "Because my name is Shen Fanfan."

Xie Yunlan: "..."

Shen Fan finally brought this up again.

He coughed lightly, and said, "I've already explained to Lao Huang, he won't bark like that in the future."

Shen Fan let out an "oh", but couldn't hear his happiness or anger.

Xie Yunlan thought for a while, and then said: "Other people won't call it that way anymore, I'll go and tell them tomorrow."

Shen Fan said "Oh" again, and seemed to be a little looser than before.

Xie Yunlan continued to increase, he patted Shen Fan's shoulder lightly, as if smoothing the kitten's fur: "The New Year's Eve is coming soon, this is a unique festival in the northwest, the curfew will be canceled on that day, the street will be very lively, there will be beautiful Lanterns, there are many delicious and fun things, I will take you there to play."

Shen Fan thought for a moment, and his tone softened: "Okay."

Finally coaxing the person well, Xie Yunlan breathed a sigh of relief, he didn't ask the previous question again, he realized that Shen Fan didn't seem to want to answer.

He found a quilt to wrap around himself, making his thin armor a little softer, Shen Fan was no longer as far away from him as before, the night was getting darker, unknowingly, Shen Fan was again It was on Xie Yunlan.

Xie Yunlan fell asleep, and he fell into a dream again.

This time he woke up not on the glacier outside the city, he was still in this guest room in the prefect's mansion, everything was exactly the same as before he fell asleep, except for one thing, Shen Fan was gone.

"Shen Fan?" Xie Yunlan looked around, he remembered that Shen Fan said that he would enter the dream with him.

"I am here."

Xie Yunlan heard a sound coming from the room, but there was no one there. After searching for a while, he realized that the sound came from the quilt on the bed. He hurried to lift the quilt, and saw a bird that was pressed under a thick blanket. A long-haired white kitten that cannot crawl out of the bedding.

"Why did you become a cat?" Xie Yunlan asked in shock.

It was this kitten that made Shen Fan's voice just now.Not only that, a silk scarf was tied around the kitten's neck, and the words "Shen Fanfan" were embroidered on the silk scarf.

Shen Fan said: "It's not that I became like this, I came to this dream realm through your dream, and my image in the dream realm is determined by your consciousness."

"So..." The white cat looked down at the writing on the silk scarf, and the cat said expressionlessly, "This is your impression of me."