The master said not to judge people by their appearance

"Master, is there something evil in this room?" Fang Ping asked beside Shen Fan.

Shen Fan didn't answer, he walked to the dressing table and picked up a bronze mirror.

Yuan Wan immediately said: "Is this bronze mirror a monster's possession?"

"Ah! I have to look at this bronze mirror many times every day!" Fang Ping exclaimed, and immediately took a few steps back, hugging her mother's arm tightly.

The accompanying maids were also frightened and screamed.In the chaos, Yuan Wan is the eldest princess after all, she has rich experience, although she was a little flustered, she quickly calmed down and shouted: "Don't be afraid, the master is here!"

These words comforted everyone, and no one screamed in the house anymore, but the mother and daughter and the maidservants around them also gathered tightly together, like quail hugging to keep warm.

The quails looked at the bronze mirror in Shen Fan's hand tremblingly, and Shen Fan returned with a puzzled expression.

"No," Shen Fan put down the bronze mirror again, "I just think the pattern on the bronze mirror is more beautiful."

Everyone: "..."

Yuan Wan coughed dryly, and the people who were hugging each other dispersed and returned to everyone.

Shen Fan went to the bed again and asked, "What is stuffed in this pillow?"

This is a goose down pillow, a style commonly used by wealthy families, and the answer is obvious.If asked by someone else, Yuan Wan might feel that the other party is rare and strange, but Shen Fan had to ask Yuan Wan not to think too much.

She replied: "It's filled with goose down. Could it be that someone secretly stuffed something else into the pillow? Someone, tear the pillow apart!"

The servant girl took the scissors and went forward to cut the pillow cover, and the velvet floated all over the room, leaving everyone in the room with gray hair, before Shen Fan had time to say: "No, I just asked casually."

Everyone: "..."

"Master, you have looked around too. Is there anything wrong with this room?" Yuan Wan took off a piece of velvet that fell on her head, maintaining a polite smile.

Shen Fan shook his head and at the same time sighed.

When she saw Shen Fan shaking her head, Yuan Wan felt relieved, and when she heard the sigh, she suddenly mentioned it, and said anxiously: "Master, just say what you want."

She thought of something again, took off the valuable jasper bracelet on her wrist, stuffed it into Shen Fan's hand, and said: "As long as I can solve the evil, I will thank you very much later!"

Shen Fan took the bracelet in a daze, and said puzzledly: "I have nothing to say, there is indeed no problem in this room."

Yuan Wan didn't believe it: "Then why did the master sigh?"

"Oh." Shen Fan explained, "Because I think some decorations in this room are good, but there are none in the Hou's Mansion."

Yuan Wan Fangping was extremely doting, and food and clothing were the most expensive and the best. In this room, from the jade carvings on the screen to the pillows and bedding, they are all exquisite, luxurious and extravagant.And although Xie Yunlan has some precious items in the warehouse that were rewarded by the emperor or received by others, he usually doesn't buy them himself, so most of the furniture in the mansion is still in simple and simple styles, such as the goose down pillow, which looks like a Light and soft, but the whole Xie Mansion including Xie Yunlan himself used only cheap buckwheat pillows.

If there is no comparison, Shen Fan realizes that he has suffered a lot of grievances at Xie Yunlan's house, which is why he sighed.

Everyone who understood the reason: "..."

The corners of Yuan Wan's eyes twitched a few times, and suspicion arose in her heart. Although Shen Fan just pointed out that Fang Ping was born less than a month ago, it is not a secret when it comes to it. It is only necessary to inquire about the good news in advance. Apart from that at the beginning, Fan still looks the same. How can he look like a master now?

Don't say it's unfathomable, it's supernatural. Yuan Wan looked around, only to see a little stupidity.

The trust in Shen Fan in her heart was almost gone, but because of Xuanwuhou's face, it was not easy to drive him out as a liar. Just as Shen Fan said that he would go to other places in the mansion to look for Xie Chong, she went Taking advantage of the situation, he said: "Master, please feel free, I have something to do, so I won't accompany you."

She no longer counted on Shen Fan, but Xie Chong had to find someone to get rid of it, and she was going to see if the other masters had any magical powers to catch evil.

Yuan Wan wanted to leave, but Fang Ping didn't. She took the initiative and said, "Master, you are not familiar with the environment in the mansion. Let me show you around!"

Fang Ping actually felt that Shen Fan looked like a complete liar, but she didn't care, the only thing that attracted her from the beginning to the end was Shen Fan's face.

Yuan Wan knew her daughter so well, she frowned and said in a low voice: "You are the princess, he is just a wandering warlock!"

"Don't worry, mother, I know." Fang Ping also whispered back.

She knew that she and Shen Fan had no chance, but there was such a handsome man in the world, it would be good to take a second look.

After Fang Ping led Shen Fan out of the courtyard, Wang Tai, who was waiting at the door, followed immediately, and said, "Master Hou ordered me to fight for the master, did the master find the evil creature?"

"No, Xie Chong is not in the bedroom." Fang Ping replied on her behalf, "I am about to lead Master around the mansion."

Wang Tai wanted to say something, but because Fang Ping was there, he didn't say anything.

Fang Ping: "Master, do you see that the rocks here look like a crouching tiger?"

Shen Fan nodded.

Fang Ping: "Master, look at this orchid, does it bloom delicately?"

Shen Fan nodded again.

Fang Ping: "Master, look at this swing, do you want to play with it?"

Shen Fan readily agreed.

Wang Tai looked worried, he didn't come here to catch evil spirits, he was clearly traveling in mountains and rivers, he wanted to remind Shen Fan, but Fang Ping stayed with him all the time, he couldn't find a chance at all.

Seeing that the two went to the swing, Fang Ping's original plan was for her to sit on the swing, while Shen Fan would help push it aside. It was a sweet scene.Although in fact, Lang's ruthless concubine can't be intentional, but it's good to satisfy his girlish fantasies, after all, such a handsome man is really the only one in the world.

But Shen Fan walked to the swing, sat on it consciously, and then motioned to Fang Ping, "Push it."

Fang Ping: "..."

Fang Ping's brain was in a kind of sluggishness that seemed to be wrong, and her body subconsciously helped Shen Fan push the swing up. Shen Fan swung twice, but felt that Fang Ping was not strong enough, so he said to Wang Tai, "You push it."

Wang Tai: "..."

He could more or less understand Hou Ye's feeling of wrath that he wanted to beat Shen Fan but couldn't get angry.

Wang Tai came to fight, he didn't want to disobey Shen Fan, so he held back his anger and stepped forward to take Fang Ping's place, pushing Shen Fan on the swing.

Fang Ping inexplicably became an outsider, and was stunned for a long time, when a servant girl came over, she was also stunned when she saw the two men playing on the swing, but then remembered her mission, Fang Ping said: "Miss, madam calls you one trip."

"What did mother call me to do?" Fang Ping asked.

The servant girl said: "It was a master who said that he had found the evil spirit. To exorcise the evil spirit, the young lady must be present."

That had to go, Fang Ping followed the maid and left with some reluctance.

Only Shen Fan and Wang Tai were left in the yard, and Wang Tai was finally able to feel free. He grabbed the swing rope and forced it to stop with brute force. At the same time, he said to Shen Fan: "Master, don't play any more. The business is important, you see that others have already found the evil spirit!"

Wang Tai was almost dying of anxiety. He came back to let Shen Fan show off. Now that the limelight is about to be taken out by other gods, how can he explain to Lord Hou when he goes back.

Shen Fan was not in a hurry at all, and said, "Let's hang out for a while."

It was the first time for him to sit on a swing, and he was just starting to play.

Wang Tai said anxiously: "Master! If you really like it, go back and ask Master Hou to make one for you. You can wander around the mansion slowly. It's important to catch evil spirits now!"

Shen Fan thought for a while, and his eyes showed appreciation: "You are right."

He jumped off the swing.

Wang Tai: "..."

He belatedly realized that he seemed to have dug a hole for Xie Yunlan, and hoped that Shen Fan would not confess himself when he asked Xie Yunlan to make him a swing.

They chased in the direction Fang Ping left, and when they went to the place, there were many people standing in the courtyard, except for Yuan Wan and Fang Ping, all the mages who had gone to the mansion to hunt for demons were gathered here, and one of them was dressed in a robe. The Taoist priest is talking freely under the locust tree in the courtyard.

"Locust tree belongs to yin, and it is also known as ghost tree. Sophora wood naturally has the effect of gathering yin and gathering ghosts. If the yang energy in the house is strong, it is not afraid, but..." The Taoist paused at the right time, and looked at the only tree in the mansion. Some of the two masters, the meaning is self-evident, "As far as I can see, when there is a male in the wife's house, the evil spirits have never made trouble, have they?"

Yuan Wan nodded repeatedly after listening: "It was true that my son did not make trouble when he was still at home last month."

"What should I do?" Yuan Wan worried, "My son was sent to Linzhou, and he won't be back for a while. There is no yang energy suppression in the mansion, but we want to cut down this locust tree?"

"But this locust tree was planted by our ancestors, and it has a history of a hundred years. It would be a pity to cut it down like this," Fang Ping said.

Yuan Wan also thought so, and asked, "Master, do you have a good plan?"

The Taoist stroked his beard and seemed to be in a bit of a dilemma: "Forget it, a hundred-year-old tree already has spirituality, and heaven has the virtue of being good at life. The poor Taoist will waste some mana and practice, and open the altar to get rid of the ghosts attached to this locust tree. , so you don’t have to cut down the tree.”

Yuan Wan was overjoyed when she heard the words: "Then I will trouble Master."

"It's easy to say, it's the job of a poor Taoist to practice the method of exorcising demons, and to eliminate disasters and solve problems for people." The Taoist said with a smile.

Yuan Wan became more and more convinced of this master, and the servants began to prepare incense candles on the table and altar for performing rituals. The other mages around secretly regretted that they were a step slower, not because they were a step slower in finding the evil spirits, but because they were making up nonsense The speed slowed down a step.

They are all of the same kind, and each knows how much the other is worth. What kind of exorcist master is he talking about? He was still setting up a fortune-telling stall at the entrance of Xishi Street yesterday, and he just dressed up after seeing the notice. Came here pretending to be an exorcist master to cheat.

A shaman master was unwilling to be cut off, so he stepped forward and recommended himself to Yuan Wan: "My shaman sect is best at exorcising evil spirits. If you don't want to entrust this matter to me, madam, you don't have to worry about the loss of Lingbao." Mana cultivation base."

Yuan Wan declined: "Let's leave this matter to Master Lingbao."

She doesn't believe in anyone now, but the real Lingbao.

Hearing this, Master Lingbao glanced at the group of colleagues with a proud and flaunting look. He came prepared. He had inquired about the situation in the mansion yesterday, so he was able to hit him right away, and accurately stated that the evil in the mansion was due to The master is not there, no one will suppress it, and gain the trust of the eldest princess.

It cost him a lot of money to inquire about the news, but this initial investment is for greater profits. Once the ceremony is completed, the eldest princess must not treat him badly, and there will be no shortage of gold and silver. Honorable guest, introduce him to the emperor. From then on, he will be able to rise to the top and make a fortune.

The more Master Lingbao thought about it, the more complacent he became, until his eyes caught Shen Fan who just came over.

It's this kid again.Master Lingbao thought to himself.

It really hit the evil, everything developed as he expected, Shen Fan was tricked by him to go to the street where Xuanwuhou's mansion is located, and bumped into Xuanwuhou impartially, but instead of being beaten, Shen Fan was even beaten. He respectfully invited him back, saying that it was the envoy sent by Zhulong, not to mention that his name had spread all over the capital in the past few days, and today he was led by the prince and Marquis Xuanwu together, giving him enough ostentation.

Master Lingbao can't figure out why Shen Fan is so good. This kid is obviously stupid and stupefied. Unlike him, he is so eloquent that he can say that dead people are alive. When he was in the main hall, he kept staring at him with jealous eyes. Looking at Shen Fan, meeting old friends, he thought that Shen Fan would look at him more or less, but he didn't expect that Shen Fan didn't move his eyes from him from the beginning to the end, as if he didn't know him.

How unreasonable!If it wasn't for his kindness to guide the way, how could Shen Fan get to where he is today!Real Lingbao was so jealous that he had already forgotten the real reason for guiding him.

Fortunately, in the end, he was still superior, so what if Shen Fan was recommended by Marquis Xuanwu, isn't it him that the eldest princess believes now?

Thinking of this, Master Lingbao looked at Shen Fan more and more complacently. If it wasn't for the presence of other people, he wanted to maintain his image of a master, and he would have gone over to ridicule him in person now.

Even if he couldn't pass, he tried his best to express his sarcasm with his eyes.

Wang Tai looked at Lingbao Daoist who was winking in this direction, then looked at Shen Fan, and asked suspiciously, "Do you know him?"

Shen Fan glanced at it and said, "It looks familiar, I don't remember."

Then he didn't give Lingbao his eyes any more, he looked at the lush locust tree in the courtyard.

Seeing this, Wang Tai said: "Since the evil spirit is attached to the locust tree, master, hurry up and get rid of the evil spirit."

"No." Shen Fan said, "There is no evil on the locust tree."

Wang Tai looked distressed, thinking that he certainly knew that there was no evil on the locust tree, not even in the entire princess mansion, but if you don't perform the exorcism, other magic sticks will take the limelight.

He couldn't bear it anymore, took Shen Fan to a corner, took out a stack of talisman papers and a mahogany sword from the wooden box that accompanied him, and said to Shen Fan: "Master, hold this mahogany sword later." The sword went to the courtyard to gesticulate twice, then use the tip of the sword to splash a few drops of water on the talisman paper, and when the grimace on the talisman paper comes out, you will say that you have caught the evil spirit."

Shen Fan picked up the talisman paper and looked at it for a moment, then said: "But this is just ordinary yellow paper, without the magic power to catch monsters"

Can I still know that this is ordinary yellow paper?Wang Tai anxiously said: "Master, don't worry about it, you just do it!"

Shen Fan stared at Wang Tai strangely for a while, and said, "No."

Wang Tai was about to die of anger. Just as he was gearing up to threaten with force, a bell rang in the courtyard. Wang Tai turned his head and saw that an altar had been set up in the originally empty courtyard. A string of bells was threaded through with a thin thread to form a bell array. At the moment when the bells sounded, the real Lingbao began to practice.

Daoist Lingbao couldn't finish this method, otherwise this trip would really be in vain.Wang Tai changed his mind, and decided to focus on this ceremony first, find an opportunity to destroy it, and then let Shen Fan go up on the excuse that Lingbao Daoist's magic power is not enough to exorcise demons.

He squeezed into the crowd and watched the real Lingbao act, Shen Fan also came over, different from the people around him, his attention was not on the real Lingbao in the middle of the crowd, he looked around the entire courtyard, as if what to look for.

In front of the altar in the center of the crowd, Master Lingbao held a handle of Buddha Chen and muttered something, and after saying a series of incomprehensible mantras, suddenly Buddha Chen flicked it, took a yellow talisman and lit it with a candle, and said to the locust tree: "go!"

He raised his hand to throw the yellow talisman towards the locust tree. Wang Tai thought that this was his chance. He was holding a silver needle hidden weapon as thin as a cow's hair in his hand. No, he was going to use the silver needle to bounce the yellow talisman back to the real Lingbao's desk.

When he was about to make a move, Shen Fan's patrolling eyes froze. He looked at the house behind the yard and said, "Here we come."

What's coming?Wang Tai was interrupted by this, and the timing was wrong, the real Lingbao's yellow talisman had been thrown halfway, and it was about to fall on the locust tree, but the yellow talisman seemed to hit something out of thin air, and bounced back for no reason.

Wang Tai was taken aback when he saw this, holding the silver needle in his hand, thinking that he hadn't had time to shoot it yet?

Everyone was also stunned, including Master Lingbao himself, looking at the yellow paper that bounced back to the altar table and gradually burned to ashes, not knowing why.

"Dingling bells——" the bell array around the altar rang suddenly, and the crowd didn't notice the abnormality until someone who reacted quickly screamed: "There is no wind right now, why are the bells ringing?!"

Only then did everyone realize, yes, this bell is not touched by anyone, so why does it automatically when there is no wind?

"Dinglingling——" the sound of the bell became louder and more urgent, as if calling for life.

It was summer in June, but everyone in the courtyard felt a gloomy and cold for no reason. When they looked up at the sky, they saw that the originally bright sunlight was blocked by dark clouds that came from nowhere, and they disappeared.

Under the dark clouds, Fang Ping hugged Yuan Wan's arm tightly, her face turned pale, her lips trembled and said, "Come on, come on, this cold feeling is exactly the same as in a nightmare!"