Holy Bone

Chapter 156 Clues Appear in Xue's Mansion and Headless Village
In the Taoist wing.

The old Taoist priest, who was warming the quilt, was surprised when he heard the knock on the door in the rainy night.

"It's Haishi, and it's already the city's curfew time. How can anyone go to the streets late at night?"

"Could it be someone from the government?"

The old Taoist said it all, but he still went down to the ground to open the door.

Knocking on the door late at night.

It must be urgent.

It's important to save people.

At this time, the rapid knocking on the door and calls for help outside the Taoist temple continued to ring.

"Come on, come on, don't knock on the door again."

"If you shoot again, the door will fall apart."

The voice of the old Taoist came from behind the gate of the Taoist temple.

Afterwards, footsteps sounded in the monastery on a rainy night. It was the footsteps of two people. They walked towards the door stepping on the puddle.

Squeak.

The door of the Taoist temple opened from the inside.

When the gate of the Taoist temple was opened inward, the Xue family, who came to the Taoist temple in the rain for help, saw a pair of old and young Taoist priests opened the door.

Then the member of the Xue family, who was wearing a coir raincoat and a bamboo hat, wiped his face that was wet by the wind and rain with his hands, and said eagerly: "Daoist, human life is at stake, please save our young master and our elder brother!" Young mistress!"

"I beg you, Daoist!"

Jin An and the old Taoist were surprised to see each other's clothes, which didn't look like officials, but they were able to go out on the street late at night.

The old Taoist didn't rush to follow the other party immediately, but first asked the other party's identity: "Who are you?"

"Prince Daoist, we are the guards of the Xue family. Both the young master and the young mistress of our family have been bewitched by evil spirits, and we are anxiously waiting for the priest to save them."

The old Taoist was confused: "The Xue family? Which Xue family?"

The other party hastily explained: "The two Taoists, the He family, the Xue family, and the Jia family, the three major medicinal material merchants in Fucheng, should have heard of it?"

"We are servants from the Xue family. Because of the sudden incident, we had to disturb the rest of the two priests late at night. Please forgive me, we are really eager to save people."

After the other party finished speaking, he hurriedly urged Jin'an and the old Taoist priest to go to Xue's house to save people.

After listening to Xue's Ding's words, this time it was Jin'an's turn and the old Taoist looked at each other with surprised expressions.

what happened?

Why are they the three major medicinal material suppliers?
Since they came to Fucheng, they have been circling around these three major medicine suppliers.

Jin An was telling Shao Jian to stay and watch the Taoist temple, and then he and the old Taoist rushed to Xue's house with all the equipment to save people.

Xue's carriage had already parked outside the Taoist temple, and a group of people took the carriage and rushed to Xue's house without stopping.

On the way, Jin An and the old Taoist also learned the whole story of this incident.

Xue Hanshi, the eldest daughter-in-law of the Xue family, was sleeping in the same bed with her husband Xue Xiong tonight. She dreamed that her husband woke up at some point, half-sitting in horror and looking at Xue Hanshi who was sleeping beside the pillow.

Xue Xiong seemed to have seen something that terrified him.

With horror in his eyes, he looked desperately at his sleeping wife next to his pillow, and yelled some inexplicable words in his mouth.

Crying things like don't hurt his family.

Don't hurt his wife, parents.

He stopped hiding.

He is willing to go with them.

He doesn't hide anymore, he doesn't hide anymore, why should he harm his family!
Then in her dream, Xue Han saw her husband who was mad and screaming like a nightmare, and took off the Buddhist rosary that had been worn on his wrist with his own hands.

As Xue Xiong took the initiative to take off the rosary, Xue Hanshi woke up from the nightmare.

She turned around and looked at the bedside, and found that her husband who was lying beside her had disappeared. She touched the quilt and found that it had been cold for a long time.

The door of the room was open, and the wind and rain from outside blew into the room along the open door. The lamps and candles in the room had already been blown out by the wind and rain, and the inside of the room was pitch black.

Xue Han timidly called out to her husband and the maids and nurses outside the house, but no one responded to her.

Just when she was about to get out of bed, the palm of her hand touched something from her side. It turned out to be a rosary worn by her husband on his wrist. It broke at some point, and the beads scattered on the bed and the ground, as if they had been torn off abruptly.

Thinking of the nightmare she had just had, Xue Han screamed in fright and cried out her husband's name.

Xue Han's scream broke the silence of the Xue family at night, and soon other nursing homes of the Xue family heard the screams and rushed over, only to see that the maids and nursing homes who were guarding the door of the young master's room were all unconscious Awake.

After waking them up, they all frightened and claimed that a headless dead man came out from the room of the young master and the young mistress, and they all fainted from fright.

Those servants all claim to be true in every sentence.

That's really a headless dead man.

And looking at the clothes, body shape, and height, well, it seems to be the young master of the Xue family, Xue Xiong...

And after Xue Han's fright, it seemed that she was overly frightened. She started to have a high fever, and she became unconscious not long after.

Now the whole Xue family has started to spread the word, the young mistress must have gone against evil.

But now, Xue Xiong, the young master of the Xue family, has disappeared, not seen when he was born, and not seen when he died. He searched the whole house and found no one.

Even the old lady of the Xue family was overwhelmed by grief and fright, fell into a coma several times, woke up several times crying, and fell ill all of a sudden. The Xue family is now in a mess and lost its backbone.

Headless?

Rainy season?

I don't know if it's Jin'an's overthinking, why did he think of the headless village story that Li Huwei once told them?
It's just that this servant doesn't know much about the specific situation that happened to the master's family, so he can only give a rough idea.

If you want to know the more specific situation, you have to rescue Mrs. Xue and Mrs. Xue Han to find out.

After listening to the words of the family members of the Xue family, Jin An was puzzled: "There are so many famous Taoist temples and Buddhist temples in Fucheng, and your Xue family has a great career, so you shouldn't be short of money. Why don't you go directly to Bailong Temple to seek eminent monks, but come to Fucheng to be famous?" The invisible little Taoist temple, come to us?"

The family member of the Xue family explained: "Master, old lady, eldest and young mistresses have all fallen ill, and now the Xue family has no backbone. It is the new leader of the guards in the inner courtyard of the Xue family. His surname is Xu. It is Xu who asked us to come to the Wu Zang Dao Temple to invite the two of you." An expert came out of the mountain to save people."

"He said that the priests in the Taoist Temple of the Five Viscera are all masters with real abilities, so let us come directly to the Taoist Temple of the Five Viscera for help."

"?"

Jin An was taken aback.

"Old Daoist, you have a lot of activities in Fucheng on weekdays, and often accept some folk rituals. When did you come to Xue's house to do rituals? Do you know anyone surnamed Xu?"

In the carriage compartment, Jin An asked the old Taoist priest sitting beside him.

The old Taoist was also confused, saying that he didn't know anyone surnamed Xu.

The old Taoist also said that the Taoist temple has been expanding these days, and there are no Buddhist rituals. The business of funerals has been coming to the door. The business has always been a piece of shit. Except for those masons and porters who do heavy work, the only outsider who came to the Taoist temple these days is the sneaky man this morning. The little thief who came to the Taoist temple to step on the spot.

crackle crackle.

The night rain and the cold wind blew on the carriage, and the people in the carriage bumped and swayed along the way. After a while, they arrived at the majestic and ancient Xue Mansion.

Then, under the hurried guidance of Xue's family, Jin An and the old Taoist entered the gate of Xue's house.

"what?"

"Wonderful?"

Xue's mansion is very large, with countless attics, pavilions, terraces and waterside pavilions, carved beams and painted buildings. Several people passed through the courtyard walls and corridors, and the old Taoist suddenly cried out in surprise.

Jin An quietly asked what's the matter, is there a scam in Xue's residence?
The old Taoist shook his head, saying that Xue's mansion, like He's mansion, is a good feng shui bureau, very suitable for Yang Zhai, and it must have been instructed by an expert.

But the problem lies in this feng shui bureau.

The old Taoist secretly said that the feng shui pattern of Xue's mansion is different from that of He's mansion, but there are striking similarities in some details.

It seems that they are all made by the same Feng Shui expert.

Although the feng shui patterns of the He Mansion and the Xue Mansion are different, or even completely different, and the other party has tried to hide it as much as possible, but no matter how one person's way of doing things, the tone of his speech, no matter how he conceals it, he can't hide some personal details and habits.

For example, this feng shui master likes to hide wind and water diversion bureaus.

Another example is that they all like to use fairy bridges and lush flowers and trees as a game.

And there is another extremely subtle place that is even more special, that is, in some inconspicuous details, the square and square design will be adopted according to the rockery and flowing water. .

Only those who have been in the official family will use this feng shui bureau to ensure their own prosperity and smooth officialdom.

With this feng shui bureau at home, as long as you are upright and have a clear conscience, you will not be easily framed by your opponents in the court party faction.

But this Fengshui bureau is only used in the homes of officials in the court because the layout is too high.

Ordinary people use this feng shui bureau, which is called virtue does not match, short people wear tall hats, and draw themselves a picture of an iron bucket around the river as a prison bureau, and they will never get ahead.

The old Taoist continued to speak.

When he first saw this iron bucket Jiangshan Bureau in He Mansion, he didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that He's family had produced scholars or recruited people.

The He family has a great career, and the family's children have spread out. It is not unusual for a few of them to obtain fame and become officials in the court.

Moreover, the He family's business has been doing well, which is enough to illustrate this point.

But the same feng shui detail also appeared in Xue's mansion. The key is that there are several other subtle details that are similar, which makes people speculate... This He mansion, the feng shui bureau of Xue's mansion, are probably all from the same The hand of a high-ranking person.

When Jin An heard the words, he fell silent.

At first, because of the darkness and the rain, he didn't pay much attention to it, but now after being pointed out by the old Taoist with sharp eyes, he suddenly figured out something.

"What's wrong little brother?"

"Old Taoist, I'm afraid that the Feng Shui of the Yang Zhai of the He Mansion, Xue Mansion, and Jia Mansion were all created by the same person."

Jin An quietly told the old Taoist priest what he found at Jia's house when he was walking in the dark, and the old Taoist was speechless.

……

The Xue residence is divided into an outer courtyard and an inner courtyard, and the inner courtyard is filled with family members and female relatives of the Xue family. A group of people walked all the way and saw that the Xue residence is now in a mess.

The whole Xue family was looking for the missing young master in the rain.

Ding of the Xue family led Jin An and the old Taoist priest directly into the inner courtyard of the Xue mansion, and first came to the independent courtyard where Xue Xiong and Xue Han lived.

As soon as I entered the house, I felt much warmer without the wind and rain outside.

Many servants and doctors gathered in the room, busy taking care of Xue Han who was unconscious due to high fever.

A group of maidservants fetched hot water and changed face kerchiefs, and kept putting hot face kerchiefs on Xue Han's forehead.

As soon as Jin An entered Xue Han's house, he first used the Qi Wang technique to scan the whole house.

But there is no Yin Qi or evil spirit in the house.

This shows that the strange things that happened in Xue's house tonight were not caused by evil spirits.

Jin An's eyes showed surprise.

Watching the two Taoist priests, one old and one young, enter the room, the servants and maids who were busy by the bed hurriedly saluted respectfully, and then voluntarily backed away.

Let Jin'an and the old Taoist come to the bedside to treat Xue Han's illness and exorcise evil spirits.

At the same time, these servants, maids, and several doctors all looked at the two Taoist priests invited by the Xue family curiously, wanting to see how the two Taoist masters exorcised evil spirits?

After Jin An glanced at Xue Hanshi on the bed, he didn't care anymore. He saw Xue Hanshi's seal and people turning black at a glance. It is not the yin qi entering the body that belongs to the shadowy.

It shows that Xue Hanshi was indeed bewitched by an evil spirit, but it wasn't an evil spirit. What exactly is it? You have to investigate carefully before you can find out.

It was also the first time for Jin An to encounter this kind of symptom. He didn't know whether it would be effective if he directly used visceral qi to pull out the poison or used fire poison and inner qi to pull out the poison, so let the experienced Taoist priests first solve it.

Fortunately, the evil wind entering the body is not serious, the black line between Renzhong and Yintang is not connected, it is not terminally ill, and the person can still be cured.

Then, he turned to look curiously at the rosary beads that had been scattered in a copper washbasin because the rope was broken.

At this time, the old Taoist priest had already started to save people.

He first took out a yellow talisman from the Taiji gossip bag, but it was not a talisman to ward off evil spirits, but a talisman with six dings and six armors.

The old Taoist folded the Liuding Liujia talisman into an amulet, put it on Xue Han's neck, and then took out a pot of Sanyang wine.

Since he came to Xue's mansion to exorcise evil spirits, how could there be no Sanyang wine, the old Taoist had already brought all the diners with him.

The old Taoist asked Xue's servant girl to take off Xue Han's clothes, spread Sanyang wine all over Xue Han's body, and massaged Xue Han non-stop all night, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, dredging meridians, and dispelling rheumatism and stasis.After Xue Hanshi rubbed his whole body to warm up from the cold, he would be able to wake up in the daytime tomorrow.Of course, when it comes to undressing, massaging and invigorating blood circulation, everyone else leaves the house to avoid it.

Xue Han's main reason is that the evil wind enters the body, and the yang energy is damaged. People have three fires, but now Xue Han's three yang fires are weak, which leads to poor physique, cold illnesses enter the body, high fever and persistent coma. Awake.

As long as the three yang fires are re-ignited and the yang energy of the living person is stimulated, the disease will be cured naturally.

Just as the old Taoist was instructing the servant girl to pay attention to how to activate the blood circulation massage, Jin'an on the other side walked to the copper basin, and he reached out to pick up a rosary to watch.

Jin An observed carefully several times, and even used Wangwang Qi, Zang Qi, and Black Mountain Gong internal Qi to find out that there is no evil, yin, or evil energy in these rosary beads.

On the contrary, under the Qi Watching Technique, there is a faint Buddha light like a firefly that is dissipating.

This is because the rosary has been destroyed.

The mystic arts attached to the rosary beads by the eminent monks are dissipating.

"The big quilt sleeps together, and the husband and wife are of the same heart. If Xue Hanshi's dream is true, and he really dreamed of the last tragedy of her husband who slept with her big quilt... Then, what is the missing headless young master of the Xue family afraid of?" What? What did he see in his wife who was sharing the same bed, that could frighten him into such panic and despair?"

After dealing with Xue Han's situation, Jin An and the old Taoist rushed to the room of Master Xue and Mrs. Xue under the leadership of the famous family member Ding who led the way at the beginning.

On the way, Jin An asked the old Taoist priest his own question, what happened to Xue Hanshi?It doesn't look like something sinister and evil.

With Xue Mansion's feng shui layout guided by experts, ordinary dirty things can't get in at all, and they are directly blocked out of the door.

Moreover, he found no sign of Yin Qi on Xue Hanshi's body, on the broken rosary beads in Xue's mansion.

What happened in Xue's mansion this time is really strange. It is said that there are unclean things making trouble?But it's not like it.

It is said that people are pretending to be gods and tricks, right?But Xue Han's body did have signs of evil wind entering his body and Yang Qi being damaged.

This is the first time he encountered this situation.

"Just now, when the maids of the Xue family were massaging and rubbing the body of the young lady of the Xue family, I asked those maids, the young lady of the Xue family did not feel any hard lumps on the chest and underarms of the young lady of the Xue family, and the young lady of the Xue family did not. Being turned over by Yin Mo."

The old Taoist deliberately avoided the members of Xue's family and whispered to Jin'an.

Then the old Taoist said some of his conjectures: "Old Taoist, I think that the missing headless young master of the Xue family probably planted some kind of powerful curse or Gu technique. It has already been planted in the human body, so it is not considered to be insidious, so the Feng Shui Bureau of the Xue Mansion will lose its effect."

"The Feng Shui bureau can only block evil spirits and prevent evil spirits from entering the mansion, but it is not omnipotent, such as curses and Gu techniques cannot be blocked."

"However, the conditions for being able to cast a curse or a Gu technique are more difficult than the difficulty of running into evil. You can't just cast a curse or Gu technique on someone casually, and you must meet a harsh opportunity."

……

The group of them soon met Mr. Xue, the current head of the Xue family.

At this time, Master Xue and Mrs. Xue are both sick in bed and unconscious. Both of them are sixtieth old people. The Xue family has invited many doctors from all over the city to take good care of the two elders.

The doctor said that the two elders were fine, but that they were overwhelmed with grief, frightened and cold, and fell into a temporary coma.

After drinking a few medicines and conditioning for a period of time, you can slowly restore your vitality.

Jin An and the old Taoist also checked the two elderly people, and saw that there was nothing abnormal about them, so they left the room and planned to stay at Xue's house for one night to recharge their batteries. Only then will you know what to do next.

Now the only people who know Xue Xiong's situation are all unconscious, they have no clue at all, and they can't find anyone if they want to.

As the saying goes, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice.

And in the room of Master Xue and Mrs. Xue, Jin An and the old Taoist also saw Commander Xu, who looked strange, and Jin An had never seen this person before.

Just when Jin An and the old Taoist priest had just walked out of Master Xue and Mrs. Xue's room, the guard surnamed Xu suddenly chased them out and called them after him.

"Two Taoist priests, please wait a moment. Can you take a moment to speak? Regarding the disappearance of the young master, I have found several important witnesses who can provide clues. Because there were too many people in the back room just now, it is inconvenient to say more."

Commander Xu clasped his fists and said politely: "Now I have invited those important witnesses to Xue's residence, and now I am waiting for the two priests in a lower courtyard."

however.

Before Jin An could answer, the old Taoist priest on the side stared closely at the face of Commander Xu who had already stood in front of him. Then, he looked shocked and looked like a ghost.

The old Taoist hurriedly listened to Jin An. I don't know what he muttered to Jin An, but Jin An looked up at Commander Xu in front of him with a face of shock and inexplicable.

The next moment it changed to a strange expression.

"Commander Xu, right?" Jin An looked at Commander Xu in front of him with an increasingly strange expression.

The person in front of him nodded: "Exactly."

"Or, I'll call you Guard Li!" Jin An looked at Commander Xu who had been playing their role all the way in front of him with a painful expression, or he could also call you Guard Li who was next to Mrs. He's family.

Is this Guard Li playing Infernal Affairs?

give me a chance.

I want to be a good nurse.

Ma'am, when can I go back?If you don't call me back to He Mansion, I will be in the position of leader of Xue Family Nursing Academy.

The more Jin An thought about it, the more painful it became.

The expression on Commander Xu's face at this time was like a shit, the shock on his face was no less than that of Jin An and the old Taoist priest. He was shocked, and hurriedly pulled Jin An and the old Taoist priest aside in a corner: "I followed the Jianghu disguise master I have learned the disguise technique, and even the acquaintances around me don’t recognize me on weekdays, how did Daoist Jin’an and Daoist Chen recognize me?”

Jin An: "!"

Old Taoist: "!"

Sure enough, Li Huwei, you have been playing us all the time!

"Tell us first, aren't you the guard Li next to Mrs. He's house? Why did you become the Xue Family Xu Nursing Academy again? You actually got mixed up with the leader of the inner courtyard nursing courtyard again!"

Jin An looked at the guard Li in front of him with a sore face after the face-changing surgery, which he couldn't recognize at all.

Li Huwei looked around cautiously, and after seeing that there was no one around, he sneakily explained: "Daoist Jin'an, I finally found a clue to the headless village."

"This young master of the Xue family is a martial idiot who practiced martial arts. Around the rainy season a year ago, he took Xue family members into the mountains to hunt."

"The disappearance of the young master of the Xue family is related to Wutou Village, and the disappearance this time is not only the young master of the Xue family, but also includes the servants who went hunting with the young master of the Xue family. People disappeared earlier, not long after the rainy season entered. This young master of the Xue family may be the last one to disappear after the rainy season came to an end because of the protection of the rosary beads consecrated by the Bailong Temple. "

"In order to find out the secrets of Xue's family, I even resigned from the nursing home of He's family, and started from Bai Ding again. I entered Xue's family to investigate the clues of Wutou Village. It can be said that I did not sacrifice a lot. In the end, cough cough, because someone Li He is very talented, and it just so happens that the Xue residence is short of people, so he accidentally slipped into the position of the commander of the Nursing Academy." Li Huwei boasted to himself.

"I, Li, promised Taoist Master Jin'an and Taoist Chen that I would try my best to find clues about Wutou Village. As soon as I found important clues in Xue's residence, I immediately asked Xue's family to inform Taoist Master Jin'an and Taoist Chen. As friends, I, Li, can be regarded as having both loyalty and righteousness."

"I have made such a great contribution. This time, whatever the two priests said, they must take me to fight evil. This time, they must take me with them when they go to Wutou Village."

Li Huwei, who was thinking about bumping into an evil spirit once in this life, will not let go of Jin An and the old Taoist priest this time.

Jin An: "..."

Old Taoist: "..."

After listening to Li Huwei's explanation, although the logic seemed to make sense, Jin An still felt that something was wrong?
Just facing Li Huwei's constant urging and asking him how he could see his disguise technique, Jin An was annoyed by the urging, so he replied: "Everyone's face is innate at birth and unique, unless A complete change of appearance like the Yin Fang Fang Shu, stealing the sky and changing the sun, otherwise ordinary Jianghu disguises can't cover up everyone's unique appearance."

"So in front of a good physicist, there is no difference between being easy and not easy."

As Jin An said, he raised his hand and pointed at the old Taoist priest, which meant that the old Taoist priest recognized Li Huwei's face.

The old Taoist immediately raised his head and chest, his fairy air fluttered.

Guard Li looked at the old Taoist in shock.

"Chen Daochang, you are truly an expert!"

"Convinced! Five bodies cast to the ground!"

(End of this chapter)