Dali Temple Conspiracy Records

Although Li Guan is also in charge of the Unspecified Department and is in charge of weird cases, he is the Dali Secretary after all, and his main job is to judge prisons, not to exorcise ghosts and kill people.Therefore, if someone suffers from the matter of gods and ghosts and comes to ask for help, Li Guan will ignore it.

This time the talisman in Jishitang was causing trouble, Li Quan had already heard from Bai Sanxiu first, because he had some friendship with Gu Xinrong, so he agreed to come to see the situation first.It was night, and the two lived in Gu's house.

Of Gu Xinrong's three sons, Gu Chengyan, the eldest, has no intention of medical skills, and has already set up a separate family. He usually does not live in Gu's house. This time he came back temporarily as the eldest son to preside over the funeral.The second child, Gu Chengzhu, is good at medicine, so he is in charge of Jishitang's medicine business.The most successful one was the third child, Gu Mingyuan. In the last few years before Gu Xinrong's death, Jishitang had already been run by Gu Mingyuan.And he basically manages the inside and outside of the Gu residence.Gu Mingyuan is also the one who is most familiar with Li Quan.

In addition, there is another young girl, Gu Chenglan, who is nineteen years old and is waiting in her boudoir.I also learned some medical skills since I was a child, and sometimes I helped my brothers take care of affairs in Jishitang.

As for the talisman, the Gu family invited all the mages and Taoists to no avail, and Gu Xinrong believed in this way the most during his lifetime, so the first thing Li Quan had to do was to confirm the cause of Gu Xinrong's death.

"The third son said that the old man has an old disease, what exactly is it?"

"One is severe head disease and hearing loss; the other is weak intestines and stomach, frequent nausea and vomiting. Before my father passed away, there was an intestinal obstruction attack." Gu Mingyuan came together one by one, thought for a while, and added, "Actually not To tell you the truth, my father is more than seventy years old, and he has long been a little confused. There is no problem with the diagnosis and treatment when he is awake, but he will have auditory hallucinations."

Bai Sanxiu suddenly remembered the words that the old man said inexplicably when Li Guan brought her here for the first time.It may have been his auditory hallucinations at that time.

"Then what is the direct cause of the old man's death?"

"Hematemesis, it should be gastrointestinal bleeding. In addition, I found that my late father also had symptoms such as mouth congestion, edema, swollen gums, and oliguria. These... I think it is caused by the toxicity of cinnabar."

Li Quan frowned: "Cinnabar poisoning?"

Gu Mingyuan nodded, "My late father believed in alchemy and Taoism. He not only invited people to come to the house to cast spells, but also insisted on drinking amulet gray water. The old man is very stubborn and cannot be persuaded." He smiled wryly.

"So the third son believes that the cinnabar talisman water aggravated the old man's old illness, leading to his sudden death."

"From what I've observed, this should be the case. Before my father died, he had a very serious hallucination and raving, and he couldn't hear us at all."

Li Quan only said: "Li knows about it. The third son should rest early."

After Gu Mingyuan left, he turned to Bai Sanxiu and said, "You should go back to your room early to sleep."

Bai Sanxiu didn't follow her, she knew what he was going to do without having to think about her for so long.

"Si Zhi must be on duty at night, waiting for the talisman to appear, right? Then I won't sleep either."

Li Quan laughed, but didn't say anything else, just opened a door, sat on a chair and waited quietly.Sure enough, not long after, a long and gentle breathing sound came from the side.He looked sideways, and she was already asleep on the couch.

Since recovering from the corpse control technique, she is really fine, but she sleeps more than before, and can't stay up at night, and she has been sleepy for a long time.Li Quan didn't move her, but lightly put a coat on her so as not to catch cold.He himself sat back on the chair, closed his eyes and meditated.

When approaching midnight, there was a sudden commotion outside the guest room, and soon a servant rushed in: "Li Sizhi, you have appeared, you have appeared!"

Li Quan picked up the mahogany horizontal knife and jumped out of the guest room. Following the eyes of several servants, he saw that the pillars under the corridor seemed to be filled with talismans with cinnabar, flickering frequently, and emitting a faint red light. It is said to be haunted, but it really seems to be left by an expert.

"This is... a cinnabar talisman?" Bai Sanxiu also rubbed her eyes and followed, and couldn't help yawning.

Li Quan approached the pillar slowly, and following his steps, the protective kit around his waist shone with golden light.This means that Gu Xinrong does have persistent obsessions.

Maybe he was obsessed with exorcising ghosts because of auditory hallucinations, which caused the talisman to haunt him, but does his sudden death have anything to do with cinnabar?