33. Ming Road
Tan Xuan was suddenly interrupted, and he was a little embarrassed. He thought that things that could be found out easily became less easy.
Soon Director Chang also returned to the living room, his face filled with excitement. Today he had gained a thorough understanding. His attitude towards Tan Xuan had changed from respect to win over. He sat beside Tan Xuan and whispered to Tan Xuan: "Xiao Tan, the old man is asleep again, we can continue."
Tan Xuan shook his head regretfully, "This method of soul-stimulating is only used once, and it will not work if it is used again."
"What!" Director Chang just saw some hope, but it was instantly shattered. He really couldn't accept this fact.
"What should I do? Is there no other way?"
Tan Xuan thought for a while, pointed to the tea cup on the tea table and said to Aunt Feng, "Aunt Feng, the tea is cold, please make another cup."
"You want tea? OK, wait a moment."
Although Tan Xuan's request seemed a bit out of place, Aunt Feng still put away the tea cup on the coffee table and boiled water to make tea.
"Thank you, Aunt Feng, it's best to use new tea this time. Don't use tea cups, just use tea bowls." Tan Xuan reminded from the side.
"Okay, there seems to be no new tea bowl here, so I'll go back there to get it." Aunt Feng stopped the work in her hand and went back to the opposite door without any neglect.
Seeing that Tan Xuan ordered Aunt Feng and was picky, Qian Bo couldn't hold back his face. He secretly pointed Tan Xuan, frowned and asked, "Tan Zi, what are you doing?"
Tan Xuan smiled slightly and replied in a low voice: "You will know in a while."
Soon Aunt Feng came over with a brand new tea bowl. When she washed it and planned to make tea, Tan Xuan stopped her again.
Tan Xuan took the tea bowl and said to Director Chang, "Director Chang, please take a drop of blood from the fingertips of the old man's ring finger, and then pull a hair from the old man's temples."
Director Chang took the tea bowl and asked in confusion: "What do you want the old man's blood and hair?"
"I was interrupted just now. Now I only know that the deadly ghost is called Li Ying, but I don't know where he lives. We must first find out where he is from, why does the old man feel that he owes her."
"How do you check?" Director Chang became more and more confused as he listened.
Tan Xuan waved his hand and told him not to ask too much, "You will know this later. Go and take the old man's fingertips and hair between his temples."
"OK."
Director Chang went to the bedroom with a tea bowl, and came back soon, handing the bowl and hair to Tan Xuan.
Tan Xuan looked at the dark red blood drops at the bottom of the bowl, and didn't know how Director Chang took it. It didn't matter anyway. He put the tea bowl on the tea table, took out the lighter and lit the hair in the cup, and then said to Aunt Feng: "Aunt Feng, please use this tea bowl to make a cup of new tea this year."
The tea was brewed quickly. Tan Xuan put the tea bowl in front of him and then pulled out three cigarettes from the cigarette box on the tea table. Tan Xuan stood up and held the three cigarettes to the top of his eyebrows. He muttered a few words that no one heard clearly before inserting all three cigarettes into his mouth, then lit all three cigarettes, and took a hard breath.
The three cigarettes quickly burned to the cigarette butt part. Tan Xuan is busy doing serious things now, and doesn't care whether he has quality or not. He throws the cigarette butt aside and then spits out a thick smoke into the tea bowl.
Director Chang and the others had just seen Tan Xuan use this method, but they didn't expect that this time it would be different. This time there was no hovering smoke ring. The smoke directly enveloped the tea bowl, but the smoke did not spread at all, but was gradually shrinking and solidifying.
Slowly, the smoke seemed to be attracted by the tea in the tea bowl, and it gathered on the surface of the tea, and condensed into a smoke film composed of smoke on the panel of the tea. The smoke film became thinner and thinner until it completely shrank into the mouth of the bowl.
Suddenly, a ripples rippled in the smoke membrane. After the ripples dissipated, a human face appeared on the smoke membrane. It was a woman, very young and beautiful, with a melon-shaped face, a pointed chin, big eyes, a affectionate look, a small mouth slightly opened and a smile, and two braids drooped on her shoulders.
"ah!"
Director Chang and Aunt Feng were both stunned. When they saw the face of a woman emerging on the tea bowl, they were all so surprised that they couldn't stop talking. Although it was not particularly clear, it was already shocking enough. What is incredible? This is the real incredible. Even Qian Bo, who had seen the "world", was completely stunned at this time.
"This...she..."
The three of them pointed at the portrait and couldn't say the complete words for a while.
The smoke membrane shaking again, and the face disappeared, and the smoke membrane also broke down, turning into smoke and scattered into the house.
Tan Xuan glanced at Director Chang and his wife who had not yet come back from their surprise and said, "She is the ghost the old man saw, that is, the man named Li Ying."
"That ghost looks like this? Why isn't it scary at all?" Director Chang asked curiously. This is far from his imagination with a green face and fangs. If it weren't for his wife being right beside him, he would have been able to praise him for his beauty.
Tan Xuan smiled, "This is what he looks like in the old man's heart. It's impossible to look ugly when he can't forget it."
"She is the old man who is ashamed of? Then let's find her, ask the reason, and solve the problem, isn't it enough?" Aunt Feng said happily, "It's not scary if there is a problem, it's enough to solve it."
Tan Xuan shook his head and poured a basin of cold water on Aunt Feng, "You can't find her, she's dead."
"She is dead?" Aunt Feng grew up and not only did she, Director Chang couldn't believe the news.
Tan Xuan nodded, "She is indeed dead, and she has been dead for a long time. The old man knew that she was dead, so when he saw her in the illusion, he called her a ghost."
"What should I do?" Director Chang was a little bit hopeful and was about to collapse.
Tan Xuan said expressionlessly: "Find the place where she lived when she was alive, understand how she died, and find a way to resolve the old man's conscience."
"But the old man doesn't mention this matter at all. We can't even know where this woman named Li Ying lives and dies."
Tan Xuan waved his hand, "Don't worry, I can give you a clear way and point out the general direction."
"Really?" Director Chang immediately stood up when he heard Tan Xuan's words. Tan Xuan's words turned around and made him unable to calm down.
Tan Xuan waved his hand and signaled him to sit down, "I'll try it."
Tan Xuan picked up the tea bowl on the tea table, whispered a few words of mantra, breathed in at the tea bowl, and then raised his hand to pour the tea on the ground in the living room.
"check!"
The three of them were all watching quietly. They had seen many incredible things today. Now they were not surprised when they saw Tan Xuan's actions, nor were they shocked. They were used to it. However, this technique also played homophones, which was more or less unexpected to them.
After the tea fell to the ground, it did not splash everywhere, but formed a pool around the tea leaves. It was not round, but only had a sharp corner at the lower left corner, which collapsed a few minutes from this direction.
Tan Xuan put down the tea bowl and walked to the tea water to look carefully at the shape of the tea water, and then carefully checked the splashing tea water, "One drop, two drops, three drops..."
Tan Xuan squatted on the ground and gestured, muttering and saying something that others didn't hear very clearly, and his brows frowned slightly.
"The northwest is the stem, the stem is the sky, the five-star belongs to metal... every drop is put..."
After a while, Tan Xuan let out a long sigh, stood up again, and sat back on the sofa. "Have you found out what the result?" Qian Bo was the first to ask, and he was the most active every time, as if the one lying in the bedroom was his biological grandfather.
Tan Xuan nodded, "Okay, it's already found out. Please clean up the dirty things on the ground."
"Sorry, Aunt Feng, you are burdened." Tan Xuan said to Aunt Feng apologized.
Aunt Feng stood up and sat down again, "It's okay, you can talk about the results you found out first, just clean up later."
"Okay." Since they wanted to hear the result, Tan Xuan did not hide it, and directly explained what he had just discovered. "After I investigated, the old man and Li Ying should have met a mountain village northwest of Jiangzhou, which is about 300 miles away from Jiangzhou. You can go there according to these conditions. If you ask more older people, you will probably gain something."
"That's just a little information?" Qian Bo almost cursed when he heard Tan Xuan's words, "Tan Zi, what's the one you gave is too much. It's more than 300 miles northwest and it's still in the countryside. This is what you said about the road. This is too general. You can check it in detail."
Tan Xuan shook his head, "I am not good at calculating. I just used the fur I learned from others. It is not easy to calculate these things. Isn't it enough to have these instructions?"
Qian Bo opened the map software on his phone and said to Tan Xuan: "Do you know how large the area is for each other 300 miles northwest of Jiangzhou? Look at how many villages there are. Looking for someone in such a big place is no different from finding a needle in a haystack."
Not only was Qian Bo shocked after hearing Tan Xuan's words, Director Chang covered his face and did not speak, but even Aunt Feng looked bitter, "Yes, this range is too large, but how can I find it? Even if we look for it carefully, I guess the old man won't last that long."
Tan Xuan said helplessly: "I can't do anything about this. Maybe there are other people who are proficient in Zhou Yi, otherwise Director Chang would ask someone else to infer, which might narrow the scope a lot. I really can't do anything about this, sorry."
Director Chang rubbed his face hard, "You're welcome. Xiao Tan, you've helped me a lot, and finding someone else won't do anything. I already know where that place is."
"Do you know?" Now it was Tan Xuan's turn to be confused, staring at Director Chang and waiting to listen to his explanation below.
Director Chang took out a cigarette from the cigarette box, lit it, took a sip, and said slowly: "You should be Luanshan County where you are talking about. The old man was an educated youth there when he was young, and that Li Ying should have known him there."
"That's the case, then Director Chang will send someone or go there to check it out by himself. After asking for the reason, just find someone to abdicate the fateful ghost in the old man's heart. Okay, it's getting late, and I can do almost everything I can, so I won't disturb you anymore."
As he said that, Tan Xuan stood up and called Qian Bo to leave.
He left at will, which surprised Director Chang and asked, "Then aren't you going with us?"
Tan Xuan shook his head, "I won't go, it's easy to find out the reason. Then you can find someone who understands this and solve it."
"Then wait." Director Chang turned to the study and quickly took out a bank card. He touched Tan Xuan with both hands, "Thank you today, I'm not grateful for it."
Tan Xuan glanced at the card in Director Chang's hand. This card was not the same as the card given to Master Mao in the afternoon, but he did not answer it, and he didn't even look at it.
"You don't have to do this anymore. Today I came here completely for Brother Qian's sake. If you want to thank him, thank him."
"Where, where, it is all right..."
"Okay, goodbye."
Chapter completed!