"Master, there seems to be some movement in the house. Is something wrong?"
Feiyan lay on the window and looked out and said, seeing that the old Taoist was ignoring him, he turned back to look at his bed and saw that the old Taoist was packing his luggage.
"Hurry up and pack your bags, you and I are getting ready to leave here."
While packing, the old Taoist turned around and urged Feiyan in a low voice.
Feiyan ran up to Lao Dao, looked at him a few times, and then asked in a low voice:
"Did you get into trouble again?"
"Hey! What's wrong?"
"Then why are you in such a hurry to pack up and leave?"
The old Taoist stopped what he was doing, bent down and thought for a while, then immediately untied the package, made the bed, changed his clothes, pointed and said:
"Quick! Go to sleep! Nothing happened tonight!"
The little old Taoist understood it and said nothing. He blew out the oil lamp with a "pop" sound, took off his clothes and got into the quilt, his movements were smooth and skillful.
Just as I lay down and burned a stick of incense, there was a controlled and gentle knock on the courtyard door outside.
"Go and open the door."
The old man sat up on the bed and said.
"Yes, Master."
After Feiyan responded very calmly, he deliberately slowed down his steps and shouted dissatisfiedly in the room with a bit of sleepiness:
"Who is knocking at the door late at night?"
A gentle and humble male voice sounded outside the door:
"Little Taoist Priest, I am Qian Fu. I am bothering the Immortal Master. Please open the door and meet me."
"It's Mr. Fu again. What's going on late at night? Master has already gone to bed."
"I have received an order from a senior official to ask the Immortal Master to move your Majesty to another large house to live in the upper room. This place is too unfair to the Immortal Master."
Feiyan turned around and looked at the old Taoist, then said "wait a moment" and went out to open the courtyard door.
Qian Fu stood first outside the courtyard, followed by a dozen young men holding lanterns. After Qian Fu bowed his hands with a smile on his face, he stepped directly into the courtyard and headed towards the old bedroom of the main house.
At this time, the old Taoist started approving his coat. After Qian Fu exchanged pleasantries with him, he went straight to the topic.
The old Taoist looked slightly surprised, and after some humility, he went along with the guests as he pleased. The master and the disciple packed their bags in front of everyone.
Qian Fu asked a boy to help him, but he was politely declined by saying that a wandering man would keep everything simple and only had two pieces of baggage, so no help was needed.
Seeing Lao Dao and Fei Yan each simply taking away a piece of baggage, Qian Fu vaguely recalled that when these two people first arrived, they didn't seem to be as simple as he said.
But he did not dare to make any mistake in front of this immortal master who was respected by all the officials. He led the two of them to another courtyard that had been searched to rest. Before going out, he hinted to a few servants to stay quietly.
Souyuan.
He kept tossing until almost five o'clock in the morning before the old man lay down again.
He directly drove his apprentice to a side room to sleep, and he lay alone in the main room.
Seeing the fish-belly white color on the horizon, the old Taoist saw that everything was quiet, he quietly turned over and sat up, pulled out the broken ebony sword, and shouted lowly into the air:
"Goldfinger?"
"Goldfinger?"
"..."
"Alas..."
In the next room, Feiyan stared at the roof with his big eyes. Suddenly he heard the old Taoist sigh, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong.
During these days, my teacher and father will be raised in the mansion for a long time. Everyone in the mansion is coaxing and offering sacrifices, and he is already feeling a little elated, both overtly and secretly.
At yesterday's ceremony, his seat was even higher than that of the county magistrate here, but he was not humble enough.
In addition, there was a strong wind last night. After the master raised his sword and came out to pay tribute, there was a movement in the mansion.
The steward suddenly and inexplicably moved us here overnight.
Is it possible...
Master, Master, you must never do those stupid things.
Thinking of this, Feiyan quietly got up, tiptoed from the side room to the door of the main room, lay down by the door and listened.
The little old Taoist lay down and listened for a while. When there was no movement, he was about to walk towards the window on the side of the bed. Suddenly the door opened wide, and the old Taoist stood at the door without saying a word and looked at him coldly.
"Master...I'm afraid of sleeping alone."
Feiyan stood outside the house with a smile and said.
The old man was silent for a while, then let him into the house, looked outside for a few times and then closed the door, but he didn't find a sparrow standing on a branch in the yard, watching them quietly.
The master and the disciple fell asleep together, and the old Taoist said in a deep voice:
"Feiyan, I know you are smart, so I won't explain too much to you. You just need to remember that no matter what happens in Qian's house tonight, it has nothing to do with being a teacher... In short, it is not what the teacher wants.
, you have the right to pretend that nothing happened tonight, do you understand?"
"Understood."
"Okay, go to sleep."
The two of them lay on each side, curled up back to back, staring and thinking about their own thoughts.
No one slept peacefully in the entire Qian Mansion that night.
……
At five o'clock in the morning, old man Zhuang, who lived under the Bell and Drum Towers, heard the crow of roosters and got up. He saw that his son had already gotten up, dressed in clothes, and was reading at the desk.
The old man didn't bother him, put on his clothes and pushed open the door.
As he climbed up the stairs, he seemed to hear a woman's voice on the top of the building.
When he came to the bell tower, the sound disappeared again.
When he was wondering, he suddenly felt something flashing behind him. Old man Zhuang quickly turned around, but there was nothing there. He laughed at himself and said that his eyes were dim, walked into the bell tower, and pushed up the bell pestle.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
After ringing the bell, the old man was still searching upstairs to no avail, then he smiled and shook his head and said:
"I don't know where this big cat can go to play... cough, cough, cough."
After speaking, carefully hold on to the railing and walk down the stairs step by step.
Above him, a young woman in a green shirt was sitting on the roof of the building, overlooking the still empty and deserted streets and the city gate that was about to open.
The six city gates in Qingchuan County opened one by one after the bell rang. Among them, the north gate facing Long Xiangjiang opened the earliest, and the guards on duty here were also the most diligent.
Because outside the city, a large number of fishmongers were driving their carts, preparing to line up to enter the city. On the carts were fresh fish delivered to various large households and buyers.
At this time in the past, almost all people entering the city at the north gate, and few leaving the city.
But today, there was a car belonging to someone unknown, containing two large wooden boxes. It was leaving the city early in the morning. It was going in the opposite direction of the long queue of fish delivery trucks, staggering towards Long Xiangjiang.
Drive away.
"Drive! Drive!"
As soon as the other two city gates were opened, fast horses came out of the city and galloped away with their whips raised.
Qingchuan County is gradually becoming more lively, and a new day has begun again.
……
The next day the sun rose three poles.
"I know, sir. It is said that something happened on the night of the Qian Mansion's wedding last night. The whole family searched the courtyard until dawn."
In the front yard of the county government office, as soon as the master walked out of the backyard, the master greeted him and said in a low voice.
"Oh? Did the government send me a message?"
Seeing the master shaking his head, the county master lowered his head and pondered for a while, then yawned and said:
"Since there is no post, I think the government can control it, so I won't care about him for now. I will only send people secretly to find out what happened."
The master withdrew in response, and the county magistrate stretched himself and thought to himself, he didn't notice anything unusual when he was drinking last night, and besides, there were countless bodyguards in the mansion, what could possibly happen that would cause the entire mansion to search the courtyard all night long?
?
Shameful?
It should have been searched long ago even if the house is closed.
Haunted?
But there is still an immortal master sitting in his house. At the time of the ceremony, the immortal master was even ranked one above my local parents. Even if there is a ghost, I guess it will not be able to climb to the sky. As long as everything is fine.<
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……
On this day, at the gate of the other courtyard where Lao Dao lived, a boy was placed on guard again. Feiyan felt uneasy when he saw this, but on the surface he was very calm. He just stayed away from Lao Dao for a moment, and even his wife was waiting outside. And the old Taoist people don't dare to do what they used to do in the past, just let them go and wait for them if they don't mind.