In the Taoist temple wing.
The old Taoist priest, who was keeping his blanket warm, looked surprised when he heard a knock on the door on a rainy night.
"It's Haishi now, and it's already the city's curfew. How can anyone still go out on the streets late at night?"
"Is it someone from the government?"
The old Taoist priest said goodbye, but still went down to the ground to open the door.
There was a knock on the door late at night.
It must be an emergency.
It's important to save people.
At this time, the hurried knocks on the door and cries for help outside the Taoist temple were still ringing.
"Come on, come on, stop knocking on the door."
"If you shoot again, the door will fall apart."
The voice of the old Taoist priest came from behind the Taoist temple door.
Then, footsteps sounded in the Taoist temple on a rainy night. They were the footsteps of two people in total. They stepped on the puddles and walked towards the door.
Squeak.
The door of the Taoist temple opens from the inside.
When the Taoist temple door was opened inward, the Xue family, who came to the Taoist temple in the rain to ask for help, saw that a pair of old and young Taoist priests opened the door.
Then the servant of the Xue family, who was wearing a raincoat and a bamboo hat, wiped his face that was wet by the wind and rain with his hands, and said urgently: "Taoist priest, human life is at stake. Please save our eldest young master and our eldest son."
Young Mistress!"
"Please, Taoist Priest!"
Jin'an and the old Taoist priest looked surprised when they saw that the other party's clothes did not look like that of an official, but he could go out on the street late at night.
The old Taoist priest did not rush to follow the other party immediately, but first asked the other party's identity: "Who are you?"
"Taoist Priest, we are the guards of the Xue family. Our eldest young master and eldest mistress have been possessed by evil spirits, and we are anxiously waiting for Taoist Priest to save them."
The old Taoist priest was confused: "Xue family? Which Xue family?"
The other party hurriedly explained: "You must have heard of the three major herbal merchants in Fucheng, the He family, the Xue family, and the Jia family, right?"
"We are servants from the Xue family. Because something unexpected happened, we had to disturb the two Taoist priests late at night. We ask the two Taoist priests for their forgiveness. We are really eager to save people."
After the other party finished speaking, he quickly urged Jin An and the old Taoist priest to go to the Xue family to rescue people.
After listening to what the Xue family servant said, this time it was Jin An and the old Taoist priest's turn to look at each other with surprised expressions.
What's going on?
Why are there three major herbal medicine dealers again?
Since they arrived in Fucheng, they have been circling around these three major medicinal merchants.
Jin An told Xi Jian to stay and watch the Taoist temple, and then he and the old Taoist priest rushed to Xue's house to rescue people with all their equipment.
Xue's carriage had already been parked outside the Taoist temple, and everyone took the carriage directly and rushed to Xue's house without stopping.
On the way, Jin An and the old Taoist priest also learned the whole story of this incident.
Xue Han, 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 unknown time, sitting half-sit up and looking at Xue Han, who was sleeping soundly beside her pillow.
Xue Xiong seemed to have seen something that frightened him.
He looked horrified and looked desperately at his sleeping wife on the pillow, yelling and crying some incomprehensible words.
Crying and saying things like don't hurt his family.
Don't hurt his wife and parents.
He doesn't hide anymore.
He is willing to go with them.
He doesn't hide anymore, he doesn't hide anymore, why should he harm his family!
Then Xue Han saw her husband in her dream, yelling like a maniac, and took off the Buddhist rosary beads she had been wearing on her wrist.
As Xue Xiong took off the rosary on his own initiative, Xue Han woke up from the nightmare.
She turned around and looked at the bedside, and found that her husband, who was lying next to her, was gone. She touched the quilt and found that it had been cold for a long time.
The door of the house was open, and the wind and rain outside blew into the house along the open door. The lights and candles in the house had long been blown out by the wind and rain, and the house was pitch black.
Xue Han timidly called to her husband and the maids who were guarding the house to protect the courtyard, but no one responded to her.
Just when she was about to get out of bed, she touched something from her side. It turned out to be a rosary worn by her husband on her wrist. It broke at some point and the beads were scattered on the bed and on the ground, as if it had been torn off by someone.
When Xue Han thought of the nightmare she had just had, she was so frightened that she screamed and called her husband's name.
Xue Han's scream broke the peace of the Xue family late at night. Not long after, other nursing homes of the Xue family heard the screams and came over. They saw that the maids and nursing homes who were guarding the door of the eldest master's room were all unconscious.
Awake.
After waking them up, they were all horrified and claimed that a headless dead man had walked out of the eldest young master and eldest young master's room. They all fainted from fear.
Those servants all claimed that everything they said was true.
That's really a headless dead man.
And judging from his clothes, body shape, height, well, it seems that he is the eldest son of the Xue family, Xue Xiong...
After such a scare, Mrs. Xue Han seemed to be overly frightened. She began to have a high fever and soon fell into coma.
Now it has begun to spread throughout the Xue family that the eldest mistress must have been possessed by evil spirits.
And now, Xue Xiong, the eldest young master of the Xue family, has disappeared. He is neither alive nor dead, and his head is not found even after searching the whole house.
Even the old man and his wife of the Xue family were so sad and frightened that they fell into coma several times, woke up crying several times, and fell ill all of a sudden. The Xue family is now in chaos and has lost its backbone.
Headless?
Rainy season?
I wonder if Jin An is paranoid, why did he think of the story of the Headless Village that Li Huwei once told them?
It's just that this servant didn't know the specific situation that happened to the master's family, so he could only tell the general situation.
If you want to know more specific circumstances, you have to rescue Mr. Xue, Mrs. Xue and Mr. Xue Han to find out.
After listening to the words of the Xue family's servant, Jin An was puzzled: "There are so many famous Taoist and Buddhist temples in Fucheng. Your Xue family has a big business and you should not be short of money. Why don't you go directly to Bailong Temple to seek help from eminent monks? Instead, you come to Fucheng to gain fame."
A small Taoist temple that is not visible comes to us?"
The servant of the Xue family explained: "The master, the old lady, the eldest young lady and the mistress have all fallen ill. Now the Xue family has no backbone. It is the new guard leader from the inner courtyard of the Xue family. His surname is Xu. It was Xu who asked us to come to Wu Zang Taoist Temple to invite two of us.
An expert comes out to save people."
"He said that the Taoist priests in the Five Zang Taoist Temple are all very capable people, so he asked us to come directly to the Five Zang Taoist Temple for help."
"?"
Jin An was stunned for a moment.
"Old Taoist, you are active in Fucheng on weekdays and often receive some folk rituals. When did you come to the Xue family to perform rituals? Do you know anyone named Xu?"
In the carriage carriage, Jin An asked the old Taoist priest sitting next to him.
The old Taoist priest was also confused and said he didn't know anyone named Xu.
The old Taoist priest also said that the Taoist temple has been expanding in the past few days, and there have been no religious services. The funeral business has been coming, and the business has been very poor. Apart from the masons and porters doing heavy work, the only outsider visiting the Taoist temple in the past few days is the sneaky man this morning.
The little thief who came to visit the Taoist temple is here.
Crack, crackle.
The night rain and cold wind blew against the carriage, jolting and swaying along the way, and a few people in the carriage bumped and swayed. Soon we arrived at the ancient Xue Mansion.
Then, under the hurried guidance of the Xue family, Jin An and the old Taoist priest entered the gate of the Xue family.
"Huh?"
"Is that strange?"
To be continued...