Early in the morning, a large queue formed outside Chen's house. They were all people who came to show off their talents and prepare to have lunch and dinner. Tang Yue and the other five were well behaved and wore good-quality clothes. They were among a group of people in the market.
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Although the others were also neatly dressed, they were all wearing ordinary people's clothes, mostly dark cloth. Many people looked at the five of them strangely.
"You're careless. We should buy some common clothes before attending the banquet." Tang Yue looked surprised.
Senior Brother Qian shook his head, "It was my negligence. You are young and don't know these things are normal."
Murong Hai continued to fan himself, "No, we have women and children who have not left the palace here, they are already very conspicuous, and the clothes are nothing."
Tang Yue felt that what Murong Hai said was right. They were very strange in the first place, and that was right.
Ruan Ying looked at Murong Hai's appearance and complained: "I think the spring fan is more conspicuous."
Murong Hai smiled and passed by.
After a while, it was the turn of the five of them. The housekeeper saw that the two men had extraordinary manners and good clothes. He guessed that they were poor disciples from some family and had no choice but to come to have a meal.
The two of them are good-looking, and attending the wedding banquet will add to their splendor.
But he glanced at the three girls next to him, frowned and said: "Why did you bring your sisters at home? They are too young. Just bring the food back to them after the dinner."
Tang Yue raised his eyebrows, feeling that they were just freeloaders, so he took a few steps forward and offered his hand to the housekeeper, "Butler, despite our young age, the three of us are no less capable than my brother."
Hearing this, the housekeeper asked, "Oh? What skills do you three have?" These three are not here to be concubines, are they?
But the master is not good at this, so it is still okay to be a maid for the young master.
Looking at his expression, Tang Yue knew that he didn't want to do anything serious, so he tolerated it for the time being, "Let the brothers show it off first, and then it's our turn."
The butler said nonchalantly: "Then let these two little brothers start showing off first."
Anyway, the people outside looked poor, and he didn't want to take another look. These people were good-looking people, and it was good to kill some time.
Murong Hai went up to set up a simple ecstasy formation and said to the housekeeper: "Please enter this formation. Once you enter, it will be difficult to get out."
The housekeeper sneered in his heart and was trying to be mysterious. He placed rocks and trees on the ground and walked over casually. These young people were just not practical and spent all day thinking about these unreliable things.
"After I walk over, the five of you can go back directly." There was a bit of anger in his words. These people actually wanted to fool him, so don't think about the dinner party.
The housekeeper walked in casually. When he wanted to walk out directly, he couldn't take another step forward. He kept walking in the same place and couldn't move away. He was shocked and asked: "What's going on?"
The steward boy next to him saw him like this and thought that even if he liked the appearance of these two young people, there was no need to pretend to be like this!
So they all hinted to the housekeeper that the drama was over!
The housekeeper was angry, why are they winking there? Do they think they did it on purpose?
"What are you doing standing there? Come and help me."
The boy walked over doubtfully, and then found that he couldn't get out. No matter how he walked, he would stay in the same place.
He looked at Murong Hai and begged for help: "Master Immortal, please release us quickly. It's too scary."
The butler also hurriedly said, "Yes, Master Immortal, I am blind and did not recognize your identity. Quickly unlock the formation for me, and I will arrange for you to be seated in the first class."
In fact, it didn't matter where Murong Hai sat, he just showed a little bit of his family's special skills, but he didn't expect that he still scared ordinary people.
"I'll untie it right now."
After the housekeeper and the boy were able to come out, they hurriedly stood on the other side, not daring to get closer to the formation. Murong Hai picked up the stones and branches and threw them into the flower bed on the side.
The servants who were watching the excitement by the flower bed were startled and quickly moved away from the garden, fearing that those things would trap them in it.
"It turns out that the master knows magic, so we are neglecting him. You can just sit down and sit down without having to show off."
Just kidding, even if he is not an expert, he is also a relative and friend of the expert. How dare he neglect it? Just setting up the formation is enough to make the Chen family treat them as honored guests. It is also appropriate to entertain the people who come with him.
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Tang Yue asked the butler, "Then the three of us don't have to show off?"
The butler waved his hands repeatedly, "Everyone, please come and take your seats. I will take you to your seats."
This saves trouble. Senior Brother Qian handed over his hand and said, "Then it's better to be respectful than to obey!" Originally, he was not interested in performing talents for mortals.
The housekeeper led them to the wing in the outer courtyard. The formal banquet started in the evening. He received these people from early in the morning to check who among the people in line was really capable and worthy of the banquet.
They were about to enter the wing when they met two acquaintances. Murong Hai said excitedly: "Qianchen, as expected, nothing happened to you! We also found Sister Shui."
Opposite Shui Qianchen and Shui Wanqiu were also surprised. They had not met other monks for so long, and now they bumped into five at once, and they were all acquaintances.
"It turns out that the immortal masters know each other. I will find a large guest room for you so that you can reminisce about the past."
None of them objected and followed the housekeeper.
Before they could sit down, Murong Hai said to Shui Qianchen, "Unfortunately, Yang Xing will never be able to go back with us again."
Shui Qianchen was a little surprised, "I thought he lost his life when he went somewhere else."
Murong Hai told him what he knew. The disciples of the aristocratic family had almost grown up together and had some feelings for each other, so Shui Qianchen and Murong Hai were a little touched by Tu Yangxing's death.
Especially since the Murong family and the Tu family were family friends, he had watched Tu Yangxing grow up, so he felt even more sad.
"It's so. Dashui sent me to this place. I thought he would send Yang Xing to other places later. I didn't expect that he would stay alone in Guyue Village for more than ten years."
Then he sighed softly, "I should have pulled Yang Xing to stop the evil deeds in Gu Yue Village with me. Now he is still alive and there is still hope to go out with us."
Senior Brother Qian comforted him, "The secret realm here is strange and irregular, making it difficult for people to start. No one would have thought that the key to finding Guyue Village is the souls of the dead in the lake."
"Moreover, if you want to see the souls in the lake, you need to break the cycle of death and life. We can't find it ourselves, which makes the chance of finding clues even smaller."
Shui Qianchen nodded. No wonder he had never noticed anything strange about the lake. He also thought to himself that these five people were really lucky. They were as lucky as himself and found a way out by accident.
Senior Brother Qian asked the key point, "Qianchen, why did you and your sister come to this wedding banquet? Is there really something fishy about this wedding banquet?"
Shui Qianchen said, "That's right. It starts when I find Wan Qiu."
He was swept away by the flood in Guyue Village. He was completely defenseless and ended up in another town inexplicably.
At first, he couldn't find any clues. The town was very ordinary. Although there was some aura, there was nothing evil. He didn't meet any other immortal cultivators.
He had no choice but to continue searching while practicing. One day he went to check the cemetery in Jiangshui Town, hoping to find the black and white impermanence that had seduced the soul, and maybe he could ask some questions.
When he arrived at the cemetery, a burial ceremony was being held. What was strange was that the funeral objects used by this family were red and white. They were wearing white mourning clothes and carrying a red sedan.
The funeral was also very festive, not like a burial, but like welcoming a bride. He was observing these people on the side to see what they wanted to do.
Some servants entered the dug tomb and opened the coffin lid. The people on the other side pulled the bride out of the sedan and forced her to the tomb.
He guessed that these people might be using living people to match ghosts. Uncivilized mortals are so superstitious and often do useless things.
The bride's figure looked familiar. Just when he was thinking about who she looked like, the bride fell off her red hijab during the struggle, revealing her face. It turned out to be Wan Qiu.
The woman next to me yelled, "Hey, if you lose your hijab in front of the church, this is very unlucky."
The next moment, she no longer cared about good or bad luck. Everyone involved in the ghost marriage, except Shui Wanqiu, was instantly separated from their heads and fell down.
Shui Qianchen supported his sister, "Wanqiu, what's wrong with you? Is your spiritual power blocked?" He took out the linen cloth from Shui Wanqiu's mouth.
Wan Qiu burst into tears, "Brother, I don't know, I suddenly couldn't control myself and became a woman named Xia Lan, who was sold by my parents to be married to someone else."
"My body seems to belong to another person. I can't control what I say or do. I can only stay in my body and watch everything happen but I am powerless. Just now I have some strength to struggle."
Shui Qianchen comforted his sister, "It's okay now. You may have been tricked by some kind of win-weary spell, and you were acting for someone. The caster was so clever that he completely let you take another person's fate."
Wan Qiu was still sobbing. She was a little scared and was almost buried with a rotting corpse.
"Brother, I almost entered this cemetery."
Upon hearing this, Shui Qianchen used a magic technique to smash the cemetery, and the corpses and coffins were all in pieces.
Then he took his sister back to his place of stay. Half a month later, it was today's wedding banquet for Mr. Chen to take his concubine.
"After what happened with Wan Qiu, I thought that the weirdness in Jiangshui Town might be related to wedding banquets, especially those where women were forced to attend. After many investigations, we found that there was something wrong with Chen Yuanwai."
"What's the problem, Mr. Chen?" Tang Yue asked Shui Qianchen.
He glanced at Tang Yue and replied: "Chen Yue was prone to violence. No less than twenty concubines died at his hands, usually within half a year."