I'm just an ordinary Taoist priest

Chapter 249 Ginseng Fruit Tree
Cheng Lixin babbled on about his family's affairs, and then stood aside with a worried face, waiting for Gu Yao's answer.

This is a plan to blindly touch the dead mouse, Gu Yao silently said twice in his heart: "Where is your ancestor? I'm afraid I want to meet with him and ask the matter clearly, so as not to cause any oolong."

"This"

The man hesitated again.

He mumbled there for a while, and then asked cautiously: "Master, can I let the villain ask Xianzu first?"

".Go ahead, hurry up, please."

After getting the answer, the man ran to the bed in a hurry, lay down on the ground, took out a small wooden box from under the bed, and ran downstairs carrying the wooden box, trying to find a way to contact the bird fairy behind Gu Yao's back.

"No wonder this guy was left in the city and not sent out together." Seeing Cheng Lixin go down, Gu Yao lowered his voice and said: "What's the use of him going downstairs, isn't it to guard against gentlemen but not villains? If we are really villains, it will be the same if he goes down."

"Yeah, it's really stupid to look forward to the future after making a decision. You have already told us everything you can say, but you still want to keep a hand."

It was Xiao Hu who spoke, and she twisted her neck stiffly: "I really don't have any courage at all. Among the people I know, he can only be ranked last."

"People you know? Who do you know?" Gu Yao suddenly became interested. Has this guy ever met the leader of the saint bandit? After all, hasn't Yu Yourong already become the saint over there?
Xiao Hu resolutely said: "Besides you, there is Yu Yourong, this guy is far behind you."

"That's it?"

"Otherwise? Who else do I need to know? Most of the time, I was sleeping, and when I woke up, it was Yu Yourong telling me stories. I even suspected that she was my mother."

".All right."

After talking nonsense upstairs for a while, he heard slow footsteps coming from the stairs, turned his head and saw that Cheng Lixin was carefully holding a small golden incense burner, and slowly walked up step by step.

This incense burner is gold-plated and inlaid with jade, with two ears and three legs. The body of the burner is engraved with patterns like birds. At this moment, three long sticks of incense sticks are inserted into it. A long white line stretched across the road.

"Officer, Xianzu agrees."

Carefully put the incense burner on the ground in front of Gu Yao, Cheng Lixin stepped aside and reminded: "Inhale the aroma into your nose, and you can talk to Xianzu."

Gu Yao nodded: "Okay, I'll come."

He nodded to Die'er, beckoning her to help protect the dharma, and at the same time paid attention to Xiao Hu, then walked to the incense burner, inhaled slightly, and the three wisps of misty white smoke penetrated into his nose.

"Fellow Daoist, please forgive the poor Daoist for not being able to see it in person, so I can only use this method to meet fellow Daoist for a while."

A gentle man's voice sounded in Gu Yao's ears.

Gu Yao felt his surroundings, but didn't notice anything unusual, but the incense burnt faster.

Seeming to see Gu Yao's movements, the voice said again: "Pindao is a hundred miles away at the moment, and the reason why I can communicate with fellow Taoists is because of these three incense sticks made of feathers from Pindao. Please rest assured, fellow Taoists. The original body is just a sparrow in the mountains, lucky enough to be taught by an expert, and he knows that cultivation is not easy, so he would never dare to kill others."

Gu Yao restrained his thoughts, calmed down, and thought in his mind: "I, Gu Yao, whose Dao name is Kunyang, works in Jingye Division, and is the fifth rank of Jingyuan, and discovered some strange things by accident. Touch this fellow daoist."

"Jingyuan fifth grade. I have met fellow Taoists from Kunyang. The poor Taoist priests have chosen their own Taoist name, called Nixiao. If you have any orders from fellow Taoists, please speak up."

"I heard that Fellow Daoist was seriously injured, may I ask when and what was the injury?"

"To be honest, the first time Pindao was injured was a month ago, but now that I think about it, it was just a probe. The monster came with several helpers and barely injured Pindao, but two days ago, I was attacked again. That time, the monster was full of blood and fierceness, and its spells were even more vicious. Although it was the only one, its cultivation level had risen too much. Unable to resist, it's shameful to say that the poor feather clothes have been honed for a hundred years, and the sky thunder can resist, but under the bloody spell, it is like tofu."

The voice became weaker and weaker, and seemed to be weaker because of talking too much and too hastily. Gu Yao hurriedly asked: "Can you see what kind of monster? Is it a person, or a baby?"

It hesitated for a moment: "It seems to be a big fluttering moth."

"Huh? Moth? Moth?"

The voice also became more and more ethereal: "Its whole body is covered by the blood mist, and only a pair of huge moth wings can be seen. Pindao said that it was injured by a spell, but in fact, it was bitten by something in the blood mist." It's a pity that the thing is too scary, the wound on Pindao's body immediately festers, and the original appearance cannot be seen."

"So you haven't seen the real thing?"

"Yes."

Then fell into a brief silence, and the voice said lightly: "However, Pindao has another discovery. Although it is only a guess, it is almost inseparable."

"Please say."

"The monster's strength has grown too fast within a month, which is unreasonable. Even if it feeds on flesh and blood and swallows resentment and hatred, the growth rate of its cultivation base is also unreasonable."

"Then what do you mean?"

"Two days ago, the sky changed drastically. Pindao has a little bit of the same view of the sky. The Baojiaxian of the Cheng family is also tied to Da Zhou's luck."

Gu Yao hesitated: "You mean, two days ago, Dazhou's luck was shaken, and this is the reason why the monster became stronger?"

"That's not entirely true. That monster should have cultivated in an extremely sinister way, so it has been suppressed by the fate of the country. Although it is terrifying, it can't show its full strength. But two days ago, it was given this opportunity. In the pot and the city, finally The strong one is Pindao, followed by Jingyesi's officials, now that Pindao is not its all-in-one enemy, if he managed to escape, he might die soon, this monster will probably attack Jingyesi next time."

"Thank you fellow daoist for reminding me, I wonder if I need help from the poor daoist?"

If Gu Yao didn't answer it, no matter what this thing is, as long as the governor of the city doesn't leave the government office, it won't cause any big disturbances.

"If Fellow Daoist can kill that monster, I will trouble you to come to Yinhua Mountain, a hundred miles west of the city."

"it is good."

Gu Yao responded casually, and stopped inhaling the white smoke. When he opened his eyes, he saw that two-thirds of the incense stick had been used up.

Seeing that Gu Yao woke up, Cheng Lixin immediately blew out the incense, pulled it out, took out a thick brush from his sleeve, unscrewed the pen holder, hid the incense stick in it, and then asked: "My lord, how are you?" ?”

Gu Yao nodded: "I have some eyebrows, thank you for your help, and leave."

"I'm leaving now? Lord, Lord, is my ancestor still saved?" Cheng Lixin was a little anxious, and asked after Gu Yao.

"I don't know, by the way, how did your family's ancestor meet that bird fairy? Why did he become your family's Baojiaxian?" Gu Yao asked curiously.

But unexpectedly, Cheng Lixin faltered again.

"It's inconvenient, forget it, I'll take my leave first."

After leaving the bookshop, Gu Yao went back to the inn after playing with Die'er and the others for more than half an hour outside.

Shizune had already returned and was sitting by the window, looking down at the street.

"Master, did you find anything?" Gu Yao sat down and poured himself a cup of tea.

Jing Yin closed the window, and frowned slightly: "From the news from Jing Yesi, there is nothing unusual at all. The Baojiaxian of the Cheng family is a bird. He has been in this area for about 130 years. He only helped out a few times. The record of the monster is a certified good monster."

"Later, I checked the Wang family by the way, especially the old man of the Wang family, and what I saw was even more interesting."

Gu Yao raised his eyebrows: "Interesting?"

Jing Yin nodded and said: "Master Wang. He died seven years ago, five years ago. He is the eldest son of Mr. Wang."

Gu Yao put down the bowl in his hand: "This means that the one we found is the eldest son of Master Wang?"

Jing Yin affirmed: "It should be that Jing Yesi also speculated that the Wang family held the Baojiaxian, but there was no evidence. The reason for the speculation was that the Wang family suddenly started a crazy competition with the Cheng family seven years ago. Several families that the Wang family has been competing with have had accidents before and after."

"Jing Yesi launched an investigation at the time, but found nothing. The Wang family kept a low profile after that, but silently became the second richest businessman under the Cheng family."

Gu Yao unconsciously turned the teacup in his hand: "So, Mr. Wang refined Mrs. Wang seven years ago? Where is the Taoist priest? Is there any record?"

Jing Yin shook his head: "There are no Taoist priests."

Gu Yao was taken aback for a moment: "Huh?"

Jingyin said word by word: "There is no Taoist priest, no, it should be said, he is a liar, he has no cultivation, he just knows how to brag. He came to this city ten years ago, was recruited by Master Wang, and left seven years ago , Mr. Wang and him get along very well, and the development of the Li Cheng family went smoothly in those three years, but as soon as the man left, there were accidents one after another, so Mr. Wang made people wear Taoist robes and pretended to be a Taoist priest."

Gu Yao rubbed the teacup in his hand silently: "Master Wang has already escaped, when we attacked the dry well."

"There are two sets of coffins in the dry well, one is unknown, and the other is probably the eldest son of Master Wang."

"Baojiaxian is Mrs. Wang."

Gu Yao pondered in his mind for a while: "Could it be that the Master Wang in the eyes of others is actually that Taoist priest, and the one in the black coffin whose flesh and blood was devoured by red ants is the real Master Wang."

"Baojiaxian Baojiaxian. It may not be Baojiaxian. If the Taoist used the three generations of the Wang family to refine some sorcery?"

"What's the use of the guy in the red coffin?"

Gu Yao stood up: "Go to the palace and have a look."

"Going out again?" Xiao Hu stood up, excitedly wanting to go, but heard Gu Yao say: "Master, you go with me, the rest of you can stay here and rest."

Die Er nodded, Xiao Hu had a downcast face, and Gu Yao and Jing Yin flew out of the window directly.

The location of the Wangfu, Jingyin saw it in Jing Yesi's records, the two leaped over the roof, took only ten breaths, crossed several streets, and landed in the courtyard of the Wangfu.

At this moment, the Wang family's mansion is empty. The servants and maidservants in the mansion have all been taken away by Jing Yesi and detained in the county government office. As for Mr. Wang's wife and children, they have been imprisoned and await interrogation.

After Gu Yao and Jing Yin landed, they walked around the huge mansion, followed the smell, and found the pharmacy.

"The cinnabar smell in this mansion is so strong, which deepens my guess that Master Wang was stiffened by Li Daitao."

Gu Yao opened the drawers one by one, checked the herbs inside, and found that although there were many herbs here, most of them were only for replenishing qi and blood.

"Astragalus, Yam, Ginseng, Angelica, Rhodiola"

Jing Yin found a large amount of cinnabar and mercury in a box.

"It seems that your guess is right. At least half of these cinnabars have been used. If such a large amount is used, if ordinary people eat it, they will be directly poisoned to death."

She shook her head and closed the wooden box: "Is there anything else I found?"

Gu Yao said: "They are all for replenishing qi and blood. I communicated with the Baojiaxian of the Cheng family before, and it told me that the guy who injured it was covered in blood mist, so these medicinal materials should be used for his cultivation."

The two found the study room again, searched around in the study room, but found nothing, only that the genealogy of the Wang family seemed to have been altered.

"The names of these people are all new ink, which is different from the ink used for other names."

Gu Yao sniffed and said.

The names he mentioned are all descendants of Master Wang.

Just as he was looking through the books to see if there was anything hidden, Gu Yao smelled a very light smell of blood again.

After closing his eyes and sniffing the air for a long time, Gu Yao opened the window and looked outside.

Outside the study is a big back garden, but no one has been paying attention to it for a long time.

There is a lush tree with lush branches and canopy covering the sky in the garden. Other than that, there are only weeds and flowers all over the yard.

Gu Yao and Jingyin whispered about the bloody smell, then stepped on the window sill and floated under the tree.

The place under this tree is also very strange, it is extremely empty, no lone grass grows, no single flower blooms, it is bare.

Gu Yao took two steps on the ground, then looked up at the tree, looking for the source of the bloody smell.

Jing Yin also floated over. After a quick look, he found nothing. Just as he was about to ask, he heard Gu Yao say, "Do you still remember the two fruits hidden under the coffin? They look like babies."

Jing Yin nodded: "Of course I remember."

"Tell me, would the fruit come from this tree? It wouldn't be from the soil, would it?"

As Gu Yao said, he suddenly spread out his palm, put two fingers up and lightly pressed on the fingertips: "Master, be careful."

Before Jing Yin could ask to understand, Gu Yao swiped forcefully to melt a bloodstain on his hand, squeezed out a few drops of blood, and sprinkled it on the tree trunk.

The moment the tree trunk touched the blood, it came alive.

Several thick blood vessels emerged from the bark, wriggling on the trunk, and the tree body was also trembling, writhing slowly, revealing a large lump that looked like flesh and blood at the root of the tree.

The originally obscure blood energy suddenly became stronger. When Jing Yin looked up again, he saw a smear of scarlet blood floating on the originally verdant green leaves, and miniature "ginseng fruits" the size of thumbs appeared quietly among the leaves. Down.

There was just a breeze blowing, and the leaves rubbed against each other under the caress of the wind, making a mournful rustling sound, and those small ginseng fruits were also swaying gently with the wind, as if they were alive and crying, which made Jingyin feel a rush Sadness and anger.

What does such a strange tree need to grow and bear fruit?
After the scar on Gu Yao's hand recovered, he also looked up: "It looks like this is indeed a ginseng fruit tree. Just look at the fruit, what else is needed to grow."

He lowered his head, looked at the fleshy lump at the root of the tree, and looked at the ground under his feet. After stepping on it, he suddenly turned back to look at the large expanse of lush weeds behind him.

"Master, have you noticed that these weeds only grow on the periphery, and do not come to the place covered by leaves?"

(End of this chapter)