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After calling us to sit down, the woman introduced herself, "My name is Mei Hong. You can call me Mei Gu. My husband's name is Sima Xin. He is in the back room, so it is not convenient for us to meet guests."

She didn't use husband, but the word husband, which sounds a bit awkward.

I said hello to Aunt Mei, she sounded very helpful, and said with a smile: "The little girl is quite polite."

To be able to cultivate in such a gloomy place, one must be a master among the masters. I have a faint feeling that although this Meigu looks young.

But the person who can be remembered by the ghost fisherman must have something special. How dare he be rude in front of her.

Bai Yang said beside him: "Sister Mei is quite young."

Mei Gu smiled and looked at Bai Yang: "Young man, how old do you think I am?"

Bai Yang wiped honey on his small mouth: "It looks like he's in his early twenties at most."

Mei Gu giggled and said, "You guys are so good at talking, I'm almost seventy, it's common sense for you two to call me grandma."

We looked at her in amazement. Under the reflection of the candlelight, Meigu's eyes were slightly wrinkled, and there were traces of time in her pupils.

Although Bai Yang's words were indeed flattering, but she still looked like a woman in her 30s.

No matter how well this woman is cared for, 70 years old probably won't be the same as 40 years old.

But this kind of topic is too private, we still know whether we should talk about it or not.

Sitting nearby, I noticed that the plum blossom tree above my head was fake, and the plum blossoms on the branches were also paper flowers.

Gu Mei seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly asked, "By the way, how did you find this place?"

I had expected her to ask such a question, so I didn't hide it, and said truthfully: "It's the ghost fisherman's instruction!"

Although I am also very surprised, how did the ghost fisherman on the Yuanjiang River, one or two hundred kilometers away from here, know about Meigu.

But after listening to my words, Meigu fell into a deep sleep, she was a little surprised at first, but then recovered.

"Ghost fisherman! Turtle fisherman!" Aunt Mei smiled slightly: "You are talking about the old tortoise from Yuanjiang who has become a spirit. Only by divination, can my husband live until now."

"Speaking of which, we owe him a favor."

After I heard this, I was overjoyed. If the ghost fisherman had helped them before, then now the ghost fisherman asked me to come here to find her. If I could help, she would not refuse.

After all, practitioners attach great importance to cause and effect.

"Meigu, you've lived here for so long, shouldn't your daily life be inconvenient?" I asked curiously, remembering Lao Jia's description of her.

Mei Gu shook her head and said, "We are practitioners, we have very little need for food, and there is more than one exit on the ninth floor. If I need anything, I'll go downstairs to buy it. It's not inconvenient."

Pointing to the outside of the door, she continued: "On the way you came here, you must have encountered a lot of ghosts. These dead people made the Yin Qi on the ninth floor extraordinarily fierce. Back then, our husband and wife took a fancy to the Yin Qi here. That’s why I chose to live here.”

I recalled the horrible experience on the road, and couldn't help asking: "The most powerful ghost here should be the female worker in white?"

Mei Gu snorted: "She is nothing, there are more terrifying things than her on the ninth floor. The environment of this place is complicated and the corridors are built like a maze. Once the ghosts come in, they can't get out at all. If things go on like this , this place has become a haunted place.”

"But our husband and wife are sitting in the temple, and they dare not come in." When she said this, Mei Gu's face changed, she turned to look at Chu Yuan and said, "Tell me honestly, the hexagram at the door looks like you How did you untie it?"

Her eyes were fixed on her tightly, which made me look a little unnatural, and subconsciously glanced at Chu Yuan.

Chu Yuan smiled calmly, and said calmly, "I don't know if you know the Meijiazhuang. This Meijia has eighteen bans on plum blossoms."

Sure enough, when Chu Yuan mentioned Mei's surname, Mei Gu frowned in displeasure, and said in a cold tone, "Could it be that what relationship do you have with Mei Baishan?"

I was confused, but from Gu Mei's mouth, I felt keenly that she was very displeased with this Mei family.

But her surname is also Mei, so it seems that she has some grievances with this Meijiazhuang.

Chu Yuan shook his head and said, "I have nothing to do with the Mei family! It's just that the Mei family had something wrong with it. After Mei Baishan died, I accidentally discovered the Eighteen Plum Blossoms on his body. I just did a little research. But there are so many mysteries in it, and I only know a little bit about it.”

"Mei Baishan is dead?" Mei Gu looked shocked, raised her head to look at Chu Yuan and said, "You killed it?"

Chu Yuan just looked at it with a smile and didn't answer.

It took Mei Gu a long time to react, but she smiled heartily.

"It doesn't matter if I die, my second uncle is not a pity to die!" Mei Gu showed a sneer, "The Eighteen Bans of Plum Blossoms originally belonged to my husband. Get it in your hand."

When Mei Gu said this, she took a deep look at Chu Yuan. Although she still had concerns, she couldn't tell if what Chu Yuan said was true or not.

"Bagua has a long history. In the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, there were three gossip systems: Lianshan, Gui, and Zhouyi. In the Northern Song Dynasty, two kinds of gossip were identified. One was named Xiantian gossip, and the other was named Houtian gossip. These two Not only the names of the eight trigrams are different, but also the directions of the hexagrams are different, the code of the five elements and eight trigrams in the secret room."

"The gossip is from ancient times. Looking up at astronomy and looking down at geography, it must conform to the laws of heaven and earth, just like clouds. The earth, the earth follows the sky, the sky follows the Tao, and it is natural."

"Today's research, it's still the same. The innate gossip conforms to the time of day, and the acquired gossip conforms to the location. It's just that people harmonize with it."

We couldn't understand what Mei Gu said, but she didn't know that she had been here for a long time, and she talked incessantly.

"However, during the most prosperous period of hexagrams, Sima Liang of the Three Kingdoms used hexagrams to form formations, and no one in the world could break them. Later, he wanted to change his fate against the sky, but failed to continue his life with a seven-star lamp, and left the hexagrams formations to Sima's descendants. The Eighteen Prohibition of Plum Blossoms you mentioned are just a branch of Plum Blossoms that are easy to count." Mei Gu mentioned that the Mei Family was a little unhappy, and I couldn't help but glance into the house.

She said that her husband's name was Sima Xin. Could it be that her husband is a descendant of Sima Liang?
But this is just a guess on my part. It's time to get down to business.

I gave Bai Yang a look, and after he understood, he said: "Mei Gu, there is a snake curse in my body, I'm afraid I won't live long, I need to go to the bardo world to break it, is that right?"

I also begged from the side, "Mei Gu, please think of a way."

Mei Gu didn't say anything, she stood up and walked to the inner room: "Come with me."

We followed, the place is full of age, the air is full of dusty smell, there are several small rooms behind the main house, pushing open the door of one of the rooms, Meigu walked in.