All the ancestors in the capital begged me to be a substitute

Chapter 12
Back then, when Shen Lingxi worshiped Xuanqing Women's Crown as her teacher, she also wanted to have one more ability, which would make it easier to do funeral work for others, and also turn her own coffin shop business into a "one-stop funeral" industry.

She learned to draw talismans, make formulas, and fight step by step for a year.

However, it's not this material. I'm not good at learning skills, so I can only take it out to do odd jobs and fool people.

She never said that she was a disciple of the "Miao" generation, and she didn't want to implicate her teacher Qingyu.

The warehouse of the Hou's Mansion is in the northeast corner of the Hou's Mansion, and it is symmetrical with Shen Lingxi's Jingsiyuan. There is a ancestral hall and a small garden of the Hou's Mansion in the middle, and it can be reached by walking all the way to the end.

There are a few burly guards of the Hou's Mansion guarding the door, which can be regarded as heavily guarded.

Mother An pointed to the open space in front of the door, "There is no need to practice in the warehouse yard, the priests will open the altar here."

Ming An said yes with a smile, the four of them set up the altar to perform the ritual, ringing the bell and chanting mantras, and soon there was a commotion.

The warehouse is not far from the back house, and it doesn't belong to the front yard. In addition, Kun Dao from Jinxian Temple is doing things in front of the gate. This movement naturally attracted many idlers who were not on duty in the mansion to watch.

Shen Lingxi saw that the gathering was almost complete, so she winked at Ming An.

Ming An took out the willow branches that he had prepared, cleaned up the open space seriously, and walked up to Mama An, "The warehouse is the place where accidents are least likely to happen. Did Mom ever hear about the fire in the warehouse of Uncle Anchang's mansion last year? It is caused by evil spirits. In this courtyard, as long as there are people living in the wing rooms, they must be swept with willow branches, so as to drive away evil spirits and avoid disasters."

Seeing that she was speaking clearly and logically, Mother An put away her contempt.

After all, this matter was approved by Marquis Xuan Ping, she would not stop her, so she nodded in agreement, stepped forward to explain to the guard twice, and led the two of them into the courtyard.

The treasury is a yard with two entrances. The north house has three upper rooms and the east and west wing rooms, which store the dowry and valuables of the owners of each house respectively.

According to what Liu Si said last night, the place where he rested before his death was the second room in the courtyard.

When Shen Lingxi walked into the room, she could smell the strong smell of alcohol in the air, and in that smell of alcohol, there was also a strange fragrance that seemed to be absent.

On weekdays, she embalmed the corpses and came into contact with a lot of spices, and she knew the smell and efficacy of most of the spices well.

This strange fragrance is from the Western Regions. It costs a tael of gold for the size of a fingernail, and the price is extremely expensive, hence the name "Thousand Gold Fragrance".

No wonder Liu Si didn't know how he fell into the well until he died.

Thousand Gold Fragrance is the most expensive and best drug in the world, as long as it is stained with a little, it can make people fall into a coma for two days, not to mention being thrown into a well.

It's just that the smell of alcohol...

Shen Lingxi walked around the room and saw that the room had been cleaned thoroughly without leaving any traces, so she began to worry about it.

She retreated from the room, and while Mama An was not paying attention, she approached Ming An's ear and whispered something.

Ming An nodded, went forward personally, closed the door, took out a lot of yellow talisman papers from his sleeve, and pasted them on the door and window cracks.

Then the two of them, Shen Lingxi and Shen Lingxi, rang the soul-repressing bell in their hands, stepped on the Tiangang step, and chanted words in their mouths, doing exercises around the door.

Mother An's eyes widened, she didn't know why, "Master Daoist, what's wrong with this house?"

"There is an extremely heavy evil spirit in this room." Ming An warned seriously: "Seal the doors and windows with talisman paper, and people will not be able to live until the evil spirit dissipates."

Mother An shuddered. Looking at the door frame covered with charms, she also felt that there was a little bit of evil in the yard for no reason.

Seeing that the fire was almost ready, Shen Lingxi winked at Ming An again, then rang the bell, chanted a mantra, and walked out of the yard.

"Huh..." Ming An Chao An's mother whispered, "Look, our uncle has not been like this for a long time, so there is no doubt that there are really evil 'things' hidden in your mansion."

Mama Ann:? ? ?

Her eyelids started twitching again.

"Please come with the poor Taoist." Ming An intentionally slowed down his steps, and led An's mother towards the door.

With a paper mask on her face, Shen Lingxi came out of the courtyard door of the warehouse ringing a bell, instantly attracting the attention of everyone outside.

What's more, the two Kun Dao who stayed outside before saw her coming out, and they also rang the bell and followed her.

Shen Lingxi walked all the way to the deserted well Liu Si mentioned before stopping.

She rang the bell and walked around the well. Seeing that the onlookers had almost arrived, she stopped what she was doing, pointed at the well, and changed her voice in a rough voice. There is a heavy resentment, there should be a corpse hidden, and the official must be called to pick up the corpse and solve the grievances of the corpse, otherwise there will be bloody disasters in the mansion."

Mother An followed behind Ming An, and when she heard this, she staggered.

Ouch, my ancestors.

What are these aunts up to?
Isn't this looking for trouble on purpose!

Will there be dead bodies hidden in the dignified Xuanpinghou Mansion's well?

It's a joke.

"Daoist, you can eat things indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense..."

Before Mama An could finish her sentence, she was interrupted by Shen Lingxi directly, "Ming Yuan, you go to report to the officials and ask the magistrate to bring you for an autopsy."

Kun Dao, the youngest, obeyed the order, turned around and walked towards the gate of the mansion.

It was as if the body had been fished out of the well.

"Eh...eh..."

Mother An has never seen such a thing before, she was in a hurry, she didn't know whether to stop the sister-in-law first, or the "uncle" wearing a mask.

The reputation of Jinxian Temple is considered a little famous among the Taoist temples in the capital.

Seeing Shen Lingxi's determination, the onlookers believed in him a little.

"Mother An, since the Taoist priest said, let's fish for it. If there are... it's better than the government to fish for people!" Someone in the crowd said something, and many people agreed for a while.

It's all here, what can mother an do?He could only give the masked aunt a hard look, gritted his teeth and asked someone to fish the well.

Everyone was as curious as a cat scratching, and the speed of digging the well was several times faster than the speed of normal work.

Sure enough, a body that was soaked in water and swollen and whitish was fished out of the well!
"Ah! It's a dead body! It's really a dead body!"

The onlookers backed away in fright, but couldn't help being curious in their hearts, they hid away and looked at the corpse.

Still kept whispering.

"Everyone... has become like this, and I can't tell if it's someone from the mansion..."

"No one is missing in the mansion, maybe some thief killed someone and threw the body into the well through the wall."

"Don't be silly, this is a warehouse, and there are guards guarding it at twelve o'clock. You are the guard of our Marquis Mansion just for display."

Shen Lingxi looked at Liu Si's body and frowned.

The murderer stripped Liu Si so that only a plain white undershirt was left, and there was nothing identifiable on his body.

It was midsummer at this time, and the face of the corpse had been swollen and deformed by the well water. This was intended to obscure Liu Si's identity...

Being able to afford the "Thousand Gold Fragrance" and concealing Liu Si's disappearance perfectly.

The status of the murderer in this mansion is probably not low...

(End of this chapter)