Liaozhai Great Sage

Chapter 310 Ghost Display
Ma Dong's exclamation immediately alerted Li Xiuyuan and the guards around him, and they all cast their eyes towards the front lobby.

I really saw an old man wearing a purple court dress and a short white beard sitting on the right seat in the hall. His eyes seemed to be cast here, looking at everyone. Although his eyes were calm, this old man was sitting in the dark and dilapidated lobby. But it gives people a creepy feeling, especially the official uniform that is not the current one. It is brand new and seems to be emitting light, which makes people shudder.

"This must be a haunted house, and the old man must be a vicious old ghost." Niu Er hurriedly took out the willow stick from his waist in shock.

A willow stick cut from a hundred-year-old willow tree was shiny by the oil he polished, and he carried it around his waist on weekdays to guard against evil spirits.

Wu Fei was also shocked and said angrily: "The Marquis Mansion really has no good intentions. It's fine to send us a dilapidated house. It's still a haunted house. In broad daylight, everyone sees ghosts. At night, I don't know how many ghosts and ghosts there are." Appear, Eldest Young Master, I think we should go, there is our Shunfeng Escort agency in Jinling City, let's go and stay there overnight."

Li Xiuyuan waved his hand and said, "Don't be nervous, it's just a ghost, and it's not a thousand-year-old monster. What are you afraid of? Are there still few ghosts that I have eliminated? I don't pay attention to the rest except the thousand-year-old monster."

Strong self-confidence was revealed in the words, he motioned to the guards around him, and then walked towards the dilapidated hall without any fear.

If the mansion here is not dilapidated, it must be very grand. The layout of the mansion shows the luxury of the ancient forest garden. The two thick pillars standing in front of the gate are made of precious golden nanmu. It has been immortal for hundreds of years, but the vermilion paint on it has peeled off.

Li Xiuyuan walked over, there was a strange wind in the weeds in the front yard, and the weeds rustled, and the wild birds in the garden behind made strange screams, as if they didn't welcome him. arrival.

As soon as he entered the lobby, the surroundings instantly became dark.

Even the sun couldn't shine in, and the temperature here suddenly dropped several degrees.

With such a cold feeling, there must be a very powerful ghost entrenched here.

But Li Xiuyuan is the least afraid of ghosts.

The only thing he fears is the demon.

"I don't know where ghosts and gods dare to show their faces in broad daylight. Don't they know the taboos of Yin and Yang? Even ghosts and soldiers of Yin and Yin will not show their faces in the daytime. It's not because they can't show their faces, but Yin and Yang. Taboo." Li Xiuyuan walked over, he saw the old man in purple official uniform and said.

The old man in purple suddenly laughed, with a permeating chill: "Aren't you afraid of the old man?"

"Sometimes people are more terrifying than ghosts. Besides, why should I be afraid of you?" Li Xiuyuan looked at this person without any fear.

The old man in purple said: "I can eat people, are you afraid?"

"That depends on your teeth being good enough. If I was eaten by you, it would be due to my lack of merit and ability. If I deserve to die here, I won't blame you." Li Xiuyuan said: "This mansion is now It’s mine now, although I don’t know how many evil spirits are entrenched here, but I hope you can move out of here.”

"I came to see you today to advise you to leave here. This is because you are a scholar, otherwise you will not survive tonight." The old man in purple said lightly.

Li Xiuyuan said: "I advised you to leave, but you advised me to leave, you know that this mansion is already mine, not you ghosts and gods."

"You just came, the old man and others have been here for hundreds of years, who do you think this mansion is?" said the old man in purple.

"Is there any king in the world? If you live in the Song Dynasty, you should follow the rules of the Song Dynasty. People are no exception, and ghosts and gods are no exception. I have the land deed. Even if I go to the government, I can prove that this house is mine. , you ghosts and gods are just forcibly occupying this place, not allowing living people to live there, like bandits and robbers, occupying mountains as kings, no, you are not even as good as robbers, and robbers still occupy unowned things, barren mountains and wild lands, But you are occupying other people's property and private houses, which is tantamount to depriving others of their wealth." Li Xiuyuan said.

"You don't even respect ghosts and gods in your heart, do you want revenge?" said the old man in purple with no expression on his face.

Li Xiuyuan said: "You snatch other people's mansions and act like robbers. Although you are a first-class ghost, but your style is so low, and you lose your power and morality, aren't you afraid of being punished by heaven?"

He didn't expect that the ghosts and gods appeared to drive him away, but how could he give up his house to these wild ghosts and wild gods who don't know where they came from? It used to be a thing of the past, and now he came It is necessary to clean up this place.

The old man in purple saw that Li Xiuyuan's attitude was so resolute and his reasoning so correct, but he didn't know how to refute him for a while. He just glanced at Li Xiuyuan expressionlessly, then his body faded, faded, and finally disappeared on the main seat, hiding up.

But when the old man in purple disappeared, Li Xiuyuan saw a mural painted on the wall behind him.

On the mural, an old man is wearing a purple court dress, stroking his beard and looking forward, majestic and extraordinary.

The appearance of the old man in this mural is exactly the same as the ghost that disappeared just now, probably the appearance of the old man in front of him.

"The old ghost ran away? What should the young master do now? This house is not allowed. You should leave quickly, or there will be more ghosts and ghosts appearing at night." Ma Dong said urgently.

"No, I'm going to stay here tonight. I'd like to see how many ghosts and gods are entrenched in a Jinling city." Li Xiuyuan stood with his hands behind his back, with an indifferent attitude.

Tiangong has obeyed the agreement and removed the ghosts and gods sealed by the Yangzhou boundary. There are only two types of ghosts and gods left, either the little hairy gods who have not been sealed, or a group of demons and ghosts. There is no third possibility.

In this way, it was easier for him to deal with it.

Good ghosts and gods will stay, and evil ghosts and gods will get rid of them.

"Go out and get some food, and clear out a few rooms by the way, we will live here tonight." Li Xiuyuan said.

"Here, young master, this is a haunted house. There are ghosts and ghosts appearing in broad daylight. It can be seen that the situation here is extraordinary. My suggestion is to stay away for a while, and come back when you understand the situation here. Not too late." Ma Dong was a little startled.

It was already a bad feeling to come here before. If you stay here for one night, you don't know if you will turn into a corpse tomorrow.

Li Xiuyuan said: "Don't worry, I have my sense of proportion, nothing will happen."

Seeing Li Xiuyuan's resolute attitude, the guards couldn't persuade him much, so they had to agree to buy some food and used things, and then cleared out a few rooms to rest at night.

After some preparations, the sky gradually became dark.

During this period, Li Xiuyuan wandered around this mansion. To be honest, it is indeed worthy of being the mansion of the former prime minister. The scale and grandeur are not mentioned, but it has not been taken care of for hundreds of years. Many houses have been damaged. If you want to repair it , Money will definitely cost a lot.However, he did not plan to repair all of them. He thought it would be enough to repair the front hall and a few nearby wing rooms, and there was no need to repair the garden behind.

It was midnight.

A bonfire was lit in the open space in the front yard, and the fire was blazing, illuminating the front yard.

The fire here even surprised some nearby people.

Because I don't know how many years, there is no fire coming out of this mansion, I don't want someone to live in it suddenly today, and I don't know that bold and risky person dares to live in this haunted house.

Li Xiuyuan was sitting in front of the bonfire with a stool at the moment, holding a book in his hand, reading it carefully, while passing the time and waiting for something to arrive.

The four guards didn't dare to stay too far away, they waited on the left and right without leaving an inch, and looked around from time to time, it seemed that a few vicious ghosts might appear here at any time, so they had to be prepared in advance.

"Because of being haunted, this mansion is only worth 800 taels of silver in Jinling City, and no one dares to take it over. The barren hill is only worth 1000 taels of silver. The two land deeds of this Hou's mansion are only worth a small part, and they still owe me 8000 taels of silver." [-] two hundred taels of silver, since the Hou Mansion doesn't plan to pay it back, then help him to cross out the same amount of money, and this amount will be added to my father's head."

Holding the book of life and death in his hand, Li Xiuyuan looked at the blessings of Lord Li Hou in the Hou Mansion, and then he took a pen to dye the cinnabar and wrote something on it.

The pen is an ordinary pen, but the cinnabar is not ordinary cinnabar, it is mixed with his blood.

Only in this way can he leave traces on the book of life and death, and there is no way to write on it with ordinary pen and ink.

"Return 8000 taels to Li Dafu in Guobei County." Li Xiuyuan added a sum to it.

He has no name in the book of life and death, so he can only return it to his father.

And this is actually not a real change of the book of life and death, but a flexible change, because even if the Hou Mansion does not return the silver taels, he will use his wealth to offset it, and he will lose 8000 taels invisibly in the future. The same Li family will also increase their wealth by 8000 taels, and then their income will increase invisibly, and the balance will be reached.

But this is too slow, and it will take at least a few years or even more than ten years to see the effect. If Li Xiuyuan writes, he will see the effect within a few days.

He did this to let the people in the Hou Mansion know what karma is.

People who don't know how to be in awe have no bottom line, and such people are very dangerous.

Just when Li Xiuyuan had just finished what he was doing, suddenly, strange winds blew up in the entire mansion.

The wind didn't blow from afar, pass by here and then disappear, but a wind hovering around the yard, rustling the nearby weeds, and the broken doors and windows nearby also swayed violently, making a knocking sound. At the same time, several vague figures flashed in various dark and dark corners. At first glance, it looked like a person walking quickly, but when you looked seriously, it was just a phantom of weeds swaying.

"Are you here?"

Li Xiuyuan's expression changed, he put down the book of life and death in his hand, and looked up.

He saw quite a few little ghosts hiding in the weeds, some were starving ghosts with yellow and emaciated faces, some were hanged ghosts sticking out their long tongues, there were old ghosts in graves wearing shrouds with a black face, and there were even some dead ghosts with missing arms and legs. Unjust ghost.

I don't know how many ghosts are entrenched in this house.

It's no wonder that the people in the vicinity dare not approach this place, and they say it is a haunted house when they ask casually.

With so many ghosts, it is indeed a real haunted house.

"Since you're here, why show off with these low-level tricks, do you think these brats can scare me?" Li Xiuyuan said lightly.

After his words fell, a gust of wind blew up, and the gate of the mansion was blown open with a bang.

Rows of red lanterns stretched all the way from the street in the distance, lighting up all the way to the gate of the mansion before stopping.

The red lanterns floated in mid-air, emitting a strange red light.

Li Xiuyuan's eyes were fixed, and he saw behind every lantern there was a yamen servant. Some of these yamen servants had green faces, some had black faces, and they were all at the same level as ghost servants.

"The ghost guards are lighting up the lights, and the pomp is so great, there seems to be some extraordinary existence in Jinling City."

Although I was surprised in my heart, it was within the acceptable range.

He couldn't believe that there were no powerful ghosts and gods in a big city like Jinling City.

(End of this chapter)