Chapter 1338 The Returnee's Notes 412
Sect Leader Fang was also stunned for a moment. She was right next to Xie Ning at the time, so the two of them entered here together, only their identities were different.
Judging from Xie Ning's attire, Xie Ning should be a maid in the Song family, while she herself is a Taoist nun in a dilapidated nunnery.
That place wasn't good; it didn't enshrine any Taoist sages, but instead enshrined a statue of Guanyin, the Goddess of Mercy, who grants children.
Even so, few people come. Firstly, wealthy families go to better temples, and secondly, even if poor families come to worship, they don't have much money for incense. On the other hand, the river god temple on the same hill is extremely lively.
People rely on the land for their livelihood, and all they ask for is good weather and abundant harvests.
At first, she just watched coldly, until she saved the prefect's mother that day and was then invited as an honored guest.
As for the claim of immortals... it was just a little magic. The old woman was carrying two or three children, which was the real reason she almost lost her life.
Strangely enough, she had never seen any ghosts here, only on that old woman.
This made her hesitate about her initial guess, because she thought that the "people" here were actually ghosts, or an illusion, and everything was fake.
Later, she learned more from the prefect and heard about the Song family, which reminded her of the story in the book.
The story revolves around a child born in the Song family.
A child with three heads and six arms, and a red mole between his eyebrows.
Lord Song, wincing in pain, covered his mouth and said, "My lord, this is my son. You don't know, he's a demon..."
"This is a divine embryo, the reincarnation of a pageboy under the divine lord."
Having read the story, Master Fang calculated for a while and then said, "This is the reincarnation of a celestial child. Logically speaking, he shouldn't look like this... Do you know that there were three celestial children who were reincarnated? May I ask where the first two celestial children are?"
Lord Song was completely stunned. "The...the first two, the children?"
"Exactly."
"You jest, immortal. There are no first two children. I already had two daughters, and now I've had another child. You must have miscalculated." Lord Song spoke with a lisp, looking at the baby in Xie Ning's swaddling clothes with some embarrassment.
The prefect standing nearby was also a little scared, as he had never seen such a strangely shaped baby before. But when he heard Lord Song questioning the immortal, he retorted, "The immortal is so divinely gifted, how could he possibly be wrong!"
Then he pointed to Xie Ning, "That girl, tell me, where is that fairy boy in front?"
Xie Ning glanced at Sect Master Fang, and seeing him nod, he thought for a moment before saying, "My lord, you are wise. Those two children in front, also known as the Immortal Children, have already... have been abandoned by the master in the back mountain."
The prefect, unaware of what the back mountain was for, continued to ask, "Then bring those two fairy children back!"
The servant, who had been keeping a low profile, whispered, "Master, the back hill is where abandoned infants are kept."
The prefect's vision blurred, and he hurriedly asked Sect Leader Fang, "Immortal, is there any way to remedy this? This scoundrel actually killed the celestial child, this..."
Lord Song hurriedly knelt down, and then he heard Sect Leader Fang sigh and say, "It can be salvaged to some extent. Give this child to me."
Xie Ning was also curious. He saw that Sect Master Fang flicked his whisk, muttered a few words, and the child instantly turned into an ordinary baby, except that the red dot between his eyebrows was darker.
"This child is destined to be with me, and I wish to take him as my disciple. This young lady can also come along to take care of him. What do you think?"
Does Lord Song dare to utter a single word of dissent?
They didn't dare utter a single word in front of the prefect.
With a sigh of relief, the prefect noticed that Lord Song's mouth was covered in blood, and he was missing several teeth when he opened his mouth.
"Lord Song, what is this?"
Lord Song quickly covered his mouth, glanced at Xie Ning, and said resentfully, "Upon hearing that the Prefect was coming to visit, I was so anxious that I tripped and fell."
Xie Ning wore a faint smile on his face. After leaving the house, he explained to Sect Master Fang his considerations for injuring Lord Song earlier.
"I was still thinking that my image had collapsed and how the other party would cover it up for me, but I didn't expect to meet my aunt."
Master Fang nodded. "This is actually a world in the book. The mirror you brought is just a medium to project people into it."
Such ritual implements are extremely rare.
"The world in the book... so the people here are all real? But..."
Xie Ning frowned. She felt that many things were not right, especially the passage of time and the behavior of some people. She felt that this place was very illusory, somewhat like the illusion of the blue-clothed ghost she had encountered before.
But in that illusion, she was just a passerby; here, she is involved as a participant.
"I think this is a theater made up of multiple ghosts, or a constantly looping illusion."
Even after only a short time here, Xie Ning was still able to see the obsessions of some of these "people".
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