Chapter 254
Yuan Jing borrowed a room to spend the night. He prepared his own food and asked Shi's mother for some boiled water. After it cooled down, he ate the sesame cake with the water. That was how he got by with dinner. After all, at his level, he could eat delicacies from land and sea, and could also survive on simple meals.
After he finished eating, there was a noise outside. Yuan Jing pushed the door open and saw that it was the scholar Shi whom he had met in the county town during the day.
Shi's mother happily opened the door for her son. Her son smelled faintly of alcohol, which was normal. A successful scholar would inevitably socialize with his classmates. She introduced him to her son, "This is Taoist Priest Yuan Jing. He is passing through our village and wants to stay overnight."
Yuan Jing said politely, "Mr. Shi, I am sorry to bother you tonight."
Shi Chi smiled and said, "No, no, when you are away from home, there will always be inconveniences. If you need anything, just tell me."
Yuan Jing smiled and said, "That's enough. I won't disturb you two from talking anymore."
Yuan Jing turned around, closed the door and prepared to rest. He just used his divine eye to look at Shi Chi's face again and became more certain of his judgment.
Outside, Shi's mother said to her son happily, "As soon as this young Taoist priest saw me, he said that there would be a happy event in my family. He was so accurate."
Shi Chi, however, did not believe in these superstitious things and said, "The news that I passed the exam to become a scholar has already spread. If he had said this before my results came out, I would have believed that he was really capable. Okay, mother, let's not talk about this anymore. I need to wash up."
"Okay, okay, I won't say any more. I've boiled some water for you and prepared dinner. I'm just waiting for you to come back."
When Yuan Jing heard what Shi Xiucai said, he smiled. It was normal for others not to believe it, but as for Shi Xiucai, he didn't know what to say. But maybe he was too naive. If his master came, he would not take it so lightly.
Yuan Jing sat cross-legged on the bed and meditated until midnight. Suddenly he opened his eyes and saw an evil spirit!
An evil aura came from far away and landed in the farmyard. When Yuan Jing saw the evil aura on Mr. Shi during the day, he thought of the Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio that he had read in a certain world. The most typical story in the story was about a fox spirit or a ghost having a secret meeting with a scholar in the middle of the night. He had not seen anything like it in the past three years, but he encountered it this time when he had just come out to train alone, so he came to watch with great interest.
This world emphasizes the different paths of humans and demons, and humans and ghosts, and it is not without reason. Because a demon that has just transformed is still inexperienced, when it has sex with a human, it will absorb the vitality of the human. Over time, it will cause the human to be bedridden and have a shortened lifespan. Only when the demon's skills reach a certain level and it can control its instincts, will the combination of humans and demons not lead to this situation.
The monster may really have feelings for the human, so it is willing to sacrifice its body for the human, but it is more likely to be another situation. Absorbing the vitality and yang energy from the human will speed up the monster's cultivation. Therefore, some monsters cannot resist this temptation and take the so-called shortcut. However, this shortcut prevents the monster from going far in cultivation, and in the end, its cultivation is destroyed by a heavenly calamity.
For Yuan Jing and his sect, any demons and ghosts that have taken human lives are targets for elimination, because once demons and ghosts have taken human lives, it is very difficult for them to turn back.
After discovering that the evil spirit outside had entered Shi Chi's room, Yuan Jing quietly opened the door and slipped out, slapped a talisman that concealed his aura on his body, and came to Shi Chi's window to see what kind of evil spirit was trying to seduce the scholar in the middle of the night.
For Shi Hong, after reading with an oil lamp until midnight, he was looking forward to the beautiful woman coming to have a tryst with him. Sure enough, just as he put down the book, there was a gentle knock on the door. Shi Hong hurried over to open the door to welcome the beautiful woman in, and then closed the door again. At this time, his mother had already fallen asleep, so he didn't have to worry about her finding out.
After closing the door, Shi Hong turned around and took the beauty's hands in his, and said with joy and affection in his eyes: "Li Niang, did you know that I passed the exam and came here to congratulate me?"
The beauty named Li Niang laughed sweetly and pulled Shi Hong to the lamp. "Don't worry, my lord. Li Niang already knew that you would pass the imperial examination and become a juren or jinshi in the future. You are a literary star from heaven, but I am afraid that I am not worthy of you."
"Li Niang, dear Li Niang, I will never let you down. Without you to accompany me in my studies, I would not be able to pass the examination. Li Niang, I haven't seen you for a few days. I miss you so much. Li Niang, please agree to me tonight. I will ask my mother to go to your house to propose marriage tomorrow."
"Sir, Li Niang is afraid of defiling you."
"My dear Li Niang, you and I love each other. When love is deep, it will come naturally. Li Niang, I, Shi Chi, will never let you down."
"Young Master~" Li Niang's voice became more gentle and lingering.
Yuan Jing touched the goose bumps on his arm. The Li Niang in it was clearly a weasel spirit. Shi Chi was also a pervert. Did he really think that having a beautiful woman by his side in the middle of the night was a good thing? He might even lose his life. Judging from the temperament of this weasel spirit, this was not the first time he had done such a thing.
Yuan Jing wanted to teach Shi Xiucai a lesson. It was obvious that a woman who came to his house for a tryst in the middle of the night was not from a good family. Shi Xiucai was just obsessed with sex. After thinking about it, he decided to let Shi Chi's mother stop it.
Shi Chi was not clear about it, but Yuan Jing saw it clearly. When the weasel spirit came, it first made Shi's mother fall into a deep sleep to ensure that she would not wake up halfway. Shi Chi really thought that no matter how he and the weasel spirit quarreled, he could not wake his mother up, but he didn't know that it was the beauty beside him who did it.
Yuan Jing stretched out his hand and flicked it, and a golden light flew into Shi's mother's room. Shi's mother covered her forehead and woke up instantly.
"Is it dawn yet? I wonder if Chi'er slept well." With a loving mother's heart, Shi's mother put on her clothes, opened the door and went out to see the situation in her son's room. Seeing that the oil lamp was still on, she couldn't help but feel distressed. Her son worked too hard. She hoped that this time she could find a good marriage for her son to reduce his burden.
But when she took a few steps closer, she heard teasing sounds coming from the room. Shi's mother shuddered and the clothes she was wearing almost fell off. She ran a few steps quickly and listened closer. Sure enough, she heard the voices of her son and a woman. Shi's mother became anxious and slammed her son's door.
"Chi'er, what are you doing?" Shi's mother had heard others talking about a voluptuous ghost seducing a scholar. Judging from the sky, it was clearly the middle of the night, and there was a woman's voice in her son's room. This woman must not be a good girl. "Open the door!"
Just as Shi Chi and Li Niang were about to enjoy themselves, their bodies froze. Li Niang lowered her eyes, a trace of hostility flashed in her eyes. She thought that if she had known earlier that the old man had ruined her good fortune, she should have killed him first. Then she could have lived with Master Shi forever, and no one would have ruined their good fortune.
Shi Chi froze for a moment, then relaxed: "Li Niang, my mother is here to see me, why not take this opportunity to explain things to my mother, and then I'll go to Li Niang's house to propose marriage once I understand?"
"Oh no, sir. Li Niang is leaving first. She will come to see you next time." The weasel pushed Shi Chi away, opened the window, and jumped out from the window. Shi's mother saw a shadow flash by the window, and then a puff of smoke blew on her face. She screamed and fell down.
Shi Chi quickly opened the door and saw his mother collapsed at the door, while Li Niang was nowhere to be seen.
Without bothering to look for Li Niang, Shi Chi called out, "Mom, what's wrong with you? Mom, wake up."
At this time, Yuan Jing came out from the dark and said, "Your mother is the work of your beauty."
"Who?" Shi Chi called out vigilantly, and then saw Yuan Jing's figure, "It turned out to be the young Taoist priest. I wonder why the young Taoist priest is still awake at this late hour?"
Yuan Jing laughed: "Scholar, how can I sleep? What's more, the evil spirit is everywhere at night, and the stench is overwhelming. I can't sleep even if I want to. Scholar, don't mention me, the Taoist priest, it's more important to wake up Madam Shi first."
"Yes, what happened to my mother?"
"The witch blew a puff of smoke. Every night when she came to meet with the scholar, she would use the smoke to make Madam Shi faint. Unfortunately, she was caught this time. Maybe she will be cruel to Madam Shi next time."
Yuan Jing pinched a spell and removed the evil spirit from Shi's mother's body. Shi's mother woke up immediately and asked anxiously when she saw her son: "Did I hear it wrong just now? Why is there a woman's voice in your room? Chi'er, tell me, who were you talking to in the middle of the night?"
"Mother, I'm talking to Li Niang. Mother, Li Niang is my sweetheart."
"You...you are so confused. How could a girl from a good family go to a man's house in the middle of the night? It's obviously a demon or ghost coming to suck your yang energy. By the way, the little Taoist priest, ah, the little Taoist priest is here, little Taoist priest please tell my son, what kind of demon is that girl?" Mother Shi said angrily, and wanted to get up to find the little Taoist priest to stay overnight, but she found that the little Taoist priest was standing aside.
Yuan Jing said calmly: "I told the scholar that there was an evil spirit, but he didn't seem to believe me."
"I believe it! Little Taoist priest, it is my son who has offended you. Little Taoist priest, is my son okay?" Shi's mother was afraid that something would happen to her son. She only had this one son. If something happened to her son, she would not be able to live either.
Yuan Jing could naturally see that Shi Chi was her only support, and said, "It all depends on whether the Scholar Guild will continue to go astray. If they can withdraw in time, it will naturally not hinder anything."
After Yuan Jing finished speaking, he went back to the room, leaving the mother and son to talk. He did not leave the weasel alone, but left a mark on her body when she jumped out of the window to escape. As long as she did not escape beyond a certain range, Yuan Jing would always be able to find her by following the mark.
So he was in no rush.
Shi Chi helped his mother into the room. His mother insisted that he personally promise that he would never have any dealings with such a monster again. Shi Chi was obsessed with Li Niang and would not listen to his mother: "Mother, you blame Li Niang wrongly. It was because I begged her that she came to meet me in the middle of the night. Mother, Li Niang is really the daughter of a good family. She lives at the end of Xiakou Village, in the Huang family. You will know if you go and have a look."
Upon hearing this, Shi's mother slammed her chest and said, "Mother said you were confused, and it seems that she was right. There is not a single family with the surname Huang in Xiakou Village. Do you still dare not listen to mother? You don't listen to the Taoist priest's words?"
Shi Chi hesitated and said, "Mom, I will go to Xiakou Village tomorrow to have a look."
"Okay, Mom will go with you tomorrow to find out clearly."
In fact, Yuan Jing could have gone out at night to deal with the weasel spirit, but seeing that Shi Chi was determined not to change, he wanted to let him see clearly. After all, he came out to gain experience and was not in a hurry to leave, so it didn't matter if he waited a few more days.
At dawn, as soon as Yuan Jing got up, Shi's mother brought him breakfast. Yuan Jing could see that Shi's mother wanted to ask him something, so he said, "Auntie, please tell me what you want to say."
When Shi's mother thought about what happened last night, she was still a little scared. She was sure that Li Niang was not a human being, and even if she was a human being, she was not a girl from a good family, otherwise why would she go out in the middle of the night and even go to bed with her son? Is this the behavior of a girl from a good family?
Last night she suddenly fainted and fell to the ground. It was the young Taoist priest who woke her up. The young Taoist priest also said that there was a demon. She believed that the young Taoist priest was a capable person. With him, Shi's mother had the courage. Otherwise, how could a human fight against a demon? It didn't matter if the demon harmed her, but she was afraid that it would harm her son.
"Little Taoist priest, I'm sorry for offending you yesterday. Little Taoist priest, will that demon come to look for my Chi'er again last night?"
Yuan Jing wiped his face with a cloth and said, "Of course it will. That demon won't give up so easily."
Because he did not show up in front of the weasel last night, the weasel had no scruples and would not give up the piece of fat meat that was right in front of his mouth.
Mother Shi was so scared that she trembled: "Can you ask the Taoist priest to stay for a few more days? What if that demon comes again, what will happen to Chi'er?"
"It's a pity that the scholar doesn't believe it."
"I'll make him believe it." Mrs. Shi said gritting her teeth.
Yuan Jingzhi nodded and said, "Okay, I'll stay for a few more days. If I'm not in the village, I'll be in the county town, so it's very convenient to find me."
"Thank you, young Taoist priest." Mother Shi thanked him profusely.
Yuan Jing could see that Shi's mother was truly loving to her son and was wholeheartedly planning for him, so he agreed to her request. After breakfast, when Shi Chi and her son went out, Yuan Jing also went out to take a walk around the area.
In fact, when we came to this area, we found that the air in this area was not as clear as that in the Liuzhuang Taoist Temple. The air in the sky was turbid, with demonic air and ghostly air. It seemed that there was no Taoist temple in this area that could suppress those demons and ghosts, or their Taoism was too shallow to scare them away.
Yuan Jing wandered around the village, listening to the villagers talk about what unusual things happened somewhere. He wrote them down one by one, ready to go and check it out to see if there was really anything unusual. If it was a ghost, then don't blame him for destroying the ghost with ruthless hands.
Shi Chi and her son rushed to Xiakou Village. There was a landlord in Xiakou Village. Shi's mother had once taken over the landlord's embroidery business, so some people in Xiakou Village recognized her.
Whenever Shi's mother saw someone she knew, she would ask, "Is there a family with the surname Huang at the end of your village?"
"There is no one with the surname Huang in our entire village. Most of the people are surnamed Liu, and the few remaining people don't have the surname Huang."
"How is that possible? Maybe you remembered it wrong?" This was Shi Chi's first reaction.
Shi's mother hit her son and asked, "I wonder if there is any family at the end of the village?"
"It's at the end of the village. It's a wasteland, so it's used as a cemetery."
Shi's mother almost fell to the ground. Shi Chi suddenly felt cold all over in broad daylight. He ran to the end of the village in disbelief. Sure enough, he saw more than a dozen graves at the end of the village. Now it was Shi Chi's turn to faint.
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