I'm just an ordinary Taoist priest

Chapter 8 The Well
Ping An Street NO.11.

Gu Yao stood in the courtyard without moving, just watching the two Jiupin detectives carefully inspecting the house.

This house is a courtyard with four entrances and exits, which is quite grand. The only disadvantage is that the location is relatively remote, but even so, it is estimated that it will cost thousands of Tongbao.

Zhao Gensheng really spent a lot of money hiding the pawned wife here.

The two detectives checked each room and returned to Gu Yao: "I didn't find the woman's body, no blood, or even a trace of a fight. Did you find the wrong place? Or did the woman leave by herself, somewhere else?" Killed?"

These two ninth-rank detectives are both of weak crown age, not much different from Gu Yao's age, and they can usually talk to each other, and their words are much more casual.

One is Pei Kangning, a Taoist priest from a small Taoist temple in Guangling Mansion.

It's not Yemao Mountain, but the Shangqing branch of Zheng'er Bajing. If you have enough talent and success in practice, you can go to the Shangqing School to receive the scriptures.

However, his cultivation base is about the same as Gu Yao's, and he belongs to the qualified but ordinary kind.

The other is Dong Mingda, not a Taoist priest, but a martial artist.

The only reason why he can join Jing Yesi is because he is rich.

Although he doesn't know magic spells, the magic weapons and talismans on his body emerge in endlessly. Inspired by the fiery energy and blood of warriors, their lethality against ghosts and demons even ranks first among Jing Yesi's group of criminals.

Gu Yao shook his head: "On the way here, I greeted the grandparents nearby, and by the way, they said that Yinling went out to buy vegetables six or seven days ago, and then she never left the house after returning. , should have been killed here within six or seven days."

Pei Kangning looked at Gu Yao and said: "But this house is extremely peaceful, and there is a Buddha statue enshrined in the house. I observed carefully in the house, and there are no traces of ghosts. If it is said that he died unjustly, it is impossible. "

Gu Yao also frowned: "Could it be that the woman really died in this house?"

Dong Mingda pulled out a necklace from his collar and looked at it carefully: "No, this house is not ordinary."

A transparent bead filled with white smoke was hanging on the necklace. Gu Yao and the two of them looked over and saw that the smoke inside the bead kept rolling, like ocean waves.

Dong Mingda continued: "Look at my necklace. The bead inlaid on this necklace is a precious magic weapon, called the ghost bead. It is the most sensitive to ghosts. Ever since it came in, the smoke inside the bead suddenly surged. , indicating that there are still ghosts in this house at this moment."

Gu Yao looked at the two of them: "Is there any secret room? Or is there a ghost who swallowed Yinling's body?"

"Ghosts devouring human corpses are not peace-loving guys. If there were any, they must have caused trouble last night." Dong Mingda denied, "As for the secret room, it's also unlikely."

"The houses here were all built by my family under the orders of the imperial court. My father found out clearly at the time that the soil around here is soft and there is a hidden river underneath. Just digging it will turn into a well."

"A place like this is the most suitable place to build a mansion. Unfortunately, I don't know what went wrong. After the yard was repaired, the neighborhood was inexplicably deserted. In the end, it became a tasteless place. It is also the biggest failure of my father's life."

While talking, Dong Mingda suddenly slapped his head: "It's far away, but here we want to build a secret room. If we dig it down, it will be a lake. As for separating it with a wall, it is impossible. Every room is built in eight steps. , This is my father's habit of building houses."

Gu Yao suddenly slapped his thigh: "I found something wrong."

"Ok?"

"You two, don't you feel that there is something missing in such a luxurious four-in-out courtyard?"

Dong Mingda and Pei Kangning looked around carefully: "There are many things, there are trees and flowers in the yard, there are rockeries, there are lakes, there are stone tables, there are swings, what else is there?"

"Water well."

Gu Yao reminded: "Brother Dongming just said that there is a river below here, and if you dig it casually, it will be a well, but I didn't see it in this yard."

"I'm also stupid. The female ghost has been dripping the water, apparently dying in the water, but I didn't expect it."

It was only then that the two realized that there was no well in such a large yard.

Dong Mingda touched his head: "It's really strange."

Pei Kangning jumped onto the wall, and quickly looked at other houses and yards: "Gu Yao is right, the houses here, even if the yards are empty, have wells, could it be that someone threw a corpse into the well , bulldozed the well again?"

The three of them dispersed again, looking for traces in the courtyard.

Dong Mingda sighed: "It's really weird, there is no trace of construction, a well, it just flew away."

But Gu Yao lost his mind looking at the stone table beside him.

It wasn't until Pei Kangning called him several times that he came to his senses and asked Dong Mingda: "Brother Dongming, does your father have any strange hobbies in building wells? It's like building a house, all in eight steps to the end?"

"It seems to be the same. My mother was a Kun Dao, so many things in the house are in the shape of eight trigrams, and the well is the same."

Gu Yao pointed at the stone table and said, "Isn't it, like that?"

Following the direction of his fingers, the two looked.

I saw a Bagua stone platform covered with moss standing under the square bluestone slab.

The three of them walked quickly, trying to remove the blue stone slab, but found that the stone slab seemed to weigh ten thousand catties, no matter how hard the three of them tried, it couldn't be moved.

"Is this stone slab cursed? It looks only four inches thick, but it's so heavy?"

Dong Mingda was out of breath, and kicked hard twice again in a very puzzled manner.

On the contrary, Pei Kangning was very satisfied: "The more this is the case, the more tricky things are going to be down there, and you might bump into some big fish."

He took out a pair of thin gloves and put them on, carefully rubbing the slate.

"Under the stone slab, there is a pattern engraved, which seems to be some pattern."

The three squatted down, not daring to use spells or sharp tools to remove the moss under the bluestone slab, only dared to wipe it off carefully with their hands.

I don't know how long it took to reveal part of the pattern on the back of the bluestone slab.

Although more than half of it is covered on the gossip well, the exposed part can already be seen to be a pattern of Buddha.

"Could it be that he has something to do with the monk? This is troublesome."

Gu Yao tilted his head and looked at it for a long time, and finally said: "The original husband of the woman here is a monk in the Golden Buddha Temple. Is there any reason for this?"

Dong Mingda also rubbed his neck: "The Golden Buddha Temple is hundreds of miles away from here. It takes a whole day to run on a good horse. What's more, there are no monks in Qingshui County. Monks who come from other places have long been surrounded by crowds."

"But, since it has something to do with monks, come on, let me try this treasure I got from the Golden Buddha Temple."

Dong Mingda pulled out a vajra from his back, motioned to Gu Yao and the others, took out the vajra, sprayed a mouthful of blood from the tip of his tongue, and hammered it directly.

A muffled sound.

The bluestone board shook.

Then fell apart.

The three of them were overjoyed, and just about to take down the bluestone slab, they suddenly heard the sound of surging water hitting the wall of the well.

The water in the well was like a fierce tiger out of its cage, one after another, hitting the wall of the well, the sound became louder and louder.

At the same time, a chill spread.

In just a few breaths, the edge of the well was covered with a layer of pale frost.

The chill was piercing, the three of them wrapped their clothes tightly and took two steps back.

A bone-piercing cold wind blew out of nowhere in the courtyard, and the shrill sound of the wind made the three of them tremble.

What made them even more disturbed was the second voice that suddenly appeared in the well.

"woooooo"

A crisp choking sound also floated out from the bottom of the well.

Not like a woman.

More like a baby!

(End of this chapter)