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

Chapter 111 I still owe a debt to pay off

"Cough...cough...cough..."

The old man was coughing badly, Dao Tong stepped forward and separated Zhao Dong's hand, "The Immortal Elder has recently suffered from a cough and has been on the road for days, and his bones may not be able to hold on. Keep it up for two days, and then share the worries of the Duke."

Zhao Dong was very anxious, but seeing the old man's body, there was nothing he could do, so he could only agree to let the two of them go to rest.

Entering the small courtyard arranged by Zhao Dong, Daotong dismissed the attendants and helped the old man into the house.

When he closed the door, the stooped old man straightened up, and his expression completely lost the old look he had just shown in front of people.

Daotong looked solemn, and bowed respectfully to the old man: "Miss Shen, do you think Ah Yuan's performance just now is feasible?"

The old man is Shen Lingxi's disguise.

And this Taoist boy named A Yuan was a disciple who served beside Zhang Xianzhang since he was a child.

Two days ago, the embroidered clothes envoy set up an ambush on the only way to Beijing from Mount Taiyi, and captured Zhang Xianchang.

Zhang Xianchang is old and unable to do many things, so he needs the disciples around him to do it for him.

Since "recruiting" Concubine Lian's soul two years ago, she has returned to Taiyi Mountain to retire on the grounds of "exhaustion of spiritual power".

It's just that he has a bad temper. Relying on the power of the Duke of Wei, he beat and scolded his disciples frequently, and never treated them as human beings.

A Yuan is one of them.

He had long hated Zhang Xianchang.

Therefore, after being arrested by the embroidered clothes envoy, he took the initiative to tell Zhang Xianchang's eccentricities one by one:

"Master never let people get close when he's calling for souls. He always carries a burden with him, and he doesn't let people see it."

"There was a senior brother who was curious. When he was summoning his soul, he secretly took a look. After he found out, he asked the guards to beat the senior brother to death that night, and threw him to the back mountain to feed the wolves."

"Those guards were given to him by Old Duke Wei. They are very powerful. If it wasn't for this embroiderer who wiped them all out, we dare not speak out, fearing that we will be tortured by him in the future..."

Because of this, Shen Lingxi brought A Yuan by her side this time, giving him a chance to make up for his mistakes.

"You did a good job." Shen Lingxi, who was pretending to be an old man, nodded appreciatively at A Yuan, "You just need to do things as usual, after this matter, His Highness King Ning will definitely protect your lives. "

Ah Yuan's delicate eyebrows and eyes were a little happy, and she bowed to Shen Lingxi to thank her.

He thought for a while, then asked puzzledly: "Miss Shen, several senior brothers and I are willing to stand up and point out that Zhang Xianchang's spells are weird, and we only need to let him 'recall' once in public to prove its authenticity. "

"We are also willing to prove that the Duke of Wei has colluded with him. Why does the girl go to such lengths to pretend to be him and come to the Duke of Wei?"

Shen Lingxi's eyes fell on the shadow of the lonely young man not far away.

King An is still unwilling to believe this fact.

Shen Lingxi knew that not only him, but even the emperor, after seeing Zhang Xianchang's "calling the soul" with his own eyes, it was hard to believe that it was fake.

Even if she can prove that what the old Taoist did is all deceit.

But in the end, what he committed was nothing more than a crime of deceiving the emperor.

Wei Guogong only needs to evade that they were deceived by Zhang Xianchang, and then he can get away with it.

Because the emperor will not let the Dou family dominate, he will not let the Zhao family fall easily.

Unless, the Zhao family committed suicide and made a big mistake.

The death of King An was the deadliest mistake the Zhao family made.

It is also the most untouchable reverse scale of the emperor.

However, the difficulty now is that no one knows the real cause of King An's death except for the two dead souls and Shen Lingxi.

No matter the old Taoist or the Duke of Wei, they never dared to admit that they had deceived and bewitched King An.

Those disciples didn't even know about it.

And the only Yuzhu who broke through this matter has already been mutilated.

The death of King An was definitely a dead end with nothing to prove.

If Shen Lingxi hadn't been able to see the soul of the dead, no one would have known, and no one would have believed that that innocent and kind young man had died under the conspiracy of the wicked.

No one knew that even after death, King An could not rest in peace, and was trapped in that attic day after day.

"Because they still owe a debt to someone." Shen Lingxi looked at the young man with a complicated expression in the distance, and murmured softly, "This debt can only be paid off by letting them suffer the consequences."

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Two days later, when the concubine cried and begged repeatedly, and concubine Zhao frequently used the ten princes to win the emperor's mercy.

The emperor personally ordered, on the grounds that "there is no real evidence", ordered the Beiya to withdraw the embroidered clothes envoys and Xuanjia army outside the Weiguo Duke's mansion.

Although the Duke of Wei's mansion lost some of its reputation due to the private affairs in the back house.

But on the whole, it can be regarded as getting out of this turmoil without any danger.

Zhao Dong should have been ecstatic, but he couldn't even smile.

There was no other reason, but Zhao Dong had completely believed that Shen Lingxi's pretending to be a ghost in Duke Wei's mansion had two ghosts by his side.

He couldn't sleep at night, couldn't sleep or eat, as long as he closed his eyes, his mind would be the image of the little concubine supporting his shoulders, and the body parts lying on the ground at his feet.

Every day he sent people to the yard where "Zhang Xianchang" stayed to urge him.

Until the fourth day, "Zhang Immortal" finally agreed to drive away the evil spirits for Zhao Dong.

The location of the exorcism ceremony was chosen in Jinxiu Pavilion.

Jinxiu Pavilion is a water pavilion in Duke Wei's mansion. It is adjacent to water on both sides, and there is a winding path in the east and west, leading to the rockery and garden in the mansion.

This is the place where the old Taoist summoned the soul of Concubine Lian in front of King An.

Shen Lingxi asked Yuzhu to take An Wang to the place where he met the old Taoist "Calling Soul" and wait there.

She wanted An Wang to see with his own eyes what was going on with this so-called "spirit calling".

Ah Yuan has been working beside the old Taoist all the time, and is very familiar with the arrangement required by the old Taoist.

The walls on all sides of the water pavilion were covered with dense cinnabar charms.

Yellow paper-pasted lanterns were also hung under the eaves.

On the bluestone floor tiles, a diagram of the Eight Diagrams is drawn with cinnabar.

There is a bright yellow futon in the formation, which is prepared for Zhao Dong who is "ridden by evil spirits".

When it was Zishi, when Zhao Dong came to Jinxiu Pavilion in person, all the furnishings were exactly the same as when the old Taoist "evoked souls" here two years ago.

As soon as Zhao Dong walked into the water pavilion, he saw the familiar arrangement and was taken aback for a few breaths.

"Isn't the Immortal Chief trying to exorcise evil spirits? Why did you put up this magic circle?" He asked in surprise.

Ah Yuan stepped forward and handed a long sword to Zhao Dong.

Shen Lingxi coughed twice, and replied in the hoarse and weak voice of the old man: "The only way to kill the wronged soul completely is to draw the wronged soul on your body to this white cloth and let it turn into a lamp shadow. Talk to it first, distract it, wait for the right time, listen to the slogan of the poor, and then use the long sword in your hand to kill the soul shadow on the white cloth with your own hands."

(End of this chapter)