No taboos

Chapter 339 Double Happiness (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
After the "day of prohibition against peeping" passed, all the government offices in the city relaxed completely.

There are only a handful of days left until the Lunar New Year.

Although the Ming Dynasty granted officials very short holidays, with only three days for the New Year—this was a result of a certain emperor's gracious favor a hundred years ago.

There was only one day before that.

However, although the holiday was short, all government offices were actually quite idle during the first month of the lunar calendar.

Especially in local areas, people don't take their duties seriously.

Xu Yuan checked the almanac; today is a forbidden day.
Gluttony, forging, marriage, summoning spirits.

This day... is actually not suitable for entering Ghost Mountain.

Besides "forging," the other three taboos will make the corresponding evil spirits in Ghost Witch Mountain "extremely ominous."

The matter within Champa has finally been resolved, but today's taboo seems to be an "obstacle."

Xu Yuan shook his head, still feeling that they couldn't delay any longer.

That "Albizia tree" is probably known to more than just the Miao people.

Moreover, if Miao Yu sold the information to himself, how could he know whether other members of the Miao family had secretly sold it to others?
Xu Yuan tidied up his things, arranged the affairs of the Champa government, and then set off with Dafu.

Aunt Wang wanted to go back to Shanhe County with Xu Yuan, but Master Fei and the others knelt on the ground, hugged her legs, and cried bitterly, making it impossible for her to leave.

Aunt Wang sighed and said to Xu Yuan, "Alright, this old woman will stay here and look after the house for you."

Xu Yuan smiled and said, "You should stay here comfortably."

Xu Yuan has a small house he bought in the city, as well as a large one that Li Yichuan gave him.

But we're not planning to move in yet.

Xu Yuan carried Dafu onto the horse, but Dafu insisted on breaking free and running alongside the horse.

What Xu Yuan didn't notice was that Dafu caught several flying insects with each glide.

From Zhancheng to Shanhe County, Xu Yuan did not stop, bypassing the county town and heading straight for Qihetai Town.

The person sent by the Qihetai Public Office to deliver the letter to Xu Yuan last time was sent back the day before yesterday.

When Xu Yuan arrived at the government office, it was already late afternoon.

After briefly learning about the situation, Xu Yuan went into Ghost Witch Mountain alone.

Upon entering the mountain, Xu Yuan first took out the booklet and neatly wrote two small characters on it: Arrived.

After waiting for a while without receiving a response from Jiao, Xu Yuan put the folded document into his pocket and headed to Wangxiang Village with Nimian.

I plan to stay in Wangxiang Village tonight.

With the mud covering them, they encountered no trouble along the way.

As they approached the village, Xu Yuan looked around and said, "We're almost at Mr. Piaodang's territory."

After walking a few more miles, Xu Yuan suddenly touched his head, puzzled: "Did I remember the wrong way?"

Xu Yuan remembered that the crooked tree by the roadside was where Mr. Piaodang had hanged himself—but now it had become a grand mansion with white walls and gray tiles.

"Mr. Piaodang has become rich?" Xu Yuan asked in surprise.

A side path branches off from the small road and leads to the front gate of the house.

Xu Yuan thought for a moment, then led Dafu upstairs.

The gate was black. Xu Yuan called out from the doorway, "Mr. Drifting?"

There was no response from inside.

Xu Yuan then stepped forward to knock on the door knocker.

It was only when he raised his hand that he noticed that what was biting the door knocker on the gate was not a beast head, but two ferocious ghost heads!
A mouthful of fangs and chilling eyes!
As Xu Yuan's hand approached, the door knocker suddenly moved, hissing as it transformed into two thin, venomous snakes, flicking their tongues at Xu Yuan.

The eyes of the two demon heads flickered, and a layer of blood appeared on them!
Xu Yuan staggered back several steps: "What is that?!"

Sure enough, anything unusual in these mountains was an evil spirit.

Suddenly, two venomous snakes shot towards Xu Yuan, and then the two ghost heads opened their fangs and spewed out a cloud of poisonous smoke.

Xu Yuan flicked his finger, and the sword pellet flew out, striking the venomous snake with only a "clang." The snake recoiled and hid in the poisonous smoke.

In a short time, the poisonous smoke had spread for hundreds of feet, even obscuring the mansion.

Xu Yuan looked around, but he could no longer tell which way was which.

All that could be seen were the two bloodshot eyes of the beast head directly in front of them, like four red lanterns, shining brightly and enticing people to walk forward.

"Hmph!" Xu Yuan snorted coldly, reached out and wiped his eyes, activating "Looking at Fate".

However, under the "fate" of "looking for destiny", there is no evil spirit "destiny" to be seen around.

Xu Yuan frowned, thinking to himself, "No evil spirits? Is all of this just some kind of trickery?"

As soon as Xu Yuan opened his mouth, a ball of "fire in his abdomen" condensed into a pillar of fire, which landed precisely on the location of one of the bloodshot eyes.

"Ow—"

A scream came from the poisonous smoke, and two pairs of bloodshot eyes disappeared together.

Xu Yuan then waved his hand, and a shower of rain fell down before he drew his sword and slashed.

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Lightning flashed everywhere in the rain.

Sure enough, after the fire in his abdomen burned his bloodshot eyes, the pair of venomous snakes silently slithered up.

They were struck by the electric lightning, one after the other, and fell stiffly to the ground five feet in front of Xu Yuan.

Xu Yuan quickly wrapped it with the leather.

The two venomous snakes quickly recovered and began to writhe and struggle in the shell, biting repeatedly.

However, Pidan was already at a fifth-rate level. The two venomous snakes gnawed at it for a long time but still couldn't break through, so it suddenly stopped moving.

Xu Yuan waited a while longer, then released Pi Dan and took another look:
There were no poisonous snakes, but two silver bracelets!
However, the surface of these silver bracelets was pitch black, as if... they had been used to test for poison, and the two silver bracelets had been completely soaked in poison.

Xu Yuan thought for a moment, then breathed out another mouthful of fire, burning the two silver bracelets into a lump of silver before throwing it into the carriage.

Dafu had been following behind Fanzhezi, and now it swung its big flippers and ran forward with a thud. Xu Yuan quickly followed.

All that could be seen in the poisonous smoke were poisonous insects everywhere. When they saw Dafu, they panicked and scurried around in all directions before disappearing back into the smoke to hide.

Dafu chased after the food, pecking at it, when suddenly it bumped its head into a wall.

A large swarm of poisonous insects fled along the base of the wall. Dafu chased after them, running around the wall, and soon saw the gate again.

At this moment, the pair of ghost heads on the gate had disappeared.

The door opened a crack, and the poisonous insects scrambled in.

A loud clattering sound filled the air.

Xu Yuan stood in front of the door, spitting out a wisp of fire from his mouth and slipping it through the crack in the door, wanting to illuminate the inside and take a look.

Suddenly, two large red lanterns appeared out of thin air in front of the gate!

It hung fluttering in front of the door.

Two more "囍" characters floated out from the crack in the door and were pasted on the door.

A sweet, coquettish voice asked, "Husband, are your friends here for our wedding banquet?"

Why didn't you inform me beforehand? I have been impolite and neglected my guest.

As they were speaking, the two large, dark doors creaked open.

By the light of the lantern, Xu Yuan could see clearly that two figures were sitting in the main room.

They were all wearing bright red wedding robes.

A red candle was lit on the table.

The groom was none other than Mr. Wandering.

It stuck out its long tongue, its face devoid of any joy, as if it had been struck by some kind of magic spell, unable to move at all. It replied impatiently, "My friend here is no ordinary man. He is handsome and has a fragrant body—if you take a fancy to him, then let him be your groom, shall we?"

(End of this chapter)