Mason Xuan and the Mirror of Mystique Chapter 7

Xavier Xue was afraid that the bald donkey would be dull and would not be able to fully understand its meaning just by pinching it, so when the fool Leo Liu looked away, he quietly turned it over so that the side with the face on the paper was facing up. , his inked eyes stared straight at the bald donkey.

After all, paintings are not as vivid as real people, not to mention that Xavier Xue's painting skills are rated as "fair", which is far from perfection. Therefore, these eyes are less spiritual than those of real people.

Mason Xuan was pinched a bit hard, so he lowered his eyes coldly. He originally wanted to warn the evil barrier on his skin, but he happened to meet the painted eyes at the mouth of the secret bag, and he was really caught off guard.

This tummy-turned-up look, paired with a pair of expressionless black eyes, gave him a "dying with eyes open" attitude.

Mason Xuan: ...

Along the way, he took the initiative to collect not many demons and ghosts, but certainly not too few. Most of them were unruly before they were collected, and then they were respectful and frightened until they were saved. This is the first time someone like Xavier Xue is still restless after being taken in, and doesn't even regard himself as an outsider, but moves his hands and feet without stopping.

Mason Xuan always felt that the words and deeds of this sinner were quite "dense and colorful", and one person could act out a drama.

His eyes closed as soon as he touched the paper, and he immediately stretched out two fingers and took the paper out of the secret bag.

Xavier Xue: ... I'm not done with you!

Mason Xuan's fingers really didn't look like those of someone who wandered the streets. They were straight and long, as clean as if they had never been stained with dirt. He doesn't look like someone who grew up in a mountain monastery. Of course, he doesn't look like a wild monk either. Instead, he looks like some pampered princes and nobles.

However, Xavier Xue didn't pay attention at this moment and didn't have the time to pay attention.

Mason Xuan held the paper between his two fingers and held it an inch in front of Leo Liu.

Xavier Xue: ... I will chase you and strike with thunder in the future! The day does not set, the morning and dusk are fixed, and the earth is hacked!

"This?" Mason Xuan asked Leo Liu calmly.

Xavier Xue: ... If I don't chop your bald donkey into pieces, I'll call you a "four-legged worm" instead!

"Yes." Leo Liu nodded vigorously and showed a silly smile.

Xavier Xue: ... You are so ridiculous!

Seeing that the fool was about to raise his hand to pick up the piece of paper, Mason Xuan shook his head, still looking calm and said: "No."

Guess you know the truth.

Xavier Xue, who had been roaring in his mind for a long time, suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. The originally stretched paper suddenly drooped down and hung limply on Mason Xuan's fingertips. He went from semi-paralysis to total paralysis.

Leo Liu looked at Mason Xuan particularly seriously and nodded again, with a somewhat regretful expression. He has no understanding of the world, and he doesn't know what "euphemism" or "hiding" are. Just put the word regret directly on the face.

Every move of a stupid person is slower than that of ordinary people, less dexterous, but more powerful. Staring at people, speaking and articulating, or nodding and shaking his head are all done with extra effort.

Clumsy, but particularly poignant.

Xavier Xue hung it between Mason Xuan's fingers like rotten noodles. He glanced across Leo Liu's face and didn't look at it a second time. He felt that this fool was probably poisonous and could make people as stupid as him. He was afraid that if he looked at it a few more times, he would go crazy and jump into the fool's hands.

That would be great fun!

But what surprised him secretly was that Bald Donkey seemed to be more straightforward than the fool. Not only did he completely ignore the regret on the fool's face, but he even raised his foot to enter the fool's house without any courtesy.

Fortunately, before entering the door, the bald donkey barely remembered the word "etiquette and integrity" and nodded at the fool.

Xavier Xue: ... If you say one more word, you may die. If this fool understands the meaning of nodding, I will take your last name.

Before his sarcastic sneer landed, Leo Liu had already returned to the room, waving to Mason Xuan happily and saying, "Come in!" Like a child looking for a playmate.

Xavier Xue: ...

He curled his lips because of toothache, thinking to himself, I might as well just hang on.

This evil obstacle rose and fell in Mason Xuan's hands several times, and finally settled down reluctantly.

The half-open door was pushed fully open by Leo Liu, and the scene inside the room fell into the eyes of several people without any cover-up. There were far more oily yellow paper ingots than Xavier Xue had seen before. There are many, not just at the door, but at a glance, there are not even a few places to stay in the whole house.

Lawrence Master seemed to be quite distressed. As soon as he saw the appearance of his eldest son in the room, he turned his head without changing his expression. He had no intention of entering the house, and stood alone a foot away from the door, waiting with his hands behind his back.

He was probably tormented. On the one hand, he expected Mason Xuan to help him adjust the feng shui of the house, but on the other hand, he wanted to kick out this monk who was also unreasonable and unsophisticated.

Anyone who knows how to read people's eyes will restrain themselves a little at this time to avoid making things unpleasant.

But the monk didn't understand.

Not only did he not understand, he didn't even look at anyone else!

Lawrence Master was almost furious.

Naturally, Mason Xuan wouldn't care if he stood wherever he liked. Even if he held the pole ten feet away, it wouldn't prevent Mason Xuan from entering the house.

Leo Liu's room was very simply decorated, and it didn't look like a young master in the master's house at all. It would be an exaggeration to say that it was just a small room. There was only a four-immortal table, two wooden chairs, and a bed that was a bit narrow compared to Leo Liu.

The room itself was only a palm-sized place, with a small room and a pretentious partition in the middle, dividing the bed, table and chairs into two and a half rooms, making it even more cramped.

Everything in the house had been used for several years, and was extremely dusty and dull. The only color is actually the oily yellow paper ingots piled everywhere.

Mason Xuan lowered his hands and picked up one, looking up and down.

Xavier Xue, who was hanging on Mason Xuan's other finger, happened to be able to clearly see the bottom of the ingot because he was relatively low and had a face-up attitude.

I saw three words written on it: Father Xixi.

Xavier Xue: ... What nonsense!

It wasn't until he finished scolding that he realized that it was not three words written vertically, but one word: Dad. It's just that this fool was clumsy in writing, and he was very clear about it.

But seeing such a Yuanbao, he suddenly understood the reason why Lawrence Master didn't have a good attitude towards his son. Writing a living person on a paper ingot is no different from a curse. But looking at Leo Liu's lack of heart, one can tell that he probably just wrote it for fun.

But soon, Xavier Xue swallowed back the thought just now.

Because Mason Xuan picked up several paper ingots one after another, and each ingot actually had writing on the bottom, and it was still so clumsy that it could be divided into several pieces.

Xavier Xue, who was extremely bored, counted: seven ingots, two fathers, three daughters, and two empty ones.

...

What fetish is this?

However, based on the few ingots Mason Xuan picked up, Xavier Xue had a rough idea: This Leo Liu was as stupid as ever, and he actually knew how to classify them. The pile next to the door is probably all written by my father Xixi, that is, addressed to his father, Lawrence Master. The pile next to the Four Immortals' table was all written for his mother. Those scattered on the ground that are not piled up probably haven't had time to write anything on them yet.

So...whose is that pile next to the bed?

Obviously, Xavier Xue was not the only one who noticed this. After Mason Xuan briefly looked through the piles in the outer room, he walked into the inner room where the bed was.

As soon as he entered the inner room, Xavier Xue was choked by the Yin Qi and sneezed.

Leo Liu: ...? ? ?

He stared at the expressionless Mason Xuan for a long time, then looked at Mason Xuan's hand in confusion, as if he didn't understand why the sneezing sound came from between his fingers.

However, neither Mason Xuan nor Xavier Xue had time to pay attention to Leo Liu's actions. They were all startled by the thick yin energy here, and they all looked at the pile of paper ingots beside the bed.

Mason Xuan frowned and walked over, picked up an ingot and looked at it.

This time, what was written on the bottom was neither father nor mother, but a large ball of blurred ink. It seems that he wrote something more complicated than "Fathers and Mothers", so much so that it became a blur.

Mason Xuan picked up two more, and they were all the same.

However, one of them was not so blurry, and Mason Xuan could barely make out most of the character "Liu" in it.

Mason Xuan knew very little about Lawrence Master's family. When he saw this word, he could only think of Lawrence Master and his two sons. However, judging from the large mass of ink, it was neither "Liu Xu" nor "Liu Xu". Leo Liu" or "Liu Jin".

Just when he bent down to pick up another one and take a look, something rolled out of the hidden pocket on his waist.

The thing yelled "Ouch" and happened to roll onto the pile of paper ingots. When it landed, it was like an inflated cowhide bag, which suddenly expanded and turned into a living person.

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This man's skin was pale and his eyes were slightly bluish, giving him the look of a tired scholar. It was none other than Jasper Jiang.

He probably never thought about how he suddenly transformed from paper into a human being. He looked confused and said: "How did I fall down?"

Seeing that this big change didn't scare Leo Liu, who was standing aside and crying, Xavier Xue stopped pretending and replied to him: "Because the yin energy is too strong."

After all, ghosts like yin. The reason why Jasper Jiang couldn't move during the day was because the yang energy was too strong during the day. The yin energy in Leo Liu's room was stronger than the aged flavor of the graveyard, which naturally gave Jasper Jiang an advantage.

However, it is strange that Leo Liu is still alive and well despite such a heavy yin energy.

"Then why didn't you get down?" Jasper Jiang asked doubtfully.

Xavier Xue said angrily: "I'm not talented, I've never died, I'm not in the same category as you old man."

"Why are you holding on to a piece of torn paper when you're not dead?" Jasper Jiang felt that the man named Xue was probably sick.

Since it is not a ghost, the body must still be there. Since the body is still there, how much leisure do you have to have before you can free your soul and live on a piece of paper? Isn't this a disease?

Xavier Xue hung it on Mason Xuan's fingertips and replied lazily: "What do you think you can do? If you have time to talk, you might as well hurry up."

After all, this consumptive scholar turned into a living person. Even though he is as thin as a stick, he is not light. The paper-folded ingot couldn't bear any weight. When he rolled it, most of it flattened, and the golden mountain was instantly razed to the ground.

When he glanced left and right and found what he was sitting on, he was so shocked that he quickly apologized to Leo Liu: "Sorry, sorry."

Just when he was rolling around and trying to stand up, Leo Liu, who was standing aside, finally reacted slowly. When he saw the flattened paper ingots all over the floor, he yelled "Ah------" and pushed Jasper Jiang aside unceremoniously. He knelt on the ground and carefully lifted the flattened paper ingots. The ingot is folded again.

The fool's strength was much greater than that of ordinary people. Naturally, Jasper Jiang's body could not withstand the push. He immediately rolled around and hit a five-drawer wooden cabinet on the side.

The wooden cabinet was moved a few inches by the impact, and then hit the wall with a clang.

Jasper Jiang was in a state of embarrassment from the fall, and he was holding on to the ground, trying to get up to help Leo Liu break the Yuanbao to apologize, but as soon as he exerted force, he gasped and retracted his hand suddenly.

There was a hole in his open palm. It hurt so much that he grimaced and frowned, but no blood flowed.

The body made of paper is like this, allowing the lonely ghost to have its feet on the ground and its hands to touch real objects, as if it were half a living person, but it is also extremely vulnerable to injury.

"Why are there still nails hammered under the chest of drawers?" Jasper Jiang complained with a depressed look on his face, then turned to Xavier Xue and whispered in the direction of Xavier Xue: "Next time... if there is a next time, can you please Instead of paper, use cowhide? "

Xavier Xue: "Just kidnap someone."

Jasper Jiang: ...

Mason Xuan's face remained calm, but he moved his fingers and accurately pressed Xue's mouth to prevent this miserable evildoer from being silent as soon as he opened his mouth.

Xavier Xue: ...

"Eh? That's strange--there's a piece of paper strung on this nail." When Jasper Jiang got up, he glanced at the ground where the nail had broken his hand, and immediately discovered something strange.

When Mason Xuan heard this, he frowned, lifted up his monk's clothes and squatted down.

I saw a sharp corner standing on the small piece of ground exposed after the chest of drawers was knocked open. Mason Xuan tore off a corner of the hem of the monk's robe and rubbed the sharp corner twice with his fingers through the torn white linen cloth. After the surface mud was removed, the sharp corner took on its appearance ------- Judging from the oily yellow skin color, it was a copper nail with three vertical edges on the side.

Since it is covered with such a layer of old mud, this copper nail has been nailed here for at least two or three years, but it has not rusted at all and is still shiny, which shows that it is not an ordinary thing.

The most important thing is that it has a piece of paper stapled to it that doesn't look the same.

Mason Xuan lowered his eyebrows and used a white linen cloth to sweep away the thick layer of dust on the paper------

Sure enough, it was a piece of yellow paper with complicated pictures outlined in cinnabar.

Even if you don’t understand the content, you know what it is. Jasper Jiang was stunned for a moment, then simply pushed the chest of drawers aside to expose more ground.

On the ground blocked by the chest of drawers, there are three copper nails with yellow talismans on them, pointing to the southwest, northeast, and northwest respectively.

"What...is this talisman? Prolonging life and strengthening the body?" Jasper Jiang froze for a while next to these paper talismans, feeling a little warm in his body for no reason.

This is strange. After all, he has never felt "heat" since he became a lonely ghost. He has been covered in the cold air of frost and snow all year round, and he has long been used to the cold. Being so hot all of a sudden made me feel a little uncomfortable.

So he timidly took two steps to the side.

Xavier Xue, who always liked to choke him, had his mouth held down and couldn't speak even if he wanted to.

So when he asked this question, no one answered for a long time, which was really embarrassing.

It wasn't until Mason Xuan read the contents of the three talismans that he replied calmly: "Feng Shui Bureau."

Xavier Xue: ... That's nonsense.

The continuous movements in the room made Lawrence Master who was waiting unable to stay still. He stared at the door wall twice, and finally couldn't help but walked to the door of the house and said inside: "Master, did you hit something just now? But my stupid son is causing trouble?"

He seemed to particularly dislike this room. He looked as if he would not even take a step forward. He stood at the door and glanced at the pile of ingots in the room with disgust.

Mason Xuan stood up after hearing the sound, stepped across the threshold and walked outside, asking Lawrence Master, "Who lives in the house to the northwest?"

Lawrence Master glanced at the northeast corner in confusion: "That's the house where I live."

Mason Xuan glanced at him and said, "Northeast."

Lawrence Master: "Ah? Northeast? The northeast house is where my son Liu Jin lives, the little son who accidentally fell into the well this morning. Master, why do you ask this? Is there something wrong with these two rooms?"

Mason Xuan did not answer immediately, but paused for a while before saying, "Have you ever heard of the game of drawing the river into the sea?"

There was no emotion or anger on his face, and he still looked cold and expressionless. He seemed to be just asking about something as ordinary as "eating and drinking water." However, Lawrence Master's face had turned pale.

He stood outside the door with his neck stiffened and froze for a long time. Then he moved his eyes and glanced in the direction of the chest of drawers in the back room. When he saw that the chest of drawers had been moved, his face became uglier again: "This, this ...To tell you the truth, Master, my body and bones have not been very healthy these past two years, so, so------"

Lawrence Master was hesitating outside the door, but Jasper Jiang inside was no longer where he was. When Lawrence Master poked his head to ask, he took two steps back and happened to avoid Lawrence Master's sight. Firstly, he could easily get into trouble if a dead person suddenly stood in front of someone he knew. Secondly...as soon as he saw Lawrence Master, his resentment couldn't stop rising.

He couldn't help but bite his back teeth when he thought of the misfortunes his parents suffered during their lifetime.

While he was standing by the wall, holding back his resentment, Leo Liu, who was taking care of the paper ingots, unconsciously saw the paper charms on the ground.

The fool's attention is always easily diverted. He stared at the yellow paper charms for a while, then let go of the paper ingots in his hand, moved two steps and squatted in front of the paper charms.

If a young child sees something new, no matter whether it is clean or dirty, safe or dangerous, he always likes to touch it directly with his hands. The fool Leo Liu stayed in such an ignorant age. He stared at the three copper nails for a while, and couldn't help but reach out and touch the tips of the nails.

The shiny copper nail facing up was still extremely sharp, as if it had been polished just now. It would not be a problem to blow and break hair, not to mention Leo Liu's thin skin.

So, the fool touched the blood on his hand.

"Hey------don't move!" When Jasper Jiang reacted and wanted to stop him, it was already a step too late.

Blood beads slid down the copper nails and seeped into the yellow paper.

Leo Liu was stunned by his shouting and raised his head in confusion.

For a moment, Jasper Jiang felt that the whole old house was eerily quiet. It seemed that even the cold wind that was constantly beating on the walls outside the house had suddenly stopped.

The lonely ghost was probably more sensitive than a real person. He only felt that there was not even a breath of breath around him, and it was so calm that it was almost eerie.

Mason Xuan, who was standing by the door and looking at Lawrence Master, suddenly raised his eyebrows and glanced upward.

The wind is silent and the clouds are silent, and there is silence in all directions.

The entire Liu family mansion suddenly became silent...

This strange silence did not last long, just a few blinks of an eye, and the wind suddenly started to sound again, "whimpering", completely different from just now, with an inexplicable feeling of resentment.

After going back and forth several times, the whining sound of the wind became louder and louder. At first glance, it sounded like wild ghosts from all directions crying together, which made people's hair stand on end.

Amid this strange wind sound, which was like howling ghosts and howling wolves, something suddenly made a "buzz------" sound.

It's like the ending tone of metal weapons clashing, but slightly different.

Xavier Xue, who was hanging between Mason Xuan's fingers, straightened up instantly. This voiceless sound might be difficult for others to distinguish, but he could hear it very clearly.

Because it was very much like the sound of the thing he was looking for.

northeast!

Xavier Xue reluctantly raised his face and looked in that direction.

The bald donkey asked just now, who lives in the northeast house?

Just as Xavier Xue was thinking about it, the strange sound merged with the sound of the howling wind and suddenly became louder. At that moment, everyone present felt like they had been hit hard on the back of the head with a sap, their ears were ringing, their eyes were black, and they suddenly lost their minds.