Chapter 335: The Core of the Formation
April 17th.
God probably didn't like Jia Zhen very much, so it started to drizzle in the second half of the night. By dawn, the rain had not subsided, but became heavier.
Being tall is not always an advantage. By the time Sun Shaozong reached the front yard holding an oil-paper umbrella, the hem of his shirt was already mostly wet.
Zhang Cheng had been waiting under the porch wearing a straw raincoat. When he saw Master Sun coming, he rushed to the front of the carriage, spread a leather mat on the ground, and opened the curtain with a waterproof cover.
Sun Shaozong first rubbed the soles of his shoes on the leather cushion, then hung his umbrella on the hook on the top of the carriage, and then jumped onto the carriage swiftly. Just as he was about to tell Zhang Cheng to get up and set off, he heard someone outside shouting, "Second brother, second brother, wait for me a moment!"
Following the sound, I saw Xue Pan rushing in from the side door without even an umbrella, holding his head, and running to the carriage, splashing water all the way, and said with a heartless smile: "I just ran into Jia Yucun, and heard that my second brother is also going to Ningguo Mansion to celebrate his birthday today. Let's go together, so we can chat and relieve boredom on the way."
Having said that, he climbed into the car carelessly.
"foot!"
Sun Shaozong glared at him angrily, then he got out of the car and rubbed his shoe soles.
When this guy shamelessly climbed into the car again, Sun Shaozong had no choice but to shrink his body inward to make some space for him.
Xue Pan was really rude. He sat firmly in the car and shouted, "Lao Zhang, let's go!"
The combined weight of the two of them was over 400 pounds, so it took a lot of effort to get the carriage started.
When the wheels rolled and they went out of the side door of the Sun Mansion, they saw Xue Pan's golden carriage parked outside the gate - he didn't need anyone to greet him, and he followed quietly behind.
"I heard you caught a cold a few days ago."
But in the carriage, Sun Shaozong looked Xue Pan up and down, and seeing that he looked ruddy, he said, "Now it seems that he is much better."
"Don't mention it."
Speaking of the word "cold", Xue Pan's face was filled with depression: "I fell ill right after returning from Rongguo Mansion. My mother thought I had contracted some evil spirit and made a big fuss for several days. I was so suffocated that I almost died!"
Then he pretended to be mysterious and said, "Second brother, do you know why Brother Zhen asked someone to invite you over?"
This was exactly what puzzled Sun Shaozong, so he sat up straighter and pretended to listen attentively.
Seeing that he was interested in this topic, Xue Pan immediately stood up and gestured with great excitement, "I also heard from an old Taoist in private that Brother Zhen has always been obsessed with his original daughter-in-law, Qin..."
It turned out that a few days ago, Aunt Xue made a fuss about nothing and invited many "experts" to exorcise the evil spirits for Xue Pan - but he just caught a cold, so what was there to exorcise?
After driving away several tricksters who were pretending to be gods, he realized that if this continued there would be no end to it, so he simply made an agreement with the new Taoist priest that the two of them should stay out of each other's business in the house, and he would continue to give him the reward money when he recovered from his illness.
Of course, Xue Pan was actually thinking that once he was in better health, he would kick this old swindler out and be done with it.
But the two of them were staring at each other in the room like this, and especially since the old Taoist wasn't a handsome man, it was bound to become a little awkward after a while - so no one knew who started it first , and the old and the young began to have an awkward conversation.
It's true that even though the old Taoist was a mysterious person, he had a lot of strange stories and anecdotes in his mind. He could even describe them vividly with gestures, and I could listen to them for two or three days without hearing them repeat themselves.
In the end, Xue Pan was reluctant to leave and personally sent the Taoist out of the house. Not only did he give him enough money for the "talk therapy", he also agreed to let him continue to listen to his stories when he had time.
And the story of Jia Zhen was heard from the old Taoist.
It is said that this master of Ningguo Mansion is the most "loyal and righteous". After his daughter-in-law Qin died two years ago, he gave her a grand funeral that bankrupted his entire family. Even now, he still dreams about her from time to time.
At first Jia Zhen didn't care about it, thinking that he just dreamed about it at night, but after it happened too often, he couldn't help but start to worry.
He invited several experts, and they all said that Qin's soul was lingering and would turn into a ghost if time went on, so they had to help it reincarnate as soon , Jia Zhen still had the dream, and his health was getting worse and worse.
Recently, a master has given advice that there is too much Yin evil in this mansion, and a large amount of Yang evil energy must be attracted to break the Yin evil pattern and make dust return to dust.
This large amount of yang evil energy naturally refers to the aura of masculine men.
It just so happened that Jia Zhen was going to celebrate his 40th birthday recently [a big birthday is only considered a 50th birthday], so he specially invited many middle and low-level generals from the four battalions and one guard, intending to take the opportunity to break this evil situation.
Among them, it is necessary to find a person with extremely strong Yang Sha to serve as the most important center of the formation!
After hearing this, Sun Shaozong suddenly realized something, but he couldn't help feeling a little depressed - why did these people treat him as a phallic tool... uh, as a magic weapon?
After all, it is because people nowadays always like to associate solving cases with ghosts and spirits, so a skilled crime solver like Sun Shaozong naturally becomes a master of exorcism and catching ghosts in the eyes of the general public.
Xue Pan then suggested: "In my opinion, Second Brother might as well take this opportunity to make a lot of money from him. We can't help him build the formation for nothing, right?!"
Sun Shaozong rolled his eyes without commenting and changed the subject.
No conversation along the way.
When they arrived near Ningguo Mansion, two servants wearing bamboo hats came out to greet them. They exchanged a few words with Zhang Cheng and then let the carriage go inside. However, not everyone was qualified to ride in, and most carriages and sedan chairs could only be parked outside the red walls.
"Hahaha……"
As soon as the carriage stopped at the designated location, before Sun Shaozong and Xue Pan got off, Jia Zhen came out of the hall in a hurry. From a distance, he smiled and said, "Brother Sun, your presence is a great honor to our humble residence!"
It turned out that he needed a favor from someone, otherwise he would have been a second-rank nobleman and would not have had to be so polite to Sun Shaozong.
but……
Wasn't the glory of Ningguo Mansion stripped naked by him a long time ago?
With this in mind, Sun Shaozong and Xue Pan got off the carriage and bowed to him and exchanged a few polite words.
Jia Zhen was obviously a little hesitant when he saw Xue Pan was there, but then he remembered something and said with a smile, "To be honest, ever since I saw your tricks in Yihong Courtyard that day, I have wanted to make friends with you. There is still some time before the birthday banquet, so how about you accompany me to the backyard to chat for a while?"
Then he smiled at Xue Pan and said, "Brother Xue, come along too. I heard that you and my brother Rong have done a lot of big things recently, and I wanted to take a look."
Xue Pan felt a little embarrassed when he heard this. It was obvious that this so-called "big thing" was not a good thing at all.
