Twilight Boundary

And long before Hu Ma began to understand these things, early in the morning, the Meihua Alley in Mingzhou City became lively.

Plum Blossom Alley is just a small alley located in the west of Mingzhou Fucheng, with only seven or eight families living on the left and right.

These seven or eight families are all well-off, and their properties are spread all over the city, but their own people rarely show up. They all have a group of dedicated servants and shopkeepers to help take care of the family's property, and their own His disciples also do not enter the door and do not care about worldly affairs.

Every day, I just read, teach my children, and learn arts and self-cultivation, which seems to be a small world behind closed doors.

Those who occasionally interact with each other are also people from the Mingzhou government office, but most of them keep a low profile and are often not known to the public.

However, in the entire city of Mingzhou, when talking about Plum Blossom Alley, it actually only refers to one family in particular, that is, Mr. Mei and his family who have a pawn shop in the front and live in a small courtyard behind.

This pawn shop is also different from others. It never sells cotton jackets and trousers for the poor, nor gold and silver utensils, antique calligraphy and paintings, but only occasionally collects some old items.

And they are all destined to die, not live.

The things they collected were weird, including incense burners for memorial tablets, broken bowls with copper coins, and even some coffins and artifacts. But if they were placed in this pawn shop, they would not worry about sales. From time to time, people would come over and pawn them at high prices that ordinary people could not imagine. A broken bowl or incense burner.

There are even people who pay high prices to ask people from pawn shops to help renew family genealogy or carve memorial tablets.

The price is ridiculously high, but it is said that if you take it back, you will be safe and not attract evil spirits.

Most of the time, when foreign visitors come to visit, they have to go to the pawn shop first and explain their purpose of visit. And most people don't need to go into the small courtyard at the back. The matter can be settled in the pawn shop at the front.

But early that morning, someone hurriedly pushed a carriage with its roof removed. He hurriedly entered the alley and knocked on the door. A series of noises disturbed the tranquility of the alley.

It took a long time for the young man in green clothes to come over and open the door. He frowned and was about to curse.

"Where is sir?"

The black-robed mage knocked on the door and said hurriedly: "Hurry up, I have something urgent here."

When the young man in green clothes saw that it was him, he stopped cursing and opened the door, letting these people into the yard.

I saw that this small courtyard is not big, it is just a rockery and flowing water, very elegant.

An old gentleman wearing white underwear was sitting in a wicker chair, drinking tea and shaking a cattail leaf fan. Next to him was an ancient well with quiet water, and there were actually two goldfish, one red and one blue, in it.

From time to time, he pinched something like red rice grains and threw them into the well to watch the fish fight for food.

When he saw the black-robed mage coming in, he didn't say anything and just waved the cattail leaf fan. But the mage came over and knelt down: "Sir, something happened."

He seemed to be afraid of being scolded, so he hurriedly spoke out: "He is the uncle of the Wei family in Huai'an, his surname is Zheng. This man was originally from our Mingzhou Prefecture. He was once a scholar, and was later seen by people in the fourth room of the Wei family. Go up and recruit me as an uncle."

"Now that I came back this time, I wanted to invite my ancestors to come over, but unexpectedly I was entangled by the evildoers in the village. My disciples are not good enough, so I can only invite sir to come and see..."

"Weishi..."

The old gentleman slowly raised his head, glanced at the roofless carriage behind which was crowded with people, and said with a troubled expression: "If it's just an ordinary evil spirit, you don't need to come to me, but if it's trouble, we are here at Fenxiang Hall. Just distribute blood food to the gentlemen..."

"Please help me, sir..."

After listening to his words, the servant of the Wei family, the governor, immediately knelt down: "My master is in danger, there is nothing we can do!"

The old gentleman did not answer the servant's words, but frowned.

The black-robed mage also hurriedly said: "Sir, the injustice that is entangled with you is not serious. I can solve it. It's just that something went wrong."

"Last night, I wanted to help him solve the problem, but I met a weird little court official..."

"...I remembered my husband's instructions and didn't dare to provoke him."

"..."

"Um?"

When the old gentleman heard this, he sat up slightly and whispered: "What exactly does it look like?"

The black-robed mage was stunned for a moment and hurriedly described the appearance of Grandma Qi Gu, focusing on the nondescript ceremonial guard.

He was actually afraid that he had made a mistake, was fooled, and would be embarrassed, but he didn't expect that when the old gentleman heard his detailed description, he couldn't help but take a breath and looked at him with a serious expression. He whispered: "You didn't provoke me, but you did the right thing."

"You are a shallow person and don't know what's going on in Mingzhou. The water is deep!"

"As early as last winter, I am no longer the only official in Mingzhou Prefecture."

"..."

"ah?"

The black-robed judge was stunned for a moment and said hurriedly: "Who is here? Why didn't you hear anything? Which discipline, which class?"

"..."

But the old gentleman just sighed and didn't answer. He just waved his hand and said, "Send him over and let me take a look."

Others hurriedly pushed the carriage over and showed the dull-looking noble man in the carriage to the old gentleman. He only glanced at it briefly, then looked slightly sad and kept silent.

"My master just attracted evil spirits and just drove them away. But I don't know what happened to him last night, but he actually stopped him and refused to save anyone."

The old servant had been nervous all night. Now when he arrived in the city, he obviously had some complaints. He kowtowed to the old man in Plum Blossom Alley again and said, "I beg the old master for help. Is it true that in this city of Mingzhou Prefecture? Even this little rule is gone?”

"As a court official, the old gentleman is responsible for these evil spirits. Could it be possible that he really wants to see my master being harmed by evil spirits?"

"..."

The old man with a wrinkled face and wearing a white underwear just looked at the noble man in the car.

I saw that he had been entangled in injustice for a long time, and now his face had turned blue, his eyes were staring straight, he was laughing sometimes, crying bitterly, and suddenly babbling and singing.

"Get the pen and ink first!"

The old man was not in a hurry to say anything. He picked up his pen and ink and drew a few strokes on his forehead, vaguely evoking the shape of a simple talisman.

The noble man suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes were slightly clear, and he quickly became anxious and panicked. But before he could open his mouth to say something, he suddenly closed his eyes again and fell into a deep sleep.

Then he turned to look at the old servant, slowly shook his head, and said: "Although I am only responsible for the incense distribution, I will not be afraid of them. But you don't know yet, but now this Mingzhou capital has already been separated from the fragrant ones." It was different before.”

"Last year, there was a trouble in Tsing Yi, which caused a lot of commotion, but an expert killed the evil spirit here and established the rules. Since then, who dares to do anything else?"

"..."

In fact, of course he understood that killing Qing Yi was nothing.

Knowing clearly that Qing Yi was working for the nobleman of the Meng family, he still dared to behead Qingyi, and after beheading Qingyi, he was so frightened that the nobleman of the Meng family did not show any honor guard, and left overnight, which was scary.

However, of course he would not tell such secrets to a servant of the Wei family, lest he cause any trouble inadvertently.

Sighing slowly, his eyes swept over the black-robed mage kneeling next to him. He seemed to be reproaching, and shook his head again, saying: "And the official you met was noticed earlier, but they don't know the origin or the reason. …”

"Now that he has appeared, he must be the one who sealed it."

"And that noble man has been hiding in Mingzhou City for who knows how long. He has never taken care of anything. Now he suddenly sends people over and is not allowed to save your master. Then we..."

His face became more and more sad, and he sighed: "If we insist on taking care of it, aren't we asking for trouble?"

"This this……"

The old servant was so anxious that his forehead was sweating, and he looked a little unbelievable. After a long time, he suddenly raised his head and looked at it with some disrespect. Such an innocent ghost was killed?"

After hearing this, the old man in Plum Blossom Alley just shook his head slowly and sighed: "Everyone has a destiny..."

"Didn't any of the royal family members die from Feng Han?"

"..."

As soon as these words came out, not only the old servant was surprised, but even the black-robed mage was surprised.

He met the weird little court official last night and knew something was wrong, so he got smart and ran back.

I thought there was nothing I could do, but my master should have something, right?

Unexpectedly, the master, who has always been kind to others, especially those who have close friendships with aristocratic families and government offices, actually behaved so resolutely indifferently this time.

This noble man has been wronged and it's really difficult, but he believes that his master can find a solution. But now, it seems that he doesn't want to take care of it, and even said that everyone is destined to evade it. Come?

The atmosphere was already extremely depressing due to the appearance of this sentence.

In the dead silence, the old servant stood still, but he didn't know what he was thinking. Suddenly, he gritted his teeth and whispered: "My uncle cannot die!"

Everyone around him was startled and looked at him, their eyes already looking a little unhappy.

As a servant, even a servant of the Wei family, it was a bit disrespectful to say this out of the blue.

"My uncle cannot die."

But the old servant seemed not to notice the dissatisfaction in the eyes of the people around him, and his expression became serious, and he whispered: "Mr. Xu Shitang Guan still doesn't know that my uncle came back this time not just for cleaning." The ancestral home, to pay homage to my parents, actually, actually..."

As he spoke, he seemed a little stressed, as if he was involved in something secret.

After a moment of cruelty, he said: "Actually, he came to retrieve the ancestral tablets, and then rushed to Huai'an Mansion to take up his post."

"Our Wei family has found a position for him as the county magistrate of Liyuan County, Huai'an Prefecture. We have set a date for him to rush to take up the post. Now at this moment, he is suddenly entangled in injustice. How can this matter be turned into a good thing? ?”

"..."

"What?"

After hearing this, the old man's face changed slightly and he looked at him in disbelief.