The doors and windows around were clearly closed, but at this moment, Gu Yunzhen felt the cold wind outside shaved on her face like a knife.

She felt a chill rising from the bottom of her feet.

The faces of Mrs. Murong, Murong Yong, Mrs. Murong Hui, Liu Muyu and others flashed in front of her eyes, and their hearts were full of doubts, speculating on the various possibilities behind this.

For a moment, she couldn't help but think of the operas, scripts, white moonlight, cinnabar moles, family changes, deep roots of love, and involuntary body... and other keywords filled her thoughts.

"Stand-in." Gu Yunzhen murmured, as if he was talking to himself, and as if he was asking Gu Yanfei, "Am I a Snap?"

After saying it, she felt that her guess was a bit ridiculous. She had only heard of someone looking for a substitute who looked for those with similar appearances, and had never seen anyone looking for a substitute with the same horoscope.

"It's indeed a 'stand-in', but," Gu Yanfei sneered the corner of his mouth, "Miss Liu should be the big sister's stand-in."

The end of her slightly raised words reveals a trace of unknown mystery.

Based on the clues from previous lives, Gu Yanfei is 90% sure that Liu Muyu is Gu Yunzhen's substitute.

"..." Gu Yunzhen was confused and could not guess what Gu Yanfei said.

Gu Yanfei then went to see the second piece of silk paper in Feige's letter, which read about the Shangqing Zhenren.

The Shangqing Zhenren entered the Tao at the age of twenty, and devoted himself to Wuliangguan and worshipped under the disciple of Tiangang Zhenren. He has been there for more than twenty years.

It is reported that like the legendary Tiangang Zhenren, he was born with Taoist bones and extraordinary talent. He was especially good at talismans, alchemy, and Feng Shui techniques. After entering the observation, he achieved great success in Taoism in just a few years. In the past seven or eight years, he has shown many magical powers.

For example, he once saw at a glance that the ancestral tomb of General Feng’s mansion was tampered with;

For example, he once brought back the second girl of Changning Hou Mansion who had been demented for five years to the death;

For example, he used just one talisman to pull the seventh prince of the Prince An’s mansion back from the gate of hell, who was stabbed with a knife to his stomach and rotten...

There are countless such miracles, and the Shangqing Zhenren became famous and became the name of "living god".

After Gu Yanfei finished reading it, he handed Gu Yunzhen both pieces of silk paper.

Gu Yunzhen also looked at it seriously. When she saw the second piece of paper about Shangqing Zhenren, she raised her eyebrows in surprise.

Gu Yanfei thoughtfully stroked the sank under his lips, and the old lady lying on the bed in Murong's family once again appeared in her mind. The dead spirit around her was as strong as a cocoon, which tightly bound her into it.

"I once heard a story..."

As soon as Gu Yanfei started, Gu Yunzhen raised his head from the silk paper and looked at her in confusion.

This is actually something that Gu Yanfei witnessed in a mortal town when he was in the Yaoling Realm.

In a small town, a scholar accidentally saved a girl from a gentry family. Because of his life-saving grace, the girl married the scholar.

However, my wife was weak and died of illness less than two years after marriage.

The scholar accidentally found an evil book. In order to revive his wife, he used evil magic to lock his wife's soul in her skull, and then buried the skull in the ground, and poured it with blood every day, from mice to chickens to cows... the amount of blood needed to be larger and larger every day until human blood is needed.

For this reason, the scholar did not hesitate to kill one person after another.

Flesh and flesh grew little by little on his wife's bones, and the skin was like seeds taking root and sprouting little by little in the soil, but her body was no longer warm, her limbs were stiff, and she could not stand it.

My wife doesn't want to be resurrected, and she doesn't want to become a half-human and half-ghost.

But the scholar still forced himself to do it, and he could not let his wife die.

Because the scholar's family was already in decline, if the Yue family was rich, he would have had nothing long ago, and he relied on the Yue family to make a comeback.

Once the wife dies, without the help of the Yue family, the scholar will become poor and careless again.

Gu Yanfei suddenly stopped here, his eyes deep.

Gu Yun's heart was really ups and downs with the story. At first, he was moved by the scholar's "deep affection" and then he was entangled in the scholar's killing several people to save one. When he heard this, he hated the scholar's selfishness and ruthlessness.

"What about it later?" Gu Yunzhen asked, feeling that the wife in this story was too pitiful.

Later...

Gu Yanfei blinked, as if he had returned to the memories a hundred years ago.

Later, the wife was completely "resurrected" and had flesh and blood, but her blood was black. She became an irrational evil creature and killed all the people in the city.

At that time, Gu Yanfei was ordered by his master to go down the mountain to eliminate evil things.

She witnessed a hell on earth with her own eyes. The wife was covered in human blood. Her mouth was blood, her hands were blood, and her fingers were still holding minced meat, but she was crying. Two lines of black tears flowed down and begged her: "Kill me!"

Gu Yanfei squirted his eyelashes gently, but did not say this after all, but said lightly: "Later, the scholar was killed by his wife himself, and that wife died."

"Any magic comes at a price."

Gu Yanfei said as he took out a handkerchief from his sleeve and handed it to Gu Yunzhen.

"..." Gu Yunzhen's eyes were slightly opened, and his eyes turned red.

She was still immersed in Gu Yanfei's story and couldn't extricate herself, and felt her heart was empty.

The candlelight jumped slightly twice, and a drop of transparent candle oil flowed down, like a line of clear tears, crystal clear under the candlelight.

"Gugu."

The pigeon screamed softly, and the sisters looked at each other, and saw the three cats staring at the pigeon, which shook their wings innocently.

Gu Yanfei grabbed the three cats, pointed the pink cat's nose, and scolded: "You, don't know how to bully Gugu all day long. Gugu is much more sensible than you, and is more capable than you."

Gugu is the name Juanbi gave to the carrier pigeon.

"Meow!" The cat heard that his dignified spirit beast was actually compared with a mere pigeon, so he almost jumped his feet and protested with his butt.

Gu Yanfei continued to speak to the cat seriously: "You always eat and sleep, and eat after sleeping. Do you know that this will become stupid?"

"Look at you, you're so fat that you're so fat. Be careful not to jump too far!"

Gu Yunzhen looked at the man and cat and was amused, and covered her mouth with a "puff" and burst out laughing. The little sorrow in her heart disappeared.

Seeing that she finally smiled, Gu Yanfei bent her lips and her eyebrows were curved.

"Miwu~" The cat leaned over and rubbed Gu Yanfei's skirt intimately, and acted coquettishly around her, with a scream of milk and glutinousness, which meant that I was the cutest, most capable, and most sensible.

"Okay, stop acting cute, go to work well!" Gu Yanfei lowered his head and told the cat's ear a few times, then gently patted the cat's butt, signaling it to go quickly.

It is the most powerful! The cat raised its tail high and glanced at the white dove not far away, and stepped out of the ancestral hall on the elegant cat.

The sky is very dark in winter, and the night has fallen. The Marquis' Mansion at night is empty and lonely, quiet and cold.

Tonight, the moon is shining brightly, and the bright moonlight falls softly in the courtyard.

The cat walked swaying in the mansion, jumped up the tree lightly, jumped over the wall, stepped on the tiles on the roofs of other houses, and took the shortcut all the way to the north of the city.

What it wants to go to is Murong Mansion.

The night belongs to the cat. Qingguang does not recognize the Murong family, but other cats recognize it, and even cats are diligent in leading the way.

The three-cat cat only took one incense stick to arrive at Anding Hutong where Murong Mansion is located.

It's so amazing, it runs faster than a horse!

Qingguang thought proudly, licked his nose and claws again.

The cat squatted on the high wall, looked down at the gloomy mansion below, tilted his face and thought for a while, and finally began to think about it.

By the way, the master said that the old lady’s yard is coming in that direction!

The cat howled happily again and jumped towards the northwest of Murong Mansion...

It showed its ability to climb over the wall and climb trees and lift tiles up the house. In a few seconds, it found the yard where the old pine was dead and the pond was dry. It also found the tree closest to the window and climbed up quickly.

This time, it was too loud, and a piece of branch was rustling by it.

Dead leaves fall from the branches.

The three-cao cat took the upper hand and looked into the window, and saw an old woman lying on the bed against the wall in the house, and a pair of men and women in their forties sat on the coffee table and spoke.

Only one Yangko Palace Lantern was lit in the house, and the light was a little dim, making the atmosphere a little depressing.

The cat outside the house simply lay on the branches and stopped moving.

The couple naturally heard the sound outside the window, but they thought it was windy at night. Mrs. Murong glanced at the direction of the window and immediately withdrew her gaze.

"Master, the Gu family has agreed to the wedding. According to the meaning of the Shangqing Zhenren, I will set the wedding date on New Year's Eve." Mrs. Murong said to her master with joy.

"Okay!" The eldest master Murong Hao stroked his goatee and said yes in satisfaction, then asked with a little displeasure, "Did Sister Yu run out today?"

Mrs. Murong nodded awkwardly.

Liu Muyu is his niece, and he can't stand the blame for such a mess at such a critical moment today.

Mrs. Murong coughed twice, cleared her throat and said, "I was afraid that the Hou Mansion would be annoyed. Fortunately, Mrs. Gu is a sensible person and has not pursued it."

As she said that, the corners of her plump lips bent smugly.

After all, the two families have exchanged Geng Tie and the marriage has been decided. With the character of the second son, the Gu family can't find such a good son-in-law even with a lantern!

Murong Hao breathed a sigh of relief, and did not worry too much, but just reminded him: "Madam, since this marriage will not change, then let's get married."

"Don't worry, Master." Mrs. Murong responded seriously and quickly changed the subject, "The Shangqing Zhenren will come tomorrow and will go to the Hou's Mansion with me."

"I'll feel relieved if I have a real person here." Murong Hao stroked his beard again.

There was another rustling sound outside the window, and the swaying branches and leaves left a few hideous and strange shadows on the window paper, as if something was hiding in the dark and peeking at them.
Chapter completed!