Chapter 177 Outsider
"Just because I am in this mountain"

"Master, are you asking me to get out of my current predicament and see more places?" Li Daoxuan looked at the line of words on the table and muttered to himself.

After talking with Mrs. Wei, he seemed to be in a much more relaxed mood than before.

Sitting in front of the window with his clothes on, Li Daoxuan looked at the candle quietly, with the sound of insects chirping in the night beside his ears. The candlelight swayed in the night wind, and the flickering candlelight was reflected on his face.

Li Daoxuan wrote down the clues he knew on paper, trying to find a connection among them. Then he looked back at the situation he was in and found that he did not feel as troubled as before.

"Yanming once told me that he saw Wen Ge'er, the child of Li Xiucai's family, at night. He was wet all over and was looking for him outside the yard to play in the water. The day after this incident, a child drowned by the pond. This incident happened shortly after the Spring Festival."

"Afterwards, he saw the shadow of a fox on Li Xiucai's wife and even heard the faint cry of a fox."

“But Youwei and I have both gone to see that woman. Although she has the aura of a fox demon, she is not a monster. Maybe this woman is an exception, or maybe... the resentful fox is in her belly?” Li Daoxuan circled the name of Li Xiucai’s wife, indicating that there was something suspicious about this woman.

He also wrote down the names of Li Tian and Li Yue, expressing regret for the deaths of the two brothers of Li Changde's family.

But when he thought about the details, he suddenly felt puzzled: "I went out to look for clues that day after hearing what the servant said, but I happened to meet Li Changde's brothers. This is really weird. Could it be a trick? Moreover, Li Changde's brothers are craftsmen who make clay figurines and earthenware jars. How could they encounter clay figurines when they go to the toilet? Could there be something wrong with these clay figurines?"

Clay dolls are often used to worship gods. For example, the city god and the land god are often worshipped with clay figures. If they are worshipped with incense and offerings all year round, the clay dolls can also come to life.

There is a record of a scholar falling in love with a clay doll in a strange story. The clay doll transformed into a woman and fell in love with her. In the end, the woman saved the scholar from a flood and allowed herself to melt into mud.

This story is quite poignant, and is mostly written from the feelings of the people.

Li Daoxuan didn't believe this story. After all, he had never seen a clay doll transform into a human form.

"Wait, I seem to have forgotten something." Li Daoxuan suddenly had an idea in his mind.

Perhaps the people he met last night were both Li Changde’s brothers, but they were not Li Changde’s brothers.

"The magic of Yan Sheng can be used to control ordinary people with paper figures. It is also possible to use it on clay dolls. If the person who uses this method is capable, he can also turn the clay dolls into living people. Clay dolls are originally inanimate objects, so they will naturally not be treated as monsters. I have never thought of this." Li Daoxuan rubbed his eyebrows. He could see clearly what chess pieces the opponent had placed on the chessboard.

"The Yinshui Well, the old turtle under the locust tree, the pregnant woman who seemed to be pregnant with a resentful fox, and the monster in the cemetery. The monster was made up of so many corpses, and its methods were similar to those of cutting living things into pieces, but the difference was that all of them used dead people. These are all related to Yin. Yin." Li Daoxuan found a map and looked towards the location of Lijia Village.

Lijia Village is located in the northeast of Jinling, in the middle of Jinling and Yangzhou. It passes through Dongyang Town, Longtan Town, Xiashu Town, and is located in the north of Jiuhua Mountain. This is the place where the blue dragon leaps.

If you enlarge the map, you will see that the Yangtze River flows through Jinling to Zhenjiang Prefecture, and its river curves like a Tai Chi curve.

Lijia Village is located in this Tai Chi curve, occupying the position of wood.

"Yin water, Yin woman, Yin wood. Are they going to use Lijia Village to reverse the feng shui of the entire Jiangsu province?" Li Daoxuan looked solemn. After looking at the map, he vaguely knew the purpose of the man in the dark.

Its target is definitely not the people in Lijia Village, but the entire Jiangsu Province and even the two Jiang provinces and Anhui Province.

This is to turn the South upside down and cause the world to fall into chaos.

"What a big move! If I hadn't received the advice from my ancestor today, I might still be dealing with strange things. How could I have jumped out of the game and discovered such a trick?" Li Daoxuan put down the map, feeling endless emotion in his heart. He didn't expect that the small Lijia Village would become a stepping stone for some people to compete for the Central Plains. "If he really turns the entire Lijia Village into a filthy place, I'm afraid the land of Liangjiang will be turned upside down."

Once this feng shui formation is completed, the two rivers will probably be greeted by chaos, plague, war, and disasters. "No wonder I saw the luck above Aunt Sun and the maids' heads today, and it turned blood red. I'm afraid that once this feng shui formation is completed, there will be no living people in the entire Lijia Village." Li Daoxuan was still frightened. He could hardly imagine such a shocking thing happening.

Lijia Village is not too big, but it is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and is home to hundreds of households and thousands of people.

If this formation that could seize fortune were to succeed, all the thousands of people in Li Village would be dead.

"It takes the guidance of my great master to understand this situation." Li Daoxuan sighed and respected Madam Wei more and more. Just one sentence made him stand at a higher position and see many things clearly.

"As expected, it's because I'm in this mountain. If my purpose was to capture the ghosts and evil spirits, I'm afraid I might not be able to discover these."

"A person who can lay out such a plan is definitely not just doing things in a small area. I'm afraid that there are plans from Nanjing to Yangzhou." Li Daoxuan looked at the scattered positions on the map and marked each position with a pen. "We can't just sit there and wait for death. Since the enemy is in the dark and we are in the light here, why not jump out of Lijia Village and try. The grandmother of the ancestor is right. We can't be confined to this mountain. If we fight this person in Lijia Village, I'm afraid we will fall into his tricks."

After making a plan in his mind, Li Daoxuan put away the map.

"Let's go ask Yanming tomorrow, maybe we can get some clues. We should also go to Li Tian's house again, I have something to ask them."

After putting away his things, Li Daoxuan left the desk. He looked at Gong Youwei, who was sleeping soundly leaning against the bed rail, with a hint of tenderness on his face.

He gently lifted up Gong Youwei's body, turned her slightly, and carefully laid her flat on the bed. He tidied the quilt for her, then sat on a chair beside the table, crossed his legs, closed his eyes, and meditated silently.

The next morning, Gong Youwei woke up from her sleep. This was a rare time for her to relax, and she slept even more soundly.

The last time she slept like this was many years ago. She remembered that it was a very windy and rainy day. She lay at the feet of the Buddha and listened quietly to the sound of wind and rain outside.

Looking at the quilt covering her body, Gong Youwei put it to her nose and sniffed it. There was a faint smell of incense, which only Li Daoxuan had.

Just as I was in a daze, I heard the door of the room being pushed open, and Li Daoxuan, dressed in casual clothes, brought breakfast and placed it on the table.

"Are you awake?" Li Daoxuan looked at Gong Youwei. The girl's ignorant look was somewhat charming. Half of her fair shoulders were exposed, and her legs were like a rabbit sitting on the bed, which was also in line with her identity.

"Wash up and have some breakfast."

"Yeah." Gong Youwei nodded and got up from the bed.

After brushing my teeth and washing my mouth, I sat at the table.

Her current lifestyle is somewhat human, and she knows to brush her teeth and wash her face every day. Although as a fairy, she also has ways to keep her teeth clean for a long time, brushing her teeth always brings an extra fresh feeling.

She lowered her head to drink the porridge, and saw Li Daoxuan sitting at the table looking at her with a smile, so she touched her face in confusion and asked, "Why are you looking at me?"

"Actually, I want to ask you for a favor." Li Daoxuan took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Gong Youwei.

"Help me deliver it to someone. You are the only one who can get there now."

(End of this chapter)