The Qinhuai River at night is always more lively than in the daytime. The flower boats passing by, the gorgeous girls singing frivolous little songs and joyous songs, are intoxicated with money and life.

The laughter of the joyous scene can be heard across a few alleys, but it can't relieve Yiqian's drowsiness at all. She tried her best to prop up her chin like a chicken pecking at rice, straightened her body, and blinked her sleepy eyes again. My mind finally cleared up.

The stick of the third watch sounded from a distance, but it was very clear in this debauched and extravagant night.Yiqian was so startled by the sound of the stick that she completely lost sleepiness. She lazily stood up, patted her sore back, picked up the feather duster at hand, and casually swept away the dust that did not exist on the shelves behind her. Put it down and then lift the curtain on the left, and enter the inner hall.

The line of sight of the inner hall is much brighter than that of the hall, but the coffin placed in the middle makes the room a bit cooler.

Yiqian stepped forward, skillfully picked up the carving knife on the table and started carving the coffin lid.

Unexpectedly, the moment the carving knife landed on the coffin lid, there was only a shrill scream, but Qian Qian pretended not to notice it, and his hands kept moving, still carving carefully.

The screams gradually weakened with Yiqian's movements, until the murmur was almost inaudible, Yiqian put down the carving knife, and drew the soul out of the coffin.

"Don't touch anything that shouldn't be delusional. This coffin should not contain your soul. If there is a next time, your soul will fly away."

The soul hurriedly nodded, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

With the trouble gone, Yiqian breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the carving knife, and continued to carve.In a short while, most of the Bingdi lotus leaves were carved.

There was a very regular knock on the door in the lobby, Yiqian rolled her eyes and continued to work, as if she didn't hear the slightest movement.

But obviously the people outside the house understood the intentions of the people inside the house, and the rhythm of knocking on the door became faster.

Yiqian sighed slightly, put down the tools in his hand, got up and left the inner hall.

"Ah Qian, it's cold at midnight, open the door quickly, I'm going to freeze to death!"

Yiqian paused, rolled his eyes, and cursed in his heart: No one can freeze you to death.But he kept moving, opened the door with a calm expression, glanced at the gentle and elegant young man outside the door, left a faint sentence "Remember to close the door", then turned and entered the inner hall.

Seeing Yiqian stepping into the inner hall without hesitation, Bai Jiu sighed, closed the door and window neatly, glanced casually at the shelves, and then walked into the inner hall.

Opening the curtain, as expected, under the dim light, Yiqian is carefully doing the engraving in her hands, a strand of hair next to her ear playfully sticks to her cheek, making her look extraordinarily gentle and quiet.

Bai Jiu was taken aback for a moment, the words he was going to complain seemed to be stuck in his throat, and there was no sound. For a while, the inner room became quiet, only the occasional crackling sound of burning wicks.

Time seems to have passed for a long time and it seems only for a moment. The Bingdilian on the coffin lid finally took shape. Yiqian put down the tools in her hand with a satisfied smile, rubbed her arms and raised her head. drinking the tea in his hand.

After realizing that Yiqian was looking at her, she swallowed the tea in her mouth calmly, put down the cup, and was about to speak.But was interrupted by Yiqian, who had been deliberately enduring the pungent smell of more than a dozen kinds of cosmetics, and now finally couldn't stand it: "Brother, I heard that the thin horse on the Qinhuai River is unique, but I don't know how it is with the flower girl in Beijing. Which is beautiful?"

The tepid voice seemed to indicate the speaker's good temper, but it was obvious that the person who was about to complain didn't think so.

Bai Jiuzang touched his nose in a concealed manner as if he was guilty, and then he waved the folding fan in his hand gracefully, stroked the fan surface, and smiled quietly.

After a while, Bai Jiu surrendered first, sighed suddenly, put away his fan slowly, touched his nose again, and said, "Maybe the thin horse is better?"

Taking a look at Yiqian's face that was about to change, he immediately changed his words: "I've never seen anything comparable to lying to you. Besides, I just went to make a deal, but I don't have the time to look at other things."

"Besides, Ah Qian, your overnight tea is really bad!"

"When did we take over the business on the flower boat?"

Hearing this, Yiqian raised her slender willow eyebrows.

Bai Jiu unfolded her folding fan, then closed it, and raised her head to meet Shang Yiqian's quiet eyes:

"Business is not easy these days, how can we pick and choose? Nowadays, the aura in the human world is lacking, and most people in the world lack a sense of awe. Thinking about hundreds of years ago, my Taoism was prosperous, and I don't want how many magic sticks can learn the sword style now. Come out to bluff and swindle demons and slay demons, heh..."

Before finishing speaking, Bai Jiu paused for a moment and continued after seeing Yiqian's raised eyebrows, "Okay, it's the mess left by the landlord on the first floor, so it's not important to mention. By the way, it's important Here's something nice for you."

After finishing speaking, he took out a hairpin from his bosom, played with it casually, and handed it to Yiqian.

Yiqian took it and glanced at it, then raised her eyebrows: "Peachwood?"

Bai Jiu looked terrified: "Good eyesight, what do you think?"

Yiqian imitated him and turned the hairpin around, and then praised pertinently: "The knife work of this wooden hairpin is really good."

Bai Jiu put on a look like you know how to be beaten: "It's not bad at all. Did you see the phoenix carved on it? Its wings are fluttering and it looks lifelike. This is the phoenix hairpin."

After a pause, he pretended to sigh again:

"It's a pity that I lost the oriental pearl that was held in Fenghuang's mouth, but we don't want to be so fancy, this hairpin can also ward off evil spirits and keep disasters safe. It is said that it was a token of love given to the empress by a certain emperor in the previous dynasty! "

Looking at someone who is getting more and more boastful, Yiqian couldn't help but say:

"It's indeed a good hairpin, but having said that, bro, you really should take a mirror to look at it. It looks like the talisman sticks sold on the street. If you give it a signboard of 'Wuliang Tianzun', I'm afraid it will be sold out , brother, you can earn yourself some more money."

"And then you tricked me into buying hairpins?" Bai Jiu rolled her eyes forcefully, and said again: "Ah Qian, you are really nostalgic for the way you were cautious when you first went up the mountain!"

Yiqian didn't care, turned the back of her hand, and counterattacked casually: "I still miss the gentle, elegant and dignified senior brother in Zhongnan Mountain!"

"Stop crying and saying that the husband is the guide for the wife?" Bai Jiu raised his eyebrows.

Yiqian never gave up: "Brother, it's not impossible to call you husband."

Bai Jiu admits defeat: "You should call me brother."

After finishing speaking, Bai Jiu walked towards the bed on the left side of the inner hall, skillfully made the bed and prepared the quilt for sleeping.

"It's getting late. Your brother is sleepy and needs to rest. You should go to bed earlier."

Yiqian triumphantly arranged the tools on the table as if she had won a battle, and turned to go behind the screen on the right side of the inner hall.

Behind the screen is another world, with embroidered bed and curtains, dresser, and the scent of fruit in the incense burner. It is obviously a girl's boudoir. Although it is a little small, it is all exquisite.

The screen is embroidered with a picture of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains. Although it doesn't match the daughter's bedroom, it is very harmonious with the small cave in the inner hall.

After washing, sitting on the bed, Yiqian raised her hand to take off the hairpin, but she was a little confused when she touched it.When he took it off, it turned out that it wasn't the one he brought in the morning, but it was the phoenix hairpin.

Yiqian bent the corners of her mouth, put the hairpin by the pillow, got up and blew out the candles, and lay flat on the bed.

It was dark all around, and the dots of bright pearls inlaid on the curtains on Wei Yiqian's bed gave off a warm and warm white light. With this weak white light, Yiqian opened her eyes and slowly counted the auspicious clouds around the pearls.

After counting for a long time, she still didn't feel sleepy, Yiqian turned her body to face outside, through the screen not far away, she could vaguely see the coffin placed in the middle of the inner hall, Yiqian stared at the coffin body, slightly lost in thought.

"If you can't fall asleep, recite two chapters of the Tao Te Ching."

An impolite voice sounded from the opposite side, Yiqian rolled her eyes, you should keep your back, turned over, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

Hearing the sound of steady breathing, Bai Jiu opened his eyes in the darkness, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly.

The next day, early morning.

Bai Jiu leaned against the head of Yiqian's bed, throwing the apple in his hand again and again.

Yiqian opened his eyes and saw such a scene, the handsome and romantic man lowered his eyes as if he was thinking about something, but his casual appearance was surprisingly good-looking.

Yiqian rubbed her almond eyes filled with mist due to lack of sleep, and lazily said good morning to the person at the bedside.

Bai Jiu paused when he threw the apple, and responded, "Morning!"

After the response, he complained with some dissatisfaction: "Ah Qian, why didn't you tell me yesterday that there is a lonely ghost who wants to occupy the coffin and nourish the soul?"

Without waiting for Yiqian to answer, Bai Jiu said to himself again: "You try to keep that Phoenix hairpin with you on weekdays as much as possible."

He took out a jade bracelet from his cuff and said: "This is the soul bracelet, you should also take it with you! By the way, how is the "Huang Ting Jing" that you were asked to memorize earlier? I will conduct random checks tomorrow."

"I have the summoning bell!" Yiqian protested dissatisfied.

Bai Jiu didn't seem to hear it, so he took out another stack of charms and handed them to Yiqian: "There are also Five Thunder Talismans, Five Elements Talismans, Immobilization Talismans, Peace Talismans, Evil-Blocking Talismans, Exorcism Talismans, etc. You can see what else you need."

Yiqian looked helplessly at the stack of charms in her hand, and suddenly thought of something, her eyes rolled around nimbly, and she smiled: "Then I want to make up with the charms!"

Bai Jiu was stunned for a moment, then reached out and gave Yiqian a head-bump: "Young lady's house is talking nonsense, clean it up quickly, and I have to go to Qinhuai River to collect Tang Su's soul today!"

After speaking, he strode away, as if there was a ghost chasing after him, but the reddish pinna revealed his emotions.

Yiqian looked at his fleeing back with a funny face, and couldn't help laughing and collapsed on the bed.

Hearing the laughter from the inner room, Bai Jiu couldn't help but also smiled.

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