Capture the Jade:

Teng Mansion.

Teng Yuyi held the Xiaoya sword in her hand, and watched the things on the corridor approaching.

It was a young woman in her early twenties, with a strangely swollen face, her abdomen seemed to have just been pierced with a sharp knife, and the whole skirt was stained with blood.

Every time the young woman takes a step forward, a large stream of blood will pour out from the gap in her abdomen, flow down the skirt to her feet, and soon leave a meandering bloodstain in the corridor. But the woman seemed to be unaware of the pain, and still walked quickly: "Give it back to me!"

The woman's voice was shrill, and every time she yelled, the coolness in the air intensified. Teng Yuyi felt nauseous, she clenched her sword hilt and backed away, saying, "What, what do you pay me back? I didn't take anything from you, My sword is very powerful, if you dare to take a step closer, I will immediately blow your soul away."

The woman repeatedly cried out: "Give it back to me!"

Her figure was erratic, and she was forced in front of Teng Yuyi in an instant. Teng Yuyi was almost not fainted by the **** aura. He stabbed blankly, then turned his head, just in time to meet the woman's red eyes.

The woman leaned forward suddenly, and her pale hands were about to pinch Teng Yuyi's neck. In desperation, Teng Yu used the Kee sword technique taught by Cheng Bo, and raised the sword body, cutting the woman horizontally. arm.

This move was neat and straightforward, and it was a killer move, but before she could stab it, the ghost of the woman disappeared again.

Teng Yuyi staggered back a few steps and leaned against the door, shouting: "Duanfu! Cheng Bo!"

Suddenly heard a muffled sound behind the rockery, as if something heavy had fallen to the ground, Teng Yuyi was taken aback, and vaguely heard someone panting loudly.

With a thought in her heart, she turned around and ran along the corridor, and saw a large piece of skirt protruding from the rockery, carefully identifying it under the moonlight, and felt that the figure was inexplicably familiar.

"Duanfu?" Teng Yuyi tried to call out.

The black shadow trembled violently.

It really is a blessing. Teng Yuyi held her breath, walked down the steps in two steps in three steps, and quickly bypassed the rockery, she couldn't help being surprised.

I saw Duanfu half-kneeling on the ground, with four strangely shaped little ghosts lying on his shoulders and backs. I can't straighten my knees.

The little devils with faint green pupils were either busy blowing in Duanfu's ear or scratching at Duanfu's hair.

Teng Yuyi was terrified, it turned out that Duanfu had come a long time ago, but he was entangled by these ghosts as soon as he came.

She took the lead in stabbing the little ghost on Duanfu's left shoulder. The stabbed little ghost turned into a wisp of smoke and dissipated in the mist.

"Did you hear me calling for help?" Teng Yuyi stepped forward to help Duanfu. Thanks to Duanfu, if someone else had been trapped for so long, he might have passed away long ago.

Duan Fu gasped and stood up: "I didn't hear it, but suddenly felt that the courtyard wall was as cold as ice. The old servant was worried about the lady, so he came in. How could he be trapped by these things."

After a while of tempering, Teng Yuyi has long been accustomed to this. He took out the talisman in his sleeve and handed it to Duanfu indiscriminately: "They are intentional. Our small courtyard is probably like a cage now. The news sent Not going out, these things seem to have a lot of background, I have to call Xiao Ya out to ask what's going on, by the way, can those little devils ask you for something?"

Duanfu shook his head.

Teng Yuyi said suspiciously: "That's weird, the woman kept saying 'give it back' to me, 'give it back' to me, as if I took some treasure from her..."

She was about to call Xiaoya out, when Duan Fu raised his head, his complexion suddenly changed, he reached behind Teng Yuyi's shoulder with his right arm, and immediately took out the talisman that Teng Yuyi had just given him.

Teng Yuyi smelled the strong fishy smell in the wind, and knew that the female ghost was probably coming again. She immediately turned the tip of her sword and stabbed back hard, but before she could send the sword out, her neck was covered by a pair of cold hands. He strangled tightly.

Teng Yuyi's eyes went dark, and her arms could no longer exert strength.

Duanfu took out several talismans out of desperation, but the female ghost remained motionless.

Duan Fu let out a low growl, and grabbed the female ghost's shoulder with his bare hands. Can't catch it.

"Give it back to me!" the female ghost said sadly.

Teng Yuyi's whole body was restrained, only a pair of eyes could move, she first winked at Duanfu, then turned her eyes to look down.

Duan Fu immediately gave up attacking the woman, supported Teng Yuyi's right arm, and helped her point the tip of the sword at the female ghost behind her. The small sword was useless in his hands, only in Teng Yuyi's hands was it powerful.

Teng Yuyi gritted her teeth and exerted strength. You Duanfu helped her fight the female ghost, and the tip of the sword was quickly lifted to her shoulder. Just stab back, and the female ghost would run away because of fear of the sword.

But at this moment, several little ghosts suddenly emerged from behind Duanfu, and they were about to wrap their arms around Duanfu's neck again, when a silver light suddenly flew in the night sky, the little ghosts looked up and scattered in a panic and flee.

The silver light hit Teng Yuyi's back, and the strength on Teng Yuyi's neck suddenly loosened. She staggered back a few steps, stroked her neck and coughed loudly. The chain is already bound.

Teng Yuyi recognized at a glance that it was Lin Chengyou's Suohunzhi, but Lin Chengyou was surprised that no one was there, and suddenly heard the rustling of branches and leaves above the bamboo forest, and someone jumped down.

As soon as the cold air dissipated, Lin Chengyou walked towards the outside of the forest with a bunch of things like sachets in his hand. The sachets seemed to hide living things, and all of them were shaking.

Teng Yuyi panted and thought, could it be that she is pretending to be those little ghosts?

Lin Chengyou looked around vigilantly, but he was asking Teng Yuyi: "Are you okay?"

"It's okay, son—" Teng Yuyi said gratefully.

After speaking, I was shocked, and my voice was too hoarse.

Lin Chengyou frowned, sounded like a duckling, looked at the purple marks on Teng Yuyi's neck, took two strangely colored talisman papers from his sleeve and handed them to Teng Yuyi: "Soak this thing in water Drink it, and your throat will feel better tomorrow."

Teng Yuyi felt embarrassed: "Did the son be woken up by Xuan Yinling?"

"Otherwise?" Lin Chengyou glanced at her with downcast eyes, wondering if it was because of the use of Yuyan Pill, the rash on her face was gone, and her face under the moonlight looked a bit like the snowball he ate at night , soft, white.

Looking at her again, she is tightly wrapped in a scarlet cloak, with only a pair of peony red satin soft satin shoes exposed underneath.

He retracted his gaze, turned around and walked towards the female ghost: "Teng Yuyi, do you think you have been too unlucky recently?"

Teng Yuyi's back felt cold, knowing that denying would make her feel guilty, she simply sighed: "It seems a bit unlucky, I'm sorry to disturb the prince in the middle of the night. But this female ghost must have found the wrong person tonight. She kept saying 'give it back,' but I'd never seen her before."

"'Give it back to me'? Did she really tell you that?"

Teng Yuyi hummed, and hurriedly followed Lin Chengyou's pace, only to hear the rustling behind him, and Duan Fu also followed silently.

While walking, Lin Chengyou picked up a branch on the ground casually, walked up to the female ghost, bent down and drew a circle around her, and then grabbed it with his right hand in the air, and Suohunzhi flew back to his sleeve like a silver star. middle.

The female ghost lost the silver chain around her neck, but was immediately trapped by the formation that Lin Chengyou had just drawn.

She grabbed hold of both hands, and shouted heartbreakingly at Teng Yuyi: "Give it back to me! Give it back to me!"

Teng Yuyi: "Listen, she's like this when she shows up."

Speaking like this, she felt flustered in her heart. She still hadn't figured out what was going on with the life-borrowing technique. It was okay to borrow the life of a demon, but if it borrowed the life of a living person...

Could it just happen to borrow this woman's life?

Looking at the woman's eyes full of resentment, the more she thought about it, the more she felt that it was possible. This woman died in such a miserable state, if it was really related to her, she would rather give her life back as soon as possible.

Lin Chengyou looked the female ghost up and down, and suddenly seemed to have discovered something, squatted down and stared at the female ghost's abdomen, and when he looked at it, his face changed.

Teng Yuyi was even more nervous than Lin Chengyou, so he hurriedly looked over, and soon found something wrong.

"What she lost was—" She was dumbfounded.

"The fetus in the womb." Lin Chengyou's expression became a little dignified.

He looked up at the woman, and when he stood up, a talisman popped out from his fingertips. The talisman paper fluttered and fell to the top of the woman's hair like fallen leaves. The woman's cry stopped abruptly, and her scarlet eyes became clear again. .

Lin Chengyou's tone was very gentle: "What are you looking for? Do you want me to find it for you?"

The young woman's ferocious expression slowly relaxed, and she looked down at her abdomen in a daze.

Lin Chengyou sighed: "Who made you like this?"

The woman screamed again: "Give it back to me!"

When she called out, the talisman paper on her head instantly shattered into pieces of paper.

Lin Chengyou frowned, and immediately popped up a few more talismans, but the hostility of the female ghost did not diminish at all, and seemed to intensify.

Lin Chengyou was full of doubts, so he had to put the female ghost in the sachet first.

Teng Yuyi looked at the sachet in fear: "It seems that what she is looking for is the fetus in the womb... In the case that the second mother of the Chen family mentioned that day, the death of the wife was somewhat similar to that of this woman. Do the two have a relationship? It's strange, I have nothing to do with this female ghost, why did she find me."

Lin Chengyou was also thinking about this question, not to mention whether this female ghost has anything to do with the tragedy in Tongzhou tonight, how did the female ghost find Teng Mansion?

A thought popped into his mind, and he looked around, maybe someone had tampered with the yard.

Suddenly heard movement from the room, Du Tinglan shouted in panic: "Ayu, Ayu!"

As soon as the door opened, Chun Rong came out with a lantern in a panic: "My lady—"

Seeing the situation in the courtyard, several people were stunned.

Looking around, Lin Chengyou walked towards the outside of the wall as if nothing had happened: "Okay, I will find out the origin of the female ghost as soon as possible. If there is anything I don't understand, I will ask Juesheng and Qizhi to ask you another day."

Teng Yuyi was stunned. Originally, she was determined to return the bell, but she only realized tonight that even if it was covered with talismans painted by sages and abandoned wisdom, it could not stop the real evil spirits. Before taking Xuanyinling away, it's best to ask him to set up a formation to block the evil.

She hurriedly said earnestly: "Your Majesty, please stop. I still have one thing I want to ask your Majesty for help. Can you please have a cup of hot tea before leaving?"

Hot tea?

"I don't think it's necessary." Lin Chengyou didn't turn his head, but his pace slowed down.

***

The maidservants lighted the lamps and made the tea. The originally quiet courtyard suddenly became lively.

Sitting at the group table, Lin Chengyou looked around boredly.

Teng Yuyi’s small courtyard is not big, but the layout is very careful. There are four wing rooms at the top, and another elegant room on the east side. There is a winding corridor between the elegant room and the main house. It is full of rare flowers, the front of the elegant room faces the atrium, and the back is surrounded by springs and stones.

Lin Chengyou is sitting in the elegant room at the moment.

He guessed that this was the place where Teng Yuyi read and wrote on weekdays. The furnishings in the room were far more modest than he imagined. Too much bookshelf standing on three sides.

The book case is set in front of the window, and a plaque hangs above it, with three words written on the plaque: Moon on the lake.

Lin Chengyou had seen Teng Yuyi's handwriting a long time ago, so he recognized her writing at a glance. The inscription in the study must be the name she gave her small courtyard.

"The moon is on the lake." Lin Chengyou said in his mouth, but he was very clever, much more hearty than the "flowers", "scents" and "butterflies" that girls are used to.

I don't know where she has seen this beautiful scenery, but she probably came to Jiangnan. She said last time that she was afraid of water because of falling into the water. The situation, I am afraid I can only taste it again after she cures this problem in the future.

After waiting for a while, Teng Yuyi did not come in, but unexpectedly smelled a faint fragrance. The gilded chi beast incense burner on the table had long been extinguished, and the aroma came from the incense cakes left in the incense burner .

Lin Chengyou recognized this fragrance, as early as when he was in Caifenglou, he often smelled it on Teng Yuyi's body.

At first he didn't know the name of the spice, but he happened to smell it in the palace last time, and only after asking the palace did he find out that this flower is called a rose, the flowers are delicate and delicate, and the fragrance is truly unique.

This flower originally only bloomed in early summer, but because the weather in Chang'an has been sunny and warm recently, and the gardeners in the palace are good at tending flowers, many flower buds have protruded from the flower branches.

According to the gardener, this flower has a very temper. Although the flower plate is so beautiful, there are sharp thorns hidden under the flower branches. You must be very careful when enjoying it, because if you don’t pay attention, it will **** your hands.

Not many roses are planted in Chang'an, and very few are used to make incense. Presumably it is for this reason that Teng Yuyi loves this flower alone.

Sitting for a while, Lin Chengyou secretly felt that the aroma was extremely disturbing, so he simply got up and walked to the bookshelf. There were many volumes on the shelf, at least thousands of books.

The books are old and new, not just for show, Teng Yuyi is extremely intelligent, it seems that it has something to do with her love of reading.

His eyes lingered on the bookshelves, the volumes were divided into categories, and under each set of scrolls were hung red, white, and blue tooth bookmarks of various colors. When it was windy, these bookmarks would ring in the study.

This is consistent with the library in the palace. I don't know what kind of books the red, white, blue and blue bookmarks represent in Teng Yuyi's place.

Looking at it for a while, he lazily walked back to the round table, but unexpectedly saw a large sheet of Shanxi note paper spread out on the desk, on which a lot of words were written, and the ink was already dry.

He subconsciously moved his eyes away, but still accidentally caught a glimpse of a few words, one was "Huoli Gale" and the other was "Xiying".

It looked like he was imagining a name, "fire" and "cherry" both implied vermilion, he thought for a while, maybe Teng Yuyi was busy choosing a name for the red flame horse.

He only knew that she fell in love with his little red horse, but he didn't expect that she liked it so much. Seeing her serious appearance, it was as if she had acquired a big treasure.

He wanted to laugh a little, okay, Chiyanzhao has such a protective master, so he doesn't have to worry about it being wronged in the future.

While thinking about it, there was the sound of footsteps outside the door, the maidservants raised the curtain, and Teng Yuyi and Du Tinglan came in.

Teng Yuyi changed into a goose-yellow skirt for meeting guests, and put a ponytail on her head.

After drinking the talisman soup, her voice improved, and as soon as she came in, she asked the maidservants to put steaming tea on the couch table, and said with a smile: "I'm really sorry for disturbing your son late at night. Don't think the snacks are crude, sir. Feel free to pad your stomach."

While she was speaking, people in the room were busy, and the maidservants were very careful in serving her. Du Tinglan showed some respect because of her gratitude.

The couch table was quickly filled with a variety of snacks, and each plate was exquisite.

Lin Chengyou was a little surprised, Teng Yuyi must have collected all the dim sum from the chef.

Teng Yuyi pays close attention to Lin Chengyou's expression. He is now their benefactor, so I won't mention the previous help. Judging from tonight's situation, Lin Chengyou will be troubled in the future. She has to get along well with him, so The reception is extraordinarily grand.

Lin Chengyou looked up to the left and right, and everyone in the room was looking at him.

He thought about it, picked out a few pieces of dim sum and ate them. While eating, he thought, no wonder Juesheng and Qizhi like Teng Yuyi's dim sum. Her taste is as sweet as children's, and the fillings are a little Tired.

But he still ate it quietly.

Although Teng Yuyi sat down on the opposite side, she watched Lin Chengyou's every move with her dark eyes. Seeing that he had finished eating all the snacks, two shallow dimples appeared on the corners of her mouth, and hurriedly signaled to Chun Rong brought the towel and tea soup, and said, "I'm still worried that my son won't be used to the dim sum in the South."

It was a bit uncomfortable, so Lin Chengyou drank tea and cleaned his hands, and said, "Speak, I can help you with anything."