"Is there no heavy object dragging under the water?" Chen Luo asked for a moment of pondering.

"There are no heavy objects, no worries about water and plants, and there is nothing. It is precisely because it is a bit unusual, and the city has not been peaceful recently, so all kinds of rumors have spread. Now the water heater pavilion is almost regarded as a haunted house, and its business has plummeted." Bai Xiaotian shook his head and said.

Since its inception, the Bai family has not paid much attention to this. After all, the banks of the Qinhuai River are already a place of right and wrong. Every year, there must be 10 or 20 people who fall into the water, drunkenly fall into the river, frustrated and fall into the water, and complain about their love.

Even if the matter is at home, I often spend some money to manage the government and then send a guest Taoist priest to do a ritual. No matter whether there are evil spirits or not, as long as I act like it and let the guests and the people see it, it will not be difficult to suppress it.

But like this, like dumplings, drowned one after another, it was really hard to suppress it. Now it is said that there were ghosts hidden in the water heater pavilion, and the three people died unjustly and their bodies were reinforced by resentment, so they floated and did not leave.

"I'm planning to go out, so I'll go and have a look with you." Chen Luo said.

"That's right." Bai Xiaotian's eyes were slightly brighter, and there was a hint of smile on his face.

As soon as the two of them walked out of the room, they heard a burst of rapid footsteps coming from outside. Then they saw the girl Lu Xiu running in in a blink of an eye and shouting:

"No...nothing, young master, no more..."

When Chen Luo and Bai Xiaotian heard this, they looked at each other, and a trace of haze flashed across their faces.

"What's going on? Tell me slowly." Bai Xiaotian asked in a deep voice.

"The manager Gao from the Faxiang Satin Shop in the west of the city went to the Shuihun Pavilion last night to find the girl Shuiyuan, but in the morning I found that she was floating in the river, just like the three in front of her." Lu Xiu said with a slightly pale face and gasped.

Bai Xiaotian sighed inwardly, walked towards the front yard gate without saying a word, Shen Luo touched his nose, and followed.

"Young master, the car is ready, waiting outside the door..." Lu Xiu hurriedly chased after him for a few steps and shouted on tiptoe.

...

The carriage was limited in the city and it took half a quarter of an hour to arrive in front of the water heating pavilion.

Shen Luo got off the carriage, looked up and saw a three or four-meter-high vermillion gate tower standing in front of him, with carved beams and painted buildings, depicting pictures of wealth and honor such as birds paying homage to the phoenix and flowers competing for spring.

Entering through the door opening, just a few steps away was a magnificent pavilion of three stories high. Each floor had glazed tiles that made ridges and eaves, and vermilion lanterns hung below, with bright colors.

Inside the attic is a golden hall, with a huge twelve-fold screen coming out in the center, and a white jade fence is built on a stage, with a wooden ladder on each side leading to the second floor.

The water heater pavilion, which is usually very lively, is deserted today, and there are not even a few people. There are only a middle-aged woman in purple brocade, whispering a few servants, so that they cannot talk too much and talk about the water heater pavilion to outsiders.

Seeing Bai Xiaotian and the others coming in, the woman immediately lowered her sad face, came up to them, and owed them.

After looking at Chen Luo a little, he saw that he had a good appearance and delicate figure, but he could not hide fine lines at the corners of his eyes. After looking at his demeanor, he knew that he should be the old mother here.

"Young Master, you are here." The middle-aged woman found her backbone and said, pulling off her handkerchief from her waist and rubbing the corners of her eyes.

"Ma Feng, where is the body?" Bai Xiaotian asked directly.

"On the back yard, I was not allowed to carry it into the house. The government coroner had checked and left. Taoist Master Baishui is there now." Feng Ma dared not say much, and said in a brief manner.

Bai Xiaotian walked behind the screen without saying a word.

Shen Luo also walked around the screen and walked out of a coupon door behind.

The water heating pavilion is built next to the Qinhuai River. The backyard is a small pillow-water pier. In the past, flower boats were also moored for the guests to take their Qingguan women to boat on the river.

At present, there was only a fat man wearing outerwear costume by the river, lying quietly in the shadow of the attic, standing next to him with a thin old man with high cheekbones, slightly inward cheeks, and a gray-white Taoist robe.

On the river surface not far from here, there is a three-hole stone arch bridge across the river. Under the guardrail in the middle of the bridge, the three big words "Zhenhuai Bridge" are engraved.

On one side of the bridge, a river-storming beast that looks like a one-horned rhino stands. There is a stone mount underneath. It is just one person tall. After years of baptism, moss is growing underneath, and mottled marks are everywhere.

Around the water beast, and along the entire bridge, many people in the city stood on their faces, each with a look of curiosity and fear, disgust and inexplicably excited expression, pointing at this side and whispering.

Chen Luo looked at the man's body and saw that his whole body had been soaked in abnormal swollenness. The exposed skin showed a blue-white color. Although he looked quite calm, he always felt that his body was filled with evil spirits.

"I've seen a real person." Bai Xiaotian walked closer and saluted respectfully to the thin old Taoist.

Chen Luo also hugged his fists.

"Young Master, you are here." The old Taoist frowned and he gave a bow to the two of them.

"What's the situation now?" Bai Xiaotian asked.

"Like the previous few people, after seeing it, the coroner said that they were all drowned. I can't find out what's wrong with it." Baishui sighed and said.

"Can you know when the real person died?" Bai Xiaotian asked.

"It was probably midnight last night to ugly time... I am ashamed to say that I have been stationed in the pavilion, but I didn't notice it at all. It was the first person who found his body in the morning by the servants." Taoist Baishui said.

"Does Miss Shui Yuan know when he left?" Bai Xiaotian turned to Feng Ma again and asked.

"Oh, she was so scared that she was just saying that she slept very hard last night and didn't know when she left. Now she didn't even dare to stay in the water heater pavilion and went to another place to rest for a while." Feng Ma sighed and said.

After hearing this, Bai Xiaotian was silent for a moment, he pulled out a yellow paper talisman from his sleeve, walked to the corpse, leaned over and pressed it to the center of his eyebrows.

With a light "puff" sound, a wisp of flame ignited on the talisman paper, which suddenly ripped, and then slowly started to burn.

"Yinsha Qi-induced Talisman!" Baishui Taoist's eyes lit up.

When Chen Luo heard this, he also focused his eyes on the talisman paper.

He also heard that this kind of talisman can use talisman fire to induce the hidden evil spirit energy when burned.
Chapter completed!