132|Ninety-nine Ghost Clothes Hidden in Danger

Xie Ren immediately stood up and said, “Jin Yi Xian?”

The silhouette of course did not respond, nor did it move, it just stood still. Xie Ren held down the other two with both hands, and said in a low voice, “Don’t move.”

Not long after, a gust of night wind blew, the human silhouette seems to emit a sigh, festering general, the wind died. Xie Ren openly get up, at this time, the dyeing workshop outside the door suddenly sounded a sudden “knock knock” knocking sound. Three people look back, Xie Ren said: “Who?”

A male voice said outside, “Your Highness, it’s me.”

Xie Ren went over and opened the door, and the man outside the dyeing workshop was a man with a straight face and a clean-cut demeanor, who came in with his hands folded. Xie Ren was slightly startled, saying, “Ling Wen, why did you come in person?”

Spirit Man straightened his sleeves and said: ”Hearing you, Your Highness the Crown Prince, say that it’s tricky, and I’m afraid that ordinary Magi can’t cope with it, so I came here to take a look in person. Your Highness, why are you sitting on the ground? What’s wrong, why do you look like this?”

It is the male phase of the spiritual text. Xie Ren walked to the cloth before the curtain, lifted it up to take a look, really empty, a long time, back to say: “Jin Yi Xian manifested.”

Ling Wen Qi said, “What?”

Xie Ren said, “It should be it right. It’s a youth, very tall in stature, two inches taller than me, and judging by the shape of the bones, it must be a martial artist with excellent hands.”

Ling Wen hesitated slightly and said, ”Your Highness the Crown Prince, are you sure? In all these years in the past, one has never heard of a Brocade Immortal manifesting in front of people. Moreover, didn’t you say that there are no authentic items in these ninety-eight pieces of ghost clothes? Could it be that someone is pretending to be a ghost and making a fake to deceive people?”

Xie Ren said, “I’m afraid not. Just now, after a bout of agitation, in order to prevent the ghost clothes from flowing out to harass mortals again, we closed the doors and windows, and set up an array, so that what’s inside can’t get out, and what’s outside can’t get in either. There are only three of us in this dye house, who can be a ghost?”

After pondering for a moment, Spirit Man said, “So, it is the real thing that has encountered a special situation? Or, the silhouette you saw was a ghostly spirit attached to another ghostly garment?”

Lang Ying and Quan Yizhen crouched on the ground, both seemingly dazed. Xie Ren and Ling Wen stood to the side with their arms in an adult stance, discussing seriously for a while, and finally, Ling Wen proposed, “Let’s see, why don’t we first bring these ghost clothes to the Spirit Man Hall, and let the people on my side take a look at them? If you really can’t, ask at the next assembly, there are always connoisseurs in the Upper Heavenly Court.”

After thinking about it, Xie Ren nodded and said, ”That’s fine, but after all, this is a task that was delivered to us to take charge of, so I still want to complete it thoroughly. Since the real Jin Yi Xian is inside, I’ll think of another way to try it out. If there’s no result tomorrow, then I’ll pass these ninety-eight pieces of ghost clothes to you.” After all, this matter was not originally under the control of the Spirit Man Palace. Spirit Man said, “Why should Your Highness be polite? By the way, if you send it tomorrow, it’s better to send one hundred and one pieces.”

Xie Ren was stunned, “Why are there three extra pieces?” Then she reacted, “You suspect that there’s something wrong with these three pieces of clothing we’re wearing?”

Spirit Man said, “It’s not impossible.”

Xie Ren held up the cuffs of his dao robe, which had been worn to the point where the threads had come off, and said, “I’ve been wearing this robe for four or five years now, so there’s definitely no problem. The one on Lang Ying is new to me, but he doesn’t take me at my word, so it should be fine as well.” He told Lang Ying not to work, but Lang Ying chopped wood as usual; he told him to stay home obediently, but Lang Ying followed him out the door as usual. Ling Wen, however, shook his head and said, “That’s not what I mean. Your Highness, you don’t know, this brocade fairy has a very heavy evil aura, and with it here, the evil aura will spread to other ordinary clothes. Anyway, just to be on the safe side, it’s better for all of you to stop wearing the clothes you’re wearing today and get rid of them.”

Upon hearing this, Xie Ren busily took off the jackets on both Lang Ying and Quan Yizhen, saying, “Don’t wear it, don’t wear it, take it off, take it all off. Then, tomorrow I’ll wrap up the clothes and send them to the Spiritual Wen Hall.”

Spirit Man said, “Why don’t I send someone to get it?”

Xie Ren said, “No need, no need. I’m already embarrassed to be bothering you every time, but I need you to make a trip yourself. Your side is too busy, it’s better for me to do it.”

The next day, Xie Ren really struggled to pack a large pile of clothes, and carried several huge bundles on his back alone, and went up to Xianjing.

Ling Wen has been waiting in the temple for many hours, today, the temple is not as busy and crowded as usual, God to God. Xie Ren unraveled several large bags of ghost clothes, and the flowery green clothes exploded and spread all over the floor. He casually wiped the sweat from the corner of his forehead, and Ling Wen leisurely came and said, “Any harvest?”

Xie Ren helplessly sighed: “Shame, nothing. I apologize in advance, with no staff around, it’s inevitable that I’ll lose something, yesterday a big pile of clothes was in disarray, I don’t know if I missed anything, I always feel as if I’ve missed one or two pieces, but I’m not quite sure.”

Spirit Man said, “No harm done.” Lowering his head and nodding, he said, “Indeed, it was missed. Your Royal Highness, it seems like the one worn by the little brat beside you yesterday was not received?”

Xie Ren formed his right hand into a fist and gently hammered it in the palm of his left hand, saying, ”Ah, you’re right! I remembered, that piece of clothing Lang Ying later habitually draped, I forgot to put it in. I’ll go back and get it right now.”

Ling Wen laughed, “There’s no rush, Your Highness take your time.”

However, Xie Ren did not leave, but instead stood still, his expression gradually becoming grave. Ling Wen was about to order his subordinate magi to come up and collect the ghost clothes, when he turned around and saw that he was still there, and that there were only two people in the hall, he strangely said, “Your Highness the Crown Prince, is there anything else you want to do?”

Xie Ren looked at her with a complicated gaze and said, “It’s nothing. It’s just that, I was wondering, if I sent the real Jin Yi Xian, would you take the real one away and hide it as soon as I turned around?”

“……”

Ling Wen’s smile was slightly curtailed, but he remained extremely polite and said, “Your Highness?”

Xie Ren looked at her calmly and said, “From the very beginning, I had a vague idea.”

Spirit Man said calmly, “What’s the idea?”

Xie Ren said, “Ordinary people and ordinary demons and devils wouldn’t dare to trespass on the Divine Martial Hall. If there is anyone who is familiar with the Divine Martial Hall to the point of being able to steal things from the town guards there without being caught on the spot, I’m afraid that, aside from Junwu himself, it would be you, True Lord Lingwen.”

After all, the Spirit Man Hall traveled to and from various halls all year round, and could be said to be too familiar with other people’s turf.

Ling Wen guffawed and said, ”Your Highness the Crown Prince is taking this a little too much for granted. ‘Whoever is the easiest to do it is the most suspicious.’ According to your line of thinking, wouldn’t it be more likely that the emperor is the one who supervised the theft?”

Xie Ren nodded and said, “I admit, it’s par for the course. But what started to make me feel out of place was that half-faced makeup girl.”

Spirit Man said, “What happened to the half-makeup woman?”

Xie Ren said, “How could it be so coincidental that it took a fake Jin Yi Xian and just happened to ask at my door? Moreover, it simply hated to write suspicion on its face, as if it was afraid that I wouldn’t suspect her of having a ghost, the purposefulness was just too strong.”

“Oh? What’s the purpose?”

Xie Ren said, “Didn’t she already say it? ‘Trade in the old for the new’. What she wants is the old clothes in my Bodhisattvas’ Guan!”

On the flip side, when the Jin Yi Xian was stolen, the Divine Warrior Palace found out quickly and reacted quickly, and started tracking it down just after it was stolen, so the thief might not dare to keep it in his hands and would hide it first. So where is the least likely hiding place to be found?

Hide the leaves in the forest.

If Xie Ren had wanted to hide the Brocade Immortal, he would have turned it into an extremely unremarkable piece of ordinary hemp clothing and thrown it to the earthly bazaar, staring at it from afar by himself. Such a rough piece of clothing, by common sense, no one would even want to buy it. But Xie Ren’s life couldn’t be surmised by common sense, he himself was wearing the worn edge of his Taoist robe for four or five years, and the money in his hand was only enough to buy this kind of clothes. Moreover, his current requirement for clothes was to be as warm and clean as possible, and he wasn’t picky, plus he was a person who just had the ability to pick the most dangerous one out of the countless pieces of clothes that were on great sale, and so, he joyfully bought back the legendary Jin Yi Xian at an extremely low price.

Spirit Man said, ”Your Highness, you are going overboard with your words. You are, after all, a Martial God by birth, so you can think and know that the half-faced makeup woman who came to your door would immediately be subdued by you. Regardless of new or old clothes, all of them cannot be taken away.”

Xie Ren said, “It’s true that she can’t take them all away, but who says she has to? If there are no accidents, what will happen in the end?”

If Xie Ren thought that the half-faced makeup woman was in possession of a real brocade fairy, she would inevitably report it to Spirit Man, who would then, more than likely, also come down in person and, as he did yesterday, tell Xie Ren to take all the clothes present back to the Spirit Man Hall to be dealt with for the sake of insurance.

Only unfortunately, at that time, Quan Yizhen was also present. Moreover, I didn’t expect him to have experience after wearing it once, and actually directly determined that the brocade clothes were fake. In this way, for Spirit Man to come over and collect all the clothes in Bodhisattva’s Guan, it was not so logical.

All of Xie Ren’s messages were given by Spirit Man, and she was still able to ask questions openly and honestly to keep tabs on Xie Ren’s movements. After that half-faced makeup woman was recognized, Spirit Man immediately sent out a new psychic message to Xie Ren, telling him that there were many fakes flowing out of the Ghost Market that needed to be dealt with, throwing him a new task that made it too late for him to think about what was fishy. Xie Ren said, “I don’t know if those fakes flowed out from you, but the news did come from you. This step is probably to transfer me away from Bodhi Chestnut View, and then make a move on Lang Ying.”

Who knows, Lang Ying also followed him out.

“I don’t know if the brocade fairy’s sudden manifestation was in or out of your expectation, but it’s not hard for you to improvise.”

So many pieces of ghost clothes, the authenticity of which is unknown, in the chaos, there is always a chance to touch away the real brocade fairy; and brocade fairy manifestation, Spirit Man can also appear in person, openly and honestly take away the clothes of all the people present; and in the end, how to check, to judge whether there is authenticity or not, and how to explain that silhouette, are all the words of the Spirit Man Temple.

Hearing this, Ling Wen made a pause gesture and said, ”Your Highness the Crown Prince, stop for now, okay? So, you think Lang Ying, that’s what it’s called, right? You think the one he’s wearing is Jin Yi Xian? Don’t forget, he didn’t obey you after he put it on, did he? That’s what you said yourself. You should know that the Jin Yi Xian is extremely powerful, even when it meets the Ghost King.”

Xie Ren said, “You also said, ‘encountered a special situation’. As for what exactly is the special situation, I think that you know better than I do, and I hope that you can answer for me.”

Ling Wen frowned slightly, negatively raised his hands, and said softly, “Your Highness the Crown Prince, are you already assuming that I am a clothes thief? With all due respect, this makes me slightly …… unhappy.”

Xie Ren slightly owed her head and said, “I apologize.”

Spirit Man said, “I accept. However, Your Highness, if you must insist, it’s not impossible to produce evidence, it’s fine. After all, when it comes down to it, it’s still speculation.”

Xie Ren slowly said, “Evidence, there was none before today, even just before I stepped into the Spirit Man Hall. But, since just now, there is.”

Spirit Man made an inviting gesture and said, “Please.”

Xie Ren said, “The proof is that just now, you didn’t even count the number of these ghost clothes.”

Ling Wen’s complexion was almost unchanged, however, the tips of his eyebrows were slightly clenched. Xie Ren said, ”The ghost clothes I sent you are indeed missing, but not by a single piece. As a matter of fact, I only sent you eighty-eight pieces, which is a full ten pieces less!

“I withheld all the clothes that I thought were suspicious from being sent to you, but you didn’t even realize there was a problem with the number, but you noticed at a glance that Lang Ying’s piece hadn’t been sent – so may I ask how on earth did you realize that that piece was missing?”

Spirit Man held up his hand, “One moment, please.”

Unperturbed, she reordered the ghost clothes on the ground and realized that it was indeed eighty-eight no less, still calm, said, “I think this can be explained by ‘a hundred secrets and a hundred sparsenesses’.”

Xie Ren said, “Good. Since you’ve taken it seriously and should have seen them one by one, I’ll tell you one thing: didn’t you realize just now that the dress Lang Ying wore yesterday is clearly in these eighty-eight pieces of ghostly clothing! The piece of clothing Lang Ying wore yesterday is clearly in these eighty-eight pieces of ghostly clothing!”

Ling Wen said, “Your Highness the Crown Prince, what is the meaning of this?”

Xie Ren squatted down, from a mess of clothes in the ground turned out a, shake open, it is a simple white linen clothes. He said, “Yesterday Lang Ying wore this one, isn’t it right here? Why haven’t you found it after ordering it once?”

Ling Wen said, “Your Royal Highness should also know that this hemp clothes are not conspicuous, hastily unseen, really can not be blamed for my eyes without pearls.”

Xie Ren said, “Indeed, it is inconspicuous. Then, with the meticulousness and steadiness of you, True Lord Ling Wen, and your many labors of caution, why would you hastily open your mouth and conclude that such an inconspicuous piece of clothing is not here without counting the number?”

Spirit Man’s smile remained unchanged, saying, “Too many clothes, eyes blurred; mountains of volumes, look silly.”

Xie Ren said: “You’re not blurry-eyed, on the contrary, your eyes are too good. I’ll tell you the second thing: I didn’t bring the clothes Lang Ying wore yesterday. I hand this, just I according to the original copy of the other one – however, I imitation is still very serious and fine, how do you see at a glance, Lang Ying that the real thing is not here?”

Ling Wen inexplicably said, ”Actually, regardless of whether it’s true or false, I didn’t see it. Your Highness the Crown Prince, are you doing too much official business and can’t help but think too much on weekdays? Why is it okay to spend that time and energy to make a replica?”

Seeing that she had avoided the front, Xie Ren said, “It’s not over yet. I’ll tell you one last thing.”

He held up the white linen garment and said softly, “…… This linen garment is nothing more than a piece that I just picked casually inside. What ‘imitated a piece according to the original’ ‘seriously fine’, all my nonsense. As you said, why would I make an imitation if I have nothing to do? You’ve been fooled. It’s not even the same color as the one Lang Ying wore yesterday, I’m holding it up to you and asking you if you don’t see anything wrong with it?”

“……”

Xie Ren stared intently at Ling Wen and said, “Ling Wen, right now, I only need you to answer a very simple question: yesterday, that dress Lang Ying was wearing, what color was it?”

Spirit Man did not speak immediately and slowly raised his eyes.

The white linen clothes fell to the ground, Xie Ren said: “The first god of literature, tens of thousands of volumes in the Heavenly Court every day, everything from your hands, not to remember so poorly. Why do you not even remember the color of the clothes Lang Ying wore yesterday?”

“You can’t answer because you’re on guard against me swindling you again, and don’t dare to answer easily; because you don’t even know what color it is; because yesterday, what you saw him wearing was just a headless, sleeveless rag bag!”

He said word for word, ”The thousands of variations of the Brocade Immortal is nothing more than an extremely powerful blindfold. However, no matter how powerful this blindfold is, it will never be effective against one person – that is the person who made it with his own hands.

“No matter how fickle it is, what you see in the eyes of the person who made it is always its original face. Just now, you swept over these eighty-eight pieces of ghostly clothing with a single glance, and didn’t see that headless, sleeveless, bizarre cloth bag inside, so of course you could immediately decide that the Brocade Immortal wasn’t in there!”