readx;? The person in the coffin was actually an old woman with goosebumps, and Zhaoran couldn't help but wonder if she was going to pretend to be an old ghost again, and this time she was still an old female ghost, but when Zhaoran turned over the other coffins again, she still had to choose it. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhao Ran clasped his palms together and silently recited the confession, took out the half of the talisman hidden on his body, and then placed the side with the lines on the forehead of the corpse, and sure enough, after a puff of white smoke, only an old skin was left in the coffin.

He rolled up the old skin quickly, and on the way back to the inn, he stole two women's clothes from a house, put down a piece of broken silver under the windowsill, and carried it back to the inn with the skin.

Zhao Ran went and returned, just ate the barbecue, and actually ordered a pot of pork knuckle, but where would the little second-hand person take the silver that Zhao Ran rewarded again, I just hope that this pot-bellied guest will go back and forth a few more times.

Upstairs, Yang Xueshi has already composed the characters of the Zhao clan.

"Can this flamboyant, frivolous person really do it?" Yang Xueshi thought to himself, but after weighing it, he had no other choice, his slender fingers rolled up the character spectrum and inserted it into the crack of the window according to the obvious command.

As soon as his paper was inserted, it was pulled away with a "whoosh".

Yang Xueshi was shocked, only to hear a tired voice outside the window: "Okay, I'll take the things." I'll disguise myself when we meet tomorrow, so as not to surprise you, let's make an appointment with a code. ”

"The code for meeting?" Yang Xueshi was stunned.

"Yes, say it quickly!" said Zhao Ran unceremoniously.

Yang Xueshi pondered for a while and said, "Then use the words "long time no see". ”

Outside the window, Zhaoran almost bit his tongue and stammered, "You, what did you say?"

"I said long time no see. ”

"No, change it!"

Yang Xueshi was puzzled: "Why do you want to change it?"

Zhao Ran said arrogantly: "I said that if I change one, I will change it!"

Yang Xueshi felt that he was wronged for a big matter, and he didn't want to worry too much about this villager, so he had to say: "Then you can tell me." ”

Zhao Ran glanced at the elbow in his hand and said, "Then use the braised elbow I want to eat." ”

"I want to eat braised elbow. Yang Xueshi had never used such vulgar words in his life, but he had to endure it for the sake of big things, so he responded, "Okay, just use this." ”

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Zhaoran returned to the house, took a deep breath, put the talisman on his forehead, white smoke for a while, and then the bones and skin separated, he took off the skin on his body, and then replaced the old woman's skin, and immediately was dizzy with hunger, his limbs were weak, and he quickly grabbed his elbow and gnawed it.

Then he looked down at his limbs again, and the flesh under the skin finally gradually swelled, but it was still a para-shaped skeletal appearance, but if he thought about it carefully, an old woman should be like this, so Zhao Ran wiped his mouth and fell asleep.

The next day, Yang Xueshi stood at the door of the inn for a while, he stood with his hands in his hands, his body was slender and straight, his face was clear, and he was born with a kind of majesty that people did not dare to look up, and suddenly heard someone shout: "Big nephew, I want to eat braised elbow." ”

As soon as Yang Xueshi turned her head, she saw an old woman wearing a summer flower walking in the distance, raising the handkerchief in her hand and saying coquettishly: "I want to eat braised elbow." ”

Yang Xueshi was born in a poor family, studied poetry and books hard, and supervised the battle with the body of a weak scholar from the beginning, calmed the chaos, and asked himself to see many people, but he really had never seen a person like Zhaoran, and he shouted like this, and he had goosebumps all over his body.

"What are you stunned about, it's me!" Zhao Ran saw Yang Xueshi's eyes straightened, and said in a low voice.

Yang Xueshi came back to her senses and coughed lightly: "Oh, it turned out to be a chivalrous man." ”

"You shouldn't call me a chivalrous warrior now, you might as well call me mother. Zhao Ran was ashamed.

Yang Xueshi remembered the picture of Zhaoran slighting him last night, and couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine again, and said: "It's better like this, I said that you are a psychic old woman, and most of the villagers believe this." ”

"Psychic?"

"Dangyu Village is said to be haunted at the moment, and it is Zhao Jing's ghost, otherwise where can Zhao Jing's sister run around, I am afraid that she will be imprisoned by the Zhao clan. ”

With an "oh" sound, Yang Xueshi asked again: "How should I call you now." ”

"Hmm...... Just call me Mother-in-law. Zhao Ran thought for a moment.

"Mother-in-law Feng. Yang Xueshi half-bowed, and Zhao Ran smiled politely, "Good, eldest nephew, I want to eat braised elbow." ”

Yang Xueshi didn't expect Zhaoran to really eat elbows, he has always had a light diet, mainly vegetarian, and rarely saw meat, but now he has a request for help, so he has to say: "You wait a minute." ”

Zhaoran waited at the door for a while, and saw Yang Xueshi coming out awkwardly with an elbow, and couldn't help but laugh, thinking that this person was really hypocritical.

"Give. Yang Xueshi seemed to be carrying something unsightly, and quickly stuffed the elbow in his hand.

Zhaoran took the elbow and said, "Go and hire a soft sedan chair for me." ”

"Why hire a soft car?"

Zhaoran pointed to his feet and said, "The path in the village is narrow and can't pass through the carriage, does my nephew want to let my mother-in-law and I walk by myself when I arrive?"

He really regarded himself as an elder, Yang Xueshi was angry, but he couldn't help it, so he had to hire a soft sedan chair to follow the carriage and go towards the fishing village.

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The Lok Ma Lake of the fishing village is closely connected with the river, the lake surface in the early morning is filled with wisps of white mist, the smoke and water are vast, the wind pool is a hundred hectares, a leaf of light boat tail escapes from the lake, the letter stream reaches the depths of the green lotus, startles several gulls and birds, a few crisp songs, from far and near.

It was already dark when Zhaoran came last night, and when he looked at it during the day, he found that the fishing village was really not small, shaped like a turtle shell, high inside and low outside, standing in the ordinary dilapidated fishing village in the outer circle and looking inside, you could see the high-rise buildings in the village that resemble a fortress.

"The people living outside here are all people who have fled to Dangyu Village in the past few years, and inside is where the people of the Zhao clan live. Yang Xueshi got off the carriage and saw Zhaoran looking up at the high-rise buildings inside and said, "More than half of the wharf business near here is in the hands of the Zhao clan, and most of the people in the outer village are also people who work on the wharf, and most of the people in the village will change their surname to Zhao to show their gratitude to the Zhao family for taking in, which was the case with Su Jing at the beginning." ”

When they came out, the villagers were also curious, but most of them only looked at it a few times, one was that there were many dignitaries and nobles who came to visit the patriarch, and the other was that although most of these nobles wanted to give face to the Zhao family, if they inadvertently collided with someone, they really had to be punished, wouldn't they think they were unlucky.

Zhao Ran suddenly pointed his hand: "The laundry woman over there, we need to hire someone, are you free?"

The unkempt laundry woman raised her head, her face was haggard, and she looked listless, she didn't even look at the excitement, but she didn't know why Zhaoran suddenly asked her, so she said a little ignorantly: "The old lady is asking the villain?"

Zhaoran waved his hand and said, "I need to hire someone here, one or two silver a day, what can you do?"

"A tael of silver?" the villagers gasped.

The woman pointed at herself in disbelief: "Old, the old lady is, do you mean the villain?"

Zhao Ran said impatiently: "It's you, do you want to do it?"

The woman said almost impatiently, ",." Madame, wait a minute, the little woman will go in and wash a little. ”

When she entered, Yang Xueshi asked puzzledly, "Why do you want to hire this village woman." ”

Zhaoran said: "I like to be served. ”

Yang Xueshi frowned and said, "We are here to investigate the Zhao family, but you get someone from the Zhao family to come to us......

Zhaoran glanced at him with slanted eyes: "Then why don't you serve me?"

Yang Xueshi had no choice but to hold his breath and stop talking.

The woman quickly changed her clothes and came out, and even her hair was re-washed, but it was a little touching.

"What's it called?" asked Zhaoran.

"Ji Niang. ”

"A good name is blessed when it sounds. ”

Ji Niang showed a wry smile on her face: "Where is there any blessing for the people's women, the family is so poor that they can't open the pot, the only son is seriously ill again, and the man calls me ......restless all day long" Halfway through her speech, she saw Zhaoran's eyes were paradoxical, she was shocked, and quickly changed her words, "The old lady is right, I think I met a noble person like the old lady as soon as I went out early in the morning, but it is not a blessing." ”

Zhao Ran said: "That's right, anyone who meets me will not have bad luck." ”

Yang Xueshi couldn't help but glance at him when he heard this, and his dry fingers knocked on the armrest with a silver horn and said, "Pay you half of the fixed money first, and pay you the rest later." ”

Ji Niang held the small silver horn in her hand, almost cried with joy, and said continuously: "It's okay, it's okay." ”

Waiting for Ji Niang to carefully put away the silver horn, Zhao Ran lazily lay down in the soft chair and said, "We want to visit Patriarch Zhao, do you recognize it?"

What he said was like nonsense, but Ji Niang finally got this job, and immediately replied: "I know, the patriarch often comes to us to see who is in trouble, and sends some rice and grain, and sometimes some silver." ”

"Look at who is ......in trouble," Zhaoran paused, pointed to the village house next to him, and asked, "What does the vermilion paint painted on the door of these people mean?"

Ji Niang said: "This means that this family is obedient and gentle, has never done anything wrong, but is a good citizen, all those who have vermilion lacquer on the door, and those who are sick and in trouble at home can go to the ancestral hall to receive relief." She said with a look of envy in her eyes.

"So you don't have vermilion on your door. Zhao Ran said.

Ji Niang was shocked again, her eyes showed an anxious look, and she hurriedly said: "I, the man in my family inadvertently collided with the young master of Tianci, not intentionally, our family has absolutely no intention of harming people." ”

Yang Xueshi couldn't help frowning again, they came to get close to the Zhao family, and before they reached the threshold of others, they first accepted someone who had offended the Zhao family.

"Are you a good citizen of Dangyu Village who has nothing to do with me, let's first hear how your man offended that young master?"

Ji Niang's back relaxed slightly, wiped the fine sweat on her forehead and said: "My child has suffered a loss since he was a child, because his family is poor, he has not been able to make up for his body well, and in recent years, he has suffered from asthma and cough, and he has not been well. His father got a home remedy out of nowhere, saying that the eel in the water can be solved by boiling the soup with salt. But it was already late autumn at that time, and it was not easy to catch eels, so the child's father thought that there was a lake in our village, with the mountain behind and the shade, and there must be eels to fish, but that place was a forbidden place in the clan, and the child's father originally thought that he would secretly fish in the middle of the night and would not be known, but who knew that he met the young master of God. (Note: This party is from the Song Dynasty "Taiping Shenghui Fang")

"Even if it's late autumn, why does this Tianci young master appear by the lake?" Yang Xueshi didn't expect them to chat, but they actually talked to the point, and hurriedly asked.

"I don't know, but the young master of Tianci haunts the village in the middle of the night...... That's a common thing. Ji Niang whispered with a little shame on her face, Yang Xueshi thought that it was probably this Yue Tianci who was stealing chickens and dogs in the village at night, doing the thing of stealing incense and stealing jade.

Yang Xueshi thought of the words stealing incense and stealing jade in his mind, his face turned red inexplicably, and he straightened his waist slightly unnaturally.

Zhao Ran said: "You go on." ”

Ji Niang smiled bitterly: "The child's father had already caught two eels at that time, so he begged the young master of Tianci to raise his noble hand for the sake of the sick child at home, but the young master of Tianci did not allow it, and threw his fishing basket into the lake, and the two had a conflict...... "She said here and sighed helplessly.

"The vermilion paint on your door has been shoveled for a while. ”

Ji Niang nodded and said, "It's been three or four years." ”

Zhao Ran was surprised and said: "Just for the sake of two eels, you have to punish for three or four years for so long?"

"The rules of the village are like this, once the vermilion paint on someone's door is shoveled, unless it has a great contribution to the neutrality of the clan, it will be difficult to brush it again. Ji Niang sighed again.

Walking further down the steps, the thatched house gradually turned into a flat-roofed tiled house, with not only vermilion lacquer in front of the door, but also the Zhao character written in gold pattern.

The villagers here were a little less curious, and when they saw Ji Niang next to the soft chair, they only lowered their voices and whispered a few words to exchange words, and then quickly returned to the house and closed the door, Ji Niang involuntarily bent over, shrunk her neck and followed behind.

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Walking up to Mowa, as soon as Zhaoran got off the sedan chair, the side door opened, and a silver-haired old man came out, he stepped forward and bowed and said, "I don't know where the distinguished guest came from?"

"I am Yang Xueshi, the governor of Guangxi Province, because there is a public case in office, I need to visit the patriarch. Yang Xueshi said and handed over the greeting sticker in his hand.

The patrol is known as the patrol of the Son of Heaven, although the rank is not high, but it is very powerful, even if the local government officials see them to avoid three points, the old man is a glance at the sticker, and gave Yang Xueshi a faint expression: "Lord Yang, the patriarch has been unwell for several days, I am afraid that I will not be able to see the guest, and the villain will tell you that you have been here for the adult." ”

Yang Xueshi's face was embarrassed, and Ji Niang shrank behind the sedan chair, not even daring to raise her head.

Zhao Ran tilted his body and said: "Lord Yang, didn't you say that there are villagers here, Gao Yu, saying that there are rich families who rape and kill the weak, and you just came to take a look?"

Yang Xueshi's scalp was about to explode, and the silver-haired old man couldn't help but look a little ugly, but he took the sticker, and said with a slightly arrogant expression: "If that's the case, I'll go and talk to the patriarch." ”

When he left, Yang Xueshi gritted his teeth angrily and said, "What do you mean?"

Zhao Ran said lazily: "Everyone can read and write in a porter, how big is this, you are not boring to compare with him, it is better to compare official duties, you have official business, and the Zhao family has indeed been sued, this is not an official investigation, how dare the Zhao family ignore it, could it be that his family has a few gold medals for avoiding death?"

He turned around and asked, "Why don't you even dare to offend a squire in your big matter?"

Yang Xueshi was too angry and calmed down, and straightened his back: "The way of imperial history is to correct the impeachment of the hundred divisions, identify the wrongs, and supervise the various ways, and be the eyes and ears of the Son of Heaven." It's okay to die for the people, let alone offend the powerful?"

Zhao Ran was funny in his heart, thinking about this sour Xiucai, he turned his head to look at the side of Yang Xueshi Peugeot, and felt in a trance in his heart, only feeling as if Jiuru was close to him, he couldn't help but ask: "It's okay to die for the people...... Is that anything else?"

Yang Xueshi stood beside the sedan chair, and as soon as he tilted his head and asked, his breath blew on his earlobe, his cheeks were a little flushed, and he said angrily: "If you humiliate this official like this, why don't we part ways......

Halfway through his words, Zhao Ran suddenly raised his index finger and "shhhhhh

Yang Xueshi listened quietly, only to hear someone shouting loudly in the inner courtyard, but he couldn't hear what he was shouting, he couldn't help asking: "What is that person shouting?"

Zhaoran looked at him and said, "As you said, there are ghosts." ”