Jiang Er saw Jia Bangguo come out of the house, and after waiting for a while, Jia Bangguo came back again, opened the cotton curtain, and asked Master Hongzhi to come in first, Jiang Er hurriedly got up, welcomed Master Hongzhi into the house, and gave up a seat. Jiang Er and Master Hongzhi greeted each other, and Jia Bangguo said to Jiang Er: "Brother Erxing, you don't know, since we arrived at Stone Mountain to start construction, Master Hongzhi has come to the construction site every day at noon to deliver gruel to the workers, and the people working on the construction site are grateful. ”

Jiang Er looked at Hongzhi's nearly sixty-year-old body bones, thinking that he would have to carry a gruel bucket of twenty or thirty catties, going back and forth between the mountainside and the stone temple, his heart was full of admiration, and he was also full of emotion, saying the master's hard words, Master Hongzhi said with a smile: "You are working hard, for the stone temple of this barren mountain and wild mountains, you also deliberately built a mountain road to come out, this is a great merit, the Bodhisattva bless you, I have nothing to do except homework every day, it is better to send you some gruel, and exercise your body bones by the way, otherwise you will be abandoned sooner or later." ”

Master Hongzhi said to Jia Bangguo again: "Master Jia, I just heard from the suffering people outside, 'What's wrong with you?' Did you hear those wolves howling? ”

Jia Bangguo looked at Jiang Er with embarrassment, not knowing whether to tell Master Hongzhi about the big footprints on the roof, but first responded to Hongzhi's words and said, "Master, you live alone in this big mountain, aren't you afraid of these wolves?"

Master Hongzhi sighed and said: "Alas, how can I not be afraid? When I was young, I had just entered the mountain, and I heard the roar of this beast at night, and I was so frightened that I didn't dare to fall asleep, but I was accompanied by the Sanying Division, how much courage, and waited for the Sanying Division to pass away, and I was left alone, in the first few years, I was afraid to hide out and live, in winter, I often broke the nest and threw it outside the courtyard wall, waiting for these beasts to eat, thinking that the beasts would not come to disturb me when they were full. One daytime, I was doing homework in the Guanyin Temple, forgot to close the temple door, listened to the movement behind me, looked back, there were two gray-haired beasts behind me, scared that I couldn't move, Bodhisattva blessed, those two beasts just circled around me, and lay in the temple for a while, and left, since then I am no longer afraid of these beasts, through human nature. Now, I can't hear the howl of this beast for a day, and I can't sleep soundly. As he spoke, Master Hongzhi burst out laughing. But he immediately felt that he was out of shape, and he put away his smile and said, "So, if you hear the wolf howling, don't be afraid, it's not something unclean, what's the matter." ”

Jia Bangguo was about to explain the situation, but Jiang Er hurriedly stopped Jia Bangguo with words, afraid that those unwarranted "ghosts" would disturb Master Hongzhi, so he said to Master Hongzhi: "Oh, I know, it's true that we haven't seen a wolf yet, it's very rare." ”

The three of them sat in the room and chatted for a while, Master Hongzhi asked the workers to finish drinking gruel, so he got up and said goodbye to Jiang Er Jia Bangguo, and returned to the stone temple with a plastic bucket covered with a quilt.

After sending off Master Hongzhi, Jia Bangguo settled Jiang Er to rest for a while, waiting for Jia Bangguo to send people back. When it was two or three o'clock, listening to the sound of a car coming back, Jiang Er hurriedly got up and settled Jia Bangguo, if the people sent out brought back the master who could catch the "ghosts", don't introduce yourself, you will pay attention to it, you can talk about yours. Jia Bangguo listened, and although he didn't understand what this meant, he still nodded and walked out of the house.

Jiang Er waited for Jia Bangguo to go out, waited for a while and led Erlin out of the house, standing not far away to watch Jia Bangguo ask about things, Jiang Er saw the person who came, not tall, with a thick beard, not like he was deliberately kept, but like he didn't take care of it all year round, a little sloppy, his hands were wearing leather gloves, and a pair of eyes were very flexible, which did not match his sloppy appearance, Jia Bangguo talked to the man, while pointing to the vicinity of the row house, and relayed what he had said to Jiang Er to the person who came, the little man nodded while listening, and also went to the roof to look carefully, and then Jia Bangguo took the little man into the house to discuss, Jiang Er took Erlin to a temporary shack not far away to keep warm, and after a while, Jia Bangguo came in and said to Jiang Er: "Brother Erxing, Gang ran out under the pretext of peeing, and the master who invited him said, this is to meet the mountain spirit, what do you say about the gang?"

Jiang Er sighed, pondered for a while and asked, "Did he say that it would take more money to deal with this matter?"

Jia Bangguo hurriedly said: "I didn't say this, and I didn't ask." ”

Jiang Er nodded and said: "Lao Gang, you are like this, if he is one hundred and eighty, or two or three hundred can solve it, you should come down, if it is less, he has to be a few thousand, you can push it first, and this matter can be handled." ”

Jia Bangguo listened, nodded, and hurriedly returned to the house, Jiang Er lifted the cotton curtain of the shack and watched from time to time, and after a while, he saw Jia Bangguo and the little man out of the house, the little man walked down the mountain with an unhappy expression, Jia Bangguo waited for the little man to go away, and walked towards the shack with an unhappy face, Jiang Er hurriedly greeted him, and said to Jia Bangguo first: "Lao Gang, you quickly send someone to drive the master back." ”

Jia Bangguo said a little angrily: "What to send, don't send, what kind of thing, open your mouth and ask for 2,000 with Gang, and the money is blown by the wind." ”

Jiang Er hurriedly persuaded: "Lao Gang, don't be angry, don't care about this, listen to it, first arrange for someone to send the master home, say something nice, remember to send it home." Jia Bangguo listened to Jiang Er's words, and he didn't argue, turned around and arranged for the posterity who had just picked up the person, let him drive up in a pickup truck, and settled down and sent home. Waiting for the car to leave, Jia Bangguo invited Jiang Er into the house where he lived and asked Jiang Er: "Erxing, what the hell is going on?"

Jiang Er had his own plans in his heart, but he couldn't say it clearly, and said with a sloppy eye: "People can see that it is a mountain spirit and a monster, and they are more capable than Ne, and they can't see what that big footprint is." ”

Jia Bangguo felt that it made sense when he heard it, nodded and said: "If you have the ability, you can't slander people like this (blackmail), you say that you will open your mouth for 2,000, and you won't earn anything for a month." ”

Jiang Er comforted Jia Bangguo and said: "What's the matter, Lao Gang, this is something, although I don't know the ability of this mountain spirit, but it is always an evil demon crooked, and there is no problem with having an evil charm." You can rest assured. Wait for the study and study of the method of treatment, and solve the matter completely for Lao Gang. ”

Jia Bangguo was naturally happy when he heard this, lit a cigarette and smoked it, and said: "Gang can trust you, otherwise Gang can't be arrogant, and take the begging monkey top away just now, and he also gave Ne a word, the bluff of the family is ruined, this is Gang is out of the house, thinking about a little peace, and staying in Yanzhou? ”

When Jiang Er heard this, he shook his head slightly, and asked Jia Bangguo: "Lao Gang, who is the person who picked up the master just now?" ”

When Jia Bangguo heard this, he got up and walked to the door, lifted the cotton curtain and shouted, "Xiao Zhang, Xiao Zhang, come here!" After shouting, he returned and said to Jiang Er: "There is also a Xiao Liu who is driving, and he sent people away just now." After a while, a little descendant ran in from outside, and the descendant asked Jia Bangguo: "Jia Tou, what's the matter?" Jia Bangguo pointed at Jiang Er and said, "Master Jiang is looking for you to ask something." ”

Jiang Er hurriedly beckoned the latter to sit down and asked, "You just went down the mountain to find Master, can you tell me the specific story?"

So the latter told the story of the before and after, two people, drove all the way down the stone mountain, did not go far, first went to the stone village, found the villagers and asked, is there a big fairy in the village, or fortune teller and the second house master, the villagers all said that the stone village is not, you have to go to the outside of the village to find, and also pointed to the North Zhuangzi Street to find, the two people originally planned to go to the nearby village and then go around, at this time the little man recommended himself and said that he knew the big fairy, the two people in order to save trouble, they called the little man into the car, and vaguely heard the nearby villagers shouting the words of the seven sons begging for trouble。 After the latter finished speaking, Jia Bangguo was angry when he heard it, and roared at the latter and said, "Can you two do something with corpses? He said that it is the great immortal master? That's it, why does Gang expect you to do big things?" and then scolded the latter out of the house.

Jiang Er comforted Jia Bangguo for a while, and asked Jia Bangguo: "Lao Gang, did you ask the master's name just now?"

Jia Bangguo has been a contractor for so many years, and he is also a person with brains, and he listened to Jiang Er's inquiries before and after, and he understood a little bit in his heart, this haunted thing was deliberately caused by someone, and he couldn't help but think that it would be the ghost of the little man, and said angrily: "What master is not master, Gang sees that he is a liar, saying that his surname is Zhao, Zhao forgot to ask for anything, maybe this thing is his ghost, or Erxing is smart, let people follow him to his house, watch Gang finish the project, and then deal with him." ”

Jiang Er shook his head with a smile, and said to Jia Bangguo: "Lao Gang, you can't say that, this matter is very mysterious, and it's not easy to say if you don't understand it, do you think that with his size, there is no ladder to go up to the roof? When Jia Bangguo heard this, his mind suddenly became weak, yes, such a high roof, is there a place to climb around, it is indeed difficult to get on the roof, and he muttered in his heart, is it really the mountain spirit that is causing trouble? I couldn't help but panic again.

Jiang Er used Jia Bangguo's eldest brother to paging Jiang Dasheng and left a message, if there is something at night, don't go back to the store, don't worry about the news. When the driver came back, it was already a little dark, Jiang Er inquired in detail about the address of the little man surnamed Zhao, and chatted with Jia Bangguo about the day, preparing to stay overnight in Stone Mountain and find out what the mountain spirit was .......