"Whoa......

At the beginning of April, the city has not yet stepped into the season of "furnace", the continuous drizzle baptizes the new green that has just bloomed, and even the air is filled with the fragrance of grass; but this rainy day also casts a bit of cold and gloomy in this ancient city, which is known as the "secluded capital", and the shadow floats in the distance, which makes people feel awe.

"Master, may I ask if you are going to the county seat of Xudu?"

Jiang Yao, who had just left the train station, trotted all the way in the rain, leaned over and knocked on the window of a taxi on the side of the road.

"No, no, no, it's a day to call it a day. ”

The taxi driver waved his hand impatiently, then stepped on the accelerator and walked away.

"What's going on in this place? It's only before ten o'clock in the evening, and it's not rented, isn't it......?"

Lu Xingyue sighed, looked up at the gloomy night and the street with few pedestrians, and then turned her head to look at Jiang Yao, who was looking left and right on the side of the street, and couldn't help complaining:

"You, if you don't have to go to the 'Baoyan Pavilion', we won't delay until the night before the Qingming Festival. ”

"We don't know what the 'ghost market' will be tomorrow or what the so-called 'special challenge' is, so it's always a good idea to be prepared. Jiang Yao carried his luggage and said while looking around. "Anyway, is this train station so remote? There are no cars ...... there?"

"Hehe, this place, people rarely go out after dark, especially in this season. The words full of mockery floated over Jiang Yao, Jiang Yao turned his head helplessly and glanced at it, and sure enough, he saw gluttonous chewing meat buns swaggering over.

The eye-catching floral shirt, slim-fitting black leather trousers, and the big gold chain around the neck made me think it was a gangster from somewhere at first glance. Jiang Yao obviously took care of him repeatedly in advance to keep a low profile and dress up like a tourist, but seeing the appearance of gluttony in front of him now, Jiang Yao was speechless, and he didn't know if Tao Tao had a misunderstanding of the meaning of "tourist outfit", or if he was deliberately playing with him.

"I said you...... Can't you dress normally?" Jiang Yao held his forehead.

"Alas, look at what you said~ I see that the big guys in your human TV series don't all wear this to eat, drink and have fun~" The gluttonous raised his eyebrows, looked at a corner behind him with a smile, and teased.

That's a TV series!

Jiang Yao silently scolded, but he really didn't have the strength to entangle when he was hungry, and the gluttony seemed to see Jiang Yao's empty stomach, so he threw a bag of something to Jiang Yao, who took a look and found that it was a tea egg.

"The restaurants are closed, so I'll make do with this stuff. ”

"......" Jiang Yao looked at the small poor tea egg in his hand, and then looked at the big meat bun that was almost finished on the side of the glutton's mouth, and he didn't want to talk anymore.

"I should have food in the hotel in the county seat, but the problem now is that the train station is several kilometers away from the county seat, how to get there......"

Lu Xingyue muttered, went to the stone bench under the eaves, and then seemed to remember something, carefully took out the black card in his arms, and complained:

"Speaking of which, the meeting entrance marked on this invitation is actually the 'Ghost Gate'......? Could it be a dumb riddle?"

"Hey, don't you even know?" Jiang Yao was stunned and turned his head in surprise. "I don't think you mentioned it all the way, I thought you already knew......"

"Please, it's the first time I've come here, okay?" Lu Xingyue looked at Jiang Yao, looking powerless to complain.

"In the past, my father-in-law had always forbidden me to participate in the 'ghost market' trade, so I didn't know much about the details, but I heard that the entrance to the 'ghost market' was different every year, and this year's situation was even more special, and no one knew the inside story. I originally planned to come to Xudu in advance to inquire about the news, but now it seems that I can't even see a few people...... Ay. ”

"That'...... Gluttony, do you know where the entrance to the 'Ghost Market' will be this year?" Jiang Yao thought for a moment and turned his gaze to the red-haired man on the side.

"How do I know that I'm not welcome at all on the 'ghost market' side of the 'ghost market' like me. Gluttony shrugged his shoulders and poured cold water directly on the two of them.

"Forget it...... Anyway, the pestle is not a way here, so let's go to the county seat of Xudu for the night first. Jiang Yao sighed, picked up his backpack again and prepared to take a taxi on the street, when he suddenly saw another taxi coming from a distance, seemingly dropping off passengers at the train station.

"Master, please wait a minute! We're going to Xudu County, are we leaving?" Seeing this, Jiang Yao hurriedly ran forward and pulled the car door, as if he was afraid that the taxi would drive away.

"The county seat, at this time, don't go, don't go, don't go......"

In the taxi, a middle-aged man with a scruffy beard was holding a cigarette, glanced up and down at Jiang Yao, and then looked at the red-haired man dressed in fancy clothes behind Jiang Yao, with reluctance written on his face.

"We can give you double the car price!" Lu Xingyue immediately reacted and hurriedly stepped forward and said. "Master, you see that we have come all the way to this drunken capital, and if we are not familiar with the place, you should do us a favor, okay?"

"Don't go for double the money, alas, take your hands away!" the driver said impatiently, signaling them to get out of here, and Jiang Yao was also ready to lose his face at this time, and insisted on holding on to the doorknob.

"Master, we've really been waiting for a long time, and if we continue like this, we'll be sleeping on the streets. Jiang Yao said with a smiling face. "You can do it for once, okay?"

"That's right! We heard that the people of Xudu are special~~~ don't be kind, especially ~~~ don't be enthusiastic, so we came here. If you're still struggling, we can triple the fare!

Lu Xingyue blinked her dark brown pupils disguised by spells, and looked at the middle-aged man pitifully, who didn't know if he was embarrassed by Lu Xingyue's puppy-like eyes, or if the chips of "triple fare" were too tempting, and after hesitating for a long time, the man finally relented:

"Young man, it's not that I want to embarrass you, we all have a rule in our house - 'don't go out on Qingming night', for fear of bumping into something 'bad', how can you see that there are taxis around here that still pick up work?"

The middle-aged man frowned, lowered his head and smoked a cigarette and said.

"Especially the road from the railway station to the county seat is very desolate, no one dares to go there on Qingming night, who knows if there will be 'unclean things' on the road to get in our car?"

The middle-aged man paused, raised his eyes to look at Jiang Yao and the three of them, and suddenly changed his words again.

"However, if you can get together enough four people to fill my car and boost the 'yang energy', then you can still consider it......

"But at this time, where can I find such a person......

When Jiang Yao heard this, his face suddenly became gloomy, and just as he was thinking about how to persuade the driver, he suddenly heard a "click" footsteps from far and near, coming from behind everyone.

"Isn't it exactly four if you count me? ”

There was as much arrogance in the cold voice as ever, and the moment Lu Xingyue turned her head to see the comer, her expression could be described as "petrified", and even Jiang Yao, who was "tempered" by her will, was "frightened" and speechless.

"You, you...... You are...... Three, three ......"

The long flowing black hair is tied into a tuft and hangs down the back of the head, and the golden earrings reflect the blue eyes, showing a bit of "bewitching" color; and the bangs on his forehead cover half of his face awkwardly under the effect of hairspray, quite a "kill Matt" style; and what's even worse is that this person is also wearing a tight white open-necked suit, and he looks like a "midnight cowherd".

"Yo, didn't you say you wouldn't go all the way with us before~" Gluttony said with a smile, and stepped forward to pat the person who came on the shoulder, as if he was not surprised at all. "Why, don't you still feel at ease with your 'little friend'? ”

"Hmph, do you still have the face to say cool things?" the three-legged black eyes widened, and he glanced at the gluttony dissatisfiedly. "If you were so capable, why are you still here?"

The three-legged Wu said, and then turned his head to look at Jiang Yao, who was stunned, and Lu Xingyue, whose face was about to cramp, and frowned slightly.

"What's wrong with you?"

"No, you, you're dressed like this...... Quite a very special ......" Jiang Yao, who was stunned for a long time, looked at the strange appearance of the three-legged black, and couldn't find a suitable adjective for a while, so he could only choose perfunctory.

"Oh, you say that?" said the three-legged black, looking down at his suit. "Didn't you say that you humans are dressed like this when you go out to play?"

"......" Jiang Yao was speechless, such a déjà vu was exactly the same as someone's, and seeing the gloating appearance of gluttony, Jiang Yao also roughly guessed who had cheated this celestial divine bird who didn't understand the customs of the world, but in order to avoid causing trouble, Jiang Yao still decided not to poke it.

"Hey, a few of you, are you still leaving?" Seeing Jiang Yao and the others chatting like this, the middle-aged man waiting in the car began to get impatient again. "It's full of four, if you want to go, let's go now, I won't wait for any more rubbing!"

"Let's go, let's get in the car now. Seeing this, Jiang Yao hurriedly beckoned everyone to get into the car, and Lu Xingyue finally seemed to have found a reason, and hurriedly got into the co-pilot and began to laugh wildly.

"Hey~ You young man, I just decided to help you once, and I was happy to be like this. ”

The middle-aged man looked at Lu Xingyue's appearance, and couldn't help but cry and laugh a little, and for the three-legged black on the side, the middle-aged man just glanced at him with disgust, and didn't say anything.

"Okay, okay, let's go. ”

The middle-aged man finally took a puff of cigarette and reached out to flick the cigarette butt out of the car, but just as he started the car, he suddenly seemed to remember something and braked the car suddenly.

"Oh, that's not right...... I live near the train station, and I have to come back here after taking you to the county seat this time, but there will be no one to take a ride at that time, so won't this be an empty car?"

The middle-aged man pretended to say, intentionally or unintentionally, and glanced at Jiang Yao and the others.

"Shhh...... It's too risky, and it's expensive, you see ......."

“……”

Seeing the middle-aged man's appearance of "ripping bamboo", Jiang Yao was almost speechless, and at this time, it was Lu Xingyue who "took the collar" in time, only to see him stretch out his hand, decisively show five fingers at the man, and simply spit out two words:

"Five-fold".