Chapter 1: Ghosts
Night, Jian'an, Anguo Temple.
Jiang Ya lay on the grass bunk, staring blankly at the grass hut, thinking: During the day, I secretly watched those monks practicing martial arts in the back mountain. However, why can't I always learn it? I seem to have heard that the monks who peeked at the back mountain were going to be driven down the mountain if they practiced martial arts. However, I seem to have been discovered by Elder Hui Fang, but why didn't he drive me away?...... Could it be that Elder Hui Fang is the good person in the mouth of his mother-in-law?
On the table, the flame on the oil lamp hung its head weakly, and from time to time a few small insects collided with it, making the flame flicker instantly. Jiang Ya looked at the book a few more times, then threw it on the table, and said in his heart, reading is really boring, why don't you practice martial arts? Those monks are so handsome when they fight with their fists and feet! Alas, I don't know how my mother-in-law is doing now? Will a person feel bored. My mother-in-law always said that I was as stupid as a piece of wood, and that I didn't like me very much, but I knew that my mother-in-law was the best for me.
I don't know if I'm not by her side now, will she miss me as much as I miss her? I really don't understand, why didn't my mother-in-law let me practice martial arts?
Thinking about it, Jiang Ya yawned loudly, then stretched his waist and blew out the flames on the table. And at the moment when the flame was extinguished, it seemed as if someone came in from outside the window—
"Ghost!"
Jiang Ya was startled, and immediately jumped up from the bed, hearing that the ghost was most afraid of the monk chanting, so he kept chanting, "Amitabha, Amitabha".
There was a crisp laugh in the darkness, and then the oil lamp on the table was lit again.
Jiang Ya's heart was beating faster, his back was about to be cold, and he thought, could this be the legendary "ghost lighting lamp"?
Hearing the laughter sound again, Jiang Ya's intuition lit up, and a "grimace" appeared in front of him-
"Ah————h
"Show this fairy, where am I like a ghost?"
Jiang Ya's eyes widened. Ah, it turned out to be a female ghost!
"Keep your eyes open and look closely, is there such a beautiful ghost in the world?"
Jiang Ya shook his head, thinking, it turns out that there is really such a beautiful female ghost. It turns out that ghosts are not so scary. However, remembering what the old people said about "ghosts can eat people", Jiang Ya still broke out in a cold sweat.
"Hmph!" said the "female ghost", "if there is a ghost, you are also a 'coward'!"
Under the flickering of the lights, Jiang Ya saw a swaying shadow on the opposite wall. Ghosts don't seem to have a shadow. Jiang Ya thought about it, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, and asked, "This girl, it's so late, isn't it good for you and me to be in the same room?"
"I'm sorry!" the woman immediately said angrily: "This fairy, I, I ......"
Suddenly, there seemed to be a sound outside the door. The woman secretly said, "It's not good", looked at Jiang Ya with an angry look and said, "It must be that you screamed just now to lure those monks over—do you know honestly for this fairy?"
Jiang Ya knew that this woman was not easy to mess with, so he nodded immediately. And at that moment, the door suddenly opened on its own......
"Who is it?" Jiang Ya asked, poking his head out. "No one. Jiang Ya felt very strange, "There doesn't seem to be any wind outside...... This door was not pushed open, nor was it blown open by the wind...... How did that work?"
Close the door, but look into the room, what about the woman......? Jiang Ya said in his heart: Could it be that she is really a female ghost and will be invisible? Thinking like this, I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat again.
But at this moment, I only heard a "click" on my head, and the beam of the house broke. With an "oops", a person fell from above. Jiang Ya hurriedly ran over, it turned out that this was the woman from Fang Cai.
"Are you alright?" Jiang Ya helped her up.
"What a broken beam!" the woman said angrily, "It hurts me to death—my waist, is my waist broken?"
Jiang Ya thought, soft, thin, Jiang Ya couldn't help but blush, hehe, it's really comfortable to touch.
Suddenly, Jiang Ya only felt a chill on his neck, and a dagger was already on his neck. As soon as his neck was cold, Jiang Yadeng also felt that his heart was cold (frightened) all of a sudden, and immediately raised his hands and said, "I, I have no money!"
"Really?" said the woman, who had a broken leather bag in her hand at some point, shook her hand and asked, "What is this?"
Jiang Ya wanted to reach out and grab it, but now he was holding a knife to his neck, and he was so anxious and scared that he cried, "Woman, this is my entanglement in Beijing to catch the exam, you must not take it!
When the woman heard this, her face turned slightly red, and she almost didn't spit it out, she slapped Jiang Ya fiercely, and said angrily: "Phew, what age, still go to Beijing to take the exam!" As she spoke, she was about to jump out of the window. But who knows, this Jiang Ya actually hugged her thigh from behind, and suddenly shouted: "Someone!
As soon as the woman heard Jiang Ya start shouting, she was anxious and wanted to kick Jiang Ya away immediately, but she didn't want where Jiang Ya came from so strongly, this woman was dragged down from the window by Jiang Ya.
With a "boom", half of the roof collapsed, and it smashed on the two people without hesitation.
Chu Ling'er suddenly became angry, and said in her heart: Auntie, why am I so unlucky tonight, I met a large group of stupid monks, but I also met such a nerd! I just thought that it was not appropriate to stay here for a long time, and I didn't bother to pay attention to Jiang Ya, and I would get into trouble again, so I ran away with a puff of smoke.
Jiang Ya only felt that his head was dizzy, and the things in front of him were blurry, but when he thought that all his money had been snatched away by the woman, he immediately became energetic and chased in the direction where the woman had fled.
A white fat squirrel emerged from the rubble that had collapsed from the roof, shaking the dirt off its body. It seems that it was the one who pushed the door open. Looking at the expression on its face, it seemed that it was not very happy, and a pair of transparent wings suddenly appeared on its back, and it looked around, "toot" a few times, and then flew in the direction of Jiangya. At the same time, a dark figure stood on the rubble.
"Have you eaten too much lately?" muttered the dark shadow, looking at the roof that had collapsed by himself.
The woman never thought that this dumb boy would catch up. Because he had just stolen some of the sesame oil money from Anguo Temple, he was a little weak-hearted, and he was chased by several monks, and he was very worried that this stupid boy would attract that group of monks, and he was anxious and angry for a while, and wanted to return the money to him, so as not to cause trouble again. But when I thought about it again, if I didn't give this stupid boy a little color, wouldn't I let the people on the rivers and lakes laugh at me? How will I, the "jade-faced thief Chu Ling'er", still mess around on the rivers and lakes in the future? Thinking about it, I immediately stopped, turned around, snorted coldly, and put on a posture of drawing my sword.