Half of his face was very scared, he regretted it, he knew that he shouldn't have taken advantage of this little advantage.

"This ghost looks so ugly that it affects the city's appearance. A ghost said.

"Yes, it's not your fault that you're ugly, but it's your fault that you come out in broad daylight to be scary. Little ghost, I will see you again and fight in the future!"

After saying that, he kicked half of his face into the stinky ditch on the side, and didn't bother to care.

It's obviously midnight, but the ghost thing says it's daylight. A ghost creature squinted his eyes and glanced at the sky, and said, "The sun is so big, and I have encountered a ghost thing, today is not an auspicious day, is it wrong to demolish the temple?"

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Then, the faces of the two ghosts changed drastically, and they were shocked, and one of the ghosts ran away frantically and said, "It's not good, there are evil ghosts coming, run quickly, you can't run away if you don't run." ”

They ran away in a hurry.

Half of his face struggled in the stinky ditch and raised his head, and saw the Minister of Finance pulling Yang Xuan out of the wall slowly.

They are obviously human, and they don't have any eerie and terrifying aura, but the ghosts are afraid. Money can make ghosts grind, and they are afraid of ghosts when they have money.

The Minister of Finance found half of his face and pulled him out of the stinking gutter.

"It's me who is greedy, I want to hunt this group of geese at night, I thought that these ghosts had nothing to do in tearing down the wall, but I didn't expect to meet two evil ghosts who came to pee. If I hadn't met you, I really didn't know what sin I was going to suffer. ”

It was dawn, and half of his face was still urging everyone to repair the city wall, but he had already decided in his heart that this was not a very important matter.

He thought about it for a long time, plucked up the courage to find the financial minister, and he carried a wild goose to thank the financial minister: "Mr. Mo, I was fortunate to have you last night, otherwise I really don't know what would have happened." ”

The minister was busy and nodded.

"It's a little meaning, but it's not a tribute. Mr. Mo, in fact, I'm thinking, with your strength, you are sitting here, and the ghosts will definitely not dare to come and tear down the wall. Sir, do you think this will work? I know that you have a lot of fields out there now, and you can't plough them yourself. I'll let the young people who build the city wall give you twenty gongs a year to farm for you, and the ghosts are coming, can you tell the ghosts not to tear down our city walls anymore?"

The finance minister agreed.

Half of his face was very happy, he walked up to these young people who were building the wall, and announced loudly: "From now on, our slaves of Dou God can no longer build walls, thank Dou God!"

Those hard-working young men all put down the work in their hands, and listened to half of their faces say: "The new Mr. Mo promised us that they asked the ghosts to stop demolishing our temple, and the ghosts will not tear down the city walls in the future, everyone is relaxed, they can go farming, hunting, and no longer have to spend time on the meaningless thing of building walls." “

These young men who had been working the city wall for many years suddenly cheered, and finally they were freed from this heavy manual labor.

One by one, they were very excited.

In the evening, the ghost lord came to the wall of the Dou Temple as usual.

He rode a bony horse and looked eerie.

He stopped in front of the temple of God Dou as usual, he dismounted, circled around the outer wall of the temple, and said to the ghosts behind, "Whose temple is this?"

"Lord Hui, this is the temple of the Dou Shen family. ”

"The people of the Divine City, why do they always want to build a temple in front of our underworld?"

"Lord Hui, this is an agreement between our boss and their father, they can come to Lethe for activities. ”

"Oh, but this temple was built in the wrong place, it is illegal, and it needs to be demolished!"

Then, he took out a large pen and drew a huge word "demolition" on the city wall.

"This building has not been reported, the documents are incomplete, and it can be forcibly demolished, without considering compensation - this building is blocking the road and demolished!" he said proudly, as if enjoying the rights in his hands.

The Minister of Finance appeared on the city wall with Yang Xuan, and the Minister of Finance opened his mouth.

"This brother, more than 5,000 of us rely on the temple to live, you can't just tear down this temple. ”

The guy riding the bony horse was startled, and glanced at the Minister of Finance and Yang Xuan who were standing on the city wall, and a smile appeared on his face.

"Oh, there are so many ghosts in this temple? I don't know about this yet. In the early years, our boss and the gods agreed that ghosts could live in the temple. "The guy on the bony horse is not afraid of the Minister of Finance and Yang Xuan, he said.

"In that case, why is Brother Tai still demolishing the temple?"

"Sir, you know one and you don't know the other," said the fellow on the bony horse, "and our lord once made a pact with the gods of the city that the temple could protect the ghosts. But the gods in the city of God are not things. Originally, there were only a few temples in Lethe, and there were not many ghosts in the temples. Our boss has the virtue of a good life, and he doesn't want to cause more trouble, but these gods are different, after they have an agreement, they build temples everywhere, and ghosts are put everywhere in the temples, and they want to encroach on our territory little by little. “

"Listening to Mr.'s accent, it's familiar, where is Mr.?" said the finance minister.

"The people of the state, the state, was originally a very free place, and they became gods and became powerful, and their power encroached on the state step by step, and now the people living in the state are all slaves of the gods, and they claim to be the people of the gods one by one, prostrate under the knees of the gods. The original freedmen are gone. ”

"Merge the state?" said the finance minister after a long time, "I know this place, but now it is not called a state, it is called a chaotic land." Not necessarily the people who live in that place are the people of the gods. ”

The ghost creature riding the bone horse shook his head and said, "Sir, you don't know, Bingzhou are all slaves of the gods, they are attached to different gods, and the gods have selfish desires, so they often go to war with each other. But against us, they are very united. There is no hope for merging states. Your Excellency will retreat us from the state to Lethe. ”

"Who are you, my lords?" asked the minister.

"Our lord is not at home," said the ghost on the bone horse, "and he will come back when two suns appear in the sky." Now there is only one sun in the sky. “

It's late at night, where is the sun in the sky? The prime minister looked up at the sky, and there was nothing in the sky.

Yang Xuan felt that there was indeed something black in the sky, like a black hole.

Perhaps, this is what the ghost thing calls the sun.

"It's convenient for you, we're forced to live in the temple now, the adults have demolished the temple, we have nowhere to lean on, and Lethe is too dangerous, we have only one way to disappear. We live here, and it doesn't make any difference to you at all. “

The ghost creature riding the bone horse nodded and said, "You have a point, in this way, I won't demolish this temple." In the Lethe River, there are many weird, there are evil ghosts, demons, and ghosts, and there are Yin soldiers in the aisle, and there is indeed no temple to rely on, and you will all disappear. "I love to read

"Thank you, sir," the minister of finance pulled Yang Xuan down the city wall and walked to the guy riding a bone horse, the minister of finance used his body to block the ghosts of this guy, he whispered, "I have a letter of gold here, I was going to come to worship the dock, but after all, people and ghosts have different paths, and I am very happy to see my lord today." “

He shoved the silver into the bone horse.

This guy was very happy, he accepted the money and said to the Minister of Finance: "My surname is Deng, and I am a general, you can call me General Deng or Lord Deng." ”

Then, he rode away on the bone horse with satisfaction, and when he left, he arched his hand to the Minister of Finance and Yang Xuan and said, "Mr. Ghost, there will be a period later!"

Then, the ghosts who were demolished did not come, and the Dou Temple ushered in a peaceful night for a long time.

Half of the face was very happy.

He got up early in the morning and went up to the wall of the Dou Temple, the city wall is still in good condition, and the ghosts last night did not tear down their wall at all.

This made him very excited, if he could get the besiegers out of the city to farm, how rich everyone would be.

However, he saw that a group of people had already begun to work on the side of the city wall, and the city wall was not destroyed, but several of them were still carrying stones, and they were still carrying stones, and they were not lazy at all.

Half of his face felt very strange, and he asked the young men who were still carrying stones, "Why are you still carrying stones? Now that the city wall does not need to be repaired, why don't you go to open up the wasteland and cultivate the land?"

"Boss, we will only carry stones, and if you don't let us carry stones, what are we going to do? We can carry stones for one day, and we can give four days of rations. I really don't want us to carry the stones, even if we go to open up the wasteland, we will have to wait for half a year when the harvest comes, and this half a year, let my whole family drink the northwest wind. ”

Zhu He Xiang was stunned, he really didn't think about this problem, these people are right, if they don't let them carry stones to open up the wasteland, if they have any surplus food at home, they will really starve to death.

He sighed and said, "Yes, some of you may not even know what a hoe looks like." Now, if you work for one day or give you four days' rations, you don't have to build the wall, but go and repair the drains and broken houses in the walls. “

They went away rejoicing.

After a few nights, every night the Minister of Finance took Yang Xuan to deal with the ghosts, and every time the ghosts gave face smoothly.

After half a month of peace like this, the financial ministers all saw that there was something wrong with this group of ghosts, their memories were only one day, and they forgot the events of the previous day every night.

That night, Lord Ghost came to the wall of the Dou Temple again as usual.

He was still riding the eerie-looking bony horse.

He stopped in front of the temple of God Dou as usual, he dismounted, circled around the outer wall of the temple, and said to the ghosts behind, "Whose temple is this?"

"Lord Hui, this is the temple of the Dou Shen family. ”

"The people of the Divine City, why do they always want to build a temple in front of our underworld?"

"Lord Hui, this is an agreement between our boss and their father, they can come to Lethe for activities. ”

"Oh, but this temple was built in the wrong place, it is illegal, and it needs to be demolished!"

Then, he took out a large pen and drew a huge word "demolition" on the city wall.

"This building has not been reported, the documents are incomplete, and it can be forcibly demolished without considering compensation - this building is blocking the road and demolished!" he said proudly, as if he enjoyed the rights in his hands very much.

When he finished writing, he was thoughtful.

"No, this place can't be demolished, a friend of mine is attached here, he and I are very speculative, so let's do it, this temple will not be demolished, give him a little face." ”

Then, he erased the words he had written.

The Minister of Finance stood on the city wall, dumbfounded, he didn't expect that this ghost, who always forgot what happened the day before, would also vaguely have a memory.

He led Yang Xuan down from the city wall.

"Sir from the state, don't come unharmed. The Minister of Finance greeted him and said.

The ghost creature riding the bone horse looked at him deadly, then at Yang Xuan, and then at him.

A slight smile appeared on the ghost's face: "Bingzhou, Bingzhou, we have been away from Bingzhou for a long time, and the adults have given up on Bingzhou, how is Bingzhou now? There has been no news of Bingzhou for a long time, sir, are you from Bingzhou?"

The ghost sat down, he looked at the sky, and said, "It's still early, Mr. Ghost, when did you come to Lethe? Has the annexation of the state fallen? The lord has given up on the annexation, and has the annexation all fallen into the hands of the gods?"

"Merging states is no longer called merging states, it is called chaos. ”

The ghost's eyes lit up, and he said with some excitement: "Since it's called the land of chaos, it's the land of chaos, which means that the state has not yet fallen, and there are still Taoist friends resisting the gods." The rule of the gods in the state is no longer monolithic, and the state is no longer the back garden of the gods, and the people of the state should have a good future. “

The ghost on the bone horse was very enthusiastic, and he was eager to know the news of his hometown. He was very friendly to the Minister of Finance and Yang Xuan.

"Brother, I'm okay here, but I'm very aggrieved, and it's not under the control of the gods here. Although we have a great hatred with the gods, many times we have to compromise with the enemy, you see these temples, we want to tear them down every day. But there are many ghost objects that depend on the temple for their survival, and without the temple, they will disappear. Among the ghosts, there are many people like you, so when we demolish the temple, we will always have some thoughts. ”

Then, he solemnly told the Minister of Finance and Yang Xuan: "In Lethe, there are a lot of powerful ghosts, and they feed on you and us normal people, you must be careful, don't run around the temple in normal times, generally speaking, the area around the temple is safe." ”

He chatted with the minister for a while, and then he said goodbye: "I have an errand to do, and I can't help myself, so I'll talk about it another day." ”

Then, with his men, he rode away on a bony horse. In the days that followed, although he went to the temple every day, he said every day: "There is a ghost of one of my old people living here, this temple does not need to be demolished, tear down one!"

After a few days, a group of old farmers found Zhu Hexiang: "Zhu boss, Mr. Mo is now sitting here with us, and the ghosts are not coming to demolish the temple, so we shouldn't hand in so much grain, and ask us to pay seventy percent of the grain to the temple, which is too much." “

Zhu He Xiang also felt too much, he told the gods, and the gods wanted him to decide himself.

At most, we should pay some food, natural and man-made disasters, widowhood and loneliness," said an old man, "In our hometown, tithes are tithes, that is, one out of ten, and one percent of the public grain is paid, and the rest is our own." ”

The old man's statement was agreed by everyone, and everyone agreed with the old man's proposal.

Zhu He Xiang felt that it was inappropriate, but he didn't know how to say it, he was a little afraid that these people felt that they were seeking personal gain, after all, all the food was in his own hands, and he was in charge of it in the name of the gods, and the gods asked him to self-determine, and he couldn't harm everyone's interests.