The soldier said: "The monk said that he caught a ghost in the yamen that night, and the ghost appeared, and the monk asked him why he wanted to harm people here, and he said that there was an unjust case in the yamen, and he was wrongfully killed, so he wanted to take revenge." Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 The unjust monk asked it if it had a debtor and a debtor, and whoever killed it would go to whomever it wanted, and why did she kill innocents indiscriminately? The unjust ghost said that the entire yamen was its enemy, and she wanted to kill all the people in the yamen to vent her hatred. Then the two sides fought, but the monk couldn't fight the female ghost, and was grabbed by the female ghost in the back, leaving a few blood marks. The monk ran out of the yamen lifelessly, those few blood marks looked at although it was an epidermal injury, but I didn't expect it to suppurate, and soon rotted a large piece, found a lot of Lang Zhong to heal but couldn't cure it, and finally the monk could only apologize for the sin in the yamen, and promised to pay tribute to the burning paper of the ghost three incense sticks every day, and the injury on his back began to improve, and gradually got better, this time he almost lost his life, the monk said that the ghost is very fierce, and the Tao is not deep, but don't provoke it, and left. ”

Hearing this soldier say that this ghost is so fierce, Xuan'er couldn't help but be a little worried, looked at Yang Xianmao, leaned into his ear and whispered: "Big brother, I originally thought that you were strong in martial arts, and it was no problem to accept a ghost or something, but now, I'm afraid that there will be some trouble, if it really doesn't work, let's just leave." ”

Yang Xianmao smiled bitterly, and thought to himself, why didn't you think so at the beginning, the little devil who caused trouble? Now that the list has been revealed, but he wants to show his identity as the minister of the Qincha and get out, the magistrate is only afraid that he will say in private that this minister of the Qincha is also a master who is afraid of things, and he will go around when he encounters things. Therefore, he decided to meet the magistrate first and improvise.

Yang Xianmao really doesn't have any specific methods, so he can only take one step at a time.

While speaking, they had already arrived at the yamen of Pingjiang County.

At the door, the gatekeeper with the sword guard saw them coming back, because he knew that they were in the city gate tower to ask for talents to catch ghosts, so he looked at Yang Xianmao and Xuan'er curiously, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and asked the old soldier with a smile: "These two are the Taoist leaders who were invited to catch ghosts?

The older soldier was afraid that Yang Xianmao would be angry, so he glanced at it, turned around and slapped the porter on the head and said, "If people dare to take the list, they have real skills, what do you mean by okay? ”

The porter touched his head and hurriedly stepped aside, and the two soldiers led Yang Xianmao and them into the yamen and came to the flower hall to wait.

Reported in, the magistrate soon came, it was a middle-aged man with a fat head and big ears, his face was oily, but at the moment he was a little gray, and his eyebrows were wrinkled together.

It's just that the porter who went to report didn't dare to say that it was a young man and a little girl, for fear that the magistrate would scold him for not knowing how to do things, and let the magistrate come to see it himself, so after the magistrate arrived at the flower hall, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment when he saw Yang Xianmao and the two of them, and went out to look left and right, thinking that these two people were not apprentices or relatives of a master or something, but there was no one else outside the door.

The soldier smiled and said, "These two are the ghost catchers who unveiled the list." ”

Zhixian glared at the soldier fiercely, and then walked in, arched his hand and said, "Please sit down, I don't know what to call up and down?"

Yang Xianmao said: "My surname is Yang, this is the little sister, we have learned some methods of catching ghosts, I heard that the Yamen of Guixian County is haunted, so I will unveil the list to see what is going on, and see if I can deal with it." ”

Pang Zhixian said: "Have the two of you ever caught a ghost before?

Yang Xianmao said: "We have learned some Taoism, but we have never caught ghosts, and the name of the family teacher cannot be said, we are just here to see if we have this ability." I heard that this ghost is very powerful, the first two Taoist friends and a Buddhist brother have been harmed by him, if it is really so powerful, we may have to go back to report to the master, and ask the master and his old man to come out of the mountain to catch the ghost. ”

Xuan'er also nodded hurriedly and said: "Yes, when we unveiled the list just now, we didn't hear that this ghost is so fierce, and after hearing what the two eldest brothers said on the way, we felt that maybe we were a little reckless, or we should go back and ask our master to come out of the mountain." ”

Pang Zhixian's face sank, and he said coldly: "How can the list of the official government and yamen be exposed? Since it has been exposed, this must be done." Otherwise, if it gets out, what face will the yamen have? So, don't be too modest, and catch the ghost tonight!"

Xuan'er stood up and said, "I've only heard of forcing people to repay debts, but I haven't heard of forcing people to catch ghosts." We are not good at what we can, but you still let us catch ghosts, doesn't that send us to death?"

Pang Zhixian sneered and said: "You unveiled the list yourself, and the official didn't force you to unveil the list." Since the list has been revealed, it must be done, this is the rule of the yamen. Of course, if you want to live or die and refuse to catch the ghosts, then it will be done, and you will be punished with a hundred rods, and you will be shackled to show the public for two months. Let everyone know that the yamen's list is not a joke. Take your pick, do you want to catch ghosts or show them in chains?"

Xuan'er said angrily: "I'll tell you ......"

Yang Xianmao hurriedly pressed her hand, looked at Pang Zhixian, and said slowly: "Let's catch ghosts." Now that the list has been revealed, of course it must be caught, don't worry. ”

Tang Zhixian snorted and said: "This is like a word, but I warn you, don't make up your mind to agree first and then secretly escape, because I have already laid soldiers outside the yamen, and you can't run away, if you don't catch the ghost and escape over the wall, you will also have to beat the board and shackle to show the public." ”

Yang Xianmao nodded and said, "I understand this, don't worry, since the list has been revealed, we won't be anticlimactic." ”

Pang Zhixian nodded, stood up and said to the yamen: "Arrange for the two to stay, buy magic weapons according to their requirements, try to the altar, catch ghosts tonight, and notify the third class of yamen officials to monitor outside the yamen wall all night." ”

The officials all bowed down to agree, as if they were deliberately trying to deter Yang Xianmao, which was like shouting in the lobby.

After Tang Zhixian left, Yang Xianmao and Xuan'er were sent to the post station in the yamen by the yamen, where they arranged a banquet and dinner. There were a few swordsmen at the door, as if to prevent them from escaping.

When she arrived at the post station and stayed in the inn, Xuan'er ran over and closed the door, bolted it, and then returned to Yang Xianmao's side, and said in a low voice: "This dog official is really not like words, why don't you take out Shang Fang's sword and behead him with a sword? ”

Yang Xianmao glanced at the official outside the door, then lowered his voice, leaned into Xuan'er's ear and said, "You also said before, there are only those who force people to repay debts, and there are no people who force people to catch ghosts, this sentence reminds me." This Pang Zhi County forced us to catch ghosts, which is unreasonable, but I am afraid that there is something strange in it, I just want to find out the reason, so I agreed. ”

Xuan'er was stunned for a moment, nodded and said, "It's a little weird, but how can you check it if you stay? ”

Yang Xianmao said: "The yamen is so big, we can hide wherever we want, how can the ghost know where we are? Besides, I believe that there is a debtor and a master, if there is really a ghost, the ghost should go to the person who harmed him, we have no grievances with him, how can he come to harm us?"

"Why are you innocent? Didn't you come to arrest him? That is, to oppose him, of course he will trouble you. ”

Yang Xianmao smiled and said: "Don't worry, I have already thought of a way, when the time comes, I will use the magic weapon to sacrifice two phantom dummies to come out, stay in front of the altar, as our stand-ins, and the two of us will hide, even if the ghost comes out, I still think that the phantom dummy made by the magic weapon is us, strangle those two phantom dummies, he will leave, won't we be safe?"

When the princess heard this, she was immediately surprised and delighted, and said, "You still have such a magic weapon? ”

Yang Xianmao shook his head and said: "Not now, you will see it after dark for a while, because this thing cannot be taken back after it is sacrificed, it must be broken, and if you use one, you will have one less." ”

Xuan'er had no choice but to suppress her curiosity and wait for the night to fall.

Yang Xianmao told the officials waiting outside the door to set up an altar at the door of the haunted torture room, a large offering table, cover it with cloth, put various tributes on the table, and then buy a number of ritual utensils.

The official asked him what magic weapons he wanted to buy, Yang Xianmao had not learned the Taoist method to catch ghosts, how did he know. Let me buy all the magic weapons in the magic weapon store back, and I can use them myself, anyway, I don't pay my own money, and it's good to let Pang Zhi County bleed.

The official agreed, and after a while, a few carts of things were pulled by a carriage, but there were all kinds of ritual utensils, which were placed everywhere on the ground, and incense and candles were placed on the altar table, and all kinds of offerings were available. Yang Xianmao circled around those magic weapons, with a straight face, an expression that these magic weapons could barely use.

Pang Zhixian thought that Yang Xianmao was preparing to slip away, so he asked the officials to keep an eye on it, but now he saw that Yang Xianmao had really bought a lot of magic weapons and set up an altar to prepare for the practice, so he was relieved. Before he arrived at the Yamen, he specially went to the altar to tell Yang Xianmao and them to be careful, and then left the Yamen with a nervous expression.

As the two soldiers said, before the sun had set, the people of the yamen had already walked cleanly, and there was not a single one left, and even all kinds of miscellaneous things in the kitchen had left the yamen, and the huge yamen was empty. The small doors of the yamen were all closed, locked from the outside, and through the cracks in the doors, there were soldiers outside, guarding with sharp swords.

Because judging from the murders that have occurred so far, the dead people are all from the yamen, and the ghost did not bully anyone outside the yamen, even if the people outside the yamen were the servants of the yamen, they did not suffer from the scourge of this ghost. Therefore, these officials who were guarding outside were not afraid, their main task Pang Zhixian had already been explained, which was to prevent the young Taoist and his junior sister from leaving.

Yang Xianmao and Xuan'er each changed into a robe, sitting cross-legged on two round futons, and the candles on the delicious offering table had been blown out by him, of course, the purpose was to wait for a while to hide in the dark.