In the courtyard of this family's high gate, there is a plaque with a brown background and gold edges hanging under the wide and bright gatehouse, and there are two gilded characters on it.

The vermilion gate is covered with yellow and bright charms, and at a glance you can know that it is written on high-quality yellow paper and cinnabar, and the tall courtyard wall is painted with cinnabar, and it looks like it is washed in blood through the faint smoke.

On both sides of the door, a pair of stone lions in the town house are tall and mighty, lifelike. The eyes of the stone lion seem to have been painted with cinnabar, red as blood, as if they want to choose people to eat. In the open mouth, there is an oil lamp, which looks like it has a ray of light in its mouth and is about to erupt from a distance.

In the open space in the middle of the stone lion, the huge bronze incense burner in front of the top is more than half a zhang high, the incense burner is inserted with three small trees-like high incense, the incense head is burning vigorously, there are slowly incense smoke wafting out, the fragrance is refreshing, it smells good.

The knee-high ashes on both sides of the incense burner have been blown away by the wind, and the streets in front of the door are all there, and I don't know how much paper money has been burned.

Behind the incense burner, there is a wide table of eight immortals, three animals are in front of the table, six animals are behind, five grains, fruits, pears and dates and pastries are placed at the end of the table, a pot of wine is placed in the corner of the table, and five wine glasses are lined up along the edge of the table, and wine is poured in the cup.

Tianwu Dao people walked straight to the offering table, passing by the pile of paper ash on the ground, the sleeves of the robe flicked, the thick paper ash swirled into the distance, walked to the offering table without shying away, and was unceremonious, one hand pressed the pig's head, one hand grabbed the pig ear, pulled hard, the whole pig ear was torn in his hand, a mouthful, full of incense, couldn't help but give a thumbs up to Zhang Xiaopaw and the three people, praised: "Fragrant, really fragrant! Cooking skills are really good!"

Zhang Xiaopaw and the three of them were dumbfounded, if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they wouldn't have believed that the Great Heavenly Master of Daomen would steal other people's tributes to eat, this is really too bad for status.

Besides, can the tribute be eaten secretly? Whether it is for the gods or the ghosts, they will be punished, right?

But thinking of the identity of the person in front of them, the three of them were relieved, thinking that this family surnamed Dong was really not as good as offering gods and ghosts to the people in front of them.

The Tianwu Daoist walked to the opposite side of the table, took a sip of a glass of wine, drank it all, and praised: "Good wine!"

As he spoke, he drank three more glasses in a row.

Niu Dawa was hooked by the smell of meat that drilled her nose, her throat squirmed, she swallowed several mouthfuls of saliva, and couldn't help but take a step forward and asked the Tianwu Daoist cautiously: "Senior, can we eat it?"

The Heavenly Martial Daoist looked at him and smiled and asked, "What are we here for?"

"Catch ghosts, catch ghosts. Niu Dawa replied.

"Why did his family put these tributes for?" asked the Heavenly Martial Daoist again.

"Well, ask the gods and Buddhas to bless you, or ask the ghosts to raise their noble hands, no, raise the ghosts' hands and let them live. Niu Dawa said.

The Tianwu Daoist said: "To put it simply, it is to ask for peace, and we are here to send them peace, which means that this table of dishes is specially prepared for us." Since it was prepared for me, I can eat it. ”

Niu Dawa looked confused, and then looked at the Tianwu Daoist with a look of admiration, feeling that what his old man said was reasonable, so he immediately put down his scruples, sucked a mouthful of saliva that flowed to the corner of his mouth, and reached out to grab the pig's head.

"Stop!" the Heavenly Martial Daoist suddenly shouted.

"Ahh

Zhang Xiaopaw and Zhou Jianlai were also taken aback, and looked around vigilantly.

"Don't be afraid, the ghost didn't come. The Tianwu Daoist was amused by the nervous appearance of the three of them, and laughed: "The old man just wants to say that you can eat whatever you want on the table, but you can't touch the pig's head, because the pig's head is the old man's favorite." ”

"Senior" Niu Dawa looked at the Tianwu Daoist with a resentful face, slapped his chest and said in a muffled voice: "You scared me to death." I've got to eat a chicken to make up for it. ”

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and tore off a chicken leg, viciously

Tearing off a big mouthful, his mouth was suddenly full of incense, and he couldn't help but give Zhang Xiaopaw and Zhou Jianlai a thumbs up, and praised: "Well, it's delicious, it's delicious!

Zhang Xiaopaw and Zhou Jianlai looked at each other and smiled, immediately put aside their scruples, and walked to the table.

On the empty street, Zhu Zixiao held a sword in one hand and a maid's hand in the other, running wildly all the way.

The only sound of his and his maid's hurried footsteps and wheezing echoed through the empty streets, and there was not the slightest sound, as if the whole city had become a dead and empty city, and only the two of them were left, and the terrible monster that followed them.

The terrible silence made the two of them more desperate in their hearts.

"Father-in-law, the slave and maid can't run! You run, leave me alone!" The maid suddenly gasped and said breathlessly, her face was sweating profusely, and her face was rapidly turning pale from the flush caused by strenuous exercise, because her physical strength had been exhausted, if she hadn't been forcibly pulled by Zhu Zixiao, she would have been unable to collapse on the ground.

Zhu Zixiao's left arm was pulled violently, taking the maid's delicate body into his arms, and running forward with all his might. At this moment, he regretted it, regretted that he was idle on weekdays and didn't work hard to cultivate, otherwise he wouldn't be so embarrassed.

In a hurry, Zhu Zixiao glanced back, and his heart sank again, because the black shadow behind him was still hanging not far behind, hiding in the smoke and half-disappearing, as if he was playing a game of cat and mouse with their master and servant, and they would pounce on them and eat them until they were exhausted.

"Dog mongrel!" Zhu Zixiao roared hysterically, and suddenly exerted force under his feet, and his speed increased again, this time he used all his strength to feed, if he couldn't reach his destination before he was exhausted, he could only paralyze on the ground and wait for death. Fortunately, the destination is already not far ahead, only a few hundred steps away.

Finally, three lights appeared in the dark night ahead.

Zhu Zixiao was overjoyed, knowing that it was the light from the high incense in front of the Dong Mansion and the divine power lamps in the mouths of the two town mansion stone lions.

He heard the maid say that Dong Daguan's family invited a Taoist master with profound Taoism, and the front of the courtyard was not only full of powerful charms, but also a secret law prohibition, and the mana was boundless. It is said that even if the black and white impermanence of arresting people in the underworld comes, they will be blocked out.

Dong Mansion is Zhu Zixiao's place of survival.

As the distance narrowed rapidly, the scenery in front of Dong's Mansion quickly appeared in Zhu Zixiao's field of vision.

Suddenly, he heard a sound of chewing and then four figures appeared in his field of vision, probably eating around a square table. Immediately after the distance quickly narrowed, after seeing the general situation a little, he was suddenly frightened, his legs and stomachs were twisted, and he stumbled under his feet one after another, and almost fell.

Zhu Zixiao stopped his steps abruptly and looked at the door of the Dong Mansion in disbelief.

The green smoke from Gao Xiang's burning spilled down, blocking Zhu Zixiao's vision and making him unable to see it really. But he had already seen the general scene very clearly, there were four figures eating around the offering table placed in front of the door of the Dong family. His first reaction was that the four demons and monsters were eating tribute rice, how could they not be frightened.

"What's coming, is it a human or a ghost?

A shout suddenly sounded, Zhu Zixiao was overjoyed when he heard this, knowing that there was a person in front of him and not a ghost, so he immediately rushed forward, and at the same time shouted with a trembling voice that cried with joy: "Ask the Taoist Lord to save my master and servant two cheap lives!"

He thought that the four people at the table were the Taoist masters invited by the Dong Mansion.

Zhu Zixiao's feet were extremely fast, and the time to speak was approaching, and he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, only to see that the four of them were full of greasy mouths, how could they have the demeanor of a master. There was only a short and fat old man, wearing a costume as wide as a costume, which was not funny. At a glance, it looks like a fake old man with three followers, under the guise of subduing demons and catching ghosts, and working everywhere to cheat and cheat.

Zhu Zixiao's first

The first reaction was to scold my mother in my heart, thinking that the Dong family was really sick and rushed to the doctor, and even such an obvious charlatan couldn't tell the difference, so he went home to get it.

However, when his eyes fell on the faces of two of them, he suddenly felt familiar, his expression was stunned, and two figures appeared in his mind, and his disappointment was immediately lifted, and his face showed ecstasy again, put down the maid in his arms, took two steps forward, and bowed his hand: "In Xia Zhu Zixiao, I have seen a real person!"

He first greeted the Tianwu Daoist who looked like a fake old man, and the Tianwu Daoist was fighting with a pig's head, and he had no time to pay attention to him. He smiled embarrassedly, and saluted Niu Dawa again: "I've seen this son!"

"Well said. Say. Niu Dawa raised the half-gnawed duck rack in his hand, and muttered in a low voice: "It's good that it's not a ghost." ”

Zhu Zixiao then looked at Zhang Xiaopaw and Zhou Jianlai, and arched his hand: "I've seen Zhang Gongzi, Zhou Gongzi." ”

The fake old Tao and the three followers in Zhu Zixiao's eyes were none other than those who were hungry, and they happened to see a table of tributes at the gate of the Dong Mansion, and immediately ate and drank the sea without taboos. The shouting question just now came from the mouth of Niu Dawa.

"Do you know the two of me?" Zhang Xiaoshu heard Zhu Zixiao directly say his and Zhou Jianlai's surnames, and looking at Zhu Zixiao's expression, he should know the two of them, and couldn't help but feel curious, because he had carefully looked at Zhu Zixiao and the maid behind him, and found that he didn't know these two.

Zhu Zixiao nodded and smiled: "That day, Zhang Gongzi and Zhou Gongzi showed their might in the underground boxing arena, and they were fortunate in the next three lives, and they happened to be in the boxing ring, witnessing the wonderful battle between the two sons. ”

Zhang Xiaopaw and Zhou Jianlai suddenly realized that they were spectators in the boxing arena that night, and it was not strange that they could recognize the two of them.

Zhang Xiaopaw looked in the direction where Zhu Zixiao came, frowned slightly and asked, "Why is Zhu Gongzi running so embarrassed in this late night, on this silent and uninhabited street, and shouting for help?"

Zhu Zixiao immediately knelt on one knee and pleaded: "I beg the real person and the three sons to save my master and servant two cheap lives." ”

"Please help!" The maid hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged, and after Zhu Zixiao's words reminded her, she also held back Zhang Xiaopu and Zhou Jianlai, thinking of Zhang Xiaoshu and Zhou Jianlai's prestige in the ring that day, she suddenly felt saved in her heart.

So as soon as she knelt down, she kowtowed like a chicken pecking rice, and her smooth forehead banged on the hard stone floor, and it didn't take a few strokes to knock out the blood, but she didn't seem to feel pain, and still knocked violently. Because she had already made up her mind in her heart, even if she broke her head tonight, she would ask these four powerful adults in front of her to save her son-in-law.

Zhang Xiaopu hurriedly stepped forward to help Zhu Zixiao and his maid, and said, "Zhu Gongzi, don't talk about it slowly!"

As he was talking, Zhang Xiaopu's pupils suddenly trembled suddenly, because there was a terrifying figure he was familiar with entering the enveloping range of his subtle state of mind, no need to ask, Zhu Zixiao and his maid must have been chased here by the stone statue ghost.

Although he had seen it in his dreams, and he had also told the Heavenly Martial Dao people and others about the stone statues, this was also the first time he had really seen the stone statues and ghosts, and the terrifying face was exactly the same as in the dream.

Thinking that it was attached to him, coming all the way to this wild goose city from the underground pit of the Black Forest, and unknowingly planting a wisp of ghost qi on him, wanting to frame him and let him help him resist the punishment of heaven, Zhang Xiaopaw couldn't help but feel creepy, and at the same time angry.

He took two steps forward, and shouted at the smoky and empty street: "Bold and wicked, don't get out of here and die!"

The night was very quiet, and Zhang Xiaopai's shouting was very loud, so the sound traveled far and into the surrounding houses, so frightened that the people who didn't dare to sleep shrank into the quilt and shivered.

In the distance of the street, at the end of the field of vision, there was smoke, and there was no sound to respond to Zhang Xiaopai's roar.

However, the bone knife in Zhang Xiaopaw's hand suddenly slashed out.