When night fell, Ah Lang and his party, who had been out for a long time, returned in a mighty way. When Ah Lang, who was dressed in a white coat, came in through the door with a gentle expression, the guests in the lobby suddenly became a little restless.

A kind of blood that seemed to be absent kept coming out of Ah Lang's body, mixed with a slight and elegant plum fragrance, which made the guests present look awe-inspiring.

They must be slaying demons outside!

With one hand lightly pressing the fluttering coat on his shoulder, Ah Lang looked very leisurely after returning from the hunt. When the monsters in the lobby looked at him with disgust or wariness, he just reached out and gently brushed away the long hair that fell on his shoulders, and smiled at the scholars standing beside him: "Let them send all their prey to the stables, and leave them alone for tonight's supper to go back to the room." I haven't done it for a long time, but I'm happy today, but I'm afraid I need some supper at night. ”

"Yes." The little inkstone serving on the side agreed crisply, and then turned around and walked out of the inn again. A moment later, another scholar, Xiaoshu, came in with a rough thorn cage.

Tsing Yi, who was checking out the bill for the guests, saw Fei Shusheng standing on the side with his mouth open and a blank expression, so he quietly kicked Fei Shusheng.

"Ouch-" The frightened Fei Shusheng looked back in a panic and asked, "What-what's wrong Tsing Yi-"

“…… What do you want? It's so distracted. Tsing Yi was really a little helpless about Fei Shusheng, who didn't have any eyes, and seeing that he still didn't react, she glanced in the direction of the gate and signaled, "Take the guests to the stable to settle the prey." ”

"Oh oh oh-" Fei Shusheng, who finally understood, turned around a little unnaturally, and when he found that he had turned in the wrong direction, he quickly turned around and rushed out of Ah Lang like a frightened little beast.

Ah Lang first lowered his head and chuckled, then raised his head and nodded slightly at Tsing Yi.

Tsing Yi, who looked cold, was stunned for a moment, and was about to bow her head, when a flower suddenly appeared in front of her, and she fixed her eyes, but it was Hei Saburo who blocked her in front of her with a smiling face.

Tsing Yi looked at Hei Saburo squatting on the counter speechlessly, and said to her in that familiar command tone: "I'm hungry, go and cook." ”

“…… Good. Tsing Yi, who had never refused Hei Saburo's request, responded as always, and then got up and went to the kitchen.

Xiaoshu laboriously carried the cage containing the prey and followed Ah Lang upstairs, and when he came to the door, Ah Lang suddenly coughed lightly twice, and whispered as if talking to himself: "He is actually guarding against me!" ”

"Who?" The little booklist for unknown reasons only heard the word "guard", and his eyes widened a little nervously at the moment, and he said hurriedly, "Does someone want to be bad for Ah Lang?" Let's call the ark back! ”

"Hmm—not in a hurry." Ah Lang pushed the door and said with an indifferent smile, "Everything has to be done gradually." ”

"Aaron is what he says." Xiaoshu didn't bother at all, and immediately nodded convincingly, "We all listen to Ah Lang." ”

"In that case, go and ask the craftsman to come." As he spoke, Ah Lang casually tore off the coat draped over his shoulders, and the mottled blood spots on the hem of the shirt had already turned brown, looking dry and hard.

Xiaoshu put down the cage and stepped forward to catch the white shirt, and was very troubled when he saw those difficult blood stains.

The blood stains are the most difficult to wash, but this white shirt is newly made, and it has only been worn twice, so it is a pity to lose it. Just as he was struggling with whether to wash and put it away again, he heard Ah Lang laugh unhurriedly: "I'm afraid I'll be bored on the way back, so let that craftsman use this dress to make a doll for us." ”

“…… Be. Xiaoshu folded up the white shirt and held it out with some distress.

There was a faint sound of the laughter of a little girl in the room where the old couple was, and when the little book knocked on the door, there was a sudden silence in the room, and then an old voice sounded: "The door is not locked—"

Xiaoshu pushed the door open with force, and saw a slightly hunched old woman standing there facing the door, holding several ropes in her hands, and at the end of the ropes were several quietly tame monkeys, and when she shook the ropes, the trained monkeys flipped a heel with ease, and tried to stand up on only their hind legs, and shook the two female dolls on the bed like a man.

Xiaoshu only recognized one of the female dolls, Xiuxiu.

Xiuxiu was still clapping her hands and watching Huan, but she didn't want Ah Lang to send the scholars around her, so she pouted at the moment and looked a little unhappy.

The doll saw that Xiuxiu was unhappy, so she silently turned her head to stare at the little book.

Xiaoshu was used to seeing Ah Lang's illness, so he didn't care, he held the white shirt in his hand and said loudly: "It seems that my mother-in-law makes a living by her skills, my Ah Lang wants to use this coat as a puppet, I don't know how much my mother-in-law asks for?" ”

"We don't make dolls." The old woman shook the reins and commanded the monkey to jump in front of the little book, "As you can see, we are just monkey players!" ”

Xiao Shu avoided the monkey who wanted to salute, but he didn't believe it, he pouted at the delicate dolls on the bed, and said, "Then what are these?" Mother-in-law, don't deceive me for being young, I followed our family Ah Lang, I haven't seen anything, such a delicate doll has always been priceless, I don't look at you like a golden character, most of them are made by yourself, right? ”

The old woman snorted twice, but she didn't answer.

Xiaoshu frowned, thought about it and said, "It's better to be like this, you tell my family Ah Lang in person, otherwise I won't leave." ”

"Okay." The old woman did not shirk, she nodded very happily when she heard this, she tied the rope in her hand to the bedpost, and touched the doll's head lovingly, and then followed the little book.

The doll just tilted its head, and then grabbed Xiuxiu's sleeve and said stiffly: "Play? ”

"Wait-" Xiuxiu pulled her sleeve out of the doll's hand, gearing up to call the nerd, "I'll be back soon, and I'll tell you the story of catching the bad guys!" ”

The half-open door was casually closed by Xiuxiu, and then slowly returned to the same place with a squeak. The doll sits alone on the edge of the bed, with a hard, lifeless doll at her hand, and the monkeys snuggled up to each other after the monkey show, where they affectionately groomed each other's hair.

The room was cold and empty, and outside the door was the bustling sound of people. The doll looked up expressionlessly, staring blankly at the door with her empty eyes.

It's just a few steps away.

The doll, who was always motionless, suddenly moved her feet, and then she stiffened and jumped off the edge of the bed.

I heard a muffled sound, and the monkeys, who had been grooming each other's hair, looked up in panic and saw the doll lying clumsily on the ground.

They hesitated, then approached the doll tentatively with curiosity, but due to the rope around their necks, they could only stop halfway and start looking around.

She lay motionless for a few moments, so long that the monkeys thought she was dead, and suddenly she clumsily got up again.

The monkeys shrank back in panic.

She staggered like a toddler who had just learned to walk, her loose bandages dragging behind her like a long tail.

"Mother-in-law......" the doll screamed like a mosquito, and then walked stiffly towards the door.

And where she walked through, there were a few drops of blood.

The old man had been busy going in and out for most of the day, and from time to time he had brought the marionettes back to his room, and then he had gone out with a small baggage, and his strange short servant clumsily carried a large cage and followed them out, and as they passed through the hall, the guests covered their noses and made a nauseous uh-uh sound, as if they had some disgusting smell on them.

Seeing this, Tsing Yi had to order some more incense to cover up the unknown smell that only the sensitive noses of the monsters could smell.

But Fei Shusheng understood very well, and when Tsing Yi lit incense, he leaned over and muttered: "Tsing Yi, let Master Gao boil more hot water." The smell of those guests is quite strong, and the stinky tofu is difficult to compare, which is really ...... It's unbearable......"

"But I haven't heard of it." Tsing Yi put on the lampshade and said strangely, "I didn't know that you have such a smart nose nerd!" ”

“…… No...... You have to be close to smell it. Fei Shusheng lowered his voice a little embarrassed and confessed, "I don't know if Xiao Sheng has heard too many stories about the monster of the spider girl recently, and now I don't feel like a mortal when I look at other people, especially the old couple, the female doll and the servants...... Something looks wrong - it's like a monster! ”

Tsing Yi glanced at Fei Shusheng meaningfully, but muttered in his heart, if he really believed this, he might faint in fright, so it would be better to be suspicious of the letter.

As soon as she thought about this, she no longer broke with Fei Shusheng about the old couple and his party.

"I haven't seen Xiuxiu for a day, Hei Saburo said she was on the second floor." Tsing Yi put away the incense, and raised his feet to go upstairs, "I'll take a look." ”

At the mention of Xiuxiu, Fei Shusheng remembered the spy he should do, so he hurriedly followed Tsing Yi: "Please wait for Xiaosheng, Xiaosheng is just on the same road as you." ”

Originally, Xiuxiuruo was going to find a nerd for help as planned, but when she passed by Ah Lang's door, she vaguely heard Ah Lang's gentle laughter.

Badass stealing dogs!

Xiuxiu immediately remembered the little wolf who was missing, and she was annoyed for a while, and she didn't bother to look for the nerd, so she crutched down by the door and peeked.

Through the narrow crack in the door, she first saw the old couple.

The old woman arched her back slightly, and stood quietly beside the old man with the short servant with the back of her head, except for the servant who couldn't see his face clearly, the other two looked straight ahead.

Xiuxiu blinked, leaned closer, and then saw the sick Ah Lang half-leaning on the couch in an indescribably good-looking posture, his face was not blue at all, white and comfortable; His eyes looked like they had been burned with pine resin, glowing with a warm orange light. When he reached out and brushed away the long hair that was sticking to his cheek, Xiuxiu seemed to see the official Langjun that her mother had pointed out to her.

The mother said that it was called extravagance!

"I only said to book a puppet, but I didn't want my scholar to invite the old woman over." Ah Lang hooked a strand of hair, and with a gentle smile on his face that was beyond reproach, he continued in a slow voice, "That's right, I saw that the broken servant was a little rotten, but he was able to walk and move, which is very good, and I think it will be better when he is first made." ”

"We don't understand what Lang Jun is talking about." The old man pulled his face, full of rejection, "We are a troupe, Lang Jun wants to watch a puppet show or a monkey show, we can all act, please find a puppet master to make a puppet!" ”

"Hehehe-" Ah Lang got up and changed his posture, in Xiuxiu's opinion, the new posture was also very expensive, he stretched out his slender fingers, pointed towards the door, and said softly, "I didn't say anything, but now I have a sentence I want to ask." ”

The old couple looked at each other, and then stared at Ah Lang in unison.

Ah Lang hooked up the coat in Xiao Shu's hand with his backhand, and asked in an affirmative tone: "Look at the blood splashed on my clothes, dark and sticky, and with a rancid smell on my body, it must not be the blood of a living person, right?" It's really a good craft, you can still act like this after dying for a month, and your body has not rotted for a long time! ”

Xiuxiu blinked inexplicably and continued to try to peep. Just as she was concentrating, she felt a heavy stab on her back.

Xiuxiu twisted her back a little angrily and didn't look back, and the people behind her saw that she didn't care about herself, so they poked her again.

"Don't make a fuss." Xiuxiu turned her head irritably and whispered, "I'm busy-doll?" ”

Seeing that Xiuxiu finally turned around, the doll tugged at the corners of her mouth, trying to squeeze out a stiff smile that could almost be ignored: "Xiuxiu-play-"

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