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Tsing Yi was naturally willing to see it, and when she nodded, Hei Saburo got up and took the plain beauty lamp.

Suxi's beauty lamp has always been lit by the ghost fire in her soul, and now that she is outside the lamp, the lantern is naturally dim.

Tsing Yi watched curiously as Hei Saburo stretched out his hand to tinker in the beauty lamp for a while, and then he took out the ghost fire bead and carefully placed it in the place where the lamp and candle should have been placed.

However, after placing the Ghost Fire Beads, the lantern did not react at all.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ This is the marquee? Tsing Yi was speechless and looked back and forth between the beauty lamp and the ghost fire bead, not to mention what the image was, but he didn't see a single candle flame.

"Not yet." Hei Saburo turned around with a smile and said to Su Xi, who was busy pouring wine for the guests, "Come here!" ”

Su Xi put down the wine jug in his hand and came to Hei Saburo and Tsing Yi in a graceful manner.

Su Xi in front of Tsing Yi suddenly had a light in his heart, and he immediately showed a surprised look.

"It's not enough to have a ghost fire orb, we also need a soul." Hei Saburo smiled and pointed to the beauty lamp, "Go in!" Let's borrow your ghost fire and use it. ”

Su Xi didn't want to hear this, she saluted Hei Saburo very respectfully, followed by her figure for a while, but she made a small piece of soft paper, and flew into the beauty lamp in a hurry.

I only heard a whoosh, and the beauty lamp, which had been extinguished, was suddenly lit. The moment the ghost fire ignited, the still ghost fire beads also swirled with the dripping.

Immediately after, countless flickering lights and shadows suddenly ran out of the lantern, like a rapidly dancing ribbon, silently floating in front of their eyes.

"Ah, that's Jiao Niang!" Tsing Yi saw at a glance the girl who did not hesitate to abandon the child in order to protect her face, and the lady in the phantom was holding a small child and laughing by the river.

The scene flashed by, and then flew back into the lantern with the streamer.

Tsing Yi stared intently at the phantom in front of him. Then she saw that the little child had grown up at a rapid pace. The lady led her to walk in different places, and the scenery around them was constantly changing, the burning fire passing by quickly, the swaying woods, and the men coming and going.

The little girl doll held by Jiao Niang is growing up all the time, and her own clothes are constantly changing. However, her appearance and body shape have never changed.

One day, her appearance finally changed, and when she saw the face of the woman who was no longer young on the bronze mirror, she immediately collapsed and smashed the mirrors all over the room.

Then, Jiao Niang took the young Suxi's hand and slowly walked into the inn.

There is no need to look at it later, Tsing Yi can also know what happened.

Yes, this is the image of Su Xi's life, from her birth to death, her joys and sorrows, her expectations and despair, are all revealed in this just a few breaths.

"I'm done." Hei Saburo smiled, "This is the marquee!" The first time I watched it, it was about a little interesting, but unfortunately mortals have a short life, but I finished it in a few breaths, and I'll get a more interesting soul back for you to show you when I go back. ”

"Hmm." Tsing Yi answered absentmindedly, and then sighed silently at the beauty lamp.

Keenly aware of Tsing Yi's sigh, Hei Saburo's eyes flashed, but he took the ghost fire bead back without moving.

Su Xi got the hint and flew out of the lantern again.

She bowed to Kurosaburo with an expressionless face, as if she was not the desperate and painful person in the marquee, and she still entertained the guests as usual.

Wang Defu was leading everyone to follow behind a line.

Ahead were all sorts of ghosts whose faces and hands and feet could not be seen, all floating in the endless water, motionless waiting to get on the boat.

At first glance, the Santu River is no different from the great rivers of the mortal world, but the merchants stand there as if they are in an ice cellar, and they shiver with cold.

However, no one dared to complain, at most they couldn't stand the cold, so they tossed the lantern they picked up from Qian Wang's corpse a few times.

It was a pity that the candles in the lantern could not be found, and even if they had made some pieces of cloth with the fire to survive, they would not have lasted a quarter of an hour before they were extinguished.

Wang Defu, the leader, reached out and touched his chest from time to time, and after making sure that everyone's ferry money was lying in his arms safely, he looked up at the moon in the sky again.

The crescent moon in the sky was almost west, and Wang Defu pinched the time and began to count the number of ghosts that had not yet boarded the ship in front of him.

Although the iron pillar is sturdy, he is guarding a corpse at this moment, and there is a cold ghost fire bead in the corpse's arms, so he feels colder than others.

"Giggles-Second Brother Wang, I-I-how long do we have to wait?" Tie Zhu, who felt that he couldn't stand it anymore, couldn't help but whisper, "And what kind of place is this...... What, why are there so many of that? ”

"Shhh Wang Defu replied with a stern expression, "There are some things that you still don't know. Now all you have to do is remember to wait quietly and get on board. After crossing the river, we can go home. ”

All the way around, the big guys are looking forward to the king and the horse. Although Wang Defu doesn't look very old, he is well-informed and understands a lot of things they don't understand.

When Tiezhu heard this, he immediately covered his mouth and didn't dare to squeak.

Just in front of us, the ferry docked again. The crowd looked around and saw a man with a clumsy figure waving his hand to let the ghost of TongguΓ² check onto the boat.

The ferry didn't look very big, and to the naked eye, it could only fit a dozen or so men of normal shape.

However, according to Wang Defu's calculations, since the ferry boat docked, there were not fifty ghosts, but thirty, but the boat was still very empty.

As everyone moved up the ranks, everyone was finally able to see what the rickety figure looked like.

It was an extremely shriveled old woman, wearing a tattered robe, and in such a cold place, she was still bare-handed, and she looked quite miserable and unclothed.

Rao is so, but her movements are more agile than those of young people. When a ghost took out his black ghost fire and showed it to her, the old woman immediately kicked the ghost away at a speed that was so fast that no one could see it.

Everyone felt a flower in front of them, and in the blink of an eye, they heard the old woman's dumb voice shouting without panting: "Next! ”

Except for Wang Defu, how could the group have seen such an unbelievable thing, and they were a little frightened at the moment. One by one, they were close together, and even though Wang Defu followed the ghost in front of them, they did not move.

Wang Defu only felt that there was a bit of a cold chill behind him, and when he couldn't help but look back, he found that there was no one behind him.

Wang Defu was a little anxious, the ghost road is the most taboo to leave the team, if someone leaves the water halfway, it is from the ghost road. Outside the ghost road, there are many ghosts and ghosts waiting for their lives, and there are also monsters and beasts waiting to pick up the leaks, if it were not for the ghost road, they would have reached the Santu River safely, but it was impossible.

Thinking of how his companions who came together last time died tragically, Wang Defu's heart was a little worried. At the beginning, the two brothers brought a large group of people out to do business, but because they accidentally entered the land of three ways, he was the only one who got out alive in the end.

Is it going to be like that this time? He was a little unbearable.

Just as he was about to call Tie Zhu and them, Tie Zhu and the others couldn't help but come forward because of their panic.

I don't know who repaired the lantern, but Wang Defu saw a bright light floating from far and near. When he saw the familiar figures appear in the field of vision, Wang He finally breathed a sigh of relief.

When it was their turn, Wang Defu took out the bag of ferry money in his arms, and walked to the old woman with some trepidation.

The old woman lifted her eyelids with a numb look and said in a dumb voice: "Mortal, are you back for the second time?" ”

"Yes." Wang Defu nodded politely and said, "This is the second time I've come to cross the river." ”

"Oh." When the old woman heard this, she just dragged her voice, and then she stretched out her thin hand and said to Wang Defu, "Since this is the second time to come back, I don't need to say the rules." ”

"Yes, yes, yes!" Wang Defu hurriedly handed the ferry money to the old woman, and at the same time said in a low voice, "There are seventeen people with me. ”

The old woman looked at the copper coins and confirmed that there were indeed seventeen ferry dollars, and then she raised her hand and let her go.

Tie Zhu and the others who followed behind were almost shaking the boat, if it weren't for Wang Defu's support on the side, they were afraid that they would have fallen into the river.

Originally, it was very smooth, and when it was the turn of Tie Zhu and Qian Wang's corpse, the old woman who had already let him go suddenly stretched out her hand and said, "Wait! You don't have enough sole proprietorship, these two can't go up! ”

Wang Defu and Tie Zhu were both startled, and they didn't pay attention for a while, and the shelf where Qian Wang's body was lying under his hands trembled, and they almost didn't drop Qian Wang's body.

Fortunately, Wang Defu came back to his senses in time and held down his shelf steadily.

After trying to calm down, he looked up and asked, "Why is it not enough?" There are only seventeen of us, didn't you count them just now, mother-in-law? Why can't we say enough now? ”

The old woman pointed to the man on the boat angrily: "You just said that there are seventeen people, and the ferry money did give me seventeen shares, but now with you, seventeen people have boarded the boat." If the remaining two people want to get on the boat, they must add two more ferry fares. ”

Wang Defu was a little dumbfounded for a while, he silently counted in his heart, for fear that he had miscalculated before. But when he looked at the faces of his companions and counted them by head, he found that there were indeed only seventeen people except for Qian Wang's body.

In this way, does the other party even have to count the corpse capital as a person? Wang Defu, who hadn't expected this in advance, couldn't help but be a little anxious.

"Mother-in-law, this is our companion, but he is already dead, and there is only such a corpse left for us to send home. Someone else is dead, and his soul is gone, so how can he still be considered a person who wants to collect money? Wang Defu pondered and pleaded with the old woman, "Mother-in-law, you care so much about his old lady who is waiting for him to come home, let his body go on the boat this time!" ”

"Let me ask you, does this corpse have any weight?" The old woman replied to herself with a little impatience, "I don't care if he is dead or not, whether the soul is still there, I just collect the money according to the soul and the head, as long as it is not a good person, it must be paid." Moreover, this man had clearly crossed the river and reincarnated last night, and you used his body to pack other things, and if you want to cross the river, you will have to calculate another fee! ”

"But......" Wang Defu was so anxious that he was almost sweating, he looked back and forth in confusion, and asked very suspiciously, "Mother-in-law, you have wronged us, we didn't pretend to be anything else, even if we add Qian Wang's body, we are only eighteen people at most, why did you give us an extra sum of money?" You see, there are only fifteen people on the ship, plus me, Tie Zhu and Qian Wang, there are eighteen people who are clearly clear! ”

"Are you looking at me with old eyes and faint eyes, and you want to fool me?" The old woman angrily pointed to the people who had already boarded the boat, "The people who just got on the boat are obviously fifteen people and a ghost, and that ghost has done a lot of evil things, he is already a terrible ghost, and he has to count money when he gets on the boat." ”

"What?" Wang Defu's voice changed a little in shock, he turned his head along the old woman's hand, his head was dizzy to look back and forth, and only after half a sound did he realize that she was referring to one of the people in the caravan.

Or rather, she was referring to the lantern in the man's hand.

Wang Defu, who understood the reason in an instant, changed his face, who knew that before he could speak, the iron pillar next to him suddenly blurted out: "There is a ghost in that lantern?!" ”。

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