Chapter Ninety-Nine: Thick Paper Money Delivered to the Door
"This ......" Zhao Chong lost his mind for a while.
"Is there no other way?" Lin Chen asked.
"It's not nothing, but it's a little bad. Li Qiaoshou said.
It turns out that at the end of each month, the ghost town will let a group of ghosts in the ghost town who are doing well return to the yang world for one night, but there is a price to come back, that is, each ghost must take a piece of paper money as road money. One in, one out.
As for where this paper money came from, it is naturally a product of a ghost town. The Zhao brothers and sisters have been in the ghost town for more than a year, and they have come out seven times in total, but each time one of them comes back, and according to them, they can't afford to pay the high price to buy the road.
When the ghost leaves the ghost town, he must go back before dawn the next day, and if he doesn't, his soul will be gone.
In this case, if it weren't for the two pieces of paper money in his hand, which ghost would have the courage to go out of the city, wouldn't it be a long life? Although he had already died once, it was better than being scattered.
Therefore, the method of yin damage that Li Qiaoshou said was to find two single ones, collect their souls, and rob them of the paper money.
"Will you collect ghosts?" After Lin Qiaoshou said this method of yin damage, Lin Chen asked in surprise.
"No, of course you're going to collect ghosts. Aren't you a Zen cultivator, Zhao Chong just told me that you will subdue demons and catch ghosts. ”
"Hahaha......" The little blind man laughed beside Lin Chen.
Lin Chen's head is also full of black lines, catching ghosts? If you don't count those yesterday, you haven't even seen ghosts.
Thinking of this, Lin Chen suddenly realized a problem, so he asked, "Is that Judge Cui a ghost?"
"What, Brother Lin, you don't plan to take Judge Cui directly, it's too violent!" Zhao Chong immediately became interested when he heard Lin Chen say this, "Brother Lin, how is your mana, why don't we go and rob people directly." ”
Li Qiaoshou saw that Zhao Chong's more and more outrageous things were going to be, and he was afraid that this Lin Chen didn't know the height of the sky, so he really planned to do this, so he hurriedly persuaded: "Don't listen to Ah Chong's nonsense, this Judge Cui is a high-ranking official in a ghost city, where is it so easy to deal with." ”
The high-ranking official of the ghost city? That must be a ghost, but he actually came to this inn to eat, does the ghost need to eat? Lin Chen hurriedly asked the little blind man to confirm.
The little blind man would never be wrong in answering, but he saw with his own eyes that Judge Cui had eaten here, paid and left, and gave paper money.
"Paper money, paper money given?" Lin Chen confirmed again, because it reminded him of the few paper money he saw pressed on the counter when he entered the store yesterday.
"That's still wrong, you can ask the innkeeper yourself. But the boss didn't think it was strange at all, it seemed to be normal. The little blind man said.
Seeing that Lin Chen didn't speak, Li Qiaoshou thought that Lin Chen was really thinking about robbing Judge Cui, so he admonished: "Brother Lin, listen to my father, there are many big ghosts and small ghosts in this ghost town, you must not think about provoking them." ”
"Brother Hand, then it's not right for you to say that, isn't it a ghost town if we sneak into a ghost town?" Zhao Chong said.
"That's different, we get in there, even if we get caught, it's a big deal to stay there. But if you provoke them, Uncle Zhao, my father, and Ajuan, I'm afraid none of them will survive. Li Qiaoshou said worriedly.
"Okay, don't talk about it, this ghost town is definitely going to enter, but we don't know the situation of this ghost town yet, so it's better not to make any extraneous things for the time being. Lin Chen interrupted the conversation between the two.
"Brother Li, is the paper money you mentioned round, yellow rune paper, about the size of a palm. Lin Chen asked.
Li Qiaoshou nodded and said, "Yes, hey, how do you know?"
Hehe, what answered Li Qiaoshou was Lin Chen's weird smile.
"Uncle Wang, come and have something to eat. ”
"Well, hey, why don't you go home and eat today? ”
"Oh, isn't this Judge Cui asking my father to hurry up to make a batch of paper puppets, the family is busy, and there is no one to cook, so I just come to you to pass the count." Li Qiaoshou returned.
"Ah, isn't it ...... recently" But apparently this Boss Wang's reason overcame curiosity in his heart, and he felt that it was better not to ask what he shouldn't ask, so he changed his words and said, "Well, you can directly ask your Aunt Wang to cook a few dishes." ”
At this time, Aunt Wang was busy in the back kitchen, and after Li Qiaoshou went to the back kitchen and said a few words, she returned to the front hall.
"Do you kid have something to say?" Boss Wang saw Li Qiaoshou standing in front of his counter, looking east and west.
"Uncle Wang, did that Judge Cui put the paper money here for you? Li Qiaoshou asked.
"Paper money?" Boss Wang was stunned for a moment, and suddenly said, "It turned out to be you who came to get the paper money that Judge Cui said." ”
As he spoke, Boss Wang took out a wad of paper money from a box under the counter, which was exactly the same as the one on Zhao Wushuang that Li Qiaoshou saw at Zhao Muzhou's house a few months ago.
"Ah, yes, yes, that's it. Li Qiaoshou nodded hurriedly, took the paper money in his hand and looked through it, there were more than 30 sheets.
"Then settle the meal money, Judge Cui said, you will settle the meal money when you come to get the paper money. For almost two months, you see for yourself, this is the bill. ”
Boss Wang flipped the account book to a page, which clearly recorded when Judge Cui came in the past three months, how much money he ate, and how many pieces of paper money he gave.
Li Qiaoshou took out the money bag in distress and paid the money. Although he wanted to say, I only need two, and I can't pay for two. However, he was afraid that Boss Wang would see what was going on, so he had to pinch his nose and admit it.
When Li Qiao returned to the room with the food with a bitter face, Lin Chen and Zhao Chong thought that he hadn't gotten it.
However, when Li Qiao slapped more than 30 pieces of paper money on the table, both of them were surprised.
"So much! Oh, I knew that this was the case, Brother Hand, what kind of yin paper are you still going to collect. Zhao Chong was obviously more excited than surprised.
"Ah Chong, that yin paper is still indispensable. This paper money can only let us in and out, but that yin paper filial piety clothes can allow Ah Feng and Shuang'er to live after leaving the ghost town. Li Qiaoshou sighed after speaking.
Lin Chen realized that this Li Qiaoshou really didn't have any plans for the future, at least he had already taken into account the question of how the two would survive after rescuing the two.
"Alright, now that everything is ready, let's figure out how to enter this ghost town tomorrow night. ”
After a long time, the three of them finally agreed on the details, and Li Qiaoshou and Zhao Chong went home separately.
After the two left, Lin Chen felt that it was still early at this time, so he thought about going to the street to have a look. Last night, I heard the little blind man say that the street was very lively, although he passed the street three times, but once he was confused, once at night, and once in the early morning, so I didn't see any excitement.
Walking on the street, Lin Chen felt as if he had returned to the retro old street of a small town in the south of the Yangtze River, and the street was really like what the little blind man said, quite lively.
Lin Chen used to dislike shopping very much, thinking that it was too much of a waste of time, but now that he sees such a small street, Lin Chen seems to have inexhaustible strength, and wants to make up for all the streets he hasn't visited in the previous thirty years.
"How do you sell this bandana? And other colors? I don't want green, give me a blue one." ”
"Oh, cheaper, cheaper, I'll buy it. ”
"I'm not begging for food, don't think that those with short hair are monks. Have you ever heard of a Zen rod or a reselling of cultural relics?"
After one rejection, Lin Chen started a revenge consumption mode.
"Boss, how much does this kettle and this food box cost, can we buy them together for a discount?"
"Boss, you remember, this, this, and this. Hey, don't take it, I mean I don't want these three, give me a little bit of everything else. ”
"Boss, how long does it take to buy cloth and make clothes from you? How many sets? Ten sets! Ten days? Forget it, let's have two sets. ”
In the afternoon, Lin Chen walked back and forth on this small street for five or six times before he stopped, and when he went back, he bought a lot of things in large bags.
Looking at a man wrapped in a turban, carrying a Zen stick, and carrying a large number of packages, the pedestrians on the road looked sideways. Every time he passed by a storefront, Lin Chen always coughed heavily.
Then, a middle-aged woman will be heard inside loudly and angrily scolding the man, looking down on people, and pushing the God of Wealth out.
Lin Chen was also happy in his heart.
At this time, Lin Chen didn't notice that in an inconspicuous corner, a pair of eyes were looking at him vigilantly.