Chapter 15 The town is haunted
Standing on the stone bridge on the river and looking at both sides, you can see the woman washing rice and pulp under the stone steps on the riverbank, the old man in front of the house with his grandson, the fisherman holding a penny in the canopy boat, and the sparse cooking smoke in the evening sky.
When the villagers saw that Bu'an and his party were dressed up in a civilized manner, some people had the courage to come up and ask if they were Confucian scholars passing by.
Several people were taken to the houses of the rich families in the town, and were carefully entertained by the squire-like male hostess, sitting around the table of the Eight Immortals, drinking Yuezhou Longjing, and tasting fennel beans and pine nut cakes.
Not long after, the elderly local Baozheng also came over, and when he heard that there were three gentlemen among the six people, an old face trembled with excitement, and said bitterly: "Don't hide it from Mr. Zhu and the two female gentlemen, my Liudian Town is still peaceful during the day, and it is haunted and fierce at night!"
The owner of the house shook his head and sighed while supporting Lao Baozheng.
Zhu Xiuqi got up and said, "Don't worry, old man, since we are passing by here, we naturally want to eliminate the harm for you." Sit down and tell us how this evil ghost usually makes trouble, and has he ever harmed anyone?"
Hearing this, the man sat down with Lao Baozheng in his arms, and the two of them finally told me about the haunting in the town.
Liudian Town has always been simple and simple, and there are only a handful of murders recorded in the township chronicles, so there will be no evil ghosts, but the bad ones are built along the river in this town.
I don't know how many thin-lived women have committed suicide in this river, and I don't know how many pairs of dog men and women have sunk in the pond and soaked in the pig cage here. Now when the evil moon comes, all of them have turned into ghosts, and they haunt the shore every night, so frightened that people dare not go out at all.
Bu An'an thought, the people who committed suicide by throwing themselves into the river probably became little ghosts, and the grievances of being sunk in the pond were great, what about the simple folk customs, and the people who tied up those wild mandarin ducks and drowned them alive are not these simple villagers. It's scary for an honest person to do a bad thing with the audacity.
Having said that, he didn't ask these people with his own set of values, he just lowered his head and rolled his eyes.
After listening to the complaints of the two, Zhu Xiuqi thought for a while, and said: "It's still early, let's find a place to rest first, and then go to hunt ghosts as soon as it gets dark." ”
Lao Baozheng hurriedly stood up on crutches, and thanked him again and again, and the man immediately arranged a place for everyone to stay.
Bu An and Su Su were assigned to a small room in this house, the room was decorated with some bookish aroma, probably a young master of the man's family. He lay straight on the bed, thinking that Tianmu Academy was not too declining, at least the name was still very useful in this Liudian Town.
Su Su sat on the edge of the bed, holding her head to think about things, and asked after a while: "Childe, I can understand that someone jumped into the river to seek death and became a ghost, but what does the sinking pond and the dipping pig cage mean?"
Bu An shook his head and smiled: "The child's family, you can't understand what you say." ”
Su Su lowered her head and said "oh", but her brows were still slightly furrowed, obviously trying to figure it out for herself.
Bu An sat up and said, "Aren't you tired after a day of walking?"
Su Su blinked and said, "I'm not tired, I'm not tired at all." ”
"Not tired?" Bu An lay on the bed and said shamelessly: "If you're not tired, pinch my legs!
Su Su happily agreed, and a pair of small hands gently raised on Bu'an's legs.
"Heavier...... A little heavier...... Ouch, don't be so heavy...... Yes, that's all. Bu An comfortably covered his head and drilled into the clean bedding, and said with emotion: "Susu, when I get to Yuezhou City, I will also earn such a big house." ”
Su Su was puzzled: "Childe is not deviant?"
Bu An said angrily with the quilt urn in his voice: "What's the use of showing it to your own senior brothers and sisters? ”
He commanded Su Su to pinch and knock, as if he wanted to develop her in the direction of the foot-washing girl, and after a while, he sighed in a low voice: "Don't talk about a big house, if you don't want to make some money, I'm afraid you won't even be able to eat." Saying that, he felt that Zhu Xiuqi was too good at talking, and promised to catch ghosts for others, but he didn't even talk about the price.
Not long after, Song Qing came and knocked on the door, saying that the main family was very generous, and set up an open-air banquet by the riverbank, so that he could catch ghosts while eating and drinking.
The sky was getting dark, Bu An and Su Su followed Song Qing through the hall and walked to the street near the river, but they were stopped by Fang Fei'er halfway. She stood in the afterglow of the last sunset under the Xiao Wall, and said generously: "I wish Senior Brother will go north in a while, Senior Sister Lou has something to say to him, let's avoid it first, and then go when they finish speaking." ”
Song Qing crossed his waist, swallowed his saliva, and said suspiciously: "Senior Sister Xinyue, if you have anything to say to avoid us? Could it be that the two of them deliberately broke us apart and took the opportunity to taste the good wine and food first?"
When Su Su heard him say this, she also felt that it made sense, and while wiping the corners of her mouth, she looked at Bu An with inquiring eyes.
"Two little kids, they don't understand anything. Bu An shook his head with a smile, after Fang Feier's reminder, he naturally guessed that Lou Xinyue had a secret affiliation to Zhu Xiu Qi Fang, and thought: This Senior Sister Lou looks introverted, and she is quite brave at the critical moment.
He walked to Fang Fei'er's side, glanced outside through the gap between the canna leaves on the side of the Xiao Wall, and said with a smile: "Senior Sister Lou has a slow temperament, it is estimated that it will take a while." ”
Fang Fei'er shrugged and said, "That's it, Senior Sister is good at everything, it's just a little twisted." ”
Song Qing stood in the corner of the wall and peeked out, and said casually: "I think Senior Sister Xinyue is not twisted at all, it is Senior Sister Fang who is too straightforward." Everyone said, I don't know if anyone is brave enough to marry you......"
Fang Fei'er's eyes widened suddenly, pinched Song Qing's ears and pulled him over, ignoring his screams, and said in a low voice, "Where did you hear this?"
Song Qing's eyes were dripping, and finally stopped on Bu An, who hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't frame a good person, where did I say such a thing?"
Su Su also helped: "Yes, yes, even if Childe thinks so in his heart, he won't say it." ”
Bu An almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood, and said with a sincere face: "Senior Sister Fang is heroic, handsome and straight, proud of her figure, and the most important thing is that she is kind-heart......ed!
Fang Fei'er let go of Song Qing at this time, and said with a smile: "Actually, I'm not that good......
Bu An shook his head and said, "Look, I missed one thing just now, that is, humility! Senior Sister Fang is so young, she has entered the realm of Mingde, and she is still so humble...... It is the example of me and Song Qing. ”
No matter how straightforward Fang Fei'er is, after all, she is a girl, and being touted by such a fanciful and costless meal will inevitably be a little fluttery, and her face will smile like a flower. She slowly held back her smile and made a dull look of "it's nothing", but the corners of her mouth still twitched slightly, obviously secretly refreshed.
Song Qing looked at Bu An with a look of admiration, but Bu An glanced at him, and said in his heart: "You round-headed and round-headed guy, you said the wrong thing and got into trouble, but you want to frame me." ”
At this time, the sky was completely dark, and the entire Liudian town was covered with a faint layer of red, and the warm evening scene not long ago was replaced by the bleak and strange night at this time.
Song Qing subconsciously moved closer to Fang Fei'er and Bu'an.
Bu An took Su Su's warm little hand, with a hint of revenge on Song Qing, and said softly: "I'll tell you a ghost story......