Chapter 27: Yellow Springs

Cao Xiaoyang walked up to Tang Wenwen with the pastries, intending to eat these things with her, although they were hungry very slowly after being ghosts, they hadn't eaten for two days.

Cao Xiaoyang picked up the pastry and handed it to Tang Wenwen, and suddenly felt that something was wrong.

"No, we're ghosts, how can we eat human food, I remember you used to order a few sticks of fragrant wax and smell the smell to be full?"

Tang Wenwen picked up the pastry and took a bite, and said while eating: "This is not ordinary mortal food, it is a tribute, so ghosts can also be eaten." ”

"Oh, I see. ”

This is Tang Wenwen said with a smile: "I haven't eaten anything sweet for a long time since I died, this pastry is really delicious." ”

Cao Xiaoyang put the piece of pastry he picked up back into the basket and said, "Eat more if it's delicious, I'll give it all to you, I'm not hungry anyway." ”

Tang Wenwen suddenly stared at Cao Xiaoyang with a strange look and said, "What, are you trying to compensate me?"

Cao Xiaoyang felt that she was a little inexplicable when she asked this.

"Compensate, compensate what, why should I compensate you?"

Tang Wenwen frowned. "You don't want to admit what happened last night. ”

Cao Xiaoyang scratched the back of his head.

"But I just slept with you last night and didn't do anything else. ”

Tang Wenwen said: "I don't care so much, it was said in that TV series that after the boy and the girl sleep, the boy has to compensate the girl." ”

Cao Xiaoyang was a little speechless for a while, scratched his head and said: "Wenwen, listen to me tell you, the 'sleep' in that TV series is different from ours' sleep, they added extra programs, so they need to be compensated." We're just sleeping, and there's no extra program, so there's no need to compensate. ”

"What's the extra show?"

"That's it...... The part that wasn't allowed to air on TV. ”

Tang Wenwen was suddenly a little unhappy. "I know, you just don't want to admit it, you don't want to compensate me, that's why you made up lies to lie to me, scumbag, you should really let Sister Rakshasa Bird eat your eyes. ”

Cao Xiaoyang was really helpless, so he said: "Okay, okay, all these pastries are for you to eat, just think I will compensate you." ”

Tang Wenwen thought for a while and said, "You better eat some, we have to pass through the ghost gate and take Huangquan Road at night, I'm afraid you won't have the strength by then." ”

Cao Xiaoyang sighed, thinking to himself that this stupid girl was also a top student in a key high school before her death, how could she be such a complete stupid white sweet.

They spent the whole day in the inn, and finally night fell, and they left the inn before the time and waited at the location of the ghost gate.

And hundreds of ghosts came behind them at some point, all waiting for the ghost door to open.

With the sound of Zi Shi beating the voice, the stone door of the ghost gate finally opened slowly, and inside the door, there was a black vortex similar to a wormhole, and the ghosts who rushed into the ghost gate in a panic disappeared in an instant after entering.

After the ghost gate was closed, the first important checkpoint of their trip, Huangquan Road.

As the old saying goes, when you step on Huangquan Road, you can't see the sun, moon and stars upward, you can't see the land dust downward, you can't see Yangguan Avenue forward, and you can't see your beloved relatives and friends backwards.

Gradually, all the ghosts entered the ghost gate, and only Cao Xiaoyang and Tang Wenwen were left in front of the gate.

At this time, Tang Wenwen said to Cao Xiaoyang: "I'm a little scared. ”

Cao Xiaoyang took her hand and said, "Don't be afraid, hold my hand, and don't let go no matter what." ”

So the two of them also walked into the ghost gate and stepped on Huangquan Road.

At this time, Cao Xiaoyang found that his eyes were instantly blind, he couldn't see anything, and his ears couldn't hear any sound, which felt like he had fallen into an absolute dead silence, Cao Xiaoyang even felt that his body had disappeared, and now only his consciousness was left floating in a strange space.

After a while, Cao Xiaoyang felt Tang Wenwen's hand, and then gradually sensed the existence of his body, and felt that his feet were walking forward on a road.

It turned out that this was the feeling of walking the Huangquan Road, Cao Xiaoyang thought that if he was not invited by the Emperor Xudu, but walked the Huangquan Road by himself after death, what a feeling of loneliness, helplessness and confusion would be.

Sure enough, people will continue to suffer after death, and if they want to suffer less sin after entering the Yellow Spring, they can only do more good deeds and accumulate more yin virtue while they are alive.

Cao Xiaoyang felt Tang Wenwen's hands trembling at this time, thinking that this silly girl must be very scared now, and wanted to comfort her, but then thought that she shouldn't be able to hear any sound now, so he pulled her to speed up her steps, trying to finish the Huangquan Road quickly.

I don't know how long it took, Cao Xiaoyang saw a bright spot in front of him, he became a little excited, his speed increased again, and finally the surroundings lit up, and he walked out of Huangquan Road.

At this time, he thought that Tang Wenwen should have been frightened, and if she was given a comforting hug at this time, she would definitely not refuse, after all, this kind of advantage is not taken advantage of.

So he took him by the hand into his arms, and was about to say two sensational words, when suddenly he felt that something was wrong.

After Tang Wenwen walked Huangquan Road, she not only became thinner but also taller, and most importantly, the taste on her body also changed and became a little disgusting.

Cao Xiaoyang let go of him little by little, and when he looked closely, he almost didn't scare his head off, and the person standing in front of him now was actually a skinny man in tattered clothes.

"Damn, who are you!"

The man looked displeased.

"Dude, I want to ask who the you are, just now you ran inside holding my hand vigorously, and now you gave me a hug after running out, are you sick!"

Cao Xiaoyang looked confused, and at this time a laugh came from behind him, and when he looked back, it was Tang Wenwen with a wicked smile.

Cao Xiaoyang seemed to have figured it out, he was a little too nervous when he first entered the ghost gate just now, and unconsciously let go of Tang Wenwen's hand, and when he calmed down and went to hold his hand again, it was already another ghost that he pulled.

"I'm sorry, brother, I recognized the wrong person, oh no, I recognized the wrong ghost. ”

After crossing the Huangquan Road, this is also the area that has stepped into the underworld, looking around, the surroundings are all gray and black tones, there are some trees growing crookedly on the side of the road, but there is not a single leaf, the grass on the ground is also as if it has been burned by fire, there is no life, and the surroundings are all a lifeless scene.

Cao Xiaoyang and Tang Wenwen continued to move forward along this road, and encountered a lot of ghosts along the way, but compared to when they first entered the ghost gate, there were many ghosts still trapped in Huangquan Road.

Walking and walking, due to the different speeds of travel, the ghosts that came out of Huangquan Road gradually dispersed, Cao Xiaoyang and they couldn't see any trace of other ghosts after walking for a while, especially in such a dead and silent environment, Cao Xiaoyang felt that if he wasn't accompanied by Tang Wenwen, his mood would be extremely low and lonely at this time.

Once in the underworld, ghosts lose the ability to fly, they need to walk on the ground, and they become tired.

After walking for more than an hour, Tang Wenwen was so tired that she couldn't walk, so Cao Xiaoyang took her to sit on the stone on the side of the road and rest for a while.

In the distance, a short man with a hat and a wooden staff staggered towards them.

"You two, we're meeting again. ”

Cao Xiaoyang took a closer look, this guy was actually the land melon who wanted to cheat them out of money at the Undead Inn last night, and then he remembered what Chen Po told him before, saying that this guy likes to cheat and cheat, and he must not believe what he said.

Because this guy was still lustful and wanted to be light on Tang Wenwen before, Cao Xiaoyang's impression of him was not very good, and Chen Po said that he was a liar, so Cao Xiaoyang didn't want to deal with him at all.

"What's the matter, you don't remember me after only a day of not seeing me?"

The land melon leaned over with a smile, and Cao Xiaoyang took Tang Wenwen's hand.

"Let's go. ”

Cao Xiaoyang has tried his best to show his indifferent attitude, but this guy seems to like to put his hot face on people's cold buttocks, and he still follows behind Cao Xiaoyang with a smile and talks endlessly.

Cao Xiaoyang couldn't stand it anymore, so he said to him viciously: "Are we very familiar? I told you to follow me again and be careful that I will beat you." ”

The land melon still didn't mean to retreat, and said: "It's ripe after one birth or two, this is the second time we've met, so we can be regarded as acquaintances." ”

Cao Xiaoyang raised his fist and made a gesture of beating people, and the guy who was a land melon looked like a cowardly egg, so he covered his head and took a few steps back.

"You didn't build this road, why can't I go, we just happen to be on the same road, how can I say that I am following you. ”

Cao Xiaoyang didn't want to deal with him anymore, let alone rap with him, so he pulled Tang Wenwen and continued to walk forward, who knew that this land melon was like a dog skin plaster, no matter how he got rid of it, he followed behind Cao Xiaoyang's ass in the blink of an eye.

"I said, where are you going?"

"You don't have to worry about it. ”

"If you want to go to the Santu River crossing, the road behind you can go around you to death, and I dare say that without my map, you will definitely not be able to get out of here." ”

As soon as he heard him say that the road ahead was complicated, Cao Xiaoyang finally stopped.

"What map, you say?

The land melon smiled slightly. "A map of the mountain, of course. ”

As he spoke, he pulled a roll of sheepskin maps out of his trouser pocket and said, "Many of the new ghosts got lost in this mountain, and in the end they became lonely ghosts before they even reached the crossing of the Santu River. But I've already figured out the roads around here, and I've drawn a map to guide the new ghosts, and with my map, I'm sure you'll be able to get out in less than half an hour. ”

Cao Xiaoyang stretched out his hand to him. "Lend me the map. ”

The land melon took two steps back and said, "There is no free meal in this world, you can look at the map if you want, but you have to spend money to buy it." ”

When Cao Xiaoyang heard that he still had to spend money, he turned around and left, and then the land melon followed up again.

"Don't be in a hurry to go, I just said, we are acquaintances now, I can give you some discounts, usually when I sell to other ghosts, it is five copper plates a piece, today I should make a friend with you, how about two copper plates and one piece?"

Cao Xiaoyang said: "We don't have any money, and we can't get a copper plate. ”

"I don't have the money to exchange it for other things, I see that you are carrying such a big bag, there are always some valuable things in it." ”

Cao Xiaoyang only then remembered Yang Qian's instructions before, saying that he should open the bag after crossing Huangquan Road.

So he opened the bag and found that it was divided into four layers by some pieces of cloth, and each layer contained one thing, and the first layer happened to contain four copper plates.

Cao Xiaoyang thought to himself, could it be that Grandma Tai had expected that I would buy maps from someone here, so she prepared these copper coins?

So he took out two copper coins and planned to hand them over to the land melon, but Tang Wenwen stopped him and whispered in his ear: "Chen Po said that he is a liar, and we should not buy anything from him." ”

Cao Xiaoyang said: "It doesn't matter, it's just two copper plates, even if we are deceived, there is not much loss, if there is no map, we will get lost, it will be very troublesome." ”

At this time, Cao Xiaoyang simply understood the "fraud" that Chen Po said before that the land melon likes to cheat and deceive as a cheating of money, thinking that this guy is just a little person who is greedy for money and sex, and it is not worth too much speculation, so he gave him two copper plates and changed the map.

After getting the money, the land melon smiled slightly, and then sang a little song and walked away.