33. Survive
Before it got dark, Ru Sanshui finished the salary account of his subordinates and took it to Liang Jue to see.
Early in the morning of the second day, the sky had just been polished, and two honest and trustworthy people were selected by the subordinates, a water porter and a cook. The two followed Ru Sanshui to the treasury to take the general ledger and counted it in public in the main hall.
The people were waiting in the front yard, and they were all very happy. Many people have already packed their bags, small bags are clothes and odd things, and big bags are covered rolls, waiting to receive the money and go home immediately.
Those who could stand stretched their necks and waited, and those who stood for a short time sat on the ground and on the edge of the corridor, lying on the door in a hurry, probing their brains into the main hall, and pouting their buttocks.
The cook knew a few words, and called the name on the side, and clicked one to come in one. The water man was illiterate, so he helped count the money and hand it over. Ru Sanshui was responsible for crossing out the names of those who had received the money and subsidies, asking those who had received the money to sign the book, and to put their fingerprints with ink if they were illiterate.
With his hair in his hair, the water man laughed silly on the side, his swarthy face flushed like a big crab with burnt edges. Ru Sanshui looked at him, and he explained embarrassedly: "Hehe, I've never touched so much money, hehehe......"
Ru Sanshui couldn't help but laugh at his simple appearance.
Two hours later, there were not many people left, so they didn't wait for the registration word, they came in and waited, and Ru Sanshui asked them to simply sit down. Usually it is the place where the host and the guests sit, but I didn't expect to be able to sit down, so I happily sat down.
The cook didn't sign up anymore, stood aside and wiped her hands with the hem of her clothes, looked at the money on the table, and waited to reach out to take it. Ru Sanshui saw that she couldn't wait, so he handed her share with his own hands.
There was only one person left, and that was the little guy cleaning in Liang Qian's room, who seemed to be only fifteen years old, the youngest person in the Overseer's Mansion. At the beginning, because his family was poor, he voluntarily came to sell himself, in order to beg for a full meal.
He sat until the end, when the people in the hall and the front yard were gone, and they still sat still. Ru Sanshui put away the account book, walked up to him, and handed him the money and the deed of sale, but saw that his eyes were red and swollen, and his mood was low.
"Xiao Xuan, I'm going home, why are you unhappy?"
It's okay not to ask, but when I asked, his tears came down: "Last night...... Last night, there was a disaster in the family, and three people died, and now my little sister and I are left...... Woo...... Now when I go back, there is nothing left on the four walls of the house, I still have to bury them, and I have to feed my little sister, what should I do......"
Ru Sanshui was stunned, and hurriedly handed out the handkerchief: "What's wrong?" The man who carried the water and the cook also came over when they heard the sound.
"I don't know, the neighbor's uncle came to tell me, and something happened to him and their family...... It seems that he has encountered an evil spirit...... Woo, why ...... Why is it that at this time, we can go together even today...... We've already discussed going to Shinshu......"
After listening to the narration, Ru Sanshui suspected that it was a rakshasa again. She gave Xiao Xuan some more money so that he could bury his family. Half an hour later, Ru Sanshui rode a horse with Xiao Xuan and arrived at his home in the southwest of the city.
It was the very edge of Luzhou City, a poor people's settlement, and the ground in the village was potholed and the houses were dilapidated. At this time, it was already three poles old, and after stepping into this block, Ru Sanshui saw the twins of the two Bai families before.
The two of them were wearing the same blue and soft linen clothes, and they were doing business. On the ground in front of him, a six-sided formation was drawn in white lime, and next to him stood five adult men who volunteered to assist in the formation. Among them were laid five straw mats, and five gray-faced people, old and young, all took off their shoes and socks, and dotted cinnabar on the palms of their feet and eyebrows.
The two of them held their swords straight up, the tip of the sword in front of the center of their eyebrows, chanted silently, and then the two swords crossed and pointed to the middle of the array, and suddenly a black qi rose from the center of these people's eyebrows. At the same time, the helper poured white rice into the center, and the white rice suppressed the black gas in the air, and after falling, it made a sound like a burn, and all of it turned black.
Ru Sanshui knows that this is to suppress the soul in the body, and at the same time drive the array to arouse the resonance of the soul and the spirit, one yin and one yang twin grams, attracting each other, you can recall the spirit. When I first summoned Bao's spirit, I used the same method.
After a little inquiry, Ru Sanshui learned that in a village here, there were a total of four families that were victimized, and thirteen people who encountered evil spirits, all of whom were eaten by Rakshasas. Five of them had their souls eaten and died instantly, and three died after a night's hard work. The remaining five people are the five people in this formation who are being rescued by the Bai family twins with all their might.
The sun rose higher and higher, and the formation drawn by the white lime did not touch the water, but began to emit heat. The white light is dazzling. Ru Sanshui pulled Xiao Xuan back two steps and covered his eyes with one hand.
A moment later, the white light in the formation was replaced by a sudden overflow of black qi, and as soon as the black qi came out, it disappeared in the sunlight in an instant. The traces of the formation also disappeared along with the dissipation of the black qi, and three of the five people in the formation came to their senses. The remaining two people, the five-point cinnabar moles on their feet, hands, and eyebrows were all blackened, and their souls leaked out, and they were powerless to return to the sky.
The families of the two deceased instantly collapsed and rushed forward to hug the corpses and cry. Xiao Xuan broke free of Ru Sanshui's hand holding his arm, ran over and hugged a survivor, crying, "Dad!"
There were two points of grievance, three points of luck, and five points of misery in that cry. Ru Sanshui was moved for a moment, turned his back and quietly wiped two tears.
She stepped forward to ask the other two people who survived, and they all said that they saw purple fluorescent flying insects in their sleep, and they couldn't see it when they opened their eyes, but they could feel the pain of being pecked, and then they lost consciousness.
Ru Sanshui looked at the Bai family twins who were meditating and trimming, embarrassed and hesitant, and finally passed with a shy face. After the two of them finished meditating, they stood up and saw Ru Sanshui coming over, and the brothers glanced at each other.
Then he bowed his hand to Ru Sanshui: "White light." "Bai Fu. ”
Ru Sanshui paused, but she didn't expect that she hadn't asked yet, these two people were surprised first, so they had to honestly report their names: "Ru Sanshui." ”
At the same time, I muttered in my heart, Guangfu, the name given by this father and mother is really real, full of deep nostalgia for the Northern Song Dynasty and deep concern for the family and country......
Bai Fu: "Did Miss Ru also come here when you heard about the Rakshasa trouble?"
Ru Sanshui nodded, then shook his head again: "I just guessed that it was a rakshasa to check the situation." Since you both said this, it proves that I am not wrong. ”
Bai Fu: "We have checked the traces around us, and there are at least two rakshasas. ”
Bai Guang added: "Counting the one that was exterminated last time, there are already three. ”
Ru Sanshui was surprised: "At least two of them this time? What happened last time is strange enough, as far as I know, rakshasas don't move around to forage for food, and usually lay traps and wait for the victims to fall like spiders." Why did the same anomaly happen one after another, and was someone premeditated?"
The brothers looked at each other again, and Bai Fu nodded and replied, "We suspect that someone has captured and raised rakshasas, and the recent casualties are that they are 'grazing'. ”
Ru Sanshui was shocked by this answer, and was a little distracted. She wondered if the first time she encountered it was also 'grazing', and was it a man-made disaster rather than a natural disaster?
When he was still pondering, he was suddenly pushed by someone and stumbled.