22 Xucheng Crisis (Part 2)
Dou Ranlan was born in Xiangxi, grew up in Xiangtan, and there are many miasma in Chudi, Jingnan, and has always been a prosperous place for producing legendary monsters. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info because he was surrounded by stories of strange ghosts and lonely ghosts since he was a child, which made him unable to sleep at night all year round.
However, since the birth of the mother's womb, Dou Ranlan has never been so frightened.
Next to the barren mound last night, he still had a trace of reason that was eager to get out except for the creepy, and at this time, seeing the corpse come back from the dead in front of him, Dou Ranlan's head had no ability to think at all.
At such a moment, people are nothing more than several physical and mental reactions: rats faint and lose their guts; The heroic ones have no shame in their hearts, so they point their fingers at the demons and scold them; The grieved sit on the ground and resign themselves to fate; Dou Dye Blue is the fourth type: there is no mind, only animal instincts remain......
What kind of stalking outside the door, or fighting for some face in front of Cao Zheng and Chengyuan, these are simply things before the Five Tribulations, and they can't be controlled. Dou Ranlan only had three unintentional reaction actions left:
Turn around;
push the door;
Run..................
Dou Ran Lan ran and ran for his life...... It seems that the people around him are gone, the houses are gone, the pawns of the wine shop and tea house are all gone, and it seems that only his own body is left in the heaven and earth. Neither could I hear the cries of the birds, nor the cries of the merchants, nor the shouting of the ruffians in the market.
After a while, his physical strength was exhausted, so he could only change his galloping to galloping. He wanted to get rid of the ghoul, but he was afraid that the stalker would follow, so he took the road and chose the road instead.
Surrounded by crude dwellings, the population is even more scarce, with the occasional woman scolding a crying baby or a farmer's family tidying up their belongings at the door.
The city of Xuzhou was originally arranged in a chessboard layout, but the place where the poor lived was rarely cared for by the government, and it was far away from the bell tower in the center of the city, forming a natural pattern in the life of generations of citizens, occupying the road and filling the dark alleys. Dou Dye blue zigzag for a long time, but gradually lost.
It wasn't until the bell tower rang the bell that Dou Ranlan remembered that he could identify the direction. Knowing that noon had come, he became more and more anxious. When he got out of the alley, he found a tea shop standing on the street, and its signboard was "Chaoxiangshe", which was actually a shop not far from the big car shop. Dou Ranlan was shocked: "I hit a ghost during the day, and I ran for a long time and came back, the so-called ghost hitting the wall should be so!" ”
At this moment, the sound of the harp sounded under the hut opposite, and a man sang in a bright voice:
Thatched low,
Falling snow falls on the window.
Feel the flying frost floating green trees,
But there was nothing in the morning.
The early spring has passed the west of the river,
The south goose goes north to no habitat
It's not all covered in silver
Ploughman tears fall into the plough (Note 1)
When Dou Ranlan heard the sentence "falling snow on the window", he could already see the singer clearly, not the ghoul or which? He was frightened in his heart, and involuntarily took two steps back to escape, but the song was clear and clear, and it instantly filled his mind, and when he listened to it again, it seemed to lock his legs again. Gradually, the frightened mind has slowly calmed down with the singing, and when he heard the sentence "The southern wild goose goes north to no habitat", Dou Ranlan only felt that the sorrow in his heart rose spontaneously, and his eyes were full of tears.
Snow-capped, fine leaves through frost, originally to arouse the beauty of drinking and pleasant interest, but this song is neither graceful, nor arrogant, only full of the lyricist's pity for the world to be burdened by the snow of early spring and the frost of February, although it is less elegant and chic, but the weather is moving. Dou Ranlan remembered that in addition to the fierce gods and evil spirits in the world, there are actually some "good ghosts", such as the spirit of obsession in order to repay love and repay gratitude. Although the lyrics of this song are sad, they are full of compassionate thoughts, and evil spirits cannot sing such a song.
After singing the song, Dou Ranlan was still hesitating whether to hide aside and continue to enjoy it secretly, and the ghoul suddenly said: "Don't panic on the other side, I know that you are afraid of me, so I sing this song of Qingpingle, and you can turn from fear to sadness, so as to stabilize your mind a little." ”
Dou Ranlan thought again: "Listen to the people in my hometown, there is more than one kind of ghost who hits the wall, in fact, some of them want to help others avoid the danger ahead, or am I fundamentally wrong, maybe that person is not the corpse of the barren mound last night?" After this self-comfort, his heart relaxed a little. Although this place is quiet and no one passes, I still have the courage to walk a few steps under the inspiration of the song.
The ghost sat on the stone base under the eaves, but it was a shady place, and Dou Ran Lan could not see his shadow, so he barely walked but did not dare to sit down beside him.
"This son, Wansheng did have a relationship with Jun last night," as soon as the ghost said this, he saw that Dou Ranlan really changed color in shock at first, and then his body leaned in weight, and then changed to a posture that was ready to escape at any time. He then smiled and said: "Childe, don't panic, I am a person from Hedong and Zhou, and two years ago, in order to avoid the difficulty of the Khitan entering the Kou, my family strictly ordered me to live at my uncle's house in Suizhou. ”
Dou Ranlan listened to his voice smoothly and full of energy, not like a resentful ghost.
The so-called relationship is born from the heart, and looking at his face at this time, it seems that it is not so pale. The distance between the eyebrows and eyes of the man is slightly farther than that of ordinary people, revealing a slightly indifferent temperament, and his face is angular.
Dou Ranlan's mind was settled, so he simply sat down, but he didn't dare to get too close to him, and the other party continued:
"At the beginning of this year's new emperor, the first spring warriors, in the next to take the solution to enter Beijing to come to the provincial test, and to the junction of Chen Xu, but unfortunately for the thieves to capture the chariot and horse entourage, is alone here, only the old piano and a book and two volumes."
"It is indeed pitiful that the revenant driver was killed by thieves and wandered here." Dou Ranlan sighed, her face full of pity.
The other party had already seen that he was a nerd, but he still laughed out loud when he heard this:
"What Childe said is very interesting, but you think: I was killed the day before yesterday, and last night I sealed the soil and became a tombstone towering, how can there be such a thing? Do you think about where it would be better to hide in the dark when you are traveling in the dark and do not want to be harassed by others when you are resting? ”
Dou Ranlan was stunned, the other party just waited for him to think slowly and was not in a hurry, and after a while, Dou Ranlan suddenly realized: "Hiding in the dry mound, naturally no one dares to approach, the phosphorus fire is moving, and the tiger and wolf dare not approach." ”
The man said with a smile: "There were some grave thieves in Xuzhou, these people were called Faqiu thieves, and they were actually used by unscrupulous people in the Xuzhou government. The saint respects the ghosts and gods and stays away, I pretended to be a ghost and frightened my brother Tai last night, but it is really contrary to the teachings of the ancestors. ”
Dou Ranlan both respects and admires this person, in the dead of night, in the wilderness, if it is himself, even if there is no lonely grave ghost fire, he can't sleep at night. This person seems to be polite, but he is so bold.
"Where is it, in the lower sinus dyed blue, the word Guanghai, dare to ask what Brother Tai is called?"
"My surname is Wang, and I have all the words, Brother Dou, I am polite."
This king's surname only said the surname and the table name, but why didn't he tell his name? Dou Ranlan didn't think about it, he only felt that he had inadvertently made this courageous offspring, and he was overjoyed, so he simply pulled him to the Fangcai Tea House, and poured out the best Xinyang Maojian and Taihu Biluo.
Seeing that he was shy but so generous, he couldn't help but wonder: "You poured out all your pockets, and I was robbed of my property and penniless, how will you, a gentleman, hurry in the future?" ”
Dou Ranlan was in a family of eunuchs, and he originally brought a lot of entanglements, but he was not good at managing money, and he spent money indiscriminately, so he fell into this dilemma. Now he was even more shy on the spur of the moment, but he still said with a relaxed face: "It's okay, it's okay, I'll meet a friend surnamed Cheng when we meet, that person is bold, and there is an old uncle surnamed Cao, it seems that he has a lot of money, Brother Wang simply goes with us, and they will definitely help him." ”
In that later life, seeing Dou Ranlan's generosity to others, and now he actually added himself to it, he couldn't help laughing, so he asked him how he met them, and Dou Ranlan was unobtrusive, so he told the things along the way.
After hearing the plot of estimating the population in front of the gate of Cao Zhengcheng, the king's surname Housheng frowned slightly, and then heard the mysterious person staring at him, and after everyone went out separately, he suddenly asked:
"Let me take the liberty of asking, what kind of appearance does Mr. Cao look like? How old are you? ”
"They came from the direction of Dengzhou, and Mr. Cao's complexion was slightly dark, with dragon eyebrows and phoenix eyes, and his front teeth were very strong, probably thirty-eight or nine, and he looked like he was nearly forty."
"When he speaks excitedly, does he have a problem with his hands behind his back and his head slightly tilted?"
"Huh? How do you know? ”
The latter looked at the snow dripping from the eaves and groaned for a long time, Fang sighed lightly and said, "Brother, you were deceived by the person surnamed Cao. ”
"Why do you say that?" Dou Ranlan was dumbfounded, although he could also see that Cao Zheng was slightly repulsive to himself, but he didn't think it would come to this point.
Hou Sheng said with a smile: "This person's surname is Cao Mingzheng, the word Uncle is straight, he was originally the Later Jin Xuanwu Army Jie Du to make Yang Guangyuan not to drive, and when he was recruiting Fan Yanguang, he was accused of embezzlement of money and wages, so he was driven away by the sticks. Later, he went to Dengzhou, where he should have been taken in by Liu Yanseng of the Weisheng Army, and he was also listed as the lieutenant of Neixiang County. ”
Dou Ranlan exclaimed, "So, this Mr. Cao has the status of the county chief when he was in his early Chinese New Year's Eve?" ”
"That's right, this person's background is quite cunning, don't take it lightly! He asked you to go out first, that was to use you as bait to catch away the stalkers, and it was convenient for Xuzhou City to enter and exit, which he had already calculated, so the so-called unitary time meeting was definitely a lie. ”
Dou Ran Lan Qi said: "Isn't it? How could he know how many people were staring at the back door? What if one of them comes after me and another one is still there watching them? Besides, Brother Cheng Kuiyuan doesn't look like a treacherous person, and Brother Tai can't help but be a little worried. ”
That Wang Sheng saw that his expression was disapproving, obviously blaming him for being smart, so he stood up, paced and said slowly: "Cao Zheng has served as the lieutenant of Neixiang County for two years, and in front of him, all the actions of overt and secret agents are all set up. The street market where the big car shop is located is sparsely populated, if he can't see which one is sneakily watching outside the door, wouldn't he be an official in vain? Xuzhou City has an early curfew today, and he asked you to meet them at the time of the meeting, and the city gate was closed at that time. ”
Dou Ranlan was still skeptical, thinking that the person who was watching him might still be close to the left, he couldn't help but apologize: "Brother Wang, you and I got together, but I'm afraid that you will also be involved." ”
Wang Sheng waved his hand and smiled: "It's okay, after the person who is watching the back door runs a few steps with you, he must be afraid of the plan of the tiger leaving the mountain, and if he wants to come, he will already go back to the front door of the inn to find his comrades, and then go upstairs to pounce." Does the person named Cheng Kuiyuan have no hair bun, no mustache and no beard? ,”
"Exactly!" Dou Ran Lan Qi said: "You also know this? ”
Wang Sheng said with a smile: "That person made a little trouble in Dengzhou not long ago, and it has already spread from Xuzhou to Xiangyang, huh...... Who is tracking them, I can probably guess a thing or two. ”
He suddenly stood up suddenly, wrapped the guqin, and then said lightly:
"Brother Dou, you have two choices now: one is to run away and never communicate with them again, and the other is to go to them, which one do you choose?"
Note 1: I'm embarrassed...... The barely made up stuff is very incomprehensible, and it really makes everyone laugh.