The young man said suspiciously: "I heard that Daoist Wang escaped from the water prison, why did he come to harm us if he didn't run for his life quickly?" We don't have a grudge against him. ”

The old man sneered, "In these years, do you still need to have a grudge against others?" Wang Laodao has not been kind to him since the day he was invited, and we were injured by him on the playground, is it because of hatred? His purpose is to deal with General Lu, and we are just being scapegoats. ”

In the afternoon, the clerk came in again and brought a letter, and this time the Mongols were wise, and did not answer the letter, but first asked, "Who sent it?" ”

"A military master on a big horse said that he was ordered by General Lu."

"Do you have a pockmarked face?"

"No, it's a young man, he looks very good, and he doesn't have pockmarks on his face."

The old man took the letter and looked at it, which read: "The three of you have arrived at the Provincial Education Department, and you have important official business, and there must be no mistakes. He slid the letter as if to weigh it. When the Mongols saw him like this, they asked, "There will be no problem this time, right?" General Lu may have come to us in a hurry. ”

"If you have something urgent, just come in and tell us directly, do you still need to send a letter? Moreover, there is no signature or seal on the letter, which I think is a fake. ”

"The person who delivered the letter didn't have pockmarks, not a royal Taoist."

"You are really a big stupid pig," the old man scolded: "Daoist Wang is known as the Demon King of Hundred Changes, like a monkey Sun, seventy-two changes, how can you judge by whether there are pockmarks or not?" He came to the gate of the medical bureau, lowered his head and looked at it for a while, and said to the Mongols: "Look, these are the footprints left by the horse just now, coming from the west street, heading south, neither from the Lu Mansion, nor back to the Lu Mansion, so where did he go?" Very suspicious. If we go to the Education Department as the letter says, there may be some ambush waiting for us. ”

The young man listened to the old man. A little scared, "I think, let's go back to the Jin'an Inn, it's too dangerous here." ”

"Is Jin'an Inn safe? Eating will explode. Next time, you might explode when you go to the toilet. ”

The three of them discussed for a while, but there was nothing to do, the enemy was in the shadows, and it was the most unsettling to sleep. The Mongols said: "Later when you go to bed at night." Let's take turns keeping vigil, how do I feel a cool breeze on my back. ”

That night, the three of them began to take turns to keep vigil, the Mongol stood the first post, he inspected the courtyard inside and outside, and found no suspicious signs, then returned to the house to sit and practice boiling strength, and muttered: "If you are a hero, Wang Daoshi, come and compare and compare." It's no wonder if I don't drop your ass and crack eight petals. ”

"You seem to be looking forward to him coming, how can you say bad things." The young man said dissatisfied.

It was late at night, and both the young and the old slept. The Mongol sat in his chair and was dozing in a daze, and felt that there seemed to be movement outside, and when he knew that there was a rat activity, the Mongol opened his eyes, listened attentively, and stood up as if there was a sound. Carrying a Mongolian scimitar, he pushed the door and walked outside.

The stars were twinkling in the sky, and it was quiet outside, and there was no movement. He couldn't hear the sound of the screams just now, he searched around, the door was closed, and all the rooms, the wards and pharmacies, were tightly closed. No suspicious signs are seen. He went back inside the house.

After sitting for a while, I heard a voice in my ears again, this time it was not like a rat was moving, but like an elderly person coughing, the sound was intermittent, coming from outside the hospital, as if it was a person with a cough, and the old man and the young man also woke up. The young man was shocked and said, "What sound?" ”

The cough was low and small, like a human voice, but weaker than a human voice, and the three of them were puzzled, and they lit the lamps and speculated wildly, and the Mongols picked up their scimitars again, and went out to inspect them, but still saw nothing, and the gates everywhere were closed, and everything was calm.

When I came back to the house, it didn't take much effort to make a strange sound of "cough, cough" came again, and the old man said: "I heard that some people play a prank and stuff salt in the mouth of a toad, which can make a sound of human coughing, which sounds terrible. ”

"Pull it down," said the Mongol dissatisfiedly, "you still call me stupid, let me ask you, this winter, do you have toads in your house?" ”

There was a sound of footsteps outside the door, "Boom, boom," someone knocked on the door, and when he opened the door, he saw that it was a doctor and a medicine servant who lived next door, carrying a lantern, and said with a panicked face: "Everyone, did you hear the strange sound?" ”

"I hear," said the Mongol, "I'll go and see again." He carried a scimitar and walked around the courtyard, but still found nothing, pushed the door and walked outside, the street was silent, there were no lights in the distance, and the cough could not be heard. He cursed in a low voice, turned back to the courtyard, and closed the door. He said to the doctor and the medicine servant standing at the door of the ward, "Sleep, there is nothing." ”

Walking into the house, the Mongolian people said loudly: "I don't care what sound he makes, I think, just leave it alone......

"What's behind you?" The young man suddenly exclaimed.

"What?" The Mongol turned his head to look, but saw nothing, and the old man said, "Take off your shirt." ”

When I took off my Mongolian robe, I saw a piece of paper stuck to my back, took off the paper, looked under the lamp, and wrote: "If you want to live, leave Changsha quickly, don't say anything unexpected." Taishang Laojun respectfully. ”

"It's his grandmother's Taishang Laojun again......" The Mongolian scolded, and the old man hurriedly stopped him, "You have a virtue in your mouth, let me ask you, where did you get this piece of paper on your back?" ”

The Mongolian recalled that when he walked outside the gate, he didn't see a single figure, quietly, so who glued this paper to his back? If it's not sticky paper, but give yourself a knife, then is there still life at this time? When he thought of this, he couldn't help but be frightened, a cool breeze swished behind him, and his heart was full of fear.

The old man took the paper and looked at it carefully, "You see, the handwriting on this is almost exactly the same as the words on the playground that day, which shows that Wang Laodao didn't leave at all, he was like a ghost, hanging around us, maybe when, he pounced on us from the dark and took our lives......"

The young man slapped his thigh, "I'll leave tomorrow morning and never stay here again." ”

"I'll go, too," muttered the Mongol, "I can't afford to leave my life here in confusion." ”

The old man sighed, "We are greedy for wealth, but who knows that it is full of dangers, I think, let's not sleep tonight, if we can stay up until tomorrow morning, let's run away quickly, don't suffer here." ”

All three of them sat in the room with their weapons in their hands, and their mouths were making all kinds of speculations, and they prayed in their hearts that the long night would pass quickly. (To be continued.) )