Chapter 77: To show gratitude
There is no mourning atmosphere in this Liu Mansion, the whole house is still wearing normal clothes, not wearing linen and wearing filial piety, it stands to reason that someone has died, and should not wear linen and filial piety, and the white silk in the house is hanging, which is a little strange now.
Liu Futong seemed to be aware of our doubts, and said without waiting for his mouth to speak: "My father died strangely, how can this matter be publicized, if people with a heart hear that they are making a big fuss here, saying that my Liu family is ashamed of the emperor and has done something wrong, then I can't argue." ”
This reason is reasonable, I heard that the monarch of Xia Liang is very superstitious, and often sends some ministers to visit the Penglai Immortal Island, this Penglai Immortal Island does not know where to go, but these ministers did bring a lot of warlocks and strangers, and the palace was full of smoke and miasma all day long.
I heard that not only the monarch of Xia Liang country, but also the monarchs of many dynasties are like this, in order to pursue immortality, so they visit immortals to seek medicine, but in the end, they can't, the world has metabolism, and the past and present have changed from generation to generation, but there are still people who believe in this nonsense of immortality.
At this point, I suddenly thought of the beautiful girl from yesterday, who didn't seem to intend to hurt us, but just wanted us to leave this Liu Mansion, so I asked, "Is there a young and beautiful woman in this mansion?" ”
Liu Futong put down the wine glass, looked at me a little strangely, and said, "There are many beautiful servants and maids in Liu's mansion, I don't know which one this girl is talking about?" ”
"A man of about fifteen or sixteen years old, with dimples on his cheeks and a bun when he laughs." I briefly described it, and it can be seen that Liu Futong's face suddenly trembled, and then he pretended that nothing had happened, and waved his hand at me and said, "I don't know, I don't know." ”
This is obviously an acquaintance, and without waiting for me to ask, Liu Futong looked at me and Uncle Xu coming over, and asked with an unhappy face: "It turns out that the two of you know each other, so what did you sell yesterday?" ”
I was in a hurry, but I forgot that when I met Liu Futong yesterday, Uncle Xu pretended not to know me, and only said that I was the lucky star of Liu's Mansion.
Liu Futong waved his hand happily: "It's okay, it's okay, I see that the old fairy has some ability." ”
Uncle Xu nodded and said, "Lord Liu has won the award, but it was a little inconvenient yesterday, so I didn't explain it, for fear that you would misunderstand me and Qiu'er, just to avoid suspicion." ”
Having said this, I suddenly saw a group of people, walking towards us, those people were really strangely dressed, some were wearing gossip maps, some were dressed like Taoist priests, and some were bareheaded, holding a bowl in their hands, they looked like a monk, and there were those wearing tattered clothes, holding a stick in their hands, they seemed to be beggars, a total of more than a dozen people, all walked over, and when they saw Liu Futong, they worshipped: "Lord Liu." ”
Liu Futong nodded, let them sit on the stone bench, and then said, "Presumably everyone already knows about Liu's family." ”
Everyone nodded one after another and said, "I just heard from the housekeeper of your mansion that this time I should do my best to help Lord Liu eradicate the evil and restore peace to Liu's mansion." ”
After Liu Futong heard this, he showed a relieved expression, and then said: "Please come this time, if you can catch that ghost, the benefits must be indispensable, Liu decided to give 10,000 taels of gold, whoever catches it will give it to whom, and please do your best to help Liu eradicate it as soon as possible." ”
When I heard this 10,000 taels of gold, my eyes were straight, that is, in the past, my husband and I took everyone to earn silver together in Pengyang Village, and the whole village combined, it is estimated that it will not reach 100 taels of gold, but this five-grade court official can take out 10,000 taels of gold, if there is no corruption, how can they not do it with their monthly silver.
Sure enough, in the Qing Governor's Mansion for three years, 100,000 snowflakes of silver, not to mention Liu Futong, an official eunuch family, from this ancestor to the present, when he said that he took out 10,000 taels, he didn't even blink his eyes, it seemed to be a small amount of money.
However, as soon as these words came out, everyone's eyes lit up, and they immediately said to Liu Futong that they must catch this ghost.
Uncle Xu and I were also very excited, if we caught this ghost, we could get 10,000 taels of gold, which would not be spent in dozens of lifetimes, and we would be able to enjoy it at that time.
After briefly explaining these words, Liu Futong asked his subordinates to invite these capable people to the room, adjacent to where Uncle Xu and I lived, probably to facilitate ghost hunting, but I feel that this is more of a competitive meaning.
A man in a gossip yellow robe, holding his goatee, said very confidently: "I have taken this silver from Wuling Zhenren!" “
Then he took out a pack of yellow rune paper from his sleeve and gave it to everyone in the Liu Mansion, including one for each of us, and said with a smile: "With this protection on the body, everyone can be safe and sound, and ghosts can't get close." ”
The people of Liu's house were naturally grateful to Dade, and then sent the rune paper of Wuling Zhenren to various masters, and soon those masters sent a lot of gold, silver and jewelry to show their gratitude.
He was even more proud, and kept showing off in front of us, but more than a dozen of us naturally scoffed at this, but Wuling Zhenren didn't care, and pasted this talisman all over Liu's mansion, and as soon as the wind blew, the paper talisman made a "rustling" sound, which was even a little terrifying.
A bald man who looked like a monk first expressed his displeasure, and when he looked at him carefully, he was dressed like some Dongying warrior monks, in general, he tore up the talisman of Wuling Zhenren and threw it on the ground, stepped on it a few times with his feet, crossed his hands in front of his chest, and snorted disdainfully.
"This kind of trick to fool people, you still want to deceive us experts, you are too arrogant, I advise you to go back to your hometown early, otherwise you will die here sooner or later!"
That Wuling Zhenren was so angry that his face turned red, and the goatee on his mouth trembled: "I, Wuling Zhenren, have traveled tens of thousands of miles from south to north, and have never missed a ghost when I encounter ghosts, and I have never missed a beating, so why do you talk nonsense like a yellow-mouthed child?" ”
Compared with the wistful posture of Wuling Zhenren, this fake monk is a splashy appearance, like a stake body walked in front of Wuling Zhenren, and suddenly frightened Wuling Zhenren's body shrank back, he looked more proud, pulling a broken gong-like voice, shouting: "I am returning to the sea with a knife, I used to be a robber on the sea, and then suddenly the gods sensed, so I shaved my head, put on monk's clothes and became a Buddhist disciple!" ”
As he spoke, he knocked the wooden fish a few times with his hand, making a "Zheng Zheng" sound, but it can be seen that his style is not like a monk at all, but like a copycat, but since he can be invited by Liu Futong, it shows that there are still some means.
Sure enough, he said that he put the wooden fish on the table, and suddenly pulled out a pig-killing knife from behind it, wide and pointy, but it looked a little scary, he shouted, and the people around him couldn't help but retreat, this knife is laughing, put the knife on the table with a "snap", he pointed to the knife and shouted: "In the past, I have killed countless people with a knife, and rushing into the crowd is to slash left and right, it is people who block and kill ghosts, until today, there is no person and ghost is the opponent of my knife!" ”
Listening to what he meant, it seemed that he had also caught ghosts before, and he used this knife to split the ghosts, I looked at Uncle Xu in disbelief, but found that Uncle Xu had already hidden far away, I hurriedly walked to Uncle Xu's side, and said with a smile: "Why are you so afraid, and you are not arrested?" ”
Uncle Xu's face turned a little pale, and he pointed to the knife and said: "Although the monk is a fake monk, his knife is really murderous, and it is full of human lives and ghost lives, no wonder he can have such a ability, don't say it's a ghost, even a person has to retreat three points." ”
No wonder I saw a knife in Guihai, I really had a chill on my back, I just thought that he was too big and three thick, and his appearance was hateful, so it would be like this, and now when I heard Uncle Xu say, my eyes moved to the knife, this knife looks a little rusty, but I heard Uncle Xu say that these are all blood stains that have penetrated, I think it is too many people and ghosts, and then it can't be cleaned.
That's the case, it can be seen that this return to the sea is not a good stubble, and he even said so easily about being a bandit. Presumably also a murderous executioner.
He just finished showing it here, and there was an unconvinced one over there, this person seems to be the spirit boy he just said, listening to the fame seems to be quite big, this Liu Mansion's subordinates, are blue-eyed to this, vaguely I also heard the next person say, please this spirit boy to come to Liu's Mansion, but there is no less effort, just because this spirit boy, everywhere in the southeast and northwest, the dragon does not see the tail, of course, if you want to see him, it is not difficult, just make a post on the rivers and lakes, first take out 10,000 taels of gold, he will naturally come when he sees the money.
Presumably, Liu Futong and him will secretly agree, and the price is definitely not 10,000 taels of gold, but probably higher.
Five big and three thick Guihai knife, seeing that there was such a short man beside him, just reached his waist, although he had already heard of his name, but it seemed a little incredible, looked down at the spirit boy, patted his head with his hand, and laughed: "Just like you, let's go home first and grow two years tall!" ”
This spirit boy looks weird, thin and small, looks like a mountain spirit, but his skin is wrinkled, he looks like an old man, in short, a bit like the old ginseng in the mountains, his face is also yellow, and the whole person has only one word left, weird.
I saw that the spirit boy didn't speak, he folded his hands, muttering in his mouth and didn't know what to read, only to see Guihai Yidao already kneeling on the ground with his head covered, and began to howl, and his mouth couldn't stop shouting: "It hurts, it hurts!" ”
Never thought that this spirit boy would still have mana? I squinted, Uncle Xu was very surprised to see him, and I asked, "Uncle, who is higher in mana between him and you?" ”
Uncle Xu shook his head and said he didn't know.
The spirit boy stopped, and only then did he get up with a knife from the sea, but he was very unhappy, took back the knife on the table, and sat back without saying a word.