Chapter 42: Punishment
Li Laosan is behind me? How is this possible, I didn't even see anyone come in!
Li Ming's exclamation made my scalp tingle, and although I thought it was impossible, his terrified expression didn't look like he was joking at all.
However, when I cautiously turned my head to look, I saw only a paper figure with a small yellow flag standing behind me, and behind me was Shan Yufei with a wicked smile.
What's going on?
I couldn't help but frown, completely confused about what was going on. But in Li Ming's eyes, this paper man seemed to be his Laozi Li Laosan, so frightened that he knelt down, kowtowed to the paper man, and cried that he was wrong.
"What's going on?" I took a few steps back to the side and asked Shan Yufei in a low voice, "What did you do?" ”
"It's nothing, it's just a dream." Shan Yufei looked at Li Ming kowtowing at the paper man with disdain, "To be honest, this is the method of the gang in the white-clothed gate, but when the ancestors split up, the black-clothed people were left some, and I just will." ”
"Is it really Li Laosan?" I asked, surprised.
But Shan Yufei shook his head and said, "No, the ghosts who set foot on the Huangquan Road can't be recruited." Don't you know that sentence? There is no turning back from Huangquan. ”
"So this is..."
"I've said it all, it's a trick, it's fake." Shan Yufei rolled his eyes, "But when I fell asleep, I found that this old boy is not a good bird." He was sick, and he refused to pay for it. This led to the old man going to the river to fish and sell money in the middle of the night, and he ended up being caught by the water ghost. If it weren't for the house that his old man left behind, this old boy might not have come to keep filial piety! ”
Hearing Shan Yufei's explanation, I couldn't help but be angry, I originally thought Li Ming was a little pitiful, but now I only feel that this thing is hateful.
In the end, Li Ming didn't know what he communicated with Li Laosan, the paper man, hurriedly threw down a stack of hundred-yuan bills, and then ran out of the store as if he were running away.
"Hey, it's done." Shan Yufei looked at the stack of banknotes with glowing eyes, "Catching water ghosts like this can be regarded as avenging their old man, this kind of unfilial son, it is really cheap for him to only let him have some blood." ”
"Forget it, let him go." I sighed, and couldn't help but think of the old and lonely back when Li Laosan left last night, working hard all his life, and after he died, he had to buy a pair of paper shoes to step on Huangquan Road.
Come to think of it, I really don't think it's worth it for him.
After Li Ming left, I thought that Shan Yufei would immediately set off to catch the water ghost, but I didn't expect that the goods picked up all the money and threw it on the counter, and then turned around and went to the back hall.
"Why are you going?" I asked, and then I saw the guy lying down on the recliner, "Aren't you going to catch the water ghost?" ”
"Going to the river to catch water ghosts at night, am I stupid? Brother, although I am heroic and suave, I am also afraid of death, right? Shan Yufei said with a natural face, "I'll sleep well, and I'll go back tomorrow at noon when the yang energy is the heaviest, and get twice the result with half the effort." ”
"Then what are you giving me all this money for?"
"I have to look for my senior brother here, but if I can't find him, I may have to stay here for a few days. This money is used as rent and food money. After saying that, Shan Yufei ignored me and fell asleep.
I looked at the stack of money in my hand speechlessly, at least seven or eight thousand, not too much and not too little. I put them all in another drawer on the counter first, and if Shan Yufei was leaving, I would be able to return him.
At this time, I noticed that on the far left of the counter, there was a drawer that could not be opened. But if you look closely, it's not locked, it's just a piece of paper with inexplicable runes drawn on it.
After thinking about it carefully, this should have been there on the first day I came to work, that is, it was probably made by Sun Hong before he left, in order not to let me open this drawer.
Is there anything in this that I can't see?
I couldn't help but be a little curious, and quickly recalled the ancient scroll that Sun Hong's old man had coaxed me to sign, as if he had put the silk scroll into this drawer at that time.
Thinking of that antique scroll, I feel an itch in my heart.
It's not that I covet its value, but because it's in block letters from the Tang Dynasty, and as a student of the history department and paleography, I'm really curious about what is written on it.
Although papermaking was already very popular in the Tang Dynasty, the high-end utensils were still silk brocade silk, and the time was also right.
The silk scroll is likely to be an antique left over from the Tang Dynasty. If that's the case, Sun Hong also asked me to write my name on it, which is really a bit of a tyrannical thing.
With curiosity, I spent almost all of the rest of my time trying to open the lottery 屉️, and I also came to a few waves of ghosts along the way to buy the required artifacts.
One of them, because I was so serious about opening the drawer with my head down, didn't notice him coming in, and I didn't react until the ghost took the initiative to come to the counter and knocked the cabinet.
When I looked up, I saw a hanged ghost, dragging his tongue, glaring, and sticking his neck straight at me.
However, I don't know what the mystery is, no matter how I try to toss, let alone open the cabinet, I can't even lift the edge of the paper.
In the end, I tossed until I lost my temper. At this time, there was a bell at the door, and it was time to close.
It was at this moment that I suddenly remembered that there was still a connoisseur lying in the back hall. Most of the spells in the black door were applied to the talisman, and maybe he would know how to open the drawer.
Thinking of this, I immediately moved the paper cow and paper horse into the lobby, closed the door, and then ran into the back hall in a hurry.
Shan Yufei was lying on the recliner and sleeping soundly, and he didn't know what he dreamed of, holding the pillow and going straight to the bottom.
"Get up!" Without saying a word, I stepped forward and dragged him up from the recliner.
"What?" Shan Yufei was pulled up by me and didn't know what was going on, so he squatted in front of the drawer with a blank face.
"What is this?" Shan Yufei asked me with a yawn.
I was stunned and asked, "You don't know?" ”
"Aha~~~, where do I know where to go to your underworld?" Shan Yufei said angrily, "Although the three sects are the same sect, after all, they have been developed separately for hundreds of years, and they all have some things of their own, where can others know thoroughly?" ”
"So... You don't know anymore? "I can't help but be a little disappointed if I didn't even have a single feather. Maybe Sun Hong really has to be safe and sound to be able to take out the things in it.
"Hmm...... It's kind of like the six-ding magic talisman of our corpse gate, but it's not quite like it... There's not that here... Or is it the Lei Zun Town Demon Talisman? Shan Yufei stared at the palm-sized talisman and muttered to himself, and after a while, he gave up shaking his head and stood up and said, "I don't know, it's too complicated, this thing was at least drawn by a master-level magician!" ”
As soon as I heard it, I once again confirmed that this must be the talisman left by Sun Hong. But thinking about Sun Hong's old and unserious appearance, I really can't see that he has the strength of the head level.
"Can you find a way to force it open?" I asked without giving up.
Shan Yufei glanced at me and said, "It's best not to think about trying, the spells laid by the master-level magicians are not a joke." If you want to force it open, maybe your face is big enough, you can ask my master to try it. ”
… Please the head of the black cloth, I'm looking for death? Then it's better to find the head of the white clothes!
I thought to myself, when Lilac came back, I would ask her if I could bring the head of the White Clothes Door.
I was woken up by sleeping, Shan Yufei was one hundred and twenty unhappy, warned me not to quarrel with him anymore, and then lay back to sleep.
I saw that I couldn't open the drawer for the time being, so I could only put it back a little in advance, because I didn't want to miss the single feather flying to catch the water ghost, so I didn't go home, so I lay on the counter and took a nap.
It was Shan Yufei who woke me up, and he was already carrying a peachwood sword and a compass in his hand.
I shook off my arm that was numb from sleep, put the gods and spiritual products that I might use in a satchel, closed the side door of a paper coat, and trotted all the way to follow Shan Yufei.
Although Shan Yufei's ability fluctuates, his appearance is indeed very compulsive. Wearing a robe, carrying a long sword, and holding a compass, he looks like a master in the world.
Especially because of the recent rumors of water drifters in Hulukou, and the rumors of zombies in the Li family, passers-by who came and went couldn't help but take a few more glances at Shan Yufei.
"Brother Lin, is there any location in here that overlooks the estuary? It's best to go high, the higher the better. "Shan Yufei didn't go directly to the estuary where Li Laosan was fished up, but first asked me if I had a high platform.
I thought about it carefully and remembered that because of the port in Linjiang, a pilot lighthouse was built on the top of a low hill at the mouth of the sea. If you want to say high, there is no place near it that can be higher than that.
After listening to my description, Shan Yufei was also a little happy, and said, "That's it, just so I can see the trend of this river." ”
"Shan Dao Chang, do you still look at feng shui?" I can't help but be a little more impressed by Shan Yufei.
Shan Yufei walked in front and said to me a little proudly: "Of course, people in the Dao Sect have to know everything." Looking for dragons and caves, looking for wind and water, stargazing and positioning, how to go to the rivers and lakes if you don't know this? ”
"Use the navigator." I say it as a matter of course.
"Go, go!" Shan Yufei was choked by my words, and glared at me angrily.
Of course I'm joking, but I'm really a little envious of the methods passed down from my ancestors.
When you go up to the low hill where the lighthouse is located, you can see the magnificent sea outside, and you can see the meandering river inward, and a few small boats floating on the river, which is a picturesque scenery.
"What a beautiful scenery!" Shan Yufei sighed, but before he could finish sighing, his brows furrowed again, and he looked at the compass in his hand, pointing to what corresponded to the east and west.
"Dao Chief?" I sat on the steps of the lighthouse and watched him walk around, and shouted curiously.
Shan Yufei raised his head and beckoned to me: "Your hometown is a place where feng shui is too weird, I have never seen such a place." ”
"What's wrong?" I looked around and didn't see anything.
"The sky does its thing, and the earth does what it wants. The appearance is like an elephant, and the insiders are said to be Qi, and the mountains and rivers are also the same as people, and there is a Qi flowing. Shan Yufei said, pointing to the west, "Originally, the west side of the Rui Qi descended to the east, surrounded by four elephant arch guards, which should be a wonderful place to be buried, but now because of a river, it has become a golden crow falling elephant, which is very strange." ”
I looked in the direction he was pointing, and that was where Raven Ridge was.
After speaking, he pointed to the winding river: "The river comes from the east to bring dragon energy, and it returns to the sea to make money." It is also an auspicious image, but from here there are nine bridges across the dragon's back, which is called the lock green dragon in feng shui, and it is also a strange image of auspiciousness and unpredictability. ”
"From the water signs... The most likely place around here to hide dirt and dirt should be there! Shan Yufei pointed his hand, and I followed it from top to bottom, and when I saw the position he pointed, I couldn't help but be stunned.
No way......