The rain seemed to never end.

Xing Ruyi was afraid of the cold, especially when it was raining, she always felt that the slightest coldness could penetrate through the thick clothes on her body into the cracks of her bones. She hugged the fox and nested herself in a small ball, her arms were warm, but her shoulders were still cold.

"I hate rainy days."

She muttered, her mouth pursed, and reached out to pull back the curtain and look out of the carriage.

The carriage had already driven out of Luoyang City and was heading south along the official road. She never thought that the middle-aged man's home was so far away from Luoyang City.

The man also drove a carriage, keeping a short distance from Xing Ruyi's carriage.

After walking for about half an hour, Xing Ruyi felt the carriage pause, and then heard the voice of the middle-aged man. He said, "Shopkeeper, my house is right in front, and there is a drinking mrough outside the courtyard, and the gate of the courtyard is black. My lady is at home, and I'm worried that she's angry with me. ”

Xing Ruyi pulled the curtain on the car and said to the man standing in front of the car: "I know, I said that I was passing by, catching up with the rainy day, the road is muddy and slippery, and I want to borrow your house to shelter from the rain." ”

"That's very good, my lady is kind-hearted, and she will let you in." The man gave up and drove his car onto another side road.

I heard the description of the middle-aged man before, and thought that his house was an ordinary farm yard, but when I arrived, I found that it was a very magnificent house. Of course, this grandeur was said for the house she had imagined in her mind before.

The courtyard has a courtyard wall, and the courtyard wall is surrounded by mud embryos, which is more than one meter high. The gate was indeed black, but it was made of several wooden boards, and an old-fashioned copper lock hung from the door, and a red tassel fell from the bottom of the copper lock. The spikes have been around for some years, and they are decolorized badly.

Xing Ruyi got out of the carriage, walked to the door with the fox in his arms, and reached out and knocked on the door twice. There was an immediate response behind the courtyard gate, but the voice was not like a middle-aged woman, but as old and tired as an old woman: "Who? ”

Xing Ruyi replied clearly: "Passing, the rain is heavy, and I want to borrow your house to avoid the rain." ”

"You go to another house, I don't have a place at home."

Well, that's not quite the same as I expected.

"I hurt my leg and foot and couldn't really walk. You can do it, let me go in and avoid it. ”

A crack opened in the black wooden door, and an old woman with a wrinkled face poked her head out from behind the door, first squinting her eyes and looking at Xing Ruyi from head to toe, and finally fixed her gaze on her lap.

Thanks to Xing Ruyi's cleverness, as early as when he heard the voice, he had already made a stumbling gaze. At this time, he even showed a painful look, and looked at the old woman with pleading eyes: "Auntie, I hurt my foot, and I really can't leave." I see that your yard is quite large, so just lend me a little shelter from the rain. ”

"Where did the girl come from?"

"Luoyang."

"In Luoyang City?"

"Yes, it's from Luoyang City."

"Since it is from Luoyang City, why is it here?"

"I went back to my hometown to visit relatives yesterday, and I was going back to the city today, but when I walked halfway through, the driver who helped me drive saw that it was raining heavily and the road was difficult to walk, so he had to temporarily increase the price. I am a young girl's house, how can I bring more silver taels when I go out. The coachman thought I was stingy and deliberately didn't give it, so he left alone. I tried to drive myself back to the city, but the horse was disobedient and fell me from the cart before he could take two steps. Look, my good clothes are all covered in mud. Also, my leg is also injured, and I really don't know what to do. ”

The coachman who was tortured was originally transformed by a fox, and when he arrived at the place, he naturally disappeared. The sludge on her body was also changed by the fox when she was just about to act. With the blessing of acting skills, coupled with her pitiful little voice and expression, it is not true, but it is also said as if it is true.

"It's not that my old man is ruthless and doesn't let you in, girl, but that my house is not clean, and I'm afraid that it will affect the girl."

"Not clean?" Xing Ruyi glanced into the old lady's cloudy eyes: "Auntie, don't look at what I'm wearing now." I'm also a girl who grew up in the countryside, and I'm not picky. ”

"When I say it's not clean, it's not the kind of uncleanness you think you are, girl. Although the old woman lives in the country, she is also a neat and tidying person. When I say it's not clean, it's because I have a ghost in my house. Didn't the girl see it? I have a charm on this door. Because of this, no one in the village spoke to our family, and I was afraid that I would be disturbed by them. Girl, if you can walk, let's reluctantly walk a little longer. Well, you follow the road in front of the door, and if you go fifty meters further, there is a house around the corner. ”

"There's a ghost." Xing Ruyi looked into the courtyard through the crack in the open door: "That's just right, I can help you catch it." ”

"The girl can catch ghosts?"

"Hmm." Xing Ruyi nodded his chin: "I didn't say it before, I was afraid of scaring you, Auntie, I am actually the descendant of the Maoshan faction, and what I do every day is to catch ghosts and subdue demons." ”

Xing Ruyi compiled it casually, anyway, the eldest lady didn't know where Maoshan was, and she wasn't afraid that she would go to someone to inquire.

"Girl, this is no joke." The old woman opened the door and stood directly in front of Xing Ruyi: "The girl is really good at catching ghosts?" ”

"This can't be fake, it can't be fake. I'm so good at a girl's house, I won't put my life in it just to avoid the rain. Also, auntie, look at my eyes, is there a trace of fear hidden in them? I'm a ghost hunter. ”

As soon as Xing Ruyi finished speaking, her arm was grabbed by the old woman: "Girl, if the girl is really good at catching ghosts, please follow me in and save my family Zhizhi." ”

Zhizhi?

Oh yes, remembered. The middle-aged man in the lily robe seemed to have said that the maiden name before him was Zhizhi.

But wasn't the lady before him dead? And before he died, his parents were already dead.

Could it be that the lady he married later is also called Zhizhi?

I always felt that something was wrong.

When I entered the door, I found that the layout of the courtyard was as the middle-aged man said, and Xing Ruyi had more doubts in his heart.

The old woman took Xing Ruyi to a separate hut next to the hall, which at first glance looked like the boudoir where a single girl lived. Every scene and object is the preference of young girls. There was a bed in the east direction of the room, and the bed was resting, and it was impossible to see if there was anyone inside.

"Girl, please be seated!" The old woman pointed to the stool in the room. She herself, first sighed, and then took her gaze back from the falling bed: "Don't hide it from the girl, the old woman also lived in the city when she was young. ”

"Where does the eldest lady live?"

"It doesn't matter where I live, since my lord died, my house and shop have all been forcibly occupied by my eldest brother and sister-in-law. They casually gave some silver, saying that they had bought all the belongings left by my father to our mother and daughter, and I took my daughter to the yamen to sue the official, but it was useless. I had no choice but to take my daughter back to the countryside and buy the current yard. I thought that the mother and daughter, as long as they were diligent with their hands and feet, would not starve to death, but they didn't expect that this yard would be haunted. ”

"Haunted?" Xing Ruyi glanced into the courtyard, and said that the old woman's statement was not the same as what the middle-aged man said.

"When I first bought this yard, I felt that something was wrong. This yard, although the place is a little off, is quite clean, and the things in it are complete. When I asked the village chief, he said that the owner of the yard was gone, and there were no other relatives at home. Rather than leaving it dilapidated, it is better to sell it to us cheaper, and it can be regarded as pitying our mother and daughter and giving us a place to live. After buying this courtyard, I learned from the villagers next to me that the reason why the village chief sold this courtyard to us cheaply was not because he was kind, but because the courtyard was haunted, and he thought that the ghost would entangle us, and the village would live in peace. ”

"This village chief is really hateful! Now that you know the truth, why don't you go to him and reason? ”

"Orphans and widows, even if they are reasonable, can they say who will go? We don't have much money on us, and if we buy this yard, we won't have anything left. After thinking about it, I can only live here temporarily. The old woman sighed: "If I had known that buying this yard would harm my Zhizhi, I wouldn't have bought it." But now, it's too late. Whether it is going or staying, my Zhizhi can't escape the entanglement of that ghost. ”

"Did you see that ghost with your own eyes?"

"I saw it with my own eyes." The old woman nodded: "I am a handful of people, and I am also a person who has entered the Hades Hall on one leg, how can I talk nonsense." Even if I can talk nonsense, I can't talk about my daughter. ”

"And what did you see?"

The old woman lowered her voice and looked at the row of red roses that grew against the wall: "A man, wearing a hat and a robe, stood motionless in the bouquet of flowers. ”

Xing Ruyi said, isn't that the middle-aged man who went to the rouge shop for help. Good manner, how did he become a ghost in the mouth of an old woman.

Thinking in his heart, his eyes involuntarily glanced at the very delicate roses, and the scene of the middle-aged man standing in the flowers came to mind. Well, that scene doesn't match a bit.

"Anything else?"

The old woman took a deep breath, looked at the fallen bed, and said, "Before we came, three families had rented this courtyard, and all three of them were ...... It's all gone. ”

"It's all gone, does it mean they're all dead?"

"If they were all dead, it would be fine, but if they are gone, they will be the kind that will not see people in life and corpses in death." The old woman stretched out her hand and pointed to the bed: "My Zhizhi, if I hadn't invited the master in advance and dressed her in clothes with charms, I'm afraid she would be gone." ”