The rain stopped, and the whole mountain forest became more and more like a giant beast dormant in the night.

Xing Ruyi followed out of the broken temple with a simple torch, but Chang Tai and the shadow of the mysterious person were gone.

Just as Xing Ruyi took out the bone whistle given to her by the fox from the Qiankun bag and was about to ask the fox for help, she felt that her shoulder was also gently patted. Turning around, the broken light made by the improvised torch fell on the mysterious man's face, and Xing Ruyi finally saw that it was a middle-aged man dressed like a Taoist priest with a beard.

The Taoist priest wore a standard Taoist bun, and his hair was neatly combed, not even a single strand of hair jumping out. A wooden hairpin that looks like it was made from chopsticks is stuck in the bun. The Taoist robe on his body, although it is not tattered, does not look very new. The shoes on my feet are a pair of new shoes. Unfortunately, the sole of this shoe was stained with mud marks.

"Daoist?"

"Poor Dao's surname is Mo."

"Daoist Mo."

"Ruyi girl." The Taoist priest showed a pair of smiling eyes: "Ruyi girl doesn't need to panic, that Chang is also safe." ”

"You know us?"

"Is it strange to know you?" The Taoist priest asked rhetorically: "Poor Dao has also entered Luoyang City." ”

"Oh." Xing Ruyi sighed softly, but looked at this Taoist priest vigilantly, and didn't ask any further.

"The things in the temple are the people who like the light characters the most, and Chang Daren did not die in this temple, which is a great blessing. As for the Ruyi girl, it doesn't matter if you can't save it, that thing can't hurt the girl. ”

"Do you know what's in that temple?"

"Poor Dao knows."

"What is it?"

"It's a pear blossom monster."

"Pear Blossom Monster? What is this pear blossom monster? Seeing that the Taoist priest was leaving, Xing Ruyi followed with a torch: "Where is Brother Chang?" Did you just take him away? What about people? Where did you arrest my big brother Chang? ”

"The wishful girl is from the poor road. Not far, right over there. The Taoist priest pointed to a dark place, and when he got to it, he realized that it was a tree hole. The hole in the tree is not big, just enough to accommodate three people. There was no fire in the hollow of the tree, but a lantern was hung in the innermost part. The light of the horse lantern was so faint that it was barely possible to find a small piece of light.

"I forgot to buy oil for this lamp when I entered the city last time, so let's make do with it." The Taoist priest walked up to Chang Tai and reached out to tap on him. Chang Tai pinched his arm, but he didn't get angry at this priest. "It's a long night, so it's better to tell you a story to the two of you, a story related to that temple."

"Does it sound good? I don't listen to bad stories. ”

"It sounds good." The Taoist chief stroked his beard: "The name of my story is "Pear Flower Monster", and this monster is the monster of the monster. ”

"Youkai? Are there really youkai in this village? ”

"You can say yes, you can say no." The Taoist chief pointed to the ruined temple and asked, "Do you know who is enshrined in the ruined temple?" ”

"Who is it? Could it be the pear blossom monster in your story? Isn't this pear blossom white? Why is the goddess in the ruined temple wearing black clothes? ”

"At first it was white, then it was bloody, and it turned red. And later, as the days went on, the red became the black that you see now. This story starts a long time ago...... "The Taoist chief half-squinted his eyes and looked at the ruined temple hidden in the darkness outside: "That temple is not used to worship gods, but to suppress ghosts." The ghost was the headless woman standing in the temple, and her name was White Pear. ”

At the age of seventeen, Shirari married the son of the head of Oguchi Village. When they first got married, the little couple was also you and me, and they were envious of others. But in the second year after getting married, the village chief's son changed his mind and brought back a flowery girl from the city. I heard that the girl was very good at playing the piano, and the village chief's son spent most of the family's savings to redeem it from the building. The reason why the village chief agreed with his son to take the girl home was because of a statement made by the fortune teller. The fortune teller said that although this girl lives in Hualou, she is the life of a fourth-grade official's wife.

A woman in a flower building, not to mention being lowly to the dust, can't fly on the branches to be a phoenix. The village chief didn't believe what the fortune teller said. But the girl said that as long as the village chief's son marries her and makes her a wife, she will have a way to pave the way for the village chief's son, so that he can soar and become the four-grade official in the mouth of the fortune teller.

With a skeptical attitude, the village chief helped his son and married the Hualou woman back home. In order to make his son soar, the village chief also told the family that they should treat this woman with the courtesy of a wife and not to be taken lightly.

"This village chief is also a stupid person, a woman in a flower house, no matter how capable she is, it is impossible for the son of a village chief who knows nothing to become a fourth-grade official of the imperial court. If she really has this ability, she can't marry anyone, why should she marry the son of the village chief, and go to snatch her husband from another innocent woman. ”

"Miss Ruyi's words are wrong, don't underestimate those Hualou women, who can be famous in that kind of place, and they are also very popular, which one is not some means. It's just that no matter how good the means are, not all men are willing to take them home as a wife. The same is true of this girl. Relying on the relationship she had managed in the flower building, she quickly found a backer for the village chief's son, and really got him an official position. ”

"Four-pin?"

"No, it's just an inconspicuous petty official, but this doesn't prevent him from soaring in the future." The Taoist priest stroked his beard.

"Then did he become this four-rank official later?"

"It's not that I became a fourth-grade official, but I exchanged it for something else."

"What's that?"

"His original wife, Bai Pear."

"White pear? What does the Taoist chief mean that this man, the son of the village chief, gave his wife to his backer? Seeing that the Taoist chief nodded, he scolded again: "This village chief's son is not a thing, right?" Is he still a man? A big man actually gave his wife to another man for the sake of so-called glory and wealth. ”

On the surface, this is true, but there is a deeper conspiracy behind it. The woman in Hualou, let's call her Xianglian for the time being, and as for the backer of the village chief's son, let's call him Master Wu. This martial artist, thirty out of forty, is the age to enjoy wealth, but he suffers from an unspeakable disease, and he is terminally ill. In order to save his life, and in order to let himself have a life to continue to enjoy the glory and wealth that he had won so hard, he asked people everywhere, just to find a prescription that could cure his illness and save his life. Not to mention, he really found a master who was good at helping him heal his illness with the method of the left way. This master provided him with an eight-character character, so that this martial artist must find a woman who meets this eight-character character. ”

"Eight characters? Is it the Eight Characters of Birth? What exactly does this so-called master want to do? What was the prescription he gave to that martial master? ”

"Medicine primer." The Taoist chief opened his smiling eyes: "This woman must not only meet the birth date written by the master, but also be married to a man for no more than two years, and there is a fetus in her womb. Only the blood of a woman who meets these three conditions at the same time can become a medicine primer for the treatment of Wuda's diseases. After this martial arts master sent people to inquire in many ways, he finally found Bai Li. At that time, Bai Li and her husband had just been married for a year, but they had no children in their womb. ”

"That Hualou woman, that is, Xianglian in the mouth of the Taoist Chief, should have been arranged by this martial artist in advance."

"That's right, this woman named Xianglian was originally a good friend of this martial artist. It's just that he came from a humble background, and he didn't even have the qualifications to go to the mansion of the martial arts lord to do a room. Master Wu promised Xianglian that as long as Xianglian could find a way to make that white pear pregnant with a child and then send her to his mansion, he would make Xianglian a great fortune and make Xianglian a real official wife. ”

"Needless to say, these two men's plan must have succeeded."

"That's right, not long after Xianglian married into the village chief's family, Bai Li became pregnant." The Taoist chief began to brush his beard again: "Bai Li is pregnant, and the three conditions required by Master Wu are complete. Under the pillow wind constantly blowing by Xianglian, the white pear was soon sent to the mansion of Lord Wu as a gift, and became a medicine primer for dispensing medicine to Lord Wu. ”

"This white pear has become a medicine primer for Master Wu, and why has it become a powerful ghost and is suppressed in this broken temple." As soon as Xing Ruyi finished asking, he raised his hand and patted it on his head: "Look at my stupidity, why do you still ask such a stupid question." Of course, this is because Lord Wu is cured of his illness, and he thinks that the medicine primer of Bai Pear is useless, and he wants to kick it away, but he is worried that it will be known by outsiders, so he will simply let people kill Bai Li's mother and son. This white pear was first betrayed by her husband, then sold by her husband, and then used by Master Wu as a medicine primer to take blood every day. finally survived until Master Wu recovered from his illness, but he and his son were killed. In such a miserable life, if you don't become a bad ghost, you're really a little sorry for yourself. ”

"That Master Wu is indeed not a good person, but he did not kill Bai Li's mother and son. As for the reason, no one knows. Maybe it was because he had a sudden good thought, maybe he felt that Bai Li was pitiful, or maybe he was worried that after killing Bai Li's mother and son, if his old illness recurred, there would be no medicine primer, in short, after his illness was cured, he sent Bai Li's mother and son back to her original husband's house, and asked the man to treat Bai Li well. ”

"Then how did this white pear die?"

"It was killed by Xianglian. Although Xianglian sat in the position of the official wife as she wished, because of physical reasons, she was never able to give birth to a son and a half daughter to her husband. Bai Li entered the martial arts family with a pregnant body, and she stayed in the martial arts family for a few years, and when she came back, not only did her face not change, but she was also a little more glamorous than before. And there is also a boy who can call his father and looks very similar to the village chief's son. At this time, Xianglian and the village chief's son got along more and more unharmoniously, and the village chief's son missed his original wife more and more.

In addition, this glory and wealth were originally exchanged for his wife and children, and he also had some debts in his heart. Now that he has regained, he is very happy, and he is getting better and better for Bai Li and the child. Xianglian saw it in her eyes and hated it in her heart, lest her years of hard work be to make a wedding dress for others, so she didn't do it endlessly, and killed the mother and son of Baili when the village chief's son took his wife and children back to his hometown to worship his ancestors. ”