Su Yue waved his hand to signal the shopkeeper not to worry, but just as he was about to speak, he was interrupted by Xiao Mencius, "Shopkeeper, are we far from death?" It's good that I didn't cry. ”

"What nonsense!" The shopkeeper glanced at Su Jiu'er and his party very concernedly, and taught Xiao Mencius a lesson, saying: "The children are not doing right, they are talking nonsense!" ”

"I'm telling the truth, we've been out of business for a long time, and every day there are dead people in the village, I see, you hurry up and settle my salary, and you get out of here quickly." Xiao Mencius retorted, and by the way, he said something even more unpleasant, and the shopkeeper's face became more and more ugly.

Su Jiu'er became interested and asked, "Little Mencius?" ”

Xiao Mengzi turned his head with a contemptuous attitude and asked, "What are you doing?" ”

Su Jiu'er just smiled at Xiao Mengzi's arrogant attitude.

"What do you mean by the fact that people die every day in the village?" Su Jiu'er asked.

Xiao Mengzi looked around, raised his right hand and put it to his mouth, and was about to speak, but was interrupted by the shopkeeper again.

"I can't believe the words of the children, you better come with me, it's also dangerous outside in the middle of the night, why don't you stay here for one night, and I'll deliver the food and drinks later." The shopkeeper walked out of the counter and pulled Little Mencius behind him.

Su Jiu'er could see that the shopkeeper was deliberately interrupting Xiao Mencius's words, but Su Jiu'er had a way to know what was going on, and he had nothing to do, and listening to strange people and strange things could also kill time and relieve the hardships of the journey.

"Shopkeeper, why don't you tell us about the village." Su Jiu'er took out a silver ticket from his arms and shook it left and right in front of the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper's eyes lit up instantly, he glanced at the door in fear, and said, "Little Mencius, go and lock the door." ”

Little Mencius still had an indifferent attitude, and after closing the door, he hung up the big lock.

Su Jiu'er was curious, "Why do you need a padlock?" ”

The shopkeeper took a few steps forward and motioned for everyone to sit down, and Xiao Mencius came over with a pot of hot tea and filled everyone's teacups.

"Padlocks are meant to keep things out of the night." The shopkeeper whispered.

"Isn't there a bandit here?" Ouyang Keyu guessed.

"What are the bandits, there are monsters, they take people's lives every day, and people die every day." Little Mencius put down the teapot heavily.

The shopkeeper glared at Xiao Mencius unhappily and said, "You kid give me a little leisure, maybe it will be you one day." ”

"If you're dead, you're dead, what else can I do, if you don't pay me a salary, how can I go? If I die, you will kill you! Xiao Mencius sat down and looked at the shopkeeper with a calm expression, which was very different from the tone of his words.

"Why don't you pay him wages?" Su Jiu'er frowned and asked, she didn't like this kind of person who was in arrears of wages.

The shopkeeper sighed and said, "The people who left the village later died, and I didn't pay him a salary, but I concluded that he would not leave if he did this." ”

It seems that the shopkeeper is not bad, Su Jiu'er thought.

Little Mencius pursed his lips, but did not refute it aloud.

"Can you tell me more about this monster?" Ouyang Keyu asked.

The shopkeeper sighed again.

This matter has to start not long ago, there is a foreigner who came here, and also stayed in the auspicious inn, but the next day it was time to check out, the outsider did not come down, and later found a large pool of blood in the room where he stayed, since then, there are people in the village every day, and those who escaped back are also crazy, and the only one who is not crazy does not say a word to people, and does not even speak again.

Su Jiu'er felt that the problem was with outsiders, there were no monsters in this world, even the existence of Yue, and it was because she Su Jiu'er was not ordinary.

"Did you report to the government?" Su Jiu'er asked.

The shopkeeper smiled mockingly, "The government, will they take care of this?" The population of our village is only forty or fifty, and since it is in the middle of nowhere, they would not come even if they knew. ”

Su Jiu'er frowned, the way of being an official shouldn't be like this.

"Which country do you belong to?" Ouyang Keyu asked.

"Southern Kite." The shopkeeper sighed.

Su Jiu'er and Ouyang Keyu glanced at each other, this is really something related to them wherever they go.

Not to mention that it has something to do with himself, for the sake of justice, Su Jiu'er also has to stop and investigate.

"We'll stay, I'm going to see what kind of bull ghost snake god is." Su Jiu'er said, since Nan Kite doesn't care, then she cares.

"You ...... No, no, no, you should leave tomorrow morning. The shopkeeper said repeatedly: "There is no need to take risks for the sake of things that do not concern you. ”

Su Jiu'er looked at the shopkeeper, he was a good person.

"It's okay, the money will be given while we're here." Su Jiu'er said, and gave the money she had said earlier to the shopkeeper.

"The shopkeeper doesn't really love money, but when he tells us these things for the sake of money, he actually wants us to help, but you don't think you should let us be involved, because there must have been people like us who died here before." Su Jiu'er looked at the shopkeeper, and this conclusion was also obtained after her thinking.

"When we came in, you knew that we were people from the rivers and lakes, and you stopped Xiao Mencius from talking nonsense, because you were afraid that he would offend the invisible person and lead to murder."

The shopkeeper looked at Su Jiu'er in surprise and nodded mechanically, he didn't expect that all his thoughts would be seen through by the girl in front of him.

Xiao Mengzi also looked at the shopkeeper in surprise, "Shopkeeper, you ......"

"Little Mencius, needless to say, if it is destined by God, you can go with them, I want to stay, this place is with me." The shopkeeper looked down at the table.

"Humph! If you haven't paid me yet, I won't leave! Little Mencius turned his head, stood up, and kicked down the stool.

The shopkeeper grabbed Xiao Mencius's hand and stuffed the silver ticket given by Su Jiu'er into his hand, smiling weakly, "I'll give you your salary now." ”

Xiao Mengzi withdrew his hand, looked at the "one thousand taels" on the silver ticket, and then crumpled it into a ball, smashed it on the shopkeeper's face, and said angrily: "No way, you owe it for so long, this money is not even enough for interest!" ”

After Xiao Mencius finished speaking, he ran into the counter, holding the brush in front of the shopkeeper, and doing the same movements as the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper wanted to say something, but was suppressed by Ouyang Keyu, "If he wants to stay, let him stay." ”

"But he obviously wants to leave, why is he reluctant now?" The shopkeeper was puzzled, and he blamed himself.

"Because he wants you to go with him, just like you think that your salary will tie him up for him, but in fact this is the reason why he stays, not the reason why you think you keep him." Ouyang Keyu said.

After listening to Ouyang Keyu's words, the shopkeeper suddenly understood.

Xiao Mengzi is not very old, and Su Jiu'er can see that the emotions between them are not the same as those between the shopkeeper and Xiao Er.

"We'll take care of this, don't worry, we're not like those three-legged cats." Su Jiu'er said with a smile, and from her calm face, the shopkeeper saw hope.

"But ......" the shopkeeper was still afraid.

Su Jiu'er touched the cup, and then said, "Why don't you take a look at this." ”

The shopkeeper looked at Su Jiu'er's hand, startled, there was a small stone floating and spinning in Su Jiu'er's hand, this scene, Xiao Mencius also saw it, he was originally attracted by the shopkeeper's exclamation, but he didn't want the things in Su Jiu'er's hand to make him have a bold idea.

"How is this done?" The shopkeeper asked in surprise, he had never seen a hanging stone before.

"Actually, it's just a teacup." Su Jiu'er's voice fell, and the floating stone turned into an ordinary teacup.

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