I glanced around, and couldn't help asking, "Deadwood Daoist, this is surrounded by mountains on all sides, I don't know where you came from?" ”

Hearing this, the dead wood Taoist straightened his clothes and said solemnly: "I was resting in a righteous village at the foot of the opposite mountain, and I suddenly heard the smell of skinned ghosts and chased after me, by the way, where is Brother Yang Dao going on this trip?" ”

When I heard the words of the Deadwood Daoist, my eyes widened slightly, but I soon almost laughed, fortunately, I held back, the foot of the opposite mountain is at least two or three days away from here, of course, for me and the master to travel so fast, but even if the Deadwood Daoist shuttles and flies among the trees and mountains, and walks for three or two days, it will take at least more than a day, and the Deadwood Daoist has been on the mountain road for so long, and he has lost one of his shoes, and there is still a foot playing barefoot, and he fell again just now, and he actually said that it was just to kill the skinner, And there is no other use, it is so good to play stupid.

Obviously, when he mentioned the Skinner, the Deadwood Daoist's eyes were glowing, but when he heard that the master had imprisoned the Skinner, he immediately wilted, which showed that the Skinner's great temptation for him, but he didn't know what his true intentions were.

Since he won't say it explicitly, it's hard for us to ask.

When the master heard this, he immediately said: "We are going to the foot of the opposite mountain, out of Nanhua Mountain, we still have important things to do, but at the moment, if Brother Deadwood Dao does not dislike it, we might as well go together." ”

The deadwood Taoist suddenly came up in spirit: "Don't dislike it, don't dislike it, I have heard of Brother Yang Dao's name for a long time, and I look forward to having the opportunity to see it, but I didn't expect to meet it this time, although I couldn't catch the skinning ghost...... But there is still a lot of gain, along the way, I have to ask Brother Yang Dao more about some cultivation methods, and I hope that Brother Yang Dao will give me advice! ”

The master immediately smiled and said, "Don't dare to ask for advice, we are both disciples of the Daomen, so we should communicate with each other, and we can just ask each other for advice." ”

As he was talking, the dead wood Taoist suddenly pulled his beard, and said with a smile: "If not, the skinning ghost is still kept by me, Brother Yang Dao still has important things to do, if you bring a skinning ghost all the way, in case you run away again, it will be absolutely inappropriate, I still have one last customer in this business, and there is nothing to do for the time being after sending the last customer, why don't you let me help Brother Yang Dao incinerate the skinning ghost, how about it?" ”

"This ......" The master hesitated for a moment, then frowned and said: "The skinning ghost is indeed cruel and tyrannical, but there is a demon refining pot, it can't run away anyway, and besides, I don't want to cause trouble for Brother Deadwood, this kind of tricky thing is better for me, I don't dare to have Brother Deadwood." ”

When the Deadwood Daoist heard this, he immediately said urgently: "Don't bother or bother, I like to get these things......"

As if he realized that he had said the wrong thing, the Deadwood Daoist suddenly couldn't go on, and the master asked inexplicably, "Brother Deadwood Dao likes it?" This...... Please forgive Yuanshan for being clumsy, I really can't see anything to like about the skinning ghost, I didn't expect Brother Deadwood Dao to have this hobby? ”

"No, no!" The deadwood Daoist hurriedly grabbed his beard, until he scratched the beard messily, and then smiled embarrassedly: "Brother Yang Dao must have misunderstood, I am purely for the purpose of eliminating demons and defending the Dao, I have always admired Brother Yang Dao's deeds of slaying demons and subduing demons, this time I think that if I can share the worries of Brother Yang Dao, I will naturally make some contributions to the Daomen, but if Brother Yang Dao is not too troublesome and has to take the skinned live ghost on the road, then there is nothing wrong, nothing wrong, hehe!" ”

The master smiled and nodded: "Since that's the case, then Brother Deadwood Dao will ask first." ”

The Deadwood Daoist immediately said humbly: "Brother Yang Dao, please first." ”

The two of them let go and go, or go together, and I am still thinking about the pheasant at the moment, I have already thought about how to catch the pheasant to get cooked, there are three methods, the first method is to get some mountain spring water to cook, the second method is to put it on the fire rack to cook, the third method is to call the flower chicken, with the leaves to keep and then paste the mud, and then bury it in the ground, and then transfer the fire to burn on it, and you can enjoy it after an hour.

Thinking about it, suddenly a bloody skinning ghost appeared in my mind, so scared that I hurriedly forgot about eating roast chicken, the damn skinner, made me hungry and angry to death.

In the past two days, the master didn't pay much attention to me, and only cared about talking about the Tao with the Deadwood Daoist, but the Deadwood Daoist mentioned the skinning ghost from time to time, as if he was afraid that the master would forget, I always felt that he was so rare that the skinning ghost, there must be some purpose, but what did he want the skinning ghost to do? I really can't figure it out, but it's a pity that he doesn't say it, and it would be nice if he could say it and let me know.

Although he thought so, it was undeniable that the Dao of the Deadwood Daoist was still extremely deep, and it took him only one day and half a night to chase after him for three or two days, and the spirit of those charms was very great, of course, compared to the master, I think it was even worse.

Two days later, in the evening, we slowly walked out of the mountains of Nanhua Mountain, and after a small forest, we saw a lonely courtyard in the distance, located next to an inaccessible mountain road.

When we walked to the courtyard, it was completely dark, and after two days of getting along, I felt that the Dead Wood Dao people were not bad, and they were kind, but sometimes they were easily excited, and when they were excited, they liked to be startled, but they were quite fun old naughty boys. Looking at a sign hanging above the gate of the courtyard, sure enough, Yizhuang had arrived, looking at the sign of Yizhuang, the master nodded: "Brother Deadwood Dao, but I don't know how many Yizhuang like this are in the boundary of Xiangxi?" ”

"Oh." The dead wood Taoist nodded, and said: "These remote areas of Yizhuang, the first is for us to drive the corpse of the people to prepare a dying camp, the last to drive the corpse of the business is more and more sluggish, many Yizhuang can not make money, so they have to specialize in the coffin business, now the real sense of Yizhuang, not much, as far as I know, there are still thirty or fifty left in the southern half, I rarely come to this Nanhua Mountain, if there is not a customer is from this nearby village, I am afraid I will not have the opportunity to come here, as for how many Yizhuang in this area, I am not very clear. ”

As he spoke, the deadwood Taoist directly pushed open the door and swaggered into the courtyard with us. Where are you hiding my client?! ”

At first glance, the stone sounds like "death", the two words are homophonic, and it looks like a dead wood Taoist is shouting "dead old man", I am happy, this dead wood Taoist is really left and right, and everywhere is the same as his own home, here is the first time I came, and I made it so familiar.

"You old fellow! Hello have the face to say me! You have been gone for three or four days, and I don't know where you went, I don't dare to do business, for fear that people will come to park the coffin and see a dead body at the door, and if you want your customers, go to the firewood room to find it! "A slightly hunchbacked old man, about fifty years old, with a round face, chubby, walking very slowly, but with a brittle voice.

When the Deadwood Daoist heard this, he immediately blew his beard angrily: "Old man Shi! You actually threw my client into the wood-room, and if he was gnawed by a rat, you see that I will not set fire to your nest! ”

As he spoke, Deadwood Dao walked towards the small house next to Yizhuang with his beard blowing angrily, while Master and I walked slowly into Yizhuang, Old Man Shi looked at our master and apprentice, and asked casually, "What's wrong today?" I'm not an inn, don't you guys be unlucky? Why did you run to Yizhuang? ”

The master smiled and clenched his fists: "In Xiamaoshan Sect Yang Yuanshan, passing by here, I haven't eaten for several days, and I hope to be able to beg for food for the apprentice here in the old man's house." ”

Hearing this, Old Man Shi's anger seemed to be much smoother, and he said with a smile: "It turned out to be the head of the walking path from afar, please sit inside, we have food and drink, I will go and get it for the two of you, I was confused by the old guy just now, if there is any neglect, I hope to forgive me." ”

The master shook his head and said with a smile: "It's okay, the old man has a frank temperament, and he has the same temperament as the next, so why slack off, hehe!" ”

Old man Shi looks fierce, but in fact he is a warm-hearted good old man, after a while he brought food to greet us, I was really hungry, regardless of gobbling up, after a while three bowls of rice in the stomach, Old Man Shi hurriedly poured water for me, and said: "Hungry for so many days, it's not good to hold on to it again, don't eat so fast next time, drink some tea." ”

Just as we were eating in the wind and clouds, and we were about to finish eating, the voice of the dead wood Taoist suddenly came from outside: "Old man Shi, come out!" You old thing! Are you afraid that I won't pay you for the room or something? Treat my clients like that, you! Old man Shi, come out for me quickly! ”

Old man Shi suddenly responded angrily: "You old guy, I owe me the rent for several days and I haven't given you the embarrassment, what is your name!" I'm out, let's talk about something! I'm telling you, get out of the way with your customers right away! ”

The two old men are arguing and arguing just to make people feel funny, and they don't feel that they are really angry, because there is nothing really angry between the old men, most of them are noisy mouths and do not seem cold. Master happened to finish eating at this time, we looked at each other, we all got up and walked to the door, and at this moment, the dead wood Taoist face dusty, hair is also a little messy, I was stunned, how this dead wood Taoist in a blink of an eye as if he had changed a person, as if he had just climbed out of the cellar, all dirty.

The faces of the deadwood Dao people turned green with anger, crossed their waists, and shouted, "Old man Shi! Tell me where you got my clients?! I've searched all over the firewood room, and there's nothing but a big hole! ”