Xu Man still sat in the empty courtyard all year round, looking up at the cloudy sky, but this time he was no longer here to bask in the sun.

Shen Yeling passed by the small courtyard when she was in a daze, and saw her sitting alone on the antique Taishi chair, her thin body was covered with a thin indigo gown without ironing, and she specially covered her legs with a blanket in order to protect herself from the cold, and the whole person seemed to be so thin that it seemed to be on the Taishi chair.

The cold wind of winter blows with a rhythm, and she can cough a few times with this rhythm, and those coughs are like singing a different song in the cold wind.

Shen Yeling couldn't look at it, went back to the house and took a fox fur jacket to put on for her, squatted beside her honestly, looked up at her with the clearest eyes under her sight, and whispered in a gentle voice: "Go back to the house, it's windy outside."

The worries after her nightmare were warmed by Shen Yeling's few words of concern. Unreservedly told him about the dream she had last night.

Xu Man's eyes were in a trance: "The black and white impermanence of the underworld hooks the soul and asks for his life, how many debts he owes before he is alive, and how many debts he has to repay after death." The eldest brother and sister-in-law were great and good people before their deaths, how can they have any debts to claim, but they are afraid that they will be hooked by the wrong soul and pay off the debts for others.

Shen Yeling frowned: "Who are you listening to this nonsense? . . . Don't think too much about it, I'll burn some paper money for my senior brother today, so you can have a good rest."

Xu Man seemed to be really frightened by the dream last night, and muttered a few words after mentioning it to Shen Yeling, still talking about cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods. After entering the house, I lay down on the bed and slept quietly, and this time I slept peacefully.

So one afternoon, Shen Yeling took Xu Ruliang and Shi to the coffin shop to buy some paper money, originally wanting to take Zhang Shangzhi with him, but he hadn't finished school yet. If he knew that he went to the coffin shop to buy paper money to burn to his father, he would probably make trouble in the coffin shop again.

The boss of the coffin shop is an old man, with two or three apprentices to learn the craft of making coffins, but the store sells not only coffins, but also sells all kinds of paper money, paper houses, paper people, etc. and other side hustles. I made all the items used in the funeral directly.

On this day, the apprentices basically sent the coffin, leaving him with only an inconvenient leg to watch the store, and he wanted to find a few young people to come out and talk with loneliness, but in fact, no young people would come to such a bad place. So I can only think about it.

He was calculating the profit of this month - Master Cao had just died not long ago, and their store had made another profit. The more dead people here, the more they earn, and the happier they are. Boss Park looked at the numbers on the bill, his heart blossomed, and the faster the abacus in his hand played.

I don't know if God felt his lack of morality, and a gust of evil wind blew in his store, blowing up the unsuppressed and exposed paper money. The paper money is a stack of yellow paper sprinkled when carrying the coffin for the funeral, and the round square hole is cut the same as the previous copper plate, fluttering in the store all over the sky, some are blown outside with the wind, and some stay in the air, and it is hard not to come down through the beams of the house.

Boss Park first stepped away from his old legs, grabbed a few handfuls into the sky, grabbed a few, and turned around to close the large open window to block part of the wind.

It just so happened that Shen Yeling and the others walked in, and the wind also passed behind them, and the evil person also fluttered the other part of the dead money, and there was really a sense of déjà vu when they saw a funeral in the store, in short, it was very weird.

Shen Yeling and the others are also kind-hearted, as soon as they came up, they helped Boss Park pick up the money, and took care of the mud spots on these dark money, and handed them over to Boss Park neatly.

Boss Park's waist is not easy to use, and it is fortunate enough to bend down to pick up the money, but fortunately, with the help of the three of them, the money is basically picked up.

But some of the money was still neat, while others were wrinkled and stained with mud. Those times are basically scrapped.

Boss Park secretly felt sorry for his money, and looked at the three people in front of him who were still helping him pick up money, and said thank you.

Shen Yeling knew the difficulties in Boss Park's heart, arched his hand and smiled: "Boss, let's sell some money back, we want all this in your hands, and you are still bothering you to give us some big burning paper, dead money, and death money, thank you."

After speaking, he bowed lightly to express the respect that he should have for his elders, and then raised his eyes again, and he should have a face as white as porcelain.

Although Boss Park's eyes were cloudy, his eyes were like knives, and he scraped Shen Yeling up and down. Only then did he respond, and thanked Shen Yeling again for his kindness, and the two apprentices helped Boss Park get the goods.

Soon after, the two apprentices came out with the money, and they saw Xu Ruliang with a vague fear on his face. The stone grabbed his hand and said suspiciously: "Senior brother, this thing is true, there are indeed many deaths in the mine."

Then Xu Ruliang was even more frightened, and ran behind Shen Yeling with innocent eyes.

And Boss Park was also coming out of the inner room of the dark money, locking the door, seeing the scene in front of him, he hurriedly laughed twice: "I'm really sorry, little brother, I just said a strange thing that happened in Xunyang, I didn't expect it to really scare you."

Raised his eyes and looked at Shen Yeling again: "I'll just say, a few of them are definitely outsiders, how can they know these taboo things not long after they came to Xunyang."

Shen Yeling's face was full of doubts, and he still couldn't figure out what was in front of him: "What's wrong."

Shi kindly stood up and reconciled: "Alas, it's not because when we were counting the money, the boss inadvertently mentioned the mine cave in the back mountain of our county town and said that it could eat people, and Xunyang also scared our senior brother because it killed a lot of people."

Shen Yeling knew that Xu Ruliang was already timid, and he couldn't sleep all night after hearing a little nonsense about the folk, and now he was even more frightened when he heard the rumor of Xunyang, so he hid behind Shen Yeling.

However, he was also blushed by the stone, and poked his head out behind Shen Yeling and quibbled: "Who is scared, don't you still say that the fugitives who are now arresting the shop are escaped from this mine cave with nine deaths, I listen to it really, I just want to tell the master."

Seeing Xu Ruliang's momentum that he was obviously scared but still had to come out, he continued to provoke him with playful words: "That's just right, Senior Brother hasn't listened to it yet, and the master is also in the dark, and we're fine, let's talk about this Xunyang matter, Senior Brother, don't be afraid."

Although Xu Ruliang has the superficial temperament of a scholar, he has been learning to be cautious in his words and deeds with Shen Yeling, and he still can't change his nature in the past few years, so he hurriedly inserted his waist and stepped forward and said: "Yes, just listen, master, you can also sit down and listen to the boss."

Saying that, the four of them gathered around the rough small wooden table, which was originally used to fold gold leaf paper into gold ingots, and was actually used by several people to drink tea and chat.

Shen Yeling is a character who doesn't listen to things outside the window, he doesn't dare to be interested in anything that happens in Xunyang, and only indulges in drama and finding people.

But now he is being pulled by Xu Ruliang to sit down and listen to the story, obviously knowing that Xu Ruliang can't pull down, and he is scared, and he wants to find someone to accompany him or comfort him by his side, which is reassuring. So Shen Yeling sat down next to Xu Ruliang, if he was really scared, someone would give him an arm to hold.

Boss Park saw that the three of them did not leave, but stayed to listen to his Xunyang strange talk, and suddenly squinted his eyes and thought: The trick he made just now is really good, and Xiao Young really came to chat with him.

So he became a Xunyang guide, and told them about the Houshan Mine Cave, what does it have to do with the wanted criminals, this matter can't be talked about in the mouths of the people of Xunyang like a curse, but Boss Park doesn't care, he is the king of the coffin, and there are no taboos in his mouth.

He took a sip of tea and moistened his throat and began to say: "Half a year ago, a rich businessman bought the mine, dug a mine hole, and went into mining every day. Looking at them one by one, they were even more frightened, some of them ran out with pale faces, some hid and trembled, and some were directly frightened stupid, their souls flew out in fright, and they didn't even know their parents when they got home. This is not a big deal, and one of them who went into the mountain to mine this time did not come out of it, saying that he was caught by the monster inside and died on the spot."

Speaking of this, Xu Ruliang really cooperated and grabbed Shen Yeling's sleeve, he had a rich imagination, he would think whatever Boss Park said, and directly lubricated it even more exaggeratedly.

Boss Park continued: "As soon as the strange story of this evil sect spread, no one dared to give the merchant to mine in the mountains, he was also unlucky, not to mention that he couldn't make money, and he had to pay a certain amount of compensation.

The people in the town persuaded her, people can't be resurrected, look at the point, she was so sad that she didn't believe that her son was dead, she just didn't accept what to say, maybe her son was just scared, the ghost eats people and swallows it without chewing, maybe his son is in the ghost stomach and is not digested, and he is still alive, maybe he will go again in the next few days and be saved."

Hearing this, Xu Ruliang felt a little funny, no one knows whether the ghost eats people and swallows them in one bite or one bite, maybe they are extremely meticulous ghosts, when they eat his son, cut them into small pieces and put them in their mouths, just like the way they eat those Westerners he has seen before.

He had the audacity to say: "Asking people to enter the mine again, isn't that indirectly killing people?"

Boss Park also nodded in agreement: "Yes, there are really a few unlucky and honest people, seeing that the old lady is pitiful, he promised him to go into the cave to find his son, by the way, see if the ghost is really a ghost or a person pretending, when they entered the mine, most of the people in the town came to see, but after half a day they came out, someone was about to ask them what they saw, but when they came out, they died of anger within a few steps to the entrance of the mine, as for the body of the old lady's son did not even find an arm, these people are also heroic, The people in the town decided to bury them thickly, and they had to carry the corpses to seal the coffin, and the funeral masters also died one by one, and they also died of anger without knowing it, as if they were cursed, hey! Those righteous men who went into the mines, not to mention the people in the town, this time even their families could not collect their bodies."

Boss Park's coffin business has not been wiped out here, and since then, Xunyang has opened several coffin shops to grab business with them, but Xunyang's well-known characters like his century-old shop, especially the Luo family, who has been visiting often recently.

He sighed and said: "Hey, just because of this strange and bizarre thing, so many people were killed, and no one dared to enter the mine again, the town guard originally wanted to suppress it, but the matter had already reached the ears of the provincial inspector, and the inspector asked him to deal with this matter quickly.

This guarantee is a bit lacking in morality, but everyone still entered the cave, and after a long time, everyone thought that the evil had not been eliminated, and when those death row prisoners died inside, one of them really ran out, but he did not come out to report the news but rushed out, and bit off a piece of flesh on the neck of the town guard, and ran away bloodily, and he couldn't catch it, and the town guard was also unlucky and died on the spot.

When the prisoner escaped and descended the mountain, he really became a mad dog, but whenever he saw a person, he would bite him on the neck, and what was even more evil was that the first miners to enter the mine were the first to enter the mine. After that, the 'mad dog' disappeared, the previous town guard Shi died, and the inspector called the assistant to come forward to seal the mountain, and there were many wanted people in the province to find the mad dog.

Boss Park carefully explained the reason for the matter, and after he finished speaking, the apprentice he sent the coffin came back.

"The master's coffin has been delivered," the apprentice said, wiping the sweat from his head.

His coffin shop has always delivered to others, and there is another after one is delivered, and Boss Park asked his apprentices to send the coffin in the backyard to Luo's house, just saying a few hard words. There is something strange about him, he doesn't like his apprentices.

Because he always felt that his apprentices and coffins would become lifeless after staying in the coffin for a long time, and they couldn't compare with the lively and cheerful young people outside, such as the three in front of him.

Shi is a serious Xunyang person, so he should know about this Xunyang strange talk, but Xu Ruliang's reaction is relatively large, and he is still holding on to Shen Yeling's sleeve. The corners of his sleeves were already soaked with sweat from his hands. If it weren't for the good fabric of the clothes, Shen Yeling's sleeve would have been torn off by Xu Ruliang alive.

But Shen Yeling still didn't care, he was dragged by Xu Ruliang, and patted his white and slender fingers on Xu Ruliang's thigh to express comfort.

Boss Park looked at Shen Yeling's white appearance, and he was a person who could make people feel good at first sight, so even after he finished speaking, he chattered to Shen Yeling: "I first saw that Mr. was an outsider, do you know why... It's because Quan Xunyang has never seen a man as neat as Mr.

Shen Yeling bowed again, and modestly said that he was ashamed of this title, in fact, he also wanted to say that he had been to Xunyang and was half a local.

At this moment, three or four apprentices came out together, carrying a huge coffin, and were about to be sent to the carriage at the door. Shen Ye and the three of them got up one after another to give way, and Boss Park finally stepped up on his old legs, stepped forward to take control, and sent the coffin to the carriage to serve food with peace of mind.

Over the years, the Luo family has come to buy his coffin, and the orders are all the biggest, best, and most finely workmanship. He also didn't know how the Luo family had died since Luo Xiaoqi became the head of the family.

So he patted the gold-plated texture on the coffin, told the apprentices to be careful on the road, and went non-stop with them, and said to Shen Yeling, who was about to resign: "Alas, the wanted criminal you talked about is nothing, if you want to say that the really powerful one is still Luo Xiaoqi, the head of the Luo family."