Chapter 5: Spirits

"Strange is strange, but you can't say it's a demon, right?" I said, "If the peony girl studies hard, there is nothing impossible." "yes, it's not that simple, what I'm going to say now is the point." While swallowing a mouthful of saliva, I hurriedly refilled a cup of tea, and shocked Sister Hu, Sister Hu waved her hand and said: "That's the thing, we also said that Peony is not for the prince's business, to be a female showman, with curiosity, a few of our musicians ran to ask Peony Girl's maid Qiu'er, Qiu'er is one or two years older than you, still a child, listen to us ask, and reply that I haven't seen Peony Girl learn anything." only said that the peony girl didn't want her to serve when she was resting in the past two days, but she was stimulated by the matter of the ruixia girl, and she didn't dare to force it, we became more and more suspicious, so we waited to send Uncle Xu away, and secretly went to the outside of the peony girl's room to eavesdrop, wanting to know the reason why she had changed so much in such a short time. The room was not lit, it was pitch black, we only heard the peony girl talking to a strange woman under the screen window, saying that the lost things should be repaid with interest, and what price was paid, we wondered who was in the house, but we heard a miserable scream, and hurriedly pushed open the door and went in, only to see the peony girl sitting upright on the embroidery bed and smiling, no matter how we asked, she just shook her head and didn't answer, we couldn't help it, we were about to go back, and suddenly saw a ...... under the bed" Sister Hu took a deep breath:" A complete piece of human scalp with three feet of green silk attached...... The scalp looked like it had just been ripped off, and it was still dripping with blood...... I was so frightened that I didn't dare to make a sound, the peony girl stared at me coldly, afraid that she knew the secret that I saw her, I didn't dare to alarm others, I only dared to discuss with the messenger, I was afraid, Peony had been possessed by a ghost, I didn't know whose scalp it was, I was afraid that someone had been devoured by her! The only way to do this now is to ask Lord Ryujin to uproot the monsters and save us! He knelt down as he spoke.

Although I have experienced a lot of strange things these days, but I haven't seen a dead person, I can't help but feel a chill all over my body, it seems that this monster is the one who sang last night when the concubine was drunk, and Long Jing said that the voice was familiar. The account book monster is really terrible, if you let the monster go on, everyone will live in precarious danger, only to help Longjing recover the account book monster as soon as possible, we can return to the previous peaceful life. In order to protect everyone, I can only find the monster in the account book as soon as possible and ask Longjing to take it back, I helped Sister Hu up and said, "I'll go and pray to the Dragon God, Sister Hu will rest assured first, I'll figure out a way to do this."

Brought the jade buns, I went to the Dragon God Temple to find Longjing, but Longjing was not there, but I saw the melon slices squatting boredly on the offering table, the mouth of the missing front teeth was wide open, and the grapes were being thrown in one by one. I hurriedly wanted to run, but he hurriedly called out to me: "Little sister, don't be in a hurry to leave, Lord Gluttony has something to tell you." I still had palpitations, and when I looked back at him, he grinned: "My ability was sealed in the demon thin by him, and now I am a child like you." I was skeptical, but I didn't dare to answer him, because if he lied to me, I would be a substitute for grapes and he would throw it in his mouth. The melon slices smiled beautifully, probably satisfying the grapes: "Believe it or not!" The gluttonous lord said, so that you don't make a sound, you have to shout, and then the demon will not take you, now the adult goes out to visit friends, and you leave the jade bun, if the adult comes back to eat to the satisfaction, naturally go to pull it out. ”

Are you kidding! When his life was at stake, he actually went to visit some friend! No, in order to prevent a tragedy, I have to find Peony first, and lock her up, not let the monsters eat people.

"Hey! The gluttonous man said that you are not allowed to go, don't you understand? Ignoring the screams of Melon Pian's red face, I ran to Miss Peony's room.

The peony girl was not there, I looked at the bottom of the bed, it was clean, there was no trace of blood and hair at all, "Dragon God Messenger, is there something wrong with coming to me?" ”

I broke out in a cold sweat, Peony girl, back.

Twisting her stiff neck hard, the peony girl is still so dignified as usual, I lied casually: "I heard that Miss Ruixia lives with you, I don't know if she was frightened last time, is it okay, the dragon god asked me to come over and take a look." ”

'Dragon God? The peony girl smiled: "Thanks to the dragon god last time, otherwise the sisters are worried every day, how to do business, if the business is not good, everyone will not have to live." This time I got a reward from Uncle Xu, and I was just thinking about rewarding God. ”

Longjing is not there, otherwise he will take it to the Dragon God Shrine and collect it in the account book, and it will be a hundred.

"By the way, I'm just going to find the Dragon God Messenger, there is something a little weird, I think about it, I'm afraid that it will cause a big disaster, and I still plan to ask you to talk to Lord Dragon God."

A youkai encounters something weird? This in itself is weird.

Seeing my half-believing look, the Peony girl leaned down and whispered in my ear: "Sister Hu, who plays the Yueqin, has been a little strange lately. ”

Sure enough, Sister Hu discovered her secret, and she wanted the wicked to sue first!

I said, "If nothing else, I want to ask Miss Peony, when did you learn to sing and write?"

The peony girl smiled: "What is a big deal for me, I came here with great fanfare, and it was really not for a mere Ruixia!" The play, it's because I've watched it over the years, according to the cat and the tiger, and the first time I appeared on stage, everyone applauded, that is, personal affection, and the voice was slow, hahaha, there are only a few words I can write, and if it is opened, I promise to take a good look, and I may not be able to guess what the words are. ”

"Huh? What's going on? “

The peony girl sat down on the embroidery pier according to me, and said, "I have not entered the Smoke and Rain Pavilion, but I am a maid serving a widow." The widow's dead ghost husband was a scholar before his death, extremely elegant, and the widow kept the empty room alone, very lonely, and even compared himself to a man named Li Qingzhao, who specially wrote her words and sent them to the man who loved Fengya, just hoping that someone would quickly have a discerning eye and be a night dew husband and wife with her. The widow had a wide range of conversations, and sometimes she couldn't write, so she asked me to transcribe it as it was, and she began to write ugly, and slowly, she was able to write exactly the same as the widow's words, and sometimes, she couldn't tell the difference herself. ”

The head of what the peony girl said was the Tao, and she looked confident, but Longjing did say that the singing voice was familiar to him, and the monster was definitely the peony girl.

But I couldn't help but ask, "Who was talking to you in the room last night?"

The peony girl clapped her hands and laughed: "Who is there there, I must be talking in my dreams, and if I am heard, I should be talking to me!"

To be honest, I suddenly felt that Sister Hu didn't seem to have any evidence at all!

"Then what do you mean by saying that Sister Hu is a little weird?"

"Sister Hu was also good when she was young, she used to be a famous singer, but now she is old and decrepit, but only. You see, people this kind of thing, if you keep going up, even if the progress is slow, but as long as it gets better and better, you will always hold hope, and feel that every step you step on is meaningful and valuable, but if you climb to the top but fall down, watching the people behind you become high, this feeling in your heart is called the gap. No, I didn't go far, what I want to tell you is that Sister Hu is the one who fell to the ground and fell behind the person who was once far behind her. I shook my head and said I didn't understand, I only know that it's natural for monsters to eat people, and it's natural for people not to want to be eaten.

The peony girl touched my head and said with a smile: "There are some things, whether you are reluctant or not, you will know sooner or later." Now, let me tell you about Sister Hu's strange situation, that is, she died early in the morning, but she still threw down her body and ran out of the door, not knowing what to do. ”

I was taken aback: "Liar, huh? Sister Hu was just at my house! ”

Peony girl smiled: If you don't believe it, please go home and see if what I said is true or false.

I shook my head: "Didn't you say she threw the body?" What about corpses? “”

The peony girl smiled mysteriously: "Everyone knows this!" You go to the West Building and have a look. ”

The west building is the residence of the musicians, I ran over, the corridor was lit with incense, the bronze lion incense burner seemed to be staring at me miserably, I walked briskly on the Persian brocade carpet full of peony flowers, the corridor was not at the end, I had faintly heard a group of people crying, I ran to get up, crossed the corridor that seemed to be endless, and saw a group of musicians crying bitterly. Squeezed into the crowd, I saw Sister Hu lying on the bed, neatly dressed, but her face was swollen, her neck was shocking blue and purple strangulation marks, and her eyes were still wide.

dragged a maid over and asked what was going on, she sobbed and cried and said: "Yesterday, everyone received a reward from Uncle Xu, and they were happy, Sister Hu said that it was strange to think that the Peony girl had changed into a person, so we went to the Peony girl to eavesdrop, but we didn't hear anything, and we went back to the room on our own, who knew that this morning, my colleague Yueqin's Liu Sanjie looked for Sister Hu to match a silk, but Sister Hu's door couldn't be opened, and Mr. Mo and the little guy crashed into the door, and actually saw Sister Hu overflowing (sorry, I can't type my phone next to the silk word) on the beam! ”

I hurriedly asked when I found out, and the maidservant thought for a moment and said, "I remember that the frost on the blades of grass was still hanging on the corners of the skirt, indicating that the sun had not yet come out. It should be the time of the mao.

When? When I came out of the house, the frost had melted, and it was time for me to tell me about the peony girl at my house when Sister Hu's body was found.

I hurried home, tears rolling in my eyes, but I tried my best not to let it fall, rushed into the room, and clearly saw that on the chair where Sister Hu was sitting, the tea stains had not yet dried, and the floor was also wet.

Sister Hu turned out to be a ghost.