It was late at night, Longjing sent melon slices to send me home, fortunately, otherwise the supper would not be able to be delivered in the future, I turned around and looked at the lanterns of the Yanyu Pavilion, only to feel that the red-eyed monster of the Yanyu Pavilion was opening its mouth wide, waiting to devour people into it.

"It's so cold, it's cold, hurry up, I still have to eat fried chestnuts with sugar!" Melon slices urged impatiently.

The cold wind in October is really cold, but the human heart is far colder than it.

It's getting colder. When I got up early in the morning, I was always talking with a thick fog, and the people on the street began to walk in a hurry, looking anxious and unwilling to stay in the cold wind.

Dad gets up early to grind beans, sweet bean curd is the most popular dim sum nowadays, swallowed soft and slippery while hot, it is really a great enjoyment in the cold winter.

My mother beckoned me over and gave me a peach-pink cotton jacket, which was full of cotton and wore it on my body, which warmed my heart. My mother gave me a whole collar and said, "Tomorrow's temple fair, my father's shop is too busy with business, I can't accompany you, grandpa will come over and take you to play, okay?"

"Great!" I cheered, my grandfather loved me the most, and my grandfather's personality was not as old-fashioned as ordinary adults, he was humorous and funny, he was a standard old naughty boy, and I was looking forward to a sunny day tomorrow.

The next day, the sky was as people wished, and it was a blue sky, and I waited for a long time at the door Finally, I waited for my grandfather wearing a felt hat and carrying two ducks.

Grandpa has been a tailor all his life, his eyes are not big, his body is ordinary, the corners of his mouth are upturned, he seems to be happy and lively at all times, he loves to laugh, there are heavy laugh lines around his eyes, he wears a jacket in lambskin, a pair of old men with beams, his cheeks are red from the wind, and he shouts at me from afar: "Baby granddaughter!" ”

When my father and mother got married, my father could be described as a poor and white, a lonely poor young man, who liked the daughter of the tailor shop next door, and did not dare to ask someone to say matchmaking, but I was afraid that I would not be able to give my mother a good life, but let my mother suffer, but it was my grandfather who heard the rumors, but felt that the young man was honest and hardworking, and he let his mother marry despite his grandmother's opposition, and he also pasted into the house. Everyone else chewed their tongues and said that the old man was weird, but Grandpa smiled and never paid attention.

I threw myself into my grandfather's arms, and my grandfather smiled and said, "I haven't seen you for a few months, Xiao Meicai has actually become a messenger of the dragon god, how about it, show grandpa his birthday?" ”

I pursed my lips: "Grandpa, don't laugh at Mei Cai, a few days ago, there was a death in Yanyu Pavilion, and he came to take Mei Cai for questioning, Mei Cai went to the court for the first time, so scared, I thought to myself, this Rausch messenger, Mei Cai is no longer willing to be." ”

Grandpa took out a small jar of maltose from his arms and gave it to me, and said, "Grandpa hasn't encountered any ghosts and ghosts, but grandpa was shocked when he heard about the case last time, and you were also present when the sister whose scalp was peeled off died?" Scared, right? How can such a scene be seen by a little girl, really. Shaking his head as he spoke, a few sparse white hairs swayed in the wind, and my father and mother had already come out to laugh and welcome, and I hurriedly put my grandfather into the house: "Grandpa rest for a while, take me to the temple fair after resting!" ”

"Okay," Grandpa smiled: "I was thinking about listening to Mei Cai talk about the Dragon God!" ”

I omitted the Longjing melon slices from the case and roughly told my grandfather, who frowned and said, "Why is Yanyu Pavilion so unpeaceful?" Xu is because there are many grievances, which breeds so many strange things. How did the wig ghost get into the hands of the peony girl? ”

I replied that I didn't know, in fact, I asked the maid of the peony girl, she only said that she didn't know, and asked her what she could see in and out of the living, she thought for a long time, said that she had seen a little girl in red once ran around the corner in front of her, she only thought that I was here to deliver supper, and caught up to order osmanthus cake, but chased until the dead corner of the corridor disappeared, as if into the wall, and scared her into a fever.

This little girl in red is not Longjing's account book monster, who is it? What is the connection between her and the strange incident in the Smoke and Rain Pavilion?

Grandpa saw me in a daze, but when I was in a hurry to go to the temple fair, I was absent-minded, so he took my hand and went to the temple fair.

Today's weather is exceptionally good, the sky is blue like freshly washed green satin, there are white clouds like fish scales floating on it, there is a slight wind, relying on the warmth of the clothes, the sun shines down, I actually feel very warm. The temple fair is crowded, the vendors are shouting at the top of their voices, the strong man who sells the art is breaking the boulder shirtlessly, the blind man who sells dog skin plaster is holding the banner of "medicine to get rid of the disease" and staggering and stepping, the stalls on both sides selling rouge gouache are even more dazzling, overwhelmed, grandpa bought a sugar gourd from a fat uncle, the bright red hawthorn is wrapped in a layer of rock sugar, sweet and sour is really delicious!

I was eating happily, and suddenly saw that the crowd in front of me automatically gave way to a road, grandpa raised his eyes to see, and hurriedly pulled me to the side of the road, I turned my head sideways, it was a group of soapy clothes were surrounded by a richly dressed teenager, the young man walked in front with his head held high, probably three or four years older than me, but he was fourteen or fifteen years old, although his facial features were delicate like a girl, but his expression was cold, and he looked like he came out to collect debts, but it didn't make people feel annoying, as if he should have been that expression, that posture.

When they walked over, I asked Grandpa who it was. Grandpa said, "You still don't know? It is a famous prodigy in this area, Li Qitang. ”

"Li Qitang? What kind of prodigy is he? I asked.

"Specifically, grandpa is a rough man, and he doesn't know much about scholars, but it is said that he was four or five years old, and he was very good at painting at the age of eight or nine. In the end, he was born in a prominent family, three generations of officials, and the whole family is in the officialdom, his uncle is Lord Shouliu, his father resigned a few years ago, and he concentrates on Taoism and wants to cultivate immortals! So I think this prodigy is the next heir to their family. ”

I nodded as if I didn't understand, the children of small families can read and write some words, can read and write their own names, and it is better to be able to keep accounts, so I don't have that kind of learned people around me, and that world should be very far away.

Continue to walk around the temple fair, saw an old clothes stall, grandpa held me with one hand, turned over in the other, actually found a small piece of white fox fur, asked the stall owner the price, but the stall owner looked like he had never seen this fur, looked left and right, hesitated, said a price, grandpa counteroffer, he actually agreed, a busy look, so grandpa bought it at a very cheap price, ready to sew a fox scarf for me.

When I went home in the evening, my father had already cooked taro sweet dumplings, I volunteered to send them, my grandfather wanted to accompany me, and I pressed them, if I didn't give the maltose to Longjing, he would probably make trouble again, take it for him first, so as not to trouble.

Grandpa stayed at our house today and told me to come back soon, and everyone would eat baked white potatoes, so I said yes and hurried out.

After sending the supper to the Dragon God Temple, sure enough, Long Jing looked impatient: "I don't want to wait, I don't want to wait, I don't want to send it again, I have to look for you." I hurriedly said, "Don't scare my father and mother, and break up the relationship." Longjing pursed his lips, his lips and teeth were stuck with maltose, and he wanted to grab some melon slices to eat, Longjing protected the jar and didn't give it, and he still wanted to grab the melon slices, and was turned into a prototype parrot by Longjing, Pu fanned his wings and was in a hurry: "Give it to me!" Give me! ”

"You stupid bird knows what delicious, hurry up and send the plum vegetables home!" Long Jing said indistinctly with a mouth stained with maltose.

Walking on the way home, the melon slice looked angry, I promised to give it some privately next time, and the melon slice said, "Forget it!" Gluttonous adults know everything, and they can't hide it. ”

At this time, I suddenly heard a kind of "...... "......It seems to be a heavy breathing sound. Although the sound was not loud, it was a little harsh in the silence.

Before I could react, Melon Pian shouted in his unique parrot voice, "Who? Who? ”

The voice didn't answer, but I felt the source of the sound getting closer.

"It's an account book monster, right? Your friend, right? I asked the melon slices.

The parrot of the melon slice was a little flustered: "No, no, I don't know it."

A very low, unearthly voice suddenly sounded: "Give me the clothes...... Give me ......."

"My spiritual power has been sealed in the demon box, and I can't protect you now, but fortunately, what we account book monsters see and hear is the same as what Lord Gluttony himself sees and hears, Lord Gluttony will come soon!" The melon slice said in a panic on my shoulder.

"Clothes, give me ......" The voice got closer and closer, almost sticking to my feet, but Long Jing still didn't appear.

"Don't give it to him!" The melon slice flapped its wings and stepped on my shoulders alternately, "This youkai is dangerous!" Pickles, run! ”

I was in no mood to argue with it about my name, so I ran away, asking as I ran, "Why hasn't Longjing come yet?"

The melon slice flew up and said, "I don't know! Glutton-sama must have seen these scenes! Something must have gotten on me! ”

This is miserable, although I have already run, the voice seems to stick to me, I can't escape at all, I smell a strange, moldy old smell, closer and closer, finally, a black shadow pounced on me, the smell is getting stronger and stronger, I seem to have been swept into the whirlpool, everything has become distorted, only to hear the melon slices in the noisy shout: "Pickles!" Pickles! ”

At this time, there was a little light in the distance, getting closer and closer, and I seemed to have finished washing a piece of clothing that had been twisted into a twisted shape, and my consciousness gradually blurred, and then it seemed that I could not bear the force of this twisting, and gradually I didn't know anything.

"Pop" what's ringing?" ......The voice was both rapid and crisp, and I barely lifted my heavy eyelids, and my whole body was sore, and I was greeted by an expressionless young man, and a little familiar, he was holding an old blackened allegro, and he was quickly flicking it.

A serious teenager was playing allegro with his hands flying up and down, and for some reason it looked a little funny.

"Are you glad you survived?" The boy stopped, stood up, and was far away from me, and now closest to me were a pair of splendid gray satin boots embroidered with silver thread.