Chapter 16: She Lost Her Most Important Thing
Zhang Mung Dou and Li Yinkong stood outside an inn, raising their heads, looking at the signboard of the inn that was blown up by the wind from time to time.
"Say, how did I lose such an important purse. She sighed, and her weather-beaten eyes looked at the diners who were eating meat, drinking, and laughing, and her stomach rang just in time.
Li Yinkong is a ghost corpse, and he can't understand Zhang Mungdou's hunger and discomfort at the moment, "I don't know." ”
"I'm so hungry. ”
"Then I'll take you to find something to eat. ”
"But the streets are bare, and they are no bigger than the mountains. Despite what she said, her body followed him honestly.
Li Yinkong took her to walk on the lonely street, and when he walked outside a large house, he stopped, "Look, isn't this food delivered to the door?"
Zhang Mung Bean followed his gaze and looked up, there was a tall fruit tree in the wall, many of its branches stretched out to the outside of the wall, and under the dense dark green leaves, there were many orange-red fruits, "It is an edible fruit......
Li Yinkong turned around, jumped up and pulled a relatively low branch, "Let's borrow a few fruits from their family for the time being, and return them back when they have money another day." You pick it. ”
Zhang Mung Bean frowned, did you borrow it?
Hesitating or unable to resist the cry of her stomach, she tiptoed and reached out to pick a few down, but she couldn't get it in her hand, so she stuffed it into her bag, "Then I'll listen to you......"
After picking the fruit, the two of them immediately left and walked away, Zhang Mung Bean picked one out, wiped it back and forth on her clothes, she opened her mouth and took a bite, "It's quite sweet." ”
"It's good to be sweet. ”
But there is always a lot of misfortune.
They walked down the cold streets, and the lanterns hanging outside the closed shops stretched the shadows of the two of them. Zhang Mung Bean ate while walking, and by the way, she was still thinking in her head, can she also use this trick for a while, and go to the inn to successfully spend a few nights.
A few drops of cool water smashed into her face, and she looked up at the dark sky above, "Isn't it...... It's raining?"
Li Yinkong also raised his head, the original sporadic raindrops became dense in an instant, and the two people were in the middle of the street, like two wooden people, until they rained for a while.
"Ahh It rained for a long time before they found a grass hut with no way to hide from the rain.
Zhang Mung Bean took off the bag he was carrying and threw it on the ground, and quickly took off the wet clothes outside, and then sat in the haystack with a puffed ass, "It's really a night of rain due to a house leak!"
She really couldn't understand how she had lost her money bag!
Li Yinkong didn't care about this, he just lay down, pillowing his head with his hands, "It's good to have a place to hide from the rain." ”
It was already cold at night, but at this time, he took off his clothes in the rain again, Zhang Mung Bean curled up and hugged his knees with his hands, "It's so cold." ”
Li Yinkong looked at her, "Sleep." When you fall asleep, you don't feel cold. ”
Zhang Mung Bean glared at him, collapsed in the haystack, bent his knees into a ball, closed his eyes tightly, and tried to put himself to sleep. She had never slept in such an uncomfortable bed, and although she was exhausted from the experience, she never slept comfortably.
In the middle of the night, there was a rustling near the thatched hut, as if someone was rummaging through something.
Zhang Mungdou, who was half-asleep and half-awake, opened his eyes suddenly, and a dense cold sweat immediately broke out behind his back, and his heart jumped to his throat in an instant.
Could it be a chaser?!
She moved, and the straw beneath her made a slight sound.
Then she felt her hand on her shoulder, "Shhh ”
It's Li Yinkong's voice!
Her impatience gradually calmed down......
The rain outside did not stop for a moment, and the two people in the grass hut watched quietly outside with bated breath.
The sound of squirming was getting closer and closer, and at the moment when a black shadow appeared at the door, the tip of the anti-evil spear reached the throat of the black shadow.
Li Yinkong said coldly: "Go out." ”
The man's body was shocked, and then his hands began to grope for something on his body, and with a few 'rubbing' sounds, he lit a candle lamp covered by a glass cover, "Hero, it's raining heavily, find it along the way, you can hide from the rain here, look, my cloak is wet and you can wring a big basin of water." It occupies a small area under the ground, and it will never disturb two people. ”
Facing this crackling and saying a lot, Li Yinkong looked him up and down, "Go over there." ”
"Oh, thank you. The man, who looked to be in his thirties, thanked him and walked to the corner, and when he untied his cloak, the long sword he was carrying behind his back was also revealed, causing Li Yinkong to take a few more looks.
The man didn't say anything more after that, and was about to fall down to rest.
But his eyes just met, and the little girl who had been hiding behind them probed curious eyes. In an instant, his eyes were about to fly out, "It's you!!"
"What are you, what are you looking at!" Zhang Mung Bean said cruelly, but his body shrank even further behind Li Yinkong, revealing only his head.
The man was in good spirits at this time, he sat up, and stared at Zhang Mung Bean with a relieved face, "It's called Du Huangyan." How do you call them?"
For a person who is just hiding from the rain under the eaves, Li Yinkong ignores it, while Zhang Mungdou thinks that this person is weird, although he is curious, he is too lazy to pay attention.
Du Huangyan, who was wearing gray and shabby clothes, didn't mind, he continued to ask with interest, "Look at the dress, it's not like the two of you are sleeping in the open like us." But what's the trouble?"
Zhang Mung Bean almost rushed to answer, her eyes kept staring at this person with a face full of vicissitudes, "Don't ask, hide from the rain and hide quietly!"
When Du Huangyan saw Zhang Mung Bean, he couldn't help but want to laugh, and his vicissitudes of life inadvertently added a little softness, "The two of you are willing to let me come in in the middle of the night to hide from the rain, which is considered a favor to me." I know how to make a fortune, so I want to tell you two to solve your current predicament. ”
"I think you need more silver than we do. Why don't you go and let us go? Is it because we let you in and hide from the rain?"
"I'm on the way there. But we can go along the way, there are silver taels, let's earn together. And, at this time, we can meet...... It's really a kind of fate. ”
Li Yinkong stretched out his hand and pressed the somewhat abnormal Zhang Mung Bean, "What kind of method do you say?" ”
Du Huangyan turned his head to look at him and restrained his smile, "Autumn is coming, this season is the same as spring, it is neither hot nor cold, it is the right time to cast Horcruxes." Therefore, many soul cultivators go back to the 'soul market' to buy souls. So where do these large numbers of souls come from? Of course, other people are looking for them to sell!"
As soon as he heard the soul cultivator, Zhang Mung Dou's frowning brows were able to kill a few mosquitoes. Although she doesn't like ghost cultivators outside the Zhang family very much, there are a few chasms between her and those who hate soul cultivators.
The latter's disgust is almost innate and engraved in the bones.
Of course, she is not the only one who thinks this way. In her memory, the reason why one of the three major ghost cultivators last time let out a nostril and let go of their prejudices was to resist the four great families who cultivated souls.
"Why do I want to capture souls for those who break the soul cultivation path?" Zhang Mung Bean's eyes flickered, "You know a lot about these twists and turns of soul cultivators?"
Du Huangyan patiently explained to her: "Because it is a small soul cultivator below. ”
Li Yinkong glanced at Zhang Mung Bean, and whispered in her ear: "If you don't have silver taels, you just don't have food, and if you don't eat, you will starve to death." Do you want to starve to death if you defend your principles, or what?"
Zhang Mung Bean thought for a long time, only snorted sullenly, twisted his head to the side, and remained silent.
Seeing that she didn't interrupt, Li Yinkong continued to ask, "How is the price calculated?" This 'soul market' that Du Huangyan said had already heard of in his time, but he was not familiar with it.
"It depends on the quality of the 'soul' you catch. The better the price, the higher the price. ”
"Okay, then there will be labor after that. ”
Zhang Mung Bean muttered in a low voice: "How do you know that he is not lying to us......"
"Tsk. I repaid the favor and told you the way, and I was suspicious of me. Looks like I'll go by myself tomorrow. ”
Li Yinkong has a sense of difficulty at the moment, pulling the child who is always in opposition to himself, "Zhang Mung Dou, in the future, if you are hungry, you can solve it yourself." ”
Zhang Mung Bean was a little anxious, "You, me, don't forget, if I get hurt or what's wrong, you won't have any good fruit to eat!"
"Then at some juncture, you can express a little less of your opinion. "Li Yinkong was a general in the previous dynasty, and now he has been reduced to 'taking children', his patience is already limited, and as a result, she has to fight again and again.
"I! You don't understand the contradictions and entanglements between the two of us at all......" Zhang Mung Bean glanced at Li Yinkong, who was more ugly than the face of a dead man, she felt that he was going to pinch her neck in the next second, "I won't speak in the future......"
Du Huangyan looked at the two of them arguing with a smile, "It's the first time I've seen a 'popular' ghost corpse. ”
Li Yinkong was stunned for a moment and didn't answer again.
Du Huangyan lowered his eyes, glanced at the retreat from evil in Li Yin's empty hand, shook his head and smiled, lay back, and made a pleasant sound, "Oops, rest and rest." ”