Chapter 20: The Ghost in the Cave
Gu Laixi and a group of 7 people went up the back mountain all the way, picking up a lot of firewood while walking.
Hu Tiequan is worthy of being the first person to be transformed by fruit candy, his eyes are sharp and his movements are agile, and it didn't take much effort to hit three pheasants and more than a dozen sparrows, Nailuo was not to be outdone, and suddenly flew away from Gu Lai's shoulder, and after a while, he grabbed the hare that had been fat and flew back. The twin silver locks and copper locks also took out 7 cuckoo eggs, exactly one for each person.
Gu Laixi looked almost done, and led everyone around the hill to a small pond at the foot of the back mountain, and there was a small cave among the reeds not far away. It's hard for others to say, but it's quite easy to find this cave, and in those days when he couldn't walk, he just looked at satellites and live maps to understand the world.
Let the twins dig the loess mud, Tao Yueyi and Kong Ping clean the cave, and Chen Sanpao dig a pit in the hole.
He also instructed Hu Tiequan to pluck the pheasants and sparrows and remove their internal organs. And he himself walked not far away, and when he returned, he carried a broken clay pot full of water in one hand, the water was still warm, and in the other hand he held a few lotus leaves that were still bright green.
First, the two girls cleaned up the debris in the cave, and then Chen Sanpao also dug the pit. Gu Laixi poured some firewood out of a back basket, put it at the bottom of the pit, and then pretended to use flint to make a fire, but in fact he just pressed his right hand to the bottom of the pit and quietly snapped his fingers.
"Smack!"
After a sound, the flames rose out of thin air, the two little girls leaned over and stretched out their hands to keep warm, Chen Sanpao and Gu Laixi went outside the cave, where Gu Laixi had just been, carried back a few sections of wooden stakes, and put them around the bonfire.
At this time, Hu Tiequan and his twin brothers also returned, and Gu Laixi first asked the silver lock and copper lock to put the loess mud at the entrance of the cave, and then poured water on it to make them reconcile. He "took out" more than a dozen small branches from the back basket and asked Chen Sanpao to string them one by one. Then took the chicken handed over by Hu Tiequan, everyone didn't see it, Gu Laixi shook his hand casually, the chicken had become very clean, and took out a paper bag from his arms, poured out one-third of the seasoning in the paper bag into the chicken belly, and then wrapped it in lotus leaves, and handed it to the twins to wrap it in a thick layer of mud. Soon all three chickens were ready, gently placed in the fire, and then another layer of firewood was added to them, and everyone washed their hands, sat on the stakes, chatted, and held the sparrows to roast.
"Eh, do you believe that there are ghosts in this world?" Hu Tiequan suddenly whispered mysteriously.
When several people heard this, they all looked timid, but Kong Ping blushed and said loudly: "My father said that there are no ghosts in the world, they are all scaresome." As long as the line is done rightly, worthy of the sky, not committed to it, not afraid of words, it is the style of a gentleman, it is a friend of the Quartet, the world, and a great thing. If you have evil thoughts, harbor accidents, try to get lucky, and are greedy for small profits, you will definitely be despised by people and spurned by the trend. ”
"Hey, little girl, it's still a set. Are you afraid of listening to ghost stories?" Hu Tiequan continued to stimulate her.
"Hmph, you say, I'm not afraid. Kong Ping said unconvinced.
The others were scared and curious.
"A long, long time ago, there was a scholar surnamed Wang, who went out early one morning and met a woman on the road, carrying a burden in her arms, and walking with difficulty. When Wang Sheng saw this, he saw that this woman was fourteen or fifteen years old, and she was very beautiful, so he fell in love, and asked her why she was walking alone early in the morning? The woman said that her parents were greedy for money and sold her to a wealthy family, but the housewife was jealous of her, and humiliated and scolded her all day long, and she could not bear it anymore, so she had to escape. There's no place to stay now. When Wang Sheng heard this, he invited the woman to his house, and Wang Sheng settled her in the study, and promised the woman to help her keep her secret. Later, Wang Sheng quietly told his wife Chen about this, and Chen guessed that the woman might be the concubine of a big family, and persuaded Wang Sheng to send her away, but Wang Sheng had already fallen in love with the woman and refused to listen to Chen's advice.
One day, Wang Sheng happened to meet an old Taoist priest in the city, the Taoist priest saw that he had a bad complexion, so he asked him if he had encountered anything, Wang Sheng said that he had not encountered anything, and the Taoist priest said that Wang Sheng was surrounded by evil spirits, how could he be fine. Wang Sheng tried his best to quibble, and the Taoist priest had no choice but to leave. When he returned home, Wang Sheng went to look for the woman, and found that the door of the woman's room was inserted from the inside and could not enter, so he became suspicious and quietly looked inside through the window. I saw an evil ghost, with a green face and teeth like jagged teeth, and the ghost spread a human skin on the bed, and was drawing his eyebrows and eyes with a colored pen, and soon he drew it, threw the pen aside, lifted the human skin with both hands and draped it over his body, and in an instant he became the woman before. ”
"Ahh
Everyone was also startled, and looked at Tao Yueyi for some reason. Tao Yueyi looked at everyone embarrassedly, thinking that she probably heard the horror and had a psychological effect. Then I was embarrassed to apologize to everyone and asked Hu Tiequan to continue.
When Wang Sheng saw this, he was frightened, and went to the old Taoist priest in a panic, kneeling and crying and begging him for help. The Taoist priest saw that he was pitiful, so he handed him the fly whisk in his hand, instructed him to hang it on the bedroom door, and then made an appointment to go to the Qingdi Temple to find him. In the middle of the night, the woman came, saw that the fly whisk did not dare to enter the door, so angry that she gritted her teeth, and thought of a way to take off the fly whisk and break it, and then broke into the door, cut Wang Sheng's stomach open, grabbed the heart and left. Chen was so frightened that he didn't dare to cry. ”
Tao Yueyi tightened her collar again, and sat down close to Kong Ping. Everyone just thought that Tao Yueyi was scared and didn't particularly care.
The next day, Wang Sheng's younger brother found the old Taoist, the old Taoist priest was also very angry, thinking that he had given the female ghost a chance, but she did everything, this time she must not spare her, the old Taoist pinched his fingers, and asked Erlang, whose house does the south courtyard live in? Erlang said that he was his own house, and the Taoist priest asked again, has a stranger come this morning? Erlang said that I went to the Qingdi Temple early in the morning to invite you, and I didn't know, so I will go home and ask. After a while, Jiro came back and said that after he left, an old woman came to the house and wanted to be a servant in the house. The wife left her behind. The Taoist priest said that it was this ghost, and then he stood in the courtyard with a wooden sword in his hand and shouted, "Bold evil ghost, quickly return my flies!" The woman was shocked when she heard this, and hurriedly fled to the door, and the Taoist priest saw it, and hurriedly chased her, and a sword knocked her to the ground, and a human skin fell off with a bang, and a demon appeared on the ground, lying on the ground and howling, and the Taoist priest immediately cut off its head with a wooden sword, and the evil ghost turned into a thick smoke in an instant, and the old Taoist priest took out a gourd, pulled off the stopper and inhaled the smoke. ”
The little heart that everyone was holding finally fell to the ground, watching the sparrow in his hand roasted, Gu Laixi took out a small packet of pepper and salt from his arms, sprinkled a little bit on each of them, and ate it with relish, and no one noticed that Tao Yueyi's face was green at this time, trembling slightly.
Everyone happily ate the delicious food, as if they had forgotten the nervousness just now. However, the corners of Hu Tiequan's mouth lifted and said:
"The story doesn't end there. ”