As soon as he put the letter in his arms, he saw Shen Huicai rushing in, and said in a panic: "Shi An, it's not good, the county government has blocked all the city gates, and also posted a sea fishing warrant, you and Miss Qiong'er are wanted." Just now, the son of the Zhou family also said that the county town is conducting a house-to-house search, this, what can I do?"

Shi An was not in a hurry, "This is also expected. Uncle Shen, don't worry, the county government has limited manpower, even if it is a door-to-door search, it will definitely be carried out in one direction and one direction. Our house is not far from the inn, and they will think that this is the last place we should hide, so we must check it out last, it is almost evening, and there is still plenty of time to prepare. Uncle Shen, I'll teach you a way, and there will be no problem if you do this. Shi An explained a few words to Shen Huicai, and he left suspiciously.

Shi An came out of the study, first went into the stove room and rummaged through the cabinets, and finally found a broken clay pot near the stove. On the opposite side of the clay pot break, carefully grind out three or five small holes with a sharp stone, and then "rub" a few times to climb up the wall, stretch out a finger in the mouth for a while, and then raise this finger to test the wind direction, the broken clay pot carefully stand on the wall, after the direction is adjusted appropriately, the northwest wind blows, making a "woo woo" sound.

Then he ran to the backyard warehouse where the Chinese medicine was kept, and found pork bone meal, kudzu root, bellbell leaf, snake vine, and fried bitter juice fruit in several herb boxes, and ground these herbs into powder with an herbal mill and placed them in a large basin. A few pots in the stove room scraped some ash from the bottom of the pot, also put it in the basin, and finally poured in the liquor that was used as a primer for medicine, and mixed it to make a paste. I took a pot brush and brushed it in all corners of the yard, on the branches, and on the roof. went to the west wing to find Qiong'er, and told her like this. In the end, he found a big broom, gently swept away the footprints on the snow outside the courtyard gate and from the courtyard gate to the door of each room, and hid in the west wing where Qiong'er was, waiting for the officials to come and search.

At the time of the unitary period, two officials, one tall and one short, came to the vicinity of Zhao's house noisily and searched door to door along the streets in the direction of the county government. Shen Huicai's house was in the south of Zhao Langzhong's house, and after the door was kicked open by the two, the tall official shouted: "The county government has an order, hunt down the murderers, and all the gasps in the family are for Lao Tzu to come out, line up, and Lao Tzu will search one by one." ”

The Shen family, old and young, walked out of their respective rooms one after another and gathered in the courtyard to wait. The tall official held a scroll in his hand, thinking that it should be a portrait of Jin Gui and Qiong'er, comparing the Shen family one by one. The short servant went into the house, rummaged through the cabinets to see if there was anyone hidden in the house, and by the way, took some inconspicuous soft things. After a while, the check was completed, and as soon as the two met, they looked at each other, and they both shook their heads, and it seemed that they had found nothing, so they were ready to get up and go to Zhao Langzhong's house.

Shen Huicai hurriedly ran forward and asked, "Uncle Two, my family is now done, right?"

"Hmm. ”

"The two uncles are going to look for the next one?"

"Exactly. ”

"Two uncles, I don't know if I should say a sentence or not?"

"Say it quickly, let it fart if you have it!" said the two impatiently.

"Don't hide it from the two masters, next door is Zhao Langzhong's family, who was killed by bandits half a year ago. ”

"We know, what's wrong?"

"The two masters don't know, after entering Layue, this Zhao family may have entered unclean things, and the door of his house has been sky-high and loud, we have the courage to go to see it, and there is no one at home. Every night in his yard, you can see the ghost fire jumping and jumping, and you can hear the sound of woo woo and ghost crying at night, it's too scary, no, my family is ready to move in the next few days. Shen Huicai pretended to be mysterious and said.

"Really?" the two of them were skeptical.

"Be careful, two masters, if you lie anything, just come and take our heads. After saying that, he sent the two out of the door, immediately bolted the door, and deliberately said loudly: "Old woman, quickly ask the children to light the mugwort leaves and close the door tightly to prevent the erosion of yin qi." ”

When the two officials saw that Shen Jiasha was in trouble, they couldn't help but be a little nervous.

"Brother Zhang, do you still want to see it?" asked the tall officer with some shortness of breath.

"Go...... Check it out. "The tall servants are also a little lacking in confidence.

As soon as the two of them walked to the door of Zhao's house, they heard a burst of crying and whining in their ears with the howling northwest wind.

Zhang ...... Sheet...... Brother Zhang, there will be no real ...... Is there a ghost?" asked the short servant with his upper teeth and lower teeth.

"I didn't ...... It's okay, scrape...... It's just windy. The tall servant said to himself.

After calming down for a while, there was no movement in his ears except for whimpering, so Zhang Yashi stood in front of the gate of Zhao's mansion and mustered up the courage to shout: "We are the official master of the yamen, and the people inside are ...... Come out of here!"

Seeing that there was no movement, the two of them took courage and gently pushed open the hidden door. Before I even walked in, I saw a little light blue light on all corners of the yard, on the branches, and on the roof, one bright and one extinguished, as deep as a ghost fire. The legs of the two began to tremble involuntarily, let alone enter, and they couldn't even move their legs at this time.

Suddenly, the door of the west wing was gently pushed open, and a woman with a cloak covering her face, and a woman with a heavy body of filial piety revealed, and said to them weakly, but extremely gloomy: "Are you calling me? However, I am not the person inside, I am the ghost inside!"

"Hell!!" This time, the two of them did not have the slightest suspicion, forcibly took steps, and fled from Zhao's house without looking back.

Seeing that the two of them ran away, the female ghost turned around and walked into the west wing, and while arranging her hair, she said to Shi An with a smile: "Your method is really useful, and you scared these two cowards away." ”

Shi An also smiled: "Sister Qiong'er, look at the wet on the ground, isn't it the urine they scared out?"

Sure enough, behind the courtyard gate, there were water stains in the distance, which were particularly conspicuous against the background of the snow.

Qiong'er blushed, smacked Shi An, and said, "It's all your filial piety, it's so big that I almost tripped up." ”

"It's better, it's like you're going to fly over and eat them, and it's not so scary if you walk normally. Shi An laughed.

"Did you think they'd come back?" asked Joan.

"Absolutely not. And I bet they'll never say there's a ghost here, and they'll only laugh at everyone else. They will only say goodbye to everyone and search it all, and no one will commit it. Well, by now, it's really safe here. Shi An said with a long sigh of relief.

The facts once again proved that Shi An was right, the tall and short officials really didn't mention it to anyone when they went back, and there was no figure in the Yixian Yamen here in the next two days.