Bai Li came out of the house with a jar of glutinous rice, and met Zhang Xi slowly pacing from the other end of the road. He was still wearing the long shirt he was used to, but he looked much scruffier than usual. Not only did he not comb his hair, he didn't wash his face, but he didn't even pat the loess on his shirt carefully.

Bai Li didn't want to pay attention to him, holding the jar and wanting to miss it from the side, but Zhang Xi suddenly raised his head and blocked Bai Li.

"Brother Zhang Xi, what is this doing? Could it be that he fell in love with the glutinous rice in my arms and planned to rob it on the street. ”

"Is there any wine?" Zhang Xi asked, and the head that had just been raised lowered again: "I heard from the people in the village, your family has everything, so I want to come and ask if there is wine?" I sold my book for some money, and I want to use it to buy wine from you. ”

"You sold your book?" Bai Li looked at Zhang Xi with a little surprise, and saw that he didn't want to answer, and said, "Since you have money in your hand, why don't you go directly to Huaxi Town to buy wine and drink?" ”

Since a few snowfalls, the drought situation in Huaxi Village has also been alleviated, and the fighting outside has stopped, in order to appease the people, the imperial court symbolically allocated some relief money to the severely affected places. Although the money is not much, it gives the villagers of Huaxi Village who are struggling on the line of life and death the motivation to live, and in the past few days, many villagers in Huaxi Village will go to the town on foot to buy things.

The jar of glutinous rice in Bai Li's hand was brought back by Old Man Tao from Huaxi Town, if she was to make some desserts for herself.

This old man Tao is mysterious, and he doesn't look like a rich man, but he runs to Huaxi Town all day long, and every time he comes back, he is not empty-handed. The Bai family was originally an inconspicuous family in Huaxi Village, but because of this old man Tao, he became a "wealthy" family in the village, and just those who ate made people jealous.

"All those wines in Huaxi Town are bitter." Zhang Xi smiled, and his smile was even more bitter than the word "bitter" he said: "I want to drink some sweet wine." ”

"I don't even have bitter wine at home, where did you get the sweet wine, you still go-" Bai Li wanted to send Zhang Xi away, but when he looked up, he saw something lying on his back.

"Brother Zhang Xi, what's that on your back?"

"On your back?" Zhang Xi raised his eyelids: "I don't have anything on my back." ”

No, there is something, but Zhang Xi can't see it by himself.

It was a female ghost dressed in red, and she was lying on Zhang Xi's back in an almost deformed position. At first, Bai Li thought it was the spring willow that had gone and returned, but when the female ghost raised her head, she realized that it was an unfamiliar face. Her facial features are a little distorted, but her eyebrows and eyes are resting there, she should have been a very handsome girl when she was alive.

"Flower bell, you're flower bell, aren't you?" Bai Li said, suddenly turned to Zhang Xi's back, and skillfully took out a ghost drawing talisman from his pocket and slapped it towards Hua Ling.

"I don't know if it works if it works, but if it works, you hate him. If it doesn't work, you can trouble him. Patting his hand, seeing that the female ghost Hualing was restrained by the talisman drawn by Old Man Tao, Bai Li hurriedly stroked his chest.

"Brother Zhang Xi, where did you provoke this flower bell back?"

"Cemetery, the ancestral graveyard of the Chunliu family." Zhang Xi twisted his neck and looked at his back: "Don't embarrass her, she will follow me as a last resort." ”

"She's trying to hurt you." Bai Li changed his hand to hold the glutinous rice jar: "No...... What did you just say, how could this flower bell appear in the ancestral cemetery of the Chunliu family, even if it is to harm you, it should have crawled out of the ancestral cemetery of your Zhang family. ”

"It's nothing, don't ask so much about your little kids."

"I'm not a child." Bai Li said to Zhang Xi with a straight look: "Do you want to drink sweet wine?" Let me know if you want to drink it. ”

"I don't drink anymore." Zhang Xi turned around and walked two steps, then turned back to look at Bai Li: "Hualing is a poor person, you can let her go." Even if she tried to harm me, I would have nothing to say. If the source of this matter is found, it is also owed to her by our Zhang family. Debts to pay money, life to pay, as it should be. ”

"If you say you don't drink, you won't drink, and if you say you put it, you will let it go, then I have no face. Besides, this talisman was painted by my master, and there is only such a picture in Huaxi Village, so I let her go like this, and it is not a pity that the waste is not wasted. Bai Li squatted down holding the glutinous rice jar, looked at the curled up Hua Ling and muttered: "Otherwise, I will let my master scatter Hua Ling's soul, and save her from harming others in the future." ”

"Don't, don't, she won't hurt others, she just wants to hurt me." Zhang Xi stood behind Hua Ling and said eagerly: "I can tell you, but please don't tell anyone else." ”

"Don't worry, my white glass mouth is not as broken as Aunt Zhang'er."

When Zhang Xi heard this, although his face was a little unbearable, he muttered and didn't say anything.

"Let's go, come home with me, I'll use this glutinous rice to make sweet wine for you." After speaking, Bai Li stretched out his hand and ripped off the ghost talisman attached to Hua Ling's body, and also scared Hua Ling by the way: "Follow obediently, don't be bad, I can shoot you once with this ghost talisman, I can shoot you twice." Besides, my master is at home, if you dare to touch me, you will immediately let your soul fly away. ”

Hua Ling nodded and quietly moved behind Zhang Xi.

Wash the glutinous rice and soak it in cold water, and the whole soaking process should last for at least two hours. Taking advantage of the effort of soaking glutinous rice, Bai Li asked Zhang Xi about the flower bell again.

It turned out that this happy father was afraid that Hua Ling would turn into a ghost and come back to ask for his life, so he divided Hua Ling's body into two, drove him to the side of the mountain and forest, and buried his head in the ancestral grave of the Chunliu family.

"This divides Hua Ling's body into two and hides them in different places, I can still understand it, but what does it mean to bury the head in the ancestral grave of the Chunliu family? Could it be that the ancestor of this Chunliu family is a general, a very angry butcher, and can suppress Hualing? ”

"No, it's my mother who can't see that the Chunliu family is having a good time, and she deliberately adds bad luck to them." Zhang Xi pouted slightly.

"I'll just say, this aunt doesn't know feng shui, how could she think of borrowing someone else's ancestral grave to suppress the corpse, it turned out that she couldn't see other people's lives better, and she just added to other people's problems." Bai Li supported his chin with his hand and looked at Hua Ling, who was standing behind Zhang Xi: "Although I don't know when you were killed, the time when you were killed must have been earlier than the time when Uncle Zhang died." I'm curious, it's been so many years since this happened, why are you still in Huaxi Town. Is it because you can't find your way to the underworld, or do you have a grudge and want to wait for revenge before leaving? ”

Hua Ling shook her head stiffly at first, and then spit out three words: "Go-no-!" ”