Obviously he was a loyal minister of the Ma Shou Kingdom and a good ghost, but he ended up like this, which made all the ghosts present moved, and even the ghost envoys of the Nine Shadows Kingdom, as well as the fungus man who had scolded Changfu not long ago, suddenly filled their chests with grief.

The admiration for Changfu also rose with the sadness that emerged from the bottom of his heart.

Chang Fu's subordinates immediately surrounded him in a panic, and in a hurry, they tried to hold down the long knife wound on Chang Fu's neck as they howled and screamed, but they couldn't hold it down.

The wound was too deep for them to see the cut trachea through the open flesh.

In the dense rain poured down, the light of the bonfire became weaker and weaker, and the blood gushed like a pillar, and Changfu soon ended up with the exact same ending as Takekagezo.

In the increasingly dense rain and the howling cold wind, his body began to turn to dust.

The soldiers who were in tears had to stop holding down the wound and knelt in the rain and cried.

The bonfire was finally completely extinguished in the dense wind and rain.

The sorrowful and earth-shaking god cry echoed in the forest with the cold wind and rain. The cold wind with sorrow blew the surrounding trees for a while, and the swaying branches played a sad lament in the dark night rain......

After Xiao Shizhu finished inspecting the Red Stone Harbor, the gods turned around and thought about moving southeast, heading straight for Konashi County. He wanted to go from Muli County to Luofu County, where Du Ziren's national capital was located.

And after entering Muli County, Xiao Shizhu took the ghost female tiger Biao and the four disciples of Su Tianju in disguise, and then took a step towards Bazhai City in the county.

This so-called Basai Castle is the seat of the current county seat of Konashi County. It is said that it was only a small village with eight houses in eight households, hence the name Basai.

Later, after the area was expanded into a castle, the name Basai continued to be used, and the castle was born.

However, Xiao Shizhu's purpose of taking the lead this time was no longer to make a secret visit, it was nothing more than that he had already heard that in addition to the famous yellow birds in this Bazhai City, there was also the juggling that was also a must in the underworld.

As far as he knew, the predecessor of Basai Castle, the eight families who became Basai, were masters of making puppets and performing puppet shows.

You know, this kind of thing called juggling is rare in the world. The world is mostly playing with jars and bowls, as well as playing sticks and other ordinary juggling, but Xiao Shizhu wants to see more puppet ghost shows that only exist in the underworld.

He had seen it once in the capital of Xudu, and the puppet was alive under the overpower of the ghost, not to mention life. The ghosts who override the puppets can also use ventriloquism, and their stomachs can make different sounds while they are talking. can perform the simultaneous dialogue of the two ghosts at the same time, which makes Xiao Shizhu linger.

Although he later learned that it was not the ventriloquism in human novels, it was nothing more than the ghost who controlled the puppet and raised a spirit called the belly ghost in his stomach.

Although it is a spirit, this kind of ghost is one of the most mysterious ghosts among the many ghosts in the underworld, and no one or a ghost has ever been able to see its appearance, so that today there are still thousands of strange records of the appearance of the belly ghost.

Although it is so mysterious, this kind of ghost can only survive in the belly of a human soul. So they lived on these ghosts who lived by juggling, shadow puppets and puppet shows.

Over time, it has also become a major feature of the underworld.

And in order to prevent them from haunting the parasitic ghosts, these ghosts who raise them with their own stomachs will prepare their nemesis Eight Poison Akamaru and carry it with them.

This pill called the Ghost Slaying Pill has the effect of killing ghosts for belly ghosts, and it is the thing that belly ghosts fear the most.

To get back to the point, it is said that Xiao Shizhu took a group of ghosts and came to Bazhai City before the cloudy sun set. They found an inn in the city, booked a room first, and after eating something, they headed for the Lent Theater in the city.

The largest theater in the city is located in the south of the city, and it is located in the north-facing south-facing direction. The street is facing nine inverted north rooms, with five deep purlins with front porches, and in the middle is a tall vermilion lacquer Guangliang gate. Two hung between the white paper lanterns at the door, and a horizontal plaque was hung on the four door hairpins, on which the word "Eight Lent" was written.

Xiao Shizhu gave the ticket money for the entrance, took the accompanying group of ghosts, followed the leading ghost of a theater troupe, walked through the gate and came to the courtyard behind the door that was long from east to west, short from north to south, and two rows of rooms corresponding to the north and south.

After they asked for a private room, they followed the little ghost to the balcony on the left side of the west theater building. The imp led them up to the second floor and opened the private room in the middle.

The door was opened, but only three walls were visible in the spotless house, one of which was open and a two-foot-high wooden guardrail stood at the edge. You can let the ghost in the house clearly see the stage with a carved wooden cover in front of you.

There is also a pool seat in front of the stage.

Xiao Shizhu took the ghost mother and the tiger to sit swaggering down at the table of the eight immortals in the middle of the room, and immediately a ghost brought them tea and a fruit plate, as well as some pastries and melon seeds and peanuts.

And the little ghost who led them also sent the playlist.

Xiao Shizhu took the trick sheet in his hand and glanced at it, and saw that it was full of traditional ghost tricks from the underworld. Either Da Mu Qian even saved his mother in the underworld (Da Mu Qian was a disciple of Shakyamuni Buddha), or it was a drama that sang the praises of those Hades kings of the Northern Yin Dynasty; all of them were similar to the legends in the world, praising how selfless and evil the Hades were.

After Xiao Shizhu saw it, he immediately sneered and handed it back to the little ghost;

"The play is too old, nothing new. Xiao Shizhu leaned back and put his hands behind his head as he leaned back in the chair: "Don't you have any new plays here?"

"There are, but the guest officer has to pay for the order. This little ghost didn't know that what was in front of him was his own king, and he continued to talk eloquently: "For example, the son of the merman written by the lord, the seven little fungus people, and so on." ”。

"Seven little fungus people?" The ghost mother heard this script for the first time, and immediately muttered, casting an inquiring glance at Xiao Shizhu.

Obviously, she didn't know when Xiao Shizhu wrote this script and then sold it to the drama troupe.

"It's the Seven Fungus Men, fighting a bad wizard who wants to eat them. The little ghost replied, and Xiao Shizhu quietly winked his eyebrows at the ghost mother, leaned his mouth against her ear, and whispered to her in a voice that only the ghost mother could hear: "It's just to change the story of the Smurfs I told you casually." ”。

The ghost mother suddenly realized: Xiao Shizhu is often idle, so he tells her about movies and television in the world, as well as cartoons and so on. As soon as Xiao Shizhu said that, she wanted to see this puppet ghost show even more, so she turned to the little ghost and said, "Then let's order this, seven little fungus people." ”。

After speaking, he raised his hand and pointed at Xiao Shizhu and said, "He pays." ”。

"This son. The little ghost stretched out his hand to Xiao Shizhu, and said with a smile on his face: "Our drama troupe orders a play, and it will cost three taels of silver." ”。

"You're making a lot of money. Xiao Shizhu smiled, took out three pieces of broken silver from his sleeve, and put them in the hand of the little ghost without hesitation.

"Thank you, childe. The imp bowed and stepped back, closing the door for them.

"I knew I would have sold more money then. The moment the door closed, Xiao Shizhu muttered again. Then the fungus god got out of Hu Biao's collar, climbed on Hu Biao's shoulder, sat down, and took a piece of pastry handed to him by Hu Biao.

At this time, the pool seat downstairs is also full of ghosts. The yin wind gusted, swirling lightly between those tables and chairs, and the ghostly aura permeated the theater building.

"How much did you sell it for?" asked the ghost mother curiously after taking a sip of tea.

"I remember that I bought five hundred taels of silver for one playbook, and it seems that I only sold dozens of copies. Xiao Shizhu knocked the melon seeds, and after a little reflection, he said slowly: "Except for the printing of the workbook, the last thing that came to me was more than 20,000 taels of silver." ”。

As soon as these words came out, the ghost mother's face was as usual, doing business in private was Xiao Shizhu's hobby, and she had long been accustomed to it, but Hu Biao and the four Su Tianju disciples all cast incredible glances at Xiao Shizhu.

"What are you doing?" Xiao Shizhu, who noticed the abnormality, looked around and asked disapprerovingly: "Can't I be a businessman except to be the lord?"

One of Su Tianju's disciples, Su Su, and Xiao Shizhu are also old acquaintances, and after pursing his lips and smiling at the moment, he said jokingly: "We just didn't expect that our lord was actually a businessman and a businessman who wrote playbooks." ”。

As soon as these words came out, Hu Biao Shenji and the other Su Tianju disciples immediately nodded and snorted.

"Hahaha, I'm not in business, where does the money come from for this trip?" Xiao Shizhu smiled proudly and said to them complacently: "The money from the treasury belongs to the ghost people, not mine, but it is precisely because your lord works hard to make money that he can take you out to eat Haisai." ”。

As he spoke, the ghost show on the stage had begun. In the sound of gongs and drums, the cars, ships, horses, sedan chairs, and strange monsters that need to appear in the ghost show are on the stage one by one in order.

Everything on the stage is a marionette. From the grass and trees in the scene, to the hundred ghosts that appear one after another, they are all puppets.

This is the puppet show of the underworld.

Xiao Shizhu and the others also stopped talking and looked intently at the stage. The puppets on the stage sometimes shoot and swords in full swing, tossing up and down. Sometimes in the melodious and beautiful singing voice, the voice lingers with emotion.

Even the trees and flowers that make up the scene can gently sway in the sound of the wind blown by the ventriloquist of the belly demons. It can be seen that the puppet-making technology has been able to give it vivid vitality.

After watching two or three plays, half of the tea was drunk, and the fungus man was stunned for a moment, and then closed his eyes and became concentrated.

After a long time, Shen Ji was slowly staring at him, but his face was full of consternation. He immediately got up, jumped from Hu Biao's shoulder to Xiao Shizhu's shoulder, blocked the mouth close to Xiao Shizhu's ear with his hand, and muttered something to Xiao Shizhu.

Except for Xiao Shizhu and Shen Ji, the other ghosts in the house were all concentrating on watching the play.

The sound of gongs and drums on the stage suddenly became urgent, and before Shen Ji finished speaking, Xiao Shizhu's face suddenly turned pale, and the joy on his face disappeared in an instant.

The news that Shenji sent back was none other than the news that Wu Yingzang had been killed and Changfu had died to apologize.

After Xiao Shizhu listened, his first reaction was anger. His envoy also dared to kill, and he was killed in order to accept the recruitment of the Northern Yin Dynasty, which made him eager to get up immediately and order Shenji to send orders to the army and prepare to conquer the country of Mashou in the west.

But his fists were clenched, and he immediately suppressed the anger in his chest again. He was enduring it, trying to control his anger.