21. The legend of the ghost cannibal
It's another morning with fresh air.
After breakfast, Autumn Leaf Fei was about to say goodbye to River Yiliu.
"Brother He, I'm going out for a few days, take care!"
Looking at Qiu Yefei's face of friendship, He Yiliu was also a little reluctant to part with him. He thought of the days and nights he had spent with him for so many days, and a feeling of heroic sympathy came to his heart.
Of course, He Yiliu knew what Qiu Ye was flying out for, maybe he found the clues of the Qingyang Gang's 300,000 taels of silver, since he didn't say it, He Yiliu didn't want to ask, and they understood each other.
He Yiliu patted Qiu Yefei on the shoulder and said, "Good brother, I have good news back to tell me, I'll wait for you." ”
Looking at Qiu Yefei stepping out of the gate, He Yiliu couldn't help but pop out seven words in his heart:
The rivers and lakes are here, and the brothers are here!
"He's gone, will you go too?"
Tang Lanxiang asked behind He Yiliu with her arms in her arms, looking indifferent.
She changed her outfit again today, there are no longer so many decorations on her head, a pink Luo skirt sets off her beautiful and mature figure, and when she laughs, the two dimples look much more amiable than usual, and they are no longer so intoxicating.
He Yiliu turned around and said, "I'm not leaving, I'm waiting for a distant relative to pick me up." ”
After finishing speaking, he subconsciously stared at Tang Lanxiang's feet with his eyes.
Tang Lanxiang was wearing a pair of soft-soled embroidered shoes at this time, which matched the pink Luo skirt very well, and when she saw He Yiliu staring at her feet, she generously stretched out a pair of feet and said, "Are they good-looking? These are my favorite embroidered shoes." ”
"Good looking, good looking. Ha Yiliu smiled as she spoke.
Tang Lanxiang couldn't help but laugh when she saw him laughing.
"By the way, you said that you were going to wait for a distant relative to pick you up, when will your distant relative come?" Tang Lanxiang asked.
"My distant relative said that he would come, it all depended on his mood, and if he was in a good mood, he would come immediately. He Yiliu said slowly.
"What if you're in a bad mood?"
"Then I'll be here until he's in a good mood. ”
"What if he's in a bad mood for a month?"
"I'll just wait a month. ”
"What if you're in a bad mood all year long?"
He Yiliu smiled: "You don't have to wait a year, you drove me away long ago, because I can't afford to eat and live." ”
Tang Lanxiang also smiled and said: "I'm not a place for peace here, let you eat and live for nothing, of course I won't do loss-making transactions." ”
He Yiliu suddenly felt so bored and wanted to leave.
"Where is this guest officer going?" Tang Lanxiang hurriedly asked.
"I didn't sleep well last night, so I'm going to catch up on it. ”
Feeling that he was still unsatisfied, He Yiliu glanced at Tang Lanxiang and said:
"I told you, don't call me as a guest officer, my name is He Yiliu!"
After noon, the lively restaurant gradually regained its tranquility, and there were almost no customers to eat.
"Boss, open three rooms!"
Yuelai Restaurant suddenly walked in a group of people, the leader of the brocade clothes and brocade crown, but he looked like a scholar, and the entourage around him was a big man, shouting to open the room as soon as he entered the door.
Tang Lanxiang asked the clerk to open a room for them, and at the same time went up to greet them enthusiastically, giving up her seat and pouring tea.
She has seen the leader, and it is the leader of the tea gang.
Fang Gang Master sat down to drink tea, saw that the entourage had finished the room, and said, "Bring people up!"
As soon as the door was dark, a black-clad masked warrior led a man in, the man was slender and wore a black hood over his head, and no one could see his face. Exactly, no one could see the faces of the two of them.
The black-clothed warrior pushed the hooded man to the people next to the gang leader, and the two big men carried him to the guest room on the second floor.
Tang Lanxiang saw it on the side, and only felt that the behavior of the Fang Gang Leader was a little strange.
I only heard the man in black: "Helper, I think the delivery location will be here." ”
Gang Master Fang gritted his teeth and said, "If he doesn't deliver the goods tomorrow, I will kill this kid!"
"Hey, Boss Xu wants goods, not human lives. "Humanity in black.
"Well, after finishing this matter, will my Tea Gang be able to join the Qilin Gang?" asked the man in black.
"As long as you get this done, everything is easy to say. The man in black approached the gang leader and said, "When the time comes, there will be the Qilin Gang Xu Boss covering, the tea gang will definitely have a prosperous business all over the world, and the wealth will be rolling up to Sanjiang, who in the business field will not listen to the gang leader?"
"Hahahaha!" Fang Gang Leader laughed proudly.
"Hey, hurry up and lead the guests up to the second floor to rest, do you hear?"
Tang Lanxiang interrupted the laughter of the Fang Gang Leader and called out to the clerk.
It can be seen that she does not like to hear their conversation, and even has a kind of annoyance.
In the evening, the restaurant is lively again, diners talk about everything, and the most eye-catching thing is the story of ghosts eating people.
"Have you heard of the suburbs being haunted in the past two days?" said someone at the dinner table.
"What's haunted?" the table was intrigued.
"Uncle Li, a neighbor, said that the day before yesterday he went into the mountains to chop firewood and came back late, and when he walked to the outskirts of the city, he actually saw a ghost, do you think it's strange?"
"What's so strange?"
Uncle Li said that it was late at that time, there were no passers-by, and he was walking alone with a bundle of firewood, and suddenly saw a black shadow flashing in front of his eyes, and thought that his old eyes were dizzy, so he hurriedly rubbed his eyes, and saw the black shadow flashing over, hiding behind a dirt slope and not moving. Uncle Li was curious, so he stepped forward to investigate, and suddenly the black shadow stood up, only to see that its eyes were bleeding, its nose was bleeding, and the corners of its mouth were bleeding. ”
"Ahh
"Hey, don't say it, Uncle Li is really bold, I don't believe it's a ghost, I took out a thick firewood stick and went to fight the ghost, but no matter how he fights, he just can't hit the ghost, Uncle Li wondered, obviously saw the firewood stick fall on the ghost's head every time, but every time it was empty, Uncle Li was also a little panicked, the ghost saw Uncle Li hit him with a stick, and he didn't fight back, and suddenly screamed, the sound shocked Uncle Li is dizzy and swollen, and his eardrum was bleeding, Uncle Li didn't stand firmly, and he fainted on the hillside with fright. I don't know how much time passed, as soon as the evening breeze blew, Uncle Li woke up, the ghost was gone, but he saw a corpse beside him, and the head of the corpse had been gnawed into a mess. ”
"Ahh
The speaker added, "Guess who is the man whose head was eaten off by the devil?"
"Who is it?"
"Hu San! Uncle Li saw it with his own eyes. ”
"Ah, Hu San?!No wonder I haven't seen him go to cockfighting in the past few days, it turned out that he was eaten by a ghost!?"
"The head is all rotten, how can Uncle Li recognize that the corpse is Hu San?" someone asked.
"Hu San lives next to Uncle Li's house, Hu San passes in front of his house every day, not to mention that his head is gone, even if he burns Hu San to ashes, Uncle Li can recognize it. ”
At this time, a person suddenly said: "Oh, I remember, Hu San seemed to go to the suburbs with the girl from the tailor that day, saying that he was catching some scorpions, but neither of them seemed to come back." ”
"That's right, I also remembered, Xia Lotus was anxious to ask me that day if I saw her Biwei. ”
"Could it be that Biwei was also eaten by that ghost?!"
When I thought of the bloody scene of the ghost eating people, the people at the table, you look at me, I look at you, everyone is panicked, and they can't eat anymore, they seem to be unanimous, and they leave the table with a bang, leaving only the storyteller.
Tang Lanxiang, who was in a hurry, stepped forward and grabbed the storyteller, and shouted: "Guest officer, you haven't paid the bill yet! They are gone, you can't go! If you want to eat white food, there is no door!"
It's time for the restaurant to close again.
The young clerk began to close the door, and saw a gray-haired old woman squatting in the doorway, with messy hair, a face like tree bark, covered in dirt, holding a wooden stick in her hand, trembling and pestering him to beg for food.
The young clerk disliked her dirty body and said angrily: "We're closing, go elsewhere and ask for food!"
To put it mildly, the old woman just refused to leave, and looked at the store from time to time, it seemed that she was resolutely unwilling to leave if she didn't want to eat.
Tang Lanxiang saw it and instructed the clerk to get her some leftover food from the guests.
The old woman took a bite, spit it out, casually put the leftovers on the ground, and said slightly: "Unfilial, you are not filial, give my old woman leftovers, you will be struck by lightning." ”
Seeing this, Tang Lanxiang came out and said, "If this old woman doesn't come in and sit for a while, I'll ask the chef to cook for you alone." ”
"Don't eat, don't eat, I'm starving to death with this old bone, alas, unfilial, really unfilial!"
The old woman scrambled forward as she walked along, and a wooden stick clattered on the ground.
The old woman turned a corner and disappeared into the night.
Tang Lanxiang said in her heart, this old woman was afraid that she was abused by her children at home, so she came out to ask for food, but she never seemed to have seen her. In this small city, everyone who came out to beg for food has come to Yuelai Restaurant, some people often come, although some people have only come once, but they also leave an impression on Tang Lanxiang, only this old woman has no impression at all, it seems that it is the first time to come here to beg, and it is not like a person who is in the city.
Thinking that such an old woman was alone, coming from afar, begging all the way, it was really not easy, Tang Lanxiang couldn't help but sigh helplessly, and said:
"Close the doors and windows, watch out for the candles, it's going to be windy tonight!"