A slice of ham, torn into small slices, put in your mouth. Don't be in a hurry to chew, just let it stay in your mouth, feel the salty aroma it releases with your mouth, and wait until it is a little soft, then you start chewing, and feel the taste of the meat fiber.

It's dry and fragrant, and you won't get tired of eating it. By the way, he slowed down, tore another piece, and bent down with his hands, and the three-flowered cat stood upright and took the meat from his hand.

The goblins and ghosts who came and went were all looking at them, but they were no longer embarrassed and no longer watching. Gradually, I walked to the fire in the middle.

The market town was gathered around a fire. This fire is not ordinary, it has its own strangeness, but it is not a real fire that burns the sky and the earth and burns the soul, it just guides the demons and spirits in the mountains to come, and dispels other evil things.

At the edge of the fire, Song You saw several goblins and goblins in poor clothes, even if they were ghosts, they were not afraid of the fire.

The bear was almost a cow, and as soon as he saw Song You, he gave it away. Song You also returned the gift. There is this market town here, quite wonderful, since there have been people who have broken into it before, I can't say that there is also a legend about it under the mountain, maybe there was also a view of Fulongguan before.

Xiongcha should have told Niu Cha to listen. He didn't get close to them anymore, otherwise they wouldn't be at ease, and he wouldn't be at ease, so he just changed directions and continued to shop.

Song You bought a lot of wild fruits from a monkey stall owner, a good semi-dry hay from a horse stall owner, and a small fish from a mountain spirit he didn't know.

I also bought some wonderful and interesting things that are rarely seen outside, and spent a lot of money. It's a lot of gains.

But the biggest gain is obviously not the things you buy or the cheapness you pick up, but the trip itself. There are countless goblins and ghosts here, I am afraid that the goblins and ghosts of these hundreds of miles of mountains have rushed here, there are many kinds, both cats and mice, both wolves and deer, both cattle, horses and rabbits, and the spirits of plants and trees, and many natural mountain and water spirits and ghosts that have not dispersed on this road, there are all dynasties, in addition to human beings, thousands of spirits live in harmony here, and even have their own order, which not only broadens his horizons, but also adjusts his cognition.

If an ordinary and literate mortal strays into this place and can leave unharmed, maybe he will also leave behind an adventure article that will be handed down to the world, right?

As he walked, there were imps around him watching him. Song You turned his head and saw that he was a well-behaved round-faced boy, eight or nine years old, walking in the same direction as him, always turning his head to look at him, and his eyes were very spiritual.

Song You nodded and smiled at him. The imp grinned at him as well. After walking a few more steps, the little ghost got a little closer to him, and then asked curiously: "Are you a fairy?" ”

"Just a mortal."

"How daring!"

"Ha ......"

"I didn't hear you just now, how did you get in?"

"It's also fate." Song You replied casually, his voice soft,

"After dinner, I sat and looked at the stars, and when I saw a fire under the mountain, I followed him in."

"What a coincidence."

"It's a coincidence."

"Steward Xiong wanted to take you out just now, why didn't you go out?"

"It's a rare encounter, and I want to go shopping more."

"There are so many ghosts here, aren't you afraid at all?"

"What's so scary about ghosts?" Song You also maintained etiquette for this little ghost: "There is a poem in the world, I know my body today, not a ghost of the past." "Generally speaking, after a person dies and becomes a ghost, even if he is a child, he will not continue to grow up unless he has other chances.

Therefore, although the ghost in front of him is a child, it may not be said that he has existed in this world for a longer age than Song You or even Song You's master, and he can't treat others as children.

However, although their experience and knowledge will continue to grow, because they do not have a physical body, the growth of their mentality will also be affected, so it is not easy to think of them as adults or old people.

"An Zhi's body today is not a ghost of the past." The little ghost followed and thought it was interesting, so he smiled and asked, "Is there really reincarnation in this world?" ”

"It's just a line of poetry."

"Is there one?"

"I haven't seen it."

"I'll just say it!" The little ghost hit his left hand with his right hand, which seemed to be heavy, but the sound was light. Song You smiled and asked, "How many times have you come here?" ”

"Many times, too many times." The imp grinned,

"It's just that it's not interesting here, it's all things used by mountain goblins, and not many are used by ghosts."

"Has anyone come in before?"

"Occasionally, there are more in the past two years."

"I wonder who built this place? Or did everyone form it spontaneously? ”

"It's spontaneous, but it's also protected by the mountain gods." The imp paused,

"I've heard that there were many years ago, and it was a group of mountain goblins who were close to each other exchanging things, but at that time the scale was not as big as it is now, and it was not fixed in this place. It seems that since hundreds of years ago, there was a mountain god here, and the mountain god asked everyone to come here, and everyone came. ”

"Mountain gods?" Song You thought about it. There is a high probability that it is not a mountain god enshrined by the imperial court or the heavenly palace, and that kind of mountain god is usually not so friendly to demons and ghosts, relatively speaking, it is more likely that this mountain has raised elves on its own, and is called a mountain god by the demons and ghosts in the mountain.

Moreover, this mountain god can carve out such an area in the middle of this mountain, relying on the mortal world and staying away from the mortal world, it is really a great ability, only the elves contained in this mountain itself can make such an arrangement based on this mountain.

"yes." The little ghost thought for a while: "But I heard that the mountain god is short-tempered, someone came in before, the mountain god was very unhappy, and he had a fight with that person, and was beaten miserably, and then he didn't come out, and now we spontaneously came over and spontaneously recommended some goblins and ghosts who are more profound to take care of things, so as not to make trouble." ”

"I see." Song You nodded and said,

"That's rude."

"Not really!"

"Gathering is fate, I'll take a foot and eat a stick of incense."

"How can that be?"

"I just want to talk to my feet for a moment."

"It's better to be respectful than to obey!" Song You happened to see a shed selling incense, and the owner was a mouse, which was one of the few places in the market town that sold things related to yin ghosts, so there were many wild ghosts gathered.

When I walked into the shed, there were tables and stools in it, but they were all very short, the height of the table was only more than a foot, and the stool was less than a foot.

One man and one ghost saluted each other and sat opposite each other. The three-flowered cat also jumped on a stool.

"What do you want?"

"Three sticks of grass incense." Song You saw that everyone else ordered the three-stick grass incense.

"Do you want to ignite?"

"Yes."

"Okay!" Suddenly, a living person came in, whether it was the wild ghost who was eating here, or the mountain goblin monster who came with the wild ghost, they all kept glancing at Song You, and their voice was quieter.

The three-flowered cat turned its head and stared at the stall owner without blinking, which made the stall owner a little scared.

"It's rude." Song You turned the cat's head back manually, and then ignored the gazes of other demons and ghosts, and only talked to this little ghost.

The little ghost is a good talker, and he talks while eating. His Taoism is good, and he can eat incense ash, and ordinary wild ghosts can only eat the smoke burned by incense.

However, this kind of incense does not have the blessing of willingness, and its help for Taoism is extremely limited, let alone helping these wild ghosts to embark on the Shinto, and its main effect is to fill their stomachs.

Usually, when the market is not open, most of them who can't get incense feed on the morning dew in the mountains and the evening twilight, and they live a very hard life.

Listen to the little ghosts complaining, there are ghosts and spirits in this market town, everyone is the worst for ghosts, and they look down on ghosts the most, ghosts have the lowest status here, and they can buy the fewest things.

And it's copper coins used here. Copper coins are very unfriendly to ghosts, and the most unfriendly thing is that they are not easy to take.

Copper coins are very heavy, the wider the circulation, the heavier, the heaviest is like a thousand catties, and the ghost who is not good enough can not pick it up.

Therefore, most of the ghosts who come to the market town will either go and exchange the copper coins that no one has touched for many years, or they will make an appointment with other mountain goblins, come with them, and ask these friends to help them get the money.

There are also some clever ghosts who simply associate with some spiritual animals and ask the animals to help carry the money. Song You only thought it was very interesting.

I also heard the little ghost laugh and say that many people under the mountain have seriously scandalized the goblins and ghosts, and always feel that they are terrible, ugly and irrational, or that the female demons and ghosts can't control themselves when they see the poor scholars, and they often look at these things as jokes, and often laugh when they see them.

Sometimes the little ghost will ask him about the things under the mountain, which dynasty and which generation now, which city and which village are still not there, Song You will answer him if he knows, and if he doesn't know, he can only be sorry.

More than half of the chatter, more than half of the incense. The little ghost sighed: "There are few people in this world who dare to talk to ghosts like the Dao Chief, and I haven't spoken to anyone for a long time." After a pause, he said again: "It's just that Steward Xiong wants to take the Taoist chief out, and the Taoist chief should really go out with him." Song You looked at the stall owner's head for the fourth time, manually pulled it back, and asked, "What do you say?" ”

"Once you come here, you shouldn't stay for a long time, if you stay for a long time, you may not be able to get out. Second, there are many ways to go out here, and the Taoist chief may not be able to walk back to his original place, and it is likely that he will not find that he has gone deep into the mountains until dawn, and the roads in front of him and behind him are gone. Sanlai left this fire, in fact, there are a lot of vicious evil things, that is, we all have to be careful to pass by, many mortals who have no intention of breaking in will not be eaten if they can't come here, the Taoist chief did not meet on the way to come, it is really lucky, if you go back and meet, it is not easy to do. ”

"Evil things? What is it? ”

"It's hard to say, there are many kinds, most of them are naturally born evil things, or yin ghosts full of resentment, as for the naturally savage spirits and mountain demons that have eaten people, they are rare."

"That's it......" Song You's curiosity rose again: "Then I don't know how to meet them?" ”

"Take more roads, it's best to return the same way, don't walk around, if you meet monsters and ghosts in the same direction, try to walk with them, you can go with them for a ......ride," the little ghost said, suddenly feeling wrong, but after thinking about it, he didn't figure out what was wrong.

"Thank you."

"Since you invited me to eat fragrant, then I will also give you something as a gift." The little ghost had finished eating the last mouthful of incense ashes, got up and patted his buttocks, and said to him: "There is a lantern seller over there, I will take you to buy a lantern, and then go to the middle of the fire to ask for a little kindling, and this lantern will become brighter than the usual lantern, which can burn until dawn, and can also scare the evil creatures on the road." Hehe, you shouldn't say that, it's unlucky, you should say that you can't meet it. However, although you can't meet it, but when you leave this market town, the mountain road is dark, and there should be a lantern to light it up. ”

"What's so embarrassing?"

"Don't shirk."

"Thank you." Song You broke back the head of the three-flowered cat for the fifth time, patted her again, and walked out with the little ghost with a smile.

Although this little ghost looks small, he has a lot of temperament in conversation, unlike ordinary people, he invited him to eat before, and when he came down, he should have already had the idea of returning the gift.

So Song You only resigned once. So I really went to buy a lantern, and the little ghost took out the money from his body to settle the bill, which was more expensive than the three sticks of grass.