"Like a tiger can edge wood,

"Like a horse, it is not a horse.

"But know the empty rat's hole,

"Unintentionally ...... for the fish"

The night was slowly deep, and the cat was still lying on the bed, with its paws facing the sky, staring at the roof and whispering poems.

Carrying it on his back, he turned over and glanced at the paper next to him.

"No intention for a fish meal!"

Song Youpan sat on the bed, very quiet in his heart.

It's snowing heavily today, and Wu Nuxia has already returned, but the scholar ghost has not yet returned.

Speaking of which, Toyosu is actually not far away.

Thousands of miles away, let Song You walk, back and forth in less than a month, ordinary people should be able to walk in a month. However, according to Wu Nuxia, Yeshan is remote, the mountains are difficult, there are no waterways, and sometimes there is no accommodation in the middle, and the official post station is very deserted, so it takes more time. An ordinary person in a hurry, how can he walk back and forth in a month and a half to two months.

If a ghost does not have special skills, it is not faster than a human to hurry, and it has to walk slowly.

In addition, the ghost needs to avoid the period when it is just dark and the sky is about to dawn, to avoid encountering pedestrians walking at night, and to avoid being disturbed by the barking of chickens and dogs. It is also inconvenient for ghosts to stay overnight, and it is inconvenient to ask for directions, so I give scholars and ghosts some extra time, even if they are on the road for three months.

But now half a year has passed.

Song You was worried that he was in danger, and he suspected that he might never return, and he didn't know which possibility was better.

Just thinking of this, the cat whisper in my ear suddenly froze.

I saw the cat turn its head instantly and look out the door.

Then he quickly crawled up, ran to the window, put one eye at the crack in the window, looked out, and then turned back to the Taoist and said:

"It's the god in the temple over there."

“……”

Song You opened his eyes, thanked Sanhua Niangniang, got up and opened the window, looked out, closed the window again, and turned around and went downstairs.

When I opened the door, it was pitch black outside, and in the mist, there were several priests standing.

The first one is Lord Chenghuang.

There are two auxiliary officers with a text and a martial arts beside him, and there are two military attachés behind him, with a little ghost who looks like a scholar.

Song You looked at the scholar ghost at a glance.

Compared with the last time we met, his figure was much thinner, and there was a faint sense of ephemerality.

"I've seen sir!"

Lord Chenghuang was the first to speak.

"Lord Chenghuang."

"Sir, I would like to ask for forgiveness for my sins." After the city god finished saluting, he straightened up, at this time he looked far more majestic than in this spring, "This is Mr. Bao, tonight Divine Officer Wang and Divine Officer Zhao patrolled Changjing at night as usual, and saw a little ghost, like a ghost who had just turned into a ghost, floating around on the street, the little god grabbed him and asked, he refused to say anything, only said that he came to find Mr. ”

"This one is really old acquaintances." Song You saluted Chenghuang, "It's just such a trivial matter, how can you bother Lord Chenghuang to come over in person?" ”

"Sir's business, where is the small thing?"

"Anyway, thank you, Lord Chenghuang."

"Don't dare, don't dare."

Seeing this, Chenghuang did not delay much, only glanced back, and the two military attachés brought the scholar ghost to the front.

Then the city god gave another salute:

"Since this ghost is really an old acquaintance of the gentleman, the little god has also brought the ghost here, so he will leave."

"Chenghuang walks slowly."

Both sides saluted again, and did their best to be courteous.

Immediately, the city god tent disappeared out of thin air, and the auxiliary officers and military attachés around him also saluted and dispersed when they saw this, and suddenly only the scholar ghost who could barely stand on the street remained.

"Immortal Master ......"

The scholar looked up at him, his lips trembling, and his face turned pale.

"Please come in."

Song You made a gesture of please.

The scholar ghost floated and slowly followed him into the house.

The door creaked shut, and the oil lamp came on.

"You may be seated."

"Don't dare to ......"

"Don't be polite, please sit down!"

"It's better to be respectful than to obey ......"

One person and one ghost imitate the appearance of the store hospitality on weekdays, the scholar ghost sits on the side of the square table against the door, the Taoist sits on the side of the inside, and a three-flowered cat stands on the wide bench, with two front paws on the tabletop, showing its head and staring at the scholar ghost without blinking.

Song You stretched out his hand and pointed, and the stove next to him lit a fire, he put the clay pot full of water on it, turned his head to look at the scholar ghost, and sighed with some emotion: "I can be regarded as coming back now." ”

"It's been too long, I've come back too late, and I ask the immortal master to forgive me." Scholars and ghosts are weak.

"Why did your feet look like this?"

"It's a long story."

"Tonight is still long."

"Hoo ......"

The three-flowered cat took the form of a girl and went to fetch the good tea sent by General Chen for the Taoist.

The Taoist carefully pounded the tea and ground the tea.

The scholar ghost sat opposite, weak and restrained, and a little worried: "It's easy to go to Fengzhou, I walked that road before I was born, but after arriving in Fengzhou, it was difficult to go to Yeshan." ”

The Taoist is still concentrating on tea research.

Back and forth is the sound of tea grinding.

"Yinnan County, where Naye Mountain is located, is almost lonely. The so-called Yinnan, is the south of the Yinjiang River, there are full of deep mountains, there is no way to go anywhere, there are no specialties, there is no scenery, poverty and remoteness, usually there are no businessmen to go there and no businessmen come out from there, and even there are very few people passing by - the south of Fengzhou is Yaozhou, but because of the deep mountains of Zijun, and there is miasma, even if it is a person who wants to go to Yaozhou, it is rare and rarely chooses to pass from Zijun, and no one will pass from Yinnan County, Yinnan County is like being isolated from the world, and there are only tens of thousands of people. ”

Although the scholar ghost was weak, his conversation was not chaotic: "Therefore, when I went down, I often took the wrong way, and no one could ask for directions, and I couldn't even find the ghost there, so I delayed a lot of time." ”

"I thought I wouldn't come back."

Song You said with a smile while sifting the tea powder while thinking about the so-called remote and lonely place with neither business nor scenery.

"How dare you ...... below?"

The scholar ghost continues:

"After several twists and turns, I finally found Yeshan, but after arriving at Yeshan, I found that this place has been heavily guarded, and there are masters who have laid down the formation, and there are many Taoist monks who come and go, and there are constantly ghosts dressed as officials in and out, not only it is difficult for mortals to enter, it is difficult for people to enter in the Xuanmen, and it is difficult for ghosts to enter.

"Fortunately, I was good at this, so I got in.

"After entering, there were several dangers.

"After some investigation, I realized—

In the past, people often killed people and threw their bodies in it, and then the national teacher recruited the people to repair and expand it, which was even more incredible. Now it resembles a city in the middle of the mountains and underground, even larger than many state cities.

"The national teacher has gathered all the ghosts in the north.

"I don't know where so many people have become ghosts, but after being brought here, they first had to go through some interrogations, and then some were burned to death, some became ghosts, and some said that they were put in an underground ghost town.

"The next few times I was discovered, some ghosts and Taoist monks were quite powerful, and by the time they escaped from Yeshan in a hurry, they were almost scattered. I returned to Beijing in a trance, and took the wrong road a few times, and met a ghost who came back from the north in the middle, and was almost captured, so I narrowly escaped. In the end, I almost entered Beijing with obsession, but fortunately I met Lord Chenghuang, and Lord Chenghuang had a trace of divine power in the next, and he was much more sober in the next, otherwise when he saw the immortal master, I am afraid that he would not even be able to speak. ”

After the scholar ghost finished speaking, he finally relaxed a little.

It's already weak, but it's okay when it's strong, but once it's relaxed, the whole ghost is even more depressed.

The water in the clay pot next to it was boiling and gurgling.

"Is there anything else you haven't said?"

"One more ......"

"Please."

"Listening to the ghosts in the mountains, it seems that the national teacher wants to build a hell there, specifically to contain the yin ghosts in the world."

"Got it."

"There is nothing else, I just hope it will be useful to the immortal master."

"Thank you."

Song You already knew part of the situation in Yeshan, and what the scholar said was both a supplement and a confirmation, and perhaps also raised some doubts, in short, no matter what, it was a great help.

"As I said before, if you are willing to go down to investigate, you will write off the previous matter, and you have to ask for a cup of tea. But at that time, I never expected that the foot would be so attentive, and I didn't expect that the foot would experience so many dangerous tribulations, although the foot is a ghost, although the subsection is missing, but for the observance of Cigna, but let the next very much admiration, a cup of tea is afraid that the foot can not repay the kindness. ”

Song You picked up the clay pot and flushed it high.

Water into the bowl to stir up the tea powder and tea aroma.

The cup immediately floated white and green.

"Immortal Master..."

The scholar stared at the cup of tea with ghostly eyes, apprehensive and expectant, took a deep breath, and seemed to smell the rich aroma of hot tea.

This cup of tea, unusual.

"Please!"

Song You gave him the tea.

"Immortal Master!"

The scholar ghost also took it with both hands.

The pottery cup is insulated, and it doesn't feel hot for a short time, but it is also obvious that you can feel the temperature of this cup of hot tea, which is warm, only from the fingers, and then to the body.

The scholar ghost couldn't help but shudder.

After turning into a ghost, there is no entity, no skin, where can you detect heat and cold? In fact, for him, this is a touch that has not been seen for a long time.

What's more, the heat in the cup rises, with the fragrance of tea.

“……”

The scholar took a deep breath again.

The freshness of the green tea, mixed with a faint bean aroma, coupled with the heat, gave him a familiar and unfamiliar feeling.

Bring it to your lips and take a sip.

“……”

The tea is fragrant, slightly bitter, and slightly astringent, and the scholar ghost insists on holding it in his mouth, and tastes it back and forth for a long time, and the hot tea is already cold, so he swallows it.

Then it was sweet, as if the saliva had been hooked.

Since turning into a ghost, this is a taste that I haven't tasted in a hundred years.

"Foot, how about this tea?"

Song You looked at him with a smile and asked.

Only then did the scholar ghost raise his head, and his heart was mixed.

"Good Tea ......"

Then he lowered his head and drank carefully, not bearing to say more.

The originally weak and ethereal ghost body gradually solidified, and his body seemed to have regained some vitality, and when he drank this cup of tea in a few sips, it had almost changed back to its original appearance.

But in detail, there are some differences.

The scholar ghost held the cup and was reluctant to put it down, greedily smelling the residual fragrance in the cup, like an orchid.

"If you can make up your mind to get rid of the problem of stealing, you will know a place where goblins and ghosts gather. Blessed by the innate gods, there is no need to worry about being captured by Taoists, and it is also a place where you can talk to your own kind and go to the market to buy and sell incense and candles. ”

"There is such a place!"

"But it's a place where rules are spoken, and if you don't want to get rid of your mistakes, you don't dare to speak and listen to them. Besides, even if you go at the end of your foot, and you continue to steal, I'm afraid it's also a blessing in disguise. ”

"I swore before I swore that I would never steal again!"

"Willing to believe in the ...... of the foot"

Only then did Song You tell him the location of the Pingzhou Dashan Market, and repeatedly told him not to steal it again.

The scholar ghost promised many times, and it wasn't until he was about to leave that he suddenly remembered it, and asked him again: "Dare to ask the immortal master, the ghost city in the underworld built by the national teacher in Fengzhou, I don't know if I can go there?" ”

"It's better not to go."

"Understood."

The scholar ghost saluted him, and then left.

……

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