Volume 1 The Knife Rises from Qingzhou Chapter 5 Catching "Ghosts"
Since the "change of the sky", there are demons in various places, or hidden in the mountains and forests on weekdays, or lurking in the downtown area, and when the power of the sun is weakened at night, they will act chaotically. Yes, the state capitals summoned cultivators from all over the world to adjust and distribute them according to the scale of the demons in each place, so as to ensure that all cities and towns were guarded by cultivators, so that the demons could be dealt with in a timely manner.
There have been prohibitions in the five states since ancient times, because there are many means and great abilities in the practice, so whether the world is practicing martial arts, or learning from the Xuanmen, all cultivators above the Xuanmen level are not allowed to show their cultivation in front of people, and those above the prefecture level are not allowed to move around at will without reason, and they must ask the state government where they are located for instructions, if they violate this order, the world can discuss it.
Therefore, most of the cultivators in the towns and towns in various places are composed of yellow-level and non-entry-level cultivators, while Xuan-level masters are extremely rare, and most of them appear as team leaders of a faction; as for the prefecture-level cultivators, the number is extremely rare, and most of them are guarding the place where the sect is located; and the heaven-level cultivators? According to legend, there are only two on the Zhongzhou Luoshen Peak, and they are respected by the cultivators of the world.
Qingyu City is a small border city, although it is near the 100,000 mountains, but there are very few demon troubles, there is only one yellow-level cultivator and three non-mainstream cultivators, day and night inspections, rarely find demon troubles, and occasionally, they are also eliminated by three or two. Several people sighed, presumably in a few years, the demon plague will be eliminated, and they will be able to return to the sect and practice with peace of mind.
At the end of the night's inspection, the four of them were a little tired, so they walked into the Fulin Building to have some breakfast so that they could go back to rest.
Early in the morning, there were not many people in the restaurant, only a few.
"Erdan, Lin Erdan! Give the uncles two drawers of steamed buns and four bowls of white porridge!" Zhou Hu among the four is familiar with Lin Erdan, the shopkeeper, and he is unceremonious in his words.
Lin Erdan was helping in the back kitchen, and when he heard the shouting, he hurriedly came out, and when he saw that it was really Zhou Hu's four saviors, he was so happy that he burst into tears. "A few masters, let's look forward to you!" A pair of small eyes with dark circles on the top of the eyes, extremely happy.
"What's the matter?" Zhou Hu asked puzzled.
"I must have been busy picking nectar at Wanhualou last night, and I was tired!" Xing Bujun and Zhou Hu are in the same door, and they like to joke the most on weekdays.
"Shut your foul mouth, it's really dirty!" Lan Ying was the only woman among the four, and she couldn't stand this filthy words.
"Okay, let's hear what happened to Xiao Er first. "Tan Gang is the leader of the four, and he is also the only yellow-level martial artist who has entered the rank, with a hard face and sharp edges.
"So that a few masters know that when a little one came back from a trip yesterday, he was just about to go back to sleep when he saw a red ghost floating outside a guest room in the backyard, and he made a 'ho-ho-ho' sound. The little one thought he was dazzled, and was about to try to see clearly, but he found that the ghost had suddenly disappeared, and then the little one's eyes were dark, and he couldn't see anything. Fortunately, the little one was familiar with the backyard, so he returned to his room in the dark, and then found that he could see it again. Only then did I know that I should have encountered a 'ghost hitting the wall', and I didn't dare to sleep all night, for fear that the red ghost would come to find the little one!" Lin Erdan shuddered while recalling, and was afraid.
"It's a bit strange, what do you think, big brother?" Zhou Hu asked Tan Gang.
"There are many doubts about this matter, and it is difficult to draw a conclusion. I'll check it out in the backyard of this restaurant later. Tan Gang frowned, only to feel that the whole thing was strange.
First of all, if the shopkeeper didn't lie, then there must be a so-called red ghost, so why does the red ghost come here?
Moreover, the shopkeeper said that he had encountered a "ghost hitting the wall", his eyes were dark, and he couldn't see anything; but as far as he knew, the "ghost hitting the wall" should not be like this, but unfortunately the four of them were martial artists, and if they were in the Xuanmen, they would definitely be able to distinguish the truth from the fake.
Tan Gang had breakfast with the other three with doubts, and asked Lin Erdan to check the backyard.
After all, this matter is related to ghosts, whether it is true or not, it must not be sloppy.
At this time, there were only two people in the restaurant, Lin Erdan and Lao Zhangtou, so Lin Erdan said hello to Lao Zhangtou and led the four of them to the backyard.
The backyard is not big, after all, their Fulin Building itself is not big. The six guest rooms and firewood rooms and thatched houses in the small backyard are in the shape of a quadruple, surrounded by a pot of lotus flowers in the middle of the yard, and the courtyard is covered with bluestone slabs, which are cleaned cleanly, and some water is sprinkled on it, so I don't know if it is Lin Erdan or Lao Zhangtou who got up early to clean up.
"You said you hadn't slept all night, so what was wrong with waking up early in the morning?" Tan Gang asked as he glanced at the backyard.
Lin Erdan hid behind Zhou Hu and Xing Bujun at this time, and showed his head through the gap between the two, and said, "No, no! I just didn't hear the boss lady chirp this morning... No, it's singing, singing, hehe..."A pair of small eyes were rolling around, for fear of being beaten by the boss lady who suddenly appeared.
Lan Ying rolled her eyes and was speechless at Lin Erdan. Although she is not a beautiful woman, she has a dignified appearance, coupled with her martial arts cultivation, and her figure is exquisite. Tan Gang peeked at it, and his old face was actually red.
"Ahem", Tan Gang cleared his throat and said, "Xiao Er, you said that the red ghost appeared in front of the guest room, can you remember which one?"
Lin Erdan trembled out from behind Zhou Hu, turned around and looked at the guest room, scratching his head, the west row is where they live on weekdays, from south to north are the boss's wife's, Lao Zhangtou's, his, oh, and thatched houses; the east row is the guest room and firewood room, and there is no room in the north, only the fence and a back door are facing the lotus.
"I, I can't figure out which one it is, it must be the red ghost casting spell that I can't remember!" Lin Erdan was afraid, this is a spell to make himself unable to remember, if he casts a spell to make himself die, won't it be over?
Tan Gang resisted the urge to beat people, looked at the budding lotus flower in the jar, readjusted his breathing, and decided to skip the step of asking the shopkeeper, and directly ordered: "Please ask Xiaoer to invite everyone in the house out, whether there are ghosts or not, you have to find out." ”
"Oh, the little ones are going. Lin Erdan rubbed his face and beat his spirits, he hadn't slept all night, and now he was extremely sleepy.
"Bang bang" Lin Erdan slapped the door hard, "Boss, boss, open the door, something happened!" Lin Erdan is not stupid, he knows to call the boss out first, after all, she is the one who is in charge of the restaurant.
"Knock Knock", "Knock Knock", "Open the door! Open the door! Old ......"
"Squeak", the door opened, "You big duck egg Lin Erdan, what kind of howl in the early morning!" I saw a head poking out of the door, with unkempt hair and sleepy eyes.
Lin Erdan looked at the door he was knocking on, but there was no movement, and then turned to look at the outcropping proprietress in the room behind him, and scratched his head, "Huh?"
"What's the matter, what's the matter, why are you knocking on the door of the guest room? aren't you looking for me? looking for me, you knock on the door opposite? wahahahaha... You're stupid, you're... Hahaha..."The proprietress of Huayun only thinks that it is really joyful to get up early this morning.
"No, even if I knocked on the wrong door, there should be someone in that room?" Lin Erdan muttered to himself, clearly remembering that Luo Buyi and the other three people were one person in one room yesterday?
"Ahh
With a "bang", Hua Yun closed the door.
"Lin Erdan, you are dead! If there are outsiders, you don't tell the old lady! You big duck ball, the old lady shouldn't have picked you up in the first place, even if you pick up a stone, she will give a cub to repay the kindness, and you will cause trouble for the old lady all day long!" Hua Yun scolded herself in the house.
After a while, Hua Yun reopened the door and walked out. Well, this time I combed my hair in a bun, and I still wore my daily coarse cloth dress.
"I don't know which gust of wind brought the living Bodhisattva of our Sunny Rain City, and the slave family was rude!" Shi Shiran made a blessing.
Tan Gang and the others witnessed a joke, but they didn't feel bad about Huayun.
"The proprietress is polite, the four of us brothers and sisters heard from the second child of your shop that they met a ghost last night, and their responsibilities are here, so they have to bother one or two. Tan Gang was also full of politeness.
"Did you meet a ghost?last night?" The proprietress was secretly surprised, could it be that she really dared to come to find trouble without opening her eyes? Only then did she notice Lin Erdan's dark circles and trance-like expression.
"Lin Erdan, are you okay?Why are your eyes dark like this?Whose female ghost has sucked away the yang energy?Ah?hahaha..."Hua Yun secretly looked at Lin Erdan and found that he didn't have any, so she put her mind at ease. Looking at the black and blue color on the outside of his already small eyes, he couldn't help but laugh.
Lin Erdan glanced at Hua Yun angrily, he drank a lot of eighteen brews yesterday, although he had some alcohol, but the stamina of the wine was bigger after all, and he didn't go to rest after drinking but ran out in a panic to talk to Xiaohong, and he was so frightened by ghosts at night that he didn't dare to sleep, so he had such a dark circle under his eyes, where did the female ghost inhale yang qi or something.
"Hostess, out of caution, please also invite the guests in the room one by one to confirm safety. Tan Gang naturally could see that Lin Erdan's dark circles were not caused by the absorption of "yang energy", and he was worried that there were really ghosts that harmed people, urging Hua Yun.
"No problem!" Hua Yun twisted her waist and walked to Lin Erdan, pushed hard, and the door of the guest room opened, it turned out that there was really no one inside, and because the door was a little tight, Lin Erdan knocked on the door for a long time and didn't shake it open.
"This room was empty and no one was in it. Hua Yun said.
"No, those three people yesterday were obviously one person in one room, how could there be no one? And the mattress inside is open, obviously someone slept in it, right? But now that the person is gone, was it eaten by the red ghost?" Lin Erdan's eyes were full of fear.
Tan Gang's brows furrowed.
Hua Yun obviously didn't care, turned around and walked to the second guest room, and said, "People are masters and servants, good like relatives, and people are not allowed to sleep together at night?"
"Boom"
"The master and servant who slept together are about to get up, there is something urgent, wake up quickly, hurry up...", suddenly, Hua Yun seemed to remember something, stopped knocking on the door, turned her head and said to everyone with a smile: "I think we should not disturb others, we all drank yesterday, and we must have slept very deeply!"
"What are you doing? It's been noisy in the morning, it seems that your restaurant is not far from closing!" Ying'er opened the door and drooped her face, obviously getting up angry.
"This girl, we are here to investigate the ghost encounter with Xiao Er in the club last night, if you are offended, please forgive me!" "Tan Gang has such eyesight, whether it is a human or a ghost or a demon, as long as his cultivation does not exceed him, he can distinguish it at a glance, not to mention that Ying'er is only dressed in men's clothes, and has not performed the art of disguise.
Ying'er knew that the person in front of her was afraid that he was not an ordinary person, and he must be a cultivator, so she immediately said: "That is the case, please ask the adults to investigate thoroughly, how dare you obstruct it?" It's just..."
"Lin Erdan, how did you meet a ghost, tell the old lady clearly, otherwise the old lady won't be able to spare you!" Hua Yun scolded Lin Erdan angrily at this time.
"Oh, why are you angry with me? I didn't meet a ghost on purpose!" Lin Erdan cried and told Hua Yun how he met the red ghost last night, how he "hit the wall", and how he didn't sleep all night.
Hua Yun's eyes widened: "That's it?"
"Yes, what else?" Lin Erdan wondered, what do you mean?
"You big duck ball! The old lady said in her heart that last night you went out to show off and came back to put the sneaky thing in your yard, what kind of red ghost and red-clothed female ghost, that is the old lady in the yard!
"Ahh
"Otherwise, after drinking the old lady's wine yesterday, you still went out to show off, and when you came back at night, the little squinted eyes saw that the old lady didn't say hello and thought you saw a ghost? You yourself were scared and closed your eyes and went back to the house and thought it was a 'ghost hitting the wall', in fact, you were drunk, right? You still held back the fear that you didn't sleep all night, no wonder your eye circles look like you have been beaten today. "Hua Yun just wants to kill this second goods with white eyes.
"It turns out that I didn't meet a ghost last night!" Lin Erdan instantly came to his senses.
Tan Gang and the others looked at each other and felt speechless.
"That being the case, then bother the hostess to invite the remaining two guests out, and I will leave as soon as I have confirmed it. Lan Ying said at this time.
"Oh, look at how nice the weather is today, gloomy ......" Hua Yun couldn't say any more, because she saw Ying'er just come out of the first Hua Ning room.
"What about my young lady, I hope that the proprietress will inform me of my young lady's whereabouts, Ying'er is grateful!!" Ying'er didn't see Hua Ning, and suddenly panicked, her eyes staring at Hua Yun.
Hua Yun suddenly felt that it was difficult to do, how could things have become like this? It's different from what I imagined?
It turned out that last night Hua Yun was angry but the lord of Qingzhou came to "bully" her, so he wanted to take revenge. But the family is gone, how can we retaliate? Thinking of this newly recognized brother and Hua Ning, my mind is alive, do you want them to take the opportunity to give us a big nephew? Just do it when you think of it, Hua Yun has never been the kind of indecisive person. That night, a woman in red stole into Hua Ning's guest room, secretly carried her out, and then opened the door of Luo Buyi's room and put Hua Ning on Luo Buyi's side, and Luo Buyi's "iron rod" was thrown to the head of the bed by Hua Yun, without the slightest scruple that the "iron rod" was shaking to show resistance.
"I have a daughter-in-law and a child, and I still sleep with a stick. Lightly covering the corners of the quilt for Luo Buyi, the withdrawn hand gently brushed Luo Buyi's face, "Wrongdoer, you will be your younger brother in this life." ”
Hua Yun withdrew, closed the door, and closed the door of her heart.
When he turned around, he was secretly sad, but he saw Lin Erdan with his eyes closed, trembling, and he felt back to his room step by step like a blind man.
"The big duck egg ...... who drank too much" no longer suppressed the qi, the alcohol was rising, his eyes were already hazy, and he didn't turn on the lamp when he returned to the house, and sat directly on the edge of the bed.
"Hope... Jun Hui ...... Jun Hui... Tear...... Ripple ......" muttered softly, chanted in a shallow voice, and his voice never even passed through the door.
......
Hua Yun held her forehead, recalling that although she was drunk last night, she did put Hua Ning and Luo Buyi on the same bed, but even if they were drunk and slept in a daze, they didn't do anything disqualified, but Hua Ning, an unmarried eldest lady who was not married, slept in the same room with a man, wouldn't it ruin people's reputation? The current situation is embarrassing, and we have to come up with a solution as soon as possible.
It's all to blame for this Lin Erdan, otherwise there would be outsiders there.
Lan Ying and Tan Gang glanced at each other, if someone really disappeared, could it really be a ghost? Quietly approached the last room, cheered up, and prepared to break in. Seeing this, Zhou Hu and Xing Bujun realized that there was a situation, and the ring knife on their waists was more than two inches out of the sheath, and they were ready to wait.
Seeing this, Hua Yun couldn't cry or laugh: "Oh, it's not what you think, misunderstanding, misunderstanding!"
"Boss, human life is at stake, if you offend, you will apologize, if there is a misunderstanding, you will talk about it later!" Tan Gang's face was solemn, and he was about to slap the door of the guest room with his palm.
"Hey, don't!" Hua Yun stomped her feet anxiously, her identity was secret, and it was not good to expose her cultivation in front of others, otherwise she would be stopped directly.
With a "boom", the door was slapped away by Tan Gang's palm, and the four of them jumped into the room, each setting up their hands, and only waiting for the slightest change would usher in a crazy blow to the four people.
But the embarrassing thing is......
"No one?" Tan Gang said.
"How come?" Lan Ying asked.
"Could it be that he has been poisoned?" said Xing Bujun, touching his chin.
"Could it be... Is it really a misunderstanding?" Zhou Hu scratched his head.
The four of them came out of the room in confusion.
Huayun outside the door was also dumbfounded, where did the people go?
"Ahh
Everyone looked at the tassel that had fallen into fantasy, was it possible? Maybe, right?
"What are you doing here?" the voice was like a spring, refreshing people's hearts and pulling everyone's thoughts back.
Everyone looked at the voice, and two people came slowly at the back door. The young man was carrying a long strip of objects on his back, dressed in ordinary linen clothes but looking quite energetic, his eyes were clear and slightly smiling, and his face was delicate and he always felt quite comfortable at a glance, and his whole body was full of aura.
And the other is dressed in men's clothes, but there is a saying: There is a beautiful woman in the north, who is independent and independent, and a smile charms the city, and then a smile charms the country. This one belongs to this category, and it's just the first beauty in Qingzhou to think about it, right? Tan Gang shook his head, shook out the disrespectful thoughts in his heart, and asked Ying'er, "Is this your young lady?"
"Ahh
One sentence stunned Hua Ning Hua Ning: "What elopement?"
"No, nothing. Ying'er said embarrassedly.
"What's going on, why is everyone at the door of this guest room?" Hua Ning asked.
Tan Gang said: "This young lady, it was the shopkeeper Xiao Er who said that he met a ghost at the door of the guest room last night, and the four of us are responsible, so I came here to investigate, only to find out that it was a misunderstanding." ”
"It turned out to be four cultivators, disrespectful, disrespectful. Hua Ning naturally knew what these cultivators were doing, so she admired them very much.
As soon as Tan looked at Hua Ning's bearing, he knew that this young lady dressed as a man was from an extraordinary background, and he didn't dare to say anything. Turned to everyone and hugged his fists and said: "Since it was a misunderstanding, I will go back, if everyone has any clues of demons and demons, you must notify me in time." Farewell!"
Everyone hurriedly saluted Tan Gang and the others in return, and everyone was indescribably grateful to these cultivators who had been fighting against demons and demons all year round.
As soon as Tan Gang and the other four left, the proprietress of Huayun couldn't help but explode: "You big duck ball, you make trouble for me every day, if you don't beat you one day, you can play with flowers, you stop me! Don't run!"
"The boss spare my life! How did I know that last night's ghost was you! I was really scared!" Lin Erdan scurried around, and Hua Yun followed closely.
"Miss, are you and your aunt going for a walk this morning?" said Ying'er with a teasing smile.
"Uncle, are you making fun of Miss Ben?" Hua Ning's face turned red for a moment.
"That's right, it's not my uncle!" Ying'er obviously didn't completely disperse the idea of eloping with the talented and beautiful woman, but she also accepted Luo Buyi's existence to a certain extent.
That's a good title, so I'll take it. Luo Buyi smiled on the side and watched the conversation between the master and servant.
Hua Ning looked back at Luo Buyi, the two looked at each other, she blushed, he smiled, this is the most beautiful.