Chapter 019: Buying Road Money
The next journey was not alarming, and the two got along very happily.
I studied meditation for three or four days;
Under Piao Xian'er's patient teaching, Fang Yuan found that the wonderful shadow was no longer flickering.
However, he can only be invisible for about five breaths, and no matter how hard he tries, he can't grow anymore.
Fang Yuan, who was once laughed at by Piao Xian'er, was: "Five seconds of a real man." ”
The traction technique has been practiced a lot, thanks to Piao Xian'er's careful teaching and correction.
On the fifth day, the two came to a cliff.
There was a thatched hut on the edge of the cliff, and it was still a tavern, and the tavern was brightly lit, and the two dismounted, and there was no shopkeeper to greet the guests.
Piao Xian'er whispered:
"Don't talk when you enter the store, you should eat, you should drink, and the others will look at my eyes."
Fang Yuan nodded and followed Piao Xian'er into the store.
There were five people in the room, and the four of them were eating and drinking around a table, and the only shopkeeper turned out to be a one-eyed old woman.
Piao Xian'er took Fang Yuan to sit down at the only table in the store.
Ignoring the four big men who had been staring at them since they entered the door, Piao Xian'er shouted to herself:
"Two catties of meat, a cage of white-flour steamed buns, and a pot of tea."
The one-eyed old woman gave them a grim look, and then walked out under the counter with two large bowls.
"Bang Bang ......"
The one-eyed old woman came to the table and threw the plate with the barbecue and steamed buns directly on the table.
"A total of two taels of silver, pay first before you eat!"
A plate of barbecue and a few steamed buns cost two taels of silver, and Fang Yuan fried the hair directly.
"Just these two shriveled steamed buns? Two taels of silver can let Oiran accompany me to eat big meat buns. ”
Piao Xian'er pressed Fang Yuan, who was about to get up and theorize, and shook her head at him,
"Pay!"
Fang Yuan stared at Piao Xian'er with wide eyes, but what responded to him was Piao Xian'er's larger, brighter white eyes.
Helpless, Fang Yuan could only take out two hundred copper coins and throw them on the table in a huff.
The old woman squinted her eyes and stared at Fang Yuan coldly, Fang Yuan was really frightened by that empty eye socket.
"Bang ......"
Piao Xian'er slapped her palm on the table, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.
The old woman glanced at Piao Xian'er, and with a wave of her wide sleeves on the table, all the copper plates disappeared without a trace.
Immediately, the old woman hobbled back to the counter.
Piao Xian'er cut off a piece of barbecue and ate it directly.
"Doesn't the book say that you should be careful when walking the rivers and lakes, and you should try the silver needle when you eat?"
Even so, seeing Piao Xian'er start eating, Fang Yuan, who was already hungry, also grabbed the barbecue and gnawed it.
After a burst of gobbling up, Fang Yuan was soon full of wine and food.
Piao Xian'er Svenwen, leisurely, cut the barbecue into small pieces, chew it slowly.
Another hour or so passed,
Outside the door walked a pretty woman, dusty, with a light gauzy skirt that didn't fit well, and she looked pitiful, carrying a bamboo basket behind her, and a boy of about five or six years old was carrying it in the bamboo basket.
Seeing the pretty woman enter the door, the eyes of the four big men lit up, staring at the pretty woman's half-Jiang and half-red breath.
Fang Yuan couldn't help licking his lips, feeling a little thirsty, so he poured a sip of tea.
The pretty woman put a piece of silver on the counter, took her food, and walked towards a bench in the store.
When passing by the four big men;
The pretty woman's arm was suddenly clamped by a powerful palm.
"This lady, why don't you sit down and share a table with your brothers? There is food and wine on the table. ”
The pretty woman looked frightened and excused herself:
"Thank you for the uncles, the little woman is inconvenienced, please forgive me."
"Smack......
One of the strong men slammed the table and snorted coldly:
"Dare not give me the face of the four ghosts of Xishan, roll over to Lao Tzu, otherwise I will kill you and throw you under the cliff to feed the beasts."
The pretty woman trembled, her face was full of fear, and her body trembled and wanted to break free from the clutches of several people.
Fang Yuan couldn't stand it anymore;
I wanted to get up, and was glared back by Piao Xian'er's eyes.
There was a sigh from the old lady at the counter.
After a jostle and shove;
The pretty woman was dragged down by the four ghosts of Xishan, and was forced to drink a bowl of wine with each of them.
The child sitting in the bamboo basket of the pretty woman watched with wide eyes, but did not cry or make trouble.
Fang Yuan's eyes kept looking at the pretty woman, thinking that when the situation was really critical, no matter what, he had to harden it.
Suddenly, the four ghosts of Xishan covered their necks one after another, and their mouths were "banging and whining" and snorting in pain.
Less than two breaths;
The four of them foamed at the mouth and fell headlong on the table, lifeless.
The pretty woman's originally cowardly eyes suddenly became fierce;
Untied the basket, placed the child on the bench, and enjoyed the food on the table together.
At this moment, a faint voice came from the counter,
"Alas, the four ghosts of Xishan are really four ghosts."
"Lingying Shuangsha, eat it after wiping your buttocks, don't pollute the old body's shop."
The old woman's voice carried endless majesty.
The pretty woman hurriedly stopped the movements in her hand and changed her flattering face.
"I know, I know, I don't dare to defile your store."
As he spoke, he glanced at the little boy beside him.
The little boy suddenly jumped on the table and grabbed at a corpse.
The thin body directly grabbed the corpse that was several times stronger than him, and easily threw the corpse out of the window with a slight flick.
A flurry of operations,
All four bodies were cleaned up, leaving only the money bags of the four on the table.
Looking at everything that is happening in front of you,
Fang Yuan broke out in a cold sweat behind his back, this pretty woman is the master who pretends to be a pig and eats a tiger, Fang Cai's actions are too reckless, and it is also thanks to Piao Xian'er.
The two pretty women continued to enjoy the delicious food left on the table, but their eyes glanced at Fang Yuan and the others from time to time.
At this moment, a voice of self-muffled voice came out,
"Alas, there are many bed bugs in the deep mountains and wild forests, fortunately I have prepared insecticides, which bed bug dares to appear in the store, the old body will definitely kill him, so as not to disturb the dining of your guests."
The two pretty women shrunk their necks, not daring to look at Fang Yuan and the others again.
I don't know how long it took;
The one-eyed old woman suddenly walked out of the counter and took out a piece of pan-green old bamboo, one long and two short tapping,
"Da... Da Da, the time has come, the living avoid, but the bridge falls, and the ghost man goes on the road. ”
After tapping and chanting three times, Fang asked gloomily:
"Which of you crosses the bridge first? However, after the bridge, I don't ask about the predecessor, I don't care about the consequences. ”
The Spirit Infant Shuangsha stood up first and said respectfully:
"The two of us go first."
The one-eyed old woman turned her head to look at Piao Xian'er and asked:
"What do you two think?"
Piao Xian'er nodded and said in a deep voice: "Yes! ”
Immediately, the one-eyed old woman picked up a lone lamp and led the four of them out of the house to the edge of the cliff.
The evening breeze in the valley was bitter, but it did not blow the oil lamp in the slightest, and the light barely flickered.
A thick black fog emanated from the bottom of the cliffs;
Like a huge mouth of the abyss, it seems to devour everything in the world.
The one-eyed old woman stood on the edge of the cliff, with her back to the four of them, and danced the lone lamp in her hand there.
Not long after,
Two large blood-red lanterns rose up on the opposite hill, slowly flying towards this side, the lanterns were painted with hideous skulls, and with the flickering of the lights, they looked even more panicked.
Fang Yuan couldn't help but lean closer to Piao Xian'er, smelling the fragrance on her body to have a sense of security.
The lantern floated in front of the one-eyed old woman;
Under the light of the lantern, there was an extra vine suspension bridge in the void.
The Spirit Infant Shuangsha took the lead in stepping forward, stuffing something into the old woman's hand, and swaggered up to the vine bridge, it seemed that it was definitely not the first time to walk on this bridge.
Half an hour later, the old woman motioned for Fang Yuan and the two to go up to the bridge, and Piao Xian'er pulled Fang Yuan up and strode directly towards the vine bridge.
The old woman saw the two of them go directly to the bridge, hurriedly stopped in front of the two, and said in a deep voice:
"Two, buy road money, two taels of silver for one person!"
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