But after walking a few steps, I heard a woman's scream, and by the dim sky of the sunset, Xue Yang and Chi Tang both stopped to follow the reputation.

In front of a low and dilapidated thatched house, a rickety old woman with a vegetable face leaned sideways, muttering something in Shuzhong slang, but the object of her speech was a few rural farmers standing in front of the thatched house carrying stone hoes and bamboo rakes.

The dress of the Shu people is very different from that of the people in the Central Plains, these rural descendants wear short clothes made of coarse linen, their bodies are covered with soil stains and dirt left by farming, and their heads are wrapped in white cloths, and they don't know whether they are Han or Yi.

It's just that these descendants looked very emotional, and when the first one pointed behind the old woman, they also shouted loudly at the old woman.

At first glance, the local language of Shuzhong was still a little incomprehensible, but Xue Yang carefully distinguished, and only then did he vaguely hear the words "unlucky" and "strange" from the mouth of the current descendant.

Looking behind the old woman pointed by the latter child, I saw a ragged and thin woman curled up by the wall of the grass house, unkempt, and I couldn't tell how old she was, but she just made a sound in her mouth, obviously too frightened. The exclamation just now was made by this woman, and judging by the voice, she should not be very old.

A few men embarrassed a woman, according to Chi Tang's chivalrous temperament, they were about to step forward to take care of it, Xue Yang pulled Chi Tang and whispered: "I just arrived, and I stopped my life, look at those young people, that is, they are fierce, and they may not do anything evil, and you see that the old woman is also talking, look at this situation, take care of it for a while and disperse." ”

As she spoke, she saw the old woman waving her hand again and again, pleading with her words, and several descendants finally retreated angrily, and before the first one left, she spat at the woman curled up on the edge of the house, leaving a sentence in her mouth: "Monkey and strange woman, it is a disaster in the village!"

After scolding, he looked up and saw Chitang Xue Yang standing in the distance, seeing that they were majestic, and they were carrying blades behind their backs, they had the heart to step forward to interrogate a few words, but finally after looking at the sky, they walked away.

Several descendants scolded and walked away with farm tools, and the rickety old woman trembled and picked up the unkempt woman, and said straightly: "Close the door, close the door, they are gone." The unkempt woman cried a few times, and as the old woman flashed into the house, when the old woman closed the door, she suddenly saw Chi Tang and Xue Yang, two strangers, standing and looking here, and suddenly showed a frightened look on her face, and hurriedly closed the door tightly.

"Look, it's fine. I think it's a family affair in the village, and we outsiders can't take care of it. Xue Yang didn't care, and continued to walk towards the largest mansion.

The village is mostly made of wood and grass houses, only this household is built of bricks and stones, and the area is very large, which shows that it is a rich family in the village, but the sky is not completely dark, the door of the house has been closed, although there are lights on inside, but there is not a trace of human voice.

But it's a strange thing, could it be that the folk customs here are like this? At night, it's so lifeless? Xue Yang muttered, stretched out his hand and knocked a few times on the door painted with auspicious patterns.

The descendants who had been quarrelling had now returned home, and there was no one in sight in the whole village, and the sound of knocking on the door was heard in the quiet village, which was particularly harsh.

Almost subconsciously, Chi Tang raised his mind and quickly probed around with the technique of detecting qi and finding demons, but within a radius of dozens of miles, there was nothing unusual.

After a long time, the door creaked open a small crack, and a vigilant but somewhat frightened eye came out of the crack in the door: "Which one?"

"Oh, travelers, miss the lodging, borrow the treasure village, stay for a while, don't bother. Xue Yang showed a simple and honest smile.

The door opened a little more, and a middle-aged man's scorched face came out, and he saw that his face was full of furrows and cracks in many places, which must have been caused by the perennial wind and sun. ...,

"Stranger ......" The middle-aged man looked at Xue Yang and Chi Tang, and said in a thick accent: "...... Listen to me, you can't live, go fast, go fast. ”

Since he is unwilling to accept the overnight stay, then he directly refuses to leave, which is also common, but the middle-aged man spoke with concern, and he stopped talking, with a look of disbelief, Xue Yang couldn't help but wonder: "I think the uncle is a simple and good person, since it is inconvenient for Baozhuang, I won't bother, but why is it like this?"

"Hey, in the past, Hugh said that the two of you were twenty, and my lord could accept it. But it's really hard to do these days......"

"Why is this?" Chi Tang said in his heart, Sha Mo is a bandit infestation, and a strong bandit is coming?

The middle-aged man looked around, as if he was afraid that his words would be heard by others, so he lowered his voice and said, "You don't know, Zhuang Shang is ...... Suffered from evil and made trouble...... Haunted ......"

Xue Yang was stunned for a moment, and then Ha Lu Ha Da Lu laughed.

The middle-aged man saw Xue Yang's smile happily, and his face was gloomy: "Born baby, what kind of smile are you smiling......

Xue Yang smiled and waved his hand: "No, no, what's the matter with me, dare to love is haunted." To tell you the truth, we have quite a lot of spells, and we are the best at subduing demons and catching ghosts, and since we met here, it couldn't be better. ”

The middle-aged man glanced at Xue Yang suspiciously, to determine whether he was really like what he said, or a delusional person who used this to eat and drink, and said: "Then give birth to a baby, I am kind enough to tell you, you don't want to blame me, the ghosts in our village are fierce, you don't think that you can be fooled by talking about it, and you really let you go to catch ghosts, but you will be killed." ”

Xue Yang patted the middle-aged man's arm: "Hey, uncle, are we the kind of people who talk nonsense? Don't believe it? Senior Brother Chi, let the birds go." ”

Chi Tang smiled at the corner of his mouth, this sixth junior brother was sometimes naughty, he really looked like that Yan Haozi, and he didn't say much at the moment, and with his divine power, his shoulders suddenly burst into flames, converging into the shape of a fire crow.

In the stunned situation of the middle-aged man, the fire crow flapped its wings and flew away, and disappeared without a trace with the flames on its shoulders.

"God...... Immortals!" The middle-aged man shouted after a long time, turned around and pushed the door open, and hurriedly ran towards the village, and his voice came from afar: "Master, come to the gods, the village is saved!"

"That's ...... Wouldn't it be too ostentatious?" Listening to the middle-aged man's ecstatic voice, Chi Tang asked Xue Yang with some hesitation.

"It's inevitable to eat and drink well, wouldn't it be a good thing to kill two birds with one stone by the way?" Xue Yang said with a smile, "Do you want to be driven away from the wilderness and starve and freeze, or are you treated like a god?" Don't worry, the people of Shu believe in ghosts and gods the most, and our supernatural powers are easy for them to accept." By the way, did you notice anything?"

Chi Tang shook his head: "This is exactly what I'm worried about, I have been investigating for a long time, and I have never felt a trace of demons, I think, this may be someone pretending to be a ghost, I am afraid that we can't count on our ability to kill demons." ”

"Ha, real ghosts are not afraid, let alone this fake ghost? Shhh, here it is, hahaha, what a big movement. Xue Yang saw many Zhuang Ding holding torches, and a fat old man in a brocade robe from the inner courtyard walked out quickly, while the middle-aged man led the way at a trot in front of him, pointing to Xue Yang Chitang, and said happily: "Master, it's them, immortals." ”

Xue Yang coughed a few times, and when the fat old man in the brocade robe looked admiring and wanted to bow down in front of him, he solemnly raised his hand to help: "No need to be polite, subduing demons and eliminating demons, I should be a senior." ”

"Oh, the old man has been tricked by that evil thing these days, but it was a god from heaven who saved me, hurry up, sit in the box. The old man in the brocade robe was full of joy, and he gave in again and again.

"Ahaha, the old farmer pleases first. Xue Yang winked at Chi Tang proudly, and walked towards the inner courtyard with the brocade-robed old men. ...,

Before entering the door, Chi Tang noticed that the wooden hut and thatched hut with closed doors were all opened, and many people leaned out to look, obviously alarmed by the battle of the owner.

The door of the thatched hut also opened, and the unkempt woman also stretched out her head to look here, just in the distance with Chi Tang's eyes, under the drooping hair, those eyes were extremely clear and spiritual, Chi Tang's heart moved slightly, but the unkempt woman seemed to be taken aback, and retracted her head in a hurry.

"Please," the middle-aged man saw Chi Tang standing at the door and greeted him busily and warmly.

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Everything was as Xue Yang expected, they were treated as guests by the owner of the village, not only sat on the upper seat, the wine and meat were served like flowing water, and the old man in the brocade robe also specially called his wife and concubine family to come to see him, and he was very respectful.

This old man doesn't look old and fat inconspicuous, there are really a lot of wives and concubines, lined up from left to right, there are more than a dozen people, and there is a fat boy like a pig, but at the age of seven or eight, the flesh on his face squeezes his eyes into a small slit, he opens his mouth, and he doesn't know whether to cry or laugh when he sees the ceremony.

The owner's surname is Li Mingsheng, he was an official in the Bashu Cheng Han Dynasty, after the death of the Cheng Han Dynasty, this Li Sheng was happy to return to his hometown to be a rich man, the family has a wide range of wealth, thousands of acres of fertile land, and it is also the first rich family within a radius of 100 miles, the war in the Central Plains can not disturb this Shu land, Li Sheng is happy and tight, but the family is not prosperous, the concubine is married to a room and a room, but only when he is nearly fifty years old, he gave birth to a son from the concubine, Li Sheng is old to have a son, naturally pampered and pampered this only son, as if he were his life.

Chi Tang looked at the fat boy and then at Li Sheng, feeling that the two of them were really similar, and couldn't help but be secretly funny.

After a long time, after the ceremony was finished, and all the family members retreated, Li Sheng arched his hand to Chitang and Xue Yang: "The two immortals can save the old man, but I don't know what happened to the village, and there was an evil spirit." ”

Xue Yang was trying to deal with the hooves fished out of the soup wok, and he didn't care about making a sound, but Chi Tang asked, "What is the evil?"

"It was three days ago on the night, and the old man was ...... This one...... Sleep peacefully, the door suddenly opened without wind, and then the old man covered the futon suddenly fell to the ground, but the old man was not light, the old man this door is bolted from the inside, how can there be no wind to open the truth? Then I faintly heard the intermittent singing sound in the back garden, at that time the old man was still puzzled, but this cold night weather, did not dare to go out to see, can only stay with clothes for a night. As a result, on the second day, I heard that the family members in the house said that the door of the house was opened by itself at night, and they all heard the singing, which frightened people; on the second night, there was a strange cry in the courtyard, and when the old man hurried out to see, he did not see anything unusual, and then he heard the singing sound in the back garden, and the old man had the courage to gather his family to go to see it, and he saw a white shadow flying up from the back garden, this night, everyone could not sleep peacefully, they were all frightened, and the old man thought that the village must have suffered from evil; and last night, the song of the back garden was about to come again, how could the old man dare to see it againAs a result, there was crying in the children's room, and when the old man went to see it, he saw a white shadow floating out of the children's room, and then he looked at the children, and he was hung upside down in the air, and several of the maids and nurses who accompanied him were unconscious. Alas, the old man is restless about sleeping, but he doesn't know where the demons and ghosts came from, if it weren't for the gods coming here today, I don't know what happened tonight. ”

After all, Li Sheng was a person who had been an official in the court, and he didn't use any Bashu dialect when he said this, so Chi Tang and Xue Yang heard it clearly.

Xue Yang wiped his mouth: "This is the haunting of Zhuangshang? ”

Li Sheng looked sad: "How not to hurt people? Disturbing people every night, my heart is frightened, most of the night is the singing protrusion, and then the door opens by itself, who is not afraid?",

Xue Yang scratched his head: "I mean, no one has ever died......"

Li Sheng didn't wait for Xue Yang to finish speaking, and then said with a crying voice: "If you continue like this, you will be scared to death...... Please also ask the gods to get rid of such evils. ”

"What time do these abnormalities that the owner said happen every night?" Chi Tang decided to ask for details.

"Every day is over, and it is strange. ”

"I don't know what kind of tune the owner said about the backyard singing?"

Li Sheng was dumbfounded: "The night is deep, like a terrible one, who knows what kind of song Lu Dao is singing? Just listening to it, the hairs stand on end, and the scalp is numb." ”

Chi Tang and Xue Yang glanced at each other, hearing Li Sheng say this, it was indeed a haunted situation, but this ghost neither hurt nor killed, it seemed to be just a scare and scare people, and besides, why did he use the art of observing qi to find demons without any clues? Unless it was a demon who practiced Mu Feng's way, but if he practiced Mu Feng's way, why did he want to disturb the people and frighten people here? This can be guessed.

Xue Yang drank a big sip of the home-brewed rice wine on the village, and the dishes on the table had been swept away, he patted his stomach and said with satisfaction: "Then we will wait for the strange situation to appear at night, and we will catch the ghost for the old owner." ”

Li Shengxi was colorful: "So the best, the best ......"

The two were still talking, and the middle-aged man at the door rushed in again and said a few words to Li Sheng.

Li Sheng was stunned and blurted out, "Another one?"

"Hmm, why is the old farmer surprised?" Xue Yang asked casually.

Li Sheng looked surprised: "Dare to do it is a good thing? The two immortals learned that there was another person outside the Shicai Gate, saying that they saw that the old Hanzhuang was full of ghosts, and there must be evil things, so they came to hunt ghosts and exorcise demons for the old man." ”

Chi Tang and Xue Yang were almost a little crying and laughing, obviously seeing that there was no flow of demon qi in the village, how could they say that there was a ghost spirit? But where did they come from to have a fellow demon who hunted ghosts and exorcised demons? It was such a coincidence that his two demon slayers also sat here.

Xue Yang snorted: "Since there are colleagues who can catch ghosts and demons, it is naturally great, this is invited, we will also meet in the future, maybe it is not known if it is the knowledge of the same way." ”

Li Sheng hurriedly said: "The two immortals sit down for a while, and the old man will go to greet him, the immortals are here, naturally the more the better." ”

Seeing that Li Sheng took his family to the front door to greet him again, Chi Tang asked Xue Yang quietly: "Sixth Senior Brother, who do you think it will be? Since you have the skill of catching ghosts and exorcism, could it be that you are a character in the Five Elders' View?"

"Who knows the way, but in the land of Bashu, it is really the ...... of the five elders"

Before Xue Yang finished speaking, he was interrupted by the voice of a woman who came from afar.

"You have too much resentment here, so you attracted this ghost, but you can't ignore it!"