Under the leadership of the Zhao brothers, they searched around but did not find the thief hole.

Zhao Qiyi said in a panic: "My lord, we didn't fool you, we came here, just around here, I fell here." ”

Wang Qilin comforted him and said, "Don't panic, it's okay, let's look carefully and always find it." ”

He thought about it and took out a few silver baht from his bosom and stuffed them into his brother, and said, "Today, the big guys have to fight tooth sacrifices, go back and buy some pork, buy a chicken and duck to stew, and the family will eat stew at night." ”

Zhao Qiyi may have never touched the silver baht in his life, feeling the warm and heavy silver baht in his hand, his eyes were as wide as eggs.

The thief cave can't go away.

There was a coffin in the underground cave, and there should be a dead person in it, so Xu Da released the crow and let it go to find the thief cave.

The raven flew out and circled in the air for a while, and then flew back, dumbfounded and pretending to be stupid.

Xu was angry and scolded: "Damn, I can't count on you for the real thing." ”

Don't look at the crow's ability, but his temper is not small.

After all, it grew up in the silver general's office, and it thinks highly of itself, and after being scolded by Xu, it spread its wings and smashed his head.

Xu yelled: "Brother Zhao family, don't you have no meat to eat tonight?

Zhao Qiyi wiped his mouth and said: "Why can't you eat it? When people are hungry, they even eat snakes and rats, not to mention old eagles? Use boiling water to remove hair, unscrew off the head, dig out the internal organs, and put it on the fire to roast it to be fragrant, more fragrant than chicken, and even the bones can be chewed and eaten." ”

Zhao Liujin said: "Yes, the bones of this bird are different from chicken bones, they are very light and brittle. ”

Raven froze.

It silently withdrew its wings, rubbed its little head on Xu Da's neck, and pecked his scalp with its mouth.

This trick was learned from Eight Meows.

Eight meows see the wind and rudder the most.

Xie Toad said: "The crow should not have found any dead bodies, so from this point of view, although there are many cemeteries here, there should be no dead people?"

"There are no dead people in so many cemeteries?" Wang Qilin was surprised.

Xie Toad nodded, and he stomped into the woods with a fierce kick.

The trees are swaying.

The rocks swayed.

Suddenly a patch of snow fell.

Wang Qilin took a look, and a cave appeared.

Zhao Qiyi shouted happily: "It's this hole, it's it, I said why can't I find it, it turns out that it's blocked again!"

Wang Qilin walked over and looked down, the hole was not big, like a small well.

The wall of the well is very smooth, no wonder Zhao Qiyi fell down as soon as he stepped on the air.

Xie Toad looked at it and said: "The holes dug by the Xieling wrestlers are good at stealing holes between the mountains, and they will make them so finely. ”

The thief hole is not deep, but it is not straight up and down, and you can't see what's inside.

So Wang Qilin looked at Eight Meows.

Eight Meow looked at Nine-Six again.

Ninety-six easily dragged down the little tail of Eight Meows.

Eight Meow's little tail was not sane, so it didn't know what it was going to do, so it stared blankly at Eight Meow and Nine-Six.

Ninety-six took it in his mouth and threw it into the thief hole.

Eight Meow was stunned, and after it reacted, it quickly pounced on the probe to look at the thief hole, and let out a miserable scream from its mouth: Meow's tail!

A thrust appeared behind.

The push back feeling is clear.

Eight Meow was pushed down......

Before it fell, he wanted to look back to see who pushed him, and saw Wang Qilin secretly stretching out his hand to Xu Da......

When Xu Da reacted again, Eight Meow had already rolled into the thief hole.

Seeing this, he was furious: "Seventh master, how can you frame the uncle?"

Wang Qilin patted him on the shoulder affectionately and said, "What are you talking about between our brothers?" Come, Master Xu, Ba Meow will go to explore the way, and then it will be your turn." ”

There should be no danger in the tomb, he sniffed just now, and the nose god Chong Longyu didn't find much, only smelled a little cool feeling.

This is the taste of yin qi, but judging from the cool feeling, the yin qi under the head is very weak.

Xu Da didn't want to go down, it just so happened that he was big and the thief hole was too small, so he couldn't get down after trying.

Wang Qilin had no choice, so he had to take Jiuliu and jump into the robbery cave in person.

The cave is quite deep, the thief cave is about two zhang away, there is a small bend in the middle, Wang Qilin held his breath and quickly slipped into the tomb.

It's like playing with a slide.

As soon as he landed, a strong wind blew in his face.

Wang Qilin awakened his eyes, and there was a faint light in the tomb, which was not very dark, so at a glance, he could see that it was a black hairball.

Eight meows' small tails.

And Yameow squatted on a coffin and stared at him triumphantly.

Grave.

Coffin.

Black cat.

The combination of these three elements is still quite scary, but the cat is its own cat, not a serious cat, which washes away the original terrifying atmosphere of the tomb.

Wang Qilin looked inside the tomb, but found nothing unique and conspicuous except for a coffin.

Xie Toad then also drilled down, he threw out a talisman with his hand, and suddenly a fist-sized flame flew up.

He looked around and wondered, "It looks like a ghost has been here, of course it's normal, but I don't see anything else." ”

Wang Qilin went to open the coffin.

The coffin has a futon pillow and a stove, which is more normal, and if the coffin is changed to a room, it is simply a warm bed.

After coming down from the ninety-six, he waged his head and sniffed around in the tomb, and after sniffing for a while, he suddenly raised his head and howled twice at the top stone wall.

Wang Qilin hurriedly looked up, but found that there was nothing abnormal about the stone wall, it was just a mountain rock.

Xie Toad groaned for a moment, flew up violently, stretched out his palm and slapped it on the stone wall.

The stone wall shook suddenly.

Then there was a clatter of stones falling down!

Eight Meow thought that the cave was about to collapse, and hurriedly shouted at Wang Qilin and Jiuliu: "Meow meow!"

Run, run, run!

But only a few stone slabs fell, and the tomb as a whole was solid.

Wang Qilin was also startled, and subconsciously asked Xie Toad, "Dao Ye, what are you doing?" ”

Xie Toad rolled his eyes and pointed up, Wang Qilin looked along his arm, and then found that there was a cave on the stone wall above his head, more than one, he counted a total of five.

He looked up and asked strangely, "Another thief hole?"

Xie Toad nodded and said: "Yes, the entrance to this cave was originally blocked by someone with a stone slab, if it wasn't for Jiuliu raising his head and shouting, the old Taoist wouldn't have been able to find the abnormality." ”

The tomb was quite wide and tall, with a height of one foot and three or four feet, much taller than ordinary houses.

Wang Qilin jumped up on the soles of his feet and looked into the new thief cave, but he couldn't see anything in the dark black above.

But there should be something inside, otherwise Jiuliu wouldn't have looked up and called.

But it shouldn't be anything powerful inside, otherwise Jiuliu wouldn't have raised his head and called twice and shut up.

Xie Toad was angry and shouted twice into the thief cave, asking who was inside, if anyone got out quickly, otherwise he would go on a killing spree.

There was no sound.

Seeing this, Xie Toad threw out a talisman, and the talisman turned into a fire dragon and rushed into the top thief hole.

There was still no movement, just smoke coming out.

However, there was a shout on the ground, so Wang Qilin took Eight Meow and Nine Six and climbed back.

As soon as he raised his head, he heard Xu Da shouting at him on the sunny mountain: "Seventh Master, come and see, rare scene, I don't know whose ancestral tomb is smoking! Is this the family going to have a champion?"

Wang Qilin walked over to see that there was indeed a tomb slowly smoking outside.

He estimated the location, it was almost the location of the robbery hole in the catacomb, where Xie Toad threw out the fire dragon talisman, it should be something burning inside.

So he called someone to come over to open the tomb, and when he heard this, the Zhao brothers were so frightened that they took two steps back.

Zhao Liujin said weakly: "Master Guan, this is not appropriate, right? The ancestral grave of the other family is smoking, this is to publish a song star, if we dig up the ancestral grave of the people, isn't this hurting the heavens and reason?"

Wang Qilin said: "What kind of ancestral tomb is emitting green smoke? Do you see whose ancestral grave this is? And how can there be green smoke? It was the Taoist master who lit the fire below." ”

Xu Da was stunned and asked, "Light a fire in the tomb? What is this for? Make bacon?"

Wang Qilin kicked him and told him to hurry up and work.

The graves on the mountain are covered with gravel, so you don't need any tools, just move the stones away by hand.

Xu Da led people to work, Wang Qilin walked around the grave, and then found that this should be a mass grave.

The last time he came to the granary, someone also told him that Zhenleigang was a mass grave at the beginning, so it is not uncommon to find a mass grave in this place.

The graves here are messy, some of the tombstones are written about the tomb of an unknown person, and some have no tombstone at all.

The graves were dug up, and the smoke intensified.

There was no coffin or body inside, only a roll of broken mats.

The smoke was produced when the broken mat was lit.

Xu Da dragged the broken mat out, and Wang Qilin saw a hole again.

He threw a stone down, and heard Xie Toad scolding: "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, who smashed the old Taoist priest with a stone?"

Wang Qilin smiled and shouted at the entrance of the cave: "Master Xu, why did you untie your belt here......?"

Xie Toad quickly came out of the thief hole on the other side, swearing in his mouth.

Eight Meow took the opportunity to take revenge, standing on the grave and stretching out his claws to point at Xu Da, like a road sign.

Xie Toad looked at it, and it nodded solemnly: Yes, that's right, he did it!

So Xu Da also began to scold.

Wang Qilin said with a smile: "Okay, okay, no kidding, there are no ghosts here? It's just a few robbery caves leading to a tomb that is not weird, and there seems to be nothing to check?"

The brothers of the Zhao family asked in shock: "Then don't we have to bury that outsider?"

Xie Toad said: "What you meet may not be a ghost, it may be someone hiding inside, and when he sees the two of you coming down, he will scare your brother." ”

Hearing this, the two brothers were overjoyed, Zhao Qiyi took out the silver baht and handed it to his brother, and they began to get together and discuss warmly what to eat at night.

Wang Qilin casually gave them six silver baht, which was a sum of money, and the two brothers planned carefully:

"Go buy a chicken in the evening, let my mother drink a chicken soup to replenish her body, buy some cloth for my sister, she hasn't worn new clothes since she can remember. ”

"Yes, brother, let's cut two catties of mutton, let's go and ask Uncle Lu how to braise mutton, it's really delicious." ”

"What's so delicious about mutton? Buy pork, two catties of mutton can be exchanged for six catties of pork, and six catties of pork is enough for us to spend this year." ”

"Cheng, then cut two catties of pork, and leave the rest of the money to tell you a daughter-in-law." ”

"Daughter-in-law is not in a hurry, let's think about making a small deal in the spring of next year, and let my mother and sister help together when the time comes, and life will be better." ”

The two brothers discussed enthusiastically, and a hint of red light appeared on their withered yellow faces.

There is hope for the future.

After they returned to the city, they separated, Zhao Liujin pulled his younger brother to kneel for Wang Qilin at the gate of the city, Wang Qilin couldn't cry and laughed, went up to help the two of them and said: "You just have a good life, don't kneel down at every turn, I'm just a gesture." ”

Helpful.

Wang Qilin discussed with Xu Da, Du Gongzi's conspiracy should be resolved, they had a vacancy a year ago, and they were ready to buy grain, meat, chickens and ducks to distribute to the poor and poor people in and outside the city.

In the evening, every family makes a tooth sacrifice.

Smoke curls from the chimney.

The smell of meat wafts through the city.

The people were beaming, and the neighbors met and asked, "What good food to eat tonight?"

Children play in the streets and alleys, with artillery in their arms, taking turns firing them.

As a result, there was a faint smell of gunpowder smoke on the streets.

Some family members came out to call the child to eat, this time there is no need to say anything, a sentence of 'come back late and the meat is finished' can honestly coax the child back.

On such days, there was no business in restaurants and taverns, so Wang Qilin took the fifth taste and arranged for the post house to eat here.

Suisui Lady presides over the overall situation while cooking, and she is busy with her work neatly and meticulously.

Wang Qilin felt distressed when he saw that she was busy, and went over to help, asking, "How do you prepare so much tofu?"

Outside the kitchen was a large tray with bowls of tofu that had been frozen and made into frozen tofu, and then she was boiled in hot lard with a dense aroma.

Each bowl of tofu is covered with ingredients, the main ingredient is her own sweet sauce, in addition to sesame oil, pepper oil, fried fava bean crushed, soy sauce and other ingredients, Wang Qilin picked up a bowl and sniffed, the taste was very fragrant.

Suisui Niangzi smiled and said, "This is more? ”

Wang Qilin counted and said, "There must be sixty or seventy bowls, how many people are there in our post house? Do you want to eat two bowls per person?"

Suisui Niangzi smiled: "It's not for the post." ”

She went out and shouted black beans, and black beans came from the street across a bamboo pole, shouting as she ran: "Da'er drive Da'er!"

Wang Qilin couldn't help but exclaim when he saw it: "What a fat horse!"

Suisui Niangzi asked the black beans to bring the tofu out to the door, and from time to time someone passed by, she would take out a bowl from her arms and silently pour a bowl of tofu away.

Wang Qilin suddenly said: "It turns out that you prepared it for the poor, then I have invested in this business, let's raise the standard for the people's lives, don't use tofu, you change it to meat, I will let Xu Da buy meat for you." ”

Suisui Niangzi said: "If you change it to meat, then it will not be the poor who come to eat." Besides, isn't tofu bad? It is exquisite, and tofu and Dufu are all blessed. ”

In addition to working on the kitchen dishes, she took a look at the empty space and flew up to the roof.

There is a tripod on the roof of the building, and there is a lot of incense on it.

These incense burned very quickly, and when Wang Qilin went up with Suisui Niangzi, he saw that there were still two fingers of incense that had not been burned, but when Suisui Niangzi took out a handful of standing incense again, the two-finger high incense had been burned to only one finger high.

There are ghosts, and there are many ghosts.

Wang Qilin couldn't see any trace of these ghosts, and he couldn't even feel the yin qi!

This frustrated him.

Is Suisui Niang's skills so much better than herself?

I'm also in the six-grade realm anyway.

Suisui Niangzi laughed when she saw his expression, stretched out her hand and pinched his face and said with a smile: "Why is Uncle's face so long on a good day? You guessed wrong, you can't see that the ghost here has nothing to do with the slave family's ability, it is the slave family who borrowed this tripod is extraordinary." ”

Wang Qilin looked at the bronze tripod, it was unremarkable.

He immediately reacted again, and said in amazement: "How do you know what I have in mind?"

Suisui Niangzi couldn't help laughing: "When you came up, you were happy, and when you found that you couldn't see the ghosts here, you pulled down your face, so how could the slave family not guess your thoughts?"

"Actually, the slave family can't see the ghosts here, they are all in this ding. She coaxed Wang Qilin in a comforting tone.

Inserting the incense, Suisui Niangzi burned some yellow table paper in the ding.

In contrast to Tachika, which burns very quickly, yellow paper burns very slowly.

Wang Qilin discussed with her: "How about I take you shopping tonight?"

Suisui Lady asked, "Shopping, what is there to visit when the street is empty at night?"

Wang Qilin said with a smile: "The streets in the city are empty, but the ghost market is not empty. ”

Suisui Niangzi asked in surprise: "Are you going to the ghost market? Is there a ghost market in Shangyuan Mansion?"

Wang Qilin said: "Yes, and the ghost door is open in the middle of the month, and the ghost market will be very lively tonight." ”

Suisui Niangzi said happily: "Okay, the slave family hasn't visited the ghost market yet, so I went with my uncle tonight to open my eyes, but the slave family heard that the ghost market is very dangerous, and if your uncle encounters danger at that time, the slave family will protect you." ”

Wang Qilin subconsciously patted his chest and said: "Don't worry, your uncle and I don't avoid tigers on land, and we don't fear dragons on water-wait, you say you protect me? Oh, okay, there's nothing wrong with it." ”

After changing a handful of incense, Suisui Niangzi went downstairs, and Wang Qilin asked, "Do you have to incense the lonely souls and wild ghosts here every day?"

Suisui Niangzi shook her head and said: "No, it's just that today is the end of the year, people have to make tooth sacrifices, and ghosts have to fight tooth sacrifices." ”

One after another exquisite dishes came out of the pot, Wang Qilin personally served the dishes, and a group of birdmen in the post house said "flattered" while not waiting for him to serve the table and began to eat and drink.

This meal is the last dinner of the year, and in a few days to the New Year, the imperial court will give a holiday to the hundred officials, and then the officials whose families are in other places will return to their hometowns.

Brother Xu will also go home for the New Year, especially Xu Da, he has been out for a year, Wang Qilin is going to give him a long vacation, let him go home and pretend to be forced.

In the middle of the moon, everyone was full of wine and food, Wang Qilin, Xu Da, and Suisui Niangzi followed Xie Toad to Zhenleigang.

The granary stands on the hill, and the vast night makes it particularly majestic.

Wang Qilin looked intently and saw that there was a yin wind swirling around the grain depot.

Xie Toad sighed: "If it was today that night, how could there be any demons and monsters?

Wang Qilin and Xu Da glanced at each other, smiled and said nothing.

Eight Meow and Nine-Six glanced at each other, smiling without saying a word.

Now the yamen already knows the problem of the granary, so it does not leave anyone to guard it at night, and if it is Haiqing Heyan today, he is not afraid that someone will dare to steal the official granary.

This is a great crime to be beheaded!

Wang Qilin opened the lock and opened the door, the inside of the granary was even colder than the outside, and as soon as he opened the door, a cold spirit came to his face.

Then there was a wind blowing in, and it was very strange, and it swirled in the granary and then blew out from the inside, and it came out with a few sacks.

Wang Qilin was amused and said, "This must be paper money!"

Xu Da sneered: "I'm damn it! Hey, it's addicted to buying our lives, right?"

Suisui Niangzi asked casually: "What do you buy your life?"

Xu Da explained positively: "Last time, I came here with the Seventh Master to investigate the case, and then ......"

"Then let's see what these ghosts want to do today. Xie Toad intercepted his words and pulled him to the sack to take a look.

Wang Qilin looked at it, and there were words on the sack, which said that it was the eighteenth year of Taijia.

Seeing this, he suddenly changed his color and said, "These ghosts have stolen the grain stored now?"

Xie Toad shook his head and said, "Probably not, Lord Wu has already made sacrifices here, how bold a ghost must be to snatch food from the mouth of a prosperous dynasty?"

Xu Da said: "Seventh Master, this should be the bag used in the batch of grain that was lost last time, right?"

Wang Qilin pressed the bag and looked at it, and it was indeed paper money fluttering in it.

Xie Toad said in a deep voice: "Seventh Master, don't touch it." ”

Wang Qilin said: "Don't worry, I won't touch these paper money, and I won't let them take advantage of us." ”

Suisui Niangzi picked up Eight Meow and asked curiously, "Then what to do with these paper money?"

Eight Meow didn't let her hug it, so Sui Sui Niangzi said again: "How about putting Eight Meow in? When they come to open the bag, a spirit beast will come out, and it will definitely scare those ghosts." ”

As soon as he heard this, Hachimeow was stunned like a wooden cat.

Is it so ruthless?

It stretched out its claws and gently rubbed the calf of Suisui Niangzi, raised its head and meowed gently, and put on a posture of being stroked.

Wang Qilin smiled maliciously: "How about burning it?"

Xu laughed even more ill-intentionedly: "Don't, don't burn it, let's put something in it." ”

Eight Meow flashed her claws.

Master Meow can't deal with his mother, and he can't deal with you idiot?

But Xu Da took out a small Buddha statue from the mustard seed pendant in Sumeru.

He stuffed the small Buddha statue into a sack.

Then he took out another statue of Guanyin......

Xie Toad gasped: "The hearts and eyes of scholars are really poisonous! If you want to say that you can play, you have to look at the Confucian protégé!"