Two flowers bloom.

A green horse with two big green mules galloped in the mountains and fields, and there were still two thousand miles from Xiangyang City to Zhending Mansion-

The straight-line distance between the two places is not long, mainly because there are many mountains and rivers in the land of Jingchu, and the official road cannot be built straight, but winding and circling, which greatly lengthens the road.

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However, the young people wore Metersbonwe on their feet, and they did not take the ordinary road, they climbed the mountain and went off-road, and they returned thousands of miles of Jiangling in one day!

The night was dark and the stars were dim.

Wang Qilin looked at the city in front of him with a complicated face, and there was a big sign hanging on the city gate: Zhending Mansion.

Qing Yan raised his legs and went up the mountain all of a sudden, and he went down the mountain all of a sudden, very quickly.

He jumped off the back of Fat Wuyi, and the figure of the horse swayed vaguely in the night, and soon turned into a fat-headed young man.

After changing back into a human form, Fat Wuyi wiped the sweat on his forehead and asked heavily, "Seventh Master, how is it, am I good to ride?"

The young man is strong and straight, and he wants to show himself in front of his idols, so he runs fast, and he is stunned all the way, and he rushes to Zhending Mansion in one breath.

"Good ride. Wang Qilin said admiringly.

He handed over a Heavenly Official Blessing Pill, which was still the previous inventory, and he had not been willing to use it after the New Year.

Now that Fat May Day has spent so much effort to send him to Zhending Mansion, he has to show it, no way, who made him a high-quality idol?

Fat Wuyi randomly stuffed the pill into his mouth, and after eating it, his eyes lit up: "What kind of pill is this?

Wang Qilin said: "Heavenly officials give blessings." ”

Fat Wuyi exclaimed in surprise: "This is the Heavenly Official Blessing Pill? Oh, it's good to follow the Seventh Master to the rivers and lakes, it's an eye-opener all of a sudden!"

He ran over and exhaled at the deception, eating, drinking, and exhaling: "Huhu, you two inhale quickly and smell the smell of the Heavenly Official's Blessing Pill." ”

Xu Da said, "What kind of smell can the pills have? They smell all the smell of your breath, right?"

Fat May 1st he.

Xu Da patted his round buttocks and praised: "Your brother is really hard-working, come, let him become a man." ”

Fat Wuyi shook his head and said: "The two of them can't become adults, they can only be like this in their lives." ”

Wang Qilin ignored his problem of using idioms indiscriminately, and asked in surprise, "Why?"

Xie Toad subconsciously wanted to answer, but when he saw Fat Wuyi shaking his head depressedly, he didn't say much.

Wang Qilin knew that this might be someone's privacy, so he didn't ask any more, and instead asked, "Then do they have the same sanity as us?"

Fat Wuyi said: "There are sanities, but they are different from us, they should be similar to the two of them, they are the same dog." ”

He pointed to the dying Eight Meow and Nine-Six.

The reason why a cat and a dog are dying is because the green dog jumped and jumped and ran wildly, throwing up the two of them all the way.

Wang Qilin also saw a seasick horse for the first time.

Except for a few large cities, most of them have curfews, and the gates are not open at night, so they can't enter the city.

In fact, Wang Qilin didn't plan to come to Zhending Mansion so soon? Not necessary? They can't enter the city at night, the Shen family is in the countryside, they don't even have to go into the city, and whether they want to enter the city or not, they have to wait for Shen Yi to arrive.

At this time, Shen Yi was on his way on horseback......

With their speed, it would be faster to be there in three days.

Xu Da looked at the black and oppressive city in the distance and then at the full moon above his head, and said, "Seventh Master? What are we going to do tonight?"

Wang Qilin is full of blood and energy? He rubbed his waist and said, "Are you tired? If you're not tired, let's find a few ghosts to play with tonight." ”

Is there an abundance of flames in the furnace? But he didn't have too much of it.

And the furnace has already been practiced? Li Xue Tianlu and the two beautiful snakeskins were sucked away by it? It's full now? I don't know what good things I can make in the future.

Xu Da's big face suddenly distorted: "Let's rest first, the uncle is going to break his waist all the way?" The skin of the eggs is going to wear out. ”

He said and pulled out the mirage candle? Fever!

Wang Qilin hurriedly snatched the mirage candle away? said: "What are we going to burn with just three of us?"

"Four, right?" Xu Da pointed to Fat Wuyi.

Wang Qilin looked at Fat Wuyi embarrassedly, he forgot for a moment that there was an extra fan brother by his side.

Fat Wuyi misunderstood his expression, and immediately said: "I'm not a person, the seventh master is talking about golden jade words, and now there are three people, and my two younger brothers are not people!"

After speaking, he also showed a smile at Wang Qilin.

This smile is warm and innocent.

It's a dog-licking laugh.

Xu Da's heart was heavy when he saw it, and he had a premonition that his future praise work would be challenged.

Wang Qilin and Xie Toad are not tired, but the three brothers are already a little tired after running all the way, Xu Da has no cultivation, and he didn't pay attention to raising his waist in the early years, he bumped all the way, whether it was his waist or waist, he couldn't stand it.

Earlier, he went to pee and even urinated on his waist stones, which made him think that he had relics in his body......

It is impossible to enter the city, but there are inns outside the city, which are open all night for those who have come to the city overnight but have not been able to enter the city.

Wang Qilin casually found an inn and asked for four rooms.

Fat Wuyi is worthy of being his loyal fan brother, thinking about him everywhere, and when he saw him opening four rooms, he immediately shouted: "Seventh master, don't waste money, it's enough for the four of us to sleep in two rooms." ”

Wang Qilin said with a smile: "If there are two rooms, you have to have two people in one room, and I don't have a room with Xu Ye." ”

"Amitabha, the old way is even more not. Xie Toad hurriedly said.

I was in such a hurry that I didn't even sing it wrong.

Although Fat Wuyi really wanted to be in the same room with Wang Qilin, since he didn't have this opportunity, he gave up this idea and said generously: "Then I have a room with Xu Ye, in short, we have to save some money." ”

Wang Qilin looked at him in surprise.

This young man has not been cultivated by Xu Da, and his courage is commendable.

So he changed it into two rooms.

Xu Da was very tired, so he went back to take off his shoes and fell asleep, and then a frog chirped in the room: "Quack!"

Fat Wuyi pushed open the window, jumped out of the window, staggered and grabbed Wang Qilin's arm and said, "Seventh Master, let me go—spare me, no, what's going on with Xu Ye's feet?

Wang Qilin smiled and sent him into his room: "Xu Ye's feet have magical powers. ”

He and Xie Toad were not tired, so they went to chat with the shopkeeper, wanting to ask if there was anything strange nearby, and then go to catch a ghost and kill a demon.

There is business intermittently at night, and the shopkeeper stays up late waiting for guests, he is a scholar, and he is very happy to drink braised bean curd while shaking his head and reading a book.

Wang Qilin nodded to Xie Toad, and Xie Toad blinked and asked, "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable?"

He didn't understand what that looked.

Seeing this, Wang Qilin gave him a roll of the eyes: "Take out a pot of good wine, get another one that tangled pig's trotters, make friends with the shopkeeper with wine and meat, and probe some words from his mouth." ”

Xie Toad sneered and said, "How can there be any good wine and good meat in the old way? Isn't this all prepared by Xu Ye? Xu Ye only has Sumeru mustard seeds......

"Master Dao, it's boring for you to pretend to be confused with me. Wang Qilin was disdainful.

Xie Toad touched his nose and said: "Old Dao, okay, Lao Dao does have a bit of wine and meat, but this is what I bought before and was ready to eat on the road, and I was put in the baggage by Lao Dao, you wait for Lao Dao to go back and get it." ”

When he got back, he took out his baggage and muttered, "Another one to bed naked!"

Wang Qilin took the small wine jar and opened it and slapped it on the table, and the shopkeeper quickly turned his head when he smelled the aroma of wine.

The tangled trotters are opened, and the fragrance is even more abundant.

The shopkeeper put down the book and said with a smile: "There are friends from afar, don't you say, what are the two friends doing?"

Wang Qilin said: "The cool breeze has a letter, the spring moon is boundless, the long night is long, and I am not lonely......"

The shopkeeper smiled when he heard this, and nodded his finger at him: "Understood, understood, uncle, go to the room first, and a girl will come to look for you later." ”

Wang Qilin said: "You misunderstood the meaning, I don't like men and women by nature, I like the countryside and ghost rumors." ”

"As the saying goes, the aunt who speaks in vain listens to it, and the bean shed melon rack rains like silk. I should be tired of being a human language, and I love to listen to the autumn grave ghosts singing!"

The shopkeeper was stunned when he heard this, and hurriedly clapped his hands and said: "Good poem, good poem, this poem is made by Brother Tai? There is also a seven-character quatrain below, and I said to listen to it with Brother Tai." ”

"The name of this poem is Friends Far Away, and it is just right to read it to two friends, just in time for it!"

He took a sip of wine to moisten his throat, and said, "A lonely cloud cannot be left, and countless mountains and rivers are leisurely. Who is the smoke and haze couple, leaning on the trunk to watch the white gulls. ”

Wang Qilin gasped: "Good poetry, good poetry, but I didn't come to discuss poetry with Mr., I wanted to ask you if there is anything strange here?"

The shopkeeper said: "There is a saying in "The Analects of Confucius", and the child is silent and strange......

Wang Qilin left with a wine jug and pig's trotters, so as not to waste good wine and meat.

The shopkeeper hurriedly shouted: "Friend, slow down, I should be tired of being a human language, I love to listen to the autumn grave ghost singing, I love to listen to the autumn grave ghost singing! What trickery do you want to hear?"

Wang Qilin wanted to ask Shen Yi directly about his hometown, but this matter was very old, and the shopkeeper was not necessarily clear.

In addition, this matter involves the demise of an entire village, and I am afraid that there is something hidden behind it, and even if the shopkeeper knows something, he may not dare to say it.

Out of these considerations, he came to a surround point to ask for reinforcements and knock on the side: "Shopkeeper, are there any ghost legends around your inn and in the nearby villages?"

The shopkeeper slapped the table and said, "That's naturally there, I'll tell you the most interesting one first!"

"There is a county town called Luoba County under the capital city, and there is a township called Seven Jackals Township under the county seat, and there is a pair of brothers in that township who live by stealing chickens and dogs, and then they want to get rich, so they go to rob tombs!"

"It's a heinous crime. Wang Qilin said.

The shopkeeper smiled: "These two brothers are gone if they are not killed, the two of them have done a good job of the business, it turns out that the brothers will pretend to be ghosts before going to the tomb, so that ordinary people do not dare to touch the head even if they occasionally bump into the tomb robbery, and the first reaction is to run away in fright." ”

"But if you pretend to be a ghost too much, you will eventually meet a real ghost!"

"Once they learned that there was a big family in the county who had died, and that the big family was rich, and that the gold, silver, and jewels that the guy was buried with him must not be much older? ”

As a result, the two of them sneaked up to the graveyard in the middle of the night to see that there was still a man squatting in front of the grave. ”

"The brothers thought it was the grave keeper, and the plain ghost wanted to scare him away and hurry to get a handful, and they both flickered and ran over, and the man who was squatting at the head of the grave was overjoyed when he looked back and saw the two of them, and said—"

"This old ghost is not easy to catch, I didn't expect two new ghosts to come to me and take the initiative to send them to the door, now it's okay, I can make a deal!"

"The two brothers are dead!

Wang Qilin shook his head and said, "That's not right, isn't it? The ghost can detain the soul of the living? Even if he can, those two brothers were killed and taken away by the ghost, who spread this matter?"

The shopkeeper smiled: "It was rumored by the head of a big family, he didn't die at the time, but he was about to die of evil, and he spent money to hire a monk to save his life." The monk told him to cheat to death, hid him in the cemetery to deal with the ghosts, and all this was heard and seen by him and the master hiding in the cemetery. ”

Wang Qilin looked at Xie Toad: What do you think, Daoye?

Xie Toad smiled and nodded: Seventh Master, Lao Dao thinks that there must be a hidden truth in this matter.

The shopkeeper said and said: "There is a blacksmith apprentice named Chen Shang in Fucheng, and in the young winter, he is sick with wind and cold and treats at home, and people who suffer from wind and cold will be dizzy, right?"

Wang Qilin nodded: "Yes." ”

The shopkeeper said: "One day Chen Shang fell asleep, and then he heard a knock on the door, so he went to open the door, but after opening the door, an old woman with a carved head smiled at him, saying that Xiao Langjun still didn't go with me?"

He woke up in fright and found that he had a nightmare, and then there was a knock on the door, and he asked who it was, and heard his mother talking, saying that she was giving him medicine. ”

"He wanted to sweat on the bed to cure the cold, so he was naked, so he put on his clothes and went to open the door to his mother, and told his mother the nightmare before, and his mother laughed after listening to him, and suddenly ripped off the scarf to reveal a wooden face and asked Are you dreaming of me?"

"Chen Shang was so frightened that he peed on the spot, and woke up again while peeing!"

Wang Qilin smiled: "Where is this ghost nesting doll here?"

The shopkeeper also smiled and said, "The matter is not over yet, and when he woke up, he still heard someone knocking on the door! Or did his mother call him outside the door, do you think he dared to open the door this time?"

Wang Qilin said: "If it were me, I would dare! In broad daylight, these demons and monsters are lawless, and they dare to harm innocent people?

The shopkeeper said: "Chen Shangke doesn't have the courage to be a guest, he was so frightened that he shrank on the bed and screamed, and then the window was pushed open, revealing an old wooden face outside, and asked him why he didn't open the door for himself......"

Chen Shang was almost scared to death, but after being scared like this, he was sweating and had a cold, hehe. It's just that he doesn't believe in anything now, feels that he is still in a dream, and says that we are all people in his dreams, do you say it's ridiculous?"

Wang Qilin said: "What he said may be true, but we may say that it is really a person's dream?"

The shopkeeper laughed: "Mr. Mo is not surnamed Zhuang?"

Wang Qilin smiled and changed the subject, and asked, "You only have these tricks here, are there any more powerful tricks?

The shopkeeper was silent, he squinted at Wang Qilin after drinking a glass of wine, and said: "There is a big river ten miles ahead of my inn, friend, you are a foreigner, I don't know the situation of this river, it is called the Great Reed River, and there are many reeds growing in it since spring." ”

"And then every year it's going to drown people on and off, it's scary. You know the reeds, right? Spring and summer are green, and white mangs fly after autumn, so every time after autumn, the sky is full of white mangs, like paper money, and you can hear crying when you listen to it at night. ”

Wang Qilin poured a bowl of wine for the shopkeeper and asked, "Is this a water ghost asking for his life?"

The shopkeeper took a sip of wine and smacked his lips, and said: "I heard that the heavenly supervisor came to investigate, but I did kill a few water ghosts at night, but there are still dead people in the river all year round." ”

Later, there were masters from all walks of life in the rivers and lakes who came to see it, and then they said something. ”

"Some people said that in the past, there was a Jiao in the river, and a Jiao came here to let the people surround the river and cut off the flow and kill it, and the Jiao soul has always been there, and every month it has to eat a person's soul to offset the resentment. ”

"Others say that there were floods, heavy rains, river diversion, washed away a dirt mountain, there was a mudslide, the whole village was buried by the mudslide, the people in the village died, and they were unwilling to die, so they took turns to pull people to bury themselves to vent their grievances......"

Hearing this, Wang Qilin's heart moved.

The mudslide buried the whole village and killed the whole village......

How is this like what happened to Shen Yi Village?

So he asked, "And what is the name of the buried village?"

The shopkeeper waved his hand and said: "You can't say it, you can't say it at night, those ghosts in the village are floating in the river at night, as soon as you talk about their village, hum, they can hear it, and they will come to you!"

Wang Qilin laughed when he heard this, and said: "Is there such a good thing? Then let them come, I can't hide it, I'm ......."

"We are Jianghu guests, wandering in the north and south of the river on weekdays, it is best to kill demons and demons for the people, so as to live up to what we have learned in life. Xie Toad took his words and said freely.

The shopkeeper smashed the pig's trotter bone and said: "I guessed this, you two are heroes at first glance." ”

"But the big reed river is really weird, in the early years, there were always heroes in the rivers and lakes who heard the news and came to solve this matter, but in the end it would be good to be able to get out of the whole body, and some of them were directly folded in the river. ”

Wang Qilin asked: "There is a steady stream of drowning people in this river, so the local yamen and the Tingtian Prison have not thought of a way?"

The shopkeeper said: "I have figured out a way, they also go to the river to catch ghosts, intermittently can catch water ghosts, but one year unlucky, they met a water monkey, so that the water monkey to do a very miserable job, since then I don't go to the river to catch water ghosts, instead of looking for someone to guard the river, see someone into the water to persuade people to leave." ”

"Is this easy?"

The shopkeeper pouted: "A few days ago, someone came to talk about this, and they counted, and more than 20 people drowned in the river last year!"

Wang Qilin asked, "Then you really don't care about the Heavenly Prison in the Dingfu Mansion? Just because you have lost manpower when you encounter a water monkey, you don't care about this matter?"

The shopkeeper looked around and beckoned to him.

Wang Qilin stepped up, and he said: "The adults in our house who listen to the heavenly prison are good people, and they have also dealt with any strange things that the common people encounter on weekdays, so we ordinary people do not complain about listening to the heavenly prison and not acting in this matter." ”

"Why? Because the vast majority of the dead were not locals! They were all outsiders, and the outsiders threw themselves into the river here and died, and who knows why? No one knows! At most, their families came to collect the corpses, and some of them did not even collect the corpses, let alone report to the officials. ”

"Besides, there must not be a thousand rivers up and down Kyushu? If there are not a thousand, there are hundreds, right? Which river has not drowned?"

The shopkeeper squeezed his eyes at him when he said this, and Wang Qilin understood: "So if the people don't raise officials and don't hold them accountable, it's all an accident to throw into the river?"

"The children can be taught. The shopkeeper drank the wine and smiled deliciously.

He put down his glass and leaned forward, and said, "Oh, friend, we have another trick to tell you here, and it has something to do with the inn. ”

"I also knew about this for a few days, just last month, in March, a footman from Yuzhang came to us, he missed the sharp place on the way, and found an inn at night. ”

"When he saw that the inn was brightly lit, he happily wanted to stay overnight, but when he entered the door, he found that the threshold was so high that it reached his knees!"

He also saw that the inn was brightly lit, but it was full of white and miserable lanterns, and by the light of the lanterns he looked around, and saw that the tables and chairs in the inn were all made of strange wood painted red. ”

And although there are many guests inside, they are chatting one by one, but if you look closely, you can see that they have no expressions, and their mouths are open and closed, and they are all talking nonsense. ”

The shopkeeper in the inn was greeting guests, and the shopkeeper was busy quickly, as if it was normal, but he noticed that these people were actually secretly looking at him out of the corner of his eye. ”

He vaguely felt that something was wrong with the shop, and wanted to run away, but the shopkeeper suddenly stepped up quickly and grabbed his wrist through the threshold and said-"

"There are friends from afar, don't you say it?"

The boss said and grabbed Wang Qilin's wrist violently, grinning.

Wang Qilin also smiled at him.