Looking at Wang Qilin's smiling face, the boss asked in surprise, "You weren't scared by me?"

Wang Qilin said: "Look back. ”

The shopkeeper looked back blankly and saw a black cat standing on the wine rack behind him with a jet-black short sword.

The tip of the sword was pointing at the back of his head, but now he turned around and pointed the tip of the sword at his forehead.

This short sword is made of strange materials, neither iron, nor wood, nor stone, and it looks unremarkable, like a child's toy.

But the black cat was very strange, it stood there very firmly with its tail on the ground, its front paws holding a short sword, its eyes blazing, and the corners of its mouth raised as if it was smiling evilly.

Crooked Meow King!

He turned back in astonishment and immediately gasped:

Five flying swords were right in front of him.

The shopkeeper shouted in panic: "The hero spares his life, the villain is just joking with you and wants to scare you." ”

Wang Qilin said: "People are scary, scared to death, have you heard this?"

He took out the bronze seal of the Heavenly Eunuch from his bosom and slapped it on the table, "You are fortunate to have met me and can identify demons and people, otherwise you would be dead by now!

The shopkeeper is fine, it is indeed just a joke, which makes him deeply regretful.

The bronze seal flickered next to the flame of the oil lamp, the shopkeeper's face changed, and he hurriedly clasped his fists and saluted: "It turned out to be an adult who listened to the heavenly prison, the small one had eyes and did not know Mount Tai, and the small one ......."

"Okay, you're a human and not a ghost, so don't be afraid of me. ”

Wang Qilin put away the sword and the bronze seal, he shook his head to Eight Meow, and Eight Meow changed to open his mouth and listen to the Thunder God Sword, and then ran into his arms.

The shopkeeper was dumbfounded: "My lord, this is a god cat." ”

Eight Meow licked his paws and brushed his beard, secretly despising the shopkeeper: I don't know!

Then it thought that it was indeed a god cat, as if the shopkeeper was right......

Wang Qilin inquired, but found out information related to Shenyi Village, which was an unexpected joy.

It's a pity that I didn't find a ghost who could be caught that night.

He said to Xie Toad, "Go to the Great Reed River?"

Xie Toad nodded, and the two left together.

The shopkeeper reached out to touch the wine jar to pour wine, and sighed: "Where did I hear that such a young bronze lieutenant came from the heavenly prison?

Not only is the wine gone, but his braised bean curds are gone!

"Damn, I became a corrupt official at a young age!"

In the stable at the back of the inn, two strong and burly green mules were flicking their tails, one was adding wine from the wine jar and the other was chewing braised tofu.

The two of them seemed to hear something, stopped eating and drinking, shook their ears sideways, and continued to bow their heads and drink and eat dried tofu.

Cheating on eating and drinking.

For Wang Qilin and Xie Toad's foot strength? The distance of ten miles was very close, and after a wild run of the land, I saw a long and wide river.

At night, the moonlight shines like water, shining on the river? It's like there's a river flowing on it.

A boat drifting in the river in the distance? After the two of them walked to the river? The boat came to them from afar.

Wang Qilin secretly prayed in his heart: God bless, the ancestors of the Wang family bless, this must be a water ghost? Let my king kill it to protect the people.

Boat approaching? There was an old man on the boat, and this old man looked quite evil: a talisman on his forehead, and several talismans on his body? A small black dog squatting on the boat with a small flagpole? There is a painting swaying in the wind on the flagpole.

Wang Qilin thought that the ancestors of the Wang family had appeared and sent him a zongzi? But take a closer look? The painting shows Zhong Kui swinging a sword to slash ghosts!

Although the old man has a charm on his forehead? But shouldn't it be a zombie who was given a town by a Taoist priest and a corpse chaser? Zombies don't carry Zhong Kui's statue.

But the old man's dress made him can't help but laugh dumbly, he just asked the old man what he was doing, and the other party had already shouted first: "Far away from the river, the road is slippery in the dark, be careful to slide into the water and drown!"

Wang Qilin asked, "Uncle? You ......"

"What are you, back off, what are you doing in the Great Reed River at night?" said the old man irritably.

Wang Qilin smiled and explained: "Oh? I ......"

"What am I? What are you doing in the Great Reed River at night? Don't the two big men rest at home honestly? What are you doing by the river?" roared the old man again.

The little black dog was wagging its tail, and it saw Jiuliu following behind Wang Qilin.

Wang Qilin was convinced, so he had to take two steps back.

Xie Toad stepped forward? After the old man saw his dress clearly by the moonlight, he hurriedly crossed his hands and bowed: "Ah, where did this Taoist master come from?"

"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable. Xie Toad put on a posture of being a master, "It's getting late, why is the donor still on this river?"

The old man said: "The Taoist chief doesn't know, our Dawei River has always been a bit evil, and I am afraid that we will drown people again in the past few days, but it is the official master who listens to the heavenly prison who hired us river workers and fishermen, and let us be on duty in the river at night to block people close to the river." ”

Wang Qilin asked curiously, "Hey, the Great Reed River is going to drown people again? Why? I mean, how do you know about this?"

The old man glanced at the two of them vigilantly and did not answer, but said: "Listening to the accent, you are foreigners, hurry up and stay away from this river, this river is very evil, don't get into trouble and lose your life, it is a tragic thing to die in a foreign land." ”

Wang Qilin nodded at Xie Toad and said, "Master Dao, take wine and meat, and get some news from his mouth." ”

Xie Toad smiled bitterly: "Seventh Master, Dao Ye didn't prepare so much wine and meat, and the inventory was all for the shopkeeper to eat." ”

But then he said confidently: "Why do you need wine and meat to find out the news from this old man's mouth? ”

He reached out and threw a talisman out of his sleeve, and the talisman entered the water and the river swirled, and an old turtle the size of a millstone surfaced.

The little black dog was so frightened that he peed.

The old man on the boat still had the courage, stretched out his hand and didn't know where to pull out a wooden sword and shouted: "I have the Nanshan peach wood sword, the demons and monsters are not quickly retreating, and the old man is as anxious as the law!"

Xie Toad stepped on the old turtle and got on the boat, and the old turtle disappeared on the water.

Seeing this, the old man understood, it turned out that this was his supernatural power, and he immediately worshipped it: "Heavenly Master, it turned out that the Heavenly Master entered the mortal world, and ordinary people don't know the Heavenly Master's law, please forgive your sins." ”

Xie Toad helped him up and said with a smile: "Immeasurable Relief Taiyi Tianzun, old brother invites you, you just said something serious, I don't know if you are Gui Geng this year?"

The old man said, "I'm old, I'm about to be fifty years old!

Xie Toad was stunned: "Life is happy, I don't know how to urge the years." It's a spring event, and I send apricot blossoms back. There is no time in the mountains, who knows how old the old man is?"

Wang Qilin sighed, this forced outfit is good, it turns out that Dao Ye is a brand-name underwear.

The old man was frightened by his set poem, and said again and again: "Old immortals, old immortals." ”

Xie Toad asked him: "You just said that the Great Reed River is going to drown people again, what's going on?" Oh, the old Taoist priest came to Zhending Mansion this time to solve a strange matter, and this strange matter should be related to the Great Reed River. ”

In order to maintain his compulsion, he flicked the hand behind his back, and another talisman flew out.

The talisman burned, turning into a firebird, and it spread its wings in the darkness and let out a crisp cry, soaring into the nine heavens.

Not to mention the old man on the fishing boat, even the dog knew that the Taoist priest in front of him was a master of the world, and he was scared on the spot.

Eight meows often express disdain: Can't even kowtow?

The old man was convinced of Xie Toad, his knees trembled and he faintly wanted to kneel, but he didn't kneel because the boat was not enough space to kneel.

As for Xie Toad's question, it must be that he knows everything and says everything, and the old man said: "I heard that the heavenly prison asked us to patrol the river the day before yesterday, and it must be that the officials and masters knew that they were going to drown people again, but the people were rescued, just in case we were asked to patrol the river to stop the people who were going to jump into the river to find their deaths in the future." ”

"Celestial Master, you don't know, our big reed river is strange, it often drowns outsiders, and not one person, often a group of pedestrians drowns one by one. ”

"Occasionally, it will drown people in the city, it will not drown one person alone, it will drown several people together, sometimes even a whole family of adults will drown, only children are left, old and pitiful!"

The innkeeper didn't say this, Wang Qilin felt that it was a breakthrough.

Xie Toad also noticed the details and asked, "How many people drowned at once? Why? What do these people have in common?"

The old man shook his head and said: "I don't see that they have anything in common, anyway, things are very evil, they often die one by one, drowned one by one, drowned one tomorrow, drowned one after a few days, and drowned another." ”

"Anyway, once these people are targeted by the evil in the Great Reed River, that person will not be able to escape, no matter whether they escape from Zhending Mansion or whatever, sooner or later they will come back and jump into the river themselves. ”

Speaking of this, the old man's face showed a look of panic: "Do you think this is strange? People are like evil spirits, no matter where they go, they will eventually return to this river and jump into the river." ”

"We can't stop them at all, we can only be thieves for a thousand days, how can we guard against thieves for a thousand days? The same reason, if someone wants to commit suicide by jumping into the river, how can we stop it by relying on our patrols? We alone have to take care of such a long section of the river!"

The old man shook his head in frustration.

Listening to his introduction, Wang Qilin remembered the encounter with an insect in his dream: a praying mantis parasitized by a nematode!

Once the praying mantis is parasitized by the nematode, they will take the initiative to go to the river in the last stage of their life, when the nematode comes out of their abdomen, they will die quickly, and as long as they do not go to the river, the nematode will not leave their body.

But at that time, the praying mantis had no intelligence, and they could not control their bodies.

These people who committed suicide by jumping into the river seem to be the same thing.

So, is it true that the nematodes have become sperm?

The old man who patrols the river doesn't know much more, and he, like the other river patrollers in the river, is only hired by the Celestial Supervisor to pay for duty.

No wonder he has a talisman on his body and a statue of Zhong Kui, a black dog and a peachwood sword, it turns out that he wants to fight against the evil in the river.

Wang Qilin let out the Thunder God Sword and stepped on it, and the imperial envoy flew the sword on the surface of the river.

Seeing this, the old man's eyes straightened: "Hey, Shushan Flying Sword Immortal?"

Xie Toad smiled: "He is not from Shu Mountain, but he is much more powerful than the Flying Sword Immortals of Shu Mountain." ”

The old man said in a panic: "I really don't know Mount Tai, I'm really blind, I dared to offend such a living immortal just now." ”

Xie Toad said: "Little brother doesn't need to worry, he is magnanimous and doesn't care about what you just scolded him." ”

Wang Qilin's sword flew in the river for a long time, the grass was green, the water was turbulent, some sections of the Dawei River were wide and the water was gentle, and some sections of the river were narrow and turbulent.

But he didn't find any evil figures.

However, there is a big fish in the river, and this fish should have some cultivation, and it came out of the water in the middle of the night to swallow the moonlight flowing into the water.

When Wang Qilin passed in front of it, it still rolled its eyes at him with dead fish eyes, but it glared at eight meows, and one fish and one meow looked at each other, the atmosphere was quite embarrassing at that time, and then the big fish quickly sank into the water.

At this moment, Wang Qilin inexplicably thought of the feng shui fish that was taken away by his father, that fish was actually quite a chicken thief and very interesting, it was the first spiritual object he put in his hands, but unfortunately he couldn't take the feng shui fish out.

Exploring the way and finding nothing abnormal, he shook his head and went back to find Xie Toad: "It's useless, everything is as usual in the river." ”

Xie Toad said, "Tomorrow I'm going to listen to the Heavenly Supervisor to inquire about the news?"

Wang Qilin didn't want to go directly to the local Tianjian to listen to the heavens, the experience of Shenyi Village back then was quite shocking, and it was enough for a village to be wiped out, which was unimaginable in a peaceful era.

Listening to the Heavenly Prison will definitely attach importance to this kind of case, and will also inquire carefully, I am afraid that the silver general and Jin Jiang to which Jing Chu belongs were personally in charge of the case back then, so why did the case have nothing to gain?

Will it be boring?

Last winter, there was a snowstorm in Northeast Prefecture, and there were no people in some villages overnight, which alarmed the high-level people who listened to the heavenly prison, and even Li Changge, who had nothing to do with Northeast Prefecture, was transferred over, and it is said that Huangquanjian also sent high-level officials to investigate the incident.

But it doesn't seem to have come to fruition......

After walking around the river at night, Wang Qilin went to the nearby wild graves and mass graves to take a look.

It's a bit strange that there are no lonely ghosts roaming the area.

Everywhere he had ever experienced, there were lonely ghosts, and these ghosts had no skills, and at most they scared a pedestrian who was on a night journey, so he didn't care much about them.

Unless there are wild ghosts making trouble, the Heavenly Prison will find a few pig killers, executioners, and the like to go around the area with butcher knives, and the yang and murderous energy of these people are enough to wash away the lonely souls and wild ghosts.

It stands to reason that the water is yin, and if there is a wild grave by the river, there will be lonely souls and wild ghosts, but Wang Qilin has nothing to gain near the Dawei River.

It's anomalous.

After dawn, they ate breakfast directly in the store, and Wang Qilin asked for local specialties as usual.

The shopkeeper said: "The most distinctive feature of our Zhending Mansion is pepper sesame chicken, but it is not suitable for eating such things in the morning, so why not change to a pepper sesame powder?"

"Good. ”

"We are also famous for the cheaters here, do you eat cheaters?" asked the shopkeeper again.

Hearing this, the eight meows who were dozing off on Wang Qilin's lap widened their eyes violently, it shook its ears and looked at the shopkeeper, and slowly lowered its head to look at the little hands it had picked up.

Eight meows like to sleep with their hands.

Can this be eaten too?

Are you going to eat my meow's little hand?

Wang Qilin subconsciously said: "Okay." ”

Eight Meow quickly stretched out his paws to show that he never copied his hands.

It struggled to stretch out its four legs, and Wang Qilin looked down in surprise: What is this thing for?

The white and soft hands are tumbling in a bowl of chicken soup sprinkled with sesame oil, which looks cute and delicious.

There is also sesame oil in the pepper sesame powder, Xu Da ordered an alley surface, this side is very wide, and there are still things like pepper sesame oil in it.

Wang Qilin asked in surprise: "You locals like to eat peppercorns and peppercorns so much?"

The shopkeeper said with a smile: "My lord doesn't know, our Jingchu land and the neighboring Shu land have a lot of miasma, and there is a lot of moisture, and people living here will inevitably accumulate a lot of moisture in their bodies." And Sichuan pepper can dispel dampness from the body, so we have to eat it. ”

Wang Qilin nodded suddenly, he thought of the spicy man he saw in the northwest, and said, "Do you know this thing?"

The shopkeeper shook his head blankly.

Wang Qilin said: "You can go to Chang'an City, where the people are popular to eat spicy seeds, which is a kind of spice from the Western Regions, its taste is very unique, and it also has a good dampness effect, better than pepper and pepper." ”

The shopkeeper asked in surprise, "Really?"

Xie Toad said: "Immeasurable Tianzun, there are some spicy seeds here in the old way, you can grow them yourself, but can this thing get rid of dampness?"

Wang Qilin said: "It can especially dispel dampness, and the people of the Western Regions have no dampness in their bodies, why?

Xie Toad was stunned: "There is no moisture in their bodies, then are they all dried corpses?"

Wang Qilin squinted at him: "On the riverside wharf, you have to use a big lever to pry the goods, you are so good at lifting the bar, why don't you help?"

Xie Toad shook his head helplessly, he opened his bag and took out a large package of oiled paper, which was full of chili seeds.

Wang Qilin gave it to the shopkeeper and said: "This thing should be able to be planted locally, you try it yourself, anyway, the weather is already very warm, and now it should be planted in autumn and harvested." ”

The shopkeeper thanked him again and again.

The city gate had already been opened, and four people led two big green mules into the city gate, among which Fat Wuyi grabbed the ears of a big green mule with one arm, and he walked between the two big green mules, with a vigilant expression and a cautious face.

Wang Qilin said: "Don't worry, no one will steal your two brothers." ”

Fat Wuyi said with a bitter face: "What I'm afraid of is that my two brothers will cover their ears and steal the bell, Seventh Master, you don't know, the two of them are the best at gobbling up, so I have to be careful every time I get to the crowd." ”

Wang Qilin understood the meaning of each of his words, and he also understood the meaning of each word, but when these words were connected, and many words were connected, he didn't understand what it meant......

The Qingyu people like to use idioms, but they like to use them indiscriminately.

Xu Da was a scholar after all, so he couldn't bear it and asked, "Brother Wuyi, do you know that the idiom you used is wrong?"

Fat Wuyi lowered his head embarrassedly and said: "I know, our Qingyan clan is very studious, and we have learned a lot of idioms and poems of your human race, but we don't understand the customs, and it is easy to use them wrong." ”

Xu Da shook his head, he didn't bother to help correct it.

While everyone was talking, a hay truck passed by the junction.

The hay on the car was piled high, and the center of gravity of the car was not very stable and wobbly.

At the intersection, someone was carrying a basket and selling pies.

Mixed drink stomped lightly on the ground, and the hay cart suddenly lost its balance with a shock, and carried a high haystack as if it was about to smash into the pie seller.

The girl who sold the pie was frightened, and looked at the swaying tall haystack in front of her, as if she couldn't react for a while.

The man next to him shouted, "Run!"

He rushed forward with an arrow and carried the tall haystack with his strong and burly body.

With its head suffocated, it pushed back the hay cart that it looked to be about to roll over, and ran to the other side, where the two big green mules caught the hay cart.

Seeing this scene, half of the people on the street were amazed: "O god donkey!"

"What a look! It's a mule, a god mule!"

"Hey, this mule is really a miracle horse, it has to be a breeding made of dragon horses, right?"

Wang Qilin looked at the person who spoke in surprise, you are very knowledgeable.

Inevitably hay spilled as the car shook, and some of it landed on the pie girl's head and in the basket she was carrying on her arm.

The basket is open, equal to the hay falling on the pie.

The hay truck driver quickly jumped out of the car to apologize, and the people around him condemned him:

"How did you drive? I almost hit someone!"

"Why are you so greedy? Look at how many things you have loaded in the car? Why don't you put Xishan on the car?"

"Fortunately, these two big green mules are human, otherwise you will have a lawsuit today, and you will smash other girls. ”

The driver wanted to cry without tears: "It's okay to walk all the way - alas, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, you can't be sorry, the girl can't be sorry." ”

The girl reacted and looked at the pie in the basket, her eyes were red: "Big brother, this didn't hit me, I don't have anything, but how can I sell this pie? It's all your hay." ”

The two big green mules shook their heads and tails and ran over to stare at the pie, drooling together.

Someone laughed and said, "Hey, does this mule want to eat pies? Do mules eat pies too?"

Someone else said: "Of course the mule will eat pies, but who is willing to feed them with pies? But these two mules are different, you look at their head and fur, this owner is definitely making great efforts to raise, it is estimated that they really give them such good things as pies, bean cakes, steamed buns, and rice." ”

The people didn't see the mules eating pies, and the so-called people who saw the funeral were not too many, so they tinkered and watched the excitement.

A young man said, "Girl, the pie on your top is all stained with hay and ashes and can't be sold, so why don't you feed it to these two big green mules?"

"Yes, this big green mule just saved your life, feed them a pie to eat, this is to repay the favor. ”

"Hey, come and see the mules eating pies. ”

The big guy said a few words, but the girl had no opinion, so she swept away the hay in the basket and took out the pies and distributed them to the two brothers.

The two brothers' mouths opened, and a pie about the size of a human went on.

Wang Qilin and his entourage were stunned as they watched from behind.

It's a cheat!

Fat Wuyi stomped his feet and said, "It's broken, I didn't look at the two of them, I overturned in the ditch!"

Xu Da, who had just bought a bunch of sugar gourds to eat, suddenly squirted out a lot of crushed hawthorn......

What is a pie when it is so big?

The onlookers wanted to see the excitement, and a noisy girl fed them pies.

The girl said anxiously and panickedly: "My mother asked me to sell these pies, if I can't get the money back, my mother will definitely scold me." ”

"You can't sell it, it's all dirty," several men advised, "feed these two mules, they will save your life." ”

"It's a big deal to let this car get money, it's all the sin of this car of hay. ”

"Yes, yes, you've got to go out and buy someone's pie ...... you're in a car."

Wang Qilin couldn't stand it, so he hurriedly squeezed in and pushed out the two brothers.

Xu Da went to the girl to pay for the remaining pies, and Xie Toad stroked his beard and muttered: "Immeasurable Tianzun, it's damn unreasonable, let's let two young men play with it?"

Fat Wuyi said desperately: "Cheating, eating and drinking, they have a set!"

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