Chapter 14: Strange Stories

Copper bells jingle .....

The body is light and fluttering, and the feeling of ups and downs comes.

Hearing the human voice, Lu Liangsheng woke up in a daze, the soft sunlight entered the field of vision, and the vague figures walking around gradually became clear, and words came in.

"Liangsheng woke up. ”

"It's okay. ”

"..... Liangsheng, what the hell happened last night, we can see that ......"

In the small and fragmented words, the old donkey hissed, the young man on his back shook and covered his forehead, and his body still had a faint pain, and he didn't know how to answer their words for a while.

It took a long time for my thoughts to coalesce, trying to remember what happened last night...... After that big centipede left, I fainted?

Over there, Lu Pan, who was carrying a hunting knife, waved his hand to make everyone stop talking and ask, and turned his head to look at the young man on the back of the old donkey, a little at a loss of how to speak.

In the end, he asked, "Liangsheng, are you feeling unwell now?" ..... last night."

His thoughts were interrupted, Lu Liangsheng came back to his senses, looked at the surrounding roads, there were many pedestrians, and suppressed his voice.

"Uncle Pan, don't talk about last night's incident. ”

The meaning of the words is that when you encounter a centipede essence, don't talk about it in a noisy place, but listening to Lu Pan's ears has become a different meaning.

He nodded hurriedly, approached closely, and whispered: "Uncle knows, I thought you would suddenly be literate before, which is a little strange, but now that the explanation makes sense, I will immediately ask others not to talk nonsense." ”

Then he added.

"Liangsheng..... did you worship some master as a teacher?"

Masters are teachers.....

Suddenly reminded, Lu Liangsheng hurriedly touched the package on his back and touched it empty, "Uncle Pan, where is my package?"

"Oh, at your Uncle Qing's, help you take care of it. ”

Seeing that Lu Liangsheng didn't answer the previous question, Lu Pan couldn't continue to ask, approaching Fushui County, there were tea sheds on the side of the road, so he beckoned everyone to go over and rest.

"Since Liangsheng woke up, everyone went to the front tea shed to rest, and then went into the city to find the yamen. ”

"Whew..... can finally sit down. ”

Half a night plus a morning's rush, everyone had blisters on the soles of their feet, threw the bags and weapons on their backs and shoulders to the ground, and sat on the side of the road not far from the tea shed, Lu Pan took another two or three pennies, and asked the tall thin man named Lu Qing to buy a few bowls of herbal tea and share them with everyone.

Tea shed, lonely tree, cool breeze blowing, swaying spots, Lu Liangsheng sat down against the tree, and took advantage of the time when everyone was drinking tea, and hurriedly opened the package he retrieved.

"Master?"

Inside, the toad Daoist who curled up a lump of toad eyes was half-open, and the frog webs stretched out to grab the mouth of the bag.

"Sleep for the teacher, don't come and disturb. ”

The mouth of the bag is tightened and closed.

"Master, it's okay. ”

Lu Liangsheng breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that after he fell into a coma, no one would take care of him, and others would lose his master as an ordinary toad, but he was still there, and his heart was steady.

Turning around, a pottery bowl was handed to him, and Lu Pan squatted down on the opposite side.

"Liangsheng, come and drink herbal tea, quench your thirst, there are still a few miles to the county seat, but it's almost there, the rest is up to you. ”

"Uncle Pan, I'm not ready to say anything......"

I haven't seen many young people in the world, if I really want to stand on top of the court, where is it so easy, Lu Pan over there also nodded, originally wanted to reach out and pat the young man on the shoulder, but stretched out and took it back halfway.

"That's ..... it doesn't matter, when the time comes, when we get to the county office, let's sum it up." Okay, Uncle won't disturb your rest. ”

After speaking, among the seven people who returned there, they were all rough and bold men, and as soon as they sat down and talked noisily, they caused the rest of the passengers who stopped to rest nearby to frown, and they did not dare to come forward because of the hunting knives and firewood knives placed at the other party's feet.

The autumn breeze is slow, and the pedestrians and vendors on this official road are ushered in, and from time to time there are also travelers who walk into the tea shed to rest their feet and quench their thirst, and gather around the table to talk about the recent anecdotes in various places.

"You just came back, do you know that something happened in Fushui County recently?"

"What's the matter?"

"Hey..... you just came back from outside, I don't know, there was an accident at our famous Chen Yuanwai house in Fushui County, and a few maids and servants died a few days ago. ”

"Rich and noble people, how many don't die in a year, what's so rare. ”

"The problem is here, I will die for a few days, so I ask you, if you are in the Chen Yuanwai Mansion, are you afraid?"

"Dead people one after another, then Chen Yuanwaifu, I'm afraid there are unclean things. ”

"Isn't it..... I also heard that this terrible thing only appeared after Chen Yuan's foreign office. ”

"Hehe, it can't be that Chen Yuan's foreign office collided with Tai Sui Shen ......"

Lu Liangsheng, who was sitting under a tree not far away, listened to the old man tell a story at the head of the village, but the characters in it were Chen Yuanwai who he heard in Fushui County some time ago, which made him feel fresh.

After resting for a while, and the hour was approaching noon, everyone set off again, and on the way the dry food was dealt with with cold water, and hurried into the city.

The crowd was bustling, and the peasant man pushing the wheelwheel stopped, looked at the vendor selling sugar gourds, groped around for a while, took out a penny and bought a bunch, as if to bring it back to his grandson at home, and carefully wrapped it and hid it in his arms to avoid the dust sprinkling above; in the attic, in the open window, the woman took a wooden stick to beat the drying bedding, and turned back to curse with the people in the room; soon the door below was pushed open, and the naughty child ran out, smiling at the clay figurines placed in the street stalls.

In the eyes of Lu Liangsheng, who entered the city, this scene was extremely lively and novel, a group of nine people walked past the street shouting vendors, and the teenager stopped at a stall and looked at the shelves full of calligraphy and paintings such as beauties, horses, and landscapes.

Lu Pan came over and whispered in his ear: "Liangsheng, we don't have enough money." ”

"Just look. Lu Liangsheng smiled, "My paintings are better than this." ”

Over there, a middle-aged man dressed as a scholar was selling calligraphy and paintings, and when he heard this, he waved his hand.

"Hurry up, I can't afford it, and I'm talking nonsense. ”

"If you don't buy it, it's not okay to talk about it?" Lu Pan stopped doing it here, and turned around to find the person to theorize, and clenched his fists, quite like he wanted to the other party.

But he was stopped by Lu Liangsheng, "Uncle Pan, let's come here to do business, besides, I opened my mouth and stirred up other people's business." ”

Lu Pan glared back at the vendor.

"So what, open the door and make a deal and don't let people say it?"

In the end, he followed Liangsheng back to the crowd and told them what he had just done in a gesture, which provoked these big men to shout and scold loudly.

Soon, the nine people inquired along the road and found the county government in the city, and the officials at the door crossed water and fire sticks to prevent them from entering.

"One thing is one thing, if you want to file a complaint, you need to write a pleading, submit it, and wait for the main bookkeeper to check before you can go to the court to ......."

Lu Pan thought that when he came to the county office, he would be able to see the county order to put down the wrongs in the village, but he didn't know that there were so many crooked things, so he scratched his hair anxiously and looked at Lu Liangsheng.

"Liangsheng, what should you do now, do you know what kind of paper you can write?"

The young man was also a little hesitant in his heart, thought about it, walked to the errand at the gate of the county government over there, and politely bowed.

"Bother this big brother, we are all from the village, and we have never written a paper, may I ask the yamen to write it on your behalf, or give us some that have been discarded, let us go back and copy it?"

"There are ghostwriters, ten texts, of course, tea money, pen money, a total of twenty wen. If you write it yourself, you can also write it, Wuwen. ”

Lu Pan's eyelids were jumping when he heard this, how much money did they have to go out, if they wrote it on their behalf, the food money would be gone.

After discussing for a while, it was finally decided to let Lu Liangsheng write a copy, but buying a discarded model essay for five cents also made them feel painful.

"Writing for ...... money"

Lu Liangsheng looked at the paper bought by Wuwen in his hand, and then looked at the words of Fushui County Ya.

"Simply, set up a stall and help people write, you can also earn a few coppers. ”

But the idea was only fleeting, and soon it was dark.

The group of nine people has not yet found a place to stay.