The autumn wind swept the fallen leaves in front of the door, leaned against the restaurant at the door and yawned, and turned around to go in with cuffs.

"Shopkeeper, business has been getting worse and worse in the past two days, and no one on the street can see it. ”

The shopkeeper at the counter, who was playing with the abacus, raised his gaze from the ledger and skimmed the beard on his upper lip.

"There are a lot of strange things in disaster years......

After speaking, he moved his mouth towards the guy and motioned for him to go to the room on the second floor.

"Go and let the scholars and Taoist priests inside come out to eat something, and try to arrange expensive ones. ”

"It's still the shopkeeper who will figure it out. ”

Xiao Eryi put on a rag, ran up to the second floor, and knocked on the door: "Childe, it's almost noon, why don't you come down and eat with the Taoist chief......?"

After talking for a long time, there was no response inside.

Xiao Er frowned, stretched out his hand and pushed it, and with a creak, the door opened inward.

The room was empty, there was no one, the bookshelves in the corners were gone, the bedding was neatly folded, and there was sixty wen on the round table.

"Gone?"

The guy looked left and right, snuck a few into his cuffs, and ran downstairs with the pile of copper coins in his hand.

"Shopkeeper, they checked out, give, this is the room money. ”

The copper coin fell on the counter with a bang, and the shopkeeper looked at it, hummed a little song and shook his head and walked to the side, and after a while, he heard the shopkeeper behind him whisper.

"This scholar can settle accounts, and he has a lot of money. ”

The guy who walked away hurriedly touched the bag in his sleeve, and it was flat and shriveled, and there was nothing.

......

At this time, the autumn sun outside the city was yellow, Lu Liangsheng led the old donkey, walked through the west of the city, and went around the northwest road, the toad crossed his legs, reclining in the bookshelf compartment, listening to the opera in the mural shaft, and humming and chirping.

Sun Yingxian jumped around like a wild dog letting go of the rope, climbed up a nearby tree, and found a bird's nest to come out, but he caught a snake from inside, nailed it quickly, peeled off the skin quickly, and stuffed it into a leather bag.

"I'll get you something delicious later!!"

Smelling the smell of blood, the toad propped up his upper body and leaned out of the compartment to take a look: "It's a field chicken again?"

"It's autumn, where are the field chickens. The Taoist uncovered the leather bag a little, revealing the snake's head, "At this time, of course, I want to eat this kind of thing, and I make up for it." ”

The toad nodded: "Go and see if there are any birds, come to a dragon and phoenix soup, remember to put green onions and ginger, and press the taste!"

"Well, you'll see. ”

The Taoist pulled up the leather bag, ran away excitedly, and then, stopped, tilted his head: "What is this Dao doing listening to the old toad?"

Behind.

Sometimes gentle, sometimes resentful operas came out of the bookshelf, and Lu Liangsheng knew that it was deliberately sung by Hong Lian to ease his mood.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that he has something in his heart, but Lu Liangsheng doesn't say it, so Toad and Honglian don't ask indiscriminately, trying not to disturb while helping the scholar relieve his mood.

After walking for a while, the song "Red Gate Visiting Relatives" stopped, and Hong Lian asked faintly in the painting:

"Childe, does it sound good? Do you want to continue?"

Lu Liangsheng walked in front, and he didn't have to look back, looking at the drowsy autumn in front of him, and said with a smile: "No, it's not good for you to sing songs in broad daylight." ”

At this time, the toad Taoist interjected and entered.

"Sing, the old man is on the rise, he didn't experience the wonders of the world when he practiced, and now in retrospect, the old man suffered too much. ”

These words caused both the scholar and the female ghost to laugh, and Lu Liangsheng's thoughts were put down for the time being, and he looked back at the bookshelf with a smile, and touched his hand on the donkey's head.

In the old donkey's humming, he laughed:

"By the way, Master, what were you like when you were at your peak?"

"Hmph..... that's something you can't even think of. ”

The toad came to his senses, sat up straight, put his feet outside the compartment, and looked at the roadside and fields with his flippers in his hands, his chin squinted.

"How majestic and cultivated I was a teacher back then, the mountains and rivers were trembling under my feet, and the elites of several major sects were exhausted, besieged as a teacher, it was a sea of people and people, and the magic weapons covered the sun......"

The word 'day' fell, and suddenly Sun Yingxian's voice came from the front.

"There's someone lying here!!"

The old donkey instinctively stopped, pushed with inertia, and the toad holding the flippers and squinting his eyes directly knocked out, and the frog webbed climbed the edge of the compartment and almost fell.

"Fortunately, the old man was prepared. ”

"Master, you wait a minute, I'll take a look. ”

At this moment, after Lu Liangsheng finished speaking, he loosened the reins and ran towards the Taoist quickly, the old donkey ran to the side of the road without restraint, the bookshelf shook suddenly, and the hanging short figure flew out, snapped, fell to the ground, and twitched slightly.

The other side.

When Lu Liangsheng was walking on the side, Sun Yingxian was squatting on the ground with a branch, stretching out to the front, and poking at a fallen figure.

"This guy seems to be a guy from the inn where we stayed. ”

"It's really him. ”

Lu Liangsheng probed his snort, breathed evenly, and turned over the face, confirming that it was another guy from the Yuelai Inn, when he took a bath yesterday afternoon, Xiao Er, who was fetching water, complained, and suddenly quit his job and ran away, saying, 'Toad speaks.......

The Taoist poked a tree branch, a little puzzled: "This guy doesn't seem to have any disease, why is he sleeping here?"

"Just send him back to the inn. ”

The scholar naturally didn't worry about leaving people in the wilderness, although it was an official road on the outskirts of the city, but it was not necessarily safe, just as he was about to lift him up with the Taoist, the moment he touched it, the sleeping figure suddenly sat up.

"Don't touch, don't touch, you have to go quickly, I won't go back. ”

This person looked sick, his hands and feet were sharp, he ran away quickly, pulled out a distance, and shouted at Lu Liangsheng and the Taoist.

"You two go away, forget it if you don't take me, then I'll continue to wait for the next group of people...... Lu ..... Lu Lu ..... how are you?!"

Ahh

The Taoist stepped under his feet, reached out and grabbed his shoulders and pulled him back, staring at him with round eyes.

"What about playing monkeys, you want to slip away after teasing this way?"

The originally dull mood was interrupted like this, which made Lu Liangsheng feel a lot easier, and he was a little curious about this little two lying on the ground just now.

"You're a guy from the Yuelai Inn, I recognize, you suddenly ran away when you heard the toad next to me talking?"

The matter was punctured, and the guy looked at the scholar tremblingly, looked at the road, and saw a black shadow coiled on the ground slowly standing up.

The whole body trembled even more fiercely, and he cautiously inquired at the scholar in front of him.

"....... toads have spoken, don't I still run? two, small and skinny, not a few catties of meat, .....can you let me go?"

Ordinary people will basically never encounter this kind of thing in their lives, and it is normal to be scared like this when they encounter it suddenly.

"You're talking about the toad?"

Lu Liangsheng followed his gaze and looked at the road, the master seemed to stretch his muscles in the autumn sun, and smiled: "Don't be afraid, he won't harm you, and this Taoist master and I are also human beings." ”

The relationship between himself and the toad is naturally not to be told to an outsider, and he simply explained a few words, which made him feel at ease.

Subsequently, he also knew that the guy in this store was called Wang Tianshi, and asked why he was pretending to be sick here, he was a little nervous in front of the two, rubbed the cold sweat on his palms, and said cautiously:

"If you pretend to be sick, if you meet a well-wisher, you may be taken on a journey together, you will have food and drink, and you may be able to find an errand to do...... Two, the little one really hasn't done anything bad, let me go...... The village is haunted, so I came out to find another way to make a living......"

Back on the road, a merchant traveler from out of the city passed by the three of them, casting curious glances.

Dressed in a white scholar's robe stroking in the wind, Lu Liangsheng picked up the toad from the ground and put it on the donkey's head, and turned his face to look at Wang Tianshi, who was cramped and uneasy.

"Haunted?"

When the Taoist heard this, he also became interested: "Male ghost or female ghost? This Tao is a Taoist priest, and catching ghosts is a good thing." ”

"Cocoa ....."

Without waiting for the other party to reply, he hooked Wang Tianshi's shoulder and walked forward.

"Let's go, don't say more, there is no charge for this road, tell me where your village is?"

"From here, it is often more than 100 miles northwest.....

The shopkeeper raised his finger in one direction, and said without tears:

"But ..... don't want to go back......"

Behind, Lu Liangsheng looked at the two people in front of him, smiled, took the old donkey, and shouted, "Master is sitting firm." ”

It's okay not to say it, but as soon as he heard this, Toad Dao's face sank and stretched out his frog flippers.

"Find a rope for the teacher, and the old man should tie it around his waist. ”

The red mercy in the bookshelf scroll couldn't hold back, and laughed in a nice voice.