The night pushed away the last red glow of the remnant sun.

The town below the hill was lit up with the lights of a few houses, the eaves were low, the narrow streets were uneven with muddy puddles, the sky was dark, and the occasional barking dog came from a certain alley.

Wangwangwahws-

The dog barked wildly, the misty streets, and a piece of yellow paper with a square hole in the middle flew to the ground, and then was trampled by the hooves of the fallen donkey.

Lu Liangsheng and the Taoist led the old donkey into the town, and the window lattices that still had bright light were extinguished one after another, and they could hear the sound of the window lattices creaking and closing in the dark.

"What's going on? It's too early for the sun to set, isn't it?"

The Taoist looked around, a little confused, and after a moment, he smashed his fist into the palm of his hand: "Isn't this town haunted?!"

"I don't know, there is an inn in front, go to stay first, ask the store, if there is a ghost, help the people here by the way. ”

After a night's rest from here, if there is really a ghost, help the residents here to eliminate the harm, but do it casually, it will not delay much time.

There are lights in an inn in front of me, look at it from a distance, some miserable and miserable, a shop guy is closing the door, hearing the copper bell, or can't help but raise his face, a scholar in an apricot pattern white robe led an old donkey over, and there is a Taoist priest with a sharp-beaked monkey cheek beard next to him.

The man leaned at the door of the inn, leaned out a face and whispered:

"What do you two do?"

Approaching this inn, Lu Liangsheng saw the big red lantern that should have been at the door, but it was two white paper lanterns with a big 'lay' written on them.

It seems that there is something white at home, although it is inconvenient, but this town is not big, presumably it is just this inn, Lu Liangsheng still asked:

"I don't know if I can stay?"

"Two guest officers, no, the shopkeeper has a white affair at home, and he will not be open for business for these two days. ”

The guy looked up at the night sky with his eyes, as if he was a little anxious, and after saying this, he touched the door, and the Taoist rushed over with grinning teeth, and slapped hard: "What about white things?

In the shouting over there, Lu Liangsheng raised his head and looked at the night sky along the line of sight of the shopkeeper just now, the moonlight was cold, and a dark cloud slowly drifted away to cover a corner.

Nothing strange about it.

After thinking about it, he called Sun Yingxian, who was still calling the door over there, and pulled the old donkey to simply continue to walk forward to see if there were any other inns.

From Jinzhou to the north through Huaiyi Prefecture, the two of them spent almost all of their time in the mountains and wilderness, and occasionally stayed in hotels, but that was a few days ago.

"Isn't it just a funeral, there is a bed in the place, and we are not taboo. ”

"Maybe others are taboo. ”

After speaking, this street is almost gone, how can there be a second inn in the dark, Lu Liangsheng smiled, flipped over the sleeves of his robe and skimmed behind him, it seems that he will sleep outside for a night tonight.

"Lao Lu, you see there's still a light over there, let's go over and spend the night. ”

Following the direction of the Taoist, under the eaves of the street at the end of the street, an old man was moving a bench in.

"Uncle!"

Hearing a sudden call to him, the old man was startled, and instinctively stepped into the threshold and hid behind the door, poking out half of his face.

Seeing that it was two strangers, I breathed a sigh of relief in my heart.

"What are the two of you, what's the matter with calling the old man?"

Although he spoke, he was still hiding behind the door, and there was a posture of closing the door if something was wrong.

"Nature is a good person. ”

The Taoist carried a yellow cloth bag, and ran to the eaves of the house in a flash, arching his hand at will.

"I just want to discuss with my father-in-law if I can borrow a night. ”

The lights in the house shone out of the door, and the old man with his head squinted his eyes and looked at the appearance of the Taoist carefully, the fat Taoist robe was put on a thin body, like a monkey wearing clothes, and his sideburns were pulled up at will, not looking like a serious monk.

Hurriedly waved his hand.

"No, no, no, there's no bed for you. ”

"This old man. ”

When the old man was about to close the door, Lu Liangsheng, who was leading the donkey outside the eaves, loosened the reins, stepped forward and arched his hand, and spoke first.

"This Taoist and I traveled a long way, to He Lingzhou, passing through your land, originally to vote for the inn in front, but that family has white things, and I have nowhere to go, just saw that the old man has not closed the door, so he came to take the liberty to disturb, this Taoist chief has been sleeping in the open for several days, and he has a little cold, and the tone is not good, I really can't help it. ”

As he spoke, he winked at Sun Yingxian, who glared back and coughed a few times.

Hearing a few loud coughs, the door of the opposite room opened a little more, and the old man saw that it was a scholar dressed as a scholar, and his tone was gentle and polite, so he retreated, took the oil lamp on the table and went out of the door, and took a picture of the two people and the donkey behind him, and there were pots and bowls hanging on the bookshelf, so he nodded and opened the door completely.

"Come in, old man, believe you. ”

"Thank you, sir. ”

Lu Liangsheng gave up his hand, led the old donkey and followed the old man around the eaves to the small door on the back side, the old man held an oil lamp and watched him tie the donkey to the tree in the courtyard.

"Where did you two come from?"

"Hmm..... Golden State. ”

Originally, he wanted to talk about Jiangnan, but he didn't know the attitude towards the southerners, so Lu Liangsheng casually said Jinzhou, tied the reins and slapped the old donkey's head twice, made a no-nonsense look, and followed the old man to the front room.

"This boy should be careful when entering the house, the threshold is a little high. ”

When entering the house, the old man specially advised, and lowered the oil lamp a little to illuminate the scholar's feet, Lu Liangsheng paid attention to it, this threshold is different from the old wood of some years, but the color of the upper section is darker, and it is obviously nailed on it.

"Uncle, why is the threshold of your house so high?"

The house is spacious, in addition to the stove room and this room are connected together, there are two doors not far away, there is a wooden ladder leading to the attic on the right wall, but there are some years, I want to come a few years, or more than ten years ago, it should be a family with a lot of money.

The oil lamp was put on the table, and between the lamps or flickering, the Taoist took the teapot from the old man's hand and poured two cups of water, and the old man walked to move the bench and invited the two to sit down.

"Not only my family's height, but also in this town, as well as several nearby villages, the threshold of every household is high. ”

The Taoist was interested, and he liked to listen to the strange things of the people, so he hurriedly poured a glass of water for the old man and handed it over.

"What's in there?"

"Alas, what can I say, it's not a .....," the old man's voice stopped, hesitated, and looked at the door leading to the outside, and the bolt was not plugged in.

After half a ring, he spoke: "You two are strangers, are you here for the first time? There have been many caravans here before, but now they rarely come, and you two young people really don't inquire before coming." ”

"Why is it haunted? male ghost or female ghost? What do you look at this way?"

Sun Yingxian shook his Taoist robe, and then took out a few pieces of rune paper from the yellow cloth bag and slapped them on the table: "Where are there ghosts, you take this Dao with you, and keep it to help you be obedient." ”

The old man glanced at the Taoist, then at the yellow talisman on the table, and shook his head: "If the ghost is fine, but the Taoist chief, that thing ..... Alas, the old man didn't know how to talk about it. ”

Lu Liangsheng frowned slightly, it's not a ghost, is it still a demon?

"Don't worry, boss, just say it, anyway, the two of us are also passing by, just listen to the anecdotes, and if you meet a master outside in the future, please come and help you solve the disaster." ”

The oil lamps flickered, and the moths fluttered around the bean-sized lights at night, and the old man sighed.

"Then the right to be chatting with the two of you to relieve boredom, the son and the Taoist don't know, this town used to be fine, since the war, the soldiers and horses were chaotic for a while, after the death of the Qi country, strange things came out, the town is around a radius of twenty or thirty miles, all the dead people who do white things at home, stop in the mourning hall, suddenly got up in the middle of the night, and sucked the people who kept the spirit. ”

The dead get up? Lu Liangsheng has been cultivating for so long, and this is the first time he has heard of it.

Looking at the Taoist, the latter comprehended, his fingers quickly pinched under the table, and then quietly shook it towards Lu Liangsheng, roughly meaning:

There is no corpse breeding ground formed by the convergence of yin qi in this vicinity.

The old man saw that the two of them did not have many surprised expressions, thought that they did not believe it, and sat there with a wry smile.

"I didn't believe in the old man before, the two of them live now, that is, the family was still well-off, and there was a good wife and a son at home, ten years ago, the old wife died of illness, and the son saw that I was old and weak, and he didn't let me keep the ......"

His voice paused, and he continued with a slight trembling.

“..... But when he woke up in the morning, his old son had a dark face and his body was stiff, and his wife was sitting under a tree in the courtyard outside the house. ”

It was dark outside, and the three of them chattered around the shabby square table, and the barking of dogs in the town occasionally sounded, and the wind blew from the end of the street.

The white lanterns on both sides of the inn are lit and gently shaken by candlelight.

Rustling .....

The branches and leaves of the old trees in the backyard of the inn swayed and swept across the eaves, and the twilight lights in the room hung with white cloth shone out, and in the middle of the hall, a figure in a shroud was lying down, and his face was covered with a white cloth.

Separated by a curtain, the shopkeeper slept on a makeshift wooden board covered with a quilt, keeping vigil on behalf of the shopkeeper, staring tremblingly at the mourning hall with a candle flame behind the curtain.

Whew.....

The wind squeezed through the crack in the door, the candle flame was clearly extinguished, and the corner of the white cloth covering the face of the corpse in the mourning hall was lifted in the wind.