With a few crackling sounds, Chai He broke it and threw it into the stove, Wang Laohan got up and stirred the hot water in the pot, covered it with a wooden lid, hesitated for a moment, and continued:

"..... the father-in-law, not from our village, about 30 years ago, the family was flooded, and he was displaced here, and became a son-in-law, and after ten years, his mother-in-law died, and he did not have a son and a half daughter, guarding two grass houses, ferrying by the river outside the village, and he fell into the water and drowned last year. ”

Lu Liangsheng put down the bowl, glanced at the Taoist, and said, "The captain will also drown?"

"The captain is also a human being, why can't he drown?" Wang Laohan poured a bowl of cold water and sat down, called out Wang Tianshi to beat two fish out, heard the sound of pouring water in the courtyard and his son's response, the old man moved the oil lamp to the middle of the table.

“...... The two of you are tired of coming from afar, there is still a room in the compartment, I'll clean it later, and don't leave at night. ”

"I didn't think about ......"

Under the table, Lu Liangsheng kicked him lightly, and when he saw that Wang Laohan was leaving, he asked.

"Why don't you invite a mage to exorcise ghosts in the village, and why do you say that there are no ghosts when you are outside the village?"

The old man who walked slowly to the door paused, slowly turned around, pursed his lips, and sighed.

"That ghost is actually a good friend with me, and he has never plagued the village, and he only came out at dusk in the afternoon, and sat quietly not far away, so he didn't invite a mage, and he didn't want anyone to take him in, so it's pitiful. ”

Lu Liangsheng looked at the back of the side room, his thin eyebrows frowned slightly, in the afternoon dusk, the ghost can come out?

Outside, Wang Tianshi, who had finished cutting the fish, went to the stove to make a ping-pong sound, and there were a few muttering complaints.

"If you don't invite a mage, I won't come back. "...... you can't see that poor father-in-law, and you can see that my son is scared half to death?"

"When the time comes, no one will send you to the end, you see who is pitiful!"

Lu Liangsheng and the Taoist are both cultivators, with sharp facial features, and these are naturally heard in their ears, and they sit at the table with some embarrassment.

The lights flickered, and Lu Liangsheng lowered his voice and said:

"At dusk, before the sun has set, the ghost comes out, and Honglian can't seem to do it, right?"

The Taoist nodded, his fingertips spinning around the edge of the bowl, staring at the ripples on the water.

"It's a bit of a doorway, I'm afraid it's not an ordinary ghost. ”

In the side room, the two beds were almost made, and when they heard Wang Tianshi's complaints, the father and son said a few words, and while talking, they remembered that there were still two people.

"Let the two of you laugh, my son has not gotten along with me since his mother died......"

Smiled into the hall, in the dim light of the oil lamp, where were the figures of scholars and Taoist priests, leaving only two empty bowls still on the table, 'ouch' screamed, and called his son in fear.

Wang Tianshi hurriedly let go of the fish in his hand and ran over, the old man pulled his sleeve and pointed to the empty hall tremblingly.

"The scholars and Taoist priests you brought back are not monsters. ”

In the yard, even the old donkey was gone.

The night was dark, and the village had fallen silent, with the occasional dog barking.

Across the fields, the mud roads of the countryside past the riverbank, the thick reeds of the riverbank swaying in the wind.

Rushing.....

The sound of the quiet flowing water, the tinkling of copper bells in the distance, the old donkey with hooves excitedly cracked the donkey's mouth, wanting to bite the reed pole in the past, the neck bell shook and swayed, and was led by the scholar along the fine broken stones everywhere.

At the ferry port ahead, several small boats were tied to the wooden stakes emerging from the water, huddled together and slightly undulating, when Lu Liangsheng came over, the wooden stakes of the boats were not far away, and there was a dark shadow squatting there under a cluster of reeds.

"Excuse me, can you cross the river at night?"

Lu Liangsheng stepped forward and arched his hand towards the black shadow, approached, and saw the other party clearly, wearing a robe, wearing a hat to cover most of his face.

"Nengdu, the guest officer will get on the boat first. ”

"I'm tired. ”

Lu Liangsheng thanked the other party, led the old donkey towards the river, and looked at the moored boats.

"Old man, which boat is yours?"

The sound of the water splashing on the rocky beach

The scholar's cheeks were slightly sideways, and in the afterglow, the rickety man had already passed by, his trouser leg pulled up to the calf, and the bare soles of his feet walked through, leaving a series of water stains.

"This one is. ”

The captain walked up to one of them, lit a paper lantern, and hung it on the bow of the boat.

"Slow down, old decay will illuminate you"

There is no shed in the hull of the boat, and the old donkey can still squeeze it down, but the first time he took the boat, the old donkey was a little uneasy, his limbs were trembling slightly, and he wanted to jump off several times, so that the toad in the compartment also subconsciously touched the rope around his waist before he put his mind at ease.

Lu Liangsheng stepped into the boat, stepped on the bottom of the boat, and there was a real feeling of banging, stretched out his hand and stroked the donkey's head a few times, lifted his robe and sat down, looked straight at the captain, and his thin lips were lightly opened.

"Old man, let's sail. ”

"Okay, sit tight!"

The old man under the hat replied in a dull voice, and the long pole propped up the shallow water, and the hull of the boat left the beach mouth lightly, turned its head, and stood at the stern of the boat to continue to support the long pole, towards the other side of the river.

"This guest officer, remember to sit firmly, this water will sometimes be bumpy, and it will be terrible to fall. ”

The boat sailed quietly across the water, pushing away the ripples, the lantern hanging on the bow of the boat swayed, Lu Liangsheng looked at the old man on the opposite side with a faint light, the white beard under the hat hung with water droplets, his face was pale and swollen, a pair of eyes were almost bulging out, he was wet, and the boat board standing under his feet was dripping with a puddle of water.

Sure enough, it was similar to what Sun Yingxian guessed, and he fell into the water and died.

Lu Liangsheng sighed, "If you don't let it go, it won't work." ”

When he took out the brush in his sleeve, the sound of water sounded, and the captain who was holding the long pole suddenly spoke, as if he was laughing.

"This guest officer, do you think it's very boring? That old man will tell you some stories to kill the boredom, we all know that people who cross the river generally do not cross people at night, first, it is not safe, and second, if there is a duck at night, don't go over, even if you are curious, and see a cloth and handkerchief on the ground, don't pick it up, you basically lose half a life.......

"Speaking of ......, the old man has been on this river for more than 20 years, and he has never seen anything strange, and the water ghosts that people in the village often say have never been seen anywhere....."

It seems that he really relieved the boredom of the scholars who crossed the river, and said a lot of things outside the village.

Seeing that he didn't move, Lu Liangsheng put down his slightly raised hand and listened quietly.

"Fortunately, ...... village chief came to me from time to time to drink, but he always drank other people's like this, and it didn't work...... Come out..... look, I have this memory, I forgot to catch the fish to the village chief, obviously yesterday's ......"

According to Wang Tianshi's father, this father-in-law has been dead for at least a year, but his memory only stays on the day before he died.

Speaking of which, he didn't have any cultivation at all.

When he thought about it, the boat was about to dock, Lu Liangsheng put the pen back in his sleeve, waited until the bow of the boat touched the river beach, and led the shivering old donkey and walked down.

The Taoist who had already flown across the river came over, and was busy turning over the yellow silk cloth bag and was about to take out the talisman paper, but was stopped by Lu Liangsheng.

"Don't do it, this man won't hurt anyone. ”

"What?" the Taoist put down the cloth bag and sighed.

"I have never heard of this way, there are ghosts that do not harm people, even if they do not harm people, others will hurt their vitality if they come into contact with him. ”

Lu Liangsheng shook his head and denied the Taoist's statement, on the way by boat, he obviously felt that the old man on the ferry would not absorb people's yang energy, and Wang Tianshi would be ill for a few days, purely frightened.

"The captain didn't seem to know that he was dead, and he only remembered the day before he died. ”