Chapter 69: Hearing the News

Hachi and Feiqiu were eating around a casserole in a village tavern, with five or six casseroles with only soup left on the table next to them, and the cook was still busy in the back kitchen, and this meal was the reward for helping the villagers catch a terrible ghost: garlic and lamb made from two sheep.

"Huh!" Hachi was sweating profusely as he ate, "This smells so fragrant! I only knew that this mutton could be made so fragrant!" After speaking, he picked up the wine bottle and touched it with Feiqiu, and looked up with a big mouthful.

Feiqiu's eating posture is quite handsome, but the speed of the chopsticks is not much slower than Xiaoba, and after drinking the wine in the cup, Feiqiu asked, "It's been almost two months since we came out, shouldn't we go back?"

Xiaoba was still chewing the meat in his mouth: "Where are you going?"

Feiqiu picked up another piece of meat and put it in his mouth: "Didn't we say before, let's go back to Chang'an directly." ”

Xiao Ba Weng said: "Yes, it's very urgent to go back to Chang'an, let's have a good time." ”

Feiqiu said leisurely: "I'm not worried about anything else, it's just that the little monk sent the pill back, aren't you afraid of being stewed by Luo Ling? ”

Xiaoba waved his hand absently and said, "It's okay, with Wuqing, Luo Ling's little mother-in-law can't turn the sky." ”

Feiqiu thought about it, and this is the truth, so he continued to eat and drink with peace of mind.

When he was full of wine and food, Xiao Ba Feiqiu hiccuped and left, and the shopkeeper and the villagers who were watching the excitement outside the tavern all enthusiastically surrounded him, and the old village chief who led the two of them said to him again and again: "The village is poor, so I can only make up two sheep to make a tooth sacrifice for the two immortal masters, and I hope for Haihan." ”

Xiao Ba waved his hand and said: "The old man is polite, this garlic and lamb in your village is very delicious, and the local wine is also good, so let's go." ”

After saying that, the two of them were about to leave, but they didn't want an old man in the crowd to come out, knelt down in front of the two of them, and shouted, "I beg the two immortal masters to save our village!"

Xiao Ba Feiqiu is not a person who is anxious for justice and righteousness, seeing this, he just stopped and did not talk, the old village chief stepped forward and said: "This is the village chief of the next village, they heard that the two immortal masters came to our village, and they have come to ask for something." ”

Xiao Ba was delicate, and sneered: "I'm afraid that we don't have the ability to help you catch the ghosts, and they won't come to beg!"

When the kneeling old man heard this, he kowtowed: "Two immortal masters, don't hide it from each other, the things in our village are too powerful, and they have already killed several immortal masters, if you don't have a deep way, we really don't dare to ask for it, so as not to mistake the lives of the two immortal masters!"

Feiqiu said: "If you are in trouble, you can still think about others, but you have a good character." Say, what's the matter?"

The old man didn't get up, knelt down and said, " Two immortal masters, there is a well left over from ancient times in our village, the ancestors all said that there is a suppressed dragon in this well, we villagers believe in this, never in the well to draw water, but opened another well; and during the New Year's festival, the village people will throw some melons, fruits and flesh under the ancient well, it is strange to say, these things sink into the bottom of the well, never float up, we are more convinced that there is really a dragon at the bottom of the well; this well has always been safe and sound, but three years ago there was a drunk man in my village who was drunk at night and fell into the well, and some of his companions took a rope to go down to fish, and did not come up after a miserable scream。 Since then, every once in a while there will be a roar in the well, so scared that we villagers dare not pass there, and then the roar sounded day and night, we have no rut, so we pooled money to find some immortal masters, and four or five immortal masters came, after reading it, they said let's invite another master, two went down the well, and the result was ...... Ay...... In this way, the people in our village were panicked, and they went to the county government to ask for help, but the county government did not have a problem, but told us to wait for a while, and we waited for more than a year, but there was still no news. Some timid farmers in the village have abandoned their fields for this reason and gone to other villages to become tenants! Two days ago, this neighboring village was haunted, killing several people, we planned to go directly to the state capital to ask for help, but I didn't expect to come to your two profound immortal masters, the little old man saw that the two immortal masters caught this powerful ghost effortlessly, and knew that you were profound, and it was more than enough to deal with the dragon in this well. ”

When Xiao Ba heard this, he smiled and said: "My husband doesn't pat us on the back, but it's also a blessing for your village, I can't do this, but this brother of mine is an expert in this water work." He turned his head and asked Feiqiu, "What's the matter?"

Feiqiu's words were succinct: "Lead the way." ”

The old man got up from the ground with a thousand thanks, and took Feiqiu Xiaoba and the two of them to the neighboring village, followed by a large group of villagers who were watching the excitement, and some villagers who had good deeds ran to the neighboring village, calling friends to lead them to the ancient well.

When Feiqiu arrived, the ancient well was full of people standing ten zhang away to see the excitement, Xiaoba is a person who likes to be lively, and he didn't scold him when he saw this, but patted Feiqiu's shoulder with a smile.

Feiqiu walked straight to the edge of the ancient well with a calm face, looked inside, and suddenly said loudly: "Do you come up by yourself, or let me go down?"

Feiqiu waited by the wellhead, saw that there was no movement, sneered, and jumped into the ancient well. The old man who led the way couldn't help but have a worried look on his face, but Xiaoba smiled as usual, and asked the old man: "The next village has garlic and mutton as a reward, what unique food does your village have?"

When the old man heard this, he hurriedly bowed his hand and said: "Qi Qi Immortal Master, the ancestors of our two villages are all from imperial kitchens, and the best thing in their village is to cook beef and sheep red meat, and we are cooking chicken and duck white meat. ”

When Xiao Ba heard this, he laughed and said: "This is very good! I should be able to eat a good meal, the small village is not big, and there has even been an imperial kitchen!"

As he spoke, he saw the water in the ancient well gushing out, accompanied by bursts of roars like wild beasts, which frightened the surrounding villagers into bloodlessness. ”

Before the words fell, Feiqiu stepped out of the water, grabbed a basin-sized turtle in his hand, walked to the old man and threw the turtle at the feet of the old man and said: "The monster in this well is this turtle that has become a fine, I went down the well and found that this turtle was indeed locked at the bottom of the well by a chain. I see that his chains are old, as if they are thousands of years old, and they are rotten, and I am afraid that he will break free in a few years, and then the people of your two villages will be eaten clean by him, but fortunately they met me. ”

The old man saw that although the turtle was not big, but the back was covered with green hair as long as his arms, and there was a round hole in the back shell, which was covered with rust all around.

Xiaoba smiled: "Okay, kowtowing is useless, it's only serious to hurry up and prepare a meal." Then he explained to Feiqiu: "These two villages used to have imperial kitchens, just now that village is good at making beef and mutton, and this village is good at making chickens and ducks, let's not be in a hurry, it's not too late to leave after eating here at night." ”

Feiqiu would not deny it, the two were surrounded by the villagers and entered the village, the village chief arranged for the villagers to set up a banquet, and the chickens and ducks were ready-made, but they couldn't just give the two immortals to eat these, right?

In the evening, the village is as lively as the New Year, and every household walks to the ancestral hall with pots and bowls, just to let the two immortal masters who are waiting for the banquet in the ancestral hall taste their own craftsmanship first.

When the feast begins, the villagers who help the cook will put plates of white chopped chicken, yellow stewed chicken, sesame oil chicken, dry fragrant chicken, smoked chicken, and roast chicken...... Dozens of chicken and duck dishes were served like water, and the last little eight who ate it rolled his eyes and stuffed it into his mouth. Laughed and said, "It's delicious, it's delicious!"

Feiqiu stopped eating after feeling full, just drank local wine and watched Xiao Bahu eat Haisai.

A villager brought another plate of crispy chicken, and seeing that Feiqiu had just tasted it, he cautiously asked, "These dishes are not to the appetite of the immortal master?"

Feiqiu replied, "No, it's just that I'm full and don't want to eat more." ”

The man smiled happily and said: "The cooking skills of the people in our two villages are well-known, the two immortal masters can come often in the future, when to come we will welcome them!"

Feiqiu nodded politely and said, "Okay." ”

The villager saw that the immortal master agreed, although he knew that it was a polite word, he was also very happy, and felt that it was also a kind of glory for him to be able to talk to this powerful immortal master, so he had nothing to say: "Today is really a good day, the scourge in the village has been eliminated by the two immortal masters, I went to the town in the afternoon to buy ingredients, and I heard that the princess of our Dajin is pregnant, and the old emperor is happy to be exempted from taxes in nine states for one year before the throne, and our Yongzhou is in this Kyushu, and we don't have to pay taxes in recent years!"

Feiqiu was impatient to talk to the village man, so he said that he just nodded politely and continued to drink, but Xiaoba on the side suddenly squirted the wine and meat in his mouth on the table with a "poof", Feiqiu frowned and said, "Are you a little out of luck?

Xiaoba didn't care about arguing with him, so he directly dragged the villager over with his big hand, coughed and asked, "What did you just say?"

Xiao Ba's short sentence sprayed the villagers' faces full of debris, and the villagers didn't dare to wipe it, and they didn't know how their words could make this immortal master have such a big reaction, so they could only repeat: "Back to the immortal master, I said that I went to the town today, and I heard that the princess of our Dajin is pregnant, and we are exempted from taxes in several states......"

This time Feiqiu listened to it, and glanced at Xiaoba, and suddenly both of them laughed in unison: "It's really fast!"

Then Xiao Ba Feiqiu and the two stood up, and Xiao Ba said to the villagers who were accompanying him: "The two of us have eaten, we have something urgent to leave, your meal is good, and Ming'er will send the two of them to Chang'an Horse Mansion with good cooking skills." After saying that, the two turned into two whirlwinds and melted directly into the night. The surrounding villagers fell to their knees again.