"The poor road has never been easy to stop people, but today in order to do good, we must not make an exception. The Tiekou Daoist pretended to be worried, causing a burst of suspicion in Pang Yuanzhen, and then said: "I see that your face is gloomy, your qi is sluggish, and tomorrow there will be a disaster of blood and light, which will hurt your life!" This is a commonly used trick of fortune-telling, intimidating the other party, named "Qian".

The Taoist priest's words attracted passers-by to watch, and the stone naturally didn't believe the Taoist priest's nonsense, but the passers-by pointed and persuaded Pang Yuanzhen to listen to the words of the Taoist master, Pang Yuanzhen sneered: "Taoist master, what should you do?"

"Poor Dao is in the spirit of heaven has the virtue of a good life, can help you resolve this catastrophe, the cost is not more than a thousand words, will be able to save your life, survive this calamity, in the future will be rich, never lie. The Tiekou Daoist made a last resort, touting the other party, named "Long".

"Hahahaha!" Pang Yuanzhen laughed loudly, not only frightened the surrounding people, but even the people of Tiekou Dao couldn't figure out what the situation was, and the stone was also a little blind, Pang Yuanzhen laughed, and then stood with his hands crossed, and said loudly: "Life and death are fate, if I Pang Yuanzhen is destined to die early, then I will die calmly, and see if the ghost of the king of Hades dares to hook me!

After speaking, he pulled up the stone and left, the crowd of onlookers laughed at the Tiekou Daoist for cheating the money, the Tiekou Daoist clenched the dust in his hand, only hated his teeth itching, and a wave of anger surged from the dantian, straight to the Tianling Gai, and thought to himself, you don't know how to do the countryman, you dare to humiliate the poor Dao in public, tomorrow is your death!

Pang Yuanzhen and the stone left the hanging stall, walked less than two miles to the south, came to a street entrance, here is not far from the wharf of Longwan Port, there are many fishing boats and cargo ships docked on the shore, many porters, merchants discuss business, three or two pedestrians go in and out, slightly prosperous.

A shop on the street, several tiled houses, obliquely carrying a string of shoe-shaped cloth banners, and a copper lock hanging on the wooden door, Pang Yuanzhen pointed to the shoe shop and said: "This is it." He took out the key and unlocked it, pushed open the wooden door, and led the stone in.

The façade is not big, with a shoe rack, supporting the counter, and there are several rows of shoe patterns on the shoe rack, square toe shoes, arhats, cloud shoes, monk shoes, etc., with different colors, red, purple, yellow and green, everything.

"There are three rooms here, this one is for trading, one is a bedroom, there is a kitchen in the backyard, and there is an alley in the back, and the back alley is a dead-end road, and there are no neighbors on the left and right. Yuan Zhen introduced. "Little Brother Stone, you go inside and rest first, I'll clean up the house and prepare to open. ”

"Brother Pang, then I'll help you. Shi felt that he had been favored in vain, and he couldn't help it, so he got busy with Pang Yuanzhen.

At this time, it was noon, there were a lot of guests in the store, the two had no time to eat, an afternoon passed in the busy, in the evening, Pang Yuanzhen closed the door of the store, went out from the back door, bought wine and food back, spread it on the kitchen table, two hot and two cool, white chopped chicken, braised fish head, mixed cucumber, vinegar soaked peanuts, a pot of rice wine.

Candles were lit and the two sat across from each other.

"Brother Stone, come, try the rice cakes here. Pang Yuanzhen took out a paper bag from his arms, untied the straw rope, took out four steaming rice cakes, and handed them to the stone, who was really hungry, took the rice cake, and bit half of it in one bite, "It's delicious." ”

"Eat slowly, Brother Shi, thank you very much today, there was a guy in this store, but he didn't come because of something recently. ”

"Brother Pang, you're welcome, I want to thank you. "The stone mouth is stuffed with rice cakes.

Pang Yuanzhen poured the wine into two large bowls, picked up one bowl and put it in front of the stone, and said with a smile: "It's rare to meet the stone brothers here, and we are not drunk today." ”

The head of the stone shook like a rattle, and excused, "I, I don't drink, really." ”

"Hey, how can you not drink when you're out of the house? By the way, you haven't asked yet, what are you and your companions going to Huzhou to do for a living?" Pang Yuanzhen asked interestingly.

The stone lied: "Oh, we are going to Huzhou to play. ”

I heard that there has been a famine in Zhejiang recently, and it is not a peaceful place. ”

"We'll be careful. ”

Pang Yuanzhen nodded and said, "Brother Shi must not be an ordinary person, I will toast you!"

The stone waved his hand in fear and refused, Pang Yuanzhen picked up the bowl and sent it to his hand, the stone had to reluctantly take a sip, the rice wine was sweet, it didn't seem to be very strong, but it had great stamina and was easy to get on.

Pang Yuanzhen laughed and persuaded the stone to eat vegetables, the stone is not taboo, fork the chopsticks, and feast.

The two of them ate all the vegetables and vegetables, drank the wine, drunk and hazy, and asked Yuan Zhen: "Pang, Brother Pang, why don't you believe what the Tiekou Daoist said?"

"Hmph, the rivers and lakes are wild, defrauding people of money, I hate unscrupulous Taoists the most in my life, speaking of which, I have a deep hatred with the Daomen!"

The stone wondered, "What kind of hatred?"

"It's a long story, I'll tell you another day. Pang Yuanzhen was drunk, and fell asleep on the table.

The two were talking, the wind outside the window suddenly rose, a black shadow flashed, the stone happened to see, a cold shiver, drunk half gone, hurriedly blew out the candle, tiptoed to the window, pierced the window paper with his fingers, peeked out through the small hole, only to see the moonlight hazy, the back alley outside the window was as silent as a tomb, there was a faint figure, robes and crowns, holding the dust, standing at the door for a while, and leaving lightly.

Shi Shi was shocked in his heart, remembering the appearance of the iron mouth Taoist gritting his teeth during the day, and suddenly thought that he often heard the master say that there is an evil way of trickery in the world under the mountain, and he relies on the side door to defraud people of money.

The next day, Pang Yuanzhen got up to look at the sky, and woke up Shishi: "Shishi, I'm going to catch the boat, if it's late, the boat will start." ”

Shi looked sleepy, and said lazily: "Brother Pang, I am a little unwell, probably because of the drinking last night, I am afraid I can't leave today." ”

When Yuan Zhen heard this, he hurriedly tested the forehead of the stone with his hand, and put it on his forehead again, "I don't have a fever, it's all my fault, I have to drink, it's okay, you can rest well today, you can leave whenever you want!"

The stone pulled over the quilt and fell asleep again.

Yuan Zhen didn't have the heart to take care of the store, went into the kitchen to cook a pot of gruel, and waited for the stone to drink, so it was easy to get into the dark, the stone spirit was better, got up and had dinner with Yuan Zhen, blew out the candles, and the two rested early.

Wonjin was fine, snoring and getting up early, but Shi Shi opened his eyes in the dark, guessing when the other party would come.

Sure enough, in the middle of the night, there was movement outside the back door, the wind was loud, the sand and stones were flying, blowing the door panel shaking, squeaking, the stone turned over and sat up, came to the door, and looked through the crack in the door, sure enough, in the shadow of the wind and sand, there were two unkempt ghosts, jumping towards the back door one by one, and the footsteps were getting closer and closer.