Hua Lin sat on the back of the donkey, looked at the donkey, the head and tail were not lacking, not to mention, even the eyelashes, the place on the back and the saddle pad was in contact with a large piece of fur, reached out and touched, hot, except that it was not called, it was no different from the real donkey, and turned his head to look at the servant woman who had become a paper-cut behind him, and saw that her head was lowered, and she did not see her eyes, but she saw a round bun on her head, two silver hairpins inserted in her sideburns, and a green cloud behind her head, wearing a green cloth coat, a black gauze around her waist, hanging an old pine-colored sachet, wearing half-used purple flower pants, and a lot of summer socks and cloth shoes, I can't see the difference for a while. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Xiao Ruyun looked at him curiously, and thought that although it was limited to family rules and spells could not be taught, the knowledge of these magic weapons belonged to the common sense of the immortal family, and he should talk to him, so he said: "These are the magic weapons of the immortal family, and the one we are riding now is called the paper guard." ”

"Paper Guard?"

"The donkey produced by the Weidi is the best, so we all call it the paper guard, if someone asks you to buy a pair of paper guards, it is two donkeys, don't mistake it for the guard. Xiao Ruyun pointed to the guy who was leading the donkey and carrying the lantern in front of him: "That is called the lantern ghost, in fact, it is also made of paper, and the origin of this name is the lamp in his hand, you take a closer look." ”

Hua Lin looked at it: "This fire is not here?"

"Exactly, this person is this lamp is difficult to do, other places can be lit with talisman paper, but the part of this lamp has to be ground with the bark of the locust tree peeled off on September 9, the locust tree can trap ghosts, and then seal a little ghost fire in the lamp, and the outside is framed with black eye veil, and the gauze mesh is painted with river sand gold, and it looks like a yellow and clear gauze lamp when used, and there is no green gas of ghost fire at all. ”

"It turned out that it was not the ghost who carried the lamp, but the lamp that carried it...... Sister, can't these things be named?"

Xiao Ruyun nodded and said: "You're right, the servant woman in the back, we call it the puppet lady, can not only follow the horse, but also do some rough work of cleaning and carrying water - of course, you can't use it to light the fire and do laundry, the disadvantage is that you say what it does, you want it to sweep the yard, if you don't collect it in time, it will be swept there for a long time, until the whole decay, there is one leg left and one hand is still sweeping, mortals are scared to death when they see it." In many places, it is said to be 'haunted', and when we checked in the past, they were all puppet wives who were not put away in time. ”

"We?"

"The Xiao family has led the three states of Qing, Yun and Heng for generations, and if there is something unquiet on the ground in these three states, my family will send personnel to deal with it," Xiao Ruyun replied, of course, the words in the family say so, the actual situation...... After observing in Shuanghe County these days, Xiao Ruyun has become a little weak-hearted -- she faintly feels that the family's current arrangement of the place seems to be a little inappropriate, at least in the area of Shuanghe County, Hengzhou, but if she wants to say something, where will she get a little bit of nonsense about the deployment of the Xiao family, who may not even be able to keep the surname "Xiao"? Of course, there is no need to say these considerations to Hua Lin as a child, so she will tell Hua Lin as it is according to what she was taught in the family school.

"Not quiet, does it mean that someone has always disappeared inexplicably?" asked Hua Lin.

"Someone who always disappears for some reason?"

"Well," Hua Lin said, "my neighbor has an uncle who goes to the mountains to sell goods, and he said that in those mountain villages, every year people disappear without saying hello, and when they ask the people in the village, they all say that they are 'new households', and it is none of their business, and he also loses half a silver in his accounts a year!"

"New households?" Xiao Ruyun breathed a sigh of relief: "These new households are all landless, and they have no worries in the village, and it is common for them to leave." She has been visiting places in Shuanghe County for a long time, and she knows a lot about the old and new households.

"No, some people didn't even care about the pigs, they were thrown in the village, and they were 'eaten out' by the village. ”

"Huh?" Xiao Ruyun became serious now, thinking of the four mountains that had not given her a response before-this is indeed a clue that can be investigated, could it be that someone is doing some secret evil thing in the mountains? She also remembered that this area in history was the boundary of the Jade Belt Country where living sacrifices were held, so she nodded and said: "If it is really like what you said, I want to check it out, this is the knife tree?" She pointed to a soaphorn tree in the alley and asked, there are many soaphorn pods hanging from the tree, and the child looks like the "knife" of a tree.

"Yes. ”

"Then I will send you here, go, and tomorrow I will come to you. When Hua Lin landed on the ground, he looked back, and the girl, the donkey, the lantern boy, and the servant woman with the basket were all gone, and only the basket he had raised from his sick family was left on the ground, like a dream.