"Be vigilant at night, don't sleep too hard, if there are ghosts, they will definitely kill you. Li Xiuyuan reminded the guards beside him.

"Young Master, it's not that scary. Ma Dong exclaimed.

Li Xiuyuan said: "Who knows, maybe it's just a few wandering ghosts, or maybe it's the evil demons entrenched here, I can't find them now, how can I judge it, I have to restrain my breath to lure them to appear, otherwise if the scourge here is not solved, more people will definitely die in the future, you just be vigilant, if there are ghosts, I will solve it." ”

He had never expected the guards around him to subdue demons and eliminate demons, but he did need some helpers around him for some things, so he had to take them with him.

Several people nodded, all with a little apprehension in their hearts.

However, when a few people were chatting, there were a few more guests in the hotel, a couple of hawkers who sold goods to Jinling City, a middle-aged man, wearing a long robe, looked like a scholar, but his reputation should not be high, there was nothing to show his reputation, and the other person was a poor person, dusty, and I didn't know what errands I had done.

Several people came to the hotel one after another, which made this inn, which was originally not very popular, suddenly have some taste.

The shopkeeper didn't recruit a partner, and he did everything in the store, and he was a little busy alone.

"Young Master, do you want to remind them about this inn?" Ma Dong asked in a low voice.

Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said: "It's rare for this shopkeeper to do business, as soon as we say that they are all going to be gone, and now it's dark, this is not in the village and behind the store, it is even more dangerous for them to leave Lehere to spend their days in the wild, forget it, there is no need to remind them." ”

He felt that he was here, and the ghosts should not be able to harm people.

On the contrary, it is difficult to say whether these people would have had an accident if they had spent a day in the wilderness.

"Let's go, we'll go to rest after dinner. Li Xiuyuan got up and said.

Everyone prepared to go to the room to rest.

At this time, the middle-aged scholar suddenly called out to Li Xiuyuan: "This brother Tai is still here, please stay? The contemptible surname is Wang, when I saw that Brother Tai seemed to be a little familiar, he hesitated in his heart, and the orphan dared to ask if Brother Tai was a candidate who took the imperial examination in Guo Beicheng a few months ago?"

"Oh, I took Xiucai's exam, I don't know if you are?" Li Xiuyuan, who was about to leave, replied.

He saw the middle-aged scholar think about it for a while, but he couldn't wait to see it anywhere.

Wang Sheng said with a smile: "Contemptible people are also one of the candidates of the day, when I entered the examination room that day, I saw Brother Tai, and saw Brother Tai's outstanding posture and dignified appearance, so I admired it and was unforgettable, I never thought that I would meet here today." ”

It turned out to be one of the test mates.

Li Xiuyuan said: "I have a good memory at my feet, and I actually remember it on one side." ”

"Hehe, the ability of contemptible people to remember books is not good, but the ability to remember people is not bad, this time I heard from the yamen Zhang Bang that this time the imperial examination was selected in Jinling City, because of the big water and the plague a while ago, so I changed the place, and the contemptible people are preparing to go to Jinling City to see if there is a show of talent this time. Wang Sheng said with a smile, looking very much looking forward to it.

Li Xiuyuan glanced at him, but saw that he should be in his thirties at this age, and he hadn't been admitted to Xiucai until now.

No wonder the ancients had a saying, called learning to be old, and being tested to be old.

Xiucai is just the starting point of a scholar's start, and he has begun to have some privileges of a scholar, but if he wants to be an official, he must at least be promoted to do it, that is, Xiucai will go further.

It's just that the difficulty of taking the test is much more difficult than that of Xiucai, and with the ability of Wang Tongsheng in front of him, it is estimated that at most he will stop Xiucai.

Because people are old, they don't have so much energy to participate in the imperial examination.

And his ability has also reached the limit, and Fude can only support him to get to this point.

The two met in Pingshui and chatted with each other for a few words, which was considered a familiar face, Wang Sheng also wanted to pull Li Xiuyuan to invite him to drink, but Li Xiuyuan politely refused.

I still have something to do at night, how can I go drinking?

made an excuse and said goodbye to this Wang Sheng, and went back to his room to rest.

"This scholar is obviously just a one-sided relationship with the eldest young master, but he pulls the eldest young master and wants to invite you to drink, I'm afraid that he is uneasy and kind. Wu Fei touched his bald head and grinned.

Li Xiuyuan said: "There is no other idea, Wang Sheng must know that he has no hope for the imperial examination, so he keeps a wide range of contacts, and when I become a high-ranking official, I can promote him, this is not something to make people despised, it is very common in the circle of scholars." ”

He is still young, and now he has been admitted to Xiucai, and it is not difficult to be promoted in the future, and it is indeed a potential to invest in it.

Soon, it was getting late, and the people in the inn fell asleep one after another.

The shopkeeper did not go back to the room to rest, but lay in front of the counter, lighting an oil lamp to guard the store, I don't know if he already knew that there might be ghosts in this inn, so he didn't dare to sleep so peacefully.

When the night is getting dark, the inn is silent.

A strange wind suddenly rolled up in the lobby of the store, and the oil lamps placed on the cabinets were blown and whirred.

The shopkeeper who was sleeping on the counter seemed to be asleep and didn't feel the slightest feeling.

At this time, several whispering voices sounded in the inn, although the sound was small, but it was clearly audible in the quiet environment, like rats and insects listening to each other, and as if people were whispering in their ears.

"There are a lot of people in this hotel today, I calculate, there are nine people, it's really a rare grand occasion. ”

"The three of us just chose one of us to murder each other, so we don't have to rob it like last time. ”

It turned out that three powerful ghosts were entrenched in the inn, discussing how to kill people's lives.

"How's that young man in the first room? A ghost said.

"That's not good, that young man is dressed in brocade clothes, it can be seen that this is the son of a rich and noble family, and we will be in trouble if we harm his life. ”

The first ghost said again: "There are guards from the young man from before in the second and third rooms, can we go and murder them?"

"This is even worse, there is a bald man in the second room, he is an executioner, he has cut off the heads of more than 100 people, even the county officials have killed them, will they still be afraid of us? The two men in the third room are carrying willow sticks around their waists, and they are specially used to beat ghosts, and we may be killed by them when we go. The other ghost hurriedly refused.

"How's that errand man in the four rooms?" asked the ghost again.

The third ghost shook his head and said: "No, that messenger is a powerful man on weekdays, extorting money, and using his authority to kill a few lives, this time he escorted mortals to distribution, but he did not press mortals to the frontier, but killed mortals in the middle of the road, so fierce and bad we should not provoke, otherwise it will not be good for him to launch a ruthless attack on us." ”

"Then the middle-aged scholar in the fifth room should be able to murder him. The first ghost said again.

"This can be murdered, he is just a child, this time the test paper was stained and even Xiucai was not admitted, and there is no chance to take the test again in the future, and there is no gorgeous article light on the head, much worse than the last time the reader stayed in the book, the last time the reader was covered with light, illuminating the entire hotel, and we didn't even dare to enter the door, and there was only a puff of black smoke above the head of this reader, and there were only dozens of scriptures and more than 100 articles in the black smoke, all of which were clichés and misinterpreted the meaning of the sages, and they didn't even have the qualifications to emit the light of the text。 ”

"And can the hawker couple in the sixth room murder him?" asked the first ghost.

"This can also be murdered, their husband and wife are just ordinary people, they have no power and power, and they don't have gorgeous Wenguang, such people are the most weak and easy to bully, we can harm their lives. Another ghost said.

The three ghosts discussed Suosuo and decided to murder Wang Sheng and the hawker couple.

I didn't murder Li Xiuyuan because I saw through Li Xiuyuan's identity, but when I saw that Li Xiuyuan was gorgeously dressed and had a good family background, he didn't dare to provoke people from rich and noble families.

didn't plot to kill Wu Fei, Ma Dong and the four of the four guards were afraid of their abilities, and they thought they couldn't fight.

They do not seek to kill the poor man, but they are afraid of his cruelty and ferocity.

After the three ghosts finished discussing, they turned into a cold ghost aura and flew towards Wang Sheng, who lived in the fifth room of the inn, and the hawker couple in the sixth room.