Hundred Ghosts

The coffin was sent out after staying at home for two days. Lin Zi took two copper coins and returned to the Taoist temple to continue practicing.

He Huai has lived here for a while, and a letter was sent directly from the frontier to ask him to go back and continue to defend the city, but the little emperor was a little interested in this matter. He didn't tell He Huai to go back immediately, but asked He Huai what he wanted to do. don't want to go back.

At the same time, Feishu also exposed He Huai's identity when he came over. Lin Zi let him live with his family as his friend before, and the Taoist brothers were also friendly to him, and he didn't say anything about his master.

Now the brothers and sisters gathered around He Huai as if they saw talking monkeys, and suddenly more people came to offer incense, most of them were women, and the first sentence was not to ask for the blessing of the patriarch, but "Where is the general?"

So much so that He Huai ran back to hide in his mansion now, and asked Lin Zi if he wanted to be together, Lin Zi also thought about it, but it's a pity that Daoist Qing Cheng forced him to accept criticism and education.

"Didn't my teacher tell you to come back after repaying the favor? Have you listened to my teacher? You don't listen to my teacher's words now! You will suffer sooner or later, let me tell you..."

Lin Zi: "..."

"How about others? You didn't communicate with him too much? Did you repay your kindness? Are you short of friends? Why did you hang out with him?"

Lin Zi: "..."

Facing the grieving master, Lin Zi endured it for two days, but decided to pack up his things and go to He Huai.

The fat uncle raised his beautiful eyes, touched Xiaocai's head and said regretfully, "Look, your master doesn't want you anymore."

Xiao Cai angrily rubbed the cat's head with teary eyes.

One letter per day, no, now it has become two letters per day, Lin Zi watched him open the letter, glanced at it, then quickly folded a paper crane and threw it into the paper box on the desk.

The paper cranes in the cartons were piled up.

"Does the general want to go back?" Lin Zi warmed his hands with a cup of tea.

He Huai pondered, "To be honest, I don't really want to go back."

He still likes the climate here. In spring and summer, it will be warm and humid, which is especially suitable for the growth of a tree like him. At that time, he will surely have luxuriant branches and leaves, and he will be able to bloom a tree full of pagoda trees. Then mix the pagoda tree with flour Steamed and eaten together, it can be sweet to the bottom of my heart.

But when he arrived at that place, he didn't bloom much for three consecutive years, and there were very few leaves. After a few more years, he would become an old tree...

"Then what is the general going to tell the emperor?" Lin Zi didn't really want He Huai to go there, it was too difficult there, and he didn't know when he would come back.

It would be great if I could be on duty in the capital.

"Let me resign and tell my old man to return to my hometown. If I really don't want to do it, can the emperor tie me up to the border?" He Huai brought over his tea and drank it. "Anyway, the emperor will not like to hand over the military power to me." .”

Lin Zi was silent, He Huai waved to him again, and led him to his backyard, "Come, take a look at the treasure of my town house!"

There is a big pagoda tree in the big backyard that leaves a way to the outside world, and the incense in the ancestral hall in front is still burning. With such a big pagoda tree blocking the front, the ancestral hall of the fox ghost looks small lap.

Lin Zi smiled, "I've heard that this locust tree is the treasure of the General's family, and seeing it today really deserves its reputation."

"Isn't the tree beautiful?"

"It's really good. The tree rings are very big, right? It looks like an old man faltering."

Old Man He: "..."

"Actually, my family tree is very young, handsome boy!" He Huai complimented himself in a roundabout way.

"Okay, what the general says is what it is."

He Huai looked him over carefully, "By the way, don't wear Taoist robes these few days, you're freezing to death, I have clothes in my house, you should wear thicker ones."

Lin Zi agreed, "Okay."

He Huai is bigger than Lin Zi, but the clothes he sent fit well, and the fabric should be worth a lot...

He Huai felt very depressed when he saw him put on his clothes.

Early this morning, the little emperor called him into the palace, asked him about the frontier in a roundabout way, and then changed the subject and asked if his Taoist elder brother was in his mansion...

He Huai almost cursed, what do you call your Taoist brother...

The little emperor said that he asked the embroiderer to make a few sets of clothes for Lin Zi, but Lin Zi seemed to be angry with him recently, he was a little afraid to find Lin Zi, and wanted He Huai to help deliver them. You can come back to him anytime you want...

The clothes have been delivered, so forget it.

Lin Zi didn't think too much about it, so he put it on as soon as he got it, and spent most of his time reading and drinking tea in his house, and occasionally went out to eat with him.

When I was eating in the restaurant that day, I heard the diners around talking about a person, and that person was Miss Hu and her husband.

In a few days, he will marry into a wealthy family who sells rice as the son-in-law!

Everyone in the room was scolding him, saying that his mother died for him to give birth to a child within half a month, and he continued the string, how heartless and unjust.He also said that he didn’t shed a single tear when his wife died, and that he snored in sleep at night. Some also said that he heard that on the evening of his wife’s death, someone asked him to invite a doctor, but instead of inviting him, he sat in a teahouse and warmed up leisurely tea, and joked with the proprietress for a long time...

Some people said viciously that the young lady Kefu had already lost several husbands, and he might be the next one.

The conversation turned to the young lady again, saying that she was extremely beautiful, only fifteen this year, and married last summer.

But the first husband disappeared on the wedding day, and the body was found in the backyard of his house a few days later, because the weather was hot after a few days, the body was beyond recognition, the stench was unpleasant, and it was covered with maggots.

But it can still be seen that his skin is missing, it has been peeled off completely, and there are still several marks of being bitten by wild beasts on his body.

Due to his daughter's reputation, the rich businessman paid to suppress the matter, and the police closed the case hastily, but the neighbors like to talk about these exciting things in private.

The second husband was married to her at the end of autumn. Like the first husband, she disappeared on the day of the wedding and was found in a mass grave outside the city a few days later. The beast bit him to pieces, but fortunately the clothes on his body were still there, which proved his identity.

The strange thing is that the autopsy said that according to the condition of the body, he should have been dead for several days, but the people nearby said that they saw him sneaking towards the mass grave the day before yesterday. , Only after seeing the dead body clothes did they dare to recognize each other.

They coaxed together and asked whether this heartless and unrighteous man would be like the first two people, and they might see his dead body somewhere in a few days.

He also said that a person like him who would not even give up his life for money even if this...

Lin Zi listened thoughtfully, what this ghost did sounds familiar...

He remembered that it was painted skin ghosts. Painted skin ghosts are extremely vicious and vicious. They like to leave their skins after eating people at night, and then they can hide in human skins and move around during the day. Human skins need to be changed frequently. For one year, they will continue to attack people in order to get new human skins.

The most terrifying thing is that if it is covered with human skin, it will be no different from a human being, and it will be impossible to tell the difference without borrowing some things.

Lin Zi secretly thought, if he was eaten... it would be a kind of retribution...

It’s just that if the Painted Skin Ghost is not eliminated, it will harm other people...

He Huai poked his arm with his finger, "What are you thinking?"

"I was thinking of Painted Skin Ghost."

"What do you want to do with that thing?" He Huai frowned. There are thousands of ghosts, and the painted skin ghost is the more ferocious one. Painted Skin Ghost has never been recruited.

"Since you encounter ghosts that harm people, as a Taoist priest, you should get rid of them quickly, otherwise the patriarch will scold me in his dreams."

"Then who do you think is the Painted Skin Ghost?"

This kind of thing happened to two generations of husbands, the first person to suspect must be the young lady, and the people also think so, so in the past six months, the young lady has never left the house.

"Would you like to go and see for yourself?"

Lin Zi hesitated for a while, then nodded, "It's just how do I get into her house?"

"You can't get in, but I can!" He Huai winked at him.

After eating, they wandered to the rice shop under Fu Jia's gate.

The man blew up his rice like a peach in the sky, as if it was a loss to his grandma's house if he couldn't resist taking a bag back. Just as his saliva was flying all over the place, Lin Zi played a trick. He attracted a group of little mice to the rice Jumping up and down in the tank, the customers in the store ran away in fright. The situation was so serious that Fu Jia was attracted over.

His surname is Qian, and his name is "Qian Lai". With such a meaningful name, it's no wonder that it can become a big business...

The story is far away, Master Qian asked people to throw out the rice that went into the mouse, apologized to He Huai and Lin Zi, and promised to give them each a bag of rice.

The guilty Lin Zi didn't accept it, but He Huai revealed his identity at this time, rubbed his chin and talked about things, anyway, he meant to ask him to help provide government food, but so many rats made him feel very uncomfortable. Don't worry...

What does official food mean?

It means making money!

There are so many soldiers who want to eat, and there are regular demanders, so the rice we will enter in the future is not afraid that we will not be able to sell it...

Now treat the two of them as Buddhas and invite them into the mansion.

Lin Zi knew that he was lying. Grain came from taxes, and he had never bought private grain.

After entering the mansion, He Huai began to talk about other things. He is a general, and Master Qian dared not disobey him, so he answered whatever he said.

He Huai got involved with his daughter while chatting, "I heard that Ms. Qian is going to get married in a while, congratulations!"

Master Qian forced a smile, "Congratulations, congratulations... You see, my granary is big enough to feed tens of thousands of people..."

"Oh, I don't know who is the talented person who married Miss Qian?"

"It's just a poor boy... After all, my rice is really big and delicious..."

"I don't know when Miss will get married?"

"In a few days, let's talk about the Lantern Festival... There are a lot of people who come to my house to buy rice, and they all say that my rice is delicious..."

"But I heard that your son-in-law is a widower who has just died."

"Anyway, he won't live long, whether he is a widower or not... General He, what does this mean?" Master Qian stopped talking in time.