[comprehensive] superior skills

The night before, Song Ci and Yan Chixia persuaded Ning Caichen with one word and one word, and finally made him change his mind about helping the female ghost escape the sea of ​​suffering.

It just so happened that Song Ci felt that he had wandered around for more than a month in order to avoid the Yang family's affairs, and it would not look good if he didn't go home and leave the two children in the care of Mrs. Li. .

As soon as she mentioned this idea, Yan Chixia also became happy, "I'm afraid that the female ghost will not give up and change her face and then deceive Ning Sheng. This time, with the help of a virtuous brother, as long as he leaves the boundary of Lanruo Temple early, he will be fine."

Ning Caichen saw that the two of them were indeed thinking of their own family wholeheartedly, knowing that they had no power and power and had nothing to covet, but it was luck that they met these two dear friends, if they didn't feel kind, they would not know what is good or bad.

After thinking about it like this, I let go of the remaining uneasiness in my heart, and stopped talking about the fairy who walked out of the painting.

In order to prevent the people behind him from jumping over the wall and causing trouble, Song Ci asked Ning Caichen to bring his luggage and gave him the couch to rest, sitting cross-legged in the house alone to watch the night.

When the sun was rising and the birds were singing together, Song Ci woke up Ning Caichen who was in a trance, and told him to go and say goodbye to Yan Chixia.

Unexpectedly, the two had just stepped out of the house, and the scholar surnamed Zhao who had a chance meeting last night came running like a madman with disheveled hair.

"Help, help!"

The scholar surnamed Zhao jumped over Ning Caichen, who was thinner than himself, and threw himself on Tiezui Shensuan, "Brother, you are dead!"

"Who is dead?"

Song Ci firmly grasped his arm to keep people from getting close, "Don't worry, speak clearly."

"Xu Gu'an!"

The scholar surnamed Zhao gasped, pointed tremblingly at the wing room a little far away, "I got up early in the morning and read the words of my brother, and my heart was haunted, so I wanted to persuade him again. Who knows that Xu Gu'an, he, he……"

Thinking of the female ghost Ning Caichen that Yan Chixia was talking about, her face turned pale, "What happened to him?"

Then the scholar surnamed Zhao wailed loudly and said, "I didn't expect to see Xu Gu'an lying naked on the corpse bed, and his whole body was eaten up!"

"what?!"

Ning Caichen staggered a step in fright, and couldn't even hold the luggage in his hand.

He usually only heard other people's stories about how vicious and vicious those ghosts were, but he had never seen such disasters with his own eyes.

Now that a scholar living in a courtyard died silently at the hands of a so-called weak girl, how could the various shocks in it be comparable to the legends in the story.

"Humph!"

Yan Chixia, who didn't know when she rushed out of the room, shouted, "Hearing is believing, seeing is believing, how can we believe such nonsense just based on your one-sided words."

As he spoke, he pulled Ning Caichen, who was on the verge of falling, and ran to the wing of the scholar named Xu, "I still have to take a look myself!"

"Brother Yan, Brother Yan!"

In his hands, Ning Caichen was as helpless as a weak little girl, so he had no choice but to plead: "Young brother is really cowardly and weak, so you don't have to go there, right?"

"no!"

Yan Chixia kicked open the half-open door, and said sharply, "Good medicine is bitter, and you will have to experience it once in your life to know how deep it is!"

With a light flick of his arm, Ning Caichen spun to the edge of the couch like a spinning top, and he just happened to lie on the side of the skeleton with only a layer of human skin left. .

"what!!!"

This scream can be said to go straight to the sky, so it didn't frighten Ning Caichen out of his courage.

Seeing that he was about to turn over, Song Ci hurriedly brought someone up and stuffed a health pill into his mouth, and after Ning Caichen had recovered his breath, he said with a gentle smile: "Brother's heart is good, but this medicine is too strong. I'm afraid Brother Ning Xian won't be able to bear it."

Yan Chixia chuckled, "Who says Ning Sheng can't bear it, he has great wealth in his life, good days are yet to come!"

He wasn't afraid of the dead ghost who didn't have the shape of a human being. He mentioned the foot bone of the scholar Xu when he heard the noise, and said, "This man's whole body is intact except for a hole in the sole of his foot. He must have been killed by a Yasha from the underworld." The ghost sucked blood and died! Who lives next door, have you ever heard a woman talking and laughing at night?"

"Xiaosheng lives next door to Xu Gu'an."

Another frail scholar with a pretty face said hurriedly: "Did wine last night, and when I was in a drowsy sleep, I did hear a woman's voice in Xu Gu'an's room, but Xiaosheng thought it was wine. I didn't take it to heart when I was drunk and dreaming."

The heart in his chest is still pounding and trembling. If the female ghost hadn't picked Xu Gu'an first, wouldn't the person lying on the couch be a different person now.

"Hmph, that's right."

Yan Chixia left the man's foot bones in disgust, and rubbed her palms on the hem of her clothes, "There is a knife on Sezi's head, that female ghost must have been tainted by the scholar who was seduced by lust first, and that's the end of it." His life. Brother Zhao told him long ago that there will be a catastrophe within three days and he must not meet strangers, Xu Shusheng still refuses to guard himself and was easily tricked by the female ghost to open the door. He is really seeking his own death!"

"Heroes stay behind!"

The scholar surnamed Zhao hastily stepped forward and begged, "Now I'm afraid that I will be regarded as fish on the chopping board by that female ghost. I beg the hero to take pity on the parents, wives and children who are waiting at home, and show me a way to survive!"

When he begged for forgiveness, the rest of the scholars who were lucky enough to survive all surrounded him, crying and crying worse than a dead father, and insisted on not letting the life-saving god leave.

Yan Chixia didn't know whether she was tired of their chatter or couldn't bear it, she pointed to Song Ci who was hiding far away and said: "My brother will go down the mountain to return to his hometown later, if you still want to live, just follow him." Go together; if anyone still wants to see the charm of a female ghost, he can stay with me, and I'm not afraid that no one will collect the corpse."

"Thank you for your kindness, hero, Xiaosheng is willing to go with Brother Zhao!"

Dying under the peony flowers and being a ghost is just something that scholars usually read for entertainment. Who would dare to stay in Lanruo Temple after seeing Xu Gu'an's death with their own eyes? Everyone hurried back to pack their bags.

"Brother let go of this, but it has filled a lot of burden for the younger brother."

Song Ci looked at Yan Chixia with a smile on his face, "I don't know when we will see each other today. If you have time in the future, you might as well go to Qiantang County to find me. I will definitely serve you with good wine and food!"

"Easy to say, easy to say."

Yan Chixia rubbed her hands together, "Brother, I don't know if there is any surplus for the century-old wine that you and I drank last night? You know that it's hard for elder brother to stand alone on the mountain every night when it's cold..."

Hearing such a righteous lie, Song Ci couldn't help staring at the lush green grass under the courtyard wall, and the green grasshopper jumping in the grass, "Brother Yan, it's not autumn yet..."

Yan Chixia's eyes were wider than hers, "This place is no better than the other ones, so it's not cold in the temple?!"

"Brother is right, younger brother is convinced."

Song Ci reluctantly took out a wine gourd from his bag, "This is the last remaining stock, if you want to drink again, you won't be able to take it."

Seeing that the bag was indeed empty, Yan Chixia impatiently uncorked the wine and sniffed it, "Hey, that's what it smells like! Brother Yan, you must bother me even if you are good at making wine. .”

While the two were chatting and laughing here, those top-heavy scholars also packed their luggage and waited anxiously at the door, hoping to get on the road quickly.

With so many helpless scholars in the barren mountains and wild mountains, Song Ci didn't dare to trust him, so he had to bid farewell to Yan Chixia at the moment when the sun was at its peak, hoping to see each other again someday.

It is said that the road down the mountain is easy to walk, but that is also rewarding.

Although these scholars intended to leave this place quickly, their weak legs became like noodles after the shock in the morning, and they looked like Song Ci struggling to crawl when he first entered the snake body. Not much to go.

Even if she wanted to save their lives, she couldn't give everyone a health pill, so she had to drag Ning Caichen forward in strides, forcing the fearful scholar to scramble and follow behind, not daring to relax for a moment. .

After finally moving to the foot of the mountain, the scholars who fell tightly behind were all complaining, rubbing their bleeding blistered feet and refusing to take another step.

Song Ci saw that it was still early, and besides, he couldn't really exhaust these sour scholars to death on the road, so he agreed to take a break.

She was about to take out some dry food from her bag to share with them, when a sharp-eyed scholar pointed to an old tree with a crooked neck on the opposite corner and said with a smile: "Brother Zhao, look, there seems to be a tea room in front, we might as well go to it." Rest there and drink some hot tea to relieve fatigue."

Song Ci looked in the direction he pointed, and there was indeed a thatched house hidden between the old tree and the road near the official road. If it wasn't for the occasional smoke from the kitchen, it would have been almost missed.

"Alright."

Song Ci nodded and smiled, "This is just the place we must pass when we go out of the mountain. Maybe we can ask the shop owner about the nearest village to find a place to stay."

With her approval, the scholars who were still slumped suddenly jumped three feet high, wishing to go to the teahouse to have a rest immediately.

Song Ci quietly took a step back and grabbed Ning Caichen, and stuffed two steamed buns into his hands, "Don't touch anything in the store when you enter the store later, not even a sip of tea."

Others can say that what she is most afraid of is that the fragrant scholar next to her will fall into the trap of monsters and goblins, and she will be entrusted by Yan Chixia.

When Ning Caichen heard this, the steamed buns were deformed, "Ah, then I won't go in, right?"

"These ten or so people are lucky in your life. I'm afraid they value you the most. No one wants to let you go if you run away."

Song Ci comforted him softly, "You just sit by my side and bow your head in silence, everything will be arranged by me."

Hearing the words "blessed in life" again, Ning Caichen really wanted to bite his silver teeth.When he was in his 20s, he didn't see how good his life was. Instead, it was the demons and ghosts who attracted him.

When Song Ci led the terrified Ning Caichen into the tea room surrounded by thick straw curtains, the scholars who arrived earlier had already drank hot tea.

The store is much more spacious than it looks from the outside. There is an elderly mother and middle-aged woman greeting customers, and a few cows and newborn suckling sheep are tied to the crooked old tree.

Seeing that the eyes of the visitors were always looking at the mooing beasts, the old mother on crutches said with a smile: "Does the guest want to eat meat? Although our shop is small, the best thing is beef and mutton." The sesame seed cakes, this animal is slaughtered fresh to keep it fresh and delicious!"

As soon as she finished speaking, the cows under the tree screamed louder, and some suckling sheep even shed tears.

Song Ci squeezed his teacup and smiled, "I have a strange problem. I can't get used to the smell of blood in fresh meat. You'd better make us old meat instead of making stuffed biscuits. It's simple. It’s also fine to make stew and drink soup with noodle cakes.”

The scholars didn't pick and choose, "That's right, old man, just eat whatever you want."

"well."

The old mother repeatedly agreed, "My daughter-in-law and I will cook for the guest officer. Please drink some tea and wait for a while."

When the old mother and the woman turned to the stove separated by the straw curtain, Song Ci excused himself and walked around from the other side, hiding in the dark to peek at the behavior of the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

There was already a large pot of bone soup in the kitchen, and the woman filled it out enough for a dozen people to eat and drink. The old mother soaked the animal head carved on the top of the walking stick in the soup for a while, followed Then he used his crutches to draw three circles on the soup bowl, left and right, and muttered something in his mouth.

Seeing this, Song Ci turned around and backed out, not forgetting to comfort the restless animals on the way.

"Guest officer, the broth is here."

The woman put the fragrant broth on the big table with a smile, "Taste how it tastes!"

"Wait a minute!"

Song Ci stopped the scholar who was about to put down his chopsticks, "Shopkeeper, your business is not kind! I only said to use old meat, why did you replace it with stinky meat? How can we eat it?"

"Could the guest officer have read it wrong?"

The woman was not annoyed, "The cattle and sheep in our store are all ready-made, so why use stinky meat to deceive customers. Besides, the smell is not fake, right?"

"I do not believe."

Song Ci was still critical, "I can't tell the smell from the meat I've eaten for so many years. If this meat is really good, why don't you taste it for me first?"

"Ah, this..."

The woman hastily declined, "No way, how can I eat the meat cooked for the guest officer? If you still think it's inappropriate, I'll go to the kitchen and exchange it for you from the head office?"

"Daughter-in-law, get out of the way."

Only then did the kind-hearted old mother come over, "The guest officer is worried about this meat, how about letting me do it for you?"

"Alright."

Song Ci took the initiative to fill a bowl and handed it to her, "If the old lady can drink it, we can drink it with confidence."

"Okay, since the guest officer doesn't dislike it, I just take advantage of it to satisfy my hunger."

The old mother was not ambiguous, and drank the broth in a few sips, "Now you can rest assured, if the meat is not fresh, there is not even a doctor in the wilderness, how dare I test the poison myself?"

So far, all the scholars present felt that they could sit down and eat meat, but Song Ci still shook his head regretfully, "Meat is good meat, but it's a pity that one thing is missing."

The old mother squinted her eyes, "What's missing?"

"Without your mother-in-law and daughter-in-law's dog's head to drink!"

As Song Ci spoke, he pierced the necks of the two with a sword, picked up the bloody heads and threw them into the cauldron that was boiling in the kitchen.

"Murder!!"

The scholar next to him who couldn't dodge in time was sprayed with blood all over his head and face, "Brother Zhao, what is the meaning of this?! Even if the food is not to your liking, you can discuss it carefully, why do you want to hurt someone!"

"idiot!"

Song Cidou threw out his lizard claws and hooked the crow's family sitting on the crooked old tree in front of him, "Keep your eyes open and see what kind of monsters are lying on the ground!"

"This, what is this?!"

In an instant, the dead mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, who made everyone feel sorry for them, turned into a headless giant crow the size of a wild dog, while the cow and suckling sheep that were lying under the old tree waiting to die turned into naked \Naked women and children.

"See no evil, speak no evil!"

Suddenly seeing the shiny skin curled up on the ground, all the scholars turned their backs in panic, Song Ci took the opportunity to pull out a few long gowns from the bag and threw them over to cover up for the women who hadn't recovered.

"Thank you for your life-saving grace!"

The woman who managed to escape and ascended to heaven put on the clothes distributed by her benefactor and cried mournfully: "This teahouse old woman is very vicious. When she meets a passing man, she tricks him into feeding ghosts at Lanruo Temple on the mountain. When she meets us, women and children Then he cast a curse to turn into livestock to sell food. If it weren't for benefactor to rescue us, I'm afraid few of us would have a few days to live!"

"Hey, how can there be such a cruel monster in this world?!"

Ning Caichen murmured, "No wonder Brother Zhao doesn't allow me to eat. Could it be that you have already seen something wrong here?"

Only now did he truly realize that his previous thoughts were too naive, that people who are not of our race must have different hearts, and that humans and ghosts are different after all.

Song Ci didn't take much effort to crush the crows that were still struggling to escape one by one. Isn't that enough to make people suspicious of the appearance of a dying person?"

If it weren't for these miraculous snake eyes, she would never have imagined such weird things in the world.

After this change, those scholars who had experienced three scares a day no longer dared to shout hungry and tired and asked to hurry up on the road, but Song Ci refused to let them go.

She first ordered the scholars to take out the crow's head from the cauldron and burn it to ashes together with the body, and then asked them to properly bury the uncursed bones in the cauldron, and then she took the rescued women and children to the official Dao, spent some money and left here in the donkey cart of the escort agency.

The author has something to say:

Song Ci: It’s time to let these books grow and gain insights, so as not to be daydreaming all day long~~

Eat enough and sleep well without worry, okay~~