Great Sui Guoshi

At the counter next to the door, wearing a cockscomb hat, the fat shopkeeper kept the account books. Lu Liangsheng thought about what he wanted to ask, and stepped forward to arch his hands.

"Shopkeeper, may I ask..."

Bah!

Before finishing speaking, a thick-backed bone-chopping knife was slashed on the counter, and the shopkeeper raised his head: "What collection, who does my shop owe?!"

The surrounding noise and singing stopped suddenly, and most of the drinkers entrenched inside were of the third class, and most of them were armed. Some people touched the sword on the corner of the table, squinted their eyes, and looked at it with unkind eyes.

Lu Liangsheng glanced at it, still smiling and cupping his hands at the shopkeeper at the counter.

"I'm not here to collect the bill, but to stay and eat."

Seeing Lu Liangsheng dressed in a bamboo hat and coir raincoat, and speaking politely, the shopkeeper put away the knife, waved his hand, and pointed inside.

"The room is full, and there is not much food, but even if you want to eat, there are no empty seats here, and everyone eats on the edge of a knife, so it's better not to fight."

"Oh, that's fine, shopkeeper, this is Jinzhou Shangyong?"

The shopkeeper waved his hand impatiently, picked up the brush again, and buried himself in the account books.

"Yes, yes, twenty miles to the north, you will find Shang Yong."

Lu Liangsheng nodded and thanked him, and took the old donkey to a bakery outside to buy a few white flour pancakes. The passers-by on the side of the road, or the quacks, glanced at him more or less, most of them looked at the black Girls in skirts, but there is no one who really wants to come up to make trouble, and she must obey the rules of the town.

Yellow paper money was scattered all over the town, and the sky gradually darkened as they came out.

Leaving this town and going north, take a shortcut to Shangyong, you have to pass a piece of mountain, looking around, the mist in the forest is rolling, and the moonlight shining through the gaps in the branches looks eerie and mysterious.

Occasionally, the howling of wolves came from afar.

Lu Liangsheng carried the lantern and walked through with the old donkey in one hand. He didn't pay attention to the sound of wolves near and far. He turned around a few big trees, and the dim light of the lantern swayed. Dilapidated buildings stand.

"Tonight, it seems that there is a place to stay, master, let's make do with the night."

"Well, but here, the yin is a bit heavy." Toad opened the small door and looked around. Hong Lian in the painting also came out, flew to a nearby treetop and sat down, kicking the embroidered shoes.

"I just passed by the market below and said that many people died. Could it be related to this place? Silly tree demon, don't you think so?"

The one who was least affected was the woman in the black dress who followed her all the way, as if her spirit had been seriously injured.

"Are there still few demons and ghosts here?"

Lu Liangsheng took the words and laughed, and pulled the old donkey closer to the building. In the distance, a stone monument stood in front of it, covered with dead branches and old vines.

Gently waving the hand away, the vines slid to the sides silently, revealing the inscription:

"Lan Ruo Temple?"

Read the words lightly, and the surrounding forests are frightened by birds, flapping their wings and circling, not daring to land.

The quiet place in the deep mountain is for Lan Ruo, Lu Liangsheng thought, glanced at the changes of the frightened birds around him, and then looked at the ruined temple in front, the wooden steps were old and damaged, and the eaves collapsed to one side. The gaps between the floor tiles are flourishing, and several Buddha statues have already collapsed and are covered with dust.

"Lan Ruo comes from Sanskrit: A Lan Ruo, this should be a temple for monks, why is it deserted? It's a pity."

Unloading the weapon, leaning aside, lighting a bonfire, and resting temporarily, Lu Liangsheng took off his bamboo hat, leaned against the Buddhist altar, and finally had free time to read a book by the light of the fire.

Chapter 154

The night is dark, the moonlight shines through the tree gaps, gloomy and hazy, and there are fires burning in the dilapidated temple.

Puff puff……

The calcined dead branches popped sparks, and the small pot of porridge and rice boiled. Taoist Toad stood on the stone with an apron on, paddled his flippers, stirred the bottom of the pot with a spoon, dipped in the porridge water, tasted it, and then took out a little bit of it from his apron pocket. Sprinkle the seasoning.

"It's time to eat."

wow.

The pages of the book turned softly, and the firelight shone on Lu Liangsheng's face. After a while, he closed the book, went to sit down, and called Hong Lian to have dinner together. The hanging spider web, don't worry about her for now.

After eating, Lu Liangsheng relit the lantern, picked it up in his hand, and took a look around the ruined temple.

After all, this Lanruo Temple is a wild temple. It has not been registered and issued by the government. In fact, it is difficult to call it a temple, and the scale is not too big.

The lantern swayed, and the wooden ladder to the second floor, when the foot fell, it creaked and the dust rose up. Lu Liangsheng waved his hand to drive the dust away. There was nothing unusual on the top, except for a Buddhist hall, there were two sides There are four rooms, each with one or two collapsed and decayed wooden beds.

"I don't know how many years this temple has been."

The curtain of the shrine in the Buddhist hall also collapsed to one side, and when it was pulled lightly, it was covered with dust. Lu Liangsheng raised the lantern and looked at the shrine. The statue inside was broken into two parts from the middle, and the traces of carving on it became blurred. Unclear, I can't tell which Buddha it is.

Suddenly, a dark wind blew in the passage leading to the back of the Buddhist hall, and the flames in the lanterns suddenly went out.

Lu Liangsheng held up the lantern to take a photo, and suddenly a white bone came from the corner, as if seeing the person here, he opened and closed his jaw and rushed towards him.

"Hong Lian, stop making trouble."

The lantern turned away from the range of light, and the skull floated still in mid-air, showing the outline of the female ghost's red pity. He threw the head in his hand, held it in his hand, and followed outside the range of the fire.

"Young master doesn't even talk about acting together, it's boring."

"Ha ha….."

Lu Liangsheng chuckled twice, stopped to take the head from her hand, and put it on the side of the shrine, "Everyone is dead, so don't play with the remains, it's very disrespectful."

Saying that, he cupped his hands towards the skull.

"excuse me."

Carrying the lantern and walking to other places, there is probably nothing unusual. After leaving the main hall and coming to the back, in front of a few dead trees, there is an old well and a monument beside it, which has already been broken and overturned.

The well was deep and secluded, Lu Liangsheng frowned, picked up a stone and threw it in, it took a long time to hear the sound of "boo" water echoing, the fire shone down, and the inside was pitch black.

"The yin energy is quite heavy. No wonder there is a radius of more than 20 miles, and the yin energy is dense at night. The source is here."

Reminiscent of the news that many people die every year in the town in the afternoon, it is probably related to the evil spirit in the well, but it is a pity that a Taoist like Sun Yingxian can seal this evil spirit, Lu Liangsheng can only watch if he wants to Iguchi sighed.

While thinking about it, the dryad in the black skirt also ran out at some point, dragging the hem of the skirt with his bare feet, swaying around, seeing Lu Liangsheng over here, his eyes lit up, and he trotted over with a smile, touching his body Rubbing and rubbing, is to say anything.

"Silly tree demon, go away!" Hong Lian puffed up her cheeks, and moved her finger aside.

The woman blinked her big black eyes, and shook her head vigorously, making Lu Liangsheng dumbfounded, and pushed her aside. Fortunately, this woman was very curious, perhaps because of the relationship between the millennium Linggenmu, she was attracted to the mouth of the well for a moment, and looked inside.

"Careful to fall."

Lu Liangsheng pulled her back, "Go back, Master is probably asleep right now."

Hearing this, Hong Lian snorted, brushed off her long sleeves, and went inside through the temple wall. The scholar also pulled the tree demon back. When entering through the temple gate, Lu Liangsheng stopped and turned his face slightly , looking at the stone tablet of Lanruo Temple standing not far away.

Then, shaking his head with a chuckle, he blew out the lights and walked into the temple.

The stars and the moon in the night sky are covered by dark clouds.

In the forest outside the stele, several eyes were looking at the ruined temple from the darkness of the forest gap.

"...Did you see that little lady? Sure enough, she is watery."

"There are too many eyes in the town, so it's hard to do it. Now there is only one guy, and he happened to do it."

woo~~~

The sound of wolves in the distant mountains came, and unknown night birds flapped their wings and flew across the forest. The six people were dressed in different clothes and had hideous faces.

"Would it be a little bad for us to do this?" "That person may not be a good person. Didn't you see the woman in the black dress with her hands tied? I don't know where it came from."

"Hey, so we are also heroes to save the beauty, and then..."

A short and fat figure followed with a laugh: "Then... it's not too much for a beauty to make a promise, right?"

Surrounded by dense clouds, the night birds in the woods suddenly stopped singing, and only the sound of the wind, the rustling of the leaves, came to people's ears.

wow——

The wind blows into the temple from the outside, the flames blow and fall, the light flickers on the figure, the toad coils into a lump, and yawns boredly.

Lu Liangsheng raised his face from the writing, looked around, gathered mana with his fingertips, flicked it on the fire, and the bonfire stood upright again, burning quietly.

"The few people outside are afraid that they will be unlucky."

"It's not a good person to take advantage of the night." In the flames, a toad was coiled into a toad, half-opening the toad's eyes, "If you are a teacher, let them die..."

Thinking of the feeling when the words of the Yingshi Mountain were passed on that day, Taoist Ha stopped what he was saying, got up from the ground, and looked at the campfire with his flippers on his back.

The eyes of the toad revealed majesty.

"...We people who are practicing, how can we see death and refuse to save them. Personal good and evil are determined by the government. See it as a teacher to rescue them."

After saying that, Negative Web turned and walked to the temple gate.

……

The wind whimpered and ran over in the forest, and the diffuse mist surged along the ground, slowly spreading towards the six people under the three trees over there.

Ha ha…..

…..Ah…..

The chuckle of the young woman, or the cough of the old woman echoed vaguely in the forest, and the six people crouching under the tree stopped their voices, and the tall and thin man turned his face sideways and said in a low voice:

"Did you hear any strange noise?"

The short and fat man wiped the sweat from his face: "I seem to have heard it too, why don't we just leave, I heard from people in the town that there are ghosts in this forest."

In front, the leader, a big man with beards, slapped the short and fat man on the head.

"We are evil people, with a murderous intent, ghosts dare to come? That person dares to sit in that ruined temple, what are the six of us afraid of?!"

call…..

Just as he was talking, the big man with beard suddenly felt a chill on his neck, as if someone was blowing on him from behind, he shivered suddenly, and when he looked back, there was a vast expanse of white around him.

"Why is the fog so thick?"

call…..

woohoo...

The wind became louder, and the six of them realized that the mist around them had thickened at some point, and their hearts twitched violently.

The surrounding mist surged, as if it was alive, creeping towards this side, it seemed that someone reached out from the inside and reached out to them.

"Goo..."

The six swallowed in unison, stood up tremblingly holding their swords, you looked at me, I looked at you, and finally fixed their eyes on the big man with beard.

The latter puffed out his chest and said something rough.

"Look at what I'm doing, I wait for the wicked, it's normal to meet ghosts..."

Then his eyes widened, he turned around, and shouted:

"Run!"

At the gate of the temple with fire shining through it, a short black figure jumped down the stone steps with his flippers on his back, and was walking towards the opposite forest.

Heard screams of panic.

Toad's mouth was outlined, and a smile was pulled out.

"Come here, old man..."

Then, the smile froze.

sand--

The grass broke open, and six figures flew out together, with a bang, as if kicked by something, but no one stopped, and ran towards the temple gate frantically.

On the ground, a black shadow rolled and bounced a few times before stopping.

"My mother's..."

Daoist Toad lay on his back with his white belly shining brightly, cursed, when he turned over, a white mist surged out of the forest, and his body froze for a moment.

The fins slowly took a step, turned around and ran, trying to create a distance before casting a spell.

Behind him, the endless white mist billowed like an overwhelming cloud, chasing after him.

The next moment, Lu Liangsheng's words resounded in the temple.

"Spirits and ghosts, dare to be presumptuous!"

With a clang sound, the sword came out of its sheath, and the eyes of the six people who rushed up to the temple gate were blurred, and a gleam of cold light flew through the middle and disappeared into the mist.

hiss~~~