Great Sui Guoshi

Daoist Toad stretched out his frog webs, grabbed the two exposed legs, pulled it lightly, and dragged out the contents together, spreading them out in the palm of his hand, a little smaller than a pea.

The arms, handsome face, long clothes, cloth shoes, and hair bun are exactly the same as human beings, and even the clothes are the same as human beings.

Lu Liangsheng had never seen this kind of villain before, watching it with its hips akimbo between the toad's webs, chirping, as if scolding the master and apprentice.

"It seems that there is still wisdom."

He touched it with his fingertips, and the little figure seemed to be hit by a chariot, and flew out of the toad Taoist's frog webs. Lu Liangsheng wanted to catch him, so as not to fall to death or injury.

In an instant, a long scarlet tongue wrapped around the little man who flew out, and then... dragged it into his mouth.

The master and apprentice looked at each other.

A hiccup broke the silence.

The curtains were stroked, the lights came here, Taoist Hama rubbed his white belly.

"...I'm sorry to say it, but it's really a teacher's instinct."

"Master, guess whether I believe it or not... Oh, forget it..."

Lu Liangsheng clutched his forehead, this time it was a waste of time.

Chapter 54 Man Shiba

Due to the stillness of the night, Lu Liangsheng and Taoist Ha did not stay too long in the Zhou Mansion. They walked back along the courtyard wall where they came, and hurried across the street. The person vaguely carries several long knives on his back, which looks familiar.

"The one who just passed by seems to be Zuo Butou..."

After a glance, Lu Liangsheng quietly returned to the third floor of the inn with the toad, opened the window and jumped in, the Taoist was still lying on the table and fell asleep, the female ghost sang a song with her orchid fingers up, and seeing the scholar came back, Float to the front.

"Young master, is there any gain from this trip?"

Over there, with the window closed, Lu Liangsheng pulled off his mask and pointed to the toad sitting on the desk drinking water.

"...It's a little person who got into people's ears, but it was served as supper by the master."

Taoist Ha rolled his eyes, and lay down la la: "You can't blame me for this, I'm a toad now, and if you bounced that thing away, it would naturally be sucked into my mouth subconsciously by you, but...that villain It tastes good."

The female ghost looked disgusted, but she was still a little curious.

"Does that little man look like us?"

Lu Liangsheng hummed, recalled the content of "Nan Shui Shi Yi", and replied casually: "I guess Miss Zhou's headache is related to that little man."

In fact, he gradually got some clues about the whole matter. According to Taoist Ha, the old woman who spouted water was caused by someone else who cast a spell and wanted to take something from the Zhou mansion, and the little person caused Zhou Rong a headache. There must be some connection between the two.

It's a pity that his knowledge on the way of cultivating the Tao is still a bit superficial. He doesn't know the origin of the little man, and "Nan Shui Supplements" only tells short stories about magic arts.

"Liangsheng, you don't need to think so hard. In fact, the teacher already knows the origin of that little man." Toad lying on a book opened his eyes, looked at the apprentice who was thinking hard by the bed, and sat up.

"Master knows?"

Toad stood up, straightened his collar, put his webbed on his back, looked at the candles, and said calmly: "How much cultivation you have had as a teacher, and there is nothing in the world that you don't know. It's strange to see it as a teacher at the beginning. , but after entering it, we will know what it is."

"Papa....." The frog web stepped on Guangsen's table and took a few steps, and continued to speak.

"In the place under Miss Zhou's house, the aura gathered and conceived these little people. My teacher estimated that the person behind the old woman should have come for them, spraying water to surround the ground, trapping those little people, The besieged spirits became irritable, so they also took their anger out on that Miss Zhou family."

The scholar beside the bed pondered for a moment following Master's words, and nodded in agreement.

"As Master said, it makes sense."

According to Taoist Ha, no matter the origin of the little man or the purpose of the person behind driving the water spraying old woman, there is a clear thread to follow.

After a while, Taoist Ha jumped to the bedside and patted the back of his disciple's hand.

"There's no need to think too much about it. The old woman's technique has been broken, and the ignorant junior who performed the technique behind the scenes will definitely come again. Let's go there again in the daytime tomorrow. If we can live in Zhou Mansion for a long time, we can understand the matter."

"Master actually wants to try the Zhou Mansion's food..."

Toad Taoist turned away with his hands behind his back, half-closed his eyelids, and looked elsewhere: "Hmph, he is that kind of person as a teacher."

After chatting for a while, drowsiness hit, the master and apprentice fell asleep under the quilt, and the next morning, before they woke up, they heard a scream of "Ah—" in the room.

Lu Liangsheng and Ha Taoist were awakened, and saw Sun Yingxian looking at the face reflected in the bronze mirror, his face was blue and purple, his eye sockets were very swollen, and his eyes were narrowed into slits.

"Old Toad, did you really come last night?!"

"The old man never comes to fake!"

"If this way is not based on Lu Liangsheng's face, I will not respect the old today!"

Toad carried one webbed on its back, raised the other and ticked it: "Come on!"

"Mother of Yeer!!"

The two started bickering early in the morning, Lu Liangsheng bypassed them directly, and went to wash in the copper basin. Nie Honglian had prepared the water early on, and after the scholar finished washing, he handed over the towel.

The long street outside became noisy and bustling. On the opposite floor, the scholar who also woke up stretched his waist, opened the window lattice, and then froze. At the open window opposite, a towel flew into the hands of a scholar, and hurriedly closed the window. , pale, back on the bed and hid in the quilt shivering.

In the bustling street below, a group of people walked into the Furui Inn at this time, calling the shop assistant: "Which room does Lu Liangsheng live in?"

Then, according to the room number provided by the buddy, he went straight to the third floor.

At this moment, in the guest room, after Lu Liangsheng washed up, he returned to the bedside and took the book of "Mountain and Sea Picture Records" to read. After the quarrel between each person and toad over there, he was ready to go down for breakfast.

The book in his hand was originally used to pass the time, but Lu Liangsheng was gradually fascinated by the various monsters and regional customs in it. Since he learned to read and write, he has been quite hungry for everything in the book.

"梼杌... If this appearance appeared alive, it would scare many people."

Looking at the portrait of the monster above, Lu Liangsheng prepared to take a blank scroll on a whim, but before he spread it out on the desk, there was a knock on the door behind him.

"Excuse me, does Mr. Lu live here?"

The bickering person and toad over there stopped, Taoist Toad snorted, jumped onto the bed, kicked on his short legs and rolled up, coiled into a lump.

Sun Yingxian covered his bruised face, went to open the door, and waved to the young men in green clothes outside.

"inside."

Among those few people, the head steward made a confession, and hurriedly entered the door and bowed his hands.

"The youngest one is a servant in Zhou's mansion. My master asked me to wait here and help Mr. Lu carry some luggage."

carry luggage?

Lu Liangsheng was slightly stunned, he didn't seem to plan to move out of the inn, nor settled for a residence in the city, so he temporarily put down his brush and looked at the servants of the Zhou family who entered the house with a smile.

"The next one is Lu Liangsheng. I don't know what Mr. Zhou told you to come and move things?"

The four servants looked at each other, obviously a little confused, and the leader said: "The master only let us come over, saying that the son is an old student, and he is not familiar with him when he first came to the county. It is not appropriate to live alone, and it is not convenient for studies. .”

This is a routine of cutting first and then playing...

Lu Liangsheng looked at them with a smile. If he refused, it would appear that he was too pedantic as a younger generation, and it would also refute the old man's face.

Suddenly, he exchanged glances with Toad on the bed, walked over and sat down on the edge of the bed, raised his hand, "Then you move it, there are not many things, put them into those two bookshelves, and there is an old donkey in the backyard of the inn, too. Bring it into the mansion."

When he gave a warning, Lu Liangsheng stretched his other hand behind his back, and tacitly slapped Taoist Ha with each other.

After everything was packed, Lu Liangsheng looked at Sun Yingxian: "Will you go with me? Stay for a few days, if you are not used to it, just come out again."

"No, no, no!" Sun Yingxian shook her head again and again, leaning against the wall and holding up the leftover wine from last night in her hands, "I have my own freedom, which is different from yours. In the scholarly courtyard, I get a headache when I enter it. gone."

As he spoke, he took out a few pieces of yellow paper from his pocket and slapped them on the table, took a sip of wine, walked out of the room, and the voice came over.

"Something happened to burn the paper."

Chapter 55 Soldiers of the Nation

Lu Liangsheng put away the yellow papers on the table, looked at the door and smiled. In fact, even if he didn't need this kind of yellow paper, he could still find Taoist priests by using the techniques of tracing cranes or burning incense to find the way. Dozens of miles will do.

Things were arranged properly, after leaving the room, he led the old donkey and followed the servants of Zhou's mansion carrying bookshelves across the long street to Zhou's mansion. Far away, under the eaves of the living room in front, Zhou Zhen had come out to greet him.

"Using this method, I won't blame the old man for letting Liangsheng come over, right? Hehe!"

"Elder Zhou invites you, and the younger generation dare not not come."

"I haven't eaten yet. Meals are already prepared in the hall."

The old and the young greeted each other a few words, went back to the hall and chatted while having breakfast, saw the scholar take out a big toad from his sleeve and put it on the table, which made the old man slightly startled.

It was hard to see such a big toad, but the half-closed eyes of the toad had a faint cold light, which made him feel a kind of creepy, as if he was like food on a plate in front of it.

Seeing the old man's expression, Lu Liangsheng explained: "Mr. Zhou, this toad is a belonging of the younger generation, just like some people love rabbits and hounds. What's more, this toad is quite big and rarely seen outside, so I love it in my heart and keep it with me all the time. It has been more than three years, and my teacher Shu Hua also saw it, but he was not happy."

"Wang Shuhua has seen it too..." Zhou Zhen stroked his beard for a moment, looked away from the toad, and said with a smile: "This big toad is indeed rare. Since ancient times, the toad has been said to be auspicious, and it also has the deep meaning of town house to attract wealth. , the old man is not the kind of unreasonable person."

As he spoke, he held a piece of shortbread and shook it seductively above Taoist Ha, laughing out loud.

"Haha... Liangsheng, in fact, when I was in the capital, I heard rumors that there was also a big toad in the palace decades ago, but it was a sculpture of a moon-watching golden toad. Unfortunately, it was stolen by someone. It has a nose and eyes. It’s a living thing in your hands, so it’s a little out of control to think of it.”

The old man said some asides to cover up his gaffe just now. Of course Lu Liangsheng knew it in his heart and didn't expose it. He just smiled and went along with the words, and asked about Zhou Rong's condition along the way.

But when it came to Miss Zhou's illness, the old man stopped his chopsticks and looked at the young scholar opposite.

"The little girl's condition has eased a lot, and she was able to walk around early this morning, but last night... outside the little girl's boudoir, there were a lot of water stains for no reason, and there was an old woman's clothes. Liangsheng went to the toilet that night, so why was it late? return?"

At some point, there were no other people in the hall, and Lu Liangsheng didn't take the words directly. He took a sip of porridge lightly with his usual expression, and his tone was gentle.

"Rescue."

Zhou Zhen pursed her lips and stared at the scholar.

"Is there really a monster?"

"No, it's because of someone behind."

"Why?"

"There is a foreign object under Lingmei's boudoir."

The two exchanged words as if playing charades. The toad coiled next to the scholar took advantage of the old man's inattention, stretched out his long tongue, and rolled a piece of fatty goose meat into his mouth. The old god squinted his eyes and chewed slowly. .

After breakfast, Zhou Zhen memorized everything Lu Liangsheng said before, and hurriedly recruited the old steward.

"Move the young lady's boudoir to the madam's for a few days. Without the old man's order, no one in the mansion can enter or leave the side yard at will, and no one should be curious about any visions."

The steward who listened to the series of instructions was stunned. Of course, he had lived for so many years and knew the rules. He obeyed the master's words and left immediately to convey the matter to the servants below.

The old man is calm and prudent, and he doesn't take the ghostly things seriously. Instead, he knows that there are heretics behind him who are using magic to harm his family. He is angry and worried. After all, the human heart is sometimes more vicious than ghosts.

After leaving the living room, they caught up with the scholar who was going to the side yard, and they walked together with a hint of worry on their faces.

"Will that person cast a spell tonight?"

Lu Liangsheng couldn't guarantee this. He looked at the verdant courtyard, and from time to time, scattered leaves drifted through the mottled gaps between the trees under the sun, and frowned slightly.

"The trick of spraying the old woman has been broken, the other party must have known about it."

Having said that, Zhou Zhen stopped in his tracks, looked at the scholar's back, and said with a deep breath, "Liangsheng, do you really know magic?"

When the words were spoken, the originally quiet courtyard became even quieter, only the drooping branches made a soft rustling sound, and a leaf fluttered down, passing between the old man's sight.

The scholar walking in front of him seemed to be blurred. If he didn't keep looking at Lu Liangsheng in advance, it would be as if there was no one there at all.

"This is the spell..."

The old man stood there in a daze, as if he hadn't recovered yet, while the young man over there had already walked through the courtyard path and walked into the side yard. Put on new bedding sheets.

Seeing the scholars who came in, they greeted each one cautiously, and then left like flying with something in their arms, with their hearts beating wildly, and after leaving the crescent gate in the side yard, they breathed a sigh of relief and whispered to the sisters who came out together , chattering.

"The one just now is Lu Lang invited by the master... He was the expert that the little dog said last night."

"...so young, it feels like he is a year or two older than us, is it really that evil?"

"How can you say that he is evil, it's not this expert, last night Madam and Xiaohuan probably..."

"Don't say it, don't say it, the old woman spraying water is scary..."

"The scholar is really a strange person? I heard that he is a scholar full of talents..."

The intermittent conversations of the few people continued. In the side yard behind him, Lu Liangsheng took out the books and picture scrolls from the bookshelf and put them out one by one. Nie Honglian was standing in the shadow and was also helping to clean up. On the desk, I blew away the dust that didn't exist in the book cover, put it on the shelf with my own hands, turned around on my toes, and looked around, freezing the back of the scholar, full of joy.

Taoist Toad yawned lazily.

"It's still early in the evening, let's take a nap first."

Stand up slowly, jump to the mottled spot where the sun shines through the window on the ground, lie down and bask in the pimples on your back, showing a dark purple.