Great Sui Guoshi

"The scholars and Taoist priests you brought back are probably not monsters."

In the yard, even the old donkey disappeared.

The night was dark, and the small village was quiet, except for the occasional barking of dogs.

Across the stretches of fields, along the dirt road in the country to the river bank, the dense reeds on the river beach swayed in the wind.

huh huh...

The sound of quiet flowing water, and the jingling of copper bells in the distance, the hoofed old donkey excitedly opened its mouth, wanting to bite the reed that passed by, while the neck bell swayed and swayed, it was led by a scholar , Walking along the finely broken stones everywhere.

At the ferry ahead, several small boats were tied to wooden piles protruding from the water, huddled together and undulating slightly. When Lu Liangsheng came over, the wooden piles where the boats were moored were not far away, and a black shadow squatted there under a cluster of reeds.

"Excuse me, can I cross the river at night?"

Lu Liangsheng stepped forward and arched his hands towards the black shadow, approached, and saw the other person clearly, wearing a coir raincoat and a bamboo hat to cover most of his face.

"Crossing, guest officer, let's get on the boat first."

"It's work."

Lu Liangsheng thanked the other party, led the old donkey and walked towards the river, looking at the boats moored.

"Old man, which boat is yours?"

In the sound of water splashing on the rocky beach

The scholar's cheeks were slightly tilted, and from the corner of his eye, the rickety boatman had already passed by, his trousers rolled up to his calves, leaving a series of water stains where his bare feet walked.

"This is it."

The boatman walked onto one of them, lit a paper lantern, and hung it on the bow.

"Guest officer, slow down, this old man will show you the light"

There is no shed on the hull, and the old donkey can still be squeezed out, but the first time the old donkey was on the boat, he was a little uneasy, his limbs were trembling slightly, and he wanted to jump off a few times, making the toad Taoist in the compartment It was also subconsciously touching the rope around his waist before he felt relieved.

Lu Liangsheng stepped into the boat, stepped on the bottom of the boat, felt a solid sensation, stretched out his hand to caress the donkey's head a few times, lifted his robe and sat down, looked straight at the boatman, and opened his thin lips lightly .

"Old man, let's sail."

"Alright, sit tight, officer!"

The old man under the bamboo hat responded dully, and propped up the long pole in the shallow water, the boat floated away from the beach, turned its head, stood at the stern of the boat and continued to support the long pole, and went to the other side of the river.

"Guest officer, remember to sit still, the water is sometimes bumpy, and it will be a disaster if you fall."

The boat sailed quietly across the water, pushing away the ripples, and the lantern hanging on the bow was swaying. Lu Liangsheng looked at the old man on the opposite side with the faint light. His face was pale and swollen with water droplets hanging from his white beard under the bamboo hat, and his eyes were almost blurred. It bulged out, was wet all over, and there was a puddle of water on the boat plank standing under his feet.

Sure enough, just as Sun Yingxian guessed, he fell into the water and died.

Lu Liangsheng sighed, "It's okay to let it go."

When he took out the writing brush in his sleeve, there was a sound of water bubbling, and the boatman holding the long pole suddenly spoke, as if he was laughing.

"Guest officer, do you find it boring? The old man will tell you some stories to pass the boredom. Those of us who cross the river know that people generally don't cross the river at night. First, it's not safe. Second, if there are ducks calling at night, Don't go there, even if you're curious, if you see cloth and handkerchiefs on the ground, don't pick them up, you'll lose half your life if you pick them up..."

"...Speaking of which, this old man has been crossing people on this river for more than [-] years. He has never seen anything strange, and he has never seen the water ghost that the villagers often call..."

It seemed that he really relieved the boredom of the scholars crossing the river, and chattered a lot of things in and out of the village.

Seeing that he didn't move, Lu Liangsheng lowered his slightly raised hand and listened quietly.

"...Fortunately, the village head comes to ask me for a drink from time to time, but it's not okay to drink other people's like this all the time. After a day of drinking, after he leaves, the old man thinks that he should pay him a gift, so he punted out... ...Come out...Look, with my memory, the village chief forgot whether I caught fish or not, what happened yesterday..."

According to Wang Tianshi's father, this boatman has been dead for at least a year, but his memory only stays on the day before his death.

Speaking of which, he has no cultivation base at all.

While thinking about it, the boat was about to dock. Lu Liangsheng put the pen back in his sleeve, waited until the bow of the boat touched the river beach, and walked past the shivering old donkey.

The Taoist who had flown across the river a long time ago came over and hurriedly turned over the yellow silk bag to take out the talisman paper, but was stopped by Lu Liangsheng.

"Don't do anything, this boatman won't harm anyone."

"What?" The Taoist put down the cloth bag, tilted his head and let out a sigh.

"I've never heard of it in this way. There are ghosts that don't harm people. Even if they don't harm people, other people's contact with him will hurt their vitality."

Lu Liangsheng shook his head, denying the Taoist's statement. On the way by boat, he clearly felt that the old man on the ferry would not absorb people's yang energy, and that Wang Tian would actually fall ill for a few days, simply because he was frightened.

"This boatman doesn't seem to know that he is dead, and he only remembers the day before his death."

Chapter 94 How does it feel to be chased and beaten by a bad guy?

"Then let it go?"

The Taoist walked up and down the river with a cloth bag, looking at the boat that was gradually going away. At the stern, the boatman was holding a long pole and waving to them, as if saying goodbye.

He didn't have a clue for a while, it stands to reason that the sun can come out before sunset, it's not a ghost with advanced practice, but he also felt that the other party was so weak that he didn't need to use Taoism at all.

"Oh... I know what I want to do."

After following the scholar for so long, how could he not know what the other person was thinking, Sun Yingxian took out a few yellow talismans and drew Yin talismans on them.

Lu Liangsheng glanced at it, and the rune on it was what the Taoist said it was used for.

"Are you planning to find the City God?"

"It's more than 100 miles away, and I don't know if I can recruit them."

After the Taoist finished speaking, he used another different talisman paper to paste on Hong Lian's scroll, and then arranged the newly drawn talisman papers on the ground one by one.

Putting the two fingers of both hands together, holding them at the level of the tip of the nose, chanting words silently, and in an instant, the talisman paper fluttered against the ground.

Lu Liangsheng's expression was solemn, after all, later on he would see that the ghost was extraordinary, just watching Taoist's every move, even Taoist Toad pushed away the cubicle and squinted his eyes.

In the next second, the Taoist suddenly raised his closed four fingers forward.

"Decree, you big cold melon....forgot the words!!!"

Lu Liangsheng coughed a few times in one breath.

Over there, Sun Yingxian quickly took out the Daoist book from his arms and quickly flipped through a few pages, then closed it and put it in his arms, and set up his instructions again.

"I would like to ask the City God to listen to me. The souls of the Wang family village are waiting for justice, and please send a messenger to the riverside—"

Lift your fingertips forward again.

The sound of the wind blew, agitating the robes of the two people, and a white mist rose above the calm water surface, and the surrounding temperature suddenly dropped.

Lu Liangsheng looked at the Taoist who closed his eyes and chanted a mantra, and instinctively looked in the direction of Tianzhi City, a slender silhouette approached from far away.

Going along the river bank, in the dim night, this tall and thin figure swayed over as if walking on stilts, with a masked hood and extremely long cuffs hanging down the sides, walking around In the meantime, there was the sound of iron chains rattling and rattling.

"Who called the City God's messenger?"

The yin energy is so overwhelming that the insects around are silent. The Taoist over there opened one eye to look at the scholar, and said in a low voice:

"Speak quickly, use your identity as a Juren."

Lu Liangsheng shook his wide sleeves and arched his hands.

"Lu Liangsheng, a man from Hegu County, has seen a night parade. We passed by Wangjia Village and met a ferry ghost at night. We found that the other party had no memory and did no harm. I also asked the City God to accept it and let him reincarnate as a human being."

"It turned out to be the world's best."

The slender Xun You also nodded at the scholar, his tone softened.

"You wait a moment."

On the black scarf covering the face, in the empty shadows, there was a light blue, looked at the other side of the river, and turned his head after a while.

"There is indeed a lonely soul, but I can't take him to the City God."

Lu Liangsheng frowned slightly: "Why?"

"The lonely soul over there is a generation of great benevolence and great fruit. It has been recorded in the city god's soul book that this ghost did not take a penny for crossing people 26 years ago, rain or shine, and accumulated goodness. , promised him a magic weapon that can haunt at dusk."

"Then why do you only have a little memory?"

"The reason why he died that day was because of his friend's drinking. I just don't want to remember it."

"So that's the case, thank you for the cruise notification."

All the reasons have been revealed. Lu Liangsheng looked to the other side. His hometown was destroyed by floods. He spent the rest of his life on boats. It is not difficult to stick to one thing. What is difficult is to do good deeds all his life. He sighed and bowed deeply.

"Xuyou, will this boatman have good results in the future?"

Ye Xun nodded and simply replied:

"Yes. The doubts of the two have been resolved. I am going on a tour. It is time to go."

The iron chain rang, and the cuffs were raised.

The meaning was obvious, the Taoist hurriedly took out a few white things from the leather pouch at his waist, put them in front of the talisman paper, and laughed.

"That...there are only these offerings in this way, and the night parade will make do with it."

After finishing speaking, he went to pull the scholar: "Let's go quickly." Then, he turned around and ran. The old donkey blinked his eyes, looked at the sullen figure, neighed with his mouth crooked, and ran after him with his hooves.

Yin Qi filled the air, Night Parade came over, and looked down at the talisman paper.

"Uh……"

A few peeled frogs were placed there.

.......

"Why are you pulling me away?"

Lu Liangsheng looked at the Taoist who kept looking back, and followed suit. There was nothing but the old donkey who followed closely behind.

"call……"

Seeing that the night parade did not catch up, the Taoist stopped to breathe a sigh of relief, leaned back on the donkey's back, and drank some water.

"Do you think you should ask the servants not to make offerings?"

"Didn't you give it?"

"Here's the frog."

Lu Liangsheng: "..."

Immediately, with a wry smile, he covered his forehead with one hand, "You have offended the other party."

The small door of the bookshelf compartment opened, Taoist Ha climbed onto the back of the donkey, and patted the Taoist on the shoulder.

"Didn't you say there are no frogs?"

Over there, Sun Yingxian chuckled twice, opened the frog webs of the toad, lifted the leather bag around his waist as if showing off, and waved it in front of the scholar and the toad.

"Catch a few more in the summer, pickle them, and put them in this leather bag, so they won't break."

While talking, the wind whimpered and blew, Lu Liangsheng looked around, the forest shook wildly, Hong Lian in the painting scroll was the most sensitive to Yin Qi, poked his head out, and said softly:

"My lord, that night parade seems to be chasing me."

The wind blew through the forest, and a gust of Yin Qi surged across the air in the form of a mist visible to the naked eye.

"My old mother, those few frogs are also saved by my own way!!"

The Taoist cursed and yelled at Lu Liangsheng, "Run!"

Yin Qi was surging, and a slender black shadow could be vaguely seen inside, floating like a kite. The Taoist ran away after using the magic movement technique, but Lu Liangsheng led the old donkey, but it was too late.

"Night Parade..."

He arched his hands and was about to speak, but the night parade flying in the sky, carrying the dark wind, passed directly above Lu Liangsheng's head, and chased after the Taoist who was running away.

In the woods ahead, frightened birds flew around to avoid them, and a moment later, a shrill scream rang out.

"Don't...don't come here...ah——"

Daoist Toad sat on the head of the donkey, stretched out his short legs, and ate small dried fish. Even Hong Lian floated out, looking at the woods ahead together, bending his head from time to time, on the frog webs stretched out by Toad, Take a breath.

In less than two breaths, there was another series of screams of "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......".

Lu Liangsheng's eyelids were twitching when he heard it.

"Old Sun has suffered this time..."

After a while, the movement subsided, and the gloomy wind picked up again, and then came out of the night parade, patted the official robe quite comfortably, bowed his hands to Lu Liangsheng, and flew away in the gloomy wind.