Dreaming back to the Tang Dynasty, I was working as a detective in Chang'an

The most painful thing in the world is not falling out of love or having no money to spend, but not being able to sleep in a comfortable bed. This is really worse than death.

I'm really exhausted at the inn these days. I can't stop. I can only take a nap while soaking in glutinous rice soup.

However, the injury on the arm has become much milder. There is no pus anymore, it just hurts.

The fat man saw that I was getting better, so he no longer looked at me. Instead, he went out early and came back late, mysteriously.

I asked, "Did you go out drinking wine behind my back these past two days? Why are you so mysterious?"

The fat man picked up the robe that I didn't know he had bought from shopping, and said with a smile: "Take good care of you, don't mind me, I have business to do."

As soon as I heard this, I felt energetic. I jumped out of the tub of glutinous rice soup and said, "I'll go with you. My injury is almost healed."

The fat man said: "You will only cause trouble if you go. It's better to take care of yourself at home. If you catch a cold when you go out, it's not a joke."

I said, "Tsk, I'm not in confinement, and I'm so damn afraid of catching the wind."

The fat man said: "I'm an immortal, you'd better stop causing trouble for me and go back to the bucket to soak. You're not allowed to come out until two hours."

I had no choice but to jump into the bucket again.

I said: "You should tell me where you are going, right?"

The fat man walked out and said, "Follow the kid."

To this day, I still haven’t figured out what happened that day. If it was all an illusion, then my injuries were real, and when the kid scratched me, it really hurt, like being scratched by a sharp blade.

But when the fat man slapped me awake, there was no one in the yard, leaving only the empty Earth Temple. So where did Mr. Wei and the kid go? Could they be able to fly over cliffs or escape from the earth?

It all seemed so weird and strange that I scratched my head and couldn't figure it out.

The fat man, carrying a robe on his back, walked towards a Tutu Temple in the northern suburbs of Chang'an City.

The Tutu Temple here is a temple that has been abandoned for a long time. The spider silk is tangled inside, and a lot of dust has fallen on the Tutu Temple. There are a broken bowl, a broken straw mat and the like scattered on the ground. Which may it be? The beggar spent the night here.

After the fat man entered the house, he took out an ink cartridge from his bag, pulled out a piece of string, and played it nine times horizontally and nine times vertically in the room, forming squares, which felt more like a piece of paper. net.

Then he sat on the floor and muttered something. Suddenly, a gust of wind blew outside the window, and a woman in white came out of the square.

The woman's hair was spread loosely, covering her face, and her long nails were long on her skinny hands.

The woman gave the fat man a blessing and said softly: "Mr. Zheng, you are fine. Why did you call me out when you were fine?"

The fat man said: "Who are you and why are you here?"

The woman in white said: "I was sold to a father-in-law as a concubine last year. He was not a human being at all. He slept with me every night, but abused me in every possible way. I couldn't bear it anymore, so I found this ruined temple. I committed suicide by hanging from a beam, but a person who commits suicide cannot be reincarnated as a human being, and he has to suffer the pain of hanging again every seven days. I am lucky enough to meet you today, and I hope you can help me get relief."

After saying that, he gave a deep salute to the fat man, then knelt down and kowtowed.

The fat man said: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to disturb you. I was just looking for a kid. No offense. So, since we have met, we are destined to be together. Since you don't want to continue to be a lonely ghost here, I can Help you transcend and allow you to be reincarnated."

The woman in white was extremely surprised and thanked her profusely.

The fat man said: "You have been living here. Have you seen a middle-aged man leading a kid here these days?"

The woman in white said: "There used to be some incense here, but after I moved in, I felt it was too noisy, so I drove away the landowner and often made ghosts here to scare people. Gradually, the pilgrims stopped coming, so these days except for the occasional I haven’t seen anyone else except homeless people.”

The fat man said: "Okay, I will transcend with you right now, and you should stop trying to scare people and start a new life."

The woman in white bowed again and cried: "I can't repay you for this great kindness today. I will repay you in the next life!"

The fat man said: "No need, let's just settle this case and we won't owe each other anything in the next life."

After saying that, the fat man took out a piece of yellow paper from his bag, took out a pen and cinnabar, wrote a talisman on the paper, then lit it with a fire stick, and made a handprint of the rebirth curse with both hands.

I saw the woman in white instantly turning into a wisp of green smoke and drifting away from the window into the distance.

The fat man breathed a long sigh of relief and said to himself: "It seems that Mr. Wei is not here. Alas, let's go to the next one."

The land in Chang'an is easy to find. It has a structure of due south and north, making it easy to identify the direction.

The fat man came out of the temple and planned to try his luck at the Earth Temple in the eastern suburbs this time.

It is not easy to walk from the northern suburbs to the eastern suburbs. Chang'an is really too big.

By this time, the sky was getting dark, and the fat man was tired and thirsty from walking. He planned to find an inn to stay and rest for a night before leaving.

The fat man found a very cheap inn. There was a Datongpu here. A dozen people slept on a large earthen bed. They were all coolies. They could just stay the night and sleep. The key is that it was very cheap here. .

Why does the fat man want to live here? It's not that he has a masochistic tendency or that he remembers the bitter and the sweet, but here, he can hear some things he wants to hear.

A dozen strong men were crowded on the kang. The weather was very hot and everyone was too hot to sleep. So what should we do? We just talked about it.

From men to women, from national affairs to family affairs, from south to north, from east to west, not to mention, it was really lively.

The fat man had always been good at talking, but after a while he became a storyteller. He told some weird and strange things in a way that made them even more mysterious, which made the stupid old men listen in a daze. They couldn't stop, and they were almost in a daze.

The fat man saw that the time was ripe and said, "Do you know that there is something particularly evil recently?"

Those men kept saying: "What's the matter? Don't keep it secret. Tell us quickly."

The fat man cleared the phlegm in his throat and said: "I heard it, I really heard it. If you heard it, don't go around asking around. If the time comes, you will say that I spread rumors and cause trouble, and it will not be good to arrest me and go to the official!" "

An older man said: "You young man, we are like that. We are all working as coolies. Who would do such immoral things?"

The fat man said: "Okay, then I've said it. If you are timid, you can go out. This is a very evil thing. Don't scare any of you out of harm's way."

Another young man became even more enthusiastic and said, "Come on, tell me. I love hearing about this. The more outrageous it is, the better."

The fat man touched his chin and pretended to tell them horror stories.