[Liao Zhai] Lanruo Temple

The black mountain is full of smoke and clouds, the red light is soaring into the sky, and the red clouds are gathering, which is infinitely changing.

Standing beside Rongniang are Xiaoqian and Xiaodie, watching the direction of the stone kiln from a distance, only watching the smoke and clouds, unable to see clearly what is going on inside the stone kiln.

"Can it be done?" Xiaoqian asked softly.

Even if it is her calmness and ice-snow intelligence, it is inevitable that she will lose her position at this time.After being a ghost for so long, I almost forgot what it feels like to have a body.

Xiaodie, on the other hand, doesn't have much love for her time as a human being, so she seems particularly calm.

Huai Xu likes to look good, and most of the female ghosts who stay with him are as beautiful as flowers.The most outstanding ones are Xiaodie and Xiaoqian.

Xiaodie and Xiaoqian had fought for their grandmother's favor for more than ten years before, but now that Huai Xu had changed his temper, he was more willing to let them be independent, and Xiaodie also held his breath to ask Gao Xiaoqian to do better.

Xiaodie's trust in Huai Xu is completely different from Xiaoqian's, so she just raised her snow-white neck proudly and said: "Whatever Shan wants to do, has there ever been a failure?"

Xiaoqian looked at Xiaodie, getting some support from her blind self-confidence.

In fairness, Xiaoqian does not look down on Xiaodie.Xiaoqian's education is different from Xiaodie's. She is a lady, and she will not lose her own opinion even if she becomes a ghost.

Xiaodie, on the other hand, has lived dependent on others from the very beginning.But it is undeniable that if the trees that the vines climb are tall enough, the vines will also grow slender.If the chaser is good enough, the chaser will gradually become better without knowing it.

Xiaoqian nodded, and said, "Yes, when did the mountain master fail?"

Rong Niang silently observed the two girls, smiled faintly, and said, "Just look at it."

Huai Xu was standing at the entrance of the stone kiln.

After Shan Bao and Bai Yuan lifted up the stone gate of the stone kiln, they couldn't bear the heat and fled to the side.

Rong Niang and the others stood far away to avoid being hurt by the anger.

Huai Xuhuan didn't care about the steaming smoke and fire, it was like a breeze blowing waves, stirring his fire-patterned black clothes and his ink-like hair.

That's all.

Huai Xu's gaze has already been cast into the stone kiln, the stone wall is divided into countless grids, and a mask is placed in each grid, with red eyes and lips on the pale mask, which looks extremely creepy.

The mask is a success. These masks are specially made for ghosts, and the grave soil added is mixed with a little resentment to make it look pale.

After firing, the resentment dissipated. Although the exterior is pale, the inside is warm and the porcelain is fine and smooth, which can be regarded as the best batch recently.

If you take your eyes off the mask, you will see stone piers on the ground, and on the stone piers are pottery figurines made of a mixture of grave soil, ashes, and pottery clay.

Girls love beauty. These terracotta figurines are made by the girls with countless painstaking efforts. They have complete eyebrows and eyes, and graceful postures. They are all ceramic beauties, just like living things.

Huai Xu laughed, walked past the stone pier, reached out and brushed the brows of the ceramic beauties, leaving a pale gold mark, shaped like a flower petal.

All of these ceramic beauties succeeded, and none of them failed. The painstaking efforts of the girls were not in vain.

In fact, the production of human figures has always been a relatively taboo field.

Whether you admit it or not, the human body is the most harmonious carrier.It can carry the soul, derive emotion, and become the carrier of hue.

Therefore, all kinds of elves in the mountains, rivers and lands will choose to transform into human forms after they attain enlightenment.

Spirituality and the way of existence of spirit are different but equal, but none of the ways of existence of emotion and heart can compare with the human form.

Ordinary people would not place unconsecrated god statues in their homes, because an empty body can easily attract foreign souls to live there.

Finally, Huai Xu found a clay figurine in a corner.

This pottery puppet is very small, only the size of Huai Xu's palm.Because of the difference in the quality of the soil, it is only a dusty pottery, not a beautiful porcelain.

This is Huai Xu's casual work, which was made to practice when trying to figure out the knack of firing pottery figurines.

After kneading it, I didn't pat it back into the clay, but left it to be fired together.

Anything that has been poured with emotion, if given a chance, will give birth to spirituality, and it is very likely to become an elf.

The paintbrush in the hands of the painter, the carving knife in the hands of the carpenter, and the accessories passed down from generation to generation by the woman, these things that have received the affection of the owner and grew up with the owner, all have extraordinary spirituality.

The clay doll that Huai Xu used to figure out Taoism also had a little inspiration in it.

Putting the clay doll into his sleeves, Huai Xu walked out of the stone kiln and told the expectant girls waiting at the side, "It's done, when all the anger dissipates, you can take your body away. "

The girls cheered for joy, and the girls wept with joy. At first, only one or two girls were crying, but then they all started crying as if they were reminded of something sad.

The ghosts that linger in the world are rejected by the world.Rejected by the living, but also rejected by the world.

If the meritorious deeds are insufficient, they will be shattered by the sun, and if they have strong magic power, they will be denounced as fierce ghosts.

It is completely different to have a place where they can put their bodies. As long as they want, they can even become living people again-as long as they don't get caught.

What's more, the memory of the person who took the deeds came like a tide, which is really hard to hold.

Rong Niang sighed, and floated away with Huai Xu.The girls left behind were both happy and sad, wiping each other's tears.

Xiaodie was a little annoyed.

She was extremely irritable, she never had a good day when she was alive, she was greeted and sent off all her life, forced to smile, and was finally redeemed by a man who looked like a teacher to be a concubine, but who knew it was a eccentric Man, when he went crazy, he almost killed her half.

When she finally couldn't stand the torture, she pulled out the man's eyes and punctured the man's throat with scissors.

When he died, he was drowned by the old lady, and his body was soaked to death.

If it wasn't for Huai Xu who didn't dislike nausea and cremated her body and buried it in Montenegro, she would have to wait for her body to be eaten by fish and become a water ghost in the dark under the water.

"Why howling, why crying! You may not have had a good life when you were alive! Now that you are loved by the mountain master, you are doing it! It is obviously a happy event, but you want to cry! Humph!"

Xiaodie turned around proudly and left, disappearing from the shadow of the trees in an instant.

She doesn't miss being human at all!

Xiaoqian felt a little headache, her little thoughts of longing for the world were disturbed by Xiaodie, and then sank again.I have to smooth things over for her, lest the sisters be separated from each other.

"Sisters, please forgive me, Xiaodie can't speak, so don't take it to heart."

By the way, discredit Kocho.

To Xiaoqian's surprise, no one was angry.

"What did Sister Xiaoqian say? How could we take it to heart? Sister Xiaodie is right. When we were alive, we never had a good life. How can we live so comfortably now?"

"It's a happy event. With our bodies, we can do many things. But sister Xiaodie is afraid that we will bring up sad things."

"Let her alone, look at her bad mouth."

"Okay, sisters, Xiao Die is just talking poisonously, she has no evil intentions, let's go, let's go and see her together, don't let her get angry all by herself."

"whee."

The girls hugged and chased Xiaodie away.

Xiaoqian looked at their backs, curled the corners of her mouth, and followed them.

Just before leaving, I couldn't help but look back at the stone kiln.

It's just that she still can't let go of the world.

After the girls got acquainted with their new bodies, Huai Xu led them down the mountain.

This time Master Quan stayed at Lanruo Temple, and Rong Niang took Xiaoqian, Xiaodie and other girls to follow Huai Xu.

The two carriages came down from Heishan, stopped and stopped all the way, and arrived at Guobei County.

Guo Bei, Bei Guo also.

In the suburbs to the north of Jinhua, villages are gathered into counties.

The wolf car stopped and stopped in Guobei County for a stop. The girls got a new body, and they met to get off the car together, and inquired about what delicious food and fun there is in Guobei County.

The presence of female passengers in three big cars is really eye-catching.

There are few outsiders in Guobei County. Although it is a larger county, there are more mountain households coming and going.

The carriage stopped at the inn, and a dozen or so graceful women got out of the carriage, only two servants, Huang Dalang and Huang Erlang, and two servants, Shan Bao and Mu Gui.

Such a team, in the eyes of some people, is really too fat to be fatter.

The waiter in the shop received them warmly, came to a dozen or so upper rooms, and brought good wine and food. The reception was very polite, and the female guests were also very satisfied.

After dinner, the girls went out to play, Huai Xu took Shan Bao upstairs, and the Huang brothers and Mu Gui were dragged away to carry their bags.

The shopkeeper took out his abacus and crackled, took out his paperwork and drew a few strokes, and then made a gesture with the waiter, and the two laughed tacitly.

When the girls came back from buying rouge, powder and silk, it was already evening, and it was inconvenient to walk at night, so they rested in the inn for the night.

After dinner, the girls went upstairs, got together first, looked at each other, and smiled coldly.

The malice in the eyes of the shopkeeper and the shop clerk could be seen dripping water. They thought they had concealed it well, but in the eyes of ghosts, they were as bright as lights in the dark.

Huai Xu lit the lamp and slowly flipped through the Buddhist scriptures, the strange atmosphere outside the window seemed to have nothing to do with him.

Just as he was getting excited, Huai Xu suddenly paused, closed the book, and flicked it with his hand.

Squeak.

The window suddenly opened, revealing Bai Xianzhi's face.

Bai Xianzhi was a little embarrassed, and then jumped in from the window cheekily.

"Shanzhu, I have finished copying the Tao Te Ching." As he spoke, he pulled out a thick stack of paper from his sleeve, on which was the cursive with a pen.

Huai Xu sighed, let him sit across from him, then looked through the scriptures he had copied, and found that he had copied them carefully without playing tricks.

"Forget it, I know you can't stay on the mountain, so come down, go to Jinhua with me."

Only then is Bai Xianzhi satisfied.

Huai Xu continued to read the scriptures, and Bai Xianzhi sneaked a glance at him, while opening a window by the table to catch Yuehua.

Cultivation is hard work, especially for Bai Xianzhi, a person who insists on following the righteous path, if his foundation is not stable, it is very easy for the devil to take advantage of him.

When the inn was filled with energy and blood, the daring thief came upstairs, seeing that the light in Huai Xu's room was still on, he couldn't help frowning.

A few people winked, and then they split up, punctured the paper on the window, and blew in the misty smoke.

A person came to the front of Huai Xu's door, gently pushed open the crack of the door, and saw that the lights were dim, Huai Xu lowered his eyebrows and was flipping through the scriptures.

The moonlight came in from the open window, making the person in the room look like a fairy in a painting.

In this person's eyes, Bai Xianzhi was not there, even though Bai Xianzhi was sitting across from Huai Xu.

The man's heart moved, he only felt itching so badly, he wanted the fairy in the painting to touch and scratch the itchy place for him.

Smiling mischievously, the man blew in misty smoke from the gap in the door, and the smoke curled up, and the fairy in the painting shook his head in a daze, but couldn't resist the medicine's effect, and bent his head down on the table.

In Bai Xianzhi's eyes, this was clearly another scene, Huai Xudong didn't move, and the misty smoke blown in by the thief outside the door was circling in the room, but it couldn't be dispersed.

That's it, I heard the six thieves outside say: "Okay, they are all down."

"These little girls are really handsome, and they can make a lot of money if they are sold."

"It's not just those little girls. If you want me to say, it's the young master who is the character. If it's done well, it's the boss."

"What nonsense, other people are fine. I think that young master has an extraordinary manner and conversation. If he disappears, someone will find him. Such a person is not safe even if he sells it. It is better to chop it up and make buns to avoid future troubles."

"It's too wasteful, why don't you let me have a good time first?"

"Hey, you boy, why are you thinking about men? Okay, if you want to play, be careful not to wake up people, brothers, drag those men into the kitchen and kill them first, so as not to wake up. To deal with it, especially those two warriors, if they wake up, it will be difficult to start."

As soon as several people came together, they went to the room to kill Shanbao and Mugui.

Huai Xu didn't lift his eyes, and didn't move. When those people moved, they saw the whole inn suddenly lit up with lights, and the narrow corridor suddenly became long. At first glance, it was pitch black as if there was no end. .

The lights in each guest room are bright, reflecting the shadows of the girls on the door.

Shaking like a ghost.

"Sister, did you hear that they are going to sell us, hehe."

The shadow of a woman sits half naked, her hair growing like a living thing.

"My dear sister, what are you afraid of? When he comes in, he will dig out their hearts and taste their blood. Wouldn't it be delicious?"

Xiaodie is also sitting upright, her fingernails are more than a foot long.

"Okay, okay, stop talking, hey, my makeup is all gone."

Xiao Sang took off her head, and her headless body held an eyebrow pencil and traced it on her head.And her head on the table opened and closed, talking.

Xiaoqian sipped her tea, her shadow swayed on the door, and said, "Why don't they come in, whoever goes out to see if they're gone? Don't let them get away and miss a refreshment."

These few people were so frightened that they ran downstairs desperately, but the long corridor continued to extend in front of them, no matter how they ran, there was darkness in front of them.

Suddenly there was a little light in the darkness, a huge monster opened its dustpan-like claws to dig something, stuffed it into its mouth, and chewed. Hearing the sound of footsteps, he turned his head, showing blue-faced fangs, mouth With a person's arm in his mouth, he grinned at them, then reached out and grabbed them.

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

The gang of thieves turned around and ran, when a door suddenly appeared in front of them. They ran into the door in a panic and shut the monster out.

"Here you come, look, am I beautiful?"

Xiao Sang raised her head in her arms, resentment and coquettishness hung on her beautiful face.

A full head of beautiful hair rushed over, wrapped them up, and slowly tightened them, like a giant python eating.

Thin and dense hair turned in from their seven orifices, and the severe pain made them widen their eyes, but they couldn't see anything.

The smell of blood suddenly filled the inn.

Huai Xu raised his head and said, "Stop playing."

Following his words, will-o'-the-wisps filled the air, and the gloomy inn suddenly returned to normal.

The door of the guest room was opened by the girls, and everyone gathered in Xiao Sang's room. Xiao Sang, wearing embroidered shoes, kicked the leader of the thief fiercely, and said viciously: "It's cheap for you!"

These thieves were lying on the ground without knowing anything about their personnel, their faces were pale, their eye bags were bruised, and their seals were black.

Rong Niang ordered Mu Gui to find a rope and tie up the thieves.

He also ordered the girls to search for evidence, and soon found many forbidden weapons, and dug up human bones in the backyard, and found evidence of human trafficking.

Rong Niang just sneered when she saw it, hung the gang of thieves in the lobby, put the evidence on the table, and the group drove away from Guo Bei overnight.

As for being discovered the next day, and how to report to the officials, that is none of their business. Anyway, with these murders, this group of thieves will not survive the autumn.