When the magic stick summons cute pets

Ye Changsheng's question was so harsh that Ji Xiao was stunned when he heard it.

She was silent for a while, then raised her eyes to look at him and said, "But you came here this time to catch ghosts, didn't you?"

The other hand leaned back on the bed, swayed his legs, with a pleasant smile on his face, and said slowly, "Who told you that I was here to catch ghosts?"

Ji Xiao turned his eyes on Ye Changsheng's face several times, frowned slightly, and said with some hesitation: "Didn't you say that you were found by Miao Miao—" Hesitantly said "God" The word "stick" was replaced by "... Heavenly Master?"

"That's right, ghost hunting is part of my business, but your cousin is not a ghost."

Ye Changsheng opened his eyes and argued without blinking, looked at the other end with a slightly anxious look, half-closed his eyelids, and said in a long voice with a little laziness: "Furthermore, I and Miss Cheng's deal is only limited to bringing you back to City X, she didn't pay for the rest of the items."

Ji Xiao looked at Ye Changsheng as if he really didn't intend to intervene in this matter, her brows were deeply frowned, and some entanglement appeared in her eyes: "If," she gritted her teeth, as if she had made up her mind, "If I -"

Just as he started talking, He Jiuzhong, who was sitting beside Ye Changsheng casually, suddenly raised his eyelids, and looked straight towards the door.

He didn't make a sound, but lightly shook his open palm, and saw that layer of lavender film that had been integrated into the wall suddenly surfaced again, followed by a barely detectable slight explosion sound, and the film was released. Like a punctured bubble, it shattered and disappeared into the air.

Before Ji Xiao could react to what happened, there was a knock on the door, one after another, with a woman's gentle voice: "Xiao Xiao, I'm here to bring you some fruit, open the door for me quickly .”

Ji Xiao, who was called by Li Lan's name, froze instinctively, and looked towards Ye Changsheng beside him as if asking for help.Until she met those black and white eyes, she seemed to have gained some courage from it, secretly swallowed a mouthful of saliva, got up slowly, walked to the door and took down the latch.

Li Lan was holding a big plate with some fruit and melon seed cakes on it, looked at Ji Xiao's face, moved a hand and tapped her forehead lightly: "You girl, what are your habits? Are you used to living outside, why do you lock the door every day at home?"

Her fingertips were cold, poking Ji Xiao's body made her want to shiver.

She welcomed him in, and said with a forced smile: "My cousin misunderstood. It's just that the village is too cold in winter. If the door is not locked, the wind will blow in. After saving a little heating, the wind blows it all at once." It's gone...I can't bear it."

Li Lan frowned, with a bit of concern on his face: "Is the quilt thin?" Then he muttered to himself, "The sky is weird these days, the sun hasn't come out all the time, otherwise I'd still It can help you dry the quilt."

Stepping up and stepping over the threshold, he suddenly said, "Why don't I come over here to sleep with you in the next few days?"

"no need!"

Listening to the words on the other end, Ji Xiao was so frightened that her heart skipped a beat. She looked up at Li Lan's eyes that were inexplicably dark and gloomy, and hurriedly lowered her head, and said, "I ... I just need to add another quilt, so I don't need to bother my sister-in-law."

Li Lan looked at her for a long time, sighed and smiled: "Yes, our Xiaoxiao is also a big girl, and I don't like to be clingy anymore. When I taught you to read when I was a child, you were arguing every day to be with me." sleeping."

Saying that, without looking at Ji Xiao's expression, he went straight into the room and put the fruit plate on the low cabinet inside, then turned his head to greet the two people sitting beside him and said: "There is nothing delicious in remote places, they are all I just want to have a good time eating something that is not on the table," said the general with a smile while holding the corner of the apron, "You and Xiaoxiao haven't seen each other for a long time, let's talk again, I'll clean up a room for you Come out and eat at our house tonight."

Ye Changsheng stood up and walked to Li Lan's side, and said with a smile, "Oh, the two of us came here uninvited, it's really troublesome for my sister-in-law to keep busy."

Looking at Ye Changsheng, Li Lan couldn't help laughing, and said softly, "I'm afraid you are from a big city, and there is nothing to entertain you in this village, so I feel sorry for you." Wiping her hands with her apron, she looked again. Glancing at him, hesitantly said, "How old are you...?"

Ye Changsheng didn't seem to expect that Li Lan would suddenly ask this question. He blinked, but replied honestly: "We'll be 22 after the Chinese New Year."

"Then I'm 21 now... I'm four years younger than our Xiaoxiao. Hey, I have a younger brother in my family, and I think he's about the same age now." Li Lan seemed to want to laugh, but in the end she sighed in a very loud voice. He said in a low voice, "It's just that I haven't seen you for more than ten years. I guess he should have forgotten that there is a sister like me."

Standing behind Li Lan, Ji Xiao had a complicated expression upon hearing this.But the other end didn't say anything more, just took down the empty plate below, turned around and went out again.

Ye Changsheng watched Ji Xiao turn around and looked at the direction Li Lan left with some regret, walked to her side, followed her gaze and looked at the other end, his eyebrows and eyes curved: "That's right. , what did you want to say just now?"

Ji Xiao lowered her eyes, her thick eyelashes covered all the struggle in her eyes, her voice was a little soft, and after a while, she shook her head: "It's nothing."

Ye Changsheng raised his eyebrows, with a smile on his lips: "We will stay here for one night, if Miss Ji changes your mind and wants to make a new deal with me on the basis of Miss Cheng's list, we will Side is also very welcome.”

Ji Xiao didn't make a sound, but slowly approached the low cabinet in the room. His eyes stopped for a moment on the fruit plate of the low cabinet, which was obviously rotten and stained with ashes. He clenched his fists hard and closed his mouth close your eyes.

At night, Li Lan prepared a table of dishes for Ye Changsheng and He Jiuchong. Apart from Ji Kui and Ji Xiao, there were two other old couples with gray hair and dull eyes, looking at about They are Ji Kui's parents.

Ye Changsheng sat down at the table, and glanced at the dishes on the table out of the corner of his eyes: Sure enough, those dishes looked very stale, and even more than half of them were rotten.Looking at it, it looks like the food that the villagers usually use for offerings.

He tilted his head, looked at Ji Xiao full of sympathy, and finally understood what she meant when she said to him earlier, "I will understand when I eat".

Although Li Lan does not seem to have done any life-threatening actions to them now, but just the three meals a day, once these things are on the table, just looking at them is probably a kind of torture to his spirit Bar?

In private, he used a human-shaped white talisman to make an illusion for him and He Jiuzhong to pass the meal, and when the table was over, he secretly stuffed a talisman into Ji Xiao's hand, and lowered his head when passing by. The voice said: "Tonight, if you are afraid, you can burn it, to keep you safe for a while."

Ji Xiao was taken aback for a moment, then looked at Ye Changsheng who had returned to his room with He Jiuzhong, pursed his lips, and slowly put away the talisman paper in his hand.

Winter nights always come quickly, but in Jijia Village, the nights are even longer.It was not yet six o'clock, and it was completely dark outside, with no stars, only a half-crippled moon hanging in the sky, exuding a little cold light.

Suddenly there was the sound of pebbles smashing against the window. Ye Changsheng glanced at He Jiuzhong, then walked over and pushed the window open, poking his head out to look out.

Outside was a group of children who were only seven or eight years old, each of them with thick heads and tiger brains. When they looked up, it was probably because they saw He Jiuzhong standing behind Ye Changsheng, their faces were a little timid.

"Are you coming to see me?" Ye Changsheng pressed his elbows on the window sill and asked those children with a smile while resting his cheeks in one hand.

Those children pushed each other for a while, and the older one was pushed out by everyone.He staggered forward, turned his head and gave the others a hard look, and finally walked over reluctantly.

Ye Changsheng looked at the child halfway down his eyes, and then cast a teasing glance at the person next to him with the end of his eyes: Isn't this the child you taught me by bullying and bullying during the day?

Lord Mozun, who was bullying the little with big bullying, didn't even move his brows. He glanced at the child again, turned around and left the window, and went to sit on the bed.

Seeing that the evil spirit was far away, the boy with a tense face seemed to be heaving a sigh of relief, looked up at Ye Changsheng, and whispered, "Have you seen that ghost?"

The Yin fish in Ye Changsheng's left eye moved very slightly, he narrowed his eyes and smiled: "What the hell?"

The boy frowned, looked at the other end and Nuzui: "This is the wife of this family!"

"You mean the sister-in-law of the Ji family?" The young man inside seemed to have an epiphany, and said with a smile, "I've seen it."

Seeing that the boy was not afraid at all, his eyes flashed a little reconciled. He looked like he was about to yell, but he seemed to be worried about something, so he dared to suppress his voice so that only a little voice remained. : "Don't you believe it? The crippled wife of the Ji family died a long time ago. She is not alive. You can see that she has no shadow at all!"

Afraid of not being convincing enough, he added: "Everyone in our village knows it!"

Ye Changsheng tilted his head, and his face could not tell whether he believed or not: "Then you are worried about us, and you came here to report to us?"

The boy's eyes flickered, and he said in a muffled voice: "My grandfather is the village chief. He thinks that you are newcomers and don't understand the situation, so you can't harm you for nothing, so he specially asked me to come here and take you back to stay for one night, and send you down the mountain tomorrow. .”

"Really?" Ye Changsheng's eyes slowly passed over the tense faces of the children not far away, and finally stopped on the boy in front of him, "Then I'll go say hello to the others..."

"Eh! Don't!"

Hearing Ye Changsheng's words, the boy raised his voice subconsciously, but when he met the gaze from the other side, he seemed to react and said that you immediately lowered his voice, muttering: "What hello, what if What are we going to do to get that female ghost here?"

Ye Changsheng looked at him, the corners of his lips curled up, and said, "Then I'm going out like this?"

The boy nodded, then patted the wall and said, "Just come out of the window, don't go through the main entrance, other people will find out!"

Ye Changsheng responded, then turned around.

He Jiuzhong looked at the other end and quietly took out two human-shaped white talismans, dipped a brush in cinnabar and wrote a small "Ye" and "He" on them, then stuffed them into his pocket, and picked them up. Putting the backpack on the side to the shoulder and looking at him, it looked like he was ready and waiting for him to go out together.

"you want to go?"

"It's not 'I', it's 'we'." Ye Changsheng smiled casually, "After all, they have come to invite people."

He Jiuzhong didn't make a sound, just glanced at him, and followed him out of the window.

It was getting darker and darker, and the cold wind was howling, blowing on my body as if it had been digging into my bones.

The children did not speak on the way, but led the two of them to the house of the village head.After walking for a while, a house suddenly opened the door, and a woman came out. Seeing them, they were slightly taken aback, and blurted out, "Where are you going out so late?"

The boy at the head saw that Yan Xiaoxiu had no good temper, frowned and went over to push her, cursing: "It's nothing to do with you woman, go back!"

Yan Xiaoxiu was pushed back a bit, she bit her lip, but did not return to the house, she looked at the boy and said softly: "They are friends invited by Xiaoxiao, please don't mess around."

There seemed to be a trace of disdain in the boy's eyes, and he lowered his voice with a little sultry taste: "We didn't think about it, don't get in the way, don't you think the beating is not enough? Get out."

Yan Xiaoxiu's face was pale, and she took a deep look at Ye Changsheng who was at the side, but in the end she didn't say anything, and went back to the house step by step.

Seeing the person in the way walk away, the boy looked back with a little guilty conscience, and seeing that Ye Changsheng and He Jiuzhong didn't seem to have any suspicions, he explained in a disguised way: "She is a woman from a foreign country. She has only been in the village for a few years, and she is not responsible at all, and the men in our village look down on her."

Ye Changsheng nodded and asked, "Since you don't like her, why don't you drive her out?"

"That doesn't exist!"

The mandarin spoken by the boy with a strong dialect accent sounded chillingly indifferent: "She was bought by his man with money. Even if she dies, she will die in the village. Besides, she can still have babies."

While talking, he had already brought the two of them to the front of an old house. When the other children saw their destination, they scattered around. Only the boy stayed behind and knocked on the door: "Grandpa, I brought the two of them together." Bring it back!"

The door panel is very thin, and you can clearly hear the movement inside if you stand outside.

When Ye Changsheng heard the sound of chairs being dragged on the ground, Ye Changsheng first thought of the sound of walking, and after a while, the door was opened from the inside, and an old man with gray hair and a slightly hunched back poked his head out. Come and look out.

"Grandpa." The boy walked over and shouted, pointing to the two people outside and said a little excitedly, "That's them!"

The old man's eyes stopped on the two of them for a moment, nodded, opened the door a little, turned around and entered the room slowly: "Those from the Ji family... are you okay?"

Ye Changsheng smiled slightly: "The village chief's house is only ten minutes away, why don't you go and see for yourself instead of the two of us?"

The old man sat on the chair, touched the boy's head, and sighed: "You don't have to be sarcastic, it's what I meant, that's why everyone doesn't let Xiao girl leave the village, but I can't help it—the whole village There are still so many people, what if the female ghost comes out and harms the village?"

Ye Changsheng and He Jiuzhong also sat aside, a middle-aged woman poured tea for them, and then retreated without saying a word.

Ye Changsheng didn't drink water all day, and now he felt a little thirsty, so he took a few sips of tea to moisten his throat, and asked, "It seems that the village chief also feels sorry for that sister-in-law of the Ji family?"

The old man frowned, and said: "You are foreigners and don't know the situation in our village. We are so poor here, if we don't buy a wife, how can any girl be willing to marry here?"

He added: "And we also gave money. When Ji Kui bought Li Lan, he was short of 2000 yuan, which was put together piece by piece by the whole village! If she stayed in the village with peace of mind and gave birth to Kui Zi's children, How could we do something like that?"

Ye Changsheng laughed, and his voice was soft: "Do you know that buying and selling human beings is against the law?"

The village chief also smiled: "As long as you don't tell me, how can anyone know?"

Ye Changsheng raised his eyebrows slightly: "Are you trying to bribe me?"

The village chief shook his head, and said in a slow voice, "You city people have no credit, and your hearts are very bad."

He looked over, with dark eyes: "Only when you die can the entire Jijia Village be truly safe."

Ye Changsheng frowned, and was just about to speak when he heard a "bang" sound coming from beside him. He turned his head and saw He Jiuzhong who was beside him suddenly fell down from his chair.

He turned his head angrily, only to see several strong men standing behind them at some point, and the one who took the hammer and knocked He Jiuzhong unconscious from the back of the head was the one who was kicked by him during the day flying man.

"You——" Ye Changsheng stood up, but immediately after, he felt a fire in his stomach. After walking a few steps in place, he suddenly fell to the ground because of his unsteady feet.

There was a sticky liquid under his nose that slowly slid down, and he stretched out his hand to wipe it off. The bright red color on his hands made his eyes blacken uncontrollably.He looked at the villagers who were showing fierce looks around him, and said with a bit of trembling and horror: "...do you want to kill people?"

The village chief walked over slowly, his eyes were indifferent and calm, and he looked at Ye Changsheng as if he was looking at a dead person: "If you live, the whole Jijia Village will be over. Don't worry, we will take care of you this time." Cremate the two of you, and there won't be another Li Lan in Ji's Village."

Saying this, he turned and left, but the strong men who had been surrounding them and staring at them swarmed up, holding the shovel and wooden sticks in their hands, and yelling at the two unconscious people in the middle of the hall. Swipe over!

"Tsk tsk tsk, it's really a downturn in the world!"

The blood flowed like a river inside the house, and the horror was unbearable to look at directly, but beside the firewood pile not far outside the house, Ye Changsheng, who was still alive and kicking, was looking into the house with a telescope. Occasionally, when he saw bloody places, he couldn't help but be speechless and heartbroken Said: "They didn't even want to leave us a whole body, it's really... crazy, crazy!"

He Jiuzhong stood behind him expressionlessly, seeing the excited and fanatical expressions of the villagers in the house without even raising his eyebrows: "You knew what they wanted us to do?"

"How is it possible?" Ye Changsheng put the binoculars into his backpack, looked up at him, and said with a smile, "I just think the atmosphere is so bad now, and I said earlier that troublemakers come out of poor mountains and rivers...be prepared for any danger."

As he spoke, he glanced into the room again, thoughtfully.

"what happened?"

"I thought I could get some information from here, but now it seems that there is no hope." Ye Changsheng said, frowning again: "But, I always feel that there seems to be something wrong... What is it? "

After thinking about it for a while, it was fruitless, and he waved his hand: "Forget it, I don't want to."

"You still want to go to the back mountain?" He Jiuzhong asked, raising his eyebrows as he watched Ye Changsheng's movements.

Ye Changsheng leaned over and sweetly elbowed him: "Honey, you really understand me."

He Jiuzhong looked at him with downcast eyes, and a little smile appeared on his lips: "I remember that your deal with Cheng Shimiao was only up to bringing Ji Xiao back to City X, so what are you doing now? Just mind your own business." ?”

"What are you meddling in? I'm obviously planning ahead. What if Ji Xiao also placed an order with me?" Ye Changsheng stood up straight, and made a generous statement with confidence, "As the saying goes, you know yourself and the enemy well. It's for those who are prepared!"

He Jiuzhong didn't speak, just leaned against the cabinet and looked at him.

"Cough." Ye Changsheng blinked, and tried to continue to be justified, "What do you think I am doing? Don't you think what I said makes sense?"

He Jiuzhong hooked his lips: "I just want to see if you can blink when you're lying." He looked him up and down playfully, and nodded, "Well, indeed, you will."

Ye Changsheng laughed, his round eyes curved into a crescent shape: "Right, I said it earlier, this is a physiological reaction and cannot be controlled."

Looking at the look that he was not ashamed but proud of, He Jiuzhong looked disdainful, but there was a faint smile in his eyes, he gently touched his lips with the tip of his tongue, and lowered his head to smooth out the wrinkles on his sleeves: "Let's go."

Hearing the words, Ye Changsheng hurriedly came over, and together with the other side, walked around the main entrance from the other side of the firewood pile, and walked silently towards the back mountain that Ji Xiao had told them about during the day.