Huai'an Temple

When they arrived in Huai'an, the two first went to Chuangu Shoucai Store to have a look.Ren Chuangu came out to welcome him, and he cupped his hands to express his gratitude: "You two have worked so hard. After that night, there will be no more strange things! Thank you so much!"

Xue Zhu returned the courtesy and said: "Boss Ren, you're welcome, do good deeds. Besides... I also collected money, and I want to eliminate disasters with others!"

Ren Chuan said: "Little Daoist Xue was joking. Something happened in the county when your master and apprentice went out these days. Li Wailang talked about you almost every day."

Xue Zhu hurriedly stretched his hand into his bosom to look for it, who would have guessed that the past few days he was playing a show, getting drunk in a brothel, and he didn't know which wine cup he threw the Tongyu talisman into.

Shen Tuan leaned forward and said, "We won't stay any longer, and we'll go to Li Wailang. If Boss Ren has anything else to do, then..."

Xue Zhu quickly took over the conversation: "If someone calls us again, it must be a happy event. Come to bother me again then!" After speaking, he pulled Shen Tuan away.

"Master, I'm really surprised. How can you earn money if you can't speak?" Xue Zhu walked a long way, still wondering.

Shen Tuan said: "That's too much, fortune-telling and hexagrams, geomantic omen, flame mouth, chanting scriptures, the most important thing is selling medicine."

Xue Zhu nodded: "Just say whatever you want, they can't beat you anyway, right?"

Shen Tuan thought about it for a while, and said: "If you say that, now that you think about it, their complexions are indeed not very good..."

"..."

Half way down Dongshi Street, I saw Li Tan standing with his back to the street, looking worried, staring at the door of a bathroom.White shirts and soap clothes came in and out, and after a while, they carried a corpse covered in white linen.

Xue Zhu took a few steps and was about to bow down. Li Tan saw him and his eyes brightened.Stretching out his hand to support him: "No, no, you are back!"

In this hot weather, he still dressed meticulously, with the dark green round neck turned out, revealing the plain white shirt underneath.Futou arrow sleeves, soft boot leather belt.A short blue beard on the chin.It's just that the corners of his mouth are a little red and purple, which adds a bit of humor to his serious and handsome face.

Shen Tuan got close and bowed.Li Tan cupped his hands and said, "Are you back? It seems that I have to make trouble for you again."

Shen Tuan nodded: "I heard that there has been a commotion for several days, is it a matter of human affairs?"

Li Tan sighed: "Let's go to your backyard first, and I'll see what's going on today."

Xue Zhu immediately protested: "I won't go! Just tell me the result!"

Li Tan stretched out his arms, wrapped his arms around his shoulders, and turned around to leave.

Xue Zhu wailed: "I won't go! Master help me!! I, I'm afraid..."

Not long after, I got the view.I didn't worship Sanqing and didn't enter the dormitory, but went to the back hall first.Xue Zhu resisted all the way, entered the front of the hall, and stopped three coffins.There is a person on the table in the inner hall, dripping with water.

Xue Zhu couldn't move forward or retreat, and stood behind Shen Tuan with a tense face.

Li Tan carefully looked at the man on the table, his whole body was covered with erythema and blisters, the skin peeled off in many places, his face was ferocious, and his lips and teeth were festered.

Li Tan sighed and said, "Tang Po died again."

Shen Tuan wondered: "It's scalding to death? This confluence hall has been open for several years, can't you tell the difference between hot and cold water? And people don't run away when the water is scalded?"

Li Tan curled his lips: "It's up to you to say! If it weren't so strange, I wouldn't miss you. This is already the fourth one, and the first three died like this. The hands, feet, elbows and knees, the damage is even worse. Heavy, it means that there is struggle. And look." Li Tan said, he cut open the neck of the deceased with a knife, pushed the throat and throat out, and said: "The throat is bright red and swollen, and there are also yellow and white ulcers. That is, he also drank scalding water, scalding his internal organs."

Thinking of this miserable scene, Xue Zhu shook his body, and said, "Uncle Li, can we go out and study? I'll invite him out for you, and you can ask him face to face, okay?"

As he spoke, he took out a soul-calling talisman, and stretched out his hand boldly.Shen Tuan took it, took two steps forward, and stuck it on the seal of the corpse.

Not long after, a puff of green smoke came out from the dantian of the corpse.Xue Zhu made a move with both hands, grabbed it and walked out.

Fearing that Li Tan would be rushed, Shen Tuan blocked him behind him.Xue Zhu concentrated on feeling it, and after a while, his expression became wrong.Urging: "Quickly ask! It's hot!"

Li Tan said: "Just ask who did the harm, why can't you struggle in the boiling water?"

The newly-dead souls often don't have much sanity, and rely entirely on pure yang synaesthesia. Xue Zhu realized it carefully, and slowly said: "In addition to heat, there are also excitement, joy, joy... This is wrong! Why are you happy when you are about to die? "

Shen Tuan asked: "I can't answer anything else, but was he forced into the water?"

Xue Zhu shook his head: "There is no forced resistance at all!"

Li Tan hurriedly asked again: "Isn't it suicide? Is it about love and wealth?"

Xue Zhu said: "It's not suicide, I don't want to harm myself at all. Love and hatred are nothing like that!" Just for a while, Xue Zhu was drenched with sweat from head to toe, with two big circles of watermarks on his chest and back, and water splashed on his face same.

Shen Tuan waved his hand, Xue Zhu let go, and the green smoke curled away.Shen Tuan analyzed it and said: "It's not suicide. It was hot. I struggled at first, but then I became unconscious and drank boiling water voluntarily. I don't know why until I die. There is obviously a hallucination process in it. The living people are afraid of it." It's hard to do."

Li Tan touched the leather belt, smiled slightly, and said, "I invite you to take a bath!"

Xue Zhu sneered: "Uncle Li, next time I see my aunt, I will tell her what you look like!"

Li Tan nodded reassuringly: "Let's talk, she can't see Choujun either. Are you almost twenty? Shall I ask her to marry you?"

Shen Tuan endured a smile and his face cramped...

Taking a bath has never been as simple as taking a bath and self-cleaning.As the old saying goes, bag water in the morning and water in the evening.

Huai'an County is rich and idle, and the teahouses on Dongshi Street are full of tea customers from the morning.All kinds of deep-fried dough sticks in soup, dried shredded cold noodles, and North and South dim sum are breakfast, called morning tea.Afterwards, order a cup of tea, sing stories and sing songs, talk about political affairs, and discuss business and industry.After drinking tea, it was noon.This is called purse water.

After lunch, I went to the bathroom.To straighten hair, pick ears, shave face, loosen bones, beat feet, and you can drink two cups when you are happy.This is called water.

Shen Tuan was wearing a bath towel, his wet hair was loose, and he was lying lazily on the bamboo couch.Humming a ditty, looking at Xue Zhu and Li Tan soaking in the big pond.It looks like the putty who comes here every day.It's just that most of them are five or sixty-year-old old men with gray beard and hair.He... has slender eyebrows, fair skin, and no beard.No matter how you look at it, it is against harmony!

At that time, he was twenty and had a crown, so when Xue Zhu often had braids or braids, Shen Tuan was used to wearing a crown.Thirty has a beard, so Li Tan grew a beard two years ago, so as not to be laughed at as old and young.Shen Tuan really thought it was troublesome, so he shaved when he took a bath because he didn't have much face.

Xue Zhu was soaked in the water, his face turned red and his body was soft, and he said: "Uncle Li, we've been soaking for so long, nothing happened!"

Li Tan splashed water on his face and said, "You'd better ask Sanqing to bless you. Something will happen tonight, or you'll have to continue soaking tomorrow!"

A few people were bored, when the double-fish embroidered curtain at the door was lifted, and a person strutted in.Wrapped in a white cotton bath towel, her hair was loosely tied into a braid and draped over her shoulders.About twenty years old, with a tough face and a red tear mole under his right eye.

Shen Tuan got up and cupped his hands: "Young Master Fan, it's true, where do you never meet again in life." Xue Zhu also pulled a bath towel and crawled out of the pool.

Fan Hui cupped his hands hastily, and said, "It's not a coincidence, I just came here to play with you. I don't know Huai'an Temple, how much is the rent?"

Shen Tuan smiled and said: "Mr. Fan was joking. Is there anything else in Huai'an? There are a few broken houses built of broken bricks and tiles. Don't say that friends come from afar, even if they ask for rent, Mr. Xie has paid for it." Already!"

Fan Hui said casually: "My elder brother is busy, and I'm the only idler. And if dozens of people don't die, he won't come!"

Xue Zhu waved his hands again and again: "It's better not to come!"

Without saying a few words, a few servants walked into the bathroom and set up a wooden table next to the water, half stuck outside the pool and half protruding into the water.Then the continuous flow of water prices put on all kinds of food and drink.In the center is a set of tea sea, with everything for use.Surrounded by pansi cakes, oil spinners, rose fried cakes, lotus leaf rolls, and hibiscus siu mai.There are also sugar cherries, sour bergamot, honeydew plums, and figs.And the cashew peanuts laughed.A table is full!

Fan Hui guarded the table and sat in the water, smashed the tea powder, took the tea whisk, held it in one hand, and greeted Xue Zhu with the other: "I know you don't drink, come fight for tea!" I like his straightforward temper, and I entered the water according to the words, and brushed with him.

Fan Hui lost so badly that he didn't get a bite of dim sum on the table.I couldn't help being anxious, so I stretched out my hand and said: "You scholars, I can't do it! Let's punch!"

Xue Zhu stretched out his fists to his mouth, he let out a sigh of relief and said, "I advise you, eat for a while, you still won't succeed with punching!"

Fan Hui's neck swelled, and the two began to fight with each other.This is much more lively than a tea fight, with water splashing and dried fruits flying around.

Shen Tuan sat next to Li Tan, looked at the battlefield over there, and said, "Do you still remember Mr. Xie who sent a bucket of gold during the epidemic? This Fan Hui said Mr. Xie was his elder brother."

Li Tan took a few glances and said, "Everyone knows that this bathing hall keeps killing people. He came here specially to find you. I'm afraid he is not a simple person."

Shen Tuan nodded: "Don't talk about you, even if you are ten times stronger, it's still not enough for him to strike with two swords."

Li Tan murmured, "Why don't I go back. It's inconvenient to save you from having scruples."

Shen Tuan thought about it and said, "Alright, let the people in the bathroom not come in. It's probably over when it gets dark."

Li Tan withdrew as he said.

Fan Hui still thinks he loses more and wins less, plunges headlong into the water, turns over a splash, and emerges from Shen Tuan: "Master Shen, do you want to play?"

Shen Tuan waved his hand: "I can't do anything, I can't do anything. You might as well just eat it if you play with me."

Fan Hui sized him up a few times, and said with piercing eyes, "Master Dao, you are just like my elder brother, you are a person who gives alchemy, right?"

Shen Tuan narrowed his long eyes, and said softly: "A Taoist priest, he practices alchemy and medicine, divination and fortune-telling, and nothing else."

Fan Hui turned over and swam back, stuffing things into his mouth with his right hand, and knocking on the water with the back of his left hand like knocking on a door.

He said vaguely: "You are really calm, come out. It's not like you'll be fine if you drag it on!"

He ate up all the snacks and refreshments on the table like a storm, Xue Zhu's eyes were wide open, and he was full after eating three or five.I didn't see any swelling in Fan Hui's abdomen, what a ghost!

Looking back, there was still no movement in the water. Fan Wei raised his eyebrows, his face was full of ferocity, and he punched the water with fists and shouted: "Get out!"

Immediately, a black figure rushed out of the vortex in the water, and rushed to the ground in a panic.It was transformed into shape in an instant, and the whole body was swollen and festered, with erythema and blisters, which made people sick.

Xue Zhu looked at Shen Tuan, who lowered his eyes and did not move.

Fan Hui squinted at the ghost, and asked coldly, "You don't know me?"

The ghost's legs went limp, and he prostrated himself on the ground, not daring to lift his head: "...Baye."

Fan Hui brushed his hair and asked, "Is it fun to take a bath with me?"

Hearing this, the ghost collapsed to the ground, barely fainting.Fan Hui looked at it carefully, and said to himself: "It was scalded to death? Isn't it a water ghost?"

Xue Zhu interjected: "The few people he killed were indeed scalded to death. They were not drowned. I don't know what kind of illusion he cast before he died. People happily drank boiling water and scalded their internal organs."

Fan Huihuo stood up from the water at once, and said, "I don't care if it's not drowning, you can do it yourself."

Shen Tuan stopped him and said, "Mr. Fan, don't bother the two masters. Now that you've got the picture, you can send him away."

With an impatient expression on his face, Fan Hui raised his chin, and a dagger flew in, nailing it right in front of the ghost. Fan Hui said, "Go, let me save you."

The ghost was overjoyed, got up and bowed a few times, then hurriedly dissipated, turned into green smoke, and disappeared.