The sound of hula-la-la water came from the gap between the doors and windows. Yu Liangheng stood at the door of the cubicle and couldn't help swallowing.

want to go in.

Yu Liangheng stared at the crack of the door, raised and lowered his hands several times, but in the end he didn't dare to push the door directly and enter.

Anyway, he is a man of dignity, so if he enters so rashly, no matter how thick-skinned he is, he will feel ashamed.

But I can't get in, let's take a look at the head office...

Yu Liangheng raised his hand solemnly, and lightly poked a hole in the window paper with his slender and slender fingers. It was round and small, just enough to see the situation inside clearly.

Yu Liangheng put his face up in a serious manner, and as soon as his eyes were on the small hole, he saw a scene that made him scratch his heart.

Zhao Li was sitting in the bathtub, his snow-white back was facing the door, and the upper part of his chest was slightly reddened by the steaming mist, which was extremely attractive.

He brushed his hair to one shoulder, and a few strands of hair were wet with water and stuck to his fair shoulder.He kept holding the hot water on his body with his hands, and the round drops of water slid down the contours of his back, every drop just fell into Yu Liangheng's heart.

Maybe it was because he was too happy to take a bath, Zhao Li's cat ears were exposed, sticking up, shaking from time to time.

After about a stick of incense, Zhao Li suddenly stretched his waist, hula - stood up from the tub.

Zhao Li is on the thin side, but it's not the kind of skinny with only bones left.The waist is strong and narrow, and there is no shortage of places on the body where there should be flesh.Although the abdominal muscles are not obvious, they still have a feeling to the touch.

The moment he got up, drops of water trickled down his back, and the moonlight reflected on his back through the window lattice, which was so beautiful that it made one's heart tremble.

Although it was just watching, Yu Liangheng's whole body was already on fire.

Seeing that Zhao Li was about to get out of the bathtub, Yu Liangheng was afraid of being discovered, so when he turned to leave, his feet kicked in disorder and directly on the wooden bucket filled with hot water, and he couldn't help grunting in pain.

"Who's outside?" Zhao Li didn't care about wiping, grabbed his underwear and put it on indiscriminately, then rushed out the door barefoot.

When he saw the tall figure directly opposite, Zhao Li brushed his wet hair from his shoulders back to his back: "Yu Liangheng, what are you doing here?"

Yu Liangheng pretended nothing happened, turned around calmly, pointed at the bucket of hot water at the door with a blank expression: "The son of the village chief asked me to bring you hot water for you."

Zhao Li looked at the bucket at his feet, and laughed: "I asked him for help, but he is quite courageous, and he dared to help you."

Yu Liangheng's eyes froze, and he said displeasedly: "I'm not dead, is it necessary to ask him for help?"

Chao Li said: "You were questioning Luo Xie in the room just now, so I don't have the nerve to bother you."

Qingyao Town Shrine and his party, the relationship between him and Yu Liangheng has indeed improved by leaps and bounds, but maybe it is so violent that it is too unreal, so that he is a little worried now, fearing that he will go too far and make Yu Liangheng hate him, after all, he has never slept , not to mention unmarried, who knows when he will meet someone better than himself, and kick himself off.

Yu Liangheng snorted coldly: "Exaggerated words."

Zhao Li couldn't understand these words: "I'm telling the truth, I have reasons and evidence, why do I use such strong words?"

Yu Liangheng was about to explain how he was irrational, when he glanced inadvertently, and saw two small, invisible bulges on Chao Li's chest, his throat dried up instantly, and his pupils shrank into a small spot.

Zhao Li just put on his clothes without wiping off the water on his body. At this moment, the thin layer of snow-white inner clothing has been soaked by the water, the thin cloth is close to the skin, and the whole body is full of rich fragrance. The lure breath can lure the enemy deep at any time.

Zhao Li was itchy all over when he looked at him, and was about to ask him why he only looked at himself and didn't speak, when he just opened his mouth, he was taken aback suddenly: "Yu Liangheng, why is your nose bleeding?"

Yu Liangheng was dazed for a while, before realizing it, he quickly took out a handkerchief and wiped it.

Chao Li was worried, and wanted to go up to help, but just as he took a step, Yu Liangheng stretched out his hand and refused him a step: "Don't come here! Stay away from me!"

"..." Zhao Li was at a loss, right? I was just worried that one day he would tire of me and kick me, and this day came too soon!

Zhao Li couldn't hold back his breath, so he had to go over to have a look. Just as he got closer, blood started to flow from Yu Liangheng's other nostril.

Zhao Li: "..." Why don't I just get closer to you, and why get so angry?

Zhao Li's outstretched hand froze in the air, and after a while, he retracted in frustration: "Forget it, wipe it yourself, I'm leaving."

Zhao Li glanced at him unhappily, turned around and was about to go back to the house to get his clothes, but just as he lifted his feet, his body suddenly felt warm.

Yu Liangheng wrapped his own robe around Chao Li's body, tied his sleeves together, and directly tied Chao Li into a tube: "I told you not to come here, but come back here, it's all right now, let the two sides flow together , do you know how valuable my blood is?"

Zhao Li was still in a daze, but was hugged by Yu Liangheng.

Yu Liangheng hugged him, and said in a cold voice: "One drop of my blood can reach ten years of life expectancy for a mortal. You should do the math yourself. Just now you were disobedient and insisted on getting close to me, how many lives have you killed?"

"Ah?" Zhao Li became more and more fascinated as he listened, "You have a nosebleed, what does it have to do with me?"

How many creatures have been killed, it seems to be true...

Yu Liangheng looked down at him: "If you weren't too unreserved, I wouldn't have a nosebleed."

"Where am I not reserved?" Zhao Li said in shock.

As soon as he finished speaking, Yu Liangheng carried him away.Zhao Li: "Where are you taking me, I haven't taken my clothes yet!"

"Send the puppet to get the clothes later. You are responsible for the evil you did. Go back to the room and help me vent the fire." Yu Liangheng said while walking towards the bedroom.

Zhao Li was dumbfounded, just now he scolded him for being immodest, now he said he wanted to go back to his room to vent his anger, shouldn't he close the door and beat him up?

Chao Li was so frightened that he shrank back to his original shape, got out of the tube of clothes wrapped by Yu Liangheng, and ran directly to the roof.

Yu Liangheng lightened his hand, and he quietly raised his eyes, looking at the frightened little black cat under the moonlight: "..."

Suddenly I really want to hit someone.

"Come down!" Yu Liangheng said angrily.

Chao Li shrank his head: "I don't."

When you come down, you will vent your anger on me, and the fool will come down.

Yu Liangheng: "If you don't come down, I will go up."

Zhao Li cut his voice: "Come up, I will jump down if you come up."

Yu Liangheng clenched his fists, gritted his teeth and said, "Don't force me to do it."

Zhao Li's tail was straight up: "Admit it, you just want to do something to me, Yu Liangheng, don't just rely on your good looks to do whatever you want, to tell you the truth, just because of your temper that you do not agree with each other, It's just that I like you, that's why I can bear it, if it were someone else, I would have drowned you with my saliva."

Although Chao Li admitted that he likes him, he is still very angry... Yu Liangheng forcefully suppressed his anger: "Chao Li, I will count to three, if you don't let me down, I will really do it, three, two."

Before counting "one", the village head's son suddenly appeared, looking blankly at Chao Li who was standing on the roof facing Yu Liangheng: "Whose family's little black cat is this, it looks so cute."

The savior is here!Zhao Li gave a childish meow at the village chief's son, and then looked at Yu Liangheng in horror.

The village chief's son hissed at Yu Liangheng in embarrassment, and then whispered: "Young Master Yu, you seem to have frightened him."

Although Yu Liangheng has a bad temper, he doesn't have the habit of losing his temper with unrelated people. He said coldly, "That's my cat. He deliberately lied to you by pretending to be pitiful."

The village chief's son was puzzled: "But Mr. Yu didn't bring a cat with him when he came."

Yu Liangheng was about to explain, but as soon as he opened his mouth, Chao Li jumped off the roof, but before Yu Liangheng reached out to grab it, he kicked his hind legs and threw himself into the arms of the village chief's son, and then Huddled into a ball, timidly looking at Yu Liangheng.

The son of the village chief was moved by Zhao Li's sincere acting skills, and when he spoke to Yu Liangheng again, his tone became a little bit harder: "Young Master Yu, he is really afraid of you, so I just reacted to him like this, sorry I really dare not Trust him to be your cat."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Li cooperatively touched the back of the village chief's son's hand, looking pitiful as if he wanted to leave with him.

However, it's okay if it's not sweet, but if it's sweet, it's self-defeating and completely pissed off Yu Liangheng.

Yu Liangheng showed a sinister smile at the village head's son: "This is really my cat. It's just that he got into trouble just now and was scolded by me. That's why it's like this. Don't misunderstand, my lord."

Although Yu Liangheng's smile was weird and made people's backs shudder, but this set of rhetoric did not seem to be fake, he confirmed: "Really?"

Yu Liangheng nodded sincerely.

Seeing this, the village head's son was really shaken, and Zhao Li immediately meowed at him twice, "Brother, can't you be firmer in your heart?" !

But he thought too much. The heart of the village chief's son is like dough, which becomes soft when squeezed. Before Yu Liangheng could say anything more, he sent the cat out, and said solemnly: "I heard people say, The black cat has a spirit, plus he is so lovely, Mr. Yu must treat him kindly."

"I will." Yu Liangheng said sincerely.

The village chief's son was so easily moved by Yu Liangheng, even though Zhao Li kept meowing at him miserably, he didn't even blink.

Looking at the back of the village chief's son leaving, Zhao Li was a little dumbfounded, brother, you are Yu Liangheng's babysitter, right?

Yu Liangheng looked at the black cat in his arms, and patted its fur: "Aren't you good at selling miserably, keep going."

Zhao Li snorted weakly, shrinking into a ball of black fur in despair.

Whether it's a slap or a fist, let the horse come here, I even got a stick when I was a child, I'm afraid of a fart!

Seeing that he was silent, Yu Liangheng raised his eyebrows and carried him into the bedroom.

After being put on the bed by Yu Liangheng, Chao Li lay flat on all fours, with his hairy belly heaving and falling, he closed his eyes and said decisively: "You can beat me up however you want, but don't hit me in the face. The face is shattered and there is no way to cover it."

Yu Liangheng was still angry at first, but when he heard this, he was so dazed that he forgot to be angry: "When did I say I was going to beat you up?"

Zhao Li carefully opened one eye: "Didn't you say you want to vent your anger on me?"

"I..." The words were indeed spoken by myself, and I couldn't deny it, but Yu Liangheng said in a dark voice, "Do you know that when people get angry, there are actually two kinds of fire?"

Zhao Li shook his head: "I don't know."

Yu Liangheng gritted her back teeth: "It's okay if I don't know, I tell you that when people get angry, it doesn't have to be anger, it may also be lust, and what I want to vent is the second type."

"!" Zhao Liliu rolled up from the bed and shrank to the corner of the wall, "You want to fuck me?"

Yu Liangheng's forehead twitched: "I know you haven't read any books, but can you be a little more tactful?"

Zhao Li shook his head very honestly: "No."

Yu Liangheng: "..."

Yu Liangheng took a deep breath, and managed to calm down, "I don't need to fuck you."

Zhao Li was at a loss: "You don't want to fuck me?"

Yu Liangheng finally couldn't help it anymore: "It's not a question of whether I want to or not, it's about your current body, if I fuck you today, you should go to heaven tomorrow!"

Zhao Li raised his cat's paw and scratched his cheek in embarrassment: "Actually, you don't have to be so loud, I can hear you."

Yu Liangheng sat on the side of the bed, looked at Zhao Li impatiently: "Forget it if you are so mad at me."

If I had known it was the sun, I wouldn't have run away... Chao Li turned back into a human form, crawled to Yu Liangheng's side, and poked his shoulder with his finger: "I was wrong, I ran away without knowing what you said, you Do not be angry."

Yu Liangheng snorted and said coldly: "That's all?"

Zhao Li conjured cat ears and a tail, rubbed against Yu Liangheng's body, and then put the tip of the tail in Yu Liangheng's palm: "Is it sincere enough for you to stroke the tail?"

"Not enough." Yu Liangheng reached out with a long arm, and directly pulled Chao Li into his arms, and then put the other hand in front of Chao Li, "You just sweetened other men a few times, now it's double sweet return."

Zhao Li was stunned: "Mao Tianren is such a normal thing, are you also jealous?"

Yu Liangheng said indifferently: "I don't care."

"Okay, I promise you." Zhao Li was about to transform back into a cat shape when Yu Liangheng raised his hand and hooked his chin.

Yu Liangheng said coldly: "You can't become a cat, it's just this sweet."

"Ah?!" Zhao Li looked at him in shock. When it was a cat, the back of the sweet man's hand was showing his favor. Is it... to seduce?

Yu Liangheng: "Not happy?"

Zhao Li lowered his head and whispered, "It's not that I don't like it, it's just that it's too shameful to do so."

Yu Liangheng frowned: "So you would rather treat others like this than me?"

"You are unreasonable." When Zhao Li raised his head to meet Shang Yu Liangheng's burning gaze, his heart softened suddenly.

When he turned into a cat in his previous life, the back of his hand was often sweet and cool. His back was different from others', and when he touched it with the tip, he could taste a little sweetness.

Speaking of it, I still miss it... Zhao Li glanced at Yu Liangheng, grabbed Yu Liangheng's clothes with both hands, lowered his head slightly, and touched the back of Yu Liangheng's white hand lightly.

The moment the tip of the house touched the skin, the long-lost sweetness made Chao Li feel a little overwhelmed.

He knelt between Yu Liangheng's two retreats, suddenly hooked his hands around Yu Liangheng's neck, and kissed him.

The moment her soft lips touched, Yu Liangheng was a little skeptical about her life. When her lips and teeth collided, the two breaths were entwined.

Not long after, Zhao Li let go of Yu Liangheng, and his face was almost flushed.

Yu Liangheng touched his slightly swollen lips, looked down at Zhao Li: "The kiss is really bad."

Zhao Li refused to accept it and said, "This is the first time I've taken the initiative to kiss someone, why do you have so many opinions?"

A gentle smile suddenly appeared on Yu Liangheng's cold face: "Do I need to teach you?"

As soon as Chao Li met his gaze, Yu Liangheng pressed him directly onto the bed, gagged his mouth, and caught Chao Li's lapel with her fingers...

After about a cup of tea, Yu Liangheng let go of Chao Li.

Zhao Li was lying on the bed, covering his eyes with the back of his hand, still panting non-stop, his chest heaving and falling, and the inner garment on his body was messed up by Yu Liangheng.

After a while, Zhao Li said to him with red eyes: "Bastard! Your skills are not much better, and Shetou was almost bitten by you!"

Yu Liangheng looked at him: "You are ashamed to say, I was just almost there, you have already bitten my head to bleed."

Zhao Lizui said stubbornly: "I was in a hurry."

"Okay, you're all right." Yu Liangheng turned over and hugged him, dragging him into bed, "Go to sleep well, we're going to the city again as soon as the third watch arrives."

In order not to be discovered, they had to rush there before the people of Qingyao Town got up in the morning.

Although he only took one kiss and touched two just now, Zhao Li's physique was too poor and he was already exhausted. He shrank into Yu Liangheng's arms, and before going to sleep, he remembered what Yu Liangheng said in the shrine , couldn't help asking: "Why can't others know that you are with me?"

Yu Liangheng rested his chin on Chao Li's shoulder, closed his eyes and said calmly: "Too many people know about it, it's not good for you."

Zhao Li: "How disadvantageous?"

Yu Liangheng: "You don't need to know, just be obedient, I won't lie to you."

Zhao Li said with lowered eyes: "Fart, you obviously often lie to me."

Yu Liangheng knew what Zhao Li was referring to, so he said helplessly, "Trust me, I never lied to you about this matter."

Chao Li turned over, kissed Yu Liangheng's hair, closed his eyes and muttered: "I didn't say I didn't believe you this time."

Yu Liangheng rubbed his head and chuckled lightly.

……

As soon as the third watch arrived, Luo Xie knocked on the door.The three packed their clothes and went to Qingyao Town again.

While walking, Luo Xie told the two of them the news he had asked from the plain-clothed man last night.

The man in plain clothes is called Shen Tang, the bastard son of a local cloth merchant.

When the statue was brought back to Qingyao Town, Shen Tang's father's cloth dyeing factory was about to close due to the downturn in business.

However, after making a wish to the God of Smiling Drum, Shen Tang's father's dyeing factory suddenly came back to life. Not only did the original business come back, but it also expanded several times in just two years.

Since then, Shen Tang's father has firmly believed in the God of Smiling Drums. Naturally, after this incident, Shen Tang's family has also become believers in the God of Smiling Drums.

Originally, everything was fine, but Shen Tang suddenly made up his mind to leave because of one night three days ago.

According to what Shen Tang said, that night, when he went out to get up at night, he suddenly heard a strange drum sound. He searched for the sound and found the door of his father's room.

At that time, the door of his father's room was ajar. He peeked in under the moonlight and found that his father and his aunt were kowtowing to the drum statue in the house. Every time they knocked, there would be a muffled sound. drum.

Luo Xie said: "The same thing happened on the second night and the night before. Shen Tang said that he can clearly conclude that the sound of the drum was caused by his parents' heads hitting the ground, and it's definitely not a poor boy."

Zhao Li speculated: "Kowtow made a drum sound, could it be that his parents' heads are hollow?"

"I don't know, but," Luo Xie said, "Do you still remember the group of strong men in black that you met on the street yesterday?"

Zhao Li nodded: "I remember, they seemed to be chasing someone at that time."

Luo Xie said: "They are after Shen Tang."

Zhao Li was stunned: "Why are you chasing him?"

Luo Xie said: "Those people were sent by Shen Tang's father. As for the reason, Shen Tang said that it was because he was caught while eavesdropping the night before yesterday. Afterwards, his father took them away to prevent the secret from being leaked." Locked him up, and said he wanted to find a chance to kill him, Shen Tang didn't want to die, so he managed to escape, and when his father found out, he hurriedly sent someone out to arrest him."

"So that's it." Zhao Li said clearly, "Did he say anything else?"

Luo Xie raised her eyebrows, and narrowed her fox eyes slightly, showing a sly look: "He also said that the shrine in the town is different at night and during the day."

Yu Liangheng said indifferently: "How does he know?"

Luo Xie: "It is said that a friend told him before he died."

Zhao Li frowned: "Dying?"

Luo Xie: "Well, before he died, that friend of his noticed something was wrong with his family five days ago. He was a prickly and courageous man. He thought it was because of the statue enshrined in the shrine, so he made an appointment with Shen Tang. Visiting the shrine at night. However, Shen Tang was timid and did not dare to go in. His friend went in alone, and when he came out again, he turned into a genuine human skin drum, the kind that sounded good. But it's a pity, his friend just said that the shrine is different at night from the day, and died."

Yu Liangheng sneered: "Human skin drums, this taste is really bad."

Luo Xie nodded: "It's not very good, but through this unique taste, it can be basically confirmed that the smiling face drum god is the smiling face drum master. But I'm still very curious, why the smiling face drum god It appeared, but the smiling drummer was clearly still in the ice prison at that time."

Yu Liangheng said coldly: "It's very simple, there is someone behind to help."

Zhao Li: "What's the use of the smiling face encouraging the gods?"

Yu Liangheng explained: "The smiling drummer is a fallen god, but even though his godhead has fallen, his god statue with a small amount of consciousness can still absorb incense and use it to help him accumulate spiritual power. However, what he absorbed It is not the offering of human melons and fruits, but the lifespan of believers. By taking away the lifespan of believers, the believers are then made into living human skin drums. Over the years, the spiritual power has weakened a lot, and the people behind the scenes have considered this, so they have planned ahead, and started to help the smiling drummer accumulate spiritual power more than [-] years in advance."

Hearing this, Zhao Li suddenly had a bad idea: "Those people I saw yesterday with a lifespan of just over a day, wouldn't they be made into human skin drums at midnight?"

Yu Liangheng: "It's probably true."

Zhao Li: "Is there any help?"

Yu Liangheng glanced at him: "It can be saved, but I don't really want to save him."

Zhao Li was puzzled: "Why?"

Yu Liangheng: "Because they are not completely innocent, you must know that the smiling drum master can only absorb the lifespan from the believers, if they are not daydreaming every day that their wishes come true, they will not be like this."

Zhao Li tugged on Yu Liangheng's sleeve: "I understand this too, but they don't fully deserve what they deserve. Moreover, human nature is not meant to be tested. Everyone has daydreams, including me. One day, I will also go astray because of my daydreams. They have already tasted the bitter fruit, and knowing how to return to the wrong path is better than waiting for death in despair and remorse."

Yu Liangheng ignored him.

Chao Li tilted his head and leaned on Yu Liangheng's shoulder, and rubbed it twice: "Yu Liangheng~"

Luo Xie had goosebumps, but Yu Liangheng still ignored him.

Zhao Li grabbed Yu Liangheng's hand, scratched his palm, continued to shout while scratching: "Yu Liangheng~Yu Liangheng~Yu Liangheng~~~"

Yu Liangheng finally couldn't take it anymore: "Got it. But if you want to save them, you must get rid of the smiling drummer before midnight. In this way, there will be no so-called gods, and there will be no believers. But I don't care about this." Not sure, if it doesn’t work, then don’t blame me.”

Zhao Li smiled slightly, lowered his eyes and said: "I didn't say that you must save them, but since there is hope, we can't let them wait for death in vain. Besides, you are still injured, if you really can't beat them, let's run away. You are not required to sacrifice yourself for them."

Although it is inappropriate to interrupt in this atmosphere, Luo Xie still wants to ask: "Jade Immortal, are you injured?"

When he was injured, his father didn't tell him.

Yu Liangheng gave him a cold look, letting him experience it for himself.

Luo Xie rolled her eyes, and immediately said oh: "Yes, you are injured, look at my brain, I almost forgot, I didn't care enough about you, I'm sorry."

Speaking of this, Zhao Li looked at Yu Liangheng suspiciously: "Didn't you say that you were wounded on your chest? It's a big wound. Why didn't I touch it at night?"

Fearing that Luo Xie would hear it, Zhao Li deliberately said this in a low voice.

Yu Liangheng also leaned into his ear, and replied in a low voice: "Internal injury, of course you can't touch the wound."

Zhao Li groaned, and began to ponder: "If you meet the smiling drummer today, don't go up first, Luo Xie and I will consume him for a while, and then you go up, if it really doesn't work, you should run away. I cover you."

Luo Xie couldn't take it anymore: "Xiao Chaoli, do you know what it means that a skinny camel is bigger than a horse? Even if your fairy is stabbed in the heart a few times, he can crush us both to death with one hand."

Zhao Li only knew that Yu Liangheng was powerful, but asked, "Is it so powerful?"

Luo Xie laughed and said, "How do you think the No. [-] innate god in the Six Realms came to be? It wasn't made by doing good deeds and accumulating virtue, but by fighting. After beating all other innate gods to the ground, he is naturally number one. "

Zhao Li's face trembled: "..." It really sounded like something Yu Liangheng could do.

The three of them talked while walking, when they were approaching the city gate, they suddenly heard movement inside, so they stopped and did not continue walking.

Yu Liangheng took out a puppet and threw it directly on the city wall. After a while, the puppet came back with the news.

It is said that there are four men inside the city wall, who are about to climb the wall and escape.

Since he was fleeing abroad, he should be in the same category as Shen Tang.The three of them didn't hide anymore, they jumped over the wall and jumped in.

Seeing the three jumping off the wall, the four men were startled and thought they were coming after them.

After the explanation, I just learned that these four men, like Shen Tang, discovered some secrets in Qingyao Town, and their family members also had similar situations to Shen Tang's parents.

From their mouths, I learned that in an idle thatched hut in the west of the town, there are many people who also found abnormalities like them.Everyone dare not come out, because once they come out, they will be chased and killed by their family members.

At first, Zhao Li didn't believe that someone would kill his close relatives, but the four said that within these three days alone, seven people were killed by close relatives.

However, it's not true that the six relatives are ignorant and devoid of conscience, because those so-called close relatives have lost consciousness a long time ago, and there are not many normal people among the people who happily take to the streets every day.

After Yu Liangheng threw the four of them out of the city wall, he went to the idle thatched hut in the west of Zhenxi together with Chao Li and Luo Xie.

The Heavenly General Xi Wei, sending them away at this time will definitely attract attention. Just in case, Yu Liangheng gave each of them a small puppet. There is a switch on the puppet. used for self-defense.

When the sky was bright, the three of Zhao Li returned to the street yesterday, and put on the drum god mask they bought yesterday.

Perhaps today is the grand ceremony for worshiping the gods, the streets are full of people coming and going, just judging by the number of people, it is even busier than before.

However, the people who went out today, like Zhao Li and the others, put on pale white drum god masks, looking around, it was inexplicably weird, and even made people's backs shudder.

When passing by the entrance of the shrine, Zhao Lite turned his head and took another look.

Today, there are more people entering and leaving the shrine, but still only half of them are approaching the end of their lives.

They didn't go into the shrine anymore, but planned to go elsewhere. After all, there was nothing to do during the day, and the important thing was the ceremony of worshiping the gods after sunset.

Zhao Li bought three bunches of candied haws, one for each person, and while eating, he really took this place as a market.

Just as they turned two turns and were about to cross the stone bridge, several strong men in black suddenly surrounded them.

Zhao Li bit a candied haws, looked at the gorgeously dressed middle-aged man walking out of the crowd, and frowned: "Who is it?"

The middle-aged man sneered: "I should be asking you this question. Someone saw you taking my son away yesterday. I don't care what your intentions are. In short, let me go!"

Yu Liangheng looked at him indifferently: "Who is my son?"

The middle-aged man raised his beard: "My son is my son!"

Yu Liangheng looked fart: "I don't know someone called my son."

"You, you, you, you—" The middle-aged man trembled with anger, "You are just a brat, how dare you talk to me like this, believe it or not, I will arrest you and go to the court right now!"

Yu Liangheng's face darkened: "Who are you talking about being wet?"

Anyway, wearing a mask, he couldn't recognize who was who, so Chao Li simply hid behind Yu Liangheng, so as not to affect his performance.

The middle-aged man didn't expect Yu Liangheng to choke him with such a tone, he was taken aback for a moment, then became angrier, and the officer disappeared, and he just waved his hand: "It's so arrogant and unreasonable, teach me a lesson!"

But before they could make a move, the people nearby stopped them.

"Today is the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the gods, and the use of force is prohibited. Master Shen, if you act like this, you may offend the gods." A commoner said.

Other people also responded one after another.

The middle-aged man had no choice but to withdraw in resentment in the end, and led the person away unwillingly. Before leaving, he said harshly, saying that the final account would be settled after the ceremony of worshiping the gods was over.

After he left, he said to Li: "He said we took his son away, and just now someone called him Mr. Shen, so he must be Shen Tang's father."

Yu Liangheng: "It's possible."

Zhao Li: "But he is so strange. He obviously came to us to ask for someone, but he left so easily."

Luo Xie raised her eyebrows: "Maybe I think it's unnecessary. After all, according to Smiley Drummer's plan, after tonight, even if someone discovers the secret and spreads it, it won't be able to stop him."

There are people wearing this kind of mask all over the street. It is really disgusting to see them for a long time. The three simply found a teahouse, went upstairs to drink tea, went out to eat something at noon, and continued to drink tea here in the afternoon. kill time.

Finally, as dusk approached, Zhao Li glanced through the window on the second floor to the long street covered with red leather snare drums and colorful lights. The ceremony of worshiping the gods was about to begin.

While drinking tea, they told Xiao Er a lot of things about the ceremony of worshiping the gods.

The ceremony of offering sacrifices to the gods is held once a year, starting at dusk and ending at dawn the next day, and lasts for a whole night.

In the past few years since the Drum God was enshrined, the people did not go out at night, saying that it would affect the Drum God to spread blessings.But within a year, every family will wear masks and take to the streets to watch the night only on the day of the god worship ceremony.

The most eye-catching thing in the ceremony of worshiping the gods is the parade.

The so-called parade is a group of artists dressed up as smiling faces and drumming gods to parade and play music, and they will parade for as long as the god worship ceremony lasts.

When the night fell completely, a clear drum sound spread to the second floor of the teahouse.

The three hurried downstairs, ready to see what this so-called parade was.

When they came down, there were already two long dragons standing on both sides of the long street. Everyone was holding flowers and waiting for the parade to come.

After a while, a golden car full of flowers came slowly. On the car was a statue of a god. On both sides of the statue were eight performers dressed up as drum gods with smiling faces. They clapped their hands rhythmically. The band musicians followed.

When the parade team passed in front of Chao Li and the others, the people onlookers kept raising their arms and shouting, Zhao Li's ears were almost deafened, but...

When the voices of the people gradually receded with the further away team, Zhao Li asked the two of them: "Did you find anything strange?"

Luo Xie said: "We have been able to hear the clear sound of drums, but there is no drummer among the musicians who were in charge of playing the music just now."

Yu Liangheng: "Why not? Aren't those artists who played the role of smiling drum masters drum masters?"

Luo Xie was taken aback: "When you say that, it seems that the sound of the drums really came from them."

Zhao Li: "It doesn't seem like it was. I heard very clearly that although they were clapping their hands, there was no clapping in their voice just now. Instead, there was the sound of drums that shouldn't exist."

Luo Xie laughed and said, "These performers playing the role of smiling drummers are not human, but human skin drums whose lifespan has been taken away?"

"It's possible." Yu Liangheng looked up at the sky and said indifferently, "It's almost time, it's time to visit the shrine."

The three followed the flow of people, and when they were walking towards the shrine, a little beggar suddenly grabbed Zhao Li.

Zhao Li was puzzled: "Is there something wrong?"

The little beggar shook his head at him, Zhao Li didn't understand, so he asked him again.

Luo Xie said: "Don't ask, he doesn't seem to be able to speak."

The little beggar pointed to his mouth, then nodded, and gestured to the three of them again.

Yu Liangheng said: "Are you telling us not to go?"

The little beggar nodded solemnly, and then gestured a few more times.

Yu Liangheng said lightly, "How do you know it's dangerous there?"

The little beggar gestured, Zhao Li didn't understand, but he saw Yu Liangheng's brows furrowed.

Chao Li asked Yu Liangheng in a low voice: "What is he gesticulating?"

Yu Liangheng said: "He told us to go and see his elder brother. After we saw it, we would naturally understand why he didn't let us go there."

Zhao Li looked at Yu Liangheng: "There's still enough time, let's go and have a look first, there won't be any delay."

Yu Liangheng acquiesced, and Luo Xie had no objection either.

The three of them followed the little beggar to a nearby thatched hut. In the hut, a man with a pale face was tied up, wearing a white mask.

After entering the room, before the three of them could ask any questions, the little beggar started making gestures.

Yu Liangheng said: "He said that his brother became like this a year ago, he was his brother during the day, but at night, he would become another person, as if he had no soul, he only knew how to kowtow to the god statue."

Zhao Li: "Isn't this the same situation as Shen Tang's parents?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the little beggar walked up to the man, bent his fingers, and lightly tapped his face, arms, chest, and most parts of his body. The sound came up one after another.

This kind of timbre is different from any drum timbre that Zhao Li has heard before.

As he was knocking, Zhao Li directly pulled out a red thread from his cuff, bound the little beggar's arm, and then slammed it to the door panel beside him.

The little beggar got up from the ground, with a sullen smile on his dirty face: "How did you find out that it was wrong? Could it be that I did not perform well?"

Yu Liangheng said coldly: "Your performance is really bad. You turned a blind eye to so many people passing by in front of you, but you only stared at us, and everyone would feel that something was wrong."

The little beggar giggled twice: "As expected, after me, the most conspicuous genius

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