Hundred Ghosts

He Huai really couldn't stand his mouth, and persuaded him, "Look, he became the number one scholar with your help, and this number one scholar... was the one who took the exam."

He nodded in satisfaction, "Indeed."

"Then you have fulfilled your long-cherished wish, why do you still want to stay in the world?" Lin Zi was puzzled.

He sighed, "Actually, I stayed here to wait for my friend."

"Your friend?"

"He is also a talented seedling. If we both refer to it together, it is uncertain who will be the champion! When I left, I invited him to be with him. He was one step behind me because of family affairs," he looked melancholy. Looking out the window, "But he hasn't come until now."

"What if he doesn't come?" Lin Zi said.

"Impossible. A year before I died, I wrote him a letter, and he replied, saying that I could come here in the early spring of that year."

"Early spring?"

"Let me tell you, Daoist, I never thought that I could be the champion... hiccup, I really didn't expect... I thought I would go home to farm after the exam, but I didn't expect, hehe, I won! "

Lin Zi helplessly turned to look at the imperial examination ghost, but found that his ghost was gone!

You won't really leave, will you?

Lin Zi worried again, what if he didn't see his friend down there?

How about going back and burning a piece of paper for him to talk about?

"Hey, that's right," he said to He Huai in a low voice, "I didn't know how to write in the examination room that day, and I heard a voice suddenly, and I wrote as the voice said, but I didn't expect to be able to pass the exam One...you are a Taoist priest, can you tell me what is going on with that voice?"

He Huai turned his face away in disgust, "You've got the wrong person!"

"Ah? Oh..." He let go of He Huai's sleeve, and grabbed the shoulder of the passing Xiaoer, "So short, he should be Lin Daochang, right? Daochang, what do you think..."

Lin Zi: "..."

The poor Xiao Er knew that he was the number one scholar, and he couldn't afford to offend him, so he was too frightened to make a sound.

Zhuangyuan Lang laughed and left, the imperial examination ghost snorted coldly, and continued to say to Lin Zi, "That's right, he said he would go this way after the Chinese New Year, and when he came here, he would be able to catch up with Chungui."

Lin Zi suddenly had an ominous premonition, and he thought of that ghost. "What if... what if he can't leave again?"

The Imperial Examination Ghost shook his head, "We are literati, and we always count our words. Even so, he should write me a letter. If he didn't reply, then he hasn't come yet. I have to wait for him."

He Huai couldn't help muttering, "Then you help people cheat in exams?"

"This...you are the only one with a mouth!" He glared at He Huai.

"What's wrong with me having a mouth? Just allow you to babble a lot, and don't allow me to spout a few words?"

"you!"

"Okay, stop arguing, by the way, what does your friend look like?" Lin Zi asked her.

"Looks...beautiful, with a small mole on his left cheek and phoenix eyes, he looks better than me anyway." He smiled shyly, "Hehe", "But he's not as tall as I am, probably at the point between my eyebrows, he's taller than me Much more noble, I like green shirts."

Now Lin Zi and He Huai stopped talking, his friend...wasn't that ghost?

The appearance and characteristics are very consistent, with a bookish look, wearing a green shirt, and carrying a lot of books... It was Chuchun who died when he was eaten by a tiger on the road...

"Then, have you ever thought that your friend might... well, have passed away?" Lin Zi asked cautiously.

"impossible?"

"What if?"

"If that's the case, I don't have any regrets in this world, so I might as well go and accompany him."

What a good brother!

Lin Zi was very satisfied with this answer, "To be honest, we seem to have met your friend."

"What? Where is it?" He immediately sat down beside Lin Zi, staring at him eagerly.

"He was eaten by a tiger!"

"... If you want to trick me into leaving, you have to have a good reason." He obviously didn't believe this reason.

"Wearing a green shirt, with delicate features, not tall, between your brows, Danfeng eyes, and a mole on the left cheek, right?"

"Yes, yes, but isn't that what I told you just now?"

"..." It seems to be the same, it's all because his friend's appearance is too monotonous.

Lin Zi said, "He was really eaten by a tiger, and he even told me that he wanted to come and find you!"

"You lie too much," he sneered, "he was eaten by tigers, and he told you that he wanted to find me?"

"Ghost, you idiot!" He Huai couldn't help scolding, "People who are eaten by tigers become ghosts, Lin Zi is a Taoist priest, and we both can see ghosts! He also said that he is now a ghost, I don't know how to meet you either."

"Really?"

"Really." He Huai nodded, "His bones are still piled up in that tiger cave."

He didn't dare to tell the story of helping the tiger to harm people after his friend turned into a ghost, let alone say that because of them, his friend has been wiped out of his wits.

"If I really want you to disappear, I can use a formation to wipe you out, so why bother talking to you so much." Lin Zi said, "The main reason is that I promised him to help find you, and made a ghost with him. Fate, but I am a human being, how can I have a relationship with a ghost? Meeting you this time can just solve the ghost relationship. If what I told you is false, when I am old and weak, you can come and claim your life."

His voice was a little louder, and a group of people around him had seen it, so the last sentence was a bit lacking in confidence.

But when it comes to this, there is no falsehood.

He couldn't help but burst into tears, "If that's the case, I don't have anything to think about, just let him go."

"Then... never see you again?"

"I don't see you again... hiccup? Lin Daochang..." Zhuangyuan Lang, who had finished drinking a toast, came over belching, and grabbed He Huai's hand, "Oh, look, I'm too drunk , I haven't seen you for a while, Lin Daochang is actually a lot taller hehe..."

Lin Zi, who was watching from the side, said, "..."

He waited for a while, but didn't hear an answer, and muttered, "What, Daoist, you are too stingy... hiccup!"

Lin Zi put his hand on his forehead, "Forget it, you can help him away. If he wakes up and asks, he will say that we have already left."

"Guest officer, are you staying for a while?"

"No, nothing, something to do." Lin Zi waved his hand, "Let's go."

"Guest officer, go slowly."

After walking out of the door, Lin Zi realized that it was a loss, he didn't eat any food!

"Forget it," He Huai comforted him, "The food from Beixiao Alley is delicious, let's go and try it."

"it is good."

The alley was really lively, and they waited for a long time to find a seat. This shop sells snacks, soy milk buns in the morning, noodles in the evening, and you can order food.

"His egg noodles are delicious, do you want to eat?"

"it is good!"

When the noodles were served, Lin Zi took a sip. The taste was super good. There were fried eggs under the crispy raw vegetable leaves. The soup base should be boiled with pork ribs, and there were fried sliced ​​meat underneath. It smelled delicious.

The hem of his clothes was pulled suddenly, Lin Zi drank the soup and said vaguely, "Don't talk about it, it's delicious, I know."

He suddenly said this, which made He Huai a little confused, "What do you know?"

"The soup is delicious."

"……Oh."

"Then why are you still pulling my clothes?" Lin Zi looked up at him, only to see He Huai protecting the bowl with one hand and holding the noodles with the other.

Lin Zi's face froze. Who was that person pulling his clothes?

He looked down, and there was a skinny ghost pulling his clothes and looking at his bowl.

"My God!" Lin Zi was really taken aback, and suddenly jumped up, knocking over the bowl. Fortunately, the boss's bowl was strong enough and not broken.

The ghost loosened Lin Zi's clothes, crawled to the side of the noodles that fell on the ground, grabbed the noodles with dirt in both hands, and swallowed them desperately. Its face was swollen, but it couldn't swallow. Crying out, it looks so pitiful anyway.

"Hey, sir, are you burning it?" The noodle stall owner who heard the noise hurried over.

Lin Zi thought about it shyly at him, "No, no, I'm sorry."

"It's okay, it's okay, the guest officer, do you want another bowl? There are vacant seats over there, you sit over there, and I will clean up here first."

Lin Zi looked at the ghost, then turned around and said, "It's all right, let's go up, you see you have another guest, shall we clean up after eating?"

"That's fine too."

The noodles on the ground were left to the ghost, and Lin Zi took a sip of the new noodles.

He Huai asked him softly, "He seems to be a needle-mouthed ghost."

The real ghost is a bit pitiful. It has a big appetite, but its throat is only pinholed, and it can't swallow anything. It can only smell the fragrance and live by drinking white water.This kind of ghost burns with hunger and fire all day long, suffering terribly, and it is so sad that people are moved.

Lin Zi nodded, "Looks like it is."

Anyway, he couldn't swallow it, so the ghost had to spit out what was in his mouth, and watched Lin Zi eat it with tears in his eyes. Seeing it like this, Lin Zi couldn't eat anymore.

He picked out the noodles and said dryly to the needle-mouth hungry ghost, "Why don't you have some soup?"

He moved his position, and the needle-mouthed hungry ghost hurriedly sat up, put his head on his face and took a big gulp, swallowing the soup with his mouth bulging.

This meal lasted until the store closed, and the hungry ghosts at the mouth of the needle didn't leave the table. Lin Zi paid five times the price of the meal, and said embarrassedly, "We took a while to eat and delayed you. I'm really sorry."

"Where is that, haha." The shopkeeper smiled, and asked softly, "Did you see something?"

"what?"

"My store is inherited from my ancestors. I played in the store every day when I was a child," the boss said, throwing the tablecloth on the table. Look, but I never eat, I told my mother, but my mother said there is no one..."

Lin Zi expressed his understanding. Children's souls are unstable, and they can more or less see things that adults can't see.

The owner went on to say, "It wanders around my house all day long. Sometimes there are noodles in my house that the guests can't finish. At that time, there were no pigs, so I dumped them all. I often saw it looking for noodles in the garbage dump, but It seemed to be unable to eat it, and then spit it out after filling its mouth full, squatting on the spot and crying, so pitiful to look at.”

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