Copper Coins

The snow stopped and fell, and lasted for a full day and night.For Xue Xian and Jiang Shining, this has advantages and disadvantages.

The good thing is that Jiang Shining, as the main force for running errands, is a wild ghost who is afraid of yang energy. In the snowy weather, the sky is covered with dark clouds all day long, and the yang energy is insufficient and the yin energy is strong. Just stop cooking.

The downside is...

"Raise your hand to cover my face! Quick! My head is going to be blown off by the wind!" Xue Xian shouted at Jiang Shining full of momentum.

With such a strong evil wind, it is naturally impossible for him to still sit on Jiang Shining's shoulders.In desperation, Jiang Shining had no choice but to tuck him in his front, only showing his head, so that this restless guy could give advice.However, this evil wind did not follow common sense at all, and it was lawless, whistling from east to west, north and south, which made people very annoyed.

Jiang Shining raised his hand with a green face, while protecting his paper head, he walked hard in the evil wind, "You can tuck your precious head into your clothes."

Xue Xian categorically refused: "No, I'm afraid you'll go astray if you lose your mind."

Jiang Shining: "..." Where does this road-blind face come from?

Xue Xian sneered: "When you enter the city, you will cry and ask me how to get there."

Jiang Shining: "..."

They are going to Wolong County, which is two cities away from Ningyang County. It is one of the county towns near the river and has an ancient ferry.

That ferry is not too big, and there are not too many passenger boats that come and go every day, and it is not the only one that can go to Anqing Mansion.The reason why he crossed the river there was because Xue Xian wanted to find someone there.

"There is a family in the east side of the ferry. They should be two brothers, but they don't look very close. I have been there twice, and both times I saw them arguing. The older one has some skills. I have to ask him to help me. Look at this golden bead, he might be able to find out where the person who sold the golden bead to Master Liu is." Xue Xian said to Jiang Shining.

Since he has been there twice, it means that he is really a reliable expert, Jiang Shining naturally has no objection, and rushes to Wolong County obediently.

In order to avoid the trouble of entering and exiting the city, they deliberately bypassed the two county towns in the middle, taking the mountain road all the way.One of these two is a dragon, the other is a ghost, and they are used to walking at night, so it stands to reason that there should be nothing to fear.

However, it is rumored that there are some bandits running around in the mountains and forests in this area, which is not a good thing, but it is also a trouble to the passing cars and horses.Because Xue Xian was holding a golden pearl, Jiang Shining was worried all the way, for fear that he would run into a group or two and tear them apart alive.

This worry reached its peak when he saw traces of fighting with knives and axes on the wall pillars of the abandoned temple where he was resting, and saw dried dark red blood in the corner of the wall by the door.

But I don't know if it's because of the different routes, or some other reason, they didn't even meet a live bandit along the way, and occasionally ran into passing carriages and horses, and they could turn back into paper and take a ride along the way.

All in all, it was strangely calm.

On the fourth day, when they walked outside the destination city gate unscathed, Jiang Shining still couldn't believe it: "Is it our luck?"

"Others are not afraid of thieves stealing, but they are afraid of thieves thinking about it. You are lucky. You are the only one who thinks about thieves all day long." Xue Xian looked up at the city gate.

"Wolong County——" Jiang Shining read the three big characters, and said: "It is said that any place name with the word 'dragon' is a place where a real dragon once appeared. This Wolong County sounds like a real dragon. slept here."

Xue Xian looked disgusted: "This county town is bigger than your palm, and you don't even have enough footsteps, so you've only ever slept in it!"

Jiang Shining looked at him blankly: "I didn't mention you either?"

It happened that they came here on the fifth watch, and the morning bell rang from the city, wave after wave, from the inside to the outside.After the reverberation of the fifth wave of bells ceased, the city gate was slowly opened.

When the city guard opened the gate, Jiang Shining avoided the corner, intending to turn back into paper and sneak in by the gate while the night was still dark, so as not to encounter some unclear troubles during the inspection.But as soon as he took a step back, he felt something pinch on his heel.

"What?" Xue Xian asked.

Jiang Shining squatted down, pushed away the snow from the footprints, and took out a slightly deformed piece of iron.

With the light of the lantern on the city wall, Xue Xian squinted his eyes to identify it, and saw that the iron plate was about the size of a thumb, with a rough wolf head engraved on one side and a name engraved on the other, but the name was slashed across with a knife. , don't look down on the original appearance.

"Another one." Jiang Shining muttered, and took out a similar iron piece from his bosom.

He had picked it up under a Buddha statue in an abandoned temple before, and it was still stained with a drop of dark blood, and the side where the name was written was also scratched so badly that the words could not be read at all.

Xue Xian said: "Take it first."

Jiang Shining put back the two pieces of iron and didn't delay any longer. Taking advantage of the city guard not paying attention, he hurried into the city along the crack of the door.

As soon as he entered the city gate, he was dumbfounded.

The appearance of this Wolong County is very different from that of Ningyang County. At a glance, there is hardly a straight street, and all of them intersect and intersect with each other. At first glance, it looks like a messy maze.

Jiang Shining held back for a while, and finally bowed his head towards Xue Xian: "This way...how do I get there?"

Xue Xian hugged Jinzhu triumphantly, shook his head and said, "At the previous street intersection, there is a ramp from Zhang's Pastry Shop on the east side."

"See that stall selling sesame sweet cakes? Turn west at that corner."

"Which side road has the flavor of fresh soup wonton? Yes, take that side road."

……

A few streets and alleys jumped up, and Jiang Shining was starving under his command.Born as a wild ghost, who knows how long he has not felt hungry.

"You are blind, do you rely on food to remember your way?" He asked with a look of lovelessness, without the slightest bit of blandness.

Xue Xian put his arms around Jin Zhu and nodded: "Yes. You walk more and talk less, it's almost dawn. Just walk past a stewed meat shop and a Baishun restaurant!"

Jiang Shining silently rolled his eyes.

Although the ancestor's way of remembering the road is a bit annoying, he always chooses a short cut.Sure enough, after passing the Baishun restaurant, Jiang Shining saw the ferry hidden in the snow and mist in the distance, the flags fluttered in the wind, and there seemed to be a few passenger boats moored on the shore.

Jiang Shining put his hands in his hands to cover the paper man who was poking his head in front of his front, and walked towards the square area east of the ferry with his neck shrunk against the wind.

"Ancestor, can you sit still and don't move? I won't pick you up if the wind blows away." Jiang Shining babbled angrily.

Xue Xian turned his head to look at the street next to him several times, and clicked his tongue: "Why do I always feel that there is someone behind me?"

Jiang Shining subconsciously stopped, and simply turned around and looked around for a week, "I didn't see any strange people. Could it be that this snowflake always floats past my eyes, and I misread it?"

"Perhaps." Xue Xian muttered, retracting his neck, reluctantly calming down a bit.

He thought to himself: If someone really follows, the snow on the ground will make a "creaking" sound when stepped on, there's no reason why it can't be heard.Maybe I really think too much...

Under Xue Xian's guidance, Jiang Shining quickly came to a remote gate house in the workshop.To say it is a gate house is to exaggerate it.From outside the wall, the yard looks as small as a chicken coop. The door is single, old and mottled. Because of the humidity, even the corners of the door have mold spots, and no one cares about it.

It can be seen that this resident is not a person who knows how to live.

"Knock on the door." Xue Xian said.

Jiang Shining was used to being reserved, and he knocked on the door very elegantly. He said "Duk Tuk" three times, soft and slow, and Xue Xian had a toothache. Damn it, one of them has an ear injury, so feel free to knock on it."

Hearing this, Jiang Shining resignedly increased his strength, and knocked several times while saying "forgive me, forgive my sin".

After a while, there was finally a little "creaking" footsteps in the yard.

I don't know if it's because the snow is not easy to walk, but it sounds a bit... staggering?

"How old are those brothers?" Jiang Shining couldn't help asking.

"Oh." Xue Xian replied, "The younger one is about eight or nine years old, and the older one is sixteen or seventeen."

Jiang Shining was taken aback: "What? Are you looking for a child to ask for divination?"

At the moment when he was stunned, the single old wooden door was suddenly pulled open from the inside.

"Thief! Get out!!"

A childish roar came from the door.

Then there was a bang.A large pot of water from unknown origins was poured on his face, and Jiang Shining, who was unable to react in time, was poured from the beginning to the end!

Jiang Shining's original body was a piece of paper after all, after being splashed with water all over his head and face, he immediately trembled, his whole body went limp, and he fell powerlessly to the ground.Xue Xian in his arms was also not spared, fell out wetly, and stuck to the wet ground with a thud, and the golden bead in his arms rolled out "gululu", just in time to roll to the door.

The person inside the door threw away the wooden basin in his hand with a "bang", hesitated for a moment, then stretched out his hand suddenly, grabbed the golden bead by the door, and hurriedly got up to close the door.

Just when Xue Xian was stuck to the ground, suffocating his anger and about to curse, a warm hand descended from the sky and lifted him off the ground.

There was still a familiar smell of bitter medicine in that hand, which made Xue Xian sneezed immediately.He drooped his head wetly, trying to straighten up but couldn't straighten up. He couldn't help but explode: "Vulture! Did I dig your ancestral grave or plan your grave? Why are you staring at me alone? ?! After chasing for [-] miles, are you fucking tired? Huh?!"

A cold and indifferent voice sounded from the top of Xue Xian's head: "I'm sorry, I'm not tired."

"..." Xue Xian was about to vomit blood, and immediately wanted to plant him headfirst into the river!

The person standing in front of the chicken cage courtyard was none other than Xuan Min.

Seeing him carrying the wet Xue Xian, he picked up Jiang Shining who had been splashed back to his original form, sandwiched the two of them between his fingers, and pushed open the wooden door unceremoniously.

He stepped into the courtyard with strides, grabbed the "little thief" who was fleeing in a hurry, lowered his eyes and said calmly: "Don't be greedy if you are not yourself, return the gold pearl."