Copper Coins

Xue Xiansheng was afraid that the bald donkey would be dull, and he could not fully understand the deep meaning just by pinching it like this, so he took advantage of the foolish Liu Chong to look away, and turned it over calmly, so that the side with the face painted on the paper was facing up , the inked eyes just stared straight at the bald donkey.

After all, paintings are not as vivid as real people, not to mention that Xue Xian's painting level mixed with the evaluation of "fair", is far from perfect.Therefore, these eyes are less spiritual than real people.

Xuan Min was pinched a little hard, so he lowered his eyes coolly, originally wanting to warn that wicked scumbag, but he just happened to meet the pair of painted eyes at the mouth of the dark bag, and he was really caught off guard.

This appearance with his belly turned upside down, coupled with those expressionless black eyes, has a kind of posture of "unwilling to die".

Xuan Min: "..."

Along the way, he took the initiative to take in not many demons and evil spirits, but there were definitely a lot of them. Most of them were rebellious before they were taken in, and respectful after they were taken in. They waited honestly and fearfully until they were saved.It was the first time that Xue Xian was still restless when he was taken in, and he didn't even treat himself as an outsider, and did not rest for a moment.

Xuan Min always felt that the words and deeds of this villain were quite "thick and colorful", and that he could put on a play by himself.

He closed his gaze on the piece of paper, and immediately stretched out two fingers to pinch the paper out of the secret pocket.

Xue Xian: "..." I can't stop talking to you!

Xuan Min's fingers are really not like a person who wanders in the streets and alleys, they are straight and slender, clean as if they have never been dirty.He doesn't look like he grew up in a mountain monk temple, and of course, he doesn't look like a wild monk, but rather like some pampered princes and nobles.

But at this moment, Xue Xian didn't pay attention, nor did he have the time to pay attention.

Xuan Min held the cardboard between two fingers and moved an inch towards Liu Chong.

Xue Xian: "..." In the future, I will chase after you to strike thunderstorms!One day never sets, morning and evening will be fixed and provincial!

"This?" Xuan Min asked Liu Chong indifferently.

Xue Xian: "..." If I don't chop your bald donkey into scorched skin, I'll change my name to "four-legged worm"!

"Yeah." Liu Chong nodded vigorously, and then showed a foolish smile.

Xue Xian: "..." What a joke!

Seeing that the fool was about to raise his hand to pick up the piece of paper, Xuan Min shook his head, still calm and said, "No."

Count you acquainted.

Xue Xian, who had been roaring in his heart for a long time, suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. The originally stretched paper slumped down instantly, hanging limply on Xuan Min's fingertips, from half paralyzed to fully paralyzed.

Liu Chong looked at Xuan Min very seriously, and nodded again, but his expression was somewhat regretful.He doesn't understand the world at all, and he doesn't know what "tactful" or "hidden" is.Just put the word regret on the face.

Foolish people move a little slower than ordinary people in every move, less dexterity, but more strength.Staring at people, biting words, or nodding and shaking their heads are all extra effort.

Clumsy, but especially poignant.

Xue Xian hung between Xuan Min's fingers like rotten noodles, his eyes swept across Liu Chong's face, and he didn't take a second look.He felt that this idiot was probably poisonous and could poison people to be as stupid as him. He was afraid that if he looked at him a few more times, he would go mad and jump into the idiot's hands himself.

That's great fun!

But what surprised him secretly was that the bald donkey seemed to be more straightforward than this idiot, not only completely ignoring the idiot's regretful face, but also unceremoniously raised his foot to enter the idiot's house.

Fortunately, before entering the door, the bald donkey managed to remember the "etiquette and shame" again, and nodded to the fool.

Xue Xian: "..." Saying one more sentence will probably kill you, if this idiot can understand the meaning of nodding, I'll take your surname.

Before his mocking sneer landed, Liu Chong had already stepped back into the room, beckoned to Xuan Min happily, "Come in!" like a child looking for a playmate.

Xue Xian: "..."

He curled his lips with a toothache, thinking that I should hang on to it honestly.

This evil obstacle rose and fell in Xuan Min's hands several times, and finally settled down reluctantly.

The half-open door was pushed open by Liu Chong, and the scene inside the room fell into the eyes of several people without any concealment—there were far more oily yellow paper ingots than Xue Xian had seen before. It was by the door, and at a glance, there were not even a few places in the whole room to stand on.

Master Liu seemed to be in a bad mood. When he saw his eldest son in the room, he turned his head away with an unswerving expression.He had no intention of entering the house at all, and stood alone a foot away from the door with his hands behind his back and waited.

He was probably in a lot of torment. On the one hand, he expected Xuan Min to help him adjust the feng shui of the house, and on the other hand, he wanted to expel this monk who was also unsophisticated.

Anyone who knows how to read people's eyes will restrain himself a little at this time, so as not to disturb the unpleasantness.

But helplessly, the monk didn't understand.

Not only did he not understand, he didn't even look at others!

Master Liu was about to die of anger.

Wherever he likes to stand, Xuan Min naturally doesn't care, even if he throws his pole to a place ten feet away, it will not prevent Xuan Min from entering the house.

Liu Chong's room is very crudely furnished, it doesn't look like the eldest son of the master's mansion at all, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a servant's room.There is only one Four Immortals table, two wooden chairs, and a bed that is a bit narrow compared to Liu Chong.

The room itself is just a palm-sized place, the snail house has a door and a door, and pretends to be separated in the middle, dividing the bed, table and chair into two halves, making it even more cramped.

Everything in the house has been used for a few years, and it is extremely old and dull.The only color is actually these oily yellow paper ingots piled up everywhere.

Xuan Min picked up one with his hands down, and looked it up and down.

Xue Xian, who was hanging between Xuan Min's other fingers, was relatively low because he was in a relatively low position, and his face was facing upwards, so he happened to be able to see the bottom of the ingot clearly.

I saw three words written on it: Father Xixi.

Xue Xian: "..." What nonsense!

It wasn't until he finished cursing that he realized that it was not three words written vertically, but one word: father.It's just that this idiot's writing is naive, and the division is extraordinarily open.

But seeing such an ingot, he suddenly understood the reason why Master Liu was not very fond of this son.Writing living people on paper ingots is no different from cursing.But looking at Liu Chong's heartless appearance, one can tell that he probably just wrote it for fun.

But soon, Xue Xian swallowed that thought back.

Because Xuan Min picked up several paper ingots one after another, each ingot had words written on the bottom, and they were still so immature that they could be divided into several petals.

Xue Xian, who was extremely bored, counted: seven ingots, two father Xixi, three daughters, and two empties.

……

What fetish is this?

However, according to the several ingots that Xuan Min picked up, Xue Xian also roughly made a distinction: This Liu Chong is an idiot, and he actually knows how to classify them.The pile by the door was probably all written by Fu Xixi, that is, written to his father, Master Liu.The pile next to the Four Immortals' desk is all written for his mother.The unheaped ones scattered on the ground probably haven't had time to write anything in the future.

So... whose pile is next to the bed?

Obviously, Xue Xian was not the only one who noticed this.After briefly looking through the piles in the outer room, Xuan Min stepped into the inner room where the bed was placed.

As soon as he entered the room, Xue Xian sneezed due to choking on his face from the Yin Qi.

Liu Chong: "..."? ? ?

He stared at the expressionless Xuan Min for a long time, then looked at Xuan Min's hand in a daze, as if he didn't understand why the sneezing sound came from between his fingers.

But neither Xuan Min nor Xue Xian had time to pay attention to Liu Chong's actions.They were all taken aback by the thick yin energy here, and looked at the pile of paper ingots beside the bed in unison.

Xuan Min frowned and walked over, picked up an ingot and looked at it.

This time, neither father nor mother was written on the bottom, but a large smear of ink.It seems that something more complicated than "parents" was written, so that it was directly blurred.

Xuan Min picked up two more, both of them were like this.

However, one of them was relatively less blurred, and Xuan Min barely made out most of the character "Liu" from it.

Xuan Min knew very little about Master Liu's family. When he saw this word, he could only think of Master Liu and his two sons, but judging from the large group of ink marks, it was neither "Liu Xu" nor "Liu Xu". Liu Chong" or "Liu Jin".

Just when he bent down to pick up another one to have a look, something rolled out of his waist pocket.

The thing uttered "Ouch", and happened to roll on the pile of paper ingots impartially. When it landed on the ground, it suddenly inflated like an inflated cowhide bag, turning into a living person.

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This person's skin was pale, his eyes were slightly blue, and he looked like a tired scholar.It was none other than Jiang Shining.

He probably didn't think about how he suddenly changed from paper to human, and asked with a blank face: "Why did I roll down?"

Seeing Liu Chong who had changed so much that no living person could cry in fright, Xue Xian stopped pretending and replied, "Because the yin is too heavy."

After all, ghosts like yin, and the reason why Jiang Shining can't move in the daytime is because the yang energy is too heavy during the day.The yin energy in Liu Chong's room was stronger than the old flavor of Luan Tombs, which naturally made Jiang Shining cheaper.

But it's weird that Liu Chong is still alive and well with such a heavy yin qi.

"Then why didn't you get off?" Jiang Shining asked suspiciously.

Xue Xian said angrily: "No talent, I have never died before, so I am not in the same category as your old man."

"If you're not dead, what are you holding on to with a torn piece of paper?" Jiang Shining thinks that the person surnamed Xue is probably sick.

Since it is not a ghost, the body must still be there.Since the body is still there, how busy is it to earn the soul out and live on a piece of paper?This is not a disease what is it?

Xue Xian hung on Xuan Min's fingertips, and lazily replied: "You can control it, you might as well get up quickly if you have the time to talk."

After all, this consumptive scholar has turned into a living person, even if he is a thin man like a stick of reed, his weight is not light.The paper-folded ingot could not bear the weight at all. He rolled it and flattened most of it, and Jinshan was razed to the ground in an instant.

When he glanced left and right and found out what he was sitting on, he was so startled that he cupped his hands and apologized to Liu Chong: "It's a sin, a sin."

Just when he was scrambling and trying to stand up, Liu Chong, who was stunned to the side, finally reacted slowly.When he saw the squashed paper ingots all over the floor, he yelled "Ah—" and pushed Jiang Shining aside, kneeling on the ground, carefully folding the squashed paper ingots .

The idiot's strength was much stronger than that of ordinary people, so Jiang Shining's body couldn't withstand the push, and he immediately rolled around and hit the five-drawer wooden chest beside him.

The wooden cabinet was knocked a few inches away, and then hit the wall with a "bang".

Jiang Shining fell into a mess, and leaned on the ground awkwardly, trying to get up and make amends for Liu Chong to fold the Yuanbao, but as soon as he tried hard, he gasped and withdrew his hand suddenly.

There was a hole in his open palm, the pain caused him to grin his teeth and frown, but there was no bleeding.

The body made of cardboard is like this, allowing the lonely ghost to step on the ground and touch the real thing with his hands, as if he is half alive, but it is also extremely easy to get injured.

"Why are there still nails nailed under this chest of drawers?" Jiang Shining complained sullenly, then turned his head and whispered in Xue Xian's direction: "Next time... if there is a next time, can we not use paper? Use cowhide?"

Xue Xian: "Just pull someone's skin."

Jiang Shining: "..."

Xuan Min's face was still calm, but his fingers moved, and he accurately pressed Xue's mouth, lest this filthy scoundrel should not speak human words once he opened his mouth.

Xue Xian: "..."

"Eh? That's weird—a piece of paper is still attached to this nail." When Jiang Shining got up, he glanced at the ground where the nail broke his hand from the corner of his eye, and immediately found something strange.

Xuan Min frowned when he heard this, lifted his monk's clothes and squatted down.

I saw a sharp corner standing on the small piece of ground exposed after the chest of drawers was knocked open.Xuan Min tore off a corner of the hem of the monk's robe, and rubbed the corner twice with his fingers through the torn white linen cloth.After the mud on the surface was removed, the sharp corners took shape——

Judging from the oily yellow skin color, it was a copper nail with three vertical ridges on the side.

Since it is covered with such a layer of old mud, the copper nail has been nailed here for at least two or three years, but it has not grown rust at all, and it is still shiny, which shows that it is not an ordinary thing.

The most important thing is that it still has an ugly piece of paper stapled to it.

Xuan Min frowned and lowered his eyes, and wiped away the thick layer of dust on the paper with a white linen cloth——

Sure enough, it was a piece of yellow paper with complicated pictures drawn with cinnabar.

Even if you don't understand the content, you know what it is.Jiang Shining was taken aback for a moment, and then simply pushed the chest of drawers to the side, exposing more ground.

On the ground blocked by the chest of drawers, there are three copper nails nailed with yellow talismans, pointing to the three directions of southwest, northeast and northwest respectively.

"What... is this talisman? Prolong life, improve health?" Jiang Shining was stunned for a while beside these paper talismans, feeling a little hot inexplicably.

This is strange, after all, since he became a lonely ghost, he has never felt "heat". He has been covered with frost and snow all year round, and he has long been used to the cold.It was so hot all of a sudden, and I felt a little uncomfortable.

So he timidly moved two steps to the side.

Xue Xian, who always liked to choke on him, was pinned down, unable to open his mouth even if he wanted to.

So when he asked this question, no one answered for a long time, which was very embarrassing.

It wasn't until Xuan Min finished reading the contents of the three spells that he answered lightly: "Feng Shui Bureau."

Xue Xian: "..." It's just nonsense.

The continuous movements in the room made the waiting Master Liu unable to stay still.He stared at the door wall twice, and finally couldn't help but walked to the door of the house, and rushed inside and said: "Master, did you hit something just now? But my stupid son is making trouble?"

He seemed to dislike this room very much, and he looked like he would not take a step even if he was killed. Standing at the door, he glanced at the pile of ingots in the room with disgust.

Hearing the sound, Xuan Min stood up, stepped over the threshold and went to the outside room, and asked Master Liu, "Who lives in the house on the northwest side?"

Master Liu glanced at the northeast corner in confusion: "That's the room I live in."

Xuan Min glanced at him, and said, "Northeast."

Master Liu: "Ah? Northeast? The Northeast House is where my son Liu Jin lives, that is, the youngest son who accidentally fell into the well this morning. Master, why do you ask this? Is there something wrong with these two houses?"

Xuan Min didn't answer immediately, but paused for a while before saying, "Have you ever heard of the game of pumping the river into the sea?"

There was no sign of happiness or anger on his face, he still had a cold and expressionless look, as if he was just asking about something as common as "eat and drink", but Master Liu's face had already turned completely pale.

He stood outside the door with his neck stiff and stunned for a long time before he moved his eyes and glanced at the chest of drawers in the inner room. Seeing that the chest of drawers had been moved, his face turned ugly again: "This, this ...To tell you the truth, master, my body and bones have not been very sharp in the past two years, so, so—”

Master Liu hesitated outside the door, and Jiang Shining inside was no longer where he was.When Mr. Liu was poking his head to ask questions, he took two steps back, avoiding Mr. Liu's sight by chance.One is that he is a dead person who suddenly stands in front of people he knows, and he is easy to get into trouble, and the other is... the moment he sees Master Liu, his resentment can't stop rushing up.

He couldn't help biting his back teeth when he thought of the hardships his parents had suffered during their lifetime.

Just as he was standing by the wall enduring his grievances, Liu Chong, who was sorting the paper ingots, belatedly saw the paper talisman on the ground.

The fool's attention is always particularly easy to be distracted. He stared at the yellow paper talismans for a while, then let go of the paper ingots in his hand, moved two steps and squatted in front of the paper talismans.

If the child sees something novel, no matter whether it is clean or dirty, safe or dangerous, he always likes to touch it with his hands.The fool Liu Chong stayed at such an ignorant age, he stared at the three copper nails for a while, and couldn't help but reach out and touch the tip of the nails.

The upside of the oily copper nails was still extremely sharp, as if it had been polished just now, and it would not be a problem to blow the hair off, let alone Liu Chong's thin skin.

So, the fool touched the blood on his hand.

"Hey - don't move!" When Jiang Shining reacted and wanted to stop it, it was already a step too late.

Beads of blood slid down the copper nails and seeped into the yellow paper.

Liu Chong was taken aback by his shout, and raised his head blankly.

For a moment, Jiang Shining felt that the whole old house was eerily quiet, as if even the cold wind that was constantly beating against the wall outside the house suddenly stopped.

Lonely ghosts are probably more sensitive than real people. He only feels that there is no breath around him, and the calm is almost eerie.

Xuan Min, who was standing by the door and looking at Master Liu, suddenly raised his eyebrows, and glanced up at the sky.

The wind is silent and the clouds are silent, and there is no sound from all directions.

The entire Liu Family Mansion suddenly became silent...

This strange silence didn't last long, just a few blinks, and the wind suddenly rang again, "whimpering and sobbing", completely different from before, with an inexplicable sense of resentment.

After going back and forth several times, the sound of whimpering and whimpering became louder and louder. At first, it sounded like wild ghosts from all over the world crying together, which made one's hair stand on end.

In this strange wind sound like howling ghosts and wolves, suddenly something made a "buzz-" sound.

It's like the ending tone of a golden weapon, but it's a little different.

Xue Xian, who was drooping between Xuan Min's fingers, instantly straightened his body. The voiceless voice might be difficult for others to distinguish, but he could hear it very clearly.

Because, it was very similar to the sound made by the thing he was looking for.

northeast!

Xue Xian reluctantly raised his face and looked in that direction.

The bald donkey asked just now, who lives in the northeast house?

Xue Xian was thinking about it, but the strange sound merged with the howling wind, and suddenly became louder.At that moment, everyone present felt that someone had hit the back of the head hard with a sap stick, their ears buzzed, their eyes went dark, and they suddenly lost their minds.