Murong paper on the snow mountain

After eight, Cangzhou Lingyue City——

"Hey, what are you talking about? What wild ghosts from the vast mountain?"

The flames were crackling, and a group of city guards were telling ghost stories while roasting the newly hunted rabbits around the fire raised on the city wall.I was frightened by the sudden and silent voice behind me!

"Oh my god, I'm so scared! So it's General Xie!"

"General, don't always scare us on purpose!"

"Who deliberately scared you! See, you don't know how to do business all day long, you only know nonsense!" I saw the young general with a bright forehead and flying eyebrows, bent over and snatched a rabbit leg from the fire.

"General, don't you believe me! Mangdang Mountain really has ghosts! The people down the mountain say so!"

"Hey, didn't you guys keep yelling that I was a ghost all day long! In the middle of the night, you still came to bed to touch me. Am I a ghost?!"

"General, you can't blame us! Everyone has heard that you, general, have died for the country, and the court issued a funeral notice, and that you often walk like this without making a sound. Of course, of course we ……cough."

"Of course I walked silently, otherwise how could I have inspected that you are not guarding the city and eating barbecue here?! Forget it, just eat, don't drink!"

"General, this is rice wine..."

"No rice wine either!"

After confiscating the small jug of wine amidst everyone's groaning, Xie Lv walked a few steps, then turned around and said, "Since you all say that there is a ghost in the vast mountain, I plan to go meet the ghost tonight, who are you?" follow me?"

The flames flickered, and everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.

"Aren't you very brave in normal times! How can you be scared when it comes to catching ghosts?"

"This... General! If you are an enemy, come and kill one! Come and kill another! But unclean things... General, in this world, if you don't believe in evil, you will really bump into evil!"

"No prospect! I'll take Ronaldinho there!"

Everyone around the fire silently sympathized with Xiao Luo, the general's personal soldier.

"Hey, I see, the general probably wants to go to the small town at the bottom of the vast mountain to buy osmanthus cakes again and can't find an excuse."

"I just heard that the general met a girl he likes in Mandang Mountain!"

"Really? Really? Did Ronaldinho say that?"

"How can it be? Xiao Luo's mouth is so tight! But I've heard others say... she seems like a flirtatious little widow!"

"Hey, do you feel that the general is more human when he comes back this time? If this is the past, if we are caught like this, we will definitely be dealt with by military law."

"That's right. The general used to be prudent and serious, but now he's more down-to-earth. Maybe, hey, it's all thanks to the little widow?"

……

"General, if that ghost goes to the streets at night, the messenger we live in the small town will definitely come and report. Since there is no report tonight, I think it will be all right..."

"Go if you have nothing to do!" Xie Lv put his sword away from his waist: "If you haven't caught the ghost, you should stop by to buy osmanthus cake!"

Sure enough, you are only here for the sweet-scented osmanthus cake...

"Luo, Colonel Luo! That...that..." Just as he was talking, suddenly a soldier ran in in a hurry: "Ghost! The ghost has appeared! The ghost, the ghost from the vast mountain has come down the mountain!"

"Oh? It's better to come early than coincidental." Xie Lv clapped his hands excitedly: "Let's go, let's bring more people to meet that ghost!"

The general stood upright on the white horse, and the hundred people behind him, including Ronaldinho, were filled with complaints—General, it’s okay to fight, but it’s really not good to catch ghosts!That kind of unclean thing is much scarier than people!

Lingyue City is only more than 20 miles away from the small town at the foot of Mangdang Mountain.Less than half an hour after riding the horse, a light cavalry had already arrived in the town. As soon as they entered the town, the people behind Xie Lu felt the chilly wind and the biting cold, and the sand and rocks flying slowly on the ground were very strange.

Only General Xie, who was fearless that day, took the lead and went straight to the shop selling sweet cakes.

"Old man Wang, it's me~ it's Zhaoming, open the door! There are no ghosts outside—I'm rarely here, bring me two catties of sweet-scented osmanthus cake, and I want to add more sesame seeds."

Really!At this hour on weekdays in this small town, there should always be three or two people with seven or eight lights on the street, and a dozen or so shops that are open late.It's not so bad now - when it is said that a ghost is coming, the whole street is as silent as a dead person, the doors of every house are closed, and there is no light from the fire.

But where is the ghost?If so, why didn't I see it?

There was a rustling sound in the room, and after a while, the closed window opened a small crack, and a little light leaked out. Before the osmanthus cake seller had time to see the people outside, he heard a sudden "ghost— —" crying and howling, and hastily closed the window again.

The moment Uncle Wang opened the window, the sporadic candlelight illuminated a dark shadow under the window.

The black shadow was really silent before, it didn't even notice Xie Lu's mount, but now it suddenly moved, and it surprised the battle-tested old warhorse, neighing and raised its front hooves high, throwing nothing The defensive Xie Lv was thrown down.

The moment it hit the ground, there was a strong demonic wind out of nowhere, and the torches in everyone's hands were extinguished one after another.The flying sand hit the face with the strong wind, and the black air swept across. Accompanied by the startled howls of the hundreds of soldiers, the ground seemed to shake a few times.

"Ghosts—ghosts! Sure enough, there are ghosts!"

"Oops, oops, General Xie was captured by a ghost—what should I do!"

You have just been captured!

Xie Lu was fine, but he was caught in a mass of thick and dark flying sand and rocks.He covered his nose and held his breath, crawling, but fortunately his eyes were always normal, and he saw the black ghost, still curled up under the window in the corner.

What the hell?At most it's a demon, or maybe it's just an unkempt lunatic!

I want to see, are you a ghost?

He rushed straight against the fierce flying sand, and hit the man's chest with just one blow.With a real touch, the man was hit by him and flew several meters away before landing heavily on the ground.And the whistling of flying sand also stopped in an instant, the dust fell to the ground, and the whole street suddenly became quiet.

Just say it's not a ghost, let you pretend to be a ghost!

Vulnerable.

Xie Lv stepped forward, grabbed the "ghost" by the front and lifted him up. The "ghost" was badly injured, and coughed up several mouthfuls of blood, but kept uttering several broken syllables from his hoarse and broken throat.

What are you talking about?

Xie Lu leaned down slightly, frowning.

What?Did he hear wrong?This ghost seems to be... calling his name?

"You...recognize me?"

The "ghost"'s body softened, as if he had exhausted all his strength, and there was no sound anymore, but something fell out of his waist, slid on the gravel ground and slipped to Xie Lv's feet.

Half of the red butterfly jade shone brightly under the bright moon that was barely half exposed from behind the clouds.

This……

Xie Lv turned his head, and half of such a ruby ​​was hanging from his waist.

He picked up the half piece on the ground and fought it against the one on his waist.closed.Fits perfectly.

***

"I heard that General Xie... has captured the ghost."

"Caught it back?!"

"Well, it's raised in the general's mansion."

"keep?!"

"It doesn't seem to be a ghost, it should be a person. But the appearance... is more like a ghost."

It does look like a ghost.

Xie Lv sat on the bed and helped the "ghost" wipe his bloody body bit by bit, and had to nod and sigh at the gossip outside.

"General, this man is too dirty, how can you do it yourself, let Xiao Luo come."

"It's okay, I have nothing to do today anyway, let alone..."

What's more?Ronaldinho was puzzled.

"What's more, this person...maybe it's my wife. It's not good to ask others to undress him."

"Mother, lady?! General, you can see clearly! This man is not a girl!" And it is clear at a glance that he is not a girl, right?There is no need to look closely!

"Of course I know that he is not a girl, but look! He has a pair of jade pendants with me, so he must have a lot to do with me. If you think about it again, what kind of relationship do you have to have for each of you to get along like this?" The jade pendant on it?"

"This...any relationship is possible!" Xiao Luo thought for a while: "Maybe this person is the general's long-lost brother? Or a like-minded friend? Or, or is it just a coincidence? I don't know?"

"It seems reasonable..." Xie Lv sighed.

"Woo! General, why do you look so disappointed?!"

"Because I always feel... I should have a wife! After all, I am already in my [-]s, what is the so-called 'General Zhenyuan', isn't it? Although my house has been ransacked, it's not that my whole family was ransacked, Now that the official has returned to his original post, but no relatives and friends have ever come to join me, no family has come to my door, this is really... so strange!"

Seeing Xiao Luo standing there blankly, Xie Lv waved his hand.

"Forget it, you can go to your own business first. Maybe when this person wakes up, my doubts will be resolved, but... how did he get so many injuries?"

The scars scattered all over his body made this person's entire face almost invisible to its original appearance.Could it be a burn?It doesn't look like it, and it doesn't look like it was cut, but it seems to have seen it somewhere.

There are so many wounds all over the body, and the fresh parts are still oozing and swelling, how painful it is.

Who is this person... and what is his relationship with him?And why did they become homeless "mountain ghosts"?

……

"General, it's getting late. Aren't you going back to your room? It's not auspicious for you to be in the same room with such unclean things at such a late night!"

"What's unclean? The doctor said he was alive, why do you still treat him like a ghost?"

"Oh, what the doctor said clearly was 'the pulse condition is strange, not like a living person, but it is not dead, it is very weird'. General, he, he might be a ghost like the legendary flying zombie... I don't know. ah!"

"Nonsense! A dead person or a living person? Get out! I'll sleep here tonight!"

"Ugh..."

After closing the door, Xie Lv's eyes darkened, he pinched the man's pulse, then grabbed the man's arm and looked at the scar carefully, frowning slightly.

Outside the back door of the General's Mansion was a pool of red water, Xie Lu soaked a silk handkerchief in the water, walked back to the bed, and applied it to the man's bruised hand.