Yan ghost

Early the next morning, the purple-clothed waiter changed into a simple attire, and as soon as he opened the door, Xiang Yan greeted him with a smiling face.

"My lord general is dressed like this, but you want to go out?" The purple-clothed waiter walked away.With one sleeve at a time, Xiang Yan chased after him, "Master General, I saw the night view of Yanfang yesterday and was amazed by it. The daytime must also be full of scenery. I want to go out and see, what do you think?"

"Okay, you go."

"No, I'm a ghost, and I can't go to the streets in broad daylight."

A hot current poured into the body, and the purple-clothed waiter stood there, frowning and said: "Who let you in."

Shrinking his shoulders and stomach, Xiang Yan said, "I promise not to touch you, why don't you show me around." The purple-clothed waiter's eyes moved and he continued to move forward.

"Don't use my body to make trouble later."

"Don't dare."

"When you meet someone, don't talk nonsense."

"As ordered."

A row of building boats hovered in front of the big Buddha statue at the same height as the mountain.The boat was moored by the Buddha's palm, and the two of them came to the deck and saw several crew members cleaning it.The purple-clothed waiter disembarked and stepped into the palm of the Buddha.Xiang Yan looked down the mountain, the light rain had just started, and the tall buildings that stood upright last night were like shadows under his feet at this moment.

A sedan chair flew from the sky and landed at the feet of the purple-clothed waiter, without a bearer or a bearer.The attendant in purple threw a few pieces of silver into the wooden box in front of the sedan chair, and the curtain of the sedan chair rolled up by itself.The sedan chair asked, "Where is the guest officer going?"

"Go sightseeing in the old city." The purple-clothed waiter bowed his head and took his seat, the curtains were lowered, and the sedan chair flew out.Xiang Yan opened the curtain and saw many sedan chairs like this in the sky, some with a single seat and some with four people on foot, the decorations are different from old to new.They shuttle between tall buildings and know how to slow down and give way when encountering other sedan chairs.Some people who know each other will meet each other face to face.Xiang Yan leaned against the window, watching intently.

The sedan chair asked, "This is your first time in the capital?"

The purple-clothed waiter replied, "I just arrived yesterday."

The sedan chair said: "It's fun to build a boat."

The purple-clothed waiter said, "I saw an illusion."

The sedan chair raised its voice and said: "I heard that illusion is the best in that building boat. It can shift shape and change places, and ghosts can escape. Tickets are hard to come by."

Xiang Yan asked, "Have you seen it too?"

The sedan chair said: "It's not possible. I'm a man-carrying business all day long, so I don't have time to go to building boats to have fun. Besides building boats, guest officers can also go to the Leyou Garden in the south of the city. I have newly repaired a lot of skyscraper wooden armors, which are beautiful. Young masters and young ladies like to gather there."

Seeing the arrival of the old city, the sedan chair slowed down and said, "This old city is also a good place. There are only a few ancient buildings left in the capital of Yanfang today. Thinking about three or forty years ago, this place was a royal site, surrounded by high walls, and there is no place to go. If you can’t get in, it’s full of tourists now.”

The curtain is rolled up, and the purple-clothed waiter gets off the sedan chair.Xiang Yan looked up at the sky, surrounded by tall buildings.The old city is like a sunken garden, where shade-loving plants shade each other.Vines and moss are wrapped around several pieces of old palaces. If you don't say that they are buildings from the previous dynasty, you may think they are left over from ancient times.

The purple-clothed waiter said: "You have been here before." Xiang Yan couldn't remember anything.

The two walked forward, there were flower sellers and wooden armor sachets on the side of the road.Taking a look at Xiang Yan, the waiter in purple asked, "Do you want to buy it?" Xiang Yan shook his head and said, "I thought you liked it." He patted the sachet on his waist.

Not long after walking, a few drops of rain fell from the sky.Xiang Yan yelled, and ran to the oil-paper umbrella stand.The businessman asked, "An umbrella?" The purple-clothed waiter paid for the umbrella without saying a word, and wiped the rain off his shoulders.

A young lady passed by with a girl.When the young lady saw the waiter in purple, she came to this stall to buy umbrellas, and didn't look at a few more.She said: "It's rare that the road is quieter. I went out for a walk, but the heavens are not beautiful." The girl said: "It's rainy, and it adds a bit of mood, as long as it doesn't get too big." She took out one from her purse The broken silver was given to the peddler, waiting for the change, and said: "But speaking of it, there are indeed a lot of people missing on this road. In the past, there were obviously many people of different religions." The lady chose a crimson umbrella, which was exactly the same as the waiter's clothes. take.She opened it and turned around and said: "I heard that there is a big project in the south, but I didn't say what it was built in detail. It's just that the rewards are generous, so many puppets have moved away." Xiang Yan was about to listen to a few more words, but the purple-clothed waiter left .

They came to an old garden with strange rocks and strange flowers.The two wore flowers and came to a small flower market.There is a stall in the flower market, with several exotic peony plants, as plump as snow, and the flower vendor who takes care of it is Yi Mujia.Seeing a guest approaching, Mu Jia stepped forward and asked, "What kind of flowers do you want to see?" The purple-clothed waiter said: "Is there any orchid grass?" The waiter continued: "Look at Ghost Orchid." Mujia straightened his waist, turned around quickly and said, "Ghost Orchid needs to be reserved, and the guest officer will come with me." It seems that the code has been connected.

Mu Jia led them into a greenhouse behind them, and then went out to look at the stalls by himself.The famous flowers and plants in the greenhouse are dizzying. After walking a few steps, I saw a kind of flower figure sitting in the depths, brushing the soil.

The flower grower raised his head and smiled, motioned for the purple-clothed waiter to sit down, and said, "Mr. Lin, is the Yin soil from last time good?"

"The audience is all nervous, and the effect is very good." The purple-clothed waiter said, "I'm just afraid that I will miss it on stage in the future, and I want to ask this Yin soil, once it absorbs the soul, there is still a way to bring the soul back."

The flower planter said: "I only bring goods and sell news, but I don't know the method of summoning souls."

The purple-clothed waiter asked: "Since you have a way to obtain Yintu, you should also be able to find someone who understands this method. I don't need you to inquire about the method, just tell me who that person is."

The corner of the flower grower's lips curled up. "Tell you this news, if you skip me and contact that person directly, or simply kill him, what will I do with my business?" The waiter in purple didn't say a word, and the flower grower said again: "Don't be angry, today I I won’t let you go back empty-handed. Did you know that our Great Yanshi rushed to Chilan recently?”

"Why?"

"Well, I'll give you a discount." The flower grower gestured two fingers, and the purple-clothed waiter paid two ingots of gold.

"Send the sand table."

"Sand table?" The purple-clothed waiter pretended to be confused.

"A sand table filled with shady soil."

"The results of it?"

"Chilan suffered heavy damage, and millions of souls were sucked away by the Yin soil." The flower planter said meaningfully, "The strange thing is that Da Yanshi disappeared out of thin air during the mission. I heard that even people and sand tables were robbed." gone."

"Then do you know who did it? And where did it go?"

"It hasn't been found yet. But I heard that the people sent by Yuyan Pavilion did not stay in Chilan, so I guess it was definitely not Chilan's doing."

The purple-clothed waiter snorted lightly: "You still charge me money for such news, don't you think it's too much?"

The flower grower hurriedly said: "If I have any news, I will immediately send Mujia to send flowers to the boat, and Mr. Lin will come again."

The two left the garden.Xiang Yan said: "It's a pity that two ingots of gold came to inquire about something we know, it's a pity." The waiter in purple said: "It's a pity that two ingots of gold ruled out my suspicion." Xiang Yan suddenly said: "You bought this news on purpose." The waiter said: "If I don't buy it, doesn't that mean I'm telling him that I already know about it? He's a news dealer. If I go to buy news, if I reveal my own affairs, I will definitely let him sell it."

Xiang Yan nodded, and then said: "I have never thanked you for the sand table." The purple-clothed waiter said indifferently: "between you and me, if you want to thank and apologize, you have to talk about it for a few days." Xiang Yan giggled, Ask: "This is the reason why you came out today. After the matter is over, where shall we go now?" The waiter in purple thought for a long time and said, "Dinner."

The waiter in purple came to a restaurant.Xiang Yan sized it up and said, "Sure enough, it's the restaurant you chose, just like you, it rejects people for thousands of miles, and it doesn't even offer a job."

I couldn't see a single guest in the restaurant, but I could hear chatter and laughter behind the screen.Accompanied by the sound of bells, drums, zithers and zithers, it is clear and cold, only the musical instruments played by themselves, and there is no musician.

A senior puppet stepped forward and led the purple-clothed waiter into a compartment.On the partition screen, there is a painting of a Yanshi and a puppet performing a marriage ceremony in the wedding room.The two looked at the painting for a long time, and suddenly they saw Yanshi weeping, and a ghost stood outside the house at some point, who looked like the puppet, peeking out the window.They watched for a while, and found that a messenger jumped into the screen and dragged the ghost away, but Yanshi didn't notice it, and lay on the bed with the puppet, with the curtain half-closed.

Xiang Yan lowered his head and did not look at the screen, and changed his words: "There is one thing I have been wondering all along. You and Yu Yin escaped from the sea, not to mention money, and you don't even have a doll. How come you are so generous now?"

"If you know how to possess souls, you won't have trouble going on." The purple-clothed waiter said, "We were really disgraceful at the beginning. We used high-level dolls to earn money at night, and returned them during the day. There are not many ways to earn money at night. It was also impossible for us to engage in unscrupulous business, until we found this cruise ship, which always sailed in the middle of the night, and performed ghost tricks on board. About a year later, after saving a pen for tipping money, Yuyin did it. There is no need to steal the two puppets from now on. After that, we combined ghost techniques and mechanisms to concoct several popular illusion performances."

Xiang Yan asked: "After all, this building boat is not yours, and the money earned will not be taken by the owner of the boat?" The purple-clothed waiter said: "Of course. So there is a section in the middle, we leave the building boat and set up our own house. In the building boat In the opposite building, we rented a venue for performances, and specially chose the time at night. The owner of the boat suddenly suffered from poor business, and after three months, he couldn’t afford the expenses of building the boat, so he came to beg us to go back, and promised to share [-]% of it with us.” Xiang Xiang Yan asked again: "Then you can buy this building boat." The purple-clothed waiter said: "Yes, you can. But running a building boat is not easy, and we can't be too showy, so let the owner continue to take care of it. "

The puppet brought the dishes and said: "Qihuayushu, fish and dragons proliferate, and the wind returns to the snow." Xiang Yan was surrounded by clouds and smoke, and he couldn't help saying: "This dish is not for people to eat, it is for release. Placed at home." The purple-clothed waiter explained: "This restaurant is specially opened for high-end dolls. Dolls have no need for food, so they come here to talk about fun."

The puppet listened to the person in front of him talking to himself, and knew that it was two guests, so he smiled and backed away.Xiang Yan took a small snowflake, held it in his mouth, it was sour and sweet, very refreshing, aftertaste: "The last time I ate and drank was four years ago." I think he was still Mengyao at the time, and he ate a lot , I don't know who cleared the rice bag for him every night.

"I haven't eaten for a long time." The purple-clothed waiter picked up a half-finger-long horned dragon, chewed it carefully, and brought some peppery flavor.Xiang Yan asked: "You have such a good doll, why don't you enjoy it once?" The purple-clothed waiter said: "I'm not interested in eating. I haven't eaten with you at the same table before."

Xiang Yan said happily, "Feng Zhu mentioned to me before that there is a puppet in our family who doesn't like to eat. What's his name..."

The purple-clothed waiter buckled the wooden chopsticks on the table and said angrily, "You still remember Fengzhu!"

The two seats next door suddenly fell silent, followed by a snort.Xiang Yan shrugged, and asked with grievance in his heart: "I met him in the sand table. It took a lot of effort for him to confess his identity. When you all met me, you kept it from me and blamed me." The purple-clothed waiter was unmoved.

After eating, the waiter in purple said he wanted to go back and pestered him to play for a while longer.The purple-clothed waiter said helplessly: "Then take you to the street where Yuyin often strolls, you should like it."

The two came to a bustling street market on a half slope, selling wooden armor materials.Xiang Yan looked at the road in front of him to the sky, and sighed: "It really deserves to be Yanfang, the country of wooden armor."

This street market is not like the exquisite and unique ghost corridors and alleys. There are so many shops, from the string shop and the wood shop to the gear shop and mortise and tenon warehouse.I heard from the purple-clothed waiter that the students of Yuyan Pavilion love to come to this street. Even if they don’t buy anything, they will come here in groups to mess around, or find a small shop alone to relax.

Not long after the two of them strolled around, the purple-clothed waiter already had large and small bags in his hands.Although Xiang Yan wanted to watch it again, he was afraid that the waiter in purple would complain if he didn't talk, so he proposed to rest under the shade of a tree.

Xiang Yan fiddled with the things he bought and said: "I just listened to what you said, and forgot to ask. How did Yuyin make the puppet of the two of you. He is obviously a puppet, and he should not be able to reach the top Yanshi's kung fu. "The purple-clothed waiter said: "I don't know the method of Yuyin, but there are many treasures in his room that other Yanshi don't have. First."

"Yan Gui..." Xiang Yan got up and said, "Why don't we go back." The purple-clothed waiter sighed softly: "As the patriarch, are you so eager to ask him for advice?" He obviously walked a little weakly, I want to sit still for a while.

Asked to Yan: "If you were Yanshi before your death, you would have thought about this matter. Let's go, let's go, if I can make wooden armor again, if you are injured, I can repair it for you." The purple-clothed waiter who said that was startled , I didn't say anything for a long time.Xiang Yan murmured: "I don't want to? You were not my puppet before." The purple-clothed waiter smiled lightly, answered Xiang Yan and walked back.

On the way, the purple-clothed waiter asked: "Last night, you said that you saw my doll in Chilan?"

"That's right, the puppet Qingyuan is well kept. I have a good relationship with him. If you want to—" At this point, the purple-clothed waiter's expression darkened, and he hurriedly explained to Yan: "Qingyuan is also the one I went to the border not long ago. We know each other. We never even met before we were alive, so don't be angry."

The purple-clothed waiter muttered: "If you are by my side, I don't want the doll." Xiang Yan's heart skipped a beat, as if he heard something extraordinary.Don't look at the person in front of him as cold as ice, think that he saw so many dolls from the past at Shiting, none of them are as clingy as him.

Thinking of this, Xiang Yan burst into a smile, and suddenly said solemnly: "But I still have to go back to Chilan." The purple-clothed waiter asked: "What are you doing back to Chilan?" It's easy to live like Yanfang, I want to change... That's why I want to take His Highness back to Chilan." Ziyi snorted: "I thought you had great ambitions, but it turns out that you want someone again."

"He is really important to Chilan. You can blame me for not remembering things, but don't threaten His Highness. I have been a low wood for several years, and His Highness was the dawn of our low wood at that time."

Xiang Yan's words were serious, and the purple-clothed waiter was also a little moved.He asked in a low voice: "If I promise to send him back, are you willing to stay in Yanfang in exchange?" Xiang Yantan asked: "If I promise for him, you won't be even more angry with me, let alone let him go?"

The purple-clothed waiter suddenly stopped, and said after a long while: "After you go back, you can watch a play with me, and after the play is over, you can take him away."