The strange story of Huai'an Inn

The shopkeeper and Chong Liudong understood the reason with affection, and Lvzhi seemed to be shaken, but still just sobbed and refused to speak.

In the end, it was Chongliu who said, "Ma'am, if you have passed away to give birth to the stuff in your stomach, what will you do with your one-year-old daughter? Do you want Mrs. Qi to be her mother? When she grows up, I don’t even remember your own mother, I don’t know what you look like, I haven’t heard you call her by her baby name, so why are you just giving away the daughter you have worked so hard to get?”

As if it was the last straw, after this sentence, Lvzhi was struck by lightning.She seemed to be revived suddenly like a piece of rotten wood, shaking her head vigorously, "No! No! She is my daughter, and no one can take it away!" She grabbed the shopkeeper's sleeve, and her eyes burst out with a strangely bright light, "Mr. , I want to live! I want to live! I want to live with Qianqian!"

Only then did the shopkeeper smile a bit, and patted her on the back of the hand twice, "With your words, I will definitely do my best."

After that, he turned his head to look at Chong Liu, "Bring me my medicine box."

Chong Liu quickly handed over the box.

There were no medicinal materials in the box, but there was a black clay pot.The shopkeeper opened the jar, and twisted out a thing about the length of a finger from the black oily thick liquid, which looked like a fish egg follicle.

The whole body of that thing was covered with fine bloodshot, and it undulated and wriggled inconspicuously in the palm of the shopkeeper.Under the translucent film, there seemed to be countless eggs that were hatching.

"Your grate is made of ghost-raising bamboo in the Yin Mountain. This kind of bamboo is too close to the ghost-raising pool where many people were drowned in the foul smell, so it also took on the foul smell and started to grow out of control. , and even all the vegetation and insects in the vicinity are overpopulated. However, there is a kind of necrocoel fish that survives in the pool and grows up by eating the corpses of dead people and birds and beasts. It can drill into the soil to eat those eggs and The ability of bamboo roots, so it is the nemesis of this kind of bamboo."

The shopkeeper said, holding the fish egg vesicles in front of Lu Zhi, "This is the roe sac taken from the stomach of the corpse coel fish. If you eat the corpse coel fish directly, they may die after eating the contents of your stomach. Starts to damage your body, so give you fish roe.

These roe will hatch in your stomach and grow into small coelfish.After they eat your contents, they go into a short hibernation, allowing you to excrete them along with what's left of your stomach.The whole process will be very painful and will last about three days.You must hold on.If the filth is not drained cleanly, it will lead to serious diseases in the future. "

Lu Zhi looked at the worm-like fish eggs wriggling in his palm, his eyes were full of nausea and fear.But she still stretched out her hand and picked up the fish egg.

The shopkeeper warned, "Swallow it whole, don't chew it."

"How can this be swallowed..." Xizhu asked worriedly, "Can't you just break it up and swallow it?"

"Break it into pieces, and a considerable part of the fish eggs will die. It's hard to say whether they can eat up the verbs in their stomachs." The shopkeeper patiently explained, "As long as they pass the base of their tongues and warm up, they will find a way to crawl on their own." down."

When he said this, Midori became more and more frightened.

But she has no way out.If you want to survive, you must listen to the shopkeeper.She softly told Xizhu, "Zhuer, go get me a glass of water."

"Yes."

Chong Liuhe shopkeeper watched her raise her head, opened her mouth wide, forcefully stuffed the roe sac down her throat, and swallowed it forcefully.

Xizhu hurriedly served the water, and Lvzhi drank it for a long time, but her expression was still not relieved.She pressed her rib cage with her hands and kept swallowing her saliva, obviously feeling that something was stuck in her esophagus.

"Don't worry, it will get better slowly." The shopkeeper got up slowly, and comforted him softly, "It won't be easy for the next three days, I have to let Xizhu take care of it. After three days, I will come back and take a look." your situation."

"Thank you...thank you, Mr. Zhu!" Luzhi seemed to want to get out of bed, but her stomach pressed her tightly, and it was difficult to breathe.

The shopkeeper and Chong Liu left Shen's residence together, and Chong Liu suddenly took a deep breath of air.

What kind of rich and powerful family, in the end, the women in it are not as high as the status of the market and village women in the family. "Liu'er, your performance today is commendable." The shopkeeper stretched out his hand, holding a small handful of copper coins in his hand, "Take these, you can use them however you want. I will give you half a day off."

Chong Liuyi's eyes lit up with joy, "Really!"

"However, I suggest you go to the Taihe Opera Garden to listen to the opera." The shopkeeper smiled sincerely, "There is a new opera in the past two days, called Wutong Temple, you can go and listen to it."

Wutong Temple... Isn't this the latest work of Layman Luzhou? !

Chong Liu looked at the shopkeeper suspiciously, "Master...you want me to inquire about the news, just tell me..."

"It doesn't matter, I'll let you listen to it, and pay attention to the people around you and the people on the stage."...Isn't it still asking me to scan and listen to the news...

"If you don't want to go, I'll let Zhu Yi go."

"Don't, don't! I'll go! I'll listen carefully!" Chong Liu hurriedly took the money as if he was afraid of the shopkeeper's repentance, "Then you and Xiao Shun go back by car?"

"Well, you go. Don't play too late, Na Dingbuqiong may come to pick up chopsticks after closing." The shopkeeper reached out and pressed his shoulder, then turned and left.

Chong Liu found that the shopkeeper had had physical contact with him in the past half month, far exceeding the total number of times in the past three months...

And he was actually a little complacent.

The Wutong Temple scene is still the style of the Luzhou layman in the past. It seems to be a commonplace at the beginning, but it becomes more and more strange later on.The protagonist, the scholar, took shelter from the rain in a phoenix temple, and met five bodyguards and two merchants.But the torrential rain became more and more strange, not to mention a lot of maggots falling from the sky, and the thunder was getting closer and more like the hissing of some kind of monster.

The people in the temple were trembling with fright, and no one dared to go out.At this time, the scholar counted the number of them, but found that there was one more person.

Before adding him, there were obviously only eight people, but now there are nine people.The problem is that none of them can figure out who the extra person is.

What's interesting is that even the audience couldn't figure out who the ninth person was and when he came on stage.

Chong Liu ate the melon seeds and watched with relish, but remembering what the shopkeeper told him, he would glance around from time to time.The sound of conversation and applause is no different from watching it in other theaters on weekdays. It is lively and lively, and the originally horrifying plot is not so intimidating.

In the second half, a strange thing happened.

The scholar counted again and found that there were ten people in the temple now.

Obviously, at the beginning of the second half, there were only nine people on stage.During the whole process, the theater garden was brightly lit, and the surroundings of the stage were clean and unobstructed. When did the tenth person come on stage?

He got up slightly, squinted his eyes and carefully looked at the ten performers on the stage.

Looking at it, some subtle changes took place in his vision, as if the colors became more vivid, and everyone's figures were a little...unsteady.

It's like the outline of a person is a little blurred.

He looked carefully and found that it was not a blur, but some beard-like things floating around the outline of each person.Most of those beards are white or light pink, but there is a Wen Chou and a martial artist who are different from others.

The whiskers steaming around them were red, bloody red.

But in the blink of an eye, the wonder of that moment disappeared again.

Chong Liu couldn't help standing up straight, trying to see the two of them more clearly.But at this moment, he suddenly felt that something was not right.

sound……

The theater lobby, which had been noisy all the time, was now completely silent.

There was no chatter, no eating and cup clashing, no tea doctor's yelling, and no applause.

The whole opera garden was as quiet as a Yizhuang.

Chong Liu froze in place, even a little afraid to turn his head to look around to see the expressions of all the other guests at this time...

Chong Liu shuddered, his eyes glanced to the side, and all the hairs on his body exploded in an instant.

Everyone, all the people who were eating fruit and chatting very normally before, stared at him with empty eyes at the same moment.

Because he discovered the secret.

An exclamation of fear stuck in his throat.

But just as he blinked his eyes, all the noises that disappeared inexplicably before suddenly returned.People chatted and laughed as if nothing had happened, and children ran wildly between the tables, as if no one was aware of what happened just moments before.

It seems that everything is continuous and never stops.It seemed that only Chongliu knew about the silent moment before, and it didn't exist for everyone else.

At this time, Chong Liu looked at the stage again.

Eleven people...

And that Wen Chou was staring straight at him.

He suddenly couldn't stand it anymore.Hastily left money for tea and ran back to the inn.

He wasn't quite sure what was going on in the theatre...but he knew it wasn't normal.

Is this what the shopkeeper wants him to see?Does the shopkeeper already know something?

He strolled on the street for a while before his beating heart calmed down.After the initial fear, a faint excitement began to creep in.

The new secret is right in front of his eyes.He could smell the intoxicating scent of the secret.

Go back and report to the shopkeeper, and you must write it down at night.

On the way back to the inn, he stopped at Shuifangzhai and bought some fruit cakes with his own money.

As soon as I got back to the inn, I caught up with a wave of guests, and they didn't stop all night until closing.Seeing the shopkeeper again, it's time for everyone to have dinner together.

Today, Master Liao made pork shredded steamed buns with sour stuffing, and each person has a bowl of gourd soup.Chongliu took out the fruit snacks bought in Shuifangzhai and shared them with everyone. Everyone was shocked. Zhu Yi took the lead and grabbed a piece of plum blossom cake and stuffed it into his mouth, "Sixth brother, why are you so generous today!"

Xiao Shun also ate until his cheeks puffed up, like a squirrel.

The shopkeeper came in when Fuzi Jiulang was scrambling for the buttered abalone.This time he sat next to Chong Liu, looked at the fruit snacks on the table, and said with a smile, "Who is so rich today?"

Chong Liu touched his head and smiled, then quietly handed an unopened oil-paper package to the shopkeeper.

Shopkeeper Zhu was stunned, "What is this?"

Chong Liu approached, lowered his voice and said, "Donkey-hide gelatin cake, I asked specifically, the guy in the store said that it has the effect of nourishing blood and nourishing qi."

The shopkeeper was stunned for a while, and realized that Chong Liu had bought it for him because of his sick face...

He suddenly laughed, his laughter was clear and clear, different from before.Everyone's attention was also attracted by the laughter, only Master Liao was drinking tea leisurely.

"Boss, what are you laughing at?" Zhu Yi asked vaguely with a pastry in his mouth.

Shopkeeper Zhu looked at Chong Liu, who was blushing, and said, "It's nothing, I'm just in a good mood." Then, he quietly took the oiled paper bag under the table.

Chong Liu felt as if he had eaten a whole can of candied lychees.

"Boss, I'm going to the theater today..."

Just halfway through the conversation, I heard someone knocking on the door.Thinking that he might be here for the night, Chong Liu got up and went to open the door.

Standing outside the door was not a guest staying at the hotel, but a farmer holding a cloth bag with longing and anxiety on his face—Ding Buqiong.