The strange story of Huai'an Inn

No one spoke at the dinner table, everyone ate in silence, and the atmosphere seemed to have dropped to freezing point.

While Xiaoshun was trying his best to pull the rice into his mouth, his eyes flicked back and forth between the shopkeeper and Chongliu.Fuzi and Jiulang are also in a similar state.Only Master Liao picked his teeth calmly with a toothpick, looking at ease with the presence of the old god.

The shopkeeper looked different from usual, eating slowly, only occasionally glanced at Chong Liu with his eyes.

But Chongliu was surprisingly quiet, chomping on the hummus and concentrating on drinking the porridge, the coldness emanating from his body was worse than the snow floating outside the door.

After eating, I took the initiative to take my own bowl to the kitchen to wash it, and I didn't even glance at the shopkeeper during the whole process.

After Chong Liu left his seat, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and finally they all looked at the shopkeeper in unison.

Zhu Helan pretended to be nonchalant, and wiped his mouth gracefully with a handkerchief, "In the past two days, an alchemist will set up some magic circles in our inn to clean up the filth. If he needs to enter places like the kitchen and warehouse, please cooperate. one time."

"Decontamination? In our inn?" Master Liao raised his eyebrows.

The shopkeeper nodded and said, "The incident more than three months ago may have destroyed the atmosphere and feng shui of our inn. It's good for people to take a look."

Master Liao was noncommittal, but he stopped talking.The other helpers just nodded again and again.

The shopkeeper smiled at everyone, then got up and called Xiao Shun to prepare the carriage for him later, and he wanted to go out. "Ah? Will Sixth Brother also follow?"

The shopkeeper hesitated for a moment, looked in the direction where Chong Liu left, and said, "Just prepare the horse, there is no need for a carriage. I will go alone."

Kuro punched Fuzi with his elbow, and said in a low voice, "Look, let me tell you, we had a fight..."

Chong Liu took a feather duster and dusted the tables, chairs and door cabinets in a room that had just been checked out as if venting his anger, and rubbed the oil stains on the table with a rag.That posture was like rubbing a layer of skin off the table.

After tossing for a long time, he was already sweating profusely after tidying up a room.

Yesterday he spoke harshly to Zhu Helan, but it was just a bluff.

He is a small running hall, and he can't even control the filth on his body. What can he do to make his boss, who doesn't care about anything, regret it?

The more powerless, the more angry.

It would be fine if the shopkeeper was completely ruthless to him, but what is going on now?Run away after teasing?

Chong Liu sat on the bed where the bedding had just been put away, grabbed the hat on his head, and dusted off the dust on it.

Thinking about it carefully, people might just think he was joking and having fun, and never intended to be serious.As a result, when I saw that I was serious about it, of course I would shrink back.

I can't be too rushed, can't I...

The more I thought about it, the anger gradually disappeared, replaced by deep helplessness and bitterness, sometimes with a hint of embarrassment and humiliation of self-love.

He thought the shopkeeper cared about him.He thought someone had finally seen him.

"Idiot!" Chong Liu scolded himself loudly, forgetting that when he was tidying up the room, he opened the door for the convenience of throwing dirty quilts outside.

Yuanchu happened to come out from the light snow room not far away, and he heard his scolding when he passed the door, his footsteps paused, but he saw Chong Liu sitting in the back room, beating the wooden bed with his hands angrily...

"Uh...Brother Guan, are you okay?" Yuanchu poked his head into the door, worried that the other party was affected by the foul smell and had mental problems...

Chong Liu stood up from the bed in a jerk, and continued to wipe the table as if nothing had happened, but the roots of his ears were red, "Ah? It's all right."

Yuanchu walked into the house and looked around, "Is there anything unusual in this room?"

Chong Liu put all the used tea sets into the wooden barrel, and replied, "No...the previous guests didn't complain."

Yuanchu took out a wooden box exuding a strong camphor smell from his arms, opened the lid and looked inside.Chong Liu stretched his neck to take a look, only to find that there were a few spiders the size of copper coins with a strange yellow-green streamer inside, lying motionless in it, and he didn't know whether they were alive or dead.

"Is this a bone spider?" Chong Liu asked curiously.

Yuanchu glanced at him in surprise, "Do you still know about bone-born spiders?"

"That's right, the spiders that control the distortion with spells and drugs and grow up in the foul air will become very active once they get close to the foul smell. The Da Luo faction uses them to indicate the direction where the foul smell appears..." Before he finished speaking, he Seeing that all the spiders suddenly gathered at the corner of the box rushing towards Chong Liu...

Chong Liu laughed twice, quickly picked up the wine gourd and drank a few sips of tea, the spiders gradually dispersed.

Yuanchu closed the lid, and said seriously, "You have such a strong filth, how did you get into it?"

Chong Liu cut it, "You still have the nerve to ask? It wasn't so serious in the first place, if you didn't have to grab the fan that time..."

"It was an accident..." Yuanchu explained embarrassingly, and after a while, he felt unbearable, and admitted, "But I did hurt you. If there is a chance, I will definitely find a way to make up for it."

"I don't dare to make up for it. I'll be thankful if you don't cause any more trouble." Chong Liu suddenly remembered something, leaning on the edge of the table and asked with great interest, "Are you here this time to ask our shopkeeper to help you?" What are you busy with? You have to carry your master behind your back."

Yuan Chu frowned, as if he didn't want to say much.

Chong Liu clicked his tongue and rolled his eyes, "What's the matter, do you think I'm just a waiter and not qualified to listen?"

"That's not the case. It's just that... the fewer people who know about it, the better."

The less the better?Then he wants to know more...

It can only be said to be a conditioned reflex to collect secrets...

"I'm helping my boss. It doesn't matter if you tell him or me. I'll know sooner or later. And I won't pass it on to you."

Yuanchu said, "Since that's the case, why don't you just ask your boss?" Chong Liu thought, don't I want to talk to him now...

Of course, Yuanchu couldn’t let Yuanchu know such a reason, so he made a face of disappointment, and shook his head deliberately, as if lamenting the decline of the world, “Hey, you said just now that you have to find a way to make up for it, but now you don’t even ask me anything. Willing to say, where is your sincerity?"

Yuanchu was robbed by Chong Liuyi, but he really felt a little sorry.He turned around and closed the door, and said in a low voice, "I'm just skeptical about this matter. How to deal with it will have to be decided after Mr. Zhu goes to see it in person. Just listen to it, don't spread it."

Chong Liu's depressed mood finally jumped a little bit, he hurriedly moved out two stools, sat on one for himself, pointed to the other and signaled the young alchemist to sit down, "Don't worry, I'm very strict."

Yuanchu briefly described what he had told Zhu Helan.

From the end of last year until now, it was Yuanchu's first trip down the mountain. Before he left, his master, Master Wusheng, passed him many spells that real people realized on their own, which were not recorded in the previous spells of the Daluo sect.Wusheng Daoist said that these spells were realized after he obtained the true biography of Qingxuan God after entering meditation.

Yuanchu was walking outside, working very hard to subdue demons and demons, and gradually gained some fame.More and more people came to ask him to get rid of evil spirits, and he gradually began to encounter some difficult cases.

When the general Daluo school spells were not enough, he began to try to use those new spells and formations taught to him by his master.Unexpectedly and within reason, he found that these spells and formations were very powerful, far surpassing the traditional spells and formations of the Da Luo sect.

So he began to use these spells and formations more frequently, and he knew that the two senior brothers who went down the mountain with him were probably doing the same thing as him.

During this year's travel, the three of them also met two or three times.

Yuanchu was the oldest among the disciples who went down the mountain together, but he was very young.His junior brother Yuanxin is five years older than him, but he is more prestigious than him among his seniors.

During Yuanchu's travels, he gradually came into contact with some artisans who were related to Huai'an Inn.Every time, he would persuade those people to cut off contact with the Huai'an Inn or similar "evil ways", and instead use the anti-filth talisman taught by the master to suppress the filth in the body.

Some craftsmen ignored him at all, and some scolded him and drove him away.Some of them also accepted his charms.

Yuanchu was very happy at first, thinking that he had saved a group of beings who were bewitched by evil ways and desires for money.Until one time, he accidentally went back to the village he had visited before to inquire about the shoemaker who accepted his spell, but he heard that the shoemaker was missing.

He was a little worried, and he searched around but failed, so he had to leave.However, when he went to inquire about another monk who accepted the charm he gave because he was heavily filthy, he learned that the monk died suddenly and in a strange manner, and all the monks were reluctant to say more.He found the monk's tombstone in the mass grave.

He was a little uneasy, and began to suspect that this was not a coincidence.When meeting with the other two juniors, he expressed his concerns.

Unexpectedly, the second junior brother Yuanxin asked back, "Are you suspecting that there is something wrong with the charm given by Master?"

Having said that, Yuanchu couldn't answer the conversation immediately.If you say it again, you will be deceiving your master and destroying your ancestors...

But in private, the third junior brother told him that he also found that the power of those spells was too strong, not everyone could bear it.Once he used the Heavenly Fire Formation taught by his master to deal with several nightmares. As a result, although the nightmares were eliminated, the brains of those who were pulled into the dream by them were greatly damaged, and they could no longer wake up. They could only lie motionless on the bed.

At that time, Yuanchu started to worry.He began to visit all the homes to which he had given the talisman, and found that some were safe and sound, and thanked him earnestly.Others are either sick, crazy, suddenly died suddenly, or disappeared...

Yuanchu began to take back all the amulets until he came to Tailong Town.

It is an ancient town surrounded by mountains and forests, with simple folk customs, and is famous for producing all kinds of delicious mushrooms.The population in the town is thriving, and the atmosphere is very harmonious, giving it the feeling of a paradise.

Yuanchu went there at the beginning because a young widow in the town was caught by an evil spirit when she went to the mountains to pick mushrooms. She suddenly stopped speaking human words, and instead made a strange squawking sound that was very similar to insects.Her limbs were also deformed strangely, her limbs were getting longer and longer, and it seemed that there were a lot of joints that should not exist, and they were bent into various flexible but strange shapes.

Taking a quick look, Yuanchu thought what he saw was not a human being, but a huge white spider.

He performed rituals to exorcise evil spirits, left a spell and left.Later, when she realized that the spell was different, she made a special trip to Tailong Town to see how the widow was doing.

All the townspeople were very enthusiastic. They invited him to have a vegetarian meal, and the widow personally entertained him at home.

The widow seemed to be in good spirits, her complexion was rosy, and the distortion of her body was restored.

Yuanchu was originally relieved and planned to stay there overnight before leaving.But when everyone was full of wine and food and left one after another, and only he and the widow were left in the room, the widow's expression suddenly changed, and she whispered to him: "Run!"

Yuan Chu was stunned and didn't understand what she meant.

The widow's face was pale, and her face was distorted by the heavy fear, and her whole body was trembling, "You have to go now! Otherwise, you won't be able to go!"