unlucky ghost

Tan Zishi knelt down in front of the coffin again, Jiang Han retreated and knelt outside the hall.

"The matter has come to this, the master should not regret it any more. As the saying goes, children and grandchildren have their own blessings, and the master has worked hard for him for half his life, so he should go away with peace of mind." Tanxi persuaded.

Master Tan still said to himself: "Now, without the support of the Liu family, he is not well-connected in the world, and his talents and learning are limited. I am afraid that the future will be rough."

Insects and birds chirped outside, gusts of cool wind blew in, and the hall instantly became gloomy.

Master Tan grabbed Tan Zishi's arm, and begged sadly: "Tanxi, I know you are a person who values ​​love and righteousness. You watched Tanxi grow up, and now I can no longer protect him by his side." He is gone, I hope you can help me take care of him more, and remind him of everything. If there is any catastrophe, I hope you can try your best to help him, old man... the old man can rest in peace under the nine springs .”

Tanxi's life was given by their Tan family, and he owed their Tan family a kindness in this life, so this request must never be turned down.

"Even if the master doesn't open his mouth, I will do my best to protect him. As long as I am still in the world, I will protect him for an extra moment. Please rest assured, master."

Master Tan nodded with tears in his eyes, finally glanced at Tan Zishi on the ground, turned and walked towards the north wall.

Tanxi hurriedly called him from behind: "Master, where are you going?"

Master Tan turned his head with sparkling old eyes, "Don't just pamper him blindly, don't ask for fame, fortune, glory and wealth, just ask him to be an upright person and live out this life in peace and stability."

Tanzi seemed to have noticed something, suddenly raised his head to look at his father's coffin, then turned his head to look around, frowned before lowering his head again.

"The ghost messenger is already waiting outside, Tan'er will be entrusted to you now, I will repay you with great kindness and virtue in the next life..." Master Tan said, his body passed through the wall in a flash.

There was a faint clink of iron chains outside, and a hoarse voice said, "Let's go."

Tan Zishi knelt on the hall for three nights and two days.

In the early morning of the third day, Tan Zi really woke up suddenly, stood up slowly from the ground, and went out of the hall door.

Jiang Han was kneeling behind the brazier outside the hall door, when he saw Tan Zi, he hurriedly got up to greet him, and said, "Master, you are out."

Tan Zishi nodded slightly, with a deep expression on his face, and the arrogant virtue that he used to look forward to and dance with joy has completely disappeared.

He walked up to Jiang Han, his eyes rested on Jiang Han's cheeks that were flushed with cold, he raised his hand to caress, and said lightly: "My father is gone, and the ancestor's family business depends on me, I can't call my father Disappointed again."

Jiang Han felt a burst of surprise.

"Ask Wen Zhong to come to the accounting room. I have something to explain." Tan Zishi instructed the little pigeon beside him as he walked.

Little Gezi and Qin Qing looked happy to see their ancestors, and ran to the courtyard in a panic, saying, "Hey! I'll go right away, little one."

Tanxi stood in the hall and looked at Tan Zishi's back from a distance. Once upon a time, he was just a yellow-haired boy with half a tooth, but now he has become a man of indomitable spirit.

Tanzi really changed his face, as if he was a different person.A group of servants circled around him every day, keeping the Tan Mansion in order.

Because Tan Zishi's fifth uncle was far away in Huaiyin, it would take at least three or four days to get back to get the letter. Master Tan's coffin was left on the hall for four days.

Tan Zishi started at Mao hour every day, first assigned all the servants' jobs one by one, and then knelt down in front of his father's coffin, wearing loose filial piety clothes, and carefully looked at the account book in his hand.

On the fifth day of the fourth lunar month, the weather was not beautiful, and there were sporadic rains from the early morning. At noon, it rained heavily, and the dripping water formed a fine crystal curtain under the eaves.

Jiang Han stood beside Tan Zishi, looking at the heavy rain outside, frowning.

At dusk, a young man came to report that the river had burst its embankment, and that the area along the river was impassable. Uncle Wu and the others might be delayed for a few days.

Tanzi frowned slightly when he heard the words, and said: "It's okay, tell Uncle Wu and the others not to hurry, and walk carefully."

The boy took the order and went, Jiang Han said: "I'm afraid that the corpse of the master..."

Tan Zishi looked at the peaceful old man inside the coffin, and ordered the people to move the coffin to the vegetable cellar.

The big vegetable cellar does not see the sun all year round, and it is quite cold inside.

This wait lasted for two days, the heavy rain had stopped early, the sun had been scorching warmly during the day, and the rain on the ground had disappeared.

It was the third watch that day, and Tanzi fell asleep in time, and Tanxi then retreated from Tanzishi's room.

Without a drop of water for several days, it is inevitable that my stomach will be empty and my heart can't bear it, so Tanxi went to the wine cellar in the backyard openly, and drank half full with the wine jar in his arms.

Tanxi burped while stroking her slightly swollen belly, and suddenly heard a soft "hoo" in the wine cellar, and hurriedly turned her head to look.

At the door of the wine cellar, someone was holding a dim candle lamp into it.

Tan Xi took a closer look, and saw that the man was dressed in black, and his face was too dark to see clearly. He thought he was masked, and was sneaking towards Tan Zishi's side. come over.

Tanxi sneered to herself, the mansion was in chaos these days, and the servant who fished in troubled waters and stole wine from the wine cellar, but now he was bumped into by himself, can only blame this person for being really unlucky.

Tanxi chuckled, rolled his eyes, and wanted to play tricks on this little thief.

The figure groped back and forth furtively, using the candle lamp in his hand to shine eastward and westward. When he walked not far from Tanxi, he turned around and wanted to go out.

Seeing that he was about to leave, Tanxi picked up an egg from the ground and threw it over. The egg hit the back of the man's head, and it shattered on his head with a "pop".

The man froze for a moment, and quickly touched the back of his head with his hand, which was sticky with water, and hurriedly rubbed his hand on his clothes, cursing, "Damn it, what the hell?"

Tanxi smiled, claiming to be an honest person, but not very good at teasing people.

Tanxi walked towards the man, the wooden boards creaked under his feet, and the man hurriedly took a torch to shine behind him.

I saw a string of footprints on the ground walking towards him, but no one was there.

He rubbed his eyes in disbelief, seeing that the string of footprints was about to reach him, he screamed "Oh my god, there is a ghost!" He spread his feet and ran away.

Tanxi followed closely behind.

The man ran towards the door with his head in his arms, unexpectedly, there was an old hen laying eggs holding back his energy, and when he saw someone running over, he flapped his wings and flew up.

The man was frightened to death, but he was frightened by the chicken, sprained his foot, and hit the doorpost with a "boom", the lantern in his hand rolled to the ground, and the lantern paper burst into flames.

Tanxi's secret passage was broken, and he wanted to tease people, but he caught fire, so he hurriedly picked up a large vat of water behind him and poured it down.

Unexpectedly, when the tank of water was poured down, the flames on the ground suddenly went crazy. With a "boom", they shot up half a foot high, and the flames rushed straight to the half-decayed roof, and half of the wine cellar burned.

Tanxi was dumbfounded, this time he was really dumbfounded, where was the water he poured just now, it was clearly a tank full of old wine!

Seeing that a fire was about to break out, Tanxi hurriedly shouted: "Hurry up, go to the front and call someone!"

Unexpectedly, the man stood up slowly from the ground, seeing the flames all over the room, he didn't rush to run, but walked inside, crackling and smashing several tanks of old wine, and the ground was full of wine .

The wine ignited immediately when it encountered a fire, and the yellow and blue flames swished and covered the whole room, and the sealed wine tank exploded several times under the burning of the flame, scaring the man to cover his head and run away without a trace.

Seeing that the fire was getting bigger, Tanxi hurriedly followed and ran out of the wine cellar.

In the past few days, the servants in the mansion were extremely tired, and they slept soundly at night, the back corner door was wide open, and a few young men who were guarding the door in the backyard went somewhere to be lazy.

When Tanxi ran to the entrance of Tanzi's real house, the backyard was already ablaze, and there were a few loud cracking sounds from the wine cellar. .

At this time, the southeast wind was blowing, and the fire suddenly rose. As soon as the wind blew, it swept in like a fire dragon, and the sound of crackling and burning came together with the sound of houses falling down.

Tanxi was about to kick the door, so as to wake up Tan Zishi, and it counted as much as he could save.

Before his feet touched the door, Tan Zishi opened the door from the inside, with a moon-white coat draped over his shoulders, and his hair disheveled, he ran out across Tanxi in a panic.

At this time, the door of the south wing was also opened, and Jiang Han was running towards Tanzishi in a panic while putting on his outer robe.

Jiang Han asked, "What happened?"

Tan Zishi looked up at the sky solemnly, but he heard someone in the backyard shouting loudly: "It's on fire, it's on fire, come here, put out the fire..."

Tanzi was startled, and they both turned around and looked towards the backyard.

The bright yellow flames rushed straight to the sky, and the flames were raging and burning towards the front yard.

Tanzi hastily threw off the obstructing robe on his shoulders and rushed out. "My dad, my dad is still in the backyard, save my dad!"

After surviving the night, when the dawn light shone on Tanzi's cold and cold cheeks, there were already ruins and ruins under his feet, with gray stains everywhere, not the same as before.

Most of the entire Tan Mansion has been burned down, and the mansion is filled with smog and mist, making it unspeakably desolate.

Jiang Han also stood beside him in a daze, watching the last pinch of flames dance and die in the ashes all over the ground.

After a long time, Jiang Han turned his head to look at the pale Tan Zishi, and shook his shoulder with his hand.

"Young...Young master, the master's body..." Wen Zhong walked towards Tan Zishi with a dark face, holding a handful of black ash in his hand, and handed it to Tan Zishi.

Tan Zishi glanced at the ashes in Wen Zhong's hand, and said to Jiang Han, "Go find a box, put the ashes away, and put them in the ancestral hall."

When Tanzi said this, he couldn't hear what it was like in his tone, but he waved his hand at the crowd and said: "Let's go away." Then he went to the front yard by himself.

The servant girls and servants looked at each other, and it took a while to realize that they looked at each other and shook their heads, and they really broke up.

Wen Zhong and Jiang Han stood together, watching the crowd shake their heads and leave with a sigh, and they didn't obstruct them, letting them go out of the house just like that.

Everyone's hearts are as clear as a mirror, and the Tan family is about to collapse.

Jiang Han looked back and saw the little pigeon standing not far away with Qin Qing, and asked, "Why don't you leave?"

Little Pigeon's teardrops were dangling in his eyes, Qin Qing picked up his outer robe, wiped it with the clean underwear inside, and said: "I have served the master once, and now I am in such a catastrophe, how can I just leave it like this?" The next master is gone."

The little pigeon burst into tears like a fountain, crying until Qin Qing's sleeves were covered with his snot and tears.

Just as he was speaking, the sloping beams in the backyard fell to the ground with a bang, and a huge creature jumped out of the ashes all over the ground.

"Qiyao, it's Qiyao!" The little pigeon hurried over.