Jiajing Spiritual Records

Ning Huan turned his head, shook Su Xian, who was casually drinking tea beside him, and muttered softly, "Who is this person?"

Su Xian lowered his head and took a sip of tea: "The morticians passing by, never expected to meet these 'craftsmen' without crossing the border of Western Hunan."

"Chasing the mortician?" Ning Huan opened his mouth, but was speechless for a long time, "You mean the one behind him who can walk and jump is a dead man!"

Su Xian gave Ning Huan a sideways look, and said disapprovingly, "The God of Joy means the dead."

Ning Huan was stunned for a while, then asked: "What's the matter with the strange noise made by the corpse just now?"

"The God of Joy is easy to kill the corpses when it encounters the anger of the living, so the corpses will be blocked with ghost paper. But just now, the five or six big men have such strong yang energy, it is not surprising that the corpses will be raised."

"No wonder." Ning Huan propped his chin and pondered for a moment, recalling the fearful expression of that middle-aged man just now, he turned his head and asked again, "Then why did he call you a ghost?"

"You have too many questions." Su Xian disliked his eyes impatiently, his voice paused, his body turned slightly to Ning Huan, his eyes were raised, and a sneer appeared on his mouth, "Ning Huan, you have seen the skinning of a living person." How come you are still so timid without making any progress?"

Ning Huan was taken aback, and was about to retort: ​​"That's different, last time I..."

Before he finished speaking, a "bang dang" sound behind him completely interrupted Ning Huan's next words.Ning Huan turned his head and saw egg noodles scattered all over the floor under his feet, and the shopkeeper was tremblingly pulling the broken bowl aside.

Seeing the two of them looking over, the shopkeeper straightened up hastily: "You two guests wait a moment, the little one will do it again, and immediately serve two bowls of egg noodles to the two adults." "Wang Er!" The burly man stood up, "What are you still doing! You haven't served the two adults a hot pot of wine yet."

"What's wrong with them?" The original group of yelling big men fell silent at this moment, and all of them huddled in the corner of the wall and looked at the two of them like a mouse seeing a cat.

Under the table, Su Xian put back his right hand that was resting on the handle of the knife, and he snorted coldly: "Who knows."

The shopkeeper quickly brought out two bowls of freshly prepared noodles. The half-ripe poached eggs were sprinkled with green onion and minced meat, which looked appetizing.

Su Xian pushed the bowl in front of Ning Huan without lifting his head: "Is there a boatman crossing the river near here?"

The shopkeeper's face changed when he heard the words: "The guest officer wants to cross the river? No way!"

Ning Huan raised his head and asked in confusion, "Why?"

"There are water ghosts in the river!" A big man by the door suddenly said, "The boat will sink when it reaches the middle of the river, even people who are proficient in water will not be able to return."

The shopkeeper sighed and said: "Guest officers, to tell you the truth, we are all fishermen nearby, and we never thought about doing such a business that hurts morals, but the water ghost in the river cut off our livelihood. Everyone has no choice but to support their families.”

Su Xian sneered coldly: "Admit you that this is a black shop?"

"Guest officer, guest officer, we have never killed anyone when we opened a shop." The shopkeeper panicked and said hastily, "Most of the people who come to us are going to cross the river to the opposite side, and we have saved them by stopping them." Their lives."

Su Xian snorted coldly, and glanced indifferently at the shopkeeper standing aside, who was silent.Ning Huan took a sip of noodles and wiped his mouth: "Do you have a guest room here?"

The night had completely surrounded this riverside inn, and a layer of mist had formed outside the house.Ning Huan sighed in his heart, if what the shopkeeper said was true, there were really water ghosts in the river, they'd better stay in this inn tonight.As the saying goes, you must not go to the river when you walk at night, because those drowned water ghosts will drag you into the river as a scapegoat for them.

"Yes, yes, there is one vacant room upstairs, but there is only one bed, and the two of you should be able to squeeze together."

"The shopkeeper, that guest room..."

With a stare from the shopkeeper, the strong man suddenly fell silent: "Tonight must be a good weather, so why not stay here!"

Ning Huan glanced outside the door, the moon and the stars are sparse, it is indeed a good weather, but what does this weather have to do with staying in the hotel?Ning Huan turned his gaze to Su Xian, wanting to ask him what he meant.Su Xian lowered his eyes and didn't know what he was thinking, Ning Huan finally recovered after calling a few times: "Then let's stay at the hotel."

Perhaps because of being in this dark inn, Ning Huan tossed and turned at night and couldn't sleep no matter what.He turned sideways and took a look at Su Xian who was lying beside him. Under the faint moonlight, Su Xian pursed his lips, and seemed to be fast asleep.

Ning Huan sighed and muttered softly: "The ghosts are asleep, what am I worrying about?" Then he turned around and closed his eyes.

In the middle of the night, it suddenly started raining outside the house, and the noisy wind blew the heavy rain against the windows of the inn. A window was blown open by the strong wind, and the pattering raindrops immediately drifted into the house.Ning Huan opened his eyes in a daze, turned over, rubbed his eyes, and was about to get out of bed to close the window when he suddenly found a black figure standing by the window.

Ning Huan suddenly woke up, is it someone from the inn?However, the black figure in front of him was short in stature, only half the height of a human being, with a hunched body, and there was a large puddle of water stains at his feet, exuding a strong watery smell from his whole body.

"Hush." ​​Su Xian woke up at some point, half sat up, and gently lowered his voice to signal Ning Huan not to move.He took out a talisman from under the pillow, and looked at the black shadow with clear eyes, as if he had just woken up.The black shadow found the two, its body trembled violently, and it let out a strange cry from its mouth, and was about to pounce on them.

Su Xian threw the talisman out of his hand directly, and the talisman burned naturally when he let go of his hand.Under the blue gloomy firelight, Ning Huan could clearly see the appearance of the black shadow. Its whole body was covered with turquoise scales, its head was huge, and its pale eyes were bloodshot. It looked like a bird that had rotted for many days fish head.But if you want to say that this thing is a fish monster, it is wearing human clothes.

The burning talisman touched its body, and the monster screamed in pain, green pus oozing from its scales.It dodged and retreated to the window, staring at the two with blood-red eyes.

Su Xian snorted: "Looking for death." After speaking, another talisman flew out. Before the talisman touched the monster, it flew out of the window in an instant.

"What is it?" Ning Huan swallowed hard, licked his chapped lips, and only made a sound when he realized that the monster had run away.

"Water monkey." Suxian got out of bed, and closed the half-open window amidst the howling wind, "The drowned man turned into a ghost in the river and took on the appearance of this kind of water monkey. I just didn't expect to run so fast." Far."

"Do you think the water ghost that the shopkeeper mentioned just now is the thing just now?" Ning Huan gathered the quilt and buried his whole body in it, leaving only a pair of eyes outside, staring at Su Xian.

Su Xian yawned and went to bed: "Who knows, anyway, this thing won't dare to come tonight." He pulled the quilt from Ning Huan's arms and covered himself, turned over and found a comfortable bed. Lie down in the posture, "Sleep."

Ning Huan straightened up and stared at the window worriedly for a while, the rain gradually subsided and the wind was not as strong as before.He suddenly lifted a corner of the quilt, and said to the man lying inside: "Can't we take a detour tomorrow? Why do we have to cross the river?"

"You can't swim?" Su Xian opened one eye.

"Not really." Ning Huan thought for a while and replied.Although his water quality is not good, it is not bad.

"This can't be done." Su Xian rolled over the quilt, turned his back to Ning Huan, and said impatiently, "Don't make noise, I'm sleepy, go to sleep!"

Ning Huan stared at the bed curtain for a while, then turned around and poked Su Xian on the back: "Haven't you been sleeping since just now?" Convince him to go overland tomorrow.Just as he was about to say something more, Su Xian threw a pillow over him, only to hear him grit his teeth and say, "If you don't sleep anymore, believe it or not, I will throw you out of the window to feed the monkeys right now!"

Ning Huan curled his lips, thinking that it doesn't matter, if he has to hurry tomorrow morning, he should go to bed early.Su Xian lost his pillow, dragged Ning Huan's away, and fell asleep.Ning Huan snorted, lay down and pulled the quilt under Su Xian, and circled most of it away...