Wear it to Liaozhai to give the boss a smooth hair

As night fell, the entire city of Yanzhou was plunged into endless chaos. The whiteness seemed to be sprinkled with flour, spreading out piece by piece. Recently, the climate is treacherous, with frequent fog, and the visibility is extremely low. Although there is a curfew at night, it is full of food. Those who do nothing with the official rations just carry a lantern and walk around according to the established route. Few of them actually go out to patrol, so more and more children take risks, and the thick fog is their best cover.

The Wang family couldn't find his son Erxiao again today. Wang Erxiao is only five years old. He is a stocky little boy. Recently, the old man ran out with the children in the neighborhood. It is always said that there is a big brother who will buy him delicious food. In this world, it is a blessing for children from poor families to eat meat once a year.

Wang Erxiao ate meat every day, Mrs. Wang couldn't help being suspicious, but she couldn't say more, the mother and son depended on each other and hoped to have a good life. Besides, he was not alone, and had a care with the neighbor's children, so she was relieved.

The neighbor hadn't been at home for many years, and a blind grandma was taking care of her at home. Naturally, she couldn't take care of her. She usually relied on Mrs. Wang, but now that the child didn't come back, she felt very upset.

But today is the curfew time, and Wang Erxiao and the neighbor's children still haven't come back. Mrs. Wang wiped the foam from washing clothes on her hands and went out with the light on, along the road where Wang Erxiao often played, not daring to shout loudly. Afraid of attracting officials, he just suppressed his voice and called Wang Erxiao's name in a low voice.

But after searching back and forth, I couldn't see any shadow under the cover of the thick fog.

Mrs. Wang sighed and kept praying in her heart that nothing would happen, but she heard someone talking, the voice was a baby voice, not sure if it was Wang Erxiao from a distance away.

This alley is a dead end, and there is a stone wall at the end of the alley that is tightly blocked. Mrs. Wang walked over and got closer but saw nothing, only the wet stone wall with the moss still on it, which was very slippery to the touch.

Mrs. Wang just wanted to leave, but she heard someone talking inside. She thought she had heard wrong, because there was a family behind the stone wall, but it was three or forty years ago. After the family left, the mansion was closed by the government for some reason. They even blocked the door completely with stone wall masonry.

She listened to it, and was startled, because the voice was indeed Wang Erxiao's, and he was saying, "It's delicious, eat more."

The other child should be her neighbor's child, "Yes, this pork knuckle is really delicious."

Mrs. Wang showed horror, her hand holding the lantern kept trembling, and then she heard the sound of chewing something big and big, and Wang Erxiao continued: "Brother, you are so kind, you will never forget us if you have delicious food."

Mrs. Wang swayed, and pressed her hand on the stone wall, but her heart trembled, and before she could react, the stone wall collapsed under her touch, and there was a rumbling sound, and the smoke and dust mixed with white mist together.

Mrs. Wang was taken aback, her eyes widened. After the dust cleared, Mrs. Wang couldn't restrain her scream of "ah".

"So what did you see?" The county magistrate sat on the high platform, and the master next to him yawned and wrote down the things casually by the dim candlelight.

This Mrs. Wang had been kneeling on the ground and shivering before. Tao Shanze only realized her when she spoke now. It was all because her clothes were covered with dust, and there were even tan marks, which were obviously dried blood. The hairpins were scattered, and the wooden hairpin fell aside, knelt on the ground and said tremblingly: "Master, in the sky, women don't dare to underestimate themselves. After the stone wall collapsed, I saw this rascal!"

The woman suddenly raised her head, her eyes were bloodshot, and she pointed at Erlang with her callused fingers, "He is standing between my son and the neighbor's children, and they are surrounded by a person who has already lost his heart. My son... My son is still holding the flesh of the corpse in his hand, and he is about to eat it, his mouth is covered with blood, and his body is covered with blood!"

"He even said that the human flesh was an elbow, if I hadn't appeared, he would have swallowed him!"

"God knows, my son has been out for a few days and said that big brother gave him good food, but..." The woman cried bitterly, trembling all over, "What is he eating? It's all this monster!"

The woman screamed, trembling all over, "My child and the neighbor's child must not be able to kill or eat people! Only this person, no, he is a monster, he created illusions!"

Erlang shook his head desperately, "I didn't, you're talking nonsense, I don't know what happened!"

"I'm talking nonsense?" The woman screamed, "The palm prints on the corpse are exactly the same as your brother's. If I hadn't happened to see you, would you have killed my son? You are really insane ah!"

The county magistrate yawned, "You can't talk nonsense about gods and ghosts."

Erlang became anxious, "My lord, what I know is different from this woman, I ask myself if I have the intention of harming others."

The county master glanced at the master, and then looked at the sky outside, "Then tell me?"

"Master Mingjian, today my brother and I drank in front of the moonlight. My brother was so drunk that he went back by himself. I wanted to recite a few more poems. Who would have thought that it would rain suddenly, so I hurried to hide Rain, it was obviously my room that entered, and I didn’t even leave the mansion, so there must be nothing wrong with it, but who knew that after opening the door, it turned out to be a dilapidated temple.”

"There is only one Buddha statue in the temple, but it is wiped clean, and there is a refreshing fragrance, which makes people feel relaxed, but it is very weird."

Tao Shanze glanced at Mrs. Chen, who was also listening to Erlang's speech seriously, his lips were tightly pursed, and his eyes were slightly narrowed, as if there should be peach blossoms at the end of his eyes.

"I panicked at the time, thinking that I drank too much, but who knew that there were a lot of tributes on the altar, all of which were appetizers. I thought it was my dream, and my friends pulled me to drink together. I didn't shy away from it." , sat with them, and started eating with appetizers, and then it was like what the woman said, and I was shocked," Erlang swallowed, his eyes widened suddenly, as if he was stuck in disbelief, " What I held in my hand was not appetizers at all, but human lungs, with blood oozing from them, and the friends who pulled me turned out to be two children."

"Ah!" The woman screamed again, "Don't talk nonsense, you rascal, Lord Qingtian, he's full of lies, what about temples..."

Her voice stopped suddenly, and then she raised her head in disbelief, trembling even more violently, and then she grinned the corners of her mouth, she grinned very slowly until all her teeth were exposed, and then she let out a sharp laugh.

Tao Shanze breathed hot, and suddenly smelled a strong smell of blood. He realized something, and immediately rushed forward and shouted: "Come here, she's going to bite her tongue and kill herself!"

The situation turned around, and everyone didn't realize that a woman who spoke normally would laugh out loud, which was completely unreasonable. Tao Shanze grabbed her chin, and she spurted blood onto Tao Shanze's clothes, rolling her eyes, The whites of his eyes were exposed, and he lost consciousness.

If Tao Shanze was one step later, the consequences would be unimaginable.

But a person who was speaking normally wanted to commit suicide suddenly, no one would believe it if he said it was voluntary, it was too weird now, Tao Shanze looked around at the people present, everyone was thinking differently, and he couldn't see why for a while.

The county magistrate who had been sitting on the high platform watching everyone finally said, "Okay, now it's just a corpse, and the child is fine. This woman is full of nonsense and I can't believe it all. Erlang is drunk You can’t believe what you say after that, it’s too late today, and tomorrow I’m going to go to the site to investigate, Tao Shanze, let Erlang be wronged at the county magistrate’s office tonight.”

Tao Shanze put the woman flat on the ground, then stood up, without even wiping off the blood on his body, he stared at him brightly and said: "My lord, it's not about a corpse now, it's raining heavily tonight, if you If you don’t go, the evidence will disappear, and if you go tomorrow, you may miss important clues.”

The county magistrate and master looked at each other, and then smiled, "Shanze, I am an old friend with your father. It was a fatal friendship before. I think you are young, and I don't blame you for speaking today without any scruples. It's just that now It’s raining cats and dogs, so what’s the use of going? It’s better to see the sky clear tomorrow morning.”

He stood up, stretched his waist, "pass down the order, Erlang will be imprisoned first, and will be tried tomorrow."

Tao Shanze wanted to say something else, but at this time Chen came over and stopped him, and said in a low voice: "I know your concerns, but now is obviously not the time to say such things."

Mrs. Chen looked at Mrs. Wang, she was now unconscious, with blood all over her body, and she didn't know when she would wake up.

"Let's go back too. I guess Wang Erxiao and the neighbor's children are also frightened. Let's go and have a look." Chen said in a low voice, his voice gradually faded amidst the sound of the rain.

There was a thunder from the sky, almost lighting up the county magistrate's mansion. The rain was so fast that it hardly showed any signs of stopping, and the rainwater blisters under the eaves stood up and burst.

Chen held up an oiled paper umbrella, "Second brother won't do that kind of thing, you don't have to worry."

Tao Shanze lowered his head, trying to keep Mrs. Chen from being poured by the rain, "I know what kind of person he is, and I believe him too, it's just the same thing, Mrs. Wang and Erlang are talking about completely different things, and the county master also I don't want to check it out, I think..." He took a deep breath, the smell of rain and mud filled his breath, he clearly knew that he was in the world of Liaozhai, but everyone he met was flesh and blood, just like It is the same as it really happened in the long river of history.

"The wound on my body was caught by that monster. Since the corpse has the same wound, it means that he has been there before. If he is not caught, more people will be harmed. Moreover, it is raining heavily now, which is more convenient for him Do whatever you want." Tao Shanze thought of his attitude of talking to Mrs. Chen in the daytime, and now he feels sorry.

The night is always the eye of memory, he will see the past, and keep tossing and torturing in his mind, so the words he once said begin to amplify, and the sound of rain accelerates the formation of everything, all dark or sad things Emotions began to grow, gradually occupying his limbs and bones.

"I promise you." Chen said in a low voice without waiting for him to finish, and didn't even look at him, just strode forward with a straight figure holding an umbrella, and the umbrella was tilted towards him. He was already tall, but now half of his shoulders were even more wet.

Thousands of emotions surged out of Tao Shanze's chest. He turned his head and looked at Chen Shi. Although he couldn't find the slightest trace of Chi Mei in him, no matter his appearance or figure, he still had the same feeling, "Before It's my fault, I didn't know he was a monster, and he looks a lot like a friend of mine. We... have known each other for a long time, so we preconceived it. I guess this monster also saw this, so he pretended to be my friend. look."

He hesitated as he spoke, and inadvertently touched Chen's cuff connected to his wrist, but felt that his body temperature was very low, so he took his arm again, Chen did not refuse, and continued to walk forward.

The two of them were very close to each other to hold an umbrella, but Tao Shanze felt that the temperature on his body was being rapidly sucked away by the person next to him, which indicated that Chen's body temperature was very low.

It's strange, this kind of phenomenon can only appear in gods and ghosts, and normal people don't have such a low temperature, but Tao Shanze didn't have any intentions, instead he held it tighter, "My friend's body temperature is also very low, he often has a very low body temperature. It's cold, and sometimes the eyebrows will freeze, like a white-browed hero."

Seeing that Mrs. Chen didn't respond, Tao Shanze continued: "He likes to eat very much. I'll cook something delicious for you when I go back. My craftsmanship is not bad. I haven't eaten well before because of stomach cancer, but as long as I enter the world The illnesses in the body will disappear, and you can still feast on..."

And Mrs. Chen next to him didn't listen to what he was saying at all, but pulled him faster and faster until he came to a low thatched cottage. The courtyard, the courtyard door opened with a light push, Chen turned sideways to facilitate the umbrella, "Here we are, let's go in."

Tao Shanze was taken aback for a moment, and then realized that this was Mrs. Wang's home. Her child had just been frightened and didn't know what was going on. Mrs. Wang was sent to the hospital and didn't know when she would be back. It was really necessary to comfort her .

"Children who were stimulated when they were young will have a great impact on their growth, so they can only try to say some comforting words."

As Chen said, he and Tao Shanze stood on the porch and knocked on the door.

Immediately afterwards, there was a burst of immature children's voices, accompanied by suppressed cries, "Are you sleeping?" The voice was crisp and turned upwards.

"I'm your mother's friend. I'm coming to see you tonight. If you're okay, we won't go in. You stay here." Tao Shanze didn't know how to comfort him, so he could only say this.

"Understood, you go back." The child cried hoarsely, sniffing, and the voice came through the wooden board.

Tao Shanze nodded, and then said in a low voice: "Maybe newborn calves are not afraid of tigers. Let's talk about it tomorrow when Mrs. Wang comes back. Let's go to see the temple that Erlang said first, and then go to see what kind of stone wall can be pushed away. fall."

Chen Shifu held up the umbrella again. It was supposed to be dawn now, but due to the heavy rain, there was no clear sky at all, but the fog had dissipated a lot compared to before, and the visibility was much higher.

"Alright, let's go and see if we can catch traces of that ghost."

Tao Shanze said: "Let me take an umbrella, you've already made it all the way."

"It's okay." Chen said lightly.

But at the next moment, his forward steps stopped suddenly, he suddenly grabbed Tao Shanze's hand, and shouted in a low voice: "Wait a minute."

Tao Shanze's eyes widened, and he saw him suddenly looking at him in the dark night, his eyes were full of vigilance, he suddenly understood something, held his breath, and quietly returned to the thatched cottage with Mrs. Chen, hiding in the only below the windows.

It is said to be a window, but it is actually just a few dilapidated wooden planks that are precariously inserted in the thatch, covered with paper, and there is an eye eaten by insects, and the figure inside can be vaguely seen.

Not one, but three!

***

The kid came again today, and Song Tao handed him a yellowed book with cartoon-like illustrations on it, but it was a real ancient book, and the text was arranged vertically. Picture books for children.

But the child put it aside, took off the hat, revealing a head of silver hair, the sun is shining brightly today.

"Can you hold a parent-teacher meeting for me?" the little boy said in a childish voice.

"Why don't you look for your mother? I'm not your parent either?" Song Tao knelt down, and although his eyes were covered with gauze, he seemed to be at eye level with the little boy, "If your mother finds out, she will be angry. "

"She won't be angry, and she doesn't care about me. My classmates are bullying me. I want them to know that I have a very powerful brother who can manipulate..."

Song Tao didn't let him finish, he made a shh gesture, smiled and patted his head, "This is a secret between the two of us."

"Oh, sorry, I forgot." The little boy lowered his head and pouted.

"But I can hold a parent-teacher meeting for you, as long as you don't dislike my eyes." Song Tao stood up and sat down on the rosewood Eight Immortals chair right next to him.

"Really!" The little boy blushed obviously because he was too excited, but he couldn't hide his sickness. Hair, and your eyes will be fine soon."

"Why?" Song Tao pointed to the chair next to him.

The little boy sat on it very naturally, "I just know that you weren't burned by the fire, so it will recover soon, but you really don't want to go there anymore, it's so dangerous."

Song Tao had never mentioned the cause of the eye to him before, and a normal person would ask if it was an allergy or other inflammation, but the little boy directly said that it was not a burn. Song Tao had no doubts, nodded and smiled: " you're right."

"When the time comes, you must dress nicely. I keep telling them that I have a super handsome brother, but they don't believe it. Just let them see it now." The little boy said in a childish voice.

"Got it haha." Song Tao said with a smile.

The little boy and Song Tao also chatted a lot about knowledge. No matter which dynasty's history, Song Tao answered fluently, and even the ancient pearls left in the history are clear. Although the eyes are covered with gauze, but But it didn't stop the delicacy of his face, it was as pale as a jade carving.

The little boy opened his big eyes, and looked at him with admiration as if he were a star, "If only you were really my brother, my mother will definitely like you very much."

Song Tao smiled and remained silent.

Seeing the sunset, Song Tao put the schoolbag on the little boy's back, "It's time to go back, your mother will be sad if she doesn't see you when she comes back today."

"She won't." The little boy pouted.

"I can guarantee that she must have brought you the building blocks you wanted today, and you can play with them every day until the next operation." Song Tao squatted, maintaining the same height as him.

"Really?" The little boy opened his mouth in shock.

"Of course it's true, go back quickly."

The little boy ran out quickly.

"Wait," Song Tao called out, put the book in his schoolbag, and patted it, "Chu Wei, be careful."

However, there was another low voice that only he could hear - Your Highness.