Renew

The blind girl froze for a moment, rubbed her clothes for a while and couldn't speak, her shoulders shrank slightly, as if she was shocked.

The river was gurgling, and although it was already spring, it was still a little cold, and her fingers were red from the cold, and trembling slightly.

Rong Li thought, the big yellow dog should not lead the wrong way, Pou Lingmo might be on the mountain.She pondered for a while, and then asked: "May I ask if there are other hunters living on the mountain? If Madam doesn't accept this deal, I have to find another house quickly, and I can't let the master blame me."

The blind girl shook her head: "I don't know. I'm a blind man. It's not easy to go up and down the mountain. I always walk this way. If a girl asks whether there are other people living on the mountain, I can't answer."

"I thought you guys from the same village would at least have some contacts." Rong Li said warmly.

The blind girl pursed her lips, and was still rubbing her hands on the clothes. She rubbed one corner of the fabric a dozen times, and then rubbed it elsewhere. Perhaps because she couldn't see, the corner of the fabric under her hand was rubbed repeatedly for a long time.She shook her head and said, "Acquaintance? We have no acquaintance."

Rong Li frowned, "If there is no contact, then how did the Chen family send the pig?"

The woman didn't expect that she even heard these words. The hands rubbing the clothes stopped suddenly, and the fingers couldn't help trembling. "Other people leave things in front of the door and leave. We rarely meet."

If you don't meet to discuss business, if the delivered item is broken, who can you talk to?No wonder the pig sent by the Chen family died, the butcher didn't make trouble with the Chen family, but got angry with his own wife.

No matter how you think about it, it's a bit useless, it shouldn't be.

Rong Li had no choice but to give up, and he didn't know what the body of the pouring ink would look like, whether it was a man or a woman, whether it was tall or young, but fortunately the mountain wasn't too high, so it wasn't difficult to find it.

The woman rubbed for a while, lowering her head, "There should be ready-made tiger skins in the city, why don't you buy ready-made ones, instead of looking for someone to peel the tiger skins."

This woman is cautious, just like guarding against thieves, she is afraid of being deceived.

Rong Li pondered for a while, then said slowly: "We have already ordered some in the city, but we are still a little short."

The woman couldn't figure out the preferences of this wealthy family, so she sighed softly, "The weather has not been very good these days, and I'm afraid it will rain tonight. When it rains, the mountain roads will be difficult to walk, and birds and animals don't like to come out. There are very few people. If you dare to brave the rain and enter the forest, the girl came at the wrong time."

Rong Li frowned, looked up and saw the sky was high and the clouds were light, the sun was scorching hot, and he didn't know how the woman came to the conclusion that although those gray eyes couldn't see things and couldn't see the sky, they should feel the scorching sun.

She didn't think much about it, she thought it was the butcher who was talking nonsense and lied to his daughter-in-law, but it happened that the blind girl believed it.

There was nothing left and right to ask, so Rongli had no choice but to give up, "It seems that this trip back will definitely displease the master."

The woman didn't say a word, rubbing her clothes so that they made a rustling sound.

When Rong Li was about to leave, the back of his neck felt cold, and he hurriedly turned his head, only to see Hua Su returning with a cold face, followed by Xiao Bopi.

Hua Su looked unhappy, "Why did you come here?"

The blind women squatting by the river on the left and right couldn't see anyone, Rong Li said: "I haven't seen you come back after waiting for a long time, so I went up the mountain by myself and met this lady."

Hua Su frowned, his cold eyes swept away from the ends of her hair calmly, and fell to her feet, looked carefully for a while, and then said: "I almost thought you were blown away by the wind."

Rong Li shook his head, "It's not easy to be scraped away."

Hua Su coolly said: "Just now I smelled a ghostly aura, but I was in vain when I caught up. Something deliberately led me away. I was in a hurry to come back, for fear that you would be abducted in the blink of an eye."

"I'm not doing well." Rong Li smiled, and didn't say much, so as not to let the woman hear something.

The woman raised her head, her dull eyes turned for a while, but she couldn't tell where she was, "Who is the girl talking to?"

"A colleague, she walks lightly and speaks softly, did she scare the girl?" Rong Li said.

The woman shook her head, wrung out the clothes with trembling hands, fumbled to put them into the wooden basin, and then rubbed and washed the other clothes. Without exception, they were all replaced by her husband.

"It's getting late, I have to go back to cook for my husband after I wash my clothes." It sounded like driving away guests.

This woman is clean, free from ghost aura, good fortune and karma, as if she has lived for nothing in the past few decades.

Rong Li has never seen such a person, even if she did nothing in the Rong Mansion for the past ten years, she is not as clean as this woman.

Hua Su looked at the woman silently for a while, then listened to the wind, her frown never loosened.

"Ma'am, you have to slow down, the mountain road is not easy to walk, don't trip over your feet." Rong Li said.

The woman nodded, "Thank you, if you are familiar with this road, you won't be stumbled, and you don't need to worry about it."

"Go." Hua Su said.

Rong Li pretended to go down the mountain, but Hua Su dragged him to the other side of the mountain.

Even though Rongli's eyes are intact, walking is not as easy as that woman's. From time to time, she would trip over a dead branch on the ground and stumble as she walks. Fortunately, Hua Su was by her side, otherwise she might not know where she fell go.

Rong Li slowed down his pace and walked cautiously.

Hua Su snorted, "Colleague?"

Rong Li blinked.

Hua Su looked unhappy, "You are so close to your colleagues?"

"I was just talking casually, why are you still angry?" Rong Li tugged on her cuff.

Hua Su turned her head and stared at her, "I thought you regretted it, and hurriedly wanted to get rid of the relationship with me."

"Even if you want to get rid of it, I won't admit it." Rong Li lowered his eyes and said in a low voice, "Obviously I came forward first, but you have been stupid for a long time, like a girl who has been robbed."

"Where did you learn such a mess of words?" Hua Su pushed her hand away, and circled her wrist again.

"When I was in Qi'an, I didn't go out much, but I wanted to know what was going on outside, so I read a lot of books. The best ones were the scriptures that Xiaofu brought back. I believed everything written in the scriptures to be true, just like Wei Wei. It's like seeing the world." Rong Li said more and more lightly.

Hua Su sneered, "So I didn't see you being scared away when I met a ghost. I've read too many story books, and I'm used to it?"

Rong Li smiled but said nothing, because she died once and returned to the mortal world, so she is not so afraid, but...she still hasn't figured out why she can come back to life after being reincarnated as a human being.

Little Bopi followed closely behind, holding the skin he bought from the ghost market in his arms, as if he liked it so much that he refused to let go.

Halfway up the mountain, the village on the other side of the river can be seen from a distance. It is clear that the scorching sun has not yet set in the west, but the doors and windows of each house are tightly closed. There were a few old women sitting on the street, but now there is no one. up.

The more Rong Li thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, it's okay to go back to each house, why the doors and windows are closed, is it because he is afraid that something will trespass at night.

There is no inn or anything around here, and I don't know where to sleep at night.

Hua Su didn't rush, "After the death of the bamboo knocker ghost, Shendu expected that I would come to find pouring ink."

"It was the ghost from Cangming City who lured you away just now?" Rong Li had expected it.

Hua Su nodded, "I deliberately hid my whereabouts, they probably didn't come with me, when Cang Mingzun made paintings, he left some ink cores in the city, and they probably relied on those ink cores to find this place. "

"Since there are ink cores in Cangming City, why did they take a long time to find pouring ink? Didn't Shendu want to make another painting ghost?" Rongli was puzzled.

Hua Su raised the corners of his mouth coldly, with a contemptuous look on his face, "I'm afraid they won't be able to find pouring ink."

"After I killed the bamboo knocking ghost, they became impatient. Knowing that I would come, they rushed to this place in a hurry, hoping to take the opportunity to kidnap me after I succeeded."

Rong Li pursed his dry and pale lips, "Where is the pouring ink? Isn't it a demon? A ghost has a ghostly aura. Does that demon have a demonic aura?"

Hua Su held her hand to prevent her from accidentally falling, "Yes, but ghost aura can be hidden, and so can ghost aura."

Rong Li was taken aback for a moment, couldn't he just be blinded by groping.

Walking to the top of the mountain, I saw that lonely thatched hut again, and a man with a big arm and a round waist was sitting outside the house sharpening a knife with a shiny edge.

He didn't expect someone standing in the distance, as if he couldn't stop talking, he said to himself: "If the daughter-in-law of Chen Lin's family comes again, I must kill her. The pork is still fresh and delicious, and I don't know if the pig died of illness or not." of."

This man is really not good at hunting, if he is good at hunting, why should he accept the pigs sent by others.

When Rong Li raised her eyes, she really saw that the wooden basin by the man's side was full of pork, cut into square pieces, red and white, and just by looking at it, she seemed to smell the fishy and smelly meat. odor.

The man said again: "Chen Lin's daughter-in-law must have done it on purpose. Some time ago, she paid a lot of money to invite me to hunt two wolves. She knew that those two wolves in the forest were very fierce!"

He can speak vigorously by himself, perhaps because there is no one else to talk to him on the mountain, so he can only talk to himself for fun, "Unfortunately, I hurt my leg. Not only did she not feel ashamed, but she even said that I am not good at skills. I wanted to ask for some compensation, but I didn't expect that stinky bitch to start showing face, and after waiting for a long time, she sent a dead pig over!"

The more he said, the more ferocious his face became, and the knife in his hand was sharpened.

"This stinky bitch looked down on me before and loved to gossip behind my back. It must be because of her that I was often nagged and scolded by those old things in the clan."

In such a comparison, Hua Su's mocking words from time to time can be regarded as cute.

With a cold face and a look of disgust, sarcasm and sarcasm on the lips, but in fact he still cares, although he is very reluctant.

Rong Li couldn't help raising the corners of his mouth, but he didn't want Hua Su to know that she was having fun, so he pursed his lips tightly.

The knife-sharpening man took out a piece of pig bone from the wooden basin, as if wanting to test the knife, he swung the knife and chopped it off.

Pig blood splashed on his clothes, he raised his hand and wiped it casually twice, threw the cut pig bone into the wooden basin, raised his voice and shouted down the mountain: "Daughter-in-law, this pig is untied, hurry up!" Come back and cook!"

The voice was loud enough to shake the ears away from buzzing.

But what's the use of this man shouting on the top of the mountain, his wife is squatting by the river at the foot of the mountain to wash clothes, how can I hear it.

Rong Li began to feel sorry for that woman, what was blind was not his eyes, but his heart, he couldn't take care of himself well, he had to serve the butcher, wash and cook for her.

Hua Su's face was expressionless, "The blind woman who did the laundry and this butcher are neither like pouring ink, but the blind woman is a bit strange, her body is so clean that she looks like a newborn baby. How can someone live like this."

Rong Li said with a suppressed voice: "I just asked that woman if there are other residents on the mountain, she doesn't know."

"It's okay, I'll take a look." Hua Su said softly.

After finishing speaking, she released a ghostly aura and swung it away.

When Ghost Qi came back after circling around the mountain, Hua Su's expression was heavy, "There is no one else."

Rong Li was surprised, "It's gone? If you don't smell it, is there any scent of ink on this mountain?"

Hua Su looked at her amusedly, "You treat me like a dog."

How dare Rong Li, but it's hard to say, a dog can smell it, why can't you, this... let's just think about it in my heart.

Hua Su's nose twitched slightly, "It's better to have a beast's nose, you can draw a dog."

Rong Li raised her hand, her thoughts tossed and turned in her heart, she moved the hand holding Hua Sui, and drew a slightly rough big yellow dog.

Compared with the puppet she quietly drew when she was in Jinmin last time, this big yellow dog is not generally rough, it is rougher than the Zhou Qinglin drawn in her heart, as if this is what she can draw.

She painted it like this on purpose, so that if Hua Su finds out that she has painted a puppet in the future, he can find a reason to defend himself.

Rong Li hesitated to speak, looking at the big yellow dog wagging its tail beside her leg, he felt ashamed of it for a moment.

It's so ugly, with big ears, a sharp mouth, and short legs.

Hua Su laughed, "I expected you to draw like this."

Rong Li raised his hand, "Why don't you hold my hand and draw another one?"

"Make do with it." Hua Su said softly, stretching out his palm to the dog's nose.

The dog puppet took a sniff, then spun around on the spot, leaning towards Hua Su's body.

Hua Su's expression suddenly turned cold, "It's not unreasonable for Piao Lingmo to live to this day. He hid very well. When he sensed that there was an uninvited guest, he hid his breath."

She stretched out a finger, her nails became sharp and sharp in an instant, and swiped at the big yellow dog, and the dog turned into black smoke and dissipated.

Rong Li took back the painting, "Then what should I do?"

Hua Su turned around, "If it wants to hide, let it hide."

Rong Li murmured: "Then we..."

"Go down the mountain first." Hua Su said.

When going down the mountain, I saw the woman carrying a wooden basin step by step up the mountain from a distance.

The woman's eyesight is bad, and when going up the mountain, she stretched out one leg to test it out, and then the other leg followed slowly, and she walked extremely slowly with every step.

Rong Li moved behind the tree, avoiding the woman.

The woman walked past Hua Su, she didn't feel anything strange, her gray eyes stared blankly in front of her.

After going down the mountain and crossing the river, the sky is stained with a little bit of twilight.

The village was very quiet, there was not even a single person to be seen, the lights were on in every house, but the people in the house spoke very softly, if it wasn't for Rongli's amazing hearing, he wouldn't be able to hear someone talking in the house.

These villagers deliberately lowered their voices, as if they were afraid of being heard, and they didn't know why they were afraid of being like this.

Hua Su looked up at the sky, and the wind blew up the hair on her cheeks, "Hurry up, if Shendu knows that I've been injured, I don't know what to do with it."

"What is the relationship between this pouring of spirit ink and your repairing of your spirit, and what is your relationship with Hua Sui..." By now, any fool should have guessed it. If Rongli pretends not to know, he is afraid that Hua Su as this fool.

Hua Su stared at her for a while, then suddenly stretched out a finger and pressed it to her lips.

"After walking for so long on the mountain road, how can I still have the strength to speak?"

Rong Li blinked, and knew in his heart that the moment Hua Su asked her to pick up the silver hairpin, he no longer wanted to hide it from her.

The suspicious ghost believed her as a mortal.

Hua Su said lightly: "Find a place to rest tonight, we can't find it, and neither can Shendu."

Rong Li could only nod his head, seemingly weak and obedient.

Hua Su walked into the temple, turned around and saw the girl quietly following behind, as if her soul had been charmed, she couldn't help asking: "What's the matter?"

Rong Li grabbed her cuff, "Aren't you afraid that I'll say it?"

Hua Su paused, and covered his face with his cold palm, as if he was afraid that she would catch cold, so he put it on and then took it back.

"Would you?"

"No." Rongli said.

Hua Su sneered, "That's it."

Rong Li was tired from walking, and when he got tired, his almond eyes became foggy, his innocent energy was like willow branches and vines, entangled Hua Su's heart.

Hua Su stretched out an index finger, and lifted the corner of Rongli's drooping mouth, "Then why are you so sad?"

Rong Li said, because she took the silver hairpin.

The temple was empty, the tributes on the table had long since rotted into disrepair, and I don’t know when they were put there, there was dust everywhere, and the futon was strangely black.

The offered immortals seem to have been smashed, and there are still traces of knives and axes on them.

It's fine if the people in this village don't worship, why are they still smashing it, it seems like they have enmity with the gods.

Seeing all kinds of weird behaviors of the villagers, Rongli felt more and more that something must have happened in this village, that's why they didn't even believe in gods and Buddhas.

The skinning ghost followed behind, and paused when entering the temple. Seeing Hu Huasu stepping in, he hurriedly followed.

After entering the door, Hua Su glanced around, and with a wave of his hand, the ghostly aura swept towards the corner.

With a wave of ghostly aura, that place was immediately spotless, compared with the rest of the temple, it seemed to have been forcibly split.

After leaving Qi'an for a long time, he even stayed in the corpse mountain, Rongli would not pay attention to anything, so he immediately sat on the grass.

Hua Su approached, sat beside her, opened the porcelain vase used to nourish the soul, and took out the remnant soul that was originally in the bone owl.

A Taoist voice came from the bottle: "Thank you sir, I've been stuck in the bottle for a long time, and I want to go out for a breather."

No, just as he finished speaking, the mouth of the bottle was blocked by the cork again.

Hua Su pinched that frail soul and blew out a breath of ghostly air.

The soul slowly condensed out and looked at the human form, it was like an afterimage, really bleak.

Bone Owl actually looked like a son, holding a fan and cupping his hands, "Thank you sir, if not for your rescue, I'm sure there won't even be this remnant soul left."

Hua Su: "Why were you discovered?"

The Bone Owl let out a long sigh: "As early as last time when I returned from the mortal world, Shendu realized where I was. Although I was hidden in the body of the Bone Owl, I was still captured. They wanted to pry the Lord out of my mouth. Where, I can't resist to death."

He shook his head, and said again: "Although they can't coerce my lord even if they hold on to my life, I'm afraid that the situation will change, so I want to destroy my spiritual appearance, but Shen Du will be imprisoned by me, and my soul will still be imprisoned by Luo Xia. Swallow it, Luo Xia is trying to pretend to be a subordinate to deceive the lord, and the subordinate is not afraid in the face of danger, and she insists on keeping this remnant soul."

He spoke in a cadence, and the storytellers in teahouses and restaurants were not as eloquent as him.

The Bone Owl seemed to be bored, "Shen Du captured him, I'm afraid the city still hides the old part of the lord, swallowed a lot of ghosts alive, and the Cangming City was thrown into chaos."

Hua Su frowned, "Do you know why Gu Cen went to the ghost market to buy skins?"

Bone Owl quickly replied: "I was captured by Shen Du and lived in the front, and General Gu Cen bought the skin behind me. My lord has no other internal support in the city. General Gu Cen wants to take a risk and return to the city."

Hua Su said coldly: "She can't buy skins anymore, I went to the ghost market and killed the bamboo-cracking ghost, and let Shen Du know, the skinning ghost should have been killed."

The Bone Owl was taken aback.

Rong Li sat silently, pinching his fingers to play.

Bone Owl turned around, "Who is this..."

Hua Su pondered for a while, then looked at Rongli.

The Bone Owl looked strange: "It seems that the next one is redundant."

Rong Li squeezed his hands, pursed his lips without saying a word.

Hua Su suddenly said: "Since we have signed a contract with Hua Chong, then we should... be regarded as the owner of the pen."

The Bone Owl was horrified.

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