Renew

The black cat with white fur on its tail lay motionless, its vertical pupils were cold.

Hua Su said lightly, "Not many."

Rong Li had to wonder how much of this was true and what was not, seeing how handy she was teaching, it was not like it was the first time teaching her, but Hua Su's tone was too flat, so she couldn't tell the difference for a while.

The painting on the palm is cold, as cold as a slab of ice, just laying it like this, it seems to be no different from the worldly things.

Rong Li simply took the painting back, and now she is in the hearts of others, no matter how capable she is, she can't draw a flower.

She sat stiffly, with the cat at her feet, not knowing where to put her feet, and asked in a low voice, "When you were outside the door just now, what were you looking at?"

Hua Su said lightly, "I'm checking to see if there are any dirty things chasing after me."

This dirty thing must be referring to Luo Xia.

Rong Li is no longer so afraid of that green ghost, probably because of the fact that he has dealt with him a few times, "He will come when he comes, and if he thinks of a way, he can always get rid of it."

"It's good to get into this knot now, so as to cover up your breath and prevent them from chasing you." Hua Su snorted lightly.

After a while, there was the sound of oil sizzling while cooking from downstairs. Maybe it was because I didn’t hold the pot steady when I took it out, and the pot hit another place with a bang. The movement was really loud, as if the whole building was shaken up. startled.

Rong Li suddenly turned his head, and subconsciously looked towards the bed, only to find that the three girls were still not awake, and they were soundly asleep.

If it was before, such a big movement should be able to wake them up.The masters called in a low voice in the house, and they could hear them, but now they were lying motionless, with a long breath, as if they were being swallowed.

Rong Li hastily walked to the side of the bed, and pushed Xiao Fu's shoulder, but the girl still didn't move.She simply pushed Bai Liu's shoulder again, frowning and calling: "Why are you sleeping so deeply, Bai Liu?"

Bai Liu also fell into a heavy sleep, still breathing, but couldn't open her eyes, as if she couldn't feel someone pushing them, and couldn't hear any sound.

Even if the road was bumpy and exhausting, he shouldn't be so tired. The back of his head just touched the pillow, and he fell asleep.

Rong Li really couldn't figure it out, leaned over and carefully sniffed at the pillow, but the pillow didn't have any weird smell, it didn't smell strange, if it wasn't a pillow, what could it be?

Kong Qingshang was still leaning over the table. Sleeping on the table would cause backaches, and she shouldn't have slept so soundly, but she was still awake.

Rong Li turned around and walked back to the table, frowning tightly, he patted Kong Qing's shoulder twice, but failed to wake her up.

The Skinner wearing a peony-patterned skirt was standing against the wall, his eyes open blankly, as if he would sleep.

Hua Su nestled in Chuizhu's body, flicked his tail when he had nothing to do, and said softly: "Don't waste your energy."

"What's wrong with them?" Rong Li frowned, panicked.

Hua Su said: "Ordinary people who have entered the knot of ghosts will easily be trapped in this situation, be regarded as puppets, and their minds will be confused. Whatever the knot owner wants him to do, they will do."

"Then what about me, why am I..." Rong Li lowered his eyes, his pale lips parted slightly, very confused.

Hua Su's eyelids rolled up, and he obviously had a voluptuous face, but he preferred to look at people sideways, as if with a bit of contempt, "How can you be considered an ordinary person? You can still be an ordinary person with a painting in your hand." .”

Rong Li's eyelashes twitched, this pen has such a miraculous effect, is she no longer an ordinary person?

She is used to hearing this ghost's cynicism, so she is not afraid at this time, "If I go to the shopkeeper this time, might I find him?"

"Yes, yes, but don't wake it up. Once this ghost goes crazy, it will eat people." Hua Su said in a cold and meaningful voice.

Rong Li looked at Hua Su's expression, thought it over carefully, and really felt that there was something in this nonsense, as if he was making fun of her.She simply said: "Is there something in this knot, you don't seem to be spending your energy elsewhere."

"I told you to see it." Hua Su spoke very calmly, without the slightest anger or surprise of being exposed.

Rong Li stared, but there was not even a hint of ferocity on his face, "Are you playing with me?"

"How could I amuse you, don't underestimate yourself." Hua Su snorted.

Rong Li was very suspicious, so he had no choice but to take out Hua Sui from his sleeve pocket again, feeling more and more that Hua Su deliberately lured her into this situation.

The sound of oil sizzling when cooking downstairs suddenly stopped, and after a while, the sound of footsteps sounded again, and the sound of footsteps going upstairs was the same as that of the little girl before, who hadn't heard him coming downstairs before. Yes, why are you coming up from downstairs now?

Thinking about it, it was like this, it was fake from the inside to the outside, even Xiaoer was never a real person or ghost, so how could he be expected to be like an ordinary person.

The sound of footsteps gradually approached. Every time the man passed through a door, he would knock several times. Seeing that there was no answer in the room, he knocked on the next door.

The mistress said earlier that she had cleared out four guest rooms, so from the corner of the corridor, the four rooms were all their rooms, but no one was left in the room.

Those doors were knocked loudly, like drums beating in his heart, every time he knocked, Rongli's heart would beat violently.

"What are you panicking?" The cat lying under the table got up suddenly. Although it had been raised for a while, it was still small and thin.Thin and thin, he jumped onto the table in one leap.

The pendant beads fell on the table. During the day, the pupils were slender and long, resembling the edge of a knife. He stared at the closed door without blinking. With a little indifference and indifference, "The little girl is here, so there's no need to panic."

Sure enough, the door was knocked three times, probably because this was the last door, and before anyone could answer, Xiao Er said: "Girl, the porridge is ready, and I have cooked three side dishes."

This voice is very familiar, isn't it the short and fat waiter from the shop before, he really came up from downstairs.

Rongli was deliberating whether to respond or not.

The shop waiter said again: "Girl, if you don't eat it, the porridge will be cold."

Rong Li looked towards Chui Zhu, wondering whether he should answer the sound or not.

"Aren't you hungry all the way? Eat when you're hungry." Hua Su said suddenly.

Rong Li was still thinking about the worm crawling out of the cup, for a moment he didn't know if Hua Su's words were serious, so he simply said, "Here we come."

She stood up and pretended to cough several times. The cough was urgent, as if she was about to cough up bile, her hair trembled, her eyeballs were wet, and she almost lost all strength to cough.

The people outside the house were silent for a long time, and asked, "Is the girl sick?"

Rongli opened the door, and met the waiter's caring eyes.Her cheeks flushed from coughing, she was speechless for a moment, and after a while she said in a weak voice: "I'm sick, I wonder if there is a doctor in the inn?"

"Doctor?" Xiao Er held the mahogany food box, shook his head and said, "No, but the shopkeeper often coughs, and there are some medicines, but I don't know if the girl can take those medicines or not."

He paused, shook his head and said, "It can't be done, medicine can't be taken indiscriminately."

"I don't know why the shopkeeper is coughing. If the symptoms are the same, it's not too bad." Rong Li said softly. He gasped for breath three times after saying this sentence, and it was really hard for him to speak.

Xiaoer said: "Our shopkeeper is physically weak, and we are prone to get sick when we urinate. Sometimes we can't even walk, and we get tired after walking a few steps."

Rong Li frowned slightly, vaguely feeling that something was wrong, this sounds... just like her.

She whispered: "I was also like this before, unable to leave the courtyard, but later I got a prescription, and after drinking it for a while, I feel much better."

"There is such a prescription?" Xiaoer was surprised, and stood at the door with the food box, as if he forgot to give the food box.

Rong Li looked down at the food box in his hand, nodded his head and said: "Yes, I have tried many prescriptions, but most of them become weaker the more I drink them, and I can't bear the properties of the medicine. The current prescription is just right. Drink it The body feels much better, if the shopkeeper wants to try it, I will write this prescription and give it to her."

Xiao Er smiled and said, "Then thank you, Miss."

Rong Li lowered his eyebrows, curled up his mouth, "It would be great if I could meet the shopkeeper. I have learned some medical skills. If the shopkeeper doesn't mind me, I can take the shopkeeper's pulse."

Xiaoer wanted to hand over, but just as he raised his hand, he remembered that he was still carrying a food box, and quickly handed the food box out, saying: "Then I will trouble the girl, this is the porridge and stir-fry that I just made. Good side dishes."

"Then when can I see the shopkeeper?" Rong Li took it, his wrist was slender, and when he lifted it, the veins on the wrist bones and the back of the hand swelled up, and the hand seemed unable to bear the force.

Xiaoer thought for a while and said: "After the girl has finished eating, the little one will come over and take the girl to see the shopkeeper."

Rongli nodded: "Alright."

Xiao Er turned around and left, Rongli closed the door with one hand, carried the heavy food box with difficulty, and put it on the table.

Chui Zhu leaned closer and saw that it was the cat sniffing, but it was Hua Su who actually smelled it.

At first, the ghost didn't even bother to enter the cat's body, but now it smells very naturally with the cat's nose.

When Rong Li thought that it was the ghost in Chui Zhu's body, he wanted to laugh a little, but he wanted to pretend to be calm so as not to be spotted by Hua Su.

Hua Su sniffed the lid of the food box, and said softly, "Open it and have a look."

Rong Li couldn't muster the energy to open it at the moment. He had heard some anecdotes from the market earlier, saying that some restaurants often appeared in the wilderness for no reason, and the shopkeepers and waiters in the buildings were ghosts. The dishes served were bloody and had been chopped off from the previous guests.

She must have watched it for a while, and asked suspiciously, "Aren't you cheating on me?"

Hua Su snorted softly, "If I want to trick you, why wait until now?"

After thinking about it, Rong Li felt that it made some sense, then slowly raised his hand, and put it on the lid of the food box that was warmed by the smoke.

As soon as the lid was lifted, the aroma of cooking wafted out immediately, without even the slightest fishy smell.

Rong Li took a look into the food box, and saw a plate of delicately fried side dishes, so he carefully brought it out.

As soon as the dishes were brought out, Kong Qing, who was lying motionless on the table, suddenly trembled her fingers, as if she was about to wake up.

Even the two girls who were lying on the bed turned over. The loud movement just now didn't wake them up, but the dishes just got out of the food box woke them up from hunger.

Kong Qing opened her eyes, raised her hand to cover her head, said with a headache, "The kitchen has already cooked the vegetables?"

It was strange to wake up, and it happened to be when the food box was brought out.

"Let them eat." Hua Su squatted on the table, looking at the bowl of porridge and three side dishes with bright blue eyes.

Rong Li's eyes widened slightly, thinking, is this really edible?

"You have to eat." Hua Su said indifferently: "It's as the shopkeeper wants, but you don't need to eat these."

Rong Li took out the wooden chopsticks, glanced at Kong Qing, who was still not quite sober, and said simply: "You all eat a little, I have already eaten, this is just now I asked Xiao Er to bring it again of."

Kong Qing was taken aback, "The girl has already eaten? Why did I sleep for so long."

Now there is no one knocking on the clapper, so naturally I don't know what time it is, and I can't tell anything just by looking at the sky.

Rong Li lowered his eyes, and gave a low "hmm", "Maybe it's because I was too tired on the road, and you both slept for a while."

On the bed, Xiaofu and Bai Liu also woke up, they met each other as soon as they opened their eyes, they both leaned back one after another, wishing to kick each other out of the bed, as if they had never seen each other.

Xiaofu rolled over and got out of bed, sniffed and said, "This stir-fry is quite fragrant, and the dishes look clean."

Rong Li took the bowls out of the food box, she only took three, and the remaining two bowls were still in the food box.After distributing the bowls to the three girls, she urged in a low voice, "Hurry up, eat dry food, how can you survive this journey?"

Bai Liu walked over, unlike Xiaofu and Kong Qing who both had dinner at the same table as the girl, she just stood by the table and didn't have the nerve to sit down.

"Sit." Rong Li said.

Only then did Bai Liu sit down cautiously, poured himself a bowl of porridge, took a bite and said, "It's so fresh! What's in this porridge."

"It's a crab." Rong Li stirred the porridge twice with the wooden spoon, and pulled out the red crab shell.

The shell is red and the flesh is white.

She felt puzzled, Qi An ate very little crab, and finally managed to eat it once, but it came from other places in a hurry, and it was not very fresh when it was delivered.On the contrary... the capital city eats more. I heard that the high-ranking officials and nobles in the capital city like to eat shrimp and crabs, and they will try all kinds of eating methods.

Kong Qing ate a few mouthfuls, then frowned and said, "Didn't Xiao Er say that there are not many fresh vegetables left in the inn, why would there be crabs, this crabs must come from somewhere else, the mountains are high and the roads are far away, crabs are not cheap .”

She paused, then said in surprise: "Crabs are not eaten at this time of year. In the past, crabs were only eaten in the mansion when the autumn wind blows."

As soon as she finished speaking, the porridge in the clay pot seemed to have changed a little color, the coriander in the porridge was still emerald green just now, but looking at it now, it looks a little old and dull.

Rong Li suddenly raised his eyes, looked at the inn and whispered softly: "The inn in this place is not short of money, it's just for fun, and it's not impossible to raise crabs, maybe they have been raised for a long time, now Just cooked it."

Hua Su snorted coldly, "It's not good to be too smart in this knot, if you, a maid, wake up the knot, the rest of the people will probably give her a back."

Kong Qing thought for a while, then nodded and said: "Young lady is right."

Xiaofu ate a bowl, licked her lips and said: "It's the first time I ate crab porridge, I could only smell it in the mansion before, but now I can taste it with my own mouth, it's really delicious."

Perhaps because Kong Qing didn't continue to speak, the porridge in the clay cup quietly changed back.

Rong Li heaved a sigh of relief, watching the three girls eat a full meal, not even a leaf of vegetable was left, and finally there was only some vegetable juice left on the plate.

The three girls put down their chopsticks one after another. Just as they put down the chopsticks, there was another knock on the door.

Rong Li was stunned for a moment, and took a shallow breath, who knew that the little girl was elusive, as if watching their every move, just put down the wooden chopsticks, and people came.

"Who is it?" Xiao Fu turned her head to look.

"It's Xiao Er." Rong Li stood up, quietly took out the painting ghost, and half-hid it under his sleeve.

Xiao Fu was puzzled: "This Xiao Er is really clever, how did he know that we have finished eating?"

Rong Li turned his head to look at her, afraid that the girl said something that shouldn't be said, he said with a smile: "How many masters have you served, and how many guests have you served?"

Xiao Fu lowered her head and pouted her lips, "But he didn't even know how to wipe the table, nor did he wash the cups."

Hua Su jumped off the table, followed Rongli's footsteps, and walked over lightly, without making any noise, and seemed to be lighter than a paper cat.

Rongli opened the door, and he really saw the waiter in the shop, "It's finished, you can put away the bowl."

The boy with a wide waist and a fat body walked into the room, and when he was about to put the bowls into the food box, he suddenly saw two empty bowls, "This..."

"Let's eat together, so you don't have to wash a few more dishes." Rong Li said softly.

The three girls looked at each other.

Xiao Er nodded, put the plates and wooden chopsticks in, closed the food box, lifted the sideboard and said, "Young lady, come with me, the shopkeeper is very happy today, she hasn't seen a stranger for a long time."

This sounds a bit weird, but it makes sense when you think about it. After winter, you don’t even see a few guests, so you won’t be able to meet strangers.

Xiaofu stood up, as if wanting to follow along.

Rong Li glanced at her, "You guys take a good rest in the room, I'll go see the shopkeeper."

Xiao Fu reluctantly sat back, and when the door was closed, she said in a muffled voice, "Young lady was so fierce just now, she stared at me."

Kong Qing lowered her eyes and said nothing, as if she had thought of something, her pupils shrank slightly, she shook her head and said: "What the girl does, she has her own reasons."

On the promenade, the waiter carrying the food box was walking in front. His footsteps seemed to be getting lighter and lighter. When he had just packed the food box, he was still walking with a rattling sound. Although he did not become light now, his steps Apparently less heavy.

Rong Li followed behind, holding the painting tightly, eyes drooping, and suddenly saw the cat at his feet.After thinking about it, she bent down and picked up the cat.

Hua Su asked in her ear, "Are you afraid?"

Rong Li shook his head, but didn't respond.

"I know you are not afraid, when you see the shopkeeper, talk to her more." Hua Su said in a neutral tone.

Rong Li felt surprised, this ghost wanted to hate her when she talked a lot with others on weekdays, but now he asked her to talk more?She originally wanted to slap the cat to vent her anger, but after thinking about it, forget it, she is an ancestor who cannot be messed with.

Xiao Er really walked lighter and lighter, and her steps became more and more vain, obviously she was still so strong, but her steps were lighter than that of a weak Liu Fufeng woman.

When he came to a door, Xiao Er not only walked lightly, but also shook his body, as if he couldn't walk steadily.

Xiaoer knocked on the door, listened closely, and then turned around and said, "Girl, the shopkeeper is in the room."

Rong Li hugged the cat, raised his hand and knocked on the door a few times, and said tentatively: "The shopkeeper."

A woman in the room said: "Miss, please come in."

Xiao Er didn't open the door for her, turned around and left with the food box in hand, and disappeared around the corner.

Rongli stood in front of the door, hesitating for a while before opening the door, looking up, he saw a woman in a goose-yellow velvet dress sitting in front of the mirror with her back facing her, a blurred face was reflected in the bronze mirror.

The woman is holding a silver comb, combing her hair slowly, and the hand holding the comb is a bit weird.

Rong Li took a closer look and froze suddenly. She was stunned to realize...

The woman was missing two fingers, her index finger and middle finger were cut off abruptly, as if they had been severed.

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