By the time the new furniture was ready, the mountains had cooled down quite a bit, so I took Zhuohua and Sanin to the county town by ox cart in the village.

There was also a small incident between...

We two ghosts have too much resentment, especially Zhuohua who can't hide it, it's all up to me to suppress it, people can't feel it, but the old cow was frightened, and refused to leave even though the villagers pulled on the nose ring.

"What's going on, I haven't seen it like this before." Niu Er, who was driving the car, was at a loss.

The old woodcutter next to him with his hands in his hands came over and said, "Let me try, all things have spirits, I have stayed in the mountains for a long time, so I can somewhat understand their thoughts."

He touched the old cow's back twice, but he didn't know how to do it. The old cow no longer rejected it, and slowly lowered his head to pull the cart forward.

The old village head nodded with a smile, took out a few rolls of homemade shredded tobacco from the cigarette pouch, and handed it to the old woodcutter as a thank-you gift.

"I grow it at home. Although the leaves are only as small as a palm, it smells very fragrant." The old village chief said proudly, waving his hand, and asked the young and middle-aged men to carry the things on the ox cart and drive to the county. They will return on the same day , the time is a little tight.

It’s a small county nearby, so it’s not as prosperous as the East Ring City, but it’s the first city I’ve seen full of living people. The biggest difference is its popularity and excitement. Street vendors sell groceries from the north and south, as well as candied haws and sugar painted.

Since she was a child, no one cared for her, and she didn't have any change to buy candy. Seeing the lifelike sugar paintings, she felt a little helpless.

In the end, along with cotton and other materials, there were two peach blossoms made of maltose.

The little girl was reluctant to eat it, but Zhuohua couldn't eat it, so one person and one ghost put the sugar painting in the window, and went to look at it every day, and it was crystal clear under the sunlight.Fortunately, the temperature in the mountains is cooling down, and the sugar painting can't be melted for a while, otherwise these two guys will have to cry the next day.

By the time the thick quilt, gloves, scarf and cat ear hat are ready, the first snow has already fallen in the mountains.

Zhuohua wrapped the little girl in a thick winter coat, and then put on a rabbit fur hat with white cat ears, paired with those big cat eyes, she really looked like a kitten.

"A Ning, besides ghosts, are there any monsters in this world?"

This asks about my knowledge blind spot, after all, I am not a serious ghost.

"Yes, yes." Zhuohua stammered while building a snowman, "There are spirits and monsters in the mountains, and there are mountain gods."

This also reveals why the Jiuyou Ghost King has never been willing to step into the Hundred Thousand Mountains. On the one hand, it is because there are no living people inside, and on the other hand, he probably does not want to fight against the mountain god.

"What does the mountain god look like?" the little girl asked again with her eyes wide open.

Zhuo Hua thought about it seriously, then shook his head and said, "Everything, looks."

The mountain gods of different mountains are naturally different. The more powerful ones are like the Lord Taishan, also known as the Emperor Dongyue, who is worshiped by Qingyun Palace, and the weaker ones are ordinary land gods, who often transform into old hunters or old woodcutters. , pointing the way to those who are lost.

I thought of the old woodcutter we met, but if he is a mountain god, he is familiar with the villagers.

Forget it, no matter whether he is a man or a mountain god, in the final analysis, he has no malice and has helped us a lot.

Even ghosts don’t bother to move in winter. Fortunately, we bought enough supplies. At least this winter, we don’t have to worry about starving or freezing.When the wind and snow outside get stronger, I won't let Zhen Zhen go out again, as long as there are two ghosts to do what I want to do.

The north wind was strong overnight, and I was in a warm house, teaching math to one person and one ghost——

"Today there are pheasant rabbits in the same cage, with 35 heads on the top and 94 feet on the bottom. How many are the pheasant rabbits?"

The little girl was dazed, Zhuo Hua lay on the table and counted with her fingers.

I laughed and said, "Even if you conjure up ten fingers, it's not enough to count. The method is also simple. You let each of them lift two legs, 35 heads, how many legs do you need to lift in total?"

The little girl continued to be at a loss, Zhuo Hua started to snap her fingers again.

...Okay, it's my fault, you can't even do multiplication, let alone set up equations with chickens and rabbits in the same cage.

At this moment, there was a "duk tuk" knock on the wooden door, which was very clear in the howling north wind.

The room was instantly silent.

This kind of weather, at this point of time, why can't it be a human being?

Is it a ghost, or a mountain spirit, or a mountain god?

There are two ghosts in the house on the left and right, we are not afraid of them, they are all guests, I asked Zhen Zhen to stay in the back room, and Zhuo Hua to answer the door.

The wooden door opened, first the north wind blew in messy snowflakes, then came a woman in her twenties, wearing a big fur coat, with dark clouds and half-up bun, white makeup and light eyebrows, and a cirrus golden hair in her hair. Hairpin, take off your fur clothes when you enter the house, and the pink breasts half cover the clear snow, like a green peony, the flowers bloom richly, enchantingly and luxuriously.

There is a saying that "renovating the spectrum of Luoyang Ming, it is suspected that the flowers are incomplete and the leaves are full. The Lumen under the calyx is still giving color, and the pearls come to Jingu to stop the sound." [1]

Peony essence?Now that it's winter, can peony still run around?

The beautiful woman Shi Shiran saluted, with a voice like a yellow warbler coming out of the valley: "My concubine is a fourth mother, and I am traveling in the mountains. Unfortunately, I got lost. It is very snowy outside. Can I stay overnight?"

... Good guy, I don’t know how to make up a lie. Where did the people who visit the [-] mountains come from?If she is alive, I will write her name upside down.

It's just that since this guy pretended to be a living person, he didn't attack before he came up, and I didn't want to tear my face off directly, so I could do it perfunctorily, after all, Zhen Zhen was still in the back room.

"The concubine has never eaten, but did she eat?" Si Niang asked softly, with a smile on her face.

Are you trying to see me poorly?Is there anything to eat here, is there an extremely yin body in the room?My face remained unchanged, and I said calmly: "Noodles in clear soup, do you want to eat?"

Si Niang's face was stiff.

I smiled and said: "It's cold in the mountains, the girl is cold, eat a bowl of vermicelli with clear soup to warm her body."

Didn't you say that you are a living person?I'll see if you eat or not!After I finished speaking, I didn't care about Si Niang's reaction, so I hurriedly started.In addition to building a large stove outside, Niu Wu also built a small one in the room, knowing that it is not easy to go out in winter, which shows that he has rich experience.

A few days ago, I made a thick soup with big pork bones, added sliced ​​winter bamboo shoots, and a small spoonful of salt, it was very delicious. Zhuohua and Zhenzhen tasted very delicious, and the soup with winter bamboo shoots and big bones was served with crispy and spicy marinated Radish slices, eating several bowls of rice in a row, only to stop when the stomach is round, and as a result, one person and one ghost had to fight in the room to digest food.

Now it's simple, heat up the frozen gelatinous bone broth, add the bone-cut meat, and blanch a few small green vegetables until soft; put water in the pot, wait for it to boil, add dry noodles and blanch for 30 seconds, remove and place In a plain white round bowl.

Put the bone-shaved meat and two small green vegetables on the noodles, and pour the hot meat and bone soup, let the noodles absorb the deliciousness of the broth, and avoid sticking together, nest an egg, sprinkle some green onions, and finally half a spoonful of green onions Oil, a spoonful of soy sauce.

I made two bowls, put one bowl in front of Siniang, and the other bowl at hand.

Si Niang became even more stiff, I jokingly looked at it, the ghost eats the food of living people, do you want to burn all inside?It's a pity that this girl doesn't know that ghosts can eat the dishes I cook.

I don't know what the female ghost was thinking, she obviously didn't want to touch it, but after seeing the crystal-clear color of the noodles in the bowl, she picked up some with chopsticks and put it in her mouth. She was stunned for a moment, and quickly ate the whole bowl of noodle soup.

The north wind was howling outside, like all ghosts crying together. Looking out from the window, the snow kept falling, and the vast expanse of whiteness made it difficult to distinguish the north, south, east, and west.

Si Niang wiped the corners of her mouth with an embroidered handkerchief reservedly, seeing Zhuo Hua's stupid look, and then seeing my smiling and silent expression, she couldn't help but smile: "It's the concubine who is being rude."

Wisps of ghostly aura emanated from her body, which quickly condensed into a solid body, lingering by her side.

The ghost of condensing resentment seems to be a powerful old ghost.

I remained calm, showed no timidity, and released my realm.

Si Niang suddenly stood up and bowed Yingying: "Master's house should be a strange ghost, right?"

I nodded and smiled, but I saw Si Niang looking at the wind and snow outside the window, she didn't know what she was thinking, suddenly she turned her head and sighed: "I have been dead for 400 years, and I have never seen such a strange ability. After eating something from the master's house, my concubine How about telling a story for fun instead of getting nothing in return?"

Seeing that I have no objection, Si Niang said eloquently——

That was before the prosperous country became a ghost. At that time, romantic affairs were prevalent. Everyone from high-ranking officials and nobles to traffickers and pawns believed in Little Huanxi Buddha. There were many Goulan courtyards, and there were many men and women in The streets and alleys are used as secret doors.

And the protagonist of this story, Lv Niang, is the top card of Kuaihongyuan, which is well-known in Shengguo.

Lvniang didn't know her biological father and mother, and she grew up in Goulan School since she was a child. Because of her good looks, she was selected and raised by her mother when she was ten years old. She was proficient in everything from piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Everything was good, and soon became the object of pursuit of the dignitaries and dignitaries of Beisheng.

Since ancient times, Fengyue has loved scholars, and Lv Niang is no exception.Just like every cliché story, Lv Niang and a scholar who went to Beijing to rush for the exam privately ordered for life.The scholar was handsome and handsome, and he respected Lv Niang very much.

"Everyone has desire in their eyes, but when he saw Lv Niang, he blushed first, lowered his head and didn't dare to look, and shouted 'it's my fault, girl who is abrupt', but that's how he got into Lv Niang. Mother's eyes."

The scholar never touched Lv Niang from the beginning to the end, only talked about poems and songs with her, and occasionally mentioned his ambitions.

"Lv Niang has seen too many rich and powerful people, all of them are moths who are greedy for power and pleasure, but this little scholar from a commoner background wants to help Prince Qingyu rectify the rich and corrupt officials in Shengguo. , but Lv Niang admired even more."

I silently raised a hand and asked the question I had held back until now.

"Scholars are so sages, why do they still go in and out of the Kuaihong Courtyard every day, just for free meals and free accommodation?"

Si Niang laughed, covered the corners of her mouth lightly with a handkerchief, and said angrily, "Master's words are really interesting, and you really hit the spot. The scholar has to manage contacts after he comes to Beijing, and he has already spent all his money. Lv Niang Give him all your money."

The scholar received the money, naturally he was very grateful, and swore to redeem himself for Lv Niang if he passed the exam.

"Everyone in the party knows that there are countless ways for men to swear in the Goulan courtyard. It's just that Lv Niang lost her mind at that time and felt that the scholar was different."

Sure enough, the scholar was tall and beautiful, and he was selected by the Shengdi as a Tanhua. He rode horses and paraded through the streets.Not long after, news came that he was going to marry his teacher's daughter.

Well, the next plot should be Lv Niang's sad Yueju opera, questioning those who betray her heart, and the daughter of a scholar or a powerful minister to silence her for the sake of reputation, right?

"The master is joking. How could Lv Niang be hurt by a heartless person? What right does she have to question the dignitaries? It's just...no one in the world can disappoint Lv Niang, and the heartless person deserves to die."

Si Niang smiled coquettishly, her voice was coquettish, but her laughter made people's hair stand on end.

Lv Niang grew up in Goulan Yard, so she naturally has a familiar turtle/gong, and everyone is a child born secretly by the girl in the building. The two grew up together, and their relationship is extraordinary.

"It's also a coincidence that he once helped a person who later became a ghost. Before he was caught by a Taoist priest, he taught him some ghost skills, which can kill people invisible."

When Lv Niang wanted to kill someone, Gui/Gong didn't hesitate to help her. The scholar died violently in his new house on the third day after his marriage.In addition, Lv Niang did not kill other people.

It was you who took all my money, and you who lied to my feelings. If the disaster is worse than others, you should pay with your own life. Isn't it fair?

"It's all the fault of those meddling dead Taoist priests who followed the ghost tricks to catch the turtle/gong, but even when he died, he didn't confess to Lv Niang."

But is it okay if there is no confession?The rich and powerful are not fools, Gui/Gong and Lv Niang are childhood sweethearts, and Tanhua and Lv Niang have an old relationship.Even if Lv Niang did not instigate this matter, it has nothing to do with her.

The daughter became a widow as soon as she got married, how did the powerful officials swallow this breath?Even if Gui/Gong was beheaded, he didn't spare Lv Niang, he just found an excuse and sentenced her to Ling/Chi to be executed.

Ling/late? !I was amazed that the crime of Ling/Chi in ancient times was not a serious crime and a great evil.

Lv Niang is just a little girl from the Goulan Courtyard. Even if it is true that she killed Tanhua, she would be beheaded. The powerful officials of Beisheng 400 years ago were really terrible.

Si Niang was betrayed in the first place, and now she is executed so quickly, if she doesn't become a ghost, then she is really a ghost.

"Originally, the scholar's family wanted to invite someone to suppress Lv Niang's soul, but Prince Qingyu stopped him and impeached that powerless official. Lv Niang didn't know what happened afterwards, and she didn't care even if Beisheng destroyed the country."

After she avenged and murdered, the scholar was no longer important in her heart.

"After she became a ghost, she has been looking for him all the time. She has been cultivating to become stronger, but this time it is not for revenge, but because she has not found him yet."

If you want to find him, you have to become stronger; and if you want to become stronger, you have to go through "Wang Chen"; after "Wang Chen", she will forget him.

"She wrote down all the things she remembered bit by bit, and drew his face. After forgetting the dust, she took it out and looked at it again and again. It took 400 years to find him, but she couldn't find him in heaven or earth."

"Perhaps after Qiqi, his soul has returned to the space between heaven and earth."

"No, they made an appointment since they were young, and he won't let her go alone."

I was silent for a moment, then asked again: "If they were so in love, why did Lv Niang fall in love with the scholar again?"

"In love?" Si Niang asked in surprise, "Who said Lv Niang is in love with him?"

"If you don't love me, why have you been looking for him for 400 years?"

She lowered her head and looked at the steaming soup bowl in front of her, and said stubbornly, "Because they have been together since childhood."

When she was a child, she hadn't been spotted by her mother, and he was just a wild child.The two children were starving and doing hard labor. Only on birthdays, he would conjure up a bowl of noodles in clear soup like a magic trick.

"The noodles in clear soup at that time were really boiled noodles in clear soup, with a little salt sprinkled on them. Occasionally he would steal chopped green onions from the kitchen."

"I don't know when she will find him."

I was silent for a long time, looking at the clear noodle soup that was getting cold in front of me, and then at the empty space at the door, sighed: "What is the girl talking about, isn't he always there?"

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