Be a national teacher in Liaozhai Fanwen

On the gray-white mud floor, the green flame was extinguished in a flash, and the time for a stick of incense had come, and the green smoke curled up and disappeared under the turquoise sun.

"What kind of nonsense is this?" Du Zimei dropped the rake in her hand and complained.

"Playing with fire and wetting the bed? Could it be related to that nursery rhyme? But why doesn't it look like it?" Wang Mang rubbed his chin in thought.

"Bedwetting? Did that nursery rhyme mention bedwetting?" Ruan Tao looked like he had seen a ghost.

Fu Su was confused: "What nursery rhyme?"

Ruan Tao briefly explained to Fusu how he was captured by the ghost lady. In fact, he didn't think there was anything wrong with it at the time, and it was all strange when he thought about it afterwards.

At the beginning, Ruan Tao thought that Fusu himself was too unlucky, that's why he ended up today.

Thinking about it later, Fusu was not the only one who stood under the willow tree by the lake that day, and Fusu was not the only good-looking man, why did he choose him?

Thinking about it now, this eldest son is probably Tang Seng. It seems like a coincidence, but the evildoer came prepared!

Fusu himself is not stupid, after stopping these explanations, he still doesn't understand that most of his catastrophe is not God's will but man-made.

But now is not the time to think about the culprit behind the scenes, but to get out of here quickly.

"Bed-wetting... Hey--you have seen a girl grow up to such a big age, have you ever seen her wet the bed?" Ruan Tao asked.

"When we reached the first mirage, the girl was already seven years old." Wang Mang explained, "How can a seven-year-old girl continue to wet the bed?"

"Have you never seen it, or haven't looked carefully?" Ruan Tao said seriously.

Wang Mang and Du Zimei fell silent for an instant.

After a moment of silence, Du Zimei said: "No matter how young she is, she is still a girl. It's not a gentleman's job for us two big men to squat aside and watch her sleep."

"Confused!" Ruan Tao said anxiously, "Every moment in this Gu barrier could be fatal, and every moment could be the key to our escape! Now thinking about what these vain gentlemen are doing! ?”

"Do you know what the big taboo is in the Jianghu?"

"Yes, what is it?" Du Zimei asked, seeing Ruan Tao so serious.

I saw Ruan Tao with a sullen face, and said in an extremely serious way: "You need face."

Wang Mang nodded seriously when he heard the words: "Incisive!"

Du Zimei and Fusu: "..."

"The most feared thing in the Jianghu is that you will be put on airs and you will not be able to wipe your face. It is true that a person must be a gentleman, dignified and generous, but one must not be rigid and flexible. If you carry it all day long, you will have nothing to eat. , will starve to death!" Ruan Tao educated, "Who doesn't want to be a gentleman? But as the saying goes, a man can bend and stretch, and sometimes a gentleman and a man can only choose one or the other."

As he said that, he said very sadly: "I didn't let you stare at the other girl. What's the big deal, why don't you two sit in the outer room? How about sitting in the outer room and watching the night? Now that the girl has passed away, there is no honor. What's more, each of us thinks that the so-called girl's reputation is just bullshit! Why don't men pay attention to fame?"

"This is the time, you are not guarding the girl's name as a gentleman, but you are committing suicide in the name of a gentleman."

Wang Mang nodded: "That makes sense!"

Du Zimei and Fusu: "..."

Ruan Tao got up and turned around a few times: "What should we do now? We are singing Peony Pavilion over there, and we are still confused. Wetting the bed... To be honest, wetting the bed at the age of seven is indeed a bit old... "

As he said that, Ruan Tao seemed to have thought of something, and quickly said: "However! This also reflects that the girl must have psychological problems. You see, if bad habits and physical problems are excluded, if she still wets the bed at the age of seven, it will be She has a mental problem!"

"In your heart?" Fusu was a little puzzled.

Du Zimei and Wang Mang looked at each other, and both of them began to try to recall what happened on the first floor of the "phantom".

"What happened to her when she was seven years old?" Ruan Tao asked.

Du Zimei murmured: "The fourth girl is dead."

"Who?"

"Miss Si, she was her master when she was young. In the beginning, she was Miss Si's personal servant girl. Miss Si was beautiful and kind-hearted, and she treated Zhou Youling as her own sister. But she hadn't served Miss Si long before Miss Si died. .” Wang Mang explained.

"How did you die?" Ruan Tao continued to ask.

Wang Mang's eyes darkened: "Soak the pig cage."

Du Zimei added: "At that time... she was only 14 years old."

Hearing this, it was as if someone punched the three of them hard in the heart!The surrounding environment seemed to be aware of it, and it became quiet for an instant.

The gray and white world, the three people with only colors and the glowing green sun in the sky all reveal a sense of suffocation.

Du Zimei still remembers the scene he saw that day. He didn't see how the fourth girl struggled in the "pig cage", but he saw the cage——

There was no crying or whining, the cage was quietly placed on the futon of the ancestral hall, about the height of a person, the bamboo cage seemed to have been old, and there were various mottled marks on it. .

However, the bright red blood stains on it, as well as fingernails, meat paste, and a bamboo strip finger hanging from the stick can be clearly recognized.

Du Zimei closed her eyes, trying hard to forget about the cage.

After entering the Gu barrier, he and Jujun have encountered many terrifying ghosts and monsters for so long, some are good-looking, some are bloody, and some can't see their appearance clearly but feel that they can scare people to death.

But the cage that made him feel the scariest and creepiest so far.

"This makes sense." Ruan Tao said solemnly, "So it was because of the death of the fourth girl that Zhou Youling had psychological problems."

Fusu, who had been sitting by the side without saying a word, seemed to be unable to bear it at this moment. He hesitated for a while before he said, "Have you ever thought... that the clue might be fire?"

"..."

"Impossible." Wang Mang denied, "If it was a fire, it would be too simple. There was a fire in the ancestral hall of the Zhou family before, and the fire burned the entire ancestral hall, leaving no suspected Gu offerings." thing."

Du Zimei nodded seriously.

"Okay, now the clues are basically confirmed, let's start with the fourth girl of the Zhou family." Ruan Tao took out a bunch of small paper figurines from his bag with a stick, and waved them into the air.

The paper people fell to the ground and turned into paper boys whose heads looked like white lanterns with painted faces. The paper boys went together in twos and threes, scattered in all directions, and went to find things related to the fourth girl.

In the past, when Du Zimei looked at these paper boys, she felt terrified, but now she felt a sense of security.

"Tao'er, if I'm gone in the future, when you burn the anniversary for me, remember to burn a few boys to serve me." Du Zimei said.

Hearing this, Fu Su stretched out his hand and knocked on Du Zimei's head: "What are you talking about? I'm not afraid of taboo."

Du Zimei rubbed her head in pain, and muttered: "...Didn't you say that you have never done this?"

"What are we doing now? Are we waiting here for them to come back?" Wang Mang asked.

Ruan Tao nodded, and then took out two wicker sticks from his bag and stuck them on the ground. The tips of the two wicker sticks began to emit a faint honey-colored light, like two light candles, but there was really nothing to burn. Signs are just glowing.

"What is this thing?" Du Zimei asked curiously.

"Yinliu, if there are evil things approaching around, the light will go out." Ruan Tao said with some distress, "I started practicing this in May, and it took six to six thirty-six days to complete it. Originally, I thought that I would never use it unless it was absolutely necessary, thinking that I could keep it for several years! Who knows, it’s only been less than a month..."

"You are getting better and better now!" Du Zimei praised with a smile, "You really look like a 'Guanyin'."

"Come on! Now I feel numb when I hear the word Guanyin." Ruan Tao replied.

Wang Mang glanced at the wicker, and then looked up at Ruan Tao. Ruan Tao's complexion was close to fair. Under normal circumstances, one would think that this young man was a bit too fair, but in this gray world, he was indeed the brightest. where.

Wang Mang lowered his eyes indiscriminately, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly, it seems that he really saw the right person.

After about two sticks of incense, the paper people with heads that looked like paper lanterns came back with things in their hands, top-heavy.

They put things in front of Ruan Tao one after another, and then with a light jump, they turned into small, narrow paper figurines again.

Sachets, hairpins, combs, headbands, embroidered shoes, small jackets...

Don't say it!That's not a lot.

Ruan Tao's eyebrows twitched: "So many? The fourth girl has passed away for almost ten years now, and she was executed by her family. It stands to reason that the person who was soaked in the pig cage was a person who was very disgusted by the family, and everyone could use it Strangled to death in such a cruel way, how can things stay? And there are so many?"

Fu Su murmured: "I remember the folk rules, don't they say that most of the dead people's things will be burned and buried with them? These are indeed too much... It seems... as if someone kept them on purpose."

Fu Su seemed to have thought of something, and then asked Du Zimei and Wang Mang, "After the death of the fourth girl, what changes have taken place in their family?"

"Change?" Wang Mang thought for a while, "There is no change? But..."

"But what?" Ruan Tao quickly raised his head and asked.

Wang Mang replied: "Before, the young master of his family was ill. That's right! It was the young master that Brother Kong Ming and the others said died in love with Zhou Youling."

"Obviously, he was already very sick, but after the death of the fourth girl, he somehow recovered." Wang Mang said.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Du Zimei answered, "There is still more! His family's property has always been said that the harvest on the Zhuangzi is not good, and the seedlings are not planted in the spring, and they are beaten by the frost. The fall is a loss, but the autumn when the fourth girl died, it was still a bumper harvest!"

Hearing this, Ruan Tao frowned and began to rummage through the pile of things.

Flipping through it, I found a pair of bellybands embroidered with "Five Sons Enrolled in the Imperial Academy", one red and one green.

Ruan Tao stared at the belly pocket for a while, and asked, "Are there any brothers of the fourth girl who are about the same age as her?"

"No." Du Zimei denied.

Ruan Tao looked at the bellyband in his hand for a while, and then he noticed a rouge box next to the grate out of the corner of his eye.

"Zimei, hand me that box." Ruan Tao said, pointing to the box.

"This?" Du Zimei handed the rouge box to Ruan Tao, "Take it."

Ruan Tao took the rouge box and slowly opened it.

The peach-colored powder has condensed for too long, and there is a worm lying on it—the front half of the worm looks like a praying mantis, with two pairs of interlaced wings that are still trembling slightly, and two claws that are like sickles. .But the second half protruded like a queen bee, and the whole belly was swollen like a crystal, and the inside was densely packed with white eggs.

It looks really disgusting!

"Hiss—damn, what is this thing?" Wang Mang felt disgusted after taking a look at it, and turned his head away to stop looking.

Ruan Tao shook his hands, quickly covered the box, and threw it on the ground. He was most afraid of this kind of grass insects, let alone such disgusting ones.

Fusu immediately reached out and held Ruan Tao's hand, Ruan Tao glanced at him and said, "Thank you."

Fu Su frowned: "What is that thing?"

Ruan Tao's heart was beating loudly, and he didn't know whether he was frightened by the worm or what the worm represented.

With a sullen face, his voice trembled slightly: "Mother and child Gu!"

The author says:

Rush!