[Comprehensive] Traveling through Liaozhai with a hundred ghosts

In addition to many stalls in the market, there are also many buskers performing on the street.

Xu Hang watched them one by one with great interest. He first saw a shirtless brawny man with a wooden sign hanging on his neck saying "Ten Copper Plates and One Knife". With a bowl full of copper coins, the strong man claimed to have practiced the iron cloth shirt method, yelling that whoever can cut him with a knife, he will give all the income of the day.

There was an unbelieving warrior among the crowd, who hacked with a knife after paying ten copper coins, but the strong man was still intact after the knife was chopped off, without leaving any knife marks on his body.

People around applauded and applauded, but for Xu Hang, he had seen a lot of similar performances in the so-called qigong master interviews on TV in his previous life, so he just stopped for a while, and then walked forward for a while. What I saw was a person carrying a box with a dozen or so little mice inside.

There is a table in front of the entertainer, with a small stage on it.Not long after, the artist played and sang the opera beside him.The mice came out of the box with the music, and they were still wearing opera robes, which looked quite good, and their movements corresponded to the content of the opera.

The wonderful performance of the mice amazed the people around, and Xu Hang was also attracted. After a while, after a part of the show ended, the onlookers were still not satisfied, and they threw copper coins to the table one after another. superior.

The entertainer was all smiles, and the mice came out from behind and bowed to the audience.

Xu Hang was also a little amused, so he tossed a few copper coins over, and then continued walking, this time he saw a snake charmer.

Two green snakes, one large and one small, were wrapped around the snake man's neck and arms respectively. The two snakes were very spiritual. Xu Hang found that they might have become spiritual.

However, because of this, when Xu Hang stood watching from the side, the two snakes were afraid of Xu Hang's aura, and the performance suddenly became unsmooth.

Xu Hang rubbed his nose, in order not to mess up the performance of the snake man, he had no choice but to keep going.

The street market is full of fish and dragons, and besides earning a decent living, there are also people who rely on cheating methods. After seeing another stall that advertised magic calculation, Xu Hang saw that there was nothing to see, so he went back to the inn where he stayed.

When he passed the counter and was about to go upstairs, the shopkeeper of the inn stopped him.

The shopkeeper took out an invitation card: "This guest officer, the Wang family in the county invites you to be a guest at their residence."

Xu Hang felt strange, it was the first time he came to this county, why did someone invite him to be a guest?

Can't help asking: "The Wang family? I don't remember knowing anyone from the Wang family."

The shopkeeper was also surprised, but seeing that Xu Hang was a short issuer, he was used to it and said: "The big family in our county who invited you, the servants of the Wang family did call for you, and his son is obsessed with Taoism. , I always want to get acquainted with other people, maybe I have heard of the master's reputation somewhere?"

But Xu Hang knew about his own affairs, and he didn't show any special means. Outsiders seemed to be a master with some skills. The reputation in Lijia Village should not have spread to the county town thirty miles away so quickly.

Moreover, he and Yan Chixia came together. Compared with herself, Yan Chixia in Taoist robe should be more capable, right?Why did the Wang family invite him alone but not Yan Chixia?

Then Xu Hang thought again, if he went alone and Yan Chixia stayed in the inn alone, it seemed a bit inappropriate logically, or it's better to refuse, anyway, I don't know each other.

Just when Yan Chixia came back, Xu Hang called him to stop.

"The Wang family in the county invited me to be a guest tonight, but they only invited me."

Yan Chixia was open-minded, and after understanding Xu Hang's meaning, she didn't mind, instead she said happily: "Isn't this a good thing! Someone treats you to delicious food for free, since you are invited, then go, if you feel uncomfortable Sorry, at worst, pack the dishes and bring them back to me when you leave."

Xu Hang didn't mind anymore after hearing this.

In the afternoon of that day, the servants of the Wang family drove over to pick up Xu Hang to the mansion.

The members of the Wang family were very happy with Xu Hang's arrival and entertained them warmly, and soon set up a banquet to invite Xu Hang to take a seat.

Although the Wang family was very hospitable, Xu Hang always felt that there was something weird about it.

According to what the shopkeeper said before, it should be the young master of the Wang family who wanted to meet strange people, so he invited him to visit. But now that the table has been drunk several times, and the sky has turned dark, there is no such so-called young master Wang who is obsessed with Taoism. What to ask.

Xu Hang felt weird everywhere, and seeing that it was getting dark, he made excuses and planned to leave.

Seeing that he wanted to leave, the Wang family eagerly persuaded him to stay, and finally the young master of the Wang family finally asked: "I heard from a scholar in the school that Master, you have unusual abilities. Open my eyes?"

It turned out that one of the scholars who drank at Zhu Erdan that day was in the county seat. He saw the legendary ghost that night. After returning to the county seat, the scholar couldn't wait to share this experience as an adventure.

The young master of the Wang family is indeed very interested in anecdotes, and has always wanted to meet real strangers, but unfortunately all he recruited in the past were just charlatans with superficial appearances, so after hearing about this in the teahouse, he secretly kept his eyes open and remembered The person named Xu Hang.

Seeing that he finally got to the point, Xu Hang decided to use the cover-up method he learned from Yan Chixia recently to deal with it.

Xu Hang said truthfully: "I only know some small tricks."

The ones who are really capable are the monsters in his picture scrolls.

Then Xu Hang directly painted a beautiful courtyard on the wall. His painting method combined with Western sketch, so the picture is lifelike. This alone is enough to amaze ordinary people who have not been exposed to Western painting in this era.

Seeing such a realistic picture, Young Master Wang was very surprised, and thought to himself: This painting is so real, can everything in it come true?

As soon as he thought about it, he felt as if he could smell the fragrance of grass and trees, and then butterflies and birds flew out of the paintings on the wall. For a while, the indoor birds were singing and insects were singing, and the fragrance of flowers was overflowing, as if he had really arrived in the suburbs.

The Wang family were all fascinated by the scene in front of them. After the scene disappeared and the paintings on the wall returned to static, everyone came back to their senses, but they still couldn't calm down for a long time.

Seeing this, Young Master Wang was convinced that Xu Hang was capable, and he was ecstatic in his heart, and asked, "Master, where did you learn from?"

Yan Chixia taught the blindfold method just now, so Xu Hang replied: "This is the method of Laoshan Taoist priests."

Young master Wang's eyes lit up, he originally wanted to do Taoism, but he had been unable to enter it before, and now he finally met a person with real skills, so naturally he hoped that the other party could teach him.

So Master Wang immediately proposed: "Xiaosheng sincerely wants to learn Taoism, but unfortunately I have never met a real master. Later, I learned about your deeds from friends. I have admired you for a long time. I am very surprised to see Master today. I want to worship Master as my teacher. May I ask Master if you can accept me as an apprentice?"

But the spells that Xu Hang currently masters are all learned from Yan Chixia. Although Yan Chixia believes that her master will definitely accept Xu Hang as an apprentice, Xu Hang feels that it is not good to make up her own mind because she has not formally apprenticed to a master. Just teach others the skills of others.

Xu Hang thought for a while, then evaded, "I'm not an expert, what I have mastered is only superficial, not to the point where I can be a teacher."

What he said was also true, Xu Hang and Yan Chixia had only known each other for a few days, although Xu Hang was very talented in Taoism, but in such a short time, he could not learn much.

However, in the eyes of Young Master Wang, Xu Hang is purely polite, because Xu Hang has already stepped into the Taoist sect half-step, and he has a clean and upright spirit, coupled with his calm demeanor, in the eyes of ordinary people, he belongs to the world. The demeanor of foreigners.

Young Master Wang begged again: "Master is too self-effacing, Xiaosheng is not greedy, just teach me one or two spells is enough."

It's a pity that Xu Hang's intention has been decided, no matter how much the young master of the Wang family begged him, he would not let go, and seeing that it was already dark, he proposed to leave again.

Seeing that Xu Hang was about to leave, Young Master Wang quickly changed his tone: "Since your skills cannot be passed on to outsiders, master, then I have no choice but to let it go, but can you tell me some anecdotes about your past journey?"

This request is not too much, and the other party has entertained him graciously, if he refuses again, it will be unjustifiable in human terms.

Xu Hang had no choice but to pick out some weird stories that he had heard before and tell the prince. The young master Wang seemed to be really interested in this aspect, and he listened with great interest, and kept chasing after Xu Hang to say more.

Then just like that, I dragged the time into the middle of the night without knowing it.

When Young Master Wang noticed it, he showed shame on his face and said: "I didn't expect it to be so late. If master doesn't dislike it, why don't you just stay at the mansion for one night."

Xu Hang frowned. The enthusiasm of the young master of the Wang family made it difficult for him to escape, so he had to agree to stay overnight at the Wang family and leave quickly tomorrow morning.

The young master of the Wang family said that he was going to arrange a room for Xu Hang to stay overnight, but he disappeared after making the arrangements.

The rest of the Wang family and the servants also left the dining room at some point. After sitting for a while, Xu Hang felt that the air in the room was turbid, so he went outside.

However, after waiting for a long time, no servant came to call him, so Xu Hang couldn't help frowning even more.

Then at this moment, Xu Hang heard dull footsteps coming from outside.Not long after, a monster with a beast head and a human body appeared at the gate of the yard.

The monster had a burly body, with black hair like a horse's mane, and a mouth full of sharp teeth. It looked very frightening.

This appearance made Xu Hang instantly think of the vicious spirit that the old man Xin said was disturbing the banquet, and then recalled the various behaviors of the Wang family tonight, and finally realized that it seemed that Wang Gongzi was just an excuse, and the Wang family wanted him to help deal with this monster.

The author has something to say:

It's probably a small theater thing.

Q&A time

Xu Hang: I think the system calculation seems to be a bit wrong.

Author: That's right, the stories with unfinished follow-up plots are not included because they are incomplete.

Xu Hang: Oh.

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