Chapter 225 A promise worth a thousand pieces of gold
Chapter 225 A promise worth a thousand pieces of gold
Seeing that Hong Chendong was not joking, Mu Shiguang asked: "Uncle Hong, what on earth is going on? I have heard from my grandpa that some people said they have seen ghosts, but they have never really witnessed it. Before grandpa traveled to the immortal world,
He warned me that it was just some people's manipulations and should not be taken seriously. I think someone is playing tricks on Uncle Hong behind his back?"
Hong Chendong smiled awkwardly and said: "The eldest nephew of the Mu family is telling you the truth. I originally thought that someone was looking for trouble when he was full, but you will understand when you come over and take a look at this." Hong Chendong pulled Mu Shiguang over without any explanation.
When he arrived at the counter, he pointed at the dead paper and fire coins placed on the counter without saying a word...
Mu Shiguang put down the fish basket, stretched out his two fingers to pick up a few pieces of paper money and said: "This... this... this is paper money burned to the dead? Why is it on the counter? Uncle Hong, you are the one who offended me.
What kind of villain is there?"
Xu Husan walked out of the back door with two ingots and fifty taels of silver in his hand. Hong Chendong hurriedly stepped forward and took the silver from his hand and forced it into Mu Shiguang's arms. Mu Shiguang refused to accept it, and Hong Chendong had no choice.
He shouted to the two guys: "You guys have handsome faces, but you are just a bag of grass in an embroidered pillow. Why don't you have any eyesight? Go and give me the fish basket to the girl tonight."
Let's invite the Mu family's mother and son over for dinner." The two waiters didn't understand what was going on, so they gave Hong Chendong a scolding and left with the fish basket.
"Uncle Hong, you can't help it. My fish isn't worth ten taels of silver. I just need enough money to buy medicine for my mother. Uncle Hong, we orphans and widowed mothers often receive your kindness. I won't give you this money."
I can't accept it!" Mu Shiguang pushed the money back to Hong Chendong.
"Hey, my nephew, your mother's illness won't be cured by taking medicine in a day or two. Please keep the money for me to use for your mother's medical treatment. Don't be stubborn to me anymore, uncle is not short of that little pocket money.
If you can help the uncle fight this ghost away, let alone ten taels of silver, I will give you more." There was a trace of resentment on Hong Chendong's face, and Mu Shiguang couldn't refuse anymore. He accepted money and money from others.
Mu Shiguang still knows this principle of eliminating disasters.
Mu Shiguang said sternly: "Well, Uncle Hong, you have said so, then I will be more respectful than obey your orders. Uncle Hong, how did you encounter ghosts? Where did the ghosts come from in the Qingming World of Langlang Qiankun?"
Hong Chendong looked at the rice shop in the front hall and saw that there was no one else. He closed the door and said in a low voice: "You kid, don't believe it. Come sit down and let me tell you. Three days ago, after dark, I met a man.
The woman in black held an umbrella and knocked on the door to buy rice. I just thought it was a neighbor who ran out of rice to cook and sold the rice to her. I didn't take it seriously. Who knew that the next day when the business opened, I found the cash box.
There was money in it. I was also thinking that someone was playing tricks on me, but just last night the woman in black came to buy rice again. I clearly accepted the copper coins from her and put them on the counter.
, I didn’t expect to be woken up by the waiter in the morning and saw that the copper coins had turned into paper money!”
After listening to Hong Chendong's words, Mu Shiguang lowered his head, thought for a while and said to himself: "There really are such strange things in the world. The female ghost must be holding an umbrella in her hand because she is afraid of seeing the light. She came to Mipu twice
I also paid for the money to buy rice. Could it be that the female ghost deliberately wanted Uncle Hong to notice it?"
"Big... eldest nephew, then... what does that ghost want me to notice? I was almost scared to death by her... I didn't know it at first, but now that I think about it, waves of fear run down my spine...
..." Hong Chendong said fearfully.
Instead, Mu Shiguang smiled and said: "Uncle Hong, if that female ghost really wanted to harm you, I think Uncle Hong would have been poisoned by the female ghost long ago. Come to Mipu twice... come here twice
Mipu... what is she doing? I'm afraid of ghosts, and Uncle Hong doesn't know the female ghost. I guess the female ghost is not here to seek revenge!" Mu Shiguang closed his eyes and thought hard but couldn't think of that.
The ghost’s intention.
Hong Chendong rubbed his hands together and said uneasily: "Niece, I know you are good at literature and martial arts. Just give me some advice. Even if that female ghost doesn't want to harm anyone, I will be scared to death by her."
Mu Shiguang opened his eyes, a look of determination suddenly appeared on his face, he bowed to Hong Chendong and said, "I have an idea, but I don't know if it is feasible. From tonight on, I will live in this rice shop."
Wait in the front hall for the female ghost to come again. Since she has come twice, she must have her own purpose. I want to ask my uncle for one thing. If something unexpected happens to me, please don’t tell my mother and say that I am
He went to Lin'an City to join the army." Hong Chendong was stunned by the half-grown boy in front of him. He was going to fight with the female ghost to the end. He knew that life and death were unpredictable and yet he was worried about his mother being frightened. What a good boy. What a good boy.
Boy!
Hong Chendong said hurriedly: "Eldest nephew, how about we invite a great monk to come and take a look. I can't afford to take care of you if something happens to you!"
"Haha, life and death are fateful. I, Mu Shi, can't drive away enemies on the battlefield, and I can't support my old mother. She has no face to stand between heaven and earth. Uncle Hong, you don't need to say more, I decided to fight with that female ghost.
A fight. If Uncle Hong thinks I'm not good enough, then it's not too late for you to hire an old monk. There are indeed many old monks in Jiangzhou Prefecture who defraud people of their money and pretend to be gods, but I really want to listen to those who can catch ghosts and subjugate them.
It is said that Huang Shigong, who became an immortal, appeared in Jiangzhou Prefecture."
Hong Chendong tapped his forehead with his hand and said, "My dear nephew, that is a peerless hermit. Where can I find him? Well, I will do as you say..."
Mu Shiguang declined Hong Chendong's warm invitation. After leaving Longwang Rice Shop, he went to grab some medicine and then went back to cook the medicine and wait for Mr. Jiao to take the medicine. Mr. Jiao lay half-lying on the bed and coughed rapidly, and the dark brown medicine dripped with the cough.
The sound splashed everywhere. Mu Shiguang carefully wiped away the concoction sprayed out by Jiao with a cotton handkerchief. After drinking the medicine, Jiao's cough was obviously improved. Being weak, Mu Shiguang covered himself with the quilt, and Jiao's cough was obviously improved.
Shi took a long sigh and said: "Son, cough cough cough... I've really made it difficult for you these years... cough cough cough, it's all my old bones... cough cough cough that has dragged you down."
"Mom, don't say that. Today I went to get some medicine. Hu Langzhong said that your illness will be cured after you take these medicines. Mom, just take good care of yourself. Didn't Mom say that crows have the tendency to feed back to you?"
Love, am I worse than that flat-haired beast?" Mu Shiguang said, holding the medicine jar and putting it aside.
Jiao Shi forced a smile and said: "Ahem, cough, cough... you will say some nice things to fool me, cough, cough, cough... I can believe what that bastard said! Ahem, cough..."
"Mom, this is the money given by Uncle Hong from the Longwang rice shop next door. Keep it safe for the past two days. I have already bought the rice jar and filled it with rice." Mu Shiguang said anxiously.
Mr. Jiao asked strangely: "My son...cough cough cough...what's wrong with you? Why does shopkeeper Hong want to give you money? Cough cough cough..."
"Mom, there was a riot in Shopkeeper Hong's rice shop with a female... female thief. He gave me the money just to help him catch the thief." Mu Shiguang didn't dare to tell Mr. Jiao the truth and could only make it up.
He kept his head down, packed up the medicine jars and bowls, and hurried to the corner of the room to start working on lunch.
Mrs. Jiao stood up and said: "Ahem... Shopkeeper Hong is always modest... Ahem... He also takes care of our orphans and widows. Ahem... If you can help, please help Mr. Hong."
, don’t covet other people’s yellow and white things...cough cough cough..."
While cooking a few taels of pork bought from the market for his mother, Mu Shiguang said in response: "Mom, I remember shopkeeper Hong's kindness, and every drop of kindness should be repaid with a spring. Mom, please lie down quickly.
Don't get cold." After Jiao nodded, he fell asleep again. Mu Shiguang looked straight at Jiao on the bed, and his heart overturned the five-flavor bottle, sour, sweet, bitter, and spicy came to him. Jiao
His tuberculosis and cough disease was caused by his father's depression and his mother raised him up with all the hardships. Now that he agreed to Uncle Hong for his mother's medicine money, he had to take the risk whether he lived or died.
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Before Mu Shiguangshen arrived, Longwang Rice Shop was about to be closed. He rolled up a thin quilt and carried a few books in the front hall of the rice shop. Hong Chendong asked him to go into the back hall and have dinner first.
When the female ghost was rejected by Mu Shiguang, Mu Shiguang took out two brown rice cakes from his sleeves and said calmly: "Uncle Hong, your daily life is still the same as before. Just treat it as if you are without me.
This is how this person will not be suspected by the female ghost. I will be watching in the front hall. Uncle Hong, please don’t worry." Hong Chendong thought it made sense, bowed his hands and returned to the back hall...
After two days in a row, Mu Shiguang always came to the rice shop. On the fifth day of the night, Zheng Baocai and Xu Husan came to open the shop and then went back. The long and prosperous rice shop was calm and there was no movement at all, but after midnight on the third day,
Mu Shiguang was sleeping behind the counter of the rice shop. "Creak!" The back door of the front hall was gently pushed open. In the dark night, a figure was tiptoeing towards Mu Shiguang, right next to where Mu Shiguang was lying.
A cold light suddenly jumped out from the quilt less than three feet away, followed by a burst of fire.
Mu Shiguang held the fire seal in one hand, stopped the cow-eared dagger in the other hand and said in surprise: "Fourth Madam? Why is it you?"
The person who came was Hong Chendong Xina's fourth-room concubine Mei Niang. Mei Niang was frightened when she saw the dagger pointed at her throat. The food box she was carrying in her arms fell out of her hands. Mu Shiguang picked it up with the instep of her feet and caught it steadily.
After taking the food, he frowned and said, "Four Madam, what are you going to do?"
Mei Niang patted her chest and said with a coquettish smile: "What am I going to do? Come here to give food to your little enemy! Who knew that your little enemy was so ungrateful? Hey! I originally had my heart for Mingyue, but who?
The bright moon shines on the ditch." Mei Niang looked at Mu Shiguang with a shy look as she spoke.
Mu Shiguang said coldly: "Four madams, please respect yourself. It is not appropriate for a man and a woman to be alone in the same room in the middle of the night. Fourth madams, please go back to your room to rest early. Mu Shiguang appreciates madam's kindness." Huo Zhezi slowly said
It was extinguished in the hands of the light of the past.
Mei Niang chuckled and said: "Ah! So the Young Master of the Mu family is still a baby?" Mei Niang's soft arms wrapped around Mu Shiguang's neck like a boneless octopus, and her hands slowly moved on Mu Shiguang's chest.
Slowly and slowly...
Nineteen-year-old Mu Shiguang blushed with embarrassment from Mei Niang, and he shouted in a hurry: "Uncle Hong! You are here..."