Chen Mengsheng smiled and saw Shangguan Yanran complaining about Xiang Xiaotian for shooting the gray rabbit. Xiang Xiaotian did not respond. He pulled out the long arrow from the dead rabbit and walked forward holding the rabbit's ears.
After walking for less than a cup of tea, I saw a large tile-roofed house in the snow ahead. Under the eaves of the tile-roofed house was a square yellow flag. It was difficult to see what was written on the flag in the blur of snow, so I could only
I could vaguely make out the character "Liu". The snow was getting heavier and heavier, falling in clumps, and the sky and the earth were a vast white chaos...
Chen Mengsheng and the others came to the eaves. After shaking off the snow, Shangguan Yanran gently knocked on the door. The door was unlocked but was half-opened, and a strong musty smell hit their noses. "Brother, this house is so weird? Why is it like this?
It’s so big, it looks like no one has lived there for some time?”
When Chen Mengsheng entered the house, he felt a faint cold air, surrounded by darkness. There were several sacks stacked in the corner of the house. The front room of the house should be a workshop, and the back room is a bedroom.
Xiang Xiaotian entered the house and opened the window and said: "This big house used to be a tofu workshop. The woman selling tofu was a well-known beauty. Everyone called her Tofu Xishi. I ate tofu when I passed by here last year. Why?
Now it’s closed?”
Shangguan Yanran said with a playful smile: "Brother Xiang is here to eat tofu? Or is he here to see beautiful women?"
Xiang Xiaotian said in embarrassment: "That beauty has already been married to a famous woman."
Shangguan Yanran put her hands behind her hands and shook her head and sighed: "That's such a pity!"
Xiang Xiaotian immediately realized that there was something in Shangguan Yanran's words and feigned anger: "Girl, what do you mean? I'm so sharp-toothed that I can't find my husband's family. Oh, no, I want my brother to marry seventeen or twenty-eight wives from now on."
, can you still laugh?"
Shangguan Yanran stomped her feet angrily and said: "Brother, you heard that Brother Xiang is talking nonsense again." Chen Mengsheng smiled and watched them laughing and noisy, but there was a trace of sadness in his heart. If he didn't want to rescue the master on Taihua Mountain as soon as possible,
, I really want to express my love for Shangguan Yanran...
Xiang Xiaotian carried the rabbit into the snow, cut open the rabbit with a short knife, took out the internal organs, peeled the skin and wiped it clean with snow balls. He was very busy.
"Senior brother, what are you thinking about?" Shangguan Yanran asked, looking at Chen Mengsheng who was in a daze.
Chen Mengsheng put away his thoughts and said with a smile: "I just feel that there is something strange in this room."
Shangguan Yanran blinked her big eyes and said, "Senior brother, why do you say that?"
"Look, the soybeans stacked in the corner of the room have not been sold out, and there is also this stone mill. There are still unground beans in the stone mill, and the upper plate and lower plate of the stone mill are separated..."
"Hey, it's true. Why is such a big millstone pressed to the ground? Could it be that the owner left in a hurry and didn't put the millstone back? Who would take down this stone mill?"
"I don't know about this either. Maybe the owner of the house has something important to do, so that's why he is like this." Chen Mengsheng explained to himself.
"Did Senior Brother discover anything else?"
"There is only a bed behind the curtain in the house and a few boxes. There are some men's and women's clothing in the box, as well as some scattered silver. There is nothing wrong with it."
Xiang Xiaotian took the finished rabbit into the house and shouted: "I'm freezing to death, there is something delicious." He closed the door and window and went to the stove next to him to lift the lid of the pot.
"Ah, what do you say? There is a big hole in the big pot. I really don't know what happened here?" Xiang Xiaotian muttered a few words. He walked to the hall and dug a big hole with a short knife.
pit, and brought some firewood to the stove...
At this time, it was completely dark outside, except for the heavy snow that was falling tirelessly, and the sky showed a charming light red color.
A large fire pit was lit in the house, and a fat rabbit was placed on the fire pit. The rabbit was roasted by the red charcoal fire into an attractive golden color, and the skin and flesh were covered with hot oil. Xiang Xiangtian kept turning and roasting.
The rabbit on the shelf was cut with a short knife in various depths when the boiling oil came out. Shake out some seasoning powder from the deer skin pouch and sprinkle it on the rabbit meat. The seasoning was quickly integrated into the rabbit meat with the help of the heat.
Among the rabbit meat, the whole room was filled with the aroma of wild onions and pepper mixed with roasted rabbit meat...
"It smells so good, Brother Xiang, what treasure are you hiding in this deerskin bag?" Shangguan Yanran had been angry and ignored Xiang Xiaotian because he shot the rabbit. But the smell of the roasted rabbit had completely broken her down, and she sneered.
Then asked Xiang Xiaotian.
"What I have in this deerskin bag is just some salt, pepper, wild onions and so on. What am I worried about? My brother is a god and it doesn't matter whether he eats it or not. You are a Bodhisattva and don't want to eat this rabbit. It's so big."
It’s really hard for me to eat this rabbit by myself.”
"Senior brother, you see Brother Xiang bullied me again. My father said you would take care of me, why don't you care about him?" Shangguan Yanran said in a tone that was partly angry and partly coquettish.
Chen Mengsheng smiled and said: "Junior sister, Brother Xiang is just joking with you. Haha."
Shangguan Yanran rolled her eyes at Chen Mengsheng, rolled her eyes a few times, watched the charcoal fire gradually extinguish, and said: "Brother Xiang, you must not roast the rabbit well. Humph..."
"Girl, you dare to say that my roasted rabbit is not delicious. It's nonsense. If you don't believe it, try it..." Before Xiang Xiaotian could finish his words, he felt that he had fallen into Shangguan Yanran's plan. He opened his mouth and didn't know what to say.
What's better.
Chen Mengsheng and Shangguan Yanran leaned forward and backward with laughter, and Xiang Xiaotian also laughed. There was a warm atmosphere in the tile-roofed house. After sharing the roast rabbit, Shangguan Yanran was arranged to rest in the back room. Chen Mengsheng and Xiang Xiaotian
Then a floor was built in the outhouse.
After the third watch of the night, Chen Mengsheng was suddenly woken up by a gust of wind. He heard a strange sound beside his ears. He stood up and looked for the sound to come from the half-piece of stone mill pressed on the ground. A skinny hand stretched out.
The ghost hands kept groping on the stone mill to make strange noises. The ghost hands climbed on the stone mill and slowly crawled out of a female ghost...
The female ghost only had a pair of bra and bra, and her hair was disheveled, and she was groping for something on the ground. "What are you looking for?" Chen Mengsheng asked softly.
The female ghost suddenly raised her head when she heard Da Hai and said, "I'm looking for my eyes. I can't see anything without my eyes."
Chen Mengsheng was startled by the female ghost. A pair of bloody eye sockets were exposed among the messy hair. The bright red blood stains were still hanging on the pale face. There was a faint white air coming out of the female ghost's head...
"Brother, who are you talking to?" Xiang Xiaotian had been awakened by Chen Mengsheng's voice, but saw him standing alone in the corner in front of the stone mill.
"Brother, there is a female ghost in this house who died unjustly, and her eyes were gouged out alive."
"Ah, female ghost? She died unjustly and had her eyes gouged out?" Xiang Xiaotian screamed loudly, and the lights turned on from the back room.
Shangguan Yanran held the oil lamp in her hand, walked to the outer room and asked: "Brother, what happened?"
Chen Mengsheng waved his hand and said: "Junior sister, I woke you up. Don't come over yet. There is a ghost here who is not popular."
"Girl, come here. Your senior brother won't let you go because he's afraid that the female ghost will get him." Xiang Xiaotian called Shangguan Yanran, and the two of them watched Chen Mengsheng making a curse.
A stream of green energy shot into the female ghost's eye socket, and a stream of green energy appeared in the blood holes in the female ghost's eyes. The green energy condensed into translucent water droplets. The water droplets turned into two eyes, and the female ghost looked at it in surprise.
Chen Mengsheng...
Chen Mengsheng asked: "Girl, who are you? And how did you get assassinated?"
When Chen Mengsheng saw the female ghost, he looked panicked and said: "Since I can see you, I can redress your grievances. If you have any grievances, just say it's okay, and I will definitely give you justice."
Hearing this, the female ghost looked at the three people in the room and said, "Liu Xiuxia, a native of my family, has opened a tofu shop here. I have never had any grudges with others. I really don't know why those two villains did this."
To me." The female ghost Liu Xiuxia lowered her head and saw that her whole body was curled up into a ball when she saw her naked body.
Chen Mengsheng said awkwardly to Shangguan Yanran: "Junior sister, could you please go to the inner room to get a set of women's clothes."
Shangguan Yanran said in astonishment: "What? Women's clothes? What does senior brother want women's clothes for?"
"Oh, that's just because the female ghost was tortured by evil people during her lifetime..." Chen Mengsheng sighed.
Shangguan Yanran didn't ask any more questions. She went into the room and took out a set of green linen women's clothes and handed them to Chen Mengsheng. Shangguan Yanran saw a flash of fire appear between Chen Mengsheng's fingers, and the set of clothes was burned to ashes in a moment.
The female ghost suddenly got a set of linen clothes on her body, then she stood up and bowed to Chen Mengsheng and said, "My benefactor, please accept my respects from this little lady."
"Miss Liu, there is no need to be polite. Can you clearly see the appearance of those two villains?"
Liu Xiuxia shook her head and said: "Those two villains both covered their faces with black scarves. The little girl only saw that one of them had a three-inch scar on the back of his left hand. The other little girls knew nothing about it, but please benefactor
Make the decision with me."
"You can just call me Chen Mengsheng. Is there anyone else in your family?"
"Going back to Mr. Chen, the little girl originally ran this tofu shop with her husband Xu Ruoyi. But there has been no news since her husband went to Yangzhou to take the imperial examination a year ago. Mr. Sun, who went with him to take the exam, sent back a message saying that it was
My husband has passed away in Yangzhou." Liu Xiuxia sobbed.
"Who is Mr. Sun? How did he know that your husband died in Yangzhou?"
Liu Xiuxia stopped crying and said: "Master Sun and my husband-in-law are classmates and good friends, and they were also scholars who passed the examination in the same year. Last year, we took a boat to Yangzhou to take the provincial examination. It was only because my husband-in-law didn't have the book basket when he arrived in Yangzhou to get off the ship.
Shen fell into the canal, and my husband jumped into the river to salvage. Who would have thought that it was the Peach Blossom Flood in March, and people and books were swept to the bottom of the river..." Liu Xiuxia was already crying when she said this.
Chen Mengsheng scolded: "What a confused scholar, he died in vain for the book basket. But he didn't know that there are still relatives at home who are worried about him. How can he live again if he can buy more books?"