As soon as he handed the wine to Cao'er, Bai Gaoxing called him outside the inn.
Yu Sheng walked out and followed the direction pointed by Bai Gaoxing and saw three merchants and a swordsman walking from the avenue.
Foot merchants, as the name suggests, are merchants who walk on their feet and are elusive, similar to the hawkers who walked the streets in previous lives.
Traveling merchants usually carry a bamboo basket on their backs, and if they are wealthy, they drive a car and wander around nearby cities, towns, and villages, selling some groceries.
Or buy a city's specialties at low prices and sell them to nearby cities to earn some money for running errands.
It's just that the town where the inn is located is at least three days and three nights' walk from the city in the north and south, and there are mountains to the west, so there are few traveling merchants.
Yu Sheng's eyes moved back slightly and froze. Within his field of vision, there was a woman following behind the foot merchant and martial artist.
She was wearing a black martial arts robe, and although her eyes were covered by black cloth from the sun, the woman still walked calmly behind the traveling merchant.
In the field of vision of the Heavenly Master and others, this person cannot be seen, only the rest of his life can be seen.
The group of people went up the stone bridge and passed the archway. The sword bag was safe and sound, and they did not embarrass the woman who was following behind.
The martial artist walked towards the inn and asked, "Excuse me, how far is the road to Yangzhou City?"
The martial artist was thinly dressed, only wearing a shirt. His hair was disheveled, his face was pale, and his eyes were bloodshot, as if he had not rested for a long time.
Yu Sheng said: "There is still half a day's journey."
The martial artist thanked him and turned back to discuss with the traveler and decided to stay at the inn for one night.
When entering the inn, the martial artist saw the old monk and couldn't help but stop and let the traveler go in first.
Yu Sheng saw the woman stop and stand not far away, and saw the old monk raise his eyes and glance at the woman's location.
The old monk's gaze was so sharp that the woman took three steps back in fright.
Yu Sheng pretended to turn a blind eye and poured a bowl of water for them. After seeing the martial artist glance at the bottom of the bowl, he said: "Master, I have a gracious favor."
The old monk said: "Please speak."
Seeing that the merchants were all resting in the inn, the martial artist whispered, "I wonder if Master has the ability to catch ghosts and exorcise them?"
The old monk asked: "You mean the ghost following you?"
The martial artist was startled and looked back quickly, but could not see anything.
However, Yu Sheng could see clearly that the woman was waving to him, but the yin and yang were separated and could not see each other.
The martial artist turned pale and turned to the old monk: "She, she, she is behind me?"
The old monk didn't answer and asked again: "When did you meet her?"
While saying this, the old monk glanced at the female ghost again, scared the female ghost to leave the door of the inn, and stood in the corner of the inn.
Her face, which was not covered by the black cloth, was full of panic, but she still didn't leave.
The martial artist said: "Three days ago, I met her in a teahouse on the avenue."
Because Taotie blocked the main road from Gusu City to the Central Plains, many caravans and escort warriors did not wait to stay in Gusu City.
They were looking forward to Taotie just on a whim, but after waiting for half a year, Taotie was still there on the road.
With very little money left on his body, the martial artist couldn't wait any longer, so he accepted the task of escorting four traveling merchants.
Because the caravan goods were overstocked in Gusu City, they were sold to the merchants at low prices. In order to sell them at a better price, the merchants came to Yangzhou City.
They were on the road three days ago, and the martial artist met the female ghost at a roadside teahouse.
It was noon at that time. They had been traveling for a long time and were naturally thirsty and tired. So when they saw the teahouse, they got in without hesitation.
After sitting down, the martial artist picked up a bowl of tea and was about to take a sip when he accidentally looked into the tea bowl and was immediately startled.
In the tea bowl, a woman's face appeared, opening her mouth to him and saying two words.
The martial artist felt nervous and said, "There is something fishy in the tea, so you must not drink it."
"Pa", he immediately threw the tea bowl on the table, and then knocked the tea bowl out of the hands of the three merchants who were drinking tea.
The others looked at him in surprise. The martial artist did not explain, but threw some money on the table to compensate for the tea bowl, pulled them and said, "We have to go."
Although the traveler was puzzled, he had made an agreement when he set out on the road, and he would listen to the martial artist when he stopped, drank, and slept, so he followed him on the road even though he was thirsty.
But after drinking water by a river and seeing a woman's face appear in the water again, the martial artist knew that it was not the teahouse that was the problem, but that she had met a ghost.
During the subsequent journey, the martial artist often encountered strange things. There were fallen leaves placing words in front of him, and a line of words slowly appearing in the fine sand.
When crossing the river, a woman's face would appear in the water, and her figure was often seen in his sleep, which made the martial artist afraid to sleep, and has been tormenting him to this day.
So when the martial artist saw the old monk, he immediately asked him for help, "Master, please help me."
The old monk raised his head to look at the female ghost. Yu Sheng moved to cover his sight and said, "She opened her mouth again and put her words in words. What did she say to you?"
The martial artist shook his head, "I was so panicked at the time, how could I remember it?"
Yu Sheng was curious again: "Why did she come to you for no reason?"
The martial artist shook his head, but quickly stopped, "Could it be the skeleton?"
The old monk asked, "What bones?"
The martial artist told them that because neither the traveler nor he was familiar with the road to Yangzhou City, there was a sidetrack on the road when they first started.
They met a corpse on that side of the road. The whole body had been eaten away by wild beasts, leaving only the white bones.
At that time, the traveling merchants were afraid that they would also be attacked by wild beasts, so they all asked the martial arts masters to quickly return to the original route.
But the martial artist insisted on collecting the bones with his martial arts robe and buried them on the roadside before taking the traveler back to the original route.
"Do you think it's possible that the owner of the corpse is haunting me?" the martial artist said.
The old monk frowned and said, "It can't be him. Even if there is a ghost, if you buried the bones to save him from being exposed in the wilderness, he should be grateful to you. How could he haunt you?"
Yu Sheng turned around and saw the female ghost shaking her head violently, still wearing a martial arts robe, and said with a smile: "I think she is the owner of the bones."
"Then why is he pestering me? Isn't this just repaying kindness with hatred?" The martial artist obviously believed the old monk's words more.
Yu Sheng looked back at the female ghost and saw her hiding in the shadow of the inn. Even though he knew how powerful the old monk was, he still refused to leave.
Then he said: "Perhaps she has something to say to you."
"Master, please help me." The martial artist ignored Yu Sheng and begged the old monk.
The old monk raised his head and saw Yu Sheng blocking his sight, and looked at Yu Sheng thoughtfully.
He said to the martial artist: "The monk has a ritual ceremony to do today, how about exorcising ghosts tomorrow?"
The martial artist hesitated a little, but Yu Sheng said: "Don't worry, she won't pester you tonight."
The martial artist didn't believe him and just looked at the old monk.
The old monk nodded and said, "Yes, she won't dare to pester you while I'm at the inn."
The martial artist was relieved and thanked the old monk before entering the inn.
The old monk then said: "Shopkeeper, how do you determine that the ghost is the owner of the corpse?"
"Because she must not be an evil spirit, otherwise the sword bag on the archway would not let her into the town." Yu Sheng said.
"Instead of the evil spirits haunting him again, it must be the owner of the bones."
The old monk looked at the sword bag, turned around and asked the doubt in his heart, "Can the shopkeeper see it?"
Yu Sheng asked curiously: "Can't you see?"
"The old monk only felt that there was a foreign object," the old monk said.