A group of people sat down around the table. Ye Taotao looked at the water on the table, took out his own baby bottle, and said to the old woman, "Thank you, grandma, Taotao has her own baby bottle."
No one else drank water either.
Bai Xin looked at the old man beside him and said sincerely: "Thank you so much, uncle and grandma, for allowing us to rest here temporarily, otherwise it would be really dangerous at night."
The old man sighed, with a look of emotion on his face, and whispered: "Nowadays, life is much better than before. At least there are fewer evil spirits at night, and no one has been eaten for a long time."
Ye Taotao listened and knew that it was the wedding lady who asked the ghosts to practice Shinto and restrained them from eating humans, so she subconsciously glanced at the wedding lady beside her.
The wedding lady is now just an ordinary 17 or 18-year-old woman, wearing a simple red dress. No one can recognize her as the only ghost king in the Netherworld.
"By the way, old man, I see there are lanterns hung at the door of every house in this village... Doesn't it cost money to light the lanterns at night?" Xiao Yan suddenly asked.
The old man smiled and said: "The lamp oil was given by the Djinn God. Our village is blessed by the Damp God. As long as we light the lamp at night, we don't have to worry about evil spirits coming in to eat people."
"So that's it..." Bai Xin said thoughtfully and agreed, "According to this, this lord of the lamp is really a good god."
"Isn't it?" The old man sighed, with a trace of sadness in his eyes, "It's a pity that my son and daughter-in-law didn't catch up with the good times."
"What do you mean?"
The old man said: "In the early years, there were evil spirits eating people everywhere. My son and daughter-in-law were eaten by evil spirits. We were the only two..."
Having said this, he looked at his wife beside him, took her old hand, patted it gently, and lamented: "Only we, an old couple, because of our age, were disliked by the evil spirit for being weak and weak.
Escaped."
"It's just that I would rather they eat me than my son!"
At the end of the story, the two old men looked like they were crying, stamping their feet and beating their chests, in great pain.
Ye Taotao quickly comforted: "Grandpa, grandma, don't be sad, they definitely don't want you to be so sad..."
The old man picked up the hem of his clothes and wiped his tears, then looked at them again: "I made you laugh."
"The deceased is gone, but the living still have to mourn and adapt." Xiao Yan also comforted him.
"Drink water, all of you." The old man raised his hand and took the initiative to pick up a bowl of water and gave it to Bai Xin, "You merchants have been traveling in a dusty way, and you are probably tired. Drink this bowl of hot water to relieve your fatigue.
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Bai Xin couldn't put it off, so he had to take the bowl and hold it in his hand, hesitating whether to drink it or not.
Xiao Yan on the side was very happy. He picked up the bowl on the table and brought it to his mouth and took a sip.
After taking only a small sip, he narrowed his eyes slightly, glanced at Bai Xin, nodded slightly to him, and then drank all the water in the bowl.
When Bai Xin saw that Xiao Yan had already drank, he simply raised his head and drank most of the water in the bowl.
The wedding lady also picked up the bowl on the table and drank less than half of the bowl of hot water.
Bai Chiling didn't notice the small movements of Bai Xin and Xiao Yan. He just stared at the ceramic bowl with a look of disgust on his face, and whispered in a low voice: "I don't know how many people have used this bowl."
The old man seemed a little embarrassed. He wiped his rough palms back and forth on his clothes and said sarcastically: "It's all washed, it's washed."
Bai Chiling still disliked it. Gu cultivators like them were more or less mysophobic, because what the voodoos needed was a clean environment.
"Children are ignorant, please forgive me." Xiao Yan raised his hand and patted Bai Chiling's head, "If you don't want to drink, don't drink. What do you mean by picking on your mother-in-law? Son, why don't you apologize to these two grandpas?
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Bai Chiling's eyes widened, "You!"
"What are you doing? I'm your father!" Xiao Yan reprimanded him, while winking at Bai Chiling, and said secretly, "You don't want to look for that lamp anymore?"
Bai Chiling listened to Xiao Yan's threat, secretly clenched his fists, looked at him angrily, gave up, stood up, and apologized to the old man and his wife.
"Grandpa, grandma, I'm sorry."
"Hey, sit down quickly, sit down quickly," the old woman said repeatedly, "My dear, why do you need to apologize? It's because our family's conditions are not good and we can't provide anything to entertain guests."
"No, Grandma." Ye Taotao said immediately, "Grandma, we are very grateful to let us rest here for one night."
"That's good, that's good." The old woman looked at Ye Taotao lovingly, "I will clean up the rooms of my son and daughter-in-law and let you live in them."
So, Ye Taotao and his party stayed in the room of my old man's son and daughter-in-law.
There had been no one living in the room for many days. It was empty and there was no furniture. There was still room for someone to sleep on the kang.
The old woman was afraid that they would be cold when sleeping at night, so she specially dragged several thick quilts and spread them on the kang.
"There is no place at home to entertain guests. The quilts and mattresses are clean. If you don't mind, you can sleep here at night."
After the old woman finished doing this, she went out, leaving a room full of people looking at each other.
Bai Chiling couldn't sit still at first, and shouted dissatisfied: "Now we know that the djinn must be that lamp, why do you still stay here instead of looking for it directly?"
The bride in wedding dress sat on the Kang, her head slightly lowered, and said nothing.
Xiao Yan chuckled, a little disdainful of Bai Chiling's reaction, "Does it mean that the lamp will follow you if you find it? Did you give it a name, or what? It will follow you after you call it?"
Bai Chiling was so shocked that he was speechless. After all, that lamp had now practiced Shintoism and was no longer an ordinary lamp. It was really uncertain whether he could take it away.
"Let's stay and see what they are going to do." Bai Xin looked at Xiao Yan and asked, "By the way, what was in the bowl of hot water just now?"
Xiao Yan said: "It's just some sweat medicine for ordinary people. We monks are not afraid of this."
"Ah..." Ye Taotao showed a confused expression and frowned slightly, "Are grandpa and grandma bad people? Why did they give us the sweat medicine?"
Bai Xin said: "Let's play it by ear. At night, we can pretend to be drugged by Mongolian perspiration and fall asleep deeply, and see what they are going to do."
Ye Taotao nodded, as if to convince himself, he clenched his fist and said heavily: "Taotao is not afraid!"
So several people got into bed and began to pretend to be ordinary people and fell asleep.
In the middle of the night, around the time of the second watch, the latch on the door was pushed, and the wooden door slowly opened with a soft "squeak" sound.