Great Sui Guoshi

"I have lived in this desolate house for many years, and there are some treasures in the practice room. I hope you will not dislike me."

Turning his face slightly, he paused his crutches towards the ragged woman and the weasel who had turned into its original form, and softly reprimanded: "If you don't go back, bring my things and present them to the young master."

One person and one beast looked at the people under the eaves, recalled what happened just now, and chirped twice. Among them, the original weasel landed on its hind legs, stood up, and bent over with its front legs crossed like Lu Liangsheng imitated a human being. Bow and kowtow.

Lu Liangsheng stared at the two demons who kept bowing, and saw that their demonic auras were only hovering in the 'lingtai', but the little demons in the stage of spiritual awareness, just like the Rouge back then, were just able to deceive people and scare people. There should be no real evil. Do next.

The scholar slowed down his tone and flicked his sleeves.

"No need to pray, don't do scary things in the future."

Putting away the fire on the weasel, watching the other party whine a few times, and running into the darkness with the woman beside him in panic, Lu Liangsheng turned his eyes to the old woman.

"You said that you have lived in this mansion for a long time, but this is a human house. There must be people who live here first, and then you can live in stealth. There is a mistake."

"Young master is full of knowledge, what he said is true."

The old woman who lowered her head looked at the scholar on the opposite side, turned around slowly, and looked around with some cloudy eyes.

"But...but the old man...living here is watching the house being built day by day."

Slowly turning back, there was a red rope around the neck, and a wooden sign was dangling around it. In the light of the candlelight, Lu Liangsheng vaguely saw the word Qin engraved on it, and couldn't help frowning.

"Your surname is Qin?"

The old woman shook her head, as if aware of the scholar's gaze, she raised her hand and lifted the wooden tablet around her neck. The wooden tablet was old for some time, and it must have been protected by the demon power so that it did not rot. Even so, the handwriting on it was also Somewhat vague.

"The original family of this house was named Qin. Think about it, it has been around a hundred years."

100 years?

Lu Liangsheng read a lot of books, and read a lot of strange novels, for such rhetoric, coupled with the wooden plaque on the old woman's neck, he could vaguely guess something.

"Are you waiting for someone here?"

Hearing this sentence, the old woman who didn't intend to say anything was stunned for a moment, and her eyes dropped to the ground. At this time, the two demons who had left before came back, each holding a wooden box in their hands.

"Young master..."

The little demon who was caught by Lu Pan's eight people didn't dare to raise his head. He fastened the inlay and opened the box. The thin silk was overlapped, wrapped with a few pale yellow pills, and a strange fragrance wafted out from above.

"What does it taste like?"

Lu Liangsheng couldn't smell what it was, so the bored Taoist at the side suddenly put away the demon-subduing mirror, jumped down, took one from inside and stuffed it into his mouth.

"It really is 'Fox Yang Dan'!"

The so-called "Fox Raising Pill" Lu Liangsheng knows a little bit, not only foxes that become demons can be raised, but the surrounding impurities that are impregnated with the evil spirit of all spirits and monsters can also form in the hair. .

Humans can do it too, but who would eat this kind of dirt that has been cultivated by the skin for many years, even though it is the essence...but if you really want to eat it, it's disgusting.

Thinking of this, Lu Liangsheng was about to refuse, when the silent old woman stepped forward and suddenly knelt down.

"This young master is a cultivator, and I have a merciless request."

The Taoist, who was happy to have gotten the elixir, quickly put the things in his hand back into the box, closed it, and ran to the side of the scholar.

"Look, I knelt down again, don't promise me nothing, we still have to hurry."

Lu Pan and the eight on the other side of the eaves had seen a big centipede kneeling before his nephew from a distance, but this time they really saw an old witch kneeling down, and their eyes immediately looked at Lu Liangsheng in the middle.

The scholar pursed his lips tightly, and stared at the old woman with no expression on his face. He couldn't do what the old monk in Zhenhai did to get rid of demons at sight. After a while, he still let out a small sound.

"Get up, you have lived here for 100 years, you have no bloody aura on your body, and you have devoted yourself to cultivating, but why, now you seem to have no evil spirit? If there is something to hide, I will not ask about you .”

The old woman was helped up by the two demons around her, she was silent for a while, and spoke slowly.

"100 years ago, I was just a little beast that just came out of the nest. It ran to a family surnamed Qin and ate chickens raised in the backyard. It was supposed to be beaten to death, but was rescued by the son of the Qin family. He was raised by his parents, maybe he had few playmates, but the young master took me to play every day, and even tied a sign around his neck...

Later, the young master grew up, and the old man was also exposed to a lot of smoke and fire. He gradually gained spiritual awareness and Taoism. He thought he was going to go back to the mountains and continue to practice, but he was reluctant to stay with the young master. I thought to myself, then I would be a 'family protector' to protect the family. "

The old woman seemed to be lost in memory, and she leaned on a cane and sat by the old well not far away.

"Day by day, the young master grows up, reads the classics of sages, and is good at martial arts. I don't know what kind of adventure he has encountered outside, and he starts to practice Taoism. He has achieved a little success. He knows me, and he doesn't chase me away. Teach me some spells, this kind of house was built after the Qin family prospered, and I chose the land with the young master..."

Speaking of this, the old woman laughed softly, trapped in her memories, "I thought life would go on like this, but one day, he told the old man that he was going out to get rid of a big monster that eats countless people in the water , let me guard this house well... I have guarded it for 100 years, so that this house will not be eroded and collapsed by the years.

But... Young Master, he never came back after he left. "

The wind blew through the courtyard, and the dead trees swayed gently.

Chapter 4, Chapter [-], Three Scrolls of Strange Books

When the wind blows, it is full of the rustling of the bamboo forest outside the courtyard

Lu Liangsheng took a deep breath, and slightly opened his tightly pursed lips: "Then why did you ask me to help you?"

"Because the young master is also a scholar, and a scholar who cultivates Taoism has righteousness in his heart."

The old woman's voice was a little choked, she got up from there, walked to this side, leaned on a cane and lowered her head: "I don't dare to ask too much, I just ask that when you travel around the world, if you meet someone named Qin Xu's family, let him Come back and see."

This is not too much to ask, the crowd is vast, if you meet, it is just a matter of talking, not to mention that this old woman can keep the promise and never leave half a step, how can Lu Liangsheng refuse, just nod, should come down.

"I've made a note of this matter. If we meet again in the future, I will definitely let him come back."

"Thank you sir! Thank you all!" The old woman thanked everyone under the eaves, supported the two demons on both sides, and followed suit.

This made Lu Pan, Taoist and the others quite embarrassed.

"Old man, don't worry! My Liangsheng is extraordinary. If we meet him, if he doesn't come back, we will help you get him back!"

Seeing everyone's reply, the old woman smiled, and her tone became much lighter.

"Originally, the old man wanted to send these two juniors under the command of the young master for one night, but the young master is upright and upright, and ordinary women may be difficult to catch. It happens to be where I live, and there are some books that my young master used to have. You may as well take them. "

Looking past the little Taoist priest who kept pointing at him, he saw Lu Liangsheng make a bow, and then left with the two female demons beside him.

"Hey, hey...don't go!"

The Taoist chased down the steps a few steps, watched the disappearing smoke, and kept lighting himself with his hands.

"...Look at me, I'm very good at finding people in this way, and I can help you too!! One can do it too."

Stretching his neck and shouting, the smoke dissipated at the end of the corridor, he flicked his sleeves sheepishly, turned and walked back.

"That's all for a vixen, even a weasel doesn't care about his own way?! There's no reason for that—"

Turning around, only to find that the eight people under the eaves had returned to the room and snoring sounded, and the scholar at the door had already returned to the room, and closed the door with a bang.

Lu Liangsheng ignored the Taoist who became unconscious when he met a female goblin, went back to the desk and sat down, remembering what the old woman said just now, poked his finger at the master who was sleeping soundly sprawled under the candlestick.

Feeling his stomach being stabbed twice, Taoist Ha opened his eyes and sat up, rubbing his eyes: "What's the matter? The monster is finished?"

"Well, but they were not accepted."

Lu Liangsheng repeated what the old woman said before, and told Toad, and then asked, "Master, have you ever eaten a monk from Qin Xu's family?"

"Among those who have eaten for the teacher..." Taoist Toad stopped talking, jumped up suddenly, and the toad's eyes widened: "Do you think they did it for the teacher? There are so many demons who cannibalize countless people in this world." Very, for example...for example...that white wolf demon in the northwest!"

"Didn't Master say last time that he attained enlightenment through the soul of a wolf living in a shrine?"

Taoist Ha stopped his words, and stared fiercely: "Do you want to have such a good memory? I can't even remember you as a teacher, do you remember?"

He walked around the candlestick with his flippers, hummed a few times, and waved his flippers.

"I think back then, when I was a teacher, what kind of monster power was so powerful, what kind of bloody storm, how many cultivators besieged me on the top of the mountain... If I really want to eat so many people, I can't remember the name of my teacher."

As she said that, she brushed aside the two fish whiskers that were dangling from her mouth: "Besides, I don't know how to go into the water as a teacher. What the old woman said was that there are countless monsters eating people underwater, not on land... It's late at night, go to bed quickly."

"That.....Master..."

Lu Liangsheng still wanted to ask, but he saw Taoist Toad slid to the floor along the corner of the table, ran into the compartment of the bookshelf, got into the bed, slammed the door shut with his tongue, and made a snoring sound.

'Oh...forget it. '

If Ben still wanted to ask, he swallowed it back in his stomach, and Lu Liangsheng took the book again before he fell asleep, and read it for a while.

Soon, there were rustling footsteps outside the door, and a beautiful female voice said outside:

"Young master, mother-in-law asked the servants to bring books."

"Just put it outside the door."

After dismissing the little demon outside the door, Lu Liangsheng took the candlestick and opened the door. Outside the threshold, there was a large wooden box, made of peach wood, and the gap was sealed with silver thread. From this detail, it can be seen that the The man named Qin Xujia is a real scholar.

'Let me see what books are hidden. '

He moved the wooden box into the house, lifted his feet backwards, hooked the door and closed it.

Bang!

The wooden box fell on the desk, and Lu Liangsheng casually sat beside him, and took out books from inside.

""Into Chu Shuo"? I don't think I've read this one before..."The Collection of Baopu Rhetoric" is exactly the same as this one in my family."

Flipping through the contents above, it was indeed the same, except that there was a big difference in the binding. When I took out the outer book, there were three scrolls of bamboo slips pressed side by side at the bottom of the box.

Lu Liangsheng pinched out the Fajue and gently brushed these bamboo slips to separate them from the air. Then he took them out and spread them out with heavy hands.

I saw a list of words in the first letter: "The Record of the Guardians of the Mountains and Rivers of Wanchuan Volume [-]"

Following the name to the left, Lu Liangsheng's hands trembled and he quickly put it on the desk, frowning and reading every word.

"...Isn't this the magic circle of all spirits in "Shan Hai Tu Zhi"?"

Whispering softly, he turned around and went to the bottom of the box to take out the other two volumes together. Most of them were scattered records of various magic circles, many of which were extremely similar to the magic circle.

Could it be... that the magic circle of all spirits was drawn from it?

That's not right, these three volumes of bamboo books, judging from the year, month and font are not from the ancient times at all, the things inside are all scattered, more like patchwork.

But since he couldn't figure it out, Lu Liangsheng was not in a hurry to study and understand. He repacked the books, cast a shrinking spell and put them on the bookshelf. Suddenly, the room was plunged into darkness.

As the night deepened, as time passed, the eastern sky became brighter, the sun shone through the wet street, and in the backyard of the inn with flags and flags fluttering, several store guys yawned and left the room, fat The shopkeeper held an account book and sat under the eaves early to look through it.

Hearing the sound of the guys washing up, he raised his eyes and urged them to open the door to do business.

"I remember when I was inviting customers, the voice was louder, and I looked like I hadn't eaten all day long..."

The voice stopped, and he suddenly stopped the last guy who left, moved his mouth, and signaled him to go to the back yard to have a look.

"It's been a whole night, it seems that there is nothing wrong, go ask them to have breakfast, and then settle yesterday's bill."

"Ok."

The man threw the rag to the side, ran to the yard quickly, and opened the door bolt. As soon as he opened the door, he saw the bamboo forest, and someone was already coming this way.

"Good morning, my lord."

Those people just spent the night there last night. Seeing that the other party didn't look panicked at all, they hurriedly saluted and invited the other party into the courtyard. Then, they ran to the shopkeeper and whispered something in their ears, which made the shopkeeper fat The fat round faces were all smiling.

"Just say there is no ghost. If you don't believe it, it must be that the two guys before were suspicious. Instead, someone cleaned it out and moved in."

As he said that, he smiled and squeezed the buddy away, and arched his hands towards the scholar who came over: "Everyone, how was your stay yesterday?"

"Fortunately, thanks to the hospitality, I'm going to be on the road this morning, so I'll pay the bill by the way."

Lu Liangsheng returned the gift, followed the shopkeeper into the lobby of the inn to settle the bill, put down the heavy purse, waved his sleeves, strode out, took the rein handed by the passerby, and walked onto the street.

Lu Pan bought more than ten pancakes from the side of the road and distributed them to seven people, and also handed one to Taoist and Lu Liangsheng.

"That guy has a very dark heart. Is Liang Sheng taking advantage of him so much?"

The scholar smiled and did not speak. He dragged the neighing old donkey and the bookshelves to the bustling crowd, and continued northward under the sky.

......

In the inn, the shopkeeper who was fiddling with the abacus poured out the money bag, and looked at the piles of copper coins that were piled up with a smile on his face.

"Money is really a good thing. It's not easy to save up. The food is short of catty and two, and there's nothing wrong with serving it to the guests. Only I can make money..."

The shopkeeper suddenly covered his mouth, and the regular customers who were entering the door stood at the door and stared at him blankly. Naturally, they listened to all the words just now, and in an instant, they snorted heavily, turned around and left.

"Hey, everyone, don't go away, I just said a joke, how could you do that kind of thing, at most spit in the dishes, and deduct the monthly money of the guys."

Now the whole inn is quiet, even the pedestrians passing by the door are stunned.

"I...I...how can I say these words?" The shopkeeper turned around with difficulty, and saw the guys in the shop rolling up their sleeves one by one, gritting their teeth and facing He passed.

The sun broke through the gaps in the clouds, and the golden light shone on the blue background and white borders of the flags of the inn. After a while, there was a scream of someone being beaten: "I really didn't think about saying these words, listen to me... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

And the sound of smashing tables, chairs, pots and bowls echoed in the street for a long time.

At this time, Lu Liangsheng and his party walked out of the town and traveled across the mountains to the border of Hezhou.