Uncle Nine, where are you running to?

As soon as the two ran to the gate of the yard, they saw the door opened a crack in an instant, and a flaming object was thrown out from the crack.

Lin Jiu took a closer look and didn't have time to go through the door, so he hugged Jingyi and pushed the wall and climbed over it directly to go in.

Before she could cover her ears, there was a loud bang outside the yard, which almost burst Jingzhi's eardrums.

As soon as she raised her head, she heard Wencai looking at her with a guilty look on his face, his mouth opening and closing as if he was talking to her.

"What?" she cried.

Although they were only separated by a wall, the noise made her ears ring, making it difficult for her to hear Wencai's words.

Lin Jiu too.

He shook his head, and after a while, the two of them could gradually hear Qiu Sheng and Wen Cai talking, but it was still a little unclear.

Wencai thought they were deafened by the explosion, and was so panicked that he almost knelt down in front of them.

"Master, are you okay? Can you hear me?" Qiu Sheng shouted at them loudly with his mouth closed.

Wencai grabbed Qiusheng's sleeve and hid behind him, his mouth turning pale with fear:

"No, it's none of my business. It was Xiaoyu who insisted on playing with cannons. This time he made a big one. He blew Master's underwear up in the afternoon. I finally made up an excuse. Don't tell him."

"Oh, let me go! They were both deafened by the explosion, and you're still afraid he'll hear it."

Looking at Lin Jiu who was still cleaning his ears, Wencai whispered: "Brother, you try it."

Qiu Sheng nodded, looked at the confused Lin Jiu and Jing Zhi, clasped his hands and shouted:

"My master is a stingy and miserly person!!!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he was hit on the forehead with a stick.

"Humph! I'll give you a stick back."

Lin Jiu put down the broom handle and clapped his hands, then spoke to Qiu Sheng in a somewhat loud voice:

"You little brat, I can't hear you clearly, but I'm not blind. You're calling me stingy, right? I was planning to give you some pocket money during the Chinese New Year, but you don't have to give it to me this time. Otherwise, it will ruin my image in your eyes!"

After saying that, he shook off Qiu Sheng's tightly wrapped hands and looked at Jingzhi with a worried look on his face, "How are you..."

Before he could finish, his ears were covered.

A warm current flows in.

The tinnitus faded away.

In the moonlight, her worried eyes were like two stepping stones, quietly knocking on his heart.

In addition to the sound of his increasingly rapid heartbeat, her soft voice also came into his ears, "Ajiu? Are you okay?"

At the same time, the voices of the two bastards begging for mercy were heard.

Qiu Sheng clasped his hands together and howled, "Master, I was wrong. I shouldn't have said bad things about you when you were deaf... Please give me some money. I'm dying of poverty."

Wencai's lips trembled, like a stuck repeater:

"Yes, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

Lin Jiu: Tsk, it’s really annoying.

His eyebrows raised and he was about to curse when Xiaoyu stuck her head out from behind the hall door. Her round little face looked like it had been drilled through a stove hole.

Black bird.

Lin Jiu closed his eyes tightly and opened them again, but the little face was still so dark that his facial features could not be seen clearly.

He was furious, "Who did this?!"

Xiaoyu looked at the bright moonlight outside, wanting to go out but not daring to, so she pointed at Wencai.

"Choo! Fire! He teaches!"

Wencai was so panicked that sweat broke out on his forehead. "Master, no, oh, he, this, I, ah~"

After fiddling with his words for a long time without being able to explain clearly, he lowered his head and leaned against his senior brother's back, wanting to cry but having no tears.

Qiu Sheng grabbed his head and said, "Hey, dear, don't cry. You can't even explain it in a few words. You're so stupid!"

Jingzhi saw that Xiaoyu was still wrapped in a lot of giant firecrackers, so he quickly walked over to untie them for him. Lin Jiu also snatched the burning incense stick from his hand and knocked on his forehead:

"Aren't you afraid that this thing will blow you up?"

Looking at Xiaoyu, who looked like a beggar in tattered official uniform, Lin Jiu felt his blood pressure rise. He rubbed his tight temples and scolded him harshly:

"You are forbidden to play with fire!"

Wencai was called to give Xiaoyu a bath and change her clothes.

Qiu Sheng stayed to help Lin Jiu make the Kongming lantern.

They built a temporary platform and unfolded and tied up the Kongming lanterns they bought.

The candles under the Kongming lanterns have been lit, illuminating the eight trigrams and talismans on the bright yellow lantern cloth.

The whole lamp swayed in the night wind, as if it wanted to tear off the yellow cloth tied to it and float into the sky.

Lin Jiu knew that it was not the right time to release it into the sky yet, as he still lacked the most important "travel pass".

"Throw up the jar containing the female ghost."

Lin Jiu stood on the stage and shouted to the people below.

Qiu Sheng was extremely afraid that something might happen to the female ghost and that she would come after him, so he didn't dare to use the lost item.

Holding the jar, he set up a ladder and climbed up carefully.

Lin Jiu gave him a displeased look, took the jar and drove him away.

Before performing the ritual, he put on a Taoist robe and a Taoist hat.

At this moment, he took out a cinnabar pen and drew mysterious talismans on the jar.

Then, he stretched out three fingers to remove the Bagua on the forehead of the Taoist hat, stuck it on the wall of the altar, and slapped it hard.

He actually forced the eight trigrams into the wall of the altar, fitting perfectly. When his palm left the wall, he actually sucked out a ball of blue soul fire.

He carefully protected the soul fire and placed it into the container containing candlelight under the Kongming lantern.

In an instant, a flash of fire appeared upwards, a thick smoke rose, and the Kongming lantern automatically broke free from its restraints and slowly floated away into the distance.

"Qiu Sheng, follow him."

Qiu Sheng had wanted to resolve this matter for a long time. When he heard his master calling him, he ran out of the yard following the light.

Jingzhi held the ladder from below and asked, "Are we going too?"

Lin Jiu looked at Qiu Sheng's back and the flying Kongming lantern, frowning slightly, "Let's go together."

Qiu Sheng may be smart, but the enemy is in the dark while they are in the light, so it is better for him to be more cautious.

……

The three of them followed the Kongming lantern and jogged all the way to a cliff.

The cold wind below made the broken wooden bridge at both ends of the cliff shake.

Qiu Sheng looked down and saw that it was pitch black and bottomless. He was a little scared.

But seeing that the Kongming lantern was getting smaller and smaller and was about to disappear from his sight, Qiu Sheng gritted his teeth and decided to die!

He held onto the ropes on both sides with both hands and walked shakily onto the wooden bridge.

I guess few people walk on this road and no one maintains the bridge.

There were even several missing planks in the second half of the wooden bridge.

Fortunately, the three of them were all nimble and agile, and they all got through it safely.

There was a small path under my feet with green grass on both sides. As I walked, the path disappeared and the ground in front of me was covered with moss. Ten meters away, a Kongming lantern was quietly suspended there.

The yellow light illuminated a dilapidated archway not far away.

There are European-style patterns on the arch, and large pieces of gray-white stone and several half-built walls are scattered around it.

Like an unfinished estate.

There are many obstacles.

Lin Jiu was still afraid that Shi Shaojian would use some shady tricks, so he stopped Qiu Sheng.

The three of them walked lightly and slowly approached the archway...

For a moment, the three of them had their hearts in their throats.

The only sound I could hear was the rustling of leaves in the wind.

Suddenly, Jingzhi frowned and put his arms in front of Qiu Sheng and Lin Jiu, "Do you smell blood?"

Qiu Sheng rubbed his nose and flared his nostrils twice. "I don't smell blood, but I do smell the stench of a corpse. The body should be just ahead. Let's go! We've been traveling all day. Aren't you tired?"

Jingzhi rolled her eyes at him and turned her head to the right, "Ajiu?"

Lin Jiu took a step forward and blocked her behind him. "No matter what the smell is, we've come this far. Let's go take a look. Just be careful."

Jingzhi frowned, lowered his hand, and secretly formed claws into his five fingers. The sharp claws popped out instantly, ready to strike.

If that bastard Shi Shaojian dares to do anything bad, she will scratch him to death!

……

The three of them carefully climbed over a broken wall and passed through the archway.

Not far away, a female corpse was lying on the ground on its side.

The female corpse's face was facing them. Although she had been doused with boiling water before her death, her face was covered with large and small, half-deflated blisters, which looked horrible.

But based on her outline and the clothes she was wearing, Qiu Sheng, who had seen her memories, could basically confirm that this was the female corpse he was looking for.

He gulped and swallowed.

He felt a little uneasy after hearing what Jingzhi said just now.

He didn't just go up and carry it away.

Instead, he looked left and right, and when he was sure there was no movement here, he exhaled and smiled, "Master's Wife, you are making a fuss, there is nothing, I will take the body and we will go back."

He took two quick steps and just as he reached out to support the corpse's waist, a slight hissing sound suddenly rang in his ears.

Qiu Sheng felt a chill down his spine, but before he could step away.

A cobra instantly stood up from under the corpse, its tongue sticking out slightly, and its head becoming flatter and flatter, a sign that it was about to attack him.

At this moment, the wall behind them shattered with a loud bang, and countless bricks flew towards them...

Several white lights flashed by, and Qiu Sheng, who had no time to dodge, narrowed his eyes.