Ta da da, da da da!
The paper horse ran on the road late at night. It was obviously made of paper hooves, but it made a crisp sound when it collided with the ground.
Let me call you amazing.
Soon, Lao Cao and I ran to the door of Li Miao's yard.
We both got off our horses.
"Woof woof woof!"
A dog barked from the yard.
I immediately opened the door and shouted with a smile: "Heizi, it's me, don't be cruel."
The next moment, I saw a huge dog head appearing behind the courtyard gate.
Heizi recognized me, and the expression on his face changed from the fierce one to a simple and cute one, and he kept wagging his tail.
Crunch.
The door opened and Li Miao came out.
I immediately waved my hand: "Brother Li, Lao Cao and I came to see you for something important."
Li Miao shouted: "Heizi, open the door."
The big black dog used its paws like a human to pull at the wooden bars of the courtyard door, and the door opened.
I have seen Heizi's cleverness, and Lao Cao was amazed.
"Brother Li, you big black dog is quite smart."
Li Miao came over, smiled and waved his hand: "Coffinmaker Cao is so complimentary. By the way, why are you coming to see me so late?"
So Lao Cao told me the story I heard from "Fubei County Chronicle".
Li Miao was also very shocked and said that he should go to Xiaowan Village quickly to remind the Xiao family.
Although Xiao Mao and his wife and relatives will communicate with Xiao Sheng and say that the possibility of him being dead is very small, they still need to take precautions. This is not something to be taken lightly.
“But it’s so far away from Xiaowan Village now, how can we get there?”
Li Miao also thought about the transportation problem.
Lao Cao and I looked at each other and smiled, then pointed outside the yard.
Li Miao took a look.
I saw two paper horses standing motionless outside the door. The two horse eyes drawn with cinnabar were still shining red in the dark night.
It dawned on him immediately.
"The paper-tying technique of the Yin Paper Master? Using Yin Paper to tie various objects, you can have some magical abilities."
Li Miao sighed: "I have long heard that in addition to being proficient in carrying coffins, the coffin maker Cao also has a hidden skill with paper, which is superb. Today I can see it."
Lao Cao was in a good mood after being praised. He smiled and said, "Then let's go. Xiao Wu and I will ride one, and Brother Li, you can ride one yourself."
Although I develop earlier than my peers, I am still a teenager after all. Although Lao Cao is strong, he is also an old man. Li Miao is in his prime, and the job of removing corpses, like a coffin bearer, requires physical strength.
So looking at Li Miao's body, you can tell that he is not light. It takes one person to ride a paper horse.
"Woof woof woof, woof woof."
Kuroko yelled, while using his paws to pull at my trousers, and rubbing his head against my body.
I was very touched.
Rubbing its head: "Heizi, are you reluctant to let me go? Your master and I have to do some serious business. I'll play with you when I'm free."
Li Miao laughed and explained to me.
"Brother Wu, you may have thought wrong. It's not that this stupid dog can't bear to leave you. Is he thinking about your last promise?"
promise?
What promise?
I'm a little confused.
Li Miao said: "Didn't you tell Heizi last time that when you come next time, you will bring all kinds of delicious meat for him to eat? This stupid dog has a good memory and is always thinking about it. Now you are here, I’m just asking you for meat.”
I:"……"
Oh my god!
I had completely forgotten about this one.
Of course, if I just came here to play with Li Miao or Heizi, I might remember it. But this happened suddenly and it was late at night.
I did forget.
And even if I remember, there is no place to buy meat for Heizi this late at night.
I could only say it in an embarrassed and apologetic tone.
"Heizi, I'm really sorry. I really forgot this time and left in a hurry. Next time, next time!"
"Woof... woof woof."
Heizi called out twice in disappointment and flicked his tail twice. It seemed that he had no choice but to agree half-heartedly.
Just a pair of bright dog eyes staring at me, as if to say: I must remember it next time!
Lao Cao, Li Miao and I rode on paper horses respectively.
Lao Cao cast another spell to drive, and the two paper horses started galloping again, heading towards Xiaowan Village...
Arrive at Xiao's house.
Xiao Mao and his wife had naturally gone to bed.
Naturally we woke them up.
He told them very seriously that if a "living corpse" was exposed to someone's face as a dead person, it would immediately go berserk and turn into a terrifying zombie.
When the time comes, you will not recognize your relatives, and you will kill any living thing you see!
Therefore, neither the couple nor the rest of the Xiao family relatives can talk about this matter. Of course, it's best not to see Xiao Sheng.
After Xiao Mao and his wife heard this, although it was difficult to accept it, they still nodded and said that they had kept it in mind.
Especially Xiao Mao, who said that except for himself, he would no longer allow relatives to come here.
At the end, he sadly said that he actually knew that the child was dead, but he just hoped that his soul could leave the world intact and go to the underworld to be reincarnated.
This is actually our idea, so we kept Xiao Sheng and did not eliminate it.
As for Zhou Mu in "Fubei County Chronicle"? It's more miserable, your soul is gone?
In fact, to be honest, since you are dead, your body has turned into a corpse. How about that, except for your relatives, no one else has the obligation to spend so much effort to help you.
Xiao Sheng was given a large price by Xiao Mao and his wife, and we felt sorry for him because he was a child, so we helped him.
In Zhou Mu's situation, who could care enough to leave him a complete soul? Do you have to work hard to find a way to send him completely to the underworld?
Therefore, Huang Wuzuo's approach in "Fubei County Chronicles" is understandable and nothing worthy of criticism.
We can only blame Zhou Mu for his bad luck, but Xiao Sheng's good luck...
After instructing Xiao Mao and his wife, we reinforced Xiao Sheng's cellar formation seal.
Only then did I feel like I was almost done.
Li Miao asked: "Brother Wu, since your classmate can see the "Fubei County Chronicle", can you let him bring it out for us to see?"
Lao Cao also echoed: "What Brother Li said makes sense. There may be other similar records or important information in the "Fubei County Chronicle". We really should take a closer look ourselves."
I shook my head and said.
"That's definitely not possible! This is something from the county archives. It's too risky to borrow it for private viewing. However, you can find a way to use a photocopier to make a copy. If you give us a copy, you can even have a copy for everyone. What do we think?"
At that time, photocopiers were rare.
So neither Lao Cao nor Li Miao knew about it. I only knew about it because there was one in the school teacher’s office.
After I explained it, they both sighed that modern science and technology are still very powerful. It makes many things more convenient.
"However, I have to ask my classmate for the specific situation. Because even if I want to copy the "Fubei County Chronicle", I have to go to the archives to get the original copy."
"etc!"
I suddenly slapped my forehead and remembered.
"Why go to a junior high school student for this kind of thing? Lao Cao, Brother Li, you two have been doing dirty things here in Lianghe Town for so many years. There are always some big shots who owe you a favor, right? Isn't it time to ask them to pay back a favor? It’s time to pay it back.”
Li Miao smiled.
"What Brother Wu said makes sense. Although people in our line of work are usually not very popular, when something happens, all kinds of people come to us to beg us. I still have a lot of favors, it depends on them Do you recognize it or not?”
Since Li Miao has a lot of favors in his hands, Lao Cao must only have a lot more.
It just depends on who you are looking for to get back the favor this time?
Li Miao and I both looked at Lao Cao.
He thought for a while and said: "Then go to Boss Duan. After a while, the favor was still warm. What's more, his daughter's matter was very serious at the beginning. If we hadn't helped, it might have been very troublesome. "
Makes sense!
I nodded.
They are all in the same circle, so Li Miao has probably heard about what happened to the Duan family last time. Now when I asked us to explain it in detail, we were exclaimed again and again.
"Fortunately, Coffinmaker Cao is very skillful and Brother Wu is calm and collected. Otherwise, when Miss Duan becomes more capable of killing, she might transform into a corpse evil on the spot. That's a mother-child evil. How powerful is that? No. Dare to think.”
Over the years that Li Miao has been fishing for corpses in the Chuanjiang River Basin near Lianghe Town, he has also fished out the corpses of some pregnant women.
But basically everything is fine. At most, there is some lingering resentment, and there has not been a real situation where mother and son have to resolve evil together.
If this is the case, he will definitely be doomed alone...
After we finished dealing with the Xiao family's affairs, we mounted Lao Cao's paper horse again and galloped all the way back to Lianghe Town.
After sending Li Miao home and returning to the coffin shop, it was already half past one in the morning.
I have to say that those who work in this field are really destined to the night.
If I didn't have the "Sleep Skill" by my side, someone like me who had to get up early to go to school during the day would probably die of fatigue in a few days, right?
Wang Hu had already sent Wang Dachun off and returned to the store.
When he saw Lao Cao and I coming back, he hurriedly welcomed us out the door eagerly.
"Boss, Brother Wu, are you back? I prepared a midnight snack for you two. Do you want to try it?"
oh?
I was a little surprised: "Uncle Tiger, can you still cook?"
Wang Hu said with some embarrassment: "I saw there were a few duck eggs, a piece of bacon, and some noodles in the kitchen. So I made a bowl of duck egg bacon noodles. After all, I raised my daughter alone before, so I always had to know how to cook. Yes."
Speaking of this, the expression on his face became a little sad again.
His daughter is the eternal pain and concern in his heart.
I was afraid that he would be sad, so I quickly changed the subject with a smile.
"Duck eggs, bacon, and noodles, I love eating these three things. Together, it's perfect! Come on, Old Cao, let's try Uncle Hu's craftsmanship."
"Okay! It seems that if you are good at cooking, your salary will be increased?"
Lao Cao also smiled and nodded, making a joke.
At the same time, the index and middle fingers of the left hand were raised to make a seal. Then his right hand gently patted the backs of the two paper horses.
The two of them ran up the stairs "thumping and staring" and probably went back to the gap in the corridor next to my room.
Wang Hu turned around and entered the kitchen, then came out with two bowls of noodles.
If you were looking at it with ordinary eyesight, you would see two bowls of noodles floating out of thin air on their own, which would probably frighten you enough.
Lao Cao and I were indeed hungry too.
Started to eat noodles hungrily.
Bacon is local pork, the kind that is raised slowly in pig pens in rural areas. It's oily, the meat is firm and elastic, and it has a unique meaty aroma. It is incomparable to the pork from pig farms in the city.
Duck eggs are also native duck eggs, the kind laid by ducks that grew up eating screws and duckweed in rice fields. It has a special fragrance itself, which is more delicious than meat!
Paired with the smooth and chewy noodles, Lao Cao and I didn't even bother to talk and ate quickly.
Bliss. Bliss.
The two big bowls of duck egg bacon noodles were devoured by the two of us in a hurry.
Lao Cao put down the bowl and wiped his mouth, his eyes shining.
He looked at Wang Hu: "I didn't expect your cooking skills to be so good!"
I also wiped my mouth and nodded: "Yes! It's almost as good as what's made in many restaurants. It's only a little bit worse than what my mother makes."
Wang Hu smiled sheepishly and scratched his head: "Boss Cao and Brother Wu were joking, how could it be so exaggerated. In the past, my daughter always thought that the food I cooked was not delicious, and she always wanted to eat in a restaurant."
This guy never leaves his daughter.
Lao Cao thought for a while and finally said: "Let's do this, Xiao Wang. From now on, you will be responsible for the meals in the coffin shop every day."
"Okay boss, no problem!"
Lao Cao smiled and said, "Don't answer so quickly, I haven't finished speaking yet."
Wang Hu suddenly looked a little embarrassed.
"Because I didn't say it before, cooking is your extra work. So every day I will light a stick of incense for you and pour in a wisp of my Qi. You eat the cigarettes of the incense. Although it is not much, if you smoke it for a long time, It can make your soul body more stable, and you can slowly break away from the previous connection of the earth veins and go further."
When Wang Hu heard this, a look of surprise suddenly appeared on his pale face.
He hurriedly bowed to Lao Cao and thanked him.
"Thank you boss, thank you very much... I will cook well and help you well."
This can be considered a "win-win" situation.
I know, this is not entirely because Lao Cao is greedy. In fact, it is also because Wang Hu has been in the store these days. After observation and assessment by Lao Cao and I, he is indeed a good ghost.
In this case, it would be a good idea to give him a little help.
I have never seen anything like helping ghosts practice. If I could follow the growth of a ghost at close range, it would also help me improve my cognition.
After eating the duck egg bacon noodles made by Wang Hu, Lao Cao and I went to bed.
Early the next morning, I went to school as usual.
Lao Cao planned to get up at noon and go to the Duan family mansion in the north of the town to find Boss Duan. Please ask him to find someone with connections to copy the contents of "Fubei County Chronicle" in the county archives...
As the richest man in Lianghe Town, he should still be able to find this kind of connections.
Today is the last day of class before the National Day holiday. Not only are the students unmotivated, but even the teachers of each subject are not so serious.
Basically, we cover the monthly exam papers for most of the class, and then let us do self-study.
Wang Dachun was very excited and always wanted to talk to me about Wang Hu sending him home last night. But because Yao Nan was here, it was not convenient to talk.
Finally, I found an opportunity. When we went to the toilet, he ran up to me.
"Brother Angkor, last night was so cool! You actually sent a ghost to escort me back. You are so awesome!"
"Have a good pee and stop talking so much nonsense!"
