During dinner, Lu Yingjiu told Jing Xian what happened at Chu Banyang's place.
He said, "Chu Banyang said that Peacock God had two shattered dreams, and he also told me the specific address. I plan to go over and take a look in the next two days."
Jing Xian nodded: "Well, there are people in the bar anyway."
In the following time, it seemed that Ye Feng and A Mei were in charge of the bar.
Lu Yingjiu was very skeptical about the two men's business abilities.
But the bar was already half dead, and if they had blown it up, the situation would have been much worse, so it didn't matter.
"How come," Jing Xian changed the subject, "Why did you go over to meet that Chu guy by yourself?"
"Did he contact me temporarily?" Lu Yingjiu knew she was jealous when she heard the tone, "Why are you targeting him so much? You usually care about Ye Feng and Xiao Li."
Jing Xian said directly: "Those two people are not competitive at all."
Lu Yingjiu: “…”
It's so heartbreaking.
At the same time, Ye Feng was studying a glass of wine carefully. He sneezed violently and spilled half of the glass on Amei's new skirt.
Ah Mei was horrified and punched him on the head.
Xiao Li was trembling with fear while giving a report in front of Chu Banyang when he sneezed violently.
His master reacted quickly and used the documents in his hand to stop the attack of Fei Luo, and said to him, "Xiao Li, go and copy the book for me tonight."
"Of course," Jing Xian said, "I also don't think that Chu will pose any threat to my position. I really want to say that I'm not showing off my power as the queen, but I'm dying of jealousy. I feel like a lemon, like a jar of century-old vinegar just unearthed from the ghost world, like the bitter sour taste when you carefully pour the whole bottle of vinegar into your dumplings!"
I don’t know how these words touched Lu Yingjiu’s smile.
He was holding a piece of meat, but his chopsticks were shaking from laughing so hard.
After laughing for a long time, he finally said with a smile: "You should be called Jingxian, you should be called Cuxian."
"You can call me whatever you want." Jing Xian drank a mouthful of soup. "If possible, I would like to hear you call me hubby in bed. The more times the better."
Road to welcome wine:
He gave Jing Xian a light kick on the table: "How come you always turn any topic to bed?"
Jing Xian emphasized: "This is my normal need and my legal right! Normal! Legal!"
"Yeah, yeah, it's normal and legal." Lu Yingjiu answered him perfunctorily, "You jealous old man, finish your soup quickly, it's almost cold."
…
The day after tomorrow, Lu Yingjiu and Jing Xian got on the high-speed train.
The village Chu Banyang told them was called Lintian Village. It took two or three hours to get to the nearest city by high-speed rail.
On the high-speed rail, Jingxian made full use of the four-dimensional backpack, and there was almost an endless supply of snacks and fast food.
Before Lu Yingjiu, he took the high-speed train to another place to receive a commission. He closed his eyes and rested all the way. He had little interest in food, especially high-speed train meals.
Jingxian solved this problem perfectly.
In the first ten minutes, they were sharing a bag of strange-tasting peanuts.
The passenger sitting next to me was indifferent.
After they finished eating the peanuts, they began to share the pork.
The person sitting next to me glanced over here.
After finishing the pork meal, it was almost time for dinner, so Jing Xian took out the beef and egg rice bowl he had made and fed it to Lu Yingjiu, along with a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice and a chocolate dessert after the meal.
This time, the fragrance spread everywhere, and the people sitting next to me stared in amazement.
With snacks as company, two or three hours passed in a flash.
When we arrived at the station, we saw a bus driving out of the station. There was a huge crowd of people outside. Many of them were there to pick up people, holding up a big sign that said "Welcome xxx".
Lu Yingjiu was just about to see how to take a bus to Lintian Village, but Jing Xian was already preparing to start taking a Didi bus to fight ghosts.
The two of them stood at the exit, waiting for the ghost to bring the car over.
Lu Yingjiu was replying to messages from other exorcists when suddenly a surprised and certain voice came from the side: "Lu, Lu Yingjiu?!"
Lu Yingjiu looked up and saw a dark, tall, fat man looking at him. There were beads of sweat on the fat man's forehead and his face was full of surprise, so surprised that his fat was squeezed together.
This face looks familiar.
And it looks very familiar.
Lu Yingjiu searched his mind quickly. Among all the ghost exorcists, he couldn't identify this person. After several seconds, he finally realized:
this…
Is this a dog?!
After so many years, the chubby childhood playmate has not changed much. He still has a unique simple and honest look between his eyebrows, but also has a subtle cunning -
Lu Yingjiu didn't know how to describe this feeling of contradiction.
Honest means that as soon as he saw the dog, he thought he must be the target of telephone scams.
Cunning means that as soon as he saw the dog, he thought he would commit telephone fraud.
It's like having a split personality.
Lu Yingjiu was surprised, but also very happy.
After all, they haven't seen each other for so many years.
The dog, whose real name was Yao Gou, lay on the ground with a big smile on his face, saying repeatedly: "Oh, I really didn't expect to meet you here! What! Are you here for tourism?"
"Yes," Lu Yingjiu said, "I have something to do in Lintian Village."
"Oh, that's a coincidence!" Yao Gou clapped his hands and looked at Jing Xian, "I just happen to be going there! Let's go! I've already booked the car, and I just happen to be short of two people! You and your friend can go together, and I'll charge you."
After saying this, he enthusiastically wanted to lead Lu Yingjiu in a direction.
Lu Yingjiu was about to reply when he suddenly noticed that Jing Xian beside him was slightly stiff.
It took him a few seconds to react and realize that Jing Xian came to him in the name of a dog.
Now, by some strange coincidence, the real and fake dogs actually met.
It's really amazing.
While Yao Gou was greeting people, Lu Yingjiu teased, "How about it, what do you think of meeting the deity?"
"I don't feel anything." Jing Xian said one thing and meant another.
Lu Yingjiu smiled and stretched out his hand to poke Jing Xian.
Jing Xian grabbed his hand and quickly and lightly scratched the inside of his wrist.
Numb and itchy.
Quite tempting.
Yao Gou was very enthusiastic and Lu Yingjiu just wanted to catch up with him, so he asked Jing Xian to give up his Didi and take Yao Gou's car.
As a result, when they just passed by, they saw a tattered van parked on the side of the road.
The driver, who looked very social, had a wisp of yellow hair and was squatting on the roadside smoking. There were also two women speaking in dialect, constantly soliciting passengers, trying to take someone into the van.
Yao Gou pointed and said, "Hey, go up."
Lu Yingjiu: "... I don't know why, but it gives me the feeling of a black car."
"Because it's an illegal taxi." Yao Gou admitted, "It took me a long time to find such a cheap one. It's only 20 yuan per person. Come on, get on it!"
After saying that, he got into the van first. The entire body of the van was pressed down by him, making a very wonderful "squeak" sound.
Lu Yingjiu: “…”
Jing Xian: “…”
It seemed there was no way to refuse at this point, so the two of them got in the car, feeling as if they were on a pirate ship.
This is an 8-seater van. As soon as I got in, I smelled a strong smell of instant noodles.
There were two men sitting in the last row, slurping chicken noodles. They were shirtless, revealing dark blue tattoos, with fierce faces and gold chains around their necks. They looked at the three people with unfriendly eyes.
Yao Gou was fully aware of the subtle atmosphere. He glanced at the two men, his eyes fixed on their tattoos. He suddenly exclaimed, "Hey, you two guys. There's a saying in the industry: 'A dragon tattoo goes over the shoulder, a tiger tattoo goes up the mountain'! One of you has a dragon tattoo over the shoulder, and the other has a tiger tattoo on the mountain. I'm afraid you're the best!"
The two men were talking.
After a long while, someone said angrily, "I like it."
The atmosphere was becoming tense, when suddenly the seat of the car sank. It was the yellow-haired driver who got in. He smelled of cigarettes, slammed the door shut, and drove off, stepping on the accelerator.
The van was wobbling.
If Xiao Li was in the car, he would have vomited two or three times.
Yao Gouji kept mumbling for a while, probably talking about the taboos of tattoos or something like that. Although he kept his voice down and was only speaking to himself, the two young men would still hear him occasionally.
Then their expressions became kinder and kinder, they ate noodles slower and slower, and looked at Yao Gou frequently.
Before any of them could speak, Lu Yingjiu spoke up: "Did you just come here too?"
His voice was pleasant, as always with a hint of subtlety.
Perhaps it was because he had held an important position in the past and often spoke in an order to others, so when he spoke he had an aura that made people want to listen to what he said carefully.
The tense atmosphere dissipated a little.
The man seemed to want to say something but in the end he didn't.
"Oh, me." Yao Gou's attention was indeed diverted. "Yes, I heard that something happened in Lintian Village, so I wanted to go and take a look. Look, I'm fully armed."
After saying that, he rummaged in his bag and took out a few wrinkled talisman papers that looked like pickles and showed them to Lu Yingjiu.
Lu Yingjiu took a closer look and found that the talisman paper was a mess, just like a ghost drawing.
Yao Gou's parents knew how to exorcise ghosts, but they were only mediocre at it, and they had to resort to trickery and deception to make a living as exorcists.
Rats can dig holes with their mouths. Yao Gou really inherited half of that skill and carried forward his parents' spirit of deceiving people.
Lu Yingjiu held a piece of talisman paper and looked at it for a while, then glanced at Jing Xian and thought, no matter whether it was a real dog or a fake one, its exorcism skills were pretty poor.
However, since Yao Gou said so...
Lu Yingjiu asked, "What happened in Lintian Village?"
"Oh, it's like this," Yao Gou perked up when he mentioned this matter. "Several decades ago - maybe 20 or 30 years ago, there was a family in the village over there who wanted to marry a young woman. They didn't think straight for a while, and suddenly they embarked on the road of crime: they decided to buy a woman and bring her back to be the wife of their son."
"Ah, you said that this feudal ideology is really harmful. No descendants? Their family has the throne, so why should they be afraid of no descendants?"
He wiped the sweat off his face with the back of his hand and continued, "At that time, the supervision was not so strict, and I really bought them a house. I watched her all day and tried to let her escape. The girl was miserable, crying every day, calling to the sky and the earth for help, but no one answered. She tried to escape several times but failed, and finally she jumped into a well and committed suicide."
Lu Yingjiu asked: "So, she turned into a vengeful ghost and stayed in the village?"
"It's very close," Yao Gou squinted his eyes and nodded, "A week after she jumped into the well, everyone in that family, young and old, died."
"Look at the news reports at the time. A farmer passed by his house and saw blood seeping from the cracks in the door and dripping from the trees. Even the dog that ran out of the house left bloody footprints all the way from the end of the village to the beginning. He quickly called the police. Wow, the scene was so tragic."
The two guys at the back ate while listening. They chewed slower and their faces turned slightly pale.
Yao Gou took out a crumpled newspaper and showed it to Lu Yingjiu.
Lu Yingjiu took the newspaper and read it with Jingxian head to head.
The general situation is quite different from what Yao Gou described.
Later, the police followed the clues and caught all the human traffickers in one fell swoop. Those who deserved to be sentenced were sentenced, and those who deserved to be imprisoned were imprisoned for life, and the matter was finally put to an end.
Lu Yingjiu said: "Since it happened decades ago, why did you only think about it recently?"
"Hey, there have been rumors in the village recently that the ghost has returned." Yao Gou replied, "I thought about going to take a look, and then, by the way..."
He smiled so hard that the fat on his face was squeezed together. He rubbed his fingers together and said in a low voice: "The people in the village are rich, so the price they offer is definitely lower. How about it, I tell you, isn't it? If we have money, we brothers can make money together."
Yao Gou chatted for a while about the reward, happily imagining his life after receiving the money, and suddenly realized something, asked for directions and toasted: "Hey, you haven't introduced any of your friends yet."
"Oh. His name is Jing Xian and he is an employee of my office." Lu Yingjiu said.
He secretly poked Jing Xian, who gave a standard friendly fake smile.
"Oh, hello, hello." Yao Gou said, "I'm Yao Gou, you can call me anything you want, most people call me dog."
Lu Yingjiu thought to himself, Jing Xian knows too well that you are calling a dog.
Yao Gouqi started to talk nonsense, describing to Lu Yingjiu in vivid detail how he had been making his way around the world over the years.
Although his exorcism skills were poor, he would never stop talking nonsense, often fooling customers into paying without knowing why. Now he would never stop talking for half a minute, telling how he outsmarted the willow ghost, how he killed the fox spirit with three punches, how he stole the law, and how he had been pretending for three days to attract the evil ghost.
Those stories are simply vivid.
If Lu Yingjiu knew Yao Gou's true level, he would really be intimidated by him.
—For example, the two tattooed guys in the back seat were already stunned by what they heard.
Over the years, Yao Gou has been running around various towns and counties, grabbing every opportunity to make a fortune.
"So many people are so ungrateful!" Yao Gou cursed, "I worked so hard for them, but in the end they called me a liar!"
Strictly speaking, Yao Gou is not a liar.
On the contrary, he always does his best to serve his customers.
He is such a fucking incompetent. He can't solve the problem even though he tried his best.
Lu Yingjiu listened to his story, but he only believed half of it.
As a result, the guy in the back seat spoke up and asked Yao Gou: "What kind of teacher are you?"
"Oh, you found the right person this time!" Yao Gou slapped his thigh, "Exactly!"
The elder brother asked hesitantly: "Are the dragons over the shoulders and the tigers over the mountains that you mentioned real..."
"It must be true!" Yao Gou shouted, "There are many things to be careful about when it comes to tattoos. It's fate that we met. Let me explain it to you in detail. As the saying goes, a dragon tattoo means it's over the shoulder, a tiger tattoo means it's on the mountain, Guanyin closes her eyes to save the world, and Guan Gong opens his eyes to kill people."
"Some things are good when they are there by themselves. Do you think Guanyin is kind? Do you think Guan Erye is loyal? That is obviously possible, but the fate of ordinary people is suppressed..."
For the next half hour, Lu Yingjiu was forced to listen to a series of tattoo lectures by Yao Gou.
The two guys were so fooled that they kept saying that they had met a master.
Finally they arrived at Lintian Village. Before leaving the car, Yao Gou collected 50 yuan from each of them, saying it was to help them "spend money to ward off disaster."
After collecting the money, he stuffed a pickle-like amulet into each of their hands.
My friend felt like he had found a treasure and left with many thanks.
Lu Yingjiu: “…”
He finally understood how Yao Gou had been getting by all these years.
Yao Gou said that he had found a homestay in the village and wanted to recommend it to the two of them.
With the previous experience of black car, Lu Yingjiu was deeply suspicious.
But Yao Gou insisted on recommending his own choice, and the three of them went to the east side of the village.
The environment of Lintian Village is good. Although it is also a village, it looks much richer than Yueshan Village deep in the mountains. The buildings are new and beautiful, and the balconies are planted with gorgeous flowers.
A few local dogs lay on the side of the road, staring at them lazily.
Lu Yingjiu walked while feeling the wind, which was quite comfortable.
It was not until he reached the vicinity of the B&B that he heard a series of noises.
A large group of people gathered in a small square.
A man in black shouted at the top of his lungs: "She ran away? How could she run away like this? I paid her all the money!"
One of them covered her face and cried, "She left all the money on the table and said she did it."
"What the hell are we going to do now?" the man cursed.
Yao Gou cleared his throat and walked up: "Hey, hey, hey, everyone! Be patient! What happened?"
The man looked at her and asked, "Are you...are you the master?"
"That's right." Yao Gou puffed out his belly proudly, "Didn't I say I wouldn't pass the test today?"
"Ah, I didn't expect you to come so early!" the man said, "We were doing it according to your suggestion, but the bride you invited ran away!"
The villagers nearby gathered in a circle, whispering to each other, with worried expressions on their faces.
Yao Gou was talking to the man.
Lu Yingjiu was listening nearby and finally understood what was going on.
It turned out that the villagers were worried that the ghost would come back for revenge, so they were looking for help everywhere.
Yao Gou happened to take on this job, and he pointed out Jiangshan on WeChat, saying that Gui was disappointed in love, and asked them to arrange two young people, one to play the groom and the other to play the bride, and then do the specific ceremony after he got married, which would guarantee that there would be no problem.
After hearing what he said, the people in the village have been looking for him everywhere these days.
But who would easily agree to something so weird and bizarre
The villagers pooled their money and spent a lot of money to hire someone to dress up as the bride.
As a result, the bride was so scared that she thought she couldn't make that much money, so she ran away.
The person who will play the groom has not been found yet.
"Master, so what should we do now?" the man asked.
"It's urgent, it's urgent," Yao Gou shook his head, "Is this what I want? There must be a way." He pointed the way to welcome the wine, "This is also a master. With the two of us here, we are simply invincible together. Crouching Dragon and Phoenix are better than us."
The man's eyes lit up and he said, "That's great! But how do we solve the problem of the bride and groom?"
"No problem!" Yao Gou said confidently, "Give me more money and I'll be the groom."
"Oh, yes, yes." The man nodded repeatedly, "That's great, that's great. Where's the bride?"
Yao Gouyi pointed the way and welcomed the wine, saying, "Let him be the boss."
Lu Yingjiu: “…?”
He was originally concentrating on eating melons, but he didn't expect the pot to fall from the sky.
Yao Gou hurriedly whispered to him, "Let's just fool around first. Brother, I'm sorry to have wronged you. How about I give you more money, two-thirds? Or three-quarters? Alas, I really spent a lot of money. Anyway, I will definitely not let you suffer a loss."
The man was confused and asked: "Ah, does the bride want to be married..."
"I'm a Taoist priest." Yao Gou emphasized again, "What's the use of men and women? Gender is not a problem. It's more than enough to put a talisman paper on it to disguise my identity and deceive those little ghosts."
The man nodded repeatedly: "Oh oh oh yes yes yes."
Now that the matter was resolved, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Yao Gou was speechless, and then he clapped his hands: "Okay, let's do it this way. This road master pretends to be the bride, and I pretend to be the groom..."
He had a hand.
It felt like being clamped by an iron clamp, as if a little more force would crush his wrist bones. Yao Gou took a breath and turned his head to see—
Jing Xian looked at him intently and curled the corners of his mouth, but there was no smile in his dark eyes.
He said, "Well, let me give you a suggestion. The groom asked me to be the groom."
"Ah," Yao Gou said, "Okay, this is the commission I accepted..."
Jing Xian said: "Do you see the bridge piers on the seashore?"
"I see." Yao Gou replied.
"Want to go in?" Jing Xian said, "It's very comfortable inside. I guarantee you won't have to be a bridegroom in your life."
Yao Gou: “…”
Yao Gou: "Okay, then this respected master is our groom! Everyone applaud! I wish them a long and happy marriage!"
There was a thunderous applause like a wave of the sea. Everyone was happy, everyone was satisfied, and everyone had a bright smile on his or her face.
Lu Yingjiu: “…”
Why has no one asked him about this from the beginning to the end? !