Flower Demon’s Inn

Chapter 5: The Wind of the Wine Flag in the Ancient Town Inn (Section 5)

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It took a while to cast a net, and then she ran down to serve soup to the scholar. Seeing him, he said seriously: "You are not allowed to eat chicken, duck or roast suckling pig upstairs."

The scholar stared at the big pot of tonic, his eyes widened slightly. The spoon looked at his wandering appearance, raised his hand and waved: "The shopkeeper."

"Oh..." The scholar took the full soup as if he was at home, his face full of sadness, "This Shiquan Dabu soup, can you not eat it?"

The spoon is decisive: "No."

If she guessed wrong, the scholar was just a stupid mortal, what if Yun Shang affected his yang energy. The spoon got up and patted him on the shoulder: "The shopkeeper drinks slowly, don't pour it secretly."

The scholar was dejected: "Oh..."

The spoon took Master Guan's incense candle and ran to Yunshang's room, lit it around her vase, and lightly fanned the misty cigarette into her bottle. After a while, Yunshang woke up and floated out of the vase, her voice was soft and her lips were bloodless: "Thank you, girl."

The spoon was dusting the smoke, slowly lingering around the bed, luring her over, and when she lay down, said: "The Taoist is staying in the inn opposite, probably trying to catch you after regaining his strength." She finally frowned, "What the hell are you doing?" What do you owe the priest?"

Yun Chang shook her head: "I don't owe him anything, I didn't even see him before his soul was incomplete."

Shaozi was stunned: "Then why did you do this?"

Yun Shang didn't answer, just closed her eyes lightly, remembering what happened a long time ago.

In Qingzhou City, there are Lanting Pavilions and waterside pavilions, and the singing is provocative. The singer tapped the strings of the pipa lightly with her long fingers, "The heart of the cloud has no me, and the heart of the cloud has no heart. Lazy cloud nest, there are many guests in the lazy cloud nest. When the guests come, accompany me for a while, wine stove tea pot", melodious tone, is telling Endless heartfelt, endless sadness.

She leaned on the railing and looked out, listening to the melodious sounds in her ears, watching the group of handsome young men frolicking around with their arms around the diva's waist, with nothing but indifference on her face.

This kind of singing and laughing lasted until the morning, when the sun was rising, the people in the city passed by the Lanting Waterside Pavilion, but there was no sound there, those last night... mortals couldn't see it, the lively ones were just a group of ghosts waiting in the mortal world Come and get it, a wandering ghost with nothing to obey and nothing to do.

She has lived this kind of life for hundreds of years, so long that she doesn't know the exact year. At the beginning, I would ask which emperor the court has changed, whether the national teacher is a fool, and who is the most favored among the concubines. And listen to the people chatting about whose daughter-in-law is hot and not filial to her parents-in-law, whose daughter married a jerk, and whose family had another child.

After listening to it for hundreds of years, she found that she was bored and had nothing to do.

The underworld sometimes forgets some ghosts, and even remembers them after a long time, and then comes to the underworld to lead ghosts. I was waiting to be reincarnated and become a fierce ghost, persecuting mortals, and was finally taken away by Taoist priests who slay demons.

She didn't want to become like that, but she couldn't wait for the ghost to come, and there was nothing to do. She found that her reaction became more and more slow, and she often looked at something in a daze. In the dark attic, sitting from morning to night, sitting from night to morning, can't wait...can't wait for ghosts...

She started to play tricks on others, and finally found a sliver of fun seeing the frightened faces of those timid mortals.

She didn't know that any soul that became a ghost thought it would be no problem at first, but she didn't know...it was gradually changing until it fell into an abyss and couldn't extricate itself...

She ran into a house at night, and accidentally scared an old man unconscious, and she also ran away in shock, covered her heart and shook her head, next time she should scare the young people, if she scares people to death, it is a crime, and she will be punished by the king of Hades. Add a crime.

Bored, she floated out from the alley, and a little ghost called her, saying that she found a Taoist priest entering the city. She curled her lips: "What's so interesting about Taoist priests, this Qingzhou can catch it."

The little ghost said: "That Taoist is different, most of his soul is not on him, but he dared to do something when he saw us. Everyone is going to teach him a lesson, so you go too."

She frowned, so arrogant without a soul? Then I really have to teach him a lesson. After thinking about it, it hit it off and immediately floated there.

When we got there, there were already seven or eight ghosts watching the scene. When she took a look, she really lost most of her soul, her eyes were blurred, her movements were a little stiff, and it was good to be able to walk, so why was he still able to catch ghosts? Even if you still have a little soul left, you should know how dangerous it is to do such a thing.

She raised her hand to make a trumpet, and shouted: "Hey, stinky Taoist priest, are you not afraid that we will eat you? How dare you arrest us."

He didn't raise his head, and was still walking his own way. She was considered powerful among all the ghosts, after all, she had been a ghost for so many years. She leaned over and rushed, but before she got close, she saw him move suddenly and quickly, a mahogany sword was out of its sheath, and a golden light was drawn, stabbing all the ghosts to disperse immediately. She rolled over and avoided, and he was a little far away from the position. He put away the sword again and continued walking.

She really didn't understand how such a person could have such great ability. After following for two days, when she got a little closer, he turned around vigilantly, holding the mahogany sword in his hand, ready to strike at any moment. But once there are no ghosts and ghosts around, it is like a body without a soul that keeps walking and walking.

She finally knew why this Taoist priest was so thin, because he fainted from hunger several times, and occasionally someone would give him food, and when he was not hungry, he would wake up by himself and eat whatever he had , eat grass when there is grass, and drink water when there is water.

She suddenly felt very sad, living like this, it would be better to become a ghost. But such a person is still slaying demons and demons. This day he fainted from hunger again, she went to the restaurant and stole a bunch of vegetables, put them in front of him, if she didn't leave this time, she wouldn't believe it, he didn't even distinguish between good and evil, she is a good ghost!

Sure enough, he woke up quickly, seemed to have sensed the ghostly energy, and immediately raised his sword, she quickly waved her hand and said, "I am a good ghost, if I were a bad ghost, I will kill you when you are unconscious, think about it carefully. "

He was in a daze for a long time, and seeing that he didn't intend to make a move, she timidly handed him food: "Eat some."

The Taoist paused for a moment, then started to eat, and ate everything in a blink of an eye. Seeing that his complexion improved a lot after eating, she hugged her knees and squatted aside and smiled: "Seeing how delicious your food is, I forgot what food tastes like. Being a ghost is really boring, but ghost messengers don't come. "

He was silent, as if he hadn't spoken for a long time, his voice was a little stiff: "Thank you."

She froze for a moment, and he thanked himself... It was a very subtle feeling for a demon exorcist to thank him. She was a little happy and asked, "How did you become like this? What are you going to do?"

He spoke very slowly: "The soul, most of it was taken away by the wild boar demon, I want to find it and get it back."

She nodded, thought it through and said angrily: "Then why are you still trying so hard to catch ghosts? I have been injured several times by you. Look, my arms, uh, legs."

"sorry, I do not know."

Her eyes widened: "You don't know?"

When he did these things, didn't he know that he was killing demons? What kind of strength supported him to do so? She couldn't figure it out, not at all.

"The last bit of soul is also gradually disappearing, I don't know when it will disappear, and then... die."

She stared at him: "I won't die! I heard from the old ghost that as long as mortals still have a little memory, the soul will not leave. I have been with you for four months, and every time you catch the ghost, I feel different. Then It must be something that supports your memory, will I let you grasp it in the future?"

He shook his head, but she didn't care, she had already made up her mind, let her help the Taoist survive.

After making this decision, she suddenly thought, why would she do this... It's not necessary at all.

I can't figure it out, that's all, I don't want to.

As the sun was rising, she hid in the shade and took a nap, and waited until night to scratch her heart and lungs, when the setting sun finally set, she followed the steps of the Taoist priest on the road that still had heat, and her whole body seemed to be on fire up. But she was afraid that the time would be too long and the Taoist priest would be lost.

After finally finding him, she just smiled and floated towards him with the stolen roast chicken in her arms, wanting to say hello to him, but as soon as she got close, she saw a golden light flying towards her, stabbing her arm, causing pain. She almost let go. A ray of golden light pierced down, and he was seen running towards him in a blink of an eye, and thrust out another sword. She gritted her teeth and dodged, cursing: "Smelly Taoist priest, it's me, I'm Yunshang!"

But in those dim eyes, there was nothing but numbness. She felt a pain in her heart, he... he didn't remember himself... He obviously talked so well yesterday.

It was only for a moment that she regained consciousness, and it turned out that this was a sign that the soul was disappearing. No matter how long she was with him, it didn't take long for him to forget. It's like being at the origin all the time, even if you have been away for a while, you will still return there. Unless all the souls returned, no matter how many times she tried, he would not remember her.

But that's okay... She was bleeding in her heart, but comforted herself, that's good, he doesn't remember himself, and then she can help him continue his soul, and let him remember that he is a Taoist priest whose vocation is to slay demons. And she happened to be that "demon", that "demon".

Time and time again, she counted each time until she had accumulated a hundred times. She watched the Taoist priest draw out the golden light without mercy, and felt very sad every time.