Far away from Zhou Mansion, Lu Liangsheng walked alone along the long street. At this time, there were few pedestrians on the road, and he could still faintly hear the songs sung by prostitutes in the brothel.
Go to a remote place and use exorcism method to force the alcohol out of the body.
Occasionally, brokers would come to the streets or dark alleys and lure him to go to a nearby brothel to play.
Lu Liangsheng was still quite inexperienced in this regard, so he naturally would not go. After politely declining, he returned to the room he rented at Furui Inn.
When I opened the door, a strong smell of alcohol filled the air. Sun Yingxian was lying on the table with her wine glass lying on the side, with wine stains dripping down to the table leg.
"Come again... I haven't lost yet..."
Amidst the confused murmurs, he turned his head to face the scholar. Lu Liangsheng then saw that there was a dark circle on his left eye socket and several red marks of frog webs on both sides of his cheeks. He looked towards the window frame.
"Master... did you guys have a fight?"
The Toad Taoist stood on the desk in front of the window, with his flippers folded on his back, his open clothes fluttering in the wind, looking at the cold moon that appeared behind the night clouds.
"How can a teacher be on the same level as him?"
At the side, the female ghost floated to Lu Liangsheng's ear: "Master Toad drank too much and went crazy. He beat up Taoist Sun... He has just sobered up a little..."
Lu Liangsheng: “…”
Looking at the Taoist with a bruised face and nose, he sighed.
Didn't I tell you not to let my master drink? ! Last time at Mr. Chen's house, I suffered a lot, how come this time it turned into a beating
Thinking about it, he looked towards the windowsill, "Master... have you recovered your magic power?"
"My mana has recovered a little." Toad Taoist retracted his gaze and turned his head slightly: "But injuries are injuries, and mana is mana. They are two different things."
Seeing his appearance, Nie Honglian whispered, "It seems that he hasn't woken up yet."
Over there, the Toad Taoist turned around and jumped onto the desk, his two frog webs clacking and stomping. He moved closer to his disciple and sniffed: "You've been drinking too, so how about the food at Zhou Mansion? Did you bring some back for me?"
"This... I forgot."
Lu Liangsheng smiled embarrassedly, "Master, it's not that I forgot, but what happened in Zhou Mansion happened to me tonight."
Afterwards, he told the Toad Taoist exactly what had happened. After talking for a while, the Toad folded his arms, half-opened his eyelids, but did not move for a long time.
"Master?" Lu Liangsheng called him.
call…
Whoosh…
Toad folded his arms and snored softly, sitting there nodding his head. When he heard someone calling him, his half-open eyelids suddenly widened: "What you just said, Master... um... say it again."
Well…
Lu Liangsheng almost couldn't help but stretch out his hand to pinch it, calm himself down, and repeat what he had said to the Toad. The latter didn't fall asleep this time. He rubbed his chin with his webbed feet and pondered for a while before speaking.
"With my previous level of cultivation, I wouldn't even bother to look at something like this. But this thing isn't a ghost... and it's not delicious either."
After thinking for a while, Toad Taoist stood up, put on his flippers, and walked back and forth on the desk.
"… This thing is not a ghost, not a living being, nor is it an evil spirit or a foul aura. What you said before is more like a kind of magic. I remember that it was recorded in "Nanshui Shiyi"."
"Is it recorded?"
Lu Liangsheng frowned. He had basically memorized all the contents of the book in three years. He sat down as Taoist Toad had said, tapping the edge of the bed with his fingers, and carefully recalled the various magic techniques that appeared in the book.
"Twenty miles west of the Qi River, there is a local scholar who has mastered the art of making people out of objects. They have shapes and bodies, and they are lifelike..."
This is somewhat similar to illusion.
Finding related techniques does not necessarily prove that it was man-made, but Toad Taoist disagrees with this.
"To harm someone but not kill them, there must be something in the Zhou Mansion that the other party wants, but he has reservations, so he uses coercion. If it was a monster formed by the evil spirit of the earth, it would have killed the whole family long ago."
At this point, Toad seemed to become interested. He ran to his small box, took out a small black cloth, and tied it around his face.
"Come on, I will go with you to Zhou Mansion to see what rare things are there on the ground."
"Master, but your black scarf..."
"Of course I'm wearing a mask. A scholar like you carrying a toad is conspicuous enough. If others see that the toad can run upright, what will happen?!"
"No... I mean, you used this black scarf as a shawl last time..."
Toad Taoist: “…”
In the room, Nie Honglian held her stomach and rolled around in the air with laughter. After she recovered, she floated to the side of the master and the disciple and said, "Master, can I go with you?"
"No, you stay in the room and take care of the ceremony... and take care of Old Sun."
Lu Liangsheng suppressed his smile, arranged everything, and left the inn with Toad Taoist. It was already late at night, and the night watchmen were walking through the foggy streets, beating clappers and gongs.
Dangdang…
"It's dry, be careful with fire, pee if you need to, don't draw circles on your **..."
The fog swayed, and a figure flashed past him a few feet away. He rubbed his eyes. The surroundings were quiet, without even a single figure. He quickly quickened his pace, and the clappers beat anxiously.
"God bless... God bless... Don't encounter any ghosts."
On a section of the wall in the past, Lu Liangsheng, with his face hidden, was running quickly on the wall with Toad Taoist lying on his shoulder. The black dog lying in the side yard shook its ears, opened its mouth, bared its teeth and growled. In front of the field of vision, a figure descended from the wall.
Lu Liangsheng strode over and flicked his robe sleeves. The black dog whimpered and shrank back into its den.
Passing by the hall door of the side yard, there were two sturdy women guarding there, but both of them were dozing off. Lu Liangsheng was pinching his hand gestures and walking straight through the closed door. At that moment, the Toad Taoist hit the door with a bang, fell to the ground, rubbed his head, and got up.
"Evil disciple... if you want to use the wall-walking technique, you should tell me earlier!"
Lu Liangsheng opened the door from inside and heard a woman's murmuring voice behind him. The scholar turned sideways and waved his sleeves to brush past the sturdy woman who was awakened. The latter opened and closed her eyelids, tilted her head, and fell into a deep sleep.
The Toad Taoist priest who came in cursing gradually lowered his voice and followed Lu Liangsheng into Miss Zhou's boudoir and stood there for a while.
“It’s a little different here.”
Lu Liangsheng glanced at the sleeping figure in the tent and lowered his voice: "Master, what did you see?"
"Not sure yet..." Toad could only sense something, but if he really wanted to say what it was, in his current state, it was impossible for him to see anything at the first glance.
After looking around for a while, he jumped onto the bed, went into Miss Zhou's curtains, and suddenly spoke.
"Liangsheng, come here and move this woman to the side."
Approaching the bed, he could vaguely see the woman's appearance. Lu Liangsheng stretched out his hand and hesitated for a moment, "Master, there is a difference between men and women."
"Pedant! Others would love it!"
Taoist Toad went straight over and lifted the quilt from the woman. He saw that Zhou Rong showed signs of waking up. She murmured softly, but before she opened her eyes, there was a slight snapping sound on her face, leaving red webbed marks on the side of her fair face.
His head suddenly tilted and he fainted.
"Master, you..."
"I am doing this to make her sleep more peacefully." The Toad Taoist opened the curtains and urged: "Why don't you help me!"
Lu Liangsheng had no choice but to sigh, walk to the bed, turn Zhou Rong on the bed sideways, and look back at his master.
"What should we do next?"
The Toad Taoist came over, stood beside the pillow, looked around the woman's head for a while, and made a shaking up and down gesture with his flippers.
"Pour your magic power into it and shake it hard. There's something in her head."
Lu Liangsheng frowned, but still did as his master instructed. When the magic power entered the woman's head, he shook his hands up and down vigorously.
There is something in her brain... Old Zhou said before that she had a splitting headache. Could it be that someone had infected her with a bug
“Squeak… squeak…”
Suddenly, a sound, as thin as a mosquito's buzz, rang out between the shaking hands. When Lu Liangsheng moved his eyes downward, he saw Zhou Rong's ears and a pair of thin human legs hanging outside, kicking back and forth, as if trying to climb back up.
"Sure enough, Master's guess was correct."
The Toad Taoist stretched out his flippers, grabbed the two exposed legs, and with a gentle tug, dragged out the contents, spreading them in his palm. They were slightly smaller than a pea.
His arms, handsome face, long clothes, cloth shoes, and hair bun are exactly the same as those of a human, even his clothes are the same as those of a human.
Lu Liangsheng had never seen this kind of little creature before. He watched it with its hands on its hips between its webbed feet, chirping as if it was scolding the master and disciple.
“It seems to have wisdom.”
He touched it with his fingertips, and the little man flew out of the frog's web as if he was hit by a chariot. Lu Liangsheng wanted to catch him to prevent him from falling to death or getting injured.
Instantly, a long scarlet tongue swung and grabbed the flying little man, and then... dragged him into its mouth.
The master and disciple looked at each other.
A burp broke the silence.
The curtains fluttered, the lights shone over here, and the Toad Taoist was rubbing his white belly.
"… I feel a little sorry to say this, but this is really my instinctive reaction as a teacher."
"Master, guess whether I believe it or not... Oh, forget it..."
Lu Liangsheng covered his forehead with his hands, thinking that all his work was in vain this time.