let go of my skin fairy

Chapter 3 The Temple of the Earth

In Xiaoshan Village, five miles away, there is an earth temple built of bluestone.

However, the sculpture of the land god in the middle of the temple has been moved to a dark corner.

In the middle of the temple stands a newly built stone statue.

The new stone statue is about one person tall and is placed in the place of the original land god.

There is also an incense table in front of the new stone statue, on which are inserted three pillars of high incense, some wild fruits picked from the mountains, and a large bowl of white tofu.

A nightingale was looking for food in the mountains and forests. It flew into the earth temple and made a soft chirp.

It landed on the incense table, pecking at the wild fruit on the table.

The new stone statue that was standing still slowly opened its eyes and opened its lips, revealing a warm and healing smile.

So, the nightingale became more and more hungry, and after pecking the wild fruit, she began to peck the tofu again. It flapped its wings, and its two jewel-like eyes were shining like ink, looking very happy.

At the same time, there were small footsteps outside the Earth Temple.

"Swish!"

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The appearance of the little widow eating tofu was really too hungry, and the healing smile on the little widow's face, all told Jiang Chaoge something.

Xiaoshan Village really has problems!

No dog barking, no lights, no lodging, no respect for scholars?

This is obviously not a normal village!

"Liang Ping'an has been gone for a while. In this kind of place, he may have an accident at any time. I must find him before he has an accident and complete the seizure."

Without thinking about the disappearing Jiang Erlang and the weird little widow, Jiang Chaoge left through the wall.

Soon, he came to another door.

If he remembered correctly, there lived in this room an old man with a kind face and a seemingly innocent face?Moreover, the grandfather also greeted Liang Ping'an's family.

"Time is short. If you want to catch up with Liang Ping'an, you can only go in a straight line. There is indeed a problem in Xiaoshan Village, but the ghosts here don't seem to be conscious, so there shouldn't be any danger."

He strode into the courtyard.

In the small courtyard, he saw a wooden chicken house covered with a thick rain cloth, but unfortunately, there were no chickens!
Not only no dogs, but no chickens?

Just as he was thinking, he heard two old voices coming from the house.

"It seems that there will be another pair of bowls and chopsticks."

"Don't talk about the old man, just add a pair of bowls and chopsticks. Compared with the days of fear and fear before, it is much easier."

Not surprisingly, there should be a loving old couple living in the house.

Jiang Chaoge walked in.

As soon as I entered the room, I saw the innocent old man and an old woman with thinning hair and sunken eyes.

The two really loved each other, the grandfather was lying on the bed, and the old lady was lying on the ground.

In addition, there is a dilapidated wooden square table in the narrow house, on which there is a small bowl of leftover white tofu and three sets of bowls and chopsticks.

"White tofu again?"

Jiang Chaoge is now a little sensitive to tofu.

However, what puzzled him even more at this moment was... why there were three pairs of bowls and chopsticks when there were only two people in the room?
While being startled in vain, he suddenly thought of something, raised his head decisively, and looked at the beams of the roof.

Sure enough, there was a person hanging upside down.

It's not a person, it's a ghost!

It was a young scholar, handsome in appearance, with picturesque eyebrows and eyes, wearing a dark green Confucian shirt and holding a paper fan in his hand.

His two feet stepped on the beams, as if stepping on the ground, his eyes were full of intoxication, and his face was filled with a happy and healing smile.

It's just that the scholar's body tends to be 'transparent', and it looks like he's about to disappear at any time, which is why Jiang Chaoge didn't see the scholar immediately after entering the room.

"The second Hanged Ghost?!"

If one ghost hangs upside down, it may be that there is something wrong with that ghost, but if all the ghosts hang upside down, then the problem is definitely not the ghost, but the village.

"What secrets are hidden in Xiaoshan Village?"

"Could it be that there is something in Xiaoshan Village that...feeds on ghosts?"

"Before entering the house just now, the old man seemed to have said that he needs to add a pair of bowls and chopsticks. Does this mean that... the old man and the old woman know about the existence of the scholar on the beam?!"

Jiang Chaoge sorted out the clues again, and found that the problem seemed to be more serious than he imagined.

Because, according to his guess, there is probably something in Xiaoshan Village that can control ghosts, and he is also a ghost now, and he is in Xiaoshan Village.

"If I can't find out what is controlling these ghosts, will I still be in danger even if I take away Liang Ping'an?"

Only by finding the murderer can the murderer be avoided!
Jiang Chaoge looked at the scholar on the beam, and the self-healing smile on the scholar's face.

He doesn't want to be like this!
"The scholar should be the missing scholar Jiang Erlang is looking for. According to the time, he entered the village earlier than Jiang Erlang. Maybe there will be new clues in his memory?"

Although the process of reading the memory was a bit painful, Jiang Chaoge decided to try again!
He first bowed to the scholar on the roof beam, expressing a little respect, then jumped up, grabbed the scholar's neck tightly with both hands, and hung himself up.

After hanging it up, he began to twist his waist and swing it.

swaying swaying...

The picture in front of him changed.

Perhaps because the scholar's body was almost transparent, the memories Jiang Chaoge read were scattered.

The first memory is like an 'edited blockbuster movie', a scene of studying in school for a while, and a scene of reciting poems at a poetry meeting for a while.

Moreover, it is very speechless that every time a critical moment comes, the following is gone!
Fortunately, there were not many scattered memory fragments, and soon, he appeared at the entrance of Xiaoshan Village.

"I am Jiang Yu'er, a scholar from a poor family!"

Jiang Chaoge's eyebrows became swollen and painful again, but it was much more comfortable than the first time. Incomplete memory is a disadvantage, but the advantage is that it is not as fierce and huge as Jiang Erlang's.

"Boom boom boom!"

After he entered the village, he also knocked on the little widow's door.

The little widow opened the door, revealing Xiazuo's figure again.

"Hey, where did the handsome young man come from? I'm afraid he's hungry on the way? My sister-in-law has white and tender tofu at home. Do you want to have a bite before you go on your way?"

"Okay... okay, thank you sister-in-law!"

As soon as Jiang Yu'er heard that there was tofu to eat, he immediately nodded in agreement.

After all, he was eating and sleeping during this journey.

Sister-in-law is really a good person!
He secretly decided in his heart that after he was admitted to Juren, he would come to thank his sister-in-law again.

And the little widow didn't lie to him, after working in the kitchen for a while, she brought out a big pot of white and tender tofu.

With the faint moonlight, Jiang Yu'er could see the heat wafting from the pot.

"It's so fragrant!"

Jiang Yu'er was so hungry, he started to eat with big mouthfuls.

The taste of tofu is very smooth and delicate.

An indescribable delicacy stimulated his taste buds, making him unable to stop eating, and he ate up a large pot of white tofu in just a short while.

“Sister-in-law’s tofu is so delicious!”

Jiang Yu'er's heart was warm, and his stomach was also warm, as if a fire was burning in his chest, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face unconsciously.

Then the little widow came over.

"Brother, is the tofu made by sister-in-law delicious?"

"good to eat!"

"Then how will my younger brother repay his sister-in-law?" The little widow pressed on step by step.

"This...sister-in-law...sister-in-law, don't do this, we can't...can't..." Jiang Yu'er put both hands on the waistband while stepping back.

(End of this chapter)