Folk custom: At the beginning of the wedding, the bride takes off her painted skin

The only people in the house were the bookkeeper, the medicine seller, the medicine test boy and Yuan Rang.

At this moment, they looked at Shi Ji who suddenly broke in, with expressions of shock and... confusion on their faces.

Li Daoxuan stood guard at the door and was not in a hurry to go in.

Of course, he was also afraid that they would run away, so Tanxiao and the fifth sister followed him in.

Tanxiao naturally went to ask, after all, the procedure was still interesting.

Li Daoxuan just stood guard at the door, holding on to the railing of the ship, looking at the dark island opposite and the ferry made of dark stone.

His eyesight was very good, and when he passed through the space, he vaguely seemed to see figures moving around inside the ferry.

But they were all wearing black robes, and they were walking very fast, as if something was chasing them.

"Hey, what are you looking at?!"

A voice came from beside me.

He turned around and looked...it was the first mate!

Li Daoxuan had met the first mate on the ship before, and even almost fought with them, so he recognized the clothes they were wearing at a glance.

This first mate was not like the first mate Li Daoxuan had seen before. He was tall and thick.

On the contrary, this first mate looks very slim and tall, and the first mate's robe seems to be hanging on him.

"I want to go ashore and have a look."

He was leaving soon anyway, and Li Daoxuan didn't hide his thoughts.

"What are you doing up there?" The first mate came next to him and also stood on the railing, looking at the island opposite.

"Go ashore, who doesn't want to float on the boat again?"

"Oh?"

The first mate laughed, pointed to the island opposite, and asked: "Look at them, do you really think your life after landing will be very good, will it be better than your life on this ship?"

Before Li Daoxuan could answer, the first mate patted him on the shoulder and said meaningfully:

"You don't believe it either. If you really want to go ashore and have a look in the future, just come find me."

After saying that, he folded his sleeves and left.

Li Daoxuan was left with a slightly desolate back.

Tanxiao also walked out and glanced at the first mate, but did not ask what they had said.

He knew that if it was necessary for him to know, Li Daoxuan would tell him.

"Asked."

"What did they say?"

"The livestock girl did it herself, none of them knew it, and the livestock girl is still missing."

Li Daoxuan tapped the railing with his fingers, "Isn't it too much to ask them to help me find it?"

"The bookkeeper has already taken the initiative to speak out, saying that this was a businessman who violated the rules first, and it was time for them to take action."

"Oh?"

Li Daoxuan turned around.

The bookkeeper Shi Fang had already arrived at the door. He cupped his fists and said, "City Master Li, our business community violated the rules in this matter first...I won't say more. We just want to catch the traitor first."

"Row."

Li Daoxuan nodded slightly.

Shi Fang took a deep breath and didn't say much. He just took the medicine seller and Xie Jia and left.

When the medicine seller passed in front of Li Daoxuan, he bowed gracefully and then left.

"Come on, follow me and have a look."

Now that Shi Fang and the others had decided to take action, Li Daoxuan didn't let Tanxiao figure it out.

Several people walked along the deck and came to the cabin, which was also the floor where Li Daoxuan and the others had lived before.

But it was the room in the opposite row, and the bookkeeper Shi Fang stopped at the door of a room.

He didn't knock on the door, just pushed the door open.

From a distance, Li Daoxuan saw a figure rushing out of the room, but soon, before the man could fall, Shi Fang kicked him back.

It was so straightforward that even Li Daoxuan was a little stunned.

This... has some tricks.

Immediately afterwards, Xie Jia and the medicine seller also walked in.

Li Daoxuan could clearly see from a distance that the person who just jumped out was the one-armed Mai Ke.

Why did the bookkeeper come to him?

Li Daoxuan stepped forward and came to the door of this room.

"I...Boss, I really don't know. She just said that those grain eaters will come here later and asked me to lay an ambush."

"I really don't know anything else."

The one-armed Michael knelt on the ground, trembling with fear.

"I don't care what the relationship was between you and her before, but now... you'd better recruit her truthfully, otherwise..."

"Ok?"

Li Daoxuan was listening, chatting and laughing when he suddenly pulled his sleeves and didn't say anything, just pointed in the direction.

Li Daoxuan squinted his eyes calmly.

At the corner of the roof, there was a small red snake wrapped around a beam.

The red snake swallowed the scarlet snake letter while staring here.

Li Daoxuan withdrew his gaze.

Tanxiao made a gesture, indicating that the human-faced toad had followed.

After a slight delay, the conversation in the room had ended, Mai Ke had also stood up, and the bookkeeper came out and explained to Li Daoxuan: "These two were already getting along, this is the room of the livestock girl...I Look again.”

"no need."

After Li Daoxuan finished speaking, he immediately left talking and laughing.

Just now, when the bookkeeper came out, the red snake disappeared, and the human-faced toad followed.

Now Li Daoxuan and the others are following the toad with a human face.

The bookkeeper hesitated for a moment, but then chose to follow. Needless to say, he knew that these grain eaters must have discovered something.

Not long after walking, Tanxiao turned and headed towards the stairs.

"Down there."

Going down one floor, you come to the sailor's living area.

The familiar stench came, and Li Daoxuan could vaguely see the toad's face, which Tanxiao had deliberately let him see.

If not, use the hiding method of a human-faced toad.

Even if Li Daoxuan uses all his methods, it is difficult to see him.

"Probably dead."

There were still four or five portals across, and Li Daoxuan had already given the answer.

Because he caught a trace of the smell of blood in the stench, and the farther he went, the stronger the smell of blood became.

By the time he came to the door where the human-faced toad was, the smell of blood was already extremely strong.

Tanxia put away the toad with a human face, and Li Daoxuan opened the door with a kick.

As the wooden door was kicked open, what appeared inside was an extremely bloody scene... The livestock girl's upper body was leaning on the wooden bed, with her chest and abdomen open.

Open in the physical sense, she was disemboweled.

His eyes were wide open and his head was staring in the direction of the door, with a look of disbelief on his face.

Li Daoxuan felt calm and glanced around the room.

"All the internal organs are gone, and the disembowelment was extremely clean."

Li Daoxuan even had a feeling that this disembowelment method was more efficient than his conventional disembowelment technique.

The bookkeeper also squeezed in, looking at the scene in the room with an expression of disbelief on his face.

But he calmed down quickly, stepped forward, put his hand on the livestock girl's neck and felt it for a moment.

"The time of death is no more than an hour."

"No need to look, evil hands are moving." At the sight of the dead man, Li Daoxuan could clearly see the traces from inside the house to the door.

To the naked eye, where there were no footprints, there was a line of bright red footprints.

That's not blood, that's contamination.

"Evil...evil?"

The bookkeeper was a little panicked, but his expression quickly disappeared. "There is indeed an evil spirit on our ship, but we have never caught any trace of it."

As he spoke, he took off the shroud ghost from the waist of the livestock girl.

"She is already dead. Please ask City Master Li to accept this thing as an apology."

Li Daoxuan looked at him, then at the shroud ghost in his hand, and naturally understood what he meant.

Death is like a lamp going out, that's the end of it.

Li Daoxuan looked back at the fifth sister, and they nodded slightly.

"Okay, in that case..."

Li Daoxuan had just taken the shroud ghost from his hand, but the next moment, there was a loud commotion outside.

"Dead, the first mate is dead!"

The crowd was bustling and noisy.

Li Daoxuan and Tanxiao looked at each other, both seeing surprise in each other's eyes, because the first mate had spoken to them just now on the deck.

He even invited Li Daoxuan and talked about landing.

But now...dead?

"City Lord Li, I'm going out to take a look..." Shi Fang said softly after standing up.

Li Daoxuan made way for him. After Shi Fang went out, he shouted a few words loudly before the noisy sailors calmed down.

I couldn't hear what he was saying. Instead, they were chatting and laughing, and after making a few random calculations, their expression instantly became very ugly.

"I just gave us a fortune..."

"How to say?"

"Big evil."

Tanxiao took a deep breath and continued: "If nothing else, an accident has already happened..."

"Let's go down and have a look."

Li Daoxuan squeezed out from the crowd and walked to the stairs on the left. He led several other people to follow him while talking and laughing.

Arriving at the bottom of the cabin, when Li Daoxuan saw several sailors standing at the door of cabin No. 3, still talking about it, he knew that something serious was going on.

As expected, when he came to the door and dispersed the sailors watching the show, he saw the first mate lying inside, disembowelled.

He was already dead, and even if he was disemboweled, no blood would flow out.

The ground was clean, and similarly, his internal organs were missing.

As clean as a pig being slaughtered and about to be sold!

"Li Daoxuan, look at that!"

Wu Yanran suddenly reached out and pointed to the left front of the cabin. The stone platform that was originally used to place the dead man's money... disappeared!

"Are we... trapped on this boat?" Wu Shuran murmured.

Even Li Daoxuan, who had always been calm, couldn't help but take a deep breath. He was a little panicked, but he quickly calmed down.

"there is always a solution to a problem."

"Let's go out and take a look first."

There were already noisy sounds outside. After a few people came out, Shi Fang, the second mate and bookkeeper of the ghost ship, had already arrived with a group of sailors, followed by the captain of the ship... …

……

An hour later.

It was still Shi Fang's room, and the people's words were roughly the same, but the animal husbandry girl was missing.

"Lord Shi Fang, we are all grasshoppers on the same rope now. Can you tell us about the evil things on your ship?"

Tanxiao is responsible for asking.

Li Daoxuan closed his eyes and rested his mind. He was thinking about how he got to the current situation step by step.

From the very beginning when we boarded the ship, we discovered that the crew members died of different causes, then we discovered the secret of the dead man's money, then we found the dancing girl's ship, and now this ghost ship has not yet had time to go to sea.

At this point, the fifth sister is delicious, and then the livestock girl comes to the door.

In all of this, someone seems to be leading me by the nose...and the most important thing is.

In all the previous narratives and records about ghost ships, it has never been said that ghost ships are interconnected.

Only this time, the dead man's money has an additional use and can be used to connect to the ghost ship.

This time the Evil Suppression Tower is... different.

Faintly, Li Daoxuan could feel that there would be great dangers in the Evil Suppression Tower this time, but at the same time, there would also be great opportunities!

So just before Li Daoxuan came up from the bottom cabin, he left his paper man at the door of cabin No. 3.

As for the talking and laughing human-faced toad, he used it in a more important place.

Just by thinking about it like this, Tanxiao also learned about the evil spirits from Shi Fang's mouth.

The evil spirit on this boat is a fish-man, a sea fish with human legs.

He has been swimming in the sea around this ghost ship, always sneaking onto the ship when others are not prepared, killing a crew member and running away with the body.

But since three days ago, when the evil spirit got on the ship, he was discovered by the first mate on the ship and injured, he has not appeared again.

In other words, that evil spirit cannot defeat the first mate!

"And the bookkeeper just said that the evil spirit... can't even deal with the livestock girl." Tanxiao knew that Li Daoxuan didn't listen just now, so he came over to explain.

"If it is really evil, then there is only one possibility left. There are... other evil spirits on this ship."

The bookkeeper's expression was extremely sad.

"Lord Shi, it's been so long and you haven't found any signs?" Li Daoxuan asked pointedly.

Just as the bookkeeper Shi Fang was about to speak, someone knocked on the door.

"Enter."

The door was pushed open, and an armored sailor walked in. He first saluted Shi Fang with clasped fists, and then said: "Second mate, the captain has invited you!"

"I know, I'll be there right away."

Shi Fang stood up, and after the soldier who had sent the message left, he said: "I guess they are discussing the matter of the new first officer. I will go over and take a look first... City Lord Li, what do you think this is?"

"Go ahead."

Li Daoxuan did not stop him.

"Thank you, Chengzhu Li, for your understanding."

As soon as he left, the only believers left in the market were Xie Jia, medicine sellers and Mai Ke.

Talking and laughing, his eyes swept across the other parties, and finally landed on the white-haired old man, "I wonder why that medicine boy...is missing?"

The medicine seller hurriedly said: "I just asked him to try a new medicine... The effect of this medicine is a bit strong, and he is still lying in the room to rest."

"Oh……"

"This murderous evil spirit, could it be him?"

While chatting and laughing, holding a fly whisk in hand, the conversation suddenly changed and the medicine seller almost fell off his chair in fright.

He smiled bitterly and said: "How dare you, that kid is not evil, he is just a medicine boy made by me, where did he get this ability?"

"Then maybe Pindao got it wrong. I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

He was talking and apologizing, but there was always a smile in his eyes.

Li Daoxuan didn't speak, and he didn't know what to say. The situation was not yet clear, and the ship couldn't go on a killing spree, so all he could do was wait.

No matter what the hell is at work, it will show up.

The only good thing is that this evil-suppressing tower has no time limit.

You can wait forever.

Shi Fang went to discuss matters this time and stayed there for a long time. After the tea was replenished several times, he came back with a dark face.

The believers on the other side stood up immediately and said, "Boss, how are you?"

"Aren't you the first mate?"

"Normally speaking, shouldn't everyone be promoted from second mate to first mate?"

Shi Fang returned to his seat and sat down, took a big sip of tea, took a long breath, and then said: "You will never imagine who I saw when I just went to discuss matters."

"Who?"

Xie Jia Yuan Rang asked immediately.

"First mate, you saw him, he's not dead."

Li Daoxuan suddenly spoke up.

Tanxiao also showed a clear smile, and the other fifth sisters and the believers opposite had surprised expressions on their faces.

As for Shi Ji... just pretend he doesn't exist.

The bookkeeper, who was just about to show off, was stunned when he heard this. He reacted for a while before nodding, "As expected of City Lord Li."

"Yes, the body we saw was not the first mate at all."

"Who is that?"

"The explanation he gave is... that one is his twin brother, so the good news on the ship now is that the first mate is not dead, but the bad news is that there is really something else evil."

"Now the captain has ordered a thorough investigation of the entire ship."

As he spoke, Shi Fang looked at Li Daoxuan and said in a deep voice: "What is City Lord Li's plan? Don't worry, as long as City Lord Li gives the order, all of us believers in the market will stand firmly with you."

"I have no plans. Since the captain has ordered a thorough investigation, we will go back first."

Li Daoxuan stood up and said:

"Let's go."

Naturally, the chattering and laughing people immediately followed. It wasn't until they returned to their original residence that the fifth sister lowered her head and came to Li Daoxuan.

"Team...Captain, if our sisters weren't greedy, we wouldn't be in this situation now. We are willing to be punished and we can do whatever you ask us to do."

Wu Shuran said softly.

Li Daoxuan waved his hand, "This matter has nothing to do with you. Even without you, we would stay on this ship because of other things."

When Tanxiao heard this, his eyes lit up, as if he thought of something.

"What does Brother Daoxuan mean?"

"I don't mean anything." Li Daoxuan said, tapping the edge of the bed gently, "You said at the beginning that this ship was the last hope..."

"I estimate that more and more grain eaters will come to this ship."

Tanxiao nodded and started calculating.

He held a whisk in his right hand and kept calculating with his left hand, but in just a moment, he calculated something.

But Li Daoxuan didn't ask about this, but asked about another doubt in his heart.

"At the beginning, on the ship I just entered, I remember you said that we would eventually return to that ship, but in this situation... you also said that this ship is the last hope. "

"This is how the same thing?"

Tanxiao put the fly whisk on his left hand and explained softly: "The hexagram shows that there is no conflict between the two..."

Li Daoxuan was about to nod, but found that the paper man he placed at the door of cabin No. 3 was awakened.

Someone pushed the door open from the inside!

Although they can't leave once they're here, people on other ghost ships can still get to this ghost ship through dead people's money.

Three men came out of the door.

As soon as the first one came out, he cursed: "Those two crazy bitches are really fucking crazy. They promised to kill the people of God Witch City."

"In the end, even the people in Shogunate City who saw us were killed without mercy!"

"I really want to fuck them both to death!" (End of Chapter)