Kaifeng Monster

Chapter 135 Exclusive Spoiler: Underworld (1)
Early in the morning, Bai Yutang rushed to look for Zhan Zhao.As soon as Zhan Zhao got up, he was soaking silk cloth in the copper basin to wipe his face. Before the silk cloth was soaked, he heard the window sash crackling...

Such a big Bai Yutang was standing in front of him, Zhan Zhao just ignored him, just frowned and looked at the window sash: Obviously, last night, the window was not closed.This habit is not good, it is easy to attract mice.

Bai Yutang didn't notice Zhan Zhao's disgusted expression at all, he was immersed in his excitement: "Zhan Zhao, have you heard that the east four streets of Xuanwu Street were haunted by ghosts yesterday!"

"Ah."

"I heard that in the middle of the night, a bullock cart appeared in the middle of the street for no reason. The hood of the cart was covered with coarse blue cloth. The wind lifted the curtain, and there was a beautiful girl inside who was thrushing her eyebrows, drawing and painting. There's a face! It's winking, as ugly as it gets!"

"Ah."

"I heard that there were a few people on the street at that time, and they were all frightened. One of them had a cold this morning, and he was talking nonsense while wrapped in a quilt. Zhan Zhao, Kaifeng Mansion governs one side, you have to take care of this matter, right?"

"Ah."

Bai Yutang, who was belatedly aware of it, finally noticed something was wrong: "You are coming and going, what do you mean?"

"Do not believe."

Bai Yutang was furious after cooperating with himself to describe it vividly and emotionally for such a long time, only to get these two words.

After leaving Kaifeng Mansion, Bai Yutang decided to find Zhan Zhao's girlfriend.

In all kinds of Kaifeng stories, Zhan Zhao has all kinds of girlfriends, but in this story, he has only one girlfriend, a girl from Duanmu with a very strange life experience.

At this time, Zhan Zhao and Duanmucui had returned from Yanzhou for several months, but they were not married yet, because Mr. Gongsun insisted on choosing an auspicious day.

When choosing the date, all the people from Kaifeng Mansion were present. Mr. Gongsun flipped through the various versions of the imperial almanac with a red face, sweating profusely from his forehead, and then announced: the auspicious day of the zodiac is three years Zero six months later!
The person involved, Bao Zheng, recalled that since he met Zhan Zhao, for the first time, he saw a cold light in Zhan Zhao's eyes that was sharper than Ju Que.

But Mr. Gongsun insisted on his opinion.Scholars are sometimes prone to pedantic mistakes. According to him, this day is very meaningful, not only related to human geography, but also related to astronomy, and involves the best arrangement of stars.Because it is too complicated, I can't explain it, but I believe he is right. This day is auspicious, and it cannot be more auspicious!

The matter is a bit complicated, Zhan Zhao's face sank, but Duan Mucui, one of the main parties, said it doesn't matter - of course we can't use common sense to speculate on her, for a person who has been in Yingzhou for more than 2000 years, three years Zero and six months are too short, and it's too short, just a flick of a finger.So she generously said that it doesn't matter if three years is three years, zero or six months is six months, and zero or sixty months is all right.

Later, Bao Zheng came out to preside over the overall situation.He dragged Gongsun Ce to the small room next door and had a heart-to-heart talk, the main idea was: Ah Ce, don't make trouble for Zhanwei.I think back when Zhanwei met Miss Duanmu, she was a young man in full bloom, and after waiting for so long, waiting for a year or two, waiting for July and July, he was almost an older man and young man. What do you mean by asking people to delay for another three years and six months?
Gongsun Ce had an epiphany, and the auspicious day was changed to six months later.

The news spread in the rivers and lakes.Xu Qing was the most enthusiastic about the empty island.He happily came to visit with a bunch of special products of the so-called empty island - special dried fish.Thinking of the "fight" between Bai Yutang and Duanmucui, he also dragged him in, hoping to create some treasures.

As usual, the two still lived in the silk and satin village opened by their elder brother Lu Fang.

But what I didn't expect was that although Bai Yutang and Duanmucui became acquainted with each other this time, their aura was just wrong!

The focus of the dispute between the two was Xiao Qinghua.Bai Yutang thinks that Duanmucui is either a charlatan or a crooked warlock who can be the master of such a monster as Xiao Qinghua. Considering Zhan Zhao's face, he reluctantly admits that she is a "heroine with a bit of magic".But Duanmucui didn't buy it at all, insisting that he was a god, a heavyweight god!
When the two were arguing, Xiao Qinghua kept blushing and shouted thickly from the side: "I'm not a monster! No!"

But nobody paid any attention to it.

After getting in touch with him a lot later, Bai Yutang really felt that Duanmucui knew very well about strange powers and chaos gods, but it was absolutely impossible for him to admit that Duanmucui was a god.As for Duanmucui, she also got into a rivalry with Bai Yutang, and within less than a stick of incense, she turned black and white, and Bai Yutang had to admit that she was a god.

Zhan Zhao is not interested in the haunting of Xuanwu Street, but Duanmucui is definitely interested, and Bai Yutang is very confident about it.

Sure enough, when Duanmucui heard this, his eyes lit up, and he threw the flower cards in his hand, and sprinkled small blue and white flowers all over their heads: "Really? Haunted?"

Anyone who regards flower cards as a serious lifelong career, or bowls, cannot tolerate Duanmucui's careless behavior of giving up halfway.Xiao Qinghua shuffled the cards silently, and then cursed: Brands!Brand!

Bai Yutang was a little sweaty, Duanmucui's performance was beyond his expectation, she actually asked him with the joyful expression of looking forward to the Chinese New Year after a year: Is it haunted?
Bai Yutang narrated the matter again, during which Duanmucui expressed the following emotion.

"Oxcart, there are still carts!"

"Thrush? It's quite leisurely."

"It just scares people. I don't know if it's intentional."

At the end of the incident, Duanmucui decided to go to Xuanwu Street with Bai Yutang at night to have a look, around the first moment of Choushi.

When leaving Duanmucui's house, Bai Yutang began to feel awkward.One of the reasons is that the communication with Duanmucui was so smooth this time, there was no quarrel or blushing.

The second reason is that...

He actually met Zhan Zhao's unmarried lady in the middle of the night!Although it is said that the body is not afraid of the shadow slanting, it is still a bit weird...

Bai Yutang's entanglement continued until Choushi, Chuke, Xuanwu Street, and then disappeared immediately.

Because he saw Zhang Long, Zhao Hu, Wang Chao, Ma Han, Mr. Gongsun, Zhan Zhao, and Duanmucui one after another!
Good guy!Bai Yutang gritted his teeth, is this the "meeting" with him?It caused him to be anxious for so long, for fear of attracting gossip, who would have thought that it would end up as a party in Kaifeng Mansion, and only Mr. Bao would be missing.As soon as Mr. Bao arrives, he will be promoted to the court, right?
Zhan Zhao seemed to see his doubts, and pointed to the second floor of the roadside teahouse very leisurely.

It was Mrs. Bao in normal clothes, sitting by the railing at the table, vaguely saw teacups and snacks on the table.

What are you doing here?Coming to the theater?
"I just said hello to Zhan Zhao." When he saw Duanmucui, the instigator actually complained to him, "He said he couldn't be relieved, and he didn't think about me back then, it was gods blocking gods and Buddhas blocking Buddhas... "

As for Zhang Long, Zhao Hu and the others, they laughed so hard that they couldn't even close their mouths: "It's been a long time since I saw Sister Duanmu make a move. It's rare to see it, hehe, it's rare to see it."

Gongsun Ce's explanation reveals the elegance of a scholar: "Strange powers and chaotic spirits have existed in ancient times. Let's just observe them and remember them. It is also a great pleasure to collect them into volumes and start small readings. Speaking of this, Bai Wu Xia, there is a volume of "Underworld Demon Records" next, I wrote it in my spare time, do you have any interest?"

As for Mr. Bao, the official spokesperson Zhan Zhao gave an explanation: "My lord is fine today. I heard that we are coming, so I came together, saying that I want to see if there is any grievance..."

That's right, the story of Dongsi Dao has been widely circulated within a day, adding fuel and vinegar, and there are noses and eyes.When Zhan Zhao went to find out, the witnesses only said that there was a girl sitting in the bullock cart. Later, the rumors became more and more outrageous. Some said that she was thrushing eyebrows, and some said that the girl had two faces...

This is not bad!How can we let the good people pass it on like this!

At the end of the ugly era, perhaps because of the rumors the day before, the east four avenues of Xuanwu Avenue were empty, but they were extremely lively because there were people from Kaifeng Mansion booking the place.

Chatting about the case and current affairs was extremely lively.The little blue and whites are also there, dressed in military uniform, black clothes with swords, but they are pulling the dynasty to play flower cards, and they somehow turned up the old debt, you owe me money, I will credit you two taels.A broken bowl, and I don't know what to do with saving so much money. Could it be that they want to lend usury?

Bai Yutang rolled his eyes, seeing what was not pleasing to his eyes, and suddenly realized that Zhan Zhao and Duanmucui were gone, looked around, and at some point, they sat on the opposite roof.The night breeze was blowing, the branches and leaves whirled behind them, and a huge moon was reflected, and the two were talking and laughing, which was also pleasing to the eye.

Bai Yutang hugged the picture, leaned against the eaves pillar behind him, and suddenly felt that today's trip was like a dream: Is it really a ghost hunting?Is he making too much fuss, or is it that the people in Kaifeng Mansion are too light-hearted?
At the beginning of Yinshi, Wang Chao screamed suddenly, and following the direction of his finger, one could see shadows and shadows in the center of the east four roads, illusory, like waves of water.First came the bullock cart, a big stupid cow, dumb and silly, with dirt still sticking to its fur.Then there is the hood pulled by the ox cart, poorly surrounded by blue coarse cloth, a pair of bare feet protruding from under the curtain, white and delicate, like freshly peeled young bamboo shoots, even Bai Yutang felt a little hot when he saw it, very uncomfortable Turn your face away.

The sleeves of the clothes moved lightly, and Duanmu Cui flew down from the eaves.Zhan Zhao moved behind her, but landed before her, and stretched out his hand to stop her: "Be careful, today is not the same as before."

Xiao Qinghua was also nervous, she drew her sword out of its sheath in a snap: "Master, I'll go first!"

Duanmucui frowned and looked at the bullock cart ahead, then shook her head: "No."

She lightly flicked Zhan Zhao's hand in front of her, and walked slowly towards the bullock cart.Zhan Zhao was stunned for a moment, and didn't try to stop her, but Bai Yutang became nervous. Seeing Duanmucui getting closer to the ox cart, his heart beat like a beating drum, and he stretched out his elbow to touch Zhan Zhao: "Hey, then It's a ghost, won't you stop her?"

There was a smile on the corner of Zhan Zhao's lips, and he took a step aside instead: "Brother Bai, do you want to go over and have a look?"

It was rare to see the provocative look in the cat's eyes, and Bai Yutang immediately became angry: "Didn't Fifth Master Bai be frightened!"

He strode towards the bullock cart, but felt guilty after all when he approached.Duanmucui had already arrived in front of the car, and when she heard the sound, she turned her head to look at him, with the same narrow smile in her eyes as Zhan Zhao: "Fifth brother, come and roll up the bead curtain for the beauty."

This stinky girl is taking advantage of him again, Fifth Brother!When my grandfather was in the rivers and lakes, you didn't know where your nose was running.

Seeing him standing still, Duanmucui smiled and said, "Oh, Chinchilla is also afraid sometimes."

Zhan Zhao's chuckle came from behind, and Bai Yutang was so excited that he almost jumped up: "Afraid? It's a woman with two faces. I feel that men and women are different, so I rashly lifted the curtain of others, which is indecent." .”

Duanmucui's eyeballs rolled, and his hand was like lightning, and he grabbed his arm: "Come on, come on, it's just a car curtain, you might be a beautiful woman, maybe you will make a good marriage." Pulling his hand to lift the curtain, Bai Yutang became anxious: "Duanmucui, if a man and a woman can't kiss each other, Zhan Zhao is just watching, you, you, you..."

Before he finished speaking, he let out a sigh.

When the hand touched the curtain, it seemed to touch the air, and the hand slid across the curtain at will, but the curtain did not move at all.

Is this curtain just an illusion?
Bai Yutang withdrew his hand, looked at the palm, then the back of his hand, and finally at Duanmucui.

Duanmucui tilted her head to look at him, just smiled.

Bai Yutang was stunned: "What's going on?"

Duanmucui answered quickly: "Unless you admit that I am a fairy."

This is woman!At such a critical time, you still hold on to trivial matters!Bai Yutang gritted his teeth with hatred, and turned his head away to ignore her.On the contrary, Wang Chao, Ma Han and the others squeezed over, and one by one they searched for the bullock cart. After grabbing a handful of air, they asked Duanmucui, "Sister Duanmu, where is this evildoer?"

"A monster or something, it's just a mirage." Duanmucui answered their words, but blinked at Zhan Zhao who was a few steps away, his eyes were bright and full of smiles.

Mirage, what the hell, Bai Yutang muttered in his heart, and stretched out his hand to lift the curtain of the car again.

Suddenly there was a wind, no, no, no, it was like looking at a painting, the wind blowing from the painting, there was not even a shadow of the wind on the four east and west streets of Xuanwu Street.

The curtain of the car was lifted by the "wind", and a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl was extremely beautiful, holding her face in both hands, her eyes blinking.When she turned her head, Bai Yutang could see clearly, the black hair behind her was as shiny as blue ointment, there was no second face!
It's a pity, the wind soon passed, and the curtain floated down again, and what was reflected in Bai Yutang's eyes was only a rigid blue cloth curtain.Bai Yutang became anxious, and turned to look at Duanmucui and the others: "Just now there was a... girl, did you see it?"

No one saw it, everyone was distracted, and he was the only one who saw it.

Zhan Zhao asked Duanmucui: "Is this mirage common?"

"It's very rare. It only happens once in a hundred years. It's mostly in the mountains and forests of Qiuze, and it appears in the market. This is the first time I've heard of it."

"How long will it last?"

"One or two days, no more than three or five days, it's just an accident."

"Can you find a way to eliminate it? Just don't scare the people."

Duanmu Cui smiled: "Of course it is possible, you don't even think about my background."

She ordered Wang Chao to find a bag of small pieces of charcoal, crushed it and walked slowly around the bullock cart, and asked Zhang Long to find a torch to light all the charcoal.I don't know what she did on the charcoal. When the smoke rose, it was so thick that it quickly surrounded the ox cart.The ox cart, which was originally illusory, was crumbling under the pressure of the smoke, as if it had been crushed.

Bai Yutang heard Duanmucui talking to the bullock cart: "You live in yours, I live in mine, the world is too heavy, you can't smell it, go back earlier."

It took a long time for the smoke to dissipate.The ox cart with blue coarse cloth also dispersed together.Unwilling to give up, Bai Yutang bent down and inspected the place for a long time, except for the black charcoal thread, there was nothing left, not even the ruts of the bullock cart.

Everyone sat in Duanmucui's house for a while before leaving.Bai Yutang deliberately procrastinated and walked at the end, seeing that Duanmucui's gatekeeper was still closed, he quickly stretched out his hand to hold it, and leaned against the crack of the bowl-sized door to look at Duanmucui.Duanmucui stared at him over there: "How do you say?"

"What the hell is the Underworld?"

"The place where people live after death."

"Is that a ghost? Don't ghosts live in the [-]th floor of hell?"

"Your ghosts live in the eighteenth floor of hell, don't you think it's crowded?"

"Can people go there?"

"It's already been said that it's the underworld. Do you think people can go?" Duanmucui was impatient, and took advantage of Bai Yutang's momentum to push the door, and slammed the door with a bang.It's also thanks to Bai Yutang's quick flash, otherwise the nose would not be able to keep it.

Bai Yutang resented, feeling more and more that what happened tonight was unreal.He touched his nose and walked out, as if his nose had been seriously injured - he had just taken two steps, when there was a creak behind him, Duanmucui opened the door again.

"Hey, Bai Yutang." She stopped him, "I made a mistake just now, but there is actually one person who can go."

"Who?"

Duanmucui stared: "Guess!"

Before going to bed, Zhan Zhao soaked a white silk cloth in a brass basin, preparing to wipe his face.Before the silk cloth was soaked, there was a bang on the window sash, accompanied by Bai Yutang's ouch.

This hit was definitely not light, Zhan Zhao felt sorry for him, and walked over to open the window with a guilty conscience.As soon as the window sash opened, Bai Yutang held his nose and glared at him: "Didn't you sleep with the windows open?"

"Recently... at night... there are a lot of mice..."

In the past, Bai Yutang jumped up a long time ago when there was something in such obvious words, but this time it was abnormal, as if he didn't understand, he just stared at Zhan Zhao and asked: "That girl, was she really a fairy before?"

Duanmucui could yell nonsense about this matter, but Zhan Zhao would never give her a solid answer. He looked at Bai Yutang with a smile, "Do you think she looks like this?"

Bai Yutang frowned: "It's really not like that."

After a pause, he sighed instead: "But she said that she can go to the underworld."

Zhan Zhao's heart skipped a beat, and he took a closer look at Bai Yutang: "Is it the ghost market that Duanmu talked about tonight?"

"Ah."

"I remember you also said that you saw a girl."

"Ah."

"You don't want to go to the underworld, do you?"

"Ah."

(End of this chapter)