From Jiu Shu's world

Chapter 209
Early the next morning, Ren Tingting got up and made breakfast for Henry Zhang.

Today's breakfast was particularly rich. This girl was kind-hearted. After hearing the story of the village guard last night, she felt compassionate, so she made a good meal together and wanted to give it to the village guard at the door.

It's just that when the door was opened, there was no one there.

Seeing Ren Tingting staying at the door from afar, Henry Zhang asked, “What’s wrong with Tingting?”

Ren Tingting replied: "Brother Xuan, that crazy old man is gone."

"Ok?"

Henry Zhang came over and saw that there was indeed no one there. He said, "Maybe it was because I knew that the ghosts gathered here were harmless last night. Let's go somewhere else today. Uncle Wang will come over later, just let him send someone to look for it."

The villagers guard the stability of one side, so they would not leave this area under normal circumstances. Henry Zhang estimated that the crazy old man should have gone to other parts of the town.

The two ate breakfast, and soon Uncle Wang took his servants to Henry Zhang's door to build a large shed to shelter from the rain and the sun. He ordered his servants to do the work, and came in to greet Henry Zhang and Ren Tingting by himself.

As soon as she came in and said hello, Ren Tingting said, "Uncle Wang, please send someone to see where that crazy old man went yesterday. I'm a little worried."

After all, Ren Tingting is not Henry Zhang, not as careless as a man. I saw this crazy old man shocking the ghosts last night, but he disappeared today, which would be somewhat worrying.

Uncle Wang heard Ren Tingting's order, nodded, turned around and went out without even taking a sip of tea.

But he said that the crazy old man didn't go crazy when he got up at night, but ran to the Earth Temple in Renjia Town.

The Earth Temple in Renjia Town is said to be a temple, but the temple of such a small god is actually a small house of more than ten square meters. Before the clay sculpture, it was an incense burner the size of a washbasin, filled with red root cores left by sandalwood.

When the crazy old man arrived at the earth temple, he didn't do anything. He first wiped off the dust on the clay sculpture with his own sleeve, then wiped the table where the incense burner was placed, and then respectfully gave it to the statue with a smirk. The Landlord, the landlady, knocked her head three times, her forehead was covered with a layer of dust.

After kowtowing, he smiled foolishly and murmured, "Hey... hey... help."

Then he hugged his broken bamboo stick, leaned against the wall of the Earth Temple, and fell asleep.

As soon as he fell asleep, Uncle Wang came to the door.

When Uncle Wang got the news, he rushed to the earth temple. Seeing the crazy old man sleeping soundly, with a dumbfounding expression on his face, he walked up to him, patted his shoulder and said, "Wake up, wake up."

The crazy old man woke up, saw that it was Uncle Wang, he laughed, and jumped up by himself, ignoring Uncle Wang, he was about to run out of the earth temple.

"Hey, where are you going?"

As soon as Uncle Wang finished asking, the crazy old man seemed to have remembered something, and turned back again. Regardless of Uncle Wang, he rang his head three more times in front of the land-grandmother and the land-maid, even louder than last night. They were all slightly swollen.

After knocking his head, he ran away without giving Uncle Wang a chance to speak, and ran to the street, jumping and laughing happily while running, causing pedestrians to back away in fright.

He went straight back to Zhang Xuan's Yin-Yang Medical Center, and ran in regardless of the servants who were still setting up a shed at the door.

Ren Tingting heard the noise and saw that this crazy old man came in, thought it was Uncle Wang who had found him, so she smiled and said, "Old man, wait, I'll get you something to eat."

However, what she didn't expect was that the crazy old man passed her, rushed to Henry Zhang, knelt down, grabbed Henry Zhang's sleeve, looked stupid, and shouted: "Help. Help"

Henry Zhang was a little startled. Seeing that his words were unclear and he had no rules, he quickly helped him up and asked tentatively, "Save what?"

"Fate~"

"Help?"

Henry Zhang and Ren Tingting looked at each other, full of astonishment, what was the situation, Henry Zhang asked: "Old man, what life can you save?"

But this crazy old man’s mind is not light at all. If he hadn’t engraved these two words in his heart somehow, he might not be able to say them. Now that Henry Zhang asks him this way, how can he answer a sentence?

He put aside Henry Zhang's sleeves, gestured with his fingers, and then walked around in circles in the courtyard, posing in various poses with his hands, and babbling and singing unknown operas.

Henry Zhang and Ren Tingting felt helpless and shook their heads, what is the situation.

While the crazy old man was singing, Uncle Wang rushed back, panting slightly, and smiled bitterly when he entered the door: "Oh, you madman is as old as me, how can you be so nimble."

He came to Henry Zhang and Ren Tingting, and said, "This guy, where do you guess he went? It turned out to be Zhengxiang who went to sleep in someone else's earth temple."

"Oh? Earth Temple?"

The speaker didn't mean it, but the listener meant it. This crazy old man is no ordinary lunatic, he's a village guard. Why did he come here and shout for help after sleeping in the temple all night.

Henry Zhang was suspicious, so he asked: "Uncle Wang, what did this old man do in the Earth Temple?"

Hearing Henry Zhang’s question, Uncle Wang saw that his frowning didn’t seem to be a trivial matter, so he stood up straight, recalled it carefully, and told Henry Zhang what he had just seen and heard.

After listening to Uncle Wang, Henry Zhang's brows not only did not untie, but he felt more and more problematic, and said: "Tingting, Uncle Wang, you two are optimistic about this crazy old man, I think there is something hidden behind this, go to Yizhuang to ask the uncle Ask."

Ren Tingting nodded, glanced at the crazy old man who was still singing, and said, "Brother Xuan, go early and come back early." '

"kindness"

In the lobby of Yizhuang, Uncle Jiu and Henry Zhang sat on the left and right, talking about the crazy old man while drinking tea.

Uncle Jiu put down his teacup and pondered, "According to what you said, I'm afraid something really happened. The village guards were born in the village and died in the village. If there is no major event, they will not leave easily. This crazy old man not only left, but also asked you for help. I'm afraid There is a problem."

Henry Zhangdao: "But he asked crazily and stupidly, but he couldn't say anything, and there was no way to start this matter."

Uncle Jiu thought for a while and then said: "Ah Xuan, you kill a big fat chicken in the yard, and then let your two senior brothers go to the town to buy some melons and fruit tributes and come back. We will ask for land once."

Uncle Jiu's idea is very simple, that is, to seize the only clue to the matter, and ask the parents-in-law of the land temple.

You must know that ordinary people are not easy to communicate with such lost souls, crazy and stupid village guards, but a god like the land and mountain god can communicate a little through this way of dreaming, and he must know a little more than ask.

Henry Zhang nodded, and went out. First, he gave money to the two senior brothers to buy tributes, and he went to the big rooster raised by Uncle Jiu.

These big roosters are really ill-fated. They have just been bought for more than a month, and they are about to be knifed. It's really miserable.

At night, Zhang Xuan and Uncle Jiu lined up a large table of food and wine in the room, including boiled chicken, boiled pork belly, melons, fruits and vegetables.

In front of the dining table is a large incense burner, with three sticks of high-quality incense on it, and three times the high-quality monkey wine poured in front of the incense burner, everything is ready.

Uncle Jiu took out a piece of yellow paper, held a cinnabar pen in his hand, and wrote on the yellow paper: "Today, a villager asked for help from the underworld messenger Zhang Xuan. The matter was not very clear, and the inquiry was fruitless. I heard that Er Gong had a relationship with him. Host a banquet and invite the two gentlemen to come and ask if you have any questions."

As Uncle Jiu wrote, he spoke softly, as if his voice was also written into the yellow paper.He and Henry Zhang both have shady jobs, and they are no worse than this land tolerance, so the words are like ordinary banquets, but they are not special.

After Uncle Jiu finished writing these words, he lit the yellow paper and put it in the copper basin. He saw that the yellow paper burned with the flame and quickly turned into ashes.

At the moment when the flame was extinguished, a yellow paper crane flew out of the copper basin and out of the window.

(End of this chapter)