The old man was caught off guard by the cinnabar being sprinkled on his face, and his eyes instantly felt burning. He instinctively covered his eyes immediately.
At this time, the broken knife in Xu Tong's hand had penetrated deeply into the old man's abdomen, and the broken blade penetrated into the handle of the knife.
He expected that Fatty Li was unreliable and would definitely call him out at critical moments, and Fatty's habit of calling him Brother Xu during this period was also very instructive.
The lighting in the room was too poor, and the conditions for hiding at will were not available. In such a large place, there was a precedent for Li Bo playing the role of a paper man.
If I were an old man, the first thing I would think of is either the groom or another paper man.
So he hid in an unexpected place for the old man.
He twisted his hands and said, "Pfft!" Immediately, blood poured down the old man's lower abdomen. The old man's lips trembled, and he suppressed the discomfort in his eyes before punching him with his backhand.
However, this punch was in vain. Xu Tong bent down, threw himself into the old man's arms with open hands, and knocked the old man out of the door.
"screw you!"
After the old man rolled on the ground, he used the rabbit to kick the eagle and kicked Xu Tong away.
"What is this? Cinnabar??"
He resisted the burning pain in his eyes and opened his eyelids to take a closer look. His eyebrows twitched, and then he looked at Xu Tong who had climbed up from the ground and the fat man who came out of the room. The corner of his mouth slowly raised a sinister smile: "Shan Daozi
Over there, is it a shiny black-skinned horse, or a pair of shoe handles on the road?"
"???"
Li Bo was startled when he heard this and looked at Xu Bo with a confused look on his face: "Brother Xu, what does this old guy mean??"
He shook his head: "It should be slang."
Seeing that the two of them didn't talk to each other, the old man smiled even more ferociously: "It turns out that they are two raw melon eggs, and they dare to smash your master Li's mountain gate."
"Go to Shanmen Pass, my uncle. I've only heard of Shanhaiguan. You know what you're doing and get down on your own. Grandpa won't argue with you."
Li Bo was scolding fiercely, but in his heart he was very weak. There was a burning pain in his chest. The old man had just whipped him down and asked him to split the meat sauce. Just standing there seemed reluctant.
If the old man hadn't been sprinkled with cinnabar and stabbed severely by Xu Tong, he would have been tempted to run away through the door.
"Just you?"
The old man put his hand on his waist and touched it. The smile on his face suddenly solidified. He lowered his head and looked at the bell that was originally hanging on his waist. He didn't know when it disappeared.
"Jingle Bell……"
With the ringing of the bell, the old man looked up and saw that his bell was being held by Xu Tong.
"This is what you are looking for, right?"
He looked at the bell. He didn't know what era it was from. It was easy to see many small scratches on it. It was engraved with a whole picture of purgatory, which looked really scary in the moonlight.
"do not move!!"
When the old man saw that the bell had actually fallen into Xu Tong's hand, he hurriedly said: "Little brother, don't mess around. Give me the bell. Just pretend that tonight's incident never happened. I'll give you another box of gold bars. You can go."
"
"Believe me, you old ghost! You have a box of gold bars, how can you stay here??"
Li Bo curled his lips with a look of disbelief on his face.
Hearing this, the old man made no excuses, walked to the chicken coop, pushed the chicken coop up, and pulled out a small square wooden box from underneath.
He threw it casually in front of the two of them.
"boom!"
The box fell into pieces when it hit the ground, and gold bars rolled out from inside.
"No matter what kind of gods you are, there is no deep hatred between us. This money is enough for you to live happily for a lifetime. Just take the money and leave."
Looking at the bright gold bars, Li Bo couldn't help but froze for a moment. He picked up one and put it to his mouth and took a bite. After confirming that it was not chocolate or paper balls, Li Bo's breathing suddenly became rapid.
If you were to give a number, Li Bo might not think it was a big deal, but what he saw in front of him was real gold bars.
One stick weighs at least one kilogram. If you take it back... it will cost more than 100,000 yuan!
After a rough calculation, he was shocked. If he took back this box of gold, he would probably not have to worry about food and drink for the rest of his life.
It was a lie to say that he was not moved, but he glanced sideways at Xu Tong and saw that he didn't even look at the gold, and swallowed the words he said.
Li Bo silently stuffed the gold bars into his pocket, and at the same time looked at the old man and asked: "You care so much about this bell, what's the use of it?"
"You don't understand even after I tell you. Just take the money and leave immediately!"
The old man didn't have the patience to explain to them. He looked at the bell in Xu Tong's hand and urged them to hand it over immediately.
Xu Tong glanced sideways at the old man, then looked at the bell on his hand, his eyes narrowed and said: "Okay, I'll give it back to you!"
As he spoke, he waved his hand and threw the bell out.
"don't want!!"
Seeing Xu Tong's actions, a dark shadow finally couldn't help but rush out from the darkness, grabbed the bell in front of the old man, and grabbed it in his hand.
"Zhong Nan!!!"
Looking at the figure that jumped out, the old man stared at him with a look of disbelief. All the confusion in the old man's heart was immediately solved.
His 'patron wife' was torn and her body was sprinkled with cinnabar. He couldn't figure out how he could do this with just two raw melon eggs.
Now he understands.
Looking at Zhong Nan who got the bell, the old man sat down on the ground, and his already old face suddenly became much older: "You finally couldn't help it anymore."
"Can't help it!"
Zhong Nan was stunned, then slowly turned around to look at the old man, his face seemed to be smiling and crying again, his facial features were distorted.
"You left me here for thirty-eight years. You made me a human being and a ghost for so many years. You owe me this. This is what you owe me!!"
Zhong Nan became more and more excited as he spoke, and his expression even became crazy: "If it weren't for you, my mother wouldn't have died. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have ended up where I am today. Thirty-eight years have passed, and I've had enough.
I don’t want to stay in this damn place for another quarter of an hour!”
He pointed at the old man, stamped his feet, waved his arms and screamed, as if he wanted to shout out all the words he had suppressed in his heart for so many years.
"This guy...is crazy??"
Li Bo looked confused. He didn't know what happened to Zhong Nan suddenly. As he spoke, he turned to look at Xu Tong, wanting to hear what this guy's attitude was.
As a result, when I turned around, I saw that Xu Tong had found a small bench out of nowhere, with a bag of peanuts in his hand and a look of great interest on his face.
Li Bo: "???"
Perhaps because he was a little embarrassed to be stared at by Li Bo's strange eyes, Xu Tong stood up helplessly, walked to him, and silently grabbed a handful of melon seeds from his pocket.
Looking at the melon seeds being stuffed into his hand, Li Bo was stunned: "Where did you get the melon seeds??"
"The new wife has a lot of stuff in her clothes, so let's make do with it."
Xu Tong casually took out another red date and put it in his mouth, but his eyes never left Zhong Nan, watching him venting his emotions out of control, but watching his every move seriously, as if
Just like the three good students in the classroom.
Li Bo was stunned for a long time before he finally realized that this was not about Guazi: "No, I mean... Wuwu!!"
As soon as he opened his mouth, Xu Tong stuffed a handful of peanuts into his mouth: "Don't talk, just watch."
Li Bo chewed a few times in his mouth with a grimace. Suddenly his teeth hurt, as if he had bitten something hard and broken. When he was about to open his mouth and spit it out, he suddenly heard Xu Tong's voice beside him: "Hold it in your mouth."
!”
Not knowing what it was, Li Bo didn't dare to spit it out, so he could only keep it in his mouth.
By this time, Zhong Nan's mood had gradually stabilized. Looking at the bitter old man, he finally couldn't bear to talk any more.
With a long sigh, he rubbed his face with his hands, tried his best to put on a smiling face and turned back to look at Xu Tong and Li Bo. As a result, he saw that both of them had eaten it?
Zhong Nan was stunned for a moment, but soon regained his composure and continued: "Anyway, thank you, please do me one more favor."
"Zhong Nan!!"
The old man raised his head, his red and swollen eyes already full of tears: "Zhong Nan, you can't get out, tomorrow is July 15th, give these wandering souls to those ghost kings, and you can be reincarnated!!"
He wanted to stand up, but just now Xu Tong's knife stabbed very deeply, and the blood couldn't stop flowing out. Just now he still had the strength, but now he can't even stand up, and can only pat himself hard.
Thigh said: "Father will not harm you, father will not harm you! How can there be a father in this world who would harm his son?"
"Dad?? Isn't he uncle??"
Li Bo unconsciously cracked the melon seeds, but the more he looked at them, the more confused he became.
"If you look at the dishes and chopsticks in the kitchen, you should know that they are not just uncles and nephews."
Xu Tong pointed to the kitchen. When he entered the hospital, he noticed that the dishes and chopsticks in the kitchen were all large and small. There were chicken coops, water tanks, and rice noodles. Obviously, the old man lived in
here.
But he is only one person, so why he needs two pairs of bowls and chopsticks? This shows that someone is living with him, even if this person is not a living person.
Zhong Nan looked at the fire rising again at the end of the village and shook his head.
"Dad, do you really believe in the so-called Ghost King? I don't believe it. You have paid tribute to him so many wandering ghosts over the years. If he was really capable, he would have promised you long ago. I don't believe him. I want to fight for myself.
Fight."
When the old man noticed the light of the fire, his expression suddenly changed. When he looked back, he saw that the fire that had been extinguished in the village had ignited again, and this time it was not burning in one place, but everywhere.
"how……"
In surprise, he saw a pig running quickly from the village with a torch in its mouth. He recognized the pig at a glance. Wasn't it the Zhang Hao whose soul he had evoked?
Seeing that everything he had worked so hard over the years was about to be burned down by a fire, the old man's eyes turned red.
"You are looking for death!!"
He pointed at Xu Tong angrily: "Do you think he will let you go? No one can hide it from anyone, so how can he hide it from others? You will all die!"
As he spoke, he pointed to the pig on the ground and said, "Same for you!"
Zhang Hao's limbs stiffened and he looked at Zhong Nan blankly as if he had been struck by lightning.
Seeing that his father had revealed his idea and Zhong Nan had no intention of hiding it, he clapped his hands.
There was a rustle in the room, and a naked paper man walked out, his body stiff, as if he might fall down with every step he took.
Isn't this the paper man possessed by Zhou Yu?
"I want to use the police to clear the way and get me out of here. Please help me again. Help me again."
Zhong Nan looked at Xu Tong, who was sitting there peeling peanuts and looked unmoved. He couldn't help but frown and raised the bell on his hand: "Don't blame me. I will apologize to you again when we get to the underworld."
As he spoke, he shook the bell in his hand vigorously, but after shaking it twice, the bell did not ring.
"Huh??"
In confusion, he picked up the bell and took a look, only to see that the spring inside the bell was gone...