Chapter 40 Chapter Seven Tian Gudao Haunted House Bet

I vaguely felt that Tian Gudao's expression changed drastically.Obviously this is something we didn't expect. "Go aside, Li Bold, don't mess around here!" the old man, the judge, scolded. It turned out that it was Li Bold, who was frightened into a mental disorder in the haunted house before.What a false alarm! Li Bold ignored the old man's scolding, and still clamored to place a bet. The old man said: "If you don't leave, I will throw you to the haunted house for the night!" It was very strange that Li Bold, who was still reluctant just now, had a frightened face when he heard this sentence, and ran away in a hurry.I was very surprised, is this haunted house really so scary?

Obviously, according to the bet, the more people who bet on our death, the bigger the bet, the more we make; Because of Li Bold's appearance, there was a burst of applause. "I'll pay a thousand coins, and I'll bet!" After Li Bold, a different villager appeared, who seemed to be a wanderer. So, everyone scolded this person for being insane.Ushered in a lot of laughter and sarcasm. "Think carefully, there is still time to change it now." The referee advised him. "If you don't change it, I'll bet on them!" The quack replied firmly.Everyone shook their heads, showing regret.

Did this quack see our mana?I am also very depressed right now. There are more and more people betting, and some are coming after hearing the news, for fear of missing the opportunity to watch the fun and make money. "Everyone be quiet, now I'm going to announce the betting situation: Forty-two people who bet to death, bet a total of eleven taels of silver. Please stand to the left and check the mark!" the old man of the referee shouted. So, with a whoosh, almost everyone stood to the left at once. The old judge continued to shout: "There are two people who gamble, one of them is the banker, Master Tian, ​​and the other is Wang Dapao. Please stand to the right!"

At this time, only Tian Gudao and Wang Dapao stood alone on one side, in sharp contrast to the bustle on the left. Seeing this situation, everyone burst into laughter.According to the rules of the game, if we don't lose our lives tonight, in addition to paying Wang Dapao ten taels of silver, we should also receive one hundred and four taels of silver! Originally, I was quite sure of my chances of winning tonight, but seeing Li Bold's expression just now, I couldn't help feeling agitated. In order to prevent us from cheating by running out of the haunted house, the villagers elected a few strong men to observe from a distance.

Tian Gudao entered the room, his excitement was beyond words: "Haha, scholar, we have made a fortune this time! Fortunately, there is only one gambler, grandma and pickles, if there are more, we will not pay for death! Shit! Li Boldly frightened me half to death!" "I don't think we should take it lightly. There must be fierce ghosts in this room, so be careful!" I poured cold water on Tian Gudao, and I was still worried about accidents in my heart. Tian Gudao also became cautious after hearing what I said.At this time, it was pitch black outside.We started to arrange the evil spirits.

We found a few brooms from the house, and put the brooms upside down in the corner, so that people can sleep peacefully.In fact, there is no need to do this, because we don't plan to sleep at all tonight, but just in case, it is safer to set it up. Then, we put a large porcelain bowl at the gate and the back door respectively. The bowl was filled with a whole bowl of clean water, and then we wrapped a red silk thread with a slipknot around the outer edge of the bowl, and then sealed it with red thread vertically and horizontally. The entire doorway.This can prevent the ghosts from outside from running in, and it can also prevent the ghosts from inside the house from running out.If a ghost passes by here, as long as it touches the water bowl, it will fall into the bowl, because the water has been cast into Chenzhou talisman water, which can be used to boil ghosts, and when ghosts enter the water, they will become fried ghosts.

Tian Gudao posted Chenzhou symbols on all the doors and windows.At the entrance of the room where we stayed, there was also a magic charm for subduing demons.Afterwards, go back to the second floor to set up the Eight Diagrams Formation. I took out a handful of ancient Fangkong Tongbao from the pocket I carried with me, threaded it with a red thread, and arranged it in a gossip pattern around ourselves and the dead body.Because ancient coins have been in the hands of thousands of people, they can gather the yang energy of everyone to resist ghosts from the underworld. The layout was done properly, we didn't dare to be careless, we re-examined it, and then returned to the room on the second floor, and then affixed a charm on the dead body.

I expected that the ghost would never come out to cause trouble before midnight, so I decided to take a nap first in order to recharge my energy to deal with the evil ghost.He asked Tian Gudao not to be distracted and sleepy, and at the same time signaled the ghost cub to supervise Tian Gudao, so that he would not go to see Duke Zhou if he couldn't hold on. When he woke up, it was past midnight, and Tian Gudao was playing with the ghost cub.I blame Tian Gudao for not waking me up in time. Tian Gudao said that seeing me sleeping soundly, he didn't have the heart to disturb me. So, I asked Tian Gudao to take a nap too.But the ghost cub was not sleepy.

I continued to play with the ghost cub, the two played for more than an hour, the ghost cub finally started to yawn, and soon closed his eyes and fell asleep.I was left alone sitting quietly. In fact, when sitting quietly, closing your eyes is the best choice.Because many dirty things cause people to have hallucinations, if you close your eyes in meditation, you will not be able to see them. I have been sitting quietly like this, but dare not close my eyes, for fear that I will fall asleep after closing them. In order to pass the time and calm my mind, I recited the Sutra of Chang Qingjing written by Taishang Laojun:

The Great Dao has no form, but it gives birth to the heaven and the earth;Husband Taoist: There is clearness and turbidity, there is movement and stillness; the sky is clear and the earth is turbid, the sky is moving and the earth is still;Purity is the source of turbidity, and movement is the base of stillness; people can always be quiet, and the world will return... Night, dead silence. I sat like this for nearly two hours, when I suddenly heard the crowing of a cock, and then heard the sound of a watchman knocking a watch in the distance, and it was already the fourth watch.I thought to myself, there are no ghosts in this room, it seems to be very peaceful tonight, probably because the magic talisman we pasted, the gossip array we put up had an effect, and it was almost dawn, and there was no ghost at all.

When I was rejoicing, suddenly, I could vaguely smell a strange noise from the outer room. After listening for a while, there was no movement.I thought I was hearing wrong, so I pricked up my ears, held my breath, and listened. Still silent.Suddenly, a dark wind suddenly struck, the candlelight flickered, and the shadow of the flame shone on the wall, which seemed strange and unpredictable. "Not good!" I immediately woke up Tian Gudao and Ghost Cub Yao beside me. "Dirty things are coming?" Tian Gudao sat up in surprise, and suddenly became more awake, ready to fight.I feel like a ghost has entered the house. "Xiucai, this ghost must be hiding in the house, not outside. Because we have already cast spells, pasted charms, and arrays at the entrances such as doors and windows. It is impossible for ghosts to come in!" Tian Gudao analyzed. After a person dies, the body gradually decays, and the soul becomes a ghost. Some ghosts do not enter the underworld but continue to wander in the yang world, or leave the underworld to sneak into the yang world at night, and come out to wreak havoc.If there are ghosts, you should use talismans, scriptures, prophecies, curses, etc. to bind, drive away and kill ghosts. Another gust of wind blows.The candlelight flickered a few times, then suddenly went out. I did not speak to Tian Gudao.There was silence in the house. "Boom!" There was a strange sound from somewhere, and it was unclear which direction the sound came from. "Xiucai, that thing has finally appeared. Prepare to fight for our one hundred taels of gambling silver." Tian Gudao re-lit the candle and whispered to me. Oddly enough, when the candle was rekindled, the sound died away. In order to gain the initiative and seize the opportunity, I asked the ghost cub to go out to find out the truth. Just as the ghost cub was going out, there was another strange sound, as if the downstairs and the upstairs were coming out at the same time. Just when this strange sound sounded, we heard the dogs in the distant village barking wildly, one after another, making tragic roars. "Not good, if the dog keeps barking like this, I'm afraid it will startle the corpse." We quickly recited the dumb dog mantra, and after a while, the village returned to tranquility. "Zhi Zhi, Zhi Zhi..." Suddenly, Gui Zai Yao came in with a panicked expression. The ghost cub pointed upstairs with his hand. "Could it be that the evil spirits are in the attic above? Let me go and have a look..." Tian Gudao got up to go upstairs. I held him back and shouted in a low voice, "I can't go, or I'll fall into that ghost's scheme." "Ghosts can also make tricks? It seems that they are really cunning ghosts!" "Yes, you can see that it is trying to test us with its power, which means that this evil spirit is not obtrusive, we have to be careful." "Xiu Cai, are you talking about the tricks of this evil ghost?" "Just now, it was trying to attract us to go upstairs to watch it. If we go, we will fall into its trick." "What do you mean, please explain clearly!" "This ghost is going to break us up into pieces, and then destroy them one by one. So, let's not go out now, as long as it doesn't enter this room, we will ignore it, so as not to get distracted..." "The scholar is amazing, your analysis makes sense! We just need to guard this room." There was another silence.After a while, I saw candlelight flickering frequently, and I vaguely saw a shadow drifting past the door. Tian Gudao got up, hung a mahogany sword on the top of the door, sprinkled a handful of glutinous rice on the window, and then returned to his seat to rest. While I was staring intently at the door, suddenly another gust of wind blew in, and the candle went out again. "Xiu Cai, do you want to light the candle again?" "Of course, burn two at a time, hurry up!" After a while, candles were lit again in the house.Before our eyes could get used to it, Gui Xiyao pushed me with his hands and pouted towards a corner of the room.In the corner, I saw a rocking chair that had been stationary before, and no one was sitting on it, was constantly rocking by itself... Tian Gudao and I couldn't help being shocked.The doors and windows have already cast spells, and the charms of exorcising ghosts, ghost-binding spells, and magic weapons for killing ghosts are also installed together. Why is the rocking chair swinging by itself?Has the evil spirit entered the house?If they have already entered the house, why can they break through layers of legal nets?Is it really a rare fierce ghost? "Xiucai, it looks like a fierce ghost! What should we do now?" Tian Gudao was also a little panicked, and whispered in my ear. "Stop with stillness! Don't act without authorization before the gossip formation breaks through. The evil ghost wants to disturb our minds, so don't be fooled. You must not mess up your own position first when fighting ghosts!" "The eight trigrams array is our last line of defense. If we break through, is there still room to play?" Seeing my indifferent look, Tian Gudao became a little anxious. I asked Tian Gudao and Gui Zai Yao to come closer to me, and the three of them sat on the ground back to back in a character shape.In this way, the formation can observe the situation from different directions, which is convenient for casting spells in time and adjusting tactics. The rocking chair swayed automatically for a long time, seeing that we ignored it, it finally stopped by itself. I looked at the rocking chair, the chair surface was covered with dust, and when I stopped, it was still covered with dust.It went on like this for a while.There was a strange sound of "ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping" from the attic upstairs. Then there was a strange sound from downstairs, which made hair stand on end. The sound was like footsteps, like the sound of wearing cotton shoes, light and shallow, but with a strong sense of rhythm. As the footsteps got closer and closer, the temperature in the room became chilly, and we felt that the evil spirit was approaching step by step. I fixed my eyes on the door, and sure enough, I saw a shadow flash past. I immediately summoned Liu Ding Liujia gods with the Talisman, and Tian Gudao recited mantras to spread the decrees of the gods, prohibiting ghosts from haunting, so as to drive away evil spirits and kill evil spirits. However, this never-failed program has no legal effect.A woman in a plain robe stood silently at the door. The plain robe was the shroud that the dead often wear, as if she had just crawled out of a coffin. The woman's face was pale, her hair was messy, and her lips were purple and black. . In the blink of an eye, I found that the female ghost's pale and clean face was actually bleeding, and the blood was gurgling from the corners of her eyes, which looked very frightening. Tian Gudao quickly took out the demon mirror and shone it on the face of the female ghost. The mirror reflected the candlelight on the pale face. The female ghost kept avoiding the reflected light, and finally disappeared... "Xiucai, it seems that the magic mirror works!" Tian Gudao couldn't hold back his surprise. Before he could finish speaking, another black-clothed male ghost appeared at the door, also with long hair and a ferocious face. On closer inspection, there were no eyes or mouth on his face! Tian Gudao picked up the demon mirror again and shone it on his face.The male ghost disappeared immediately.Tian Gudao put down the mirror and was secretly happy, but found that the male ghost appeared again, but this time he changed his face and turned into a hanged ghost with a long tongue sticking out. Tian Gudao raised the mirror again, and the ghost disappeared immediately.Tian Gudao put down the mirror, and the ghost suddenly appeared with another face.Repeatedly, the ghost's face became more and more terrifying. I asked the ghost cub to run to the door to urinate on the boy, and the ghost immediately disappeared. But not long after, the ghost stood at the door again, holding something in his hand and chewing with gusto. We took a closer look, and it seemed to be a human heart. The ghost ate his mouth full of blood, but he ignored it completely. "It may be a hallucination, don't worry about him! Let's quickly recite "Song of Righteous Qi" to drive away evil spirits." As soon as Tian Gudao heard what I said, he recited Wen Tianxiang's "Song of Righteous Qi" together with me. There is righteousness in the world, mixed with manifolds. The lower part is Heyue, and the upper part is the sun star. Yu Ren said Hao Ran, Pei Hu Sai Cang Ming. Huanglu should be Qingyi, Hanhe Tu Mingting. I will see you when the season is poor, and you will see them one by one. In Qi Taishi Jian, in Jin Donghu's pen. In Qin Zhang Liangzhu, in Han Su Wu Festival. He is the head of General Yan, and he is blooded by Ji Shi. It is Zhang Suiyang's tooth, and Yan Chang's tongue. Or a Liaodong hat, clearing Li Bingxue. Or to be a teacher, ghosts and gods weep heroically. Or to cross the river, generously swallow Hu Jie. Or to strike a thief, the reverse vertical head is broken. It is majestic, fierce and fierce forever. When it pierces the sun and the moon, life and death are safe and secure. Dimensions depend on it, and Tianzhu depends on it. The three cardinal principles are really related to life, and morality is the root. Sigh to Yu Yangjiu, Li is also weak. The prisoner of Chu tasseled his crown, and sent the chariot to the poor north. The tripod wok is as sweet as sugar, and it is impossible to ask for it. The yin house is full of will-o'-the-wisps, and the spring courtyard is closed and it is dark. Niu Ji is the same soap, chickens live in phoenixes. Once covered with fog and dew, it is divided into barren ditch. No matter how cold or hot it is, it will be easy for a hundred diseases to heal themselves. You are so sad, I am happy for my country. There is no such thing as Miao Qiao, yin and yang cannot be thieves. Thinking about it, I looked up at the floating clouds. My heart is sad for a long time, the sky is so terrific. The day of the philosopher is far away, and the punishment is in the past. The eaves show books and read, and the ancient roads shine in color. ... I saw fog rising from the door, and the figure of the evil spirit gradually disappeared. We were slightly relieved.Tian Gudao questioned my command: "Brother, I don't think it's an option for us to be cautious and defensive. We have to take the initiative to attack, otherwise the ghost thinks we are afraid of him!" While questioning, he saw the ghost reappear. This time it was even more terrifying. He took off his head, held it in his hand, and kept throwing it from his left hand to his right. The head was dripping with blood, and its appearance was horrible. When Tian Gudao saw this, he couldn't help but stand up suddenly, bit his middle finger, and blood gushed out immediately. He quickly walked to the door and threw it at the ghost across the threshold, spattering it with blood.The ghost didn't respond, and stood face to face with him! I also took out the Huya ruler from my pocket, and slapped it down on the ghost.But still no response!Simply incredible! This is the most evil ghost we have seen since our debut that is not afraid of people or casting spells! I was terrified at the moment, thinking that I might really die in this haunted house tonight.At this time, Tian Gudao had retreated into the gossip formation to seek self-protection. The ghost saw Tian Gudao retreating back into the house, then made an inch of progress, slowly crossed the high threshold we had set up in advance, and entered the house. I am very surprised, how can ghosts cross the high threshold without being afraid of our magic power, which is supposed to be very high. "Could it be a fake ghost?!" I was shocked, and a thought popped up. The ghost held its head in its hand and slowly approached us. At the same time, there was a scream outside the door, like howling a wolf or whining a fox, and then the sound gradually became dull. I saw the original female ghost reappearing at the door, and behind the female ghost stood a male ghost who looked like a mature man, following behind the headless ghost, walking towards us. At this time, the ghost cub took out the slingshot and flicked it vigorously at the face of the female ghost outside the door, only to hear a cry of "Ouch", and the female ghost immediately moved away. The ghost cub then bounced towards the male ghost behind the female ghost. The male ghost covered the place where he was bounced with his hand and disappeared quickly. From the screams of the female ghost just now, I judge that this is a group of fake ghosts disguised as real people! I made a decisive decision and ordered the ghost cub to step forward and snatch the head from the headless ghost's hand.The ghost cub got the order, jumped up, and instantly snatched his head into my hands.I lifted it up and saw that it was indeed a fake head. Someone is pretending to be a ghost!It's not a ghost at all!We have to adjust our tactics and get rid of these bastards! There were three of them who showed up, and it is not known how many people are behind them. It seems that recklessness is not enough, and they came up with strange tricks.I quickly told Tian Gudao the information, and Tian Gudao understood. The headless ghost saw that we had snatched its head, so it accelerated towards us. "Wait a minute! The three ghost brothers and sister ghosts, we are also lonely ghosts who have just died. We were in business together when we were alive. We didn't want to be killed by bandits a few days ago, and our souls have been wandering outside. Today we came to this old house , I just want to wait for the opportunity to be reborn and reincarnated as a human being, and I don’t want the flood to wash over the Dragon King Temple and take over your territory..." I made up some nonsense to mislead them. Hearing what I said, the headless male corpse stopped immediately. Although there is no head, we can still feel the suspicion of the headless male ghost. "The reason why we put up the talisman formations is that we are worried that some Taoist priests will come in and startle our souls. Because I also knew some alchemy before I was alive, I stole some talismans from a temple that had not been casted for myself. Bao, since you are also lonely ghosts, it doesn't matter." As I spoke, I dismantled the gossip formation. Tian Gudao also pretended to be a ghost when he saw me blackmailing them so much, and looked at them indifferently and expressionlessly. Seeing this, the ghost cub followed suit. I know they doubt what I say, thinking we're just pretending like they are. In order to dispel their suspicions, I pulled the killer's nameless corpse over: "This was our boss before he was alive. He died the worst and had the most resentment. Come on, come and touch his cold corpse. I know how angry he is." The headless male ghost hesitated for a while, and if he really came over, it seemed that he was still skeptical of my words. He went straight to the nameless dead body, I lifted the nameless brown hat, and secretly flicked some powder with my fingernails. The headless male ghost stretched out his left hand and grabbed the right hand of the killer's nameless corpse.The dead body was originally cold, but it was a nameless and cold-faced killer. The cold air was even worse, and could penetrate the skin of the living.After touching it for a while, sure enough, the outstretched hand of the headless ghost suddenly flicked back, obviously not feeling the slightest bit of warmth from a living person. In order to completely convince him that we are ghosts, I went on to say: "I heard that when a person dies within half a month, if there are kind and strange ghosts who keep strangling the person, they can restore the yang energy of the cold corpse. It can increase his chances of being reincarnated as a human being again. I think this big brother must have been a kind person before he was alive, so please help pinch him among his people today." The headless male ghost really stretched out his right hand, firmly pressed the Renzhong acupoint under the nostrils of the nameless, and covered the mouth of the nameless with the other hand, obviously, he wanted to test whether it was a dead body or not. After persisting like this for a while, the headless male ghost finally put down his hands.After that, take a step back.stood there hesitating.I knew he already believed what he was touching was a long-dead corpse. I'm not willing to let him go: "Brother ghost, our boss died very badly. He was bitten to death by a bandit with a five-step snake. The bandit's five-step snake was killed by a scorpion, a spider Such highly poisonous living creatures are raised in a hundred-year-old Gu urn, so as long as they are bitten by that poisonous snake, they will die instantly. Sorry, I forgot to tell you, because this poison is too strong, any Those who have been in contact with poisoned corpses or souls, the rest of the poison will quickly spread to the body of the person who touched it, and within an hour at most, the whole body will turn purple, and they will fall to the ground and die." Hearing what I said, the headless male ghost stretched out his hands, and sure enough, he found that his hands had started to turn black and purple. He screamed and stumbled out of the room. After the two men pretending to be ghosts reappeared at the door, they didn't react for a long time and stood there in a daze. So, I went on to use my tricks, pulled out the killing knife beside the killer but Wuming, chopped off my own head with one knife, and then carried it with my hand, came to the two of them, and handed the bloody head to the female ghost.The head in his hand still opened his eyes and opened his mouth to speak: "Your friend lost his head just now, you can quickly connect my head to him, so that a whole body can be left, and when you report to the underworld, you can save less time." suffer some torture." The woman didn't see this scene, she collapsed on the threshold before she came and screamed. Seeing this, the strong man behind her tried to run, but I stumbled under his feet, and he fell to the ground on all fours, looking at the blinking head in my hand, his pale face became even more bloodless , shouting in his mouth: "Brother Ghost, spare your life, Brother Ghost, spare your life!" At this time, Tian Gudao and the ghost ghost jumped over dressed as zombies, Tian Gudao pretended to say to me: "Brother, since I have been dead for so many days, no one has given us a memorial ceremony or offering something to eat. Hungry. I see this man has a lot of meat, shall we eat him?" I scolded Tian Gudao for being more vicious than me, but said in my mouth: "Ghosts can only eat ghosts, not humans. If they eat humans, they will never have the chance to be reborn as humans." Tian Gudao took over the words: "Then you can eat him. It doesn't matter if he is a ghost or not a human being." Hearing what I said, the strong man seemed to be clinging to a life-saving straw, kowtowed and begged for mercy: "Master Ghost, I am a human, not a ghost, please don't eat me." Gui Xiyao picked up a thick wooden stick from nowhere, and hit the strong man on the head with the stick, and the strong man fell to the ground before he could utter a sound. I asked Tian Gudao and Gui Zai Yao to tie them up. When I came downstairs, I saw the man pretending to be a headless ghost, running wildly in the hall holding his hands.I saw that he was holding a rusty machete in his hand, and was about to chop off at his own hand, probably to stop the spread of the poison. I decided to play tricks on him again: "Wait a minute! I have an antidote for the severe poison here, and you can detoxify it by taking it orally. Oh, I forgot that your head has been chopped off. Unfortunately, I can't save you either." "I have a head! Give me the antidote!" The guy took off his coat, revealed Lushan's true face, snatched the powder from my hand, and swallowed it fiercely.Before he could finish swallowing it, the powder exploded and fell to the ground with a "plop". What kind of antidote did I give him, but it was just sweat medicine.I also tied him tightly with a rope. We dragged the three of them together and tied them to the main beam in the hall downstairs.After finishing properly, the outside is already shiny. "Xiucai, we really made a big deal this time! More than one hundred taels of silver are beckoning to us!" Tian Gudao showed a wretched expression of surprise. I ignored him and looked around.It was found that the red line we had arranged at the back door of the house had been messed up.It seems that this group of pretenders slipped in through the back door. I stood at the back door and looked around, only to see that the house was closely connected with the mountain, and I could enter the back mountain within five feet of the threshold.And the back mountain is lush with trees, obviously a good place to hide... We tidied up, and before we knew it was dawn, the sky was already bright. Tian Gudao stretched comfortably.The ghost cub was poking his head out of the window, and suddenly he pulled me up to look out. Through the window lattice, I saw that there were already crowds standing outside, looking at the haunted house, and whispering in groups of three or five. It seems that these people got up early, came to the haunted house to watch the fun, and at the same time cashed in their bets. "Xiu Cai, I'm sure the villagers outside think we're dead. I'm sure they want us dead too. Haha..." Tian Gudao let out a smug laugh. Tian Gudao’s laughter awakened the “female ghost” who had just fainted from fright. She opened her eyes and found that she was tied to a wooden post. ,Let me go……" Tian Gudao whispered to me for a while, showing a smirk.Tian Gudao untied the woman from the wooden post, and then deliberately asked the woman with a hideous look: "Do you want to live?" Xu Shi was frightened, the woman nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, but couldn't make a sound. "Since you want to survive, there are so many people outside, why don't you call for help?" Tian Gudao reminded her. When Tian Gudao reminded the terrified woman, she seemed to suddenly realize it, and screamed hysterically: "Help, help..." At this time, I heard the conversation outside suddenly stop. Many people stared blankly at the house. They picked up sticks, stones, etc. as self-defense weapons. Some timid women hid behind the men. "You can't live if you just shout and don't run!" Tian Gudao reminded again. The woman seemed to have gone out of her body, and she opened the door of the house, shouting for help, and rushed outside, dragging a rope behind her. Seeing a female ghost in plain clothes running out of the haunted house, there was a commotion in the crowd outside, and people retreated one after another.The "female ghost" fell down in the grass on the ground not long after rushing out of the house. There was a commotion in the crowd. After seeing the female ghost fell, several bold men picked up their sticks and moved over slowly and cautiously. After approaching, they dared not touch the female ghost. People turned their attention to the haunted house again, pointing and pointing. "Haha, haha, haha..." Just as people were chattering, Tian Gudao laughed and walked out of the room. People are even more confused. "This is the female ghost in the haunted house, and there are two male ghosts inside, who have been caught and tied up by us!" I opened the door of the house, and people looked at me and the ghost cub with suspicion. "Are these three really ghosts?" Someone asked at this moment. "No, it's a ghost disguised as a human..." We told the villagers what happened at night.The villagers ran into the house and surrounded the two male ghosts to watch. I asked someone to bring a bucket of cold water and poured it on the two of them. The strong man woke up with a jolt, and looked at everyone blankly.The man covered by the sweat medicine tilted his head, still soundly asleep. I took out a pill and popped it into his mouth.After a while, he also woke up, looking like he was still in shock. The villagers hung the three of them on a big tree beside the ping, beat them severely, and asked the three to confess honestly. The three of them were silent at first, or they answered irrelevant questions, but when someone got annoyed, they beat them violently again. The three of them couldn't stand the torture, so they confessed truthfully: It turned out that the three were charlatans, the woman and the man pretending to be a headless ghost were husband and wife, and the strong man was the woman's younger brother. These three were local tyrants, and one day when they were caught cheating in the market, they became angry and beat the person who exposed their deceit to death. When they fled here, they found that the village of Shushudong was a good hiding place, so they decided to hide here.After hiding in the mountains and observing the terrain for a day, they decided to occupy the house, so the three decided to pretend to be ghosts to scare the owner away, creating the illusion of a haunted house, and lived here ever since.If there is any trouble, they will slip into the mountains and forests. After hearing their confession, the villagers became angry and punched and kicked the three of them to relieve their hatred: "Fuck your mother, the woman on my blind date heard that there is a haunted house here and refused to marry. You made me a bachelor." "I asked you to pretend to be a ghost, so I didn't dare to go hunting in the mountains for half a year." "You bastard, I dare not pass by here at night, and I have to make a big circle." "It caused me to burn incense and money paper every day, wasting my money." Everyone lined up and kicked and condemned. At this time, Tian Gudao moved a broken table to the ping, and then shouted loudly: "Come on, come on, now is the time to bet and open the treasure. Those who gamble dead come and pay money, and those who gamble live come and get money." Silver." After hearing Tian Gudao's shout, everyone remembered about the bet.Someone wanted to take the opportunity to slip away and wasted money, but was spotted by Tian Gudao standing on the table and stopped loudly. At this time, the old man who is the official judge also came out to speak: "A gentleman can never catch up with a horse. Since ancient times, I am willing to gamble and admit defeat. Everyone, come here, don't leave, so as not to spread the word and leave a laughing stock. Our tree hole faces Where to put it." Hearing what the old man said, no one was going to leave as expected, and one after another paid out money according to the roster registered yesterday, according to the rule of betting ten loses. "Thank you, thank you..." Tian Gudao thanked each time he took the money, smiling from ear to ear. Looking at the silver on the table, Tian Gudao straightened his eyes, picked up a cloth bag, and prepared to sweep the silver away. "Master Tian, ​​there is Wang Dapao's silver in it." The old man reminded Tian Gudao. "That's right! Where is Dapao Wang? Please take away your ten taels of silver!" Wang Dapao got out of the crowd, and there was a burst of jealous boos. "Fellow folks, I'm sorry. You lost the money. If you want to blame, you can blame these three bad guys." Tian Gudao shouted while loading the money. After hearing Tian Gudao's prompt, the villagers came to the three crooks one after another, lined up to kick and beat them—— "Return my two hundred wen! I will kick you to death." "My money, bastard, made me lose my money." "Damn, I've lost half a month's wine money." We packed up our gear, drove the dead bodies, and headed forward.At the end, Tian Gudao waved to the crowd: "Folks, let's make a bet next time if we have a chance..." Not far from the tree hole, Tian Gudao couldn't wait to take out the white money he won just now, with a greedy light in his eyes.I was also quite relieved that I made a lot of money all at once, which was worth driving more than ten corpses.I thought about it in my heart, and now I am earning a lot of money, and if I work harder, I can earn all the two hundred taels for the provincial examination fee.Thinking of this, I am secretly happy.