Night Lights

Chapter 100
Yaksha ghost, eyes like lightning, teeth like halberd blades, twisted muscles and bones, blue body, ugly and ferocious, eats human liver and spleen; likes to climb in the funeral home, lift the coffin to the moon, break the coffin to take the corpse, tear the corpse, Gluttony eats food; its ghosts are more fond of transforming wives, gouging out the heart of the house, and eating internal organs; this name is: Yaksha eats people. ——Excerpted from Tongyin Eight Volumes of "Wordless Book of Heaven".

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Ma Wuye suddenly said, "What's wrong", and Bai Shibao's "response", this made Yan Zifei dizzy, had to think about it, and exclaimed: "It's really spicy noodles with carrots. Did you see it after eating it!"

"That's right!"

Bai Shibao said: "I always feel like we are like pawns. Every step we take is in other people's calculations! Every step of the way is so frightening that we are forced to go to the dead end..."

Yan Zifei interrupted: "Needless to say! I'll go back and ask Li Cha for clarification!"

Ma Wuye was taken aback, and hurriedly stopped him: "What's the matter, brother Li Cha?"

Yan Zifei said in surprise: "Don't you suspect him?"

"what?"

Bai Shibao thought that Yan Zifei must have misunderstood what they meant, so he explained: "We are not talking about Brother Li Cha, but we feel that something is wrong with this matter!... Think about it, we just robbed the big prison, and in the blink of an eye The city is full of officers and soldiers, did the news spread too fast? It seems that Yuan Shikai knew about it a long time ago!"

Yan Zifei slapped his head, and said in shame: "I was thinking wrong!"

Ma Wuye shook his head beside him and said, "I guess Yuan Shikai might not have known about it in advance, otherwise we wouldn't have let us rob the prison! As for General Kang, I'm afraid he got the news temporarily, so he brought dozens of soldiers here in a hurry. Catch us, but the result is to ask for trouble... If the guess is correct, behind these things, there must be someone setting up the trap! And the person who set up the trap deliberately let us go, but I don't know what his intention is..."

Bai Shibao replied: "I don't care about so much now! There will always be a time when the truth comes out, I think it's better to save the brother first, and then make a long-term plan!"

Ma Wuye nodded.

The three walked quickly towards the city...

After passing Zhushikou and going west, I saw a group of patrolling soldiers with foreign guns arresting people everywhere.The three of Bai Shibao sneaked into the alley sideways, peeked out, and found a few portraits copied in the hands of the patrolmen, and checked the passers-by one by one, and when they encountered suspicious-looking people, they were tied up with hemp rope on the spot, waiting to be escorted go back.

Bai Shibao asked in surprise, "Are they holding wanted notices?"

"Wait, I'll go and find out!" Swallow Flying Eye Thief climbed over the wall and onto the roof with his bare hands, and leaned over the roof to take a look, he was shocked!Then quietly retreated a few steps, turned over and left the room, and said urgently to Bai Shibao and Ma Wuye: "Oops! We have been painted, and each head rewards 700 taels of silver!"

"What crime?"

"Racking houses and robbing houses, killing people and buying goods!"

Ma Wuye scolded angrily: "His grandma! When will my Ma Wuye do such a thing? This is not knocking shit on me and ruining my reputation!"

Bai Shibao said: "It is estimated that when we were captured in the 'Eight Immortals Mountain' last time, they drew portraits for us!"

Yan Zifei interjected, "I saw Ma Kuiyuan's portrait just now!"

"Ma Kuiyuan?"

Bai Shibao asked suspiciously: "He didn't go to the 'Eight Immortals Mountain' either. Why do the government still have his portraits?... This is troublesome! The origin of these portraits is a bit suspicious! Could it be that someone wrote down his appearance during the robbery?"

"Go! Go to the next place!"

At this time, the patrol team tied three or five people, tied them to a hemp rope, and pushed them to the west of the city.Bai Shibao and the others stood up, watched them walk away, and then came out of the alley.

Yan Zifei said: "It's okay! The people who were captured just now don't have our brothers!"

Ma Wuye frowned and said: "Li Cha said that the brothers are all scattered and are hiding! Not only will it be difficult for officers and soldiers to find them, but it will also be troublesome for us to find them!"

Bai Shibao suddenly interjected, "I have a way to find them!"

"any solution?"

Bai Shibao looked around and said, "Let's go to a shop and buy some yellow paper ghost money. I'll recruit some lonely ghosts to get some money and let them help find someone!"

"Recruit ghosts to find people?"

Yan Zifei was overjoyed and said: "This is a good idea! Those ghosts can not only walk faster than us, but they can also sneak into the house through the wall and go to places we can't go..."

Ma Wuye said anxiously: "It's not too late! Let's go buy some yellow paper!"

After the three of them nodded to each other, they avoided the avenue at the main entrance, got into the alley on the back wall of 'Linzi Street', and hurried there.

The main entrance of this 'Linzi Street' is a small tavern.

The taverns are also divided into grades, 'Linzi Street' these taverns are the last ones, they don't put up any pretense, they don't have a brand name, there isn't even a seat in the room, and a few wooden stakes are randomly placed to deal with it.Those who come to drink are coolies who carry live carts, squeeze a handful of salted peanuts in their hands, enter the door and put three or two bowls of wine, and drink it while sitting on a wooden stake, just to satisfy their hunger.

At this time, a lamp was lit in a tavern, and two people were sitting in it drinking!

A person with a square head and a square face, heavy eyebrows, bright eyes, wide mouth and wide ears, wearing a purple Taoist hat, gray cloth trousers tied with hemp rope, and black cloth shoes on his feet, Drinking tea from a teacup.

This person is Lin Jiu, the 'Grandmaster of Maoshan'.

Sitting beside him was a hulking-backed man, wearing a sheepskin jacket turned inside out, with no sleeves, exposing two thick arms, and carrying a tiger-headed broadsword on his back, with three large iron spikes attached to the blade. Huan, who was pouring a bowl of wine into his mouth, complained while drinking: "This wine is boring! Boss, replace it with something strong..."

Lin Jiu said: "You drink like water, how can you taste the wine?"

The burly man wiped his mouth with his broad palm and said, "You have to drink it in your stomach. I know how to drink a good wine... Boss! Did you mix this wine with water?"

The owner of the store rushed over and said: "Open the door to do business, I dare not fool you! The price of this wine is cheap, just for the sake of taste. If you want to be motivated, there is a wine in the store called 'Pao Da Deng'! I will give it to you." Would you pour a bowl?"

"Cannon lights?"

When Lin Jiu heard this, the name of the wine had some meaning.

"This kind of wine is made from sweet potatoes. It doesn't care about the aftertaste, but about the punch! Don't keep it in your mouth when you drink it, and swallow it quickly, otherwise you will choke your throat, and you will get a burst of energy when you enter your stomach. The energy is very strong." It hits the head straight, and one sip of alcohol can make you pass out for several days! This wine is like a firecracker during the Chinese New Year. Once it is lit, the red light will go up into the sky, so it is called 'cannon lighting'!"

After hearing this, the brawny man said anxiously: "It's too much to say, why don't you bring me a bowl to taste?"

The shopkeeper hastily opened the wine jar, scooped up a bowl and served it up.

The smell of alcohol is tangy, and the eyes are hot!

"Good wine!"

The strong man put his nose close to smell it, and then asked the boss: "When will the sheep head we call come up?"

The owner of the store replied: "There is no sheep's head shop. I have already asked the staff to wipe it off for you at the butcher's house. I will be back soon!"

Lin Jiu smiled to the shopkeeper: "No hurry, no rush! We are just waiting for someone!"

The brawny man raised his hand and raised his neck, turned the bottom of the bowl, and poured a bowl of spirits into his stomach, instantly feeling as if he had been soaked in a wine barrel.There was a rush of energy in my stomach rushing straight to my head, with a hot energy that made my eyes burn.The strong man shouted: "Enough!"

The shop owner was surprised: "Why did this master do it in one bite?"

Lin Jiu smiled and said: "He is from Kansai, he likes spicy food, so the amount of alcohol is naturally not a problem!"

The shop owner said "oh", turned around and went back to the house without saying a word.

At this time, the strong man said to Lin Jiu: "The Taoist Master Linghu has been away for a long time, why hasn't he come back?"

Lin Jiu said: "It seems that I have chatted with Taoist Master Mao! Don't worry, the sheep's head just needs to wait..."

The brawny man said: "You Taoist sects all avoid five meats and three filths. I'm afraid I will eat this sheep's head alone!"

"This sheep's head is called for you!"

The strong man said: "That's right! Just now I heard the shouting outside, and the officers and soldiers are arresting people everywhere. Could it be that something happened in the city?"

"It has nothing to do with us! Daoist Mao said in his letter that he knew who was behind the scenes, which prevented the 'Miao Jiang Discussion' from being held, and hurt many heads of the Taoist sect..."

The strong man scratched his head and said: "Our Taoist temple of the Dragon and Tiger School is in Kansai, so we haven't been involved much! It's just... pity for the injustice of Qi Lianshan's death! When I came, my brother told me to be careful. Point, it’s really not possible to use the taboo technique of ‘Burning Heaven Knife’ to protect yourself, and you can’t embarrass the Dragon and Tiger School, Ma Kuiyuan and the others from the ‘Refutation School’ are all looking at us as jokes!”

Lin Jiu nodded and said, "Now the Daoist faction is in chaos, if we want to quell this turmoil, we must find out the person behind the scenes!"

The strong man nodded yes.

Boom!
At this time, a person ran in from the shop door, it was the clerk of the tavern.He was wearing this gray shirt, holding a bundle of cattail leaves in his arms, tied with hemp rope, and blood was still oozing out of the cattail leaves, he gasped and said, "I bought the sheep's head back! "

The shop owner came out and shouted, "Why are you so slow?"

The man opened the bag of cattail leaves and complained, "I heard that there have been serious criminals in the city, and officers and soldiers are arresting them all over the city! Butcher Zhang didn't dare to open the door. I knocked for a long time before I asked him to help wipe a sheep's head!" I weighed it to about seven or eight catties..."

"It's good to come back, hurry up and bake it for the two masters!"

As soon as the shop owner finished speaking, his eyes were staring like a bull's-eye, his face was pale with fright, and he was trembling and speechless!
Ah!
The little boy also sat down on the ground in fright, and exclaimed, "This...is this?"

Lin Jiu and the strong man turned their heads to look at the bundle of cattail leaves, and the blood dripping was actually a human head!
"what happened?"

The strong man got up and walked over, turned the head over with his hands, his complexion was sallow, there was a little red mole between his eyebrows, his neck was cut off neatly, and he stood there in a daze, opened his mouth wide and said in surprise: "It's the order, Daoist Linghu?"

Lin Jiu frowned, and said in shock, "Ah...why is it the head of Daoist Linghu?"

(End of this chapter)