At midnight, the full moon is in the sky. Several figures sneaked quietly on the streets of Jianye. They are Liu Ergou and the others who made an appointment to "knock on the door" in the middle of the night during the day. The incense burns and paper money floating around the city add a hazy and eerie atmosphere to the streets of Jianye.

Going out on Halloween night is a big no-no, but the more you challenge the taboo, the more indescribable tension and excitement it gets. So Liu Ergou and others are not so much trying to win a whole game, but trying to have fun for themselves.

Suddenly, Liu Ergou noticed that there was something wrong with someone's shadow behind him on the ground, and he immediately realized that it was the hand of the leper head behind the black skin!

Liu Ergou sneered in his heart, deliberately pretending not to know. Then the shadow reached through the black skin behind him and patted himself on the back, and then immediately shrank back with lightning speed.

Liu Ergou immediately stopped. The people behind were stunned: "Brother dog? ”

Liu Ergou turned around slowly with a gloomy face, staring viciously at the black skin behind him, and the black skin was even more dazed: "Brother dog? ”

Liu Ergou sneered: "Who arrested me just now?" ”

The black skin's frightened face turned green: "It's not me!" ”

Liu Ergou said angrily: "That's a ghost? ”

The leper head behind the black skin pretended to be frightened and said, "It can't really be a ghost, right?" ”

The faces of the scoundrels changed!

"It's you, the inner ghost!" Liu Ergou pulled the leper head over, and slapped it three times in a row: "If you don't smoke you, you don't know how many eyes Ma Wang Ye has?" Your dog brother has eyes on the back of his head! Try to make a small move for Lao Tzu again? ”

The leper head cried with a sad face: "Brother dog, I'm just having fun!" ”

Liu Ergou slapped again: "Is it fun?" ”

The leper head cried, "Brother dog, I was wrong! ”

The other scoundrels breathed a sigh of relief and kicked the leper head again and again: "I want to scare your father to death!" "Lao Tzu let you do it!" "Frame Lao Tzu in front of Brother Dog, Lao Tzu will hammer you to death!"

"Brothers, spare your lives!"

"You eat!"

After beating the leper for the first time, everyone's nervous and suppressed emotions were unexpectedly relieved, and their courage was inexplicably stronger. Only the beaten leper with a blue nose and swollen face walked at the end in frustration.

Then the candlelit Wang Po embroidery workshop arrived. The scoundrels perked up: "Brother Dog, it's time!" ”

Liu Ergou smiled: "You know how to play when the ghost knocks on the door, right?" ”

The scoundrels laughed and said, "Yes! We knocked until dawn to make sure we wouldn't scare him to death! ”

Blackskin suddenly asked, "This, what if that old guy is scared to death?" ”

Liu Ergou frowned: "Can you not be disappointed?" Early death and early reincarnation! ”

The leper head suddenly shivered, "I suddenly feel so cold!" ”

Liu Ergou said angrily: "You try to do it again?" ”

The leper shrank in fright: "I really don't dare!" ”

Liu Ergou said impatiently: "You get out of the way and stay!" ”

……

In Wansheng's house, all the paper money sacrificed to Sister Xiao Zhuo was burned. Wan Sheng waited for Sister Xiao Zhuo to appear with great anticipation, even the mother-in-law, who had always been calm, seemed nervous and restless.

This time, it was Wan Sheng who comforted her mother-in-law: "Mother-in-law, don't be afraid, Sister Xiaozhuo is a good ghost!" ”

The mother-in-law said angrily: "The old woman is half a ghost, and she is afraid of ghosts?" The old woman was just curious. ”

While he was talking, there was a sudden knock on the door!

Wan Sheng was shocked: "It's coming!?" ”

Even if the mother-in-law was mentally prepared, she couldn't help but look stunned: "She, she has to knock on the door to come in?" ”

Wan Sheng was stunned: "Don't you knock on the door?" ”

The mother-in-law said blankly: "Anyway, when the ancestors come back, they don't have to knock on the door, as for the wandering spirits outside, they may really knock on the door, right?" ”

Wan Sheng hurriedly said: "I'll open the door!" ”

The mother-in-law hurriedly said, "Wait-"

Wan Sheng hurriedly asked, "What?" ”

The mother-in-law was suddenly speechless. Opening the door on Halloween night is the biggest taboo in itself, let alone opening the door to an inexplicable knock, how much courage does it take?

Finally, the mother-in-law exhaled a deep breath: "Those who are bound to ghosts and gods cannot be virtuous!" Child, you are an extraordinary person, so do extraordinary things. ”

What do you mean? Wan Sheng was stunned: "Then I'll open the door?" ”

The mother-in-law nodded solemnly.

After Wan Sheng came to the gate, he still habitually glanced out through the crack in the door, but he was surprised to find that the wandering spirits all over the street were gone! Hey? It's gone? There is only one possibility, that is, Sister Xiao Zhuo is a very strong ghost, and ordinary ghosts are scared away by her and dare not compete with her for paper money!

Wan Sheng took a deep breath, pulled the deadbolt to open the door, and at this moment, a chill came to his face, what a familiar feeling!

Wansheng is overjoyed, she is here!

When the cold wind passed through his body, Wan Sheng closed the door with an excited thud, and then turned around, vaguely saw the familiar figure from the candlelight, but the figure was very blurry, far less clear than what was seen in the haunted house.

A familiar cold voice sounded in Wan Sheng's ears: "I'm here!" I was surprised and impressed! Don't talk yet, there's someone out there! ”

Are there "people"? Wan Sheng looked at the door in astonishment.

The mother-in-law was shocked and said, "This wind just now? ”

Wan Sheng pointed to the candle and whispered, "Here!" ”

When the mother-in-law's eyes widened and she was about to speak, Wan Sheng booed and signaled her mother-in-law not to speak, and then the knock on the door sounded again.

The mother-in-law was stunned again!

Then Xiao Zhuo's voice sounded in Wan Sheng's ears again: "There are five people outside." ”

Wan Sheng suddenly realized that it must be the five scoundrels Liu Ergou he met during the day! They're playing ghost knocking! That is, send one person with his ear to the ground to listen to the footsteps of the people in the house, and the other person knocks on the door and runs. When the people in the house open the door, they can't find anyone knocking on the door, so the repeated knocking can frighten the owner. This is the crime of disturbing the people that the government explicitly prohibits the fifty boards.

Wan Sheng gritted his teeth and whispered: "Mother-in-law, it's Liu Ergou and a few scoundrels, don't care about them!" ”

The mother-in-law suddenly understood.

Xiao Zhuo's voice sounded in Wan Sheng's ears again: "Thanks to them knocking on the door, otherwise it is really inconvenient for me to bypass the two door gods posted on your door in my current state." Jun attaches so much importance to righteousness, Xiao Zhuo also has big things to ask for, and it will take some effort to come in anyway, if you miss today, there may be no next year. ”

Wan Sheng was surprised: "Something to ask me?" ”

Xiao Zhuo said in a deep voice: "First of all, I want to tell you that this Jianye land is about to become the territory of the ghost king Hou Jing, that is, the souls of all the dead people here will be taken away by the ghost king Hou Jing, instead of entering the underworld." When your mother-in-law dies, she will also be asked for her soul by the ghost king Hou Jing, and she will never be able to live forever. If you want to save your mother-in-law, you can only save me first, I died in Hou Jing's rebellion eighty years ago, I have a grudge against Hou Jing to destroy the family, you saved me, I will find a way to save your mother-in-law with you! ”

Wan Sheng's face changed: "Ghost King Hou Jing? Hou Jing's Rebellion? This is? ”

The mother-in-law was stunned and said, "Are you talking to Miss Xiaozhuo about something important?" ”

Wan Sheng nodded with a frightened face: "Yes, Sister Xiao Zhuo said that there is a ghost king Hou Jing ...... here" So Wan Sheng relayed Xiao Zhuo's words.

The mother-in-law was shocked: "Hou Jing! This person was a minister of Emperor Wu of Liang in the Southern Dynasty, and later rebelled against Emperor Wu of Liang and starved to death, killing 200,000 people in Jianye alone, and the area south of the Yangtze River was even more because of his blood, and millions of people died! After his death, there were no bones left, and he actually became a ghost king who could compete with the underworld? ”

Xiao Zhuo told Wan Sheng: "As your mother-in-law said, this person was the overlord in life and a ghost after death, and it is not the business of you and me to fight against him, but in a crisis, it is always not wrong to protect yourself first." ”

Wan Sheng nodded and asked, "Then how can I save Sister Xiaozhuo?" ”

Xiao Zhuo said in a deep voice: "It's very simple, please be sure to dig up my bones from the dry well of the abandoned house tonight!" As long as my bones don't fall into the hands of the Ghost King, I won't be at his mercy......"

(Note: Hou Jing's Rebellion, 550 AD, a very important event in Chinese history, the economic population of Jiangnan was dealt a near-devastating blow, which also changed the situation of weak north and strong south, and created objective conditions for the Sui Dynasty to unify China.) ）