The old man's reaction was really unexpected for us.
How could he have sent a tuberculosis corpse to follow us and prepare to attack us? He was clearly a poor refugee!
My master frowned even more tightly, and just as he was about to ask, Lao Bai butted on the ferryman's face and farted. He said there was no food, but there was a fart, so that he could feel what it was like to fart like a god, which was extraordinary.
The ferryman's face turned green, and he struggled to jump up and fight Lao Bai, but Brother Yaozi pressed his shoulder to the ground with one hand, preventing him from moving.
My master waved his hand and asked Lao Bai to step aside. He was very calm and said lightly: "We were in a hurry when we entered the mountain and didn't bring much food. You should bear with it for now. Let's chat for a while. Why did you let the tuberculosis follow us?"
"Tuberculosis? That thing appeared again?"
The ferryman was shocked and subconsciously wanted to stand up. Brother Yaozi pressed him down. Then he came back to his senses and became more honest, but his tone was still urgent: "Where is it?"
Lao Bai teased on the side: "You ask us, we also want to ask you..."
However, his words were interrupted by my master. My master thought for a while and smiled: "That's right, it seems that the tuberculosis has run away, right?"
The ferryman sighed and nodded silently.
"What happened?"
My master stared at the other person and whispered, "You have been walking in the world for many years, but now you are knocked down by my apprentice. I think it has something to do with this tuberculosis?"
The ferryman nodded again and said helplessly, "Alas, it's a long story. I have been hunting geese for many years and finally got my eyes pecked blind..."
After a pause, he asked again, "Do you really have nothing to eat? Give me a bite. I have been hungry for ten days..."
It turned out that he was too hungry to have any strength.
I couldn't help laughing and couldn't help saying, "There is nothing else in this mountain. There are always some pheasants and rabbits. At worst, you can pick some wild fruits. Why are you so trapped? If we came a few days later, you would have starved to death here?"
The old man curled up there, sighing, and didn't answer my question. Instead, he asked, "Except for the tuberculosis, did you bump into anything else when you came?"
I shook my head.
The old man's expression became more bitter. Without saying a word, he slapped himself in the face one after another.
He was also a pitfall. He was always unjust. If anyone had something good in their family, he would definitely be targeted. But now he was in trouble. The behavior of an old man was unavoidable. It was a pity that we made the decision to go into the mountains on impulse. We didn't prepare anything. Where could we find food for him? After groping for a long time, Zhang Xinya finally took out half a stick of chewing gum from her body and threw it to him.
The old man didn't mind. He ate with his saliva flying everywhere, wishing he could swallow it directly.
"Let's talk about the matter first."
My master asked, "How could the tuberculosis corpse escape? And how did you fall to this point?"
"The Yinren Inn is ruined, ruined! From now on, there is no more Yinren Inn in the world..."
The old man buried his head and cried, but there was only thunder but no rain, and his dry howling was more unpleasant than the cry of ghosts. He told us what happened to him intermittently.
This time, he was no longer hiding his words, and his words revealed a lot of information about the Yinren Inn. This place full of various legends gradually tore off the mysterious veil in front of us.
It turns out that the Yinren Inn is not a fixed place at all! !
To be precise, it moves. It is a grave during the day and an inn at night. It is in this place today and may go there tomorrow.
Moreover, even the old man couldn't grasp this movement trajectory. He said that he was just an old servant. After his master's whereabouts were unknown, he was forced to become a ferryman. In fact, he knew very little about the Yinren Inn, but after guarding it for many years, he gradually summed up a set of rules. The movement of the Yinren Inn was basically from east to west, one round trip a year.
The old man's master once said that only by combing the existence of yin and yang can the Yinren Inn be accurately found. If you encounter such a character, you must not slack off.
"But I was still careless. I didn't expect that there would be such a powerful character now..."
The old man cried and said that not long ago, he appeared near Luliang with the Yinren Inn. As a result, as soon as he emerged, he found a handsome young man waiting there. He said that he wanted to stay in the hotel and presented two thousand-year-old ginsengs with both hands. This thing is basically no longer seen now. It is too useful. He was tempted and immediately agreed.
Unexpectedly, this is inviting a wolf into the house.
The young man entered the Yinren Inn. Not long after, the corpse ghosts and demons who could not pay the store fee and had to sell their bodies rioted. The old man could not suppress them at all. Instead, he was almost slapped to death by the young man. He fled and finally saved his life.
"In fact, as long as I keep an eye on him, he can't get in at all. No one can enter the Yinren Inn without my nod!"
The old man said in a bitter voice: "He has been waiting there. It is obvious that he calculated it. As long as I am not so greedy, I can find something wrong with a little thought!"
Luliang Mountain?
I was moved. I calculated the time. When the Yinren Inn was attacked, it should be the same as when we came out of the tomb. In addition, the ferryman said that the one who attacked him was a young man, which made me think more and immediately asked about the appearance of the young man.
The old man described it carefully. I held my forehead with one hand and said angrily: "That's the Water Lord who escaped from the tomb. You dare to covet even his things. Are you tired of living?"
"Now that things have come to this, what's the point of saying these things?"
The ferryman spread his hands and said that the Water Lord would not let him go, and controlled a large number of demons and ghosts to ask for his life.
These demons and ghosts were bound in the Yinren Inn. They were bullied by him on weekdays, so they were naturally happy to do this. They chased him all the way and chased him here. Fortunately, he brought a bag of wall dust before leaving.
These wall dusts were scraped off the walls of the Yinren Inn. They were the nemesis of ghosts and gods. He smeared them on the four walls of this broken house. Not to mention the things in the Yinren Inn, even the Water Lord couldn't get in.
"Who knew that damn thing, after failing to kill me, would just surround this place!"
The old man said, "They couldn't get in, and they wouldn't let me out, so they kept me here for more than ten days!!"
According to him, at the beginning, there were ghosts and wolves howling outside the wooden house, and demons were everywhere, all of them came to settle accounts with him.
However, when we came in, we didn't find so many demons and monsters.
The answer is already very obvious, those things were probably transferred by the Water King to torture my parents, leaving only a tuberculosis corpse to keep watch. Poor old man, he has become a frightened bird, and he dared not go out to check the situation, and almost starved himself to death here.
"This is called drawing a circle to make a prison. You old bastard, you have been greedy all your life, and you have ended up like this, you deserve it!!"
Lao Bai sneered and cursed, then moved closer to my master and said, "So, the tuberculosis corpse may have really met us by chance. However, now that it has escaped, it is estimated that it will not be long before the Water King comes. Let's retreat first? Leave this old thing here as dry food for it!"
"If the Water King dared to come to me, he would have come a long time ago. I am afraid he doesn't have the ability now. As for the tuberculosis corpse, I don't think it met us by chance. It deliberately led us here. The tuberculosis corpse is cunning and has seen Jingzhe. It knows that we have a feud with the ferryman. This is killing with a borrowed knife, and wants us to kill the ferryman!"
My master sat cross-legged on the ground, comforting Lao Bai, but his face was not very good. He kept looking up and down at the ferryman, as if he was trying to figure out the credibility of what he said. After a while, he finally asked: "Are all the things in the Yinren Inn gone?"
The old man nodded.
My master gritted his teeth and asked again: "What about the ones below?"
"How do you know?"
The old man's face suddenly changed, and then he said dejectedly: "Forget it, this is not a secret anymore, those below... also ran away!"
"You are guilty!"
My master's eyes began to become attractive, and he stood up suddenly and said in a low voice: "Let's go back to the mountain!"
The old man hung his head and didn't speak.
This time it was my turn to be confused. Isn't this a lively event in the Yinren Inn? Why did my master get angry all of a sudden?
They were talking like they were playing a riddle, and I couldn't quite understand them, but my intuition told me that something big might have happened...
At this time, my master had already left, and Lao Bai and Zhang Xinya hurriedly followed him. Brother Yaozi saw that I was in a daze, so he stepped forward and pulled me, saying, "Go with your master first. He will tell you if you don't understand!"
I glanced at the old man, immediately grabbed Brother Yaozi's sleeve, and whispered, "Tell my master to wait for me for a while, I have something to say to him."
Brother Yaozi immediately understood that I was talking about Zhiniang's matter, nodded silently, and reminded me, "Try to be quick, we should go back, something big is going to happen..."