Jiang Lian smiled and said, "If I really have money, it's normal for me to pick it up, right? Didn't Mr. Gan say that you have to collect the money given by God for free, otherwise you will take a detour when the God of Wealth meets you and will never give you money again."

The chicken and duck talked, clearly deliberately opening up the topic. Wei Biao's face darkened, and he was about to say something, but Kuang Meiying called him: "Wei Biao."

She said in a gentle tone: "If you don't want to say it, just forget it, don't always be unable to get along with Jiang Lian."

The voice was not loud, and it was a bit cowardly and lack of energy. Wei Biao was like following the Buddha's orders and said, "Miying, why did you get down? Did I quarrel with you to sleep?"

Kuang Meiying walked two steps into the house: "It's so late, don't go back to sleep."

As if she was deliberately trying to go against her, the sound of a big oil pan coming downstairs was heard. It was probably frying bacon, and the aroma rushed up to the second floor - what's the matter late? Lao Ga was still cooking and having a meal.

Wei Biao had always followed her advice, and subconsciously raised her foot and walked out. After walking two steps, he stopped again: "Don't you leave?"

"I'll talk to Jiang Lian."

Wei Biao's face looked a little ugly, and he was not good enough to stay with a shy face, so he had to throw the door out, but Jiang Lian suspected that he didn't go far.

Kuang Meiying walked to the table and saw the wound on Jiang Lian’s neck first, and her brows frowned: “Is it okay?”

"It's not a big deal."

"Is it really a fall?"

Jiang Lian raised his eyelids slightly: "What? Can someone still hit me?"

Kuang Meiying didn't say anything, and when she spoke again, her eyes turned red: "Actually, I don't think I'm expected to do this. Jiang Lian, or forget it, I think I'm too..."

Jiang Lian laughed out loud.

When he smiled, Kuang Meiying's tears came down: "I'm serious, you're still laughing!"

Jiang Lian stretched out his hand, pulled a tissue and handed it to her: "Wipe the tears clean. Even if you don't have confidence in me, you must have confidence in God's name, right? God's name is 106 years old and has walked through many bridges. What he thinks is something he has - what, do you think he is teasing you?"

This sentence hit the bull's eye better than countless comforts. Kuang Meiying was stunned and her face calmed down a lot.

Jiang Lian drove her away: "Don't think about it all, you are in poor health, hurry up and go back to rest, and there is also..."

He gestured to the outside of the door: "Don't be alone with me if you're okay. You don't know that he is small-minded and jealous. From childhood to adulthood, I don't know how many saliva has been spitting into my meal - are you embarrassed? Do you like individuals, and you are gentle and unspeakable, how many ups and downs have you added to my life?"

Kuang Meiying couldn't help laughing, and then her face turned red: "Don't talk nonsense."

She turned around and wanted to leave, and suddenly thought of something: "Then... tomorrow, I'll come here to help you?"

Jiang Lian nodded.

***

After being disturbed by the two of them, Jiang Lian was too lazy to copy the marks on the chain. He took the two copied pieces to the balcony, leaned against the column, and stood on the creaking wooden railing. He wanted to lower his head and whistle down, but suddenly he remembered that the residents of the local village were very afraid of this. They believed that whistling in the middle of the night would attract evil ghosts in the dark.

So he coughed a few times.

Lao Ga was serving the dishes and looked up when he heard the sound: "Mr. Lian, don't fall down."

Jiang Lianyangyangyang said the paper in his hand: "There are two pictures, and the patterns on the pen look like talismans. Do you show it?"

Lao Ga is a Nuo mask master.

Xiangxi has a unique cultural deposition, believing that all things have gods, and of course people cannot talk to gods. Only by wearing the witch and Nuo mask can they communicate with these mysterious powers. Although they don’t believe this now, Nuo opera, as a folk cultural heritage, still has its own heritage.

The Nuo mask master is also familiar with some talismans and hand techniques, such as carving and crafting various witch masks with knives and axes.

Lao Ga didn't raise his head: "Send it down."

Jiang Lian reached out and groped on the post for a while, untied the rope from the pinned nails at a high place, slowly lowered the way, and slowly hung a small bamboo basket from the top of the eaves. There were a few small stones for pressing the weight inside. Jiang Lian put two pieces of paper in, pressed the stones, and then placed them down to the ground.

The firewood in the fire pit had not yet been extinguished, so Lao Ga took the paper from the basket and looked carefully at the bottom of the pot.

Jiang Lian looked down at him, and his eyes turned behind him without realizing it. There was a long wooden shelf about half a meter tall. On the shelf was filled with Lao Ga's coffin, probably because he was afraid of rain, so he covered the mat, plastic cloth and sacks layer by layer.

On the day he arrived, Jiang Lian noticed the coffin and asked about it. Lao Ga replied that it was a habit of people in the mountains. When they reach a certain age, they would prepare it first. He also said that everyone would have such a day and would have such a mouthful.

Every day, Jiang Lian watched Lao Ga cook, cook, chop pig food in front of this coffin, and carve a hideous Wu Nuo mask with a nail. After seeing too much, he felt that life and death were all sparse and ordinary.

After a while, Lao Ga raised his head and shook it at him: "It's too profound, I don't recognize it."

He asked again: "Do you still want it?"

Jiang Lian shook his head, the real thing was on the table, taking a camera with a high-definition picture, which was much more accurate than the copy.

So Lao Ga filled the paper under the iron pot, and watched the edges of the paper gradually curled up and turned yellow. The moment they burned, he seemed to think of something, and quickly pulled it out and used his hand to extinguish the fire.

When I looked up again, I still had the breathless tone: "I will treat me to dinner tomorrow. If anyone knows what I know, please help me ask?"

***

Liu Guanguo rushed to the largest Maoyuan Hotel in the county early in the morning, and confirmed one by one from the check-in arrangement at the door, the service staff in the lobby to the arrangement of private rooms, and the vegetables in the kitchen, no matter how big or small it is.

After ten o'clock, Shen Wangu and several others arrived at the post. Liu Guanguo assigned tasks according to the area drawn by Meng Jinsong circle: Shen Wangu and Shen Bang were sitting at the reception desk, Qiu Dong station hall, and Liu Sheng was responsible for the stairs - the stairs leading to the boss's private room. Idle people were allowed to enter without any invitation.

With plenty of time, it was just a matter of gossip. Shen Wangu dragged Liu Guanguo and refused to let him go: "Did you really get up with Yinliao last night? Damn, don't you tell me to see it, my grandfather has never seen it like this even though I went to my grandfather's nth power."

Liu Sheng also asked Liu Guanguo: "I heard that the boss's eyes were burned by the light of the mountain mirage?"

Shen Bang felt heartbroken: "That's not, you don't know the light of the mountain mirage, it's like a swimmer."

Liu Sheng opened his mouth halfway: He doesn't know, he has never heard of the light of the mountain mirage and it has sound effects.

Shen Bang kept talking: "So I often say, don't envy the boss for living a luxurious life. The so-called "If you want to wear a crown, you must bear the weight. The higher the treatment, the greater the danger. The reason why we can live a smooth life is because the boss blocks the darkness in a place we can't see. She seems to be glorious, but in fact she is under a lot of pressure..."

Shen Wangu felt that Shen Bang was noisy and was very good at snatching Liu Guanguo: "Hey, Brother Liu, would you give me some more materials?"

Liu Guanguo was so nervous: "Only the boss saw it. Assistant Meng said that a notice would be issued in a while. You want to see it, and then you can see the official one."

Chen Wangu was disappointed.

Chen Bang said: "Brother Liu, you have been a little shaking these two days. You are just talking about it, and it is also official... Can you be more simple in your life? Look at me, the shocking information is in my hand. Am I swelling? Are you arrogant? Are you in your body?"

After a few words, he successfully attracted everyone's eyes to himself. Chen Bang was proud, and even raised his fingers and flexed his clothes with a pretentious attitude.

Liu Guanguo was half-believing and half-doubted: "Do you have any information?"

Chen Bangser: "You don't know if my sister is going to college in Nanjing."

So, is there any relationship between going to college in Nanjing and "shocking information"?

Liu Guanguo was confused.

Liu Sheng couldn't help frowning: "Hurry up, I'll put the materials in there, and I've been talking for a long time. I've been talking about Nanjing and Beijing, but I haven't made a serious fart."

Chen Bang was not angry: "Let me remind you, where is Nanjing close? Anhui; what is Anhui? Shanguizhai; what are we bothered yesterday? By the way, that's why the boss came to Xiangxi."

Among the few people, Qiu Dong talked the least, but his brain was the fastest, and he immediately got the clue: Chen Bang's girl was studying in Nanjing, not far from Shanguizhai, and the door of Shanguizhai is open to all mountain doors. In other words, she walked there frequently and had many opportunities to hear first-hand news...

Qiu Dong blurted out and asked, "What did she hear?"

Chen Bang gave him a thumbs up: "Dadong's brain is so good. Let me tell you, I went to ask her last night. She didn't know why the boss came to Xiangxi, but she had heard of something, maybe the two were related. Of course, it was just a guess, and it might not be..."

Liu Sheng wanted to hit him: "Can you tell the point?"

Chen Bang glanced at him: "Aren't you just going to say this?"

He looked around and lowered his voice: "It was said that it was two months ago, and the water ghost went to Shanguizhai."

As soon as these words were said, everyone's face was the first to appear, not surprise, but mostly confused.

Liu Sheng didn't even react: "Shui...water ghost?"

Liu Guanguo was also a little stunned.

I have heard of water ghosts. There are mountains and waters in this world. Since there are mountain ghosts, it is not uncommon to have water ghosts.

It is said that the water ghost is a group of people living along the rivers. Like mountain ghosts, a few of them are gifted and breathe with the same veins and ventilated at the bottom of the water. Liu Guanguo once suspected that the white door Zhang Shun, who could live under the water for seven days and seven nights, was the leader of the water ghost who came out to the world under the pseudonym.

That's right, the pseudonym, because the water ghost is extremely secretive, the mountain ghost is also low-key, but when compared with the water ghost, it becomes a slut: just look at the scene today, it's like eating meat and drinking big bowls to make friends. It's not like a water ghost, who closes the door and only plays with himself.

Therefore, there are almost no rumors about water ghosts outside. Even among the mountain ghosts, many people do not believe that water ghosts really exist.

...

Chen Wangu was the first to react, his eyes lit up: "Water ghost, damn it, I heard that they all look ugly, their whole body is swollen, and their skin is pale."

Liu Sheng inexplicably: "Is that true?"

Chen Wangu nodded seriously: "You think, how can you not swollen in water every day?"

Liu Sheng felt that this was quite reasonable: "Then how do they live on?"

Chen Bang didn’t know: “Catch fish, it’s 80% of people who are engaged in aquatic products, so they are quite poor.”

After saying this, his nose wings fluttered exaggeratedly, as if there was a sensational and suffocating breath coming to his face.

Liu Guanguo objected: "You can dig gold in the water. I heard that in the early years, there were gold miners by the Jinsha River."

Chen Wangu sneered: "Golden sand is not as big as rice grains, how much money can it have? Even if I have a gold mine, who will win by 77?"

The few people looked at each other and felt supreme pride, just like the seventy-seven mountain mines were tucked under their pillows.

Qiu Dong was not involved in the joke. He frowned slightly and murmured: "Why are they here? Didn't they say that the mountains and rivers don't meet?"

...

Logically speaking, mountains are connected to water, and water connects to mountains. "The mountains and rivers meet each other" is natural, but whenever the mountain ghost talks about water ghosts, they will inevitably mention the saying "The mountains and rivers do not meet each other". The reason is unknown. It seems that both families think that it is best not to interact with each other since they are old and dead. Once they are in contact, there will definitely be no good things.

Chen Bang couldn't explain it clearly, and he was vague and exaggerated: "How can I know this? My girl just heard some scraps, saying that two people from the Water Ghost Family came, an old woman, and a braided man or a woman. Both of them were swollen and pale. When they entered Shanguizhai, their whole body was still dripping with water..."
To be continued...