The Taoist priest is haunted by evil spirits

Chapter 42 Inn

When Lu Jingyu returned to the room, he accidentally dropped all the books in his hand.He picked up the books again, and read the few books on top of Ying Yi, and put the rest on the table casually. There was nothing profound in these books, but they were good enough for entertainment.

The snow fell intermittently for a few days, and there was a pause in the middle. Because the clouds did not disperse, the snow continued to fall after a while.The food provided in the inn was getting less and less, and even drinking water would be a problem if it continued like this. The two opened the window and filled the snow with a bowl and put it in the basin.

Until Ying Yi opened the window on this day, the snow was still falling, but the sky was brighter than the previous few days.Lu Jingyu walked up to him and looked out the window, guessing that the snow should have stopped not long after.

"How about we leave today." Lu Jingyu said.

"Okay, otherwise I don't know how long to wait." Ying Yi closed the window and started to pack his luggage.

Lu Jingyu remembered that the books he borrowed from the shopkeeper a few days ago had not been returned, so he said to Yi Yi, "Then I will go and return the books first."

There were still a few books in the stack of books that Lu Jingyu hadn't finished reading. Lu Jingyu picked out one and planned to browse through it. When he opened the book, the words like ghostly symbols on it were entwined like snakes.He handed the book to Ying Yi: "Is this a kind of Yaozu script?"

Ying Yi flipped the book over and over a few times without seeing why. After thinking about it, he told Lu Jingyu, "Maybe a child drew it casually."

"It's possible." Lu Jingyu picked up the book and left the room.

Lu Jingyu walked upstairs and found that the door of the room last time was open and there was no one inside, so she planned to return the book first and then tell the shopkeeper.Before he could go out, he heard rough men talking unscrupulously from downstairs.

"The shopkeeper has something hidden and won't give it to us. I'll arrest him and ask him."

"I saw that little boy upstairs with a thin skin and tender meat, and it just happened to be eaten after rinsing."

"They're all human. The little boy must taste better than the shopkeeper. I haven't eaten human flesh yet."

"And his fat bird, it must be delicious after roasting."

Lu Jingyu rolled up his sleeves and looked at his arms. He felt that if he was boiled and eaten, he would be called tender meat on the surface, but he might be a firewood on the inside, and Ying Yi would not be a fat bird anyway. It can only be said that they no longer care about what to eat when they are on the verge of hunger, as long as they have something to eat.

As the saying goes, if you beat a master to death with random punches, you are not afraid of a lot of moves when fighting, but you are afraid of a disorderly and brute force.These hungry people were obviously not afraid. He pushed the door open a little, and their suddenly lowered voices reached his ears again.

"Two days ago, I went to other houses to search for things, and saw the shopkeeper's boy, hahaha, actually hid in the cabinet. The woman also hid in the room and kept silent."

"Hehe, didn't the shopkeeper see you at that time?"

"He wasn't cooking at that time? After cooking, he secretly took some up for the woman and the child, and I caught him right away."

"You just let them go?"

"How can it? The shopkeeper told me not to touch his wife and children, so I asked him to kneel down and kowtow a hundred times. Playing with that bitch didn't mean that he kowtowed. You said there is a fart for reading? As for the scholars, they will die with one fist!"

Lu Jingyu didn't hear what they said and the sounds. For a few days, they both used magic to seal their hearing before going to bed. One day they slept from the afternoon to the next morning, and the incident happened on that day.With a sense of foreboding, he opened the door and looked in their direction.

His eyes keenly caught the corner of the clothes exposed under the table, it was the child he saw yesterday, as if his mouth was sealed and he couldn't make a sound for help.Realizing that the situation was dangerous, he tore off the golden whistle he was wearing and was about to fall to the ground, but he didn't want to alarm the people downstairs to do something crazy, so he knocked the whistle on his forehead.

Ying Yi immediately appeared outside the window, looking for someone together with Lu Jingyu.In a room with the windows wide open, they found a woman who was also tied up and gagged, and they untied her and motioned her to keep silent.Lu Jingyu saw that the door of the inn was unlocked in the lobby in the morning, and after discussing with Ying Yi, he planned to make a fuss. He first came down from upstairs to provoke the rough guys, and at the same time, Ying Yi entered through the door to rescue the children. After finishing those people, he went to the shopkeeper.

A few rough men waited too long in the lobby for the meals they wanted, and slammed the shopkeeper loudly by patting the table.Hearing their yelling, the shopkeeper came out from the back kitchen with a plate, smiling all over his face, and kept apologizing to them, but he didn't notice the tied child.Seeing this, several people slapped their noses on their faces, forcing the shopkeeper to take out the stored food for them.

The shopkeeper smiled apologetically, "It's not enough to just have food. I'll order some bars for you." He took a few bowls and walked to the cashier counter, as if he was rummaging for something, but he didn't get up for a long time.

A rough man got impatient waiting, and started to yell: "Are you dead inside?" After saying that, he was about to walk to the cash register and prepare to drag him out.

As soon as he walked over, the shopkeeper turned around, and in front of the rough man, besides the shopkeeper, there was also a gleaming hatchet.Before he was given time to react, the hatchet had already slashed his face, and he died quickly before he could even make a sound, and he couldn't bear to die.

The rough men at the table only noticed their companions when they heard the sound of the blade piercing into the flesh. The shopkeeper kicked away the man he hacked to death, took out the wine bowl and handed it to them, and slid the contents of the bowl with his hand. sprinkled on them.The shopkeeper threw an object over, and the fire suddenly sprang up on them. It turned out that it was not wine, but oil.

Ying Yi rushed in from the gate, quickly picked up the child under the table and carried it to the door, untied the rope, took out the cloth stuffed in the child's mouth, and wrapped him in the jacket he had prepared.The strange thing is that the shopkeeper still acted as if he hadn't noticed the child just now, and Ying Yi didn't care too much, he just rescued the child first.

The rough guys screamed and screamed, and the water stored in the inn had already been used up several times a day, so they had to roll on the ground trying to extinguish the fire on their bodies.The shopkeeper walked towards them who were rolling in the flames, and slashed at the place where they were rolling, and soon the hatchet was stained red with blood.

When the shopkeeper made the first cut, Lu Jingyu instantly understood a sentence - a scholar can be killed, but not humiliated.Since he was humiliated by the wicked, sooner or later he would retaliate thousands of times on the wicked, and this scene before him was the retribution of these wicked.The inn was on fire, so it is not suitable to stay here for a long time, he went back to his room and handed the luggage to Ying Yi, he hugged the child and coaxed him, and stayed outside the door with the woman to watch what happened.

The voices in the lobby finally fell silent, and the woman opened the door, ready to take the child from Lu Jingyu's arms to her husband's.

The little boy who had been silent all this time suddenly cried and kicked and stomped, "I'm not going!"

The shopkeeper put his hands behind his back and said to the woman: "That man appeared out of nowhere, and his intentions are not right." When he said this, he stared at Ying Yi.

Ying Yi secretly thought something was wrong, in order to save the rent at the beginning, he didn't want to be regarded as a gang with rough guys now.

Under the cry of the child, the woman backed out the door, hugged him and comforted him, and asked the shopkeeper, "You burned down the inn, how can we explain to others..."

The shopkeeper smiled under the light of the fire: "It's not because of you. It's not for you. How could I be approached by those demons in your family, how could I be humiliated by them with demon methods in full view, and how could even my parents be abused by demons?" How can you resign from the human world and come here after poking your spine and dying in depression?"

"I will protect you, so I won't let others hurt you," the shopkeeper walked towards the woman step by step, his pace became faster and faster, and his smile became more ferocious, "Give me the child."

The little boy couldn't help sobbing, muttering in a low voice: "October [-]th, dad is crazy..."

At this time, November has passed, and the two of them were shocked when they heard the date.The woman looked terrified and shouted, "Run!"

Ying Yi and Lu Jingyu closed the door and locked it as quickly as possible. At the same time, the blade sank into the gate, then pulled it out and then slashed in, as if to cut through the gate [1].

"let's go!"

In front of the door, the snow covered his calves, Ying Yi held the door, slipped and almost fell, but his hands still refused to let go.Lu Jingyu felt that he had stepped on something, and when he looked down, it was his sword that was blown here by some evil wind, and it was blowing right under his feet, but the scabbard was missing.

Lu Jingyu signaled the woman to jump onto the sword with his eyes, and Ying Yi hugged the child and took the luggage, and they left the inn that was about to be engulfed in flames soon.They couldn't tell the direction for a while, and accidentally went in the opposite direction, but fortunately they saw a small town nearby.

Entering the town, Ying Yi saw the portraits of him and Lu Jingyu on the wall. When the people nearby saw them, they started talking about it, and some people ran away.It didn't look like they were wanted, so they continued to move forward without knowing it. One person hurried out, and before they got close, he waved and shouted: "Young masters, you are here!" The driver of the day.

[1]: From "The Shining".

The author has something to say:

I personally think that the scariest part of "The Shining" is the scene on the poster. Jack cut the door with a big axe, told the story of the three little pigs while cutting, and then stretched his face over and said "Here's Johnny!" At that time I watched it with my roommate, and I was so scared that I screamed beside her

PS: Visually, there are still 1-2 chapters left and the text will be over