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Chapter 6 Incense Money

Chen Liancheng's action of snatching his pistol scared Lao Lang. He didn't react for a moment. He covered the holster with both hands and said to Chen Liancheng: "What a big deal, isn't it just lighting a fire? I won't burn ten or eight private houses when I sent troops that time? Look at me, I'll look at me, I'm just Lang - old man, you dare to steal the gun!"

At the end of the day, Commander Lang understood and pushed Mr. Shen away. At this time, the soldiers from behind had already rushed over and pressed our uncle and nephew to the ground. Then he punched and kicked. Zhao Lao Nianba on the side was a hunter in the countryside, but had never seen any market, but his mouth moved, and he didn't dare to come forward to plead with Commander Lang.

In the end, the adjutant came forward to plead for fear that we would be damaged and no one would lead the way. Zhao Lao Nianba, who could not beat a single stick, was not safe alone. Once there was any mistake, it would be too late to go back to Shenjiabao to find someone. Commander Lang ordered to stop. Although Chen Liancheng was shouting at me just now, when something happened, I didn't hesitate and rushed directly to him. Eighty percent of the beatings were hit by me, a college student in Peking.

Commander Lang took out his pistol, clicked on the heads of our uncle and nephew, and said, "You two are honestly leading the way. When you arrive at Toad Mouth, you will catch the bandits. You will be thirty yuan per person. If you dare to make such a fuss, you will be considered as a bandit and shot them on the spot!"

When I heard the word "Toad Mouth" again, my heart moved. After wiping the blood from the corner of my mouth, I helped Chen Liancheng get up from the ground while saying to Commander Lang and others: "Sir, you went to Toad Mouth to suppress bandits, but no one told you about Toad Haunted? Go to Shenjiabao to inquire, and all three-year-old children know about the haunted things inside."

The Lang clearly knew something. When he heard me say that the toad mouth was haunted, his face became ugly. He scolded me and said, "Nonsense! No one is there any ghost in this world? Now they are all in the Republic of China. You are a foreign student at the Beiyang Academy. Do you believe in ghosts and gods? I said that there are bandits in the toad mouth, but there are bandits. They made up the stories of haunted before, just to make you ordinary people not dare to get close to the toad mouth..."

"Boss, please listen to me, Brother Chen Lian. He grew up in Erliang Temple and was a serious person who was still alive in Toad Mouth." At this time, Zhao Lao Nian, who had been thinking about it, said timidly.

Although I kept winking at him and signaled that Laona should not tell me the details. However, he did not look at me at all, and continued to say to himself: "For so many years, only my brother and his master Lu Dao dared to go to Toad Mouth. When Emperor Xuantong abdicated, I chased the silly roe deer and passed by Toad Mouth and saw white figures. When he heard the movement, these figures came to chase me. If my brother and Lu Dao passed by, I, Lao Zhao, would have explained to Toad Mouth at that time..."

When I said this, Lao Nianba remembered the scene when he was chased by a shadow and ran around the mountain, but he couldn't help but tremble. I was confused by the side, and after thinking about it, I was scared to this way. Why did Zhao Lao Nianba have the courage to be a guide?

After hearing Zhao Lao Nianba's words, Captain Lang looked at me in confusion and said, "Aren't you a foreign student from Peking? Why is there an experienced master? Tell me clearly whether he is a foreign student or a young master?"

It seemed that I couldn't hide it anymore, so I could only tell Captain Lang about his own affairs. But the Lang surname was not interested in these things. Before I could finish my words, I interrupted them and said, "Don't mess with these useless things. Talking about the toad mouth. Have you ever been to the toad mouth? Talking about this..."

Seeing that I couldn't hide it, I could only smile bitterly and said, "It was just a matter of a few dollars, but I didn't expect it to almost kill my life..."

Speaking of which, it was two months before Widow Li went to Erlangguan to send money. Once, Old Dao Lu suspected that I had stole the incense money from the temple. He even frightened him several times, but he didn't ask about the whereabouts of the few dollars. Finally, Old Dao Lu came and asked me to prepare the quilt and bring me a big cake, pickled vegetables and other dry food. After all these things were ready, he took me to the Zuizishan.

After going up the mountain, Old Dao Lu took me straight to the toad's mouth, and then threw all his things into the cave inside the toad's mouth. Then he said to me viciously that he would release me whenever he would pay back the stolen incense money.

Even three-year-old children know about the haunted toad mouth in several villages around Shenjiabao. When the old people in the village were joking and remembering, they heard about chopping wood on the mountain. Hunters often saw vague figures in the toad mouth recently. People from generation to generation grew up listening to the ghost stories of the toad mouth.

Except for the time when Zhao Lao Nianba almost died, the last time was what happened in the year of giving birth to me. In the third month after my birth, a hunter named Shen Laogou in Shenjiabao chased a musk deer into the toad's mouth. Originally, he could not walk inside when he saw the toad's mouth, but Shen Laogou saw that the musk deer had a piece of musk on his belly. One liang of musk is five pieces of ocean. Looking at the musk deer's size, he could cut off two liang of musk.

For the sake of ten o'clock, Shen Laogou also took advantage of it. He gritted his teeth and followed the musk deer into the toad's mouth. The sky was already dark. After Shen Laogou knocked down the musk deer with a bird gun and cut off the musk deer with a full 2-half tael from the deer's belly, he realized that the sky had completely darkened.

At this time, the sound of the wind blowing from afar had changed, as if a woman screamed and seemed to be a child crying heart-wrenchingly. Shen Laogou was creepy, and he knew he was afraid at this moment. He shivered and died of deer on his back, holding his iron-spraying bird gun and running out of the toad's mouth.

Old Gou Shen is also an old hunter in Shenjiabao. Although he had never walked through the toad mouth before. However, when he passed by here in broad daylight, he really looked at the terrain. The toad mouth was not too big. He ran down a road and could run out in no time. However, it was also a strange thing at that time. Old Gou Shen ran for more than half an hour and was always wandering within the toad mouth. He knew in his heart: It's over, he encountered a ghost and hit a wall...

When Old Dog Shen didn't know how many times he saw the pool of deer blood on the ground, he was so scared that his hair was erected. It was the full moon night of the fifteenth month, and the pale moonlight shone on this pool was extremely strange. At this time, Old Dog Shen even had the illusion that the deer behind him was still moving. A cool breeze blew over, and in a trance he felt that the deer was licking the deer with its tongue...

Old Gou Shen screamed, and threw the dead musk deer on his back with all his strength. Then he shot him first. After the gunshot gave him courage, he ran out of the toad's mouth with fearlessness. I don't know if it was throwing the dead deer, or if the shot scared the lonely ghosts around him, Old Gou Shen actually escaped from the toad's mouth.

After seeing that he had already run out of the toad's mouth, Shen Laogou's heart was finally in his stomach. Maybe he felt that he had escaped from the sky, so he slowed down. While gasping, he turned back to the toad's mouth forever. Just this glance made Shen Laogou's heart stop beating instantly...

I saw the toad's mouth full of white figures. Just ten meters behind Shen Laogou, there was a man naked and pale skin. The man's upper and lower eyelids were tied together with iron wire, and blood was constantly oozing through the gaps of his eyelids. The deer that had musk cut by Shen Laogou was standing next to the man, and his turbid eyes were already staring at him, as if he was looking for Shen Laogou's life.

At this time, Old Gou Shen was stiff all over and could not move. He watched the man and deer on the opposite side slowly towards him. At that time, Old Gou's blood was cold. Just when he thought he would die this time, a sound suddenly sounded in the toad's mouth, which seemed to ring a bell...
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