Chapter 1: The Ghost Man
"Yuan Shuai, do you have any views on the current social form in the world?"
"Uh...... There is a "Red Mansion" behind the officials, all the children of the rich are "Journey to the West", the local government is staging "Three Kingdoms", and the people can only brew "Water Margin". ”
"Then do you have any experience in collecting demons and exorcism?"
"Demons and monsters also have good and evil, in fact, people and demons are born by mothers, the difference is that people are born by people, and demons are born by demons, so being a demon is like being a man, you must have a benevolent heart, and with a benevolent heart, you are no longer a demon, but a demon. ”
The master slapped his thigh and said to his apprentice Yuan Shuai with tears in his eyes: "Brilliant and incisive! You are worthy of being a model for the people and a pillar of the country, so from today onwards, the great mission of maintaining world peace and sweeping away all pests will depend on you to take over." ”
Yuan Shuai only then turned his mind and said to the master: "Don't be old man, who will take care of you after I leave, and who will be able to chat and fart with you under the sun in the future." ”
The master sighed uncharacteristically, and said to Yuan Shuai earnestly: "It's going to rain, my mother is going to get married, let's take care of each other, now the food stored in the Taoist temple can no longer maintain the livelihood of the two of us." Let's go down the mountain and go outside to the metropolis of flowers and butterflies to find a place where you can really use your spare energy. ”
"Master-" Yuan Shuai knelt at the old man's feet and cried, and finally he stretched out his arm and said to the old man, "This time I will go down the mountain apprentice, I will definitely carry forward my prestige of teaching Maoshan Taoism, so in order not to disgrace the mission, and also in order not to discredit the ancestors of the past generations, this 'blood wood sword' that subdues demons and destroys demons, hehe, you know." ”
"Take it~" The old man casually threw a red wooden sword more than an inch long to Yuan Shuai from his arms.
"Since the master also admonished the disciples to maintain world peace and sweep away all pests, then our Maoshan magic weapon 'Demon Suppression Tower'...... Hey, you get the idea. ”
The old man was angry, and took out a rusty bronze tower from his arms, handed it to Yuan Shuai, but muttered in his mouth: "I know that your kid is not well-intentioned, I'm afraid you have been thinking about it for more than a day or two." ”
"Master, the wise and martial arts dominate the rivers and lakes, I hope that you will be a good old man to the end, and give the last 'Bagua Mirror' of the three treasures of our Taoist Temple to your disciples......"
"I'll take it!" the old man swooped up from his easy chair, and like a discus thrower, he threw the last bronze mirror in his hand into Yuan Shuai's arms in a difficult posture that rotated for three and a half weeks.
At the end, the old man "sent" his "baby" apprentice out of the mountain gate with a fierce kick, and he reluctantly sang "The wind is Xiao Xiao and the water is cold, Yuan Shuai will not return when he goes~"
Sitting back on the easy chair under the sun, the old man finally breathed a long sigh of relief, this piece of "dog skin plaster" that has been sticking to him for nearly ten years has finally been completely removed, and now the old man feels relaxed and refreshed, his teeth are good, his appetite is delicious, and his body is great! Although many treasures were abducted by Yuan Shuai's unscrupulous apprentice, the old man still did not feel distressed, because the ultimate treasure book of Benguan had not been plundered by Yuan Shuai......
It wasn't until he came to the foot of the mountain that Yuan Shuai remembered that he didn't bring a penny with him when he went down the mountain this time, and looked back at the road he had walked, as well as the towering Qingtian Taoist Temple, alas, luck is not an ordinary back.
In desperation, Yuan Shuai had no choice but to be empty-handed, and he was only wearing a more valuable leather jacket on his body, and embarked on the great road of eliminating demons and saving the common people. After walking for about a noon, Yuan Shuai finally found the first small village since he came down the mountain. Listening to the constant protest of the rumbling stomach, Yuan Shuai had no choice but to sell the leather jacket on his body in exchange for a few white flour buns that could satisfy his stomach, alas, the little cabbage is yellow in the ground~
Yuan Shuai, who was thirsty when he came to the village, first ran to a well in the center of the village, and when he was about to start drinking a bucket of cool well water, a hunchbacked man about forty years old entered his field of vision.
"Hey, what kind of pimple are you, how can I look at you. ”
Yuan Shuai raised his head and glanced at the hunchbacked man, only to see that his face was not too old but weak, showing a sickly paleness, when the hunchbacked man walked towards him with three trembling steps, it seemed that every step would consume a lot of his physical strength.
"Oh, I'm a merchant passing through your village, and I'm stopping by your village. Yuan Shuai hurriedly let this sick hunchbacked man do it on the bluestone slab beside him. As soon as he approached this man, Yuan Shuai immediately felt a subtle yin qi lingering on this hunchbacked man's body.
"I said how come I've never seen you before, it turned out to be a foreign guest, what a rare guest. ”
Taking a cigarette from the hunchback's hand, Yuan Shuai learned from him that his original name was Liu Youcai, nicknamed "Liu Hunchback", in fact, this nickname was also that he suddenly got a strange illness two years ago and became a hunchback after getting up, so the villagers jokingly gave him the title of Liu Humpback when they saw him.
While chatting, Yuan Shuai secretly performed the "Tianyan Decision" in the Maoshan Taoism, which is actually what people often call the "Yin and Yang Eyes".
Yuan Shuai's eyes widened, but his pupils became smaller and thinner, until his eyes turned into a pair of cat-like eyes, Yuan Shuai saw clearly that behind Liu's hunchback, there was an old lady who looked like a withered old lady.
Although the body is thin and small, but walking around with an old lady on his back all day long, can he not become a hunchback, Yuan Shuai took the opportunity to ask Liu Humpback whether an old lady had died in their village two years ago, Liu Humpback was startled on the spot after hearing this, it turned out that an old lady did die in their village two years ago, that is, his mother, but not long after his mother's death, Liu Humpback was gradually hunched because of a serious illness.
Now it is clear at a glance that Liu has been carrying his dead mother on his back for more than two years, and if a normal person is too exposed to things in the underworld, over time, the yang energy and health on his body will become less and less, until finally he will die due to lack of yang energy.
Seeing Liu's hunchback's current physical condition, if nothing else, I'm afraid he won't even be able to survive this year, but fortunately, Ji Ren Tianxiang met the savior who saved the common people and maintained world peace-Archmage Yuan Shuai.
To tell the truth, I told Liu Humpback as it was, only to see that he was so frightened that he accidentally fell to the ground from the bluestone slab, fortunately, he didn't sit at the mouth of the well like Yuan Shuai, if that is the case, I'm afraid I don't have to wait for the New Year Liu Humpback to fall into the well one step earlier and die.
"I, I...... My mother has been lying on my back!" Liu hunched back nervously and became Liu stammered again.
"Do you believe what I say, then? Yuan Shuai asked him with a grin.
"Believe, I believe what you say, because you have never been to us, and you know that an old lady died two years ago. You must be the reincarnation of Wong Tai Sin. ”
Seeing that Liu Hunchback was excited, he also wanted to kowtow to Yuan Shuai and kneel, Yuan Shuai hurriedly helped Liu Hunchback back to the bluestone slab and said, "The title of Wong Tai Sin is still exempt, my name is Yuan Shuai, in fact, I am a Maoshan Taoist priest, and this time I went down the mountain to save the suffering people in the world." ”
In Liu's hunchback and admiration, Yuan Shuai secretly sighed that if this kind of vision was replaced by a young girl, what a happy thing it would be.
Opening the psychic state of the yin and yang eyes again, Yuan Shuai said to his mother who was lying on Liu Huo's shoulder, "Dust to dust, dust to dust, old lady, you are no longer a person in the yang world, why do you still want to hide in his son as a shadow, are you not afraid of harming your son if you continue like this!"
“...... Son~" A deep whisper made even Liu hunchback, feeling a piercing chill coming from behind him.
"I am reluctant to leave him, you are rich and a filial son, I have been with me all my life, this time I left him my wife and son were lonely and bullied by the ghosts of the underworld, I miss my son. The old lady had a sad expression, as if she had tears in her eyes, she must have been in tears by now.
"You are no longer an interface character, you must know that your son has lost a lot of yang life because of your existence, and if he dies, he will become a ghost who does not recognize his relatives, and then he will be cruelly burned at the stake in the underworld because of you. ”
Seeing that the old lady's heart had loosened, Yuan Shuai didn't stop doing anything, took out a "death talisman" from his arms, and said to her: "Don't worry, after you leave, I will let your son burn more paper for you, and when you return to the underworld, you can dredge up the relationship to reduce your guilt." Saying that, Yuan Shuai slapped the old lady's body violently, but in reality, Yuan Shuai seemed to slap on the back of Liu's hunchback.
Like a fire, a visible white gas arose spontaneously behind Liu Humpback, and Liu Humpback felt that Yuan Shuai's shot made his back warm and hot, and then a miracle scene appeared, Liu Humpback, who had been hunched over for more than two years, finally straightened his waist, just like a person who had just gotten up and stretched some of his parts, Liu Humpback never felt that his current body was so refreshing.
"Yuan Daxian~ The living Bodhisattva who saves the suffering, this time I really met the living Buddha~" In addition to being excited, Liu hunchbacked, a middle-aged man in his forties was moved to cry.
Since he lit a cigarette again, Yuan Shuai has not smelled a cigarette for many years, and he gladly accepted all the praise of Liu Humpback, the savior who saved the common people, he still suffered from this.
Just as Liu Humpback was about to kowtow and bow down to express his incomparable gratitude, a little boy in the village who was dragging a three-foot long nose ran towards Liu Humpback in a panic.
"Second uncle is not good, Aunt Wang and her daughter-in-law next door are crazy again!"
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