51. The fifty-first talisman
After Zhou Tong had packed up all the formations, the talents of several families were late, and as soon as they entered the small courtyard, they saw Han Li sitting paralyzed on the ground, while Old Man Chu was happily smoking dry tobacco on the side, and the people of the three families were all confused.
Zhou Tong walked out of the small courtyard unhurriedly, smiled when he saw the people in the courtyard, and said, "What's the matter?
The first person said: "We received news from Brother Han, and we came here to take a look at the situation." He looked at Han Zhi and asked, "Brother Han, what's going on here?"
"Nothing. Han Zhi gritted his teeth and said, "It was my luck that accidentally took a fork in the road, and I wanted to find someone for help, but I put the wrong paper figure." ”
"Is it?" The man was still puzzled, and when he heard Mr. Chu help Han Zhi up, he said earnestly, "Han Zhi, young people can't be eager for quick success, being a man and cultivating have a truth, everything has to be down-to-earth, and you can't be impatient or impatient." ”
Han Zhi suppressed the anger that was about to swell out and nodded stiffly.
Han Zhi was supported and sent away by the people of the Han family, Old Man Chu and Zhou Tong remained in place, and after these people left, Zhou Tong stretched out his hand and flicked on the ground, and tore open a hidden rune paper, and under the rune paper was Han Li's burst **.
Zhou Tong asked, "Is Han Li's 'corpse' going to be returned to Old Lady Han?"
"Forget it. Old Man Chu took a puff of dry tobacco, knocked the ash clean, hung the cigarette stick around his waist, and said to Zhou Tong, "Bury it under the tree, I'll talk about it on Sister Cui's side." ”
Zhou Tong nodded and responded: "Okay." ”
***
In the bucket room, a pottery puppet cracked in response, the person guarding the bucket room walked over, took out the note attached to the pottery puppet and looked at it, the name of "Han Li" was impressively listed, he took out a notebook locked in the cabinet, dipped it in cinnabar and erased Han Li's name on it.
After doing this qiē, the man continued to guard the door of the room, while paying attention to the changes in these pottery puppets, he made a phone call, and the phone was quickly connected, and the man immediately said, "Boss, Han Li's pottery puppets are cracked. ”
"Oh. The indifferent voice rang from the other side of the phone, and the man couldn't help but shudder, and the phone was hung up immediately, and the man immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
In the closed room, the air flow swells to form a wind, blowing the dozen or so clay puppets placed on the shelves.
***
Five days later, the remaining four groups also completely solved the formation, and the last one looked up at them in shame when he saw Zhou Tong and their group that broke the formation early the next morning, and smiled very embarrassedly when they met them head-on, and walked away with a touch of his nose.
In fact, it stands to reason that this time the results were the best in the past, and the three-day Master Festival competition was completed within a week. But on the premise that Zhou Tong and them broke the formation two days ago, the next few groups are really not enough.
After it is completed, the family that preserves the "Tianyan Town Altar Tree" will be selected by voting in Zhou Tong's team.
Zhou Tong gave up the opportunity to let the Chu family enter the group, and chose a person who had almost no power, and the only ones in the team who had the right to vote were Zhou Tong and Han Qiqing, and the two of them were just one representing the Chu family and the other representing the Han family, presumably no one would let anyone.
All of a sudden, it was really difficult. But everyone knows in their hearts, who should this "Tianyan Town Altar Tree" give.
Just when everyone was hesitating, Han Qiqing stood up, he bowed to the elders and the other three major families, and said, "Just use the method of voting." ”
"Qi Qing ......" Old Lady Han looked at Han Qiqing, her eyes full of worry.
Han Qiqing replied to Mrs. Han with a firm look and said, "I can vote with Zhou Tong." ”
"This ...... It's only two ......," the head of the Zhang family said embarrassedly.
Han Qiqing shook his head and said, "Uncle Zhang is out of the way, I vote for Zhou Tong." ”
Old Man Chu laughed when he heard this, and asked, "Qi Qing, stupid boy, why don't you vote for yourself?" This was said too bluntly, the other two families were a little embarrassed, and several juniors of the Chu family also pulled Old Man Chu's sleeve in private, and the little granddaughter blushed even more: "Grandpa! It's not good to say this in the open!"
Han Qiqing blushed from laughter at Old Man Chu's hearty laughter, and said, "I originally wanted to vote for myself, but when I thought that this vote was a choice between me and Zhou Tong, I was really ashamed to vote for myself, and I didn't dare to do it." ”
Old Man Chu squinted his eyes with a smile and praised: "Follow your heart and don't be moved by interests, Qi Qing, you are a good boy." He then looked at Zhou Tong again and asked expectantly, "Zhou Tong, what about you? Who are you voting for?" ”
Zhou Tong laughed, his smile was gentle and made people feel like a spring breeze, and he made a fist holding posture inherited by the Zhou family to Mr. Chu, and said respectfully: "I vote for myself." ”
"Hahaha-" Old Man Chu laughed loudly and was full of pleasure, he looked at Zhou Tong with satisfaction, and his eyes were full of expectations and rewards for Zhou Tong: "Good, confident and not arrogant, good, good!"
He turned his head to the two elders beside him and said, "Now that the results have come out, Zhang Xian's nephew, Sister Cui, do you have any other opinions?"
The two elders shook their heads and said, "It's in line with the rules, it's gone." ”
"That-" Old Man Chu dragged out his voice and stood up, although he was already more than ninety years old, but the spirit of the dragon and tiger, a pair of eyes were burning, he walked down slowly, took Zhou Tong's hand, and walked step by step to the jade shelf holding the "Tianyan Town Altar Wood", and said loudly, "In the past ten years, the 'Tianyan Town Altar Wood' will be handed over to our Chu family for safekeeping!
As soon as the old man Chu said this, the other two families were taken aback, and suddenly woke up like a dream, and then remembered that the original intention of letting the three major families take turns to keep the "Tianyan Town Altar Wood" was that the "Tianyan Town Altar Wood" had no owner, and he was afraid that he would be taken away by traitors so that the three major families took turns to keep it.
Before the competition, "Tianyan Town Tanmu" had a sign of recognizing Zhou Tong as the master, and this time, it was said that it was kept by the Chu family, but in fact, it was sent to Zhou Tong's arms!
Although the Zhang and Han families still have grievances, they can't say much, the rules set by the ancestors are like this, and they say that the most taboo is to "deceive the teacher and destroy the ancestors".
Zhou Tong picked up Tianyan Zhentan Mu, the box began to tremble, the box lid was forcefully opened, Tianyan Zhentan Mu directly pushed open the box lid, jumped out of the box at once, jumped into Zhou Tong's arms, swayed up and down with joy, shook for a while, and then rubbed on Zhou Tong's waist, swaying from side to side towards the bronze halberd head in his pocket like a coquette.
Ling Yuan: "Shame on you. ”
Sky Eye: "Woo......"
The three heavenly masters had to continue, but Zhou Tong had no interest in staying and watching, and the old man Chu invited Zhou Tong to stay at Chu's house for a few days, but Zhou Tong politely refused.
There were many opportunities to go to the Chu family, and now he wanted to try to use the lotus lamp he had obtained from Han Li.
Han Li's lotus lamp, the lamp base is engraved with an engraved word "underworld", which is the legendary lotus lamp through the underworld, as mentioned earlier, the "lotus" is connected, there is a sense of connection, this lotus lamp is used to connect yin and yang, leading to the netherworld.
If it weren't for this lamp, presumably with Han Li's appearance of being a human, a ghost, and a ghost, he would not have succeeded in arranging the Seven-Star White Lotus Life-Sustaining Lantern Array, which showed the power of this lamp.
Han Qiqing sent Zhou Tong all the way to the airport, and carefully told a lot on the way, and his reluctant appearance made Zhou Tong smile on the corner of his mouth all the time. The boarding announcement rang a few times, and Duan Zheng shouted not far away: "Xiaotong!
Zhou Tong responded, turned back to Han Qiqing and said: "Sending you a thousand miles must be goodbye in the end, there are still many opportunities to meet in the future, so there is no need to send it again." ”
"Hmm. Han Qiqing nodded seriously, and still helped Zhou Tong carry the box all the way to the security checkpoint, and the two waved goodbye.
While waiting for the plane, Zhou Tong sat on a chair and took a nap, when Ling Yuan suddenly appeared and asked abruptly, "Why have you been so good to this person?!"
Zhou Tong was stunned: "Who?"
“…… Han Qiqing. ”
Zhou Tong thought about it carefully, and said with a smile: "Maybe he is a person who is willing to be close to me in addition to being upright." ”
Am I not someone who is really close to you?" Ling Yuan felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, and he obviously wanted to say something to comfort Zhou Tong, but when the words came to his lips, they became: "This kind of reason? ”
Zhou Tong ignored Ling Yuan's sarcastic tone, and said with a tolerant smile: "Okay, good, I'm pitiful, what about you? I feel that you used to be a person who was in the spotlight and hugged by everyone." ”
Ling Yuan: "......" Ling Yuan's anger sank suddenly, and after a while, he said in a muffled voice, "Why are you talking so much?"
Zhou Tong shrugged his shoulders helplessly, but there was still a smile on the corner of his mouth, Ling Yuan's sullen personality was really difficult to serve, but it was unexpected...... It's cute.
The plane flew all the way to City A, and there was a car to pick it up at home, so he specially sent Zhou Tong back to the shop and then went back by himself.
Zhou Tong was ready to welcome the aura of the head of the house, and the moment he opened the door, he saw a powerful aura rushing towards him, like a group of puppies who had not seen their owners for a long time, excitedly wrapped around Zhou Tong.
Tianyan Zhentanmu, who was placed in the backpack by Zhou Tong, opened the zipper, looked out from the gap, and when he saw the magic weapons floating in the room, he suddenly got out of the backpack, and like his own family, he wandered around them, completely treating them as companions.
But dangling, Tianyan Zhentanmu found that something was wrong, although these magic weapons have spirituality, but in the end they are different from him, they are intimate with Zhou Tong because Zhou Tong has the qi they like, unlike himself who is conscious.
After realizing this, the Tianyan Town Tanmu collapsed and fell directly to the ground from mid-air, Zhou Tong saw this, and immediately reached out and fished out the Tianyan Town Tanmu into the palm of his hand.
Zhou Tong let out a breath and said, "It's good that it hasn't fallen, I'm really afraid that it will be broken." ”
"What are you afraid of, that piece of Zhentan wood is not valuable, and that day the eye can't be broken no matter how much it falls. Ling Yuan said.
Zhou Tong sat on the chair, wiped the dust on the Tianyan, and said while looking around for a suitable shelf: "Magic weapons are all things that need to be maintained, today you think that you can't break it, but if it goes on like this for a long time, there will definitely be problems." He found a suitable place, put the Tianyan Town Altar Wood in a box and placed it on the shelf, and said, "You stay here for the night first, and tomorrow I will find a suitable place to store you." ”
Tianyan Zhentanmu shook, and obediently stopped moving.
Ling Yuan looked at the Zhentan wood lying quietly on the shelf in surprise, this Tianyan was a restless troublemaker a long time ago, why was he so obedient??? he looked at Zhou Tong again, but found that Zhou Tong took out a few yellow talismans from the drawer, and took the brush, cinnabar, inkstone, white candle and other things and walked to the backyard.
There was a small courtyard at the back of the shop, which was not very large, with only a few loquat trees and a well, and the well was covered with a thick layer of moss.
Zhou Tong spread out the newspaper, put all the things he had taken out on the newspaper, then inserted the white candles on both sides of the well, and began to draw the talismans attentively.
When it was almost six o'clock, the alarm clock on the mobile phone rang, Zhou Tong turned off the alarm clock, stretched his waist, he cleaned up the drawn talismans, posted them around the well, and found a paper bag of excess spare talisman paper and put it up.
"It's six o'clock. At the same time as Zhou Tong said this, the flame of the white candle rose, and the yellow talisman attached to the wellhead was blown by the wind, and naturally flew up until it was parallel to the wellhead, and the manhole cover was carried by the rune paper and floated all the way, revealing the black wellhead.
Zhou Tong glanced down, the well was dry, and there was not much well water left, Zhou Tong frowned, and muttered: "I knew that I wouldn't be lazy to use this well...... The water is a bit less. Forget it, let's wait until the evening is over. ”
He didn't look back at the well, but walked back to his room, ready to do something to cushion his stomach.
The well water is groundwater, and there are folk rumors that ghosts can be seen when the willow leaves are dipped in the well water at the most cloudy time of the day, and other heavenly masters who do not have a pair of yin and yang eyes like Zhou Tong mostly use well water to open their eyes.
There is also a saying that the well leads to yin, so many ghost stories and horror movies will specially arrange scenes for ghosts to climb out of the well, and there are often legends that people who have been disabled are thrown into the well and sealed with a manhole cover and nailed to death.
Zhou Tong wanted to use the well water that had gathered yin qi to perform the soul summoning method to summon Zhou Da's soul.