Hangzhou, Zhejiang, on the outskirts of the city, in the middle of a large bungalow there is a house similar to the courtyard house in Beijing. The locked door has not been opened for nearly a decade, except for the occasional passer-by who will come up and touch it to see if it is an antique, so the lock has left mottled rust.

That night, the owner of the house returned, but instead of opening the door, he jumped over the wall. This person is none other than Li Laosan. After hearing Lao Liu Tou say that he had to use the cuirass to save his son Sanqing's life, he left Fanjia Village in a hurry, and finally arrived in Hangzhou after two and a half days of non-stop travel along the way. This is strange to say, obviously he is going back to his ancestral house, but he does not go out of the door, he still wears a peaked cap and a mask, and carries a wooden box on his back, like a snitch.

After entering the house, he walked around the yard, and then went straight to the south wing, took out a key from his pocket, gently inserted it into the lock hole, and with a "click", the lock opened, Li Laosan pushed the door in, and did not turn on the flashlight he carried with him, only relying on the moonlight that came in through the open door to move in the house.

The house was small, but it was empty because there were almost no objects on display. Li Laosan groped and walked to the north corner of the room, where there was a human-tall wooden sculpture in the corner, but because of the dim light, he couldn't tell what the carving was. Li Laosan moved the statue aside, then squatted down and reached out and knocked on the ground, empty! Then he used both hands, and soon pulled up a bluestone slab from the ground, and a hole appeared in the ground in the north corner of the house. At the same time, a foul smell rose from the cave, Li Laosan frowned slightly, turned on the flashlight and shone into the hole, and couldn't see anything wrong, so he took the flashlight in his mouth and jumped into the hole.

It turns out that there is no cave! Under the ground of this south wing room is actually a basement, which is more than ten square meters in size. In the center of the basement is a stone tool that resembles a four-sheep square bottle, but it is much larger. The stench was coming from the direction of the thing. Li Laosan didn't think much about it, and immediately walked over. When I got closer, I saw a black thing on top of the thing, and white bugs kept coming out of it. Li Laosan stepped forward and took a closer look, it turned out to be a dead cat, and it looked like it had just died.

Now Li Laosan was worried, this basement was dug by himself, it stands to reason that this black cat is unwilling to enter, and then look at the cat's dead appearance, those almost bursting eyes, Li Laosan suddenly thought of something.

"How can a newly dead thing grow so many corpse worms?" Li Laosan muttered, and then reached out to grab the dead cat, threw it on the ground, and didn't care about it anymore.

Then look at the thing that resembles the square bottle of the four sheep, but it turned out to be a huge stone box, the four sides of the stone box are carved with a three-dimensional bust of the quadrangular beast, the green dragon and the white tiger and the vermilion bird Xuanwu, according to the southeast, northwest and one by one correspondence place. This thing was half bought and half snatched by Li Laosan from an old Taoist priest who claimed to be a descendant of Maoshan in his early years, and according to the Taoist priest's description, this thing was an artifact of demon suppression. After the Sichuan incident, he sacrificed this "artifact" as a dead horse as a live horse doctor, but he didn't expect that he would really become the only one who survived.

Li Laosan carefully opened the stone cover, and in the box, a cuirass appeared in front of him, which had long been dimmed, but there was no rust.

"I, Li Laosan, thought about it for a thousand times, but I couldn't imagine that it was you who turned a corner, and the retribution came to my son!" Li Laosan looked at the contents of the box, and a wave of anger burned in his chest, but this did not break his rules.

He put down the wooden box on his back, took out some incense candles and an everlasting lamp from it, first lit the everlasting lamp and put it in the southeast corner of the basement, then lit five sticks of incense, stuffed one into each of the mouths of the four divine beasts, and put the last one in his mouth. When he was ready, he took out a roll of red rope from the wooden box, and the same steel rope that had been used to deal with the grave guard dog back then, this red rope had also been soaked in black dog blood and tung oil. He then removed the cuirass from the "artifact" and wound the red rope around the net until it was completely covered by the red rope.

"Whew", after Li Laosan put the cuirass into the wooden box, he immediately took off the incense in his mouth and breathed a long sigh of relief. After many years of abandonment, this breath really burned in his lungs.

After sealing the wooden box, Li Laosan bowed deeply to the Quartet Divine Beast with his hands folded, then took off the incense on it and walked towards the dead cat that had been discarded before.

"You, where did you come from, go back to where you go, don't learn from others if you don't practice enough, oh no, ghost, come out and hang around. These four incense sticks are rewarded to you!" Li Laosan said and reached out to pinch the dead cat's mouth, and stuffed the four incense sticks burning into its mouth at one time, and then stood aside and watched quietly. These methods that always make people feel evil are all hearsay from Li Laosan when he touched Captain Jin in those years, and he doesn't know whether it works or not.

After the four incense sticks were stuffed into the dead cat's mouth, a "squeak" was heard, and all four incense sticks were extinguished, and then there was no movement, and after about a minute, thick black smoke suddenly rose from the dead cat's mouth, and then black smoke began to rise from its eyes and nose. The corpse worms began to burrow out of the dead cat's body, fell to the ground, and shook for a while before they stopped. In the end, there were no more corpse worms in the dead cat's body, and there were a bunch of dead worms on the ground.

"Is it really useful?" Li Laosan muttered, but he didn't feel how unbelievable it was, after all, he had dealt with the grave for more than ten years, so it was not strange to see this kind of thing.

Li Laosan stretched out his foot and kicked the dead cat, but there was no reaction, and things seemed to be like this. He picked up the wooden box and prepared to leave, when the dead cat changed again.

Li Laosan hurriedly looked down, only to see that the black cat's eyes that were like lanterns suddenly retracted, and his hairy mouth actually spit out something.

"Huh!" Seeing this, Li Laosan squatted down to pick up the thing that the cat spit out, and when he got it in his hand, it turned out to be a copper coin.

This time, Rao is well-informed Li Laosan couldn't think of a reasonable explanation for a while. So he came and beckoned him, gritted his teeth, and stuffed the copper coin into his pocket. Then the cat shut up.

Li Laosan put the stone cover back on the stone box, and was about to climb back to the south wing, when he happened to see the dead cat out of the corner of his eye, and inexplicably felt a sense of pity, or a kind of involuntary sympathy. So he walked back and grabbed the dead cat.

With this grasp, the everlasting light in the southeast corner of the basement suddenly went out, and a black shadow flashed in the south wing. Li Laosan frowned, dodged behind the "artifact", and stared at the entrance of the cave vigilantly.