Chapter 403: Burning Cotton Thread
These tricks of the old sheep's tongue are actually nothing if they say they are clever, and everyone in the industry knows the way to this, but they are just deceiving some mountain villagers.
The master next to Zhang Haogu is a shrewd person, and he said to Zhang Haogu that if you want to find a liar who is reliable and not easy to be exposed, it must be the old sheep's tongue.
Let's not talk about his ability, even his appearance can't match the word liar.
Generally speaking, liars and thieves are good-looking, treacherous and cunning, with sharp beaks and monkey gills, and at first glance they are not a good type, which makes people suspicious.
But the old sheep's tongue is not like this, he looks kind and kind, his face is kind, and when he laughs, his eyes are full of love, warm as a spring breeze, which makes people have no defense against him.
People believe in the saying that appearance is born from the heart, so when the old sheep head cheats, he is like a fish in water, and rarely misses.
Today, as soon as the master and Zhang Haogu mentioned the old sheep's tongue, Zhang Haogu also remembered this old liar, because his whereabouts were uncertain, and the people in the yamen tried to arrest him many times without success, how could they catch him this time and make him agree to go to the palace on this errand?
The master smiled and said to Zhang Haogu: "My lord, you are confused, as the saying goes, no profit is not early, the liar values nothing more than silver, as long as you agree to give more silver, instead of putting him in prison, I promise that he will come to see you obediently tonight." ”
Hearing what the master said, Zhang Haogu also smiled.
"Okay, I'll give you fifty taels of silver, as long as this old man is willing to pretend to be a lama and accompany us into the palace, the official will reward him with another hundred taels of silver after the matter is completed."
Zhang Haogu was generous this time, because he knew that if he entered the palace this time, if he was a little wrong, his head would have to be moved, so except for the old sheep's tongue, there was really no one else to choose.
Before evening, the old sheep's tongue, which had always been mysterious, really came.
Zhang Haogu and the father-in-law who read the holy decree talked about this matter with him in detail from beginning to end.
The old sheep's tongue shook his head and smiled and said, "Haha, what should I do, I see, a trivial matter, a trivial matter." ”
Zhang Haogu said a little unhappily: "Don't boast about you, an old thief, this time you are entering the palace to face the saint, and you are not going to a poor country to cheat, where is it so easy?" ”
The father-in-law also said unhappily: "The miscellaneous family can sue you, the rules in the palace are too big, if you don't say the right word, you have to be dragged out and beheaded at that time." ”
"Okay, it doesn't matter if you don't believe it, when you enter the palace and see the Long Live Lord, you see if he believes me or not." The old sheep's tongue said triumphantly, as if he was already confident.
Zhang Haogu and this father-in-law dumbly dressed him in the clothes of a lama, and entered the palace with him in a carriage.
The emperor and Du Guiren waited until evening to see the red-clothed lama.
After seeing the emperor and Du Guiren, the old sheep's tongue saluted calmly and stood aside.
Although it is said that cultivators can not bow down, the old sheep's tongue still made Zhang Haogu's face pale with fright.
Fortunately, the emperor and Du Guiren did not get angry, but paid more attention to the child-faced old lama in front of them.
"You are the red-clothed lama who can subdue demons and catch monsters and heal all diseases?" Du Guiren asked, she was a little strange, as far as she had heard, the red-clothed lama was a middle-aged man in his early thirties, why did he come to an old man with white hair now?
But she thought about it again, no, he was an alien who was proficient in spells, where could he look at him with the eyes of ordinary people?
So she didn't have too many suspicions, but she believed that he was an unusual person at the beginning.
The old sheeptongue nodded slowly, and then pretended to pinch his fingers, and his face was surprised.
He suddenly spoke: "Dare to ask Long Live Lord if the dragon has been unwell recently, has trouble sleeping and eating, and can't sleep at night?" ”
The emperor's eyes lit up, and he seemed to see a glimmer of hope, and he said in his heart that he couldn't imagine that this red-clothed lama would talk about his illness as soon as he came, so he must know what kind of illness I had.
In fact, the old sheep's tongue is knowingly asking, if the body is good, do you still use every possible means to get a lama into the palace?
And he summoned him in such a hurry, naturally because he was sick.
"What the lama said is true, I have indeed been unwell recently, does the lama have a good cure for me?" The emperor said to him.
The old sheep's tongue deliberately groaned and said: "If you go back to long live, you need to take the pulse to cure the disease, and lama, I want to know what disease you have the emperor, naturally you have your own set of methods, but I don't know if the emperor can allow it?" ”
The emperor agreed without thinking about it, he invited him to come just to see his ability, where is the reason to stop him?
When Du Guiren saw that this lama was about to make a move as soon as he came, he was also very excited, and he didn't know what magical means this Taoist master would have.
I saw the old sheep's tongue take out an ordinary copper coin from his sleeve, and then take out a cotton thread that is not too long, and then slowly and leisurely tie the copper coin to the cotton thread.
Zhang Haoguzheng didn't know what trick he was going to do, so he saw the old sheep's tongue take out a fire fold and ignite the cotton thread.
The emperor was shocked and thought: What is he doing here? As soon as the cotton thread is burned, won't the copper coin fall to the ground?
Du Guiren also guessed, but they found that the cotton thread ignited by the fire burned for a while and did not burn off, and they saw the flames running around on the cotton thread but never burned a short cotton thread.
The emperor usually stays in the deep palace, even if he goes out of the palace, he goes to look for flowers and ask willows, where have he seen such a trick, of course he doesn't know that this is all a trick.
He asked with a surprised face: "The lama really knows how to do spells, tell me quickly, what is going on?" ”
The old sheep's tongue was not proud, but said with a melancholy face: "Your Majesty, there will be a spell in the order, if someone in the palace poisons and curses the emperor, this cotton thread will not burn if it senses this vicious spell, if the emperor is simply sick, the cotton thread will be burned, and now it seems that it ......"
Although he didn't say it explicitly, the faces of the emperor and Du Guiren changed drastically, and they obviously believed that the emperor was sick this time because someone in the palace had poisoned him.
The emperor slapped the dragon book case hard and shouted: "Bold, who is the one who wants to murder me?" Say it quickly! ”
The old sheeptongue shook his head slowly and said: "Long live Lord, this person is very cunning, I can't find his whereabouts, it is estimated that he is also a person who knows magic, but unfortunately he has a bad mind and uses his mana on crooked ways." ”
Zhang Haogu, who was kneeling on the side, was surprised and happy when he heard this.
Shocked that this old liar dared to say anything, didn't he know that the people in this palace were all big people with backgrounds, and he couldn't afford to mess with him alone.
The good thing is that the emperor and Du Guiren are now trustworthy and obedient to the fake lama of the old sheep's tongue, so their heads and black yarn hats are saved.
After listening to the words of the old sheep's tongue, Du Guiren had a plan, she wanted to frame Concubine Qi in the palace last time, but she didn't succeed, why not borrow the hand of this lama this time to get rid of Concubine Qi, the thorn in the eye?
(To be continued.) )