"I, I saw a man, and a woman behind him, and the two of them took advantage of the middle of the night to sneak into the ancestral house of their family in Ma Village!"

After listening to the woman's faint words, a woman who was about forty years old directly spat her:

"Phew! You know! The second widow of the Zhang family is a little prodigal hoof! But the altar master of our village is a living fairy who is not close to women! Can you still call that rotten thing hooked? ”

"With the figure of the second widow, can I still see it? Aunt Peng, don't you know who I am Zhaodi? If I had ever said a nonsense when I was so big...... I'm ......"

Ma Cunzheng, who had no intention of eavesdropping, heard this, and immediately kicked the wooden door with a gloomy face, and scolded the women sitting around the courtyard:

"You old ladies, you don't know what to do seriously, you get together every day, you know how to chew other people's tongues! The altar will be opened at night to worship the gods, are all the things ready? Zhao Di, did you tell the truth about your broken mouth? Do you dare to swear a poisonous oath before sacrificing to the gods? Aren't you afraid of retribution at night, let the 'Huayu Heavenly God' take the thunder and smash it for you?

"Whew! The old lady has been sitting upright and behaving properly for half of her life, so we are not afraid of any swear! I just watched a man and a woman enter your ancestral house in the dark! It's not him the second widow of the Zhang family and ...... And who is that, can you still be an old tree to open a new ......"

Seeing that Zhao Di, who was in a hurry, was talking more and more excessively, Aunt Peng next to her hurriedly stretched out her hand and covered her big mouth:

"Old horse, don't be like a child, you can go elsewhere first! This child has also been watched by you since she was a child, don't you know her broken mouth? Don't worry, I'm watching this, and I won't miss the big event of the night! ”

Ma Cunzheng, who is over sixty years old, was almost scratched out of a 'face full of flowers' by the dancing Zhao Di! In desperation, I had to leave here in a huff. He walked aimlessly to the entrance of Tiger Neck Village, sat under a big locust tree next to him, looked at the dolls who were laughing and playing around the big tree, and his heart was more determined to save his son's life no matter what.

Throughout the life of Old Man Ma, he is indeed a good father, a good man, and a good village. A good man like him shouldn't have ended up like this......

The old man Ma, who was dressed in a new robe, leaned his back against the big locust tree, listened to the sound of children playing and playing, and fell asleep groggy...... Until there was a push on his shoulder, when the old man woke up again, his throat turned out to be burning and sad.

"Dad, why are you sleeping here? It's easy to catch a cold when you sleep outside on this cold day! You're already at this age, why can't you feel like this! Otherwise, when my stone brother wakes up, who will be able to take care of him day and night? ”

This descendant who came to look for the old man Ma is named Xiang Mancai. His father was originally a small businessman, and the family had a lot of money. It's a pity that when Xiang Mancai was still in infancy, the Xiang family was victimized by business partners and became destitute. And Xiang Mancai's mother can only take him around to avoid creditors and go away to the end of the world. Hiding and hiding, I came to this tiger neck village like a paradise.

Their mother and son were able to take root in this village with the help of Ma Cunzheng and the villagers. Because of their age and temperament, this wealth and horses and stones have always been as good as brothers. When Aunt Xiang died of illness, Xiang Mancai took this benefactor and the old man as his own father.

In the past two months, after Old Man Ma dedicated his ancestral house to the Taoist priest of the 'Huashen Sect', he borrowed it from his godson, Xiang Mancai's family!

Old man Ma coughed twice as best he could, no matter how he spoke, the words he said were also very hoarse, Xiang Mancai hurriedly ran to the nearest villager's house to ask for a bowl of warm water. After moistening his throat, the old man Ma was finally able to speak:

"When?"

"It's almost time to apply! I didn't see you when I had lunch, and I thought you had gone out to 'set up a stall' again......"

"Isn't there a sacrifice to the gods at night? What's the stall you set up then......"

As the old man spoke, he wanted to stand up. But with a soreness in his thighs, before he could stand up straight, he staggered and leaned on Xiang Mancai's body......

"Dad, what's wrong with you?"

Xiang Mancai hurriedly supported Old Man Ma's body, stepped forward to test the temperature with his head, and suddenly looked a little panicked:

"Look, what I just said! If you're sleepy, you should go home and sleep, is there anyone who doesn't fall ill on this cold day? Your brain is so hot, you must have caught a cold! You're waiting here......"

After saying that, Xiang Mancai ran back to the village, and not long after, he brought back a white-clothed Taoist priest:

"Alas! Great Dharma Protector, this matter is to blame the altar master for being careless and forgetting to tell you! You have just taken the elixir, and the nascent meridians in your body are still very fragile, and you can't withstand the slightest wind and rain! That's it, what's the point of talking about this now......"

After the altar master stepped forward and treated the old man Ma, he said to Xiang Mancai with a somewhat solemn face:

"As the old saying goes, 'medicine is three parts poison', and even though this True Fire Refining Pill is an elixir, it can't escape the truth of the Heavenly Dao! As great as the elixir's magical powers, so is the hidden toxicity! The Great Dharma Protector was not injured by the wind, but by the fire poison accumulated in his body! But as the so-called 'lonely yin does not grow, lonely yang does not grow', although it is infested by fire poison on the outside, but at this time, in the body of the horse protector, it is also accompanied by a cold breath! If the Lord of this altar is right, the body of the Great Protector is indeed scorched; But the five internal organs in his body should be like falling into an ice cellar! ”

Xiang Mancai looked at the old man who was frowning and found that he also nodded solemnly, and after unconsciously swinging on his body, he immediately firmly believed in the words of the altar master!

"Then the altar master, you say, my father is ...... What kind of poison is poisonous, how can I cure it? My dad won't be like my stone brothers, and he can't sleep, right? ”

"That's not true, it's like a murderous thing in the body of a horse stone, and only one has appeared in thousands of years; Although the Great Protector's current condition is dangerous, with the deity here, it is only a 'little illness'! It just so happens that by taking today's sacrifice to the gods as a guide, the deity can ask the gods for advice on the 'detoxification' method, according to a certain expectation, within seven days, the great protector will certainly be under the light and protection of the great god Huayu, all diseases will be eliminated! ”

Don't look at this Xiang Mancai is just Ma Laohan's righteous son, but he is the next village chief he carefully selected for Tiger Neck Village. Although his own son, Ma Shishi, has a much faster brain than this full fortune; But this child's natural character is pure and good, and he is more suitable than anyone else to take over the position of Muramasa.

Old man Ma was unwilling to let this god stick continue to brainwash his 'successor', so he immediately coughed violently:

"Ahem! Cough! Lord Altar, the old man has already gone to each household to investigate, and the things that should be prepared are almost ready now... Although it is only the beginning of the Shen Shi now, those things that are used such as incense burners and desks should also be placed on the altar, right? And the 'five tributes' should almost be sent to the 'Vulcan Mountain' (firewood)......"

The altar master was only halfway through his sermon, and was interrupted by this old man Ma who was suffering from a 'severe cold', and naturally felt a little unhappy in his heart:

"Okay, now that the Great Dharma Protector has thought it through, the Lord of this altar will also go back to recuperate from his injuries. Until it gets dark, don't send someone to disturb the spiritual communication between me and the great god Huayu! ”

When he had finished speaking, the altar master turned away with a grunt; And the old man Ma, who was drowsy in his head, also sighed at this time: If it weren't for the fact that all the doctors couldn't say a reason for Ma Shi's strange illness, why would he suffer from his anger!

After the villagers put all the things on the altar, the old man Ma led the villagers to the door of the barn. He stopped the crowd when he was far away, and he walked cautiously to the door, and from behind the rusty copper lock, he found a very ordinary straw stick......

After checking that everything was correct, the cautious horse protector stepped forward and pushed open the barn door......

Unexpectedly, the next scene stunned everyone present, and they couldn't close their mouths for a long time...... I saw that the five 'sacrifices' who were supposed to be lying on the ground were all standing vividly in front of everyone at this time. It's just that 'each of them' didn't show half of their flesh and skin, but instead grew a 'straw' out of thin air! It was originally five big living people, but now it has become five scarecrows, just looking straight at the villagers outside the barn......

"It's... This...... ! … What about the people I asked you to lock up? ”

Ma Mura was the first to come back to his senses, and immediately scolded loudly. As soon as his words fell, a somewhat panicked self-defense voice came from behind him:

"It has nothing to do with me! Yesterday I carried them in one by one! And before leaving, I deliberately checked the big lock several times, and it was all good! Now that they're gone, that's none of my business! ”

After he said this, Old Man Ma also remembered that when he came in the morning, although he had never seen the true face of the meat ticket, he was lying in the straw pile! And the 'small mechanism' that I put behind the lock has also been inspected and is intact! That means that no one has touched this lock at all, at least for some time from this morning to now......

"Look, godfather! This straw man also has a pair of pearl earrings! It's the first time I've seen such a big bead! This thing must be worth a lot of silver, right? …… Ay? You say this straw man, could it be that those meat tickets 'changed'? Otherwise, who would put such valuable jewelry on the straw man before leaving? ”