"Cut, here it again, this bad old man is really bad."

Seeing that Zhang Banxian was sloppy as soon as he arrived at the key place, Liu Fan was called a suffocating fire in his heart, although his heart was itching, but he was helpless, looking at Zhang Banxian's appearance of a hermit master at the moment, Liu Fan couldn't help but ridicule: "It is precisely because the half-immortal refuses to reveal the secret of heaven that he is so down." If the half-immortal was occasionally willing to leak a sentence or two, he would have been blessed with good fortune and a group of children and grandchildren. ”

"Alas...... How dare a person who is outside the poor road dare to think of any kind of good luck and a group of descendants. With a sigh of emotion, Zhang Banxian said a little lonely: "Don't look at the butcher who killed the pig between my words, but if you really want to talk about good luck, I am far worse than him, he at least has a family, a business and an heir, but I am alone."

Since ancient times, monks, Taoist priests, nuns, eunuchs, servants, and executioners...... We are regarded as an ominous group of people who cannot marry for the rest of their lives, and we are the kind of people who either chant sutras and recite Buddha, or cut off children and grandchildren, or deal with dead people all day long, and since we take over the craft from the master, we are doomed to live a lonely life. ”

"How can you say that it is so miserable? I remember......" When Liu Fan said this, he saw that Zhang Banxian's expression was a little lonely, so he stopped his words, pondered for a moment, and asked curiously: "I remember that this is not the case, it seems that you Taoist priests can become their own children." ”

"It is true that our precepts are different from those monks, and Taoist priests are not afraid to marry, but the problem is that I want to marry a daughter-in-law, but no one is willing to give it to me, and those women from good families would rather find a cultivator who cultivates the land than marry us. Unless it is those women who are from a bad background and have no home, they will follow us regardless of fame and worldly eyes.

Even if there are women who don't care about the world's views and follow me, but I also have to think about the next generation, according to the imperial decree, the descendants of our people are not allowed to participate in the imperial examination within three generations, and the direct descendants must succeed us in this line, in order to prevent future generations from following our old path, so we would rather be lonely for a lifetime than have children.

Why do we say that we are ominous people, because we only have two ends, first, the vision is beyond the mundane, and the kind of person who cultivates has seen through life and death and obsession. Second, people in this realm are obsessed with worldly remarks and obsessed with criticism of life and death. The former is pessimistic about the inheritance of descendants, and the latter is obsessed with the fate of their descendants.

To put it bluntly, people who look away don't care if they have children or not. People who can't look away are always worried that their children will be wronged in the future. But whether it is a person who can see it or not, in the end, it will not leave a bloodline if it is not good, and I will not hide it, I belong to the people who can't see it, and I live in the criticism of others every day.

I've had enough of this kind of suffering in my life, and I can't let my children suffer this kind of suffering anymore. Rather than let the child be born and live a life with no choice, it is better not to have a child born. As for our craft, we will either find someone destined to pass it on, or let it be cut off from our hands, and now you understand my suffering, right? ”

After listening to Zhang Banxian's remarks, Liu Fan had a deep understanding of people in these special industries, indeed, in this era of worshipping the way of Confucius and Mencius sages and advocating that the son is silent and the strange power is chaotic, how can a group of people who believe in Buddha and immortals and deal with the dead all day long not be boycotted and despised? Those scholars and Confucians don't even pay attention to sergeants and warriors, how can they look down on special professionals like Zhang Banxian.

However, Zhang Banxian is very talkative, and Liu Fan chatted very speculatively, through conversation, Liu Fan found that Zhang Banxian is a sentimental person, this kind of person has always been sympathetic, chatting for a while, Liu Fan's cold words turned around, and asked unexpectedly: "You haven't answered just now, is there a ghost in this world?" ”

"Where the hell did it come from, if there is a ghost ......" Speaking of this, Zhang Banxian found that he had been fooled, although he had already noticed a slip of the tongue, but at this time he couldn't change his words, looking at Liu Fan's expression that seemed to be smiling, Zhang Banxian simply admitted directly, in fact, when he went to the Hongyun Inn to exorcise ghosts, he was simply going for money.

Although Zhang Banxian is a Taoist priest, but he does not know how to exorcise ghosts at all, because the hand is too tight, so he took over the work of this exorcism practice, after coming to Chunling's room, he saw a pair of jade bracelets and a golden hairpin in the room, in view of the value of these two pieces of jewelry, Zhang Banxian took the idea of taking it for himself.

In front of the public, Zhang Banxian was not good at loading the jewelry away in public, so he made a trick of transferring flowers and trees, since it was done at the inn, the Zhang half-immortal body Naturally, he prepared a lot of magic weapons, and he quietly grabbed a handful of evil rock grains, wrapped them in talisman paper, and put them in the sleeve of his robe for later use.

After starting to do so, Zhang Banxian jumped twice like a goddess dancing god, and when he stopped, he lied that the ghost of Chun Ling was attached to the two pieces of jewelry, and then he wrapped the jewelry with rune paper in front of everyone. Then he pretended to continue the practice, and taking advantage of the gap when everyone was not paying attention, he used a trick to drop the bag, and dropped the rune paper that had been wrapped and hidden in the cuffs before, and the rune paper wrapped in the jewelry.

After hiding the rune paper wrapped in the jewelry, Zhang Banxian lit up the rune paper wrapped in the evil rock particles in public, and then he buried the rune paper wrapped in the evil rock particles in the yard, in order to avoid being found out that the jewelry was dropped, he warned everyone that the jewelry in the rune paper was not allowed to be touched within a month, and scared everyone, saying that if someone secretly turned over the jewelry buried in the ground, there would be a big disaster.

According to his idea, although the Rock Grains look like small fragments, they are not actually stones, and if they are buried in moist soil, they can dissolve in about a month.

Wait until a month later, even if the Zhu family finds that the jewelry is missing, it has nothing to do with him, if the Zhu family asks him about the whereabouts of the jewelry, he will not know, and no one will be able to tell the matter of the jewelry at that time.

But Zhang Banxian did not calculate that it would rain until the heavens, since Zhang Banxian buried the rune paper in the ground, the Zhu family did settle down a lot, and the ghost of Chunling did not make trouble, but he didn't expect that more than 20 days later, there was actually a rainstorm, and the rainstorm drenched the ground of the Zhu family, and washed out the rune paper buried by Zhang Banxian.

After the rain stopped in the early morning of the next day, the Zhu family found that the rune paper was washed out by the rain, and they also found that the jade bracelet and golden hairpin suppressed inside were gone, but at this time, no one suspected that Zhang Banxian had done it, because the Zhu family was haunted again that night, and there was a haunted thing, and people's minds were attracted by the ghost's life, and no one cared about investigating the whereabouts of the jade bracelet and the golden hairpin.

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After listening to Zhang Banxian's story, Liu Fan was stunned, he didn't expect this matter to have such an inside story, if it weren't for Zhang Banxian's own unintentional leakage just now, outsiders would never have thought of the hidden secret, looking at Zhang Banxian's depressed expression, Liu Fan couldn't help but ask: "What about the pair of jewelry?" Did you give it to you? ”

"Originally, I did plan to send it to the pawnshop for some silver, but afterwards there was a ghost of the Spring Spirit, so how dare I pawn it, I was worried that the ghost of the Spring Spirit would come to me to settle accounts, so I enshrined the pair of jewelry under the statue of the true monarch of the Taoist Temple." Speaking of this, Zhang Banxian suddenly turned his gaze to Liu Fan: "Little brother, if you want that pair of jewelry, I can give it to you without taking a penny." ”

"Since that's the case, then I'm welcome, and I'll ask the half-immortal to help me get that pair of jewelry later." Liu Fan said with a smile.

"Do you really dare to ask for it? Aren't you afraid that the ghost of the Spring Spirit will come to you? Zhang Banxian looked at Liu Fan suspiciously.

"I'm not afraid." After a sentence, Liu Fan suddenly showed a curious expression, he looked at Zhang Banxian, smiled and asked: "Banxian, I am more curious about your technique of transferring flowers and trees, can you demonstrate it in front of me, I ask myself with excellent eyesight, but I don't know if I can find your flaws?" ”

"Huh...... This boy wants to compare himself with me? Hearing that Liu Fan was going to compete with himself, Zhang Banxian was instantly stimulated to fight, only to see him lift the package next to him, take out two pieces of yellow rune paper from it, and then take out a palm-sized bronze mirror, and wrap the copper mirror with a piece of rune paper.

After doing this, he took out a clay pot like a wine jug from the package, opened the seal, reached out and grabbed it, and grabbed a handful of rock particles the size of a grain of rice, gray in color and uniform in size.

After wrapping these rock grains with another rune paper, Zhang Banxian put the two rune paper wraps together for comparison, and the volume was almost the same. After wrapping the rune paper, Zhang Banxian took away the rune paper wrapped in rock grains and hid it in his sleeve.

Then, Zhang Banxian picked up the rune paper wrapped in the bronze mirror again, shook it in front of Liu Fan's eyes, and then he turned the rune paper wrapped in the copper mirror with his hand downward, and he didn't see any extra movements, and then threw the rune paper on the stall.

"That's it?"

Looking at Zhang Banxian's provocative eyes, Liu Fan was not only a little surprised, he kept staring at Zhang Banxian, he really hadn't seen him drop the bag, and the paper bag in front of him couldn't see any problems, but looking at Zhang Banxian's confident expression, he seemed to have completed the trick and was waiting for Liu Fan's test.

With curiosity and doubt, Liu Fan picked up the paper bag on the stall, and when he took the paper bag with his hand, he suddenly showed a wry smile, he had to admit that he had lost his eyes, Zhang Banxian's did complete the adjustment under his nose, don't look at the volume of the paper bag is about the same as the copper mirror, but the weight is too light.

Needless to say, Zhang Banxian had already turned his hand and dropped the two rune papers that wrapped the items in the blink of an eye, and his hand speed was no less than those magicians in later generations, seeing this result, Liu Fan gave a thumbs up from the bottom of his heart.