After verifying his identity, the county magistrate of Ma Bond also breathed a sigh of relief, and said some polite words such as thanking Siemens for his righteous efforts to maintain local law and order.

Although there is no explicit law, Buddhists do enjoy privileges in this world.

Not only can you own a large piece of land, but you can pay a very small share of taxes,

You can also see the official without bowing or kneeling,

Even if a criminal case is involved, it is not tried by the government, but transferred to a high-level department that specializes in managing Zen practitioners.

Of course, the premise of all this is that the monks have to have official certificates, and the number of rare documents is only available to the disciples of famous and upright families.

Therefore, it is not surprising that Ma Bond treated Leon with great courtesy.

After a while, the official who went to the inn to check the situation returned to the county office and explained to Ma Bond that there was no problem.

Ma Xian Ling also went through the closing process, and asked the innkeeper and others to go back first, but warmly invited Li Ang to stay and go to the mansion to talk.

In the county governor's mansion, Li Ang, who was dressed in black, sat opposite the county order, and there were some warm drinks and dishes sent by the servants on the table.

Li Ang took a sip of tea and said to Ma Bangde with a smile: "Ma County Commander invited me to come, but I want to discuss the Dao Law?"

Poor Dao listened to the words of the people in the city, and the county order had a lot of research on Taoist doctors, life, divination, and other thaumaturgy, which was no less than ordinary Taoists. ”

"Ahem,"

Ma Bond was a little embarrassed when he heard this, picked up the wine glass and took a sip to hide his embarrassment

Listening to the previous innkeeper's statement, this Ma Bang Dema county magistrate has been a county official in Goose City for more than ten years.

At the beginning, he was quite diligent and conscientious.

For all matters in the county, everything must be done personally, deal with the backlog of cases, eliminate malpractices, and punish adulterers.

The folk reputation is very good, and it must be promoted soon.

But the good times didn't last long, and Ma County's industrious style lasted less than a year, and he immediately degenerated into a hands-off shopkeeper, and he didn't bother with county matters.

will only stay in the mansion, study what gods and gods talk about the occult Taoism, and be a mud bodhisattva with a corpse vegetarian meal.

Because of this, he will be stuck in the position of the county magistrate again, and he has not been promoted to make a fortune for more than ten years.

The Taoist chief laughed. The Tao is subtle, and what I have studied is just a little bit of the surface. ”

Ma Bond put down his wine glass and said with some curiosity: "According to what the innkeeper said just now, the Taoist chief used the talisman of exorcism to subdue those murderers?" ”

"Exactly."

Li Ang smiled slightly, reached out and lit it in the teacup, and waved it in the air at will,

The tea that was thrown out of the air immediately turned into eight vague figures who were undergoing cruel punishment.

"These are the gangsters who did the evil."

Leon waved his hand again, and the image vanished in an instant, leaving only the mournful screams still echoing through the room.

Ma Xianling didn't know that this image was actually a hallucination created by Li Ang,

And the miserable scream is the wonderful performance of Miss Chai hiding in the beams of the house,

Ma Xianling swallowed immediately, his eyes containing fear and a hint of excitement at the same time.

Goose City belongs to a real poor countryside, and over the years when he was the county magistrate, he did encounter some monks and Taoists.

Every time they met, Ma Bangde would always invite them to the house to talk and exchange Taoism.

It's a pity that those monks either only practice precepts and rules, and have no magic power at all.

Either it's just a simple swagger and deception, and it's not as good as Ma Bond himself.

Today, I can be regarded as seeing a master with real mana, where is there any reason to miss the battle.

Ma Bond no longer hesitated, stood up from the chair, and bowed deeply, "Daoist save me!" ”

Li Ang turned sideways to avoid this bow and held Ma Bond, "What is the reason for this county order?" ”

"The Taoist doesn't know!"

Ma Bond stood up and sighed with mixed feelings, "I have suffered from an incurable disease. ”

"Oh?"

Li Ang raised his eyebrows, "The county order has a disease, and you should also go to the doctor to ask for medicine, the poor Dao can only thaumaturgy, and the Qihuang technique of the healer is not good." ”

Ma Bangde smiled bitterly: "The disease I suffer from is really not something that ordinary medicine can cure, so I can only resort to the mysteries of Taoism." ”

Leon groaned, "Could it be... Infertility? ”

"No, no, no!"

Ma Bond hurriedly waved his hand, "I have a son and a daughter, there is no problem in this regard." ”

"That's?"

"Dreams."

Ma Xianling said gloomily: "Strange dreams." ”

Ma Bangde sat down slowly and said in a low voice: "Thirty years ago, there was a great drought in the world, and the disaster near Luzhou was particularly serious.

At that time, thousands of displaced people were like locusts ploughing across the mountains.

In order to survive, gnaw tree bark, eat wild vegetables, eat Guanyin soil, and even... Eisonibalism. ”

Speaking of this, Ma Bond couldn't help but tremble, and paused for a while before continuing, "In the next year, I was only an eight-year-old child,

My parents died of illness and hunger, and before leaving, I left only a letter from home and a few coins for me to take with me and go to my relatives.

At that time, I was mixed in with the ranks of the homeless, and when I saw the strong among the homeless, they began to take the lead in dividing the sick and hungry people.

Frightened, he found an opportunity to escape from the group and fled all the way to the mountains.

In the cold night, the barren mountains, the bitter wind and rain, I hid in the hollow of the tree and held the letter from my parents, enduring hunger and cold, only to feel that there was no way to live between heaven and earth. ”

Ma Bond drank the wine down, his face was slightly red, he looked at the wine glass in his hand, and said with a wry smile, "Under the torture of sleepiness and hunger, I fell asleep.

In a dream, I climbed a high mountain, saw a pavilion, and met an old Taoist. ”

Li Ang frowned and asked, "What does that old Taoist look like?" ”

"I can't remember exactly."

Ma Bond shook his head, "That old Taoist immortal has a good bone, kind eyebrows and kind eyes, and a childish face, just like the legendary immortal and celestial."

He said that when he saw my misery and misery, he felt compassion for me, so he gave me a pill that would help me survive the famine.

This pill does not satisfy my hunger, so that I do not have to gnaw on the bark of a tree and eat weeds.

Nor can I be feathered and soared, and from then on the wind and dew.

But there is one thing,

This medicine can give me the courage to live. ”

Li Ang raised his eyebrows, "Courage? ”

"Exactly."

Ma Bond sighed faintly, "According to him, after taking this pill, I have a second life."

The more miserable and painful I lived during the day,

In my dreams at night, the more I lived, the more abundant I became. ”

Leon asked, "You ate?" ”

"Naturally, I ate it."

Ma Bond said in a low voice: "Desperate, you can't die, where do you care so much,

Not to mention that it was just a dream. ”

Li Ang shook his head, "Looking at the expression of the county order, I'm afraid it's not just a dream." ”

Ma Bond nodded silently, picked up the entire ceramic flask, and poured all the wine down.