The old man was stunned, looked at Mu Cripple with some embarrassment, and the corners of his mouth twitched a few times, "Yes, the daughter-in-law has indeed just given birth, but the old fairy, this girl in your family is still young, and I am afraid that it will not be good for her to hear about the birth of a child......."

Mu Cripple waved his hand and squatted down next to Mu Xiaowu, "You just say it, my granddaughter has traveled with me since she was a child, and she has never seen anything in the world, how can there be so many things to avoid." ”

When the old man saw him say this, he told him the reason for the incident.

"My name is Meng Chang, I live in a town outside the city, and it was my little daughter-in-law who had an accident. She gave birth to a child three days ago, and I didn't think that my grandson was born without breath, but it was a stillborn child. The woman's birth was originally a ghost gate, and coupled with excessive sadness, the child fell into a coma soon after giving birth, and never woke up again. These days, Lang Zhong has invited several before and after, and more than a dozen prescriptions have been prescribed, but she is still so sleepy, and her body is getting weaker and weaker day by day. It wasn't until yesterday, after being reminded by the child, that it occurred to us that maybe my wife here did not collapse after giving birth, but was seduced by the poor child. ”

"What do you mean by that?" Mu Xiaowu raised his head and looked at Meng Chang's wrinkled face.

"Giving birth to a child will inevitably cause bleeding, but the child's wife did not give birth to much blood this time, and there was no other discomfort in her body, but she was unstable, and she knew that the tears did not stop after the child died. But at that time she could still eat and sit up on her own, but it wasn't long before her eyes suddenly straightened, and she fell headlong on the collapse and never woke up. According to Xiao'er, before she fell into a coma, she desperately opened the window, and kept calling 'child, child', just like ...... It's like seeing something......"

Meng Chang's voice became smaller and smaller, and the last few words seemed to be swallowed into his throat, muttering and slurred.

After listening to him, Mu Cripple stroked his sparse beard and thought for a while, then pouted and shook his head, "Yes, your woman here should have been taken away by the infant spirit." You don't know that although the infant spirit is small, it is very fierce, and it is not so easy to deal with. So this money, naturally, you have to collect a little more. ”

The crowd of onlookers were puzzled, and shouted at him from a distance, "Mu lame, where is the little doll who has never opened his eyes so powerful, you deliberately said this, you want to charge a few more copper plates." ”

"It's because it's small, so the obsession is deeper." Mu Xiaowu plucked his ears, tilted his head to look at the crowd, and smiled at the high-voiced grooms, "The more innocent, the more stubborn; The more unworldly you are, the more reluctant you are to be in the world. Therefore, the death of the old man is called a happy funeral, and the child can only be called a premature death, and the stillborn ......" she smashed her mouth and shook her head, "that anger is very big, and it is difficult to embroider it back when they are entangled." So we charged a little more money, but we didn't take advantage of it at all. ”

"But it's not, this is a life-threatening business, and it's not a matter of selling a few melons and a few dates." Hearing Mu Xiaowu say this, Mu Cripple suddenly felt a little more confident, he stood up, pointed his finger at the crowd, and signaled the loud voices to shut up.

"Hey, gods, we don't know how much money it cost just to invite Langzhong, as long as we can save the children's wives, we are willing to pay as much money as we want." As soon as Meng Chang said this, a young man next to him hurriedly kowtowed a few times to Mu Cripple, and kept saying, "Immortal, please save my daughter-in-law, otherwise, our Meng family will be too sorry for her." ”

Mu lame man mixed up with him, stroked his beard and smiled, "It's not necessary, our Mu family has been walking the rivers and lakes for so many years, and it is also moral, people can't be saved, I will never accept a penny from you." ”

After speaking, he waved his big hand at Mu Xiaowu and said in a loud voice, "Xiaowu, it's time to work." ”

"Gotcha." Mu Xiaowu answered, happily got under the bamboo bed, rummaged through the boxes and cabinets for a long time, and finally dragged out a dilapidated wooden box. The box was not much larger than the palm of her hand, and it was carved with crude lines, and the red paint painted on the surface of the box had faded a few layers, and a little black brown faintly revealed from the inside.

She panted to her feet and brushed off the thick layer of ash from the wooden box before handing it to the cripple.

When Mu Cripple saw the wooden box, his eyes lit up, he held it in the palm of his hand like a baby, and carefully wiped it with his cuffs, squinted at the people gathered outside the shed and smiled, "Today, let you see the treasure of our Mu family, and also see my skills. ”

Seeing the lively crowd, there was a boo, and it was even more humane, "Mu lame, only to see the mud on his legs when he comes out of the water, you should let us take a look at the treasure in this wooden box first." ”

Mu Cripple didn't say anything more, grinned, and slowly opened the box.

Inside the box was a copper needle, one finger long, obediently horizontal in the center of the box. However, instead of shining as everyone expected, on the contrary, the needle was stained with green rust, as if it had not been worn for a long time.

Seeing that Mu Cripple pretended to come up with such a thing for a long time, everyone on the lookers laughed, and even Meng Changdu's face changed slightly, and the hope in his eyes dimmed in an instant.

"Yo, it rained some time ago, so didn't the needle get caught in the rain." Mu Xiaowu saw that everyone was laughing, and her face was a little unbearable, and she reached out to take the box and take a closer look, but she didn't hold it steady, and the box slipped out of her hand and smashed heavily on the surface of her feet, so painful that she held her feet for a long time.

"Xiao Wu, don't prick your feet, oh, no, don't break your baby, then your crispy goose will fly."

The teasing came and went in the crowd, but the next moment, it stopped abruptly as if it had been sucked out by the hot and humid air. Because the copper needle, the copper needle stained with green embroidery, was standing in front of the tip of Mu Cripple's nose, and the needle body trembled slightly, as if it was ready to fly out.

There was a white line in the eye of the needle, bright and dazzling, like a thin beam of light, illuminating the entire bottom of the shed.

Obviously there is no wind, but the white line is swinging left and right, like an unbearable tail, ready to move, and it is about to explode.

"The long needle stands, the white line rises, all souls return, Mu lame him...... That's what he said, right? ”

"That's true, but how did this needle fly out of thin air?

I don't know how long it took for a few mutters from the crowd to lower their voices.

Seeing this, Mu Xiaowu smiled proudly, stretched out his hand and waved around the copper needle, "Everyone, look at it, my grandfather is not a trick to deceive people, and he will be able to find this woman's soul after a while." ”

Before she finished speaking, she suddenly stumbled and squinted at the back of the crowd: there was a man standing there, dressed in a stone blue Suzhou embroidered robe, with a sachet and jade pendant hanging from his waist, and his eyebrows were clear, as if he was from two different worlds with the five big and three thick grooms beside him.