Chapter 7: The Old Snake

[The book continues from the above, and the last book said that Mu Qingming went to work in the Qi family's warehouse, and heard the rumors of the water demon in Dianchi Lake, which aroused his interest, and he was ready to go to the sea of grass at night to find out. At the same time, a god stick pretending to be a ghost was also invited to the village by the villagers of the fishing village by the grass sea to save the child who was scared silly by the water demon. Drawing out the magic stick, he said that he moved the villagers to come up with more money, and then gave the villagers two ghost drawing talismans, saying that they were burned into paper ashes and let the children drink with water, and they could recover. I never thought that the villagers took advantage of the situation to coax and ask the Taoist people to show their might and destroy the water demon that haunted the Dianchi Lake. In a panic, the god stick once again made clever remarks, informing the villagers that they needed time to prepare for the removal of the water demon, and put away the deceived money and walked away under the reverent gaze. 】

The frightened child's home, inside and outside the courtyard, was crowded with expectant onlookers. But far away from the courtyard, there was no sound, and all the villagers pinned their hopes on the man in the house.

As everyone knows, this Dao person is not real, he has no mana on his body, and he doesn't know any Dao skills. It's just that before escaping the famine, the family was still a little solid, and he could have a few spare money for him to read the Four Books and Five Classics for a few days, so he just knew a little bit about Zhou Yi's Yin and Yang.

And this person is very good at speaking, and he was already famous for being able to speak before he escaped from the famine; He can just rely on one mouth and two lips, easily touching up and down, and he can say an ordinary thing amazingly, shocking the world and crying ghosts and gods. After getting this robe, he used this robe and his skillful ability to cheat money all the way to Guanduzhong in the southeast outside Spring City. After settling down in Guandu, he claimed that he had been cultivating in Zhongnan Mountain for a hundred years, and this time he went down the mountain to make good fortunes, and he actually fooled the people of the nearby ten miles and eight towns.

At that time, it was the alternation of dynasties in chaos, no one cared about this Taoist god, and the people had not studied, so they were relatively ignorant and difficult to distinguish between the true and the false.

In addition, this person still knows a little bit about observing words and feelings, and his luck is better, so whenever someone asks him about something, he can always turn around the people who come and go, and then believe in him and revere him like a god.

Since then, this Taoist has become prosperous in the Guandu area, and his reputation has gradually grown.

It's just that his good fortune seems to have come to an end today.

It was the first time he had seen the child in front of him. Generally, people who are extremely frightened will have a pale face, but they will never have a face like ashes, but the face of this child in front of the Taoist's eyes is like ashes, just like a person who has passed away, which is very abnormal.

Even though this god stick has no real skills, he vaguely feels that this child's affairs are not easy to deal with, and it will be very troublesome.

After a while, I felt that this might also be a Taoist who could make money, and suddenly had a plan.

So he settled down, put on his usual routine, and said to the onlookers around him with a light sigh: "Immeasurable Tianzun, this kid has fallen into the water demon's soul hooking technique, and it is more troublesome to deal with. ”。 As he spoke, a look of regret appeared on his face.

Judging from his words and deeds, the child seemed to be hopeless, which gradually made the villagers feel a little afraid.

This is the beginning of his routine - scare!

"Huh?" Sure enough, after a while, everyone blurted out exclaims. The child's mother was stunned for a moment, then covered her face with her hands and cried bitterly.

In the midst of the terrible cry, the child's body trembled violently again, and his dull eyes added a little fear. Some of the other women in the crowd hurried forward to comfort the child's mother, while the men surrounded the Taoist and begged him to think of a solution.

After listening quietly to their babbling for a long time, the Taoist finally spoke slowly, and said unhurriedly: "It's okay to save him, just use the ashes made from these two spirit runes to mix with water, and give the child to drink in two parts." ”。

The Taoist said, and took out two palm-sized yellow rune papers from his sleeve, on which were painted crooked and strange red rune seals.

In the silence, a breeze blew outside the house, making a rattling sound of the talisman paper in the Taoist's hand.

The woman stopped crying and joined the crowd of onlookers to set her eyes on the Taoist's hand.

"These two spirit runes, but I have injected half a lifetime of cultivation, and after drinking the water of the rune paper ash, this child's condition will be improved." The Taoist then looked around without hesitation when he put one of the talisman papers in his sleeve, and said with a slight embarrassment: "It's just that, after all, this is the talisman seal that I have injected into my half-life cultivation, and the few pieces of ocean you gave are too little, so it seems that my cultivation is not worth anything at all." ”。

After that, the Taoist with pity in his eyes handed the remaining talisman to the child's mother without thinking: "This one is for you to burn, mix the paper ashes with water and give the child to drink, it will also improve, but the effect is definitely not as good as the two." ”。

The woman was full of calluses, and her trembling hands took the talisman seal, and as if she had received the grace of heaven, she hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to the Taoist again and again to thank her, and then followed a few village women out.

After a while, the women turned back again, and the talisman in their hands was gone, but there was an extra bowl of paper ash water.

With the help of her neighbors, the woman fed her stupid child the muddy paper ash water, and carefully wiped the talisman water from the corner of her mouth.

Because the rune seal on the rune paper is drawn with cinnabar painting. And the cinnabar is slightly cold, which has the effect of clearing the heart and calming the heart and calming the eyes, and the child will no longer tremble after drinking the talisman water for a while. Subsequently, the dull eyes also had a little refreshment, and they were no longer full of dementia.

The surrounding onlookers who did not know the truth were shocked when they saw this, and then they all thought that this Taoist was really capable, and cast a more reverent gaze on the Taoist than before, and at the same time praised the Taoist ability.

The Taoist also put on a disapproving look of praise, and turned away with a flick of his sleeves.

The old man who sent someone to invite him hurriedly grabbed the Taoist and begged: "Dao Chief, Dao Chief, you can also give us another Dao Talisman, so that this child can get better quickly and suffer less torture." ”。

The Taoist stopped, his face full of embarrassment.

At this moment, the child's mother walked over with tears in her eyes, and without hesitation, she took off the silver bracelet on her wrist and handed it to the Taoist.

It was the dowry when she got married, and it was also the most valuable thing in her family. I haven't taken it off for more than ten years, and today she is out for the sake of the child.

The other villagers also rummaged through their pockets, and after taking out the change that was only one or two cents in their pockets, they all took it out without hesitation and handed it to the Taoist.

All this is what the Taoist wants to see, and his previous words and deeds are for the performance of this moment. Although he was still making a concession, when the villagers stuffed the money into his hands, he did not postpone it, and put it in his sleeve one by one.

Then he took out another talisman seal, handed it to the child's mother, and advised: "Give the child to drink it in three days, otherwise it will only backfire." ”。 That being said, it was just time for him to leave.

"The water demon doesn't know when it will come again, so I want to grow up and show my might, accept this water demon, and keep our side peaceful." The old man then led the villagers to kneel in front of the Taoist, begging with all his tongue.

The Taoist looked left and right for a moment, and his heart was shocked. I never thought that I would get into such a trouble. And the villagers finally met a person with great powers, and the money was also received by the other party, how could they not ask the Taoist to do more?

But this person is just an ordinary person, how can he fight with any water demon. But his deception skills are already practice makes perfect, and he has put away his astonishment in a moment, and after helping the old man up, he coughed lightly, and said slowly: "The water demon endangers one side, and we cultivators take it as our responsibility to eliminate demons and defend the Dao, so it is naturally incumbent on us." It's just that this demon power is not weak, when I go back to prepare, I will come back in three days, and I will definitely accept this demon for the villagers! ”。

After finishing speaking, he brushed his sleeves away under the gaze of the villagers; No matter how the villagers behind him stayed, he didn't look back......

When the last rays of twilight sank to the ground, the sky and the earth were shrouded in darkness, and there was silence in the sea of grass in Dianchi Lake, except for the reeds and cattails swaying in the night wind, casting twisted shadows on the surface of the lake.

The moon was bright and the stars were sparse in the sky, and two black shadows flashed away under the night wind, and Mu Qingming and Mo Han appeared on the edge of the sea of grass out of thin air.

In the morning, he heard the rumors of the water demon, so Mu Qingming decided to come here to have a look. After dinner, he took Mo Han to this place to find out.

Although the sea of grass is not small, Xiao Hei has told Mu Qingming that it is rumored that the water demon appeared in the south of the Daguan River, and Mu Qingming and Mo Han went straight to the south of the Daguan River.

Mo Han, who flashed from the city, stood on the shore and looked around, and after some looking, in addition to seeing the reeds under the night breeze, bringing up the dark shadows, there was only the lake water that kept lapping the shore in the night breeze, tirelessly washing the soft sand by the lake.

"It's really not normal here, the air around is cold, and there is a faint spirit aura left in it." In the sea of grass where there was not even the sound of insects, there was a deathly silence, Mo Han moved his nose and sniffed the damp and cold air: "The breath is mixed with the strong pungent fishy smell unique to the internal organs of fish and shrimp, this spirit is only afraid that as you said, it is an aquarium living in the water." ”。

In terms of sense of smell, Mo Han, who is a fox demon, is not bad. Even if she has taken on a human form, she can easily smell different smells in the air.

Listening to her words, Mu Qingming's eyes were not idle. After looking around for a while, his eyes fell on the reeds not far in front of him.

Since the rebirth of the demonic energy, when he opened his eyes again, his eyes would no longer glow blue. By this time he had opened his eyes, and in the darkness of the night he looked at the half-disconnected reeds in front of him. It was immediately found that the fracture was not flat, but smooth and semicircular, which was very strange.

Mu Qing couldn't take off his shoes, and strode to the reeds on the lake water on the shallows. Mo Han also waded over, standing beside him and looking at the broken reeds as far as his eyes could see.

After getting closer, Mu Qingming saw clearly that each broken reed was connected together, just in a straight line, and there were still a little bit of red left on the broken edge of several reeds, like a small wisp of blood, falling on the broken edge.

If you don't get closer, you can't really see this small detail.

Mu Qingming broke off a reed with a faint red at the broken point and took it into his mouth.

Even after the rebirth of the demonic qi, Mu Qingming's sense of smell was not as good as Mo Han, but his sense of taste was extremely sensitive, and with his rich experience in demon subjugation, he could taste what kind of blood that Yin Red was.

Licking his tongue, the thoughtful Mu Qingming said vaguely: "The taste is sweet and salty, and the fishy smell is very strong, which is left by the old man." ”

What is the origin of the old snake? Can a child who was scared silly by a water demon recover? Find out what happens next, and listen to the next breakdown.