Chapter Eighty-Five: The Ghost Complains (End)
"On the way, I discussed it with Li Sanyuzi, and felt that this beggar was suffering from such a vicious disease on his leg, and it was bound to be difficult to move on the ground.
It's better to be greedy for his silver, no matter what entanglement he has with the Wu family pharmacy, what does it have to do with me?
Even if this person wants to take revenge in the future, there is nowhere to find us, so ......"
"So you and Li Sanzi followed the instructions in the lame beggar's words, put the copper coin in your mouth, and then hurriedly ran back to the gambling stall with two pieces of broken silver to turn over the book, right?"
Seeing Zheng Erxiao cowering and nodding in confirmation, Yang Congxun suddenly shouted angrily.
"You two are so obsessed with your own death, you don't even know that you are dying!
That lame beggar would have thought that you two villains would be dishonest and ignore his money, and he would have put good medicine on it early in the morning! ”
It turned out that the lame beggar knew that he was seriously injured and could not walk, and he was worried that the person who entrusted him with the goods would see the wealth, so he secretly took the two pieces of broken silver for his legs.
So he pretended to throw out a bait of "holding copper coins in his mouth to bet on the horse hanging club to only win and not lose" to lure Zheng Erxiao and the two to gamble with money.
At that time, as long as Zheng Erxiao and the two of them win first and then lose in the casino, they will naturally remember what the lame beggar said before, 'This winning method only has a period of one pillar of incense'.
Then these two people will willingly go to the Wu family's pharmacy for the lame beggar to get the goods ordered by the lame beggar in advance, and finally use this to win the trust of the lame beggar, begging him to teach him the real winning spell.
In fact, the copper coin that the lame beggar handed over to Zheng Erxiao and the two was 'nothing strange', and it was actually the two pieces of broken silver that were used as hands and feet.
It's just that after Zheng and Li lost all their money, only half an hour later, they returned to the gambling stall with two pieces of broken silver again, and this money was inevitably too strange.
The owner of the dealer who dares to open a gambling house must not be worried about receiving stolen goods, but they are afraid that the silver in the hands of Zheng and Li will be fake!
Therefore, the owner of the gambling house who just bombarded them and left must first ask for the broken silver in the hands of these two people to check the authenticity.
As long as the owner of the gambling house puts the broken silver in his mouth and bites it, the secret medicine on the silver will naturally enter the stomach of the owner of the gambling house.
It should be known that this 'horse hanging' is the most complicated game at that time, not only to win or lose, but also to see the suit of the card when the card is drawn.
It is possible that a row with ten small cards is not as good as the opponent and a big hand to win more money.
The owner of the gambling house licked and ate the secret medicine on the broken silver early in the morning, and at this time, he was stunned one after another, how could he still calculate Zheng and Li at the card table, who were also good at this?
If you continue to gamble like this, won't you lose more and win less?
As for why there is only a time limit for one stick of incense...... Think about it, what gambler in the world doesn't slap the table and shout and cheer after winning?
A gambler who didn't say a word after winning, just pursed his lips and danced with his eyebrows, the more he looked at it, the more weird he felt.
Therefore, after a few bets, the owner of the gambling house who lost the red eye would slap the table hard, and loudly beckoned the surrounding subordinates to step forward and open the mouths of Zheng and Li to check, and see if the two of them were secretly hiding horse tags in their mouths.
Once things get to this point, where can anyone gamble?
So if it weren't for a stick of incense, the two would have to run away from the gambling house in a panic.
At that time, the two of them, who had already been hung up by the winning spell, would take the initiative to think of the lame beggar's request to pick up the goods, and then hurriedly ran to the Wu family's pharmacy to run errands for him.
"That day, the villain just touched a deck of 'mixed colors', and he didn't wait for the villain to push the cards and call for peace.
Wang Dalang, who was sitting opposite the villain, slapped the table with his hand, opened his eyes and fooled the villain to hide the bamboo card in his mouth, so that the villain had to open his mouth to show him.
The villain saw that Wang Dalang's subordinates were all smiling and slowly surrounding him, so he was in a hurry, so he suddenly raised his foot and kicked over the gambling table, and escaped with Li Sanyanzi in the chaos. ”
According to Zheng Erxiao's confession, after he and Li Sanzi left the gambling house, they searched for four or five people on the street to ask for directions, and only then did they go around and find the Wu family pharmacy that opened in a dark alley.
However, just after Zheng Erxiao and the two of them rushed to the pharmacy shopkeeper Wu's message of 'taking the goods ordered two months ago for the beggar's lame', the shopkeeper Wu, who was originally quite calm, suddenly changed his complexion, stepped forward and grabbed the sleeves of the two, and couldn't help but drag Zheng Erxiao and the two into the inner room.
Then the man turned back and slammed the door shut.
"After hurriedly throwing us a tight package wrapped in green cloth, the shopkeeper Wu was so angry that he told the lame beggar who was hiding in the broken brick kiln outside the town, saying that the recent imperial court search was too strict, and that only these were the things listed on the list.
Then he threw a small bag of heavy silver into my bosom, and asked me to return the rest of the silver to the lame beggar, and said that he would never want to have anything to do with us 'animal-making' demons from now on. ”
"Brother Yang, I'm a little curious just now, what is this 'early animal', why do you look bitter and bitter when you hear these two words? Is there a late animal in this world? ”
The little fox's question made Yang Congxun laugh with a "flutter".
"Brother, don't you know, the 'animal making' in Zheng Erxiao's mouth has nothing to do with domestic livestock, but is an evil technique on the rivers and lakes that specializes in drugging and harming people!
Before Yang went down the mountain, the master had repeatedly told him to be extra vigilant in eating, drinking, and lodging along the way, and not to be confused about other people's ways. ”
According to Yang Congxun, this 'animal-making' evil technique is to mix an extremely special poison into the diet, and then coax others to eat the drugged food.
As they ate, the drugged people suddenly dropped their food and rolled on the ground, eventually turning into pigs and sheep.
At this time, the demon who drugged the 'animal' would come out of the dark place where he was hiding and drive the pigs and sheep that the victim had turned into into into a herd of ordinary domestic animals out of the city.
When the 'livestock' demons drive the victims out of the city one by one, they will feed them with an antidote, so that they will turn back into human form, and then abduct and sell them to the human traffickers who have been waiting here for a long time.
"I heard from Master that these 'animal-making' demons specially picked young and beautiful women and children to attack, and caused great disasters on both sides of the Yangtze River.
Even in some remote prefectures and counties, the first thing this new official did when he arrived was to issue water and fire signs, and let the catchers in front of the hall lead the signs to the intersection and thoroughfares to strictly investigate the beast makers.
Once the prisoner is obtained, he will immediately show the public in the lively place in the city, so as to temporarily suppress the arrogance of those demons, so as to protect the local pacification. ”
With that, Yang Congxun scratched his head with his empty left hand.
The tutor said that when he traveled in the south, he had seen a demon suspected of performing animal creation magic in an inn where he was staying...... However, what he encountered back then seemed to be more than just making animals. ”