Volume 1 Strange Stories in the Countryside Chapter 22 Martial Law in the City
Master speechlessly accused me of being short-sighted, uninformed, and like a poor ghost.
Grandpa Godfather still smiled kindly, saying that I don't need to pay it back, as long as I recognize him as a godfather, and besides, although the golden talisman is the work of King Fu, it is only a town house talisman, and he didn't spend much money to buy it, because it is not very useful, so he plans to take it out and trade, and he will not suffer a loss in exchange for these three stones.
I was so excited, it was like a creditor who owed a huge amount of money told me that I didn't have to pay it back!
didn't know how to express it, so he immediately knelt down with a plop and kowtowed three times in a row.
Frightened, my godfather hurriedly helped me, but the master jumped to his feet in anger and said, "Damn, you kid hasn't kowtowed to Lao Tzu yet, so you will kowtow to this stinky Taoist priest first!" I'm! ”
Grandpa Godfather smiled from ear to ear at this time, and while helping me up, he said to Master, "You asked me to buy it, and now you regret it?" It's late! It's worth the flowers! Hahaha......"
I stood up and looked up to see that although my godfather was smiling, his eyes were wet......
As an apprentice, I need to kowtow to the master at the moment of apprenticeship, but I had an injury on my leg at that time and was delayed.
Since I remembered it at this time, then I immediately knelt down to the master, first, to make up for the apprenticeship, and secondly, to apologize for the previous anger to the master, and just about to kowtow, I was helped up by a pair of big hands, and the master's voice sounded in my ears: "You child, your heart is too real, how can you think that one is one out, and I don't really ask you for it." ”
Master said this, with a hint of confusion in his eyes.
I said that I hadn't bowed to him yet, and that I had angered him again, so I wanted to kowtow once.
The master laughed and said, "Worship the master, there are other rules, you should make up for it in the future, and my anger has disappeared, you just know your mistakes, is it possible that you will kowtow every time you make me angry in the future?" Won't the life of the teacher be broken by you! ”
I scratched my head and giggled.
Then I asked Master what this stone was and why it was so expensive.
Master told me that this is called topaz, also known as topaz or citrine, is a kind of gemstone with high purity and hardness produced abroad, but in addition, this stone itself has the effect of warding off evil spirits and exorcism.
It dawned on me that when Master was doing the Fa, he used his Emerald Core Celestial Crystal many times.
However, the master also said that ordinary raw stones cannot be used, and special methods are needed to concoct them, as well as long-term warming, before they can be made into real magic weapons, and like wood, gold and silver, etc., they can also be used after making, but they are not as long as spar jade and are easy to be damaged. Of course, if you reach a certain height, you can also do it with volleys.
He had originally planned to find one for me, because the raw materials were scarce, it might drag on for a few years, and since he happened to have the fate to get these three topazes, he decided to choose one to make a Nian Crystal, and the other two to make a talisman.
As a result, teaching me how to learn magic was also put on the agenda.
Because he couldn't get the "Hundred Years of Catastrophe", the master was more or less regretful, but unexpectedly obtained three topazes, which diluted them a lot, and the master felt a lot better.
As for the skill of bartering in the ghost market, I also understand a little bit, it is nothing more than exchanging things that are useless but valuable to get the items you need, so that you will not suffer. Presumably, the three pieces of topaz are also a chicken-ribbed existence for the beard, he himself is a customer, knows some doorways, but is not a fellow person, naturally does not know the doorway to give full play to the topaz to its greatest effect. In this case, both parties to the transaction do not suffer losses and each takes what he needs.
But what I care about is that the origin of the three topazes, the master said that the gambling stone market is shady, and the beard does not want to be rich, so these three topazes may not be obtained in the right way.
However, on second thought, the ignorant are not guilty, and we are only third parties, so why bother to get to the bottom of it? Master warned me about Fang Xuan's matter, the less I knew about the useless information about myself, the less dangerous it would be. At this time, I stood from the perspective of Master's thinking, and I found that what Master said was really true.
But what I still want to know is whether Master and Godgrandpa are really local tyrants who come in and out of five figures every minute.
I couldn't hold back my questions, so I asked them immediately.
As a result, Grandpa Gan laughed and said, "I have a good job, and I can't sell it for real money, but I can't get it...... The money in your pocket, if you look at your master, can't make up an old man's head. Do you think we are rich or poor? ”
I seem to understand something, but who would sell their own bowl of eating? Thinking about it, there is really not much cash that can be moved on the second elder.
"Phew! Stinky Taoist, who said that Lao Tzu doesn't have a hundred in his pocket, what if I make it up for you? As soon as the master heard what his godfather said about himself, he turned his head and raised the bar with him.
Grandpa Godfather shrugged and said, "If you make it up, you don't have to pay it back if you owe me, so what if you don't make it up?" ”
"I didn't make it up, I owe you twice as much!" Master said arrogantly.
The master pointed at Grandpa Gan with a fierce face, and then began to rummage in his pocket, and took out a large handful of scattered coins from his sleeves, pockets, hats, and belts, and counted them, which seemed to be not enough.
Grandpa couldn't help laughing and said, "I've calculated your little bit, don't be tough, it's just not a three-digit number." ”
The master was still suspicious, frowning and thinking, suddenly slapped his thigh, pointed at his godfather and shouted: "You sinister stinky Taoist priest, I said that you were hungry on the way, and asked me to buy two baked cakes, so you were waiting for me here!" ”
Grandpa Gan's smile gradually stretched, and he said, "A gentleman is hard to chase after a horse, ah!" You say, double it. ”
The master suddenly had a bitter face, and said, "Alas, Lao Wu, I said that in front of my apprentice, don't keep demolishing me." ”
Grandpa didn't pick up the master's stubble, nodded and said, "Well, in front of the apprentice, you have to be a trustworthy master." ”
The master was helpless, so he asked me with a smile on his face, what he said just now, and winked at me as he spoke.
I also blinked innocently and said, "You said that you owe Grandpa twice as much." ”
"!" Master stomped his feet and cursed angrily.
Knock –
Suddenly, a loud bell rang above us! The space was shaken, humming.
Master and Godgrandpa suddenly turned pale.
I didn't know why, so I asked them what had happened.
Master said, "The lock array bell rings!" The entire ghost town is banned, and no one is allowed to enter or leave! Something must have happened! ”
At the same time, a voice like Hong Zhong Da Lu came from a distance: "The people of the Yin Crossing have forbidden the boat to go ashore!" ”
I recognize this voice, it's the ghost cultivator city lord!
Immediately afterwards, I saw that the white lanterns on both sides of the river suddenly lit up, and the color suddenly changed, turning into a faint blue light, illuminating the entire ghost town. At the same time, countless black shadows like ink appeared on the ground, black shadows floated, and slowly stood up ghost soldiers dressed in bright armor, holding Changge in their hands, and a pair of blood-red eyes were particularly eye-catching on the black body.
All the ghost soldiers kept their heads down and remained motionless, as if waiting for orders.
Then, the ghost cultivator's voice exploded again in the air: "Someone stole an important ancient book, looking for three people, two old and one young, the old one is a soldier, one is a warlock, and the young one is more than eight or nine years old, and they will be arrested together!" There is a big reward! ”
I was shocked. What the! Isn't that us!
We didn't do anything! How to steal ancient books!
Seeing that the nearest ghost soldiers suddenly locked their eyes on us, Master and Godgrandpa reacted very quickly, and Master picked me up at once, and I was submerged into the deep alley one after the other.
The wind howled in my ears and made the ends of my hair fly.
However, when I looked back, I saw two black shadows swimming on the ground like lightning bolts, following us closely.
I exclaimed, "Master! Behind! ”
Grandpa God's eyes were quick, he kicked on the wall, jumped into the air, made a gorgeous turn in the air, and shot out two yellow talismans from his fingertips, black shadows like electricity, yellow talismans like wind, and shot two black shadows in an instant, and the black shadows were suddenly frozen and motionless.
By this moment, we had run out of the alley, turning into another alley.
While running, Master and Godgrandpa have already analyzed the reason, it must be someone who entered to steal after we left the pagoda, so that the city lord pointed the finger at us, and what they stole is estimated to be "A Hundred Years of Catastrophe".
The question is, who else knows about the existence of "One Hundred Years of Catastrophe", and what are they going to get from "One Hundred Years of Catastrophe"?
We shuttled back and forth in the alleys, but this town is too small, no matter where we go, we will encounter ghost soldiers patrolling the streets, with the skills of Master and Godgrandpa, it is not difficult to get rid of the pursuit of ghost soldiers, but there are ghost soldiers everywhere in the city, according to this rhythm, we will not be caught, we will be exhausted to death.
After about ten minutes of running, Master spotted a nearby building, and one of them rolled over and jumped onto the roof, and climbed through the broken and wide open window on the second floor, followed by Grandpa God.
The lantern outside this house is lit, and it must also be a place for ghost market trading.
We nested on the second floor, and Grandpa Godfather pasted a hidden aura around us to hide our traces.
Then Master took out a white candle and lit it to light up the room.
The moment the light flickered, I saw a pair of frightened eyes at the door of the room staring at us tightly, and in the next second of staring at us, the figure turned around and ran, and the godfather suddenly exerted force, leaving an afterimage in the same place, and then a string of talismans turned into chains, which lit up in the dark, and then a sharp scream suddenly appeared, but it was immediately sealed at the beginning of the sound, but this voice was more like it sounded in my head, hitting the soul rather than the ear.
I know that the voice of an ordinary ghost is not heard by ordinary people, and this scream from my head must be the fluctuation of the Qi field emitted by the extreme fright of the ghost, which stimulates our souls so that I can hear his voice.
In addition, it was the first time I saw the terrifying ability of my godfather in an emergency, which was amazing.
But after a while, Grandpa Godon dragged in a poor ghost who was tied up with chains formed by yellow talismans and had talismans attached to his mouth, which made him tremble with fright, and even the form of the ghost fluctuated a little.
However, this ghost is similar to a normal person, but his face is as pale as snow, which is quite acceptable.
The golden yellow talisman shimmered with light, solidifying his ever-spreading soul body, giving him a certain texture.
The master quickly drew a rune array with a radius of about one meter with a celestial crystal on the ground, and asked the godfather to put the ghost into the rune array, and then the master recited a spell lightly, only to see the golden light of the rune array flash, and a visible breath flowed into the ghost's body.
The ghost's eyes widened in fright, and the master whispered, "If you dare to shout, I will kill you directly!" ”
The ghost nodded again and again, and the master asked the godfather to uncover the yellow talisman that sealed his mouth.