Chapter Seventy-Nine: Soul Sealing Talisman
My master hesitated for a moment, and then said to the shopkeeper, "I don't have so much money with me, and I don't have enough money in my passbook, so let's do it, I have a soul sealing talisman here." ”
As he spoke, my master took out a spirit talisman from his pocket and continued, "Shopkeeper, take a look, is my talisman enough to exchange for your black dog treasure?" ”
Unexpectedly, the shopkeeper said "enough, enough, enough" as if he had seen a treasure, while taking my master's talisman, carefully placing it on the shelf, taking another glass cover, and lightly covering the talisman.
My master gave me the bracelet made of black dog treasure and asked me to carry it with me, and then I said goodbye to the shop.
Just as Master was leaving the shop with me, an old Taoist followed us into the shop.
We hadn't gone far before I heard an exclamation from the shop, "Isn't this the Soul Sealing Talisman of the Right Line?" Shop, how did you sell this talisman? ”
I heard the store say: "This is the treasure of our store, not for sale!" ”
I wonder in my heart, is the talisman drawn by my master so good, but doesn't my master himself say that our lineage is not deep in Chenzhou talisman?
I looked at Master suspiciously, but Master gave me a very smug smile and didn't speak.
After that, Master took a few of us to wander aimlessly around the foot market, and my Master was really just wandering around, and he had to go in and take a look at each shop, and he didn't buy anything, but the owner of each shop looked respectful when he saw my Master.
Master said that when the ghost market opens, we should not only accumulate some wealth by relying on the door and foot to support the daily expenses of the next year, but also maintain the order of the ghost market.
Those merchants who come to the ghost market to do business will occasionally bring some forbidden items in, and these things will be handled by our upright people.
Whenever the ghost market first opened, Master would go in every shop to take a look at it and inspect the merchants' goods.
After walking all the way, my stomach was already grumbling with hunger, so I asked my master if there was a place to eat in the ghost market.
In this place of the ghost market, there is no one to run a catering business, only in the town gate hall there is a special kitchen for the people of the soul village, my master seems to be very reluctant to get close to the town gate hall, but I can't bear to be hungry, the master has to bite the head, take me in the direction of the store.
Following my master all the way, Lu Renshuang and Xiao Renya didn't say a word, and the two of them were far less casual than Senior Brother Zhuang and Senior Brother Feng in front of my master, but they seemed extremely restrained.
This is probably because Renshuang and Renya have not had much contact with my master and do not understand my master's personality.
Think about the first time I saw Master, I was scared to cry just by seeing my Master's eyes, and that time Liu Shangang's father and the neighbors in the tube building didn't treat my Master as a good person. Actually, my master is very good, except for the occasional tantrum when he loses his temper, and when he forces me to practice and copy the Tao Te Ching, on weekdays, the master is very kind to everyone.
As I walked along the road with Master, almost all the shops on both sides of the street were open, and the number of pedestrians on the road became more and more. But even if I walked in the crowded crowd, I didn't feel lively at all, and the whole ghost market was still a little inexplicably cold.
Except for the area lit by the blood-red lanterns, the whole ghost market is like a dimly lit black and white photograph, and when pedestrians hurry past the front of the store, it only casts a heavy shadow on this black and white, and when they leave the small area illuminated by the lantern, the front of the store is calm again, as if no one has ever come.
When Master led me to the entrance of the store, a sudden sound of gongs and drums sounded in the street not far away.
On this road, which is still quiet even when it is filled with people, the sound is particularly harsh.
My master stopped, looked in the direction where the voice came from, snorted sullenly, and spit out three words from his mouth: "Nine Sealed Mountain!" ”
When Master said these three words, I noticed that the expression on his face became very disgusted.
I also looked towards the end of the street, and soon saw that all the pedestrians on the road began to avoid it, and a very sharp voice shouted in the distance: "The Lord is coming, the idlers are aside!" ”
Every word was stretched out by the voice so long that it made my scalp tingle.
As soon as this shout sounded, I saw that all the people on both sides of the street had turned around, their heads bowed, their backs to the street, and they all looked very humble.
My master was still standing in the middle of the entrance to the store, with his hands behind his back.
Looking at my master's posture, could it be that he is planning to fight with someone?
After a while, I saw a group of people walking in the street, all dressed in black clothes, each with a high pointed hat on his head, and half a black veil on his face, which could only cover half of his face on the left side, and half of his face on the right side, and I found that the skin of each of them was very white, not the healthy white, but the white without blood, miserable white!
And in the center of these people, there is a certain black sedan chair, and the sedan chair is hung with a black curtain, so it is impossible to see who is sitting inside.
It wasn't until these people got closer that I could see that their skin was not naturally frighteningly white, but they had a thick layer of white foundation on their faces, and as for the sedan chair, it should be a sedan chair to be exact, but a shelf was set up above the chair and a black curtain was hung.
Seeing the sedan chair being carried by four people, coming towards me one after another, I couldn't help but feel a chill in my heart. What age is this, and there are still people sitting in this kind of sedan chair.
The group of people didn't move at all when they walked, they came to the entrance of the store like a group of ghosts, and the person who started the first saw my master blocking the entrance, raised his hand, and the people behind him stopped at the same time.
I heard the people in the sedan chair shouting, "Who is blocking my way?" ”
Judging by the voice, the speaker should be an old man, and his voice was thick and hoarse, which reminded me of the flying stiff I encountered when I was a child.
As I spoke, I saw a very old hand stretching out of the palanquin, as if to lift the curtain.
My master replied unhurriedly: "Soul Village, Chai Zongyuan." ”
At this time, the hand that stretched out from the sedan chair suddenly stopped in mid-air, and after a while, it retracted again.
It was the person who started to hug my master with a fist, and said without any emotion: "It turned out to be Master Chai, and I have been looking up for a long time." I also asked Master Chai to let us in. ”
His voice sounded high-pitched, and it should have been the same person who had been shouting at the street entrance earlier.
My master ignored him, and just shouted towards the sedan chair: "Old ghost He, you have such a big pomp!" ”
I saw that the sedan chair seemed to tremble slightly, but the people inside were silent.
I saw the person with the head walk up to my master, although he still straightened his waist and looked expressionless, but his tone became embarrassed, and he said to my master in a very small voice: "Uncle Chai, you better let it go, but the lord of my family is sitting in the sedan chair." How do you ...... I'm not good at it. ”
When he spoke like this, his voice became very normal, and my teacher seemed to know him, and then he asked him with some surprise, "Why are you?" How did you get involved with Old Ghost He? ”
He smiled bitterly twice, and then whispered to my master, "Alas, it's hard to say a word. ”
With that, he retreated to his original position.
My master glanced in the direction of the chair again, and finally sighed and gave way to the entrance of the store.
The man who started the head waved his hand behind him again, and then the people took a step, protected the sedan chair, and slowly entered the store.
It wasn't until they were far away that I asked my Master, "Who is the person who just spoke?" ”
My master frowned for a moment, but replied briefly, "A friend." He followed in the footsteps of those people and entered the store.
Originally, my master was going to take me to Zhenmentang for dinner, but after meeting the people of Jiufeng Mountain, my master looked worried, and when he walked through Zhenmentang, my master did not stop at all, and went straight to a shop in the southeast corner of the store.
I saw that when the sedan chair came down, an old man in a snow-white robe entered the store, and those strangely dressed men in black stood in two columns on both sides of the door, everyone looking like they were waiting for a battle.
My master rushed over like a gust of wind, and immediately two people came out and stretched out their hands to block my master.
I saw my master's eyes glare, and a strong power suddenly emanated from him.
It's actually hard to explain this kind of thing, this is an aura that is different from yin and yang, when this aura on my master's body bursts out, I can feel the danger more than two meters away from him, and the danger is mixed with an invisible huge pressure, which makes people's legs a little weak.
The two men who stood in my master's way were obviously very uncomfortable, and although they raised their hands, those two arms looked so limp that they didn't need any strength.
And I also noticed that they were subconsciously backing down, and even though the pace was small, I could see that they were just stepping back little by little.
My master seemed to be taking a deep breath and didn't speak, and the two people opened their mouths when they just blocked my master, but they couldn't say a word.
After a stalemate of about ten seconds, a person came out of the door of the store and ran to the two people and whispered something in their ears. I saw that both men sighed as if they had been pardoned, and each of them hugged his fists at my master, and then retreated to the side.
My master ignored them and entered the store in a hurry.
Seeing my master like that, it was like he was going to fight with someone, and I watched him enter the door from a distance, and I didn't know whether to follow him or not.