You calm down and speak slowly. Grinning and lowering my paws, I tried to comfort the old man.

"Who are you?" The old lady said, looking up and down.

"I am a Taoist priest. Maoshan faction. I laughed, I said.

"Maoshan? Are you also from Maoshan? The other party said, with a look of astonishment, seeing that she didn't believe it very much, I smiled and said, "What, do you also know the people of Maoshan Road?" ”

"Know, of course I know, the old man of our family is from Maoshan." The other party said, his face showed pride, and then said: "You said that you are from Maoshan, how can you prove it?" In recent years, there have been many people pretending to be disciples of Maoshan, don't smear Maoshan here, I can see that there are seven golden lamps behind you, I don't know, which skill are you learning? ”

When she said this, she really pointed to my back, but when I heard this, it really startled me, and I immediately thought about it, and suddenly understood that the other party was yin and yang eyes, and naturally I could see the seven pillars of fire behind me, thinking about it, this is not a big deal.

"I'm really a disciple of Maoshan Mountain, certified by the General Altar." As I spoke, I took out the Maoshan token in my pocket and shook it in front of the other party, and when the old woman saw it, her face changed, and she suddenly hid backwards, and she actually crawled on the ground with a frightened look.

"What are you doing here?" Looking up and down, I said with a smile.

"The old woman is clumsy, and she doesn't know that the envoy is here." The other party said, prostrate on the ground and did not lift his head.

"Do you recognize this thing?" Hearing her say this, I was surprised.

"Don't hide it, the old man in the family is really a descendant of Maoshan." The other party said, kowtowed to me again, seeing her like this, I was not used to it, and hurriedly asked her to raise her head and ask about it, only to understand that it turned out that this old couple was really a bit legendary.

This woman, surnamed Ma, named Ma Rulan, ancestral home is Shandong, her family is running the rivers and lakes to sell arts, good at juggling, when she was born, her parents, still living a life without a fixed place, and later experienced the Cultural Revolution, life is very sad, they are running the rivers and lakes is even more gone, this Ma Rulan was born, just in time for the heavy rain, in order to avoid the rain, her parents drilled into a small temple in the forest that has been abandoned for a long time, just in time, October pregnant child is about to give birth, she was born in front of the Bodhisattva in the temple.

When she was born, her mother died in childbirth, and she was born with a pair of yin and yang eyes, a fortune teller said that the child is a lonely star, who meets her who is unlucky, just because of this, when the child is not big, the doll was abandoned by his father, just when the child was hungry and dying, suddenly met a few white and fat old nuns in the middle of the night, those nuns are different from ordinary Buddhist disciples, dress strangely, do not chant, and practice some strange skills every day.

When they saw the child, they didn't say much, and after trying the child's snort, they picked up the doll, and the name Ma Rulan was given by the head of the nun.

When Ma Rulan was a teenager, the nuns began to teach her some very special skills, she said, the skills she learned were for the purpose of immortality, and the method was similar to refining pills, and cultivators had to take the reproductive organs of boys and girls from time to time, which was very terrifying.

When she said this, in fact, I already understood that those nuns were very likely to be disciples of the "consistent way" that was all the rage at that time, and only this "consistent way" was always interested in the reproductive organs of boys and girls. Lao Tzu or not, these are all the incarnations of that god, and because of this, they generally advocate the "convergence of the five religions", and through various ways, they have absorbed many folk masters to expand their strength and influence.

As far as I know, from the time of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, this "consistent way" has been glorious for many years, but those who rule the sect are not open-minded and do too arrogant and vicious, and in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, this school was labeled as a cult and banned.

However, as the Chinese saying goes, there are still three points of nails in a broken ship, and the power that has been circulating for hundreds of years is not so easy to be uprooted.

This Ma Rulan told me that when she was learning skills, she found that her masters often wandered around, and when she had the opportunity, she would bring some younger brothers and sisters back to play with her, but all the younger brothers and sisters who played with him disappeared within three days, until she grew up to be an adult, and the little dolls who played with her back then were all children abducted back by these fake nuns, some of which were sold for money, and some of them directly became the tamales they often ate.

Ma Rulan was young and had been kept in the dark, and when she understood, it was actually too late, because she had eaten human flesh for more than ten years, she was like an addiction and couldn't stop at all, in her opinion at the time, in this world, the most memorable thing for her was the kind of child's meat, she was very painful, because she knew that it would definitely not work like this, but on the other hand, as long as she didn't eat those things for a few days, she would be so uncomfortable that she died.

And so on for several years, she struggled with the remorse of conscience and the battle of appetite, and at last, on a dark and windy night, she could not stand her nausea and escaped from the ranks of the old nuns.

At that time, just in time for the whole country to suffer from famine, the bark and grass roots in many places were eaten up, and when she came out, she was in a hurry and did not have much more food on her, and when she was about to starve to death, she once again focused her attention on those yellow-faced and thin-skinned children

Thankfully, at this time, the only man in her life appeared.

It was a Taoist priest who wandered in the countryside, his ancestor, and he was also in the Maoshan lineage, but the other party learned different from me, what he learned was the "medicine" word formula in the five techniques of Xuanmen, and when the two of them met, the other party saw her problem at a glance.