Chapter 43: Substitutes

Liang Hu, who was walking on the street, sensed two malicious gazes behind him, he knew very well that this was the murderous intention that the old Taoist priest revealed to himself, just by meeting and talking a few words, he would have such a mind, but he was afraid that the old Taoist priest's kind eyebrows and fairy wind bones were all disguised, and then thought of the other party's previous talisman and those five-element talisman papers in the shop, Liang Hu felt that this person must have a plot when he appeared in such a remote place, and only in this way could he explain the situation in front of him.

Liang Hu was not interested in the old Taoist's plot at all, and he just pretended to be stupid and stunned to stay out of the matter. Liang Hu's return to his hometown itself is to avoid the limelight, if there are some special battle scenes here, it will pull Liang Hu's vision of the 17th National Security Bureau back to his own depth, which is really worth the loss, so as long as this old Taoist priest does not provoke himself, everyone will not violate the river water. Liang Hu will not interfere with the other party's behavior.

After some purchases, Liang Hu and they returned to their hometown in the mountains with seven full of big backs, Liang Hu placed the things and went to the kitchen, his eldest mother was cooking there, saw Liang Hu come back and asked a few words casually about the purchase, and then pointed to the wild boar skull in the corner and said: "Xiaohu, you want to get something out, this thing is too hard, you don't let it go to the pot to steam, but it took me a lot of effort." ”

Liang Hu smiled and flattered the eldest lady a few words, and returned to his house with the cleaned wild boar skull in both hands, he offered to go hunting with Liang Shan the day before yesterday, for this thing in his hand. The wild boar that grows in the mountains and forests has a thick fat body, which is somewhat similar to the thick and solid soil rune, and the hardest thing in the whole wild boar's body is its skull.

Liang Hu asked for tools from his cousin Liang Shan, he first used an iron hammer to slowly smash the skull of the wild boar into small pieces, and then put it in a bowl and carefully grind it with an iron pestle until it completely turned into powder, this thing is simple to say, but it took Liang Hu three days, and by the time he obtained a full bowl of wild boar bone meal, it was already the afternoon of the Chinese New Year's Eve, although Liang Hu's heart very much hoped to mix ink immediately to see how effective this raw material was, but he still followed his inner expectations and walked out of the room to enjoy the joy of the New Year with relatives in his hometown。

This year, because of Liang Hu's return, Liang Hu's grandfather was particularly happy, he sat on the top alone, and drank the sorghum wine bought by the uncle with pig's head meat. The uncle and other four elders sat together, playing a kind of card called "Da Er", gossiping and eating melon seeds and peanuts. Liang Hu and his siblings kept running in and out with fireworks, enjoying the double happiness of celebrating the New Year and accompanying their relatives like children.

"Whew!" The white and bright light curtain erupted upwards from the fireworks box, which lasted for more than ten seconds before slowly dimming, Liang Hu looked at his younger brothers and sisters clapping his hands and cheering, and a smile appeared on his face, he was about to follow everyone back to the hall, but found that someone was pulling his clothes, Liang Hu turned his head to look back, and saw Liang Shan's face full of desire to speak and stopped, so he tilted his head and said: "Something? Go to my house and say it." ”

The room where Liang Hu lives now is where his father's three brothers lived when they were young, and later the eldest uncle and third uncle moved out and built their own earthen house on the vacant land next to him because of their marriage, and this room was also vacant. The two brothers walked into the house, Liang Hu struck a match and lit the candle placed on the bluestone, sat on the bed and said with a smile: "Say, what's the matter?"

Liang Shan didn't answer immediately, he closed the window very carefully, checked that there was no one else nearby, and then sat on the edge of the bed and said in a low voice: "Brother, you tell me the truth, did that wild boar really get into the sleeve by itself?"

Liang Hu pointed at Liang Shan and laughed, he patted his cousin on the shoulder, and said to him: "You have been suffocated these days, haven't you? ”

Liang Shan's face showed a surprised expression, obviously he didn't expect Liang Hu to guess what was on his mind, at this time Liang Hu stood up, picked up the candle on the bluestone and put it in Liang Shan's hand, pointed to this flat big stone and asked, "How many catties is this thing?"

"About fifty or sixty pounds. Liang Shan didn't quite understand what Liang Hu meant, and replied casually. They lived a hard life here, but it was not as well furnished as in the city, and the stone was placed in the house for a table.

Liang Hu bent down and put his hands under the bluestone, and he easily picked up the boulder without seeing him exhale, and then lifted it high above his head. Liang Shan was stunned to see Liang Hu lift this boulder twenty or thirty times in a row, and when his cousin put the bluestone back on the ground, his face was not red or rough, as if he had done a trivial matter.

"Brother Huzi, are you really the legendary martial arts master?" Liang Shan's eyes showed an expression that was really like this, obviously feeling that his previous guess was correct. At that time, when he saw that his cousin who was dragged away by the wild boar was safe and sound, Liang Shan didn't think so much, but the more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, and many details he recalled made him vaguely have this conjecture, but he never had a chance to ask in front of outsiders.

"Xiaoshan, my strength is nothing. Liang Hu didn't explain in detail, but acquiesced in other ways, he used the old vines on the tree to hang the wild boar, it was just a temporary measure, Liang Hu was ready to reveal the "secret" of his martial arts after a while, so that others would connect the two perfectly through guò imagination, so as to use the identity of a martial artist to cover up the secret of being an immortal powerhouse like he did in Fudu before.

Liang Hu put the candle back on the bluestone and said to his cousin Liang Shan: "Xiaoshan, I guess you had such an idea when you came back with a wild boar, you are much more stable than Tong Wu. Speaking of this, Liang Hu's tone suddenly changed, and he asked: "Xiaoshan, after the New Year, you are also 16 years old, do you have any ideas, such as going to the big city with me?"

"Me?" Liang Shan didn't expect his cousin's thinking to jump so much, although this mention made him very excited, but there were also many hesitations, so Liang Shan said hesitantly: "I, I'm afraid I can't do it, I don't know anything!"

"Xiaoshan, no one is born omniscient and omnipotent, if you don't understand, you can ask, you can't learn. Liang Hu patted his cousin on the shoulder again, and said to him seriously: "Whether you go to the city or not is related to your own future, so you can only make your own decisions." But there is something I want to say in the front, we are cousins, blood is connected, you were willing to stand in front of the wild boar for your brother, when your brother leads your love, it will definitely not harm you. If you really decide to follow me, you will see a lot of things and hear a lot of things. You can see and hear, but you can never say it. ”

After Liang Hu and Liang Shan returned outside to join the fireworks and firecrackers, Liang Hu obviously saw that Liang Shan's mind was heavy, obviously thinking about what he had just said. Although Liang Hu said this on a temporary basis, he had already had a similar idea, although he could better keep secrets by himself in Fudu before, but it was inconvenient to do many things, so Liang Hu needed an assistant. Looking for other people first has a problem of trust, cousin Liang Shan satisfied Liang Hu both in blood and personality, so he sent out such an invitation.

After the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the elders had to keep the New Year, the children were tired and went to bed after playing for a night, Liang Hu found an excuse to return to his house, he closed the doors and windows and took out the rune paper he bought a few days ago and cut it carefully, and carefully mixed the cinnabar wild boar bone meal into ink. With these preparations in place, Liang Hu sat on the bed and breathed cross-legged, and waited until his spirit reached its best, then he stood up and began to draw the talisman.

After being busy for an hour, Liang Hu got a "puppet talisman" and a "ghost face talisman" that he had just made, and after some testing, the result made Liang Hu, who was full of expectations, feel a little frustrated, the skull of the wild boar in the mountains and forests can indeed be classified as earth-based materials, but it is completely different from the jade that Liang Hu bought. Even if the quality of jade is poor, the aura contained in it is still pure, but there is a difference between quantity and quality, but the materials obtained from the beasts are complete, but they are more biased towards a certain aspect, so the soil system talisman drawn by Liang Hu with wild boar bone powder is one or two percent weaker than the jade raw materials in terms of effectiveness.

As for the influence of the "ghost face talisman" in this regard, if you use the technique of drawing a few more hidden talismans, it is not that it cannot be seamlessly connected in front of people, but Liang Hu's rude and strong man's disguise does not dare to show his face at all now, and no matter how much he draws, it is useless for the time being.

"Is my hard work in vain?" Liang Hu sat on the bed, frowning and thinking about what to do with these raw materials, he quickly thought of the five elements of mutual restraint, after practicing the "Quenching Jade Jue", the gold attribute in the body was enhanced, although the fire system **, but the water system and the earth system were not affected, these wild boar bone powder should have a similar situation, if he used the principle of mutual growth and restraint, he could not use these "five elements, the strongest soil system" raw materials to draw other talismans.

Thinking of this, Liang Hu moved again, and he began to draw the "Cool Talisman", which can be used in large quantities to make up for the weakness of the poor effectiveness of a single sheet, but Liang Hu neglected the principle of Tu Keshui in the Five Elements, and as a result, not only did he make frequent mistakes in the drawing process, but he was lucky enough to get a few finished products, and the effect was less than one-third of the normal talisman, which basically had no practical significance.