Chapter 42: Maoshan Authenticity
When the sky was slightly bright, Liang Hu and his party set off in a mighty way, his uncle personally pressed the formation, Xiaoshan's mother also accompanied him, and the three children in the family, including Liang Shan. Behind each of these seven people is a big basket, originally Liang Hu's uncle wanted to bring some hares and medicinal herbs to exchange for money, but was directly vetoed by Liang Hu with a wave of his hand.
Liang Hu's decision is not to show off his wealth, but Liang Shan's actions in the face of wild boars yesterday made him feel something, although he and Liang Shan only met each other a few times when they were children, and this is the first contact when they grow up, which is quite strange, but at the critical moment, the other party still stood up in front of Liang Hu, which made Liang Hu deeply understand the saying "break bones and connect tendons", he didn't have the opportunity to take care of his relatives at home before, but now he has such an opportunity, why not let his relatives live better?
When he arrived in the town, Liang Hu first went to the bank to withdraw some money, and the thick stack of red tickets made the uncle look dumbfounded, and the third aunt who came with the intention of looking for ballast also became timid. Liang Hu threw a stack to the uncle, asked him to take his children to buy cigarettes and alcohol and other hospitality things, and threw some to the third aunt, and asked her to take Liang Shan's sister to buy cloth candles and other daily necessities, which was considered to fulfill last night's promise, and Liang Hu took Liang Shan straight to the bookstore in the town.
The bookstore owner watched Liang Hu stuff his storefront decorations with large books with vernacular translations, such as the Four Books and Five Classics and Zizhi Tongjian, into his basket, and easily took a few sets of the best-selling books such as the four famous pastime books, Jin Yong's novels, and Qiong Yao's novels, which Liang Hu planned to give as gifts to his uncles and brothers and sisters. In the end, Liang Hu also deliberately bought a few dictionaries, so that even if there are words in the book that he doesn't know, he can consult them by himself.
Liang Hu's basket was full of things, and he quietly asked a few words at the checkout, and then told the bookstore owner that he would buy the best paper and cinnabar, and prepare to write some scriptures for his parents to go to the grave. For Liang Hu's question, the bookstore owner does not find it strange, this place is relatively more traditional, the first thing that comes to mind when every household has something is a monk and a Taoist, what Liang Hu asks is too common, often people buy painted talismans and go back to the town house or write the "Diamond Sutra" in person to show piety. The owner of the bookstore did not deal in such goods here, so he pointed out the direction to Liang Hu, saying that there was a Taoist priest in the town who did this kind of business, and he was at the end of the street and let Liang Hu go and see it by himself.
Liang Hu and Liang Shan walked along the street, and sure enough, they saw one such shop at the end, which was clean and nothing compared to the various signboards outside the other storefronts, except for a metal gossip plate hanging at the door. When Liang Hu saw this thing, his heart moved slightly, because he actually felt a trace of aura that was so faint that it could not be weaker, and he also recognized that this trace of aura was not actively sealed in it like he drew a talisman by himself, but slowly accumulated after years of experiencing Taoist incense.
Liang Hu and Liang Shan walked in side by side, the whole store pΓΉ is more than ten meters square, there is a pair of central halls hanging on the wall facing the door, on the book "Maoshan Zhengzong" four big characters, this font is elegant and straight, quite a bit of fairy dust. Under the middle hall, there is a table of eight immortals, an old Taoist priest with a long beard and a fairy wind is sitting there drinking tea, after Liang Hu and others came in, the other party did not get up to greet the guests, but put down the tea bowl by himself, picked up a thread-bound book and looked at it, Liang Hu glanced at it and found that it was the Taoist classic "Huang Ting Jing".
Liang Hu's gaze extended from the old Taoist priest's body to the side, and he found that there were only a few exquisite Bogu shelves placed in the corner of the shop, and other than that, it was as clean as the outside, but there were many hand-painted ink paintings hanging on the surrounding walls. Liang Hu took a closer look and found that the content of the picture echoed the money left next to it, such as a picture called "Zhong Kui Catching Ghosts", on which were written two sentences "But the evil spirit, the quiet and demonic atmosphere", obviously this was bought back to the town house for guests who felt uneasy about the house.
Liang Hu only glanced at this picture, and a sense of security suddenly emerged in his heart, as if the picture had a great effect, which could kill ghosts and demons, make him feel at peace and distracted from all his thoughts. In other words, the other guests must bow to the old Taoist priest here, thinking that he really has some magic power to catch ghosts and drive away evil spirits, but unfortunately Liang Hu was also a master of talismans in his previous life, and he saw the mystery almost on the spot.
This "Zhong Kui Ghost Hunting" can produce such an effect, entirely because of the clever inlay in the painting into a "town house clear heart talisman", usually people feel that they have encountered ghosts and gods is not really so, often because of the bad things and suspicious ghosts, this water system of "town house clear heart talisman" is best at calming the mind, appeasing the feelings, is the secret talisman of the Maoshan school.
Speaking of which, this Taoist sect has stood tall for thousands of years, relying on these talismans that are completely ineffective against people and have miraculous effects on demons and evils, so that the kings of all dynasties will not only not be afraid of their power, but must be good at entrapment just in case, Liang Hu vaguely remembered that there were such characters in the National Security Bureau, but they did not belong to the Seventeenth Bureau of the management of abnormal people, and obviously did not classify these Maoshan Taoist priests who were good at singing and praying into this category.
Perhaps because Liang Hu took a few more looks, the old Taoist priest who was reading the book put down the "Huang Ting Jing" in his hand and asked, "I don't know if my talisman here can enter the eyes of the two little friends?"
Liang Hu showed a shy expression, and replied: "That, old man, don't be angry, we didn't buy paintings, I just wanted to buy some paper and go back and write by myself." β
"Hahahaha, Xiaoyou laughed. The old Taoist priest twisted the long beard on his chin, stood up and said: "Old Taoist, I have studied Maoshan for thirty years, and I just got a little fur, Xiaoyou, you are just a mortal, even if you follow the cat and the tiger, how can you get its charm?"
"That, in fact, I just want to do my best, it doesn't matter if it's useful or not, as long as I burned it myself when I went to the grave, I just wrote it myself, and I thought about it. Liang Hu scratched his head, looking embarrassed.
Seeing that Liang Hu insisted on this, the old Taoist priest did not persuade again, but pointed to the Bogu frame next to him and said: "There is a rune paper over there, Xiaoyou can choose it yourself." β
"Good. Liang Hu walked over according to the guidance of the old Taoist priest, and found that there were a lot of cut rune paper on the Bogu shelf, Liang Hu is a person who knows the goods, and at a glance he saw that these rune papers of different colors are better than the ones he bought in the Sanyang Palace antique market in Fudu, because they are all specially made with secret methods, such as the yellow gold rune paper, which is used to draw the "wrestler runes" of the same system It will definitely be more effective than ordinary rune paper, but Liang Hu's current disguise is a layman who doesn't know anything, his gaze didn't stop at these things at all, but directly crossed them and looked at the thick few knives of the most ordinary white rune paper, Liang Hu took dozens of them casually, turned around and walked to the old Taoist priest and asked, "Okay, that's it, I don't know how much?"
The old Taoist priest's gaze had been fixed on Liang Hu, and when he saw that he didn't take those better rune papers, but instead chose the cheapest rune paper without any attributes, the doubt in his heart was reduced a little, but he still said: "This is the worst, there are better ones over there, don't you want it?"
"Isn't this the best?" Liang Hu showed a puzzled look on his face, and asked rhetorically: "Those colorful ones look too lax, they must be white when they go to the grave, and I want this." β
"Oh well. A fifty, the customer will count it himself. The old Taoist priest seemed to have lost his interest in speaking because of Liang Hu's answer, so he coldly dropped such a sentence and no longer paid attention to him, but sat back and tasted tea slowly.
"What, fifty a piece, you might as well grab it!" Liang Shan, who was on the side, was taken aback by this price, and said loudly: "I fill a basket of other people's yellow paper with only a few dozens, why are you so expensive here?"
"If it's cheap, go to another place and buy it. The old Taoist priest said slowly: "If the guests don't buy it, please take care of yourself, it's almost noon, and the old Taoist priest is going to eat." β
"Forget it, forget it, just spend money to relieve your distress!" Liang Hu stopped Liang Shan, who still wanted to speak, but his face also showed a painful expression, and after hesitating for a few seconds, Liang Hu counted out twenty pieces of rune paper in his hand and put the others back in place.
Walking out of the shop, Liang Shan said unsatisfied: "No wonder this old Taoist priest's business is so bad, it's just a bargain, Brother Huzi, you are too, it's a big deal to take a few more steps to change to another house, how can you ......"
After the old Taoist priest waited for Liang Hu and them to leave, he put down the tea bowl and stared at Liang Hu's back, and two fierce lights appeared in his eyes. The old Taoist priest found that Liang Hu was quite interested in his talisman, as if he had seen something, so he made a tentative speech. In the past, no matter what kind of answer Liang Hu made, the old Taoist priest would quietly kill him, so as not to become a potential threat to himself in the future, but now the old Taoist priest gave up such an idea, and he said to himself: "Count you lucky boy, if it weren't for Lao Tzu's unwanted to make extraneous branches now, how could I allow you to ......"
"Master, what are you talking about?" A handsome female Taoist boy walked out of the back room, she was also wearing a wide Taoist robe like Lao Dao, with a pair of pigtails combed on the back of her head, looking like a porcelain doll that people couldn't put down.
The old Taoist priest quickly hid the fierce light in his eyes, and said to the female Taoist boy with a smile: "Apprentice, the teacher smelled the smell of stewed chicken in the backyard, and was saying that my Xiaoxue's cooking skills are getting better and better, and the old Taoist priest has a good mouth today!"