Three days later, it was the Qingming Festival, and on this morning, Boss Zhu of Ping'an Hall outside the city hosted a banquet for Shi Jian and Xu Zhenren in the restaurant. After lunch, the three of them bought some incense, paper, tribute, firecrackers and other things, and went into the mountain to sweep Xiang Sheng's tomb together.

Passing through a willow forest, Boss Zhu folded a few wicker sticks and braided them into a circle, each of whom had one and wore it on his head. There is a custom of wearing willows during the Qingming Festival, the so-called 'Qingming does not wear willows, and no one guards after death'.

The feng shui of Xiang Sheng's burial place is really good, although he comes to the grave every year, there are still tall weeds growing around the cemetery, and they are almost covering the tombstone.

The three of them worked together, one with a shovel and the other with a sickle, to clean up the weeds around the tombstone, and Shi Jian took a small broom to carefully sweep the dust, fallen leaves and dead branches on the stone platform.

After tidying up, Shi Jian knelt in front of the tombstone, took out incense, paper, tribute, wine and other things from the Qiankun bag one by one, and placed them neatly on the stone platform.

As soon as the wrist flipped, the three incense sticks were automatically lit, and the green smoke was horizontal, and it was inserted into the incense burner. Shi Jian opened the wine jar, poured the wine in front of Xiang Sheng's tomb, and let the aroma of wine drift around.

"Master Xiang, this is a good wine I specially bought from Sudi and Lingnan, and I don't know if you are used to drinking it. I think it should be a habit, you have drunk the wine of Lishui County for decades, so change the taste occasionally. ”

As he spoke, he took out the tobacco leaves and began to roll them, stuffed them into a cigarette pot and lit them, put them in front of the tombstone and said, "Master Xiang, sip the cigarette." ”

"You old man, I'll tell you about what happened in the past year......

"I'm going to get married in a few months, my wife's name is Zhong Xiaoyun, Zhong Lingyuxiu's Zhong, the child's small, the cloud's cloud, and the teacher's mother is as beautiful and virtuous as ......"

"I'm here to see you this time, and in addition to seeing you, I also want to participate in the Golden Bell Conference. I know that you will definitely not be happy to hear it, and if you know it, you will definitely say, let you not fight, don't fight, why are you disobedient. ”

"Actually, I'm not interested in the so-called corpse leader, I'm just curious about the golden bell and want to hear how loud it shakes......"

"Master has taken in three new apprentices, one of them is still a little milk baby, I really can't get away from coming to see you, let me put incense on you for him, please don't blame him......"

After chattering a lot, Xu Zhenren and Boss Zhu stood quietly behind Shi Jian and did not disturb the two of them talking. It wasn't until Shi Jian got up that the two stepped forward to salute the incense.

Then around a small brazier, keep burning paper money into it, if Xiang Sheng has not been reincarnated, the money burned to him should be enough for him to squander in the underworld for a long, long time.

Set off a string of firecrackers to extinguish the sparks that might cause mountain fires, and the three of them returned to Lishui County with a smile. Boss Zhu was separated from Shi Jian and Xu Zhenren outside the city, he is a person with a family background, and his wife is also a local.

Not long after Shi Jian and Xu Zhenren returned to Xiang's courtyard, seven people including Master Wang and Master Wu, who had met each other, came to visit. Shi Jian opened the door and ushered them into the house, beckoning everyone to sit down and sip tea.

"Master Wang, why didn't Master Ding come with you?" Shi Jian asked.

Master Wu said regretfully: "Lao Ding has been chasing the corpse for one or two decades, which can be regarded as an old man, but he was driven away before he was forty years old." ”

Four years ago, the corpse brother of Lishui County made a big fuss in the county, Shi Jian fought side by side with Master Wang, Master Ding and other eight people, and had a little friendship, and was shocked to hear that Master Ding was dead, and couldn't help asking: "How did Master Ding die?" ”

"We don't know the specific situation, it seems that the corpse he drove had a problem on the road, the corpse turned into a zombie, and Lao Ding and his apprentice both died tragically. The corpse was found by a passing Mr. Chenyang, I heard that their bodies were about to change when they were found, and the Mr. Walking was afraid of an accident, so he invited a few passing Mr. Walks to be witnesses, and a fire was burned. ”

Shi Jian frowned and said: "Master Ding's corpse driving skills are not bad, one or two decades of experience, he has already practiced the thirty-six skills, and the basic skill of preventing corpse transformation should not be a problem." ”

"Who's to say it isn't."

"I often walk by the river, how can I not get my shoes wet, where is Lao Ding Bacheng negligent, and he didn't do his kung fu home."

Several people discussed the cause of Master Ding's death, and Master Wang brought the topic back to the topic, looked at Shi Jian and asked, "This year's Golden Bell Conference has changed its location and is being held in Lishui County, Master Shi knows, right?" ”

Shi Jian nodded, "Xu Daoyou has informed me." ”

"Thunder Tiger is not good." Master Wang sighed.

Shi Jian was stunned for a moment, as if he had thought of something, and said with an ugly face: "He is coming for Master Xiang?" ”

Master Wu said: "The golden bell in Lei Laohu's hand was taken from Master Xiang's hand, and he thinks very highly of himself, except for Master Xiang, he can't look down on other people who drive corpses. This time, the venue was suddenly changed to Lishui County, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that it was for your Xiang family. ”

Lishui County is Xiang Sheng's ancestral hometown, he is also buried here, he will witness this Golden Bell Conference, Shi Jian won everything is good, if he loses, Xiang Sheng was beaten by Lei Lao Tiger for fifteen years when he was alive, and he was dragged out and beaten when he died. Lei Laofu is trying to force Shi Jian to win.

After a moment of silence, Shi Jian asked, "Master Wang, how high is Lei Laohu's skill in chasing corpses?" ”

"There is no one before." Master Wang only said four words.

Master Wu said more specifically: "There is a saying in the Hundred Clans of the Corpse Drive, the South Mao and the North Horse, the East and the West, the Middle and Old Wang!" ”

Hearing this, Master Wang pointed at Master Wu and scolded with a smile: "Okay, you old Wu, make a joke of me, how can I be qualified to be compared with the first four." ”

"Lao Wang, you are too modest."

Shi Jian said strangely: "Why don't you have the surname of Lei Laohu?" His skill at chasing corpses is above the five? ”

Master Wang explained: "Lei Laohu is a descendant of the Mao family. ”

is similar to Shi Jian being a descendant of the Xiang family but not surnamed Xiang, Lei Laohu is the son-in-law of the Mao family, and inherited the soul bell and soul lamp of the Mao family.

Seeing Shi Jian's solemn face, Master Wang comforted him warmly: "Master Shi, you don't need to worry, I saw your corpse chasing skills four years ago, not much worse than the veterans, as long as you haven't given up practicing all these years, you can definitely compete with Lei Laohu for the corpse leader." ”

"I was confident that I had no problem in the first half, but in the second half, I didn't know what the game would be for Lei Laohu, which was a bit tricky."

The Golden Bell Conference is divided into the first half and the second half, the first half is the group scoring competition, all the participating Mr. Foot Walking is divided into five groups, five groups at the same time, ten of the 36 skills from the corpse are selected as scoring items, one point is awarded for completing one, and one will be eliminated if one is not completed, and can not continue to participate in the following projects.

Because the first half of the competition is the most basic things, and even the basic skills are not practiced well, what face to stay on the field.

In addition to the ten basic skill points in the first half, there is also a comprehensive event, which is a more classic 'walking and crossing the bridge', with five points.

It doesn't sound like it's difficult, but it's actually very difficult, and this project includes walking and bridge crossing. Crossing the bridge is one of the most complex and important basic skills in the 36 exercises, the corpse is afraid of water, and if there is water under the bridge, the corpse may not be able to cross. He also asked to go, the corpse was stiff, it was easy for him to jump, and his stiff legs were to walk like a living person, which tested Mr. Walking's skill in chasing corpses. The two basic skills are combined, and the difficulty rises again.

After the score, the five groups selected the two highest-scoring Mr. Walkers, a total of 10 people, and entered the second half together with the leaders of the previous year.

There were three events in the second half, each with three points, and the events were proposed by the head of the corpse a few days in advance. Don't think it's unfair, this provision was first proposed by Xiang, and it is still used in later generations.

Twenty years ago, Xiang Sheng used his best craft to embarrass Lei Laohu, but Lei Laohu did better than Xiang Sheng and took away the golden bell in one fell swoop. It can be seen that it really takes strength to become the leader of the corpse.

This time, Lei Laohu will definitely use what he is best at to defend his honor, and Shi Jian must do better than him if he wants to take the golden bell from him. In terms of cultivation, Lei Laohu can't compare with Shi Jian, and in terms of the skill of chasing corpses, Lei Laohu is definitely a fierce opponent.