Chapter 15: The Strange Cloth Bag
The master led us to follow in the direction where the principal ran, Chen Xuyao was very cautious, we didn't dare to follow too closely, so the four of us watched him turn around step by step and followed Chen Xuyao for a long time, and came to a small river.
There are a few very thick willow trees by the river, each of which is about four or five adults holding hands, and the grass is green under the trees, and the weather at the end of March is cool, just right for a trip. A dark blue stone bridge connects the two sides across the river, and the steps on the bridge are covered with moss, and the rain in the south makes it a little slippery.
Chen Xuyao slowly crossed the bridge with the ball of things in one hand and the railing of the bridge in the other, and after reaching the other side of the river, he dodged into the bridge hole, and the four of us scattered the cat and quietly observed behind a few willow trees, and after about twenty minutes he came out of the bridge hole, patted the dust on his body, and then walked away quickly along the other road. We saw that the mass of things he was carrying when he left was gone, and guessed that it must have been hidden in the bridge hole, so we crossed the bridge and prepared to go under the bridge to find out when he was completely away.
There was a very steep slope on the side of the bridge, and there was no other way but to slide down, so Uncle Shi said to Master:
"Senior brother, you hold Bo Yao and I hold Chaxing, let's slide down. Master nodded to Uncle Shi, and the two of them picked me up and went down with Zhuxing, and when we got down the slope, the four of us looked around separately, Zhuxing found in a very hidden corner that the color of the surface soil was darker than the soil on the side, and the surface was deliberately covered up with stones and rotten leaves, Zhuxing called us all over, Master rolled up his sleeves and reached out to dig, I quickly grabbed him, Uncle Shi also stopped him, I glanced at Master and said:
"Dirty?!"
Uncle Shi pondered for a moment and said:
"It's not a question of dirty or not, let's not talk about why he hid things here, I felt the fluctuation of spiritual power when we were behind the willow tree just now, since he can bury things here, he won't take any protective measures. Uncle Shi finished speaking, and made three seals with both hands to complete a simple unsealing technique, and then saw a puff of green smoke rising from the corner and dissipated instantly, and then a foul smell hit, choking the four of us and coughing quickly, and quickly ran to the side to cover our mouths and noses with our sleeves. After a while, the smell faded, and Uncle Shi put down the hand covering his mouth and nose, and fanned in front of him, saying:
"This is a phantom Gu, if the senior brother recklessly digs a pit just now, he will definitely be hit directly, the Gu sufferer will hallucinate, lose consciousness in a short time, his attack power will soar, and he likes to eat human blood, if you are hit, you will definitely attack a few of us as soon as possible, and someone between us will definitely be injured at that time, this is the Gu worm will notify the Gu practitioner when it smells blood, and as a Gu practitioner, he will naturally return to reap the benefits of the fisherman. ”
"This thing looks weak, but it's actually not simple, and the master almost got careless. Gee... It's time to brace yourself and be vigilant. Master touched his chin and gritted his teeth.
Uncle Shi asked me and Zhuxing to go to the side to find two thicker branches, and I buried five demon talismans with Master in the corner, I and Zhuxing found the branches and handed them two, and then they began to dig along the inner circle surrounded by rune paper, and dug down a half-meter-deep pit after digging about a cup of tea, I thought to myself: These two goods should not be Taoist priests but inverted buckets...... At this time, the outermost layer of blue cotton cloth of the thing Chen Xuyao was holding before showed a corner, and the master hurriedly inserted a branch into the edge of the cotton cloth, and with a light digging, the cloth bag was exposed from the soil.
This time, the master did not recklessly get the cloth bag, but stood outside the demon suppression talisman circle and carefully lifted the edge of the cotton cloth with a branch, and slowly dismantled the cotton cloth layer by layer. After peeling off four layers of cotton cloth, the master saw a black rope tied to the fifth layer of cotton cloth, and a teacup-sized, brass toad was pressed on the black rope, and the poison sac on the surface of the copper toad's body was made vividly, and the bulging copper bump seemed to really flow out of the venom when touched. It should be another sleeve, and the thing wrapped in layers of cotton cloth has a second layer of insurance.
Seeing this, the master muttered to himself, "If you don't show your hands, you and I will be a vegetarian!" and then took out a ball of silver thread from his coat pocket, only to see him throw the silver thread on the body of the copper toad, and the silver thread will automatically weave into a net in the air, and then wrap the copper toad. At the moment when the silver wire net touched the copper toad, the copper toad writhed as if it was given life, it opened its mouth and stretched out its blood-red tongue, repeatedly tentatively touched the silver wire net several times to open the gap and then break the net to escape, but every time it touched the silver wire net, there was a flash of white electric light, and the silver wire net was slowly tightened with the increase in the number of touches, and finally the copper toad was firmly bound and could not move.
When the master saw that the time was ripe, he silently recited the mantra and then spread out his right hand, and the copper toad trapped by the silver thread automatically jumped into his right palm, and after he pursed his lips a little proudly, he put the copper toad in his pocket. The black rope that tied the cloth bag automatically fell off after the copper toad was taken away, but before the master could start the next move, the contents of the cloth bag began to ooze out of the slurry yellow liquid, and the five demon suppression talismans buried under the soil layer on the periphery of the cloth bag also burned one after another, and the uncle said: "Not good!" Then he pulled Zhuxing and me, pulled us behind him and protected us, at this time the contents of the cloth bag suddenly emitted a string of sharp and piercing laughter, I and Zhuxing were shocked and had a splitting headache, and my ears were buzzing, we hurriedly covered our ears, and the master and uncle frowned, and opened the posture to prevent the things under the cotton cloth from rushing out.
After a while, the laughter disappeared, and the thing wrapped in the cloth began to squirm rapidly under the cotton cloth, and it came out from under the cotton cloth in three times and two times, and the master hurriedly went around behind us, and together with Uncle Shi, he protected me and the stars in the middle, and the thing circled in the air several times and then floated to the diagonal front of the four of us about two meters high and stared at us, and a few of us saw clearly that the mysterious thing turned out to be a human head, and it was a child's head.
The human head was tied in a bun style that I had never seen, the facial features were distorted, and the face was hideous, it was so fixed in the air to confront us, and we didn't dare to act rashly, so we stood for a while The human head let out that sharp and piercing laughter, and then quickly turned a few times and then flew out of the top of our heads, Uncle Shi was just about to chase but was stopped by the master, he turned back suspiciously, and saw the master looking at the flying head in a daze and muttered:
"It's... How did this thing end up here with only one head... This is supposed to be the legendary Zashiki boy in Japan..."