The process of boiling the ointment is not difficult, but the steps are extremely cumbersome, whenever the smoke at the mouth of the pot disappears, Old Man Tang will pick up the well water and add water again along the small mouth, and then the hot oil meets the water, just like the roar of the flood at the mouth of the river, and the white mist comes out of the lid again.

For half a day, when the sun hung obliquely in the air, only a semicircle remained, and the last scoop of water was finally boiled dry, Old Man Tang trembled and lifted the lid of the pot, and the smell from the mouth of the pot made everyone can't help but come forward to see.

At noon, this paste is like the old oil that has fried the meat more than many times, the black ash is rancid, and now after half a day of boiling, and purified and extracted by the spring water, it has become very clean, from the black ash paste fat to a slightly yellowish transparent oil water, like the tea soup of weak tea, revealing a rich aroma.

"How did the taste change? Didn't it stink at first? ”

Tang Dayang's question is also everyone's question, Tang Baoguan explained in a soft voice: "The extreme must be reversed, the smell of the paste comes from the rotten corpse poison remaining in the cream, this half afternoon's boiling has already burned the corpse poison clean, and after cooking several times with water and oil, the poisonous thing has turned into mist, and the rest is the real human oil." ”

"This thing can last as long as the merman oil, as long as it is not splashed with water, it can always burn, people are the spirit of all things, and the smell of burning can attract souls and spirits, so don't burn it easily."

"Uncle, have you really seen a soul thing?"

Tang Dayang asked his uncle, and the old man Tang showed a secretive face: "The soul is formless and incorporeal, unless it is a cultivator, otherwise ordinary people can't sense it at all, but if there is really a soul, the human body will react somewhat, such as shivering, such as inexplicable panic, and such as scalp numbness, even if it is the soul fog, it doesn't say that there is really any soul, but the fog is full of shadows, your uncle and I really see this thing, how dare I have a life to live." ”

"It's done, you can put it in the soul-attracting lamp when it cools."

Subsequently, Old Man Tang took out five lamp tubes from the inner room, these lamp tubes are the whole bamboo tube, a layer of iron sheet is put on the outside to prevent seepage, the box lid can be taken and put down, hanging at the mouth of the tube will never be lost, he picked up the water scoop and put the human oil into the bamboo tube, just completely filled the five bamboo tubes, and so on to soak the white cotton rope soaked in oil and water and send it into the bamboo tube, a soul-attracting lamp is completed.

"It's done, hang it under the eaves overnight, and when it's completely cold, it's ready to use."

Old man Tang continued: "The human oil lamp has been prepared, now there is only phoenix blood left, the old man is blind and poor, but there is no way to help a few more, you have to think of your own way, see how you can find the king of birds of prey." ”

"Uncle, even if there are pheasants in the mountains at this time, it is estimated that they will not come out, and most of the animals will have to spend the winter.

Tang Dayang complained casually.

"I don't know about this, the old man is out of this stockade, it will be like being really blind, but I warn you, you don't necessarily need any pheasants, if there are domestic chickens that can have swift ones, you can expand the range again, but don't go into a dead end."

After listening to the old man's words, Yue Guanchao looked at everyone with an idea: "Uncle Tang is right, I remember that Brother Xu told me that Taiyi Tianzun will hold a temple fair under the Qingxu Temple, and the people near Zhongnanling will come to the temple fair, and there will be a cockfighting field in the hundred lines of the temple fair, whether we go to find him, and see if we can find the blood of the phoenix." ”

His words had already given a great clue, Song Siyuan felt that it was feasible, and nodded excitedly: "Then, just do as you say." ”

They smelled the smell of corpse oil all afternoon, and at this time everyone's stomachs were already rumbling, but for some reason they didn't have much appetite, so they just boiled bitter white porridge and went back to rest after drinking.

It doesn't rain anymore today, but the cold is worse than in the past, last night's snow has not melted and is frozen by low temperatures, Yue Guanchao They sat in the north hall, leaning against the fire wall to warm up, the window is facing the courtyard, and you can see the lamp tube hanging under the eaves at a glance.

"Second uncle, tomorrow we have to go to Zhongnanling to have a look, you will stay here with Uncle Tang, lest anything happen in the yard, after all, the lamp tube in the yard is still there."

Yue Qingshan nodded: "Cheng, you can go with confidence, we will definitely guard this place." ”

They were about to continue talking, there was a bump outside the courtyard, and several people immediately became nervous, Yue Guanchao stood inside the door, and found a wood to put on the door bar, and asked cautiously: "Uncle Tang, is it you?" ”

There was no movement outside, but he didn't say anything, he was about to take a machete and go out, only to see a knotted back reflected in the window, the broad waist and fangs and pointed ears, it was clearly a wild wolf in the forest.

"Uncle Tang said that human oil naturally attracts spiritual objects, and it is possible to come to find out after smelling the spiritual objects within a radius of ten miles, even more so after burning, it is estimated that this thing has attracted wild wolves."

Song Siyuan looked out the window, the wild wolf had already stuck out its tongue, constantly licking the bamboo tube, and cleaning the remaining human oil on it, if the copper was not fixed to the eaves with iron chains, it would have stolen things long ago.

"Bang bang!"