Chapter Seventy-Five: Talismans
When he returned to Hanmo Street, Chen Tang saw Su Ling carrying a large bag of things on his back, and he came back from the other side with great difficulty.
He hurriedly went up and asked, "Ah Ling, what are you carrying?"
When Su Ling saw him, he smiled and said, "It's rice, I bought eighty catties of rice, and after moving this time, I'll finish moving it all." ”
Chen Tang hurriedly brought the rice over, and saw that she was tired and sweaty: "Why are you buying so much rice at once? Why don't you let the rice shop deliver it?"
Su Ling wiped his sweat: "Brother Bujin, I don't know what's going on these days, the price of rice is going crazy." I heard from the owner of the rice shop that the price would be higher tomorrow, so I bought more. The people in the rice shop were very busy and refused to send it, and they had to add money to send rice. ”
Chen Tang was stunned for a moment, and quickly understood that it must be a frequent occurrence of evil disasters, a trend of troubled times, caravans coming and going, risks multiplying, the cost of various goods soared all of a sudden, and the selling price naturally rose.
Su Ling pursed her mouth: "There is also the price of meat, which is also rising, Brother Jin, if it goes on like this, the cost is too great." When I first entered the city, I had more than 20 yuan a day to eat, but now I have more than 50 yuan a day after eating. ”
This is mainly because Chen Tang has a big appetite, and he has meat all of a sudden, and his living expenses are terrifying. Ordinary people only have more than ten dollars a day. If you save money, buy a big meat bun and drink some water, and you will deal with it.
But now it seems that the meat stuffed buns will definitely not be available for a penny. Maybe the steamed buns, or vegetarian buns and the like, will be sold at this price.
If the evil becomes bigger and bigger, and it cannot be suppressed, I am afraid that all kinds of daily necessities will continue to rise.
Sooner or later, something will go wrong.
As for the yamen, there should be measures to stabilize prices.
Thinking that he had just spent a thousand yuan to buy talisman materials, Chen Tang suddenly felt distressed.
Although the circles are different in the world, and there is no comparison at all in terms of prices, money is money after all, and it is really not easy for ordinary people to save a thousand dollars. If you look at Wang Fu, you will know that working as an accountant in Sihailou, with a monthly salary of 500 yuan, is already considered a middle-income level in the working class of Panzhou Mansion. You can support your family, save money, and you can only save twenty or thirty dollars a month.
According to the current prices, let alone saving money, if a family wants to eat enough, they may have to go into debt.
At present, Chen Tang still has more than 2,000 money on hand, and he is not very worried about the problem of use. But as Su Ling said, if there is no entry, I can't help but spend.
This martial arts cultivation is really a bottomless pit.
But on the other hand, it has become easier to step into the circle and want to make money.
At that moment, Chen Tang picked up the rice bag and walked home like a fly. When Su Ling saw it, he couldn't help but stick out his tongue: Brother Bujin's strength is really great!
After dinner, he lit the lamp, wrote a word, and when it was quiet, he took out the talisman pen and other things, put them on the table, and began to observe them carefully.
The process and manufacture of these talismans are confidential, and people who are not insiders do not understand them at all.
Chen Tang didn't bother to study these and distract himself.
According to the saying of the floating Taoist, talisman pens and other things are of medium quality and are enough. As for the higher quality ones, the price is estimated to be very scary, and there is no need to pursue them.
Now, he's just practicing his hands. If the practice is not successful, no matter how good the materials are, they will be wasted and the money will be wasted.
After reading the materials, Chen Tang closed his eyes and thought about the process of drawing talismans again, without missing any details.
The Taoist transmission technique has its own subtlety, and it is completely different from the practice of secrets, which undoubtedly gave Chen Tang a shortcut.
But that doesn't mean that if you take shortcuts, you will succeed. When it comes to the end, it depends on the state of play.
After meditating for a while, he felt that it was almost brewing, so Chen Tang opened his eyes, lifted the talisman pen, dotted the talisman sand, and immediately drew it on the talisman paper.
The first key to drawing talismans is to do it in one go, and there must be no pause. Once the pen is broken, the qi will be broken, and the painting will naturally not be completed.
Swish!
"Oops......"
Chen Tang secretly screamed, Peng, the rune paper actually spontaneously combusted, the flames hunted, and what burned out was a blue fire.
Fortunately, he knew that if there was an accident on the way to draw the talisman, there would be spontaneous combustion, so he took precautions in advance and dodged in time, except for a piece of talisman paper that was destroyed, no other damage was caused.
"The first time I drew the talisman, I was too nervous, for fear of breaking the pen, but I drew too fast, so that the brushstrokes were not clear, and I went around together......"
Chen Tang began to sum up his experience and reflect on the problem.
A quarter of an hour later, he picked up his pen again and began to paint.
But it failed again, although there was no spontaneous combustion, but the runes on the rune paper were drawn incorrectly, resulting in invalidation.
This drawing is the most rigorous, the slightest bit can not be wrong, in essence, in fact, it is a truth with writing and painting, if there is a mistake, there are flaws, then no matter the word or painting, it will become a failure, to start over.
After failing four times in a row, Chen Tang was so tired that he sweated all over.
Drawing talismans is by no means an easy task, and it is very demanding and energy-consuming for people's mental state.
Fortunately, Chen Tang has practiced the spirit of heaven and man, and his mental outlook is far beyond that of ordinary people, otherwise, if he paints once or twice, he will be exhausted and unable to lift the pen.
According to the market price, among the talisman refining materials, the most expensive is the rune pen, and then to the rune sand, the rune paper is the cheapest. But even so, four failures, four rune papers were destroyed, and the waste of rune sand was equivalent to a loss of two or three hundred dollars.
This burned, where is paper, it's all money!
After resting for a while, Chen Tang gritted his teeth, continued to wave his pen unbelievingly, and started the fifth attempt.
Whew!
Under the light, his expression of full attention was illuminated, meticulous, and his pen was long......
Call!
When the last stroke was smoothly outlined, Chen Tang almost couldn't help cheering:
It's done!
But seeing this rune, a mysterious rune appeared on the rune paper, the rune paper is orange, the rune sand is bright red, and between red and yellow, there is a strong color contrast, which is beautiful.
The strokes of this rune are extremely complex, like a maze diagram of the "hidden" font, and the strokes are coherent, not chaotic at all, and constantly at all.
On the whole, it seems to contain a mysterious atmosphere.
The first invisibility charm was drawn, but I don't know how effective it was, and I wasn't sure how long it would last invisibility, so I needed to conduct a field test tomorrow.
Looking at the remaining five pieces of rune paper, Chen Tang didn't have the strength to continue, so he put it away and put it away.
Then sit down on the bed and start the operation of the heavenly and human spirits.
This is not only a kind of cultivation, but also a kind of pranayama.
After not saying anything all night, after getting up the next day, washing up and having breakfast, Chen Tang returned to the room and picked up the invisibility talisman.
Effect test, you don't need to strip naked and run to the street to die, just at home.
But in this case, it would be a pity to waste a talisman.
But if you don't test it, how can you rest assured?
Chen Tang no longer hesitated, tiptoed out, and saw Su Ling busy working in the backyard. He immediately activated the invisibility charm and walked towards Su Ling.