Zhong Ming didn't know if Zhang Daozhen deliberately made a statement to coax himself, or if it was really as he said, the catastrophe was coming.

All in all, it is a matter of life and death for 100 people in Mud Village, this is to grasp Zhong Ming's weakness, Zhong Ming is a knife mouth, a stone heart, but he only attaches great importance to the people close to him.

Perhaps it was two lives of loneliness, and he valued every relationship very much, even the neighborly love with the poor people of Silt Village.

Zhang Daozhen held the tea, did not answer the question, but said with a smile: "Zhong Jushi, I will not harm your life, and second, I will not harm the lives of your relatives and friends, why do you have to look like you have a deep hatred for me." ”

Zhong Ming sneered: "If I want to borrow my life from you, can you still smile with me?"

"Yes, as long as Zhong Jushi wants to do it, the poor road will borrow his life from you. ”

However, Zhang Daozhen's words could only be exchanged for Zhong Ming's cold gaze and a sarcastic smile.

Zhang Daozhen sneered, he originally wanted not to have such a stiff quarrel with Zhong Ming, but now it seems that if Zhong Ming is not shown great kindness, Zhong Ming is afraid that he will not give him a good look.

Seeing that Zhong Ming didn't answer, Zhang Daozhen could only explain: "This calamity is a border calamity, not only the residents of the mud village will suffer, but the entire border is also the same.

Last night's night rain thought that Zhong Jushi had also noticed the strangeness, in fact, that night rain was not ordinary rain, but someone cast a spell into the corpse qi rain, the rain clouds were transformed by the corpse qi, and the drips carried the corpse qi.

Zhong Jushi, you only know that this corpse qi will harm people, and ordinary people will go crazy and sick because of the corpse qi when they come into contact with it, but you don't know that the most powerful thing about this corpse qi is not here. ”

The old Taoist priest deliberately stopped, making Zhong Ming anxious, and Zhong Ming could only ask: "Please also ask Daoist Zhang to tell me, what is the most harmful thing about the accumulation of corpse qi?"

Zhang Daozhen smiled mysteriously and said, "Raise the corpse!"

The corners of Zhong Ming's eyes twitched, and he already had a guess in his heart, but Sheng still asked with a fluke mentality: "What is a corpse?"

"The so-called corpse lifting, that is, the accumulation of corpse qi flows into the land with rain, and the corpse with resentment is brought back to life, and the dead return to the world to ask for the life of the living.

Once the corpse is revitalized by the accumulated corpse qi, it will be attracted by the breath of the living beings, tear the living creatures, and eat bloodthirsty flesh to relieve the resentment in the corpse. ”

When Zhang Daozhen said this, he shook his sleeves and stretched out a hand, pointing to the location of the barren hill and said: "I have checked the poor road of the mass grave gang, and there are countless unjust dead bodies in it, and after tonight, more than 10,000 corpses will crawl out of the grave and go to the border city."

The border is desolate, looking around, there is only one densely populated border city, but the tide of corpses will definitely be attracted by the life spirit of the border city, stepping through the silt village, attacking the border city. ”

Lao Dao said that the closest to the barren hill is the mud village, if the corpse is really raised, the first to suffer must be the mud village.

But this old Taoist priest's mouth is true or false, people are old and refined, Zhong Ming can't hear whether what he said is true or false.

So Zhong Ming turned his eyes to look at the little Taoist priest Zhang Nianchen and asked, "Little Taoist priest, let me ask you, is what your master said true or false?"

On the contrary, this little Taoist priest is a true temperament, without much scheming, like a blank piece of paper, joy, anger, sorrow and joy are expressed on one face, although Zhong Ming can't fight a century-old Taoist priest, but he can see through a pure little Taoist.

Zhang Nianchen didn't expect to be asked by Zhong Ming, he hurriedly scratched his cheeks, nodded and said, "Yes, yes, Master didn't lie to Zhong Jushi, everything he said about the corpse is true!"

Seeing the sincerity of Zhang Nianchen's eyes, Zhong Ming believed the words of the old Taoist.

On the other hand, Zhang Nianchen's face was entangled, and he spoke again: "Please also ask Zhong Jushi not to borrow his life with me, what the master said about borrowing his life will not harm his life is false." ”

Such a rhetoric suddenly made Zhang Daozhen shake his head, but Zhong Ming smiled and said: "Zhang Daochang, it seems that your apprentice can't get used to lying and deceiving people." ”

Zhang Daozhen explained with a smile: "At first, what the poor Dao and the apprentice said was indeed a way to harm people's lives, since Zhong Jushi did not have the righteousness of sacrifice in his heart, then the poor Dao did not force it, and retreated to the second, only to borrow Zhong Jushi's life, not to change Zhong Jushi's life, and to seek a glimmer of life for the little apprentice." ”

Zhong Ming didn't speak, but just sneered, and secretly slandered himself: You stinky Taoist priest, you say it well, the righteousness of sacrificing for others is not to coax a fool to give your apprentice a life.

When the little Taoist priest Zhang Nianchen heard this, he was immediately overjoyed and said, "Master, is there really such a method?"

Zhang Daozhen nodded and said, "Good apprentice, when did the teacher deceive you?"

This is true, on weekdays, Zhang Daozhen walks the rivers and lakes, divides and looks at feng shui for others, and occasionally does something to coax the rich man, but he only does not deceive his apprentices, in Zhang Daozhen's words, "Poor people speak falsely, and cause and effect must not implicate the disciples." ”

At this time, Zhang Nianchen was very happy, turned his head and said to Zhong Ming: "Rest assured, Zhong Jushi, my master never lied to me, he said that he would not harm your life, and he would definitely not!"

In this way, Zhong Ming saw Zhang Nianchen's sincerity, and after hesitating for a moment, he said: "Daochang Zhang, if it is really as you said and does not harm my life, I can agree to this matter." ”

Seeing Zhong Ming's promise, Zhang Nianchen smiled even more, and said to Zhong Ming again and again: "Thank you Zhong Jushi for your great kindness, you are blessed with celestial phenomena, and you will definitely have prosperous fortunes in the future, and your wishes will come true!"

If he can survive, who wants to die, the little Taoist priest Zhang Nianchen's fate is peculiar, he is destined to live no more than eighteen years old, it is the result of heaven's fate, but now he sees a glimmer of life, this handsome young man in a shabby Taoist robe doesn't know how to express happily.

In a desperate situation, you know how to spare your life.

Zhong Ming picked up the teacup, there was no smile on his face, he just waved his hand, for him, this was just a life-changing business, not a kind charity.

The old Taoist priest Zhang Daozhen just smiled bitterly and drank tea, he thought to himself: Fool, how can there be a reason in the world to exchange loess for gold, this surnamed Zhong will not lend you his life, and then the master will take his life for you and steal half of the destiny for you!

The master worked hard to renew the life of the apprentice, but in the end, he had to take his own life in exchange for the apprentice's life, this master-apprentice friendship is better than that of ordinary father and son.

The so-called master and apprentice, it should be like this!

The chaotic clouds opened the bird's way, and the sword was drawn and pointed at the heroes.

If you are my apprentice, the incense candle will be spent in this life.

In the thatched house, the three of them had different thoughts, and in the silence, only the sound of Zhong Ming holding a cup of tea was the same.

At this time, there was a knock outside the door, Sun Luolian's voice sounded, and she shouted softly: "Brother Zhong, Zhang Daoye, are you still in the house?"

The three people in the house came back to their senses at the same time, Zhong Ming glanced at the old Taoist priest Zhang Daozhen, and saw that he was already the old god drinking tea in the ground, just like the appearance of a master in the world when he first saw him in the village, how could he still have the cunning of borrowing his life just now.

Zhong Ming smiled coldly, a little disdainful, and responded: "We are drinking tea in the house, Xiaolian, you can come in." ”

The wooden door rang in response, it was Sun Luolian who helped Old Man Sun back, Old Man Sun glanced at the three of them, and when he saw that there was nothing unusual, he sneered and said: "Or the Taoist is right, if you are weak, you have to go out for a walk and see the sun." ”

Zhang Daozhen nodded with a smile, but he didn't know that his blind hole, like a dead wood-like old face, laughed more terrifyingly than crying.

Then Zhang Daozhen got up with a smile and walked out, and said, "The time is about the same, tonight I have to do a Dharma service for your village, to get rid of the bad luck of the epidemic, and Poor Dao will go to prepare the things needed for the Dharma." ”

Zhang Nianchen smiled and explained to Old Man Sun that he had used the hot water at home just now, and began to clean up the tea set with a little shyness.

"I'll send the Taoist chief, Xiaolian, and you send Uncle Sun back to the house to rest. ”

Zhong Ming also stood up, hiding the mahogany short knife in his sleeve without a trace, and he quickly caught up with Zhang Daozhen.

Xiaolian sent Uncle Sun back to the house to rest, while Zhang Nianchen poured the tea set into the rattan box.

Zhong Ming followed behind Zhang Daozhen, the two came to the fence courtyard, Zhang Daozhen seemed to be looking at the Linxian Stone intentionally, Zhong Ming suddenly remembered that the little Taoist priest Zhang Nianchen had told him not to kneel on the stone, so he asked: "What will happen if I kneel in front of the Linxian Stone just now?"

Zhang Daozhen said with a smile: "Once you kneel down in the immortal stone, you don't look up for half a lifetime, you can't raise your head in front of Bai Yujing for the rest of your life, even if you can break through the ten thousand armors, the immortal law can call the clouds and call the rain, and when you see the immortal stone, you have to kneel, this kneeling, the spirit of the person is gone." ”

Zhong Ming was secretly frightened, thinking back to the moment he was in front of the immortal stone, and he still had palpitations.

Bai Yujing's demagogic methods are really terrifying, and he is worthy of being the immortal family who helped Emperor Tang Zhen build the country.

Zhong Ming looked up at the sky, although the dark clouds dispersed, the cumulus clouds on the horizon were still heavy, Zhong Ming asked again: "This rain is also Bai Yujing's means?"

"Bai Yujing's immortals are immortals, and they are new to the treasure land, if they don't have some momentum, wouldn't it make people have a reputation for selling their reputation. ”

Zhang Daozhen's words were subtle, but he also admitted the matter.

The old Taoist priest once said that the accumulation of corpse qi was done by magic, Zhong Ming had already guessed that it had something to do with Bai Yujing, first the epidemic, then the corpse tide, and then Bai Yujing's Linxian Stone was shocked, and finally Bai Yujing Immortal arrived to relieve the suffering of the border.

After this action, the family in the border area is not allowed to kneel down and worship the Bai Yujing immortals?

Zhong Ming stood with his hands in his hands, looked at the Cumulus clouds that had not dispersed, and said: "Good strategy, good calculation, good person who does not sell his reputation and reputation." ”

At this time, Zhang Nianchen packed up, walked out with a tea set on his back, and walked out of the courtyard with Zhang Daozhen in his arms.

Zhong Ming sighed and walked into the house, wanting to see Uncle Sun's illness, but he didn't expect Zhang Nianchen to run back out of breath again, he stood outside the fence wall with his eyes turned around, and shouted, "Zhong Jushi, please stay!"

Looking back at Zhang Nianchen, Zhong Ming frowned again, and said, "What's the matter with the little Taoist?"

Zhang Nianchen walked in front of Zhong Ming in two steps, his eyes were scattered, and he hummed in a low voice: "Zhong Jushi hasn't paid for the pill yet, and Master and I are going to the town to buy the items for tonight, so I remember that there is no silver on my body." ”

This made Zhong Ming laugh dumbly, and he remembered that he saw these two people two days ago, and they were indeed shabby, with only five copper coins on their bodies.

took out two pieces of broken silver from his arms, Zhong Ming planned to hand them to Zhang Nianchen, but when he handed over the money, Zhong Ming took out two pieces of broken silver from his arms on a whim, and said, "Let me ask you a question, if you answer correctly, this broken silver will belong to you." ”

Zhang Nianchen scratched his head and said embarrassedly: "How can this be embarrassing for Zhong Jushi to be so expensive." ”

But the little Taoist priest was stunned when he looked at the silver, he had lived a poor life with the old Taoist priest since he was a child, and he rarely saw so much silver.

Zhong Ming smiled: "You say, if I don't lend you my life, are you still willing to save the people here?"

The little Taoist priest didn't think about it, and immediately replied: "Of course I want to save, the master has taught me since I was a child, my Longmen Mountain Danding faction walks the world, in order to help the world and save people, not to mention that the people here have built a Taoist temple on Longmen Mountain for me before, and I have been on incense, so I have to save it!"

"I am satisfied with your answer, these coins are yours. ”

Zhong Ming smiled slightly, and handed the broken silver in his hand to Zhang Nianchen.

Zhang Nianchen immediately smiled sincerely: "Thank you, Master and I have purchased all the purchases, and we will rush back in the afternoon." ”

Zhong Ming smiled and nodded, and Zhang Nianchen turned his head and ran into the distance.

Staring at the back of the little Taoist priest leaving, Zhong Ming said in his heart: If I lend my life to such a kind-hearted person, this life is not worth it.

After thinking about it, Zhong Ming thought of the old Taoist priest again, the old Taoist priest Zhang Daozhen was able to teach such a pure person, maybe he was not as bad as he looked.

People, good and bad, the so-called good people and bad people are just different concepts from different standpoints.

Zhong Ming looked up at the sky, stood with his hands in his hands, and muttered: "At night, it is the beginning of the chaos on the border. ”