One morning, in a small town in the land of Lingnan, several women selling vegetables were talking about a strange incident that happened last night.

"Have you heard? Last night, Boss Huang's mansion in Chengnan was haunted again. ”

"Yes, yes, I've heard that this Boss Huang came together this morning and found himself sleeping on the street a hundred meters away from home. Hey, you said that this person slept well in the house, and let the ghost move out in the middle of the night, it's really evil. ”

"But no, this is the third time this month! After each haunting, he invited a Taoist priest to come over to exorcise ghosts, so it seems that the Taoist priest he invited last time was also in vain. ”

"Hey, earlier today, I heard the maid from the Huangfu who came to buy vegetables tell me that his master invited Zhang Tianshi from the next village this time. ”

Several other women passing by to buy groceries listened to the excitement and joined in their conversation.

"Hey, I think maybe this Heavenly Master is also second-rate. ”

"That's not easy to say, I heard that this Zhang Tianshi is not an ordinary Taoist priest, when he was young, he was a "yin and yang official" in the court!"

"Yin and Yang Official, is this Heavenly Master really that powerful?"

"The 'Yin and Yang Officials' are all people who defend the Imperial City and the peace of the world, and those who can become the 'Yin and Yang Officials' are by no means idle people......"

"Hey, don't talk about it, look, isn't that Boss Huang's maid?"

"Is she the one you said, Zhang Tianshi? Why does he look like a hairy boy......

The women looked at the group of people passing by them, pointed, and whispered.

The maid they pointed out had a young Taoist priest behind her, and went all the way to the Huangfu in the south of the city.

Boss Huang, the owner of the mansion, has been waiting at the door for a long time.

This Huang boss is white and fat, with a shiny face, and he is a middle-aged man who has made a fortune. But last night, I was tossed by the ghost like this, and my face looked a little pale, probably because I was so frightened that I hadn't recovered my soul yet, and there was a thin layer of visible sweat on my forehead.

"Eh, Master Zhang, you can finally control the cold house, Huang has been waiting for a long time, Heavenly Master, please come in quickly. ”

The young Taoist priest shook off the dust on his sleeve and said solemnly: "Boss Huang, you have misunderstood, Master Zhang Tian is a family teacher! ”

"It turned out to be a senior disciple of Master Zhang Tianshi, presumably Master Ma Tianshi, you are also superb in Taoism, and you will definitely be able to get rid of the evil ghosts in my mansion. ”

"Hey——, don't call me Heavenly Master, call me Master, Master Ma!"

"Master, why do you want to change your name to Master?"

"I said Boss Huang, think about it, the word 'sky' is covered by this 'horizontal', and there is no room for it to rise. And the head of this 'big' word is a pillar that breaks the sky and no one dares to cover it!"

"Hahaha, I am shallow in my learning, less than half of the master's wisdom, I just lost my words, please forgive the master. ”

"Okay, without further ado, take me in to see your family, devil!"

So, Boss Huang took this "master" into the house and came to the bedroom where he slept.

"Master, this is it. ”

"Well——, are you ready for everything I want you to prepare?"

"Master rest assured, everything is ready. ”

Boss Huang called out to his subordinates loudly, and put the candlesticks, incense burners, chicken blood and glutinous rice all neatly on the table in front of the room.

"I said, Master, this ghost in my house has been haunting me for more than a month, and the day after the night of its murder, I got up on the street. I've invited several Taoist priests to exorcise ghosts, and in the end they are all charlatans! It's a small waste of money, but when I think about continuing to be tortured by this evil ghost, my heart is furious, I don't know, I don't know if the master can really exorcise this evil ghost for me?"

"Aang, are you questioning me as a charlatan?"

"Don't dare, don't dare, the master is a senior disciple of Master Zhang Tian, and he must have the ability to drive away this evil ghost. ”

"Just talk about not practicing fake skills, when I descend this evil ghost, don't forget to pay me the reward for this demon surrender. ”

"Master, please rest assured, just as promised, if you descend this ghost, I will definitely give it with both hands for a hundred taels of silver. ”

"Okay, I'm going to do it, you go back, don't be scared by this ghost. ”

As soon as they heard that they were going to catch ghosts, Boss Huang and his subordinates retreated to the backyard one after another, poking out a few heads to look at the situation in the front yard.

I saw this young Taoist priest, dancing the dust whisk in his hand, his mouth was vibrating, and the Taoism was playing well.

He first lit incense outside the house and invited the gods, and his mouth was full of words. Suddenly, the wind was blowing, the fallen leaves and dust were blown all over the sky, and the doors and windows of the room were also blown with a bang.

Ma Yi stood at the door, sprinkled the glutinous rice to all corners of the house, and stained the dust with chicken blood, and drew a talisman in the air against the room, and after chanting a long list of messy incantations, he shouted "Ding"!

At this time, the wind stopped, and there was silence inside and outside the house, and there was no movement.

"Master, what's going on?

"No, no, no! Boss Huang, please come over. ”

"Whatever the master wants to say, you can say it there, I can listen. ”

This Boss Huang just saw that since there was an evil wind blowing in the daytime, he was very scared, and he didn't dare to go in the backyard all the time.

"You can rest assured that there is a poor way, and no ghost will want to hurt you. Just come here, this way has important matters to discuss with you!"

Although he was afraid, Boss Huang still obeyed his words and came to the Taoist priest's side.

"Boss Huang, come with me. ”

The Taoist priest took Boss Huang to the door and asked him to look at the glutinous rice all over the ground.

"How can there be footprints here?"

"These are ghost footprints!"

"Ahh

Boss Huang was almost so frightened that he sat on the ground with weak legs.

"You saw it too, but I didn't enter this room even a single step, not to mention that there was no one in the house at this time, not a ghost?

The Taoist priest helped Boss Huang who was so frightened that he couldn't figure it out, and then said: "This glutinous rice, this is the effect of driving away ghosts, and when ghosts turn black, the black footprints on the glutinous rice on the floor are stepped on by ghosts." ”

"Oh, then, the master came to me to consult, what is the matter?"

"Don't be nervous, I'm not going to let you catch this ghost, you can see the footprints on the ground. ”

Boss Huang lowered his head and carefully looked at the black footprints on the ground, "This, this, and this have three sizes of footprints!"

"Boss Huang, as a businessman, is really eye-catching, and he said before that he would catch a ghost for a hundred taels of silver, but there are three of them, what is the price...... That's not the price it was before, is it?"

"So, how much do you want, master?"

"One hundred taels for this ghost, three hundred taels for three ghosts!"

Boss Huang was shocked, "What? Three hundred taels? You are sitting on the ground and starting the price, no!"

"Alright then, then I'll go. ”

The Taoist priest shook off the dust, turned around and left.

At this moment, it was like an earthquake in the house, and the vases and tea sets fell to the ground, shattering to pieces, and the books and calligraphy and paintings on the walls fell and scattered everywhere. Even the tables and chairs moved out of thin air, creating a mess.

These ghosts dare to make trouble in broad daylight!

When Boss Huang saw this scene, his face turned pale and pale, and he fell to the ground with his front foot and back foot, he hurriedly hugged the Taoist priest's thigh, "Master don't go, master don't go, three hundred taels is three hundred taels......!

"Okay, my husband is full of promises, and I'll go and collect these three evil ghosts. Close the door, and don't come in. ”

The Taoist priest took an arrow step and leaped into the room, and as soon as Boss Huang closed the door, he immediately retreated to the backyard.

I heard a fight in the house, "Hey-drink-ha-da-"

"Evil ghost, where to escape! Look at my Qiankun bag, collect ——!"

After tossing in the house for a while, the door opened, and the Taoist priest came out of it, still carrying a cloth bag in his hand, he walked in front of Boss Huang and motioned for him to follow him into the house.

Boss Huang took a group of maids and family members, tremblingly followed behind the Taoist priest, like a foot worm, and walked around the house three times.

Sure enough, except for some traces of fighting, everything in the house was fine, and there was no trace of weirdness.

Boss Huang shook the Taoist priest's arm and asked where these ghosts had gone.

"Look, the hell is here. ”

The Taoist priest raised the cloth bag in his hand, which seemed to contain some living thing, jumping around, and looking like he was about to break free.

Boss Huang squinted at the Taoist priest, and the Taoist priest also understood what it meant, he nodded, and it was regarded as answering Boss Huang's question.

"You mean, these ghosts are all ambushed in this little cloth bag?"

"That's right, none of the evil ghosts in your house have been collected by me in this "Qiankun bag", do you want to open the bag and take a look? Don't let people misunderstand, I caught a few rats to cheat you out of your money!"

"No, no, I believe in the master, hehehe, the master is really superb and lives up to expectations, which really makes me Huang someone admire, admire!"

"Now that the evil spirit has been removed, what ...... reward for this?"

"Don't worry, master, I'll call someone to get it from the treasury right away. ”

"Hey——, see that you are so refreshing, I will give you a preferential price, 288!"

Now that the ghost has been subdued, can the master have a light meal in the cold house, so that I can treat the master well?"

"No need, I have to go back, my master is in retreat and cultivating, and I have to take care of other things. ”

"Hey, just one meal, after eating and drinking, I can go back, so that I can have the spirit to take care of the respected teacher. What's more, I have asked my subordinates to prepare good wine and food in advance, so don't let me down. ”

Boss Huang said as he slowly "pulled" the Taoist priest to the living room.

The Taoist priest said that he wanted to leave first, but his body was very honest, and when he saw the delicious food and mellow wine on the table in the living room, even his mouth became "honest", "Okay, I'll be respectful and obey my fate?"

Between the banquets and dinners, Boss Huang ordered people to burn a cannon battle at the door of the house, lit red lanterns, beat gongs and drums, and the atmosphere was even more grand than at the time of the New Year.

After half a day's effort, people in the streets and alleys and even the whole town knew that there was a Taoist priest who had subdued the three evil ghosts who had been in trouble in Huangfu for a month.

From this day on, everyone in the city knew that under the seat of Zhang Tianshi outside the city, there was a high disciple named Ma Yichao.