Chapter 11: The Gift of the Declining God
After the old Taoist Jiang Ming was silent for a while, he suddenly took out a cyan sack from under the table, and took out an old yellow talisman from it.
After Jiang Ming took out the yellow charm, he then took out a brush and a silver needle, he first pricked his index finger with the silver needle, squeezed out a drop of blood and dripped it on the brush head, and then handed the silver needle to the middle-aged contractor, and said with a flat face: "Do it"
The middle-aged contractor looked at the blood stains on the sharp edge of the silver needle, and there was a trace of hesitation on his face, but the hesitation disappeared in a flash, he gritted his teeth, picked up the silver needle and pricked it on his index finger, and then dripped a drop of blood on the tip of the pen.
Immediately, Jiang Ming took back the silver needle and put it back in his sack, stood up, and suddenly tied up his horse, holding the brush in one hand and pressing the yellow charm on the table with the other, and made a sound in his mouth, holding the brush tightly on the yellow charm to make a rune, stroke by stroke, a slap rune, and a cup of tea.
After the rune was written, Jiang Ming seemed to have exhausted all his strength, and his body slumped on the chair, panting constantly.
The middle-aged contractor looked at Jiang Ming nervously, and asked cautiously: "Old fairy, are you okay?"
Jiang Ming exhaled deeply, waved his hand at the middle-aged contractor, he sat upright, picked up the rune drawn on the desktop, handed it to the middle-aged contractor's hand and said: "Stick this talisman on your chest before going to bed tonight, remember, don't get wet, otherwise this talisman will be invalid."
"Okay, good" The middle-aged contractor's face showed a hint of joy, and he nodded again and again. Then, he immediately took out a stack of money from his clothes and put it on the table, and said to Jiang Ming: "Be careful, please accept the old fairy with a smile."
Looking at the money on the table, Jiang Ming's face did not change, he just nodded lightly, reached out and picked it up and put it in the sack.
The middle-aged contractor left, and Lin Nian and Qiu Wen were left in front of the stall, Qiu Wen looked at the old Taoist priest's half-dead look, and said coldly: "God stick, you will pretend"
"Xiaowen, don't be rude" Lin Nian turned his head with a hint of anger in his tone, and then, he turned his head and said apologetically to Jiang Ming: "Daoist Jiang, my little sister is offended, please don't forgive me"
"Don't get in the way, the old man is not enough to be angry with a little girl" Jiang Ming replied a little weakly in his tone, and then made a gesture of invitation and asked Lin Nian to sit down.
After Qiu Wen was reprimanded by Lin Nian, she immediately stood behind Lin Nian obediently and did not speak, but after listening to the words of the old Taoist Jiang Ming, she immediately glared at him unhappily, in Qiu Wen's subconscious, she had already classified Jiang Ming as a god stick.
After Lin Nian sat down, he nodded slightly to Jiang Ming, and then said, "Dao Chief's approach, Master Xuan admires"
"Do you see that?" Jiang Ming narrowed.
"I know a little bit about one or two," Lin Nian said modestly.
"Let's talk" Jiang Ming was still a little skeptical, after all, he had worked in this industry for so many years to have the ability he had today, and seeing that Lin Nian was not very old, he really didn't believe that Lin Nian could see through the Dao technique he used just now.
"If I'm not mistaken, that person provoked the 'snake fairy', but fortunately it was the 'snake fairy' instead of the 'snake ghost', if you meet the 'snake ghost', I am afraid that you will suffer within a radius of a hundred miles"
When he heard the snake fairy and the snake ghost, Jiang Ming's heart was shocked, he already knew in his heart that Lin Nian really saw it, but he still didn't give up, and asked again: "How do you know that the person is messing with the 'snake fairy' and not the 'snake ghost'?"
"In my opinion, the Taoist chief uses the traditional palm tone to judge, if the palm is black and the breath is fishy, it is a snake ghost, if the palm is white and the tone is no different from ordinary people, it is a snake fairy."
"Listening to what you say, it seems that there is another way to judge?" Jiang Ming frowned.
"Indeed, the way I judge is different from that of the Dao Chief, I use the Heavenly Eye," Lin Nian replied softly, as if this was a very ordinary thing.
"Tianyan?" Jiang Ming was slightly stunned, looked at Lin Nian and said, "It seems that I met a master today"
"Masters don't dare to be, but they have only studied the Tao for a few years"
"Even the eyes of heaven have been opened, and the art of divination has reached the peak even if you think about it."
"I only know a little bit about divination, and I am still far from reaching the peak."
Jiang Ming smiled, he didn't bother with Lin Nian about this, he suddenly spread his hand on the table, and said to Lin Nian: "Can you calculate a hexagram for the old man and see how long the old man can live?"
Qiu Wen stood behind Lin Nian and listened to the two of them talking, but Qiu Wen couldn't understand a word about what they said, but when she heard that Jiang Ming suddenly asked Lin Nian to tell him a hexagram, she immediately interjected and said to Jiang Ming: "Hey, are you mistaken, are you a good fortune teller?"
Saying that, she said to Lin Nian again: "Brother Lin, let's go, don't worry about him"
Jiang Ming glanced at her, then reached out and put the stack of money given to him by the middle-aged contractor in the sack, put it on the table, and said to Lin Nian: "Give me a hexagram, then the money is yours."
"Then you're welcome" The corners of Lin Nian's mouth hooked slightly, revealing a smile, and then reached out to take it.
As soon as this hand touched the money on the table, Jiang Ming pressed the back of his hand, squinted at him and said, "You have to calculate it correctly before you can take it."
Qiu Wen immediately said dissatisfiedly: "You are so unreasonable, even if my brother Lin is right, if you want to cheat us, we can't do anything."
Lin Nian withdrew his hand, waved his hand at Qiu Wen and said, "Xiaowen, don't worry, I believe that Jiang Daochang is not this kind of person."
Hearing this, Qiu Wen glared at Jiang Ming viciously, she was not worried that Lin Nian would make a mistake, because she had an inexplicable trust in Lin Nian's ability, so she made up her mind, as long as this old Taoist priest dared to cheat, she would have to tear down this stall today.
"Does the Taoist have copper coins?"
"Yes, how much do you want"
"Seven"
"To you"
After Lin Nian took the seven copper coins, he gently spread them on the table, and the seven copper coins stopped in different positions, only to hear Lin Nian speak: "Please choose one from the Taoist chief"
Jiang Ming did not hesitate and chose one of them.
Seeing the copper coin that Jiang Ming chose, Lin Nian shook his head lightly, expressing that he was not very satisfied, and asked him to choose one more, Jiang Ming continued to choose one, but Lin Nian was still dissatisfied, and then repeated it five times, Jiang Ming chose all seven copper coins once, but in the end, Lin Nian's face was still dissatisfied.
At this time, Lin Nian suddenly put the position of the copper coin for a moment, and at this moment, a smile finally appeared on his face, and he said to Jiang Ming: "Please ask the Taoist to choose again."
Jiang Ming glanced at the position of each copper coin, arranged it into a horizontal line, his face changed slightly, looked at Lin Nian and said in a deep voice: "Little brother, is this happy to find old age?"
"Why, a glimmer of life, a glimmer of a hundred years, are you not satisfied?" Lin Nian asked with a smile.
Jiang Ming said coldly: "Since you have the eye of heaven, you must not know what kind of Dao technique I have used."
"I know, the stand-in technique, and I also know that the strongest practice of this technique is the 'life for life' technique"
Back then, in order to let Zhou Liankui reincarnate, Lin Nian used 'life for life'.
"The old man is 89 years old this year, and the person who has half stepped into the coffin, this time he used the stand-in Dao technique to block the snake fairy for that person, do you think I can live to be a hundred years old?"
"Can" Lin Nian replied categorically.
As soon as the words fell, I saw Lin Nian suddenly take out a yellow pill, he put it on the table, and he didn't speak, just looked at Jiang Ming with a smile.
"This is ......" Jiang Ming's tone suddenly became stammering after seeing the pill, and he suddenly remembered that the crow reported the funeral last night, and the magpie reported the good news in the morning, these two omens dealt with the 'declining god gift' in the Taoist book, and the book explained this sentence as a great evil.
The murderer Jiang Ming had already suffered it, he looked down at the pills on the table, could it be that this is Daji?
When Jiang Ming pondered for a moment and looked up again, he found that Lin Nian was gone, and even Qiu Wen had left, and at the same time, the stack of money on the table was also taken away, leaving only the yellow pill.