Chapter 5: Liang Xianggong
This toad spirit had recently been trained out of the mountain, and after observing the vicinity of this persimmon tree village for many days, he chose Liang Wenfu - Liang Youcai to be exact - as his first target to use to make a sign. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
In the toad selection, he was well thought out: in this place with simple folk customs, as a scumbag, Liang Youcai is well-known far and wide, and as Liang's mother begged people everywhere for borrowing, the news that he was "calculated to be sent by a ghost to die within three days" naturally spread. After his death, while people used him as a negative example to educate their children, the reputation of the witch doctor would naturally spread farther and farther. At the same time, Liang Youcai has a bad reputation, no one will be surprised by his death, and everyone will not doubt the conclusion that "evil will be punished".
The most important point: the toad's essence skills are still shallow, and if you want to successfully kill people with demon methods, you need to make a lot of preparations for the target in advance. Therefore, it can not ask for too much money for the first time to scare future potential customers, but also to determine that the selected target must not be able to come up with money, and the Liang family has neither money nor enough money, so it can be arranged calmly with confidence.
Seeing that the matter was already spreading with Liang's mother borrowing money outside, in order to avoid a long night of dreams, the toad spirit started tonight. But who knows that people are not as good as heaven, Yun Cuixian, who lives next door to the Liang family, turned out to be a master, and she happened to come back tonight after going out for a few days!
As a result, the toad, who had only become refined after hundreds of years of hard work, had just finished the "life" of "toad" and ushered in sin, and it ended forever when he did evil for the first time.
Liang Wenfu looked at Yun Cuixian curiously: Judging from her unhesitating move just now, she could see the identity of the toad essence with a glance! Could it be that she is a Taoist aunt or a person who cultivates immortals?
"Come here!" shouted from there.
Liang Wenfu hurriedly walked over to see what was going on with her.
Yun Cuixian still had the same flat tone that was neither enthusiastic nor cold: "This toad essence, you just said that you killed it, don't mention me!" With that, the long sword in her hand popped out, and her cold eyes looked at Liang Wenfu threateningly.
Liang Wenfu knew in his heart: she had such good skills, but the mother and daughter were hiding in this small mountain village and working hard, obviously deliberately hiding or avoiding something. Now that she's saved her life again, how can she let her get into any trouble because of this?
Therefore, although her threatening attitude was unpleasant, Liang Wenbin still nodded gratefully in agreement.
Seeing Liang Wenfu solemnly agree, Yun Cuixian nodded reassuringly, then frowned again, and said coldly: "You can do it yourself in the future! This time it's fine, but if you continue to behave like before, beware of the retribution next time!" After speaking, he seemed to be afraid that Liang Wenfu would think too much, and added: "I don't care about your life or death, I'm doing this for your mother's good, I don't want her to be old and helpless in the future!"
Liang Wenfu still had a lot of questions to ask her, but seeing that she was so cold to herself, she didn't speak.
Looking down at the blood stains all over his body, Liang Wenfu went back to the house to get clean clothes, and went to the well platform to take a bath in the dark. When taking a bath, Liang Wenfu realized that he had been trampled on by the puppet ghost and had severe pain in his chest before, but now he didn't feel any discomfort!
After cleaning up, the sky was already dark, Liang Wenfu looked in the mirror after returning home, the claw marks in his neck disappeared, it seemed that it was really the toad spirit who made the ghost, and now it is all right.
Although he didn't sleep all night, Liang Wenfu didn't feel sleepy now, he cleaned the courtyard first, and then took an iron hook to pull back the body of the toad essence: this is so good to explain to his mother and let her relax;
At this time, Liang's mother finally got up, and as soon as she opened the door, she saw her son stringing a big toad with a rope, which was hanging on the shelf in the courtyard, so she came over strangely to ask.
Seeing that his mother's face was ruddy and her complexion was good, completely lost the appearance she had when she was scared last night, Liang Wenfu put his mind at ease and said with a smile: "Mother, this is a toad essence, and the witch doctor who came to cheat money the day before yesterday is what it changed!"
Mother Liang took a closer look at the toad, and glared at her son suspiciously: "I've never seen such a big toad, but don't fool me, let's not live with our own lives in order to save that hundred times!"
Liang Wenfu explained: "Don't believe it, the evil ghost you saw last night was done by it! After you fainted, I killed that monster!" As he spoke, he went to the root of the courtyard wall and brought the rag puppet, handed it to his mother, and said, "Na! It was changed with this, and after I killed it, it changed back to its original form." ”
Liang Mu patted her head: "I remembered, I saw a giant ghost last night, and I forgot if you didn't mention it!"
Liang Wenfu slapped his forehead: Yun Cuixian's medicine still has this effect? I would have known that I wouldn't mention this stubble, but don't let her think of the giant ghost and faint again!
This is Liang Wenfu's thoughts, last night Liang's mother was not frightened by the appearance of the ghost, but thought that her son was going to be captured by the ghost.
Thinking of what happened last night, and now seeing that her son is doing well, Liang's mother believes a lot in his words.
Seeing his mother's expression as usual, Liang Wenfu also put his mind at ease, and then made up a lie to her, roughly explaining what happened after she fainted last night.
In the end, Liang's mother saw that the claw marks in her son's neck really disappeared, so she really believed his words completely. After making sure that he was not injured in the duel with the toad spirit, he was completely relieved.
Suddenly, Liang's mother remembered something and said to her son: "The villagers are not having a good time, and if you lend us money, they will have a tight life." We don't need the money now, so I'm going to pay it back to everyone!"
The villagers were very curious, why did Mrs. Liang come to repay the money so soon? After listening to her explanation, the whole village was alarmed, and the whole village went to Liang's house to see the toad essence.
Looking at the big toad hanging on the shelf, everyone discussed: "Oh my God! Why is it so ......big?"
"Why are you still like a toad? Don't you all say that if you become a sperm, you will become a human ......?"
"I've lived most of my life, and this is the first time I've seen a goblin......"
After listening to everyone's discussions, Liang Wenfu thought to himself: "It seems that even in this world, ghosts and goblins are uncommon. But then I thought, "I saw a fox and a toad spirit in one day, I really don't know if it was too good luck or too bad?"
But he heard another person: "No wonder they all say, 'ghosts are also afraid of wicked people', even the toads that have become fine have been killed by this Liang Erqiu......" As soon as he said half of the words, he was covered by the people around him, and the people around him also persuaded: "Are you crazy? Don't let that Liang Erqiu hear, set your house on fire at night!"
When the persuaded person heard this, he hurriedly shrank into the crowd, and secretly looked at Liang Wenfu to see if he heard it.
"Erqiu" is used in the local dialect to describe people who are confused all day long and have no brains.
Liang Wenfu pretended not to hear it, his face was still smiling, but he was sighing in his heart: "The villagers are all kind, but Liang Youcai in the past left such a bad impression on them! Since he inherited Liang Youcai's body, he can only inherit his reputation and past, and change everyone's impression by words and deeds in the future!"
On the second day, Liang Wenfu wrapped two tusks and prepared to go to the county seat to sell, and by the way, he bought a few copies of Shiwen to prepare for the next imperial examination plan. When he went out, he asked Yun Cuixian to help take care of his mother, in case the toad spirit had a helper to take revenge, Yun Cuixian nodded and agreed.
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Recently, there was a major incident in Persimmon Village, and when the villagers sat together and chatted after tea and dinner, they were almost all talking about this matter: The prodigal son of the old Liang family suddenly turned back some time ago! He came here for more than two months to run around and do business, and he made a lot of money.
After he had the money, he took the initiative to pay off all the debts he owed at high interest, and also took the initiative to compensate those who had stolen from him; he bought dozens of acres of land, all of which were rented to poor families in the village at low prices, and finally expanded his own house.
As the saying goes, "the prodigal son does not change his money when he turns around." How can a scumbag change his life for goodness not make the people talk about it? But in the eyes of everyone, there is another thing that makes the villagers of Persimmon Tree Village feel even more honored: That Liang Erqiu was admitted to Xiucai last month -- this is the first Xiucai in Persimmon Village in decades!
Now, when he is mentioned, everyone no longer calls him "Liang Erqiu", and even "Liang Youcai" is no longer called - calling an adult by his name is obviously looking down on the other party.
Now, when he is old and has some relatives with the Liang family, he affectionately changes his word "Wenfu", and ordinary people mention him and respectfully call him "Liang Xianggong!"
Now, Liang Xianggong Liang Wenfu, whom the villagers are talking about, is wandering around Jiyuan City.
In fact, during this time, he was not doing business at all, but just used the name of business to cover up the ivory thing: no matter in the past life or now, if you suddenly have a windfall, there will always be people who are red-eyed, and "yourself" has offended a lot of people before, in case someone goes to report to the official, the ivory is checked by the government, if you meet that ruthless, in order to prevent you from retaliating in the future, maybe you will be given a felony!
Therefore, during this time, Liang Wenfu promised to "do business", and one or two tusks were sold each time. On the one hand, the amount of ivory produced is small and inconspicuous, on the other hand: this ivory is a luxury after all, it is about scarcity is expensive, if so much ivory is sold in one place at once, the price will definitely plummet.
Rao is like this, the price of ivory in the county seat of Yixian County has dropped a lot - the world has not been peaceful recently, ordinary people want to go to other places to go to the government to issue a Kanhe card, and this thing has many restrictions, it is difficult for ordinary people to get it, and Liang Wenfu is afraid that the ivory will break down after a long time, so he has to slowly sell in Yixian.
Fortunately, last month he passed the Xiucai examination, and with a shirt, he can travel freely to all prefectures and counties.
Last night, Liang Wenfu had already sold his last few ivory tusks in the city of Jiyuan Mansion, and after staying in the city for the night, Liang Wenfu was now wandering around the city, wanting to buy something for his mother to take home.
After coming to this world, Liang Wenfu has been staying in the countryside, and he has only turned a few county towns before, Jiyuan Mansion is currently a relatively large city he has been to in this world, and the city is much more lively than the county seat.
After strolling around for a while, I saw a few children on the street in front of me surrounding a Taoist priest, clapping their hands and applauding. Liang Wenfu stepped forward to take a look, and it turned out that the Taoist priest was playing tricks.