low-key warlock

Su Chunfeng knew that the old man who followed the middle-aged man who sold talismans was 100% Gong Hu, who looked like a 40-year-old man in his 60s.

As for the middle-aged man selling talismans, Su Chunfeng also has a little impression in his memory.

It should be Gong Hu's most incompetent apprentice, it seems to be Zheng Jianjun, right?

Before [-], Gong Hu had three apprentices.Two of the apprentices are hard-working people. After the era entered the new century, because of Gong Hu, these two apprentices also gained a little fame in the Qimen rivers and lakes.However, Zheng Jianjun, Gong Hu's other apprentice, is too lazy to do anything, and he likes to cheat people by cheating on food and drinking. His skills are even worse in terms of cultivation, but he has only reached the first level of "communication". , and has never been improved.

But Gong Hu seldom disciplined this apprentice.

Because, with extremely bad luck, he really needs this lazy but slippery, treacherous, despicable and shameless apprentice to provide him with some sense of security and financial income.

This is not surprising. In fact, the Qimen Jianghu, which has been silent for more than a century, has just emerged for a long period of time when the buds of revival in the 90s and [-]s were revealed. The economic and living conditions of the vast majority of people were not very good.Even the practitioners of the five metaphysical arts of medicine are not much better, let alone the practitioners of the four arts of mountains, fate, divination, and physiognomy-this is inevitable under the background of the big historical situation and cannot be reversed.

It wasn't until the end of the 90s and the beginning of the new era that once impoverished people from the Qimen Jianghu experienced rapid social and economic development, more active and open thinking, more and more pressure on people's lives from all walks of life, and people's spiritual needs surged. Under the impetus of the general situation of the lack of human resources, the gradual deterioration of moral concepts, and the increasingly fierce competition in all walks of life, he quickly integrated with society and became rich.

To be precise, until then, the mysterious Qimen circle could really be called Jianghu.

The reason is simple, because of the entanglement, competition, and hatred of interests and fame... it is called Jianghu.If each warlock possesses great powers of thaumaturgy but never communicates with each other, can it be called Jianghu?

But the Qimen Jianghu is more mysterious, cruel, and extremely sinister than any other Jianghu in any sense!

This time it was just because of a trivial matter, Zheng Jianjun informed the master, and Gong Hu also paid great attention to coming to investigate the reason in person, of course not because they have good after-sales service in selling talismans and witchcraft. Be responsible for your customers.

Based on Su Chunfeng's previous experience of being in the Qimen rivers and lakes and his understanding of Qimen warlocks, he made a rough judgment on this matter. It should be——Zheng Jianjun felt that the paralysis caused by the sudden illness of the old lady of the Liu family was rather strange and serious. It has something to do with the Qimen technique, and the caster is definitely a ruthless person just because of such a trivial matter, so he knows the mystery and power of the technique, and he is afraid that the ruthless behind-the-scenes caster will find him To retaliate and thus suffer an indiscriminate disaster, he hurriedly told his master when he was terrified.

After Gong Hu learned of this situation, he also felt that if a warlock really took action, it would have gone too far, so he came to check carefully.

This investigation really made him find something strange!

With such a judgment, Su Chunfeng couldn't help secretly rejoicing how smart he was at the beginning, and erased the traces of using spells and drawing symbols on the wall of his house-it doesn't matter if Gong Hu finds out that the spell is performed, but if Gong Hu finds out, then If the source of the talisman engraved on the wall is "trickery"...

The fun would be great.

You must know that in the vast sea of ​​people in the vast world, there are definitely only a handful of successors of trickery, and all of them are so mysterious and low-key that they are rarely known.

Even Wang Qimin, who is the inheritor of trickery, doesn't know other successors of trickery in this world at all.

Moreover, deceit is actually a "sorcery" that has always been rejected and hated by people in the strange world who claim to be the "right way" of metaphysics.

Therefore, once the news of trickery appearing and harming people spreads, even if the current Qimen Jianghu has not yet revived and is just in its infancy, it will attract the attention of many Qimen warlocks.Among them, there may be some warlocks with extreme personalities who will directly use spells to coerce, or even directly kidnap Su Chunfeng and even his family members, to force them to find out the identity and whereabouts of the trick users.

But now...

At best, Gong Hu and Wang Qimin can only suspect that there is a magician secretly helping Su Chunfeng's family, and he is a ruthless magician, so they may observe secretly for a while.After a period of time, if they can't find anything, they will think about whether the extreme weather caused a coincidence of strong and fierce backlash on the day of the incident?

However, Su Chunfeng believes that they will never use magic to test whether there is a magician behind the scenes.

Because it's not worth it!

To put it bluntly, this is a trivial matter.

On the contrary, Wang Qimin's thoughts and wishes of accepting disciples will be much more urgent because of this.

After all, having such a gifted and talented apprentice is really rare for a qimen warlock.What's more, as Gong Hu guessed, Wang Qimin was really worried that some warlock secretly fell in love with Su Chunfeng's talent and tried to take him as his apprentice, so he would help behind the scenes.

When the time comes to be robbed first, Wang Qimin won't be so distressed to death?

Thinking of this, Su Chunfeng couldn't help sighing narcissistically in his heart: "Such an outstanding talent is as eye-catching as a firefly in the dark. It's really troublesome. But it was born and raised by a mother, so what?"

During dinner, he asked seemingly casually: "Father, mother, I heard that Liu Jinming's family invited a master to cast spells to exorcise evil spirits?"

"Don't listen to the people in the village talking nonsense. In fact, those two people came to the door on their own initiative." Chen Xiulan smiled and said, "Hu Ling came to our house that night and told me, as if she was afraid that our family would misunderstand."

Su Cheng nodded and said: "Liu Jinming also explained this to me, Xiaofeng, Xiaoyu, don't spread rumors with those talkative people in the village, neighbors are often because of some rumors There were conflicts that should not have arisen due to broken words.”

"Oh." Su Chunfeng answered, lowered his head and picked up the food.

Su Chunyu asked curiously: "Will the master who went to their house use powerful spells to harm our family?"

Snapped!

Su Cheng tapped Xiao Yu's head with his chopsticks, and scolded: "What kind of magic is not magic, you are not allowed to say such things outside in the future, do you hear me?"

"I heard." Su Chunyu quickly responded.

"Have a meal!"

Under Su Cheng's stern gaze, the dinner table became quiet.

In fact, although Su Cheng and Chen Xiulan seem to be indifferent to this kind of incident on the surface, in fact, they will inevitably murmur in their hearts-the two magic sticks who went to Liu Jinming's house were not invited by Liu Jinming or his mother , I am afraid no one will believe it.Well, since the magic stick was invited, combined with the fact that the old lady spent money to learn witchcraft and cursed Su Cheng's family with almost solid evidence, how can it not make people wonder if they will do bad things in private again this time?

It's just that Su Cheng and his wife Chen Xiulan don't believe in this feudal superstition.

They also don't want to affect the relationship between neighbors because of such non-existent things, thus adding to the increasingly happy life of their family.

In Su Cheng's words: "Let's live our lives well, and we can't make the mistake of fighting with ignorant people."

This is not an exaggeration at all.

During the busy season of farming in May, Su Chengcheng paid off the loan for the purchase of the combine harvester and had a surplus.After nearly a month of harvesting, Su Cheng earned more than 3 yuan.Now, their family's economic conditions are definitely among the top ten in the village.

Small days are getting better and better.

……

Tuesday afternoon.

After two or three days of gloomy weather, the first snow of this winter finally fell.

The campus was soon covered with a thin layer of snow.It's just that the cold wind is howling, rolling up snow and flying snowflakes swirling around, so that the already white campus does not have the more quiet, elegant and humanistic atmosphere when it snows.

In the spacious classroom, there is only a single-tube briquette heating stove, and the temperature is only a few degrees higher than outside.

The students in thick cotton padded clothes were all rubbing their hands in the cold and stomping their feet lightly to keep warm. The stomping sound echoed in the classroom. No matter how dissatisfied the teacher on the podium was, he couldn't say anything, so he could only raise his voice Son, make your lectures louder.

After school, the students swarmed out of the bitterly cold classroom.

In winter, the days are short and the nights are long, coupled with cloudy and snowy days, the sky is almost completely dark at this time.

The dormitory for boys in the third grade of junior high school was soon full of students, noisy, and the long kang bunks on the left and right were crowded together with bedding. In winter, because it is cold and it gets dark early after school in the afternoon, the students living on campus will be more crowded than others. The three seasons of spring, summer and autumn are more than doubled.Among them, a small number of students choose to live in the homes of relatives or close classmates and friends in Dongwangzhuang Village and Tunbingying Village.

The lights turned on, but in a dormitory with such a large space, a 45-watt light bulb is really not enough to illuminate the dormitory brightly.

Light, dim and dark.

A few students gathered around the only single-tube briquette heating stove to keep warm, chatting and laughing. They couldn’t bear the hunger and cold, so they went to the cafeteria to queue up for meals with the rice jars. The students who came back either squatted on the ground on the edge of the kang, or Sitting directly on the kang, eating and chatting happily.

Su Chunfeng and Li Zhichao came back with rice bowls, went to the innermost aisle of the dormitory and squatted down, eating on the edge of the kang.

The staple food is steamed buns and cornmeal porridge, and the dishes are fried shredded potatoes that are almost unchanged all year round in the school cafeteria—now that Su Chunfeng’s family is well-off, parents are naturally reluctant to let their children who are growing up bring pickles and cook at home The sauce went to school to make do with.

While eating, Su Chunfeng heard the sound of chaotic footsteps, and the light in front of him dimmed.

He and Li Zhichao couldn't help turning their heads and looking up.

They saw Wang Liqiu and Xu Zhijun standing beside them.The classmate next to him who was squatting in the aisle eating on the edge of the kang quickly got up and walked away with the rice bowl in his hand.

Wang Liqiu tilted his head, held a cigarette in his mouth, put his hands in his trouser pockets, looked down at Su Chunfeng condescendingly, squinted and said arrogantly: "Su Chunfeng, the food is good...it is snowing and cold today, we are too lazy Go home, you go, get some food for us."