My daily mountain driving, I met a fox at the beginning and got married

"Our inn does business by collecting people's life span, merits or luck."

"Generally speaking, they are for merit, but you are not a cultivator, and your life span and luck are not much..."

"I am afraid……"

Old Xu's eyes dimmed again. After a bitter smile, he picked up the wine glass and looked at Zhang Hao:
"Master, I wonder if all my life span can be exchanged for my son's life?"

Zhang Hao also picked up the wine glass, took a sip silently, then picked up a piece of chicken and put it in his mouth.

Old Xu now knows that Zhang Hao is the shopkeeper.

Seeing that he remained silent, his heart sank. But he remembered what Zhang Hao had said before, fortunately they saw him earlier, otherwise they would have died within three days.

If that's the case, Zhang Hao must have a way. So why is he so silent now?

Is it really all just because of those rules?

Old Xu smiled bitterly, then waved his hand gently, saying helplessly: "Alas, perhaps this is fate. The Xu family is destined to have this hardship." His eyes were full of sadness, "But, it's hard for my innocent child!"

After saying that, he sighed, turned and walked into the kitchen, continued to busy himself with the dishes in his hands, and no longer mentioned the matter.

Suddenly, only Zhang Hao and a few others were left in the room.

The atmosphere was silent, everyone just ate in silence, occasionally drinking a few sips of wine.

After dinner, Zhang Qilin went straight to the yard and took a rest by the door.

After Hao Xie and Fatty Wang had their fill of food and drink and had a brief conversation with Zhang Hao, they also came to the yard. They stared at the corpse on the ground, pasted a talisman of a general on it, and poured cinnabar mixed with glutinous rice into the corpse.

Huo Xiuer stayed in the house and helped Lao Xu clean up the room.

After Zhang Hao finished his meal, perhaps because he was drunk, he fell directly on the bed.

When Lao Xu saw Hao Xie and Fatty Wang properly deal with the corpse, a glimmer of hope ignited in his heart. He was about to go to Zhang Hao to ask, but unexpectedly a cold wind suddenly blew in the yard, and then a strange and ethereal voice came from the corpse: "You are really delusional, thinking that you can hide from me like this?"

Then, there was a sinister sneer, "Don't dream!"

Immediately afterwards, bursts of shrill cries echoed in the yard.

Everyone knew it was the yellow-skinned man's voice as soon as they heard it.

However, Fatty Wang, Hao Xie, and Zhang Qilin were all people who had seen the world, but at this moment they did not feel the slightest bit of yin or evil energy, and they did not even see any ghosts.

This unusual situation made them feel panicky. After all, it was their first time to deal with a monster.

Seeing this, Lao Xu was terrified. He asked Hao Xie and the others in a trembling voice, "Master, what...what should we do? Has the yellow-skinned man come to our door?"

Hao Xie and the others were also bewildered and had no idea where this yellow-skinned creature came from.

The crying sound seemed to have magical power, making people dizzy. Hao Xie and others even felt an inexplicable surge of anger in their chests, as if it would explode at any time.

At this moment, a low roar suddenly came from the house: "What are you making noise for! Don't you know I'm sleeping? Get out of here!" The roar came from Zhang Hao.

The strange thing was that after Zhang Hao shouted, everyone seemed to be poured with a bucket of cold water, and they woke up instantly, and the strange crying sound stopped abruptly.

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment, their hearts aching with fear. Lao Xu looked at the steel fork tightly in his hand, secretly thanking himself for not acting on impulse. He muttered to himself: "Was I crazy just now? If I really bumped into it, wouldn't I have to accompany that corpse?" Thinking of this, he couldn't help but sweat.

Hao Xie and the others also came to their senses and found that the anger in their hearts had dissipated with Zhang Hao's roar. They hurried into the house and saw Zhang Hao turning over on the bed, closing his eyes and taking out a piece of red paper sprinkled with cinnabar from his arms, dipping it with the remaining wine in the cup, and then writing a "Fu" character on the red paper.

After writing it, he casually threw the word "Fu" to Lao Xu and cursed him, which was rare: "Did this yellow-skinned guy grow up eating sterculia lychnophora? He is making me upset." Then he ordered, "You guys stick this word "Fu" on the window of the north room first, and the others will be done after I wake up."

Old Xu took the blessing character with a puzzled look on his face. This blessing character looked no different from the ones he used to put up at home during the Spring Festival, and even simpler, without any decorations, just a word written on cinnabar paper. However, people who knew Zhang Hao knew that he never did useless work.

Seeing this, Hao Xie patted Lao Xu on the shoulder and signaled him to do as Zhang Hao said.

After hesitating for a moment, Lao Xu finally pasted the word "Fu" on the window of the north room.

Strangely, after pasting the word "Fu", he did feel that the atmosphere around him was not as depressing as before.

After pasting the word "Fu", Lao Xu returned to the house and saw that Zhang Hao was still sleeping soundly, so he did not disturb him. He followed Hao Xie and others to the outside of the house. Fatty Wang asked Hao Xie and Zhang Qilin with a confused look on his face: "What does the shopkeeper mean by painting this word "Fu"? Is there any trick in it? I have never seen him do this before." Zhang Qilin also shook his head and remained silent.

Hao Xie pondered for a moment and then spoke slowly, "I have heard of some things. The word "Fu" was not originally posted only during the Spring Festival. It originally had the function of warding off evil spirits. It is recorded in "Menglianglu" that... no matter whether it is a family of nobles or commoners, they all sweep the door and yard, remove dust and dirt, clean the courtyard, change the door gods, hang up Zhong Kui, nail peach charms, post spring plaques, and worship their ancestors. The posting of spring plaques here refers to the word "Fu" written on red paper. Today, the word "Fu" represents happiness and good fortune, but in the past, "Fu" and "Fu" have the same pronunciation as "Fu" (subdue), so it also includes the meaning of subduing filth. However, this unique skill has been gradually lost over the long river of history, and few people can write the word "Fu" with this function."

After Hao Xie finished speaking, Zhang Qilin, Fatty Wang, and Huo Xiuer all stood there in a daze, looking confused.

Hao Xie smiled awkwardly and said, "This is just a legend I heard. I don't know whether it is true or not. If you want to know the truth, I'm afraid you can only wait for Brother Zhang Hao to wake up."

At this time, Zhang Qilin nodded slightly, stared at the north room and said: "I can feel that after pasting this blessing character, this room is shrouded in a layer of auspicious air. The evil spirit dares not approach here now. It seems that the shopkeeper's blessing character has taken effect."

After listening to the conversation between several people, Lao Xu became more convinced that Zhang Hao was the legendary master.

However, he also knew that the master would not easily take action, and Zhang Hao's ability to give him a blessing was already a great gift. Now he also wanted to ask Zhang Hao to help solve the problem of the yellow-skinned man, and he couldn't help feeling a lot of pressure in his heart.

At this moment, Zhang Qilin drew out the black gold ancient knife behind him, walked into the yard, and picked out the yellow skin hidden in the corpse with one knife.

Although one is a yellow-skinned creature and the other is a human, both are corpses after all.

The combination of these two corpses was bound to cause a mixture of evil spirits. If left for a long time, it might even breed some kind of monster.

Just as Zhang Qilin was separating the two bodies, Mrs. Xu's anxious voice suddenly came from outside the yard: "Old Xu! Old Xu, something bad has happened! Our Tiezhu is dying!" Mrs. Xu's voice was full of panic and anxiety.

After a while, she appeared at the gate of the yard. She looked at Lao Xu in panic and continued to shout, "Lao Xu! Look at Tiezhu..."

Then, before Old Xu could react, several men appeared behind Mrs. Xu. The strongest of them ran into the yard in a hurry, holding a child of about twelve or thirteen years old.

The man did not put the child down. Instead, he looked at Mrs. Xu with a reproachful look and asked, "Sister-in-law, this child is dying. Why did you send him home instead of sending him to the hospital?"

At this moment, the child in the man's arms had a livid face, as if he was suffocating, and his skin began to turn purple. He had a heartbeat, but no breathing at all.

Under normal circumstances, even if you hold your breath, you can't hold it like this. Therefore, the child's symptoms were extremely strange, as if something was strangling his throat and making him unable to breathe.

If it had been a few minutes longer, the child would have suffocated to death. Although the man was blaming the child, he knew in his heart that their small village had limited conditions and there was not even a shadow of a motor vehicle.

If one wanted to send the child to the hospital in the county, the only way was to use the old ox cart to slowly bump the child there. By the time the child arrived in the county, the best time for treatment would have been missed.

However, the village is lucky enough to have a health station that can deal with emergencies.

On weekdays, I just prescribe cold medicine and give injections to the villagers, which is pretty good.

But faced with this sudden and strange disease, the people at the health station were helpless.

Take the man holding the child, for example. He is the head of the health station.

He looked at the iron pillar, completely confused as to why he suddenly suffocated.

From a medical point of view, the child is obviously very healthy.

But he seemed to be possessed by an evil spirit and fell into a coma, and Tiezhu behaved irrationally.

Seeing Tiezhu's state, Lao Xu was extremely anxious and could not help but shouting:
"Tiezhu! What's wrong with you? Wake up! Aren't you going to suffocate yourself to death?"

At this time, Zhang Qilin, Hao Xie and Wang Pangzi also surrounded him. Hao Xie and Wang Pangzi were not very sensitive to evil spirits, but Zhang Qilin immediately noticed that there were two evil spirits in the iron pillar.

One stream of evil energy got stuck in his throat, while another filled his lungs, making it impossible for Tiezhu to breathe.

Although Zhang Qilin sensed the evil spirit, he didn't know how to deal with it for a moment.

He hurriedly took out a general talisman from his arms and stuck it on the iron pillar, but found that the evil spirit became even more panicked.

I thought it would work, but I didn't expect the evil spirit in the throat to go straight into the trachea as if avoiding something.

This not only failed to force out the evil spirit, but made Tiezhu's situation even more dangerous.

Zhang Qilin couldn't help but panic. Seeing this, Lao Xu quickly asked Zhang Qilin:
"Master, what happened to my child?"

Zhang Qilin was embarrassed, shook his head, and said softly: "This evil spirit is too stubborn, I can't do anything about it."

As soon as he finished speaking, the surrounding villagers began to whisper.

"What kind of evil spirit is this? Xu family, you hurried back just to invite these shamans?"

"Xu family, please stop messing around! The child is sick but you don't send him to the hospital. Instead, you come to these gods. You are going to harm the child!"

"That's right. What era is this? Do you still believe in these things?"

"It's over, it's over. It's too late to send him to the hospital now. This child...I'm afraid he won't last much longer."

"If I had known you were coming back for this, I shouldn't have persuaded you to bring Tiezhu back."

"Don't waste time, send him to the hospital!"

……

Mrs. Xu was speechless after being accused by the villagers, but at the moment, she only had Tiezhu in her mind and could not listen to anything. She only saw Tiezhu lying in the man's arms with a sullen face.

At this time, Huo Xiuer stood up and explained to the villagers:
"Everyone, listen to me. It's too late to send Tiezhu to the hospital now."

"There's no better way anyway, why don't we give it a try?"

Then, she turned to Lao Xu and continued:

"Old Xu, if what Brother Qilin said is correct, it was the evil spirit of the yellow-skinned man that suffocated the iron pillar."

"As long as we can dispel the evil spirit of this yellow-skinned guy, Tiezhu should be able to get better."

"Why don't we move the iron pillar to the north room? Isn't the north room protected by the blessing character?"

"If that doesn't work, we can stick the blessing character on the iron pillar, maybe we can force those two evil spirits out!"

After hearing what Huo Xiuer said, the villagers wanted to refute, but in this era, although there were not many people who believed in evil spirits, no one was willing to say anything at this time.

At this moment, Lao Xu suddenly snatched the iron pillar from the man's hand and ran straight to the north room.

As soon as he entered the room, he found Tiezhu foaming at the mouth and twitching all over, which made Lao Xu even more flustered.

"Tiezhu! What's wrong with you? Don't scare Daddy!"

Before he could finish his words, Tiezhu suddenly straightened his body and then fainted.

Seeing this scene, everyone was stunned. Lao Xu shook Tiezhu's body in disbelief, but he did not respond.

Tiezhu's mother collapsed instantly, sat on the ground and burst into tears.

At this time, the room was filled with Tiezhu's mother's crying. The villagers who originally wanted to gossip also shut their mouths and looked at the poor Tiezhu's mother and Lao Xu with sympathy in their eyes.

Old Xu stared at Tiezhu blankly, not daring to accept this fact. He suddenly remembered that there was a master living in the house, so he didn't care about etiquette and rushed into the next room.

As soon as I entered the room, I saw Zhang Hao sitting up, obviously woken up by the noise just now.

Seeing Zhang Hao stand up, Lao Xu only cared about Tiezhu's safety. Without thinking, he knelt in front of Zhang Hao and pleaded in tears:
"Master! Please save my child!"

"He must have been retaliated by that yellow-skinned guy! Otherwise, how could he have such a strange disease?"

Hao Xie briefly told Zhang Hao what happened. After listening, Zhang Hao patted the bedside to signal Lao Xu to put down the iron pillar.

He felt Tiezhu's pulse, frowned slightly and said, "There are still signs of life."

"Go get me some cinnabar and yellow dog's blood. It doesn't need to be much, just a few bottle caps will do."

"Take two more cloves of garlic and chop them into garlic paste." (End of this chapter)