Dressed as a vicious stepmother, farming and raising cubs

"This..." She paused, holding her chin and thinking for a moment, "This is soft hedgehog armor, made of gold thread and rattan."

Shen Luochen stepped forward and carefully observed the soft armor with the help of weak candlelight.

It is different from ordinary armor. It is more delicate and compact. It is only the size of a vest. The whole body is densely covered with armor plates intertwined with gold threads and rattan. They are arranged very closely. It shines silver under the candlelight. It is very beautiful. Dazzling.

"Is this thing really useful?"

Shen Luochen couldn't help but frown, questioning this novel gadget that he had never seen before.

Su Liu smiled mysteriously and winked at him:

"Just wait and see!"

Three days later, it was the day of the ceremony. The sky was cloudless, and the sun hung very high, causing a burning sensation on the skin.

Su Liu once again met Granny Zhao, who was dressed as a wizard. Today she also wore a strange-looking hat. Judging from the material, it looked like the head of some kind of goat. The hollow skull was a bit oozing.

This time she also brought two helpers over, both dressed in the same way, except that they did not wear the weird hat, and they also wore blank masks on their faces.

Granny Zhao first set up an altar in the open space in the front yard. There were three animals and five fruits on the altar table, as well as an incense burner. In front of the altar table, there was a burning brazier.

Mrs. Li, Wen Ruoshui, Wen Shiche and Shen Luochen were all present, standing on both sides, witnessing the whole process, with different expressions on each person's face.

Su Liu, as the protagonist of the ceremony, stood in the center of the open space, looking extremely calm.

She carefully observed everyone's movements and expressions, trying to find usable information.

At the beginning of the ceremony, the two assistants beat the gongs and drums in unison. Granny Zhao took out her writing brush, dipped it in cinnabar, wrote on the yellow paper, threw it into the brazier and burned it, and then started the strange chanting again.

Along with the drumbeats, the singing gradually picked up a rhythm, but it was still very weird, like talking in a dream, and I couldn't understand the meaning.

Granny Zhao sang and danced, turned in a small circle around Su Liu, sprinkled some talisman water around her, and finally tapped Su Liu's eyebrows with a willow branch.

Su Liu felt a chill on her forehead. As if they had received instructions, the two assistants suddenly took out the red gauze curtain from their arms, tossed it and started to swim around her.

Her vision was gradually replaced by hazy red. These two people actually used red gauze curtains to surround her three layers inside and three outside!

At this time, she couldn't see clearly what was going on outside, and she was sweating in her heart.

She could only vaguely see through the gauze curtain that Granny Zhao was still dancing, singing and dancing. The two assistants took a metal round basin and a short dagger respectively and pointed them into the gauze tent. Come.

"Wouldn't it be better to use a needle to get some blood from your fingertip? What is this..."

When Wen Shiche saw this, he felt a little anxious. He whispered to himself and wanted to rush forward to stop him.

Shen Luochen, who was standing next to him, calmly pulled him in, winked at him, and shook his head gently, as if to tell him to be patient.

Wen Shiche glanced at him dubiously, then finally suppressed it and returned to his original place.

And Shen Luochen was also staring intently into the red gauze tent with deep eyes.

He was naturally worried about Su Liu's safety, but he believed that she had her own reasons for her choice. It would be better for them, the bystanders, to wait and see.

When Su Liu heard the sound of gongs and drums outside stopped, his heart suddenly tightened, and he knew it was time.

She saw the two men dressed as assistants walking in, nodded slightly to them, rolled up their sleeves, exposed a section of their white wrists, and signaled that they could take blood.

With a "clang", the basin was thrown to the ground.

The man holding the dagger showed his fierce look, suddenly turned the blade, and stabbed Su Liu straight in the chest.

Su Liu pretended not to react and allowed the dagger to cut through the outer fabric and reach the place closest to the heart. The assistant’s movements paused and he noticed something was wrong.

What caught his eyes was not the expected splatter of blood, but clips shining with bursts of silver light.

Su Liu laughed lowly and grabbed the hand that was still holding the dagger with one hand.

"I knew you wouldn't be so honest. You really wanted to take the opportunity to kill me."

The assistant was suddenly horrified and wanted to pull out his hand, but found that the woman in front of him was surprisingly strong.

Another assistant also noticed that something was wrong, and drew a short knife from his sleeve and attacked.

Su Liu jumped slightly and escaped his attack. At the same time, she also grabbed the dagger in her hand.

These two assistants were obviously not wizards, but professionally trained killers with a certain amount of kung fu. Soon the three of them started to struggle inside the gauze tent.

People outside heard the sound of fighting coming from inside and couldn't help it anymore.

"No! I have to go in and take a look!"

At this time, Wen Shiche couldn't care about anything else and was about to rush in.

Shen Luochen patted his shoulder, with a look of determination on his face, took a few steps forward, and whispered:

"It's dangerous inside, so I'll take care of it."

His words were very calm, but they made Wen Shiche feel a little unhappy.

Could it be that this is implying that his martial arts skills are not as good as others?

But he also knew that the tense was urgent and he couldn't care too much about it, so he let Shen Luochen go.

Shen Luochen first said hello to Mrs. Li, and after getting confirmation, he got directly into the red gauze tent.

I saw that the battle inside was very fierce. Su Liu was fighting one against two, but he was not at a disadvantage at all.

"Shen Luochen! Why did you come in!"

Seeing the visitor, she shouted in surprise.

Shen Luochen did not answer, but joined the battle silently.

The two of them worked in tandem, and their cooperation was almost impeccable, and they quickly defeated the two assistants.

After taking off their coats, I saw that they were wearing black night clothes, so they were not wizards.

The red curtain fell down in time, presenting this scene in front of everyone.

At that moment, Wen Ruoshui's face turned pale, full of horror and disbelief.

She and Granny Zhao looked at each other and saw panic in each other's eyes.

"What's going on?" Mrs. Li stood up from her seat in surprise, her face full of disbelief.

Su Liu quickly found a rope from a nearby warehouse and tied up the two assistants. Then he walked up to Mrs. Li, bowed solemnly, and said:

"Mother, what they are doing is not bloodletting to ward off evil spirits at all, they just want to kill my daughter!"