Please call me Huanxian

Chapter 200 A different kind of color is intoxicating

Liu Xianfeng, who advanced to the third level, spent half a month stabilizing her cultivation. After improving her magical powers, she shouted "I want to make a lot of money" and rushed to the city with the ingot with a smile on her face, happily taking on the task of catching monsters. .

In the future, he will treat Yuan Bao's broken limbs and customize protective magic weapons for himself, so that he will regret not having enough money when it is used up.

The golden camphor wood she had on hand did not need to be replaced, and she continued to use her magic power to refine and nourish it.

She wants to create her own magic weapon "the magic stick".

Xu Yuanchang walked around, instructing Zeng Shanlang to practice secular Qinggong and do physical exercises with fists and feet.

Under the sun, the young man jumped up and down, taking each move very seriously. He made bursts of "bang bang" punches with strong winds. His figure slowed down and quickened at times, and his breathing was long and long. He had already acquired the three tastes of Tseng's boxing.

Xu Yuanchang nodded secretly. He once went to the Nine Fantasy Palace and asked Zeng Wanglou to use his magic power to demonstrate the boxing skills. He learned the authentic boxing skills and then taught them to the descendants of the Zeng family.

There is no need to worry about the capital city Si Tiandian sending guards to ask questions again.

Last time, he confessed that he learned Zeng Family Boxing from the boxing manual of Xianqiao Village Ancestral Hall. If you don’t believe it, you can check it out.

It is very different from the boxing skills that have been passed down in Xianqiao Village for 800 years and have been changed beyond recognition.

He didn't worry much about Zeng Shanlang's practice and literature. He only taught him three times at most, and Zeng Shanlang could remember to get started. He studied hard and diligently, and carried out boring exercises over and over again according to the plan he made.

He emphasized that only by practicing more can "practice make perfect" and then achieve "uniqueness".

The little guy has always followed it and will not make superfluous changes because of his cleverness.

A few years ago, when Gou Wa was practicing boxing, he would change his boxing skills to look good or think he was powerful. He said this several times, and then he just let Gou Wa do as he pleased, because Gou Wa was destined to be a master in the future. Don't rely on your fists and feet to earn a living by traveling around the world.

He raised his head and glanced towards the mountain gate.

Xu Yuanchang flew up and chatted for a while with a man in an old gown who came to the door. He promised to go there in the evening and break a branch from a red willow tree inside the mountain gate. He told the man to insert the red willow branch in front of the door when he returned. side.

I don’t know when the saying spread in the countryside that “planting red willows in front of the door can dispel evil and increase happiness.”

In rural towns within a radius of thirty miles, almost every household planted tamarisk trees, which has become a new custom.

In Hongliu Village, ten miles away to the south, all the red willow trees in and outside the village were cut down in the early years, including many ancient willow trees that are hundreds of years old. However, after the Liu family god said ten years ago that he should "practice quietly to protect his descendants," there has been no news. There were no spiritual manifestations or miracles.

Compared with Bailin Valley, Fairy Liu has become more famous.

The clan chiefs and elders of Hongliu Village probably have some guesses in their minds, but they dare not talk about it outside because they are dumb.

However, the ban that "no more red willows are allowed to be planted in Hongliu Village" was quietly abolished.

Strangely enough, no matter whether the villagers planted tamarisk branches or transplanted tamarisk saplings from other places, they tried their best to plant not a single tamarisk tree, and the area became extinct for miles.

Hongliu Village suffered a lot of jokes from its neighbors.

Until three years ago, Liu Nayun could not resist the pleading of the new clan leader, clan elders and others. He asked the Tree Queen for a red willow branch and planted it beside the sinking pond that was filled up in Hongliu Mountain back then. A grand ceremony of worship and welcome was held in the village.

Since then, Hongliu Village has been full of red willows, which is worthy of its name.

After all, Liu Xianfeng still misses the incense and affection of the place of birth.

After Xu Yuanchang finished his dinner, he walked around Bailin Valley to eat, followed by snow particles.

Back in the Banshan courtyard, Zeng Shanlang had already cleaned up the kitchen.

Tell Xue Li to stay at home.

Xu Yuanchang floated out of the valley, and Zeng Shanlang dressed up as a Taoist boy and followed him, carrying a bamboo box on his back.

Xiao Shumei came back from a summons, and she received a mission to go to Liushuang Gorge in the west with Yuan Bao to investigate the case, or stay outside for three to five days.

Liu Xianfeng, who has been promoted to the third level, is, among other things, second to none in her ability to escape with her life, and she has an official status. Unless the masters of the Fourth Level Tower deliberately target her, she can walk in the nearby counties with almost no risk of safety.

Yuan Bao's nose has recovered nearly half of its sense of smell, which is enough for investigating the case and tracking down clues.

Xu Yuanchang was not worried about them. Liu Xianfeng was already able to take charge of his own business. He focused his energy on cultivating Zeng Shanlang, waiting to retrace his own spiritual path from the perspective of a bystander.

Nowadays, apart from doing homework in the morning and evening, drawing talismans, reading and writing, he hardly practices any practice.

The pinching mountain spirit that had been practiced for nearly ten years also stopped.

It was already dusk, Xu Yuanchang picked a path and walked forward without touching a foot. Zeng Shanlang used Qinggong to climb mountains and ridges to follow. About half an hour later, the two arrived at Zhoujia Village, thirty miles to the southeast.

Knock open a courtyard at the west end of the village.

"Thank you for your hard work, Taoist priest. Please come in quickly!"

The man wearing an old gown was named Zhou Mingyi. He had studied in a private school for several years and was a rural herbalist. He politely invited Taoist Master Xu and the Taoist boy to come in. He looked outside and looked left and right. When he saw no one passing by, he quickly closed the door.

Xu Yuanchang waved his hand to stop Zhou Mingyi and his wife from busy making egg tea to entertain the guests. He glanced at the medicine cabinet on the west wall of the hall, smelled the smell of herbs in the room, and said: "Don't be polite. Before you treat me, I'll see the patient first."

Zhou Mingyi held the lamp and hurriedly invited the Taoist priest to come to the west side room.

The woman whispered to the two little children who were peeping their heads to go to sleep quickly and not to watch the excitement and disturb the Taoist priest from casting spells.

Xu Yuanchang did not notice the existence of Yin Qi in the yard. His consciousness slowly scanned the nearby area of ​​100 feet and found no trace of evil spirits. He asked the girl lying on the bed who was about 14 or 15 years old and was waiting to be married. It was almost the same as what Zhou Mingyi said. The girl was covered with blood. Weakness, tingling pain in the joints of the limbs, especially at night, making it impossible to sleep.

After only a few days, the girl was already seriously ill and was so thin that she lost her appearance.

Xu Yuanchang checked the girl's eyes, tongue, knuckles and wrists of both hands, and pulled out three hairs of the girl.

He gave an order: "Set up the incense burner, offer sacrificial wine and a stick of incense."

Zeng Shanlang quickly put down the bamboo box, cleared the table in the room, and placed it at the east window. He took out the small incense burner for cooking from the bamboo box, poured the brown rice into it, took out the white bowl, poured the wine, and held the incense candle in both hands. To Taoist Xu.

He has been following the Taoist master for more than a year and has become a qualified Taoist boy with his keen eyesight.

Zhou Mingyi and his wife did not dare to step in to help, so they stayed silent and watched against the wall.

Xu Yuanchang asked the girl's name and birthday, tied two pieces of hair to her wrists, took the incense candle and shook it gently, the candle and yellow incense ignited out of thin air, murmured something in his mouth, and inserted the candle into the incense burner.

As the incense mist in your hand filled the air, the hair tied to the yellow incense burned and gave off a slightly burnt smell.

The girl on the bed was already covered in sweat from the pain, curled up and moaned in pain.

A shrill cat cry came from a distance, one long and one short, like the cry of spring.

Xu Yuanchang flicked his fingers, and the girl fell into a slumber. He inserted the burning incense into the incense burner. He already knew what was causing the trouble.

He turned around and motioned for everyone to leave the room, came to the yard, and said to Zhou Mingyi and his wife: "Please bring a food bowl for the cat. If you don't have one at home, go and borrow it quickly. No need to clean it. Then get a spoon and three sewing needles. "

Zhou Mingyi quickly opened the courtyard door and ran outside to borrow the cat's food bowl.

The woman went to get a spoon and a sewing needle.

Xu Yuanchang taught Zeng Shanlang in a low voice how to deal with the evil spirits that plagued the countryside. It is not difficult for those who know how to do it, but not for those who are difficult.

Soon, Zhou Mingyi borrowed the cat’s food bowl.

Zeng Shanlang inserted three sewing needles side by side in the middle of the open courtyard door, exposing a little of the needles and pointing them upward.

The young man placed three ordinary copper coins on the ground. He held the cat's food bowl in his left hand and used a spoon in his right hand. He tapped the edge of the bowl time and time again, making a noisy "dang-dang" sound, and the distant cat meowing suddenly disappeared.

The neighbor on the left heard the prank-like knocking, which was so noisy that he couldn't sleep, so he opened the door and came out cursing.

Through the courtyard wall, I saw a Taoist practicing in the courtyard next door. I quickly shut up and watched curiously through the wall.

An evil-looking old black cat poked its head out from outside the courtyard, baring its teeth and grinning. Under the weak light, its eyes shone with an abnormal green color, like two will-o'-the-wisps that were scary and scary.

The next door neighbor and Zhou Mingyi and his wife were so frightened that the hairs on their bodies stood up, and they did not dare to express their anger. Zeng Shanlang faced the courtyard door, turning a blind eye and still knocking on the cat's food bowl.

Over the past year or so, he has seen evil spirits, ghosts, ghosts and other existences. It is easiest to go out with Liu Xianzi and Yuan Bao. He has almost nothing to do. Yuan Bao bites out the hidden evil spirits in a few times.

Only by following the Taoist priest can you learn various ways to find and deal with evil spirits.

Adapted to local conditions, simple and easy to learn.

There is no need for advanced spells, just paying attention to everything is the way to go.

The black cat crossed the threshold with its paws and stared at the three copper coins on the ground. Just after taking two steps, the tip of a needle standing upside down on the ground pierced the black cat's paw. "Meow", the black cat turned over and jumped out of the door, screaming. Escape to the west.

"Follow the traces of the cat ghost's blood, and you will find the evil person who harmed your daughter. Call a few more helpers, and I will stop going and wait here."

Xu Yuanchang told Zhou Mingyi that he had arranged for Zeng Shanlang to break the evil spell of cat ghosts.

The folk offering to cat ghosts is the same as raising little ghosts. It is a custom passed down from ancient times. It was banned by the court as early as 800 years ago and was called an evil law. However, some people still secretly offer it.

Cat ghosts can keep money, collect money, move money, and cast spells to take revenge, etc.

Zhou Mingyi hurriedly asked his next door neighbor to call for help. He felt a little uneasy, fearing that he would not be able to deal with the evildoers who knew the evil ways. He begged, "Director Xu, please go and catch the evildoers together."

Xu Yuanchang said to the young man who pulled out the sewing needle from the ground: "Shanlang, please go with the master's house. The cat ghost has been broken and the soles of his feet are bleeding. You will know when the cat is gone."

Shanlang agreed, took out a short sword from the bamboo box and put it into his sleeve.

When Zhou Mingyi saw the Taoist boy following him, he became more courageous and asked his wife to quickly make tea to entertain the Taoist priest.

He took a wooden stick and went out. Not long after, his neighbor called a few young men from the same clan. They held torches and looked for blood on the ground. They left the west of the village and headed for Wutong Village next door.

Xu Yuanchang sat down in the main room, beckoned to the two little ones who were still looking at the door and passed the time. When the woman brought the egg tea, he asked the woman to get two more bowls and divided them among the little ones. One egg per person.

He believed that Shanlang had the ability to deal with troublesome matters in the countryside.

We need to give young people, no, teenagers, more opportunities to exercise. Old people are too lazy to run.

Teaching by words and deeds teaches behavior and character, and earns intangible merit.

Perhaps there were monks sent by Si Tiandian secretly monitoring Zeng Shanlang's every move. After all, he was an orphan who came out of Xianqiao Village, the first monk in eight hundred years.

After waiting for less than half an hour, a large group of people holding torches and noisily carried a one-eyed old man with bleeding soles of his feet into the yard using door panels, while others carried the dead cat ghost in a sack.

Xu Yuanchang walked out of the main room and stood on the eaves steps. The commotion in the yard suddenly stopped.

"According to the 'Da Ning Law', anyone who creates cat ghosts and teaches them the methods will be hanged; those whose family members know about it but do not report it will be exiled for three thousand miles. Your relatives are causing trouble because they want to be caught by the government.' Hanged, or sentenced to three thousand miles of exile?"

Xu Yuanchang looked around at the young man holding up the one-eyed old man and shouted.

Relative men from neighboring villages hurriedly threw hoes and sticks quietly into the corner of the wall.

The two strong men's faces changed with fright, and they quickly put down the door panel, resolutely drawing a clear line between themselves and the one-eyed old man.

Who dares to commit the crime of beheading?

Zeng Shanlang in the crowd's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he learned another trick.

After returning home, he would often look through books such as "Da Ning Lv Shu" and "Da Ning Monk Lv" on the bookshelves.

He had previously used words to calm down the situation with the help of Xu Daozhang's majesty. He also said that the old man who had been attacked by the broken law would not survive until the sun came up tomorrow morning, so the neighboring village reluctantly agreed to send him here, but detained Zhou Mingyi. Being a hostage there.

Xu Yuanchang stepped forward, stared at the old man who was struggling to get up with pain all over his body, and asked: "Why did you use the cat ghost method to assassinate the daughter of Zhou Mingyi's family?"

The one-eyed old man tried to quibble, but his eyes were in a trance. He lay back on the door panel again. The pinhole in the palm of his foot stopped bleeding, and he began to explain that he was entrusted by someone, received a high price, and intended to kill Zhou Mingyi's daughter, who was married to a ghost. Wait for all the bad deeds to be shaken out.

The villagers from Zhoujia Village who came to help suppress the situation were in an uproar, and they all clamored to burn to death the one-eyed old man who knew the evil methods of witchcraft and poison.

Xu Yuanchang pressed down his hands to stop the noise, and continued to ask where the one-eyed old man learned the evil method. Since he took action, he had to eliminate the source.

Someone has already invited the Zhou clan chief, clan elders and others.

Xu Yuanchang discussed with the Zhou clan chiefs for a moment, and then sent separate teams to invite the bad guys in the town, together with the chief and village chief of Wutong Village, to jointly hear the case, and then went to other villages to arrest people overnight.

After being busy until midnight, Zhou Mingyi was sent back from a neighboring village unscathed, and Xu Yuanchang and Zeng Shanlang retired with success.

He declined the polite attempts by the village chiefs and the bad guys to stay.

Xu Yuanchang and Shanlang rushed back to Bailin Valley overnight. They would not get too involved in the follow-up of the secular world. There is no need. The world of mortals will take care of itself.

After daybreak, the delinquent team will lead their subordinates and Cun Yong to escort the captured criminals to the county seat, where they will be hanged or exiled to be tried by the county government.

Xu Yuanchang gave half of the six taels of broken silver he received to Shanlang and told the young man to rest early. The reward he received depended on the family's financial situation. Occasionally, he gave the money he received to children from poor families.

For some requests that are clearly outside the scope of his business, he will clearly refuse to make a trip.

Zeng Shanlang did not shirk the merit money given to him by the Taoist priest. It took only one year to save it, but he had already unknowingly become a wealthy man in the village.

Thinking back to the time when he had to pay a few copper coins for medicine for his sick mother, he had to work extremely hard to make money, and he was aggrieved and looked down upon.

With sadness and tears, the young man hurriedly wiped his eyes, closed his eyes and silently recited a scripture to purify the heart.

It's all over, and my mother doesn't want him to think about it all the time.

It was just dawning the next day.

The young man completed his breathing exercises, opened the door of the courtyard gently, and came to the nearby gravel field.

He opened his stance and practiced the fist, kick and Qinggong techniques taught by the Taoist priest one by one.

The toned body is flying up and down, sweating.

The spring scenery is worthy of the young man, and the unique colors are intoxicating.

After practicing morning boxing and Qinggong, the young man wiped it with a towel and quickly picked water, picked vegetables, chopped meat, and boiled water to make soup noodles. Seeing that the door of Xu Daozhang's room was closed, he finished his meal and cleaned up without disturbing him.

It's normal for Daochang Xu to stay away from home for a day or two, so there's no need to make a fuss about it.

Patrolling around the valley, the young man never set foot in places guarded by demonic plants.

Say hello to the bugs sprawled out lazily on the rocks.

Zeng Shanlang was already used to the lazy behavior of the demon named Xueli when Liu Xianzi was not at home. He just did his own thing, including cleaning the courtyard.

However, three days later, Xu Daozhang still did not go out.

Zeng Shanlang hurriedly ran to the bottom of the valley, looked for a hidden cave where the cold air was pouring out, and spoke to Xue Li.

The snow particles flew out in a flash, circled around the valley, and said hello to the demonic plants.

Not long after, the mist shrouded and all the formations were activated.

The entire Bailin Valley is closed to visitors, and the mist is like a fairyland on earth.

Xue Li lay in the shade of a tree at the end of the courtyard wall, dozing off with his eyes closed.

It wants to guard the gate for the young master.

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(End of this chapter)