Nine idlers

Chapter 66 Drizzle Marriage

Xu Changqing was very happy that Guan Zheng's cultivation had been broken through, and was about to try his cultivation again, but he saw that Guan Zheng's face suddenly became serious, his nose twitched, as if there was some strange smell in the air generally.He also sniffed involuntarily, but he didn't smell any peculiar smell. He couldn't help frowning and asked, "Brother Guan, is there anything wrong?"

Guan Zheng hesitated for a moment, then said: "To tell the truth, Master, I was born with a spiritual nose, and I can smell ghosts and evil spirits. At this moment, a very strong ghost and evil spirit is gathering ten miles northwest of the Taoist temple, and it is getting stronger and stronger. It looks like it should be heading towards Ma's shop."

Xu Changqing felt a bit surprised, and then he looked relieved. Some children from aristocratic families have more or less innate abilities. It is not uncommon for Guan Zheng to have a spiritual nose, and his own divine eyes can be regarded as a kind of innate ability .After listening to Guan Zheng's words, Xu Changqing pinched the magic seal secretly, circulated his true energy, opened his sky eyes, and looked in the direction Guan Zheng pointed.Indeed, as he said, a strong ghostly aura emanated from the barren hills in the northwest. The ghostly aura was full of murderous aura and shot straight into the sky. Even the thick cloud couldn't stop it, and opened a big hole , the energy of the moonlight 'shot' down from the cave, and directly shone on the barren mountain, and the momentum was extremely huge.Judging from its great momentum before it was born, this evil ghost is at least at the level of the ghost king, or even above the ghost king.

"Master, what should we do?" Guan Zheng also felt that this evil ghost seemed to be extremely powerful, so he turned his head and asked Xu Changqing.

"The fate of the country is in decline, evildoers are everywhere, not only the secular world is in chaos, but also the world of practice is in chaos." Xu Changqing pretended to be deep, and sighed: "Let's go! Since we have met, it is also a chance Well, since that evil spirit is heading towards Majiapu, let's go and have a look."

"What the master said is exactly what I want." Guan Zheng's cultivation base has been improved and he just wants to find a demon to fight. Hearing Xu Changqing's words, he happily packed the treasure chest, carried it behind his back, and extinguished the fire. Following Xu Changqing, he quickly ran towards the Majiapu where the wedding was being held.

Although the Taoist Temple is a few miles away from Majiapu on the downhill road, with Xu Changqing and Guan Zheng's lightness kung fu and physical skills, it can only be reached in a short while.However, when the two arrived at Majiapu, the scene in front of them made them feel a little surprised. It turned out that although the place was decorated with lights and festoons, it seemed that there was a wedding, but there was no lively scene like a wedding, but it seemed deserted. Added a gloomy and weird atmosphere.Red lanterns were hung at the entrances of all the people's homes, but the doors were tightly closed. Two strings of animal bones hung on both sides of the doors, and a bridal sedan chair stood alone at the entrance to the village, which was particularly eye-catching.

"What's going on here?" Guan Zheng asked in bewilderment after seeing the strange scene in front of him.

"It's a ghost marriage!" Xu Changqing frowned slightly, and said: "In some places, if there are mountain ghosts, the local people will marry a virgin as a living sacrifice to calm the mountain ghosts. It’s ghost marriage. However, this custom is generally only found in the south, when will the north also start to fashion such things that harm heaven’s morality.”

"Who cares about the south and the north, save people first!" Guan Zheng immediately became filled with righteous indignation when he heard that there were still people being used as sacrifices, and ran towards the sedan chair without thinking too much.

Running to the side of the sedan chair, Guan Zheng opened the curtain, only to see a bride wearing a phoenix crown and Xiapei sitting inside.What didn't match this attire was that the bride's hands and feet were all bound tightly, unable to move, her eyes showed no expression other than panic and despair, and the rouge on her face was also lined with tears, although The appearance is indeed delicate and charming, but at this moment, I can't feel it at all.

"Girl, don't be afraid! We are good people, let you out now!" Seeing this, Guan Zheng hurriedly reached out, cut off the rope that tied the bride, and prepared to help her out.

However, what is surprising is that although the bride's face showed happiness at the moment Guan Zheng appeared, when Guan Zheng was about to save her, her expression darkened again.Not only did she sway her body vigorously to prevent Guan Zheng from pulling her, but she also firmly pulled out the edge of the sedan chair, shook her head vigorously, but refused to come out, as if Guan Zheng was that evil mountain ghost, and cried, "No! Don't let it go, I'm gone, and the mountain ghost will deal with the villagers." Then he shouted loudly: "Come on! Someone wants to snatch the bride!"

Hearing the bride's cry, the originally silent village immediately exploded, and the people in all the houses rushed out with poles, hatchets and other farming tools. Before Guan Zheng could react, they rushed out. Already surrounded by three or four floors, everyone stared at Guan Zheng viciously, as if they wanted to gnaw his bones and eat his flesh.

At this time, the crowd moved aside, and an old man with long beards with a sad expression walked out from the crowd.When he saw Guan Zheng in Taoist attire and Xu Changqing dressed as a monk behind Guan Zheng, his expression froze for a moment, then immediately dimmed. He raised his hand to signal everyone to put down their things, and said to them: "Both of you The sorcerer and eminent monk must have come here for the evil mountain ghost, right? I hope you two will show your respect and don’t bother with this matter anymore, our village doesn’t have so many young and strong people to appease the mountain ghost’s anger.”

Xu Changqing grabbed Guan Zheng who was about to speak, looked at the people around, and found that most of them were elderly people and some underage children, so he frowned, stepped forward and said: "Amitabha The old man is probably the head of the village! Listening to the old man's talk, he should have been a well-read person, otherwise he wouldn't have reasoned with us like this."

"Master, thank you!" The aura exuding from Xu Changqing's body eased the aura of the surrounding people, and the expression of the old village chief also eased a little, and said: "The old man used to be a juren during the Tongzhi period, and he belonged to Majiapu. Muramasa is also the teacher of the private school in the village."

"It turns out that the famous master, I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" Xu Changqing dispelled the hostility of the villagers with a few words, and then asked directly: "From the tone of the old man, it seems that other than the two of us, there are other people who have also been here. Want to subdue this mountain ghost?"

"Alas!" The old village chief sighed, not only his expression became sad, but also the expressions of other villagers around him became extremely sad.I only heard the old man say in a deep voice: "Our Majiapu used to be one of the largest villages within [-] miles around here. Since the Boxers rioted a few years ago, there has never been a peaceful life here. First, the Boxers fled here and became a mountain village. The bandit robbed the village, and later a very powerful mountain ghost appeared on the Hutou Mountain in the northwest. At that time, the bandit saw the prosperity of our Majiapu and wanted to rob our Majiapu. There was a man in our village who knew a little magic So I went to invite the mountain ghosts, and wanted to use the mountain ghosts to drive those bandits away. Although the bandits were driven away afterwards, the mountain ghosts settled down here again. Although he doesn't want gold and silver, he wants people's lives , and every year a girl with yellow flowers will marry him as a ghost wife. We have also invited some Taoist monks to exorcise ghosts, and even invited a few eminent monks from the Great Buddha Temple, but they never returned. To appease the wrath of the mountain ghosts, offer the young and strong in the village as sacrifices, so that now the young and strong in the village walk away and die, leaving only us widows and children."

Guan Zheng heard the old village chief's face darken, and asked in a deep voice: "This is very close to the capital, and there are many eminent Tantric monks who are good at exorcising evil spirits in the capital, why don't you go to the capital to find those eminent monks?" Woolen cloth?"

The old village head looked at Guan Zheng, smiled coldly, and said, "Does the Taoist priest need to remind me of this? Why haven't we been to the capital to invite eminent monks, but those so-called eminent monks are all more vicious than mountain ghosts?" If I can subdue the mountain ghost, why should I use my granddaughter to match the ghost marriage?"

As he spoke, the old man couldn't help crying, and the bride standing in front of the sedan chair threw herself into the arms of an old woman and cried loudly, and the faces of the surrounding villagers all showed grief and indignation.

"The so-called evil will eventually be rewarded with evil. Since the old man and all the villagers are so unwilling, why not let the poor monk and this brother Guan try to subdue this demon?" Xu Changqing took a step forward, looking indifferently The people around suggested it, and then without waiting for the other party's objection, they pulled Guan Zheng in front of him and said, "The poor monk is just an unknown person, so I need to introduce him, but this brother Guan has a lot of background, he is an exorcist." The descendant of the Tianshi Guan family, named Guan Zheng, is proficient in the Guan family's talisman sword and Donghua school's sword control skills, which is hundreds of times stronger than those famous exorcists."

"The Guan family? Could it be the Guan family from Shandong!" The old village chief looked startled, stepped forward and grabbed Guan Zheng's arm, accidentally saw the rune armor he was wearing, and immediately became agitated. Said: "The Guan family, it's really the Guan family in Shandong! This is the talisman of the Guan family." He shouted to the people around him: "We are saved, our Majiapu is saved!"

The people around obviously didn't understand what was going on. Seeing the old village chief laughing like a maniac, with doubts and puzzles on his face, even his wife and granddaughter stared blankly. with him.

"The old village chief knows about our Guan family?" Guan Zheng, who was grabbed by the arm by the old village chief, was stunned, and asked in surprise when he heard the old village chief say the name of the Guan family talisman.

However, the old village chief didn't seem to have heard Guan Zheng's words, and he was still smiling vigorously, but his face turned a little livid, and his expression also appeared ferocious.

"Not good! The old man is full of surprises, lost in sanity, and in danger of losing his mind." Xu Changqing, who is well-informed, could tell something was wrong at a glance, stepped forward and pressed the old village chief's twitching body, forming a lotus seal with his hands , pressed on the head of the old village head, and said in a deep voice: "The pure and quiet white lotus knots the Dharma seal, and the vast Buddha power calms the mind!"

Following Xu Changqing's verses, the white lotus Buddha element simulated by Jiuliu Avenue emanated from his handprints, forming a white lotus visible to the naked eye, and then slowly sinking into the old village head's head.At this time, the old village head immediately calmed down, breathing calmly, eyes slightly closed, and after the white lotus was completely submerged in the top of his head, the top of his head emitted a faint white light like a solemn treasure statue.The surrounding villagers had never seen such a vision before. They all knelt down and threw themselves on the ground to Xu Changqing. They even called him a holy monk, and many even cried and called him a Bodhisattva.Guan Zheng also felt the pure Buddha power emanating from Xu Changqing's hands, he couldn't help feeling awe in his heart, and gradually put the young monk in front of him on an equal footing with Yan Feng.

What kind of Buddhism did Xu Changqing use? In fact, he just used the lotus outer form of the White Lotus Transcendence Method, and then added the authentic Taoist Mantra. Such an illusion of Buddhism that is enough to fool the world.Apparently Xu Changqing was very satisfied with his method of combining Taoism and Buddhism, and a slight smile appeared on his face, but soon his expression became dignified for some reason. After retracting his head, he retreated to Guan Zheng's side without saying a word, as if he was thinking about something.

After a while, the old village chief came to his senses. Although his sanity had been 'fascinated' just now, he knew who saved him. He hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down to Xu Changqing and said, "Thank you, holy monk, for your help. Please accept the help." I bow to the old man."

Seeing the old man kneeling down to him, Xu Changqing naturally wouldn't let him do so. He stretched out his hands and circulated his true energy to form two white lotuses on the old man's knees. He held them up, and then clasped his hands together and said, "Old man, don't worry too much." Li, the heavens have the virtue of being good at life, and what the poor monk cultivates is the Dharma of passing the world, so how can he not help him?"

"Master, the Dharma is so profound that this old man admires it." The old village head looked at Xu Changqing with admiration and said.

Xu Changqing smiled lightly, put his hands together in return, and then asked: "Just now my brother Guan asked the old man if he knew the Shandong Guan family, but the old man hasn't answered yet?"

The old village head replied respectfully: "When I was young, I used to work as a clerk under Moyun Tianpeng Guan Dexing, and I know more about the Guan family than ordinary people." The heroes of the Guan family are all supernatural beings and strangers, after all, they cannot match the foreign guns and artillery of foreigners."

"It turns out that the old village chief is an old friend of my great-uncle. Please be respected by the younger generation." After hearing this, Guan Zheng was taken aback for a moment. Today, this ghost marriage incident happened to me again. I think it was my uncle's guidance, so I should take care of it! If the old village chief can trust me, Guan, I will definitely risk my life. We must also get rid of the mountain ghosts and evil spirits."

"Guan Tianshi and the great righteousness of this holy monk are engraved in our hearts, please accept our worship!" The old village head and the surrounding village names were very grateful, and they all knelt and kowtowed.

Uncharacteristically, Xu Changqing didn't step forward to stop them, but let them kowtow three times. Guan Zheng hurriedly stepped forward to help the old people, saying no.Afterwards, both of them sensed that the ghost energy had taken shape, and it was slowly moving towards this side, so they arranged all the villagers in the ancestral hall, and Guan Zheng used his Guan family's ghost-suppressing charm to seal all the doors and windows. On the first day, the ancestral hall will be surrounded by red dust ropes soaked in rooster blood, and the soul-repressing bell of Louguan Road will be hung.After everything was done, he and Xu Changqing came to the entrance of the village, waiting for the arrival of the mountain ghost.