There is a large stone table at the entrance of Shitai Village, with a chessboard carved on the table and six stone piers at the bottom.
According to legend, during the Qing Daoguang period, two Taoists traveled here and suddenly became interested in chess, so they carved mountain rocks into tables and chairs, inviting little ghosts from all over the world to sit and watch chess.
A game of chess lasted three days and three nights.
After the chess dispersal, the two Taoists disappeared, and the little ghosts from all directions no longer disturbed the villagers, and the place was peaceful.
Nowadays, the four corners of the stone table are cracked, the texture of the table has long been blurred by wind erosion, only two of the six stone piers remain, a locust tree grows next to the rough stone table, and the roots of the tree become thicker and more curved, tilting the stone table.
A group of old men and women were sitting under the locust tree, some weaving clothes, some wearing soles, some smoking dry cigarettes and coughing.
From a distance, you can't see them clearly, because the skin of the old man and the bark of the old locust tree are almost the same tone.
Even if you get close and don't take a closer look, you will mistakenly think that they are just a circle of old tree roots branching out.
Zhao Mengyao was wearing long sleeves, a hat, and a silk scarf and dragging her suitcase past here.
The old people under the locust tree stood up one after another, and although the people who came were wrapped up and did not show their faces, they could recognize which girl they were just by looking at their body shape.
"Zhao family girl, are you home?"
"Why don't you let your grandfather pick it up?"
"Didn't your grandfather just leave the village the day before yesterday and didn't come back together?"
"But have you eaten?"
Different from the greetings and care shown by the elderly in other villages to the juniors, the elderly here showed a touch of caution and flattery to Zhao Mengyao.
There is only one household surnamed Zhao in Shitai Village, who lives in the east end of the village.
Nowadays, people who make money in the village can't wait to build a two-story or even three-story small western-style building, but this old Zhao family does not build it up, but expands around, one circle after another, and the former brick and tile bungalows have been added to several large courtyards.
It is said that it is illegal to occupy land and build a house like this, but the old Zhao family first came to support the lonely and widowed elderly in the village, and secondly, to adopt nearby abandoned children.
These old people under the locust tree, in a few years, I am afraid they will have to have the cheek to go to Lao Zhao's house to ask for three meals a day.
Lao Zhao's family is not prosperous, the family is four generations up, there is an ancestor, who is the oldest in the village today, the son-in-law recruited back then, gave birth to a son, a son gave birth to an only daughter, and then recruited a son-in-law to come to the door, giving birth to twin brothers and sisters, one of whom is Zhao Mengyao.
Now the Zhao family is just Yu's ancestor, his son Lao Zhaotou, and these twin siblings.
There are obviously four generations, but there are only four people left.
It is said that during the Republic of China, the ancestor of the Zhao family was invited by a certain marshal to divination and fortune-telling, and later the marshal retreated to Tianjin to become a residence official, and specially arranged for someone to send the ancestor back to Shitai Village, and came back with several boxes of gold and silver.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the old Zhao family vomited something, but there were rumors in the village that the real family foundation had long been buried in the ground in advance.
But even if there is no saying of gold and silver hiding, the ancestors of the Zhao family and their son Lao Zhaotou are also famous fortune-telling stall stalls in ten miles and eight townships, and the mother and son do not receive ordinary guests at all on weekdays, and every other month, either a person from the rivers and lakes comes to the door to beg for worship, or there is a car and a jeep driving straight into the village.
Zhao Mengyao pushed open the door of the house and walked through the courtyard, under the corridor of the east wing, there was a row of old people, all looking gray, not noisy or noisy, just staying there quietly.
In the west wing, there was a nursery hall, where a few children with obvious intellectual deficiencies were playing with crooked mouths and squinted eyes, which added some movement to themselves, and they were no longer so lifeless.
If you walk in at this time, regardless of whether you are an old man or a child, there are sure that many of them are lying in bed and suffering from illness.
It is normal for the elderly to get sick, and there are many male babies among the abandoned babies, many of whom have congenital diseases, and the chance of early death is greater.
Therefore, the old Zhao family often mourns and makes room for it, but it does not arouse much suspicion from outsiders, after all, no one really cares about lonely old people and abandoned babies.
Zhao Mengyao didn't like the smell of home when she was a child, the smell of stinky and rotten things often made her go crazy, and she wanted to light a fire and burn the wings.
Even if he was a little older and knew the purpose of these people, he still felt disgusted in his heart.
Fortunately, my great-grandmother was very open-minded, not only let her study, but also allowed her to take the exam in other places, hoping that she could bring home a man with a good face and deep fortune in the future.
"Mengyao, why are you back?"
The person asking was her brother, the two were obviously twins, born on front and back feet, but her brother Zhao Xilu had a kind of vicissitudes of life that was nearly thirty years old.
At this time, Zhao Xilu was decocting medicine, with a total of eight small stoves in front of him, and he was very busy holding a fan in each hand.
In the corner of the back wall of Zhao Xi Road, there was a dirty woman with chains tied around her, she was a madman, holding a rag doll to breastfeed her all day long.
In the eyes of outsiders, this is the Zhao family's kindness and adoption of her.
But in fact, Zhao Mengyao knew that when she was just in high school, this woman conceived her brother Zhao Xilu twice, giving birth to a boy and a girl, but the first died before it could be completed in 100 days, and the second did not even survive the full moon.
The woman went crazy and was locked here.
When Zhao Xilu gets up in the morning, he will take her to the courtyard to bask in the sun, and when he returns to the house at night, he will take her back to the house.
Zhao Mengyao didn't like this brother, although her brother had always been good to her, but she just felt that her brother was hypocritical and ruthless, and she was not as straightforward and kind as herself.
Obviously, there are people at home who are invited to help, but his brother has to do it himself every day.
If she didn't know what those things were used for, it was fine, but her brother knew very well, and his talent for casting spells was much higher than his own.
But at this point, she could only cry aggrieved at her brother:
"Brother, I was cursed."
Saying that, Zhao Mengyao took off her hat and rolled up her sleeves, revealing the festering skin.
Seeing this, Zhao Xilu was startled and hurriedly stepped forward to check.
"How did you do this?"
"I was cursed."
"Where's Grandpa, didn't Grandpa go to find you?"
"Didn't grandpa come back?"
"No, you didn't see Grandpa?"
"I saw it, but I thought grandpa asked me to draw and sign the two maintenance agreements and go home."
"You ......" Zhao Xilu frowned, "Mengyao, you sit in the house first."
"Where's my great-grandmother, I want to see my great-grandmother."
"My great-grandmother is meeting guests, and I can't be free now."
"I'm like this, what other guest can be more important than me?"
"Someone has come to my family."
"My family?"
Zhao Mengyao was stunned, she had heard about her family, the ancestral hall at home was divided into two columns, one was empty, and the other was her parents and grandmother, which could only be placed in the corner below.
The empty seat in the center is reserved for the family, even if the tablet of the family cannot be placed, the seat must be reserved for them.
When I was a child, Zhao Mengyao asked ignorantly: "Why can't I put my family's tablet?"
My great-grandmother smiled gloomy and replied: "Because my family thinks we are unlucky."
My family is in Jiujiang, and unlike a small family like Shitai Zhao, my family Jiujiang Zhao is the real master of the rivers and lakes, and there was a dragon king during the Qing Dynasty.
Just according to the rules of the rivers and lakes, if a clan member successfully walks the river or has no successor for a hundred years, the plaque of the Dragon King family is still not qualified to hang it.
Therefore, the family only calls itself the Jiujiang Zhao clan, but does not call itself the Dragon King Zhao.
Sometimes, the family background is not strong enough, and forcibly placing the dragon king plaque can easily cause trouble.
"Then I...... Then what should I do......"
"Mengyao, I told you, go to my room and wait, I'll be here soon."
"Okay."
Zhao Mengyao had to enter the courtyard first, cross the corridor, pass through the small door, and come to her brother's room in the backyard.
The furnishings inside are very simple, with a study in the north, a living room in the middle, and a bedroom in the south.
Under an old-fashioned wooden bed in the bedroom, there is also a nest, and a grain basin and a water basin are placed in front of the nest.
Not long after, the door was pushed open again, and Zhao Xilu led the woman in.
"Mengyao, take off your clothes."
Zhao Mengyao was a little hesitant.
Zhao Xilu took a deep breath: "Then brother, I don't care about you."
"Don't, brother, you have to help me."
Zhao Mengyao took off her clothes, and the corners of her mouth twitched from time to time when she took off, because many of the ulcers and clothes were stuck together, and undressing was like tearing off a layer of skin.
"Mengyao, come into my study."
Zhao Mengyao walked into her brother's study.
In the study, the incense burner candles on the table have been set up.
Zhao Xilu repeatedly roasted a black needle in the candlelight, then inserted it into the ash of the incense burner and stirred, finally took it out, walked to Zhao Mengyao, and stabbed it directly into his forehead.
"It hurts......
"Bear it."
After the needle pierced in, Zhao Xilu waved to the woman on the ground.
The woman crawled over, came to Zhao Mengyao's feet, opened her mouth, and bit Zhao Mengyao's ankle.
"Ah......"
"Bear with me, sister."
Zhao Mengyao lowered her head and looked at this woman, her eyes showing resentment and hatred.
The woman is sucking.
Gradually, the location of the ulcers on Zhao Mengyao's body began to shrink, and the dead skin appeared, which improved significantly, while on the woman's body, there were many areas of pus.
Zhao Mengyao was even more disgusted with his brother in his heart, he actually cultivated the woman who had given birth to two children to him into a curse container.
The function of this container is to transfer the curse applied to a person to oneself, in addition to transferring toxins.
The woman opened her mouth, crawled on the ground, gasping for breath, and blood kept overflowing from her mouth.
Zhao Xilu stretched out his foot and kicked the woman, scolding: "Go out and cough up blood, don't get dirty here."
The woman immediately climbed out.
"Mengyao, are you okay?"
"Brother, I'm much better."
"Well, you are resting here for a while now, I'll go help you see if your great-grandmother is okay."
Zhao Xilu left the room and came to the main room in the backyard, where the door was already open, indicating that the meeting was over.
As soon as he entered the main room, Zhao Xilu saw a gloomy young man about his age sitting there, with a crack wound in the center of the young man's eyebrows, which looked like an old wound, but it looked like he had just formed a scab.
Behind the young man, an old man was drinking tea with his great-grandmother.
My great-grandmother is very old, but she still looks energetic, and her white hair is still mixed with a lot of black hair.
"Xi Lu, I have come to see Master Yi of my family, and I have seen Uncle Tian of my family again."
"Yes, great-grandmother."
Zhao Xilu first saluted the gloomy young man: "I have seen Master Yi."
As soon as he finished saluting, Zhao Xilu saw the other party slowly moving his head and looking at him.
The wound on the gloomy young man's eyebrows seemed to be wriggling.
A sarcastic smile appeared on the corner of the young man's mouth:
"You are so dirty."
Although Zhao Xilu was unhappy, he didn't show it at all, and instead saluted the old man: "I have seen Uncle Tian."
Young Master Yi must be surnamed Zhao, this uncle should be the son of his family.
The old man smiled and waved his hand, saying, "Okay, the trouble is over, I should leave too."
"Where did the trouble come from, family, you should have walked around more, I'll see you off."
"No, stay. If you want to move around more, then don't put red tape on the shackles."
The old man walked to the young man, first wrapped the young man's forehead with a cloth strap, then bent down, picked up the young man, and walked out of the main house.
After they left, Zhao Xilu couldn't help but ask curiously: "Great-grandmother, why did someone suddenly come to my family?"
"That young master Yi is sick. The eyebrows open the eyes, like the door of life and death, neither yin nor yang, and there is no distinction between humans and ghosts. It was originally a deformity in the fetus that could not even come out of the mother's womb, but it was born abruptly and has survived to this day.
In recent years, I have used a lot of methods, but they are not effective, so I thought of our down-and-out relatives, and I want to find a way to break the situation with spells."
"Then great-grandmother, do you have a way?"
"There is a way, just hold the door horizontally and vertically, why insist on using vitality or death, just use the next stand-in death spell and use other people's lives to press it up, then the door of life and death will not be closed?"
"This is indeed a good idea."
"But they don't agree."
"Why?"
"He said he didn't want to use this kind of hurtful method, for fear that he wouldn't be able to get involved in the future."
"What's so indispensable about this, doesn't our family just have a way to get out?"
"I see, my family plans to let that young master Yi light a lamp and walk the river."
"Go to Jiang?"
"Since you are walking the river, you can't be contaminated with these, for fear of problems when walking the river. Oh, by the way, what are you looking for me for?"
"Mengyao is back, she seems to have been cursed, I just helped her solve it."
"Didn't your grandfather help her solve it?"
"This is the strange thing, Grandpa didn't come back with her."
"What?" The great-grandmother looked puzzled, "Call Mengyao in, I want to ask in detail."
"I'll go now."
After a while, Zhao Mengyao was brought in by Zhao Xilu.
"Great-grandmother......
Zhao Mengyao cried as soon as she entered the house, knelt under her great-grandmother and hugged her legs.
She didn't like the smell of her great-grandmother, she didn't look very old, but there was a smell of rotten meat on her body, especially at close range, breaking through the powder and suppressing it, which was even more disgusting.
But she knew very well that she could live happily in this family and willfully take a human skin curse to go to college, all thanks to her great-grandmother's support.
"Get up and talk to me about what happened."
"Yes, great-grandmother."
Zhao Mengyao told the story again.
She spent a lot of time describing how Zhou Yunyun bullied her and bullying her classmates, describing her curse on Zhou Yunyun as a counterattack that she couldn't bear.
The great-grandmother patiently listened to the nonsense in front of her, and when she heard the end, her great-grandmother immediately showed a fierce light.
"Snap!"
A slap hit Zhao Mengyao's face hard.
"Great-grandmother!"
Zhao Mengyao looked at the old woman in front of her in disbelief, and her voice also raised.
"Snap."
Slapped again, this time even more ruthless, Zhao Mengyao fell to the ground.
"Fool, fool, idiot!!"
My great-grandmother scolded the fool three times in a row: "Since your grandfather has not come back, he must have received the bloody ship you burned.
But since you went to the hospital during the day to see that guy named Zhou Yunyun was not dead, but fortunately he was lying on the hospital bed and recovering, you should know that something happened to your grandfather!
Since even your grandfather can't stop the other party's shot, what qualifications do you have to survive?
What kind of spell is this?
People are just teasing you and playing with you, waiting for you idiot to take them home!"
Great-grandmother immediately looked at Zhao Xilu: "Quick, go and invite your Uncle Tian and Young Master Yi back!"
"Yes, great-grandmother."
Zhao Xilu ran out immediately, and not long after, he came back in a panic: "Great-grandmother, Master Yi and Uncle Tian are no longer visible, I'm afraid they have gone far out of the village."
Great-grandmother Zhao Juanhua heard this and leaned on the Grand Master's chair.
Zhao Mengyao still sat on the ground with her face covered, this is still in her memory, the first time her great-grandmother beat her, no matter how naughty she was when she was a child, her great-grandmother rarely said anything serious to her, and showed a preference for herself beyond her brother.
Zhao Xilu comforted: "Great-grandmother, grandpa may not really have an accident, maybe because of other delays, you see, grandpa has not gone far for a long time, they all say that there are big changes outside, I am afraid that grandpa is also confused.
Even in the worst case, people really come to the door, this is Shitai Village, and our family is Shitai Zhao, so we won't let outsiders be presumptuous."
Zhao Juanhua covered her forehead with her left hand and waved her right hand:
"Zhou Yunyun, who was cursed by this fool, is from Nantong, and since they sent a message to this fool to catch corpses in Nantong, it means that people have already found out that this fool did it.
People made an appointment with this idiot to meet and asked for an explanation, this idiot didn't go, but do you really plan to go?
I'm afraid that people have already seen through that she is a fool, so they want to fish with this fool.
It's also a coincidence, your grandfather has already set off because this fool is good at using human skin spells, and the person is right next to him, and he was really caught.
After catching the fish, the person was not satisfied, so he continued to take the fool to match, and marked the time and place of the meeting.
scold
Again and again, such a standardized behavior and measures, is it really for this fool?
People walk 'dignified' every step of the way, that is, they go to the way of heaven.
Tell me, what kind of people would use this 'way of walking'?"
Zhao Xilu couldn't answer.
"Go and prepare for the banquet, since people have the confidence to come like this, then I...... Just kneel down first."
……
Old man Tian first walked out of Lao Zhao's house with his young master on his back, and as soon as he left the Zhao family, he started running wildly.
After running out of the village, he deliberately did not take the main road and deliberately ran to the edge of the field stream.
He was still able to run, but the young master on his back couldn't stand the bump.
"Master, are you okay?"
"I'm fine......
"Master, the place is dirty and smelly, and it's not blame that you don't like it, and I don't like it either, I feel stuffy."
"It is dirty, and it is a curse made by living people; Relying on supporting orphans and widows and adopting children as a medium to divert backlash.
These Taoists have all been played by this branch."
"So, back then, our family divided this branch, this is still the decision we made personally when the Dragon King of our Zhao family was there, and set the family motto that the descendants of our family are not allowed to practice spells.
If it weren't for your physical problems, young master, the head of the family wouldn't have let me come here behind your back to try my luck.
It's just strange, since this branch has been divided for so many years, I originally got the location of Shitai Village, and I thought it would be a Zhao family village, but who knew that after coming, I found out that there was only one household with the surname Zhao, and the population was so thin."
Zhao Yi: "Then the old woman uses her descendants to borrow her life to support herself, can the people not be thin?"
"This ......" Old man Tian looked shocked, "She actually did this!"
"Grandpa Tian, this division of the family can no longer be messed with."
"I understand, young master, don't worry, after I go back, I will report to the head of the family, if I continue to sever ties with such a separation, I am afraid it will become a major hidden problem when you go to the river, young master.
For your success in going to the river, I have to ask the head of the family to ......."
"No need, when we came in before, we saw that Zhao Xilu, that Zhao Xilu, and that old woman were the same kind of people, so dirty that they didn't leave any white.
But when he saw him for the second time, his face actually steamed up with a sense of death, and that anger also transitioned to the old woman.
This separation is afraid that a great disaster will come."
"So, young master, you asked me to run out quickly?" "Well, if you don't run, will you keep it to help them prevent disaster?"
"They deserve it too? Bah!"
"It's just that with my illness, I'm afraid it's difficult to find a suitable way, and I also want to walk the river for my family, alas."
"Young master, don't worry, if you can't find a way down, the head of the family will go up to find it.
If you really can't do it, just go to the serious Dragon King's family, that kind of family has a deep heritage, and there should be a way to help you heal the young master."
"Grandpa Tian, how can the real Dragon King family be so easy to climb, besides, how can they use their heritage to treat me so that I can go to the river in the future?
I have read the notes left by the ancestral dragon king, walking the river road, suppressing not only those evil spirits, sometimes, the people of the town are not necessarily less evil than evil spirits."
"Young master, other dragon kings don't know, but there is one...... No, there are two, but it is possible."
"Oh?"
"After the marriage of those two families, the momentum was like fire, but it was suddenly interrupted, although the status is still high, but in essence, it is only relying on orphans and widows to support the brand.
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If the head of the family leads you to the door, ask for a god relative, or even ask for a marriage, even if you enter this door.
With the old lady's temperament, I am afraid that she will bet her heritage on you, young master, to help you walk the river and soar."
"Huh...... Hehe......"
"Young master, what are you laughing at?"
"Eat the extinction, or eat the two generations of the Dragon King family, you really dare to think about it, not afraid of dying."
"Master, things are man-made, opportunities are always fought for."
"Well, people who are usually looking for death also run hard."
"Master, your mentality is ......"
"If you really want to plan like this, then go and plan, I don't think I need to go to the river, just stay at home, eat, drink and have fun, and wait for the family to be destroyed, and it will not be in vain to come to this world."
"Young master......" Old man Tian wanted to say something more, but he saw a puff of smoke rising in front of him, and upon closer inspection, he saw that someone had made a fire by the river and was having a picnic.
"Grandpa Tian, I'm hungry, go buy something to eat, I smell the aroma of baked sweet potatoes."
……
"The sweet potato is baked."
Li Zhuiyuan took a wooden stick and pulled out the sweet potatoes.
Runsheng came over, took a few, and squatted back again.
Seeing this, Lin Shuyou also came over to get a few and squatted back as well.
Each of them took a position and squatted on a small slope to observe and guard their surroundings.
Tan Wenbin and Yin Meng have already entered the village to find out about the Zhao family in the village.
Leaving a stupid man and a man with no door, here to accompany Li Chaiyuan.
In fact, everyone has dry food in their bag, such as compressed biscuits and dehydrated vegetables.
Mainly, this thing is really not delicious.
In addition, there was really nothing to do at this time, so I bought some sweet potatoes from a nearby farmer and roasted them to kill time while making a tooth sacrifice.
Some things are only suitable for doing when the night is dark and the wind is high.
Runsheng: "Someone is here."
Li Chaiyuan lightly blew on the sweet potato in his hand, stood up, and looked over there.
I saw an old man carrying a young man on his back, walking this way along the ridge.
The young man had a piece of cloth wrapped around his head, like the costume of a woman in a rural area during confinement.
Li Chaiyuan's eyes moved down, staring at the old man's steps.
It had just rained here last night, and it took a lot of effort to find dry firewood before, and the ground was naturally a little muddy, but the old man was carrying the weight of an adult on his back, and every time the cloth shoes on his feet landed, he couldn't step on his footprints.
This means that the other party is practicing serious inner kung fu, and there is heat.
Runsheng also practices internal kung fu, but Runsheng is the "inside" that has been chiseled.
Li Chaiyuan took a bite of the sweet potato and said, "Get ready to do it."
It is not only to seek revenge, but also to the other party's territory, and then to meet a practitioner, that is, during the day, everyone sees each other from afar, if it is night, they will probably directly knock down the other party first and then distinguish their identities.
Runsheng picked up the Yellow River shovel and stood in front of Li Chaiyuan.
Lin Shuyou picked up the trident and did not go to compete with Runsheng for the front position, but stood on the side of Li Chaiyuan.
On the opposite side, when Old Man Tian saw this, he couldn't help but stop and wondered: "Ouch, what's wrong, look at this to do it?"
Zhao Yi: "Hmm."
"As for a baked sweet potato."
"Grandpa Tian, next time you walk, don't be afraid of dirty shoes."
When Old Man Tian heard this, his face turned slightly red.
"That man was holding the Yellow River shovel." Zhao Yi patted Old Man Tian on the shoulder, "Grandpa Tian, let me go."
"Master, I think it's better not to make contact."
"Even if we turn around and leave now, I'm afraid they won't let us go."
"Master, you have a little confidence in me anyway."
"Grandpa Tian, I have faith in you, but didn't you see that the young man opposite is much younger than me."
"Huh?" Old man Tian was very puzzled, "What does this mean?"
"Walking in the world, the younger you are, the less likely you are to provoke them."
Zhao Yi got off the old man Tian, his body actually didn't have much problem, but he lacked a sense of balance when walking, so he had to rely on someone to help him move.
After getting closer for a while, Zhao Yi gently pushed the old man Tian away and began to salute.
I saw him slapping his hands on his left and right chests, then two thumbs pointed to his eyebrows, and finally crossed his hands in front of his chest:
"The chest is in Jiujiang, the courage shines on Xunyang, the qi covers Lushan, and the god is in Poyang. Jiujiang Zhao, I would like to greet you here!"
After a set of etiquette and a set of words, the young man was dizzy for a while, his body shook for a while, and the old man behind him wanted to help but didn't dare to help him, so he could only secretly be anxious, but fortunately, after the young man shook around, he was able to stabilize his figure.
Surname Zhao?
The clothes on Runsheng's body suddenly bulged, then absorbed and clung to his body, and then bulged again, with a faint sound of wind howling.
Lin Shuyou's eyes widened, he slowly raised his head, clenched his fist in his left hand, and held a trident in his right hand, making an obscure sound in his throat.
Old man Tian immediately circled in front of Zhao Yi, threw his arms back, and two daggers came out smoothly, which he held in his hands.
His eyes first lingered on Runsheng, and then stayed on Lin Shuyou.
"This person...... What are you going to do?"
"He is preparing to descend from the gods, the inheritance faction in the southern coastal area, I don't know if it is the eight generals or the official generals."
"Young master, since it is a divine spell, it will pass after a while, it is that strong man, his breath is too thick, I am old, I don't have enough qi and blood, I am afraid I can't consume him."
"Grandpa Tian, didn't you just ask me to give you more confidence?"
"How did I go out and meet a sweet potato baker by the river, can I meet these two freaks?
Young master, if you really start to move, the only chance is for me to go around and hold the other boy hostage, and the other party may also come to arrest you, and then we will hold each other hostage and force a substitution.
This is the only way."
Zhao Yi sighed: "The only way is gone."
Old man Tian looked stunned, because the young man on the opposite side was constantly retreating, opening a long enough safe distance, and the guy who was about to descend was actually retreating with the young man, following around.
While judging other people's lineups, they also judged their own lineup, that is, an old man with a sick seedling.
Leave the most energy-consuming old man to consume himself, and the sick young master can't even run away.
"This ......"
Zhao Yi: "Grandpa Tian, don't tell the plan so openly next time."
"Master, I'm already very quiet."
"But people have good hearing."
"Alas, this sweet potato is really expensive."
Zhao Yi raised his hands, stepped forward again, and went around the old man Tian, just as he was about to say something, when his feet suddenly slipped.
"Bah!"
Directly face down, he fell into the field.
Lin Shuyou tilted his head, as if he had finally seen a guy who was stupid and funny than himself, and immediately seized the opportunity to say: "Oh, is he funny?"
Beside him, Li Chaiyuan said: "He fell on purpose to ruin the solemn atmosphere."
Lin Shuyou closed his mouth silently, okay, he was stupid again.
Old man Tian put away the dagger and helped Zhao Yi, who was covered in mud, up.
"Master, if I had known that you came out this time, I should have brought a few more people from home."
Zhao Yi wiped the mud off his face, shook his head and said: "Sometimes it's fate, it doesn't matter how many people you bring."
After standing up again, Zhao Yi smiled awkwardly and said:
"This Zhao is not that Zhao, don't get me wrong, I am from Jiujiang Zhao, although the ancestors of the Zhao family here were once one family, but they have been separated for two hundred years, and they are not people at all."
After hearing his introduction, the other party was obviously more cautious, and at the same time, the meaning of doing it was stronger, Zhao Yi also saw something, and immediately continued:
"My family head heard that the Zhao family here was acting against the right path, so he specially ordered the two of us to investigate.
An old great-grandmother has a son and two twin great-grandchildren.
This family not only uses living people to refine spells, but also uses orphans and orphans to support orphans as a medium to transfer spells backlash, but this old woman also uses blood relatives to borrow Yang Shou.
One by one, one by one, it is simply a heinous crime, and both men and gods are angry, and the righteous people in the world should be punished together!
I was about to go back to report to the head of the family, and I asked the head of the family to order the eradication of this scum to clear my Zhao family's reputation.
Come to think of it, friend, you are also here for the right path, right?"
The other party said it very sincerely, reasonably and well-founded, and also revealed the old background of the stone table Zhao, which seemed to be true.
However, Li Chaiyuan didn't need to distinguish between the truth and falsehood of what the other party said, and there was no need to spend this kind of thought.
The young man raised his hand, pointed to the young man opposite, and said:
"You come here alone, I'll treat you to sweet potatoes."
"Young master, no!" Old man Tian immediately persuaded him.
"Grandpa Tian, who told you to only deal with one?"
"Young master, I just fought for this old life, and I ......"
"Do you want you to be buried in this field with me?"
Old man Tian: "......"
"It's okay, Grandpa Tian, I'll help make someone else's knife for the time being."
Zhao Yi swayed towards Runsheng.
Runsheng didn't look at him.
Zhao Yi passed by Runsheng, walked a distance, and finally walked in front of Lin Shuyou.
Then, he finally couldn't maintain his balance, and with a "poof", he knelt on the ground.
This time he didn't pretend, he really couldn't walk, every step was dizzy in his eyes.
Li Zhuiyuan also sat down and threw him a baked sweet potato.
"Hey, I'm greedy for this bite." Zhao Yi peeled the skin and took a bite, "Sweet, delicious."
Li Chaiyuan threw two more baked sweet potatoes to Lin Shuyou: "Send them to the old man."
In the distance, Old Man Tian saw that his young master had already gone in as a hostage, so he simply stopped confronting Runsheng and squatted into the field by himself, feeling suuled.
Lin Shuyou held the sweet potato and shook his head.
He was worried that the disease would suddenly explode, which would be detrimental to Brother Xiaoyuan.
Li Chaiyuan knew what he was worried about, and said: "He is a waste with cracks in the door of life and death."
"Poof...... Ahem cough...... Ahem cough!"
When Zhao Yi heard this, he immediately coughed violently and kept beating his chest with his hands.
Old man Tian, who had already squatted in the distance, immediately stood up, but when he saw his young master beating his chest, he raised his right hand and shook it down, and Old Man Tian had to squat down again.
Zhao Yi said helplessly: "They say that I have the appearance of a genius when the door of life and death is opened, why am I a waste here?"
Li Chaiyuan: "A genius who can't even take care of himself?"
Zhao Yi corrected: "That's also a genius!"
Li Chaiyuan: "Genius, is it valuable?"
Zhao Yi frowned, took another bite of the sweet potato, and said: "You can't really think of yourself as a cripple, anyway, this genius title can make me persist in living."
Li Chaiyuan nodded: "It makes sense."
Lin Shuyou saw that Brother Xiaoyuan was very sure that the other party was harmless, so he took the sweet potato and left, giving it to the old man.
"Thank you." The old man took the sweet potato and thanked him, and asked by the way, "Are you the head of the Eight Families or the Officials?"
"The head of the official."
After answering, Lin Shuyou went back again.
Runsheng walked to the old man and squatted down with the old man.
His task is to accompany the old man at all times and exchange with him.
The old man asked while nibbling on sweet potatoes: "It's amazing that your family's kung fu can be cultivated to this point, and you are still so young."
Runsheng is not like Lin Shuyou, who has no door to his mouth, and does not answer, but silently takes out his humidor.
Old man Tian continued to ask: "Where did you learn from?"
Runsheng shook his head and said: "I don't have a master."
There used to be, but on the way to the river, the name was changed.
"My young master is in your hands, what's wrong with telling the truth, you can also ask me."
"I'm not interested in you."
"Heh, okay."
Runsheng lit the coarse incense, took a big puff, and then slowly spat it out.
Old man Tian looked shocked and said: "You are a fucking dead ......"
Runsheng turned his head to look at him.
Old man Tian immediately stuffed his mouth with sweet potatoes.
Runsheng stopped looking at him and continued to smoke his cigar.
On the other end, Zhao Yi rubbed Li Zuiyuan's side and said curiously: "How can you tell at a glance that I am the door of life and death?"
"Cracked."
"Cracking is not good, I have a crack in the middle of my eyebrows, not a crack in the bottom."
"I saw it in the book."
"What book can still record this?"
"Waste books in the basement of my hometown."
Zhao Yi smiled, thinking that his method of testing the other party's identity was discovered by the other party, so the other party deliberately retorted.
After eating the sweet potato at hand, Zhao Yi seemed to have made up his mind and asked frankly: "Is there a cure for you?"
Li Chaiyuan: "The same method as the following."
"Huh? Can this be common?"
"Just cut it off."
Zhao Yi swallowed his saliva and muttered: "Dig it up, and I will no longer be a genius."
"Then you really are not."
Li Zhuiyuan picked up the wooden stick, put some sweet potatoes in and roasted them, waiting for Binbin and Mengmeng to come back and eat them.
Zhao Yi asked quietly: "If it were you, would you be willing to give it up, even if you are tired of it, or even harmed by it?"
Li Zhuiyuan moved the burning wooden stick in front of him, blew out the flames above in one breath, and said:
"I will."
When Zhao Yi heard this, he buried his head deeply.
Tan Wenbin and Yin Meng came back, they first saw the old man squatting there with Runsheng, and then saw Zhao Yi sitting with Li Chaiyuan.
The two of them knew who to ask about the situation, so they chose Lin Shuyou, who told what happened before.
Tan Wenbin and Yin Meng sat down.
Binbin put his arm around Zhao Yi's shoulder: "Hello, hostage brother."
Zhao Yi: "I have admired it for a long time."
Tan Wenbin picked up a sweet potato and said while blowing: "Little ...... Brother, it seems that we ran in vain."
Li Chaiyuan: "Let's talk about it."
"This stone table Zhao runs a nursing home and an orphanage in the village, and also donates money to build roads.
Until I happened to catch up with an old man from their family to bury the body, I joined the crowd and tested it with talisman paper.
Hey, guess what, this talisman paper is so black that it's called an authentic road.
Damn, this is definitely a beast's den."
Zhao Yi clenched his fists and echoed: "Yes, heaven and earth will punish him!"
"Hahaha, hostage brother, you surrendered so quickly."
"My position is very firm, because I will go to Jiang in the future."
Tan Wenbin wondered: "Walking the river, it sounds really strange, what is walking the river, it sounds dragging."
Zhao Yi: "If you succeed in walking the river, you can turn into a dragon, that is the Dragon King."
Tan Wenbin: "Oh, there is also this statement, it is okay."
Immediately afterwards, Tan Wenbin looked at Li Chaiyuan: "Brother, what should we do?"
Li Chaiyuan looked at Zhao Yi.
Zhao Yi spoke: "When it gets dark, I will break the ban on her ancestral hall, enter the ancestral hall first to destroy those curses, and then clean up this litter of beasts.
But be careful, they also carry personal spells.
In addition, before starting it, I need to arrange a formation to separate her backyard from the front house.
Tan Wenbin asked: "Yo, do you still know formations?"
Zhao Yi nodded: "I will. Why, will you too?"
Tan Wenbin waved his hand and said: "If we can't talk about it, we will ...... I understand a little bit of it."
Li Chaiyuan threw the wooden stick in his hand into the fire, clapped his hands, and said:
"Wait until dark."
(End of this chapter)