The middle-aged man standing on the side was unhappy when he saw his trembling old father coming over and trying to keep the strangers in front of him.
"Dad, look at how strangely they are dressed. They are not good people at first glance. They might be liars. They say they can save people, but that's pure nonsense. I think..."
But before the middle-aged man could finish his words, the old man slapped him in the face.
With a "pop", a loud slap hit the middle-aged man's face.
"Dad! What are you doing?"
The middle-aged man said angrily.
Unexpectedly, the old man stamped his feet and said angrily: "You bastard, stand aside, do you think you can slander these masters?"
Having said this, the old man glared at the middle-aged man fiercely.
Then he bowed to Master Chu and Master Qi with a friendly expression and made a "please" gesture.
"Masters, please come in! Please don't blame my youngest son, he has that kind of temper. I hope you will not be angry and help us Fengmen Village! I would like to thank you all here!"
The old man was about to kneel down when he said this, but he was supported by Master Qi who was standing next to him.
Master Qi glared at the middle-aged man standing next to him who was covering his face. He said to the old man in a deep voice: "Don't be like this, old man, you get up first, you get up first... We came to your village to help!"
This time the middle-aged man learned his lesson. He stood aside and said nothing, but he still seemed to not believe that we were the Taoist priests who caught ghosts.
After Master Qi helped the old man up from the ground, several of us entered the ancestral hall of Fengmen Village.
The ancestral hall was like an ice cellar and it was really cold. I couldn't help but shiver my shoulders, but in order not to embarrass the Taoist priest, I still pretended to be calm.
The ancestral hall is quite large, with rows of seats in the deep, as many as seven or eight rows.
There was a long table in front of the seats, with yellow paper spread on it, and on top of it were incense burners and offerings. There were thin sticks of incense in the incense burners, and the curling aroma soared into the air, twisting and dissipating.
That old man
He was helped onto a royal chair and sat down. Because there was only one royal chair and the old man had difficulty walking, Master Chu and Master Qi did not mind the lack of a seat.
Then the old man said to Master Chu and Master Qi standing on the side with a bitter face: "Masters, you may not know that our village used to be nothing special. But since last night, accidents have happened one after another. Look at these people on the ground, they are like they have the plague."
"Look at them, they are shivering and cold, just like they have a cold. Their body temperatures are not high, their bodies are like ice. We invited a lot of barefoot doctors to see them this morning, but they couldn't save them. I wonder if they are possessed by ghosts or cast a spell by ghosts?!"
After listening to the old man's narration, neither Master Chu nor Master Qi said anything.
Instead, it was Master Jiang who was standing next to him who spoke at the right time.
Master Jiang said to Master Chu and Master Qi: "There is no ghost energy on these people, so we can rule out ghosts. If there were ghosts, they would not be able to escape my ghost eyes!"
When the old man heard what Master Jiang said, he asked hurriedly, "Master, do you have any way to save people?"
Master Jiang did not answer. His eyes turned to Master Chu and Master Qi.
Master Qi continued, "From the looks of these people, it's just that Yin Qi has corroded their bodies. However, if it was ordinary Yin Qi invading the body, maybe drinking some hot soup and eating some hot meals would make a difference. But they were corroded by the extreme Yin Qi... We can change their current situation now, but we have to find the source of the Yin Qi."
The old man squinted his cloudy eyes and listened to Master Qi's words in a daze. It was obvious that he did not understand what Master Qi said.
But the old man was also a sensible person. He hurriedly said, "Masters, as long as you can save these people in our village, we will definitely be grateful, and our village is willing to pay 10,000 yuan as a reward!"
I heard from the old man that the village would pay 10,000
The villagers of Fengmen Village standing at the gate of the ancestral hall began to talk about it. It was not difficult to hear from their words that 10,000 yuan was not a small amount for the entire Fengmen Village.
But ten thousand yuan is just a drop in the bucket for Master Chu and Master Qi.
Just Master Chu himself, his net worth is probably very high.
After hearing the old man's words, Master Chu smiled slightly.
Seeing Master Chu laughing, the middle-aged man standing on the side was unwilling again. He said coldly: "Ten thousand yuan is already a lot of money, our village will not help liars. If you can't cure people, you can't leave our Fengmen Village!"
The middle-aged man's words made Master Chu frown tightly, and anger appeared on his face.
To be honest, I can deal with Master Gui Chu, but to deal with someone like the middle-aged man who doesn't know what's good for him, I have to step in.
I raised my neck, stared at the middle-aged man, and said in a deep voice, "Are you saying that if we cure people, your village will give us money?"
The middle-aged man thought for a moment and said seriously, "Yes! As long as you cure their illnesses, we will give you money. We are just afraid that you will not be able to cure them and kill them!"
I snorted coldly and said with a smile: "If you say so, I think you may be greatly disappointed. We are here to save people, not to make money. Since you say so, how about we change the conditions?"
The middle-aged man glanced at me, obviously looking down on me.
He said provocatively, "Okay, tell me what the conditions are. As long as you can save people and show me your ability, our village will naturally agree to your conditions. But your conditions cannot be too harsh."
I smiled and shrugged, saying, "The conditions won't be too harsh. As long as we cure their illnesses, how about you slap yourself fifty times?"
The villagers outside the ancestral hall were talking about it. They didn't expect me to put forward such a condition.
The middle-aged man gritted his teeth, looked at me in tattered clothes, and then smiled and said, "Okay! That's no problem... But if you can't cure it,
If you want to cure their illness, you can slap yourself fifty times. How about that? "
It was not difficult to hear from the middle-aged man's words that he had no idea that those people lying on the ground in the ancestral hall were not sick at all, but were poisoned by extremely yin energy.
The old man sitting on the side had guessed that the villagers on the ground were not sick, but he was still ambiguous. He might know that we were Taoist priests, but he was not sure whether we could save people. For the money contributed by the village, 10,000 yuan was indeed a lot.
So, when I was making a bet with the middle-aged man, the haggard old man did not interrupt.
Finally, the old man shouted at the middle-aged man coldly, blaming him, "Okay, Jun'er, step back and don't say anything. The masters are all experts, how can they let you be so presumptuous!"
At this time, Master Chu nodded at me in appreciation. Then he turned his head to look at the old man on the armchair and said seriously, "In this case, let's do what they bet. We really don't lack that little money!"
Before the old man could say anything, Master Chu and Master Qi walked over to the villagers lying on the ground and looked at their conditions one by one.
I followed him and came to the side of a middle-aged woman.
When I put my hand on the woman's forehead, a chilly energy spread up along my hand. It really felt like touching a piece of ice.
"It's really cold!" I muttered.
Sister Xilan on the side smiled and said, "Although their bodies are filled with extremely yin energy, it's not much. If it were more, I'm afraid they would have been frozen to death long ago."
"As for how to deal with this extremely yin energy, brother Tianyi, just watch how Master Chu and Master Qi do it! You are a novice, so it won't hurt to learn more."
I nodded, and when I looked at Sister Xilan, I found that her eyes were still a little evasive. It seemed that she still remembered that she had mistaken me for the man named Huang Bin.
After seeing the situation of those people, Master Chu turned to the Grand Master behind him.
The old man on the chair said in a deep voice: "Old sir, let's have someone prepare the rooster blood and pot ash first!"
"Rooster blood and pot ash?"
The old man was very surprised, but he had no other choice but to arrange someone to do it.
Suddenly, there was a commotion outside the ancestral hall again.
Many people said that how can rooster blood and pot ash cure diseases! It is simply nonsense. Some people even said that we are just Taoist priests who come to cheat people out of money.
The middle-aged man standing in the ancestral hall sneered at me with a gloating look on his face, "Boy, you still want to bet with me? It's a joke. I think your face will be swollen. When the time comes, I will personally slap you fifty times to let you know that there is no good end to lying."
I shrugged off the middle-aged man's words and said lightly, "Okay, then we'll see."
While the old man sent people to find rooster blood and pot ash, Master Qi went to the old man and asked some questions.
"Old man, do you know where Ma Hongying and Yang Wantian's home is?" Master Qi asked the old man.
Ma Hongying is the woman in red, and Yang Wantian is the possessed ghost.
The old man didn't know what Master Qi wanted to do, but since Master Qi had asked, he couldn't help but answer.
After thinking for a while, he said, "Ma Hongying's home is in the north of the village. She and Yang Wantian were a loving couple. But a year ago, Yang Wantian suddenly passed away. It was said that someone cut his neck and he died outside. The body was buried the next day after it was brought back!"
"Um!"
Master Qi nodded, his eyes were full of mystery. He stood there with his chin in his hand, thinking. After a moment, he said to the old man, "Well, old man, after we finish dealing with things here, you can take us to Ma Hongying's house."
At this point, Master Qi seemed to have thought of something, and asked the old man again, "By the way, old man, do you know if there are any other people in Ma Hongying's family besides Ma Hongying?"
The old man thought for a moment and said, "There is also a blind old woman! That is Yang Wantian's mother. Everyone in the village calls her Grandma Yang!"
(to be continued)
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