Zhou Jiantao opened his mouth, but Liu Shan glared at him and he dared not say anything.
We were all moved by Liu Shan's righteous act. We would rather let our own daughter go than let Xiaoliu take the risk. I tried to refuse, but Liu Shan smiled and said, "We admire your Taoist skills and we are absolutely confident in you. If Zijun borrows our Xiaoxue, I won't dare to give it to him."
Wang Zijun scratched his head: "Actually, I'm pretty good now."
"You're not that great, but you're still on the same level as me. Do you want to climb a tree to watch the game?" Shen Bing said with a sneer.
After seeing off Liu Shan and her husband, we re-planned tonight's action. Ma Yunxi kept the water level blocked, removed Qu Mo from guarding the temple roof, and let her hold Xiaoxue outside the Eight Diagrams Ghost Suppression Bureau. Lu Fei and I were responsible for sealing the tomb with the black killing rope.
Shen Bing went out to buy some buns and had a simple meal in the store, then a few of us drove to Yangxian Temple.
The sun was setting when we arrived at the field, so we sent Luo Yushan home. But the fool Qiangzi appeared nearby again, so I winked at Lu Fei and told him to take the fool down and send him back to the village.
Unexpectedly, when we went towards Sha Qiangzi, he saw that we were coming aggressively and actually shook his hands and said, "Don't hit me, I'm going back to the temple to get some grass."
We were stunned. What was going on? Seeing this boy's eyes were clear and sober, he was not stupid at all. His uncle once said that he was sometimes smart and sometimes stupid. It seems that he has understood it now.
"Do you still recognize me?" I asked, staring at him.
"Yes, I know you. Didn't you buy six strings of candied haws from me at the temple fair and got cheated out of a hundred yuan?"
Damn, was this kid really stupid or just pretending to be stupid at that time? He remembers it so clearly
I touched my nose and saw him grinning like a fool again. It seemed like he was teasing us. I came to my senses and reached out to twist his arm, shouting, "You've been playing dumb, haven't you? If you don't tell the truth, I'll dig up your grave tonight and stuff you into a female ghost's coffin!"
Shen Bing and the others all ran over to ask what happened, but I ignored them and increased the strength of my hands. Sha Qiangzi was in so much pain that beads of sweat appeared on his head.
"I'm saying, I'm saying, let me go." Sha Qiangzi screamed.
I saw that this place was too close to the temple, so I took him away, threw him to the ground and said, "Start from the beginning. If I find out that you tell a lie, I will bury you alive!"
"Don't scare that stupid kid." Shen Bing pushed me.
"He's not stupid, let him speak for himself." I shouted angrily.
Under my fierce threat, Sha Qiangzi lowered his head and said, "I was pretending, and I have been pretending for seven or eight years..."
Everyone exclaimed "Ah" at the same time. Shen Bing asked, "When you were selling us candied haws, were you pretending to be silly?"
The boy nodded and said that if he didn't play dumb, he might not be alive today. Lu Fei said, what kind of bullshit are you talking about, you stupid boy, who would want to kill you
He told us with a bitter face: "When I was five years old, I went into the temple to avoid the rain. I don't know why I became stupid. Later, when I was fourteen, I suddenly woke up. I saw a very beautiful woman in the temple. She told me to keep playing stupid, otherwise I would die. I didn't believe it at first, but after I went back, I first told the old man that I was fine. When I slept at night, I felt stomach pain and vomited blood. I was so scared that I ran back to the temple, and the woman cured my stomach pain. She said I was poisoned and I should play stupid in the future. I listened to her and went back to the village stupidly. I haven't been poisoned again in the past seven or eight years."