The sky is blue and the sun is bright, the universe is clear.
The apricot-yellow Taoist robe flew like a shuttle, and the mahogany sword danced with great force. He shouted a few words angrily, pointed the sword forward, and opened his eyes wide: "...hurry up like a law!"
The talisman caught fire and was thrown into the bowl of the sea. As soon as the fire was extinguished, the ashes swayed under the clear water.
The people in the village were so entertained that they all looked in awe and awe.
Yun Qi tilted his body sideways, covered his mouth and nose with the jade bone fan, and sneered: "It's such a familiar move."
The Taoist priest drew a semicircle with his right hand, raised it upright in front of his chest, and recited the Dharma chant with his eyes half asleep, "The evil spirits have been eliminated, but there are still wandering souls that have not returned. Drink this bowl of talisman water, and your soul will return in less than a day."
The child's parents were anxious and squatted down to feed the child with the bowl in hand.
Yun Qi took a big step forward, "Wait a minute, what is the magical function of this talisman water? Why don't you let me see it?"
The Taoist priest, who was originally motionless, turned his head subconsciously when he heard the voice. When he saw it, his eyelids twitched inexplicably and his eyeballs slid left and right.
"Who are you?" The villagers nearby looked at the two people who suddenly appeared inexplicably.
Yun Qi raised the corner of his mouth slightly, his body covered with jade trees facing the wind, "I was passing by and saw you guys catching monsters here, so I wanted to join in the fun."
Everyone looked at the two of them in beautiful clothes. Not to mention the woman's face, the man's appearance was so beautiful that he didn't look like a mortal. If it hadn't been during the day, they would have thought that a goblin had transformed.
"Er baby daddy, what are you doing standing there? Hurry up and feed him, in case the fairy water loses its power after a long delay." While others were shocked by Yun Qi's appearance, only the mother's heart was still with her child. She had no time to pay attention to others. of.
Lu Anran looked at the black water at the bottom of the bowl, "Are you really going to give him this to drink?"
The child was lying on the ground covered with a straw mat. He had been neither crying nor fussing before. When his father helped him up, his whole body convulsed. He covered his stomach and began to cry loudly, "It hurts so much. My stomach hurts so much. It hurts me so much." ah……"
I finally took a sip of water and spit it out.
Lu Anran was really puzzled, "He complained of stomachache. You should see a doctor for him. Why do you need to drink Talisman water?"
"Who said there isn't one?!" The child's parents were busy coaxing him, and the villagers said: "The second baby complains about stomachache every day, but it turns out it's not that bad. It has happened several times a day in the past two months, and he can't live without people around him."
Another chattered, "The second baby's parents have been to all the doctors. Every doctor said that he is not sick and that the child's body is normal. How can it be normal for the child to be in such pain?"
"So, this child has encountered an evil spirit. Now that the evil spirit has been exorcised, he will be fine if he drinks the talisman water that Master Ma asked for."
After saying this, the villagers looked at Yun Qi and Lu Anran with unfriendly eyes, clearly showing that you two were nosy.
Lu Anran wanted to say something else, but Yun Qi tugged on her sleeve and gently shook his head at her - drinking the talisman water would not kill anyone, but the villagers were unreasonable and they would be beaten.
Master Ma watched the talisman water being poured into the child's mouth bit by bit, and said with the attitude of an outsider: "Buddha Immeasurable Life."
Yun Qi raised his eyebrows slightly, bumped Lu Anran with his elbow, and raised his chin at Master Ma - why was he not nervous at all, and wasn't he afraid that drinking the Talisman Water would reveal his secret?
Lu Anran shook her head slowly. She didn't know anything else, but she was sure that the bowl of water was just a piece of ordinary paper burned to ashes and mixed in white water. If eaten, it could cure diseases.
However, this ghost really appeared.
The child really calmed down after drinking the Fu Shui. He gradually let go of his hand covering his stomach, blinked his eyes, and shouted: "Mom."
"Okay! It's great!" The couple cried with joy, and thanked and knelt down to Master Ma again.
Yun Qi rubbed his chin with his index finger. He was a little surprised. Did he really ask him to cure it?
Lu Anran looked away from Haiwan and focused on the child.
In the midst of the crowd's excitement, Master Ma gave him a couple of gentle gestures in a graceful manner, but still maintained his unhurried and masterly demeanor, and said: "The evil obstacles in this poor Dao have been removed, so we say goodbye, and all the donors will stay."
With a flick of the whisk, the apricot-yellow monk's robe billows slightly in the mountain breeze. With the blue sky and green mountains at his back, he has a fairy-like temperament.
However, common things still need to be dealt with, so Master Ma reluctantly accepted the money given by Erwa and his wife. As for other things such as eggs, Chinese cabbage, live geese...
Master Ma's eyes flashed, he gritted his teeth and turned around. Without saying goodbye, he walked out of the valley.
"Hey~" A jade bone fan stretched out from behind. Master Ma's eyelids twitched and he said calmly: "Master, what's the matter?"
Yun Qi smiled, his peach-blossom eyes extremely evil and wanton, "We are both demon hunters, so I would like to ask Master Ma if he knows Master Zhang Tian?"
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Outside the valley, Master Ma had already removed the burden of being a Taoist master and said with a smile: "Life is not easy, I just make a little money. Master, please let me go."
"Haha, do you know who you offended?" Yun Qi said with a bad smile: "Young Master Xuanping Marquis, have you heard of that famous name?"
Master Ma's face turned pale, "The one who pricks people's eyes whenever they disagree?"
"So you're lucky to have met me, and you haven't told me honestly." Yun Qi knocked on the carriage shaft with a jade bone fan, "How many people have you deceived, and how much money have you made in total?"
Master Ma stretched out two fingers tremblingly, and under Yun Qi's smiling eyes, he raised three more fingers, "It's really gone, just a few times, and many times I do solve people's problems and charge some travel expenses... That’s right.”
Lu Anran looked at this man. Compared to the last time, he had no goatee on his chin, his hair was almost completely white, and even his last name was changed, "What is your name?"
"The younger one's surname is Ma, and his single name is Dan."
Yun Qi whispered: "Last time, your surname was Zhang."
"This... when you go out, you can make more friends with more cousins." Master Ma said with a shy face.
"Oh? Zhang is not your last name?"
Master Ma said seriously: "My cousin Zhang Shuai, when combined, I am Ma Zhang Shuai."
Knowing that he was talking nonsense, Yun Qi had no patience to play Tai Chi with him, "You always play mean (sword) like this and then defraud money?"
Master Ma suspected that Yun Qi meant him, but he didn't dare to question, "It can't be considered a lie. Young master, you don't know something. A heart disease needs medicine. Just like the child just now, his parents took him to all the doctors, but even the doctors couldn't cure him. Okay, if I drink a bowl of talisman water, everything will be fine. Do you know why?"
Lu Anran raised his eyes and said, "This child is not sick."
Master Ma exclaimed: "No!" He asked flatteringly: "Is the girl a doctor?" This girl exposed his deceit last time. She is a medical student. No wonder she is brave and does not believe in evil.
"She is a widower. Do you know how to do an autopsy?" Yunqi slashed his hand diagonally, narrowing his peach blossom eyes and said, "Do you want to try asking her to 'cure' you?"
"Uh..." That's not necessary.
Coming back to the topic, Master Ma said with good reason: "The child is not physically ill, it's just a mental problem. Why do you really want to find a doctor for him? Even if the medicine sage is alive and doesn't have the efficaciousness of my bowl of talisman water."
The child's parents were usually busy, so they were relatively neglectful of the child. Later, one time the child accidentally caught a cold, and his mother had no work all day and was left to look after him.
After this time, the child often suffered from stomachaches and headaches in order to keep his mother company with him. As time went by, the pain actually started to get worse, and it got out of hand.
"This child may have done it on purpose at first, but after he subconsciously hypnotized himself, even he couldn't tell whether his stomach ache was real or fake, so when he had an attack, he would faint from pain." Master Ma asked The two asked, "How to treat this?"
Yun Qi was very interested: "Is there such a thing?"
"And my bowl of talisman water is not so much about curing diseases as it is about giving him a counter-consciousness." Tell him that after drinking this, his stomach will not hurt. His brain will receive the instructions, and his body will naturally obey, and the so-called stomach pain symptoms will disappear. .
Finally, Master Ma said boldly: "I am also benefiting the people and collecting some travel expenses by the way."
Yun Qile said: "According to what you said, the government has to give you a reward?"
Master Ma touched his nose and said, "I just want to make ends meet. Master, just don't argue with me."
Of course Yun Qi stopped him just to inquire about these things. He shook off the jade bone fan and waved it a few times. He raised his lazy eyebrows slightly and asked, "You have caught so many ghosts, why don't you catch Yaksha?"
"Yaksha?" Master Ma shook his head, "You can't touch that thing."
Yun Qi and Lu Anran looked at each other and asked curiously: "You are a Taoist priest who catches monsters and you are still afraid of ghosts?"
"No." Master Ma's expression was complicated, a little coy.
Yun Qi turned his head and said to Lu Anran in a casual manner: "Come down the mountain from here and pass by Feng Mansion. Do you want to say hello to Mr. Feng Xiaohou?"
Master Ma's mouth twitched: "I said, I said it's not okay!"
There was an uphill road out of the valley, and the carriage stayed outside the valley. They climbed up on foot and listened to Master Ma's introduction to the local customs and customs.
"The biggest difference between Diqiu and other places is that there are many mountains. You can see that it starts from the stream on the left and continues to the foot of Damao Mountain, with countless small and large hills interspersed in between." High on the hillside, Master Ma's Taoist robe was pulled open, as if giving instructions. Jiangshan, "The terrain outside is lower, close to the forest, and many villages are built in the valley. Further in, there are really deep mountains and old forests. Let alone ordinary people, it is difficult for the locals of Diqiu to know the way."
Yunqi and the others came here once, when they met the young Taoist priest Xunqing. It happened to be a coincidence that every time they went into the mountain, they always got to know the Taoist priest.
"Last time I saw many villages abandoned and turned into ghost villages."
Master Ma was not surprised by this, "There are so many natural disasters every year. Living at the foot of the mountain is afraid of heavy rains and floods. Any one of them would be very troublesome. However, the location of Emperor Qiu is high, so the probability of such things happening is actually not high. It's just that in the past A few years ago, there was a sudden heavy rain, which loosened the rocks for several days, and the mudslides rolled down and crushed many villages."
Yun Qi said casually: "Is this the reason for those deserted villages?"
Unexpectedly, Master Ma's expression suddenly turned a little cryptic, "That's not true. The reason why a village became a ghost village was not because of a natural disaster."
Lu Anran looked over, "Plague?"
Master Ma shook his head and uttered two words in a deep and depressed voice: "Curse."
