The heavens start from Maoshan

Chapter 203 Song Dingbo

the next day.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the sky was filled with lightning and thunder.

With a wooden basin on his head, Fang Han searched and searched around the temple, and finally found three skeletons in a puddle that had been eaten away by fish and shrimp.

The bones were salvaged, wrapped in straw mats, and buried under the peach tree at the entrance of the temple.

After finishing all this, Fang Han came to see Zhang Heng and said, "Brother Zhang, I have already collected the bones of the three monks, and I am going to take the bulls back in a while, and buy some ingot candles to pay homage to them."

After a slight pause, he said again: "I did the math. After the money is divided into four parts, it looks like six or seventy taels. It's better to be happy alone than to be happy together. We found the money together, so let's just share half of it."

Zhang Heng shook his head: "You were the one who climbed up the Buddha statue and found the money, and you were the one who collected the bones for the three monks. If you don't get paid for nothing, I won't take the money."

Fang Han wanted to say something more.

Zhang Heng interrupted him: "If you have the heart, you can just offer incense sticks to the three monks during festivals. Instead of thanking me, thank them."

Fang Han thoughtfully, and bowed in the direction of Maitreya Hall.

before parting.

Zhang Heng stopped Fang Han again, and asked him, "You are a servant of the Fang family. Now that you have money, what are your plans in the future?"

Fang Han scratched his head: "The master has treated me very well. I want to go back and discuss with the master to see if I can redeem the deed of selling myself. If possible, I plan to follow the eldest lady to learn art from the Lingxi school, and I will be a master in the future." People like Yan Daxia."

Zhang Heng said with a smile: "The best ending for you is to redeem yourself after you go back, and then set up a shop with dozens of taels of silver, relying on the trust of Fangfu and Master Fang to start a small business, as for learning martial arts and becoming a hero."

Zhang Heng shook his head: "Heroes have stinky feet and a lot of farts. Many people look good, but they are not. This is not a good way out."

why would you say so.

Heroes fight for justice, don't stick to small details, walk a lot every day, and it is inevitable to eat and sleep in the open, so naturally the whole body stinks.

What a hero.

Today, if you have a business, you will drink in a big bowl and eat a big piece of meat.

If there is no harvest tomorrow, you will have to tighten your belt to live.

A hungry meal, a full meal, cold wine and cold meat, it's no wonder that the stomach can be good.

So a hero with smelly feet and a hero who farts a lot, from Zhang Heng's point of view, it's better to do his job and start a small business with those dozens of taels of silver.

after all.

Dozens of taels of silver seems to be a lot, and I'm afraid it's not enough to do anything if you learn from a teacher.

The eldest lady of the Fang family is studying in the Lingxi School, which is one of the best martial arts sects in Yuzhou. The current world is in chaos, and I don't know how many children of high officials and nobles are among them.

Just thinking about it, Zhang Heng knew that the cost of learning art might not be small.

If you hand over a few dozen taels of silver, you may only learn a set of ordinary sword formulas, plus a set of boxing skills, which will not be of much use.

"I, I am not reconciled."

Faced with Zhang Heng's persuasion, Fang Han had something to say.

Not reconciled, yeah.

A man was born in heaven and earth, who would be willing to be ordinary.

Fang Han is still young, so if he doesn't go out for a while at this time, it will be too late when he is in his 30s and his blood has been smoothed by society.

Moreover, Zhang Heng knew that Fang Han had another reason.

Miss Fang's family was studying at the Lingxi School. In the past, Fang Han was just the cattle herder of the Fang family, so naturally she didn't dare to think too much about it.

But when you get to the Consonance School, if you succeed in your studies, can you be a toad and eat swan meat?

Against the rain.

lead the cow.

Fang Han hurried back, feeling elated.

Zhang Heng continued to stay in the temple to shelter from the rain.

Not long after, the rain stopped.

Just when Zhang Heng was about to get up and continue on his way, there were footsteps outside the temple. Zhang Heng raised his eyes and saw Fang Han running back with his body covered in mud and panic.

"Brother Zhang, help me!"

Fang Han stumbled, his tone full of fear.

"what happened?"

Zhang Heng sat cross-legged, his eyes full of confusion.

Fang Han hurriedly explained.

It turned out that he was leading the cow home, but when he got home, he saw that the gate of the Fang mansion was open, and there was no one in the courtyard, and there were many broken furniture in the room.

He searched for a long time, but could not find the whereabouts of Master Fang and the other servants.

You must know that Fang's family is not small, there are more than 30 slaves and servants in the house.

This early in the morning, everyone can't go out.

"Brother Zhang, my master must have encountered a villain or a monster. You are an old master with Yan Daxia. Please do your best to save one or two."

Fang Han was so anxious that he knelt on the ground and was about to kowtow to Zhang Heng.

Zhang Heng pondered for a moment, then said, "Lead the way, I'll follow you to have a look."

Fang Han hurriedly led the way ahead.

The two of them headed east all the way, and after walking for about three miles, they saw a large house in the suburbs, and they wrote the word "Fangfu".

Zhang Heng went in to have a look.

Sure enough, as Fang Han said, the doors in the courtyard were all open, but no one was there.

Turn around again.

Zhang Heng found that there were no traces of his belongings being searched for. If it had been done by robbers, the closet and the like would have been rummaged long ago.

"It should be a demon."

Zhang Heng explained to Fang Han, and then opened his eyes to look around.

"strangeness!"

Under his eyes, Zhang Heng did not see any evil spirit.

He couldn't help but wonder, couldn't it be the work of a demon?
"The sky is clear and the earth is bright, the yin is turbid and the yang is clear, five or six yin deities, go out of the secluded and into the dark, stay in the middle forever, protect the immortals"

Zhang Heng chanted the mantra and pointed to the courtyard: "Show the Dharma!"

brush! !

A golden light flashed, and after a while, a mirage-like scene appeared in front of the two of them.

into the eye.

The scene under the illusion was probably at night, when it was raining, a beggar came to Fang's house and knocked on the door.

After opening the door, the beggar seemed to want something to eat.

A middle-aged man dressed outside the staff did not refuse, so he asked the servants to bring the leftovers.

When the beggar saw this, he was furious, knocked over the food bowl, and started arguing with Fang Yuanwai.

In the end, without saying a few words, the beggar opened his mouth and spit out a black wind.

Blown by the black wind, everyone staggered and turned into a group of lambs in an instant.

The beggar laughed and drove away with the sheep.

"It's not that ghosts are acting fierce, but that they have encountered man-made disasters!"

After reading the cause and effect, Zhang Heng said to Fang Han: "Your master met a stranger and treated him as a beggar. He didn't treat him well. The stranger thought that your master looked down on him, so because of his magic skills, he took Fang All turned into lambs, fortunately you stayed in the temple last night, otherwise you would not have escaped this disaster."

Upon hearing this.

Fang Han wanted to cry without tears, and said bluntly: "This beggar is sloppy, and he came to the door in the middle of the night. It is already a kindness to give him leftovers. I didn't expect him to repay his kindness and kill my master."

Zhang Heng was silent.

Many capable people have eccentric tempers.

Things that normal people think are commonplace may seem to him a great shame and humiliation, and there is no place to justify them.

As for revenge.

Zhang Heng read a piece of news.

A well-meaning person sponsored hundreds of students, and then he got sick and had no money to support.

If you were a normal person, you would definitely understand.

As a result, Sheng Mien and Dou Michou, the parents of the students who were subsidized actually called and said: "Why do you need money for medical treatment? Do you know that if you don't give money, my children will not be able to go to school."

It's hard to say in such a world.

Obviously, beggars are also a strange thing.

When you come out to beg for food and ask for alms, you still think the food is leftovers.

He also didn't think about himself, just dressed as a beggar, if he went to beg for food, that family could cook him an extra table of food.

of course.

Zhang Heng still had an idea that he didn't say, this strange person might have come to Fang's house.

The leftovers are just an excuse, even if he cooks a few new dishes and steams a pot of rice, he will say: "I don't eat onions, ginger, and garlic." It's time to kill or kill.

"Bring a piece of your master's clothes."

Zhang Heng said directly to Fang Han.

Not long after, the clothes were brought.

Zhang Heng took out the talisman paper, cut out a paper dog, and said something in his mouth: "The sky is clear and the earth is bright, I bestow you with a true spirit, you will go to the sky and enter the earth, and there is nothing to hide from."

After giving the clothes to the paper dog to smell, Zhang Heng ordered: "Track!"

Wang Wang Wang!
The paper dog was no bigger than a palm, but after jumping off Zhang Heng's hand, it walked like flying and ran very fast.

Fang Han chased after him, but he was out of breath. When he stopped again, he had gone for more than five miles and arrived at the entrance of a cave.

baa! !

Zhang Heng raised his eyes and saw that there were many sheep locked in the cave.

Count them, there are about thirty or fifty, but the beggars are not here.

woof woof! !

The paper dog rushed into the cave and jumped on the head of a fat sheep.

Seeing this, Zhang Heng pointed to the sheep and said, "This is your master."

"My lord!"

Seeing that the master has become a fat sheep, Fang Han's eyes turned red instantly: "You have become like this, how can I explain to Miss when I turn around?"

"No problem."

Zhang Heng stepped forward to take a look, and asserted: "They were just hit by a spell. Although I don't know what it is, as far as spells are concerned, if no one continues to cast the spell, it will take three to five days at the shortest time, and ten days at the longest." It will be automatically lifted in half a month."

Spells are no more than others.

Zhang Heng didn't know what spell they were cast on, so it's better not to try to break the spell lightly.

If you want to break the curse, you must prescribe the right medicine.

One is to kill the person who cast the spell. Generally, when the person who cast the spell dies, the spell will be solved naturally.

The second is to allow the person who cast the spell to untie it. Spells have two sides. There is a way to cast a spell and a way to undo it. This is one.

The third is to give time.

There is no spell, it is cast once and can last for a lifetime.

Especially this curse.

The duration of jinx is usually not long, or there is a time limit.

When the time limit is reached, the spell will resolve itself, just like acupuncture in martial arts, but it will last a little longer, usually three to five days.

"Song Dingbo, Song Dingbo?"

Zhang Heng and the two guarded the cave, hoping to wait for the beggar to come back.

As a result, he waited and waited until noon, but the beggar did not see him, but a shepherd instead.

Holding a whip, the shepherd came all the way to the cave entrance, calling out people's names.

When we got here, seeing that the beggar was not there, but Zhang Heng and his wife were there, I couldn't help asking, "Where is Song Dingbo?"

"Song Dingbo?"

Hearing this name, Zhang Heng asked, "Is Song Dingbo a beggar?"

"He's not a beggar, but he's dressed a little sloppily."

The shepherd said as he walked towards the cave: "The sheep this time are not bad, they are big and fat, much better than last time."

"Tell me about Song Dingbo."

Zhang Heng stopped the shepherd.

The shepherd didn't hide anything, and immediately started talking to him.

It turned out that the beggar was called Song Dingbo, and he was very courageous.

When I was young, I once encountered ghosts while walking at night. If I were a normal person, I would definitely be terrified.

As a result, Song Dingbo was not only not afraid, but went up to the ghost and asked, "Who are you?"

The ghost replied: "I am a ghost, who are you?"

Song Dingbo replied: "I am also a ghost, and I want to go to Wancheng."

The ghost was overjoyed: "I also want to go to Wancheng, you and I can go together."

Walking halfway, in order to save effort, the two met and walked with each other's backs.

Song Dingbo carried the ghost on his back, but felt that his body was as light as nothing. The ghost carried Song Dingbo on his back, but he was as tired as a dead dog. He said angrily, "You are too heavy, you don't look like a ghost."

Song Dingbo replied: "I am newly dead, so it is very heavy."

The ghost believed it was true, and carried Song Dingbo on his back for more than ten miles.

When he saw Wancheng, Song Dingbo asked again: "I am a newly-dead ghost. I don't know what taboos there are in being a ghost. Brother ghost, please teach me."

The ghost said, "I'm afraid of human saliva."

Song Dingbo spit on the ghost, and the ghost turned into a sheep. Song Dingbo then sold it to the market for [-] yuan.

"Since then, Song Dingbo has often caught ghosts and sold them."

"I didn't want to accept it at first, but he sold it cheaply. It only cost me a thousand bucks, and I made at least five or six hundred bucks in it. I don't have to agree."

The shepherd said to Zhang Heng in this way: "Song Dingbo also told me that these sheep must be slaughtered within three days after they are sold, otherwise they may turn back into ghosts again."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Heng pondered, "Isn't this Song Dingbo's Story of Catching Ghosts?"

Song Dingbo's Story of Catching Ghosts is a miscellaneous note in the old version of elementary school texts.

But Song Dingbo here is obviously not an ordinary person, but a magician.

Of course, Song Dingbo in the book is probably in his 20s and still a young man.

Song Dingbo here looks to be over 40 years old.

Maybe in the past 20 years, he had another adventure, not only turning ghosts into sheep, but also turning people into sheep.

"Song Dingbo will let me come once every first and fifteenth day of the month."

"At least three or five, as many as a dozen, every time I come, I won't let me go back empty-handed."

"However, like today, it's the first time to get dozens of sheep in one go. I don't know who is so unlucky, and he took it all in one pot."

The shepherd didn't know that Song Dingbo could not only turn ghosts into sheep, but also people into sheep.

Just think that these sheep are ghosts, and the world is not good now, and people eat two-legged sheep, let alone four-legged sheep.

Therefore, the shepherd has no psychological burden at all to buy these ghostly transformed sheep.

"Your trip today was in vain. My family has a wedding banquet. Song Dingbo has already sold all these sheep to me."

Zhang Heng didn't point out that these sheep are human affairs.

Because it is useless to say more, it will only cause panic. Instead of letting those who have bought sheep wonder whether they cannibalize people all day long, it is better to pretend that this has never happened.

"Sold it to you?"

The shepherd froze for a moment: "Then what else did he ask me to do?"

Zhang Heng replied: "He sold me for [-] Wen, which is a high price. Maybe he asked you to come over and take a look, and think about the price increase in the future."

"Price increase!"

The shepherd was furious: "Thirteen hundred renminbi can buy a real sheep. Who would buy his ghost sheep?"

After speaking, the shepherd left cursing.

(End of this chapter)