Taoist chanting

Chapter 27

Hearing that the second senior brother returned to the Xianling Temple, the atmosphere at the dinner table suddenly became lively. The old lame man didn't pay attention to what to eat or not to talk about.

Zhang Wenfeng did not spoil their interest and drank a small bowl with them.

After three bowls of spirits, the old cripple was in high spirits, half-legged on the bench, his hands resting on the table, his face flushed red.It was as if he had returned to the happy age of drinking in big bowls and eating large pieces of meat in the arena, with a loud voice and flipping through his old yellow calendar.

When people are old, they like to talk about the proud deeds of their youth, and they have to start from the beginning every time.

Everyone's ears had become cocooned for a long time, and they listened patiently while eating and drinking.

After eating and drinking enough, Zhang Wenfeng got up and patted the hunchback on the shoulder, leaving the second senior brother, a good old man, to listen to the cripple blowing water.

Anyway, as long as one person listens, the lame person will not lose interest and can live in his own bloody world for a short time.

It was dusk, and there was still a lingering red in the sky that would not fade away.

"Brother Feng, do you have something to explain? The old cripple likes to gossip after drinking some cat urine. He doesn't usually do this."

Huozi smiled and raised his head to explain to the lame.

Zhang Wenfeng walked through the wheat drying field to the east under the tree, and when the tuozi followed, he chatted as usual: "Brother Tuo, on the afternoon of the 26th, you took Lu Jinzhong for a stroll around the backyard, right?"

In fact, it took him only three days in total to enter this world.

A lot of things happened during this period, and I thought it was the same for a long time in the past.

Camel's face froze, he wondered how the spectator knew about this?
That afternoon, Guanzhu went to the town's pharmacy. He needed to choose a few incense-making ingredients, and he and the lame did not feel relieved. They didn't know the goods. Every month around the end of the month, the Guanzhu would go down the mountain.

He grows vegetables and fields in a Taoist temple, and often goes home when he has time. He is not like a lame old bachelor. He has been a Taoist temple for more than ten years.

The Taoist priest Lu Jinzhong, who was familiar with him in the past, met him and said that he missed the days in the Taoist temple. He hoped that he would be accommodating and find a day when the temple master and the lame man were not there to go for a walk on the mountain.

For the sake of a silver bean, he thought it was not a big deal, so he agreed.

Informing Lu Jinzhong of the time to go up the mountain in advance, he took the cripple to the vegetable field in the back mountain. He took Lu Jinzhong around the backyard on the mountain, but did not let Lu Jinzhong enter the main hall to burn incense. He was worried that the cripple would come back and break it. good talk.

It was only half an incense stick before and after, Lu Jinzhong did nothing, left in a hurry up the mountain, and told him not to tell the spectator, so as not to attract blame.

Now the Guanzhu asks this matter with certainty, but I don’t know how he came to know it?
Huozi knew that he was wrong, and explained with a smirk: "Guangzhu, I was confused for a while and let him go up the mountain, but please rest assured, I watched him without leaving an inch, he was only in the backyard near the thatched hut where he lived. I turned around and didn't even let the door in."

He wisely changed the title, and could hear the unpleasantness in the voice of the watcher.

Zhang Wenfeng laughed in his heart, and his face became cold: "Lu Jinzhong is already dead. On the first day of March, that is, at five o'clock in the morning yesterday, he died in the fields south of Hexi Town."

The hunchback was so frightened that he took a few steps back.

He was holding a wedding at his own home in Zhangjiazhuang. Yesterday afternoon, he heard a few words from the guests. It was very evil. Someone in the town killed a ghost. The death was very tragic and strange. That person strangled himself to death.

It was Lu Jinzhong who he didn't know was dead at the time. He raised his head and looked in horror at the young viewer who used to think that humans and animals were harmless and could be fooled. Could it be...

Zhang Wenfeng didn't look at the hunchback whose face was discolored with fright, and asked, "He was in the backyard that day. Did he ask you which hut I live in now?"

Huozi no longer dared to talk nonsense, "ah", he found that his throat seemed to be blocked, and he couldn't say a complete sentence, so he nodded and coughed a few times.

Zhang Wenfeng looked up at the sky and said, "After Lu Jinzhong knew my place, he pretended to go down the mountain, but in fact he came back, climbed the wall and entered the backyard, and did some magic tricks on the bed where I was sleeping. He wanted to do it to harm me. , but I was not good enough, was attacked by sorcery, and died, the details of the case are the letters I heard from the city, and the case will be closed in a few days."

Turning around and leaving, a sigh came faintly: "Brother Tuo, you have broken the rules of Taoism, I can't keep you, for the sake of Master, I don't want to pursue everything in the past, you pack your things and go home overnight, so you can do it yourself, if you are outside Chew your tongue and I'll find you."

After speaking, people have gone far.

Huozi was frightened, how dare he say a word, his legs are too weak.

On summer nights in the countryside, the legends of Taoist fighting methods circulated under the big trees while enjoying the cool air are so terrifying that no one has ever seen them with their own eyes.

Only at this moment did Huozi know that there are really powerful people in this world beyond imagination.

Guanzhu's words, "It's good to do it yourself," pressed down on his heart like a stone, so heavy that he couldn't breathe.

After a long time, the hunchback regained some strength, supported his heavy legs, and returned to his residence to pick up the package in the dark.

He secretly regretted that he shouldn't be greedy for a silver bean from that dead ghost.

The mountain is in charge of eating and using, and there is also the monthly fee set by the old temple master. publicity.

When they came out of the backyard door, they met the lame man and Zhang Wenxing who had finished drinking and walked out holding the door frame.

"Hey, camel, what are you doing? Why did you just go up the mountain and go back?"

The cripple stopped the hunchback who was trying to slip away quietly with the package on his back.

The hunchback didn't want to publicize his scandal, so he showed a tight smile and said, "I just remembered that there are two important things at home. I didn't tell the second boy, and I have to go back overnight. Lame Uncle, drink slowly, and we will talk later."

"That's it, the road is dark, you can light it up with a wind lamp, don't fall."

"No need, I'm used to running at night, and I'm very familiar with it."

Watching the camel hurried down the mountain, the lame didn't take it seriously.

Huozi often go home at night after work and dinner, which is not a long way to the country people.

The cripple went to the toilet to urinate, then came back drunk and slowly cleaned up the guys in the kitchen, humming an out-of-tune ditty.

It’s been a long time since I drank so much. The Guanzhu has used a lot of oil these days, and there is one less piece of bacon on the stove. He won’t say much, but in the future, the Guanzhu can no longer be in charge of the spoon.

Second Senior Brother used his inner strength to get rid of the smell of alcohol, washed his face, washed his hands, and went to the brightly lit main hall.

Guanzhu can not accompany the lame uncle to drink, he returns to the mountain gate, how can he save face?

Zhang Wenfeng was waiting in the hall. He was not unkind, as long as he didn't break the rules, he could tolerate it.

After Fengxiang recited the scriptures and finished the evening class, he invited the second senior brother to the West Hall, cooked a pot of tea, and told the second senior brother about the hump, so angry that the second senior brother clenched his fists and got angry.

"Confused, how can he eat inside and out... Alas, he's mad at me."

"After two days, when the lame uncle asks about the hunchback, you and lame uncle break up the matter, and you don't need to pass it on to the village. After all, the ugliness of the family can't be made public, and it doesn't sound good."

"I understand now, and you can rest assured."

"I will go to the city tomorrow morning, and the thieves have been wiped out. We don't have to guard against thieves day and night, and we can get a good night's sleep."

Zhang Wenfeng assisted the Daolu Branch in eliminating the thieves. To put it simply, the second senior brother would not stubbornly stay overnight. After drinking tea, he went out to arrange a place to live. The other set of keys was handed over to the second senior brother for safekeeping. , rest early.

Returning to the West Hall, the oil lamp was lit, and after copying the remaining booklet, the original left by the master was returned to the secret room.

Opened the transcribed booklet and found the sound transmission technique, with only a few lines.

There was Yuan Qi's instruction from Fu Gujing in the morning, Zhang Wenfeng pondered it in detail for about a quarter of an hour, and he felt that it was almost the same.

After trying a few times, you will master this esoteric technique of beam sound transmission, commonly known as "sound transmission technique".

There are similar secret techniques on the rivers and lakes, which can be used in the Houtian realm, but the sound transmission distance is not far enough, at most ten feet, and the real sound transmission technique, in the initial stage, it is not a problem to transmit a sound of several ten feet, and it can reach a hundred feet after the cultivation level is high. , even miles away.

(End of this chapter)