smuggler

Chapter 91 Xiao Tao
Lame Zhang showed distress, and said to me in a low voice: "You have also seen that if her wish is not fulfilled, she will not only turn into a zombie and hurt people, but also turn into a ghost."

I actually saw it early.

The funeral lanterns hanging under the eaves and the arrangement of the mourning hall were all done by Granny Ma herself.

The middle-aged man with a square face said that when they came to the door, Granny Ma lay dead in the coffin, that is to say, she lay in it by herself.

This is to know in advance that I will not be able to pass this hurdle, and to arrange a funeral for myself when I am dying.

To be able to figure out that he was going to die, with this kind of ability, of course I believed what Zhang Cripple said.

"You want me to put incense on her?" I didn't want to marry a dead ghost, so I shook my head: "I don't have any blood relationship with her, I don't know her at all."

"If you became her apprentice, wouldn't it be reasonable to offer incense to her?"

Zhang Laizi was unmoved at all, and continued: "I remembered one thing. I visited the second wife Ma some time ago. She told me that all her living relatives had disappeared. If she could meet her With a satisfied apprentice, she can go on the road with peace of mind."

"Thinking about it now, she knew at the time that she would not live long. But she didn't want the craft of barbering to be lost, so she has been waiting for an inheritor she is satisfied with." I was clouded by what the cripple said.

What Zhang Laizi said made her feel terrified, but she thought that she had that strange dream when she first came here?

I dreamed of meeting Granny Ma in this room, and it happened to be when she was dying.

Could it be that she was really waiting for herself?
Seeing my complex expression, Zhang Laizi gave me a weird look, and continued, "Although I am a casual observer, I can tell that your luck is not good recently. If you are willing to be Granny Ma's apprentice, say It may be possible to save the day.”

These words reminded me of what Grandma Ma said in my dream.

Granny Ma also said that she was in great trouble, and told her to promise her two things, and she gave her a life-saving thing, which would make her come out of danger.

One of these things is the top incense.

Who the hell is this old woman? Her calculations are as accurate as the script.

Since she can see and say that I am facing a catastrophe, then the two things she said may really save her from danger.

If I become her apprentice, no matter what, it's impossible for me to be a short-lived ghost, right?
I turned my head and looked at the old woman lying in the coffin with her eyes closed, took a deep breath, gritted my teeth and walked straight towards the case.

I picked up a few sticks of incense that the lame Zhang put down on the table, and burned them on the burning candle flame.

After a while, the villagers exclaimed again. Someone pointed to the incense in my hand in surprise, and said something in his mouth.

I ignored the surprise of the villagers, put three sticks of incense in the censer, and looked up at the portrait of Granny Ma, her face seemed to be smiling even more at this moment.

I didn't dare to look too much, when I turned my head around, an object suddenly fell from the beam above my head.

It was something wrapped in a red cloth, with a red thread wrapped around it, and the sound made when it landed seemed to be a wooden box.

I bent down to pick up the object wrapped in red cloth. At this moment, Zhang Lizi stepped forward to take a look and said, "You are indeed the apprentice of the second wife Ma. You have put incense on her now. This object looks like She left it to you."

These words made me feel mixed feelings.

It seems that this is indeed what Granny Ma said in her dream to save her life, but I only completed one, and there is another thing.

I said to Zhang Lizi, "I have to go to Ridge Garden, next..."

Lame Zhang nodded his head in an obstructive way: "Go and do your business first, you just need to remember that when Erpo Ma is buried, you can just send her up the mountain."

According to the rules of the countryside, it takes three days for the dead to be buried before they die, and relatives need to help the spirit to send the deceased up the mountain when they are buried.

Now I am confused and become the second wife of Ma, the only surviving relative and apprentice.

Although I felt a little uncomfortable, but it was not easy to refute, so I could only nod slightly.

Liuhuai Village is at the foot of the mountain, and it takes about ten minutes to follow the path. Gutao is in the Ridge Garden.

As expected of a local sacred tree, I was shocked when I arrived in the Ridge Garden.

The ancient peaches are verdant with pines and cypresses, and the branches are overgrown. The platform is surrounded by cement for more than ten meters.

There are many wooden plaques for blessings and kits hung with red threads hanging on the tree. It is unbelievable that the bright red peach blossoms in full bloom are like a ball of fire, overflowing with immortality.

In this season, peaches have long been out of season, and it stands to reason that this is not the month when peach blossoms are in full bloom, but this peach tree is full of flowers.

I searched around Gutao for a long time, and finally found a shriveled and blackened peach on the peach tree.

Last year's fruit, I didn't expect that it is still hanging on the tree now.

"It turned out to be an owl peach!" I was overjoyed.

The peaches do not fall through the winter, and hang on the tree after drying up, like the head of an owl, hence the name owl peach.

Because it looks like a prisoner's owl's head hanging on the top of the city, it is a holy weapon to ward off evil spirits and can kill demons and demons.

I was overjoyed, and after a long time of hard work, I finally picked off the peach. The flesh of this peach is dry and tight, mostly brown and slightly black.

After harvesting, I broke off a few peach branches on the sunny side of the peach tree.

With this thing in hand, I felt much more at ease.The purpose of coming here has been fulfilled, and when I went back, I went to the Mama Ma's mourning hall to take another look.

Because Ma's second wife will be buried the day after tomorrow, according to the rules, I will send her up the mountain.

I didn't go directly to Snake Island.

But here is not far from our village. I went back to my hometown and planned to take a few things left by my grandma, including the book.

Even though I was only away for a few days, it made me feel as if I was in a trance.

Everything in the village is still the same as usual.

When I returned to the village road, I saw villagers in twos and threes, but their expressions were a little dull. I don't know if it was because of the snake temple.

If the Liu family white snake is not dead, the incense they worship will be devoured continuously, and the body will continue to weaken.

The root of this matter is to destroy the Liu Family White Snake.

When I pushed open the courtyard door of grandma's house, I suddenly felt a sense of desolation.

A lot of withered and yellow fallen leaves drifted in from the courtyard, and in just a few days, a lot of dust fell on the window coffins, and the whole room exuded a cold air without fireworks.

After turning around, the house was very messy. I picked up the broom and planned to clean the house well. By the way, I would dig out all the unusable things and throw them away.

But when I cleaned out the room where my grandma lived and opened the drawers, I found a black and white photo at the bottom covered by old newspapers.

In that old-fashioned photo, the background is under the crooked tree at the entrance of the village. Grandma is sitting on a stone pier, looking at the camera with a smile.

I don't know why, but when I saw her smiling, my back felt a little numb, and the more I looked at her like this, the more nervous I felt.

(End of this chapter)