Modify destiny starting from Liaozhai

Chapter 133 Victory or Loss [Two-in-one, please vote for me]

A pair of big feet, as hairy as if they were wearing woolen pants. They were wearing a pair of straw sandals, which were covered with mud.

Xu Changsheng looked up at the butcher picture again.

Butcher Zhang glared and said, "Mrs. Liu's family will come to take care of her soon, why don't you get out of the way."

There were cries outside the crowd at the right time, and then several men and women barged in. As soon as they rushed to the door, a woman fainted after shouting, and the others also vomited and cried.

"Oh, don't look at it. Madam Liu's life is miserable."

"That's it, you think, who can be so powerful... cut off a person's head with one knife."

"..."

Listening to the discussion of the people watching, Xu Changsheng asked tentatively: "This person is dead, won't you report it to the official?"

If we can really bring in the government, it will be much easier to handle it ourselves.

After all, Xu Changsheng has not forgotten that he is just an ordinary person now.

"Report to the official? What is the official? Are they also murderers?"

Seeing the ignorant expressions on their faces, Xu Changsheng knew that the monk really did not give him a chance to take advantage of the loophole.

So Xu Changsheng sighed, lowered his head, and looked at them dimly.

"Don't think about it, it's ghosts who kill people."

"What? It's a ghost?!"

"Ghost!"

"..."

When the onlookers heard this, they immediately exclaimed.

"It must be a ghost, otherwise whoever has this ability will kill him with one knife."

"Everyone who has read this book says he is a ghost, so it must be a ghost!"

"..."

The crowd was talking a lot, but Xu Changsheng walked into the crowd, protecting everyone in front of him, and silently looked at Butcher Zhang.

After hearing this, Butcher Zhang seemed to be in a daze. After a while, he left the crowd, turned around and rushed back to his home.

Xu Changsheng looked at the ground again and saw a shadow...

Maybe this ghost also has a shadow?

Xu Changsheng didn't know, so he turned around and saw Wang Hu still standing there waiting.

Xu Changsheng's expression was slightly startled, but only for a moment, he bent down and took Wang Hu's hand and returned home.

"Brother, have you seen Aunt Liu's body? Isn't it terrifying..."

"Yes, it's very scary. It's better for children not to watch this."

When she returned home, Grandma Wang had already prepared breakfast, which was still corn, but compared to last night, she had prepared three portions.

Xu Changsheng, who had been hungry all night, no longer wanted to waste even a grain of rice.

After eating, he tidied up his appearance and went out.

The body of Aunt Liu next door has been restrained, but there is still a strong smell of blood.

Xu Changsheng walked around her house and came to the house next door.

There was a family of three living in this house, who were also having breakfast. They all welcomed the arrival of Xu Changsheng, a young scholar.

In this era, scholars are popular wherever they go.

After Xu Changsheng sat down, he began to sigh.

"Here, this husband, why are you sighing?"

The man looked worried.

Xu Changsheng said: "I didn't expect that when I first came to your village, I would encounter ghosts running rampant... This is because the ghosts I encountered some time ago were not that fierce."

The woman became even more frightened after hearing this, and hurriedly hugged her baby.

The man swallowed his saliva and asked, "Sir, you have traveled far away. How can you cure this ghost?"

——This is your question I’m waiting for.

Xu Changsheng said solemnly: "When I was away, I learned several talismans from an immortal, but these talismans must be made of rooster blood and black dog blood to be effective."

The reason why he said this was because he fell in love with the big rooster in this family.

As for the talismans... he didn't know if the talismans were useful in the secret realm created by the monk.

But rooster blood is definitely useful, as it has strong yang energy.

The man hesitated after hearing this. He only had one chicken in his family, and he usually relied on this big rooster to breed other people's hens in order to get some chickens to eat.

But now if we want to take its blood, we must kill the chicken.

Seeing his hesitation, Xu Changsheng added fuel to the fire, fanned his nose with his hand, frowned and said, "The smell of blood is so strong."

"Kill, kill, kill, I'm going to kill you right now. Please wait a moment, sir."

The man said as he went to get the knife.

Xu Changsheng asked again: "Does this elder brother know which family in the village has a black dog?"

"I know, there is a black dog in Ge Er's house. You and I will go and persuade him later. It's time. It must be important to save his life."

So I came down all morning.

Xu Changsheng got a vial of black dog blood and a vial of rooster blood.

At noon, we had a meal of dog meat at Ge Er's house to fill up the five internal organs temple.

It wasn't until the afternoon that he wiped some blood on the inside of his green shirt and knocked on the door of Butcher Zhang's house.

When Butcher Zhang opened the door, he was startled when he saw it was Xu Changsheng, and subconsciously took a few steps back.

So Xu Changsheng was also frightened.

He thought Butcher Zhang was shocked by the blood on his body.

"This, this scholar, what you said this morning was caused by evil spirits, is it true?"

Butcher Zhang's eyes were still in a trance, obviously he still hadn't gotten over what happened in the morning.

He stood inside the door.

Xu Changsheng stood outside the door and nodded.

Butcher Zhang gritted his teeth and said, "Xiucai, I may know who that ghost is."

"Who?"

"You, come in and I'll talk to you."

Xu Changsheng shook his head and even took a step back, "I'm right here. If you want to say something, just say it. If you don't say anything, I'll leave."

Seeing this, Butcher Zhang had no choice but to step forward, stick his head out, look around, and then said: "That ghost is definitely Wang Xiang...he is Wang Hu's father."

"what?"

Xu Changsheng became interested.

But he still didn't go into Butcher Zhang's house. Instead, he went outside with him to find a quiet and uninhabited place.

Originally, Butcher Zhang wanted to find a shady place, but Xu Changsheng insisted on pulling him to talk in the sun.

Butcher Zhang’s scalp was numb from the sun.

"When Wang Xiang was still here, he couldn't get along with Mrs. Liu. They would scold her every two days, and sometimes they would even fight."

"I lived across from them, and I often heard Wang Xiang say that he wanted to kill that bitch. Later, Wang Xiang died."

After Xu Changsheng heard this, he raised his eyes again and glanced at the ugly-looking strong man.

"So you suspect that Wang Xiang's ghost is causing trouble?"

"Ok!"

Xu Changsheng pondered: "How does Wang Xiang's body shape compare with yours?"

Butcher Zhang replied: "He is similar to me. He is a hunter in our village, and he is also tall and thick. He died because he fell to death while entering the mountain."

At this point, Xu Changsheng could basically rule out the butcher in front of him.

This ghost is probably not him.

Not afraid of black dog blood, rooster blood, not afraid of the sun and shadows... In addition, at this moment, he was almost delivered to his door.

If it were really him, he might have died several times.

But according to this butcher's statement... it's really possible that he is Wang Hu's father.

Judging from the footprints I saw at the door of the room, I can deduce its body shape, which is also consistent.

They are all five big and three thick.

Secondly, he was a hunter during his lifetime, so it was possible for him to behead him with a knife.

Finally, as Butcher Zhang said, Wang Hu's father had a grudge against the dead Aunt Liu... So Xu Changsheng looked at the frightened butcher in front of him and asked seriously:
"Who else has a grudge against Wang Hu's father?"

Butcher Zhang opened his mouth, but no words came out several times.

"You have a grudge against him?"

Xu Changsheng asked.

Butcher Zhang lowered his head and nodded, "You really can't blame me for this..."

Only then did Butcher Zhang start to talk nonchalantly.

After hearing this, Xu Changsheng finally knew what happened between the two.

When Wang Xiang was alive, he caught a wild boar and asked Butcher Zhang to sell it.

The selling price was [-] cents for two people.

But when the wild boar got into the hands of Butcher Zhang, he secretly kept a hind leg for himself.

I just kept it, but Wang Xiang discovered it.

This is why the two of them became enmity.

Butcher Zhang felt that it was nothing when he was alive, but now Wang Xiang is dead.

This person has become a ghost, who knows if his personality will change?

Isn't it very reasonable to retaliate after death for the grudges made during life?

After Xu Changsheng heard this, he looked at him with a faint look, "You are indeed doing this wrong."

"I...I am also temporarily obsessed with it."

Butcher Zhang spread his hands, his expression extremely sad and angry.

"How about this."

Xu Changsheng stretched out his hand and knocked on the table and said: "I will stay at your house tonight and accompany you to see what the ghost is like. I am also a show..."

Before he could finish his words, Butcher Zhang nodded repeatedly, "Okay, okay, scholar, I have to save my life. You must be the Wenqu star from the sky who has come down to earth. You must save me."

Unite all the forces that can be united... This is a sentence that Xu Changsheng regards as a guideline.

At this moment, too, now that it is confirmed that this Butcher Zhang is not a ghost, he has become someone Xu Changsheng can unite with.

The butcher has murderous intent and seems to have a grudge against ghosts.

If the ghost really comes to kill people tonight, can I point it out on the spot? In this way, the first level will be passed?
After all, what the monk said at the beginning was to find out the identity of the ghost without being killed.

He didn't say he had to deal with the ghosts himself.

Not to mention that being with this butcher would give me a lot of peace of mind and earn his gratitude.

At this point, a long-lost feeling returned to Xu Changsheng's heart.

It seems like I haven’t fooled people for a long time...

"Okay, get ready. I'll go to Wang Hu's house later to move things over."

"Okay, okay."

Butcher Zhang nodded hurriedly.

Xu Changsheng returned to Grandma Wang's home, stroking his numb scalp.

Mrs. Wang was picking beans in the yard without raising her head.

Not seeing Wang Hu, Xu Changsheng asked, "Mother-in-law, where is Xiao Hu?"

"No, let's go out and play."

Wang Po still ignored me.

Xu Changsheng nodded, "That's right, Butcher Zhang asked me to live with him, and he kept begging..."

"If you want to go, just go. Why are you telling me so much to my mother-in-law?"

Xu Changsheng responded and went into the house.

The footprints going up the stairs have disappeared, and I don't know who cleaned them.

Xu Changsheng packed up his things, carried the book box on his back, thanked him again, and then left.

After he left, Grandma Wang looked up at his back with sinister eyes, and finally sneered before lowering her head and continuing to pick the beans.

She threw all the bad beans she picked out on the ground.

……

When Xu Changsheng came to Zhang Tufu's house, he was cleaning the guest room.

"No, we can just share a room."

"Isn't this too unfair to the scholar?"

Xu Changsheng shook his head, "If we live separately, I'm afraid that when the ghost comes to kill you, I won't be able to come over in time."

"Besides, human life is at stake, so what's the point of feeling aggrieved?"

"Okay, okay, then, scholar, you can sleep on the bed, and I'll just make a bunk on the floor."

It wasn't until Xu Changsheng looked at his bed that he decided to make his own bed on the floor.

That bed... I guess only Butcher Zhang dared to sleep on it.

That night.

Xu Changsheng, who had had a good meal, lay on a bed made of several chairs, staring blankly at the dark floor with his eyes wide open.

"Master Xiu Cai, do you think this ghost will come tonight?"

"Yes, maybe it's already here, right under your bed."

Xu Changsheng said with a yawn.

Butcher Zhang shivered in fright and made the bed creak.

Xu Changsheng didn't know why a butcher was so afraid of ghosts.

After that, Butcher Zhang would chatter every once in a while.

Xu Changsheng would answer at first, but after he got really sleepy, he no longer knew what he was talking about.

"Xiucai, ghost, ghost is here!"

After an unknown amount of time, Butcher Zhang suddenly straightened his body and said in an almost roaring voice.

Xu Changsheng also woke up immediately and grabbed the black dog rooster blood beside him.

He heard the sound of nails scratching the wooden door.

Almost instantly, Xu Changsheng was sure that a ghost had indeed come... because before going to bed, he smeared the blood of a black dog and rooster on the doors and windows.

As for the inside of this room, he used Zhang Butcher's pig-bristle brush to wipe it all over. Otherwise, he would not sleep so peacefully tonight.

"It, if it dares to come in, I will stab it to death!"

Butcher Zhang held his ancestral butcher knife in his hand and said viciously.If he wasn't showing off and trembling all over, Xu Changsheng might be more trustworthy.

As for now, Xu Changsheng just wants to get his butcher's knife and apply the remaining black dog's blood on it.

It must be a weapon to kill ghosts.

The sound of nails scratching the wooden door only lasted for a cup of tea and then disappeared.

Xu Changsheng waited a little longer and then said, "Butcher Zhang, go and take a look at the window to see if the ghost is gone?"

"If you don't go, I won't go even if you kill me."

Butcher Zhang clutched the quilt tightly, as if the quilt could keep out ghosts.

Xu Changsheng also remembered that when he was a child, he always felt that if he could tuck his head into bed, monsters and monsters would not be able to hurt him.

As for now... Xu Changsheng shook his head with a smile, grabbed two bottles filled with blood, and came to the window.

The moonlight is still bright, even brighter than last night.

But before Xu Changsheng could look out, as soon as he reached the window, he saw a dead face outside the window.

The body was completely black, and the pale dead face was covered with green and white spots.

Seeing Xu Changsheng, that... ghost grinned, its sinister teeth were like jagged teeth, mixed with flesh and blood, and then pounced forward.

"boom--"

The ghost hit the window, tearing at it, and kept pushing inward.

But the window had already been smeared with black dog blood by Xu Changsheng, and black smoke kept rising from the ghost's body, making it squeak and scream.

But it still squeezed hard.

The change happened so quickly that Xu Changsheng was also shocked.

But after reacting, he immediately picked up a bottle filled with blood in his hand and threw it out, hitting the ghost hard on the head.

The bottle shattered, blood flowed on the ghost's head, and the black smoke suddenly became worse.

The ghost kept screaming, pulling his body with his hands, and kept exerting force.

Butcher Zhang was so frightened by this situation that he cowered in the corner, as if he was competing with the ghost to see who could scream louder.

"Knife!"

"Pig-killing knife!!"

Xu Changsheng yelled. Although he had lost his cultivation and even his destiny was affected, he had experienced a lot after all. Although he was scared at the moment, he had not yet lost his reaction.

Butcher Zhang had long since lost his way.

Xu Changsheng had no choice but to rush to him, snatch the butcher's knife from his hand, and hold it in his right hand. A long-lost feeling came to his mind.

Holding this butcher's knife means holding the hope of life at this moment.

In an instant, he rushed towards the ghost with the butcher's knife.

The ghost knew something was wrong, and with a push of his hands, his whole body immediately retreated from the window, howled, and disappeared into the night.

Xu Changsheng was the only one left standing in the room with a butcher's knife in his hand.

After a long time, he softened and sat down, breathing heavily.

The next day was fine.

Xu Changsheng woke him up. He didn't know whether he fell asleep or frightened Butcher Zhang.

"Ghost, ghost!!"

Seeing that he was about to sneak into the corner again, Xu Changsheng gave him a big dick.

Butcher Zhang was confused.

"Get up and cook. I'll do some work after dinner later."

"Do something? Do something."

Butcher Zhang came to his senses.

But Xu Changsheng didn't give him another chance to speak and went out on his own.

While eating breakfast, the two also heard from their neighbors that Ge Da at the end of the village had been killed. All three members of his family were killed by ghosts, and they were also beheaded with a single knife.

Neat.

At this point, the villagers were increasingly panicked.

Few people even dare to go out.

Xu Changsheng looked at the dazed butcher and asked, "This Ge Da... shouldn't have any conflicts with Wang Hu's father, right?"

"No... no."

Butcher Zhang shook his head with absent-minded eyes.

Xu Changsheng became more confident about the guess in his mind.

"After dinner, you go and call everyone in the village together and tell them that this scholar is going to catch ghosts today."

"Ghost hunting?"

Butcher Zhang came to his senses.

"Ah."

After the ghost was driven away last night, Xu Changsheng carefully recalled his experiences since his arrival, and finally had a target of suspicion.

Moreover, the ghost killed someone again last night, and he also killed Ge Da's family, who had no grudge against Wang Hu's father.

Xu Changsheng's confidence became stronger.

Eighty percent.

It's well worth the risk.

And even if it fails, your own security can be further enhanced.

With the experience of fighting the evil ghost last night, Xu Changsheng's status in Butcher Zhang's heart also soared. Now that he heard his arrangement, he hurriedly finished his meal and went out.

Xu Changsheng took his butcher's knife, wrapped it in cloth, put it away close to his body, and went to the end of the village as if he were there.

He went to Ge Er's neighbor's house, made some inquiries, and then left.

By the time he came out, many people were already rushing towards the middle of the village.

Xu Changsheng returned and went to Grandma Wang's house...

When he came to the middle of the village again, all the living people in the village, old and young, were sitting around.

As soon as Xu Changsheng arrived, the villagers became excited.

"Lang Jun, I heard that you want to catch ghosts, right?"

"Lao Zhang told us that you had a fight with the ghost last night. Can you catch the ghost?"

"That's right, you are the Wenqu star in the sky who has come down to earth. You must save us."

"..."

Some have even begun to kneel.

Xu Changsheng couldn't care less. He came to the open space in the middle of the field surrounded by people, and his eyes slowly swept over everyone present.

Butcher Zhang had already exaggerated his heroic deeds last night, and everyone caught his gaze lowered their heads.

Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Xu Changsheng said in a deep voice:

"I guess you all know what I want to do."

"Catch the ghost, catch the ghost!"

Butcher Zhang shouted loudly.

At first, people just looked at him strangely, but after he finished speaking, the other people also shouted, shouting to catch the ghost.

Xu Changsheng waited for them to vent their fears, then pressed his hands to calm them down, and continued:

"Actually, that ghost is right next to us."

"He has his own identity, and he usually lives with you, so you can't find it."

"what?"

For a moment, everyone stepped back and looked at the people around them in fear.

Some even have their own family members suspicious.

There was a lot of noise.

Xu Changsheng shouted several times but there was no response. Seeing this, Butcher Zhang jumped out again. He shouted loudly and shouted hard several times before the people became quiet, but they still looked at the people around them suspiciously.

"Okay, since everyone is here, I will... catch this ghost today."

Xu Changsheng's voice was very high, and as soon as he finished speaking, his stern eyes began to wander among the people, and everyone he saw retreated one after another.

Finally, his eyes settled on a stooped man.

"Are you right...Liu San?"

"what?!"

"Is it Liu San?"

Before anyone could react, they heard roars coming from the opposite direction.

All the people looked back.

I saw Ge Er and Zhang Butcher working together to grab a fishing net and trap... Po Wang.

Do not!
To be precise, it was Wang Hu, the burned-out grandson who was hiding behind Mrs. Wang.

ghost.

It's Wang Hu.

That cute-looking young man with a tiger-like head and a tiger-like brain.

Seeing this, Xu Changsheng was finally sure, but he didn't look again. Instead, he looked up at the sky and said softly: "I caught the ghost."

Immediately, all the people who were still clamoring fell silent.

The scene seemed like time stood still.

Only Wang Hu broke free from the fishing net soaked in black dog blood, looked at Xu Changsheng with his eyes faintly, and asked:

"How did you find out?"

At this point, Xu Changsheng's consciousness was suddenly pulled away and kept rising.

He saw the original appearance of the village, and also saw the other side. Cui Pei gathered the villagers together and talked about something...

But after all, he was still one step slower than Xu Changsheng.

Xu Changsheng came out of the secret realm and looked at the immortals sitting high in the sky.

At this moment, a young man's figure appeared out of thin air, looking at Xu Changsheng with a faint look, and asked: "How did you discover my identity?"

Xu Changsheng looked back at Monk Hua Deng, who nodded.

He just said:

"When I first started to suspect you, it was the morning you killed Aunt Liu. I came back from looking at the body and found you crowded in the crowd."

"Then I thought again, are you afraid of being exposed to the sun?"

"Just because of this?"

Young Wang Hu's face was full of disbelief.

Xu Changsheng shook his head, "Of course not. Later, Butcher Zhang told me that the ghost was your father, and the situation was very consistent. At that time, I also thought it was your father's ghost."

"But it wasn't until you fought me last night that I realized it wasn't... because the way you looked at me was filled with resentment. You were hating me. If the ghost was really your father, he would definitely not hate me."

"So, actually the person you wanted to kill last night was me, not Butcher Zhang, right?"

Young Wang Hu's face suddenly turned ferocious, "Yes, I just want to kill you. Who made you not want to play with me? You disliked me. You stayed at my house for one night and then left. Do you think you dislike me?" I am going to kill you!"

Xu Changsheng continued without changing his expression:

"Then I started to recall my experiences with you, and it turned out that every time I went out with you, you would subconsciously stand in my shadow to make sure you didn't get exposed to the sun. That's when I started to doubt you."

"So the next morning, I went to the neighbor's house of Ge Da who you killed and asked if there was any conflict between you and Ge Da's child."

"I got the exact answer. You had a fight with Ge Da's child because he called you a motherless child."

Wang Hu's eyes were red, and he roared with all his strength, but he seemed to be trapped in place and unable to move.

Xu Changsheng said:

"So while you were all rushing to the middle of the village, I went to your house, and sure enough I found a pair of big straw sandals under your bed, covered with mud... If nothing else, on the first night, When you came to my room, it was the sound you made when you stepped on those straw sandals. At that time... you didn't become a ghost, right? "

"right……"

Now it was Xu Changsheng's turn to be silent. He pondered for a long time before asking: "Actually, you had the chance to kill me on the first night. I want to know why you didn't do it then?"

Wang Hu's ferocious expression became gentle.

"Remember what you said to me when we were closing the door that night?"

"You touched my head, said good night to me, and asked me to go to bed early... No one has ever treated me like this..."

Speaking of this, Wang Hu's face became ugly again.

"You only know that I am a ghost, but do you know how I died and why I became a ghost?!"

"You don't know, you only know that I am a ghost."

"Ghosts deserve to die!"

Xu Changsheng couldn't help but feel a stab of pain in his heart.

"All right."

Monk Hua Deng stretched out his hand to comfort Wang Hu.

The monk in black clothes looked at Xu Changsheng with pitiful eyes and said sarcastically: "Don't think that winning the first level is a big deal."

"This second level is not up to you."

"Tao Xin? Haha."

Monk Hua Deng chanted a Buddhist chant, "I win the first level, how about it?"

Only then did Xu Changsheng notice that Cui Pei also came out of the secret realm and looked at him angrily.

Wuchen could only nod.

"In that case, let's move on to the second level."

After Xu Changsheng heard this, his consciousness began to sink again, and the voice of Monk Hua Deng was still in his ears.

"In this second level, there is no victory or defeat."

"Remember, you must keep your true heart, your true heart, and don't let these experiences mess up your Taoist mind."

"Remember, remember."

at the same time.

Among the immortals sitting high up, the slovenly Taoist priest came to Cui Shusheng's side and said with a smile: "In the words of you literati, how would you describe him?"

Cui Shusheng glanced at Xu Changsheng and said softly: "It's too deep into the drama."

The golden-armored man from the Tiance Mansion in the north had an expressionless face.

The woman in the purple skirt in the red building sneered:

"The monks were quarreling and actually asked two disciples to die."

"My Buddha is merciful."

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