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Chapter 74 Conspiring to earn Yuan's head

By observing the development of the world, knowing the creation of all things, and seeing the beginning and end of yin and yang, you can know the principles of human affairs; the human body is connected, and the five qi nourish life; the five qi are: ambition, thinking, spirit, virtue, and heart; inaction And seek, calm the five qi; the soul sticks to it, fixes the will and worries about the emptiness, it is the same as the Dao; this name is: the five qi are in harmony. ——Excerpted from Tongyin Eight Volumes of "Wordless Book of Heaven".

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Crowds on the street flocked over to watch the excitement. There were three or four floors inside and outside, chattering and talking: "Hey! Isn't that the master of Xinxing Bank, Mr. Ma?"

"That's not true! Wuye Ma can shave his eyebrows with flying money, who is so bold as to provoke him?"

"Who else can there be, the naughty Chang Liuzi in this area! Just now I can see clearly that this mosquito has bitten two 'bags', but I didn't expect it to be Ma Wuye's friend!"

"Hush! Look at the piece of ocean on the back of Chang Liuzi's hand. Be good, it's stuck in the bone. It's something that was 'planted' by Master Wu in his hand. I'm afraid it's not easy to take it out. Ten fingers are connected to tendons. , it hurts so much when I move it..."

"I guess this is a waste of hands!"

"Hmm! Useless!"

At this time, Chang Liuzi wrapped his bloody hand with the corner of his clothes, gritted his teeth and cursed at Fifth Master Ma: "Okay! Old man, you touched me today, and you slapped Fan in front of everyone." Master's face, don't blame my brother for being unjust, I remind you today, let's see how you explain it to Master Fan! We will meet again in Shanshui, just wait and see!"

After all, Chang Liuzi turned around and took the two of them away in a desperate manner.

Swallow flew over to pick up the silver scattered on the ground, put it into a bamboo box, then pinched it with his arm, walked back to Ma Wuye and said: "These rascals must have seen the silver in my box and picked it up." Our idea!"

Bai Shibao asked Ma Wuye, "Who is this man? Why does he dare to curse after being beaten?"

Seeing that there were more and more people around, Ma Wuye made a show of flirting with Yan Zifei and Bai Shibao, and said, "Let's go! Let's find a secluded place and talk about it..."

The three squeezed out of the crowd and ran north to a remote and deserted shop on the corner of the street.

This shop is a small hallway facing the street, with a red cloth cover hanging on the door, outside the door a few long high platforms were built with adobe as tables, and a few tree stumps were placed as stools.The three of them sat down, and Ma Wuye ordered a big pot of tea and a plate of salted edamame, and ordered some pastries for Bai Shibao and Yan Zifei.

Seeing that it was Ma Wuye, the manager of the store, he waived the money for tea and rice, and ordered the clerk to prepare it properly.

Ma Wuye took a sip from his teacup and said, "That Chang Liuzi just now is a well-known little bully in this area. His original name was Chang Santai, and he was the sixth eldest in the family. He was also called Chang Liuzi, and because he lost two front teeth. , others gave him a nickname, called: 'Chang Shuzui'.

He used to pull a rickshaw, but later he had no money so he paid homage to a local ruffian: Fan Wumu, the six sons of Chang followed Fan Wumu in smoking cigarette cream, sleeping with women, playing dice, making traps, extorting everywhere, doing all kinds of evil, and claiming to be short of money in the five elements , know money!They opened rickshaw shops with the money they extorted, and rented them out to poor drivers, earning interest..."

"No wonder he is so rampant, he dares to loot money on the street in broad daylight!"

Bai Shibao groaned for a while, and continued: "However, when Chang Liuzi left, he clamored to seek revenge. Fifth Master Ma must beware of this!"

Ma Wuye sneered and said, "He's a small one, not worth mentioning! A few days ago, his master Liao Wumu was promiscuous with women on the street, and I caught him. I shaved his eyebrows with ocean, and now he's still bald. Now, hiding at home and not daring to come out to meet people..."

Bai Shibao nodded and said, "It's not that I underestimated Ma Wuye's skill. As the saying goes, it's easy to hide a gun, but hard to defend against an arrow in the back! We'd better be on guard, villain!"

Ma Wuye said yes with a smile.

At this time, the shopkeeper came out of the shop with a basket of pickled dried radishes, put the basket on the door of the shop, and spread the dried radishes with his hands to bask in the sun.

Ma Wuye saw Yan Zifei secretly glanced at the shopkeeper with his eyes, and seemed to hesitate to speak, so he said: "Brother Yanzi, don't worry too much, this shopkeeper is my friend, so you can just say what you want to say!"

Swallow flew around and looked around, but still lowered his voice and said, "Have you heard of the 'Walking Corps'?"

Ma Wuye was taken aback for a moment, and asked, "A walking corpse?"

Yan Zifei nodded and said: "Master Ma Wu doesn't know that Yuan Datou's protector of the country is secretly refining a 'walking corpse army'. Once on the battlefield, it can be said that it is invulnerable to swords and guns, and its power is terrifying!"

Ma Wuye frowned, and said angrily: "What? Then Yuan Datou used such a dirty trick!"

Yan Zifei continued: "You don't have to worry about Wuye Ma. Brother Bai Shibao and I encountered these 'walking corpses' when we were in Fengmen Village. Yuan Datou hid a hundred corpses in that village, all of them were killed in battle. The corpse of the soldier was set on fire by me and Brother Bai Shibao!"

Yan Zifei and Bai Shibao looked at each other and smiled.

"Really? This is great!"

Ma Wuye looked at Bai Shibao again, nodded and said, "I never thought that Brother Bai would be so powerful. He really did something earth-shattering for the righteousness of the nation!"

Bai Shibao shook his head, and said with a smile, "Ma Wuye is too famous!"

Yan Zifei interjected: "Ma Wuye doesn't know something, but my brother is a good practitioner of Taoism! He can pass Yin and Yang, spell spells and fight ghosts..."

Ma Wuye was even more surprised when he heard this, and stared at Bai Shibao.

Bai Shibao said: "Brother Yan Zifei praised it. To be honest, our Taoist school is a Taoism that flatters horses and walks in the shadows. It is not a famous Taoist school..."

After Ma Wuye heard this, he suddenly showed embarrassment, held his teacup and bowed his head in thought for a long time, then raised his head and said to Bai Shibao and Yan Zifei: "To be honest, I am going to entrust you two with something now!"

Bai Shibao and Yan Zifei said in unison: "If Master Wu has anything to tell you, it's okay to speak up!"

"I inquired about the news that Yuan Datou will come to Tianjin to sacrifice on the day of the Ghost Festival. I have already figured out the specific route. I have contacted many capable people and righteous people here. I plan to kill him secretly while he is worshiping. I was caught off guard... Now that the two brothers have also arrived in Tianjin, I wonder if they can help us?"

Bai Shibao thought to himself: This fifth master Ma wants to contact the strange people in the world to secretly destroy Yuan Datou, I am afraid that he is weak and weak!Compared with Yuan Datou's army, the strength is too disparate, and this strength is not an opponent at all.Bai Shibao thought for a while and said: "Then Yuan Datou is the current lord, and he has a thousand or eight hundred entourages to protect him when he goes out. I'm afraid it's not so easy to get close..."

Ma Wuye sneered: "What are a thousand or eight hundred entourages? We dare not say that we have one enemy with one hundred. It is still light to take away seven or eight foreign guns by one person!"

Bai Shibao shook his head and said, "I don't intend to attack Fifth Master Ma, but to tell the truth! Then there are two guardian mages under Yuan Datou's seat, one is Bian Kui who refines walking corpses and masters witchcraft; One is his younger brother, General Kang who has mastered the technique of lowering the head after dissecting the body, these two are not to be underestimated by Ma Wuye!"

Yan Zifei nodded, and interjected: "That's true! Wuye Ma, Brother Bai Shibao and I have suffered a lot from ghosts these days. I'm afraid we can't force ourselves to deal with this kind of sorcery!"

Hearing this, Ma Wuye raised his head to look at Bai Shibao, and asked, "Since brother also knows the way, can you help us restrain those two sorcerers?"

Bai Shibao was stunned for a moment, then smiled ashamedly: "I'm not going to hide this from Fifth Master Ma! I haven't mastered my knowledge yet, and I'm afraid I won't be able to fight against this master of witchcraft..."

After thinking for a while, Bai Shibao continued: "However... I just learned three spells from my ancestor, and I don't know if I can trap them. I don't dare to say such uncertain things. Now Fifth Master Ma It is my duty to seek my help! It happens that I have some entanglements with these two Taoist priests, and I need to smooth it out..."

After listening to Ma Wuye, he nodded.

At this time, Yan Zifei interjected: "Master Ma! If the forceful action fails, I'm afraid it will implicate all the brothers. I think this matter needs to be outsmarted..."

"Outsmart?"

Yan Zifei nodded.

Ma Wuye asked: "How to outwit it?"

Yan Zifei shook his head and looked at Bai Shibao.

Bai Shibao lowered his head and thought for a while, then secretly planned, he patted the table with his hands and smiled, "I really have an idea in my mind, I don't know if it can be done!"

"Oh? Brother, tell me!"

Bai Shibao pressed his body forward, Yan Zifei and Ma Wuye leaned forward, only to hear Bai Shibao whisper in their ears.Then Mr. Ma frowned and said, "I think this method is not bad, but how to find thirty corpses?"

Bai Shibao said: "A ghost needs a borrowed body to possess itself!"

Ma Wuye bowed his head and thought for a while and suddenly shouted: "Yes! I know a man. He is a strange man who made clay in Tianjin Wei. The clay figurines he made are no different from real people except that they can't speak or move!"

"Clay figurine?"

Bai Shibao thought to himself, he has never seen ghosts attached to clay figurines, but he has seen ghosts attached to domestic animals and trees, maybe clay figurines are also possible, why not try it!
Thinking of this, Bai Shibao asked, "What's the name of this strange man?"

Ma Wuye said: "This man set up a clay noodle stall on the East Street, known as: Clay Figurine Zhang!"

"Clay figurine Zhang?"

Ma Wuye nodded and said: "The name of this clay figurine Zhang was very famous in the old Qing Dynasty. At that time, someone recommended to Lafayette to make a clay body for Lafayette, but he didn't want it to rain suddenly on the day of handover." , one of the ears of Lafayette's statue was watered by the rain, which made Lafayette furious. When it was chopped off, it turned out to be a mud body, with a mud head like a real person..."

Bai Shibao was surprised when he heard this: "The clay figurines made by this clay figurine can be mistaken for real?"

"I heard from him that he dug up the wall in the prison and used the mud to make a substitute for himself. When the sentence was approaching, he found that the face of the clay figurine had a mole. In a hurry, he rubbed some mud on his body and wiped it. go up..."

Yan Zifei was overjoyed and said: "With the help of this clay figurine Zhang, great things will come true. On July [-]th, we beheaded Yuan Datou!"

Fourteenth of July?

Oops!

Bai Shibao suddenly thought that the fourteenth day of July was the day when he and Lin Jiu, the 'Grandmaster of Maoshan', agreed to go to Miaojiang!

"I have a contract on July [-]th, I can't break it..."

Ma Wuye said: "This is a major event in the world. If this can be done, the world will be peaceful. What is more important than this?"

Bai Shibao lowered his head and thought for a while, then resolutely said: "Okay! For the sake of the righteousness of the nation, I, Bai Shibao, will break the contract once! Put aside the Taoist matter for now! I will have the opportunity to apologize to Daochang Lin in person in the future!"

Ma Wuye nodded with a smile.

At this time, Yan Zifei interjected: "However, brother, you said earlier that you wanted to meet Yuan Datou in person, so there is no danger, right?"

Bai Shibao said with a smile: "Since Yuan Datou has worshiped two witchcraft and Taoist priests as protectors of the country, and now he is coming to Tianjin to offer sacrifices, I bet he must believe in the destiny and the theory of ghosts and gods! At that time, I will have some words to convince him." Believe in me, if he refuses to believe, then ask all the brothers to help me secretly, put on the thirty clay figurines made by the clay figurines, put them on and carry them over..."

(End of this chapter)