Delicious Delicacy of the Demon Spirit

The two sat and drank tea obediently, cup after cup, without wandering around, just watching the silly girl basking in the sun.Li Ku'er was dazzled by the sight, and wanted to ask He Weiran whose evil spirit she had fallen into, but before the other party could answer, she heard the aunt at the door let a blind Taoist come in.

"Zhang Banxian, please come inside, please come inside."

Zhang Banxian looks about forty years old, with a goatee, wearing a gray Taoist robe and a Taoist crown, with a yellow gossip cloth bag obliquely, holding a copper bell in his left hand, and a flag in his right hand, with the words "Zhang Banxian" written on it. , When crutches are used.As soon as he stepped into the door, he said, "Oh, your family is in bad luck..."

Upon hearing this, the aunt looked at him with reverence, and said excitedly, "I knew it was right to find Zhang Banxian! Please come and show my daughter the Banxian."

"No hurry, no hurry..." Zhang Banxian said slowly, put the flag aside, started to walk the gossip steps in the courtyard while ringing the bell.

Li Kuer thought this man was a liar at first, but then he saw that his strides were indeed quite vigorous and powerful, circumventing the woodpile, stepping over the bench, without bumping into anything, not at all like a person who can't see anything .Gradually, the scope of the gossip walk gradually narrowed, from circling around the entire courtyard at the beginning to only circling around Axi in the end, ringing the bell while muttering words, but people couldn't understand the meaning.

A Xi was wandering around in the courtyard, but once he was entangled by Zhang Banxian, he unknowingly slowed down his pace, and then gradually stopped at his original plan.The scriptures in Zhang Banxian's mouth became louder and louder, and the more he chanted, the more hurriedly he yelled at the end, biting his finger and dotting blood on the center of Axi's eyebrows.

Axi trembled all over, his pupils suddenly opened wide, slowly straightened his neck, looked around, looked at the blind Taoist priest in front of him, then at He Weiran and Li Kuer who were sitting under the eaves, and finally turned his eyes Staying on the aunt's body, she said with a confused face: "Mom, what's wrong with me?"

Seeing this, the aunt wept with joy, ran over and hugged A Xi and cried, "Oh, mother, I'm scared to death, it's all right, there's nothing wrong with it."

"Sister, don't worry, the matter is not over yet."

Zhang Banxian suddenly spoke again, and the words made the aunt vigilant again, and asked: "Banxian, my family... will my family's Axi still be bewitched by evil spirits?"

"Treat the symptoms but not the root cause. In the final analysis, we must find out the root cause of this bad luck."

"The source of the bad luck?"

"Exactly." Zhang Banxian said, and began to count in his hands again. After a while, he took out a piece of talisman paper from his bag, and said to the aunt: "Go forward thirty steps from here, and stick this talisman in the direction of the true north." on the wall or door, that’s where the bad luck comes from.”

"Hey, good!" The aunt took the talisman paper, responded hastily, and then started to walk.She walked tremblingly, perhaps because Zhang Banxian said that there was bad luck there, so she felt uncomfortable and scared.

Li Kuer turned around to look at the auntie, and couldn't help but count the steps...

"One step, two steps... fifteen steps... twenty-nine steps, thirty steps."

The aunt stopped, and in front of her was the wooden door leading to the backyard.She stuck the talisman paper on the wooden door, then ran out in a hurry, and said to Zhang Banxian, "Okay, I'll stick it on the door."

Zhang Banxian nodded and asked, "Where is the other side of the door?"

"It's my backyard, a chicken coop, and a pigsty."

"So..." Zhang Banxian pondered for a while, and said, "If you slaughter the pigs in the pigsty and bleed the chickens in the henhouse, the bad luck must come from these livestock. Take them to me for salvation, and then we will be able to eradicate the weeds." .”

"Ah, but... But those piggies have only been raised for two months, and those chickens can still lay eggs. It's a pity to kill them now." The aunt hesitated.

"In short, to kill or not to kill, you decide for yourself, but I would like to advise you, your daughter's previous appearance is not a joke." Zhang Banxian said while putting away the copper bell and the flag, and said to the aunt : "Let's settle the money first. The hard work costs one or two silvers. The talisman is originally a hundred coins. This time it is a gift... If you don't kill those livestock, remember not to take off the talisman. Can't go in either."

"Huh? If people don't go in, how can you feed the chickens and pigs?"

Zhang Banxian had a long beard, squinted his eyes with only the whites of his eyes exposed, and said: "If you really want to go inside, you can buy two talismans from me, and stick them on the back of your heart when you go in, so as to prevent evil spirits from entering your body."

"Really?" The aunt's eyes lit up, she quickly took out the money, handed it to Zhang Banxian respectfully, and said, "Please give me the talisman."

Zhang Banxian took the money, weighed it in his hands, put it in the cloth bag with satisfaction, took out another piece of talisman paper to the aunt, and left.As soon as he left, A Xi stepped forward and asked the aunt, "Mother, what's going on? Why did you find that blind man?"

The aunt hurriedly covered A Xi's mouth, and said: "Hugh is so disrespectful to the half-immortal, if it weren't for him, you would still... hey!" The aunt told the whole story in detail, and A Xi was surprised, his eyes full of disbelief: "I... ...Did I really do such a shameful thing? Mother, I will definitely be laughed to death by the folks in the future! No, I don’t think the chickens and pigs raised at home can be kept! That’s a yard. The clean stuff left through the back door, and I found it through the front door, but what should I do?"

"Oh, what do you say...how about asking him to buy some talisman paper?"

"Oh my mother, the talisman paper costs one hundred yuan a piece. You spend that money, it's better to kill a chicken or a pig. Anyway, it's gone."

"Your words make sense. When you turn around, wait for your father to come back and tell him to kill him."

"Ok!"

Li Kuer listened to the conversation between the mother and daughter, and felt that those hens and piglets were really pitiful, because there was a monster in them, they would all die, and if they knew that they died because of this, they would have to complain to Lord Hades if they went down Sue.

She turned to He Weiran, leaned over and whispered in her ear, "Sister He, it would be a shame if they were killed like this."

He Weiran raised his eyebrows and said, "Does Ku'er even want to save other people's piglets?"

Li Kuer scratched his head and smiled foolishly, but he didn't know how to answer.

He Weiran also smiled, and smiled warmly, and said: "Then let Kuer raise them, okay?"

"Ah? What do you mean?"

"That's what it sounds like, bring them to your house and feed them, okay?"

"Yes, yes, but..."

"It's fine." He Weiran interrupted her, then stood up and said to the aunt: "Sister, how about this, I bought all the piglets and hens in your yard."

When the aunt heard this, she became anxious, and hurriedly waved her hands and said, "Where is this going to work! You heard it just now, and there are unclean things in it. If I sell it to you, won't I hurt you?"

"It's okay, I'll kill the cooking when I go back, so as not to waste it."

"That's not going to work, girl, Zhang Banxian said, after killing it, I will take it to him for salvation, how can I cook directly."

"Don't worry, I will leave Zhang Banxian this time, my daughter is just right, you should take care of her."

Seeing that He Weiran insisted on this, the aunt nodded and said, "Well, the girl is really a kind person."

"Where, I have to thank my elder sister for taking care of my sister yesterday. I will definitely help with this little favor."

After the deal was concluded, He Weiran went out to call for a carriage, planning to transport the hen and piglets back to Li Kuer's house in a short while.Li Ku'er accompanied the mother and daughter to see the livestock in the backyard.The aunt pasted a piece of talisman paper on the back of her heart, and went in boldly.Li Kuer and Axi stood at the door and watched. There were three piglets, two white and one white, and they were kept in the small pigpen on the east side. .The rest of the place is extremely narrow, covered with gravel, and without any crops.

Li Ku'er covered her nose, stretched her head and looked in again...a sunflower in full bloom came into view.The sunflower was as tall as a person, and it was planted on the dung pile at the innermost side of the pigsty, but it was very bright.It stands to reason that pigs will eat this sunflower, but the fact is that this sunflower is complete from top to bottom, and there is no trace of being eaten. Moreover, although the fertilizer is guaranteed when planted in this kind of place, How can it grow so lush without seeing the sun all day long?

The more Li Kuer looked at the sunflower, the more unusual she felt, and she turned her head and asked Axi.

A Xi said: "I saw this sunflower by the stream some time ago, and because it looks beautiful, I dug it and planted it at home."

"By the brook..." Li Kuer frowned, thinking that she had just followed Axi all the way to a brook, could it be that... She looked at Axi's dark face, then at the sunflower, and wanted to laugh ...Oh, it's so unkind.

"Do you want to take that sunflower to Zhang Banxian too?" Li Kuer asked with a smile.

"Ah? Do you want to bring the sunflower?"

"Yes, what if the bad luck comes from this sunflower?"

"Oh... yes, yes, Miss Sister, help me take it away with you." A Xi reacted and felt scared.She frightened these demons to death, wishing to kill all possible evil spirits.

The aunt used bamboo cages to cover the three piglets and two hens together, pulled out the sunflowers by their roots, inserted them into the gaps in the cages, and pasted them with talisman paper.At this time, He Weiran had arrived in a carriage and was waiting at the door.Several people carried the bamboo cage into the car together, He Weiran paid the money again, said goodbye to the aunt, and left.

The author has something to say: I originally wanted to end the five-spice melon seeds in this chapter, but the space is too long, so I can only fry it in the next chapter