Daming's Bizarre Story: Painted Skin

Mrs. He quickly got down and said, "The believer is here."

"How are things going?"

Mrs. He immediately put down the prayer beads in her hand, took the account book next to her knees and said, "These are all believers who donated money today. I have arranged the amount of their donations from most to least."

"read."

Mrs. He picked up the booklet and began to read: "500 taels of silver for Song Xingcai in Songfu Liangzhuang, 300 taels of silver for Jiang Dazhi, owner of Xinglong Pawnshop..."

She recited one by one, about a stick of incense, and then wiped the thin sweat on her forehead: "It's all here, Mother Buddha, do you want believers to lead them here, and you will explain it yourself ?”

"Don't be in a hurry, you'd better close your eyes and thank the guests these few days."

Mrs. He didn't understand: "But didn't the Buddha mother say before that she wants to expand the number of believers as much as possible?"

"Believers also need to pay more attention to the entry of demons into the world, so as not to be taken advantage of by demons."

Mrs. He lowered her head and said yes, then hesitated and asked: "Mother Buddha, I don't know... Is Master safe there?"

The voice said flatly: "Now that you have entered the Land of Ultimate Bliss, your secular identity with him is gone. In the future, you will go to the Western Bliss together, and you will see you again. If you hold on to these secular feelings at this moment, things will definitely happen." It will miss your chance to become an immortal."

Mrs. He hurriedly leaned over and said, "The believer knows it's wrong."

"You became attached to the Buddha first, but rose to immortality later than He Sheng. Although there are reasons why you have not fulfilled your mortal responsibilities, it is more because you are not as cruel as He Sheng in cutting off your mortal karma."

Mrs. He replied repeatedly: "Believers will definitely work harder in the future."

"You don't have to belittle yourself. Letting you stay in the world for a while is also for the sake of perfecting you. The more you learn, the more merit you will have. In the future, if you become a fairy, you can directly start from the fairy. You don’t have to work as hard as He Sheng to start from Earth Immortal.”

Mrs. He was overjoyed, and quickly prostrated herself on the ground: "Believers, thank you Buddha Mother for fulfilling you."

"Monsters are rampant, and sooner or later this world will turn into a barren land. Not only do you have to act with your heart, but you also need to be careful. Have you hidden the immortal furnace used by He Chengcheng?"

"The believer had already hidden it according to the instructions of the Buddha mother, and only gave it to the two priests."

"The righteous people in this world have already left. Where are the priests? They are all transformed by demons. Demons are good at capturing people's hearts. If you meet them again in the future, you must not talk to them."

Mrs. He let out a long breath, and said: "I can't blame me for being uneasy when I saw them. It turned out to be a monster. Now that I think about it carefully, especially the one with the smirking face in the middle, he really has a monster aura."

"They are all demons that have been formed for many years, and you are not invincible. You don't have to be afraid of them. In a few days, someone from the palace should come to contact you."

"Emperor, Imperial Palace?" Mrs. He asked in surprise.

"Why are you panicking? Even the people in the palace are just mortal wombs. The great fortune on your body may not surpass yours. It's just that you will become a fairy soon, so it is inconvenient to have many twists and turns, and you still have to make a promise with them." Besides, the deity also has some things that you need to do."

"Yes, I don't know what to do with the girl?"

"When you see the people in the palace, I will tell you,"

Mrs. He nodded in agreement. After a long time, she saw that the divine voice no longer appeared in the Buddhist altar, so she got up, put out the candles, opened the Buddhist hall and walked out.

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The moon is dim and the winter is deep, and the southern ravens are flying. Under the Choushi's Betelgeuse star, the night is as cool as water, and the horse's hooves make a crisp sound of "da da" when they step on the dry and hard frozen soil.

"Master, we're here." Ah Ning raised the thick curtain and said.

Zhaoran got out wearing a sable fur, but still couldn't stop sneezing due to the cold outside, and quickly wrapped his clothes tighter.

The back door of Jianfeng Villa is as wide as the front door, but there is only a lone yellow leather lantern on the eaves.

Aning whispered: "Master, if you want to see it, go in quickly, the market will be over when this green candle is burned out.

Zhao Ran just crossed the threshold, and two strong men in bare-armed vests stopped him in front of the door: "Wait, you understand the rules in this door, only strangers are allowed."

Aning smiled and waved his hand, and five or six blue birds came from nowhere and turned around. Ying Ning let out a soft "hum", and the strong man frowned and said, "What are you humming?"

Suddenly there was a loud chirping of an eagle, and a giant eagle passed over their heads. Its wings spread tens of feet, obscuring the light below.

The strong man couldn't help but praised: "Good skill. The year is approaching. Recently, many wealthy people have hired capable people to escort them back to their hometowns. It should be very popular."

Aning smiled and asked, "Can we go in now?"

The strong man turned his head to look at Zhao Ran and said, "What are your abilities?"

Just as Zhaoran was about to speak, he was choked by the cold and sneezed twice.

Aning smiled and said: "He is the young master of the two of us."

The strong man let out an "oh" and said expressionlessly, "Please."

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Zhao Ran rubbed his nose and walked leisurely inside, only to see that the inside was very lively, at most some big-bodied strangers were performing broken boulders.

Bricks and stones turned into powder under the shouts of "haha" from the strangers.

"It's like juggling in front of Zhengyang Gate." Zhao Ran whispered.

Aning laughed and said: "This was their daily livelihood, but when the New Year comes, there will be some rich people who are willing to pay a lot of money to hire strangers to escort them back to their hometown. In the past, there were not so many people."

"Young master, who do you have your eye on? Do you want me to give you a good eye?" Suddenly a voice came in, and when he turned his head clearly, he saw a stooped and lean man in black and wearing a forehead. man.

Zhao Ran asked curiously, "What are your skills?"

The energetic man smiled mysteriously, took off his forehead, and there was a vertical eye in the center of his forehead.

"His name is Changyan." Aning said.

Zhaoran thought to himself, obviously he has three eyes, how can he call himself a cage?

Aning added: "The threshold can distinguish between good and evil."

Cheng Jian smiled and said: "This girl has good eyesight, and her fortune is like a candle. She must be a person of great loyalty and righteousness."

Zhao Ran turned his head and asked Ah Ning in a low voice: "Can he really tell the good from the bad?"

"The sill can observe the strength of a person's yang fire, and when the righteous energy in the chest rises, the yang fire will naturally flourish."

Zhao Ran let out an "oh", turned his head and pointed to himself, and said, "Help me see, young master, how is my righteousness? If you look good, you will be rewarded."

"Okay!" He received the order, and immediately looked towards Zhaoran, the eye on the forehead slowly opened, and then Zhaoran saw that all three eyes of Qianyan blinked vigorously, horizontally, vertically. He blinked vertically, and then stared hard at Zhaoran with three eyes in unison.

Zhao Ran was confused, even Aning's uprightness was beyond words, how could he be like a little sun with his uprightness, how can he stare at him?

"How?" Anin asked.

Qiang Kan hesitated and said: "This young master's righteousness can't be found..."

"What did you say?" Zhao Ran pointed at him and said, "You tell me clearly!"

Hesitantly said: "Young master, you look alive and kicking, but there seems to be no yang energy in your chest. Generally, it's not because you did too many immoral things in your previous life. This life is destined to be a short-lived ghost. It's the immoral things in this life. If you do too much, God will take you!"

Zhaoran was so angry that he lifted his foot and took off his shoes to beat him, Aning quickly held him back, and said to Qianghan: "Can you talk, and you still want to leave?!"

Qiang Kan hastily left with his head in his arms, and Ah Ning said to Zhao Ran: "Forget it, young master, why do you have to argue with a villain!"

Ying Ning gloated at the side and said, "Qianqian has never told lies, because if they tell lies, they will be judged by others in the future, so they are telling the truth."

Zhao Ran was furious: "It's true, I still lack a lantern in my study, so I'll make two of the mother's skins, put one in the room, and hang the other outside. "

Yingning was angry and furious, but she couldn't do anything about Zhaoran, but Zhaoran ignored him and continued to walk inside.

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Going further inside is the wing room, there is another guard in front of the room, the man glanced at the obvious attire, and let them in without saying a word.

Compared with the hustle and bustle outside, the wing room seemed much deserted, Zhao Ran wandered around inside, turned around and saw a group of people whispering around a place, so he also walked over.

It was a lotus leaf stone fish tank carved from ink stone, waist high, about ten feet long, and five or six feet wide. Inside was a closed-eyed woman floating in it. Tuanmei, a long silver hair floating above the water.

There are small lamps inserted in the four corners of the lotus leaf stone carving fish tank, which can clearly see the five-color brocade li in the water, swaying back and forth with the woman's silver hair shining brightly.

Zhao Ran took a few glances, and suddenly realized that the woman seemed to have no body. He lay down beside the water tank and looked again and again, only to find that the woman was not without a body, but almost transparent.

"The jellyfish is in the shade, but it is soaked in the water all day long. It is definitely a spectacle." The man in black next to him said, "If you are interested, you can discuss it. The price starts from ten thousand taels of gold."

One of the people who looked like a wealthy businessman said: "But she seems to be unable to speak. If it is a lovely Xieyuhua, it is better to speak a little bit, and there is no reaction at all. It seems a bit like a water ghost at home like this. Gold It seems a bit worthless to buy a water ghost to go back in [-] yuan."

The man in black came confidently, and spent a lot of money to enter the inner hall, but he didn't expect that there were more people who saw it and fewer people who bought it, so he couldn't help feeling a little anxious. He kept saying, "There is a reaction, why didn't there be any reaction?"

As he spoke, he took a dagger, cut his finger, and handed it to Yinli's mouth cruelly.

Yinli's motionless head really started to turn, she stretched out her lilac tongue and gently licked the blood between the man's fingers, then opened her mouth to put the man's fingers in her mouth, the man's face turned pale instantly, The rich businessmen who were still interested in it all gasped with lingering fear.

Zhao Ran couldn't help holding his fingers and shaking his head again and again.

The man in black managed to pull his finger out of Yinli's mouth and said, "As long as there is blood, the jellyfish can not only react, but also turn into a solid body. It's not necessary for everyone to enjoy the tenderness."

Everyone was silent, and after a while, a businessman said, "100 taels of gold, let me think about it."

"100 taels." The man in black said with a pale face, "My lord, you are trying to make me leave at a loss."

The businessman said: "This woman is clearly a monster, and she really doesn't get along with people. If it weren't for my courage, if I were an ordinary person, you might not accept her even if you gave me 100 taels of gold."

The man in black's face turned blue and white, and then turned blue again. Just as he was about to speak, a man who looked like a housekeeper came over and whispered something in his ear, and the face of the man in black immediately showed joy. He cupped his hands and said: "Thank you for your kindness, but Yinli has already been accepted by Master Fu. Everyone, please go back."

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After watching the fun, Zhao Ran was about to turn around when the man who looked like a butler came over again and said, "The owner of my family invites Young Master Rong to come over and have a gathering."

He was thinking of looking for Fu Heng, but Fu Heng had already found the door, so Zhao Ran thought it was a coincidence.

The butler lit up the lamp to welcome Zhao Ran into the inner courtyard, then turned around and said: "Two servants, please wait in the outer hall for a while, my owner wants to have a chat with Young Master Rong alone."

"Master?" Aning said softly.

Zhao Ran turned his head and said: "Mr. Fu is a celebrity in Beijing, so he won't embarrass me."

As he spoke, he straightened his cloak and walked inside. Not long after he left, he saw Fu Heng standing outside the door waiting for him. He was still in the same attire he had been wearing a few days ago, but it was getting late, and his green clothes were dyed black. blue.

Fu Heng stretched out his hand and said with a smile, "Master Rong, please come in."

After Zhao Ran entered the house, he only felt that the room was warm, hot but not dry, and there was no charcoal brazier around, probably because there were earth dragons under his feet.

Fu Heng smiled and said, "If you feel hot or cold, Master Rong can tell me."

Zhao Ran smiled and untied the fur coat outside and said, "It's as warm as spring, more comfortable than my own house."

"Jiang's house is in the city, and they live in Sichengfang, which is exclusive to Qinggui. It's not like I am in the wilderness. The house can be built as you like." Fu Heng smiled and picked up the teapot and poured Zhaoran a cup of tea.

Zhao Ran smiled and said, "Master Fu invited me here just for tea?"

Fu Heng picked up the teapot and poured himself another cup of tea with a smile, "I used to have a master who told me that people should drink two sips of tea before speaking, because the stale air in the chest will be absorbed by the clean air in the tea." So I have big things now, and I am used to talking about them after drinking tea."

Zhao Ran turned the cup in his hand and said with a smile: "But I'm curious, I don't know the answer, so I can't eat anything."

Fu Heng didn't force it, picked up the cup and took a sip of tea before sighing: "Master Rong is such a smart person, I won't hide it from you. I bought the news about Lianfang."

"Is there a reason between Master Fu and Lianfang?"

"No reason?"

"Old?"

"No old."

Zhao Ran said with a smile: "That is with ulterior motives."

Fu Heng smiled: "You say that I have ulterior motives or ulterior motives, it's all accurate."

"I don't know what Master Fu intends to take Lianfang, a villain who loves pretending to be a fake Buddha?"

"A villain pretending to be a fake Buddha is not scary, but a monster pretending to be a fake Buddha and becoming a national teacher is terrible."

"National Teacher?" Zhao Ran couldn't help thinking that wasn't that Jiu Ru's boss?

In Zhao Ran's impression, the people in the National Master Pagoda exorcising demons and subduing demons have a righteous demeanor, and they can't get hooked with monsters. He instinctively said: "I can't, I look at the Buddha very righteous."

Fu Heng stood up and said, "Master Rong, follow me."

Zhao Ran had no choice but to pick up his clothes and follow him out the door. After walking for a while, Fu Heng pointed to the four hunched men in front of a vermilion sedan chair and said, "Young Master Rong, have you ever seen a slender man?" ?”

Zhao Ran snorted and glanced at the four of them, but he didn't find that among them was the one he met just now.

Fu Heng smiled and said: "The sill refers to the cage, and when it is extended to them, it is the person who carries the cage. They have a wonderful function. Young Master Rong can sit in the sedan chair, and you will know later that what I said is true."