Part-Time Taoist Priest

Not to mention Xie Lingya, Shi Changxuan has never heard of Yin soldiers who can fly planes, this is simply ridiculous.

If you break it down carefully, the theory should be like this:

In the funeral ceremony, most of the rich people in ancient times buried real coins and utensils with them so that they could enjoy them after death.Common people can only cut out paper for ghost coins and paste paper houses, but it is definitely not as good as the real thing, so ghosts often come to their dreams and tell their family members that they are not doing well and burn more things down.

This paper is paper, it can be used in the underworld, and the durability is not so high, it will be consumed quickly.

Just imagine, a paper house is like this, a paper fighter jet, if you really make it and burn it, how many minutes can it be driven?

Of course, it’s useless to seriously discuss these things. The fighting style of Yin soldiers is completely different from that of humans. People have to fly to the sky, but Yin soldiers still need to fly. People want artillery fire, and Yin soldiers use their own spells to be very powerful—— —As long as you don't learn the magic of worshiping lamps like Qin Limin, you can only worship oil lamps.

A small amount saw that the two of them didn't speak, and they were still beautiful, thinking that they were frightened by themselves.

"You... read more books." Xie Lingya thought for a long time, and said this sentence, but if you read more books on Taoism, you will not believe that Yin soldiers can fly fighter jets.

Xiaoliang snorted, "I graduated from high school!"

Xie Lingya: "..."

At this time, Master Zhao had already drawn the talisman, and with the wind under his feet, he walked towards the second floor with his sword fingers.

Mr. Zhu's room is above, and Mr. Zhu hurriedly followed behind. Although Mr. Zhao is a bit old, Mr. Zhu really can't keep up.

When Ms. Zhu saw it, she rushed to the market to follow.

"Are you going to witness a miracle?" Xiao Liang smiled and walked calmly.

Xie Lingya: "..."

But staying below is also staying. Xie Lingya and Shi Changxuan went up together. He just opened his dark eyes. When he went up to the second floor, the first thing he saw was not Master Zhao or Mr. Zhu, but a room full of ghosts. Be full.

He wanted to go in, but stopped at the door, it was too crowded.

Mr. Zhu was lying on the bed, frowning, and there were many ghosts on his body, and these ghosts took turns to play tricks on him.

Master Zhao didn't notice anything, sat on the edge of the bed and lifted old man Zhu up, stuffed the talisman into his clothes, drew the talisman on his body with his sword, and recited the mantra.

Both Mr. Zhu and Ms. Zhu stood by the bed and stared at the old man's face intently, unaware that they were surrounded by ghosts.

After a while, Mr. Zhu opened his eyes with difficulty and moved his body.

A small amount of proudly looked over.

But their eyes were attracted by Master Zhao's movement of drawing the talisman, but Xie Lingya could clearly see that when Master Zhao was supporting Old Master Zhu's back, he drew the talisman with one hand and pressed the back and neck several times with the other hand.

Mr. Zhu just fell into a coma for longer and longer, and he was not completely unconscious. Xie Lingya knew that Master Zhao couldn't summon Yin soldiers at all. He felt that Master Zhao knew a little bit of Chinese medicine rather than spells, so he pressed Mr. Zhu's acupuncture points to stimulate him wake up.

"Boss, second..." Mr. Zhu called out.

Both of them rushed forward, "Dad, are you okay, Dad?"

"I feel... so heavy." After saying that, Mr. Zhu took a few breaths and closed his eyes again.

Master Zhao let go of him calmly, and said: "Mr. Zhu has been haunted by ghosts for too long. Although I have subdued those ghost soldiers and put a magic talisman on the old man, he still only wakes up for a while and needs to be recuperated. Don't worry, it's already gone." It's all right."

Mr. Zhu is really convinced.It's funny to say that the master they hired before was really capable, but he had never fought before, and he vomited blood.This master Zhao was fine because he didn't do anything, so he woke up Mr. Zhu for a while, which made Mr. Zhu feel that he was the most powerful.

Master Zhao patted his sleeves, "I will go to the provincial capital tomorrow to exorcise evil spirits, so I won't stay any longer."

"I'll send the master off!" Mr. Zhu said.

"Wait, my dad hasn't woken up yet." Ms. Zhu stopped them. She was also dubious before, and her personality was relatively straight. what.

"Didn't you listen to what Master Zhao said, it's all right now, all that's left is to recuperate!" Mr. Zhu shouted.

"It's okay, why don't you wake up?" Ms. Zhu raised her brows upside down.

"..." Mr. Zhu was left speechless by her, "You are simply making trouble out of no reason, come here, can you invite someone who can make Dad heal immediately?"

"Come on!" Ms. Zhu yelled back immediately.

After she yelled, she realized that she didn't seem to ask Xie Lingya, but after thinking about what Tang Qi said so powerfully, she became more confident, coughed twice and said, "Mr. Xie, can you two come?"

Xie Lingya nodded, "Sure, then I'll set up an altar on this floor."

"Okay, let's take a look!" Mr. Zhu said fiercely, and then said to Master Zhao kindly, "Then I'm sorry, please wait a little longer, and I will send a car to take Master back later."

Master Zhao is not afraid either, he thinks that the two young people are probably just like himself... people from the world.

He has made preparations here, his talisman has been tampered with, he will go to the provincial capital tomorrow, if the old man is not well after that, Mr. Zhu will find him.He would ask Mr. Zhu to take apart the talisman and look at it, and then said that someone broke his law, and Mr. Zhu had a ghost in his family.

Thinking about it, Master Zhao sat down with Xiao Liang very naturally.

"Mr. Xie, Daoist Shi, can you also invite some kind of soldiers?" Ms. Zhu said, "An eye for an eye!"

Firstly, she asked because a mage said that her father was haunted by ghosts, and secondly, Master Zhao and the others were also hired by ghost soldiers just now, and she wanted to compete with each other, so she asked this question.

Xie Lingya and Shi Changxuan were silent for a while.

Xie Lingya doesn't know it, but Shi Changxuan knows it. Although it's not a technique his family is good at, and he doesn't usually support Yin soldiers, he always knows it well.

There are indeed many ghosts in that room. Ordinary people may think that inviting a bunch of ghost soldiers to fight sounds more likely to win.

But they didn't know how to explain to Ms. Zhu that it would take a long time to invite the Yin soldiers to fight each other. After they finished the fight, it would be much faster if Xie Lingya directly raised the sword and went up for a violent crush...

Ms. Zhu said everything, so she didn't want people to see a joke, she whispered: "If there is any difficulty, I will add another [-]."

Xie Lingya: "Ahem, no, no problem."

He thought about it, since Ms. Zhu has a request, he should try his best to meet it.

Xie Lingya and Shi Changxuan discussed the division of labor between the two, of course it was Shi Changxuan who set up the altar.

At this time, Shi Changxuan heard Shang Lushen whispering in his ear: "Please God bless the general, and set up an altar in Lingya."

Xie Lingya saw Shi Changxuan hesitated for a moment, "What?"

Shi Changxuan told him in a low voice that God Shang Lu wanted him to set up an altar.This should also be Shang Lushen's prediction, it may be better for Xie Lingya to set up an altar than Shi Changxuan.

Xie Lingya couldn't help saying: "But I can't!"

Shi Changxuan: "..."

Xie Lingya: "..."

……

Sitting next to the master, Xiaoliang kept looking at the two of them.

They laid out the bills, but they didn't start to act immediately. Instead, one of them whispered something to the other, and the other made gestures while listening, and moved his mouth slightly, as if he was reciting silently.

Xiaoliang couldn't help but said: "Are you guys just learning?"

This sentence can be regarded as asking everyone’s doubts. In fact, even Ms. Zhu was a little dazed. At first, she thought she was preparing for work, but after preparing for so long, she really looked like she was studying on the spot...

When Xie Lingya heard this, he immediately retorted: "I'm not, I'm not, we're discussing tactics!"

Xiaoliang said speechlessly: "How is it possible? It takes so long to discuss tactics, and you actually don't know it at all."

Xie Lingya said confidently: "Without diamonds, can we take on this porcelain job? Your Yin soldiers can fly fighter jets, so we can't form an army?"

A small amount: "..."

When the others thought about it, the first half of the sentence made some sense. Although they were sluggish, if they really didn't know how to do anything, they wouldn't be afraid of being kicked out.

Xie Lingya quickly turned his head: "There are still a few paragraphs left, I will hurry up and finish memorizing."

Shi Changxuan: "..."

Xie Lingya made all preparations and opened the altar to invite troops.

"A stick of real incense reaches the world, pray for the mighty spirit to go to the mandala!" Xie Lingya stepped on the sky, kneading the magic formula with his hands, his expression was much more serious than before.

To Xiaoliang's surprise, it seemed that his aura was not much worse than his master's.

Even Master Zhao secretly said in his heart, he didn't expect this kid to be a veteran at such a young age.

He has been in this business for so many years, and he has met a lot of colleagues. As long as he opens his mouth and sets up an altar, he can tell from his gestures and gestures, what is the worth of this person.

And judging by the aura of this young man, he can bluff customers, no wonder he dared to take this job.

Xie Lingya didn't know that he was being compared to a liar by Master Zhao, he was reciting a long prayer, holding a magic sword in his hand, and raised the altar to recruit generals.

At this time, it was already a dark night outside. Following Xie Lingya's "respect to Wei Ling", the temperature in the whole room suddenly dropped several degrees. The skin is even more goosebumps.

This abnormality did not happen when Master Zhao practiced it just now. He himself was a little confused. What is the situation? Does this person still have someone in the Zhu family to cooperate?

People like them travel the rivers and lakes, and there are many deceptions, not to mention some blindfolds, and there is also the kind of craftsmanship that has been passed down from ancient times to the present, deceiving generations.

There are some records in "Baoyang Notes". When the ancestors of the past dynasties traveled, they did not rarely see liars, and they also figured out what the method might be.

It's like inviting a fairy girl to descend to the earth, but it's actually asking to use a rope technique to move in the air. The black rope can't be seen at night, and some shelters are placed between people, such as curtains and the like.Let Xiangu hang around for a while, and then find all kinds of excuses to leave temporarily instead of coming down.

These are relatively large-scale deceptions that require cooperation and arrangement.So at that time, there was also a saying in the interior that those with enough brains became mages, and those with insufficient brains went to the streets to perform and juggle.There are some similarities between the two methods.

Of course, tricks like the Fairy's Avatar are not easy to use today, and some have been debunked by science, but the skills of scammers will also improve with the times.

Now that the temperature is dropping, unlike others, Master Zhao's first thought is that there are other people in Xie Lingya's group, or they have bribed the hired workers of Zhu's family.

Xie Lingya took a look around, wanting to see how many Yin soldiers he had recruited.

At this time, a man floated in from the window, wearing ancient clothes. After entering, he took a look, saw Xie Lingya, and floated over.

Xie Lingya looked behind him again, and said disappointedly, "You're the only one?"

Xie Lingya was talking to an open space, which was a scary thing at first, but when he said "you are the only one", everyone was speechless.

What's the situation, Master Zhao still has millions of Yin soldiers under his command, and he claimed to have transferred [-] soldiers just now, wouldn't it be too simple for you to just hire one?

It was also Xie Lingya's first time recruiting Yin soldiers, and he did not expect to encounter a rare setback.

There was also a look of embarrassment on the ghost's face, and then he cupped his hands to Xie Lingya, "The villain Zhang San is a warrior from the Fuyang Town God's Temple, and he is here to wait for Teacher Xie to order."

Xie Lingya was amused for a moment, "You also know that everyone calls me Teacher Xie."

Zhang San: "..."

When Shi Changxuan heard the ghost self-reported his identity, his eyes showed surprise, and then he coughed.

Xie Lingya came back to his senses, thought that the point seemed to be a bit wrong, and said again: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it turned out to be a strongman from the Town God's Temple." That one ghost is enough.

Ms. Zhu couldn't help but said: "From the Temple of the City God? Daoist Shi, did you invite the civil servants from the underworld?"

Damn it, she thought to herself, it's ok, it's too prestigious to compare with the big brother!

Xiao Liang turned back to look at his master in a daze, but Master Zhao couldn't help but rolled his eyes, thinking that this kid is young, he's old in the world, he's a braggart, and he's also a strongman in the Temple of the City God.

As I said before, some of the soldiers and horses are raised by themselves, and some are borrowed. Among the borrowed ones, they have to borrow the lonely ghosts around them to come to obey orders, or borrow the soldiers and horses from the Yin Temple.

City God belongs to the local officials in the underworld, and belongs to the local patron saint, corresponding to the capitals, prefectures and counties in the underworld, that is, today's county magistrates, mayors and other positions.Just like in the human world, from one level to the next, those in charge of a county and a province are city gods of various ranks.

The city gods are usually the heroic spirits who died in the local area, and they still have some "civil servants" places in their hands, that is, the so-called gods and warriors, who can be recruited from among the lonely souls and wild ghosts.These ghosts will no longer be displaced when they have errands, which can be regarded as the kindness of the city god.

But borrowing soldiers and horses from Yin Temple is much more difficult than borrowing lonely souls and wild ghosts.One is to have face with the City God, and the other is to have enough ability. These ghosts can enter the job, but they are selected from among the many wild ghosts.

And in the words of Master Zhao, even a sorcerer's play is better than borrowing ordinary soldiers and horses!

Look at this young man, the play is very good, as if there is a ghost standing in front of his eyes.

Xie Lingya said to Zhang San: "The thing is like this, the owner of this house, Mr. Zhu Dingfeng, was framed by someone, and the ghosts were entangled with him. I was entrusted by the master to drive out the ghosts."

Zhang San immediately said clearly: "This matter is covered by the villain. I will immediately lock up these ghosts and take them to prison for a few days, leaving one for Mr. Xie to interrogate."

Xie Lingya is happy, he is worthy of being a poor job, he really knows how to handle things, "Okay."

Well, this section is a little bit, this section is a little bit, how can you speak the vernacular when communicating with the soldiers and horses of the Yin Temple, you need a little bit of classical Chinese, so the master will believe it.

Although Master Zhao hasn't figured out how the temperature dropped, he finally found a loophole, feeling in his heart that young people are still young after all.

At this time, Zhang San floated towards the room, and it brought a gust of wind.As an official employee of the Town God's Temple, his power is much greater than those lonely ghosts.

As soon as the dark wind blew, everyone cheered up again, their hairs standing on end.

This is much more terrifying than a simple drop in temperature, because the windows on this floor are not open, so where is the wind coming from?

Master Zhao's face turned pale, and he was stunned on the spot.

……

Xie Lingya walked to the door of the room to have a look, Ms. Zhu and others hurriedly followed, and wanted to step into the room, but seeing that Xie Lingya didn't go in, Mr. Zhu thought that this person didn't seem to go in before, so he asked a question, because the tone of the incident just now Fortunately, it was much better, "Well, teacher, why don't you go in?"

Xie Lingya: "No, it's too crowded inside."

The crowd suddenly felt a chill.

Seeing that Zhang San was holding a token in his hand, Xie Lingya easily unlocked the ghosts one by one.This estimate is obtained from the City God, and it should be one of the benefits of the civil servants of the City God Temple.

Zhang San locked up all the ghosts, leaving only one, escorted him to Xie Lingya, and then clasped his fists in salute: "Fortunately, I will not disgrace my life."

"Thank you Lishi." Xie Lingya returned to the altar and burned some ingots prepared in advance to reward Zhang San.

Zhang San smiled embarrassedly: "Why is this so embarrassing, I'm following orders, so I don't want to take Teacher Xie's money again."

Shi Changxuan was a little surprised the second time. He borrowed a warrior from the Yin Temple for the first time he was recruited. Fortunately, Xie Lingya was so talented that he had to get used to it, but he had never heard of the benefits of rejecting a priest.

It is only natural to invite gods and warriors to come to large-scale pujas, such as helping to manage ghost groups during the Ghost Festival, and to burn paper and prepare wine for rewards.

Xie Lingya didn't know so much, so he set fire to the ground and burned everything he had prepared: "Please help, it's a matter of course, if you don't take me, you will feel embarrassed."

He thought to himself, it's cheap anyway, three thousand ingots are only 30 yuan, and it doesn't cost 100 yuan here...

Zhang San shyly accepted the coin, and said: "Then it will be disrespectful, and it will not delay Teacher Xie's work. By the way, the master asked me to say hello to you on his behalf."

Xie Lingya was stunned with a smile, "Master? Who is it?"

Zhang San: "...Master, Master City God."

Xie Lingya's eyes widened, "What does the old man ask me for?"

Zhang San was also at a loss, no, asked him, he still wanted to know, he thought Mr. Xie had a relationship with the City God, so he was so respectful, and he still thought that this person was very polite.Who knows when it's coming, ask him who the master is.

"This... I don't know, I just follow orders." Zhang San replied cautiously.He is a little wrestler, how could the master talk to him so much.

Hey, could it be that the patriarch knew that I was going to borrow soldiers and horses, so he specially greeted me?Everyone is a god, maybe the patriarch has a friendship with the city god, let him take care of the younger generation in the family, after all, I should be the best junior of the patriarch.

Xie Lingya was full of doubts, and he could barely think of an explanation, but he could only press the question temporarily, "Then you go back first."

Xie Lingya sent Zhang San away, this time a stronger wind blew in the house, Zhang San dragged a long string of ghosts away.

As soon as they left, there was a sound from the room behind them. After a few seconds, Mr. Zhu walked out wearing slippers!

"Father!" Ms. Zhu and Mr. Zhu screamed in unison. They went up to help Mr. Zhu, but Mr. Zhu waved and said that he could do it. They were really convinced.

Master Zhao sat on the side, his limbs were numb, his eyes were wide open, but he couldn't speak a word.

His apprentice Xiao Liang was even more bewildered, still immersed in disbelief.

……

No matter how shameless Master Zhao was, he couldn't even dare to get up and say that it was his credit for Mr. Zhu's waking up. He didn't dare to fight with Xie Lingya. He only had one thought, which was to leave quickly.

Master Zhao managed to remain calm and said: "Congratulations, old man, since you've woken up, I'm relieved to leave, and I have something to do tomorrow."

Mr. Zhu just woke up and didn't know anything. He didn't even remember that he woke up briefly just now, so he said blankly, "Thank you, then I won't give it away."

Mr. Zhu's face turned black, and he only gritted his teeth and said two words: "No."

Don't even think about taking the money, Master Zhao packed up his things and walked out despondently, Xiao Liang was still standing there stupidly, he whispered: "What are you doing there?"

Of course, Xiao Liang couldn't stay. Intellectually, he already knew that Master Zhao was incapable, but he still couldn't accept it for a while, and followed him out. Before going out, he subconsciously gave Xie Lingya a pitiful look. .

Xie Lingya didn't notice, he brought up the ghost that Zhang San left on purpose, and asked him where the person who did it was.

These ghosts are going to gather in front of the altar to listen to the order, so he must know where the altar is located, so he hurriedly said: "I said, I said, don't hit me."

Under the explanation of his children, Mr. Zhu knew that Xie Lingya was the one who saved him, so he said angrily at this moment: "I want to see who hurt me."

He was getting worse day by day, as if he was being pressed by a boulder. Until just now, he seemed to hear the sound of chains in his half-dream, and then he woke up suddenly.

Led by the ghost, they tracked to an apartment not far away, and Mr. Zhu had the door opened violently.

The apartment is not big, and after entering, you can see legal items such as bills and incense candles. There is also a middle-aged man sitting on the sofa, with blood on the corner of his mouth, unable to move, watching them come in.This is obviously because all the Yin soldiers were locked away and were backlashed by spells.

Ms. Zhu rushed up and scratched his face: "Who told you to kill my father—"

Xie Lingya knew that this was probably the person who did it, and the person couldn't move, and his face was smudged by Ms. Zhu's scratch, and he howled, "I'm just doing things with money, don't catch me and I'll tell you!"

When Ms. Zhu pressed her, the man said his name. She and Mr. Zhu looked at each other in shock, and for the first time there was no quarrel, but a tacit warning: "You better not be lying."

The middle-aged man covered his face, "I didn't, he would contact me every once in a while to ask about the situation, you can wait."

After hearing this, Xie Lingya knew that Ms. Zhu knew most of the people behind the scenes, and they might have a close relationship.Mr. Zhu is so rich, it is not surprising that there are people with ulterior motives around him.Ms. Zhu's brothers and sisters kept secrets, and he would not pry into other people's family affairs, he just did his own job well.

At this time, Shi Changxuan suddenly came over with something, and said coldly: "Where did you get it?"

Xie Lingya saw that Shi Changxuan was holding a few talismans, which seemed to be taken from the bill next to him. He took a closer look and found that there were some red square seals on the talismans, and the shapes were very familiar.

It took only a moment for Xie Lingya to remember, isn't this the seal of Yang Ping's Zhidu meritorious service seal?

Xie Lingya came alive immediately, snatched the man's collar from Ms. Zhu, and asked viciously, "Who! Who gave it to you! Where is he now?"

He and Shi Changxuan didn't think that this person took the seal of Du Gong. How can a person who can steal the seal of Du Gong be so frustrated, just invite a few lonely souls and wild ghosts, and be caught by them so easily?

But it is certain that this person has a connection with Du Gongyin, and now in Xie Lingya's eyes, it looks like 100 million is marked on the top of his head.

The middle-aged man said tremblingly: "A friend I met by chance gave it to me. I don't know where it is. We met in Boshan last week. He saw that I was drawing ghost charms, so he said to print them for me."

He didn't know that the seal on the talisman was Yangping Zhidu Gonggong Seal, it seemed to be a folk mage, otherwise he would not have known that the Daoist Association was in turmoil.Xie Lingya loosened his collar.

Bo Shan, this person is still in Queshan Province!

But last week, I don’t know if it’s still there now... Reporting and getting 100 million must not be expired news.Xie Lingya was a little disappointed, and thought maybe Bo Shan could find some clues.

Shi Changxuan asked: "What does the person who holds the seal look like?"

The middle-aged man recalled: "He looks about 40 years old, has no beard, and always wears a hat and can't see his eyes clearly... By the way, there is a Liu Lingtong on his hat that is the same as your clothes."

Xie Lingya and Shi Changxuan thought at the same time that when they came back from Xiangyin, they met a man wearing a hat at the high-speed railway station with a willow spirit boy on him.The people who raised Liu Lingtong in this world said more or less, could it be such a coincidence that they saw the same person?

Moreover, Xie Lingya remembered that he took a casual look that day, the car that the man got on was bound for the provincial capital.Shortly thereafter, the Du Gong Seal of the Provincial Museum was stolen.

When the two were deep in thought, Shanglu God was furious: "What's the same? What's the same! One willow and one Phytolaca, and how can it be as cute as me?!"

The author has something to say: Shang Lushen: I’m so angry, I’m so pissed off by the straight man’s eyes!