Copper Coins

Xue Xian straightened his clothes, and seeing that Xuan Min hadn't moved for a long time, he couldn't help turning his head and urging: "Why are you still in a daze?"

Unexpectedly, Xuan Min was holding up the injured hand and asked him: "Do you know the effect of dragon saliva?"

His expression was still clear and calm, but his tone was a little strange, as if his emotions were quite complicated.The corner of Xue Xian's mouth twitched, and he said to himself, you bald donkey, you really can't open any pot!The previous set of self-persuasion has suddenly lost its effect. It is really... not a good feeling to think about what you have done after changing back to your human form.

Ha ha.

Xue Xian's face was paralyzed, and he had to argue three points without reason: "The things on my body, what should I do to understand the specific functions?"

"It's enough to know that it's almost useful. I don't care so much. I won't cut myself into medicine, right? Am I crazy?" He snorted, glanced at Xuan Min, and turned his head, fingers He knocked impatiently on the armrest of the chair twice, and said: "I'll treat your wound, I'll just say thank you, and there's so much nonsense, go!"

He originally wanted to bluff, just don't ask about the content, and just make a very reasonable tone that cannot be refuted, at least it can make Xuan Min stop thinking about "licking the wound" and the like.

Sure enough, he secretly turned his head to glance at Xuan Min from the corner of his eye, and saw him shake his head, put down his injured hand, and said helplessly, "Let's go." Obviously, he didn't intend to continue talking about this topic.

Xue Xian was very satisfied.

The two quickly returned to Mr. Xu Dashan's house, they deliberately bypassed the main entrance, and quietly entered the house from the side.

The front hall where the visitors were supposed to be received was gone at this time, and the chatter and laughter came from the back hall, which was still indistinct as if separated by a thick layer of fog.

"You are finally back..." Jiang Shining let out a long breath as soon as Xue Xian and the others entered the door of the East Room.

After all, once these two ancestors left, there would be no reliable people left in the house. If Mr. Xu Dashan and the others suddenly turned into a madman, nothing could stop them.

"Why do you look frightened?" Xue Xian teased him angrily, "If you don't go out to show off, then Mr. Xu Dashan won't come in, unless he just comes to the east room to pick up something due to bad luck."

Upon hearing this, the people in the room became a little curious.Jiang Shining questioned: "If we don't go out, he won't come in? By the way, just now, I vaguely heard a meal outside the door calling for friends and companions. It seemed that he was calling for wine and tea. The voice should be at the back, as if I really don’t remember anyone else in the east room.”

Xue Xian waved his hand: "I wouldn't remember..."

After all, the earth binding spirits are not living people. They are only impressed by the faces and things that are repeated repeatedly, but they are quite slow to the outsiders who break in suddenly.Just like Xu Dashan and the others, when they saw Xue Xian and his party, they would chat normally, and it even made people feel that the hospitality was hard to refuse.But if they don't see Xue Xian and his party, they won't remember it for a while, and they will unconsciously forget the existence of outsiders.

So before they stayed in the east room for so long, no one came to greet the people in the room, but as soon as they left the room, Xu Dashan's enthusiasm came up.

"So that's how it is." The scar-faced man and the others seemed to have suddenly realized.

He was about to say something, but Xue Xian pointed out: "Don't you, it's none of your business. The outsiders here only refer to us. You come here every year, from the time when Xu Dashan was alive to when he was not alive. Yes. For those people in the back hall, you are in the middle, not outsiders. They just forgot about you for a while, and they should come looking for you soon."

Just as he was saying these words, a faint voice came from the back hall, getting closer and closer to the east room...

"What about Deliang and the others? Look at my memory, I forgot to greet my old friends, it's a sin..." Xu Dashan didn't know who he was talking to, and within two sentences, his voice had already reached outside the door.

tuk tuk-

The people in the room were startled.

"De Liang, are you in there?" Xu Dashan's voice came through the door, "The banquet is already set, and there is room for you—"

squeak-

Even if the old door is moved lightly, it will make a toothache sound.

"Yes, yes!" The scar-faced man and the others turned around before the door was pushed open, old and young, all clustered together, just blocking the view of Xu Dashan outside the door, "Rest here, and this is over."

From the perspective of everyone, only their backs can be seen.Xu Dashan's cheerful voice came over, "Let's go, after walking for so long, are you hungry? Come on—"

The scar-faced man gave a deep smile and responded with a few words.Then, all the troupe members went out one by one, and went to the back hall under the greeting of Mr. Xu Dashan.

The scarfaced man kept holding the door and was the last one.Before he left the east room, he turned his head slightly and rushed into the room, saying: "You guys hurry up and leave at this time. We can't help when the opera starts late, so it will be difficult to leave."

Xue Xian had such a plan in the first place, now that the Scarfaced Man and the others took the initiative to lure away Xu Dashan, that would be the best.

Everyone in the room stood up one after another, only the beggar with the severed hand hesitated.

"Didn't you ask us to save people?" Jiang Shijing pointed to Xiaodao, the second child who was unconscious on the bed, "Take it with us and go back to the medicine hall. Be careful, and use your clothes to cover the wound."

The beggars looked at each other, echoed without hesitation, and hurriedly wrapped up the three people who had the rash, and followed behind the crowd.

When Xuan Min pushed Xue Xian's two-wheeled cart and strode out, the scar-faced man who had already left the door looked back and asked, "I can see that the two of you are capable people. I can also feel some movements and changes in Wencun..."

He glanced at the door leading to the back hall, as if it had been several years, listening to those who had died talking and laughing happily.After a moment of silence, he turned his head to look at Xuan Min, "Forgive me for asking, are they going to disappear?"

Xuan Min let out a "huh" and said lightly, "The formation that disturbed the air situation has been broken, and the earth binding spirit will naturally not be trapped here again."

"At most, it can last for half a day, and it will be almost nightfall." Xue Xian added after glancing at the sky outside the hall.

Those earth-bound spirits are hidden dangers for Jiang Shining and other outsiders. How far away they can be, no matter how warm and harmless they are, they can't get close, and they can only exchange a sigh or regret.But it is different for the scar-faced man. They are all relatives and neighbors they have known since childhood. Every face, walking appearance, talking and laughing gesture can evoke a string of past memories...

The scar-faced man nodded with a complicated expression, and after a while, nodded again, and said in a low voice, "Alright."

……

On the way back, Xue Xian was very honest, he didn't provoke thunder and rain, he didn't transform into a real dragon, and he didn't even send the carriage to the sky.The only thing that moved was to expand the inside of the carriage, which brought in the wind again, sticking tightly to the horse's butt all the way, which made the carriage speed up a lot.

Jiang Shining was very uncomfortable with Xue Xian, who was not a monster, and he kept looking at him all the way, and finally couldn't help asking: "What are you thinking about so seriously?"

Xue Xian glanced at him, then glanced again, hissed, and muttered, "Yes, you can barely be considered half a doctor..."

Jiang Shining: "..." Can you say something nice?

Seeing Jiang Shining turned his head away, Xue Xian pulled him closer and said, "Let me ask you, do you know what the dragon saliva does?"

Jiang Shining gave him a strange look, as if looking at a pervert.

"Tsk—what's your expression? I'm asking you something." Xue Xian said impatiently.

"No, I just think it's a bit... difficult for a dragon to ask other people about the effect of the dragon's saliva." Jiang Shining said slowly, "You don't know?"

Xue Xian rolled his eyes at him, "You're free to study whether your eyeballs can be used as medicine. Does it have any effect? ​​Anyway, it doesn't work for me."

"That's true..." Jiang Shining nodded and muttered.

"Besides, nothing else matters. You can almost get a general idea by trying it twice on other people. Where can I try Longsaliva!"

Jiang Shining glanced at him, and said carefully: "It's better not to try..."

"Why?"

"Although I haven't seen anyone use it with my own eyes, I've heard rumors about it. Dragon saliva..." Jiang Shining paid attention to lowering his voice before, but after chatting a few words now, his voice returned to normal unconsciously .As a result, as soon as he started this sentence, he was interrupted by a hand that suddenly stretched out.

He looked blankly at Xuan Min who suddenly put his copper coins into Xue Xian's hand, then slapped a paper talisman on Xue Xian's forehead, and turned him around with his back to Jiang Shining. , and then quietly glanced at Jiang Shining.

"Although I don't know what I said is wrong, but since the master sees me this way, then I must be wrong." Jiang Shining said to himself, smiled dryly at Xuan Min, silently closed his mouth, and turned around. He turned his head to look outside the car curtain.

Xue Xian: "...you wait, bald donkey, I'll beat you to death if you expose this torn paper." Do you know that half of the words can suffocate people?

It's a pity that once this torn paper is pasted, it will last forever.

Xue Xian couldn't move until he entered Fang's house and settled down in one of the wing rooms.

Xuan Min picked another corner for him that was said to have good aura and is suitable for recuperation. Fortunately, the bald donkey showed mercy this time and did not let him face the corner again...

But facing the door is also embarrassing, okay? How can you show your face?Um?

Xue Xian was still thrown backwards in anger.

When he and Xuan Min went to dig the keel earlier, Jiang Shining explained the ins and outs to his sister and husband. Jiang Shijing also knew that he needed a drop of his own blood to send his parents on the road. It's just that ghosts should not show up in the blue sky and daylight, and they have to wait for the sunset .

No matter what, the matter of parents is a big deal to her.So, as soon as the sun set over the mountain, she and Jiang Shining came to look for Xuan Min.

The sky was dark, and in the evening, the lights in the room were already lit.

Xue Xian sat in a corner with his eyes closed, and was quietly nurturing his muscles with the copper coins. The oily yellow lamplight cast a gentle light and shadow on his body, giving his usually pale skin a slightly warm color.

As soon as the Jiang Shining siblings entered the room, they subconsciously relaxed their movements. Fortunately, Xuan Min had a straightforward temperament, so he didn't talk too much and put the silver doctor's bell on the table immediately.

He took out a cloth bag from the hidden pocket at his waist, unfolded it, took out a silver needle of just the right size, and handed it to Jiang Shijing, "Take three drops of Lao Gong's blood."

Jiang Shijing took the silver needle, lightly roasted it on the lamp, and then simply pricked the Laogong acupoint on the palm, and then handed the silver needle back to Xuan Min.

"Drip here." Xuan Min pointed out three places on the medical bell, "From west to east."

Jiang Shijing held his breath, and quietly squeezed a drop of blood in three places one by one.

I saw the blood dripping on the silver doctor's bell suddenly moved and started to swim by itself.When walking to a certain position, the whole medical bell will suddenly tremble slightly, as if experiencing some kind of torment and shock.Hearing the soft sound of Xixisuo, Jiang Shining's sister and brother looked worried.

It wasn't until these three drops of blood covered the entire gullies of the medical bell that it dripped down on the table along the edge of the medical bell.

Xuan Min took a pen with his cleansed hands, wrote the names of the Jiang family and his wife on a piece of yellow paper, folded the yellow paper three times and pressed it on the medical bell, and lit the fire.

He borrowed the yellow paper fire to burn the end of a long incense stick, and the curling green smoke spread in the room with a unique fragrance, making people feel peaceful.

Until the incense burned to the end, no one in the room spoke a word, only Xuan Min recited a deep scripture in a low voice.

Ding--

The silver doctor's bell rang suddenly, and the lingering sound lingered, and all the Jiang family siblings were heard for a while.

Ding--

Another sound...

"Yes... are they parents?" When Jiang Shijing asked this, tears had already fallen on the table.

Xuan Min calmly said: "They have been trapped for too long, they can no longer show their bodies, they can only send a message to say goodbye to you."

Cleaning hands, writing posts, burning incense, and chanting scriptures can send the dead to the rebirth.

The Jiang family siblings stared blankly at Yiling, even though they couldn't see their parents, they still couldn't bear to blink...

Xue Xian, who was sitting in the corner, opened his eyes silently. He looked at a certain point in the void in front of the table, closed his eyes instead of nodding his head, and thanked this kind couple in person after more than ten years——

The medicine applied to the wound is very effective, and the copper stove for drying hands is also very warm, thank you, and go well.

In the courtyard of Xuzhai’s house in Wencun, Huadan Xiaosheng babbled and sang, with a melodious tone, and the gongs and leather drums echoed just right: "Don't let the bright moon go down the mountainside, from now on..."

The same play has been sung from many years ago to many years later, but no one is tired of it. The people in the courtyard still love to hear this word and watch this style.

The old people, the old house, and the old stage seem to have never passed by in the past ten years, and there is no separation between yin and yang.

Xu Dashan was sitting at the table, sipping tea, watching the separation and reunion on the stage, tapping his fingers on the table, echoing the flicks and slow singing.After savoring for a long time, he suddenly said softly, "Deliang, thank you for your hard work..."

The scar-faced man is the team leader, so he doesn't have to go on stage.He sat at the same table with Mr. Xu Dashan. He was stunned for a moment when he heard this, but when he turned his head, he saw Mr. Xu Dashan smiled at him. There were many meanings in his smile, as if...he already knew that the barren village was no longer, the old People are dead.

The scar-faced man was silent for a while, picked up his untouched cup of tea on the table, raised his hand at Xu Dashan, took a sip, and said, "Next year, we may...we won't be able to come either."

There are also many meanings in his expression, quite similar to Xu Dashan.

After drinking a cup of tea, the two looked at each other and smiled, as if they had made a tacit farewell after rushing to a life-and-death appointment.

You should go, and so should I...

The sky was completely dark, and the fog that persisted in the barren village was slowly dissipating. Like the thick fog, the vague opera tone gradually faded and slowly spread far away.

"Don't let the bright moon go down the mountainside. From then on, the moon will not be dark, and people will not grow old. A hundred years and a day are now night..." [1]

You come to listen, and I will sing, as long as you promise, regardless of life or death.

The author has something to say: Note [1]: Don’t let the bright moon go down the mountainside, from now on the moon will not be dark, people will not be old, and a hundred years and a day will be like today——Quoted from the Chaozhou Opera "Love Song"

Thinking about finishing this volume, it’s a bit late~ This is a new update, and there will be another update at night, try to be before 12 o’clock~ okay?

The third volume is over here, and the next volume will not be long before someone will be able to go to the ground

The fourth volume is unchanged