The iron-wrapped wheels rolled slowly on the dirt road, and because of the weight of Hei Taisui and Li Huowang’s luggage, they were forced to crush car marks on the muddy ground.
Li Huowang, who was driving the horse while holding the reins, turned his head and glanced at the steamed bun that kept sticking out its tongue on the road next to it.
“Bang bang bang bang” steamed bun’s constantly wagging tail was like a wooden stick, knocking the wooden carriage loudly.
Pushing the close dog’s head away with his hand, Li Huowang said impatiently: “Be quiet!”
After finishing speaking, he stretched out his hand and took out the note that Tuoba Danqing gave him back then.
Same as in the past, there is an address here, but different from the past, this time the other party gave me a note, and did not clearly write what happened.
It was just deliberately stated that two spies with yellow characters were folded in this place, so that those who go next time should be careful.
Li Huowang doesn’t know how strong the so-called “Huangzi spy” is, but he can be sure that this time the incident must be serious.
Otherwise, Tuoba Danqing would not have said that after finishing this trip, he would be promoted from Guizu to Renwu.
Knowing that this trip may be dangerous, but Li Huowang is really not afraid. After going through so many things, he has become a little numb. If a person is not afraid of death, then there is nothing to be afraid of.
Li Huowang took out the dark blue talisman book again, opened it and read it. The first page was a brief overview of the book.
“What is the way of ancestors, seeing the traces of immortals, birds and spirits in the sand, knowing that there are innate inspirations in them, so I infer and seek them in detail…”
To put it simply, a person named He Dao or a Taoist surnamed He figured out a way to borrow the power of heaven and earth from the traces of birds and insects.
The sound that is derived from the sounds of birds and animals in the sky and the earth to mobilize the aura of heaven and earth is called amulets, and the traces that lead to the aura of heaven and earth found in insect marks and star images are talismans.
But just listen to what was said above, Li Huowang doesn’t think that the power of heaven and earth can still eat back at him at a glance, God knows which side of this chaotic world he borrowed.
In this crazy world, everyone has their own logic, and most of them contradict each other.
Don’t care about the aura of heaven and earth, the three cleanses and three corpses, the five directions of the Buddha world, he doesn’t want to be entangled in the truth or falsehood. As long as it can help him, even if it is said that the Jade Emperor has descended to earth, he is willing to believe it.
“Same Fu strokes, write four at the beginning, then fold the left bottom and vertical, the bottom of which is ugly, and the bottom of the ugly is double fire characters, reverse four circles and make lotus”
Although blind Chen said that this talisman has great hidden dangers, it is not so easy to use it.
When you draw a talisman, you must read it carefully. If you make a mistake or mispronounce a word, the talisman will be considered invalid. What’s more terrible, after the talisman is drawn, you can’t see that the bottom painting is correct.
If you want to master this talisman book proficiently, you won’t be able to use it without spending a lot of hard work.
To be honest, Li Huowang thinks this thing is more troublesome to use than “Daqianlu”. Although “Daqianlu” is expensive, it is really convenient to use.
A small strip of bright yellow turmeric paper was placed on the carriage. Li Huowang bit his finger, looked at the talisman book in his hand and began to copy it.
“…the essence of heaven and earth, the essence of sun and moon, the essence of heaven and earth, the brightness of sun and moon!”
After Li Huowang finished reading in his mind, he held the talisman in his hand and slapped the horse on the back in front of him. The next moment Li Huowang faintly heard something sticky whispering.
But before he could listen carefully, the black horse pulling the cart neighed suddenly, its skin burst with dark purple blood vessels, and it galloped quickly.
The strong wind blew up the black gauze bamboo hat on Li Huowang’s head, exposing his face with more than half of his face.
Listening to the creaking of the wheels, Li Huowang, who was carrying the horse, couldn’t help but get nervous. “Would the carriage not fall apart if we continue running like this?”
Fortunately, after a while, when Li Huowang took off the talisman on the horse’s back, the horse slowly returned to normal.
But in such a short time, the carriage has already run out for several miles, so don’t be upset, this talisman is more useful than Li Huowang imagined.
It’s just that when the black horse with blood and sweat came to the river and drank water, Li Huowang wiped the horse’s back with his hands, and a red liquid that looked like oil oozed out. Is there really no hidden danger?”
“Wow!” Suddenly Mantou bared his teeth and barked at the side of the road.
Looking up, Li Huowang saw that it was a footman with a load.
Seeing the other party walking forward gradually, Li Huowang hurriedly chased after him in a carriage. He was about to reach the place, so it was really unreasonable not to find a local to ask him to understand.
“Hey, shopkeeper, wait!”
Looking at the copper coin sword on Li Huowang’s back, and then at the red Taoist robe on Li Huowang’s body, the shopkeeper with the mole on his chin wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, put down the pole on his shoulder, and stared at him. Looking at Li Huowang’s black gauze hat, he asked, “Master, what do you want?”
“I don’t want anything, I just thought that since we are going the same way, we can go together. After all, it is safer if there are more people, so as not to encounter thieves and rob the road, and lose our lives in vain.”
“Master Dao was joking. I don’t know about other land boundaries, but here, there are really no thieves. To be afraid of thieves is better to guard against animals in the forest.”
“Can’t you? Then why did I hear that this place is not peaceful?” Li Huowang just dropped the hook, and the other party immediately bit the hook.
“That’s also a matter in the county, and it has nothing to do with us. There are merchants in the county, so we don’t need our shopkeepers.” The shopkeeper looked indifferent.
“Oh? I would like to hear more about it. I’m new here, so I really don’t know much about it.”
But when Li Huowang asked such a question, the other party stopped talking, with a fearful expression on his face, as if he was taboo about something.
Li Huowang didn’t force him to ask, but looked at the things on the other side’s shoulder pole, “What do you have so much?”
As soon as the business was confirmed, the salesman suddenly became energetic. “I’m a foodie, so of course I buy food. I sell them all, such as soap paste, Chengsha dumplings, and lactose.”
When Li Huowang bought more than half of the different foods in his shoulder basket and asked again, the other party hesitated for a moment, and finally he was willing to speak.
After sneaking a few sneaky glances into the surrounding woods, he leaned against Li Huowang and said in a low voice, “I’ll tell you, don’t talk nonsense outside. Cangshui County is haunted.”
“Haunted?” Li Huowang was stunned for a moment, he really didn’t expect to hear this from someone else.
“Yeah, didn’t the Ghost Festival be celebrated in July and a half a few days ago? Oops~ In the end, the king of **** forgot to close the ghost gate! The things in the underworld~ they all ran out.”
Li Huowang didn’t believe a single word of the nonsense the other party said. If this kid knew that Lord Yan had forgotten to close the gate of hell, it would be a shame to be a shopkeeper here.
“Just talk about what happened in Cangshui County earlier, don’t add oil and vinegar.”