The shaft of the carriage ran over the potholes on the road, and as it swayed, the woman with the jade hairpin leaned against the old man in ragged clothes, and then was pushed, and her forehead hit the wooden board.
A slight pain came, and her long eyelashes trembled. The woman slowly opened her eyes and looked at the puppets of different shapes hanging above. She quickly sat up, feeling pain in her abdomen and then fell back on her side.
Fortunately, he held it up with his hands and sat aside.
When she touched Yu Qingjian, she felt a little relieved, and she breathed a sigh of relief, as if someone was watching her.
Head tilt.
She saw an old man with disheveled hair and gray beard approaching her, squinting his eyes and looking up and down with a serious expression.
"Girl, you look so handsome. Do you have a lover?"
"??"
The woman looked slightly startled and shrank back. Even though she knew that the old man in front of her was a little crazy, she still spoke politely.
"Senior...why are you asking me like this?"
The old man looked solemn, opened his fingers, and counted while he sang: "Girl, look at you, you are so beautiful, tsk tsk, I have never seen such a beautiful one, with a small nose, a small mouth, so red...
...These eyes seem to be able to talk, but they are a little cold, but it doesn't matter, my disciple likes you like this... If you see a handsome man driving the car outside, that is my disciple, isn't it good? His name is Chen Yuan...
"
"senior……"
Although she has a cold temperament, her face is a bit thin after all. When the old man said this to her, the woman looked embarrassed and a little ugly. But when she heard the word "Chen Yuan", she was stunned for a moment.
"Senior, isn't your apprentice's name Zhang Fei?"
"Zhang Fei, what a stupid name... let me think about it." The crazy old man rubbed his messy hair, suddenly patted the top of his head, and used his foot to kick the shrine not far away, "Zhang Fei is inside, with that long black hair
It’s the one who pulls a few.”
As he spoke, he reached out and took out the dolls placed inside. They had a leopard head with ringed eyes, a thick beard made of pig hair, and a pair of tiger eyes, staring at the crazy old man and the woman in front of him, as if they were about to come to life.
Generally, there is a fierce and evil atmosphere.
"Senior...it's better to put it back first."
The woman seemed to feel something and hurriedly stopped her. Unexpectedly, the crazy old man didn't take it seriously, "... It's fun to come out, but my disciple said that it will take a long time to come out."
Puppet... The woman looked at the wooden sculpture played in the hands of the old man and remembered that her junior brother was knocked away by the opponent yesterday and was beaten so hard that he was unable to resist.
It is obvious that the person who performs the magic is just practicing Qi, so why do the gods and monsters invited know martial arts by themselves?
She looked at the back of the driver in front of her with doubtful eyes. At this time, Chen Yuan also knew that the woman in the car had woken up. He naturally heard what the master had said to the other party before, and turned around to break the embarrassment and smiled at her.
"Don't move around in the car. There's a town ahead. Go buy some food."
It was almost noon, and we were only more than twenty miles away from Qingshan County. We happened to catch up with the market in the town. Chen Yuan parked the oxcart on the roadside at the entrance of the town. He went over to buy some noodles and bought pens and cinnabar on the way.
He asked the fat Taoist sitting side by side to take out a few blank talisman papers. Chen Yuan poured some water and mixed the cinnabar evenly while eating the dough. The pen tip was dipped in the bowl and the blank yellow talismans fell off.
According to the two stories in the Talisman Chapter of "Miscellaneous Questions of Huangchuan", I recited the formulas shown above and drew two talismans with the image of the talisman. Unfortunately, the drawings were crooked and ugly, and the fat Taoist couldn't help complaining.
"This trace looks like an earthworm crawling across it."
"Don't talk too much."
Chen Yuan took a bite of the noodle cake, held her breath and held the pen again, and slowly sketched it out with her magic power, stroke by stroke, before making it.
"Get in the car and sit tight."
The crazy old man and the fat Taoist didn't know what Chen Yuan was going to do. They quickly sat upright and held on tight. Chen Yuan shook the reins and urged the old cow to pull the cart. The talisman in his hand flew out and stuck to the cow's butt.
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Pinch out the finger tips and follow the talisman paper a little.
"disease!"
The old cow turned back and blinked. Immediately, the cow's eyes were startled with emotion, and he grinned his thick lips: "Moo——", his tail instantly raised, and he unconsciously spread his hooves and started running.
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next moment.
Chen Yuan held another talisman between her fingertips, murmured something, and then ignited a flame. As the ashes flew into the sky, the rushing bullock carts seemed to disappear from the eyes of the passing business travelers, passing by as usual.
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It was just the smoke and dust that was rolled up, which confused the people around him. There was even a long series of heart-rending shouts that gradually disappeared as the dust and smoke drifted away.
…
Tap tap tap~~
Bang bang bang——
"It's fast... it's too fast... ah..." The fat Taoist hugged Peng Zhu, his bun floating in the wind. He stretched one leg out of the car, and his eyes were almost unable to open due to the wind, "My boss...
…Should we be in such a hurry…”
"Hurry up and return to Funiu Town, otherwise it will be dark even after crossing Qingshan County."
The words drifted away in the wind. Chen Yuan held the reins tightly, and his toes were curled tightly in his shoes. The bumpy road made him rise and fall on the car.
The crazy old man in the car grabbed the wooden sculpture of Zhang Fei and lay on the back of the car, covering the puppet and yelling excitedly. The woman inside pursed her lips tightly, and held tightly to the wooden boards stacked in the car with both hands, occasionally shaking from below.
The silver ingot that came out hit his face, and his cheeks suddenly bulged, feeling a little angry.
Fortunately, Chen Yuan's cultivation was shallow, and the magic power poured into the talisman paper would not last long. After passing Qingshan County, he turned south towards Funiu Town, and the speed talisman and blindfold talisman lost their effect.
About seven miles away from the town, it gradually slowed down. After a while, the bullock cart stopped by the roadside, and the fat Taoist jumped out of the car and chased away the weeds, making a vomiting sound.
The crazy old man was fine, but after getting off the car, he walked staggeringly, as if he had been drunk.
Old Newton clapped his hooves and looked down at the cow's hooves, confused as to why he couldn't get up quickly.
‘It seems like it’s better to wait until you become proficient with this spell before using it…’
It was the first time that Chen Yuan used this kind of magic. She thought she could control it, but she didn't know how to withdraw when she applied it. She ran all the way down and felt that her internal organs were all reversed.
"You know quite a lot of spells...but you just use them randomly..."
The woman got out of the car, looked at Chen Yuan with a cold expression, then turned around, covered her mouth, and rushed to the weeds on the roadside.
"You can wield a sword faster than this... and still get dizzy?"
"The sword...at least it's not dangerous." The woman looked at the insects climbing in the grass and replied angrily. She had outstanding qualifications in the mountain gate. When she was in the gate, she still traveled far and wide, and she had never been in such a mess as she is today.
The wind was swaying the grass. She wiped the corners of her mouth and stood up slowly. In the bright sunshine, the man named Chen Yuan helped the crazy old man back to the car, then went to the fat Taoist priest and patted his back.
They were chatting and laughing, and when they looked over, they waved to her to get in the car.
Everything he showed really didn't look like an evil cultivator.
She pulled her black hair dancing in the wind to her ears, looked at the man who greeted her and thought.
The breeze blew through the fields, and the cicadas chirped softly at the foot of the mountain. The woman walked towards the carriage with her white skirt open. Still with a cold expression, she got into the carriage and followed the slowly shaking ox cart along the winding mountain road.
When we arrived at Funiu Town, it was already afternoon, and the mountains to the west were showing dusk.
Just like when I left before, Huangyan's paved stone streets, low and dilapidated houses, flags with the word "wine" hanging lifelessly in the sunset, store clerks sitting on the threshold, tapping their heads one by one
Dozing off; hunters in the mountains stood on the street with bows and knives on their backs, selling freshly skinned wolf skins; there were also pedestrians passing by who saw the approaching ox cart and said hello to Chen Yuan in a familiar manner.
Chen Yuan also responded one by one and asked if Zhao Jiaban was performing at the moment.
"It's still there, but the business is not going well. I just did those few shows back and forth. After watching them for a long time, it's not interesting. Now that Brother Chen is back, he might as well write some more stories... maybe sell them to Old Man Zhao."
"That's why I came back this time."
Chen Yuan thanked the other party and drove the bullock cart to the place where Zhao's class performed before, which was in the open space behind a row of houses on the right. As he passed, the gongs and suonas were playing, but there were only a few people in the open stands.
personal.
The bullock cart stopped outside. A young man sitting not far from the stage raised his eyes. When he saw the figure coming down, he immediately sat down on the ground and hurriedly ran to the back hall.
"Master! Class leader!"
"It's incredible——"
The young man rushed into the back hall impatiently, knocked down someone, and ran straight inside with someone to help him.
At this time, Mr. Zhao, who was carving a wood carving, heard his apprentice's words and shook his hand, causing the wood carving to fall to the ground.