"Performing for ghosts?" Li Huowang's heart skipped a beat. He knew it was not a good word just by the name.
"It's nothing, just going to the ancestral hall to perform in front of the ancestors."
"Since it's nothing, why doesn't Mr. Lu do this business himself?" Li Huo asked back immediately. He knew it was not that simple.
"Oh, you see, this is my first time, and I feel a little nervous, so I want to ask you to stay by my side so that we can do this business with peace of mind."
"Mr. Lu, I really can't help you with this." He usually doesn't have time to hide, so why does he have time to rush to provoke him now?
Although it is possible that nothing will happen, he doesn't want to gamble.
He and Mr. Lu are just companions at most, so it's not worth risking his life to help him.
If he really didn't want to continue being a guide because of this, he could just break up and go to the village to ask. There are so many people in the village, who knows the way?
"Hey, hey, hey, little Taoist priest, don't be impatient, I haven't finished yet, how about we split the money for the drinks in half?"
When it comes to money, Lu Zhuangyuan gestured with joy. "I didn't want to take it before, but it's not a small amount of money. Mr. Hu is so generous! He gave me ten taels of silver!"
"One tael of silver is one thousand copper coins, and ten taels of silver is ten thousand copper coins! My little Taoist priest! Ten taels of silver! You want to cultivate Taoism and become an immortal, but you have to eat before you become an immortal, right?"
Li Huowang stopped immediately. He looked at the two bags of dried sweet potatoes next to him. He really needed money now.
It's not just because of the food. When we get to Jianye Town, we will also have to spend a lot of money. As long as the world is made up of people, it's hard to move without money.
"Little Taoist, can you beg me? If it doesn't work, how about you pay 60% and I pay 40%? It's not easy to make so much money these days!" Lv Zhuangyuan kept persuading Li Huowang with a sad face.
If the master didn't come, he really didn't dare to take this job. After all, no matter how much money he made, he had to have a life to spend it.
Li Huowang suddenly turned his head and looked at Lv Zhuangyuan, "Is there a blacksmith in this village?"
"What?"
Under the leadership of Lv Zhuangyuan, Li Huowang was taken to the only blacksmith shop in Wuligang.
"What do you want to make?" The bearded man with a naked upper body looked at Li Huowang's Taoist robe and asked rudely.
"Don't make iron tools. Repair something. You can't knock or melt it. Can you restore this thing?" Li Huowang took out the copper bell and asked.
If it can be repaired, and I can summon Master You, then I might really be able to take the money, otherwise it's too hot to hold.
"Can't knock or melt? What a bad problem." The blacksmith took the copper bell and swung it a few times, then took out two iron pliers. "Come, come and help."
The big pliers were very long, and they easily reached into the two sides of the copper bell that were deflated. The two of them gritted their teeth and exerted force, but the copper bell didn't move at all. This result was not unexpected and reasonable.
"Eh~! Strange, what kind of copper is this thing made of? Why is it so hard?" The curious blacksmith bent his knuckles and was about to knock it, but was stopped by Li Huowang.
Looking at the two pliers clamping the bell wall of the copper bell, Li Huowang thought for a while, and poured a pill from a palm-sized gourd on his waist and stuffed it into his mouth.
This was the elixir that Dan Yangzi had rewarded him with. He had taken one pill when he saved Yang Na in the mental hospital, one when he killed Dan Yangzi, and one today. There were only two pills left.
"Buzz" a burst of heat instantly exploded from the Dantian acupoint and surged all over Li Huowang's body.
He took a deep breath, grabbed the pliers on one side with one hand and pulled hard.
"Two people can't open it, and you still want to--" The blacksmith had just said half of his words when he heard a creaking sound, and the shriveled copper bell actually opened steadily.
When the blacksmith opened his mouth as wide as possible, the copper bell returned to its original shape.
"Hey, what's the big deal? I tell you, the little Taoist master is very advanced." Lu Zhuangyuan proudly showed off to the blacksmith, as if in his mind Li Huowang was omnipotent and nothing was surprising.
Li Huowang left the village and returned to the forest outside alone.
Looking at the copper bell in his hand, he shook it with some anticipation in his heart.
As the bell rang, the feeling of dizziness and swollen head immediately appeared. This time Li Huowang did not stop, but shook it vigorously with gritted teeth.
He felt that everything around him was spinning, and the lines of the branches around him began to twist, leaving their original positions, and gradually began to condense into shape.
"It's a good show!" Li Huowang's heart was beating fast at this time.
Accompanied by the piercing bell, the long-lost Master You reappeared in front of him, but this time there was only one.
Master You looked like a high-frequency trembling thing made up of various twisted lines, and his body was completely shapeless.
Li Huowang couldn't stare at it for too long. He felt that if he stared at it for too long, he would stare it apart.
He was about to open his mouth to speak when he suddenly thought of something, bent down and dug a piece of wet mud from the ground and stuffed it into his mouth.
The mud tasted bad, but he still forced himself to speak.
"Nan tiao zhi rui yue ye?" He wanted to ask if this Master You could understand what he said, but the sound he said turned into a very strange melody after being processed by this distorted environment.
No matter what Li Huowang said, Master You actually responded. "瓞滹之."
This made Li Huowang ecstatic. With Master You's help, his strength would increase greatly!
"Ruineng yue yue yue yue yue yue yue?" Li Huowang leaned forward and asked the most critical question.
Master You stopped where he was, neither arrogant nor impatient, and responded slowly but firmly: "嬵嶯, 懠寿護匘邦, 玃."
Li Huowang's brows gradually frowned. "攭攮,櫱."
"嬵嶯,懠寿扈匘邦,玃."
When seeing Master You continue to repeat the previous sentence, Li Huowang sighed in his heart. Sure enough, there is no such thing as a free lunch. There is a price to drive Master You.
And this price is not anything else, but a person's life span. One drive will cost three months of life.
When Li Huowang asked the other party again whether Danyangzi had also exchanged in this way, Master You stopped talking.
The ringing gradually stopped. Li Huowang covered his head with a splitting headache and rested for a long time before returning to Wuligang.
"Little Taoist, what are you doing..." Lv Zhuangyuan looked at his mouth full of mud and hesitated.
"I agree to the deal you just told me." Li Huowang said, holding the copper bell in his hand tightly.
"Oh! That's great! I'm going to reply to Master Hu!" Lv Zhuangyuan was overjoyed when he heard this.