Envy

The next day the weather was fine, Meng Tou woke up early and was packing his things when Huo Zhi opened the door and came in with a solemn expression.

"Meng Tou, something happened in the city."

What happened was the Zhou family in Mu Chengdong.Corpse spots appeared on the living members of the Zhou family. None of the dozens of people survived the disaster, but none of them died, but they were all dying, only missing their last breath.The Zhou family compound was also sealed off by the government.

Huo Zhi said that it was urgent and he had to take a look no matter what.Meng Tong knew that he was worried that it was a ghost.The few of them put down what they were doing and immediately went to the east of the city to check the situation.

The gate of the Zhou family's courtyard was bleak, and there were two yamen servants standing beside the stone lion. The seal on the door was broken, and the red door was wide open.There was the sound of chanting mantras and bells.They could see that in the inner courtyard, there were still many yamen servants surrounding a man in loose white clothes, pretending to be a ghost.

The front of the steps has not been cleaned up for a long time, and the ground is full of withered and yellow leaves.As soon as the few of them stepped forward, they were stopped by two guards, one on the left and one on the right: "What do you do? I don't know that the government is running a business, so you can't interfere?"

Huo Zhi saluted, "We are all Mu Mi's disciples, we heard that the Zhou family was in trouble, so we came here to help."

The yamen servants saw that these people were extraordinary, and it seemed that they were somewhat believable when they said they were cultivators.One of them went in to make an announcement, and when he came back, he allowed them to go in.

The yamen is full of wine bags and rice bags. If something goes wrong, people will be locked up and charlatans will be invited to exorcise evil spirits.The members of the Zhou family were lying across the courtyard, lying on their backs on stretchers, all of them breathing weakly.The quack danced around indiscriminately, chanted a few mantras, poured a few bowls of wine, said that he was too resentful and unable to recover, and ordered the yamen servant to burn the Zhou family down.

The yamen servants stayed with them for an hour, and when they heard that Zhou's house was being burned, they all cheered up.Some yamen servants have already brought firewood from the corner.

Huo Zhixue Ye stepped forward to stop him, Meng Tou knelt down on one knee, and lifted the thin cloth covering one of them.Meng Tou was also frightened, the man's arms and face were covered with dark purple corpse spots, his body was as thin as a stick, his face was livid, and his eyes were sunken.He stretched out his hand with difficulty, his fingers touched Meng Tou's sleeve, and then slipped down again.He said, "Help...help me."

A man in the yamen who looked like a head catcher yelled a few words and tried to stop him.Meng Tou didn't listen or care.He immediately inspected all the patients, and they were generally in the same condition, covered in corpse spots, which was horrifying.

Meng Tou lifted the thin cloth from the last person, his heart trembled.The man is dressed luxuriously, he must be a young master.He couldn't open his eyes, and he still had a breath.He was slightly different, with a patch of blood on his trousers.

The head catcher kept making noises: "Believe it or not, I'll arrest you in the yamen and disturb the work of the yamen. Where did you come from? Get out of the way. If you don't get out of the way, you will be burned to death together! This unsightly thing Son." He spat on the ground.

Meng Tou stood up and walked between the stretchers: "If it's really a wild spirit, do you think it would be useful to burn one Zhou family? There will be another family. Could it be that you are going to burn the whole city of Mu? "

When the yamen servants heard the wild spirit, they were so frightened that they all leaned against the wall and stayed away.

The head catcher turned pale with fright, and said bravely: "Then... then what do you say."

The warlock of the rivers and lakes saw someone finding fault, and immediately answered: "It's just nonsense! I have been walking in the rivers and lakes for many years, and I have seen countless unjust souls and wild spirits. Even if the Zhou family is possessed by wild spirits, the fire will burn like this. gone."

Meng Tou sneered: "This gentleman is an expert at first glance. The fourth to eighth verses of the "Five Laws" are not repeated, but you have read the same passage three times. The Guoli sword in your hand has no effect of exorcising evil spirits. I'm afraid you brought the wrong one because you were in a hurry. And your banner of grievances, it should have three hooks on the left and five hooks on the right, but your memory is wrong, there is an extra hook on the right."

He stretched out a finger: "You!"

Ignoring his resentful gaze, Meng Tou asked, "Did someone from the yamen bring a pen and paper?"

No one answered.Meng Tou glanced at the head catcher, and said reluctantly: "Whoever brought a pen and paper, quickly give it to him!"

A thin and small man with a suitcase on his back squeezed out from among the yamen servants: "I brought it."

Meng Tou sized him up, and after he took out a pen and paper, he said, "Just write it down. Lu Ke three money, Ming Qi five money, Toshiba three money, heavy glue three money, and Mufang five money. The decoction is given to the patient." Take it. Twice a day. Within seven days, the plaques on their bodies will fade."

The quack warlock was not convinced: "Why should I believe you!" He turned to the head catcher and said, "My lord, please don't trust this boy of unknown origin."

Meng Tou looked at the head catcher: "If you don't believe me, I will order the Zhou family to be burned. The officials present have heard what I said just now. If you burn these living people of the Zhou family immediately, people outside will be killed." I don't know what to say about you."

Meng Tou expected that he would not dare.

He really didn't dare, and waved his hand distractedly: "Just do what this kid says. Let's treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor."

After he gave the order, all the servants went to work.Meng Tou stopped the gentleman holding the pen and paper just now, and asked, "I think you look like a Mr. Zuo Zuo."

The man nodded: "Indeed."

"I would like to ask you," Meng Tou pointed to the position of the previous young master, "is there something different about this person? There are bloodstains on his body."

The man turned his head and looked around, seeing no one around, he said in a low voice, "This is the second young master of the Zhou family, his life was cut off." He frowned in pain, shook his head and sighed, respecting Meng Tou. A salute: "Let me take my leave first."

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Meng Tou suspected that Zhou's house had wild spirits, but they went around Zhou's house a few times, but found nothing, and found nothing special.Xue Ye was very hungry after leaving, and suggested that everyone go back to eat first, and then consider countermeasures after eating.Meng Tou was right, since they wanted to get rid of the spirit, they had to go to Zhou's house at night.

On the way back to the inn, they saw a group of people surrounding an old man in the middle of the road.Those people looked ferocious, all of them were big and round, with cloth scarves on their heads and sticks in their hands, and they were beating the old man in the middle.There was another person next to them, who kept kowtowing to the group.

The old man's head was bleeding, and he could move a bit at first, but then he fell silent and lay motionless on the ground.

Xue Ye was about to say something about the world, and wanted to go over to see the old man, but Meng Tou, who was beside him, rushed over, pulled up the man kneeling on the ground, and protected him behind him.

After Xue Ye approached, he rubbed his eyes in disbelief. The person kneeling on the ground just now was actually Yan Shaojun?He tugged at Huo Zhi's sleeve: "You...look at that person, is it Young Master, I'm not mistaken."