novelraw Chapter 51: The Old Master is Possessed
Chapter 51: The Old Master is Possessed
Squire Zhao's household had a major incident.
Squire Zhao had a father who was already over eighty years old this year, with failing eyesight, deaf ears, and unsteady legs.
Originally, it was already time for him to enjoy his remaining years in peace, no longer concerning himself with outside affairs.
Unexpectedly, misfortune struck. Squire Zhao and his two sons were all arrested and taken to the county. After all this time, there was still no news.
For the Zhao family, this was equivalent to the main branch's legitimate bloodline being cut off.
The old master worried himself sick, bedridden, not taking in food or water for several days. It looked like he didn't have much life left in him.
Who could have imagined that early this morning he would suddenly climb out of bed, gripping a wood-chopping knife and attacking anyone he saw, muttering incomprehensible mad ravings.
It was only because he was so old and truly had no strength, otherwise there would already be casualties by now.
In ordinary people's eyes, this was demonic possession.
When possessed by demons, you naturally had to invite a master to perform exorcism rituals and pacify the soul.But the problem was, because of that business with Mohe the Perfected Being, throughout all of Blue Stone Platform, any masters, Daoist priests, or immortals with any reputation had been arrested clean by the authorities.
Now they couldn't even find someone capable. Finally, with no other options, they thought of the old shopkeeper.
The old shopkeeper was very helpless, thinking to himself that this profession didn't match at all.
If you asked him to handle affairs for the dead, he could still tell you a thing or two, but how was he supposed to deal with the living?
In his urgency, his brain raced, thinking through all the methods he could come up with.
First, he sent someone to find Liu Gouzheng's wife.
Liu Po had no real skills, otherwise she would have been taken away by the authorities long ago but in the two years since Liu Gouzheng died, she'd been acting crazy, telling everyone she met that she had "emerged."
"Emerged" meant becoming a spirit medium.
In the north, this was a very common folk belief, though calling it a belief was a bit much. Actually, it was just a psychological parlor game focused on talk therapy.
Betting a hundred million and floating two hundred million at the Macau royal casino was one kind of gambling, and playing dice for money at cart inns was also a kind of gambling.
The two were essentially the same but couldn't be mentioned in the same breath.
Those who became spirit mediums would sit at their altar with incense burning overhead, invite immortal families to divine yin and yang, and had a specialized set of traditions and rules.
If someone told you they had "emerged," there weren't really any rules to speak of. They themselves might not even know which immortal family had emerged through them, and you didn't need to care.
Whether it was real or fake didn't matter. What mattered was that the talk therapy service they provided could effectively relieve the mental anxiety of ignorant middle-aged and elderly people.
The old shopkeeper also knew in his heart that finding Liu Po wouldn't be much use, but as the saying goes, when the old master was like that, you had to try anything even if it was hopeless.
Coming out the door and seeing two kids squatting at the entrance, he immediately had another idea.
They say virgin boy urine can ward off evil!
Of course, virgin boy urine was secondary. More importantly, that little brother who came down from the mountains, although the old shopkeeper only knew his surname was Chu and nothing else but in this day and age, mountain guests who dared to enter the mountains to gather goods would more or less have some life-preserving skills.
Li Qiuchen definitely didn't want to.
What kind of person was he?
He was a dignified Medicine Master, well, forget that. A mountain hermit in pure cultivation, forget that too.
Right now he was talking with his buddy about business and love, about the big transaction of fifteen taels of silver.
You want the two of them to go to your house to urinate? Was that reasonable?
"You two help out, I'll provide lunch, all the white meat you can eat!"
Li Qiuchen and Hu Hai'er exchanged glances and nodded.
Then what else was there to say? They were all jianghu friends, drawing swords to help when seeing injustice.
Squire Zhao's household was in complete chaos.
Two household servants held door panels as shields, struggling to try to block the old master's attack route.
The white-haired old master wore sleeping clothes, disheveled and grimy, gripping a wood-chopping knife in his hand, striking east and west like a fierce tiger descending the mountain, unstoppable.
The screams of the household women in the rear quarters rose and fell.
"Liu Po! Liu Po, quickly take a look!"
The old shopkeeper pushed Liu Po forward. Liu Po was so scared her legs went soft, "Oh my goodness, I can't do this! I've never done this kind of work!"
"Ten taels!"
"It's not about the money, Third Brother. Look at this situation, how could I handle it? Quickly go invite an expert!"
The old shopkeeper gritted his teeth, "Where are there any experts right now? Twenty taels! If you can wake the old master up, I'll arrange a good position for your boy too!"
Liu Po viciously pinched her own thigh. Her legs finally weren't soft anymore.
"Third Brother, let's be clear. I can only say I'll do my best. Whether it works or not, I can't guarantee you."
"Just do your best!"
The old shopkeeper was someone who could make decisions. Right now, seeing the household members all like headless flies not knowing what to do, he took the initiative to step forward and take charge of the situation.
"The dog? Find a black dog, kill it and drain its blood. It must be black dog blood! Hurry!"
After instructing the servants, the old shopkeeper turned to look at Li Qiuchen and his companion, "You two, quickly. Here's a basin, hurry up and urinate!"
Li Qiuchen and Hu Hai'er exchanged glances. Trading one stream of urine for a meal, what else was there to say?
They unfastened their waistbands. Psssss—
The steaming hot black dog blood was brought up. The old shopkeeper lifted the basin and splashed it toward the old master.
A basin of black dog blood poured down. The old master was completely unaffected, his energy seeming even more vigorous.
The old shopkeeper was a bit dumbfounded. He turned around to get the urine, but Li Qiuchen grabbed and stopped him, "Don't rush, old sir. I see something's not right."
"What's not right?"
"This doesn't look like demonic possession."
Li Qiuchen had just activated his ocular technique to quietly take a look while fastening his waistband.
The old master's internal qi and blood were abundant, not at all like an eighty-year-old man. Rather than demonic possession, it was more like an overdose of hormones or there was another possibility...
Li Qiuchen didn't quite dare say it.
Old sir, you haven't also been blessed, have you?
On the other side, Liu Po, for the sake of twenty taels of silver and her child's future, also gritted her teeth and brought out her true skills from the bottom of the trunk. She pulled out a red bridal veil from her robe and covered her own head with it. Her body began shaking violently like a sieve while she stepped in the pattern of the Seven Stars, muttering incantations.
"Old immortal, old immortal, enter my body! Old immortal, old immortal, enter my body!"
Li Qiuchen watching from the side was stunned.
Was magic this plain and simple? Were the incantations this straightforward and direct?
Would it work?
It worked!
After Liu Po chanted repeatedly several times, suddenly a gust of ghostly wind swept through the hall. She instantly became quiet. When she opened her eyes again, her two eyes had already turned into snake pupils.
The immortal family had arrived.
The immortal family glanced at the old master.
The immortal family cursed and grumbled a sentence, then turned and left, causing Liu Po to stagger and nearly fall to the ground.
Liu Po was stunned. Everyone was stunned.
What was going on?
"No, no!"
Liu Po suddenly reacted, "Third Brother, you shouldn't have splashed the dog blood first. Once you splashed the dog blood, even the immortal family has no solution!"
The old shopkeeper slapped his forehead. This was bad.
An error in the rush. The procedure was done backwards. Wasn't this completely ruined?
Li Qiuchen pulled the old shopkeeper aside and said quietly, "Shopkeeper, don't panic. I have a method. Let me try."
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