There is a trick

Chapter 127: The Mantra (4K)

Hu Asi looked at Hu Xiaomei's pitiful appearance and felt deeply disgusted.

He said gloomily: "Since you are so kind, you can shed a few tears for the plight of a few passers-by, so you must know how to care for our family members.

Now, the flag has fulfilled our wish, and it is time for us to fulfill it.

Show your filial piety and kindness. After a while, go burn incense and kowtow to the burning banner and fulfill our family's wish!"

When Hu Xiaomei heard what her brother said, she was so scared that she started trembling all over.

The pitiful look on her face suddenly turned into a pleading one. She shook her head repeatedly and said to Hu Asi, "That's not what I meant, brother, that's not what I meant..."

"Don't you think that those passers-by who gave their eyes to us look extremely pitiful?

That's not what you meant?
What do you mean?" Hu Ah Si sneered and asked Hu Xiaomei with narrowed eyes.

"Brother, I was wrong!" Hu Xiaomei apologized immediately, "They deserve to die, they deserve to die!
I was just confused for a moment, brother, please don’t use me to fulfill your vow—"

"Oh!" Hu Asi sneered and shook his head, "You say you feel sorry for others and act hypocritically, as if you are a kind-hearted person!
When I asked you to sacrifice your life in exchange for the safety of our family, you kept shirking your responsibilities!

nausea!

How disgusting! "

Hu Asa Si scolded Hu Xiaomei a few times and became more and more excited as he spoke.

Seeing his look, Hu's father and mother let go of Hu Xiaomei and blocked her behind them.

"Ah Si, calm down, calm down..." Hu's mother said in a low voice.

She and her husband first scolded Hu Xiaomei because they were worried that their daughter would talk nonsense and anger Hu Asi. They did not really want to dig out their daughter's eyes.

So Hu Xiaomei was not very afraid when facing the threats from her parents.

Only his son was not so easy to mess with - once he got irritated, it was not easy to calm him down...

Father Hu also slowed down his voice, patted Hu Ah Si's shoulder, and said with a pleasing look, "Ah Si, your sister is just too stupid. She doesn't help her family, but she is actually turning her elbow outward...

If a woman is outgoing, she will have to get married sooner or later.

Please forgive her this time, over there on the irritation banner..."

"Once we leave this village, I will marry her to those useless men who love to drink and beat their wives!
Tell her husband to beat her eight hundred times a day until she is blinded!
It's useless to come anyway!" Hu Ah Si said viciously.

When Hu Xiaomei heard his words, her whole body trembled.

Both Mr. Hu and Mrs. Hu nodded repeatedly:

"Okay, it's up to you, Ah Si. You decide how to deal with her, and we'll do that when the time comes."

"This stupid girl deserves a lesson!
Just marry her to some drunkard who beats his wife!"

The two men echoed Hu Asi's words and comforted their son.

After a while, Hu Asi's emotions finally calmed down.

He swept his family with a cold gaze. Everyone who was swept by his gaze shrank their necks and dared not speak.

Then, Hu Asi turned and walked into the side room next to the main hall.

A few people were left standing there in silence.

A puff of green smoke floated out of the ear room.

The sound of Hu Asi mumbling something was then heard.

The tiny and fragmentary sounds lingered in the ears of the Hu family, making them feel itchy all over, as if a wind as thin as a hair was constantly scratching their ears and necks along with the sound.

They suddenly felt unbearable irritation in their hearts and started scratching their heads.

From the ear room, Hu Asi's shrill screams continued to be heard.

"father!"

"mother!"

"Little sister, little brother—save me!"

"Please, save me!"

"Save me, Dad, Mom!"

Hu Asi's pleading voice continued to come out from the ear room separated by a curtain.

The people present only felt that their bodies were becoming more and more itchy. Large chunks of flesh and skin were scratched off by their sharp nails and melted in the invisible wind.

But in a short moment, several people were covered in blood!
They were covered with wounds, some of which were so deep that the bones were visible!
An ordinary person who suffered such an injury would surely die on the spot due to excessive blood loss, but the Hu family was still able to stand in the main hall, and the wind that made them feel itchy all over blew over them again -

Granules of tissue began to grow in the wounds of several people.

After a few breaths, the Hu family had recovered and were fully recovered, as if the people who had scratched them all over were not them.

In the ear room, Hu Asi was still wailing.

No one knew what kind of miserable situation Hu Asi was going through behind the curtain. He kept calling out for his father and mother, and his younger brothers and sisters, hoping that his family members could lend a helping hand and come into the ear room to help him.

However, although most of the people in the main room looked reluctant when Hu Asi called out to them, no one of them went into the ear room to help Hu Asi.

Even when the youngest brother Hu wanted to go to the side room to take a look, his father grabbed his wrist and stopped him: "This is a trick to lure you into the house!
Once you enter the house, the ghost in the banner will drag you into the banner. Let it escape from the banner by itself!

Don’t do anything stupid! ”

Little Hu nodded fearfully.

He felt that the current Brother Si was not the same as the previous Brother Si.

Instead, the pleading voice that kept coming from the ear room sounded like the pleading that Brother Si would have made in the past.

But his father had sternly stopped him, and he did not dare to act recklessly, fearing that he would be dragged into the hot water.

The wailing sounds that tortured the Hu family members gradually subsided.

The faint sound of Hu Asi's prayers was still ringing.

However, the Hu family members no longer felt any discomfort when they heard such sounds.

Not long after that, Hu Asi finally walked out of the ear room.

He still looked the same as before, without a single scratch on his body.

The wailing and the sound of flesh tearing that had just come out of the ear room seemed to be just an illusion. He was in the ear room and only recited prayers several times in front of the tablet of the Zao Banner, and did not experience any terrifying things.

"I have fulfilled my wish!"

Hu Asi said this with a gloomy expression.

When they heard what Hu Ah Si said, they were all surprised. Hu's father even praised Hu Ah Si: "You are really good, you still have a way, Ah Si!"

If they were asked to fulfill their vows in front of the altar of the Fazai Banner, they would have to sacrifice an arm or two legs, and there was a high possibility that they might even die!
Only Ah Si is favored by Fazao Fan.

You can fulfill your vows many times without any loss to yourself!
Hu Asi swept his cold eyes over several family members. He tore open the front of his shirt, allowing them to see a "fire" character branded on his chest that looked like it was covered with hair.

He said: "But it doesn't agree with us leaving Da'an Village.

It wants us to continue guarding the village and keep attracting outsiders to it.

When the Widow Village, the Lost Son Village, and the Blind Village are filled with outsiders, all the people who are now staying in these three villages can leave this place together and walk out of the Black Wasteland Mountain!"

As soon as Hu Asi finished speaking, the hopes of several people were dashed in an instant, and their faces were filled with despair and dejection.

Hu Asi no longer paid attention to his family members, turned around and walked out of the main room, and pulled the bolt of the courtyard gate.

——There was no need for him to open the door at this time, as the blind people outside were about to break it down.

As soon as he opened the door, a crowd of old, weak, sick and disabled people rushed in, staggering and falling to the ground.

The blind men didn't care about the dust all over their bodies. They got up from the ground and asked Hu Ah Si:
"Hu Asi, are your eyes healed?!"

"Your eyes must have recovered. I heard you come out of the house and you didn't use the bamboo pole to explore the way again!"

"Now that your eyes are healed, don't forget about us!"

"Go quickly, go quickly - now that your eyes are healed, you can go further away, go outside the village, trick more outsiders to come over, hand them over to us villagers, and take their eyes in exchange for ours!"

"Don't forget, Hu Ah Si!

We are all descendants of Master Qingtan who worships the 'Fazao Banner'. No one is closer to us blind people than we are!

Don't just stand by and watch someone die!"

……

The blind men were all talking and clamoring.

Hu Ah Si stood in the yard, silent, looking at these blind men with a cold face. When their noises became quieter and they all shut their mouths with blank expressions, he sneered a few times and said, "You want me to help you 'replace your eyes', and this is your attitude?

Asking for help, or something as important as an eye transplant, but they all bossed me around.

Even though we are all descendants of Master Qingtan and were led here by the Banner God, I don't owe you anything, so I don't need to be yelled at by you, right?"

The blind men pursed their lips, and now there was no sound.

After a long while, a blind man finally bowed in the direction of Hu Ah Si's voice and whispered, "Ah Si, how do you want us to repay you?"

He directly talked about how to repay Hu Asi and skipped the step of asking Hu Asi for help.

"Yes, Ah Si, how can we repay you?"

"Yes, yes, yes, Ah Si, what do you want?"

The blind men followed suit and started asking Hu Asi questions.

"I want to chant the banner." Hu Asi said loudly, "On the altar where the banner was originally offered, there was also the banner god's chant.

This spell was passed down by "Master Li Qi" and divided into four parts, which were later handed down to the four families of Li, Hu, Liu, and Ren. Our Hu family holds the "eye" of this spell, while the "head", "heart", and "tail" of the spell are in your hands respectively.

Pass the mantra to me, and I will lead the people from outside here for you, replace your eyes, and set you free!"

After hearing Hu Asi's words, the crowd, which had been noisy just now, suddenly quieted down.

The blind men hesitated.

Someone said hesitantly: "The influence of the spell is too great. If this spell is recited, the waving flag that has finally been dormant in the tomb of the Black Desolate Mountain will be completely revived..."

"Our eyes were blinded by the wind from the flags. The widows in the Widow Village and Cui Ai in the Lost Son Village were also blown into their current state by the wind from the flags..."

"It's too ferocious. The spell cannot be used easily..."

Seeing everyone's reaction, Hu Asi shook his head and said, "Since you are unwilling to hand over the banner spell, then you will stay in this Da'an Village and be blind until you die!"

After saying this, he turned around and went back to the main room without stopping, leaving the blind men outside the house at a loss.

Even if he got a pair of good eyes now, he couldn't leave Da'an Village.

But only he and his parents and family knew about this, while people outside did not know about it.

Hu Asi wanted to take advantage of this point and get out the various parts of the 'Flag Raising Curse' mastered by those people outside!
The Hu family members in the house also heard what Hu Ah Si said. At this time, Hu's father couldn't help asking, "Ah Si, what do you want to do with that spell? You must know that evil spells are inherently strange. Once you have gathered this spell, you will be tempted by it and really go to the grave in Black Wasteland Mountain to chant this spell...

Once the flag is raised, I'm afraid it will be——"

"What do you know?!"

Hu Ah Si, who was lying on the door panel and observing the blind villagers outside through the crack in the door, turned his head suddenly upon hearing this and glared at Hu's father coldly: "The aura banner is a ghost or a god, but it is also a magical weapon!

The flag-raising spell is the spell used to control it!
Don’t say any more! ”

Father Hu immediately stopped talking and dared not say any more.

He watched his son lying in front of the door waiting for a while, and then a blind man came and knocked on the door: "I am willing to give you the curse, but you must buy a good pair of eyes for my whole family."

Hearing the voice, Hu Asi, who was behind the door, straightened his back and showed a strange smile on his face.

……

“There are indeed three forks in the road.”

Zhou Chang led the sick mule and led everyone to stop at a three-way intersection.

He pointed to three forked roads and said in turn: "According to the blind man, this road leads to the 'Dead Son Village' and is the safest;
The middle road leads to the 'Widow Village', which is extremely dangerous. It is very likely that you will be eaten up by the widows inside and will never be able to escape from the village;
The road on the right leads to the Black Wasteland Mountain, which is the source of all the strange and terrifying things here..."

As Zhou Chang spoke, his eyes looked towards the road on the far right.

At the end of the road, there are indeed hazy shadows of mountains.

The huge mountain shadow was like a tomb that connected the sky and the earth, pressing down from high above and casting a heavy shadow in everyone's hearts.

"Don't we, the Taoist priests, have any skills for asking for directions or predicting good and bad luck?" Zhou Chang turned to Yang Rui and asked.

Yang Rui nodded affirmatively: "Yes, it is called 'Shi Gua Ji Xiong Ke'.

But neither your grandfather nor I have mastered this subject, so it is impossible to use this method to predict good or bad luck. "

"There are three roads. The dangerous one may not be the most dangerous, and the less dangerous one may not be safe either... Which road does the compass given by Brother Yang point to?" Zhou Chang asked again.

Yang Rui picked up the compass and handed it to Zhou Chang.

Zhou Chang looked down and saw that the needle on the compass spun several times and finally pointed to the road heading east.

According to what the 'blind man' said, this road to the east will eventually lead to the village of the dead son.

(End of this chapter)