The Dharma Sea of ​​the Green Snake

Chapter 276 Dead Man's Money

Zhang Chusheng is the eldest son of Zhang Tuhu, and he is also a well-known good boy in ten miles and eight villages.

Not only did he know how to help the family solve problems at a young age, but he usually did his best in the face of others asking for help...

Coupled with his intelligence and shrewd performance, the elders in the village widely rumored that this child was either a star of Wenqu, or the reincarnation of the God of Wealth, and he was destined to achieve great things in the future.

But it was also because of Zhang Chusheng's character of helping others that brought him this disaster.

Because after returning from the private school one day, Zhang Chusheng saw a pale old lady at the entrance of the village, and then he instinctively stepped forward to support the old lady.

Zhang Chusheng originally wanted to send the grandmother home, but the other party insisted on sending him to a nearby village road.

Therefore, although Zhang Chusheng was a little worried about whether he could go home smoothly in that old grandmother's state, he obediently sent him to the country road.

Later, in order to thank Zhang Chusheng, the elderly woman wrapped a few copper coins in oil-wrapped paper and gave them to Zhang Chusheng.

He said it was to thank the other party for his help, no matter how Zhang Chusheng refused, it was useless, so he had to accept the "thank you gift" from the old woman honestly.

"According to this, didn't Chu Sheng do a good thing? How could that old woman harm him?"

Frowning slightly, Pei Wende, who had already gone ashore and put on his clothes, asked rather puzzledly while listening to the story of the three civet cat brothers.

"Also, how did you know about this?"

Hearing Pei Wende's inquiry, the three civet cat brothers were speechless for a while, and continued hesitantly.

Before Zhang Chusheng returned home with those copper coins, he ran into the sneaky three civet cat brothers in the village who wanted to go home but dared not.

After all, since the last incident, old man Zhang stubbornly refused the three brothers to enter the house, insisting that they live alone.

So the three civet cat brothers secretly hid in the village. In fact, in a sense, they had already violated the agreement between them and the stubborn old man.

If the stubborn old man knew that the three helpless brothers had sneaked back to the village again, he would definitely be furious at them.

In desperation, in order to seal Zhang Chusheng's mouth, the three brothers made promises and begged for mercy in various ways, so that the other party was not like a stubborn old man reporting himself.

And it was during this process that the three brothers learned the reason why Zhang Chusheng appeared near the entrance of the village at that time.

Maybe it's purely out of curiosity, or maybe it's out of mischievous revenge...

After getting Zhang Chusheng's promise, the third of the three civet cat brothers quietly stole Zhang Chusheng's oil-wrapped copper coins, and proudly showed off to the other party.

Faced with such naive provocations, Zhang Chusheng naturally didn't care. On the contrary, he somewhat understood why old man Zhang made the decision to force the three brothers out of the house.

"You three..."

When hearing this, Pei Wende also glanced at the three brothers in a funny and speechless manner.

"And then? Is there something wrong with those oil-wrapped copper coins?"

In fact, when he asked this sentence, Pei Wende already had a certain expectation in his heart.

The reason why the three brothers are so sure that the old woman killed Zhang Chusheng must be on the few oil-wrapped copper coins.

What puzzled Pei Wende was, what was so tricky about those copper coins?
What's more, what's wrong with Zhang Chusheng now?
"Those copper coins are dead money..."

"That old witch is a voodoo girl, the successor of Miao Jiang's voodoo technique..."

"She wants to borrow Zhang Chusheng's life and longevity through the magic of borrowing life..."

During the narration of the three civet cat brothers, Pei Wende gradually understood what happened at that time, and his face became serious.

Because the three brothers competed with Zhang Chusheng to get the oil-wrapped paper copper coins, I don’t know whether it was lucky or unfortunate that they tore up the oil-wrapped paper, revealing the copper coins and the handwriting of the internal test.

Those copper coins are not the contemporary copper coins that are currently popular and commonly used, but Kaiyuan Tongbao, which was widely circulated during the Tang Gaozong period.

And the internal test of the oil-wrapped paper was even more impressively written with the words "Borrowing life for seven days".

The moment they saw those words, not only the three civet cat brothers stopped fighting, but even Zhang Chusheng's face turned pale.

Because of studying in the private school for so long, Zhang Chusheng fully understood those words and what they meant.

Afterwards, Zhang Chusheng, who was not in the mood to fight any more, immediately dropped the oil-wrapped paper and copper coins, and ran home in a panic.

As a result, that night, the three civet cat brothers learned from the villagers that Zhang Chusheng had a persistent high fever.

For this reason, Butcher Zhang deliberately rushed to a nearby county seat overnight, and invited a well-known local doctor to come back to treat Zhang Chusheng.

What happened next can be imagined.

Facing the sorcery that is not a normal disease at all, even the doctor's superb medical skills can only temporarily relieve Zhang Chusheng's condition, but cannot cure him.

"What day is it now?"

After listening to all the stories of the three brothers, Pei Wende with a calm face suddenly asked a thoughtful question.

"Uh, today should be the third day."

Seemingly aware of Wende's heavy heart, the civet cat boss said in a low voice, not daring to look directly.

"But you don't have to worry too much. Butcher Zhang has already brought Chu Sheng up the mountain, and he should be receiving treatment in the temple now."

As the most mature existence among the three civet cat brothers, the civet cat boss has long been aware of the inappropriate behavior of his three brothers.

However, their nature is like this, coupled with their fear of strangers.

Being able to go up the mountain to inform Pei Wende at this time, and explain clearly the cause and effect of this incident, is already the best result these three brothers can achieve.

"I see, you guys did a great job."

Fortunately, Pei Wende was also aware of this, and did not have too many strict requirements on the three civet cat brothers in this regard.

On the contrary, Pei Wende now feels that these three brothers are not useless.

At least their appearance explained the real reason for Zhang Chusheng's "illness".

"Where's the oil-wrapped paper and copper coins? You shouldn't have thrown them away, have you?"

Zhang Chusheng may not be aware of the importance of oil-wrapped paper and copper coins, but the three civet cat brothers who are also members of the cultivator will certainly not be aware of how important those two things are.

All sorcery must rely on a medium. If there is no medium for oil-wrapped paper and copper coins, even if the Emperor Laozi comes, he may not be able to save Zhang Chusheng at this time.

"No, we definitely didn't lose this!"

Hastily shook his head in denial, the three civet cat brothers still had some common sense.

"We hid all the things on our bodies, and we made sure that we didn't lose a single copper coin."

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(End of this chapter)