Folklore: The baby starts the game, and the mother takes off her painted skin

Chapter 19: Opening the furnace and lighting the fire [Seeking follow-up reading]

Wang Zhu was soon sent away by his brother and the storm was quickly settled.

However, those young people had even more speculations about Liu Bai's identity, but they only dared to keep them to themselves and talk about them in private, never daring to speak to his face.

Liu Bai was too lazy to care about these things.

……

That night.

In Wangjiatun, several people were gathered in the Wang Family Ancestral Hall. Sitting on the armchair in the middle was an old lady with silver hair and two walnuts in her hands.

She looked at the young man kneeling on the ground in front of her with a look of deep emotion, and asked in a deep voice: "Wang Zhu, now in front of our ancestors, answer again, are what you just said true?!"

Wang Zhu kowtowed again and sobbed, "Ancestors, I dare not lie in the slightest. I...I was just joking, and that kid from the Liu family punched me."

"Later, that Ma Lao San found out about it, and I…I didn't even have time to apply medicine before he sent me back home."

Wang Zhu sounded very pitiful and couldn't stop crying as he spoke.

When he finished speaking, a middle-aged woman with thin lips next to him immediately gritted her teeth and said:
"That bastard from the Liu family is really too cruel. We still patronize his business frequently. Old aunt, why don't we call the villagers in the village to smash his shop?"

"The widow of the Liu family clearly looks down on the folks in our village."

Muramasa, who was standing by, frowned slightly when he heard this. He felt that what Lin Da Jiao said was a bit serious, but he did not refute it. He was waiting for Wang Po to speak.

"Wang Zhu was beaten... that's fine."

Mrs. Wang narrowed her triangular eyes and said in a deep voice, "The point is that Ma Lao San actually drove Wang Zhu back because of this matter."

When Muramasa heard this, his heart skipped a beat and he was also worried about this matter.

What he was worried about was that the Liu family had some hidden background.

Just when he thought Wang Po was thinking the same thing, he heard her say:
"Wang Zhu is my half-nephew after all. What Ma Lao San did... is really not taking my wife, Wang, seriously."

Wang Zhu's mother Lin Da Jiao immediately reacted when she heard this and said, "That's right, old aunt, that kid from the Liu family didn't hit Zhu, he hit your face!"

"And the same goes for Ma Lao San. He just...he just doesn't take you seriously."

The more Lin Da Jiao talked, the gloomier Wang Po's face became. Finally, she played with the two walnuts in her hand and said:

"It seems that I haven't been out for a walk for a long time. This Huangliang Town only knows Ma Lao San, but doesn't know me, Wang Po..."

After she finished speaking, she lowered her head slightly and said, "Zhu boy, tell me what happened to that bastard from the Liu family?"

……

The next day.

After Liu Bai finished adding some food, Master Ma carried a cloth bag and took him to a room he had never been to before.

This house is built in the corner of the village, and the door is usually locked.

When all the young men were doing morning boxing, Liu Bai followed Master Ma into the small room.

For a moment, the young men couldn't help but widen their eyes, even Liuzi had a look of surprise in his eyes.

They didn’t expect that what Liu Bai said yesterday, that he was going to start a fire, was actually true... But in their opinion, how old was Liu Bai?
I've only learned boxing for a few days, and you can already start a fire?

"Oh my goodness."

Liu Tie, who came in together, also became familiar with everyone and learned a lot of nonsense.

Qiu Qianhai took a few glances and punched more seriously.

After entering the house, Master Ma saw the disappointment in Liu Bai's eyes, and said "Hey" and closed the door, "What do you think this place is like?"

Liu Bai told the truth, "It's not like that anyway."

Because in this room, there was only an eight-immortal table full of scratches placed in the middle, and there were only two chairs.

It doesn't look like a place to light a fire at all.

"Just wait and see." Master Ma nodded proudly, went to the corner of the room, fumbled around for a while, suddenly grabbed an iron ring and lifted it up.

A cellar appeared in front of Liu Bai, "The real tricks are all down here." Master Ma went down first to light a torch, and Liu Bai went down the wooden stairs only after it was bright.

The inside of this cellar was quite consistent with Liu Bai's imagination. The walls were hung with old objects, saws, machetes, dust brooms, shrouds, etc.

There was a moving cushion on the ground. In addition, there was a pile of debris in the corner. To Liu Bai, it looked like the wild things in the old woods.

"Come here and sit down."

Master Ma pointed at the squirming cushion in front of him.

Liu Bai had seen a lot of strange things during this period of time, so a mere moving cushion was not worthy of his surprise.

But when he sat down, a pair of hands stretched out from under the cushion and placed on his legs.

This made him shiver instantly.

"Take off your coat and show your upper body."

Following Master Ma's arrangements, Liu Bai followed them obediently.

Soon he continued, "Originally, the fuse for this fire needs to be the ashes of your ancestors, but I see that your Liu family has no other ancestors in the town, so I'm going to let you swallow it whole and eat a meal from a hundred families."

"But I didn't expect that your mother actually found the ashes of your ancestors for you yesterday. That makes things a lot more convenient."

Liu Bai took off his clothes and asked, "Why are the ashes of our ancestors better? Is there any particular reason for this?"

"Hey."

"Once you light a fire and become a ghost walker, you will basically have to fight against evil spirits for the rest of your life."

"Without the blessing of our ancestors, can you do this?"

As Master Ma spoke, he poured a box of ashes into a porcelain crucible and took out a small bottle of blood from a cloth bag. As soon as he opened it, an extremely strong smell of blood filled the cellar.

"Wow, you really are from a big family. Wow, you even have all these things."

Master Ma shook his head, poured the blood into a porcelain crucible, and used a pestle to mix the blood and ashes together.

After Liu Bai took off his clothes, Master Ma had already taken out a brand new wolf-hair brush from the side.

"People are born with three life fires, one on each shoulder and one on the top of the head."

"This fire is inherently extinguished. The so-called ignition is to use a fuse to activate your qi and blood, and then use your blood and qi to ignite your life fire."

"People who lack blood and energy cannot ignite the fire of life."

Master Ma was talking but his hands didn't stop moving.

He used a wolf hair brush dipped in ashes and blood, first touched Liu Bai's lower back, and then lifted it up with a sudden stroke.

Along his keel to the back of his head.

The stroke was cold at first, and then instantly became hot.

He even felt a burning sensation. He remembered Madam Liu's prior instructions and immediately began to recite the mantra silently.

Master Ma's voice came again in my ears.

"As the saying goes, when the fire of life burns, ghosts flee."

"As long as you light the life fire, the ordinary ghosts in the old woods will not even dare to get close to you."

"As for these three life fires, everyone lights the life fire on the right shoulder first, then the left shoulder, and finally the life fire on the top of the head."

Liu Bai didn't know what was going on, he just felt hot all over.

Then Master Ma continued to paint on his shoulders. It felt comfortable at first, but later on, it became hotter and hotter.

Liu Bai even felt as if his body was about to be burned through.

I urgently need a place to vent my anger...

(End of this chapter)