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

Chapter 50: The New Ghost Walker in Huangliang Town [Seeking Follow-up Reading]

Master Ma was furious, "Who are you calling a kid? You have no respect for your elders!"

Before Liu Bai could reply, Xiao Cao came out again and said in a sarcastic tone, "Oh, you are trying to act big in front of the young master, Ma Lao San? Then Xiao Cao has to explain herself to the queen."

When Xiaocao spoke, Master Ma really had no way to respond. He could only stammer a few words and finally waved his hand in annoyance.

"There's a new ghost walker in town. I guess he's a ghost. I have to go to the dock to pay my respects and see what they have to say."

"What? There's a new ghost walker in town?" Liu Bai asked in surprise.

"You live in the town, don't you know?" Master Ma asked back.

"I really don't know that."

Liu Bai turned around and looked at Xiao Cao. Xiao Cao also shook her head, "Xiao Cao follows the Master all day long, and the Master doesn't know, so how could Xiao Cao know?"

"Who?"

"Do you know the new fortune teller who lives in Zhujia Hutong?" asked Mr. Ma.

"That..." Liu Bai thought for a moment, "I seem to have heard people in the town talking about it. At that time, I thought it was Taoist Master Yixiao who moved in, but it turns out he's a newcomer from outside."

"Then let's go. Master Ma and I will go back and take a look."

Liu Bai said this and jumped onto the carriage with familiarity.

Master Ma whipped his horse whip but it made a sound, and the paper horse started running on its own. "What do you want me to do?"

"I want to ask why I haven't started the third fire yet. I guess I can do it now."

As soon as Liu Bai finished asking, Master Ma reached out his hand and pinched the back of his head.

"It's almost done. At your speed, I estimate it will be almost done in ten days."

When Mr. Ma said this, his tone was sour.

After decades of hard training, I am not as good as a four or five-year-old kid? How miserable it must be.

"It seems that I really need to have a full HP of 10 before I can light the third life fire."

Liu Bai guessed and asked again: "If the three life flames are lit, how can we burn the spirit body?"

Since Madam Liu won’t tell me about cultivation, I can only ask Master Ma.

"If you light it, don't worry about it. It will burn on its own, starting from your head and all the way to your feet, until all the spirit in your body is burned out."

"Doesn't that mean that anyone who has ignited three life flames can burn out a spirit body?"

"Oh, that's a nice thought. The Yin-yang technique is based on aptitude."

"I said that because you have good qualifications. If it were someone else, it would not be the same."

"What would someone else say?" Liu Bai asked curiously.

Master Ma sniffed, lit his pipe again, and then raised his head and said:
"With your talent, you still want to burn the spirit body? Find a trick to light the three fires first. What? Lighted?
You can't do that either. There are rules for burning spirits. Don't look back after the first three and the last nine. Use the fishing hammer after the second, fifth and eighth."

Listening to Master Ma's strange chanting tone and incomprehensible words, Liu Bai could only give him a thumbs up.

However, since he no longer had to worry about cultivation, Liu Bai breathed a sigh of relief.

The paper carriage soon arrived in the town and passed through the streets and alleys. The people who had benefited from the carriage greeted Master Ma one after another.

Finally, the carriage stopped at the entrance of an alley decorated with red ribbons. Before getting off the carriage, Liu Bai saw that the alley was crowded with people.

Master Ma led Liu Bai and walked forward and laughed.

When the people saw that it was Master Ma, they all made way for him and greeted him.

After all, if you are possessed by a ghost, praying to gods and Buddhas may not be helpful, but if you pray to Master Ma, maybe he will really save you.

We arrived at the innermost part of the alley smoothly and entered through a narrow door where only two people were sitting.

One of them was a commoner who came to ask for his fortune. Sitting opposite was an old man in his fifties, wearing a light grey-brown spring shirt, with his grey hair held up by a wooden hairpin, and a gaunt face, looking somewhat like an immortal.

When he saw Liu Bai and the other person come in, his eyes widened subconsciously, then he smiled and nodded.

"Please wait for a moment."

Mr. Ma was not shy either. He sat down on the chair next to him and started smoking his pipe.

Liu Bai sat further away, swinging his legs.

The old man comforted the people, saying that he just had a convulsion and would be fine after taking some tranquilizers.

After the people left, he went out again and spoke a few words loudly, basically saying that he had something to do and would be closed for the day, and that those who had something else to do could come back tomorrow.

After saying that, he returned to the house, cupped his hands and said with an apologetic smile, "I'm sorry to have kept Brother Ma waiting for so long."

"Hearing about someone is worse than meeting them in person. I met you today and you will find that Brother Ma is indeed a very handsome man!"

After saying that, he bowed to Liu Bai again and said, "This little brother is indeed a young talent. He has already lit two fires at such a young age. I think it will be easy for him to cultivate a Yin spirit in the future."

Everybody likes to hear polite words. Mr. Ma laughed and they complimented each other a few words. The two of them immediately felt that they had met too late.

Liu Bai just watched silently from the side, listening to the conversation between the two, and he also knew where this old man came from.

The old man was called Zhang Cang. He was originally a golem in Qingshan City, but because he offended someone he shouldn’t have offended there, he had to leave his hometown in order to save his life.

I had been staying well in Blood Food City a few days ago, but I didn't expect that because of the fortune-teller's talkativeness, I said things that I shouldn't have said.

So they retreated again and again and came to Huangliang Town to beg for food.

He also made it clear that he had absolutely no intention of going against Master Ma, and if Master Ma found him an eyesore, he could leave.

People have said so much, and Mr. Ma is a righteous person.

How can this be?

So after a heart-to-heart talk, in less than half an hour, they were already calling each other Brother Ma and Brother Zhang.

At noon, after playing music for a while, Master Ma reluctantly parted with his new acquaintance.

And they agreed that tomorrow night, Master Ma would take out the "Man'er Meng" that he had stored away, and the two brothers would have a good drink.

Zhang Cang tried to persuade him to stay, and Liu Bai just watched them act and found it quite interesting.

All the way out the door, Mr. Ma's face was always filled with the joy of making successful friends.

Only after they were out of the alley and in the carriage did the smile on his face gradually fade.

"What? You don't want to act anymore?" Liu Bai asked with a smile.

Master Ma did not expect that he could hide the truth from Liu Bai, a cunning man. He let out a long sigh and said, "I'm afraid this Zhang Cang is not a simple person. I just hope that he can really do what he said and not cause trouble for our Huangliang Town."

After saying that, he waved his whip and prepared to send Liu Bai back first.

But just after he got out of the alley and hadn't run far, he saw a man running towards him. He was very fast and didn't look like an ordinary person.

Liu Bai had sharp eyes and saw that it was Hu Wei who was running towards him.

Master Ma stopped the carriage, and before the tail of the horse stopped, he started to ask, "What's going on? Why is there so much noise?"

Hu Wei ran out of breath, "Master Ma, I need you to go to our Hu family and take a look. Something strange has happened. I... I can't figure it out."

Master Ma glared and said, "You, the Hu family, are the ones who have so many problems. Damn it, that hanged ghost almost hanged me last time, what happened this time?!"

"Let's go, let's talk while we walk, let's talk while we walk."

Hu Wei had made up his mind to invite Master Ma over first.

(End of this chapter)