Twilight Boundary

Sure enough, you still have to pay attention to methods when doing things.

Hu Ma guessed that if he, Zhou Datong and the others came here without warning, the people in the village would not necessarily care about the food of people like him. Maybe they would just look at their tender faces and serve two steamed buns each, and add some at most. Just throw away the pickles.

As a gentleman named Ouyang said, the price of a killer who wears shoes is different from that of a killer who does not wear shoes.

But now, they were welcomed into the house respectfully, and good wine and food were served. Mr. Zhao also took the initiative to let Hu Ma sit at the head, and he sat beside him to accompany him enthusiastically.

Zhou Datong and his fellow workers also followed Hu Ma. After a day's journey, they were already empty in their stomachs, so they started eating without hesitation. Hu Ma had to consider the appearance of the food. After taking two bites, he listened to Mr. Zhao. He spoke carefully.

Sure enough, the village started to suffer from drought the year before last. Last year, there was less rain and the harvest was reduced a lot. This year, there has been no rain at all.

Those who saw the crops in the fields were wilting couldn't bear to look at them. The days of starvation due to food shortages were about to come.

But unfortunately, if you call it a drought, it only lasted for a few dozen miles.

In the county next door, the weather is still good, and the crops have been bumper to bumper for the past two years.

Some knowledgeable people in the village said that there was a drought, so they had to dig them out and burn them. But over and over again, they dug countless earthen graves, but it was of no use.

Now in the villages around, grave digging has gone crazy. Even Mr. Zhao’s ancestral graves were almost dug up. The long-term worker who squatted in the corner died trying to help Mr. Zhao protect his ancestral graves.

Now that the momentum can no longer be stopped, I am afraid that the people in these villages will die from gang fights before starving to death.

This is also the reason why the wealthy households in the surrounding villages are willing to spend this money.

"This is a great life-saving merit..."

The more Mr. Zhao talked, the more sad he became. Almost wiping away tears, he held Hu Ma's hand and said sincerely:

"To be honest, we have been begging grandpa and grandma everywhere. If you can help solve this problem..."

"...We teach you how to offer fifty taels of silver in gold!"

"..."

"?"

Hu Ma was a little confused when she heard this: "Damn it, you are obviously spreading the word about two hundred taels!"

But he couldn't talk about it. He just winked at Zhou Datong. Zhou Datong, who was grabbing a chicken butt and lower mouth, agreed. He wiped the oil from his mouth and sneered: "Fifty taels? Our family is big." Master, I won’t take action if it’s less than five hundred taels.”

Hu Ma sighed softly: "It's too high..."

When Mr. Zhao heard this, he suddenly felt a little embarrassed, but he did not counter-offer. Instead, he pondered slightly and said to Hu Ma:

"This is easy to say for me. I can discuss it with people in the surrounding villages, that is..."

"...You are sure, right?"

"..."

"No."

Hu Ma shook his head directly, and Mr. Zhao was stunned for a while.

"I haven't seen it yet, who can say for sure?"

Hu Ma sneered again and said: "We are here to handle things, not charlatans. What are you trying to do?"

"Ah this..."

After hearing this, Mr. Zhao looked happy and felt more relieved.

The few people here do seem to be young, but they don't look as slick as the previous waves of scammers who came here to guarantee their promises.

So he toasted more busily and said to Hu Ma: "Then please leave it to the master. It's late today. You can rest here. At dawn tomorrow, I will send people to deliver messages to the surrounding villages. How can I send this message to the surrounding villages?" I raised the money..."

"And your words..."

"..."

"You can discuss it slowly."

Hu Ma said: "I have to look around tomorrow and have an idea before taking action."

Mr. Zhao felt relieved after hearing this, and ordered people to serve food quickly. Then he vacated the room, boiled water for washing feet, and scalded the feet of several masters and young masters so that they could sleep.

After finishing the meal and clearing the table, it was already getting late. Zhou Datong and others went to bed first. Only Hu Ma drank Huizi tea with Mr. Zhao and asked about the matter in detail. Then he returned to the room and immediately saw Zhou Datong and the others. They gathered around and asked worriedly: "How is it?"

"Brother Mazi, you do have a solution, right?"

"If we can't get this thing, let's ask him for a deposit and run away when we find an opportunity, right?"

"..."

"What the hell?"

Hu Ma's eyes changed when she looked at Zhou Datong. Who did she learn this trick of fooling people from?

"Can't run away."

At this time, Zhou Liang, who was relatively stable, shook his head and said to everyone: "I just saw their long-term worker leading our horse to the stable in front. He was looking at us..."

"Haha, you're not stupid."

Hearing this, Hu Ma also sneered and said, "However, we came here to earn money in a down-to-earth manner."

"I'm sure about this. I heard the second master talk about driving a drought bone pile before. As long as we find the drought bone pile and burn it, the matter will be solved."

"..."

Several people around were stunned when they heard this, and Zhou Datong even asked: "Why didn't the Second Master tell us?"

"of course?"

Hu Ma got angry when she looked at him and said: "As soon as you arrived at the second master's side, you just focused on talking about dirty things..."

Zhou Datong felt guilty for a moment, and even Zhou Liang and Zhao Zhu looked a little worried.

……It really is.

But Hu Ma looked at them like this and didn't explain. She just told them to rest quickly and help others with errands tomorrow morning.

In fact, the three truths and seven lies he mentioned, and the matter of driving drought bone piles, were indeed told by the second master. After all, when I first arrived in this world, I didn’t understand the world, so I relied on listening to the anecdotes told by the second master. Gain a deeper understanding of the world.

But the second master just casually talked about the stories and legends from various places. He read the things that could really solve the drought and the plague from the Zhensui book.

However, the content of the Zhensui book on how to deal with droughts, especially droughts that have not yet become a reality, is very simple, with just a few sentences.

But now, I have to rely on these few words to solve this problem.

It is purely a practical theory to deepen my understanding.

When they got up the next day, the long-term workers of the Zhao family brought water and everyone washed up. The snow-white steamed buns were already steamed in the kitchen. Hu Ma and a few of the guys had a hearty meal, and then under the leadership of Mr. Zhao, they went out. Zhuangzi looked around and saw a group of spectators following behind him.

After walking around the village, Hu Ma couldn't help but feel frightened.

When walking around this village, people always seem to be in a hot ball of fire. It is obviously only June, but it is dry and dry, as if it is July or August.

The most shocking thing is that in the surrounding wilderness, there are dug up graves and smashed corpses and coffins everywhere. Some of them were left to dry in the sun, and some of them have been picked up by wild dogs. .

It seems that the villagers here are really scared and have begun to carry out indiscriminate attacks. Regardless of whether it is true or not, they have dug their graves. The ancestors of each family will be treated equally and they will be smashed for you first.

However, several wealthy families, including Mr. Zhao, had their ancestral graves kept intact.

But the villagers were all staring at it with eager eyes, and they might swarm up at any time and dig them up.

The weather is dry and dry, and we are worried that there will be a drought. The situation is precarious, and the neighbors on both sides are not in a good mood.

"Master, how are you?"

I watched the whole morning in one breath and rested in the field for a while. Someone arranged for food to be delivered from the village.

Nowadays, the number of people following Hu Ma and the others is not less, but more. Mr. Zhao invited several wealthy households from the surrounding villages to come over and discuss the issue of giving money. No one was too entangled in this issue. They were just worried about Master Zhou. Can the problem be solved?

Hu Ma answered truthfully: "I haven't seen anything suspicious yet."

After hearing this, Mr. Zhao was worried and slightly relieved.

He was worried because he couldn't find it, but he was happy because he had been worried that the villagers would dig up his family's ancestral grave when they got angry, so early in the morning, he took Hu Ma to go to his family's grave first.

But Hu Ma made some observations and just said that Drought Demon couldn't be here.

In this way, Mr. Zhao will have an excuse to reprimand those neighbors who are ready to make trouble. The master has said that there is no problem, so you can't just come over and dig it, can you?

But Hu Ma didn't take care of Mr. Zhao's family specially. He really wanted to see that there were no problems with his ancestral graves.

The Zhensui Book says very clearly: "Drought is a disaster, and it is like burning."

Once a drought bug is born underground, the surrounding area will be red. However, in the grave where the drought bug is born, there will be water vapor and green grass. The ancestral grave of Mr. Zhao is almost dry and smoking. , don’t think about it, there will definitely not be a drought demon.

But the key point is that after searching for so long, the other graves don’t seem to have an appearance suitable for the growth of Drought Demon...

"Maybe this is not the way to go."

Hu Ma was also thinking silently, maybe it was time to change her approach.

It's been the sixth day since I came out of Zhuangzi. I don't know if the fighting over there has started, but I think time is running out, and I can't keep spending it here just for these two hundred taels of silver.

Moreover, the people in the surrounding villages did not understand the methods in the book of town and New Year's Eve, but they also had their own methods. They attacked indiscriminately, searching all the suspicious ones, but found nothing.

This shows that the place where Drought Demon's corpse is buried is indeed hidden and difficult to find, and in this case...

"Since I can't find it, I think the only option is to invite it out."

"..."

When the people in the surrounding villages heard this, they were all shocked.

Just now, I was worried that Hu Ma would be unable to do anything. Who would have thought that Hu Ma's method would be so scary?

"How……"

As soon as Mr. Zhao opened his mouth, he realized that he was stuttering: "How to find it?"

"Let's start with your village."

Hu Ma thought about it and said, "While it's still early, go back to the village and give instructions. Each household must bring in a few livestock to raise. If possible, also repair the doors and windows of their own houses." Cover it well with paper."

"After night falls, you close the door, open the door, sprinkle white lime on the door, and then close the door to sleep. If you hear any noise at night, you can't come out and don't make a sound."

"In this way, and with me casting spells at night, we can find that thing."