Chapter 419
Lin Ran did not say anything, he just took Su Rou into his arms and hugged her tightly.
This is not a phenomenon only found in the countryside, some people in the city have this kind of thinking even more so, otherwise why would there be the saying of seeking a son with a heavy price tag, only Lin Ran did not expect that Su Rou, who usually looked lively and cheerful, was actually one of the victims.
“Well, it’s alright, the house isn’t warm at least you still have our group of friends!”
Lin Ran smiled and comforted, then seeing that Su Rou’s mood had slightly improved, he then opened his mouth and invited.
“Come on, let’s go down for a drink, let’s forget all these unhappy things today for New Year!”
“Mm!”
Su Rou nodded at his words, and looked at Lin Ran with a few more complex emotions, this was the first time she felt warm during New Year’s Eve.
Wang Yifeng and Shi were drinking happily, and muttered discontentedly when they saw the two Lin Ran return.
“You …… The two of you again …… Where did you run off to be sweet …… What a no …. Not… No fun!”
“Alright, cut the crap and come drink!”
Lin Ran busy interrupted the fatty’s words, this guy always mentions which pot can’t be opened, he came back this time without Song Nuan, instead he brought Su Rou, this already makes him a bit speechless, this dead fatty also always adds a knife, simply head pig teammate.
After the tussle just now, Su Rou’s mood was obviously much better, and perhaps she had also opened up, and after sitting down, she frequently clinked gla*ses with everyone else.
We all had a good meal until 3am, when Yingzi and Shi returned home.
Su Rou still seemed to have more than enough, pulling Lin Ran to continue drinking even though Fatty had fallen asleep next to her.
In the end, both of them were so dizzy that they fell back to sleep.
…..
The next morning, when the whole village was immersed in the joy of the first day of the New Year, a cry of “ah” came from Lin Ran’s house, breaking the silence of the small courtyard.
“What’s wrong? What’s wrong?”
Wang Yifeng was so frightened that he fell out of bed and rushed out wrapped in his blanket.
“Yes, what’s wrong?”
Grandma also came out from the kitchen, and both of them looked at Su Rou’s room, wondering for a moment what had happened.
“Creak!”
The door to the room was pushed open and Lin Ran ran out wrapped in a quilt and holding his clothes, while not forgetting to turn around and shout.
“Missy, I really didn’t do anything! You have to believe me!”
With that Lin Ran turned his head and was about to run, but just as he turned his head he froze.
He only saw his grandmother and Wang Yifeng looking straight at him, the former with helplessness on his face, while the latter with ecstasy on his face.
“Grandma …. It’s not what you think, I just slept, nothing else ….”
Lin Ran explained with a bitter face, however, his grandmother said with a sigh.
“Okay, don’t explain, young people will inevitably make mistakes, just how to make up for this mistake in the future is up to you!”
The grandmother turned around and went back to the kitchen to continue her work, but in her heart she had one thing on her mind.
“I’m going to make my grandson’s clothes!”
“Boy! You’re good! I was so helpful the night before last, but you didn’t make a move, you actually wanted to stay for New Year’s Eve!”
“What do you call that! The real big year ….. First night ah!”
Wang Yifeng couldn’t help but tease.
“Go away, what are you thinking about, Laozi was drunk last night, just slept, don’t think nonsense!”
Lin Ran was busy explaining, but this explanation seemed pale and weak under the circumstances, no one would believe him.
“What the hell are you doing? Do you think Xiao Nuan would believe it if she knew?”
Wang Yifeng laughed.
“If you dare to say that, I’ll kill you!”
Lin Ran was furious, and in his heart he was screaming even more, he really only slept last night and did nothing else, so how come no one believed it!
“Fatty, cut the crap, we’re innocent!”
Su Rou also came running from inside, wearing pajamas at this time with her hair on her shoulders, simply must have some charm.
“Yes, yes, you’re innocent, I get it! I get it!”
Wang Yifei smiled and turned around and went back to his room.
Lin Ran glanced at Su Rou, sighed helplessly and looked up to the sky without tears, what kind of sins did he make, holding on for one night and not expecting to sleep the next day.
But the point is, he really didn’t do anything, but this hat is already buttoned up, no one believes it at all anymore.
“All right, let you drink without restraint, Xiao Nuan side I will go to explain, I can prove that we are innocent!”
Su Rou’s face was slightly red, but there was a smile at the corner of her mouth as she turned around and went back to her room.
“Explain? Will it work? If explanations could be useful, then there wouldn’t be so much domestic violence!”
Lin Ran said to himself, thinking about it he felt a pain all over his body and couldn’t help but run back to his room.
……
Breakfast was eaten in an unusually awkward atmosphere.
“That, I’m going to go around to Yingzi’s house!”
After eating, Lin Ran was ready to bolt, if he continued to stay here, I’m afraid he would really get embarra*sment sick.
However, he had just got up and hadn’t left when suddenly there was a crackling sound of firecrackers outside the door.
Originally, it was not a big deal to set off firecrackers during the New Year, but at this inappropriate point, the firecrackers had been going off for a long time, making everyone feel that something was not right.
“Bang, bang, bang!”
“Ranzi, come out to help! Hurry up!”
Suddenly, just as the crowd was wondering in their hearts, the voice of a stone came from outside the door.
“What’s wrong?”
Lin Ran asked with a frown, and immediately ran to open the door, only to see Shi hastily draping his coat over him while anxiously arriving.
“The village chief told me to shout for you to help, the old eighth master at the head of the village left last night!”
“Gone? Where can he go that late!”
Lin Ran hadn’t answered yet, but Su Rou next to him asked with a difference, this Old Master Eight was the oldest person in the village, always sitting at the village head smiling and very kind, Su Rou came to the village and didn’t chat with Old Master Eight too often, so she knew him too.
“It’s not that one that’s gone, it’s gone!”
Seeing this, Shi was busy explaining.
Lin Ran and Su Rou both listened with a slight frown, the latter was even more taken aback busy saying.
“How come he’s gone all of a sudden, wasn’t he just fine yesterday!”
“Who knows, old Uncle B has invited someone overnight, it’s really unlucky to meet this kind of thing in the New Year, so we are going to bury him today!”
Shi Tou explained.
“Okay! Then let’s go there quickly!”
Lin Ran nodded, while turning back to greet Fatty.
“D*mn fatty, you come and help too!”
“Good!”
Wang Yifeng didn’t hesitate, and immediately dropped his dishes and ran over.
Seeing this, Grandma was also not in the mood to eat, so she immediately packed up and also rushed over after Lin Ran and the others.
Old Uncle Eight, the son of Old Master Eight, lived not far from the village head, and was also very close to Lin Ran’s house.
After walking for a few minutes, they saw Old Uncle Eight’s house from afar. At that moment, there were many people standing in front of the latter’s house, all making preparations, and white cloths had been tied up.
But Lin Ran was surprised to find that in the middle of these people, there was actually a table for a puja, and beside it sat an old man with white hair flowing.
The old man was sitting upright, not saying a word, and seemed to be resting, while his daoist robe was unusually obvious.
“What’s going on here?”
Lin Ran asked with a frown, and Stone sniffed and said with a sigh.
“The old eighth master left in a hurry, the old eighth uncle was afraid that there was something unclean, so he invited this old daoist with a bull nose, but I have never seen this guy, I don’t know if he is reliable!”
“Old Daoist Niubizi?”
Lin Ran frowned at his words, and immediately walked over.
Chapter 420
“Gentlemen! The time has come to seal the coffin!”
As Lin Ran and the others approached, Old Daoist Cowhide stood up from his seat and waved the floating dust in his hand, shouting in a dignified manner.
“Seal the coffin! Quickly!”
At the same time, an old man dressed in mourning clothes came out of his house, his hair a little white.
What was even stranger was that there was a yellow talisman hanging on his face, and on the yellow talisman there were words inscribed in seal script that looked like a ghost painting.
“Why is Old Uncle Eight dressed up like this?”
Seeing this dress up, the stone immediately frowned and asked, while Wang Yifeng and Lin Ran at the side were looking with slightly narrowed eyes, and could not help but take two steps forward.
“Ranzi, what kind of ghost charm is this, how come I’ve never seen it before!”
Wang Yifeng frowned and asked, his profession is to exorcise ghosts and subdue demons, and he knows a lot about common talismans, but this yellow talisman in front of him was something he had never seen before, or rather, he didn’t understand what was written on it.
“This talisman is a fake!”
Lin Ran frowned and said.
“Fake?”
Su Rou’s three people were stunned at his words, not understanding Lin Ran’s meaning, but Wang Yifeng at the side had already understood, and immediately sneered.
“A fake is useless, it’s no different from an ordinary piece of paper, I feel that this old eighth uncle has been tricked!”
As he said that, Wang Yifeng was quick with his eyes and hands, and took a step forward to directly rip off the yellow talisman on Old Uncle Baji’s forehead.
But the moment the yellow talisman was pulled off, the crowd was dumbfounded, only to see Old Uncle Eight’s face as pale as paper, the whole face without a trace of blood, a pair of eyes around the black, looks like a dead person, but Lin Ran is clear in his heart, Old Uncle Eight is not a dead person.
“Hey! Wang Yifeng, what are you doing! Quickly give me back the yellow talisman!”
When Old Uncle Eight saw that the yellow talisman had been taken away by Wang Yifeng, he hurriedly shouted.
And when the villagers who were preparing to seal the coffin in front of them saw this, they were also terrified and hurriedly looked up at Old Taoist Niubizi.
“What’s going on! What are you guys doing! Can’t you see that old man is casting a spell, why don’t you back off quickly!”
When he saw Lin Ran, Old Daoist Niubizi immediately scolded, while raising his hand to snatch the yellow talisman from Wang Yifeng’s hand, but the latter was quick-eyed and dodged it with a dodge, while saying.
“Old man, doesn’t your conscience hurt when you make such fake talismans to prank people?”
Old Daoist Niubizi’s face was visibly stunned at his words, followed by a cold rebuke.
“Where is this yellow-haired boy from? He is full of nonsense. Get rid of him!”
“I’m talking nonsense? Then what are you, a liar?”
Wang Yifeng laughed coldly at his words.
A few villagers had already run over to the side, and Old Uncle Eight saw this and shouted at Lin Ran.
“Ranzi, take care of your friend, we are busy with our work, what are you doing here!”
Old Uncle Eight’s face was very unpleasant and he seemed ready to faint at any moment, so Lin Ran didn’t want to talk nonsense and spoke directly.
“Old Uncle Eight, who is he? How come the Eighth Master pa*sed away and invited a Taoist priest!”
Said Lin Ran as he took the yellow talisman in Wang Yifeng’s hand, followed by raising it in front of Old Uncle Eight and said.
“Moreover, this yellow talisman is indeed a fake!”
“This ….”
Old Uncle Eight was also confused when he heard this, if it was said before he might have thought that Lin Ran had come to cause trouble on purpose, but with the scene of Lin Ran treating the group years ago, he couldn’t help but feel a jolt in his heart and was busy explaining.
“This Daoist Niubizi, I met him halfway when I went to invite the funeral director last night.
When he said this, Old Uncle Eight turned to look at Old Taoist Niubizi and asked.
“Taoist Master, this yellow talisman …..”
“Humph!”
Seeing this, Old Daoist Niu Nose waved the floating dust in his hand, and immediately sat down on his chair again, saying blandly.
“Old eight, don’t blame me for not reminding you, the auspicious day is fleeting, if you don’t believe me, I can not help you with this favor, and you doubt me that’s a bit too much!”
“No… No Taoist Master, how can you say that!”
Old Uncle Eight was also a little anxious at the sight and said to Lin Ran in a hurry.
“Ranzi, you should leave this alone, this isn’t a visit to the doctor, you don’t understand!”
“He doesn’t understand? Old master, then you are ignorant, do you know what I do?”
Wang Yifeng laughed coldly at this, followed by a wave of his palm suddenly a handful of yellow talismans appeared in his hand, and smiled at Old Uncle Baji.
“I’m a ghost catcher by profession, and today I’ve come across the same person, so I can’t leave this matter alone, and if you want to cheat the folks of Linjiawan, you don’t even ask around, do you agree with me?”
Said Wang Yifeng a hand of yellow talisman stretched out in front of the old Taoist Niu Nose, sneering.
“See old man, this is the real talisman seal, what kind of ghostly drawing you have, you dare to show it off!”
Old Daoist Niubizi was still quite calm, but when he saw the talisman seal in Wang Yifeng’s hand, he sat up a bit and got up and said busily.
“You ….. What are you, you are also worthy to talk to the old man, just these most lowly talisman seals of yours, what use can they be, his family is inviting the Liege Ghost this time, does the Liege Ghost know!”
“Really? Then why don’t you bring out the evil spirit and let me see it?”
Wang Yifeng sneered.
Old man Niubizi also calmed down at this point and sneered.
“Old man has said that it is a severe ghost, is it that easy to subdue, old man has already thought of a way to be able to invite the severe ghost away, you’d better go back and follow your master in learning a few more years!”
Said Old Daoist Niubizi, looking at Lin Ran again, and said indifferently.
“Kid, do you still have something to do? Give me back the talisman seal if you’re alright!”
“Daoist Master, don’t be in a hurry!”
Lin Ran laughed at this and followed, raising the yellow talisman in his hand and laughing.
“Since your Daoist skills are so high, then why don’t you tell me what this talisman seal is for? And what is its effect?”
Old Daoist Niubizi’s face sank at his words, but at this time many people around were looking at him, so he could not keep quiet, and after a moment he said in a welcoming manner.
“This talisman is naturally used to drive away evil spirits, the old master left in a hurry, and the spirits of injustice are afraid that they have not yet rested, so I am afraid that they will scourge the family, that is why I brought this yellow talisman for Old Eight!”
Old Daoist Niubizi spoke with reason and justification, as if this was exactly what was happening.
“O? Then in that case, I find it strange, since it’s to drive away evil spirits, then the vicinity of Old Master Eight’s coffin should be the most dense place for evil spirits, right, for Old Uncle Eight to stand here without any reaction at all?”
Lin Ran laughed, while also pulling Old Uncle Eight directly to the coffin and smiling at Old Dao Niu Nui.
“Why is there no reaction at all?”
“You!”
Old Dao Niu Nose’s face instantly turned iron blue at this, unable to find the words to retort for a while.
Lin Ran couldn’t help but laugh at the situation and said.
“Can’t tell anymore? Then let me tell you!”
Lin Ran took a talisman seal from the fatty’s hand and flicked his finger, then the seal turned into a thunderbolt with a “bang” and struck the sky with a “boom” before slowly dissipating.
He then flicked the old man’s talisman out, but the talisman did not change at all, floating in the air for a while before falling to the ground.
“See? Your yellow talisman is simply a piece of paper, not the least bit useful, and you say it’s not a fake?”
