Chapter 62 Chapter 62: Expelling Miasma and Avoiding Evil

Zhaofeng sat on the raised tree root and waited for Zhang Yaoye who was carrying the stone slab. When Zhang Yaoye and his group came back empty-handed, he said, "What? Didn't you find the stone slab?" Zhang Yaoye said lightly: "There is no suitable one." But Zhang Ziheng said: "Why is there no suitable one? They are all carried out. It is that lunatic Zhang Zikun who won't allow them to be carried!" After hearing Zhang Ziheng's words, Zhaofeng looked at Zhang Yaoye and asked, "Why won't you let the lunatic be lifted?" Zhang Yaoye gave Zhang Ziheng a hard look, and said: "I don't know why, this lunatic usually looks crazy, but he didn't expect to take good care of his family. When he saw that he was carrying the stone slabs of his sister-in-law's pigpen, he had to stop him alive." .I'm an elder, and I don't want to argue with his lunatic, so I have to rely on him."

But Zhang Ziheng said: "Master Yao, why are you still talking nonsense for the lunatic?" Master Zhang Yao raised his voice and said to Zhang Ziheng: "Ziheng, the older generation is talking, you don't have to interrupt at the side, it's not your turn to talk. No one is old or young, don't you understand any rules?" Zhang Ziheng was stared blankly by Zhang Yaoye. Zhaofeng seemed to see something tricky, and looked into Zhang Yaoye's eyes.Zhang Yaoye's eyes became erratic and flickering, and he dared not look at Zhaofeng. Zhaofeng smiled, and deliberately made a relaxed expression and said: "If you don't allow it to be lifted, then don't let it be lifted! You are doing the right thing, Master Yao. You can't argue with a crazy person. Let's find another way."

"What else can I think of?" Master Zhang Yao asked tentatively. Zhaofeng crossed his hands, looked at the tree stump that had not yet been cut down, thought for a while and said, "Otherwise, I will stay here tonight to see if I can come up with a better way." Zhang Yaoye said: "How dangerous is it if you guard here alone?" Zhaofeng said: "You can't just leave it open like this? You can see the things underneath, and it will be troublesome to come out." At this time, Heizi, who had been sniffing with his nose against the ground, raised his head, stared vigilantly into the woods, and barked softly.

Everyone was extremely vigilant. Hearing Heizi's low bark, they all looked in the direction of Heizi's barking. A gaudy face sneaked out from behind a bamboo cage. It's Zhang Zikun! Zhang Ziheng cursed viciously in a low voice: "It's this plague god again! Gou Ri's ghost is here to stay!" Zhang Yaoye warned in a low voice: "Don't scold him like this again! Still teaching him the same?" Zhang Zikun seemed cautious, not daring to come over, and still had that foolish smirk on his face. Zhang Yaoye said to Zhang Zikun: "Zikun, come here, what are you doing so timidly? There is nothing harming you."

Only then did Zhang Zikun come out from behind the bamboo forest, but behind him was a large bundle of things tightly wrapped in broken straw mats dragged by ropes. Zhang Yaoye was curious, and said, "What did you bring here in a bundle?" Zhang Zikun was still smiling and didn't speak, just dragging the big bundle of things to the open space. Zhang Ziheng and the others stood still, looking at him.Master Zhang Yao hurried up to help Zhang Zikun drag it. Zhang Yaoye's attitude towards Zhang Zikun has undergone a fundamental change, and he has a little respect for this guy.

After dragging the things to the center of the open space, Zhang Zikun wiped the sweat off his face with his palm, making his gaudy face even uglier and more vivid. Zhang Yaoye asked again: "Zikun, what exactly is wrapped in your mat?" Zhang Zikun didn't speak, and bowed down to untie the package tightly bound by a brown rope. The straw mat was opened, and it turned out to be a large bundle of dried mugwort and calamus. Master Zhang Yao gave a snort and said, "Where did you find so many things to ward off evil spirits?" Only then did Zhang Zikun speak: "Dad Yao, you are so old, maybe you don't know that these things can repel mosquitoes?"

At this moment, Zhang Yaoye's eyes began to shine, and he said: "Why didn't I know? You pretend to be crazy, I know you have a reputation, you really have a reputation, oh——" Zhaofeng also said at this time: "You don't want to be ashamed, a group of smart people, their brains don't have his spirituality. Hehe..." Zhang Zikun said again: "Light these things and throw them into the cave, get rid of the miasma inside and nothing will happen." Zhang Ziheng also looked at Zhang Zikun differently, but he still didn't believe it and said: "He said this method is not effective? This is another feudal superstition!"

Zhaofeng said: "Where do so many feudal superstitions come from? Young man, I see that you are too young, and your mind has been rigidly framed by rules and regulations. It is very rigid." While talking, he took a handful of dried mugwort Down to the stump. Wisps of light smoke floated under the tree stump, and after a while, the empty dam was filled with the fragrance of mugwort. Master Zhang Yao sniffed the air vigorously with his nose, and said: "It's been a long time since I smelled this kind of fragrance, so refreshing! Ziheng, don't underestimate this thing, when you were young, you often had stomachaches." , do you know how much old mugwort juice your mother-in-law chewed and fed to you?"

Zhang Ziheng frowned and said, "Who remembers what happened when I was a child?" "Of course you don't remember, you are an ungrateful thing." Zhang Yaoye said dissatisfied. Zhang Ziheng immediately said: "Master Yao, I am not ungrateful, my parents died early, I was brought up by you and Granny Yao, and I still want to get grave floaters for you and Granny Yao." Zhang Yaoye said: "Forget it, you should stop saying these comforting words in my ears. I haven't listened to Lao Tzu's greetings for a while. I still count on the future? I'm not old-fashioned yet! Also, in the future you have to Change your mouth, don’t call me Yao Ye or Yao Pa again, do you hear me?”

Zhang Ziheng replied angrily: "Understood. Do you still take the lunatic's words seriously?" Zhang Yaoye said: "Crazy? I think you are crazy now! Your brain is getting more and more unconscious." Zhang Ziheng muttered: "I don't know which one is not sober!" Zhang Yaoye ignored Zhang Ziheng, lit a handful of mugwort and walked to the tree stump.Zhaofeng had already thrown the ignited handful of mugwort into the tree hole.Master Zhang Yao followed suit. A few stupid boys thought it was fun, so they followed suit, throwing the lit mugwort one after another into the tree hole, and curls of green smoke rose from the tree hole...

Zhang Zikun folded his arms, grinning, with a sense of accomplishment on his face. After a while, a large bundle of mugwort and calamus were all lit and thrown into the tree hole. Zhang Yaoye clapped his hands and said to Zhaofeng: "Brother, I'm afraid there is no big problem now?" Zhaofeng said: "At least three to five days will be no problem. These evil things are afraid of this kind of smell. All things in the world, mutual generation and mutual restraint, one thing descends another thing, this is an eternal truth." Zhang Yaoye said: "Is it still used here to guard?" "I'll go down and have a look when the cigarettes down there die down in a while," said Zhaofeng. Zhang Yaoye widened his eyes and said in horror: "Are you still going down?" Zhaofeng said, "Go down and have a look." Zhang Yaoye said: "My ancestor, Lao Tzu, you better not take this risk. It's okay to say that I haven't seen those things. The key is that I have seen those things, and I don't even dare to think about them now." Zhaofeng laughed and said: "Master Yao, it's okay. Everything that can be seen with the eyes is a living thing, not something scary like ghosts and ghosts. It's just that you have never seen these things. As long as you don't put It thinks so mysteriously and horribly, so it is not scary. You just treat it as our common cats and dogs, what are you afraid of? People often make a fuss and scare themselves. The ancestors It is said that people are prosperous for three years, and gods and ghosts dare not stop them. What is prosperous? What is prosperous is courage. If you are bold, you will become more angry, and evil things will be afraid of you. Suspicion and ghosts scare you in the end. You yourself, don't you know?" Zhang Yaoye stared blankly at Zhaofeng, shook his head like a rattle, and said, "You speak lightly, but I'm not as bold as you." Zhaofeng smiled hehe, glanced at Zhang Zikun, and said, "Believe it or not, I will let this brother go with me in a while, and he is just as daring to go with me." Zhang Yaoye said: "He is a lunatic, of course he is not afraid of anything." Hearing Zhang Yaoye's words, Zhang Zikun immediately replied, "You are the madman." Master Zhang Yao said with a smile: "Okay, Zikun, you say you are not crazy, do you dare to go down with Senior Zhaofeng?" Zhang Zikun said: "Just dare." He lifted his loose trousers while talking. Zhang Ziheng quickly pulled Master Zhang Yao from behind, and said, "Don't provoke him! You know he's not clear-headed, what if something happens to him if he really follows?" Zhang Yaoye said: "You still know that you are afraid of something happening to him? I really thought you were heartless." Zhang Ziheng said: "Master Yao, why do you always look at me through the crack of the door?" "My dad! If you keep yelling, I will really ignore you." Zhang Ziheng said angrily: "You want me to change my words suddenly, it's so difficult!" "Change even if it's difficult! Anything can be messed up, but seniority can't be messed up." Zhang Ziheng was so anxious that he wanted to slap his mouth.