Chapter 40 Chapter Forty

The next day, the master and the apprentice continued on the road. At this time, they had already reached the boundary of Phoenix.Wang Tuozi took Wei Ning to find a Miao village in the mountains. This Miao village was built on the mountain, with layers of suspended floors.Wang Tuozi brought Wei Ning to the gate of the village, and a big man of Miao nationality stopped them. Wang Tuozi smiled and handed over the embroidered shoe. Friends of Lao Si, we haven’t seen Meng Ge Lao Si for several years. When you go to see Meng Ge Lao Si, please help us bring one by the way, come with me.” Said, took Wang Tuozi and Wei Ning to Miao Go inside the village.The inside of the Miao Village is all paved with bluestone slabs, extending from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain. After a few bends, the Miao man stopped in front of a dilapidated stilted building and said: "I can only send it here. Mengge Laosi lives Here, no one can go up without permission, you go up and find it yourself."

Wang Tuozi thanked the man and took Wei Ning up.As soon as I walked up the stairs, I heard an old voice: "Why, did you send me a head?" Wang Tuozi went upstairs and said, "My head will be yours sooner or later, what are you in a hurry for?" This is an extremely ordinary living room of the Miao elderly. In the middle of the main room there is a firepit dedicated to the Miao people. Generally, people in the Miao village rely on this firepit to boil water and kang bacon. There is nothing special about the firepit, but the things hanging on the firepit are a little different.

a human head. Wang Tuozi didn't seem to think there was anything wrong. He walked over and looked left and right at the head of the man, and suddenly sighed: "I haven't seen you for a few years, and your craftsmanship is really getting better and better." Sitting cross-legged by the fire pond was an old man who was too old to tell his age, wearing a traditional coarse cloth Miao clothing, with one foot bare and the other wearing an embroidered shoe.Seeing Tuozi Wang, he smiled and said, "I've already left you the best spices, just wait for you to bring your head. I guarantee that your head will be the most perfect piece of work in my life. "

Wang Tuozi handed over the embroidered shoes, the old man took them, put them on, pointed at Wei Ning and said with a smile: "This is the only seedling of the Wei family! It looks weird and clever." After speaking, he waved to Wei Ning who was hiding aside, and said, "Come here and appreciate my work." Wei Ning took a few steps back, and the old man didn't mind. He looked at the head spinning on the firepit lovingly, and said to himself, "This is my youngest son. Unfortunately, he died of illness. When he died, his skin was already loose. , even if I fix it with borax for three days and use the best tobacco osmanthus, it's a pity... But I don't worry, because I will definitely make good use of your master's head, and I must do it before I die. Produce the most perfect work."

Wang Tuozi handed the porcelain vase containing the black cat to Meng Ge, and said, "This is something you asked me to do—I really don't know, why do you want this thing—you have to touch the things of the Black Sect, beware of greed. You can't chew it." Meng Ge said with a smile: "I really don't want this, it's Mr. Peng Bai. He recently took in a girl who seems to have been poisoned by a strange poison and has weak bones. Using this can replenish her vitality." But I really didn't expect that you could bring the 'beast soul' so easily, it seems that your cultivation has improved in recent years."

Wang Tuozi sighed and said, "It's not like you don't know that it's a kind of torture for me, a person who wants to die but can't die, to stay in this world." "So," Meng Ge grabbed a handful of osmanthus from the side and threw it into the firepit. He covered the head with his right hand and turned it lightly, "You are the one who wants to die, and you are the one who doesn't want to die. But I don't care, anyway, you If you want to die, you must inform me, so that I can clean up your head. If someone accidentally breaks it, I have waited for so many years, but everything will be over."

Wang Tuozi smiled and said: "Of course I know this. I will pay back what I owe you. I, Wang Tuozi, am not a person who breaks promises." Meng Ge looked at Wang Tuozi carefully for a while again, like a man in love looking at his beloved woman, and finally sighed: "It's such a good head, I really can't help but want to do it now, and then use my savings I have been using the best spices and osmanthus for more than ten years, and I will use all my craftsmanship on your head, and you will be the pinnacle of my life." Wang Tuozi smiled, as if what he was talking about had nothing to do with him.Meng Ge took out the black cat imprisoned by Wang Tuozi from the porcelain bottle.

As soon as the black cat got out of the porcelain vase, it meowed and wanted to escape. Meng Ge pointed, and the black cat shrank there motionless as if it had encountered something terrible.Meng Ge said: "I waited for 30 years until this 'beast soul' was robbed and its spiritual power was at its weakest, so I asked you to come out. The things at the bottom of the box can't subdue him at all." Meng Ge beckoned to Wei Ning kindly and said: "Young man, come here." Wang Tuozi nodded and motioned Wei Ning to go, and Wei Ning walked over timidly.Meng Ge squeezed Wei Ning's body with his eyes closed, and said silently: "It really is an immortal bone, it really is an immortal bone!"

After speaking, he said to Wei Ning: "Little friend, you go out first, I have something to talk to your master." Wang Tuozi winked, Wei Ning didn't want to stay in this smoky room for a long time, and ran out like fleeing after listening. After Wei Ning left, Meng Ge sighed and said, "The Wei family is indeed a blessed family. Today I really saw the 'immortal bone'." Wang Tuozi interjected: "Oh. So what if you have immortal bones, because you are controlled by that curse and won't live to be 27 years old." Meng Ge shook his head and said: "The Wei family itself is a treasure house, but his descendants have not obtained the key to open this treasure house. I remember that there seems to be someone in the Wei family who seems to have glimpsed some ways, but it is really a matter of talent. Limit—but he's done a pretty good job."

Wang Tuozi nodded and said: "Old Wei is indeed a character, but unfortunately I don't know what Wei Ning will do. According to my observations for a period of time, his talent seems to be not inferior to that of Old Wei, or even surpassed." Meng Ge added another handful of spices, and said lightly: "A few years ago, your old friend came here and asked me to bring you a message. He said that if you have any troubles, you can directly contact him, and he will help you." Wang Tuozi nodded and said: "One day I will break him up. I created him. Even if I can't break him up, I will die together."

Meng Ge said: "Are you still brooding over what happened back then?" Wang Tuozi smiled bitterly: "I am 105 years old this year, you know why I have to live so long." Meng Ge sighed, and said, "Actually, there are some things that you can't let go of. By the way, is the Lin family still bothering you recently?" Wang Tuozi nodded and said, "Some time ago, a little girl from the Lin family once approached me, and she almost deceived me. She is indeed very smart. However, her cleverness was mistaken by her cleverness. After all, I have lived for more than a hundred years. Well, as the saying goes, people are old and smart, and if you want to deceive me, an old goblin, she is too young." Meng Ge said, "You didn't kill her?" Wang Tuozi smiled wryly, "If I wanted to kill her, she would never have come to this world." Meng Ge nodded and said, "That is." "I just left something for her." Wang Tuozi took out a box from his pocket and said, "Let her be more honest in the future." Meng Ge glanced at the box, and there was a thumb-sized golden toad inside, and said in surprise: "The Millennium Golden Toad Gu, how did you get it?" "Naturally, Miaoshou is empty-handed."