Jasmine shook the metal magic weapon in her hand. This magic weapon looked like a metal roller fixed on a wooden stick. The surface of the roller was engraved with complex words and auspicious clouds. A flying pendant hung on the side, and the end of the flying pendant was the same small metal buckle.
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"Is this what a prayer wheel looks like?" Xiaolan had only heard of prayer wheels, so she pointed at the thing and asked.
"Absolutely," Jasmine traced the surface of the prayer tube with her fingers, "Maybe... maybe it's a little bigger than this. I've never seen such a small one."
Xiaolan nodded, picked up the big rattle in front of her and said, "Isn't this too straightforward?"
"It doesn't matter. When we hold straightforward things in our hands, they feel more mysterious," Jasmine said eloquently. "They all have this mentality. The master's things must be different."
Xiaolan suddenly realized.
I didn't expect that you are already an old master at such a young age.
The two arranged how they would act like magic in the evening, but when they thought about the large audience, they actually felt a little nervous.
There are also the men who disappeared briefly because of the ritual ceremony at night. What are they going to do at that time, or in other words, what are they going to do to the two people who organized the ritual?
According to what Lao Liu said, when performing rituals in the past, Master Fengmu and Master Qiuyuan usually gathered the audience participating in the rituals during the alternating period of night and day. When night fell, the rituals would start on time.
After a brief tidying up, it was already late at night, and the smell of cooking smoke and food was rising in the village. For this ritual, it seemed that the villagers had already had dinner earlier.
"Two masters!"
Lao Liu's call sounded from the door of the hospital on time.
Lao Liu was carrying the big lunch box from the morning, which was full of food. It was really touching.
He had no intention of entering the hospital, so he just handed the food in through the fence, checked the time with the two of them again, and then left worriedly.
Even the sixth child has become like this.
Tonight's ritual ceremony not only disturbed the minds of Xiaolan and Jasmine, but also caused the entire village to unknowingly fall into a state of anxiety that seemed peaceful.
After they had eaten and drank enough, they stuffed all the magical instruments into their bodies, and then walked towards the place where Lao Liu mentioned the altar in the ambiguous light of dusk.
You can already see crowds gathering in the distance.
People on the outermost side turned to see the two of them, and bowed deeply or nodded with fists clasped. The two walked through the passages automatically divided by the crowd and walked towards the center of the gathering.
The coffin of the village chief was placed on a low stone platform. The circle of the coffin was sealed with iron nails as thick as chopsticks. Lao Liu and his wife stood beside the coffin. The wife stared at the coffin of the village chief with tears in her eyes, even
He didn't realize that the two of them were already beside him.
"My condolences, madam," Jasmine said pretending to be mature, "We will definitely help the village chief reach bliss as soon as possible."
Madam's eyes were blurred, and her exquisite beauty showed flaws for the first time, "You don't understand...how it could become like this."
"We have not yet traced the culprit who killed the village chief," Xiaolan thought the lady was referring to this and explained in a low voice, "but we have not given up the investigation. After the ceremony is held, we will do our best to search."
The lady stopped talking, her eyes were still empty and confused, and she just kept shaking her head.
"It's getting late," Lao Liu raised his head and looked at the sky through the gap in the tree cover above his head. "It will get completely dark within half an hour. The audience that has not gathered after dark will no longer be invited to observe the Dharma. You two
What do you think, Master, leaving another hour of convergence time?"
Xiaolan and Jasmine didn't have any ideas. They looked left and right, searching for suspicious faces in the crowd.
"Lao Liu, are they here?"
Lao Liu naturally understood who "they" were referring to, looked up and looked around, and shook his head at the two of them, "None of the ones the two masters were looking for showed up, but the real sister-in-law from the Huozhen family has come."
In ten minutes, the entrance to the meditation will be closed.
But there was still no trace of the people who were going to cause trouble.
Xiaolan didn't know why she was so panicked. After all, although she had never experienced magic trick, she could often see Taoist priests deceiving people with eloquent words, so she could understand some of the essence.
The night fell and the crowd around gradually became quiet.
Xiaolan inserted the low-profile Tianzuo flags selected by Jasmine one by one into the ground around the stone platform, and the other magical weapons were placed in their respective positions according to their guesses.
The ritual is about to begin.
Jasmine shook the prayer tube, and the wall of the tube with scriptures engraved on it rotated in circles, making a distant and ethereal sound.
"How many more minutes are there?" Xiaolan covered her face and secretly asked Lao Liu.
Lao Liu didn't look at the time or ask about the time. He blurted out, "There are still five minutes left. Viewers after five minutes will not be able to visit the ritual."
Five minutes, Faluguan.
Still none of the expected faces appeared.
Maybe... maybe it's a calm night.
Time comes bit by bit, drop by drop.
While Xiao Lan rang the bell, Lao Liu suddenly raised his hand, his rough and deep voice was cold.
"The ritual is about to begin, countdown."
There is still a countdown.
The two stood awkwardly in front of the pious Lao Liu.
The channel is about to close.
Just when the two were about to pretend to exorcise the devil, something unexpected happened.
"Whoosh!——"
Something flew through the wind and approached me quickly.
But the goal seems to be skewed again.
After hearing the dangerous sound, Xiaolan searched everywhere for the shadow of the thing.
Night has fallen, and the leaves, together with the bamboo leaves, rustle in the night wind.
Not found.
It was too dark to find it.
"ah!"
Suddenly a woman's scream sounded from the side.
"Madam!" Lao Liu exclaimed.
lady?!
Xiaolan and Jasmine quickly turned to look.
The lady's white mourning clothes, which had no trace of color at all, were splattered with little bits of blood.
That thing's target is Mrs.
At this time, the lady was clutching her abdomen tightly, and the shocking red color spread out bit by bit.
The crowd started screaming.
"Madam!" Xiaolan and Jasmine shouted and rushed nearby.
Lao Liu supported his wife and slowly collapsed to the ground. When she rushed to her side, Xiaolan saw that in the middle of her arms that were tightly covering her abdomen, a shiny black arrow suddenly appeared.
Someone shot an arrow at the lady, hurting her abdomen.
What's going on here?
"Madam, Madam..." Xiaolan grabbed Madam's sleeve and asked softly, "Madam, has she seen the person who attacked you?"
"I shouldn't... I shouldn't..." I don't know whether it was because of pain or something else, but the lady's lake-like soft eyes seemed to have turned upside down at this moment, and tears kept pouring out of her eyes, her eyes were pious and desperate.
Xiaolan's heart felt stinging.
This is what it feels like to witness beauty broken.
"What shouldn't be done?"
"I regret it so much!——"
After a shrill scream, the blood in Madam's abdomen surged even more fiercely. Xiaolan looked at the strong scarlet that was swallowing up all directions and wanted to stop the bleeding, but she couldn't.