Day and night tour

Chapter 161 Sheep Horn Hand Seal
Lu Mingkun found No. 64 Mingyuan Road, a large house. Just standing outside the door, he could smell the stench and blood.

He used a bamboo knife to cut off the bolt of the wooden door and pushed it open.

Inside the house, there were corpses everywhere, including a middle-aged man, who fell next to the cooking stove.

The middle-aged man was Li Youfu. When he delivered Li Chunsheng's body to Zhou's cleaning shop in the morning, he looked normal, but at this time, only half of his head was left.

Lu Mingkun lifted his gown a little, walked to the tea-frying table, looked into the pot, and saw the things in the pot: burnt eyes, blackened bones, shrunken ears... The shocking things not only did not make Lu Mingkun feel nauseous, but instead caused a feeling of hunger to spread, playing tricks in his body.

"Eat something, it's almost time for dinner."

Lu Mingkun persuaded himself.

puff!

The bamboo blade cut a hole in his palm, and Lu Mingkun immediately regained his consciousness. He didn't care about his manners or the blood, and lifted up his long gown with his left and right hands.
If he came in to pick up the gown because he didn't want to dirty it, then he picked it up now because he was afraid that the hem of the gown would get caught on something and he would stumble.
Lu Mingkun knew very well that if he really stumbled and fell in this room, that strange smell of hunger would definitely leave him here...

It was a short distance from the stove to the door, and Lu Mingkun had a hard time walking. Every step he took felt like he was stepping into deep mud.
——He stepped in with a plop, and then, using all his strength, he slowly pulled his leg out of the mud.

But at least I walked out of the house.
The feeling of hunger in Lu Mingkun's body changed from "happy hunger" to "uncomfortable hunger", as if he had been really hungry for several days.

He endured the pain, went to the main road, hailed a rickshaw, and said, "Take me to the nearest bakery."

……

Dongshi Street, Zhouji Jingyi Shop,

Zhou Xuan, Siming, Xiao Fuzi, and Yun Ziliang sat in a row opposite the shop.

None of them dared to enter the store. As long as they stayed in the store for a while, that "happy hunger" would spread through their bodies.

This feeling of hunger seems to be not afraid of perception and incense level.

Siming's incense was of a high enough level, but it could not resist hunger.

Zhou Xuan's perception was top-notch, but after getting a small tattoo of the "Flower-Picking Handprint" in the inner hall, he could no longer resist the feeling of hunger.

So, the four of them waited at the door opposite, waiting for Lu Mingkun to come back.

Zhou Xuan guessed that something must have happened in Li Chunsheng's family. If it was a minor incident, he would ask their family to take Li Chunsheng and his "human belly" away quickly and stop causing trouble for the Jingyi Shop.

Even if I have to pay the penalty stipulated in the document, I will do it without hesitation.

"What if something big happens? For example, the whole family gets killed." Yun Ziliang asked.

"Old Yun, can you please hope for the best for others?" Zhou Xuan asked Yun Ziliang not to say unlucky words.

But even if we take a step back and say that it is true as Lao Yun said, then Li Chunsheng is just an ownerless corpse and must be burned immediately - once and for all.

Faced with the "hunger" that even Siming could not resist, Zhou Xuan had to choose "a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall".

Lu Mingkun didn't come, but Li Chengfeng did.

Li Chengfeng didn't see Zhou Xuan and the others. He stood at the door of the Jingyi shop and stuck his head in to look.

"Teacher Li, don't look at my door. We are sitting here." Zhou Xuan shouted to Li Chengfeng.

"Why are you all sitting outside?" Li Chengfeng put a stack of ancient books in his arms on the counter, shook his sleeves, and walked up to Zhou Xuan.

"I have a special guest in my store today."

While gesturing, Zhou Xuan told Li Chengfeng about what happened today, which made this mystic scholar of the Bone Elders' Society very curious.

"Is there such a strange thing? I have to go and take a look."

"Teacher Li, take it easy." Zhou Xuan instructed.

Li Chengfeng entered the Jingyi shop. After a while, he ran out and said, "This is weird, too weird. I have never seen this thing before."

Row,
Things that can make scholars from the Bone Society say "weird" really need to be dealt with.

"Junior brother, I'm back."

At this time, Lu Mingkun got down from a rickshaw, looking very embarrassed. He always paid attention to his image, but at this time his clothes were stained with a lot of biscuit crumbs, biscuit oil, and blood stains, and his hands were wrapped in gauze.

"Fifth Brother, why is it so miserable?" Zhou Xuan asked.

"Don't mention it! Li Chunshui's family is finished. There's a pot of offal at home."

Lv Mingkun pointed at the store and said, "Hurry up, deal with the bodies inside. You can burn them, bury them, or throw them away. Just don't let them cause trouble to our store. This is extremely evil."

“Don’t throw it away.”

Li Chengfeng stopped him and said, "This is a creature I've never seen before. I need to find someone to take it back for research. Young sir, can you give me this body and stomach?"

"That's great. As long as you can keep it away from our store, you can do whatever you want."

Zhou Xuan quickly agreed.

He never thought that today would be so unlucky and that the guest he received would be such a person.

Li Chengfeng just chanted a spell silently, and a tiny white lantern appeared in his hand.

"go with!"

Li Chengfeng shouted, and the white lantern shot up into the sky. When it was very high, he said, "Someone from the Bone Elders will come immediately to drag the body away for research."

"Don't forget the belly!"

"Don't worry, those are all valuable research materials." After saying this, Li Chengfeng hurried to Cui Jie's snack stand. He also felt hungry.

Less than half an hour later, a carriage appeared in front of Zhou Ji Jingyi Shop, and four men in long gowns got out and put Li Chunsheng and his "human stomach" into a coffin they had prepared in advance.

The coffin was sealed, many strange talismans were pasted on it, and then it was taken to Huifeng Medical College.

Li Chengfeng also reluctantly said goodbye to Zhou Xuan and said, "I'm sorry, young master. I really wanted to communicate with you, but I was in a hurry to study the corpse, so..."

"Hurry up and research it. If you come up with something, publish it in the newspaper or magazine, and remember to write: First discovered in Zhouji Jingyi Shop on Dongshi Street."

“……”Li Chengfeng.

Zhou Xuan asked for a space in advance. He didn't have to do any research, he just earned some money from advertising.

……

Li Chunsheng's body was finally taken away. This time when I entered the store again, I didn't feel hungry anymore.

But Zhou Xuan still didn't let everyone stay in the store, saying that it's better to be safe than sorry, so he would close the store in the afternoon and tell everyone not to rush back to give the store some time to recover.

"Then I'll go play cards."

"When did you not fight?" Zhou Xuan mocked Yun Ziliang.

"I'm going to go play with Huazi."

"It just so happens that I'm going to the old painting studio to have a rest." Lu Mingkun felt that he was too stressed out today, and he needed to use the rich evil energy of the old painting studio to nourish his body.

"I..." Zhou Xuan had just finished speaking.

Siming was a little anxious and urged, "Young Master, about the tattoo?"

"I'll go to your house to get a tattoo." Zhou Xuan said.

Anyway, the flower-picking tattoo is done, and sacrifices are still needed. Whoever uses this tattoo will have to offer sacrifices.

Si Ming's tattoo was for his daughter Si Yuer, but Si Yuer didn't come. Something happened in the store, so he might as well go to Si's house.

"That's great." Siming wished for it.

……

Zhou Xuan put on the half-finished tattoo and got into Siming's car.

The car drove to Sifu.

Along the way, Zhou Xuan discovered something was wrong again. He pointed at the restaurants of all sizes on the street and said to Siming, "Old Siming, have you noticed that there are more customers in all the restaurants today than in the past?"

"Is there?" Siming glanced around the car window and didn't think anything was wrong. "I forgot, how could a rich man like you pay attention to small restaurants and shops."

Zhou Xuan paid close attention all the way and developed a feeling in his heart.

He always felt that there was a huge, wriggling mouth growing on the ground of Mingjiang Mansion, eating non-stop.

"Perhaps, right now, the appetite of this mouth is not too big, and the change is not too obvious, but as time goes by, I am afraid that his appetite will become bigger and bigger."

Mingjiang Mansion is weird, really weird.

……

The car stopped in front of the Si Mansion, and Siming politely invited Zhou Xuan in: "Young Master, there is nothing prepared in the mansion, please bear with me."

"Easy to say, easy to say."

Zhou Xuan clasped his fists.

But after he entered the mansion, he realized that the "no preparation" that the rich said was much better than the serious preparation of the middle-class people!
The richest family Zhou Xuan had ever visited was the Dai Mansion in Pingshui Prefecture.

The Dai Mansion was very large, and one could even row a boat in the yard. At the time, Zhou Xuan thought that this was the limit for rich people.

Only now do I realize that the Dai Mansion is just big and spacious and cannot compare to the exquisiteness of the Si Mansion.

The layout of the Si Mansion has the essence of the southern round forest.

The eaves of the corridor are winding, and the flowers and plants are cleverly divided and arranged. Walking in the corridor really lives up to the saying "one step, one scene". When you are in it, you feel like you are stepping into nature.

Siming led Zhou Xuan to the Fuyuan Hall and ordered the servants to bring a spacious wooden table for Zhou Xuan to make the tattoo.

Fruits, vegetables and pastries are of course not a problem.

There was also a special tea girl who sat at a small table nearby and made tea for Zhou Xuan.

"The life of rich people is so simple and boring."

After Zhou Xuan drank two sips of tea, he calmed down, leaned over the table, and continued tattooing the flower-picking handprint.

"Young sir, I'm going to call Si Yu'er out, you go ahead and do your work."

In order to create a quiet environment for Zhou Xuan, Siming not only left himself, but also sent the tea girl away, leaving only two bowls of hot tea for Zhou Xuan to drink.

There was no one around, so Zhou Xuan no longer had any concerns. He used all his senses to penetrate the bones and teeth, and wrote quickly on the human skin.

Compared with the Heaven Official's Blessing, the Flower Picking Hand Seal is a small picture with a simple composition. It naturally did not take too long to tattoo it.

However, when Bone Tooth put the last stroke on the tattoo, no strange vision appeared.

“How come there are no visions?”

Zhou Xuan picked up the tattoo, looked at it carefully and listened to it. The pattern did not change, and there was no sound of Buddhist music or bells.

"It shouldn't be."

Zhou Xuan penetrated his perception into the tattoo - this picture required a sacrifice, and if the sacrifice was not completed, it would just be a dead object.

Naturally, perception can't find anything.

"what happened?"

Zhou Xuan held the tattoo and looked at it as he walked. Unknowingly, he walked to the window of Fuyuan Hall.

The sunlight from the window shone down, shining on the tattooed human skin.

Suddenly,

An illusory human figure suddenly appeared above the pattern of the flower-picking hand seal. This figure had a sheep's head and a human body!
Zhou Xuan couldn't help but think of the ancient legend of Jing State - the ancient Buddha had his head stolen by a monster with a sheep's head and a human body.

According to Yun Ziliang, the ancient Buddha did not have a head, so the authenticity of this legend is questionable. But no matter what, the monster with a sheep's head and a human body and the ancient Buddha are always irreconcilable and incompatible.

But Zhou Xuan's tattoo combines a Buddha and a monster with a goat's head and a human body. What's the reason?
Zhou Xuan held the tattoo in his hand and began to think about whether he should sell it to Siming.

While he was thinking about it, Si Ming had already brought Si Yuer over.

Si Yuer was generous. When she saw Zhou Xuan, she took the initiative to walk over, stared at his face, and said, "So Mr. Tattoo is so generous?"

"Ms. Si is also very beautiful."

Zhou Xuan greeted her politely. Although Si Yuer was indeed very beautiful, his mind was not on her, but on the tattoo.

He raised his hand and said to Si Ming: "Mr. Si, there are some changes in this tattoo. I need to take it home and study it..."

As he was speaking, the tattoo in his hand suddenly seemed to have grown wings and was about to fly out of his hand.

Zhou Xuan pulled hard, but he only felt a fierce force prying his palm apart, then flying above the hall and unfolding.

The moment it unfolded, Zhou Xuan saw that the flower-picking handprint in the tattoo was changing its shape.

The flower-picking mudra originally consisted of the thumb and middle finger being twisted together, with the other fingers naturally stretched out.

Of course, there are also flower-picking seals with the thumb and index finger twisted together, or with the thumb and ring finger twisted together, which are both considered correct.

But at this time, the handprint in the tattoo did not adopt any of the popular flower-picking styles, but the index finger, middle finger, and ring finger were held in the palm, with only the thumb and little finger spread out - like a pair of sheep horns.

The two fingers of the goat horn handprint were trembling slightly, and a slight shadow was shaking.

At this time,
Zhou Xuan suddenly felt like he was carrying something on his back, and his body sank.

Si Yuer, who was sitting opposite him, looked the same as him, with her neck slightly bent and her body sunk.

The amplitude of the movement is not very obvious, and it is difficult to see if you don't look carefully.

"This handprint is so strange."

Si Yuer looked up at the goat horn handprint tattoo hanging in the air and sighed, "It's exactly the same feeling of Buddha energy that I had when Teacher Jing led me to chant the sutra yesterday."

Yesterday at the Xuejing gathering, Jingdeng led the members in chanting scriptures, but Yun Ziliang said that it was not a Buddhist scripture, it was the blessing of the Star-Covering Mantra!
The spell created by the White Walker Zhaxing can bring blessings from the stars by harming itself and borrowing the power of the stars.

Zhou Xuan felt what he was feeling at the moment, and it was somewhat like the Star-Covering Curse.

"There's something wrong with this tattoo. What on earth am I carrying on my back? The other tattoos have a full Buddha aura, but this one doesn't have it. Instead, it has this evil Buddha aura."

When the sheep horn handprint was no longer suspended and fell to the ground, Zhou Xuan immediately rolled up the tattoo and said to Siming, "There is something wrong with this tattoo! Miss Si and I both have something on our backs."

"On my back?" Upon hearing this, Si Yuer turned her head to look at her back, but couldn't see it, so she turned around to look... But she seemed to have forgotten that when the body turns, the head also turns with it.

As the eldest daughter of the Si family, I feel like there's something wrong here!

Zhou Xuan poked his temple and complained secretly.

"I almost forgot that people can't see their own backs." Si Yuer said.

“……”Zhou Xuan.

Now Zhou Xuan was even more certain that there was indeed something wrong with his brain.

"Are you and my daughter carrying things on their backs?" Siming asked, not taking Zhou Xuan's words lightly.

"Yes!" Zhou Xuan replied.

This is the thief's den. He remembered the thief Liu Qingguang he met at the train station when he first came to Mingjiang Prefecture.

Liu Qingguang's eyes were very magical and he could see things that even Zhou Xuan could not see.

"Mr. Si, is there a person named Liu Qingguang in your sect?"

"Yes, Lao Liu is the lantern master of our hall, specializing in guiding the disciples who join the hall."

"You ask him to come over and let him see the backs of Miss Si and me." After Zhou Xuan said this, he opened the tattoo in his hand.

The tattoo is still the "ram horn handprint"!
If there is something wrong with the tattoo, what is wrong with it?
ps: Good brothers, the second update has reached 9,000 words, muah

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