Chapter 32: Playing tricks (Part 2)
Since the people outside the door had already started cursing, Huo Chong decided not to pretend he didn't hear anything. He went to the door with a stick in his hand and opened it. Seeing that the people at the door were Liu Laowu's men, Huo Chong pointed at them and cursed, "What are you cursing about?"
When the others saw Huo Chong's bad look, they immediately ran away in fear. Huo Chong came out with a stick in his hand and saw Liu Laowu standing a little further away from the door. Seeing Huo Chong go out, Liu Laowu was also frightened and took a few steps back. Liu Laowu shouted, "Huo Chong, the leader has arrived in the village. You deserve to die!"
Huo Chong did not answer, but rushed towards Liu Laowu with his stick in hand. Liu Laowu was so scared that he turned and ran away. Huo Chong slowly chased after Liu Laowu to see where he was going to run. After running for a while, he saw a lot of villagers gathered around a dirt platform in front of him.
Liu Laowu shouted, "Huo Chong is beating people!" and fled to the edge of the earthen platform.
It was probably because it was not the first time Huo Chong had beaten someone. Whether it was the beating of the Cao Gang or yesterday's fight, there were villagers watching from afar. So even though Liu Laowu was shouting, no one came up to fight Huo Chong.
Since the other party had set up their battle formation, Huo Chong also wanted to see what tricks they were up to. He walked to the earthen platform with a short stick in hand, and saw several leading figures from Liujia Village and Zhujia Village in front of the platform, with Zhu Youquan standing beside them, looking respectful.
Liu Laowu did not jump to the front this time, and hid behind the others. Instead, the landlord San Wagang stood up, walked to the stage and said unconfidently: "Everyone! Huo Chong is not a member of the church..."
Huo Chong agreed with the words of the landlord San Wagang very much. He himself never believed in religion. In addition to the fact that Huo Chong was a science and engineering man, there was a sentence that made Huo Chong feel that he had found a logical thinking. Poor people prefer to believe in God. But if there really is a God in the world, then isn't the miserable fate of these poor people created by God?
But Huo Chong shouted, "San Wagang, what are you talking about? You were there watching my master hand over the position to me. So many villagers were there watching. If you say it's not true, then it's not true. Are you taking the blame for what happened that day?"
There was a burst of laughter from the villagers below. Judging from the sound, Huo Chong's fierce attack on the landlord Sanwagang really brought joy to everyone.
Sanwagang was stunned and couldn't say anything for a moment.
Seeing that San Wagang was choked by Huo Chong's real facts, Uncle Zhu in the audience jumped onto the stage and shouted: "Everyone! I didn't see Master Liu pass the position to Huo Chong that day..."
This immediately triggered a low laugh, and someone shouted, "I saw it."
When Master Zhu heard this, he was furious. But he continued, "I saw Huo Chong make his master vomit blood in anger!"
Huo Chong didn't expect that Uncle Zhu would start with this matter instead of directly inciting everyone to ask for money. Isn't this quite interesting? To morally erase all the justice of Huo Chong, are these guys really not gangsters?
"Bullshit! It was Uncle Liu who was so angry that he vomited blood. We all saw it!" The curse of Liu the Hunter was heard from the audience.
Huo Chong felt warm in his heart. Although Liu the Hunter was stingy, he didn't expect that he would speak up for Huo Chong at this time.
After Hunter Liu shouted like this, many villagers in Liujia Village who had witnessed the incident also nodded.
Seeing that things had turned out like this, Liu Lao Hu got anxious and jumped onto the stage, shouting to the villagers, "Everyone! We have invited the leader of the Tianli Sect, who is the master of Master Huo Chong. Master Liu does not recognize Huo Chong, but Zhu Youquan."
After saying that, Liu Laowu jumped off the stage again and pulled the Liu clan leader from yesterday. Liu clan leader's men pushed Liu clan leader away who was pulling him. Others helped Liu clan leader onto the stage.
"Everyone, I am the leader of the Dui Sect of the Tianli Sect." Sect Leader Liu greeted everyone.
Hunter Liu asked in confusion: "Are you Uncle Liu's master? How old are you?"
The villagers below were also puzzled as to how Uncle Liu, who was in his fifties, could have a master who was at least ten years younger than him.
It seemed that Patriarch Liu had experienced such questioning many times. He explained a few things frankly and even used Huo Chong, who was his senior brother, as an example.
It turns out that the Tianli Sect has adopted the rule that the Sect Master is the master of all the helmsmen. For example, Huo Chong's joining the sect early or late does not mean that Huo Chong cannot be the eldest brother. The eldest brother in the Tianli Sect is not ranked according to the time of joining the sect, but a title. The head of each branch is naturally the master, and the eldest brother is the one who manages things under the master.
It was also thanks to Patriarch Liu's eloquence that he was able to explain it clearly to a group of people who had no idea what was going on.
The villagers also had no idea what the organizational structure of the Tianli Sect was, and after listening to it, they no longer expressed any questions.
Seeing that the villagers at least understood, Sect Master Liu said, "We have our own scriptures in Tianli Sect, and Liu Feng should have read them to everyone. Zhu Youquan has been in Tianli Sect for many years, and he is very familiar with the scriptures and rituals. Huo Chong doesn't know our scriptures at all. Do you think Zhu Youquan can take this position, or Huo Chong, who knows nothing, can bring good fortune to everyone? Huo Chong knows nothing, so he can't do it at all!"
Huo Chong felt that he had learned a trick. This was enough for ordinary people, because Liu Yannian directly pointed out a fact that Huo Chong really didn't understand.
Since this is the starting point, the next step is to find a way to prove it...
Then Liu Yannian shouted, "If you don't believe me, let them do it on this stage."
Huo Chong sighed in his heart. He would try this method when he had the chance in the future. Although they were all playing tricks, the Tianlijiao upper echelons did not play tricks at all, but started from reality. As long as the people believed that playing tricks was real, then when no one understood playing tricks, whoever could muddy the water would be able to take the initiative.
But this is just a hypothesis. What will these people do? Huo Chong is becoming more and more interested.
Then Liu Yannian shouted to Huo Chong, "Huo Chong, you said you took over Liu Feng's position. Liu Feng must have taught you everything he knew. Come up and show us how to do it."
Oh! So that's how it is. Huo Chong finally understood.
These guys are very familiar with all kinds of tricks, and nothing is difficult for them. As long as Huo Chong's tricks are exposed in public, the villagers will completely lose their confidence in Huo Chong.
In this case, Huo Chong did not want to let these people succeed. Huo Chong touched the ground with his toes and jumped onto the stage in a beautiful posture. There were some surprised shouts from below. This posture should look quite handsome.
Liu Yannian subconsciously took two steps back, probably because he had some psychological trauma from the beating of his men by Huo Chong yesterday.
Huo Chong certainly would not beat Liu Yannian. Turning to the villagers, Huo Chong said loudly: "Everyone! These people are here to support Zhu Youquan. No matter what I do, they will say that I did it wrong. If we want to compete, let Zhu Youquan demonstrate to everyone first. Isn't this fair!"
Hunter Liu shouted from below: "Right! Let Zhu Youquan do it first. Otherwise, you will just say that Brother Huo is wrong, and we don't know whether what Zhu Youquan did is right or not."
"Yes, we have to see it all!" When the villagers heard that there was something exciting to watch, some of them started shouting.
Liu Yannian glared at Liu the Hunter, then turned around and said to Zhu Youquan with a straight face, "Zhu Youquan, come up and demonstrate to everyone!"
Huo Chong jumped off the stage and stood in a safe place waiting to watch the show.
A few minutes later, Zhu Youquan's performance began. A few minutes later, the villagers below were already confused, and some even began to yawn out of boredom.
Yes, if a person just turns back and forth like a shaman, mumbling something, it will be attractive at first, but it will become boring after a while.
Seeing others yawn, Huo Chong couldn't help but yawn too. I thought Zhu Youquan would at least perform a little magic trick, but what is this? Dancing with the gods is more interesting than this.
However, this set of things took a long time, and it was fortunate that Zhu Youquan could remember such a long set of things. It seems that he really put a lot of effort into studying it.
After waiting for all this to be done, Zhu Youquan jumped off the stage. Sect Master Liu went up on the stage again and shouted to Huo Chong: "Huo Chong, this is the blessing technique of our Tianli Sect. If you can do it like Zhu Youquan, I will let you be the helmsman."
Huo Chong knew he couldn't do it. But when things came to this point, there was no reason to just give up and do it.
After shouting, "Wait for a moment," Huo Chong went straight home.
Holding a bottle of potato alcohol with the highest concentration, Huo Chong took a few bundles of grass, tied them up, and inserted alcohol in the middle. He lit two torches and poured alcohol into the bundles of grass. He also took a lighter and ran out.
When he ran to the front of the platform, he heard someone in the crowd shouting, "Huo Chong didn't run away! He didn't run away!"
It seems that the moment Huo Chong returned, someone had already spread the rumor that Huo Chong was scared away.
Huo Chong jumped onto the platform and directly stuck the wooden stick with the grass bundle on the platform. He also stuck the torch on the platform and then shouted to everyone: "Everyone, my master taught me his most secret magic. I will show you how to use it."
After saying that, Huo Chong took out a glass bottle and poured the alcohol in it onto his hands. Then he raised his head and shouted, "Mother of No Birth! Vacuum World! Mother of No Birth! Vacuum World!"
After shouting, Huo Chong had already stretched out his hand to the torch. With a burst of burning sensation, the alcohol was ignited.
Huo Chong raised his hand high and asked everyone in the audience to look at the flame on his hand. People who were far away and those with poor eyesight did not see it. However, the sharp-eyed villagers who were close by vaguely saw the changes in Huo Chong's hand, and someone shouted: "Huo Chong's hand is on fire!"
Huo Chong did not wait for the alcohol on his hand to burn out, nor did he wait for the burning alcohol to burn his hand. Huo Chong put his hand on the bundle of grass.
After a while, Huo Chong felt his palms getting hot. At this time, Huo Chong also saw a layer of blue flames appear on the alcohol soaked in the hay bundle.
Huo Chong was not worried enough, so he put his other hand on the hay bundle. The lighter clicked softly, and a small flame began to burn the hay at an angle that no one could see.
After a moment, the flames finally started.
Huo Chong quickly released the lighter button and took a few steps back.
"It's on fire! It's on fire!" As the villagers shouted, the bundles of hay began to emit green smoke as they burned.
