PCJ – Chapter 77 Give up life or wealth?

When they arrived at Ma An’s house, Ma An was already on the brink of death.

Zhang Jiaohua took a look and was shocked. He saw that Ma An’s whole body was already purple and swollen very badly, as if he had suddenly gained weight. Zhang Jiaohua shook his head helplessly, “I’m not a doctor, how do you expect me to save him!”

Ma Shenggao hurriedly said, “Jiaohua, don’t you know how to transform water? Just transform a bowl of detoxifying water, isn’t that enough?”

“He’s already at death’s door. If I save him, it will harm me. Ma Sibao killed the Snake King and incurred the Snake King’s curse. Now the snakes have come for revenge. Has their family killed many snakes these past few days? Even this uncle has the curse on him. If I save him, the curse will fall on me. No, no.” Zhang Jiaohua shook his head repeatedly. This matter was caused by Ma Sibao’s family, and now they wanted him to take risks to save them. It was out of the question.

“Isn’t there any other way?” Ma Shenggao sighed and asked reluctantly. He wouldn’t force Zhang Jiaohua to risk his life to save someone. But he still hoped that Zhang Jiaohua could think of another safe way. Even though Ma An brought this upon himself, his life was at stake.

Zhang Jiaohua frowned. There was indeed a way, but Ma An didn’t seem worthy of his efforts.

Seeing Zhang Jiaohua’s hesitation, Ma Changzhi immediately knew that Zhang Jiaohua might have another solution. He quickly asked, “Master Zhang, what conditions do you need? Just say it. No matter what the cost, we’re willing to accept it. Do your best, whether it succeeds or not, we won’t blame you.”

Zhang Jiaohua did find a solution. When he was “on a business trip” with his master in his dream, he encountered this situation. At that time, his master easily resolved it. Zhang Jiaohua knew that although his skills were not perfect, he could still save him with some effort.

Liu Yuehong also quickly said, “Little Master, you must save my husband. We’re all relatives here. You must help us!”

Zhang Jiaohua thought for a moment and said, “Are you willing to sacrifice your wealth or your lives? You killed the Snake King, and now the snake clan has come for revenge. If the curse of the Snake King is not resolved, even if I save him once, I can’t save him a second time. And I won’t provoke the snake clan for you. I’ll do my best to help you resolve it. But you will definitely suffer some losses. To save a life, you can’t hold on to your money.”

“How much money is needed?” Liu Yuehong seemed reluctant to part with the money.

“Yuehong! What time is it? You still care about money at this time? Do you want to remarry after Anzi dies? If Anzi dies like this, even if he meets the King of Hell, he won’t let you off! Quickly take out all the money in your house!” Ma Changzhi shouted loudly.

Liu Yuehong trembled in fear. “No, no. I’ll go get the money right away.”

Liu Yuehong opened the wardrobe and pulled out a wad of cotton from a tear in an old cotton jacket. She tore open the cotton, revealing a large bundle of money inside. Liu Yuehong was preparing to count out some of it when Ma Changzhi grabbed all of it in one go.

“This money wasn’t all earned from selling snakes! If the money is gone, how will we live in the future?” Liu Yuehong burst into tears on the spot.

“If a person dies, no amount of money can buy a coffin!” Ma Changzhi shouted.

“I’ll give it, I’ll give it, isn’t that enough?” Liu Yuehong stuffed the money into Ma Changzhi’s hand, crying loudly.

Ma Sibao wasn’t as imposing today as he was when he killed the snakes that morning. He knew he had caused a great disaster that day. Now he had almost led his father to the coffin. He regretted it deeply.

Ma Changzhi took the money to Zhang Jiaohua. “Little Master, all the ill-gotten gains from their family are here. As long as you can save his life, we’re willing to give up our wealth!”

“This money is not what I want. I will help you ward off disaster. This money is to be used to invite the gods.” Zhang Jiaohua was still young and had never seen so much money before. The neatly bundled bundle was quite large. He didn’t even know how much money it was.

“Jiaohua, you hurry up and save him. I’ll keep the money for you first. As long as you bring him back to life, you’ll get a share of this money!” Ma Shenggao took the bundle of money from Ma Changzhi’s hand.

Zhang Jiaohua tore off a piece of cotton from the old green cotton jacket, then pulled out a strand of hair from Ma An’s head. He then tore off a piece of cloth and wrapped the hair in it. He used the green cloth to wrap the bundle and casually pulled a piece of string from the cabinet to tie the cotton into a small cloth person.

It was said that Ma An’s family had invited a water master to perform magic to save him, and people from the village came to watch the excitement, crowding around Ma An’s house. When they saw Zhang Jiaohua making a small cloth person, the villagers began to whisper to each other.

“Is this kid really from Meishan?”

“It should be. I heard people from Meizi Village say that Zhang Youping’s child, Zhang Jiaohua, is still young, but he’s already in Meishan. His skills are even higher than Master Ma’s.”

“I don’t think so. He’s so young. Even if he came out of his mother’s womb and went to Meishan, how high could his skills be?”

“The Ma family is really confused this time. How can they believe a little kid like this?”

“Hey, don’t speak. What is he doing? Is he making a substitute?”

“Well, it seems he’s making another substitute. Is he planning to replace Ma An with it?”

“Who knows? This kid has a methodical way of doing things. Maybe his skills are not low.”

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The villagers whispered to each other, and the house buzzed with excitement.

After Zhang Jiaohua finished wrapping the small cloth person, he began to chant a spell: “Born on the same year, same month, same day, and same hour, carry the burden of wealth with your hands, carry away the disaster with your feet, take Ma An’s calamity away, take it out of the foreign land to dispel the disaster, if punishment is needed, punish the mountains; if repression is needed, repress the sea; if elimination is needed, eliminate the trees; without punishment, repression, or elimination, protect. I obey the orders of the Supreme Elder.”

As Zhang Jiaohua’s voice fell, a red light flew out of Ma An’s body and entered the small cloth person in Zhang Jiaohua’s hand.

“Quickly bury this cloth person behind the back mountain as far away as possible.” Zhang Jiaohua Said.

Ma Changzhi took the cloth person from Zhang Jiaohua’s hand and was about to leave, but Ma Shenggao quickly said, “Uncle, let me go. I’ll ride a bike and put this thing at the foot of Meishan. It’s so far from the village, nothing should happen.”

Ma Changzhi was still worried about Ma An’s life and death, so he naturally wouldn’t refuse. He quickly handed the cloth person to Ma Shenggao.

Only then did Zhang Jiaohua scoop a bowl of water from the water tank and start to transform it. He had just used a substitute to transfer the curse from Ma An’s body. Only then did he dare to detoxify Ma An. If he didn’t transfer the curse with a substitute, and if he cured Ma An, the curse would fall on him. It would be like taking on the karma between Ma An’s family and the snake clan. Zhang Jiaohua naturally wouldn’t do such a thing.