Chapter 932

The sun sank bit by bit to the west, and Wu Ponu kept looking toward the entrance of the Qisheng Hall.

The agreement between the sect and the hoodlum trade was that the time for the second round was at sunset and cockcrow.

At this time, the time was getting closer and closer; if it reached the You hour and Mud-Doll Zhang had not finished kneading, then it would be too late to wear those two mud dolls, and he would have to leave.

Even if he died, he must not delay the sect leader's important matter.

Just as he looked back for the third time, with a creak, the door opened.

His hair was gray, and he looked ten years older in just two hours.

Mud-Doll Zhang was exhausted, weakly raised his hand to greet him to come in, looking at the spirit that had been consumed greatly in his eyes and had already dimmed, and the wrinkles that had appeared on his face and hands...

Wu Ponu cupped his hands and said: "I accept your favor; if there is anything entrusted in the future, if I, Wu Ponu, can help, I will never refuse!"

Mud-Doll Zhang smiled wearily, straightened his body, and said leisurely: "Don't! According to the rules, you still have one hurdle to pass."

"I have already kneaded two mud dolls for you with the ghost blue mud taken from the bottom of the Sanchahe, but this is the Tianhou Palace, not my mud doll shop. So if you want to take those two mud dolls away, you have to follow the rules of the Tianhou Palace."

Wu Ponu's brows condensed slightly, and he said: "The rules of the Tianhou Palace? What rules?"

Mud-Doll Zhang sighed: "The rule of tying the doll!"

As he spoke, he took out a red rope.

"Here is a red thread, which was dismantled from the cloak on the Heavenly Tianhou Niangniang's body; the mud dolls kneaded by the mud officials of the Tianhou Palace through the ages are all piled up in a place in the hall called the Doll Mountain."

"You take this red thread and go in, choose two mud dolls from there, tie them up, and bring them out; this counts as the mud dolls you have formed a bond with!"

"If you don't tie the two mud dolls I kneaded, it means your fate is not enough and you cannot suppress those two mud dolls; forcing it will only bring disaster, so it's better to leave them in the Tianhou Palace for the Heavenly Tianhou Niangniang to suppress."

"Otherwise, if those two mud dolls obtain your essence, spirit, and qi and become climate, they will become shocking monsters, which would be my great mistake!"

Although Wu Ponu is from Hebei, he came to Zhigu to make a living after his kung fu achieved small success, and it has been almost twenty years!

He had also heard of this rule of tying the doll.

However, those who come to the Tianhou Palace to pray for children are things that only women do, so he was not clear about the details.

Since Mud-Doll Zhang said so, he believed it; half-believing and half-doubting, he took the red thread and walked into the main hall.

In the Qisheng Hall, a mud goddess statue was worshipped.

Its face was already mottled, but still, no one could repair it.

Legend has it that this statue was dug out from the old Yellow River path by the Daoist patriarch Chen Chuan together with that thing, and there was also a Mother Temple there.

This mud statue was dug out from there.

The strange thing is that this statue seems to be only half, a lonely god, looking somewhat incomplete.

Wu Ponu saw the Doll Mountain at a glance.

That was a pile of dolls placed on a shelf to the right of the statue, piled up like a mountain; the big ones were like real people, barely able to be held by a person's arms, and the small ones were the size of a palm, held by a single palm, and there were even ones the size of a little finger.

All kinds of vivid mud dolls!

Some had four sitting in a circle, playing pai gow, their faces full of smiles, looking festive.

But perhaps parents don't like children who play pai gow, so even if dust accumulated on them, they were not tied away.

Some mud dolls were tumbling together, big and small, flipping back and forth.

The big ones had two hands supporting the ground, one foot still on the ground, and the other foot already raised.

The small ones were just a blurred human shape, bending their waists, with two hands supporting the ground, like a small stool, placed steadily.

Many such lively mud dolls were tied away by people.

Leaving that group of tumbling mud dolls missing a piece here and a piece there...

There were also mud dolls holding a book, or biting a pen, or using an abacus.

Dagu Port is a trading port; brushes are used for bookkeeping, no one reads books, so naturally, no one looks down on those who read.

Therefore, many mud dolls reading books piled up, while those using abacuses and bookkeeping were tied away by many.

The hearts of people in this place are broken, all staring at money!

Even if the top graduate came, silver would not be exchanged...

Wu Ponu saw the dense, thousands of mud dolls on the Doll Mountain and was stunned.

—He didn't know at all what Mud-Doll Zhang had kneaded him into; looking at these dense mud dolls, they were all baby faces, making people dizzy.

Moreover, the sky was just about to get dark, and there was no time for him to choose!

"This mud doll was kneaded according to my appearance; don't I know what kind of fate I have? Mud dolls all like white and fat ones; I am a person with a bitter fate, so I will just look for the ugly, strange, and thin ones; the white and fat ones are definitely not it!"

Wu Ponu thought clearly and went to find those strange-looking mud dolls first.

Not to mention—there were quite a few such mud dolls.

Some three-legged dolls were coiled on the ground, and it was impossible to tell if they were humans or toads.

There were also old-looking ones, looking like they were old before their time; they looked like two dolls, but they all looked like old people with shrunken bones.

These dolls were either kneaded badly by the mud official or there was a problem with the mud material.

According to the rules of the Tianhou Palace, as long as they have seen the Heavenly Tianhou Niangniang, even the strangest mud dolls are not allowed to be removed.

Because a mud doll is a life; there are strange fates and exotic fates in the world.

There were strange and exotic mud dolls here.

The mud dolls of the Tianhou Palace are invited to protect children and send children, and it was not said that strange fates and exotic fates are not allowed to be reincarnated, right?

These mud dolls naturally would not be tied away by people, and they stayed here more and more, making the corners and inconspicuous places full of these strange mud dolls.

Wu Ponu felt cold in his heart because of those mud dolls; mud dolls correspond to human embryos, and he didn't know how many ominous fates and exotic fates had accumulated here.

But he saw a mud doll that looked like it had been hammered flat.

Two mud dolls were squeezed together, face to face, their bodies blended together; they were two mud embryos that leaned together in the kiln, were burned badly, and burned into one mud doll.

Logically speaking, such mud dolls should be smashed after coming out of the kiln!

But the more such mud dolls there are, the more spiritual they are; somehow they dodged the mud official's eyes, saw the Heavenly Tianhou Niangniang, and from then on, they could not be smashed or hit, and could only stay on this Doll Mountain.

Such mud dolls appear every year; after being worshipped for a long time, they are not chosen by people, and they have long become spirits and monsters.

Fortunately, the Heavenly Tianhou Niangniang is suppressing them; they are just naughty and cannot harm people!

Wu Ponu climbed up the Doll Mountain and searched everywhere, and the more he did so, the more the mud dolls went against him, moving the mud dolls he had searched back, or messing up their positions.

Wu Ponu looked up and saw that this mud doll looked familiar.

Put it aside.

Look again, why is it you again? Turning back to look, where is the shadow of the mud doll behind?

Three or four times like this, Wu Ponu also knew that the mud dolls here had become spirits, so he quickly joined his hands in the Three Saints Seal and made a wish: "Brothers and sisters! Junior brother is new here and has offended you many times, I hope you will be magnanimous. This time I am asking for the life-bound mud doll, and there is an important matter. If you help me choose the mud doll, I will invite those who help me to take a trip to the human world!"

"Once these words are spoken, even a team of four horses cannot catch up!"

After speaking, Wu Ponu opened his eyes and saw a child as fierce as a lion, a three-legged golden toad doll, a conjoined doll, a faceless doll...

A total of nine mud dolls with different expressions and different disabilities and oddities appeared in front of him, all pointing in one direction with their hands.

That was the deepest part of the Doll Mountain.

Wu Ponu carefully moved away the big and small mud dolls that had accumulated dust and blocked that corner.

But it revealed a hidden corner, and two blue-black mud dolls the length of an arm appeared in front of Wu Ponu first.

Wu Ponu was happy at first, because the mud material sent by the senior mud official of the Qisheng Hall was this blue-black color, but when he saw the faces of the two mud dolls clearly, he was suddenly shocked.

Because the faces of those two mud dolls were blurred, only roughly outlining the facial features, but those rough facial features carried a strong divinity.

He could see compassion and motherhood from the face of a goddess with a human head and snake body.

He could also see wisdom that seemed to see through everything from the eyes of a male god with a human head and dragon body!

The long tails of the two mud dolls intersected, as if they were a pair of gods...

Wu Ponu noticed that no matter how strange or naughty the mud dolls were, they were all obedient in front of these two mud statues, just like children facing a kind father and a strict mother.

The naughtier the mud doll, the more honest it was in front of the two mud statues.

"Why do these two mud dolls look familiar?"

Wu Ponu didn't dare to move, obediently kowtowed to the two mud dolls a few times, and then carefully checked the other mud dolls around them.

Because he remembered why he felt familiar!

That goddess with a human head and snake body, although her face was blurred, inexplicably gave him the feeling of the statue worshipped in the main hall, which was pasted with mud until only a rough human shape could be seen.

Qisheng Hall!

If the Tianhou Palace worships the Heavenly Tianhou Niangniang, then what does the Qisheng Hall worship?

Some say it is the Heavenly Tianhou Niangniang's biological parents, some say it is the Heavenly Tianhou Niangniang's previous life.

In short, the Tianhou Palace is for believers to worship the Heavenly Tianhou Niangniang, and the Qisheng Hall is for the Heavenly Tianhou Niangniang to worship that goddess!

Thinking of this, Wu Ponu tightened his crotch and respectfully invited the two mud statues to the middle of the Doll Mountain, surrounded by a crowd of mud statues.

At this time, he finally found the two mud dolls kneaded by Mud-Doll Zhang!

They were two little ghosts with blue-black skin, hiding behind the original two god statues; one was so thin that only a bundle of firewood bones remained, like a white skeleton, and the other was so fat that his toes could not be seen.

The thin little ghost held a long banner and carried shackles.

The fat little ghost carried a cloth bag on his back, swaggering with his belly sticking out...

Wu Ponu recognized his two life-bound little ghosts at a glance, and only felt that those two mud dolls were like his own brothers, incomparably intimate.

So he held the two mud dolls and carefully took them out.

According to Mud-Doll Zhang's instructions, he tied them with a red rope, wrapped them in his clothes, and ran out of the Tianhou Temple without looking back.

Just as he left the temple gate, Wu Ponu discovered that his back was covered in cold sweat.

Looking back at the Tianhou Palace with lingering fear, Wu Ponu stamped his feet and swore to the palace: "From now on, you nine are like my own brothers; I will definitely protect you and ensure you are reincarnated into a good family!"

After speaking, he respectfully kowtowed three times to the two mud statues in his heart.

Only then did he leave the Tianhou Palace and rush to the Sanchahe mouth not far away!