My years as a fortune teller

Another day later, we came to a small town.Under the night, the town was extremely quiet, except for the occasional barking of a dog, no one could be seen.It seems that the people here rest quite early.

It was just after midnight, and every household in the town closed their doors tightly.Moreover, thick wooden boards were nailed to the doors and windows, and a Dao talisman was pasted on them.Are there evil spirits here?People in the town were so scared that they closed their doors and windows to sleep at night.

I shrugged my shoulders and whispered to Uncle Xuanhe: "Why do people in this town rest so early? Look at the talismans on the doors, it seems that this place is often haunted by ghosts." Uncle Xuanhe didn't speak, Walked to the door of a house and looked carefully.

He came back and whispered to me: "I don't know what's going on. From looking at these talismans, they should be exorcising ghosts. When you have a rest, ask Senior Dong. Besides, this place is not far from the corpse mountain. He Should know more about the situation here."

At this time, I heard the sound of woo woo... woo woo... the sound of the conch horn.It's just strange that the sound of the conch horn is different this time. It's the middle of the night, aren't you afraid of affecting the rest of the town residents?What's also strange is that after the sound of the loud conch horn, none of the lights were turned on.And no one came out to curse!

It is estimated that there are often corpses passing by here, so these people are used to it.A gust of wind blew by, and I shivered.Not to mention, there is no one in the town, and it feels uncomfortable when there is such a small wind.

When he was about to reach the end of the town, Senior Dong Qi turned his head and walked towards a shop.After walking to the door, Senior Dong stretched out his hand and knocked on the door a few times.I heard someone inside ask: "Which one? Stay in the store and see the cover!"

This boss is really weird. If someone stays in the store, he must first see the pretense clearly.Thinking of this, I looked up at the guise blown by the wind.To be honest, if it weren't for the white border, you wouldn't even notice the words on it.

The whole cover is made of a piece of black cloth, and the characters in the middle are edged with white lines.There is only one word embroidered on it - shop.I saw this and asked Uncle Xuanhe: "Uncle, what does this mean?"

Uncle Xuanhe didn't look at me either, but replied softly: "What does black represent? Don't take it literally, think about what black represents? Then connect that word to see what it means?"

Sick!Black can represent many things, which can be understood as black shops, water shops, or yin shops.Yin shop, when I think of this term, I can't help but think of "the corpse inn".

Before I told Uncle Xuanhe what I meant, I heard senior Dong Qi knock on the door in the order of three shorts and two longs, and shouted to the inside: "Lao Liu opened the door, it's me!" Knocked twice.It seemed to me that it was really a black shop, and even used code words.

I was thinking about it when I saw someone come out to remove the door panel.While unloading, he looked at senior Dong Qi and said, "Why is it you, old man? A few days ago, I heard that you always left here to go out on business. Why did you come to the villain's shop so late today?"

Senior Dong Qi smiled and said, "Are there any guest rooms available? I have three friends who will spend the night here tonight. You can make arrangements and try to find a better ventilated one." The store owner responded and stood sideways. .

Senior Dong Qi beat the gong to drive the corpse into the store, and just as we were about to go in, we heard him shout: "Get started as a Xike, get promoted and get rich!" Then he quickly stepped aside, with his hands hanging on his sides of his thighs.

According to the rules, senior Dong Qi parked the corpse on the side near the door, and then pulled the door to cover it.Only then did I see that there were actually four corpses behind the door on the other side.And above their heads, there is a small red coffin hanging.

Senior Dong Qi had just finished laying down the corpse, when the boss brought a ladder and climbed up and hung a small coffin on it.Then he came down and put the door panel in place, and ran in to greet us to sit down first.

Senior Dong Qi looked at us and said: "Sit down and have a rest first, and then we will go to rest after having some hot soup and rice. When you get here, it's like you're at home. Don't be polite, just tell us what you want. After leaving the town, walk west for a few minutes. One hundred meters is the mountain of corpses, no one here will bother us."

Upon hearing this, Master Xuanhe asked: "Old man, why don't you go directly into the mountain. Instead, you have to stay here for one night, so we will have to rest during the day tomorrow. That will delay the rescue of Princess Yu!"

Senior Dong Qi smiled and explained to us: "Because the mountain of corpses is shrouded in yin all the year round, and the whole mountain is covered with tens of thousands of barren graves. If you drive the corpses over at night, the yin will enter your body. Don't say it's you , It’s the same even if I entered at the wrong time. So let’s take a rest here today, and put the corpse in the coffin at noon tomorrow and go directly in.”

I nodded and said to senior Dong Qi: "But Luo Datong once said that all the people who drive the corpses will come to the corpse mountain to find you. Why? Can't they drive the corpses directly into the hands of the master?"

"This!" Senior Dong Qi looked at me and said, "It's not that they can't just drive the corpse away, it's because of the special location of the corpse mountain. This mountain connects all directions of the entire Xiangxi, it can be said to be a traffic throat. But poisonous fog and cloudy air are pervasive all year round, so few people used to go here. I don’t know when, this place began to become a place to bury corpses. Over time, corpses can be seen just by digging up the soil on the whole mountain. So people It is customary to call this place the corpse mountain. In the early years, the road was not as developed as it is now, and the corpse chasers could bypass it by other means. Later, the traffic developed, which was not conducive to the corpse chasers leaving. So I started looking for it on this mountain. There is no way out, my master made the rule of coming here to wash the corpse and change the coffin."

The traffic is developed, but it is inconvenient to drive corpses. I understand this.Suppose you are driving on the road and suddenly see a man dressed as a Taoist priest, ringing the bell and ringing the gong, jumping around with a row of corpses.It is estimated that even if he does not stay in the psychiatric department of the hospital, he will be scared to death.

But why wash the corpse and change the coffin?I asked Senior Dong Qi again, and he said with a smile: "We are corpse hunters, we drive on the road every night. We have absorbed a lot of Yin Qi in our body, and we often deal with corpses. Therefore, the poison and corpse poison in our body are very heavy. At that time, my master also relied on this jade knife to find the way to enter the corpse mountain. Later, the corpse king cave here became the place where the ancestors of all generations were buried. My master and I lived in the town back then. Later, the master was gone, so I went to the Cave of the Corpse King. From then on, I made a reservation that if I crossed the corpse mountain, I had to wash the corpse and put it in a coffin. First, it was because the yin energy was the lowest at noon, but It is not easy to drive the corpse. Second, after crossing the mountain of corpses is the owner of the corpse. Therefore, it is a good thing for everyone to transport the corpse there cleanly. Even if it is nearby, it is convenient to find a car to transport the corpse in the coffin."

When I heard this, I suddenly realized that it was so simple.I looked at Uncle Xuanhe and shook my head, I didn't expect that removing the corpse was not as easy as it was on TV.Just as he was talking, the shop owner brought up the food.

After setting out the meals, he said very attentively to senior Dong Qi: "There is only some rice left. My wife just fried these two dishes. Don't be disgusted, old man. I'll make some good ones for you and your friends tomorrow." The two first-class guest rooms above have been tidied up, and the younger ones will lead the guests up after eating." He nodded at us and stepped back cautiously.

Senior Dong Qi nodded at him and signaled us to eat quickly.Although there are only two vegetarian dishes, they are very spicy.I haven't eaten such a spicy dish for a long time, and Master Xuanhe was also gasped by the heat.

Senior Dong Qi said with a smile: "Is it a little spicy? Eat more if you have nothing to do. It will be good for you to drive away the cold air in your body." Uncle Xuanhe and I nodded and ate while wiping our sweat Dinner is over.The ugly baby still didn't want to eat, and sat there looking at us stupidly.

After eating, the shop owner took us to the backyard.The main room in the middle is where the shop owner himself lives, and there are two rows of guest rooms on both sides.We entered the second room on the left, and the first room was the room of old man Dong Qi and the ugly baby.

Before he could breathe a sigh of relief after sitting down, the shop owner came in with two basins of steaming water.This is the first time I have enjoyed such treatment since I arrived in Xiangxi.Immediately, the exhaustion all over his body was swept away, and he really wanted to just keep soaking like this.

After pouring the footwashing water, I wanted to rest, but Master Xuanhe said to me: "Little Fatty, have you learned a lot along the way? You still have some intelligence, and you need to practice more in the future."

I scratched my head, looked at Master Xuanhe and said, "Uncle Master, what do you mean by that? Why do you feel weird? Do you have anything to say? If you have something, just say it directly. I am relieved, no It's going to be a crime."

Uncle Xuanhe smiled, and said to me: "There is nothing to tell you, I just said it casually. I hope you can imprint the things about the trip to Xiangxi this time in your mind, maybe you have to come again in the future here."

"No way!" I looked at Master Xuanhe in amazement and said, "Why do I still come here? Don't tell me what you figured out? Just say what Master has, don't deliberately hide it. "

Uncle Xuanhe shook his head, and said to me: "There are many things we don't understand clearly. Before we come, the lunatic will arrange a table for you. But none of us old guys can understand. In the end, your uncle said Human beings have two empty feet in the sky, going back and forth in difficulty."

Having said that, I looked at him, and hurriedly asked: "Uncle Master, what does this mean? Is there two more sentences behind it? You should finish it for me at once, don't make my heart flutter like this. "

Uncle Xuanhe smiled, and said to me: "Someone will tell you the next few sentences, this time I can only tell you so much. As for what it means, you can understand it slowly. But remember Xiangxi It's your blessed place, and it's also your dead place. Do you understand?"

I shook my head, but he said with a smile, "Okay, let's study slowly! Go to bed now, and have to hurry tomorrow. I think Old Taoist Shui will explain it to you when I get back." After finishing speaking, he closed his eyes slightly and sat cross-legged stand up.

This is all a mess, if you want to say it, just say it clearly.Don't say it, it makes my heart itch.Forget it, there is no point in asking any more, I'd better go to sleep.The past few days have exhausted Xiao Zhang and me, so I yawned and fell asleep thinking about it.

I was sleeping soundly, when suddenly I felt something pinched my nose and I couldn't breathe.So I blocked it with my hand while opening my eyes to have a look.It turned out that Uncle Xuanhe put an iron clip on my nose.Then sat on the opposite bed, looked at me and laughed.

Sitting up and taking off the clip, he was about to say that he wanted him, when he said first: "You kid is so generous, you actually managed to fall asleep last night. And you were still whining in the middle of the night, what do you want? Retaliation It's me?"

"Hey!" I said with a smile, "Who told you not to finish what you said last night, but to swallow half of what you said. That's why I feel depressed, and I feel a little resentful when I snore at night." After speaking, I looked at Xuan He Uncle Shi laughed.

He gave me a blank look and said to me: "Don't be so frightened, get up and wash up. I'm going to wash the corpse later, you and I will go over and help. After all, old He Qingshui also has some fate with us." I Nodding his head, after putting on his clothes and tidying up, he and Uncle Xuanhe went to look for Senior Dong Qi.