Yin Changsheng

Chapter 19

Grandpa Yao hit me almost with all his strength, and it hurt so much that I screamed on the spot.

This dress is an ordinary Chinese tunic suit. I really don't know how Grandpa Yao recognized this dress as my grandfather's, but it doesn't matter. Grandpa and the three brothers grew up together, and the three of them know each other better. We were even more profound. Grandpa Yao said that this dress belonged to grandpa, so [-]% of it belonged to grandpa. This also confirmed the previous guess that the nine palaces were chiseled out by my grandpa.

Jiang Li immediately winked at me, and I was afraid of being beaten again, so I quickly took off the clothes and threw them aside.

Grandpa Yao looked at Jiang Li, then he was stunned for a moment and said, "Master Jiang, why are you all wet? You can't do this. If you're going to catch a cold, I'll go find you some clothes."

Grandpa Yao entered the house after speaking.

After entering the room, Jiang Li looked at me and smiled: "Does it hurt?"

"Of course it hurts." I touched the place where Grandpa Yao hit me with my backhand and said.

I thought Jiang Li would care about me, but he just smiled slightly after hearing this: "It's fine to get a good beating, if a rich girl raises a girl, and a poor boy raises a boy, a boy should be raised poorly, and a poor boy should be raised poorly."

This world is not fair at all, as Jiang Li's words showed.

Grandpa Yao quickly took out his old clothes from the house, and asked Jiang Li and I to change into them. While we were changing clothes, Grandpa Yao took a thermos and made two cups of hot tea for us, and then sat down. Asked us on the cool chair: "What are you doing here? How did you become like this?"

Jiang Li said: "I accidentally fell into the water." In order not to let Grandpa Yao get entangled in this topic, he immediately changed the subject and continued to ask, "I heard from Grandma Chen Xiao that you and Grandpa Chen Xiao and Second Grandpa Chen Xiao are young. We went out and wandered around when we were together, were you together during that time?"

Hearing this, Grandpa Yao sighed, lit the bong that had been extinguished just now, smoked it bang bang bang bang bang, he let out a wistful expression, and said: "At that time, it was not easy to mess around everywhere, and you would die if you went out. Before the three of us left our hometown, we met an old blind man. The old blind man said that if the three of us walked together, we would not even be able to go back to the county seat. We had to go east alone, west alone, and north alone. That’s the way to survive.”

"Old blind man? Do you know him?" Jiang Li was very interested in this old blind man.In Sichuan and Chongqing, fortune tellers are generally called blind.

Two years ago, a young blind man, a fortune-teller, came to my house and figured out that I had a greedy water barrier, and I had to tie a scarecrow to the edge of the weir pond and burn it to break the greedy water barrier.

Tanshuiguan is recorded in "Hundred Pass Secrets", if it falls into the water, it is called Tanshuiguan, if it is scalded by boiling water or burned, it is called Tanhuoguan, and if it bleeds, it is called bloody disaster.

At that time, I misheard the words of the blind fortune-teller, thinking that he asked my grandfather to catch me and burn me by the pond. There will be retribution, the five disadvantages and the three deficiencies will always repay some upper body. In order not to harm their family members, they will blind their own eyes before they are fortune-telling.

When Jiang Li asked, Grandpa Yao shook his head and said, "I don't know him, I haven't seen him before. Of course we didn't believe him when he told us this, but the old blind man told us three things. One day, our three brothers will go our separate ways."

Jiang Li continued to ask: "Which three things?"

Grandpa Yao said: "The first thing is about Grandpa Chen Xiao. He told Grandpa Chen Xiao that when looking for a place to sleep at night, you must sleep in the house and not outside."

Grandpa Yao took another puff of cigarette as he spoke, exhaled a puff of white mist, and with a satisfied expression on his face, he continued after a while: "At that time, the traffic was not as convenient as it is now, and it took a whole day to walk into the county. A place to rest, but it costs two cents to live in. At that time, the three of us only had five cents on us. Grandpa Chen Xiao was older than us, so he let us go into the house to sleep. He had one cent left to spend on the mat at the door It will be one night."

"And then?" I asked impatiently.

Grandpa Yao said: "It snowed heavily that night, and Grandpa Chen Xiao was the only one sleeping outside the house. As a result, another person came and stood tremblingly next to his grandpa. I gave it up to that person, and it took me one night to stay next to the straw, but something happened the next day. When I got up the next morning, the person next to me was gone, and there were leopard footprints on the snow." When Grandpa Yao said this, He clapped his hands and spread them out, his movements were a bit funny, and he said with a natural look, "The man who slept on Chen Xiao's grandfather's mattress yesterday was taken away by the leopard. The leopard would be full after eating one person, and he would be full if he didn't eat Chen Xiao." Grandpa, that person actually saved Chen Xiao’s grandfather’s life. We went to see later and saw that the clothes that the person left next to him were the clothes of the old blind man we saw during the day, it’s not a coincidence.”

Jiang Li nodded in relief: "You mean, that old blind man figured out that there was a leopard coming tonight, and knew that Chen Xiao's grandfather was going to sleep outside, so he came here to save him?"

"That's not true." Grandpa Yao spread his hands.

Jiang Li asked again: "This is about Grandpa Chen Xiao, so what about you and Second Grandpa Chen Xiao?"

"The old blind man told me that someone asked me to borrow a cigarette bag at night, and I must lend it to him, otherwise something would happen." Grandpa Yao continued, "At that time, many people starved to death on the road, and it was normal to see dead people. , when the three of us were rushing to find a place to live, it was already dark. Because we were walking in the dark, we couldn’t see anything on the road, and the cigarette pipe accidentally fell down the ridge halfway. It was too late at that time, and his grandfather forbade me I'm afraid there will be long worms. I'll look for it the next day, and I'll find a dead person, and my cigarette pouch is stuck in his armpit. If I go to pick up the pouch at night, maybe the dead person will die. Find me."

I thought it was extremely mysterious, but I just thought that the old blind man was too amazing, and he was able to say both of these things.

I asked, "What about Second Grandpa? What did he say to Second Grandpa?"

Grandpa Yao was stunned for a moment: "We really don't know what we said to your second grandfather. At that time, he secretly told your second grandfather. We asked your second grandfather, but he didn't say anything."

"Where did you go after that?" Jiang Li asked straightly.

Grandpa Yao smiled and said: "I went to the north, Chen Xiao's grandfather went to the south, his second grandfather went to the east, I went to work in the black coal mine for a few years, as for Jiang Li's grandfather and second grandfather What, I didn't ask, and they didn't say anything, why did you suddenly ask about this?"

Jiang Li said, "I want to understand."

After finishing speaking, Jiang Li began to say goodbye to Grandpa Yao, saying that he was worried that my grandpa and my father were at home and wanted to go back and have a look.

Grandpa Yao got up to see us off. When he got to the door, Grandpa Yao suddenly said, "Master Jiang, do you think this has something to do with the three of us?"

Both Jiang Li and I were stunned.

Rural people are very tactful, even if they could tell, they wouldn't ask directly. I felt embarrassed when Grandpa Yao asked, and I didn't know how Jiang Li would answer.

Glancing at Jiang Li, Jiang Li turned around and said, "I'm just asking, besides, the bracelet on your hand has turned black, which means that you have a lot of yin energy on your body. The stone in your house can restrain the yin energy. You'd better put it on." Take that stone with you, too."

I followed Jiang Li's gaze, and sure enough, I found that the bracelet Jiang Li gave to Grandpa Yao had turned black.

Grandpa Yao looked down, and his eyes were in a daze.

Jiang Li didn't say much, but kept a secret smile and led me out of here.

When I turned around, I asked Jiang Li: "Master, why did Grandpa Yao's bracelet turn black?"

Jiang Li took a deep breath: "I thought things were too simple, remember that person who wanted to seduce your soul in Duhai Village?"

"Remember." I nodded repeatedly.

Jiang Li said: "The only people who can seduce souls are people other than Fang, and the only ones who can seduce souls are the messengers of the underworld. I suspect that your grandpa Yao is the messenger of the underworld."

Jiang Li's words are too bold, Grandpa Yao looks like a good person, how could he be from the underworld?
"Master, you made a mistake."

Jiang Li smiled: "It's just a guess, isn't it, I'll know soon."

(End of this chapter)