Chapter 35: The Bamboo Forest Cemetery

Yi Xingchen caught up with his master Gongsun He and returned home together. Yi Xingchen was about to pack up his things and prepare to set up a stall, but Gongsun He went to the back room and sat on his bed in a daze. Yi Xingchen was not easy to urge, so he took a broom and swept the yard well, and then took a stool and sat at the door, watching the people coming and going in the alley, waiting for the master to get up and set up a stall, but the master did not come out for a long time.

Until noon, Yi Xingchen went back to the house to cook, and found that the master was lying on the bed and sleeping, which is rare, in the memory of inheritance, Gongsun He took his apprentice to set up a stall every morning after breakfast, and went home at sunset, almost without interruption. Even if he is sick, as long as he can get out of bed, he will go, but sleeping in bed in the daytime today seems to have forgotten the matter of setting up a stall to make money.

Only then did Yi Xingchen know that the short affair last night, coupled with the death of the Xinghua girl, had indeed hit him beyond imagination.

Yi Xingchen began to cook and stir-fry, although there was still a small half of the pig in the water, but he didn't dare to move without the master's instructions, only Aunt Liu, who sold vegetables, forced them to spend five cents to buy the two big green vegetables left, and cooked a green vegetable soup.

After it was done, it was served in a bowl and sent to Gongsun He's bedside and beckoned him to eat.

Gongsun He was still lying face in, as if he hadn't heard.

Yi Xingchen had no choice but to put the bowl of rice on the stool at the head of the bed, and then took a bowl and squatted in the yard to eat.

As soon as I ate a few chopsticks, I heard someone outside the courtyard door say loudly: "May I ask if Mr. Gongsun, the fortune teller, lives here?" The man next door told him he was here, and there was footsteps. Yi Xingchen felt that the voice was very familiar when he heard it, and Aunt Liu, the vegetable farmer who was a little fat, immediately appeared in front of him, could it be her?

Yi Xingchen stood up with the bowl and looked at the door of the small courtyard. Sure enough, a middle-aged woman appeared at the door, followed by two children, dragging their noses and cowering, and entered the courtyard together.

When Aunt Liu saw Yi Xingchen at a glance, she couldn't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly stepped forward, and said to Yi Xingchen with gratitude and nervousness: "Hexagram, thank you for ......, by the way, what about your master?" ”

Yi Xingchen couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that Aunt Liu was so dignified. That day, he calculated that Aunt Liu would definitely encounter unclean things when she went back, and he also taught her how to resolve it, seeing that she came to find himself and the master in such a hurry, and entered the door with a face full of excitement, and with a strong sense of gratitude, he knew that it must be the method he taught him that had an effect.

Yi Xingchen said to the house: "Master is a little uncomfortable, lying in the house." ”

Aunt Liu hurriedly stepped in, and did not shy away from it, and went straight to the back room. Seeing Gongsun He lying with his face facing in, he knelt on the ground with a bang, and at the same time pulled the two children behind him to kneel beside him, and said to Gongsun He: "Mr. Gongsun, I brought the child to thank you for saving my life, thank you master and apprentice fortune teller for saving me." ”

After that, Aunt Liu knocked her head three times.

Gongsun He couldn't help but be taken aback when he heard her say this, sat up and saw her like this. Before she could react, Aunt Liu had already pulled the child around in a circle, and knocked her head three times at Yi Xingchen, who was standing at the door of the inner room. Yi Xingchen was also taken aback, hurriedly put down his rice bowl, and supported him with his hands: "Aunt Liu, what are you doing here?" Get up, get up, sit and talk. ”

Yi Xingchen pulled up the two children, and Aunt Liu also stood up, her eyes were red before she could speak, and her voice was a little choked because of excitement: "That night, before I went back, I asked you to calculate a hexagram for me, you calculated that you would encounter unclean things on the road, I still didn't believe it, at that time, you said that you would wipe your face and hands with dog blood to ward off evil spirits, I was reluctant to pay, so I didn't buy it, thinking that it should be fine, but I didn't expect to really encounter those unclean things." ”

Yi Xingchen took a long bench and put it on the wall of the inner room: "Aunt Liu, sit down and talk slowly." ”

Aunt Liu agreed, pulled the two children to sit down on the bench, and said to Gongsun He: "When I passed by the cemetery, it was almost midnight. Just cross the cemetery, go down the slope, and you will reach the village. I gritted my teeth and rushed over with a handful of dustpans. As a result, as you said, in that bamboo forest thatched place, I felt that someone behind me was beckoning me, calling me by name, and blowing on the back of my neck. It scared me to the core, but I didn't dare to turn around, so I could only speed up and run forward. I ran out of the cemetery bamboo forest in one go, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, but further on, I felt that something was wrong, because there was another cemetery bamboo forest in front of me, which was the place I had already run just now! ”

Listening to the scene she described, Yi Xingchen himself felt a chill in his spine.

Aunt Liu swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and then said: "I was scared in my heart, but I ran forward and ran through the cemetery bamboo forest, but further on, I saw the same cemetery bamboo forest. I know it's broken, the old man said it's called a ghost hitting the wall, and you can't get out of that place no matter how you walk. I started crying, throwing away the dustpan and running empty-handed, crying and scolding, but it didn't work, and I ran several times in a row. After each run, the bamboo forest in the cemetery will appear in front again. The voice that called my name was always behind me, and it kept blowing at my neck. I cried and ran over and over again, I don't know how long, and I always ran past and then the bamboo forest in the cemetery appeared in front of me again. Eventually, I was so exhausted that I couldn't run, and I thought I was going to die here, and I had two children and an old man, all on my own. I'm going to die, and they're afraid they won't be able to live, so what can I do? It was at this time that I remembered what you had said. ”

Aunt Liu turned her head to look at Yi Xingchen, her eyes full of gratitude: "I remembered that Hexagram told me that let me wipe my face and hands with dog blood to ward off evil spirits." But where do I go to find dog blood at that time? I don't know if human blood works without dog blood? I've heard that the blood that we women come in every month is also something that the dirty stuff doesn't like, so maybe it can be used. And I just happened to have my moon again. I didn't care about anything else, so I quickly took off my pants and took out the bloody straw paper that was on my lower body and smeared it all over my face, hands, and legs. I could smell the disgusting smell of blood myself. After wiping these things, the voice behind me called my name suddenly disappeared, the wind blew was gone, and the bamboo forest in the cemetery in front of me also became a black hole in the woods, which was the forest at the entrance of our village. ”

Yi Xingchen smiled, in fact, she asked Aunt Liu to wipe her face with the so-called black dog blood, not because of what black dog blood can drive away evil spirits, but just to change the color of her surface, so as to change the hexagram, so it is okay to wear red clothes, and Aunt Liu accidentally wiped her face with human blood, and the effect is actually the same, thus resolving the result of the original hexagram and becoming a small murderer. In this way, you will be able to break through the so-called ghost wall.

When Aunt Liu said this, her face showed a moment of frightened relief: "As soon as I saw this scene, I knew that the ghost hit the wall must not be there, so I ran like crazy, ran through the woods, ran down the mountain, and rushed into the village." Everyone in the village was asleep, and basically no one had the lights on, so I rushed to my door in one go. My Ah Hua dog barked at me, and I hugged Ah Hua Dog excitedly, and I cried with a wow. The neighbor heard the noise, opened the door and came out, and by the light I found that my legs were still bare, and then I remembered that when I took off my pants and took straw paper to wipe the blood, I found that the ghost hit the wall was gone, and I was scared and surprised, I forgot to put on my pants, and ran back with a bare hook. Although I was very reluctant to pick up those pants, I didn't dare to go back and pick them up at this time. I quickly ran into the house and found a pair of pants to put on. ”

Yi Xingchen smiled and said, "Isn't that good?" A false alarm. ”

Aunt Liu shook her head: "You didn't listen to me, I was lying on the bed, I felt cold all over my body, as if my whole skeleton was going to disperse, hot for a while, cold for a while, sweating profusely for a while, and shivering from the cold for a while." My mother-in-law asked me what was wrong? I'll just tell you about it. My mother-in-law was stunned. My mother-in-law hurriedly cupped me and drank ginger soup. It was not until noon the next day that it gradually recovered. However, after dark, I began to feel chills all over my body again. All the quilts and clothes were put on my body, and a fire was lit next to me, but I still felt bitterly cold. I couldn't live in peace all night. ”

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