The woman smiled at my grandfather and put her head into the rope. In my grandfather's opinion, this smile could not be more terrifying, it was a life-threatening smile. Sure enough, my father and the others poked their heads out of the woman's example......"

"And then?"

Uncle Xu said: "At this time, the door was broken open all of a sudden, and a figure shouted at the door: 'Demon, you dare! Then, the man at the door poured a stream of red liquid into the mirror on the table. Immediately, a woman's mournful voice came from the ancient mirror, and then I saw white smoke coming out of the mirror. The man at the door rushed to the table in three steps and two steps, and pasted a yellow talisman paper on the ancient mirror. At this time, my parents and my sister-in-law collapsed from the round bench like deflated balls. ”

"That guy is my grandfather?" I asked.

"Yes, it's Uncle Pei!" Uncle Xu said.

"Then how could my grandfather show up at your house so coincidentally?" I'm a little curious.

"Actually, it wasn't a coincidence, but Uncle Pei had prepared for it. On the evening before the incident, my grandfather happened to meet Uncle Pei in the county, and Uncle Pei could see at a glance that my grandfather was not looking right. So my grandfather told him about the recent events in the house. He said he could help my family with this, but he had to get some things ready before he went to my grandfather's house. ”

"That red liquid is chicken blood?"

"Yes, the blood of a black dog can break the evil, and the blood of a rooster can break the yin and evil, that is a female ghost, so it is naturally more effective to use the blood of the rooster."

"What is the origin of that female ghost? Did you check it out afterwards? I asked.

Uncle Xu smiled: "It's all made my family like this, can my father not find out?" With the help of Uncle Pei, my father and the others visited several times, and finally found out what happened with the stolen grave as a clue. It turned out that this mirror did come from the court, but for some reason it fell to the people and was obtained by the ancestor of the woman in the mirror, and it was passed down. The woman looked at the mirror as if it were a treasure. After getting married, the mirror was also brought to her husband's house as a dowry. But nothing has come out of it for many years. Later, his husband liked the new and hated the old, and took a concubine. The little concubine relied on the grace of the man to act as a prestige in the family, and did not take the wife in her eyes at all. A year later, the concubine gave birth to a son, and her status in the family was even more rising, calling for wind and rain, and humiliating her as a wife, and poured hot soup on her head, ruining her appearance, and his husband also stood on the side of the concubine and did not make decisions for her at all. The woman had nothing to love, so she committed suicide by hanging herself, and when she died, she only carried this bronze mirror handed down from her ancestors in her arms......"

"It seems that the woman's resentment did not go away after her death, and she turned into a ghost and lived in the bronze mirror?" I said, "It seems that the mirror was stolen from the woman's grave as well?" ”

Uncle Xu shook his head: "Later, Uncle Pei and my father checked and found that the mirror did not come from the woman's grave, but his husband's grave. When the woman died, her husband buried her hastily, and the mirror was kept for himself. But there are rumors that since the woman's death, her husband's house has been haunted every day, and there is not a single day of peace. Less than half a year after the woman's death, her husband and his concubine also died, and this mirror was placed in his husband's tomb as a burial companion......"

"That's ...... so"

"It's because Uncle Pei has a life-saving grace to my family, so the friendship between our two families is extraordinary. Since then, Uncle Pei and my father have become very good friends, and they can be said to be like brothers. My father also paid for Uncle Pei's family to move from the countryside to the county seat, and the two families lived next to each other. Uncle Xu said, "When I was young, I was a buddy with your father who wore a pair of pants. This is because we are both boys, otherwise we have to set a baby kiss...... But later, my father wanted to develop in Shanghai, but Uncle Pei was reluctant to his homeland, so the two families separated. At first, there was some contact, but then the Cultural Revolution happened, and it is said that Uncle Pei was arrested, and my father was not able to hide from it. When my family contacted your family again after the Cultural Revolution ended, your family had already moved away and had not left an address, so there was no ...... about it."

I said, "Yes, after my grandfather came out, my family moved to Liaoning, and my grandfather passed away within two years." ”

Uncle Xu said: "When I became an adult, I took advantage of the family wealth that my father secretly hid back then, seized the opportunity of reform and opening up, and started a business. I didn't expect my business to get bigger and bigger over the years, but I never forgot to find out the whereabouts of your family. It wasn't until this year that I had a clue......"

Uncle Xu said to me with a smile: "Now you know the origin of my Uncle Xu, right?" ”

"Got it, got it!" I nodded again and again, but then I asked him again: "But Uncle Xu, what does the relationship between our two families have to do with the 'Cloud Gate' you mentioned earlier?" I haven't heard anything about Cloud Gate here? What the hell is this 'Cloud Gate'? ”

Uncle Xu let out a sigh of relief, looked out the window, and slowly explained: "Cloud Gate is not a thing, but a sect. ”

"Door...... Sect? I asked, somewhat surprised.

Uncle Xu looked at the jade hanging from my neck and said, "Is the piece of jade hanging around your neck left to you by your grandfather?" There are auspicious clouds engraved on it? ”

"This?" I took off the jade and handed it to him, saying, "It was indeed left by my grandfather." ”

Uncle Xu took the jade and gave it back to me, and said to me, "Cloud Gate can be regarded as your grandfather's master, and this piece of jade is the symbol of Cloud Gate." ”

I immediately understood: "Uncle Xu, do you mean that Taoist master of my grandfather is from Yunmen?" ”

"That's right!" Uncle Xu said.

"But what the hell is this Cloud Gate for?" I asked Uncle Xu, "I heard my dad say that my grandfather's master is a Taoist priest, and my grandfather is also a Taoist priest, is this Cloud Gate a Taoist gate?" ”

"Cloud Gate is not a Dao Gate, it is not so much a sect as I think it is more like an organization." Uncle Xu said, "You must have studied history when you were in school, and there was a Xu Xiake in it, do you remember?" ”

"Xu Xiake? Didn't he write "Xu Xiake's Travels"? I blurted out. When I was in school, I was still studying well, especially history, which I was particularly interested in, so I can still remember it. However, the history of junior high school is very simple, only introducing his date of birth and death, his name, and his writings—Xu Xiake (1586-1641), a Ming Dynasty geographer, traveler, and writer, who wrote "Xu Xiake's Travels".

"It's just...... What does this Xu Xiake have to do with Cloud Gate? I asked Uncle Xu.

Uncle Xu said: "Xu Xiake is the ancestor of Yunmen!" ”