As I said before, my grandfather was a man who believed in feng shui and always respected Taoist people.

If there are still people who treat him as a human being during the years that the old bachelor has been wandering around our village like crazy, it must be my grandfather.

Although I was taught to believe in science and not superstition, my grandfather kept telling me that the metaphysics of feng shui has existed since ancient times, and the craftsmanship passed down from my ancestors must have merit.

In the past, when we passed by the old bachelor's house in school, we would throw stones at the door of the old bachelor's house, but grandpa never allowed me to do so.

My grandfather used to tell me that there are many strange people hidden in the world, and Taoism and metaphysics are also ever-changing.

But I never knew that my grandfather also knew the secret arts.

"Swap bodies?" I wondered.

Grandpa nodded, and said: "This is a secret technique handed down by our ancestor Zhang Housheng, during the Jiaqing period, the ancestor of the Zhang family, Zhang Housheng, took the martial arts examination, and was secretly summoned into a mysterious organization in the palace to confer the official seal before the palace examination, and that organization is called Blood Drops." ”

"Drops of blood?" I was both shocked and confused, because blood droplets appeared in many martial arts works, and even the storytellers in the teahouse would often mention the organization that terrified the ancient people in the rivers and lakes, and my grandfather mentioned it to me more than once when I was a child. "Isn't it because the blood droplets are too evil and were later abolished by Emperor Yongzheng?

Grandpa shook his head and said: "The blood drops are too powerful, and they only obey the orders of the emperor himself, which is the guarantee of imperial power, which emperor is willing to abolish it?" It's just that the drops of blood caused too much panic and then stopped appearing in people's sight. It became more mysterious, easy to no longer use, when the ancestor of the Zhang family, Zhang Housheng, was selected into the blood drops, trained by a martial arts Taoist, that Taoist has a secret technique, can exchange people's souls, before a master dies, you can use this secret technique, transfer the soul to another new body, continue to fight, this is the terrible thing about the blood drops. But this secret technique has great limitations, one is that the person who accepts the transfer must be willing, otherwise, even if the transfer is successful, the bodies of both sides will have great side effects because of the mismatch between the soul and the body, and the second condition is that the time limit of this secret technique can only last for seven days at most, and the soul must be exchanged back within seven days, otherwise the souls of both will be scattered! ”

"And then?" I asked.

"Later, the blood drops because they were too powerful and evil, the organization was in civil strife, some people were not loyal to the emperor, the emperor was afraid, so he decided to disband and clean the blood drops, the ancestor of the Zhang family Zhang Housheng was fortunate to escape, since then he lived in seclusion in Zhangjiagou, Qinling, after nine generations passed to you, each generation will pass on this secret technique to future generations before death, but my two sons unfortunately died, I can only pass it on to you before I die, so many years, no one has ever tried this secret technique, now grandpa wants to try, not only can fulfill his wish, It can also be regarded as a secret technique that has been passed down from generation to generation by the ancestors, but this secret technique requires your consent, so grandpa asked for your opinion. ”

I frowned, in fact, I wasn't afraid that something would go wrong in the middle of this secret technique, but my grandfather was on the verge of dying at the moment, and he had a wish to fulfill, and I was a child and grandchild, and when it came to affection, my grandfather had loved me over the years, how could I bear to let him not fulfill his last wish before he died, and he would leave with regret and die without turning a blind eye?

So I nodded and said yes to Grandpa.

"It's really my good grandson, your soul is strong, and you will definitely survive seven days after you change your body with me, and I will rush back as soon as I fulfill my wish, which will be the end of my life." Grandpa said.

According to my grandfather's words, in the middle of the night, I lit three candles at the head of Grandpa's bed, and then he asked me to recite a mantra with him, and in the process of chanting the mantra, I used a blade to engrave a blood pattern on my wrist, and when the spell was completed, I came into contact with the blood pattern on my grandfather's wrist, and the three souls and seven spirits would begin to transfer.

It's just that grandpa's spells are mysterious and difficult to understand, even if I learned some spell terms after reading Xiao Wu's "Maoshan One Hundred and Eight Methods" for me, but I have never heard of grandpa's spells.

When the spell was finished, the flames of the three candles at the head of my grandfather's bed suddenly flickered, and then the sound of ghosts crying wolves was heard throughout the room, and the wind gusted into my neck.

Grandpa's soul floated out of his body, and I felt as if his soul was cold, and I couldn't help but shiver.

"Grandpa, I'm a little scared." I said.

"It's okay, you take it easy, don't have the mood of resistance, and slowly guide your soul into my body, so that both of us can succeed, otherwise there will be a rejection reaction that does not match the soul and the body, which will cause you a lot of damage."

I nodded, now that this secret ritual of soul exchange has been carried out, I can't stop if I want to.

Half an hour later, I finally lay down in my grandfather's body, and my grandfather's soul, which dominated my body, looked at me with concern, and this feeling made me very unnatural.

At that time, it was already dawn, and soon the sky would light up, grandpa looked at me and said: "I have already confessed to what should be explained, before I come back, you must not reveal your identity, your body is very weak now, lie on the bed and recuperate, and wait for me to come back with peace of mind." ”

I nodded, and as I watched myself turn around and prepare to leave, my body was a little tired and flustered, so I shouted, "Grandpa." ”

"Huh?" I turned to look at me at the doorway.

"Grandpa, you have to walk some time back." I said, waving my hand.

Grandpa nodded to me and closed the door.

After my grandfather left my body, I was a little tired, and I closed my eyes and fell asleep, and after dawn, the door was opened, and it was the voice of my mother coming in.

My mother helped me to lean against the head of the bed, saw the three unlit candles on the head of the bed, and asked, "How do you light candles at the head of the bed?" ”

I was just about to speak, but I felt a mouthful of old phlegm stuck in my throat, so I hurriedly lay on the side of the bed and vomited, my mother didn't ask again, and came to feed me with a bowl of rice porridge.

"You eat slowly, it's a little hot." Mother said.

"I'll do it myself." I said that I wanted to serve the bowl in my mother's hand, but I found that I was running out of strength to lift my hand.

"I'll feed you, you can rest well these days and heal from your illness." Mother said.

I opened my mouth and wanted to ask my grandfather if he was at home at this time, and I almost blurted out the word "mom", so I cleared my throat and asked, "Daughter-in-law, where is my eldest grandson?" ”

My mother looked at me with a slight frown, which made me embarrassed, because it would definitely be awkward to call my mother a daughter-in-law, and my voice had a kind of yin and yang weirdness.

The mother said: "I went out early this morning and sent his college classmates away, and he was going to the city for a few days with him, saying that he would come back in a few days because he had some business. ”

"Oh." I answered and asked, "What about my granddaughter-in-law?" ”

"She washes clothes at home, and I said I don't need her to wash the fine skin and tender meat." Mother said.

"The granddaughter-in-law is virtuous." I said with a sigh of praise.

After my mother finished feeding me, she packed up the dishes and chopsticks and went out, after which I lay half-asleep in bed.

Grandpa's body is terminally ill, and I feel the same way.

I've never thought that I was so young that I could appreciate the physical condition of an elderly person.

And in the following days, I fell into a long wait, grandpa's body made me feel very weak and depressed, I felt that the limit of this body had arrived, and I couldn't last a few days, so I was hoping that grandpa would come back quickly.

Except for my mother, no one else has ever entered my grandfather's old house, and once when Xiaobai and Xiaowu came to call their mother, Xiaobai looked at me with some confusion, but after all, I didn't ask much.

On the seventh day, I felt that I couldn't hold it anymore, not only was my movements sluggish, but I couldn't speak, so I asked my mother, "Why hasn't my eldest grandson come back from the city yet?" ”

Mother said, "I came back two days ago, but I had a lot of things to do, so I didn't come to see you. ”