Chapter 10: Calling the Soul
Thinking about it so far, Zhang Yingshan had no time to think about it, stabilized his mind and looked again, only to see that there was nothing in front of him, and Yin Dazi disappeared out of thin air and disappeared.
Zhang Yingshan secretly screamed in his heart, he didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in this gourd, if he and that soul deaf really wanted to take my life, why didn't they do it for a long time?
Could it be that I still have something in me that they are afraid of?
Suddenly, Zhang Yingshan remembered a story that circulated in Jiaodong City in the early years,
As the saying goes, the mountains eat the mountains and rely on the water to draft the water, although the land of Jiaodong is vast and sparsely populated, but it is mostly hilly landforms, and the productivity is low in ancient times.
Moreover, most of the land in Jiaodong is a land that retreats from the sea, the salinity is very great, and the land is barren, even if the cultivated land is reclaimed and the seeds are sprinkled, the harvest is often poor year after year, and the income cannot make ends meet.
However, there are also fertile and contiguous arable land, but most of it is often in the hands of the landlords or the government, and the ordinary people have no right to cultivate, so they can only act as tenants, and there is basically not much left after paying the rent all year round.
Therefore, although the mountains face the sea and the feng shui is good, the mountains are not eaten.
Fortunately, Yinghai is vast, there is everything, although it is difficult to get rich and expensive and need to take great risks, but it is better than guarding a few acres of thin fields every day to starve, in addition to the navigation experience accumulated by our ancestors over the years, it has also reduced the risk of going to sea to a certain extent, so Jiaodong fishermen rely on the sea to eat the sea, although they are not rich, and their lives are stretched, but they are also comfortable.
It is said that in the western suburbs of Jiaodong City, there was a family surnamed Li, the man's name was Li Meng, because he had smallpox when he was a child, and his face was full of pockmarks, so he was nicknamed Li Mazi.
Don't look at this Li Mazi's face is not good, but he has a unique skill, his two arms are as thick as ordinary people's thighs, and he is born with divine power and amazing strength.
There are a total of five people in the Li family, and Li Mazi has an elderly mother and a son and a daughter under his knees.
In addition to his natural power, he also did the only work in Jiaodong City, when the fishermen according to the tide season, are early in the morning before dawn to go to sea, in the evening when the sun sets.
If the people on the shore want to eat some fresh fish during the day, they will wait until the afternoon at the earliest, and if any dignitaries and dignitaries have a banquet at noon, they will not be able to find some fresh seafood.
Li Mazi not only has strong limbs, but also has a business acumen.
After he ate and drank enough every day, he also drove the fishing boat out to sea like others, but he did not bring fishing nets and fishing gear, and went to the sea to buy other people's fish with an empty cabin, and then relied on the divine power of his arms, threw off his arms and struggled to rock the oars, and returned to the shore before noon, and sold the fish and shrimp to the largest restaurant in Jiaodong City at that time - Taishan Building, buying low and selling high to earn the difference in the middle.
Some people look at this business and want to make this money by painting a scoop according to the gourd, but their skills are not as good as others, and they buy a boat full of fish and shrimp, and finally hold the boat to the shore but it has already passed the meal, and a boatload of fish cannot be sold, and the capital is discounted in vain.
Therefore, Li Mazi's job is the only one in Jiaodong City, although he earns hard money, but often there is no time to return empty-handed, and he makes a lot of money, and the family is happy.
On this day, when I got up early in the morning, the clouds were thick, and the whole Jiaodong City seemed to be caught by a huge bowl, and the sky was gloomy and dark, and it was impermeable.
Li Mazi, as usual, sailed out to sea early in the morning.
Waited until noon, the young man in the back kitchen of Taishan Building couldn't sit still, what's wrong,
Yesterday I said to Li Mazi, today let him collect two shark fins at sea, and deliver the goods before noon, but I saw that it was almost noon, but I didn't see him half a figure, no shark fin is small, offended the customer is big, and the heart said that this Li Mazi sent so many New Year's goods to the restaurant, and it was not like this before, what happened today?
The young man shouldn't be lazy, trotted out of the restaurant all the way, and went straight to Jiaodong Wharf.
Taishan Tower is at the north end of the South City Gate Street in Jiaodong City, facing the South City Gate, located in the traffic artery, full of friends every day, guessing the boxing order, quite a bit of the style of the Lion Tower in the "Water Margin".
The young man crossed the city, came to the dock and looked up, only to see that the sea was covered with thick fog, although the dark clouds obscured the sun at this time, but it was still very hot, and there was no wind in the air, which made people uncomfortable.
When he spoke, he only felt a fishy rotten breath drilling straight into his nose, smoking people's brains and pain, like the stench emitted by putting stinky fish and rotten shrimp under the scorching sun in dog days.
The young man hurriedly covered his nose, looked up again, and saw Li Mazi's boat slowly floating from the sea, his boat was different from other fishermen's boats, the two oars were designed to be long and tall, and they looked like two masts from afar.
In the blink of an eye, the boat floated to the front, only to see Li Mazi sitting on the deck, his eyes were blank and his eyes were dull, no matter how he was called, the fish and shrimp in the cabin were said to have just been caught in the morning, but at this time they had already rotted and deteriorated, emitting a disgusting stench, as if they had been stored in the cabin for half a month in summer.
The young man was horrified, and hurriedly ran to Li Mazi's house to communicate, and everyone hurriedly carried Li Mazi to the house.
Please come to Lang Zhong to take a look, all of them shook their heads silently, the pulse was stable, ups and downs were powerful, and then Li Mazi himself seemed to be asleep, and the invited Lang Zhong was about to kick through the threshold of the Li family, but all of them were not diagnosed, but they didn't see others wake up.
The family is as anxious as ants on a hot pot, but there is nothing to be done.
I heard that there is an old Taoist living in the broken temple in the west of the city, Xiao Yin and Yang Tong gossip, although the down-and-out tight, but it is indeed a master who is not born, hurriedly invited to the home, the old Taoist came to the bed, asked Li Mazi's birth date, pinched the mantra in his hand, and his heart was clear.
Said to Li Mazi's insider: "Tonight, you let the old mother take the two children to the dock, shout Li Mazi's name three times to the sea, and go home after shouting, along the way, no matter what you hear and see, remember not to look back, and never say a word, after arriving home, let the old mother and daughter lie on his left and right sides, and the son lies on top of his head, between the four of you, don't listen to Mo Yan and don't ask, just sleep with your head stuffy, tomorrow morning, after the rooster crows three times, he will wake up." ”
At the time of the night solstice, the moon is bright and the stars are sparse, and there is silence inside and outside Jiaodong City, and only the whining wind can be heard.
Li Mazi's mother took the two children out of the house and went straight to the land and water dock.
The two children's nickname is Dabao Erbao, and this year they are not big, they are not small, and they are both in their teens.
But in the middle of the night, he came out and shouted at the dark sea, and he still shouted the name of his loved ones, and he lost it and gave it up, and now he is lying at home in a good manner, and he has to mutter in his heart about it, but he has no skills to return to the sky, and now he can only take one step at a time, and treat the dead horse as a live horse doctor.