Chapter 57: The Golden Carp
Grandpa's heart was also very shocked at this time, He Zhenren brought him the feeling that he was a master, but a master like He Zhenren was actually very easy to understand, he set up a talisman to summon spirits and plant small flags, and peach wood swords and copper coins sword to cure ghosts, these are not subversive, because in folk legends, Taoist priests are originally like this.
This feeling is very difficult to express, that is to say, He Zhenren is a Taoist priest with real skills, rare, but yes, his method of catching ghosts is also very responsible, just like the legend, but this Huang Lao gave his grandfather a sense of subversion.
He Zhenren could find nine coffins where he couldn't see the clues, and he waited in a rainwater puddle to fish out a large golden carp with dead human flesh. This method has not even been heard of in legends, it only exists in myths - Jiang Ziya fishes with an empty hook, but at least he fishes in the river.
Grandpa has the same question in his heart at this time, where did this fish come from? Is it really just a fish?!
No one could give him an answer, the fish was packed in a sack, the idlers didn't dare to touch the fish, and the fish was also made by those horses, Huang Lao seemed to be very tired, fishing for three days without eating, drinking, or moving, let alone at such an age, even young men absolutely can't stand it.
This directly led to everyone continuing to wait, everyone had to wait when he was fishing, and everyone had to wait after fishing, because he wanted to rest, this Huang Lao was also a strange person, this sleep, he actually slept for a day and a night, everyone saw that he was indeed a very powerful person, so he could be regarded as waiting patiently for a day and a night.
When Huang Lao woke up with a yawn, he played a Tai Chi on the snow again, and then he recovered his spirits, everyone thought he would have any unexpected movements, who knew that he waved his hand directly and said: "Except for the palace maid who has turned black and dragged it out, the others are covered with lids, don't pump the puddle water, how to dig it up and how to fill it, who will move the princess's grave in the future, I don't care what happens." ”
This time, the man in Sanlitun'er was not ashamed, the work of covering the coffin board was done by everyone, but no one dared to go when the body was dragged out, it was not scary and disgusting, isn't it? In the past two days, the corpse under the black dry skin is a little wet, and it looks extremely disgusting, especially such an ugly corpse, which is still wearing the clothes of the Qing Palace. The costume is not broken, it is it that is not broken, and this is the stark contrast.
So the work of dragging the corpse is still carried out by the horses, and I saw that these horses were also very particular about dragging the corpse, and they did not touch the corpse with their hands at all, but knotted it with two ropes, one on the neck of the corpse, and the other on the feet.
After the corpse was brought out, the yellow quilt under the corpse looked very new, and there was a wooden nameplate on it, Huang Lao jumped into the coffin and took out the nameplate and said: "Senior brother, I am good at digging people's ancestral graves, and I am not as good as you in the next things, so I rely on you." ”
He Zhenren nodded, took the nameplate and left, grandpa didn't have time to ask him what he was doing, just looking at the direction, it was the direction of the lock village, after He Zhenren left, the old man Huang did not continue to give orders, but stood in a higher place in the princess's tomb in a daze, as if he was thinking about something.
After a while, he beckoned to my grandfather and said, "I have also heard those people's discussions, and I don't care what happened to Suotou Village, but Guo Gengchen, I really feel that you are a very interesting person." ”
Grandpa didn't know why Huang Lao said this, so he scratched his head and said, "You are laughing, I am just a mud leg, what can I mean?" ”
"I don't know, this is the feeling, I feel that you are very bold, surprisingly big, but I always feel that something is wrong, but I can't find it, I know what my master is capable of, and I also know what my junior brother who has obtained his true inheritance, I am very curious, what the three ghosts of Li Daring's family have experienced can make my junior brother so embarrassed." Old man Huang said.
He Zhenren said that they died tragically, and it was a very strange way to die, they were asked for their lives by the demon, and they were not under the control of the Yin Division, and they became ownerless and lonely souls, so they were angry. You know, I don't really understand these things that you ask. Grandpa said.
Old man Huang glanced at his grandfather and said thoughtfully: "Maybe, I haven't been to Sanlitun for a long time, and it's still so lively here." ”
"It's time to come back and see more." Grandpa answered casually, he really didn't know what to say.
Then he was silent, silent for a long time, and then Huang Lao said again: "I heard my junior brother say about the three ghosts of the Li family, there are a lot of strange places, don't talk about this, this Li Guozhong's tone is really big, and he dares to ask the main owner of Sanlitun to marry his younger brother." It may be that he felt the surging weather luck here and wanted to take it for himself, so he wanted to borrow my junior brother's hand to occupy this bit of dragon qi, which is really a big breath. ”
"I know you're curious about what that carp is, the carp jumps over the dragon gate, the golden carp itself has a noble spirit, and there is only a line away from the dragon gate, but this line is a world of difference, they want to take advantage of the luck here, and they think too much! This golden carp is the result of luck, a golden carp, a palace maid, it is enough for his brother to be a daughter-in-law, go back and tell them, either take it, if you don't want to, you have to be willing, if you really think you are a ghost, you will be invincible in the world? In this world, there is not just my junior brother and a Taoist priest, nor is there more than a Taoist temple. Huang Lao said.
Grandpa only then knew that Huang Lao's three days and three nights of fishing, digging out the palace maid, was to help him complete his promise to Li Guozhong, and he was also very grateful, although he couldn't understand Huang Lao's words, but at least he himself felt that Li Guofeng's bear-like desire to be a colt was indeed thinking too much, and a palace maid and such a powerful koi were really not a loss.
"Don't say thank you, be kind to my junior brother, he is stubborn, this is like my master." Huang Lao waved his hand to his grandfather.
"That's nature. He Zhenren is my relative. Grandpa said, after speaking, he hurriedly left, and when he walked to the side, he found that he was in a cold sweat on his back, this Huang Lao, between his feet, does give people a strong sense of oppression.
In the afternoon, He Zhencai came back, carrying something behind his back and covering it with a rag.
He Zhenren put down his things and pulled open the rags, and the crowd let out an exclamation again, He Zhenren carried a lifelike paper figure.
This paper figure looks very similar to the palace maid in the coffin, and even the patterns on it have been vividly cut out by He Zhenren, including the huge bun on his head.
"Senior brother, don't say anything else, this paper-cutting craft is really amazing." Huang Lao said with a smile.
"Senior brother smiled." What a true humanity.
After speaking, He Zhenren got down, took out the thing in the mouth of the blackened corpse and threw it aside, that thing was the thing of the palace maid who subdued the corpse of Huang Lao, and the grandfather picked it up and found that it was a black donkey's hooves.
He Zhenren took out scissors, cut off the hair of the dried corpse, and pasted it on the head of the paper man.
Then he took out the wooden nameplate that he had just found in the coffin, bit his middle finger, and wrote a line of blood on the paper man against the nameplate.
The nameplate is recorded on the eight characters of the palace maid's birthday.
He Zhenren wants to use this paper figure to steal the day.
Sure enough, after writing the eight characters of the birthday, the paper figure was buried as the palace maid, or buried in the red coffin.
After that, Huang Lao got into the car and drove away, and the rest of the people filled in the pit, carried the palace maid's corpse with a wooden stick, and went to lock the village, and then he would marry Li Guozhong.
The princess's grave has been filled in again, and no one knows what secrets there will be except for Huang Lao.
can only wait for the sand river to dry up, and watch it down. Yes, we can only wait until that time.
Since that day, He Zhenren and Guo Gengchen of Suotou Village are famous in Sanlitun, everyone knows that there is a living immortal, of course, Huang Lao is too mysterious, and everyone doesn't know who it is, and the matter of fishing for golden carp in the puddle has become a strange thing that any old man can tell you for a long time.
The golden carp was also strange, from the time it was fished out to the time it returned to the lock village, it had not seen water for two days, but it was still alive and vigorous. That night, many people found my grandfather and said that they wanted this golden carp, but none of them were refused, and then my grandfather said directly: "If you want carp, don't look for me, go to Li Daring and his wife to discuss." ”