Chapter 23: It's Providence
I closed my eyes and fell from a great height.
At this moment, my mind was blank, and I slowly took on the appearance of my parents, thinking that it was good to have them, even if they died, they would not regret coming to this world for a while.
About twenty seconds passed.
"Bang!"
Xiaofang and I fell into the rushing river, because the water was very deep, we fell from it, the pressure was too great, the water lapped our bodies, the tearing pain followed, and we passed out.
"Ahem."
I don't know how long it took, but I coughed several times, slowly opened my eyes, and found myself lying next to the reeds.
I got up from the water, went to find Xiaofang's body, fortunately she was near me, and then pulled her up from the water and sniffed, slowly breathing a sigh of relief.
"Xiaofang, wake up!" I shook her body and looked up to see that it was not early, at least two or three o'clock in the morning, and it was possible that we would delay for several hours and the child's soul would not be recovered.
Xiao Fang was shaken by me for a few minutes before waking up, looked around in confusion, and asked, "Where are we?" ”
"Have you forgotten? We jumped down from the high mountain and followed the river all the way to here, and if I remember correctly, now that we are in the west mountain, you should get up quickly and find the child's soul. ”
I put my words to the point, Xiao Fang didn't come back to her senses, her eyes looked around, and she said in a panic: "It's over, the soul-attracting lamp that the old fairy gave me is gone, what should I do?" Will my child never be recovered? ”
I tried to calm her down and said, "Have you forgotten what I told my grandfather that mother and son are connected?" You are not dead now, it means that your son has not burped, we still have a chance, you quickly feel it, where is your son? ”
Suddenly, Xiao Fang was like a woman who had lost her sense of proportion, completely lost her mind, and was crazy and shouting her son's name in the mountains, shouting while running, stumbling and not knowing where to go.
There was no way, I could only follow behind her, and after looking for about half an hour, Xiaofang was so tired that she knelt on the ground and cried: "What kind of mother and son are even heart, it's all a lie, my son, where are you?" ”
She was so tired that she couldn't do it, her shoes were worn out, and the child's soul was still not found, should she give up?
"Can you calm down?" I pointed to her nose and scolded: "If you give up on yourself, your son will really die, and our efforts will be in vain, are you willing?" ”
Xiaofang was stunned by my scolding, so she wiped away her tears and continued to look for the child's soul around.
Perhaps it was the heavens that favored the poor mother, and when we rushed in the direction of the village, Xiao Fang suddenly stopped her pace and looked confused, looked in the direction of the east, and a slight smile hung on the corner of her mouth, and she didn't say anything, but ran in that direction.
"What's wrong?"
"I heard the child's cry, it was my son asking me for help, I was going to find him!"
I wondered, at three or four o'clock in the morning, the village was empty, everything was quiet, why didn't I hear the child's cry?
Maybe it's really in response to the sentence mother-son connection.
She followed the cry to the outskirts of the village, then stopped, looked around, and saw the black kennel.
Moment.
"Don't!"
When Xiao Fang shouted and wanted to rush over, her feet slipped and she fell to the ground, so she said to me: "Pingsheng, I beg you, hurry up and kill that black dog!" ”
I looked there in bewilderment, and saw a pregnant black dog, barking and bleeding beside it, and then a black head came out from behind it.
Xiao Fang kept urging and claimed to have seen her son crawl towards the dog's belly.
I was so frightened that I broke out in a cold sweat, except for the dog mother, where is the soul of a child in front of me?
But I rushed anyway, but unfortunately with a bark, when I came to the black dog, it had already given birth.
That means that the child's soul is reincarnated as a dog.
"No!" Xiao Fang in the distance screamed, spurting blood, rolling her eyes and passing out unconscious.
I don't have a feeling in my heart, staring blankly at the born dog, is there really such a mysterious thing in the world? Even if I saw it with my own eyes, I can't believe it now.
The mother dog was hoarse, lay on the ground and barked a few times, tears streaming down her eyes, staring at me pitifully, begging me to take care of her child, and then she hiccuped.
I covered my forehead, carried the unconscious Xiaofang on my back, and put the born baby dog in my arms, and ran all the way to the ancient temple.
I saw my grandfather sitting cross-legged beside the child, muttering a spell in his mouth, and I suddenly seemed to see a layer of golden light, like the sun of the day, sprinkled on his body.
Grandpa, who heard the movement, opened his eyes, and when he saw the baby dog in my arms, he was stunned for a moment and quickly calmed down, sighed and said: "Alas, everything is providential, you have done your best, don't blame yourself in your heart." ”
I didn't know what to say, and I couldn't guess how Xiaofang would respond to the situation in front of her when she woke up.
"Grandpa, if the three souls are missing, can the child still live?"
Grandpa nodded, took the jade pendant in my hand, put it on the child's forehead, and whispered in his mouth: "Soul return!" ”
But seeing the jade pendant shatter with a click, the sleeping child, as if he had been greatly frightened, kept crying.
I heard my grandfather say that the child is alive, but the three souls are missing the soul that represents reason, and the child must be a fool when he grows up in the future, but no matter what, the child was saved by us after all.
Immediately afterwards, Xiaofang woke up, turned pale when she heard the news, knelt down in front of the child and kowtowed to him, and refused to stop until her head was bleeding.
"Baby, mom is sorry for you, mom is a sinner!"
Xiao Fang hugged the child and kept muttering this sentence.
The child slowly stopped crying, seemed to be a little sensible, stretched out his little palm, and wiped away Xiaofang's tears.
Then, the puppy lying next to the child barked a few times, making the child laugh.
I looked at the dog and the man in front of me, wondering how their path would change.
I pity them in my heart, and I will take care of them more when this matter is over.
So much so that many years later, when I returned to the village, I could always see Liu Feng, who had grown up, crazy and stupid, going to play under the big banyan tree to find ants, and catching gnats when he was tired of playing.
And the black dog who grew up next to him has always been with him, and the two are like brothers, bathing and sleeping together.
At that time, I heard Xiaofang say that he had found a lot of doctors to cure his son's stupid illness, but the famous doctors were to no avail, and she could only accept the facts of the moment.
As for the black dog, he is quite spiritual, he is a full dog king in the village, whether it is a human or an animal who dares to bully Liu Feng, the black dog always comes forward to maintain, so that those friends dare not bully Liu Feng at all.
Xiaofang lost his husband and father-in-law, and our family has always felt guilty, so every time I go back, I will give her a sum of money to take care of the children.
Looking back to the present, Xiao Fang lost her soul and hugged the child and the black dog, and limped down the mountain.
I asked my grandfather, "You are a master, and they are also pitiful, don't you have no way to save the child?" ”
"Grandson, your grandfather and I have always been individuals, not the gods in the sky, nor the king of Yama in the underworld, how can we help people change their fate and fight against heaven and earth?" Grandpa shook his head and went back to the inner room to rest alone.
I followed Xiaofang to send her back, and then I went home, and saw Zhang Tiancheng scarred, who must have suffered a lot of sins in order to buy us time.
When he saw me come back, he stood up and said, "Boy, why did it take so long for you to find a soul?" ”
I told him what happened, and Zhang Tiancheng sighed: "Alas, that fox spirit is really powerful, I tried my best, but I couldn't get into her half a step, and finally I could only flee in embarrassment...... Boy, that vixen has already taken a fancy to you, she didn't marry last night, and she will definitely come to the door in the future, except for your grandfather, I'm afraid no one can stop her pace. ”
As soon as I thought of the marriage procession, goosebumps appeared, my body shook suddenly, and I went back to bed, and then I dreamed that the village chief was in my house.
He sat on the child's bed, looking a little angry, but more reproachful.
I didn't bother him.
The village chief looked at his grandson quietly, with a happy smile on his face, if all this had not happened, the village chief must still be enjoying the joy of family at home.
After a long time, the village chief turned around, and if he wanted to cry, no tears fell, and said: "Pingsheng, thank you for saving my grandson, even if he is stupid, fortunately he is still alive, and my Liu family will always have some hope in the future." The old man owes you a great favor, you say, what do you want me to do for you? ”
"I want you to do something, don't you know?" I smiled faintly, now it's time to negotiate, "Qingyun Dao Chang has done all the bad things, united with the fox demon to harm your family, and ruined your family, if I were you, I would definitely not be able to swallow this breath, but you can't fight him, so tell me where he is hiding directly!" ”
The village chief laughed dryly, praised me for being clever, and replied: "You go to the mass grave in the back mountain, go 30 steps to the east, turn to the west and go 50 steps, and then you can see the secret passage, and he is hiding there!" ”
I remembered the location, the village chief was gone, and it was time for me to wake up.
In an instant, I woke up Zhang Tiancheng, dragged him to my grandfather, and told them where Daoist Qingyun was hiding.
Grandpa couldn't hide his excitement, and after humming, he put on a robe from the inner room and led us to the Baili Lonely Grave in the back mountain.
At this time, although it is daylight.
But the sky was overcast, and the sun didn't shine here.
When I came here, my heart seemed to be pinched, and the cold air around me made me cover my body to keep warm.
We dug up a lonely grave according to the direction of the village chief, and instantly saw the secret passage.
Grandpa took us to jump down and follow a corridor to the depths.
There is not only a bloody and terrifying picture ahead, but also an old man lying in the middle of the pool of blood to recuperate.
Grandpa Says:
"Qingyun, you finally appeared!"
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