Chapter Twenty-Three: Widows and Deaths Number Nine (2)

The master took back the blank paper, sighed, and frowned more and more:

"Sister, your numerology is born with a disability, the eight characters have no luck and self-integration and cannibalism, contradict each other, exclude each other, the five elements are strange, and the yin and yang poles are unbalanced......"

"I say in layman's terms, you see that the year you were born is the year of the sheep, and you belong to the sheep, as the folk saying goes, ten sheep and nine are incomplete, the fortune is sluggish, and everything is not going well...... This is not the point, the point is your birthday, the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, this day is the Ghost Festival according to the folk saying, according to our yin and yang business, this day is the day when the ghost door is opened, and the ghosts and ghosts that have been imprisoned in the underworld for a long time will run to the world, so ......"

After the master pressed his throat and said so, his voice stopped abruptly, I can hear that the master has important words that are inconvenient to say, my analysis is, the previous said that the woman grass, yin and yang are extremely unbalanced, the day she was born is the day when the ghost door is opened, she should have a ghost or a ghost in the body, no wonder I just saw her like walking in the courtyard was so erratic, my day, I don't know how I deduced at the time, but I really jumped myself, I looked at the living ghost woman in front of me, and her legs were soft into looped legs.

"Look again, your birth day is July, and your life is seven"

"Does your father have brothers and sisters?"

"No, my grandmother is the only one under my knees"

"Your father has no brothers, no brothers, no sisters, no sisters, Gu is the boss, account for one"

"What was your first husband?"

"The third in line, two older brothers above him"

"Your first husband is the third, the third," the master asked, quickly jotting down the numbers given by the grass.

"Your second husband is the fifth, right?

"Yes, master, how do you know!" Cao was surprised at first, and then she was normal, she knew that the man in front of her was a famous Yin and Yang master, and he couldn't see through this!

"0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 of the ten numbers, we pick out the odd number, 1,3,5,7,9, your father accounts for 1, your first husband accounts for 3, your second husband accounts for 5, you account for 7!"

"What is the biggest odd number of these five numbers?"

"Nine"

"So, they can't live for nine years, from the literal ranking of these five numbers, these three men all died in front of you, not only do you have seven in your life, you also have two brothers above you, Gu You are also ranked third, you and your first man overlap three by three, three times three or nine, so he died the worst and was hit alive by the tractor......"

I listened to Master's explanation of the unique causal logic, although the weather was hot, my back still couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, Master really had something in his stomach and didn't hide it from me like before, this time I not only saw but also admired the five-body throw! The three men who died bizarrely and violently didn't know the reason at first, but they were speculated by the master by a few numbers, which was convincing, and I looked at the woman with a stunned face and looked even more ugly, at this time a question arose in my mind, and my curiosity came up again, and I couldn't help but ask the master

"Master, let me interject, in your old words, Aunt Cao can't marry a man with an odd number, so don't you let Aunt Cao marry a man with an even number, 2,4,6,8.

"Hehehaha" A smile appeared on the master's originally tense and serious face, he laughed and glanced at the grass and felt a little gaffe, and hurriedly replied with a serious expression.

"My apprentice Erdan is deliberately trying to make me ugly, sister, forgive Xingze for only knowing the past and not understanding the future, I'm sorry" The first half of the master's sentence still seemed to be joking, and the second half of the sentence was more guilty and powerless.

"Okay, don't get married?"

"Master, don't get married" Cao let out a long sigh that lasted for three minutes, and she finally spit out the resentment that she had been holding back for most of her life, and then it was a kind of calmness!

"This is fate" Providence cannot be violated, the word 'fate' of the master has sealed the coffin of a woman's life, she is destined to be lonely and helpless for a lifetime, and finally dies coldly.

"Master, I accept my fate, I accept my fate, I must have created some sin in my last life, I came to repay my debts in this life, I am willing to confess my sins and be willing to pay back, don't complain, my only idea now is to pull the two children into a family, I can't live up to their father who died for me, I can't"

"Sister, I'll take Xiaofeng away tomorrow and send him to the city to find a way out for him, can you agree?"

"The grass can trust the master, master, if you can take Xiaofeng out of this mountain, it will be considered as saving the child's life, otherwise if he follows me in the ravine in this life, it will be a dead end, and the grass will kowtow to the master" The grass was excited and fell down in front of the master and was about to kowtow, and was hurriedly pulled up by me and the master.

"Sister, my brother is not a few years older than you, aren't you slapping your brother in the face! Get up! When the brother is really angry"

"Sister, I also see that Xiaofeng is not a stupid child, filial piety, sensible, polite, as long as he shows him the way, the child will definitely become a tool"

"Master, no one has taken the child out of town since he has grown so old, I just blame him for having an unlucky girl like me."

"Sister, don't cry, so as not to make the old man even more sad, it's good if you come back, Xiaofeng will leave it to me, this little one must let him go to school and be educated, don't ruin the child"

"The reason why I came back late is because I went to the primary school in Qiancun, the principal said that as long as the parents send their children to the school, the school will accept them, and they can go directly to the first grade after the hot day.

"Sister, pity the parents of the world, the eldest mother's greatest wish is to let you marry, however, the years alternate, the world is impermanent, it's a pity that you should not marry again, you must hide it, the old man will give you a blind date, and then refuse, do you understand what I mean"

"Understood, understood," the woman choked with tears in her eyes, got up from the table, went out the door, and helped the old man into the house.

"Mother, master, I have something to say to you"

"Hmm" The old man smiled and sat down opposite the master, the master forced a smile, smiled very unnaturally, I know that the master felt a little guilty, he has always helped people eliminate disasters and avoid disasters, but he is not a god, he also has things that cannot be solved, but I don't understand why he wants women to hide the fact that the old man can't marry.

"Auntie, I and the grass girl, I have already discussed, Xiaofeng, I will take it away and send it to our county, I will be able to settle it properly, Junjun, you can go to the first grade after the hot day, as for the grass girl, she is also bitter, she can marry at any time, but, the grass girl is kind by nature, she must find a good family to marry, and she must be able to accept Xiaofeng and Junjun, auntie, in fact, life is like this, bitter, spicy, sour, sweet let you taste it one by one and then live for a hundred years, if people swallow the bitter and sweet in one day, What's the use of God letting us live for years, decades, centuries? , right, it's just someone, first bitter and then sweet, first sweet and then bitter......"

"I understand, I understand, how can I be good, they all say that I am looking for Master Xingze, and sure enough, my old body is really asking for the right person this time, master, you have a wish for the old body, thank you, happy, happy ......"

Master and the old man stayed up all night and chatted for a night, the next day after dawn, the old man loaded a rooster for us, entrusted Xiaofeng to the master, we began to go down the mountain, ready to leave Shimo Mountain, the woman grass and the old man kept touching Xiaofeng's head and told Wan Ding, to him to the county must listen to the boss, don't make trouble, to endure hardships and so on.

Before leaving, the old man took the master's hand and did not let go, and kept saying:

"I know that a few chickens are not worth a few dollars, but my old body can't stand you, don't blame me, the old body is so capable, let the children repay your kindness in the future"

"Auntie, it's serious, when I see your old man, I think of my mother, if her old man is alive, it should be your age, but ...... The son wants to raise and the kiss is not waiting, this sentence is not outdated when to say, aunt, Xingze will often come to see you when I have time in the future"

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The master didn't let the old man go down the mountain to see us off, and said, if she insisted on sending us, we wouldn't leave, and the rooster wouldn't be gone, so the old man agreed to stand at the highest place in the village to see us off, I thought the old man would cry this time, but she always looked at us and smiled, she should be happy to laugh, I thought so at the time

We still went down the mountain, Xiaofeng was like a bird that had been imprisoned for a long time, just out of the cage and wanted to fly, he ran in front with a simple bag on his back, Master and I followed, I asked Master:

"Master, Aunt Cao really can't get married? Isn't it okay if she marries and doesn't have children, and her man won't die? ”

"Even if she doesn't have children after she gets married, his man will die in less than nine years, she is born with a cheap life of her parents and then Kefu"

"Then why didn't she kill her own mother?"

"That's the old lady's life, besides, if she kills the old lady, who will take care of her two children over the years? If it weren't for the old lady and her mother-in-law who only had to ask for food, as the saying goes, there is no endless road, and it would always give people a glimmer of hope for survival."

In fact, whether her life is good or not is written on her face, with many white eyes, few black kernels, high cheekbones, a shaved nose, turned lips, buck teeth, and a lot of legal lines...... This is the most typical Kefu phase, two eggs, remember"

"Master, you said that her yin and yang are extremely unbalanced, does she have a powerful ghost?"

'Haha, haha' Master shook me a few steps and laughed, I followed a few steps and heard his laughter echoing in the wind, I was a little puzzled, but I guess that although Master didn't answer, he admitted it.

After going down the mountain, Master and I did not rush back to the village, but sent Xiaofeng directly to our county seat, Master's cousin gave the master face very much, and was respectful to the master, the cousin was long and the cousin was short, he accepted Xiaofeng without saying a word.

"I can't believe what my cousin introduced, look at this kid is honest, at first glance, it's not like a cheating and trickery, I'll let him help in the back kitchen first, and then recognize a master after a long time, isn't it a good chef" In the society at that time, a good cook was like a white-collar worker now, and it was also a pretty good career, at least it was not hungry.

After settling Xiaofeng, the master politely refused his cousin's kindness to have lunch at his restaurant, and drove directly back to the village.

A few days later, only a few days later, the woman of Shimo Mountain brought the news, the old man passed away, when Master and I drove to arrive, the old man was lying under the pear tree, her kapok strip rattan chair was facing the vast distant mountains, the corners of her mouth were still smiling, it was so peaceful, the original deep wrinkles on her face were also stretched, the old man unloaded the suffering of a lifetime and walked quietly, I finally knew that when Master and I first came here, the old man was also lying on the rattan chair made for him by a kind person looking at the vast distant mountains, and the corners of his mouth kept overflowing with smiles, it turned out, She knows that her wish is coming, especially after the master told her that Xiaofeng is about to have a job, Junjun can go to school, and her daughter Cao can marry at any time, all her wishes are gone, she is in her eighties, she can't wait, she can't wait, I can't wait to watch Xiaofeng marry her daughter-in-law, Junjun goes to school, and her daughter gets married, I finally know, I know that the old man is holding the last breath of his life and running dozens of miles of rugged mountain roads overnight to find the master, she doesn't ask for people and doesn't bend her waist all her life, But she begged the master for her daughter and grandson, her wish was granted, and she could finally leave without worrying about it......

"When my mother was leaving, she sent enough food to my eldest brother to the mountains for a week, she was afraid that my eldest brother would starve on the mountain alone, and told me to go out to find my second brother when I was free, she was too old to find it, I went down in the morning and didn't come back at noon, my mother was breathing......" The woman grass, she finished crying, she said sadly.

"I should have thought of it, I lied to the old man," the master cried out in grief and smacked his two big mouths at the old man's body nine times, and I followed.

"Master, you are our great benefactor, why blame yourself, my mother has never enjoyed any blessings in her life, and she has not suffered any sin when she left, but we can't feel at ease as children, and we can't take good care of my mother for a day."

"If it wasn't for me to deceive the old man, she could have lived longer, I, Shao Xingze, have been bright and upright all my life, but in the end I deceived an octogenarian, this is really not Xingze's way of behaving in the world, Xingze should be damned, I can't live with the old man"

"Master, you are a white lie, my mother is too tired to live for her children all her life, she should also rest" The woman held the face of the old man who seemed to be asleep in both hands, and threw herself into the old man's arms and cried bitterly.

I raised my eyes to look at the pear tree, a few days, the original leafy, fruitful pear tree actually withered, the leaves withered and soft, the pear yellow and shriveled, this old man often took advantage of the shade of the pear tree, with the death of the old man also died, this is not the first time I have seen, like my grandfather who participated in the Huaihai Campaign, he was demobilized and returned home to take care of the family's orchard, he is also always in the shade under a peach tree, and then after his death, the peach tree also died, listen to the old man, such a tree has a spirituality, And connected to the breath of the people it often comes into contact with, as soon as the person dies, it will die, I still can't find another connection between people and trees, I think they must not be mortals, although they can't cry ghosts and gods when they leave, let those flowers and trees with love and righteousness come to pay tribute to them!

In the countryside, it takes three days to mourn, and the neighbors, young and old, will come to help, and this simple affection cannot be bought by spending any amount of money, which is incomparable to the people in the city.

In the past three days, the master was not idle for a moment, he meticulously played a good jujube coffin, the land was selected, when the funeral, the master held the coffin palpitations, like his own mother cried so much that he couldn't do it himself, after the old man was buried, the master went to the town to buy a stone tablet to personally engrave the inscription for the old man, in order to remember the old man's unyielding and kind life in the face of difficulties and not bow his head and not bend his waist.

Master's white lies planted a big knot in his heart, and he couldn't untie it for a while or for a lifetime, but the old man was gone or gone, no matter what Master did, her life still came to an end, and her life was good or evil, everything was over.

On the way back to the village, I bought some biscuits and snacks, and I wanted to go to see my grandfather and my grandmother, I can't be like Xiaofeng, I want to make money, I can be filial to the grandmother who once loved him, but the old man died of old age, family affection and filial piety can not wait, I must go to see my grandfather and my grandmother today, don't leave regrets in the future.

Back in the village, I rushed to my grandfather's house with biscuits and snacks, and my grandfather and my grandmother were at home, and my grandfather was very happy to see that I didn't show it, but my grandmother was surprised to see me.

"My eldest grandson has grown up, and he has made money and knows that filial piety to grandma is really good......" Before my grandmother finished speaking, something unexpected happened, my grandfather actually picked up the dim sum biscuits I bought, threw them out of the courtyard gate, and kicked me out of the door, and said:

"I didn't expect that after so long, my father is still angry with me, and he still annoys me with him, and he still annoys me with his master and doesn't do anything!" Isn't my second egg also forced to be helpless? This death may be able to make a new world, then if you wait for death, then there is only death, I can wait willingly, mediocre old age, lonely will die! Depend on!

I bent down to pick up the heart, knocked off the chicken feces sticking to it, grabbed a piece and put it in my mouth, hey, I'm afraid of being poor, don't waste it.

"Master, this snack is so sweet"

"Get out of here, you unscrupulous descendant" My grandfather waved the sheep whip and was about to smoke me, I was too scared to pick up the biscuits, and hurriedly ran away, I knew that my father, a crazy old man, could do anything, go crazy, I haven't gone crazy in my eighties.