Chapter 1: Prophecy
My name is Chen Xiaodao.
When I was nine days old, my mother died.
When I was nine months old, a fire killed my two sisters, and I myself died.
When he was nine years old, his grandparents died in the same year.
It seems that a fortune teller said: "This baby will be in trouble every nine days." If you don't die, one of your relatives will leave. ”
Dad didn't believe it, but he still hurt me so much.
As a result, when I was nineteen years old, my father also left me, and I was the only one left in the family.
Now, in a few days, it will be my twenty-ninth birthday.
So these days, my mood is not very beautiful, I am always in a trance and restless.
"It's all a coincidence, how could such a thing be? I'm also a college student, how can I believe such a thing? ”
I tried to comfort myself again and again, but it was like drinking a northwest wind to quench hunger, and it had no effect other than to make myself cold.
Li Xiaogang is my best friend and brother, he knows about me, and when he saw me like this, he said that he would take me to meet a master named Liu Blind.
Li Xiaogang once told me several times about Liu's blind man.
He once deliberately delayed Li Xiaogang for a minute, but Li Xiaogang avoided a tragic car accident;
He once asked Li Xiaogang to wait outside the North High-speed Railway Station at three or two o'clock in the middle of the night, but Li Xiaogang heroically saved the United States and saved his current wife;
The day before Li Xiaogang's daughter was born, Liu Blind gave him a "sword" cut out of paper shells and told him to stay outside the delivery room all night; After his daughter was born, Liu Blind asked him to paste a strange talisman on the door of his head and let him hide in the closet with his daughter in his arms.
That night, Li Xiaogang was in the closet and saw with his own eyes a woman in white clothes, looking for his daughter everywhere, and even opened the closet to look for him, but he didn't see him; Until dawn, when the woman left, she cried very sadly.
"Blind Liu said that the woman's child died at birth, so if someone gives birth, she will come to her child and take him away." Li Xiaogang said with palpitations.
"So, have you really seen a ghost?" I will doubt it.
"I've seen it, it turns out that there are really ghosts!" Li Xiaogang said.
Li Xiaogang said that no one else outside knew that Liu Blind had this ability, and in the eyes of the outside, he was just a lonely old man. If it weren't for Li Xiaogang who happened to see him use spells once, Li Xiaogang wouldn't know his secret.
If it weren't for the fact that Li Xiaogang and I were friends and brothers, he wouldn't have told me about Liu Blind, because even his wife didn't know.
"What spell did he use?" I asked Li Xiaogang curiously.
Li Xiaogang didn't tell me, just said that it was very powerful.
So, I followed Li Xiaogang around the narrow and damp alley for a long time and came to a red brick bungalow.
This should be a building from the fifties and sixties, it is said that the staff dormitory of what kind of factory it is, the walls have been blackened by smoke, and there is a small flower garden downstairs, in addition to a few pots of red flowers whose names are unknown, and a few cucumbers.
"Most of the people here have moved away, and only Blind Liu is still living here." Li Xiaogang said.
I followed Li Xiaogang to the fourth floor.
Pushing open a rusty iron door, I saw Liu Blind.
The balcony was dark and dirty, and the blind man sat on a low chair, smoking his pipe thoughtfully.
The little bucket-like clay stove beside him was boiling water, and it was just beginning to make a "whining" sound; There were a lot of coals piled up next to the stove.
Hearing the sound of pushing the door, Liu Blind turned his head.
His eyes were white, as if they had been embedded in their sockets with glass spheres; But when he looks at you, it's as if he is scanning your heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys with a scanner, and he can even see your heart clearly.
I was suddenly a little scared, and I wanted to turn around and leave.
"Xiao Gang?" Blind Liu immediately guessed the identity of the person who came, and as he spoke, smoke came out of his mouth, "Who else is there?" ”
"It's my best friend, Chen Xiaodao." Li Xiaogang said.
Blind Liu nodded, didn't say anything more, turned his ear sideways and moved his head to my side, as if he wanted to use his ears to "see" me clearly.
He seemed to sniff twice as if he was smelling something.
The balcony was very narrow and could not fit three people, so Liu Blind let us in.
Inside is two rooms, one inside is a bedroom, and the outside is a kitchen plus living room.
The three of them sat down on small chairs around an iron stove.
The iron stove was cold, and there was no fire.
I secretly looked at the room, and saw that the furniture was very old, and a lot of the paint had fallen off, which was very similar to the taste of a traditional old family. It's just that there seems to be something missing in this room, and there is no anger at all, and even a little bleak.
"Did your wife get into a car accident?" Before Li Xiaogang could speak, the blind man Liu took the lead in speaking.
"yes?" Li Xiaogang's face was surprised, "How do you know?" She was out of town on a business trip and called this morning to say that she had been hit by a car and had broken her leg. I didn't say anything about it, so no one should know about it. ”
"Does your little daughter have nightmares these days?" Blind Liu asked again.
"Is there a problem with that? I thought it was normal for small children. During this time, she always woke up suddenly in the middle of the night, yelling, as if she was very scared, and coaxed her to fall asleep for a long time. ”
Blind Liu nodded, and smoked his pipe.
Li Xiaogang has never told me these things, and he probably hasn't told anyone else. Could it be that this blind man really calculated it himself?
The strangest thing is that the blind man Liu didn't ask Li Xiaogang any questions, nor did he touch his bones or look at his face.
"And yourself, the trouble could be even greater." Blind Liu said again.
Li Xiaogang shuddered, suddenly knelt straight on the ground, choked with tears in his eyes and said, "Uncle Liu, you must help me." I don't even know what's wrong, it's not going well for anything during this time......"
Blind Liu didn't let him continue, turned the cigarette pouch upside down and made a "you get up" gesture, and said, "You have offended something that you shouldn't offend." If my guess is correct, it should have been provoked by the Qingming Festival a few days ago, when you went up the mountain to hang your relatives. ”
Li Xiaogang hesitantly sat back in his chair, thought for a while and said, "There shouldn't be anything special." ”
"Think again."
Li Xiaogang thought about it again, shook his head and said, "No." ”
"Did you pee on someone's grave?"
"Of course not!"
"Have you ever ridden on someone's tombstone to play?"
"Not either."
"Have you ever encountered unburied bones?"
This time Li Xiaogang shouted: "This is an encounter!" ”
"Did you say anything to people?"
"I didn't say anything." Li Xiaogang thought about it very carefully, "I definitely didn't say anything offensive. I just said: It's so pitiful, there is not even a person to collect the body. ”
"That's it." The blind man knocked the back of Li Xiaogang's hand with a pipe, "I told you not to talk nonsense when you go up the mountain." When you say this, you express sympathy for others, but you sympathize with others but you haven't done anything for two months, who do you say he doesn't look for you? Like those who are police officers, when they are servants, when they encounter a homicide, these words are taboo. Once you say such a thing at the scene, you must go all out and find the murderer to avenge him, otherwise you will end up with consequences like yours. ”
Li Xiaogang knelt down again, and said with tears in his eyes: "I don't know, I really didn't mean to...... I...... I...... What should I do now? ”
Blind Liu said: "This is simple. You hurry up the mountain, find the bones, ask Mr. Feng Shui, find a good place for him to bury, and then ask Mr. Feng Shui to do a ritual for him. Anyway, you just treat your father as if he is dead, just send him up the mountain respectfully, and burn some paper money for him when he is Qingming in the future, and he can't break it for at least three years, remember? ”
"Yes, yes, I remember!" Li Xiaogang said hurriedly.
"Remember, the sooner the better, or you'll be in for a great disaster!"
"I'll go now, I'll go right away!"
Li Xiaogang immediately got up from the ground and ran out in a panic, without even saying hello to me, as if he had forgotten my existence at all.
I'm a little embarrassed now, how can I tell him? This person seems to have some ability, but I don't know why, I always feel that he has a somewhat eerie feeling.
I'd better go.
Who knew that the blind man stopped me with his mouth: "Wait a minute." ”
I was stunned for a moment.
"Sit down." Liu Blind said bluntly, his face seemed to be very serious and dignified.
I hesitated.
Finally, I sat down again with hesitation.
Blind Liu put his pipe on the iron stove and said, "Can you show me your hand?" ”
"Can you see it?" I wondered, but I had to stretch out my right hand.
"Left hand." Liu Blind said.
I switched to my left hand.
Blind Liu held up my arm with his left hand, and his right hand started from the fingers and gradually touched his shoulder.
He touched it very carefully, as if he wanted to find out every line on my arm.
I touched my shoulder, and then I touched it down again until I touched every fingertip.
I had another very bad feeling, as if there was an earthworm crawling around on my arm, and I finally couldn't help but not shake off Liu's blind hand.
Blind Liu finally put my hand down, picked up the hookah again and held it in the air, but forgot to put it in his mouth.
He seemed to be lost in thought.
"Sir, am I alright?" I asked tentatively.
"Is your birthday June 6th?" Liu Blind did not answer the rhetorical question.
This question shook me. As a bystander just now, Li Xiaogang's affairs seemed to have been said by Liu Blind, and I was just surprised, but now that it fell on my head, I felt a little shocked.
This old blind man, he can know his date of birth by touching his hand like this? This cannot but be said to be amazing.
Blind Liu asked again: "Was you born at six o'clock in the morning?" ”
I was so surprised that I could only nod, and suddenly remembered that Liu Blind couldn't see me nodding, so I hurriedly said, "Yes." ”
Liu Blind finally put the cigarette pouch into his mouth and said leisurely: "The day after tomorrow is your birthday, and on that day, you will die." But if you can survive that day, you can be rich and expensive. ”