Qing Xuanzi nodded, picked up the wine bowl, drank it all, and said, "It's solved!" ”

As soon as I heard this, my heart was relieved, and I asked him, "What is the situation with the culvert?" ”

He stared at me for a while, and did not answer my question directly, but sighed: "Xiao Jiu, it is a great blessing that you can escape from the culvert, and you will remember to burn incense and repay your vows when you have the opportunity in the future." ”

I didn't understand what he meant, so I asked, "What the hell is going on?" ”

He stroked his beard, "Don't say it, don't say it, you'll understand later!" ”

After speaking, he seemed to be afraid that I would ask deeply, so he hurriedly stopped and said, "Eat time, don't talk about anything else." ”

Hearing him say this, I shrugged my shoulders helplessly, and I didn't want to continue asking, so I found a stool nearby and sat down next to Qing Xuanzi.

After three rounds of drinking, Qing Xuanzi seemed to remember something, poured me a glass of wine, and said, "Xiao Jiu, you have to drink this glass of wine no matter what!" ”

I was stunned, "What do you say?" ”

"Without you, how could I have found such a talented junior brother!" He said with a smile.

"Stammer!" My face sank, I turned my head to look at the stammer, and asked, "Is it because Dao Chang treats my things?" ”

"Brother Jiu... I—" stammered slightly, and said, "It's not because of that thing, but I want to learn the Tao, and only learning the Tao can help." , Otherwise, if something strange happens, I can only use the most common method of the Eight Immortals, I want to learn the Tao, I want to help the Ninth Brother, I think our group of Eight Immortals can go further, I think..."

"You know what you think, you think, have you ever thought about the consequences of learning the Tao?" My voice was a little higher, and I said angrily, "Look at Daoist Qingxuanzi, what did he get after learning the Dao?" has no children and no daughters, do you also want to make up for him? Do you have to make five evils and three shortcomings before you know the consequences. ”

After speaking, I felt that there was something wrong with this, so I hurriedly smiled apologetically at Qing Xuanzi and said, "Dao Chief, please don't be surprised!" ”

He stopped saying that it was okay, and said: "Human nature, what a person gains, what he will lose, although the numerology of stammering is not affected by the five disadvantages and three deficiencies, but, there are some things that no one can say, the master's order to the trail is, depending on the fate, if the stammering is willing to learn the Tao, take him back to the master's door, if you don't want to, it means that the stammering has no chance with my Tao. ”

After speaking, he glanced at his stammer, "Little brother, don't force everything, while Xiao Jiu is here, do you give a clear word, are you willing to learn the Tao?" Of course, the Jiuyun Grass used to treat Xiao Jiu is a gift from me, so you don't need to put this matter on you. ”

"Yes, I do!" He didn't say a word, and immediately agreed.

"You..." I'm a little angry, as far as the Taoist priests I know, no one ends well, either no children and no daughters, or broken arms and legs, even that Shuiyun real person, listening to the grapevine, that person has a physical disability, to put it bluntly, he doesn't lift it.

I stood up suddenly, grabbed the collar of the stammer, and said: "What do you learn, if you think that it is useless to be a Eight Immortals, I will let Changmao go to Changsha to find a position for you, and it will be no problem to support you two mothers, but it is really not good, you go to Guo Fat's subsidiary to help." ”

"Brother Jiu!" The stammering was stunned for a moment, and then he knelt down, "Brother Jiu, I don't think the Eight Immortals are unproductive, and I don't want to go out to make a living, I just want to follow you, but I can't help you with my strength, you know?" Every time I see you hurt, how uncomfortable do I feel? You are my brother, a brother for life, I don't want to see my brother injured, I can only stand on the side and do it in a hurry, this feeling is like a thousand ants tearing my heart. ”

As he spoke, his stammering voice became a little choked, he picked up my left hand and said, "Ninth brother, my ninth brother, look at yourself, your thumb is gone, a knife mark on your forehead, and now even your left ear is deaf, if you continue like this, I'm afraid that your whole person will be gone." I... I don't want to lose your brother! Do you know, I don't want to lose your brother, even if I commit five evils and three shortcomings, I am willing. The ancients said that the scholar dies for his confidant, for you, for our group of eight immortals, I am willing to die for you, it is you who give me the opportunity to be reborn, and it is you who make me feel brotherhood. ”

After speaking, he kowtowed three times, "Brother Jiu, give me three years, and after three years, I will definitely return to you!" ”

Listening to the stammer, the corners of my eyes moistened, and tears rolled down like beans, hot, salty, and stammering with me for less than a year, he usually didn't talk much, and it could even be said that all his words didn't add up to as much as they do today. However, a stammerer is such a person, a person who values his brother more than his own life, a person who can do anything for his brother, an ordinary stammer.

I stammered my hands tightly and tried to speak, but I found that my throat seemed to be blocked by something, and I couldn't open my mouth at all.

"Okay, you two are really, why are you so sensational? It's only three years, and it's not about your life, besides, the master will try his best to find a way to do the five disadvantages and three deficiencies! Qing Xuanzi muttered, stood up and pulled his stutter up, and said, "Since you have decided to learn the Tao, don't mix this funeral, let me and Xiao Jiu handle it, you go back to accompany your mother for a few days first, and after the funeral, I will take you to see the master!" ”

"Nine... Nine... Brother, I—" I don't know what's going on, he starts stammering again.

I nodded, groped around for a while, took out the bank card, there were about 3,200 yuan in it, which was earned from the funeral during this time, I was afraid that the money was not enough, and asked the senior guys to take out all the money on their bodies, together with the money in the card, a total of 3,526 yuan, and handed it over to the stammer, saying: "The password is the last six digits of the card number, don't starve yourself." ”

With that, I walked straight into the hall.

"Brother Jiu!" Stammering to stop me.

I stopped, turned my head to glance at him, and said, "Three years later, our brothers will hold a funeral together, send people to the earth for peace, not seeking wealth in the world, but only worthy of people, worthy of heart, worthy of the eight immortals." ”

"Okay, don't seek to be rich and noble in the world, just to be worthy of people, worthy of your heart, and worthy of the eight immortals." He stammered and nodded cautiously, and the last two words were spoken by bite.

After speaking, he stammered and walked towards the entrance of the village. Looking at his back, my heart was empty, and I always felt that it was a curse or a blessing to stammer, and I wanted to stop him, but he had already said this.

He sighed deeply, turned around and walked towards the hall, Lao Wang sat at the offering table and smoked a cigarette, and when he saw me enter, he said, "Have you eaten?" ”

I nodded, not very interested, took out a cigarette, lit it, took a few puffs, and didn't speak.

Seeing that I didn't speak, he didn't ask anything, so he sat down with me at the offering table and smoked a cigarette, about two or three cigarettes, Lao Wang patted me on the shoulder and said, "Jiu Yanzi, life is in the world, don't think so much, it is right to live with a clear conscience." ”

I hummed and continued to smoke.

At this moment, Qing Xuanzi, Gao Lao, and Wen Xue walked in, and as soon as they entered the door, Qing Xuanzi frowned, pinched his fingers and calculated, and walked in front of me with an arrow, regardless of whether I agreed or not, he grabbed my arm and looked at it repeatedly, and his brows were furrowed deeper and deeper.

"Dao Chief, what's wrong?" I asked, confused.

"Have you been in a ghost lately?" He asked in a deep voice.

I thought about it for a while, the last few funerals have been smooth, no accident, how can I meet a ghost, so, I shook my head and said, "No! ”

"No?" He muttered, reaching out and rolling my eyelids, "No, you must have met a ghost, otherwise your whole person is definitely not like this." ”

I was very puzzled in my heart, during this time, except for funerals, I rarely even walked at night, basically nesting in the stammering house, either studying the secrets of the yin house given by Jiang Ye, or looking through the codex given to me by the old hero, how could I meet a ghost?

I asked him why. He frowned and said: "As soon as I walked into this hall, I felt that the smell was wrong, I thought it was from the deceased, but after a closer look, I found that the smell came from you, and your face was also a little wrong." ”

As he spoke, he took out a gossip mirror, pointed it at me with the piece of glass in the center of the mirror, and said, "Look at your face." ”

Hearing this, I glanced at the gossip mirror, and in the mirror, my face was a little dark, especially the position of the Yin Hall, which was faintly pale black, if I didn't look carefully, I wouldn't find it at all.

"How so?" I asked him in a daze.

He didn't answer my question and kept muttering, so it is, so it is.

The more I listened, the more confused I became, so I grabbed him by the shoulder and said, "Dao Chief, what is this, you said it!" ”

He was stunned for a moment, stared at me with both eyes, and asked cautiously: "Xiao Jiu, you should be involved in feng shui, can you know the three evils?" ”

I nodded, I have seen the three evils he said in the secret book of the Yin House, the so-called three evils, one evil qi, two evil forms, and three evil self. Among them, one evil qi refers to the vitality in feng shui, two evil forms refer to residential feng shui, three evil qi refers to oneself, and three evil evils are accomplices, which are great evil signs.

In the secret notes of the Yin house, it is recorded like this, the three evil yin people died, the lackeys burned the village, the official affairs were damaged by six animals, the yin people were not long, the thieves were born in each other, and the crime was ominous, and the two people were killed.

This passage shows the disaster brought about by the three evils, however, what I don't understand is that this Shen Jun only died on the seventh day of the fifth month, which belongs to the first seven, and it can be broken with the seal seven, so how could Qing Xuanzi mention the three evils, and the first seven should have nothing to do with the three evils?

That Qing Xuanzi seemed to discover my thoughts, stretched out his hand and rolled my eyelids again, and said, "Xiao Jiu, is this funeral going on with strange things?" ”

I nodded and said, "yes, strange things keep happening, and I have a strange dream." ”

He asked, "Do you suspect that someone is playing tricks?" ”

I nodded.

"You are wrong, you are very wrong, the biggest disaster of this funeral is on you, it is you who came to the Horse Walking Village to make the deceased commit three evils, it can be said that you are the culprit of this funeral, and no one will make so many troubles!" He looked dissatisfied and said, "Xiao Jiu, don't you look at yourself when you do funerals?" ”

Hearing this, I was confused, how did I become the culprit of this funeral? Ask yourself, the etiquette of this funeral, I think I did the best, how did it become like this, isn't it the reason for Yiqi?

I hurriedly asked him what was going on. He said: "There are some problems in the feng shui of this walking horse village, this is one evil, and Shen Jun's house also has problems, this is two evils, but these two evils are not enough to affect the funeral, even if the deceased dies on the seventh day of the fifth month, there will not be so many strange things, it is you who have made up enough of the three evils to cause the whole scene to become what it is now." ”

"Me?" I pointed to myself and said, "How did I become the third evil?" ”

"Huh!" He sneered and said: "Xiao Jiu, you have been following a ghost beside you, the ghost is a yin thing, after a long time, that ghost has changed your aura, making your whole person evil, if you guess correctly, that ghost has a deep hatred with you, only in this way can it be enough to change your entire aura." ”

As he spoke, his eyes froze, he took out a cinnabar pen, and asked me for my birthday, and I said, 1987, March 19, XX.

Hearing this, he pinched his fingers and calculated, read a few more words that I couldn't hear, put the cinnabar pen in his mouth for three or four seconds, drew a nine-square grid in the palm of my hand, pinched his fingers and calculated, and wrote a five-retreat in the first box of the nine-square grid, and then pinched his fingers and calculated, and wrote two more words.

After counting nine times in a row, there were eighteen more words on my palm, in order, five retreats, one death, three evils, yellow evil, six wang, eight lives, nine deaths, two bi, and seven lives.

Seeing these eighteen words, Qing Xuanzi's whole face turned purple, and without saying a word, he fanned my left cheek with one palm, and said angrily: "Yin and Yang are separated by each other, and people can't cross the river!" ”

After speaking, he raised his hand and slapped me on the right side of my face, and said angrily: "That is, the soul of the underworld, how can he love the injustice of his previous life." ”

slapped me twice in a row, the green Xuanzi's face froze, and he threw the cinnabar pen in his hand into the air, and then, the tip of the cinnabar pen fell on the palm of my hand, impartially and impartially on the two words of Sansha.

Seeing this scene, I was stunned, according to Qing Xuanzi, I have been following a 'ghost' by my side during this time?

I was about to speak, Qing Xuanzi made a silent gesture towards me, and let Lao Wang, Gao Lao, and Wen Xue go out, and the whole hall was left with me, Qing Xuanzi and the two coffins behind me.

"Xiao Jiu, you're in trouble this time!" Qing Xuanzi's first words made me break out in a cold sweat.

"How?" I took a few deep breaths and asked in a tremolo.

"Have you offended anyone in Quyang? Or is there someone who doesn't deserve to die, but dies in front of you? He asked.

I thought about it for a while, when Qu Yang was doing a funeral for the old hero, although there were a lot of twists and turns, he didn't offend anyone, no, he offended Wang Muyang, as for the person who died in vain, was he it?

Thinking of this, I felt cold, I remember that after Shen Jun died, I had a dream that night, I dreamed of the old hero and Mrs. Lu, and the strange thing was that there was no one there, Lu Yaodong.

Yes, it is the seventh son of the Lu family, Lu Yaodong, when he died, he cursed me viciously, could it be that the 'ghost' that Qing Xuanzi said was Lu Yaodong?

When I thought of Lu Yaodong, I suddenly remembered that when Shen Jun died, he kept looking at me and laughing, and shouted, Chen Baxian. It is said that I don't know Shen Jun at all, he can't know my name, could it be that Shen Jun was dead at that time, but Lu Yaodong? Only in this way can we explain why I stammered and saw Shen Jun die on the eighth day of the fifth month.

"Xiao Jiu, do you remember something?" Qing Xuanzi asked.

I nodded and said, "When I was in Quyang, I did see people who didn't deserve to die in front of me. ”

He sighed deeply and said: "Xiao Jiu, I told your fortune just now, you will have a catastrophe in the spring, although it will not cause death, but your limbs are a little disabled, I see that your limbs are alive now, presumably someone blocked that catastrophe for you, causing that person to die tragically, after that person died, he has been following you, looking for an opportunity to pull you as a stand-in." ”

Hearing this, I was stunned, will there be a catastrophe in the spring? Did he mean the Temple of the Dead? I remember that when I was in the Temple of the Dead, a beam fell down, and it seemed that someone grabbed my legs and made me unable to move, and finally the beam smashed Lu Yaodong to death.