Lanting Collection Preface Part 2 Lanting Lost Chapter 24 Nine-Tailed Tanuki

After a while, the sky was completely dark, and in the Chang family camp in the dark night, there were only lights in the houses of two families, one was the Chang family, and the other was the Ding family.

Because the Chang family was settled later, there is still some distance between the house and the mixed place in the village, so you can only see the faint lights, and you can't tell which one is the one who lights up, the people in the old society are very superstitious, seeing this ghostly light, his wife Luo has basically collapsed, and every household moves during the day, and the whole village has basically been cleaned, but at night, there are still lights in the village, is it a ghost?

Thinking of this, his wife Luo Shi began to beg Ding Yi to leave the Changjia camp, during the day, for this matter, the two had already had a fight, but Ding Yi was a more traditional man, both horizontal and vertical were dead, he would rather die in the hands of ghosts and gods than be dragged back to běi jīng in a prisoner car, and then beheaded in the spittle of the common people.

"Then he can't find a place to live in another village?" Hearing this, Zhang Guozhong felt that these old-generation people were too dead-eyed, running all the way to the dark, not to mention that ten years have passed, Emperor Daoguang has died, and no one remembers this file is not necessarily, just in the past ten years, his appearance has changed dramatically (his hair is all white, and he ages faster than ordinary people), in modern times, it should be safer than having plastic surgery, and at this time the world is in chaos, who has the heart to care about this fortune teller who has long been unrecognizable?

"Zhang Zhangjiao teaches you that in the past ten years, Ding Yi has basically sealed the hexagram, Changjiaying is a small mountain village with closed news, such as the death of Daoguang and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Ding Yi does not know anything. According to the account in this book "Xiaochen's Testament", at that time, Ding Yi inadvertently looked at the celestial phenomenon, the main star was dazzling, and the guest star was dim, Ding Yi thought that the Qing Dynasty had made a comeback, which also intensified his fear of the great crime of deceiving the king and misleading the country in the past. However, according to the analysis of historical facts in later generations, this kind of celestial phase is likely to indicate that the Qing Dynasty is about to run out of energy and return to the light. This Sun Ting is not only responsible for telling stories, but also tirelessly answering Zhang Guozhong's doubts.

"The Legacy of Xiaochen? What is this book? Zhang Guozhong took a tattered ancient book from Sun Ting's hand, "What kind of celebrity is this Ding Yi?" How did it all go into the records of the ancient books? ”

"Hehe, this book is the story I just told when Ding Yi was in Changjia Camp. Part of it is recorded in this book, and in addition, this book also records Ding Yi's lifelong learning, from reading divination to stargazing feng shui, and there are also some records of medical skills..."Sun Ting sighed, "It's a pity that Ding Yi died tragically in Changjiaying not long after, and this book was not finally completed." ”

"Oh?" Zhang Guozhong flipped through the book curiously. "How did he die? Something to do with the ghostly thing? Hearing you say that he calculated the hexagram of the willows and flowers, I thought he would be spared. ”

"No, that bright hexagram does not refer to himself, but to his family, his wife and children..."

His wife's pleading again, so that Ding Yi was also a little shaken, to be honest, Ding Yi is not a god, but a fortune teller, the thing of exorcising ghosts and shaking evil is understood, but he is definitely not a master, at least physically, at this time, the strange things in Changjiaying are obviously not ordinary things, with the appearance of lights at night, Ding Yi is also empty, but at the moment it is night, even if he leaves, he has to wait until tomorrow. In desperation, Ding Yi took out the hexagram again, and spread out the hexagram of the innate hexagram, if the light is not sent by a person, then only the innate hang can be estimated. As soon as the elephant came out, this Ding Yi was really surprised and delighted, "Chenguang is in the night, uneasy", from the hexagram, as long as you go to a place with lights, you can ensure peace.

Ding Yi used the things he found at home to simply take some protective measures for himself and his wife, put the two demon mirrors handed down by the master on the necks of the two children, and then used a red rope to tie the wrists of the family of four together, and lit the lantern and walked towards the bright place in the middle of the village

The bright place is about two or three hundred meters away from Ding Yi's house, and it is a few minutes away in the daytime, but at this time, Ding Yi's family walked up, but they felt unusually long, and there were rumors along the way, not to mention the children and daughter-in-law, even Ding Yi himself was frightened, and he stayed in the Changjia camp for more than ten years, and this road was not walked at night, but he never felt so weird, except that he could always hear strange sounds similar to broken wood and stones falling into the water. The demon mirror hanging around the neck of the two children is also tinkling endlessly, according to the original Ding Yi master, this demon mirror is the treasure of the house, not for protection, occasionally protect a goat although it doesn't hurt, but it can only block the general ghosts and monsters, if the demon mirror rings by itself, it means that it is washed by something, if it becomes a climate thing, the demon mirror will be spent, to tell the truth, this Ding Yi's master is called Lou Moxun, and he is not a big person, and the demon mirror handed down is not a shocking treasure, So along the way, every time Ding Yi took a few steps, he had to see if the demon mirror flowers were flowering, and he didn't go until he walked to the bright place, and the demon mirror was still very bright

found that the place where the lights were lit was Chang's house, Ding Yi was not surprised, this old lady used to count on the people in the village to help her, but now that the people in the village are gone, she is old, her legs and feet are not good and she can't walk far, she will die wherever she goes, if she were herself, I am afraid that she will choose to stay, maybe she can live a few more days.

After the family entered the house, the Chang family was already so frightened that they trembled on the kang, and found that it was Ding Yi's family who came in, so they collapsed on the bed.

Ding saw that the old lady seemed to have not eaten for a day, and she was hungry enough, so she took out dry food, asked Luo to make a fire, and prepared to boil some porridge, at this time, there was a terrible cat meow in the yard, and then there was a piercing sound of scratching the door, Ding Yi's scalp was tight, the cats, dogs, chickens and ducks in this village had run out for eight lifetimes, how could there be cats?

Hearing the cat scratching the door, Chang hurriedly limped to open the door, to say that it is strange, this Chang is lame, and he is not young, not to mention that he has not eaten for a day, but looking at her strength to open the door, she looks like a young man in his twenties. After the door was opened, I saw a huge black-spotted civet cat limping into the house from outside the door, with bloodshot nostrils, corners of the mouth, and corners of the eyes, as if he had just fought with something else.

Listen to Chang's said, about two months ago, the family inexplicably came to a big civet cat, Chang's own alone rì is also lonely, just leave this cat to be his companion, although their rations are not rich, but each meal still has to be evenly out a little for the cat to eat, this cat is also quite aura, although it does not eat much every day, day by day thinner, but Chang's old hen hatched chick chick even under its nose it will not take a look, what Chang eats every day, sweet potato, yam, cornmeal and even branAs long as it is given by Chang's, this big black cat must be fully accepted, and even the food bowl is licked cleanly, not bad at all, this Chang family camp has an accident, this tanuki is gone, Chang Shidun feels that the general trend has gone, even the cat doesn't care about himself, who can care? Neighbor Chang Wu persuaded Chang to escape, but Chang refused, the disappearance of the cat is also one of the main reasons, but I didn't expect that in the middle of the night, the cat came back.

Hearing what Chang said this, Ding Yi wanted to give Chang a hexagram, and by the way, he also took a look at the origin of this big black cat, but as soon as the innate hexagram was halfway through, the wind suddenly blew outside the house, and the windows and doors were blown with a clang, and the demon mirror on the eldest son's neck suddenly screamed, and Ding Yi was so frightened that he almost dropped the hexagram on the ground. picked up the demon mirror, only to see five or six scratches on the mirror, Ding Yi's hand trembled on the spot, didn't he say that he was uneasy, what was going on?

The wind outside is getting stronger and stronger, and the big black civet cat seems to be getting more and more nervous, Ding Yi asked Luo to hold the two children and Chang Shi on the bed together, and then took out a jar of incense ash from the package and sprinkled a layer on the windowsill and doorway, took off the two demon mirrors on the child's neck, hung one side on the door, and the other side hung on the window, the crackling sound of the door and window immediately stopped, and after about half an hour, watching the cat gradually quieted down, Ding Yicai trembled and brought a bowl of porridge from the pot to his injured daughter-in-law and Chang's family (Chang's family only had one bowl).

Just when Ding Yi was about to go to the pot by himself, ready to scoop a spoon and drink a few mouthfuls of rice soup, the big black civet cat suddenly meowed again, and stood directly opposite the door of the door, all the hair on his body stood up, as if he was going to fight, only to see that the incense ash on the threshold seemed to be blown by a person from left to right, and the demon mirror on the door fell to the ground with a bang.

Ding Yi's youngest son screamed at this time, and he was so frightened that he urinated on the spot, and the eldest son simply threw himself into Luo's arms and didn't dare to look at anything.

"Mother..."The youngest son pointed to the cat with a handful of snot and tears, "That cat, why do you have so many tails..."

The youngest son's words made Ding Yi also taken aback, among the livestock, there are not only snakes, foxes, raccoons, weasels, hedgehogs, rabbits, and cats will also cultivate immortals, but there are relatively few, but the cats that cultivate the climate are said to have nine tails, but ordinary people can't see it.

"Could it be that this tanuki is an animal that cultivates immortals?" Ding Yi stood behind the tanuki, tremblingly holding a peach branch, staring at the door, only listening to the door gurgling, as if someone was repeatedly playing with a few fingers from outside the door, Ding Yi knew that this is called a ghost knocking on the door, the so-called "don't do bad things, don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door", it refers to this, but then again, within a radius of more than ten miles, it can be said that there are only four people left, the bizarre death of the people in the village, plus the ghost knocking in the middle of the night, if the average person really encounters this scene, it is enough to drink a pot of bad things if they do not do bad things...