My surname is Zhu, my name is Zhigang, my ancestors are Meng Yin Jide, my great-grandfather was a powerful man in the early years, starting from a mule cart to start business, ten years to buy land, build buildings and expand houses, become a famous local rich man, every time he meets the face of all praise.

Later, because of the business and the road to go more naturally also met a lot of talented people, of course, more because of the profit to profit, but there is a person with the same surname as my family and the same age as my great-grandfather, not tall but very neat, often walk around my house, not at all profit, and finally the fallen leaves also fell in our family, the name is unknown, great-grandfather called him a pillar, and because of the early emphasis on seniority, a lot of age from the genealogy of the generation but the same generation as my father, very embarrassing, how can the pillar uncle is very happy, Always teasing his father, who was still a little kid at the time, was always forced to call him brother whenever he met him.

Speaking of Uncle Zhuzi's ability, I only heard from my grandfather's words, and there are two things that are very legendary.

First, there was a winter, the weather was very cold, the ice and snow outside the house hit people, but the great-grandfather had to go out to go a batch of goods to Datong six hundred miles away, the pillar uncle couldn't stop it, watching the great-grandfather horse team go away, the pillar uncle came back with blood-red eyes, sat on the stool in the hall, didn't get up for two days, stood up two days later and told the grandfather, let me prepare for the great-grandfather's funeral, and when the news came from Datong, it was bad news, saying that it was typhoid fever suddenly and was not saved.

There is another thing, even after the death of my great-grandfather, the family was still quite solid, but he always asked my grandfather to donate food, donate money, and even the temple fair will let my grandfather donate some, plus my grandfather can only study, not operate, the family road quickly declined, by the time of liberation, the original thousands of acres of fertile land in the family have long been lost, only three acres of thin fields and dry land remain, during the Cultural Revolution, it can only be regarded as a middle peasant component, and the family is exempt from the pain of criticism.

No one knows what year and month Uncle Zhuzi was born, and no one knows where he came from, that is, why he has to be rooted in my family, don't talk about me, my grandfather doesn't know, since I was four or five years old, he stayed in our house.

We children often ask him, "Uncle Zhuzi, how old are you this year?"

"Ninety-nine", Uncle Zhu replied with a smile

After another year, we asked again, "Uncle Zhu, how old are you?"

"Ninety-Nine"

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Later, when he was seven or eight years old, he would count, and he would still say ninety-nine,

"You're lying again, you're more than a hundred, you've said ninety-nine times"

"Don't you dare to say that" Uncle Zhuzi's originally smiling face suddenly became gloomy, his eyes glared at us, and he took out an object from his arms, which seemed to be half a seal, and kept rubbing his hands, turned around and walked towards the old house where he lived.

When I was a child, there was nothing to play, several children were playing in the old house, the old house was built by my great-grandfather, divided into three floors, the top is an attic, every time the old building will be turned up and down two floors, the adults in the family naturally did not clean up us, but never changed our habits, until the age of seven, the pillar uncle was not there, we next door to the little fat ran to the pillar uncle's house, turned out a piece of black dog skin, the dog skin I still remember, just like it is alive, The fur is shiny and shiny, fresh and vivid, after the dog skin was turned out, it was pushed to the head by the little fat and ran around like crazy, it suddenly seemed to be crazy, no one could stop it and bite, and the adults couldn't go up, and at sunset, the pillar uncle came back.

"You bunches of cubs who don't know the depths, you can wear anything on your head, and you can't die," after speaking, he took out the half of the seal from his arms and put it on the door of the little fat head.

"Wow," Chubby cried.

"Alright, alright" everyone was relieved.

Xiaopang was taken away by his parents, and since then everyone has never dared to go to Uncle Zhu's house or even the old house, but his half of the seal makes me very curious, and I always ask him what it is, but he just refuses to confide, the baby is very.

Later, as I grew up, my mind was long gone, and I had long forgotten that half of the seal.

Later, I went to school to study mining, and I was very happy about the ore and the landform, and always wanted to go out of the mountains, set foot on the Luchuan River, and collect some mineral fossils.

When I came back from Wangwu Mountain during the summer vacation of my junior year, I brought a bag of jujube red stones, and I couldn't tell what it was and how it was formed. When I came back, Uncle Zhu saw it, and I saw that he looked at the bag in my hand and his eyes were straight, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time, and then called me to his room.

Uncle Zhu asked me to sit down, then took something out of his arms, and bang" An object was thrown on the table by him.

That half of the seal, I haven't seen half a seal for many years, I have the impression that it is the treasure of Uncle Zhuzi, who usually does not leave him, but now he took it off and handed it to me?

"Do you know what that bag you have in your hand?"

"I don't know, I just think it looks good"

Uncle Zhu pinched the blood-colored stone in his hand, turned it over and over in the light, and slowly put it down for a long time, and sighed at the same time, "Hey, this is called the Tianlu Stone"

"What's that?" I looked confused

"Burning the sky leads the way to avoid ghosts and gods, and drives the sea into the ground to eliminate demons"

"Tianlu stone, feng shui said: phoenix blood crying and sorrowful on the ground, the earth and stone will become red like blood, it is rumored that this stone to ward off evil spirits, take it can make people have a bit of immortal fate, when Lao Tzu had a basin of the big Tianlu stone, sat on it all day long, and later feathered and ascended to immortal. Now these pieces of yours are only the size of quail eggs, but they are a great opportunity for me. After Uncle Zhu determined the way of this bloody stone, he was a little relieved in his heart, but his face was full of loneliness.

"No, this half of the Zhonglang seal belongs to you, and the Tianlu Stone will be left for me."

"Come, I know you're sure you want to know what this seal is," Uncle Pillar ignored me, who was already dazed, and said to himself.

Uncle Zhu said a lot, many things at the time I didn't understand at all, he mentioned that he was very brilliant back then, said that when the Chinese New Year's Eve six people and horses are the only ones who followed, they walked all over the motherland, he laughed for a while, cried for a while, Uncle Zhu said that the thirty-six good hands were killed and injured in his hands, he was sorry for the brothers, I later recalled that it was all kinds of incredible, I was dizzy by the pillar uncle to explain, until I slowly sorted out a few things before.

First, Uncle Zhuzi's age must be more than a hundred, but according to Uncle Zhuzi, he encountered a curse back then, he shouldn't live past a hundred years old, so he didn't dare to say that he was a hundred years old, he could only say that he was ninety-nine years old, and then he could live past a hundred years old by relying on this half of the seal, but as he got more than a hundred years old, the power of the curse was greater, and when he gave me the seal, in fact, the seal couldn't suppress the curse, Uncle Pillar didn't have much time to do, and it just so happened that I was lucky to go out to play, I actually picked up the Tianlu Stone, you must know that Uncle Pillar has been looking for this "red stone" for half a century and has not found a piece, but because I have avoided the suffering of the curse after his death, it is a blessing or a curse, and how can Uncle Pillar of Cause and Effect Reincarnate Pillar say it clearly, so he passed this half of the seal to me.

The second thing is the death of my great-grandfather, Uncle Zhu has a premonition, so he blocked my great-grandfather from traveling, but it didn't work, when he wanted to tell his great-grandfather directly that something might happen to him, the power of the curse suddenly hit the brain and couldn't make a word, and two days later he was gradually suppressed by Zhonglang Yin, and he could speak.

The third thing is that the piece of skin that Chubby got that day was not a dog skin or the fur of a demon ape, which was an evil spirit that invaded ordinary people, and could make people go crazy and even become their puppets, killing the living.

Half a year later, Uncle Zhu died.

In accordance with his last words, the fiery Tianlu stone was spread under his feet, and after being put into the coffin, he weighed eight hundred and four pounds, not too much, not less, and was going to be buried, but the weight was not enough, so he had to put it in, and the inkstone used by the pillar uncle during his lifetime, and the copper lock that I didn't know the name of finally made up enough weight, and when he was buried, he must be buried head down first, and the place of burial was in Pingfeng Harbor, and he had already chosen a good place.

After Uncle Zhuzi passed away, I cleaned up his room, there was nothing, most of the objects were burned in front of his grave, except for a brocade silk that had lost its color for a long time, how could a big man collect this brocade!

The opening is full of traditional Chinese characters, and the opening chapter on the right side is "Heavenly officials bless, no taboos, heaven and earth, no trace, ······"

I suddenly felt that the seal may be related to this brocade silk scroll, so I quickly took out the half of the Zhonglang seal but found that the handwriting was too blurry, I found some cotton dipped in alcohol and carefully wiped, until I slowly found that there were four words on it and then wiped it did not work, two of the words have been defective, the other two words are quite complete, I pressed the seal on the red clay and pressed it on the paper, and I took the seal to expand the words I compared with the brocade silk, the two words were "heaven" and "official".