The book is picked up again.

Lao Zhang was clicked by me, suddenly realized, and hurriedly took me to find the insider of the year-the village chief and his father.

The village chief is also surnamed Zhang, and Lao Zhang is his own family and cousins. The village chief's father is also Lao Zhang's second uncle, because he had a hot temper when he was young, he was given the nickname of the second kick.

It was two o'clock in the afternoon, and the village chief's father was wearing an old cotton jacket and a felt hat, basking in the sun under the eaves of the wall.

Lao Zhang walked over, handed over a cigarette and said, "Second Uncle Kicker, there is a Mr. Bai Xiang here, for the sake of our Xiaoping's affairs, I want to ask you about the devil who fell into the well back then." Your old man is giving him a croak? ”

The second kicking uncle got up, wrapped himself in a cotton jacket, stared at me, and asked, "Is such a young Mr. Bai Xiang capable?" ”

The old man opened his mouth, and he was full of energy, his speech was clear, and he looked quite energetic.

I smiled and said, "Old man, Mr. Bai Xiang's ability is in his eyes, not in his mouth. I said I have what I can do, and you don't believe me, right? ”

The second kicker uncle grinned, pointed to the door, and said to me: "Come on, come on, take a look at the door of my house first, it's accurate, and reward you with ten yuan!" ”

Sure enough, Mr. Bai Xiang is like a beggar, when others give money, they say that they are rewarding you!

I nodded, took a few steps back, and looked at the house of the second kicking uncle.

There are six things in the house, the door, the road, the well, the stove, the toilet, and the grinding.

The door is the gate, and the road is the road in front of the door and behind the door. A well is a well, a stove is a pot stove, a toilet is a toilet, and a mill is a grinding plate.

I stood in front of the house and could only see the door and the road.

The house in front of me is a newly built four-room bungalow, and the third one at the east end is open. There is a bluestone old road in front of the door, frank and swinging, high in the west and low in the east, and the direction is somewhat biased to the northeast.

The new door and the old road, the door road clashes, theoretically it will affect the door phase, from the direction of the road in front of the door, it will cause the northeast corner of the house to sink slightly.

This sag is aggravated if the toilet is also due east behind the bedroom.

Toilet people, pit also.

If the stone mill is placed behind the east bedroom, this small defect can be hedged. Grinders, stones, hard and indissolving things, can calm the earth's qi.

After looking at it from a distance, I took out a red thread and hung a copper coin to see if the door frame was vertical.

This is a simple line top, using gravity to form a vertical line that contrasts with the door frame.

Sure enough, my judgment was correct, the door frame was inclined to the house, and the doorpost was tilted to the northeast, from top to bottom, there was a small error of about one centimeter.

I already had a judgment, put away the red line and copper coins, and said to the second kicking uncle: "I'll just say it directly, old man, the door of your house is not right, the back wall of the house, the northeast corner of the east bedroom is moving, from the foundation upwards, there must be cracks on the wall!" ”

The second kicker was taken aback, and glared at Lao Zhang viciously: "Big baby, you told Mr. Bai Xiang, right?" ”

Looks like I'm right.

The second kick is suspicious of Lao Zhang, which is also reasonable. Because I had been standing in front of the door, I had not even entered the house, but I had concluded that there was a crack in the wall of the east bedroom. Even if I entered the hall, I couldn't see the bedroom.

Moreover, the house of the two-legged family is connected to the left and right next door, and the so-called building house is connected to the mountain, and the gable is shared.

To see the crack in the wall in the northeast corner, either go around to the back of the house or into the bedroom.

The eldest baby, Lao Zhang, was startled, and hurriedly waved his hand: "No, no, second uncle, how could I tell Mr. this?" ”

The second kicker took off the felt hat, scratched his head, and asked me: "Sir, the door is not right, can it still be cured?" ”

Presumably it was my ability just now to suppress the second kick, and his tone was much more polite.

I smiled: "No need to treat it, it's okay." ”

I can certainly suggest that the two kickers put the old stone mill behind the east bedroom as a hedge. Although no one uses stone grinding now, there is no shortage of this object in the countryside.

But the second kicker only bid ten yuan, how can I sell my skills cheaply?

The little girl standing on the street is more than this price, right?

If I do all the ten-dollar business, it is better to go home and raise pigs scientifically with my wife!

When the second kicker heard that it was okay, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and asked me: "Do you want to inquire about the devil who fell into the well back then?" ”

"Yes." I nodded.

Lao Zhang stepped forward again to hand over the cigarette and diligently lit the second kick.

The second kicker took a puff of cigarette, and then said: "It was in the forty-second year, we had a great drought here, and the wells behind us were all dry, and there was not a drop of water...... The devil officer passed by when it was dark, and the horse stumbled, and the men and horses were planted in the well together......"

I interrupted the second kick and asked, "Old man, how big is the mouth of the well, why did the devil officer even fall into it with men and horses?" ”

Generally speaking, wells in the countryside have a diameter of less than one meter, or even more than one foot.

People can fall into wells, but it is an exaggeration to fall down with people and horses.

The second kicker glared at me: "It's true!" And it's strange that after the little devil officer fell in, the wellhead collapsed. ”

I nodded and let the second kick continue.

The second kicker said:

The devil officer fell, and a devil squad came from behind, lying at the mouth of the well and screaming. After calling for half a night, he drove the whole village to the well and told us to dig the well...... We dug for five days and five nights, taking turns digging a pond along the perimeter of the well, and finally dug to the bottom of the well. ”

I wasn't very familiar with the history of that year, so I asked, "Old man, the devil troops are here, don't you run back?" ”

Running back, in our case, means to avoid the disaster of the army.

"There are puppet armies in the local area, what kind of so-called 'co-prosperity and co-governance' are engaged in with the little devils, so that we can stay in our hometown with peace of mind. Besides, at that time, there was nowhere to go when I ran back, and there was chaos everywhere. The second kicker sighed and continued:

"When I got to the bottom of the well, I saw the military uniform of the devil officer, as well as a pistol and a saber. However, I didn't see the corpses of the devil officers or the corpses of horses......"

I asked, "What does the dug up military uniform look like?" ”

"The military uniform is fine, and the buttons are not unbuttoned...... It's like a snake shedding its skin, the people inside are gone, and the bones are gone...... Moreover, the military uniform had a reddish blood on it, which stinked. The second kicker said.

I thought about it for a moment, and then asked, "The devil officer's belt and military boots were not there at that time?" ”

"Belt...... Military boots? It doesn't seem to be ...... I don't remember exactly, but I remember the military uniform and pistol saber, and in the pocket of the military uniform, there was a letter, as if it was some top-secret information. The second kicker said.

I got up and said goodbye: "Thank you, old man." ”

After listening to the narrative of the second kick, I roughly knew what was going on, gave Lao Zhang a look, and turned to leave.

The second kicker shouted behind me: "Sir, I'll give you the ten yuan for the doorman just now!" ”

"No need old man, you keep it and buy a bar!" I waved and smiled.

Ten dollars, do you really think I'm called Hanako?

Back at Lao Zhang's house, I said to Lao Zhang and his wife: "Let's try to summon Xiaoping, but I'm not sure, because the clothes left by Xiaoping have been too long, and the aura and aura on them have already dissipated, and it is difficult to summon spirits." ”

Mrs. Zhang's eyes lit up and asked, "Xiaoping's placenta should still be there, can it be used to summon spirits?" ”

"Placenta? If you have a placenta, it's easy to do! "I'm happy too.

We have a strange rule in the countryside here.

Put the placenta of the newborn in a clay pot and bury it in a drip ditch under the eaves. It is said that in this way, the child will be articulate in the future, and his speech will be like dripping water from the eaves, slipping up and flying......

Presumably, Zhang Xiaoping's placenta was also buried under the eaves!