Chapter 307: Midnight is coming
In fact, if Zuo Youdao hadn't kept asking me how I felt when I experienced those things in my early years, and how my personality became what I am today, I wouldn't even bother to say those little emotions and feelings I had back then, after all, after many years, it would be a headache to think back to what I had in my head at the beginning.
After all, in my opinion, my original self and my current self are two completely unrelated people.
Oh, by the way, there's one more thing that must be said, and that text message from the head of the Sky Cloud Dao sent me.
At first, I always thought that he sent me such a text message because he had already calculated that there would be a vision in the night sky and what I had experienced that day.
It wasn't until many years later, when I talked to the head of the empty cloud road about the events of that night, that he told me that in the afternoon, he did divinate for me, in fact, he didn't plan to divinate for me, but the second master was clamoring for him to calculate whether I could return to my house in a year, and he was also tossed by the second master so that he couldn't do it, so he stargazed and did a hexagram, but this divination had a problem.
The head of the empty cloud only calculated that I was going to experience a big change that night, but when he was dividing whether I would return to the house in a year, he found that all the hexagrams were chaotic, he was very shocked, and immediately changed the hexagram array, trying to calculate what else I would encounter in the near future, but after calculating it, he unexpectedly found that he could no longer deduce anything related to me.
He realized that after that night, my life had become impossible to snoop, so he sent me such a text message.
And the meaning of this message is that there is no fixed direction for my life, and the next road needs to be explored by myself.
Broken and then standing, I'm still me. Destiny is no longer there, and my path will eventually depend on myself.
Okay, everything that should be said has been said, and what shouldn't be said has been said, so be it.
Let's get down to business and get back to what happened in the fort.
After the night sky returned to calm, Li Huaishan and I stood outside the gate of the fort courtyard and looked at the stars for a while, probably because I thought I had an understanding, and my mood quickly calmed down, but Li Huaishan was in a state of confusion for a long time, I beckoned to him and asked him to go up the wall, it took him a long time to react that I was calling him.
Widow Wang and Chen Dabang are completely honest, this night in the east room has been very quiet, Li Huaishan and I leaned against the wall, he looked at the sky, I smoked, silently waiting for the sun to rise from the east sky.
At six o'clock the next morning, when the fish belly first appeared white in the eastern sky, I asked Li Huaishan to lean on the wall to sleep for a while, and then went down the wall and tossed in the castle courtyard.
No one knows how many ghosts are pressed into Rhubarb's body, so for the sake of caution, I have to take advantage of the time when the yang energy between heaven and earth is at its peak to make some arrangements.
After going around the courtyard two or three times, I selected the four corners of the courtyard, dug a small pit in the ground with my teeth, filled in the old rice I carried with me, and then pressed a gossip coin on the old rice, and finally covered the soil and buried it.
Then I climbed up to a small building facing the gate of the fortress, which had not been repaired for many years, the walls had cracked extensively, and the wooden floor inside was in danger of collapsing at any moment.
It's also luck, since I went up to the second floor and hung the Tongling Jade on the beams, this crumbling old building has not been in any condition, but when I just returned to the castle courtyard, I heard a crisp click behind me, and the big wooden beam used to support the roof of the building was broken, and the entire roof collapsed in half.
Fortunately, the beam I used to hexagram the spiritual treasure jade is not broken, otherwise, I would have to toss again.
At the beginning of the rising sun, I hastily filled my stomach, and woke up Li Huaishan, and asked him to keep an eye on Widow Wang and Chen Dabang, and when Li Huaishan was completely awake, I left the fort and rushed to the top of the Dead Man's Slope as fast as I could.
The reason why the sunlight passing from the dead man's slope is mixed with a little gray should be because the yin energy on the soil slope is too heavy, blocking part of the yang energy, in fact, the brightness of the sunlight has not changed, and the reason why people feel that the light color is gray is also because the yang energy in the light has been diluted.
I'm also worried that after Rhubarb's death, the ghosts that are pressing on its body will be lured by this yin qi to gather on the Dead Man's Slope, so that the arrangements I made in the castle will be useless.
Yesterday I had seen the feng shui on this side of the Dead Man's Slope, because I am not deep in feng shui, and I didn't see anything useful, but when I was walking around on the slope, I noticed that there were several heavy tombs on the top of the slope, if I was not wrong, the yin qi was blocked by these heavy tombs, and could not be dispersed, which led to more and more accumulation, and more and more accumulation.
Not only the yin qi, but even the undead who hovered on the slope were blocked from the way out, and it was difficult for them to fade slowly with the passage of time.
The so-called heavy grave, is the old grave on the new grave, I don't know how long this village has existed, the villagers have been burying the deceased here for generations, over time, some of the graves are gradually eroded by the wind, and the descendants of the tomb owner may have left the village long ago, to go to the outside world to beg for a living, or the family is broken, become extinct, and wait until the grave is completely eroded, and the bones buried in the soil are also rotten, the village forgets that there was a grave in this place, since the death of the family, and dig a new pit on the site of the old grave, Filling in the new soil to make a grave is not an incomprehensible thing to say.
To distinguish between heavy graves and ordinary graves, you can't see it with the naked eye alone, you can only smell it with your nose, the old man's ancient books say that the soil under the heavy grave has buried the dead twice, and the interval between the dead people entering the ground is relatively long, and the soil is soaked in rotten liquid for different times, it will emit a strange smell, and the book describes this smell as the smell of "iron", to be specific, it is a smell similar to the fusion of sweat and rust.
I also smelled this smell when I passed by the top of the slope last time, so I was sure that there were heavy graves in this place, and if it weren't for the fact that Chen Dabang would come to the Dead Man's Slope to dig the graves, I would have wanted to clean up these heavy graves at that time.
After arriving at the top of the slope, I found the location of the four heavy tombs, and happened to have a few pieces of yellow paper left when I set up the spirit array last time, so I gathered these yellow papers into four balls, went to the west side of the slope to dig a little new soil, and pulled a few handfuls of hay from the ground, and vigorously kneaded the hay into powder, and finally mixed the grass powder with the new soil, divided it into four parts, and sprinkled it on the paper ball.
When the day dawned, I placed the paper balls mixed with grass powder and new soil on the four graves, and took out a lighter to set the paper balls on fire.
The yellow paper caught fire, and in the midst of the fire, four yin winds rolled up on the slope of the dead, and these winds swept the soil on the ground, constantly swirling on the top of the heavy tomb, and the fire on the paper ball was also staggered.
Whether I can clear the yin qi pressing on the heavy tomb, it still depends on some luck, I originally wanted to use the yang qi at eight or nine o'clock to suppress the yin qi on the slope of the dead, but I didn't expect that the yin qi in this place was even stronger than I imagined, and the yin wind swept away, and a flame was extinguished.
Fortunately, the other three paper balls were successfully burned to ashes, and the yin qi on the Dead Man's Slope also dissipated a lot.
I condensed my mental power, bit the tip of my tongue, and sprayed the blood on the three heavy tombs where the yin qi was weakened, completely dispersing the remaining yin qi.
Of the four heavy tombs, I only cleaned three of them, and there is only one left, but I also know that this kind of thing cannot be forced, so I can only stop.
When I was about to leave the Dead Man's Slope, I blessed my vision with the Meditation Technique, and carefully watched the flow of Qi on the Dead Man's Slope.
Now the yin qi entrenched on the top of the dead man's slope is very weak, and the remaining heavy tomb can no longer stop the entry of yang qi, and it is estimated that in another two or three years, the yin qi in this place will be able to return to a relatively normal level.
When I returned to the fort, it was almost noon, and there was still half a day before Rhubarb's death.
Next, it's a matter of patience.
At six o'clock in the evening, the winter sun had set on the pass of Xishan, and stars began to appear in the sky.
Widow Wang and Chen Dabang still did not move, Chen Dabang occasionally stuck his head out of the window and watched the situation outside cautiously, but every time he saw me, he shrank his head and hurriedly retreated into the house.
At eight o'clock, I ate something and sent Bao Yu a few long messages, briefly talking about the local situation, and asking him if he could send someone to the fort, on the one hand, I wanted him to see what the secret passage under the fort was, and on the other hand, I also wanted him to deal with the matter of Widow Wang and Chen Dabang.
After sending these few text messages, I waited for more than an hour, but there was no response from Bao Youyou, and there were less than two hours left when I saw the ions, so I knew that I couldn't wait for his response any longer, so I turned off my phone and woke Li Huaishan up.
Li Huaishan ran to the outside of the fort and filled in the pit he had dug outside the fort wall before, and when he came in through the gate of the fort, it was close to midnight.
At this time, Li Huaishan completely lost the noise on weekdays, he, like me, fell into a deep silence, the two boxes of cigarettes bought from Yinchuan had been smoked, and Li Huaishan and I stood on the wall like this, looking at the direction of the village.
As soon as the time arrived, a series of unusually piercing bells rang from the east end of the village.
My heart suddenly became nervous, I knew what this bell meant, it was Chen Laohan reminding us that Rhubarb was gone.
Sure enough, not long after the bell appeared, there was a burst of irritable yin qi in the village, and I immediately blessed my vision with the Mind Fixing Technique, and I saw a group of wandering spirits appear from the east of the village, float from the east of the village to the west of the village, stop at the bottom of the dead man's slope for a short time, and then rush towards the fort.
I don't know how many undead were pressed under the keel at the beginning, but at this time I can only see a large group of fluttering spirits, but I can't visually detect their number!
(End of chapter)