Chapter 11: Out of the Mountain
Don't do bad things, don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door; But sometimes even if you don't do anything wrong, the devil will still knock on the door. - Early in the morning
"Chen'er, how long have you been learning from me?"
"Layman, I have been learning the Tao from you for thirty-six days."
"Well, how do you feel about these thirty-six days?"
"It's boring, but sometimes it's fun."
"It's a bit ridiculous, but it's true. By the way, I heard from the sixth woman that you always wanted to catch a ghost and come over to have fun? The layman took a sip of wine and looked at me with interest.
"Layman, I..." I scratched my head in embarrassment.
"I ask you or not?!" The layman accentuated his tone, stopped drinking, and stared at me, staring at me.
"Yes... Yes·····" I'm a little flustered, I'm afraid that the layman will do it with me, although my body and bones are much better than before, but when I do it, I will definitely be the one who suffers.
"Not bad, Ken to be honest. I was as playful as you back then, and I was taught a lot by your drunkard master. Hahahaha·····" Lay people are always happier when they think back to the past, and I think too, who hasn't been young?
"Today, as a teacher, I will take you to a place." The layman handed me the flask.
I was not surprised, I took it, took a few sips, wiped my slightly spicy mouth and asked, "Where is it?" ”
"Hell place!"
"Ghost place?!"
"That's right, it's a ghost place!" The layman smiled mysteriously, snatched my flask, took two sips of wine, put it away, and carried it on his back.
I went into the room again, took out two packages, threw one to me, and let me carry it.
I took it and looked at the contents of the package, which seemed to be dry food and some fruit, plus some drinking water.
Well, it looks like it's time for a long trip.
The layman took me over the back hill of my house, waded through the water, and walked and stopped, until dusk, when I was brought to a not very spacious concrete road, where I could sit down and rest.
I sat down with the weeds and wild flowers on the side of the road, regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one, and sat down with a butt, and after sitting down, I rubbed my legs, to be honest, I was really tired after a day, and my feet were quite sore.
"Chen'er, come and rub my shoulders with me."
"What? Rub your feet with you! I misheard, thinking about the smelly shoes of the layman, I couldn't help retching, and I struggled with my thoughts for nearly half a minute before I moved slowly.
"Eh, what are you doing?" When the layman saw me helping him slip his shoes, he was also taken aback, and hurriedly snatched his shoes and put them on.
"Didn't you ask me to rub your feet for you?" I pouted.
"Rubbing your feet?! I'm asking you to rub my shoulders for me! Why do I want you to rub my feet?! The layman took out the rice balls wrapped in rice dumpling leaves, put them in his mouth and chewed them.
"Oh, that's right." I was in a good mood all of a sudden, and meekly helped the layman rub his shoulders, rubbing and rubbing but wanted to ask the layman: Have you washed your hands······
After waiting for about ten minutes, a van drove over.
He stopped next to me and the layman, and then out of the car came a man, an uncle about forty years old, who said hello to the layman and handed me a cigarette, and I waved my hand to indicate that I didn't need it.
"Layman, please get in the car with the apprentice. It's waiting for you over there. The man helped the man open the door.
The layman got in, put the package away, and after a few words of advice, he lay down and closed his eyes and said no more, during which he did not have any communication with the uncle, and the uncle was not ashamed, so he drove to a certain place quickly, presumably to the ghost place that the layman said.
About an hour or so, we arrived at a village, which was much more prosperous and lively than the village where the layman was located; After driving for about five minutes, I came to a steady stop after arriving at a compound.
"Layman, it's here." The man said politely and softly, presumably for fear of disturbing the layman.
The layman didn't answer, his eyes closed, not knowing whether he was pretending to be asleep or really sleeping.
"Fairchild, or you..." Uncle looked at me with embarrassment.
The first time I was called Fairchild, it was called a comfortable one, and I cleared my throat and pretended to say, "Well, what's the matter?" ”
"Uh... Didn't you tell you? The uncle couldn't say it directly, so he could only smile wryly and nod his head.
And this family has not seen the layman get out of the car for a long time, and they have rushed over.
One of the old women grabbed the uncle's clothes and asked a few words.
"Then you don't come down yet! Presumably, the layman was too tired last night, so let the layman have a little bit of a while. Fairchild, please get off the bus too. ”
The old woman was a veteran of observing words and feelings, and when she saw that the layman ignored her, she could only ask me to get out of the car first.
I opened the door and jumped down, made a mistake, straightened my clothes, and strode towards the living room of his house.
The old woman and the uncle looked at me in surprise when they saw me turn their heads, and smiled at each other, as if this could be done.
I swaggered down on the couch at his house, and the uncle's daughter-in-law helped me make a cup of tea, then nodded and smiled as a sign of politeness.
I nodded in return, and took a look at his daughter-in-law by the way.
His daughter-in-law seems to be only in her thirties, not only has a good face, but also has a convex and backward figure, and I compare it with the uncle, I even think that this daughter-in-law was robbed by him, but it is not easy to say clearly, let alone meddle in things.
"Fairy child, respect him..."
"The layman slept too late last night, and he told me the same thing." I patted my chest.
"Really..." The other party saw that I was too young and didn't believe it, but it was not easy to say it to my face, and it was even more difficult to offend, so I could only smile politely.
"Well, you say, I've been learning the Tao from laymen for three or five years."
"Three... Three or five years... That must be a clever skill. The old woman looked at me again, took out a pear from the bamboo basket, and asked me if I liked to eat pear waves.
I nodded and said it was okay.
The old woman hurriedly asked her daughter-in-law to wash the pears, and then bowed down and said that there were eyes in front of her who did not know Mount Tai, and if there was any offense, she hoped that the fairy child would understand.
"No problem." I waved my hand, thinking to myself that no matter what, since the show had already begun, the scene had to be finished.
"It's a long story, hey·····" The old woman sighed.
It turned out that Zhao Ergouzi in the next village had always liked his daughter-in-law Su Ling, but Su Ling liked Wang Yan, who was many years older than him, that is, the son of the old woman.
Although Su Ling has always rejected Zhao Ergouzi, Zhao Ergouzi has been pestering Su Ling like a dog skin plaster, so Su Ling and Wang Yan discussed it, and simply ended the marriage, which made him break his thoughts.
Both parents also agreed on the matter of marriage, and Wang Yan's family felt that Su Ling was a good daughter-in-law, sensible and well-behaved; Su Ling's family also thinks it's very good, Wang Yan's child is honest and down-to-earth, and the family's economic conditions are not bad, so they come and go, the marriage is given, and the marriage is soon concluded, the wedding day is very smooth, and it is also very festive, there are a lot of firecrackers and fireworks, it is lively, the two families are very happy, and they can't close their mouths when they laugh at the end of the day, and they all say that this is a godsend.
But the good times didn't last long, not long after the two got married, there were a lot of strange things in the family, at the beginning, the Wang family didn't pay too much attention to it, but the more it didn't take it to heart, the more strange it happened, from the beginning of the inexplicable loss of things at home, to the mysterious death of the family's livestock, and then to the tragic death of the family's illness, this incident not only affected the Wang family and the Su family, but also caused a certain panic to the local villagers, everyone said that this is the Wang family haunted.
The Wang family also invited a few Taoist priests during this period, those Taoist priests were either fake Taoist priests or false skills, did not play any practical role, and later the Wang family finally knew that there was a monk in this hundred miles away, the Tao law was through the sky, and it was a matter of effort to catch ghosts and exorcise evil spirits, so the old woman sent a letter to the layman, asking the layman to go out of the mountain to get rid of demons.
"So that's the case, I thought it should be that Zhao Ergou's ghost." I rubbed my chin and muttered to myself.
"Zhao Ergouzi? He has such a great ability? The old woman gasped, her eyes full of doubt.
"Just because he doesn't have it doesn't mean that others don't." I took the pear that Su Ling had washed and took a bite, the pear was very sweet and tasted very good.
"Well... You're right, but you can't eat this pear. ”
"What can't be eaten! You... Ju··· Taxi··· Layman, you're awake..." I almost broke out of my mouth with a foul language, but luckily I reacted quickly, otherwise I would have been beaten badly·····
"If I don't come again, you'll have to blow up your stomach!" The layman glared at me.
I was so frightened that I stopped eating the pears and hurriedly gave up my seat to the layman.
And the old woman was even more polite, and Su Ling also owed a salute.
"I'm just a rough person, I'm used to it, don't make these red tapes." The layman waved his hand.
"By the way, layman, you just said that the pear can't be eaten... Mo Fei Pear..."
"There is no problem with pears, but if you don't respect the teacher, there will be a problem!"
"How am I..." To be honest, I'm a little aggrieved, and it's wrong to eat a pear...
"Of course, you haven't heard the story of Kong Rong Rang Pear?!"
"Uh... Gotcha. As if I understood something, I hurriedly picked up the pears and washed them.
"Layman, you must have learned about my family······ The old woman was not in the mood to look at our poor mouth, so she looked at the layman with a little sorrow, and asked questions cautiously.
"I would like to ask, is your husband already buried?"
"Burial... Buried..." The old woman was a little sad, her husband died in this accident.
"How long has it been buried?"
"It's been almost half a month."
"I'm still bothering you to take me to see it, I'm afraid that something has happened to the old man."
"Wh... What the! ”