After all the thrust was removed, Master Wang still didn't need to stop, the bamboo branch in his hand kept waving up and down, and his mouth cursed loudly at the same time. This reminds me of the scene of the dead people burning the spirit house in the village, when the dead people in the village used to find a wide area on the day of burial, and ask the master where to build a spirit house with strips and various colors of paper, the spirit house is usually square, not much different from the shape of an ordinary house. The roof is made of paper with black tiles and white edges, and it is more than one meter high. Two or three meters wide, it looks beautiful.

Usually at 11 o'clock in the evening, it is necessary to burn down the spirit house, and when burning the spirit house, some young people should be found to hold bamboo branches with their backs to the spirit house to form a circle, after the fire is lit, everyone should circle around, take the bamboo branches to sweep up and down outside, and keep swearing in their mouths, saying that they are afraid that wild ghosts will come to rob the house, so they must be driven away. And now this Master Wang, like those people who are guarding the spirit house, is only much more exaggerated in his movements and voices.

After scolding, Master Wang threw the bamboo branch towards my grandmother's grave, then took my hand and ran to his house, without saying a word.

It was also at this time that the rain gradually became lighter.

Entering the door of Master Wang's house, there were large and small paper figures standing on both sides of the hall, and those paper figures were vividly pierced by Master Wang, some were upright, some were pretending, some were squatting, and some were bowing. Even the expressions on his face are very expressive, especially the blush on his cheeks and the copper coin marks on his lips. Red like a fire.

Since the door of the hall was not closed, a cold wind poured into the house, blowing the paper people and swaying with the wind. I shuddered, and after being scared once by the thing on my grandmother's grave, I didn't have much resistance to these things.

"Master Wang, I'm ......" I said tremblingly, the temperature in Hunan in early spring was very low, and it was so drenched by the heavy rain that I couldn't stand it anymore, Master Wang was also wet all over, he just pointed to a door inside and said, "You go to the stove house to make a fire and roast first, and I'll go change clothes." ”

I nodded, and went to the stove house, grabbing the leaves from the pyre by the stove and starting a fire, and after a few moments the fire was already burning brightly by me.

Master Wang changed into dry clothes, took a small stool and sat next to me and said, "Are you here because of your sister's business?" ”

I wanted to ask what the ghost on the grave that looked like my grandmother was, but as soon as he mentioned my sister, I quickly slammed it and said, "Yes, Master Wang, my sister screamed after the thunder in the sky just now, and then I went to hug her, and she foamed at the mouth and fainted, and my father said that she was scared away because of the thunder." Let me ask you to come and have a look. ”

"Hehe, your dad just doesn't want you to be sad, in fact, where is the thunder scared, it's just scared by you." Master Wang said as he added firewood to the stove, his tone was calm, and there was no strangeness at all.

I hurriedly asked, "Why are you scared by me?" I'm her brother, and she liked me the most when I was a child. ”

Master Wang shook his head, got up and brought over an aluminum pot, put the aluminum pot on the stove, and then said while adding water to it: "To be precise, I am not scared by you, but by the yin qi on your body." What have you been doing lately? Why is Yin Qi so heavy? ”

"Master Wang, don't pursue this yet, since you know the reason, then please help me treat my sister. Let's go to my house now, okay? "Seeing that Master Wang was still preparing to boil water, I couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

Master Wang said, don't worry, you'll be fine when you come out. Now I can't help if I go, she will naturally bask in the sun after dawn.

"It's raining just now, and there's going to be the sun tomorrow?" Now I'm afraid of the sun because I don't have access to it at all.

"Well, yes, you don't have to worry too much about your sister, you should worry more about yourself." Master Wang said with a heavy face.

This is the third person to tell me this, the first two old men met in Pingshui, but this Master Wang has known him for many years, although he has been disrespectful to him before, but he did not care about me, but calmly said my problem.

I didn't ask what was going on, these are meaningless, it is difficult for me to understand what has happened recently, I feel that even if Master Wang told me the reason, it is estimated that it will be difficult for me to understand, I just opened my eyes and looked at Master Wang, and asked sincerely: "Then what should I do, can you help me?" ”

Master Wang didn't answer me, but his eyes were staring at the fire jumping in the earthen stove, and his face looked extremely heavy. I looked at the reflection of the little fire in his eyes, and I seemed to see some hope. He didn't answer me, but at least he didn't run away from my question.

Master Wang was stunned for a while, and said, "Have you tried the water in the pot to be hot?"

I lifted the lid and put my hand in the water in the pot, it was already hot, but it was still within the range of my body. I nodded and said, "It's hot, but it's not hot, and it's not good for showering." "I thought he was boiling water for bathing. After all, it has just rained, and it is easy to catch a cold if you don't take a hot shower as soon as possible.

Master Wang got up and said, "Then burn it for a while, and you can add more firewood." ”

"Hmm" I agreed, watching Master Wang turn around and enter the bedroom next door.

After a minute or two, the wizard came out, his right hand lightly clenched into a fist, as if something was hidden inside. He said, "Try again, the water is hot?"

I untied the lid of the pot again, slowly put my hand into the water, and when my fingertips touched the surface of the water, I felt very hot, and I didn't dare to stretch it down, so I quickly pulled my hand back and said to Master Wang, "It's already very hot." ”

Master Wang stretched out his right hand to the aluminum pot, slowly rubbed it a few times, and then opened his palm, and some black powder was mixed into the hot water, which powder looked like some black ash.

Master Wang found two dirty blackened rags, put them on the handles on both sides of the aluminum pot, and then picked up the aluminum pot and said to me, "You bear with me." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, before I could react, he quickly poured the whole pot of hot water on me. I subconsciously wanted to dodge, but I still didn't.

When the whole pot of sleep touched my body, I was ready to be burned, I don't know what this Master Wang means, such a hot water splashed on me, and I am not afraid of burning. Just when I was puzzled, a cold and piercing feeling spread through my body, and I kept shivering. It felt much colder than the rain just now.

It's as if someone has poured a bucket of ice water on you, and then they are blowing at you with a big electric fan. The heat on his body was sharply emptied, and the whole person became more and more prostration.

What's going on? I couldn't even feel the heat of the flames in the stove, and my whole body was cold except for the cold, a kind of coldness that penetrated deep into the bone marrow. But it was obviously a pot of hot water just now, why did I feel so cold, my consciousness became more and more blurred, recalling the very cold feeling I felt when I walked into the sun in the morning, compared to now, it was not cold at all. Now this cold seems to freeze me to death anytime and anywhere.

I gradually lost my nerve a little anymore, and slowly leaned down to the right, and finally lay on my side on the low bench I had made, my body shaking.

When Master Wang saw that I was already lying down, he put down the aluminum pot, added a spoonful of water to the aluminum pot, took out three raw eggs from the dining cabinet and threw them into the pot, and added a few sticks of wood to the stove. When he had finished writing, he pulled out a thick dry branch from behind him and pumped it at me. It's not just the branches of some kind of branch, even though I wear a lot of clothes, it still hurts to smoke on my body, a kind of hot pain. It is in stark contrast to the icy feeling that spreads throughout the province, it is simply the legendary ice and fire two heavens.

I opened my mouth to ask what Master Wang was doing, but I couldn't make a sound, but I was relieved that with Master Wang's continuous beating, my consciousness gradually became clearer, and what made me feel more comfortable was that I could directly feel the warm feeling brought by the fire in the stove, which was very warm.