Chapter 1: Chen Jiufeng
Other people's stories start from birth, but my story starts before I was born.
My mother's name is Chen Jiufeng, a native of Jiangsu, and the youngest daughter of Chen Shoushan, a master of southern feng shui. She married my dad at the age of sixteen and came to the North. My father's name is Wu Yingshan, he was a technician in the factory when he was young, he was loyal and honest, and he had a very good reputation in our hometown.
At that time, although technicians were fragrant, earned a lot and were decent, the Wu family had a large population, and my father's salary was a drop in the bucket. After my mother got married, she didn't have a round house with my dad at first, and lived alone in the wing room for a year. A year later, she moved into my dad's house, and since then, the Wu family's life has improved.
My mother is my grandfather's only daughter, although she is a woman, but she is very capable, what batch of eight characters, look at feng shui, collect souls and send ghosts and so on. For those who understand this, as long as they have the ability, they are not afraid of losing their reputation. My mother didn't embarrass my grandfather, and soon opened up the field, and more and more people came to her for errands, and her fame grew.
The second girl of Huang Dajun's family, the head of the neighboring village, suddenly fell ill, her stomach hurt, she rolled on the bed in pain, and fainted five or six times a day. After being sent to the hospital, I was treated for two days and two nights, and the morphine was beaten, but I couldn't stop the pain. Seeing that the second girl had only one breath left, the director of the hospital said to Huang Dajun helplessly, you better go find a squinting person (referring to a witch and a god or something) to take a look.
Huang Dajun was in a hurry, so he rushed back overnight and found four local horse immortals, and the immortals all said that this girl could not be cured, so let them prepare for the future. Huang Dajun was disheartened, and in desperation, he came to our house crying.
My mother didn't put on the incense, and she didn't invite God, pinched her fingers, frowned, looked at Huang Dajun, and asked, "Your family has built a house recently?" ”
Huang Dajun hurriedly said, "Yes! Right! I built a south house for my eldest son to get married! ”
My mother asked again, "Outside the south room, there is a stove for the workers to cook, right?" ”
Huang Dajun nodded, "Yes! It's a stove! ”
"That's it," my mother said, "hurry back, start at eleven o'clock tonight, let your eldest son dismantle the stove, dig three feet into the ground, bury two taels of cinnabar, a bowl of rooster blood, and the second girl can be discharged from the hospital tomorrow." ”
"Huh?" Huang Dajun was stunned, "Grandma, are you serious?" ”
"If you believe it, you can do it, even if you don't believe it", my mother said lightly, "It's getting dark, hurry back and prepare." ”
"Eh, eh!" Huang Dajun came back to his senses, "Thank you, aunt, I'll go back to do it immediately, if it works, I'll come back and kowtow to you!" ”
He had just taken a few steps, turned around and came back, and put down a hundred dollars for my mother.
My mom didn't ask for it, "Take it back, thank me again when healed." ”
Huang Dajun left with a thousand thanks, and that night, he asked his eldest son to dismantle the stove and bury cinnabar and chicken blood as my mother ordered.
That night, the second girl was no longer in pain.
At noon the next day, the girl was discharged from the hospital.
Huang Dajun was very grateful, and brought his family to the door in person, and sent a pennant and a big red envelope of 2,000 yuan to my mother.
Huojiaying Village, more than 60 miles away from our village, there is an old Du family in the village, the two of them opened a small restaurant, the business is very stable, the couple is famous and harmonious, and they will live. Since the spring of that year, for some reason, the husband and wife, who have not blushed for more than ten years of marriage, suddenly quarreled. Since then, the two have quarreled almost every day, and the business of the restaurant has plummeted, and almost no one goes to eat.
I have a third aunt and grandmother who is from the Huo family camp, and one day the daughter-in-law of the Du family was beaten by Lao Du, and she happened to be seen by my aunt and grandmother. The old lady drank the beating Lao Du and pulled the Du family's daughter-in-law to her house. The daughter-in-law of the Du family cried and chatted with the old lady, saying that she couldn't live this day. The old lady kept comforting her, coming and going, Lao Du's daughter-in-law said casually, I don't know what evil she has fallen into, if she goes on like this, she has the heart to seek death.
The old lady's heart moved, and she sent the daughter-in-law of the Du family to my mother.
After all, I still love my daughter-in-law in my heart, and Lao Du also came with him.
My mother looked at Lao Du and his wife for a while, took their hands, looked at them, pinched her fingers, stood up, and said, "Let's go, go to Huojiaying!" ”
When I arrived outside the wall of the old Du family courtyard in Huojiaying, my mother didn't go in, and stood there for an hour without saying a word.
Lao Du and his wife looked at each other, and their hearts were bottomless.
After a long time, my mother nodded and looked at Lao Du, "Your father has been dead for twenty-three years?" ”
Lao Du was stunned, "Huh? I'll do the math...... Yes, twenty-three years! ”
"Is it a burial? Before the burial, a cat ran near the cemetery, didn't it? My mom stared at him.
Lao Du swallowed, "Yes...... There is a cat, which was raised by my father, and when my father was buried, the cat also went, and the people in the village said that it was benevolent and righteous! What's wrong with my aunt, what's wrong with the cat? ”
"The cat has given the dead man a breath of life, and your father is coming back to life," said my mother, "and now flesh is growing on his bones, and in half a year, when he crawls out of the grave, your whole village will not be alive." ”
"Huh?" Lao Du and his family were taken aback, "Dead people grow meat? This ......"
My mother pinched her fingers and calculated, and said, "Five days later is an auspicious day, and the yang is strong, and you can take someone to open your father's grave at noon, and you will understand it at a glance." ”
My mom was leaving.
"Grandma", Lao Du hurriedly asked, "If there is really meat on the bones, then ...... So what to do? ”
"Cremation, find someone to choose another cemetery," my mother said.
Lao Du looked at his daughter-in-law, and Lao Du's daughter-in-law stepped forward, "Auntie, then please find a good piece of land first." ”
My mother glanced at them and shook her head, "I haven't given birth to a son yet, so you can find someone else, I have to leave some blessings for my child." ”
With that, my mom turned around and left.
Five days later, Lao Du opened his father's grave, the coffin was rotten, and in a pile of rotten wood chips, people found that the lower half of the white bones of Na Sen Sen had grown blood-red fresh flesh.
Ten days later, Huojiaying sent more than 20 people to thank my mother for saving her life on behalf of the villagers, and sent my mother a big red envelope of 10,000 yuan.
My mother became popular, and all of a sudden she became popular, and people changed their names to her, she used to be called "Grandma", and then she was called "Grandma Jiu" regardless of age.
Three years later, my mother was 20 years old, my family built a new house, and life became more and more prosperous. However, my mother became more and more depressed, and my grandmother asked her why, and she said that it was because she had not yet given birth to a son.
My grandmother laughed and said, "How old are you, girl?" It's only twenty, your father and I are not in a hurry to urge you, why are you still urging yourself? ”
My mother smiled and said, "Mom, I will be twenty-one next year, and I must have a son, otherwise, I will not be able to give birth in this life." ”
My grandmother was stunned, "Can't give birth?" Why? You're so good-boned, and you're young, how can you still ......?"
My mom smiled and didn't say anything.
That night, she suddenly made up her mind and called my sleeping father up, saying, "Yingshan, do you want a son?" ”
My dad was stunned and said, "Yes! But you're not ......."
My mother smiled, "Just think about it, you go overnight, go to the East China Sea, go and help me get something back, and then, let's pick up my son!" ”
"Pick up your son?" My dad didn't understand, "What do you want to pick up your son and adopt one?" ”
"I, Chen Jiufeng, will give birth to a dragon in the future", my mother said confidently, "Why do you want to adopt someone else's blood?" You do what I say, get up quickly, I'll pack your things for you, and you leave overnight! ”
Although my dad didn't understand, he believed my mom and didn't say anything more.
That night, he went to Jiangsu.
According to my mother's instructions, my father waited in Nanjing for two days, and after the fifteenth day of that month, he went to the beach to find five villages and took five bottles of seawater, all of which were taken in the middle of the night. After getting together, go to bed during the day and take the car at night, and rush back one by one.
Because my mother specially told him that he must not travel during the day, but must travel day and night.
In this way, it took my dad more than 20 days to successfully bring back five bottles of seawater.
My aunt, who my mother asked me to be a teacher, borrowed a simple distillation device from the town's middle school, selected five auspicious days of the zodiac, distilled five bottles of seawater in turn, and packed them into a brass gourd. Then she drew a talisman, pasted it on the copper gourd, and then offered the gourd in the ancestral hall.
The family didn't understand what she wanted to do, and my grandfather couldn't help but want to ask, but was stopped by my grandmother.
After offering the gourd, my mother breathed a sigh of relief, clapped her hands and smiled, "Okay, the Wu family is about to have a future!" ”