Chapter 35: The Shrine Maiden

"Boss Qi, you are becoming less and less particular about doing things, how can there be a reason that you can't only go in and out of the world, if you can change a person's fate by spending a little money, how can there be poor and unlucky people in the world? It's not authentic to talk halfway, go on, what does that master really want? Even you don't think it's appropriate to make a big deal of propaganda, so what is hidden behind this person? Lin Suo asked with a playful face, looking like a person who is keen to inquire about other people's parents, seeing Lin Suo's appearance like a chicken woman, I no longer hide my inner curiosity, and hurriedly pricked up my ears, listening intently to what Boss Qi said next.

"Lin is worthy of being a descendant of the Lin family, this opinion is high! People in the world only care about good things and change their luck, but they often forget that good fortune is the root of transshipment, and the change of luck without good fortune is just an overdraft. I said half of this matter, but I just wanted to sell it in front of Miss Jiang. Of course, the follow-up is also hearsay, as for the truth or falsity of the content, you will laugh it off, and you must not take it seriously. If I were to be held accountable for these jokes, I wouldn't admit anything! Boss Qi said half-jokingly and half-seriously, revealing his smoothness and shrewdness word by word, and he was indeed a businessman.

According to the truth of the second half of what he inquired, the whole thing turned out to be like this: At the beginning, the master that the leader went to with a lot of money was not at all what the gentleman in the antique street said, he was a high-ranking monk who had attained the Tao or an enlightened master outside the world, but a Southeast Asian "great Gu master" who only recognized money. The gentleman who introduced this leader was not out of any kindness or a good person doing good deeds at all, but to remove the Gu worms on his body and find the next receiver who was willing to continue to support him for the "Great Gu Master".

Why did he do it? The reason for this is to start with the gentleman who "understands feng shui and knows yin and yang", in order to facilitate Boss Qi's narration, he called that gentleman x. The people in the antique street said that X is from Xiangxi, where there are many strange things in the mountains and rivers, and no one knows which city and which township is the village, but I heard that Gu art is very popular in his hometown. Mr. X's mother's home is a family of "Gu raising" for generations, but according to Mr. X, the Gu worms raised by his family never harm people but are only used to save people, and his mother is a famous witch doctor in the village.

The real purpose of Mr. X's visit to Wudu Antique Street is to find his long-lost father, but his father is very troublesome to find, why do you say that? The reason starts with his father. X's father used to be an intellectual young man who went to the mountains and went to the countryside, and people who saw his father in the village said that X's father was handsome and upright, and his family was full of scholars, so he was full of indescribable elegance and warmth

I still remember that when X's father arrived at the village on the first day, his handsome appearance and unearthly temperament attracted many girls from the surrounding villages to watch. It's a pity that in that era, intellectuals were the most important stinky old nine, a weak scholar like him, he couldn't lift his hands and shoulders, he couldn't do any farm work, what was the use of having a good-looking skin? The vulgar men in the stockade would often find ways to bully him.

But the women and the old people in the village, as well as the children, liked him very much, and always tried to help his father earn more work. Because in their eyes, this man's every move is different from other men, even in the most bitter and tiring environment, he will try to keep himself clean and decent. When he is resting, he will play a good harmonica for the elderly and children, make a lot of toys out of weeds and waste paper, tell touching stories to the children in the village, and help the old people clean up the house.

In short, X's father lives a very different life in the village, and many unmarried girls have a good impression of him openly and secretly, including Mr. X's mother, the most beautiful and arrogant witch doctor in the village, and a woman who belongs to the same kind of village as him. Gu is commonly known as "grass ghost" in Xiangxi, in the eyes of the Miao people, it will only be attached to women, those women who raise Gu insects will be called "grass ghost woman" by the people in the village, many people are disgusted and afraid of these women.

However, Mr. X's mother's family is different, and their "Gu worms" have always been used to hang pots to help the world, so they have a very high status in the village, and everyone respectfully calls them witch doctors. At that time, the remote village was also in ruins, no one dared to call his mother a witch doctor to his face, on the surface, the people in the village treated X's mother like a normal person, but in fact, in private, he still respected his mother very much. In the people in the village, if someone in the family is sick or unwell, they will still come to X's mother as soon as possible. Their respect for her also isolated her from the rest of the village, and no one ever dared to be an ordinary person as X's mother.

Slowly, these two people with special identities came together as a matter of course, and with the protection of X's mother, X's father had a much better life in the village. Soon, the state introduced a new policy, and the intellectual youth could return to their hometowns and return to the city, when X's mother was just three months pregnant. X's father's parents are also eager for their son to return to the city as soon as possible, and X's father is also very eager to return to his own city as soon as possible, but he can't give up his beautiful wife and children.

X's mother has been a witch for half her life, according to the tradition of "raising Gu", unless the Gu raiser dies, the Gu raiser and the Gu worm cannot be separated, so if she wants to follow X's father back to the city, she must take her own "Gu worms" with her. However, how can you find a suitable place to raise "Gu worms" in the city, not to mention that X's father's family is full of high-level intellectuals who believe in materialism, and it is impossible for them to tolerate such an unreasonable approach of their daughter-in-law.

What's more, at that time, not to mention the foggy city, even the whole of China did not have the concept of commercial housing, if they returned to the city, they must live with their parents, even if X's father could be successfully admitted to college, successfully went to college to become a teacher, and successfully got the welfare housing of the unit, it was also a collective dormitory tube building where everyone lived together, and it was completely impossible to avoid people's eyes and ears to let the witch continue to raise her "Gu worm", so the witch must not enter the city.

In an instant, a dilemma appeared in front of the two, let X's father stay in the village, he would be unhappy for the rest of his life, let him go back to the city, X's mother would be unhappy for the rest of his life, and in these two dilemmas, there was also a child who was about to be born. X's mother's mother has repeatedly persuaded X's mother to give his father a "love Gu", and said that everyone will be freed in this way. But X's mother was reluctant to let the person she loved go against her nature, and continued to be with her under the effect of "Gu worm", and after several tangled and difficult choices, she finally decided to let X's father go back to the city.