One old and one young walk south along Stalin Street, and the pedagogical university is on the southern section of Liberty Road, some way from the railway station. But the two of them chatted lively, and they didn't feel that time passed slowly, and they arrived at the gate of the university in a blink of an eye.

"Child, as soon as I talk about history, I can't stop the car, you see it's at the gate, I don't know who you're looking for, I don't know if I know it."

"Oh, I'm looking for Professor Luo Xiurong."

"Looking for him?" The old man was stunned: "What are you looking for him?" ”

Baozi "My grandma was poisoned by a strange Gu, many people said that it was a unique Gu and could not be saved, and now she is renewing her life, and she is in danger."

Zhang Lijiang sighed, "Alas, your kid's life is not good, I can't hide it, Professor Luo and I were sent to Xinjiang to engage in third-line construction together, and his old man died of illness there." ”

"But..."Baozi undoubtedly took a head-on blow, "There is a saying that he is back!" ”

"It's back, the ashes are back." Zhang Lijiang sighed again: "Ten years of life and death, let alone more than thirty years." ”

"Then what should I do" Baozi felt cold all over his body, lost his energy all of a sudden, and squatted on the ground with his arms in his arms.

"Let me think about it again, you don't have a place to sleep at night, go to my house, my children are studying outside at night, and they don't usually come back, there is a place for you."

Baozi followed Zhang Lijiang into a small street behind the Normal University, and walked into a dilapidated bungalow, with two rooms, except for the dining table and the bed in the inner and outer rooms, almost full of books. "I have two daughters, the eldest one is studying at night, and the younger one is studying in the small school attached to the Normal University, just when the bed is empty, you can sleep there" Zhang Lijiang fetched a basin of water and brought it to the bun, "Wash your face, wash your feet." ”

Baozi is a book freak, and when he saw more books than his grandmother's house, he was naturally overjoyed, "Uncle, can I read your books?"

"Look, oh, by the way, I happen to have a book on the cure for incurable diseases from Inspur Publishing here, give it to you, and see if I can help." Zhang Lijiang handed Baozi a book, warmed a bowl of porridge and handed it to Baozi, and went to read the book by himself.

Baozi flipped through the book, and the few anti-Gu methods introduced in it were all routine medicines, which had no effect on grandma's disease, but it was not good to shirk the kindness, so he put the book in his schoolbag. Exhaustion swept over him, and he felt that he really hadn't slept for a month, and he fell asleep as soon as he touched his head on the pillow. I spent the night in a daze. When he got up the next day, Zhang Lijiang had already prepared breakfast, porridge and side dishes, and pickles as companions, Zhang Lijiang sat at the table and ate carefully and carefully. Seeing the buns getting up, Zhang Lijiang said, "Child, you hurry back after breakfast, it's important to grab medicine and save people." ”

Baozi bowed deeply to Zhang Lijiang, "Thank you, uncle, time is pressing, I have to hurry back, I won't eat the food, and the way to the train station is still far." ”

Zhang Lijiang hurriedly got up and took out two yuan from his coat pocket, "Take it, take the bus to the train station, I see that when you can't catch up, the rest of the money will go back by express bus." ”

Baozi bowed again and pushed the money back, "Uncle, I have money, I can't ask for you." Turning around and going out, Zhang Lijiang grabbed two steamed buns and stuffed them into the schoolbag of the bun, "Come, eat on the way"

As soon as I went out, I saw two girls, one big and one young, walking into the yard talking and laughing, and they were happy when they saw Zhang Lijiang, "We are back!" "The little girl is similar to the bun, she is born with clear eyebrows, two pigtails tied neatly, her pink and white face is frozen red, her hands are stuck in the little hands hanging on the rope, she is wearing a blue and white school uniform, and she is full of bookish temperament. Girl.... The big girl is Rope!

When Luo Pei moved his eyes from Zhang Lijiang's body to this half-big Hanako, he was stunned.

Baozi was also stunned when he saw Luo Pei, and after two seconds, "Sister-in-law Shunzi.. Yes! Sister Luo! ”

"Buns!" Luo Pei had tears in his eyes and hugged the bun, "Brother, why did you come to the provincial capital!" ”

Baozi briefly recounted various stories since Luo Pei left, Luo Pei stood up and said to Zhang Lijiang, "This is the life-saving benefactor I told you, without him, not only would I not be able to return to the provincial capital, but even my life may be gone." ”

"Oops" Zhang Lijiang took the hand of the bun, "You saved Luo Pei, you helped me yesterday, this is our fate, if you have time, stay for lunch, right?" ”

Baozi said, "Sister Luo, Uncle Zhang, I have to go, there is no one over there to save people..... Ay? Sister Luo, why did you come to Uncle Zhang's house? ”

Luo Pei was confused, "What Uncle Zhang, he is my father, Luo Xiurong, Professor Luo." ”

As soon as Baozi heard Luo Xiurong's three words, he immediately stood up, "You are Professor Luo!" ”

Luo Xiurong's face was full of embarrassment, "Alas... Sort of. ”

The little girl next to her spoke, "Dad, what do you mean, since I can remember, you are Luo Xiurong." ”

Luo Xiurong was so ashamed at this time that he wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into.

Baozi asked, "Uncle Luo, how can you lie to me!" ”

Luo Xiurong sighed again, "Let's go, let's go into the house and talk." Everyone hugged the buns into the house again, and asked for warmth. Luo Xiurong talked about himself in general. In this way, Luo Xiurong has been keen on studying history and religious culture since he was a child, and after entering the university to teach, he has studied a lot of shamanism and Northeast historical materials, and gradually has a strong interest in the supernatural existence of foxes, ghosts, snakes and gods, and has a new understanding through research, so he has accumulated a lot of books for research. He advocated that there are various forms of life, and it is not necessary that physical existence is life, but also that it can be an illusionary and intangible existence. Human beings have always lived in a three-dimensional space, that is, a three-dimensional framework of two horizontal and one vertical, and after living in this space for a long time, they cannot recognize and understand the existence form of higher space, just like an ant who has crawled on a piece of paper all his life cannot understand three-dimensional space. If you add another time variable, it becomes a four-dimensional space, that is, in the thinking space, even if they are in the same place and the time is different, two people cannot see each other, and if people in three-dimensional and four-dimensional space want to meet, they must adjust a precise time frequency to allow people in two spaces to meet. This kind of encounter often happens unintentionally, and people in three-dimensional space are often frightened, so the ancestors of ancient and modern China and foreign countries have their own ghosts, and there are almost no people who do not believe in ghosts. In Lao Luo's view, ghosts may be an explanation of the ancestors after encountering people in the fourth dimension in a state of ignorance.

Luo Xiurong believes that the core of most exorcism, ghost summoning and other techniques is just to adjust the fourth variable "timeline", the so-called ghosts are transferred away, or transferred, similar to the channel of the radio, and the northern method and the southern Gu technique are also based on the same idea, combined with the theory of Shanghai medicine and Zhu Youxin, and the various factions that have been made. Luo Xiurong also invented a radio-like machine that year, combined with a drug called "Chongliu Tang", which was verified in a large number of so-called murderous houses in the southwestern Gu-stricken areas and in Shanghai and Beiping, and the effect was very good. So he wrote a number of papers.

It is precisely because of these theses that they clash with later mainstream ideas. At that time, this kind of thinking was not a trivial matter, Lao Luo was subsequently suspended for inspection, and then both of them were sent to Xinjiang to support the construction of the third line. In Xinjiang, it is not a trivial matter to be unaccustomed to water and soil, lack of medical treatment and medicine, but the high-intensity low-end manual labor and the inability to engage in the research of this specialty have made these former experts, professors and mental workers unbearable, and many of them have contracted the disease and died. Lao Luo said that some people's corpses are stacked in the desert outside the wall, where it is dry and hot all year round, and the corpses do not decompose, and for decades, every time I go to work, I see my old colleagues lying in the desert, until I watch them weathered and dehydrated and turned into mummies. That feeling is no longer fear, it's numbness.

"I don't dare to mention Chongliu Tang anymore, I don't dare to mention it anymore, I was wrong, I shouldn't have studied those witchcraft Gu arts." Luo Xiurong sighed, "The two children I gave birth to there, her mother also died after giving birth to Roland because she couldn't take care of her. At that time, he sent Luo Pei back to the provincial capital with the relationship of his classmates, thinking that he could get a good education, but as a result, alas. I took my youngest daughter Roland with me and just came back from Xinjiang with me. I knew there would be so many changes, how good it would be for me to keep Luo Pei by my side. ”

"Dad, I don't blame you, it's all my own bad life. Besides, aren't I right by your side now?" Roope hugged his father's shoulder.

Baozi begged Luo Xiurong, "Please give me the recipe for the flush soup, I have to save my grandmother." ”

Luo Xiurong said, "Baozi, it's not that I won't give it to you, I'm really afraid, and that recipe, well, is very complicated, my literature has been confiscated, where is there any recipe for flushing soup." You see, I don't even dare to move back to my original home, and I live in this little bungalow, and I hardly go out. Someone asked me how I was, and the children didn't know about it. You have to understand. ”

"Why is this happening, now society has progressed" Baozi still doesn't give up.

"Once you were bitten by a snake for ten years, you are afraid of the well rope, let you stay in that place for thirty years, you try. Child, everything else is easy to say, I really can't help with this matter. Luo Pei, give Ziqiang a hundred yuan, I will give his grandmother a little heart. ”

Luo Pei also begged, "Dad, Baozi sacrificed his life to save me from the fire pit, we can't do this." ”

Luo Xiurong waved his hand, "I'm tired, I'll take a break." Buns, go home quickly, try other methods that don't work. ”

Baozi was disgusted with giving money and refused to accept it, but was forced into his backpack.