Chapter 3: Fate
The ancestor once said that if a person lives for a hundred years, everything is predestined. Some people are born with a golden soup spoon in their mouths, and they have a smooth sail for a lifetime. And some people have a miserable life and a bad fate.
The efforts we make to change our destiny often do not completely reverse the course of our lives.
But that's the interesting part of life, everyone struggles with fate, hoping for a miracle to come, hoping that they are that special person until they are old.
At a young age, I also thought about my own life, even if I was different from other people, I could remember some things in my previous life, but in the end, it should be an ordinary life, and when the time comes, I will get married and have a baby, and then walk towards the end of my life like most people around me.
But who can say what the future holds?
The grandfather and grandmother led the woman into the house. When she sat down, a pair of slender eyes stared straight at me, with shock and incomprehension in her eyes, and I felt uncomfortable.
Grandma nodded at the woman and said, "You are not mistaken, Yueqing's eyes have been opened, and the soul suppression nail you gave has been broken, it is really fate, and the will of heaven is hard to disobey!" I'm sorry for the entrustment of Yueqing's parents. ”
Saying that, my grandmother's eyes began to moisten, and I hurriedly stepped forward and pulled my grandmother's sleeve to wipe her tears. I was thinking about the meaning of my grandmother's words.
The woman bit her lower lip, and said in a low and hoarse voice: "Everyone has their own lives, and this matter can be regarded as a number of days, no wonder you two are old, then you discuss it next, Yueqing's go and stay, I won't bother for now." ”
With that, he turned and walked out the door.
The woman just left, but I felt a little flustered, did she mean that my grandmother should consider whether to continue to raise me?
I looked back at my grandmother, her back seemed to be stiff, and her whole spirit was a lot worse. Looking at my grandmother's old appearance, I couldn't help but feel a little sad, my nose was sore, and I was about to cry.
At this time, the ancestor beckoned to me and said, "Girl, come here." Then he took out his nameless book and handed it to me, and I took it, and it was heavy, and the pages were not ordinary paper.
The ancestor then said: "You have put away this book, now that your destiny has been fulfilled, it is no longer interesting for the ancestor to keep you in this small mountain village, you have a big event to do in your life, in the future, you will follow the woman who came today, she will take you to a place where you should go." ”
Tears flowed out at once, I didn't understand why the ancestor let me go, I looked back at my grandparents who were also red-eyed, and I didn't speak, just uncomfortable. I asked, "Why?" ”
Old Ancestor let out a long sigh, as if he had experienced a period of hesitation, before slowly starting to speak......
It turned out that the ancestor had inherited the I Ching Feng Shui, the eight-character Nayin and the secret art of Qimen, and also had some things to draw talismans and seals.
At that time, it was more feudal than now, and everyone knew that the ancestor knew some witchcraft, and everyone respected her.
Later, the ancestor responded to the five disadvantages and three deficiencies of life, and the child born would die in less than a month. After six children died in a row, the ancestor who was proficient in numerology was also ready to accept his fate and no longer struggle.
Until one day, the ancestor went up the mountain to look at feng shui for a merchant in the outer village, faintly saw that the mountain stream seemed to be extraordinary, after some pointing, pointed to a piece of land and said to the master's house: "Tomorrow morning, the hour is right, bring someone to dig here, you look at this road, there will be a person wearing an iron hat passing by around noon, and stop when you see that person, and this grave will be dug well." ”
The businessman is confused, there are still people in this world who wear iron hats? Besides, who can stand the weather when it's so hot? But after listening to the words of the ancestor, he didn't dare to slack off, and after giving the money, he began to arrange for the digging of the grave tomorrow.
After getting the money, after the crowd dispersed, it was already sunset, and the ancestor walked slowly towards the mountain stream alone, wanting to see what was there.
But the mountain road is rugged and winding, the road is full of thorns, the sand trees all over the mountain cover the sky and the sun, there is no road when walking, the ancestor carefully advances on the hillside, and the sky is a little darker.
I finally heard the sound of tinkling water, and it was not far from the mountain stream.
At this time, the light has been densely covered by dense sand trees, almost dark under the tree, the ancestor groped to the sound of the water, vaguely heard a few pops, as if the animals in the mountains were playing in the water, not long after hearing a few pops, like a fish out of the water struggling to jump back into the water, but in this dense forest can not see anything, the ancestor in his heart, speed up the pace out of the dense forest, outside the forest is a wide mountain stream, the sound of the water murmuring, so comfortable.
At this time, the moon also poked out half of its head, and the mountains, forests and earth were covered with a layer of shallow white moonlight.
The ancestor hid behind a sand tree, and looked into the mountain stream, as if there was something fluttering in the water, splashing bursts of water, printed with moonlight, sparkling, that thing was always hidden in the water and did not show itself.
The ancestor was curious and reluctant to go, and at this time the night wind gradually rose, and the moon rose into the sky and was also obscured by dark clouds so that only three or three leaked some moonlight, the thing seemed to be very cheerful in the water, the stronger the wind, the stronger the ground, the sound of the water was rattling, and the sand leaves rubbed against each other and swayed with the wind, making a rustling sound.
The ancestor who was hiding behind the sand tree said in his heart, what kind of thing is this?
After a while, the wind blew stronger and stronger, whistling and sweeping the dead branches and leaves in the mountains and forests, hitting the ancestor in the face was also painful, but she didn't dare to make a sound, for fear of startling the things in the water, holding her breath, staring at the waterhole, trying to see one, two, three, four.
After a while, the wind stopped suddenly, and the torrential rain came as scheduled, and the downpour watered the mountain forest.
The soybean-sized raindrops hit the body, popping, and the rain ran down the hair and eyebrows, so dense that people couldn't open their eyes.
The ancestor arched his hands above his head and looked at the things in the water with his empty eyes, when a lightning bolt pierced the clouds and illuminated the entire mountain, forest and land.
The ancestor was horrified, there was a white snake with a thick bowl mouth rolling in the water! The white snake whistled with its bloody mouth wide open and hissed, drowning out the sound of the rain.
After a while, I saw it sink into the water, ready to jump up. Charge enough, break through the water, and it is bound to soar! The snow-white scales of the white snake shone silver in the dark night, and at this time, it jumped straight into the air, like a sharp sword, about to pierce the night!
A blinding light flashed, followed by a thunderclap, and the white snake fell heavily beside the mountain stream, and the lightning was like a maggot on the tarsal bones, wrapping its snow-white scales and spreading out black marks, and a strange smell filled the air.
The white snake couldn't bear the thunder, vomited a mouthful of blood, took a short rest, and was ready to jump into the air again!
At this time, the rain was more intensive, and the ancestor hid under the tree and felt that he was about to lose his body, and the soil under his feet began to become soft, as if it was about to collapse, and slowly began to sink.
It was too late, it was too late, and the white snake began to take off for the second time, but the will of heaven was difficult to disobey, and a thunderbolt knocked it down not far from the ancestor, motionless, not knowing whether to live or die.
The rain was too heavy, and the soil on both sides of the mountain stream had obvious signs of collapse, and the ancestor desperately climbed to the top of the mountain.
After barely climbing a few steps, I heard a woman's weak voice calling: "Help me... Save... Help me... Don't go..."
The ancestor was shocked, and turned around to look around, only to find that this voice came from his heart? I tried to ask, "Who are you?" "I... Be... This mountain stream... White snake next to me, I know... You've just been hiding behind a tree, help me... The mountain stream is about to collapse. ”
It turned out that the white snake next to the mountain stream was talking to himself! The situation is urgent, and there is no time to think about it. As soon as the ancestor stomped his feet, he took off his turban as a rope, and dragged the white snake next to the mountain stream to climb the mountain.
Helplessly, the ancestor and the woman, although she has also been farming for many years, but her strength is not enough, so she can only drag the white snake with great effort, and she can't care about anything else, so she uses her strength to eat milk and runs desperately to the top of the mountain. As soon as we reached the side of the road, a large area collapsed in the middle of the mountainside stream.
The ancestor was so tired that he lost his strength, and he lay on his stomach in the rain panting heavily. The torrential rain did not mean to stop for half a minute, but it became more and more urgent, and the raindrops hurt on the body.
Old Ancestor took a look at the white snake beside him, he was scarred by the thunder, his scales were no longer bright, there were black marks everywhere, and there were traces of blood on the corners of his mouth.
Old Ancestor took off his coat and put it on the white snake's body, got up and prepared to go home.
However, it suddenly rained for most of the night, not without reason, only to see that at this time the blue light was flourishing, a mountain in the east, looming a green dragon jumped into the clouds, and suddenly a thunder mixed with lightning illuminated the earth clearly, the ancestor was so frightened that he didn't dare to stay, and stumbled home.
That night, the ancestor began to have a high fever and fell into a coma, and the grandfather went to see the doctor with the ancestor on his back the next morning.
The words are divided into two ends, one for each table.
The grave diggers in the next village also waited early in the field yesterday, and they were ready to dig as soon as the time came, and worshiped the mountain gods, heaven and earth in advance, and after the ceremony of kneeling and nine knocks was completed, the time was almost up.
As soon as the hour came, the three men began to dig the grave, and the head of the house stood by, waiting for the man with the iron hat to appear, and the sun gradually rose, shining on the earth, as if the rainstorm of last night did not exist, but many places on the opposite hill had collapsed.
As the time approached, there were more people on the road, old women carrying vegetable baskets, children chasing and fighting, and young adults carrying burdens.
The head of the house didn't see a man wearing an iron hat, and he couldn't help but get anxious, but he urged the three men who were digging the grave not to stop, and the three men also waved their hoes vigorously.
After a while, a swarthy and sturdy man walked in the distance, carrying a newly bought iron pot in his hand, and the sweat wet the ends of his hair, flowing down his temples to his chin, and dripping on the road with a click.
At noon, the sun was scorching everyone, and the head of the house couldn't help but feel more upset and irritable when he saw the time slowly passing and didn't see the man wearing the iron hat.
On the road, the swarthy man carrying the iron pot couldn't stand the scorching heat of the sun, so he lifted the iron pot above his head, buckled it on his head, and used it as a parasol, which seemed to be a little cooler, and then quickened his pace and walked up the hill, gradually disappearing into the distance.
The head of the house couldn't see the person wearing the iron hat appearing, pursed his lips anxiously, squinted at the road, and at this time, there was a burst of exclamations from the grave!
The head of the house hurriedly ran over to see the indiscriminate, and the three men exclaimed again and again: "Absolutely amazing! There are fish in this soil! No wonder Mr. said the terrain is good! ''
At the bottom of the grave, there was a palm-sized pool of water, clear and translucent, and there were two small fish in the water, one black and one white, swimming around in spirit. The head of the house immediately patted his leg and shouted: "It's broken! This feng shui has been dug up! ”
It turned out that the so-called person with an iron hat was the swarthy man with an iron pot on his head, who was too obsessed with the hat, but missed the time and broke the feng shui pattern.
There is a way that is determined by human destiny, and what should be yours is yours, and what should not be yours cannot be forced.
Besides, the ancestor of this disease, came very dangerous, almost did not survive, and then a woman came to the house, long clothes and trousers, covered tightly, said that I heard that my ancestor was sick, she had a prescription to cure, so she rushed from other villages to see if she could help.
When my grandfather heard this, he was so happy that he didn't have time to think about it, so he hurriedly led the woman to visit the old ancestor's bedside.
I saw the woman take out a small bottle from the baggage she was carrying, and instructed the old grandfather to help the old ancestor sit up, feed the contents of the bottle to the old ancestor one by one, and then instructed the old grandfather to fry five bowls of water into one bowl of water that he had brought, and give it to the old ancestor every day.
After seven consecutive days, Lao Zu's condition began to improve, and his spirit began to improve.
After the ancestor recovered, it didn't take long for him to become pregnant with my grandmother! One night, she saw a white snake fall into a dream, incarnated into a woman in a long coat and trousers, and signed herself as: Qianyu, here to thank the ancestor for rescuing him that day.
He also said that he would try his best to keep the ancestor safe, but he suffered from the damage to his cultivation due to the thunder of the day, and he needed to practice at a dragon vein, and asked the ancestor for help.....
The next morning, the ancestor woke up, frightened, and doubtful about what he had dreamed about.
Unexpectedly, when she got up to open the door, she found a woman in long clothes and trousers kneeling at the door, and the ancestor hurriedly helped her up and entered the house, and found that her face was pale and cold.
When the woman entered the door, she said, "Bodhisattva, help me." The ancestor looked at this woman carefully, the blue willow leaves and the eyes under the eyebrows cut autumn water, the nose was plump and full, the lips were red and the teeth were white, and the jaw was round, which was the same as in the dream, and it was not a bad look.
Then he boldly said: "Since you have reported your home in a dream, then I will not ask more, before you hid in the mountain stream is a dragon vein, but the green dragon took off, the mountain stream and many other places collapsed, now the mountain trend has changed, I watched the dragon qi a few days ago, faintly in the place of two miles to the east, you go by yourself, to that place, you can find it with your ability." “
Qian Yu listened, didn't say much, made a respectful gesture and ran east.
After she left, the ancestor found a snake tooth left outside the door.
Later, the ancestor gave birth to his grandmother smoothly, and suddenly the back of the camel also experienced difficulties several times, and each time it was this Qianyu who appeared to rescue, so the ancestor was able to avoid the five disadvantages and three deficiencies.
But there are some things that can be avoided by the first day of junior high school, but not by the fifteenth, although my grandmother did not inherit the mantle of the ancestor, but instead learned the profession of veterinarian.
But when my mother was young, she was looked down upon by a monk who practiced without the knowledge of my ancestor and grandmother, and she worshipped the teacher privately.
By the time my grandmother and ancestor found out, my mother would have been able to sing songs for the two of them. The two of them were so angry that they stomped their feet. But once you choose this path, there is no regret medicine, and you can only let my mother go.
And then there was me. After my mother knew that there were five disadvantages and three shortcomings, she was afraid that something would happen to me, so she went to the Northeast with my father.
It is said that this was still Qianyu's idea, so I haven't seen them since I was a child. I guess now that my mother sees me, she treats me as a passerby.
After I was born, my grandfather and Qianyu saw my fate, and it turned out that there were two heavenly witches in my life, but fortunately, I was just born at that time, and my spiritual power was not strong, so they sealed my brain and heart with ox blood.
Thinking that as long as I lived in this small village with my ancestor and grandparents, I would be fine, and Qianyu specially left her teeth for me, in case I ran into something unclean and was broken, and my life was right.
Who knew that the last time I went to the cemetery with Second Brother Yu, it was a mistake. Therefore, a person's life is really not something you can change if you want to.
Now that I know these things, I ask my grandmother, "Since my fate has been fulfilled, why didn't my parents come back, but asked me to go to the Northeast?" ”
My grandmother didn't answer with a stunned expression, but just asked me if I would like to go to the Northeast. I can't let go of my ancestors, grandparents, big black cats, and second brother Yu next door, but I think that I can meet my parents when I go to the Northeast, and I can snuggle up in my parents' arms like other children, and my heart is extremely yearning.
After thinking about it, I decided to stay in the village for another month, say goodbye to everyone, and then go to the northeast.