Chapter 169: The Whisper of the Ear Chamber
As soon as my grandfather's words came out, it undoubtedly touched Xinyangzi's most fragile nerves, and he cried more and more, and after a while, it was like a flood bursting the embankment, and it was out of control.
"After the master died, I didn't even have a place to collect the master's bones...... It's my incompetence as an apprentice, and it's my unfilial piety as an apprentice......"
No one can tell how much blood and tears tragedy a natural disaster has bringed......
My grandmother and my grandfather could only watch Xinyangzi cry silently beside them at this time, no one tried to dissuade him, no one stopped him, because my grandmother and my grandfather knew very well in their hearts, and they could also see that the child knife master, these things should be the first time Xinyangzi mentioned them to others, and he had been suppressed in his own memories before, and the pain and torture that he had borne alone could be imagined.
Some things on the mind are not necessarily a good thing to keep in your heart, and when the time is right, it is not necessarily a bad thing to vent them freely......
At this time, the sky was already bright, and my grandmother and my grandfather kept looking at Xinyangzi and waited for Xinyangzi all the time.
Little by little, I don't know how long time has passed, Xin Yangzi's voice is hoarse, although he is still crying, but at the same time he is panting, his chest and back are wheezing, and he is very uplifted at once, obviously tired of crying.
At this moment, a series of small footsteps came from outside the door, getting closer and closer, and after a while, the door of the ear room was gently knocked, followed by a child's voice: "Master, the tea is ready." ”
The three men in the ear chamber turned their heads to look at the door at the same time, but the door was not pushed open. Xinyangzi hurriedly stopped crying, and picked up his robe in a panic to wipe the tears on his face. Seeing his embarrassed appearance, my grandmother couldn't help but be embarrassed when she was seen by her apprentice, so she motioned to Xinyangzi not to move, got up and walked to the door, and opened the door a crack.
I saw a twelve- or thirteen-year-old boy standing at the door, holding a wooden tray in his hand, on which a large teapot and three coarse porcelain tea bowls were placed.
My grandmother smiled at Daotong and said, "Come, give me the tea." ”
Xiao Daotong was very obedient, and handed it to my grandmother along with the tray, and then, Xiao Daotong turned to one side, poked his head out to look inside, and probably heard the cry in the ear chamber when he came in. My grandmother was busy with her body, "We have important matters to discuss with your master, you can play outside with your brothers first." ”
The sight was blocked by my grandmother, so Xiao Daotong had no choice but to give up, and made a gesture to my grandmother in the following manners, "Then I will lead the junior disciples to make breakfast first." After speaking, Xiao Daotong turned around and left.
My grandmother didn't rush to close the door, she stood at the door with a tray in her hand, looking at the back of the little Taoist boy, and the whole person seemed a little distracted. The family has long wanted to have a child, but her stomach has always been angry, if she was pregnant with a child in the year she got married, she would still be able to serve tea and pour water.
It wasn't until Xiao Daotong walked out of the hall that my grandmother came back to her senses. The door was closed, and he turned around and walked to the table, the teapot and bowl were placed on the table, the tray stood under the table, and he poured a bowl for Xin Yangzi first.
Although Xinyangzi stopped crying at this time, he still looked sad, and his mouth was dry when he wanted to cry, so he picked up the tea bowl and blew the tea foam, tested the temperature again, and drank most of the bowl in one go.
When the tea was almost drunk, Xin Yangzi recovered a little bit of expression, he arched his hand again at my grandfather and my grandmother, sighed, and then said: "After the death of the master, the poor Dao was disheartened, at that time the master and I had adopted more than sixty children, and there was not much food left in the temple, if I went down the mountain to exchange food for children, I am afraid I would not be able to support them...... Poor Dao took these children to guard the Taoist temple, looking forward to the famine all day long, until the harvest in the autumn of this year, Poor Dao saw that there was a little harvest in the field, and the life of the common people was almost alive, so Poor Dao took these children to their parents. Where these children changed in the past, where they received them, and even their names, the names of their parents, are all well documented here. ”
"According to the record, they searched for their parents one by one, and who knows, out of the sixty children, only about twenty of their parents survived this famine, and the remaining thirty or so children, there was no one in the family, and they all starved to death, alas...... Poor Dao had no choice but to bring them back to the temple, but ...... But now, the food in the temple is almost gone, and the poor road is worried all day long, so many children, how can I find a life for them......"
Listening to Xinyangzi talk about this, my grandmother nodded deeply, in the past few years, there has been famine, and there is a rebellion, and the lives of the common people are in dire straits, who still has the heart to burn incense on the mountain, the incense burner placed at the door of the Taoist temple at the bottom of the Huanghua Cave, look at the incense ash condensed inside, it is not difficult to imagine the destitude of the Taoist temple at this time, and there is no field in the Taoist temple, and it is indeed a big problem to provide so many children to live.
At this time, Xin Yangzi was still talking, my grandmother hurriedly came back to her senses, and listened to Xin Yangzi say: "In the past few years, there have been many wars, and no people have come to Guanli to incense, and now Guanli has no money to buy private salt...... (At that time, private salt was overflowing, much cheaper than official salt, and private salt was the kind of very rough big salt bump, salty and astringent, and it could be poisoned if you ate too much.) )
Hearing Xin Yangzi say this, my grandmother suddenly realized something, so she asked Xin Yangzi, "Since there is no money to buy salt in the temple, why do you still light such a big oil lamp at night?" ”
Xin Yangzi smiled bitterly, "The four oil lamps in the hall below, lighting them are actually for you two nobles, in order to let the two of you see the children inside, the oil lamps in this hall, that's because of ......" Xin Yangzi smiled bitterly again, "Because after the master passed away, the poor road accumulated into a disease, a serious illness, after the illness was cured, I didn't want to have problems with my eyes, I couldn't see things at night, and the five ghosts had to be lit at night, if it was put in normal times, where would the poor road be willing to ......"
"Oh......" Hearing Xinyangzi say this, my grandmother was relieved at the same time, but at the same time, she suddenly realized one thing, "Since the lamps below are for us to see the children in the temple, then ...... Dao Chief, did you already know that we would come tonight? ”
Xin Yangzi once again arched his hand at my grandfather and my grandmother, with an apologetic expression on his face, "With the methods of Senior Liu and Bai Xiangu, once the weir ghost enters the two people's house, the two of them will definitely be able to find out that it is driven by people, and they will definitely find the poor ...... overnight."
Listening to Xin Yangzi say this, my grandfather and my grandmother glanced at each other, and they both felt quite faceless, the father and daughter ran more than ten miles of mountain roads in the middle of the night, and the feelings were designed in advance for others.
Xin Yangzi seemed to see what my grandfather and my grandmother were thinking at this time, and then said: "The two of you are not strange, there is no way to do this...... "360mobe The last ghost hunter."
My grandfather smiled and waved his hand, "It's okay, the Taoist doesn't have to blame himself, it's just that the Taoist said so much, we don't know what you want us to do?" We don't have much food at home, but we still have some savings at home......"
"No...... No need to ......" Xin Yangzi hurriedly waved his hand, "Poor Dao wants to ask for the two...... I want the two of you to help me revive Huanghuaguan, before the master died, Huanghuaguan has been taken care of by the master, the master knows both medical skills and thaumaturgy, often helps people treat diseases and drive away disasters, and is well-known in this area......" said, Xinyangzi sighed again, "I am an apprentice, my qualifications are mediocre, I have followed the master for decades, and the master's medical skills and spells have only been learned by the poor way, which is really ...... It's ......."
"Can't do it?" My grandfather saw Xinyangzi's face ashamed, and in the end, he had to say for him: "This time we have a strange disease in the village, you can't cure it, but you don't want to insult the reputation of Huanghuaguan, once Huanghuaguan is discredited, the incense will be cut off, and then you will no longer be able to feed this child, so you found our family and wanted us to help you, we secretly contributed, Huanghuaguan was named on the surface, right?" ”
As soon as Xin Yangzi heard my grandfather say this, the whole person became excited, hurriedly got up from the chair again, walked to my grandfather in a few steps, and shook his hands, it seemed that he was going to kneel again, my grandfather didn't wait for him to kneel down, stood up and stopped him, "Dao chief don't have to be polite, we will help you with this matter!" ”
At this time, my grandmother also stood up from the chair, she groaned for a while, and then asked Xinyangzi softly: "Dare to ask the chief, do you remember the Hu family girl at the door of the village chief's house yesterday?" Her man beat a rabbit, you said that the rabbit was the pioneer officer of the mountain god, if the rabbit had already killed her man at that time, what would you do? ”
Xin Yangzi listened to my grandmother's question, glanced at my grandmother, and sighed helplessly, "What else can the poor Dao do, I can only lie to them and say, if you want to not be punished by the mountain god, you can find a reincarnated golden boy next to the Bodhisattva to keep at home, of course they can't find the reincarnated golden boy, and finally they have to come to the poor Dao, there are so many children here in the poor Dao, just send them one to raise, they know that it is the reincarnation of the golden boy, they will not snub the children, and the poor Dao is here, and they will be able to have one less burden......"
I have to write it here, and the following words may also charge you a penny for your friends, don't scold me. Seriously, the Golden League, the first time I felt a little uncomfortable, now the Golden League is ranked 23, I just looked at it today, many of the previous results are not as good as mine, however, the number of votes is more than mine, I didn't want to compete with others, the last time the Golden League, it was the editor who tricked me into participating, this time, I don't know who gave me the point, but, can you help me fight for it? You can go to the homepage and take a look.,My book appears on the homepage the least number of times.,Even if it appears.,It's also in the most inconspicuous place at the bottom.,That's not to say.。 Whoever has a Golden League vote feels like they can vote for me, and if you have time, it's better to cast one vote a day. It's not popular, and it's not treated well by the editors, and I'm ashamed to say anything, here I ask all friends to help me fight for breath in the Golden League, the higher the ranking, the greater the chance of being favored by the publisher, and if it can really come out in the future, I will be able to fulfill the promise I sent. At the end of the world, on the grinding iron, I owe many people promises, and every day I ask myself when I can fulfill them, if this book is not finished and it can't be published, then I can only take those blank checks and smile bitterly. For so long, I haven't asked for anything, and this time, I'm really a little unwilling, whoever has a vote, please vote for one! -The Last Ghost Hunter-