Chapter Fifty-Eight: Men and Women on a Snowy Night

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Hearing that my grandfather was practicing martial arts in the yard again, my great-grandfather made an exception today and glanced at the big locust tree, and saw that my grandfather was playing a set of boxing there, and they fell together, and the speed was quite fast, my great-grandfather didn't know what kind of boxing my grandfather practiced, but he was dazzled.

At the same time, my great-grandfather found Xiaoyu standing under the big locust tree, staring at my grandfather's boxing with good eyes, and occasionally, my grandfather stopped and the two of them looked at each other and smiled.

When my great-grandfather saw this, he shook his head and went into the house to eat.

No further ado. The next evening, the sky was still gloomy, the cold wind was howling, brewing the mood for a day and a night, and it was estimated that it would really snow tonight.

At this time, my great-grandfather came home from the shop, and before he arrived at the door, he saw Jin Sanye standing at the door with his hands in his hands waiting for him from a distance, and he suddenly felt a little unhappy in his heart.

When I came to the door, my great-grandfather asked Jin Sanye why he didn't come into the house and wait for him. Jin Sanye shuddered and said, "The life-saving benefactor is still blowing outside and getting cold, how can I enter the house?" ”

My great-grandfather was moved and sighed when he heard this, what a life-saving benefactor, he didn't help at all.

After introducing Jin Sanye into the house, my great-grandfather asked him how the hexagram was doing.

Jin Sanye said excitedly: "Calculate it, calculate it, calculate it......" Saying, Jin Sanye read another set of hexagrams: "The day before the sacrificial stove official, the third watch complained about his mother from the southeast, and the Jinjia Heavenly God persuaded him to clear the clouds and mist and see the sunny day." ”

My great-grandfather couldn't understand the hexagram that Jin Sanye said this time, and Jin Sanye didn't give him a detailed explanation, only said that when he went to the ruins of Liangfu tonight, everything would have an answer.

My great-grandfather asked him if the old mother who cooked in the Liang Mansion would appear there. Jin Sanye said that there is not so much said in the hexagram, as long as the third watch goes to the ruins of Liangfu tonight to take a look.

Seeing that Jin Sanye refused to say, my great-grandfather didn't ask any more, so he planned to find my great-grandmother's second brother and ask him to go to the county government to find a few catchers to go with, but was stopped by Jin Sanye. Jin Sanye said that this matter can only be done by my great-grandfather alone, and there will be variables when there are more people.

Variable is a professional term in the hexagram telling industry, which means that if there are more people going, things will not develop according to the hexagram, and unexpected changes will occur.

Hearing Jin Sanye say this, my great-grandfather will be suspicious, but seeing that Jin Sanye is determined at this time, he also dispelled the idea of looking for my great-grandmother's second brother.

After dinner and sending off Jin Sanye, my great-grandfather prepared a few things to drive away evil spirits and catch ghosts, burning paper, wicker, red head rope, peach wedge, etc., and deliberately brought the Shoufang sword.

It is said that after the fire in Liangfu, it began to be haunted, perhaps because the ghosts of the few people who burned to death lingered. Now that I'm going there in the middle of the night, even if I can't use these things, I can be prepared.

After everything was ready, my great-grandfather took out the cigarette pouch left by Wang Shoudao, sat in the living room and smoked a cigarette and waited for time.

Time passed little by little. I don't know when the wind outside the house stopped, and the snow drifted up, and the goose feathers snowed, and the heaven and earth became vast and gloomy at this moment.

After a long time, the sound of the second watch came from the street.

"Bang Bang, Bang Bang...... The second watch is good, turn off the lights and go to bed......"

My great-grandfather hurriedly put away his cigarette pouch, took the baggage containing the exorcisms, and found an umbrella and a lantern in the house.

At this moment, there was a commotion in the courtyard outside, and the sound was mixed with laughter.

My great-grandfather put the burden on his shoulders, opened the door with an umbrella and a lantern and walked out.

When I came to the courtyard, I looked in the direction where the noise came from, and I saw that under the big locust tree, two cheerful figures were holding up the thick snow on the ground, scattering each other around the big locust tree, frolicking.

It turned out that my grandfather had finished practicing martial arts and was having a snowball fight with Xiaoyu in the yard. Xiaoyu has been at my great-grandfather's house for less than half a month at this time, but she and my grandfather are familiar with each other as if they were two good friends who have played since childhood.

When my great-grandfather saw this, he said to them, it's not early, don't mess around in the yard, go to bed early.

Xiaoyu was very obedient, hurriedly answered, and obediently went back to her room. My grandfather may have had a little fun and was not very happy, but he didn't resist and followed Xiaoyu and made a gesture to go back to the room.

However, after my great-grandfather walked out of the house with a lantern and an umbrella and came to the street, he hadn't taken a few steps before he heard through the courtyard wall that my grandfather and Xiaoyu were giggling and laughing again in the courtyard.

My great-grandfather shook his head suddenly, and he couldn't help his father, and he felt that my grandfather had grown up and couldn't control it anymore. In ancient times, sixteen or seventeen years old was considered an adult.

Straight to the point. The village where Liangfu is located is not far from the county seat, and it is only five or six miles away, but my great-grandfather is a little old, and the road is slippery in snow, and it takes more than half an hour to get there at night.

At this time, my great-grandfather held an umbrella and a lantern, standing here in the ruins of Liangfu, and looked around, because it was not yet three watches, there was no one here in the ruins, it seemed quiet and gloomy, and the atmosphere was not the same as other places.

My great-grandfather soon found a half-collapsed house in the ruins, and the cat went in, found a place to shelter from the snow, put out the lantern in his hand, and stood there waiting.

At this time, even my great-grandfather himself didn't know what he was waiting for, looking forward to something here after the third watch, and at the same time, he was also worried about whether Jin Sanye's hexagram was accurate, and he wouldn't freeze here all night.

The snow kept falling, not only did it not stop, but it continued to fall more and more, and soon, all the shoe prints left by my great-grandfather were filled with new snow.

After a period of time, there was a sound of playing the third watch in the distance, and my great-grandfather was suddenly shocked.

After a while, the sound of the third watch in the distance fell, and there was no change here in the Liang Mansion. Just as my great-grandfather hesitated, there was movement in the dilapidated gate, and there was a faint voice of a woman, and although the woman spoke softly, as if she had deliberately lowered her voice, it was still heard by my great-grandfather.

"To the sir, this is the ......"

After the woman finished speaking, a man's voice came, and the man didn't seem to shy away, the voice was quite loud, and my great-grandfather could hear it clearly.

"Yo, this place has a lot of yin qi, and a lot of people have died, right? Eldest sister, if I knew that this place was so heavy in yin qi, I really didn't come with you, you would have to add a few more dollars to me. ”

After the man finished speaking, a woman's voice came again, "Sir, be quiet, as long as you can call my daughter's soul over, add a few dollars." ”

At this time, my great-grandfather hurriedly put the lantern and umbrella in his hand to his feet, pressed against the half-collapsed wall, and looked towards the gate.

Friends in the north may know that on a snowy night, it is not dark, and the snow can still reflect some light, plus the house where my great-grandfather is located is very close to the gate, and through the flying snowflakes, my great-grandfather vaguely saw a man and a woman walking in from the gate, neither of them had lanterns, and they were touching the dark.

The woman walked in front of her, holding a cloth flag-like object in her hand, which was very strange. The man who followed the woman was even more strange, not only was he carrying a big burden in his hand, but he also had three flags in his clothes at the back of his neck.

The two of them didn't notice my great-grandfather, and after they walked through the gate, they didn't stop, and kept walking towards the ruins of the backyard.

My great-grandfather was holding his breath at this time, staring at them with good eyes.

Soon, the two of them were at the base of the backyard wall, where my great-grandfather had last seen a hole in the snow that had been swept out of the snow.

My great-grandfather spun out of the ruined wall and approached the two men without making a sound, and he wanted to see what they were doing here in the middle of the night.

At this time, a man and a woman stopped at the base of the wall, and the woman stood against the wall with the cloth banner in her hand, and then bent down and pulled a few times in a snow nest next to her, pulled out a big broom, and swept up the snow.

The man, at this time, squatted on the ground, untied the burden in his hand, took something out of the bag in the same way, and put it on the ground that the woman had swept.

My great-grandfather hid behind a ruined wall three or four meters behind them, watching them.

After a man and a woman had been tinkering for a while, there was a "rubbing" sound, and the man squatted on the ground and lit the fire with a fire sickle.

When he was young, a fire suddenly lit in front of the man, and although the light of the fire was not large, it illuminated a range around the man and woman.

My great-grandfather squinted his eyes and took a closer look by the firelight, and the pile that the man had lit seemed to be burning paper, and in front of the burning paper, there was an incense burner, and next to the incense burner, there was the man's bulging baggage.

At this time, the woman had stopped clearing the snow, squatted in front of the fire, took out a thick pile of heavy baggage and burned it to death, and continued the burning paper into the fire one by one, and the man used the fire to light two candles, put them on the left and right of the incense burner, and lit another incense, which was inserted into the incense burner.

In addition, my great-grandfather had a clear view of the three flags stuck in the man's collar at this time.

That's the tricolor flag, the left white flag, the right black flag, the apricot yellow flag in the middle, this tricolor flag my great-grandfather heard a little, the tricolor flag is also called the mixed yuan flag, the white flag represents "yang", the black flag represents "yin", and the yellow flag represents "chaos". Things that are similar to Taoism, but are not Taoism, should come from the side branches of Taoism, and may also have evolved from those things of Taoism