Because there was a table across the table, when my grandfather stood up from the chair and wanted to stop Xin Yangzi, he was already kneeling on the ground, and my grandfather had to go over and pick him up.

My grandfather said to Xin Yangzi: "If the Taoist chief has something to say, why bother like this." ”

Xin Yangzi looked sad, and arched his hand at my grandfather again, "It's about dozens of lives, what's the matter if you kowtow to your seniors." ”

"Dozens of lives?" Hearing Xinyangzi say this, my grandmother also hurriedly got up from the chair and looked at Xinyangzi in shock. My grandfather frowned at this time, I don't know what this Xinyangzi wants to ask them for, if it really involves dozens of lives, this matter is not small.

"The two nobles, please sit down, and Rong Poor Dao will slowly explain to the two of you." Xin Yangzi invited my grandfather and my grandmother to sit down again.

After sitting down, Xin Yangzi sighed, didn't hurry to say something, looked at my grandfather, and then at my grandmother, and asked, "When you two go up the mountain, have you seen the Taoist temple at the bottom of the mountain?" It's the one with the oil lamp on. ”

My grandfather and my grandmother looked at each other, nodded at the same time, and my grandmother said, "When you asked, I remembered, may I ask the chief, why are there so many children in there?" ”

Xinyangzi glanced at my grandmother and sighed again, "Those children...... Those kids were all ...... It's all me and the master who got the food in exchange......" Xin Yangzi said this, stopped talking, lowered his head and looked at the desktop in front of him blankly, stopped for a while, and didn't know what sad things he remembered, he actually covered his face with his hands, cried, and looked very sad.

Xin Yangzi cried like this, which made my grandmother and my grandfather look at each other. This Xinyangzi is less than fifty years old, what can make a monk who is nearly half a hundred years old cry bitterly? My grandmother and my grandfather couldn't figure it out.

After waiting for a while, seeing that Xin Yangzi was crying endlessly, my grandfather got up from the chair and walked to Xin Yangzi and patted him on the shoulder, "Dao Chief, what is the matter with you, just open your mouth, as long as it is not a matter that hurts nature and reason and violates morality and conscience, our Liu family is duty-bound." ”

Xinyangzi heard my grandfather say this, gradually stopped crying, wiped his tears with his robe, raised his head to look at my grandfather, and then, put a hand into his arms, and slowly took out a bloodstained ox ear knife from his arms!

My grandmother saw that Xin Yangzi actually took out a knife from her body, and stood up from the chair, my grandfather was so close to him, he only needed to raise his hand to kill my grandfather!

However, my grandfather stood motionless beside Xinyangzi, and his face didn't even change.

Xin Yangzi saw my grandmother standing up from the chair, and hurriedly turned his head to my grandmother and said: "Bai Xiangu is not surprised, Bai Xiangu is not surprised, there is no malicious ...... in the poor road" As he spoke, Xinyangzi respectfully held up the ox ear sharp knife and carefully placed it on the table. The level of care is like putting a precious object.

After staring at the sharp knife of the cow ear for a while, Xin Yangzi wiped the tears on his face again, got up and helped my grandfather to sit down in the chair, and after turning around and sitting back on his chair, Xin Yangzi said with a sad face about the knife of those children in the Taoist temple and about his master.

Xinyangzi's master is known as "Qingshi Taoist", and his common family name is Shen's name Qingshi, and his age is on par with my grandfather.

When Shen Qingshi was sixteen years old, he was enlightened by a traveling Taoist, worshipped the Taoist as a teacher, and then followed the Taoist to travel around the world and practice enlightenment.

At the age of twenty-three, the wandering Taoist drove the crane to the west, and after Shen Qingshi buried the Taoist, he traveled alone. The following year, he traveled to the area of Huanghuadong. Listen to the locals say, Huanghua Cave was the place where a fairy girl became an immortal in ancient times, the fairy girl before becoming an immortal, often used a kind of yellow flower as a medicine guide, hanging pot to help the world, and did not receive a penny, the people who received treatment, almost everyone was cured to get rid of the disease. Later, the fairy girl was full of merit and feathered into a flying immortal, and was called "Huanghua Daxian" by the people, and the cave where she lived was also called "Huanghua Cave" by the people.

After Shen Qingshi learned the origin of the Huanghua Cave, he deliberately climbed up the mountainside, entered the Huanghua Cave and looked, and saw that the Huanghua Cave was full of fairy energy, it was really a good place, and there were stone tables and stone benches and stone beds inside, which seemed to be left after the Huanghua Daxian Feixian, and there was a stream gurgling to the outside of the cave in the cave, just like a fairyland on earth.

Shen Qingshi immediately liked this place, and later, according to the description of the appearance of the yellow flower fairy by the common people, he made a statue of the god to the yellow flower fairy in the cave, and built a Taoist temple outside the hole, named "Yellow Flower View".

So far, Shen Qingshi has settled in Huanghuaguan, and the common people call him "Qingshi Taoist". A few years later, he accepted Xinyangzi as an apprentice.

Because there is a Taoist temple in Huanghua Cave, there are often ordinary people who come here to worship the gods. Qingshi Taoist people have won the true transmission of their teacher, both understand medical skills and understand the arts, the yellow flower view is thriving by him, every day come here to worship the good men and women who worship God, especially the couple who ask for children, as long as they put a more than one foot high spire-shaped stone pile on the mountain with gravel, make a wish, and will have a noble son in the coming year.

In the winter of 1940, a man in his early seventies had a strange dream one night. In the dream, he saw that the statue of the Yellow Flower Immortal was shedding tears, and it was the kind of red blood and tears, and before he had time to be shocked, he didn't know where to come from a woman's voice, and the woman said four words to him: Three years of great drought, starvation all over the land, food to help the world, sacrifice oneself to become benevolent.

After the woman's voice fell, the bluestone Taoist immediately woke up from the dream, felt that this dream came strangely, immediately put on clothes and carried a lantern, and went to the Huanghua Cave to take a look, and saw two clear blood marks on the cheeks of the Huanghua Immortal statue......

The people of Qingshi Dao were shocked, and then carefully pondered the four proverbs said by the woman in the dream, the first three sentences mean that there will be a great drought in the next three years, and many people will starve to death, and now we must quickly hoard food, so that we can help those people when the time comes. As for the last sentence "sacrifice oneself to become benevolent", Qingshi Daoist was a little unable to figure it out, and since he couldn't figure it out, he didn't think about it anymore in the end.

Over the years, Huanghuaguan incense is prosperous, and a lot of incense money has been accumulated, and the next day, the Qingshi Taoist people took out all the savings in the temple and took Xinyangzi down the mountain to buy food.

After half a month, the savings were spent, and at the same time, a considerable amount of food was hoarded in the temple. In Xinyangzi's words, that grain was enough for ten people to eat for five or six years.

In a blink of an eye, the time came to the second year, that is, in 1941, there was a drought, and there was a famine in some areas, but it was not serious, especially in the area of Huanghuadong, which was backed by the mountains, and the lives of the people nearby were barely passable.

Another year, in 1942, the drought worsened, many places did not harvest, and the Great Famine broke out, especially on the south bank of the Yellow River, where there was already a tragedy of cannibalism.

After hearing about it, the people of Qingshi Dao took Xinyangzi and drove two mule carts prepared in advance to the south bank of the Yellow River and distributed food to the people along the way.

However, under the nest, how can there be eggs? The great famine in the province, hungry people everywhere, only with the Qingshi Taoist people these grains, not even a cup of water and a car salary, a few days down, the food in the Taoist temple plummeted, but the starving people are more and more, Qingshi Taoist people look at it, this is not good.

At this time, the Qingshi Dao people found that many parents exchanged their children for slaughter and meat with other children. The people of Qingshi Dao were immediately heartbroken, and explained to Xinyangzi that the food would no longer be distributed, and they would do their best to rescue these poor children.

How to save it? Swap food for children with their parents, and then send the children to Taoist temples to be raised temporarily, and then return these children to their parents after the famine has passed.

According to Xinyangzi, at that time, one or two catties of grain could be exchanged for a child, and even many parents saw that they had food, so they directly gave their children to them, begging them to give their children a bite to eat.

Within a year, Huang Huaguan adopted more than 50 children, ranging in age from three to thirteen.

In the winter of 1942, in the evening of this day, Qingshi Daoist and Xinyangzi pulled a cart of grain in exchange for more than a dozen children, on the way back to the Taoist temple, passing by a family, just walked through the courtyard gate, suddenly heard the cry of children in the yard, because the courtyard wall is not high, Xinyangzi climbed the wall and glanced at the yard, and saw several men and women in the yard around a cauldron, boiling water in the cauldron, and several children lying next to it, one of the children was crying.

Among the men and women, there was a black and thin man, holding a bull-eared knife in his hand, and he was squatting on a stone next to the cauldron with a weak Huo Huo sharpening knife.

Xin Yangzi understood what was going on at a glance, and hurriedly jumped off the wall and said to the Qingshi Daoist that there were a few adults in the courtyard who wanted to kill children and eat meat.

When the bluestone Taoist heard this, he immediately rushed into the courtyard with Xinyangzi. At that time, all the food they had brought had been replaced by children, and except for a group of children, there was not a single grain of grain on the mule cart. Sister-in-law ||Pen |―The last ghost hunter

After some negotiations, the men and women in the yard did not agree with them to take the children away, and at least one should be left for them to fill their stomachs, and the Qingshi Dao people saw that several men and women were resolute, and they were silent for a while, and turned around suddenly, walked to the black and thin man, snatched the sharp knife, turned the tip of the knife, and stabbed the sharp knife into their hearts with a "poof"!

"You have something to eat, let the children go......" After the Qingshi Daoist finished speaking, he fell next to the cauldron with a pop, and died of anger!

Seeing this, Xin Yangzi cried hoarsely, the master was exchanging himself for these children!

Xin Yangzi walked to the corpse of the bluestone Taoist with blurred tears, pulled out the bull ear sharp knife on the bluestone daoist's chest, and plunged it into his arms......

When Xin Yangzi said this, he couldn't say it anymore, and cried bitterly like rain, crying loudly, there was resentment, helplessness, and liver and intestines......

At this moment, my grandmother and my grandfather have just stumbled from this famine, how can they not understand the taste? provoked my grandmother to keep sobbing, and at the same time, I admired this benevolent and righteous bluestone Taoist from the bottom of my heart.

My grandfather let out a long sigh, "Sacrifice your life to become benevolent, this is the last prophecy...... "-The Last Ghost Hunter-