Chapter 2: Red Ridge
To the south of Yazhou, there is a mountain, which the locals call "Honglingzi". It is said that the soil on the mountain is red clay because www.biquge.info is the soil, so over time, the locals have become accustomed to calling it that.
There is a river on the left side of the mountain, called "Ningyan River", if friends who read novels have been to this place, they must have understood, the river meanders, passing through many villages and towns, and the end of the river is the South China Sea.
Between the mountains and rivers, there is such a small village, about 100 households, the village is not big, but there are many surnames. The village is also not xenophobic, and it is said that the formation of the village was the result of the accumulation of more and more households over a long period of time. The local residents rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and the water, and they get along happily.
After his father's death, Li Ziping became the only one left in the family of life. Li Ziping had a second uncle, who left the village and went to the mainland in his early years. Now that many years have passed, the second uncle has not come back, because of the inconvenience of communication, and he cannot be contacted. Even when Li Ziping's father died, he didn't get to see his own brother. Li Ziping didn't dare to speculate about what happened to the second uncle now, because the people of their family, who learned the art of life, often had the possibility of not dying well because they accidentally spied on the heavens.
For thousands of years, the ancestors of the Li family have wanted to change their lives against the sky through advanced techniques. But the destiny of heaven is difficult to see, and it is even more difficult to change it, many ancestors have succeeded one after another, and none of them have succeeded. When the life technique was passed on to Li Ziping's grandfather's generation, it was already very weak, and the old man knew that he was not good at learning and art, and he did not dare to try to change his life against the sky like his ancestors, but he settled down and was able to enjoy the joy of family in his old age. And when it came to Li Ziping's father's generation, it was the same, the old man Li was honest, worked in the field during the day, and returned to the room at night, lit a kerosene lamp to study the method of life, and in his later years, he also had a lot of feelings, and passed on the learned method of life to Li Ziping.
Li Ziping's child was probably affected by the "karma" of his ancestors, and his mother died of dystocia just after birth. When he was about eight or nine years old, Li Ziping also had a serious illness and almost died, it is said that the living dragon who was angered by the eight brothers of his ancestors passed through the village and found that the family of life magic still existed, so he used some means to want Li Ziping's life, so that the family could be completely cut off. Although Old Man Li is an honest and peaceful person, how could he watch his child die, so it took three days and three nights to lay out a formation to cover up Li Ziping's breath and deceive the living dragon. The living dragon thought that Li Ziping was dead, so naturally he left not long after. Of course, these are all said by the older generation, and whether they are true or not remains to be verified. People only said that the living dragon had absorbed enough heaven and earth aura, and its mana had reached the sky, and it was already able to soar through the clouds, so there was no need to curl up and crouch in the earth like other dragons in the dragon veins. If it weren't for the ancestors of the Destiny Family who provoked such a divine object, with their abilities, I am afraid that their ancestors would not have cowered in this small village for generations.
Probably because Li Ziping's formation hurt his vitality, Old Man Li died in his fifties. Now Li Ziping is in his twenties.
Li Ziping also wanted to keep to himself like his father and grandfather, so he found a matchmaker in a nearby village and asked the matchmaker to help him talk about his family. The matchmaker took it when she had a job, so naturally she didn't think about it so much, but as soon as the surrounding village heard that the matchmaker was helping Li Ziping to kiss, they drove the matchmaker out before they finished speaking. Although Li Ziping is young now, his reputation is already outside, and if there is anyone in the village within a radius of ten miles who has never heard of his name, I am afraid that person must be deaf. No one dares to marry their daughter to Li Ziping. Everyone knows that the people of the family of life art have been contaminated with countless "karma" in their lives, they have studied life art for many years, and their skills are profound, and they may be able to protect themselves so that the retribution will not come so quickly, but what about other people? If other families marry their eldest daughters, I am afraid that in three or five years, the white-haired people will send the black-haired people.
The matchmaker returned in vain, and when she told Li Ziping, it was obviously already expected by him, and she didn't see any change in his expression, just nodded, took out the errand money from her pocket and gave it to the matchmaker, and sent her away. Probably the result of the matchmaker's trip, he had already deduced the performance.
That night, Li Ziping slept soundly in the house, and there was a thunderstorm outside the house, but in an instant, there was lightning and thunder, and it was pouring rain.
This thunder was loud, but it woke up Li Ziping, who was asleep. After waking up, Li Ziping tossed and turned, but he couldn't sleep. Reluctantly, he got up, found a match, and lit the kerosene lamp.
A faint dim light illuminated the room.
Li Ziping took out four copper coins from a cloth bag he usually carried, placed them in his palm, and folded them smoothly. After that, he closed his eyes, and with a silent thought in his heart, he threw the copper coin. I saw that after the four copper coins rotated in the air a few times, they landed smoothly on the table.
Li Ziping looked at it steadily, and in an instant, he had an answer in his heart.
I remember that my father warned him before he died, although he could get a glimpse of the things in the world by learning the art of life, but there were still eight or nine things in the world, which could not be manipulated by human beings. And the method of life art is easy to attract the wrath of the heavens, at least it will hurt one's own body, damage the yang and lose one's life, and at the worst it will attract the curse of heaven and die unexpectedly. So over the years, even if Li Ziping deduced the life technique, he didn't dare to calculate in the general direction, and the calculations were just some irrelevant things around him.
Sleepless nights.
Early the next morning, there was a sharp knock on the door. It's a rare thing. The villagers generally did not dare to provoke Li Ziping, let alone knock on his door.
Li Ziping opened the door, only to see a bald head with a meaty face looking panicked, this bald head is a hooligan in the village, and he has done a lot of things to bully the neighbors and villagers on weekdays.
The bald head is called Ah Hei.
Ah Hei saw Li Ziping open the door, but he couldn't help but take a step back, a little timid, probably afraid of getting Li Ziping's "karma".
Li Zi said calmly: "What's the matter? ”
Ah Hei settled down and said, "Lao Li asked me to invite you to his house, and the third uncle said that this matter must be yours." ”
Li Ziping didn't say much, went back to the house and took his small cloth bag, put it on his shoulder, and walked away with this Ah Hei.
Lao Li can be regarded as the landlord in the village, there are many fields, and many villagers eat from him, but he is also modest on weekdays, so although he is rich, he does not arouse the jealousy of the villagers. Although this Ah Hei is a hooligan, the hooligan always has to eat, right? So in Lao Li's house, he took the position of rent collector.
The third uncle is a big god in the village, learned some Taoism, and lives by helping people run funerals on weekdays, or helping those young girls who are going to get married to calculate their birthdays to see if they are compatible, and then help choose an auspicious day to get married.
This time, there was a funeral in Lao Li's family, but before this funeral happened, the Li family originally had a happy event.