Chapter 12: Xuanqing Dao Chief
"Wait, why do you old man want to leave after he finishes speaking, and we haven't offended you, why are you cursing us like this." I deliberately raised my voice and pretended to be bullied, but my heart sank, this old man could see the bad luck in us, and he must be a not simple character.
"Little doll, isn't what the old man said right? If you believe what I say, you will count it, and if I don't calculate it correctly, what if I don't charge you a penny? Listen to your words, you can avoid disasters, count a hexagram, you can keep safe, a hexagram of ten yuan! The old man raised the sign in his right hand, tilted his neck and squinted his eyes.
I looked the old man up and down again, and the old man was dressed in old clothes but clean. The bun on his head does look like the bun of a Taoist priest, and his shabby Taoist robe has been patched with many patches, but the gossip diagram on his chest is still clearly visible. The strange things of the past few days came to mind, and I couldn't help but gasp in my heart, if the second uncle is really possessed by a ghost, we are really in danger, it is better to be a dead horse and a live horse doctor, let this old man go to see if the second uncle is possessed by a ghost.
"Old man, you said that you are a Taoist priest who can pinch and calculate, why don't you calculate a hexagram for me first." If this old man can't even count my palmistry, how can he have the ability to catch ghosts, just try his skills.
"Brother! Don't fall for him, count it as ten dollars at a time. "My little sister grabbed my arm and didn't let me count.
"It's okay, brother, just to see if he can succeed in his studies, I think the chickens in his cage are good, maybe he can sell them to us cheaply." Take advantage of the time to take the little sister away, if the little sister knows that she must go home and tell Erniang, if the second uncle is not possessed by a ghost, Erniang and Xiaomei will definitely say that I am an ungrateful guy.
"Little sister, my brother's stomach is a little hungry, it seems that the opposite side is selling roasted sweet potatoes, you go and help my brother buy a few roasted sweet potatoes, and my brother will give you ten yuan to buy whatever you want to eat." I patted my stomach as if I was too hungry to do anything.
"Brother, I'm going to bake it for you, don't be fooled, don't let this stinky old man cheat out of his father's money." After speaking, the little sister left in a hurry.
The old man squinted at me without saying a word, and he probably saw what was going on in my heart. Seeing that my little sister walked away, I hurriedly walked forward.
"May I ask this Daoist, can you really catch ghosts and eliminate demons? This is no joke, if you don't have the ability to catch ghosts and instead alarm the ghosts, then our whole family will suffer! As I spoke, I took out a ten-dollar Grandpa Mao.
"You give me a hexagram first to see what my life is, if the calculation is correct, I will give you twenty?" I don't know if this is a true Taoist priest, so let him calculate it for me first.
"Oh? Did you get me right? Little doll, you are really generous, okay, the old man is not for anything else, for the twenty yuan I will also give you a hexagram, to be honest, there is no one who came here today to find me to tell the hexagram, you are the first. After saying that, the old man sat on the ground and took out three large coins from the yellow cloth pocket on his back.
"Doll, tell me about your birthday, and I'll tell you a fortune teller." The old man sat down cross-legged in a serious manner.
Knowing my birthday, the old man closed his eyes and pinched the lotus flower with the fingers of his left hand. In less than five minutes, he slowly opened his eyes.
"Doll, your background is very pitiful, you left your parents since you were a child, you were raised by an outsider, and you will have to worry about your life when you are about twenty years old!" The old man looked me up and down, but his gaze stopped on the gourd around my neck.
"Doll, who gave you this gourd? It seems to be a thing to ward off evil spirits," the old man looked at my gourd with surprised eyes.
"Dao Chief, you are good, I am indeed an orphan, I was raised by my second uncle since I was a child, this second uncle is not my second uncle, he is the second in his family, so I call him second uncle. My second uncle and second mother are as good to me as if they were my own, I have been in my second uncle's house for as long as I can remember, and to put it bluntly, they are my reborn parents! "The old man is right, it's better to simply tell him about it, if he really has the ability to catch ghosts, he can save the second uncle's life.
"Dao Chief, please ask your honorable name, can you help me save my second uncle once, my second uncle is a good person. Second uncle, he is also a Taoist priest who exorcises evil spirits, that is, a few days ago, I went to a village in Shiyaba with my second uncle to exorcise evil spirits, and after I came back, the second uncle seemed to have become another person....... "I told you all about the strange things I encountered the other day.
"Oh? There will be such a thing, a Taoist priest who exorcises evil spirits can be possessed by a ghost, this ghost must be a powerful ghost, and he has a lot of evil spirit and resentment. If your second uncle really let such a powerful ghost haunt him, he will definitely kill a lot of people! Dao Chang stared at me with wide eyes and looked at me seriously, and I felt more and more a cold air rushing from the soles of my feet to the top of my head, and I unconsciously broke out in a cold sweat.
"Dao Chief, you must do me this favor, in order to save my second uncle, in order for him not to hurt my second mother and little sister, I will kneel down for you." I fell to my knees and knocked my head three times in a row.
"Poor Dao Dao Xuanqing! Doll: Where is your home? I'm going to show you now! The Taoist chief said and put away the yellow cloth pocket.
"Yesterday, all the chickens in the house were drained and died, and today the second uncle asked me to come to the market to buy a big rooster, why are there so many chickens in your cage, Dao Chief? Are you sure I'm coming here? "I can't believe it's such a coincidence.
"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable! Poor Dao came to this market just to make a few dollars to eat, and the Taoist priest also had to eat, and I am not a god. As for this chicken, I bought it from the bazaar, and I happened to go back to get the rooster's blood. Doll, it may be a coincidence that we meet here today! "The voice of Daoist Xuanqing is deep and penetrating, and people can't help but feel awe.
"I'll give you these chickens, the chickens in the market are here." Daoist Xuanqing said and handed me the chicken coop.
"Thank you, Chief," I'm so happy, so many big cocks have saved me a lot of money.
"Doll, a total of 1,000 two hundred yuan, I won't ask you more, just give me the capital" The Taoist stretched out his hand, and actually touched my pocket directly and took out the money. I was stunned, one thousand two hundred yuan was just given to me by the second uncle, how did he know so clearly, he was really a god-like person.
"Doll, I'll go home with you now to see if your second uncle is a human or a ghost, if it's a ghost, I'll take him in at the right time!" As soon as he finished speaking, Daoist Xuanqing shook his right hand and changed into a peasant's outfit, and even his hair changed. It's really a fairy, the five bodies I admire have fallen to the ground.
At this time, the little sister also came back, bouncing around, holding the sweet potatoes baked for me in her hands.
"Brother, I'm hungry! Here's the sweet potato I just baked for you. Brother, why is that deceitful old man gone? Who is this person? "The little sister didn't even recognize the Taoist who had changed his clothes, and the Taoist changed into a person, even I couldn't tell that it was a person.
"Little sister, he sells chickens, the money has been given to him, and after a while, he will resist these chickens and send them to our house, and his home is also near the Lion's Tooth Dam, which happens to be on the way" Xuanqing Dao Changmi's eyes looked at me, and I really admired that my face was not red or white when I lied.
"Okay, let's go, it's not too early" The little sister looked Xuanqing Daoist up and down, but she didn't see that he was the deceitful Taoist.
After walking for two hours, we finally rushed back to the Lion's Tooth Dam. Looking back, Daoist Xuanqing was still carrying the chicken cage, squinting his eyes and not saying a word.
"Chicken sellers, this is my house." When I arrived at the door, I pretended to be straightforward and pointed, and Daoist Xuanqing glared at me resentfully.
"Dad, the chicken is back!" The second uncle was in a daze in the yard, and the little sister stepped forward to say a word, and the second uncle ignored her.
"Xiao Yu, who is this person, why haven't I seen him, doesn't he look like a person from Lion's Tooth Dam?" The second uncle looked Xuanqing Daoist up and down.
"Hello, I'm a chicken vendor in the market, and I saw your two little dolls coming to buy chickens, so I helped them come back by the way." Daoist Xuanqing wiped the sweat from his forehead with a smile, revealing a simple smile.
"Thank you so much, big brother, come and drink saliva, you must be tired after a few hours of travel, it just so happens that you haven't eaten lunch yet, if you don't dislike it, stay and have lunch." The second uncle's face turned pale, and he didn't seem to have any strength on his body, so he looked at Xuanqing Daoist and said politely.
"Oh, that's thank you so much, as long as I have enough to eat, you're welcome." The Taoist smiled innocently, I not only felt awkward when I saw it, but this pretended to be too similar, so it was an authentic old farmer.
"Big brother, please, we don't have any good food in the countryside, add a pair of dishes and chopsticks, and there are not so many politeness." Erniang also came out, invited the Taoist chief into the house, and hurriedly went to make a fire and cook.
After a while, the meal was ready, and the second uncle only drank a little gruel in a groggy state, and he didn't eat the dishes. Daoist Xuanqing kept looking at the second uncle, and his left hand was pinching there from time to time, and he couldn't help frowning and glancing at me.
"By the way, this big brother, I heard that there is a dog's head slope near the Lion's Tooth Dam, and I heard that there is a ghost cave there that is often haunted?" Xuan Qingdao asked the second uncle with a grin, and while talking, he was holding his teeth with a toothpick, and I felt disgusted when I saw the hippie smile.
"Oh? Who do you listen to? The second uncle suddenly became alert and looked the Taoist chief up and down.
"Who else do you need to listen to, a few days ago, there was a lot of uproar, and many policemen came to our village and said that the dog was bitten to death by something. Yesterday, I heard that a few dolls from the city had an accident, can you take me to see it?" pretending to be nothing, the Taoist chief said as he bit the steamed bun.
The second uncle was shocked at first, and then sighed secretly.
"Oh, what you said is true, but it's nothing, I don't know if it's a thief or not, but some people say it's not normal and it's a ghost, if you go to see it, go and see it." The second uncle did not doubt what the Taoist chief said, because there were many people who came to inquire in the past few days, and police cars often turned here.