Gui's father's hometown is in a village called Liushuwan by the Xiangjiang River, originally surnamed Wang, more than 300 miles away from Xinghua Village. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

But that wasn't his ancestral home. His family's ancestral home is more than 20 miles away from Xinghua Village.

The ancestors of their family migrated from Jiangxi during the Wuhong period, lived in Qingshuiwan, more than 50 miles away from Xinghua Village in the Ming Dynasty, and moved to Sangongqiao in the early Qing Dynasty.

At that time, an ancestor of his family named Chen Jincai apprenticed to learn the craft of a round craftsman (note). When walking in the countryside with his skills, he accidentally learned the secret of Xinghua Village's treasures.

Human greed is innate, and few people are exceptions, and he has entered Xinghua Village many times to explore. The last time he was in the cave, he accidentally witnessed a murder and was chased and killed, and when he fled to Willow Bay, more than 300 miles away, he was injured and sick, and he was rescued by a local family surnamed Wang. The Wang family had no children, only one daughter, and after he recovered from his injuries, he became a son-in-law and continued their incense.

When Gui Lao Dad was 12 years old, his hometown was first hit by floods and then encountered bandits, there were less than 10 people left in the small village of 100 people, and all the houses and property were destroyed.

According to his grandfather, there are indeed countless treasures hidden in the cave on Longyan Mountain behind Xinghua Village, but the most precious one is said to be a strange book passed down by Lu Ban.

This strange book is more than a thousand times more clever than the "Book of Luban" known to the world. It not only records the manufacturing methods of long-lost objects such as wooden oxen and horses, wooden kites, wooden people, etc., but also records more sophisticated techniques than the "Book of Luban". After successfully practicing this book, you will not only be able to master all kinds of craftsman skills in the world, but also be able to drive away spirits and ghosts, and participate in creation.

This is also the reason why so many artisans gather in the small Xinghua Village. However, due to the fact that there are many caves on the mountain, the mountains are connected to the caves, the danger inside is complicated, people have no way to start at all, and the trap mechanism carefully set by the treasure collector cannot be cracked, no one has ever found and been able to enter for thousands of years, since ancient times, I don't know how many capable people and masters are buried in the caves on the mountain.

Back then, Father Gui came to Xinghua Village alone, just to try his luck and hunt for treasure. After being adopted by Gui Qi, he became a righteous villager of Xinghua Village, which was a good thing he couldn't ask for. He followed Gui Qi as an oiler, but the oil factory did not start for more than half a year in a year, and he farmed the land to catch up with the mountains (hunting) in his spare time and worked for a short time, and traveled all over the surroundings of Xinghua Village, and also went to the stone cave on Longyan Mountain, but most of them only went around the entrance of the cave, and did not dare to go deep alone, of course, they found nothing.

After falling in love with the widow Liu Chen, he was really happy and his life was going forward, but unfortunately something happened later. He was grief-stricken, looking for Liu Liyang to take revenge but was injured, his heart was like ashes, and after leaving the village, he went back to his hometown Willow Bay, wanting to see what his former hometown was like, and then wandered the world, and lived a lifetime.

In that era of war and chaos, it was far more dangerous outside than Xinghua Village, and as a result, it was plagued by bandits on the border of Hunan and Jiangxi. It was a Taoist on the mountain who saved his life, but he was disfigured. He blamed Liu Liyang for all this, and begged the Taoist to stand up for him, but I don't know if it was the Taoist chief's mercy or Liu Liyang's own skillful skills, his life was not extinct, and he came back from the dead, but he almost died of illness.

Now he is even more discouraged, the second time away from home for more than ten years, he has been living with the Taoist in a broken Taoist temple on the mountain, until the Taoist immortal died, he took care of the aftermath and then returned to Xinghua Village, he never told anyone about that experience, including his adoptive father Gui Qi, no one knew that he had been a Taoist priest for more than ten years. Later, when he was liberated, he would not mention it to anyone.

In the following twenty or thirty years, he has been thinking about the hidden treasure, but unfortunately he has not gained anything. Regarding the personal grudge with Liu Liyang, he later figured it out, and Liu Liyang really can't be blamed for that incident. And afterwards, Liu Liyang buried Liu Chen, adopted her two daughters, and married the eldest daughter to his nephew, and the two became relatives, so he actually let go of everything. It's just that the mustard in my heart can't be eliminated, and I have no contact with the Liu family.

But the homestead did provoke his anger again. He has fought with Liu Liyang, force is not an opponent, and there is no certainty of victory in magic. He had infiltrated Liu's house many times, and all the arrangements were cracked by the Liu family's father and son, which made him very bottomless, and he gave up after thinking about it.

But it's not without gain, once in the middle of the night when he sneaked in, he heard Liu Liyang and Liu Shengtang father and son talking, saying that there are not many things in the cave, building a house plus the cost of the family in the past few decades, now there is not much left, and a few old objects in the hand in today's society, there is no buyer at all, unless you invite the country, otherwise you will cause a catastrophe as soon as you show up, be sure to be careful.

At that time, he was taken aback, thinking that the Liu family had found the legendary treasure, and then he thought that this was not right, and listened to their tone, although it was found in the cave, but the windfall was not very big, if it was the legendary treasure, the Liu family would definitely leave Xinghua Village, even if they didn't go, they would never just look like this......

At this time, the sun was already setting in the west, and the two of us and a dog sat by the grave, and before we knew it, more than two or three hours had passed. Father Gui may have said that he was tired, and finally stopped.

The story of Daddy Gui shocked me very much, and before this, I never imagined that Daddy Gui would have such a complex background, experience and encounter. And in our small apricot blossom village, there are so many heart-pounding secrets. Although I was fascinated by what I heard, I still muttered in my heart: Why did Daddy Gui tell these secrets to himself, a little boy who was only eleven years old?

Daddy Gui smoked a trumpet cigarette, slowly stood up and said to me, "Is the school on holiday?" I nodded and said, "But I don't have to send a notice yet, but I don't have to go to class." ”

"I know you've learned something from Qingnan, do you want to learn more skills?"

"Yes, of course."

"Well, from tomorrow onwards, you go to my house, and I will teach you something, but you have to promise me a few conditions."

"I can agree to any conditions, Daddy Gui, say it."

I was so excited that I jumped up from the ground and hurriedly agreed. Father Gui stared at me with one eye and said very seriously:

Listen, first, you have to worship me as a teacher, second, you have learned the skill, you can't take it lightly, you can only use it for self-protection and saving people, you must not harm others, as long as you use it to harm others, it will not work in the future; Third, you have to be by my side when I die. Fourth, you must keep all the things I tell you today, including the fact that you worship me as a teacher, and you can't say it to anyone, not even your parents. “

I nodded again and again and said yes without hesitation.

Daddy Gui immediately sat on the grave and asked me to kneel down and kowtow three times respectfully, which is regarded as worshipping the master and the master, and officially became his apprentice.

Then we went down the mountain, I sent Gui Dad to the flat land at the foot of the mountain, and hurriedly went to pull the pigweed with the basket, and when I got home, it was almost dark, and my sister thought I was outside in the wilderness, and was about to come out to find me.

The next morning, I went to the oil mill Gui's father's house, but I was surprised by Gui's father's appearance. Father Gui was sick, he was lying on the bed with a pale face, his hands pressed to his chest, and there were blood stains on the corners of his mouth.

Seeing that I went in, Daddy Gui sat up slowly, and the black dog lying on the side of the bed also stood up, wagged his tail at me, walked to the foot of the bed and lay down again, and glanced at us from time to time. I asked anxiously:

"Daddy Gui, what's wrong with you? Do you want me to call Dr. Tsang? “

Father Gui coughed a few times and said in a low voice:

"You don't have to call Fan Jin, it's useless to call him, my chest hurts, it's the ghost of the Liu family, it is estimated that it is the life-killing nail of the Luban Immortal Master, he thinks that the death of the old thing is a ghost I made it, it is vicious, and he wants my life to be simple, but he Liu family don't think about it. Hmph, do you really think I'm too easy to bully? We'll see. Ahem......."

After coughing for a while, Daddy Gui said to me:

"Leave him alone, Red Lady, you go and close the door first, and I'll pass it on to you."

I said yes, closed the door, and the room was much darker, so that a few bright tiles were installed on the roof, and it was not too dark. I turned around and saw that Daddy Gui had come down from the bed, and I hurried over to help him, and he took the key from his waist, opened the old cage box near the bed, took out a small locked box from it, and sat down on the bed again.

He opened the box, took out a small sword with a copper coin, a seal, and a thick old book, and said to me:

"This is what I want to pass on to you, it was passed on to me when my master feathered, you take a look at it first, this 'Taoist Master Treasure Seal' is a lightning strike wood, it has been passed down for more than ten generations, it is a big magic weapon, the charm is particularly effective, this money sword is the master's magic weapon to subdue demons and slay demons, and it can also ward off evil spirits, this book is called "Qimen Dunjia", profound and mysterious, I am limited to natural qualifications, and my practice is limited.

After finishing speaking, I put the things into the small box and handed them to my hands, I held them in both hands, and I looked at Daddy Gui and asked hesitantly: "Then, then am I going to be a Taoist priest?" “

Daddy Gui smiled:

"You don't have to be afraid of this, you don't need to be a Taoist, of course, when you grow up in the future, you can be a Taoist priest if you want to, everything is good, you don't have to force it. Don't worry, I don't want you to be a Taoist priest. What kind of profession a person does, that is just a formality, that is not important, the important thing is to have a heart, as long as there is a heart, there is a way in the heart. You are still young, and there are many things that you don't understand yet, but you will understand them slowly in the future. What happens in the future depends on your own creation.

"Okay, I won't say much about this, you take this box back and put it away first, and tonight you find a way to steal Liu Bald's house and his to me, I will be of great use." I have five dollars here, and if you sneak it into his house after seven days, we will think that we bought it, but his chicken is not worth five dollars. You've got to do it, okay? “

Daddy Gui said and handed me a five-dollar bill, and I looked at him in surprise and said, "Why are you going to steal it?" Wouldn't it be okay to give him money to buy it? “

"Haba, you still don't understand, you say, if the chickens of Liu Bald's family are stolen, what will happen to his wife?" Daddy Gui looked at me with a smile on his face, looking a little hideous due to his blindness and scars.

I felt a "g-dong" in my heart.

Liu Bald is from the team next door, and his wife Jiang Xuxiu is a well-known shrew in the village, with a very powerful mouth, and everyone calls her Jiang shrew behind her back.

She quarrels with people, dances and stomps her feet, she can scold you for three days and three nights without stopping, from the eighteenth generation of ancestors to the seventeenth generation of children and grandchildren, she will never finish greeting all of them. When the scolding rises, she will also show her tricks: take a kitchen knife and a cutting board, sit at the intersection, scold a knife and shout ping-pong, curse others how to be, like singing, the movement is very loud. As soon as the villagers heard her scolding, they joked that she had started singing again.

The countryman is the most taboo to be cursed like this, thinking that it will invite bad luck. Everyone in the village was afraid of her, and no one dared to mess with her. stealing her chickens is estimated to be scolded by her for at least three days.

Probably seeing that I was afraid, Daddy Gui said:

"Do you know how I got sick like this all of a sudden? Didn't I tell you about the Liu family yesterday? My illness was caused by the Liu family. They thought that Liu Lao's death had something to do with me, but in fact it had nothing to do with me. He's a man in his nineties, he should have died a long time ago, how can he blame me? Then there is the fact that their family wants to build a house, and they want to demolish the two houses where I live, and I wish I would return to the west as soon as possible to make room for him, isn't it? Poisoned me.

"I thought about it all night last night, I don't know how to do it, I can't crack it, I can only use external force, and the best external force is Jiang Vixen's mouth, I just want her to scold, the more fierce the scolding, the better, the more poisonous the curse. Originally, I didn't need you for this, but now I have a terrible pain in my chest, I can't breathe, and I have to do it for me.

"But don't worry, I asked you to do this, and her scolding or cursing can't fall on you, I will bear it with all my might, and it will have no impact on you and your family."

In that case, what else can I say? What's more, I only worshipped him as a teacher yesterday, and now I have passed it on to my master, the first thing that the master tells me must be done even if it is difficult, how can I hesitate? I reached out and took the five yuan in Daddy Gui's hand, and opened the door with the small box, Daddy Gui said on the bed:

"Red lady, come back, I still have something for you. Let me tell you, this year our village is particularly unstable, I will give you a talisman to protect you from evil spirits, gods and ghosts, and you are not afraid to walk on the dark night road. ”

As he spoke, he pulled out a small piece of dark wood with a red rope from the bed and hung it around my neck, and I touched it and looked at it, it was cool, flat and flat like a small gourd, and it was carved with talisman lines and gossip patterns. Daddy Gui said:

"This is an old object, peachwood, soaked in oil-soaked paint, not afraid of water and fire, can keep you safe and sound, you take care of it, and can not be lost, wear it when you walk at night or have something, usually keep it well, remember?"

I nodded, walked to the door with the box in my hand, and Daddy Gui stopped me again:

"How do you go back like this? What do you say when someone sees you holding a box? Carry my basket on your back, and put the box in the basket, just in time to carry the at night. “

Note: Round craftsman, also known as coomer, is a kind of carpenter, specializing in making wooden pots, barrels and other round utensils and furniture.