Chapter 19: The Soul Messenger

My grandfather almost knocked me with all his might, and I screamed on the spot.

This dress is an ordinary tunic suit, I really don't know how grandpa recognized this dress as my grandpa's, but it doesn't matter, grandpa and his three brothers grew up together, the three of them know each other more deeply than us, grandpa said that this dress is grandpa, then it is nine out of nine is grandpa's, which also confirms the previous speculation, the nine palaces are chiseled out by my grandfather.

Jiang Li immediately glanced at me, and I was afraid that I would be beaten again, so I hurriedly took off this clothes and threw them aside.

Grandpa looked at Jiang Li, was stunned again, and said, "Master Jiang, why are you all wet?" That's not going to work, if you catch a cold, I'll go get you some clothes. ”

After the grandfather finished speaking, he entered the house.

After entering the house, Jiang Li looked at me and smiled: "Does it hurt?" ”

"Of course it hurts." I said with my backhand to the place where my grandfather knocked me just now.

I thought Jiang Li would care about me, but he just smiled slightly after hearing this: "It's okay to be beaten, rich daughters, poor children, boys have to be poor and cheap, and poor and cheap to live for a long time." ”

This world is not fair at all, as can be seen from Jiang Li's words.

During our change of clothes, Grandpa took a thermos flask to make us two cups of hot tea and handed them to us, then sat on the chair and asked us, "What are you doing here?" How did it get like this? ”

Jiang Li said: "I accidentally fell into the water." In order not to let Grandpa Chen get entangled in this topic, he immediately changed the topic and continued to ask, "I heard Grandma Chen Xiao say that you and Grandpa Chen Xiao and Grandpa Chen Xiao went out to wander when they were young, were you together during that time?" ”

Hearing this, Grandpa sighed, lit the cigarette gun that had been extinguished just now, smoked it, and sighed with a sad expression, saying, "At that time, it was not easy to mix everywhere, and if you went out, you would die." Before we left our township, we met an old blind man, and the old blind man said that if we walked together, we would not even be able to go back to the county seat, so we had to go east alone, west alone, and north alone, so that we could have a way to live. ”

"Old blind man? Do you know him? Jiang Li was very interested in this old blind man. In Sichuan and Chongqing, fortune tellers are generally called blind.

Two years ago, a young blind man from my house, a fortune teller, calculated that I had a water barrier, and I had to tie a scarecrow to the edge of the weir pond and burn it to crack it.

It is recorded in the "Secrets of the Hundred Levels" that if you will fall into the water, it will be called the greedy water pass, if it will be scalded by boiling water or burned by fire, it will be called the greedy fire pass, and if it will bleed, it will be called the disaster of blood light.

I misheard the words of the blind fortune teller at that time, thinking that he asked my grandfather to catch me by the weir pond and burn it, so scared that he cried, crying and scolding him for being blind, and then the blind fortune teller explained that the fortune teller peeped into the heavens, and he would definitely be retributed, and the five evils and three deficiencies would always retribution a few things, in order not to harm the family, they would blind their eyes before they became fortune tellers, which was also retribution, and would not harm their own family.

Jiang Li asked, and Grandpa shook his head and said, "I don't know, I haven't seen it before." When he told us this, of course we didn't believe it, but the old blind man told us three things, and the next day the three brothers went our separate ways. ”

Jiang Li continued to ask: "What are the three things?" ”

Grandpa said: "The first thing is about Grandpa Chen Xiao, he told Grandpa Chen Xiao that when looking for a place to sleep at night, you must sleep in the house, not outside." ”

Grandpa said and took another puff of cigarette, exhaled a cloud of white mist, his face was full of satisfaction, and he paused for a while and continued: "At that time, the traffic was not as convenient as it is now, and you had to walk all day to enter the county seat. There is a place to rest on the road, but it costs two cents to live in, at that time we had five cents on us, Chen Xiao's grandfather was older than us, so he let us go into the house to sleep, and he had one penny left to be on the mattress at the door for one night. ”

"And then?" I can't wait to ask.

Grandpa said: "It snowed heavily that night, and Grandpa Chen Xiao slept outside the house, but there was another person who slept until midnight, and stood next to his grandfather tremblingly, and his grandfather was young at the time, and he was a good old man, so he gave the mattress to that person, and the straw admiral next to him was overnight, and the next day there was an accident." When I woke up the next morning, the man next to me was gone, and there were leopard footprints on the snow. When Grandpa said this, he clapped his hands and spread them out again, his movements were a little funny, and he said with a natural look, "The person who slept on Chen Xiao's grandfather's mattress yesterday was taken away by a leopard, and the leopard was full after eating one person, and he didn't eat Chen Xiao and his grandfather, that person actually saved Chen Xiao's grandfather's life." Later, we went to look and saw that the clothes that the man had left next to him were the clothes of the old blind man we had seen during the day, which was unfortunate. ”

Jiang Li nodded with relief: "You mean, that old blind man calculated that there were leopards at night, and knew that Chen Xiao and his grandfather were going to sleep outside, so he came to save him?" ”

"Not really." Grandpa spread his hands.

Jiang Li asked again: "This is Grandpa Chen Xiao's business, so what about you and Chen Xiao's second grandfather?" ”

"The old blind man told me that if someone asks me to borrow a cigarette pouch at night, I must lend it to him, otherwise something will happen." Grandpa continued, "At that time, there were many people starving to death on the road, and it was normal to see dead people. Because we walked in the dark, we couldn't see anything on the road, and the cigarette pouch accidentally fell down halfway, and it was too late at that time, and his grandfather did not allow me to look for it, for fear of worms. When I went to look for it the next day, I couldn't help but see a dead man, and my cigarette pouch was caught in his armpit. If I had gone and picked up the cigarette pouch in the evening, the dead man might have found me. ”

I thought it was extremely mysterious, but I thought that the old blind man was too godly, and he said both of these things.

I asked, "What about the second grandfather?" What did he say to the second grandfather? ”

Grandpa was stunned: "What did you say to your second grandfather, we really don't know, he secretly told your second grandfather at that time, we went to ask your second grandfather, and he didn't say anything." ”

"Where did you go?" Jiang Li asked in a straight face.

Grandpa smiled and said: "I went to the north, Chen Xiao and his grandfather went to the south, his second grandfather went to the east, I went to work in the black coal mine for a few years, as for what Jiang Li's grandfather and second grandfather did, I didn't ask, they didn't say, why did you suddenly ask about this?" ”

Jiang Li said: "I want to know. ”

After finishing speaking, Jiang Li began to say goodbye to his grandfather, saying that he was not worried that my grandfather and my father were at home, and he wanted to go back and see.

Grandpa got up to see us off, and when we arrived at the door, Grandpa suddenly said, "Master Jiang, do you think this matter has anything to do with us?" ”

Jiang Li and I were stunned.

Rural people are very sleek, even if they see it, they won't ask directly, and when Grandpa asks like this, I feel embarrassed, and I don't know how Jiang Li is going to answer.

Glancing at Jiang Li, Jiang Li turned around and said, "I'm just asking, in addition, the bracelet on your hand has turned black, which means that you have heavy yin qi on your body, and the stone in your house can restrain the yin qi, so you'd better take that stone with you." ”

I followed Jiang Li's gaze, and sure enough, I found that the bracelet that Jiang Li gave to my grandfather had turned black.

Grandpa looked down, his eyes in a trance.

Jiang Li didn't say anything, but smiled secretly and took me out of here.

When I turned back, I asked Jiang Li, "Master, why did Grandpa's bracelet turn black?" ”

Jiang Li took a deep breath: "I thought about things too simply, remember the person who wanted to hook your soul in Duhai Village before?" ”

"Yes." I nodded repeatedly.

Jiang Li said: "In addition to the people who can hook souls, there are only soul-hooking messengers in the underworld. I suspect that your grandfather is the soul seducer of the underworld. ”

Jiang Li's words are too bold, Grandpa looks like a good person, how can he be a person from the underworld?

"Master, you're mistaken."

Jiang Li smiled: "It's just a guess, isn't it, I'll know soon." ”