Walking from the entrance of the village, we came to the door of Hongban's house. Seeing this hundred-year-old wooden door, I thought of the "Ma Dan" again, and it seemed that she returned to Hong Ban's house from the deep mountains, and after not finding Hong Ban, she left in a hurry, and seemed to be able to see Ma Dan coming out and closing the wooden door, that panicked and vicious expression.

Knocking on the door, Hong Ban stood inside the door and was stunned when he saw the four of us. He was wearing a blue coarse cloth shirt and trousers, a blue scarf wrapped around his head, and a sieve in his hand, which was all light yellow powder and emitted a strange smell of medicine.

"Master Hongban, are you still sifting through scripture powder?" I said with a smile.

Lao Xie walked through the door with a smile and brought the three of us inside, Nangya smiled and saluted Hong Ban. When Lao Xie and I sat on the stone bench in the courtyard, Hong Ban seemed to react, and hurriedly nodded to Master Chen, who was still standing at the door, and asked him to go in and sit as well.

After the conversation, Hong Ban learned about our intention and said that he welcomed us. Lao Xie looked left and right: "I said uncle, are you still alone?" ”

Hongban replied, "Yes." "I smiled and said Do you want to find a wife for Master Hong Ban, and I regretted it immediately after saying that, because this is the sore spot of Hong Ban. But looking at his expression, it didn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary. Hong Ban's complexion has fully recovered, unlike the sick look when Lao Xie and I sent him home.

He poured us a few glasses of water, saw the bamboo sieve on the ground, and remembered that Lao Xie had helped him sift the scriptures before, so I volunteered to pick up the sieve and run to the backyard to sift it. Hongban was going to come along, so I pushed him back and said that you and Nangya should have a good talk about the witch book spell, and you don't have to worry about it here.

In the backyard with Lao Xie, the two of us helped sift the powder and talked in a low voice. Lao Xie asked, "Brother Tian, why do I always think that Nangya is more compatible with Hong Ban?" ”

I smiled and said, "Don't let Master Chen hear this, otherwise he will have to fight with you." "Lao Xie said that he was just telling the truth, and he used to think that Master Chen and Nangya were very suitable, a feng shui master, a mage, a man with wealth and a woman with good looks, what a good combination. But looking at it now, first, Nangya is not interested in Master Chen, and second, Hong Ban and Nangya are both Dharma practitioners, and the two must have more hobbies and common language, and maybe the offspring born will be directly the life of the Grand Master.

"Don't forget that Nangya is already going to be a female Rushi, so she can't get married." I replied.

Lao Xie sighed: "It's a pity, otherwise these two people would be so good." ”

Thinking of the incident of surrendering to Nangya, I asked Lao Xie: "When did Nangya ask you to inquire about Fei Dabao?" As soon as I asked, Lao Xie showed a weak expression. Under my questioning, he had no choice but to say: "That is after Nangya just promised Master Chen to go to Hong Kong for residency, once I went to Nangya to ask for a card, she asked about the current situation between you and Fang Gang, I said that it seems that I heard Tian Qi say that he has a friend named Fei Dabao, who is also Fang Gang's new assistant, Fei Dabao has been in trouble recently, and they are trying to find a way to rescue him." Nangya asked me to help me ask about the situation, and I wondered how she could be interested in such a thing, but I didn't want to ask, so I thought there must be a reason for her. That day, I went to Bangkok to find Azan Baden on an errand, and by the way, I asked Fang Gang, and I found out that he was being helped*. ”

So that's the case, no wonder Nangya said that she had known about Fei Dabao for a long time.

In order to entertain us, Hongban specially bought two chickens from the neighbors in the village, killed one of them and stewed it for us. I have to say that his cooking skills are still quite good, the last time Lao Xie and I sent him back to Tengchong, I thought the skills were very good, and now it is even more so, is it that Nangya is present and wants to perform?

In the afternoon, Lao Xie proposed to go to the back hill to see Hong Xia, and Nangya and Master Chen also wanted to go together. These two didn't know about the past between Lao Xie and Hong Xia, they just wanted to simply show their sincerity.

When he arrived at Hong Xia's grave, Lao Xie knelt down and kowtowed, muttering in a low voice, probably regretting his ignorant actions back then. After Master Chen had bowed, he looked around as if he had seen something.

Nangya stood in front of the grave with her eyes closed and said to us, "A woman's voice said to me that she wanted me to leave. ”

We were all stunned, except for Nangya and Master Chen, all three of us knew very well that it was Hong Xia's Yin Spirit. After all these years, why is she still so resentful, and it is directed against Nangya? Hong Ban's face was a little ugly, and he said to Nangya Don't mind, it was his sister's Yin Spirit, but now he was unable to sense the existence of any Yin Spirit because of the almost complete loss of mana.

On the way back to Hong's house from the back hillside, Master Chen couldn't help but ask, "Master Hongban, who decided the location of your sister's grave?" ”

Hong Ban replied strangely that he didn't choose much, just because it was closer to his home.

Master Chen said, "Oh...... Then there is a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not. Hong Ban was also puzzled and said please do whatever it takes. Master Chen said then I will be blunt, from the location of your village and this back mountain, Feng Shui is quite strange, in Kanyuxue, there are several places, which are not suitable for building a family house, let alone being used as a cemetery, and the scope of your house is in this position.

Lao Xie and I looked at each other, but Hong Ban didn't seem to care. Also, Feng Shui is a popular doctrine among Han Chinese people, and ethnic minorities are generally not very cold.

Back at Hong Ban's house, he arranged for me and Lao Xie to live in the east house in the backyard, which was the one where Ma Dan lived when he was a female apprentice to Hong Ban. I didn't like it, but I didn't have a choice. The Westinghouse is where Nangya comes to live, and there are also two bedrooms in the front yard, namely Hong Ban and Master Chen.

Master Chen was not satisfied with this arrangement, and asked if he could let him and Nangya live in the backyard. Before Hong Ban could speak, Nangya objected, and the lobbyist was as good as he pleased, so Master Chen was embarrassed to say anything more.

Hong Ban went to the rice shop in the village to buy rice, Master Chen and the four of us were in the courtyard to enjoy the shade, Lao Xie said: "Brother Tian, when I think that the east house is where Ma Dan lived, I feel awkward. ”

"I'm also uncomfortable, just get used to it, she's dead a long time ago anyway." I replied. Master Chen asked who Ma Dan was, and Lao Xie and I took advantage of Hong Ban's absence, so we simply told Ma Dan that Ma Dan went to Tengchong, Yunnan Province to find the bones of the mage, and killed his father, Hong Ban's wife and daughter, and died a bad death.

Nangya and Master Chen didn't react for a long time after listening to it, and Master Chen's hands on the stone table were trembling: "This, how can there be such a vicious woman in this world?" Is her heart still made of meat? I smiled wryly and said that it might be made of wolf meat, Nangya didn't say anything, but her expression was solemn.

Master Chen returned to the room, and through the window I saw that he had put a diary and a delicate compass on the table, writing and drawing with a pen, and also fiddling with the compass from time to time against the two thick books next to him, probably studying the feng shui of the back mountain. I think it's better to keep him pestering Nangya about this and that, and so that she can concentrate on studying with Hong Ban.

In the afternoon, Nangya came to Hongban's room, and he wrote all the Miao characters on the witch book mantra on paper, and then marked the phonetics, and began to teach Nangya to know the Miao Wu characters. These characters are different from the Miao script, which was created by ancient Miao shamans and specially used to record witch spells. Not only is the pronunciation strange, but the meaning is also different from that of Pali. I didn't know the specifics, but I heard a few words from Nangya later.

While the two were studying, Master Chen showed obvious agitation, fidgeting, coming out of the house, walking back and forth in front of the window of Hong Ban, and peeking into the house from time to time. In order to make him honest, I told Master Chen, don't interfere with them, this will only make Nangya's time to study the Fa longer.

Master Chen was quite obedient and never stared at it again.