Chapter Seventy-Four: Yizhuang Tongzhuang
On the side of the Dew River, Liu Gen was still trapped in the partition room in Tongzhuang at this time. [Ran^Text^Library] []
That's right, the two-foot-tall baby on the ground is Dugu's son, but this child can never get out of this small space, never live in the sun, and live in the shadows forever.
"Outside," Liu Gen said, pointing outside.
Dugu sighed: "It's all experiments"
"Experiments?"
"Yes, you see the dozen grave bags, each grave bag has a child, and there is a pair of twins in one of them" Dugu looked very lonely, and immediately became much older.
"Are they alive?" Liu Gen asked.
Dugu didn't answer, but leaned down and patted the child on the ground lovingly, and the child timidly ducked back.
"Let me tell you a story" The story told by Dugu contains the time when Liu Gen entered: more than 40 years ago, a dwarf rescued a woman from other places in the river, a woman with amnesia. All her memories were a blank slate.
The dwarf took her to his house and cooked her own food, and he became the dwarf's wife.
Then she gave birth to Dabao, and then conceived Erbao in the third year.
A month before Erbao was about to be born, the woman disappeared.
Dugu searched all over the dew river, but there were no clues. Just when Dugu was already desperate, the villagers of a neighboring village found the corpse of a pregnant woman without a head when they caught a snake in a hole*.
The news reached Dugu, and when he got there, he saw that it was indeed his wife.
However, Dugu denied that the woman was his wife in front of everyone. Then he secretly admitted to the police station chief that it was his wife, and showed relevant evidence and quietly collected the body.
Dugu did not bury his wife near the village, but transported it to another place, which was the "Tongzhuang" where Liu Gen was at this time.
Tongzhuang, a place dedicated to the storage of children's corpses. In the past, in rural areas, after the death of a child, most of them found a field to make a fire and burned it, and the government generally did not pursue it. In the Dew River, there was an epidemic plague one year, there was an outsider, his grandson got the plague, unfortunately died, the outside loved the grandson, could not bear to burn it, so he built this house far away outside the village, put the child in the coffin, put it in the room, invited the monks to spend 49 days, and then did not want to move away, the huge house became the child's house.
This is the origin of Tongzhuang.
Later, there were children who died in the vicinity, and many people asked for help, and they also put their children here. With the passage of time, there are no longer so many children who have died young, and it is stipulated that the new children who have died can only be placed here for 49 days, and after 49 days, they will be taken away by themselves, and those who have not been taken away after the expiration date will be taken out and buried in the forest behind the mountain.
In 49 days, legend has it that the deceased was reincarnated into the six realms of reincarnation. 49 days is the bardo period, which is a transitional period. There are two kinds of people who don't go through this transition period, those who practice very well, and those who do great evil. Those who have cultivated well will directly ascend to the corresponding higher level after their consciousness is separated from their bodies, and those who are very evil will fall directly into hell when they are pulled by karma.
Therefore, the 49-day period stipulated by the staff is based on this.
After the death of the outsider, the family gradually declined, and then the house was left unattended.
Dugu's dwarfism is not a genetic factor, his father was also a talent at the time, his ancestors practiced medicine, and his family was very wealthy, but he had no children after getting married. After Dugu was born, everything was normal, the child was 5 years old and the village children went up the mountain to play, came back a little delirious, Dugu's father personally diagnosed, but there was no big problem, some symptoms of heat stroke, take some heatstroke decoction is good, this small illness and disaster everyone did not take it seriously.
However, Dugu often talked nonsense in the middle of the night, and returned to normal in the morning, and what is even more strange is that he never seems to have grown taller since then, he is seven or eight years old, and he is still at the height of five years old.
Dugu's father couldn't find a solution from medical means, and turned to ghosts and gods for help. But after jumping a few times, the god didn't solve the problem, and they all said that the origin of this child was complicated, and the reason for the inquiry was not understood.
When Dugu was 10 years old, Dugu's father went out to practice medicine and passed by Songfeng Mountain, and found that this place was beautiful and refined, presumably there should be a cultivator living in seclusion here, and inquired at the bottom of the mountain, only to know that this mountain is a holy place of Jinqing Taoism, and there are Taoist priests who practice very high to live here.
So he climbed up without fear of hard work, the scenery along the way is wonderful, the ancient trees are towering to the sky, the mountain spring is bubbling, the birds are singing, the colorful butterflies are flying, and sometimes you can see the sika deer passing through. In particular, the stones on the mountain are strange and vivid.
There are many caves on the mountain, there is a cave that actually passes through a peak, after Dugu's father passed through the cave, he met an old Taoist on the other side of the mountain, Dugu's father just wanted to say hello, the Taoist stretched out his hand and waved, and sang: "All kinds of things in the world, all kinds of difficulties, the catastrophe still needs to be planted with good causes, and the karma comes to share the evil and the good.
After saying that, Lao Dao started to go, Dugu's father shouted a few times, Lao Dao didn't look back or squeak, and gradually Dugu's father couldn't keep up, turned a mountain, and Lao Dao disappeared.
After coming back, Dugu's father carefully analyzed the old words, that is, his son is not only small, but also in danger of life, based on the previous sentences, it should be to let himself do good deeds, and help the children who died more excessively, maybe it can be changed.
Dugu's father then renovated the child's village, and every time a child died, he would ask a Taoist priest or monk to help him spend 49 days here, and then help bury him in the back mountain.
It's strange to say, since he was a child, Dugu's nonsense in the middle of the night is gone, although his height has not grown anymore, but he is very healthy.
When Dugu was 20 years old, his father died without illness, which was also a good death.
Dugu followed his father's last words, went to Songfeng Mountain to find the old Tao, and really found the Taoist head back then, and the Taoist chief accepted Dugu and taught the method of Tai Chi.
Dugu and the Taoist learned Taoist kung fu for 5 years, and the Taoist told him: You go back, you will save a person's life in the future, and this person may change the world.
Dugu has been floating in the rivers and lakes for several years, and has not saved anyone's life, because of his short stature, he is not very popular outside, he has a body of martial arts, most of the time he just makes a living on the streets, and is often harassed by local ruffians and hooligans, during which he entered the circus, and once became a famous actor. Although Dugu is short, his mind is very smart, even smarter than normal people, and he knows that people like his performances based on the effect of his flaws, not the kind of respectful like.
A few years later, my heart was a little tired, and I returned to the village, planning to stay in the countryside and spend my life in peace.
If it weren't for the two treasures later, maybe there would not have been the death of that daughter-in-law, and she would have lived a good life until now.
After listening to Dugu's narration, Liu Gen looked down at the baby on the ground and asked, "Then why is this child still alive?"
Dugu's expression was gloomy: "Mr. Liu, let me tell you a big secret first, about the death of my family's big treasure" You provide the latest, fastest and most complete free novel update.
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