30 years ago, in the summer of 1979.

Since birth, Oniku has never eaten something so fragrant and strange. If it weren't for the discovery of that bamboo tube later, the strange fragrance that went straight to the heart was definitely the best aftertaste of Onijiu's childhood. If it weren't for the discovery of the secret of the Soul Locking Bowl, Onijiu would never have realized what kind of fear it was, or it could be said to be a disgusting feeling that made the scalp tingle, a fear that was disgusting to the depths of the soul, and that feeling could not be described in words.

"Wang Si, there seems to be smoke in the fork of the mountain ahead" Ghost Jiu patted the shoulder of the playmate who came out to release the horse.

"Let's go, go over and take a look, there may be cattle herding and burning bud rice, let's ask for a few, I'm a little hungry" Wang Si patted his belly.

Oni Jiu and Wang Si put their feet on the horse, so that the horse would not run far in a short time. Wang Si was in front, and Onijiu followed closely behind, running towards the fork of the mountain to the north of more than 500 meters.

Wang Si is the child king of the village, three years older than Onijiu, 12 years old, not only bold, but also very smart, and a leader in this circle. Even fifteen or sixteen-year-olds revolved around him. In the seventies, when material scarcity was relatively scarce, he would make some flesh out for this group of friends from time to time. The children also admired his ability to hunt small animals.

When they entered the ravine in front of them, they found that the place where the smoke was coming from was still far away. The sun is about to set, and the dark sky is not far away. Ghost Jiu was a little timid in his heart, and pulled the corners of Wang Si's clothes, planning to go back. But Wang Sitian's strength came up again: "We are all here, we have to take a look, this mountain belongs to our production team, if the neighboring villages come here to graze their livestock, we will warn them, so that we will not have good grass to eat in a few days."

What Wang Si said is also very reasonable, because there is an insect plague on the mountain this year, and there is no decent good grassland on the slopes of the neighboring villages. In the past two days, the horses have to run to the mountains of more than ten miles. It has reached the edge of the jurisdiction of the brigade. At this time, the rumbling sound in his stomach reminded the ghost for a long time, and Wang Si's main purpose was to rub something to eat.

After walking for nearly 2 miles, I finally reached the place where the smoke was emitting. It turned out that there was a small wooden house hidden in this col, and the curling fireworks were floating out of the wooden house.

The door was not closed, and Gui Jiu and Wang Si shouted twice outside, but no one talked.

"True fragrance" Guijiu and Wang Si invariably popped out the same two words. Following the aroma, the cat bent into the house.

The house is not big, although it is full of smoke, but you can still see a rough idea, and there is really no one here. At this time, the fragrance has conquered everything, and Onijiu and Wang Si just want to find the source of the fragrance.

"Xiao Jiu, come over here and see what this is!" Wang Si's voice was a little excited, coming from the corner of the room on the right.

The ghost jumped over for a long time, and it turned out that this was the source of the smoke. There was an iron pot with 8 seals on a simple earthen stove, and most of the oil in the pot was smoking, and the fire under the pot was pulled out of the stove, and it seemed that something had just been fried.

At that time, edible oil was a luxury, and each household was rationed two or three catties a year, and this half pot of oil had an absolute visual impact, and Gui Jiu and Wang Si had never seen so much oil.

Ghost Jiuzheng wondered why Wang Si didn't have a voice, and looked up at him, he was sending things into his mouth one by one. "What are you eating?" Oniku looked straight at him.

Wang Si hurriedly took out a hand, pointed to a large wooden basin by the stove, and pointed to the mouth of the ghost for a long time, and then buried his head and continued to eat. Onijiu was stunned by his eating appearance, he had never seen him eat like this, even in the face of the hard-won pheasant, he had never lost his temper like this.

Oniku looked at the large wooden basin, which contained half a pot of golden little oval-shaped things, similar to the size of broad beans. Oniku pinched one, tentatively put it in his mouth, and carefully bit it, and then, Oniku also began to gobble it up.

"Wang, Wang".

Onijiu suddenly raised his head from the basin and looked at Wang Si, who also looked at Onijiu at this time. The two of them came to their senses, aren't they thieves! In these days, being a thief is not a joke, and if you are caught, you will be listed on the street. Wang Si reacted faster than the ghost Jiu at this time, grabbed a handful of food, and said "Run" in his mouth, and the others had already rushed to the door. Onihisa was still standing there stunned, he turned around and dragged Onihisa, and Onihisa staggered and ran out.

Luckily, the dog's barking was coming from a short distance from the back slope, which was exactly the opposite of the road from which it came. Ghost Jiu and Wang Si fought hard to run outside the col and crawled to the ground, and finally ran out.

"Xiao Jiu, there seems to be no movement in the back"

"Didn't chase after me! Stop and rest," Onihisa pressed his hands on his knees, panting. At this time, the stomach turned over, opened a mouth, and vomited out all the contents of the stomach in one fell swoop. It seems that the ghost is running too quickly, and the wolf has eaten so many things just now, and the stomach and intestines that have no oil and water for a long time have not stood the test.

Although the summer days in Heilongjiang are long, once the sun sets, it gets dark very quickly. In the blink of an eye, it was too dark to see the scene a few meters away.

"Our horses really seem to be gone," Oni Jiu and Wang Si sat on the grass in frustration after looking around.

"This is all the belongings of our brigade! The horse is lost, and I guess we will have to go to the burial together," Onihisa used all the words he heard from his uncle.

"Don't be afraid, I haven't heard of anyone daring to steal such a big livestock in the past few years, you can't lose it, you must have run it yourself, go back to the village and tell the adults, you can find it tomorrow during the day" Wang Si looked much calmer than Ghost Jiu.

But then he patted his head dejectedly: "But the work of herding horses in the summer vacation will be gone, and the work will not be earned."

Yes! It's a good job, and the stubborn dad secretly gave the captain more than 20 eggs saved at home in the autumn in order to let the ghost get this good errand and get more food in the fall. Remembering the pitiful appearance of his younger brother looking at the egg at that time, Onijiu sobbed in frustration.

"Or we say that the horse was frightened by the wolf," said the Uchiku, who was clever to himself.

"No, the horse scared away, and the wolf will let us go? Grow your brain! Wang Si was a little annoyed.

Ghost Jiu noticed that Wang Si's mood changed very suddenly, and he was fine just now. I've always been like a big brother, and I've never been like this when I encountered any big things. Oni Jiu subconsciously looked into his eyes, and his heart skipped a beat. I can't say why, I just feel a cold light in his eyes.

It was completely dark, and Oni Jiu and Wang Si sat silently on the grass, ignoring each other. To be exact, Oni didn't dare to talk to him for a long time.

Wang Si seemed more and more irritable at this time, and he would stand up and spin around, and then hit the ground with his fists. Onihisa was so frightened that he quietly climbed behind a large tree, secretly observed his movements, and fell asleep unconsciously.

"Wake up, wake up, Xiao Jiu" Oni Jiu was awakened by a burst of voices.

When he opened his eyes, he found that Wang Si was holding Onijiu's shoulder and shaking. Oniku was so frightened that he struggled to run away.

"Xiao Jiu, Xiao Jiu, it's me, Wang Si" Wang Si's voice was eager and trembling, without the smell of gunpowder just now, but a little cringe.

There was a faint shouting in the distance. Oni Jiu was not only afraid of the darkness around him, but also afraid of Wang Si. Wang Si is usually quite bold, and it stands to reason that he shouldn't be afraid of the night, but he seems to be more timid than Ghost Jiu now. Hearing someone calling, he was so frightened that he fell to the ground.

Onijiu carefully discerned the sound, and vaguely heard the familiar sound of a gong. That's right, it's the broken gong in the village, the broken gong with two cracks, and the sound it makes is very special.

Oni Jiu shouted loudly, and then Wang Si and Oni Jiu followed a large group of villagers back to the earthen house of the village committee, and the adults did not blame Wang Si and Onijiu, but just asked them how they got rid of the horses and why they didn't come back earlier to report the news. The tone of the questioner was rather worried that they were more ingredient.

Wang Si shrank strangely in a corner of the room, silently, and sometimes trembled once or twice. Although Onihisa was also frightened a lot, he was still clear-headed. He lied, saying that he and Wang Si went to the mountains to pick mushrooms, and when they came back, they found that the horse was gone. The adults didn't ask any more questions. After studying for a while, the next day they split up to look for the horses, and then everyone went back to their respective homes to rest.

After his father brought Ogyu home, Akihisa thought he was going to be beaten, but he didn't expect to say anything.

"I'll go home tomorrow and look for my brother."

"Well, I can see it too"

"Fortunately, our family is fine for a long time"

……

The ghost lay on the kang for a long time, and when he heard his parents say inexplicable and wonderful words, he fell asleep in a daze.

With the sound of the horn on the wall squeaking, Oniku opened his eyes. found that my uncle was sitting on the edge of the kang and muttering something to my father. Mom opened her eyes when she saw the ghost for a long time and touched Xiao Jiu's uncle. The uncle reached out and touched the inside of Ghost Jiu's wrist, and the index finger, middle finger, and ring finger took turns to use different degrees of force.

After a while, he turned back to his mother and said, "It's not a big deal."

Onijiu looked up and saw that the sun outside the window was already in the middle, and he didn't expect that he had slept for so long.

"Mr. Liu, go to my house to see Xiaosi! I haven't woken up yet" Ghost Jiu looked at the door and found Wang Si and his father hurriedly running into the house.

Onijiu got up and planned to go to see Wang Si with his uncle, but his father didn't let Onijiu out of the house. I made a mistake yesterday, and I didn't have the confidence, so I had to follow the arrangement of the adults and rest. In fact, I didn't feel any discomfort at all, and secretly thought in my heart: adults just have a lot of things.

Dad and uncle followed Uncle Wang. Ghost Kyu felt a little hungry, and his mother had already prepared a meal for Ghost Kyu. When I saw two eggs on the plate, I thought it was for my younger brother, but my mother put it in the ghost bowl. Onihisa looked around and found that his brother was not in the house. Then I asked my mother, and she said that she went to sleep at a neighbor's house last night and has not come back.

For the sudden preferential treatment, Onijiu was a little flattered, and he was too embarrassed to eat it himself, so he left one for his younger brother.

Eating the eggs, Oni couldn't help but think of the delicious food he ate in the cabin yesterday, but unfortunately he vomited it out. The fragrance is indescribable, the outside is crispy, and the inside melts in the mouth, with a slight salty taste, which makes people want to stop eating it. Onihisa reminisced about yesterday's deliciousness, chewing eggs that can only be eaten on birthdays in his mouth, and felt the same taste as chewing wax.

More than an hour later, my uncle and father returned.

My uncle is a feng shui master from Liuhe Commune. In the 70s, looking at feng shui was purely to help everyone, how dare you charge any money. Besides, in the years when eating is a problem, who has any money. To put it bluntly, go to someone's house to provide a slightly decent meal at most after finishing the errand. The so-called like a sample is nothing more than scrambled eggs, scrambled peanuts, and a few grains of white rice symbolically put in the millet. But this kind of meal is a VIP treatment. So the ghost jiu often follows his uncle when he has nothing to do, and helps his uncle to fight, and his uncle doesn't dislike ghost jiu, and when outsiders say that he is an apprentice who has been cultivated in a small way. Add more chopsticks to someone's house.,Of course, Onijiu didn't let go of the amount to eat every time.,Leave a good mind for others.,This is also the point that Onijiu admires himself the most.。 Although I haven't learned any real skills, I can imitate my uncle's words in a decent way.

The people who are looking for their uncle are nothing more than having passed away or having some strange disease that the hospital can't understand. There are some strange uncles who can really make a good deal of it. Rural talents do not demonstrate any scientific principles, in short, the truth is cured.

The ghost pestered his uncle for a long time and asked Wang Si what was wrong, did he have some external illness?

Uncle didn't answer Ogyu's question, but asked Onijiu, "Kojiu, did you encounter anything strange last night?"

Oni Jiu peeked at his father, muttering to himself whether he should tell his uncle about entering the wooden house. I found that my father's face was not very good, so I slipped to my mouth and swallowed it back. If you talk about being a thief and stealing other people's things, you won't be beaten! Onijiu is not so stupid. Onijiu knew that his father was angry for the waste of more than 20 eggs. Yesterday, I was worried that Onijiu was angry because he had something to do, but now that Onijiu is fine, his temper has come up again. The ghost won't hit the muzzle of the gun for a long time. It seems that I haven't run in vain with my uncle outside for more than a year, and I haven't learned anything by looking at my face, but I have practiced perfectly.

"Yesterday I was picking some mushrooms in the mountains, but the horse disappeared when I came out of the mountain, and Wang Si and I didn't dare to go home, so we fell asleep in a daze." Onihisa still repeats what he said to the captain yesterday, but Onihisa is not all lying, there is one sentence that is true: the horse is gone, and Oniku is asleep.

Uncle looked at Oni Jiu, looked back at his father, and didn't say anything more. But Kiku knows very well that his uncle must have seen that Kihisa was lying, because Kihisu has been with his uncle for more than a year, and he knows his uncle's eyes too well. Uncle wanders the rivers and lakes to observe people's little tricks, and Ghost Jiu still admires it a lot.

Dad didn't suspect anything, but he didn't give Ghost Jiu a good look, and he didn't lose his temper.

"Comrades of the company, the horses of the production team were found in Erdaogou in the morning, please don't worry."

The only appliance in the house made a comforting sound. Dad's anger has also disappeared by half, at least he will not take any responsibility for his son's loss of the horse. After all, eggs and horses are the difference between heaven and earth.

After my uncle had a late lunch at Uijiu's house, he told his father that he would take Onijiu to Liuhe Forest Farm to move the grave of the family. My father didn't object to Onijiu and his uncle learning Feng Shui, but was very supportive, and he couldn't figure out the reason for him. The ghost of what the adults think is too lazy to analyze for a long time.

Out of the village, Onijiu suddenly remembered that he wanted to go back to see Wang Si. Uncle grabbed Ghost Jiu, stared into Ghost Hisuka eyes and asked Ghost Hisuka "Xiao Jiu, tell Uncle what you met last night."

There is no need to hide it now, and besides, Guijiu also wants his uncle to help him analyze what he eats. Maybe my uncle can help Onijiu make it after he understands it, but Onijiu is really caught by that delicacy.

"Uncle, I ate a delicacy that only a god can eat yesterday!" Onijiu told his uncle about yesterday's events vividly.

As Oni Jiu described it, his uncle's brows furrowed more and more. Looking at his uncle's expression, Onijiu's voice became smaller and smaller. There are really not many things that can make my uncle frown, and I haven't seen anything that can make my uncle frown for a long time. Because my uncle is an optimist by nature, he maintains a unique smile every day, and as long as no outsiders are present, he never talks to Onijiu like an uncle.

"Xiao Jiu, do you know what you ate yesterday!" Uncle was obviously not asking about the ghost, but muttering to himself.

"Do you know why you're fine, but Wang Si is now unconscious and has a high fever!"

"Is it because you ate that?" Ghost Kuno asked.

"Yes, but you threw it up, so it's fine, but you still absorbed a little bit, so I slept until noon today," Uncle explained to Onuha with great certainty.

Then he asked Onijiu: "Do you remember what I told you last month about the pattern of meridian flow injection?" ”

Oniku scratched his head and vaguely remembered such a term, but Onijiu was just eating with his uncle, and he didn't plan to learn anything at all.

The uncle continued, "I know you don't pay too much attention to this, maybe you are too young to realize the importance of having this knowledge, but in the future, these things will have a huge effect on your whole life."

Uncle was a little emotional, it was the first time for Onijiu to see his uncle talking to himself so seriously, as if Onijiu was not a child, but like an adult who had a career. Now the naughty age of the ghost is really unable to understand the difference between what his uncle said about turning the world upside down and eating a decent meal.

"You don't understand, don't you, let's put it this way, without your uncle's ability, your little friend will die in 7 days."

Onijiu's eyes widened, and Onijiu may not feel much when someone else dies, and feels too far away from his own world. But Wang Si will die, and Oniku's world will completely collapse, and Onijiu can't imagine what life would be like without Wang Si. He has become the spiritual pillar of the ghost for a long time, just like Grandpa Mao in the hearts of adults.

The ghost looked at his uncle for a long time, and his eyes became serious.

"Let's not talk about what you ate yesterday, according to your description, I can conclude that you ate it in your stomach when you were in the unitary period, and you vomited it when you were close to the time, Wang Sixu began to be irritable in the middle of the moment, and began to tremble when he was in the middle of the day, and he was not breathing well in the middle of the day, but he fell asleep again, and he was still asleep at noon but his expression was impermanent like a nightmare. This is a symptom of the poisonous gas entering the pericardial meridian, tomorrow you go to see Wang Si's arm, there is a black line on it that leads directly to the Lao Gong acupoint, and this black line has a branch along the ulnar side of the ring finger, and it is connected with the hand Shaoyang Sanjiao meridian at the Guan Chong acupoint. Uncle didn't care if Onijiu understood it or not, and gave Onijiu a lecture like a bean.

From this moment, Onijiu also planned to study hard with his uncle. In the past, my uncle was full of ghosts and gods, and the ghosts felt funny when they heard it for a long time, and the principal Qi of the elementary school said that there are no ghosts and gods in the world at all. Moreover, there is a teacher at the school who said that Chinese medicine is a national treasure that can truly cure diseases. Onihisa believed what the teacher said.

Unexpectedly, my uncle talked about a large set of traditional Chinese medicine knowledge today, and he could buckle Wang Si's illness in a loop, and the ghost Jiu completely rose from the previous rice worship to the knowledge worship.

"Xiao Jiu, we have to go to the cabin tonight, I am responsible for luring the dog and the owner away, and you are responsible for finding a red jar with white noodles"

Ghost Jiu asked in wonder, "I didn't notice the jar yesterday, where can I find it?" ”

The uncle seemed to be confident: "In a hole in the sunny slope outside the house, that is, on the slope behind the house, it will not exceed 200 meters, and it will form a meridian with the wooden house."

I've been with my uncle for more than a year, but Onijiu doesn't know much about his uncle's industry, and he usually follows his uncle just to hand a candle and move a stool. Uncle is nothing too surprising in the eyes of Onijiu. Except for a few times when he pretended to be a ghost and cured several incurable diseases, my uncle seemed to be a cheerful and very ordinary man.