Grandpa sat up from the old bamboo chair, pointed to the chair by the wall, and said, "Don't kneel." Get up and sit down. ”

Li Jiahao sat down in his chair.

Grandpa said, "I'll ask you a question first. ”

Li Jiahao nodded sincerely and said, "Ma Laoxiu, please ask." ”

"Then let me ask you, do you think all the evil in the world can be eliminated?" Daddy asked.

Li Jiahao replied without hesitation: "Of course you can!" I let go of everything and devoted myself to following my master to practice the Xuanhuang technique, just to destroy the powerful ghosts and demons, and to restore a clean mind. ”

"Powerful ghosts and demons are not born out of thin air, they also have their own reasons for creation, just like the weeds on the bank of the river, cut a stubble, and grow a stubble, how do you destroy it cleanly?"

Li Jiahao said proudly: "If they are like weeds on the bank of the river, then the means of cutting a stubble are too gentle." Of course, they cannot be eliminated. If I had to deal with these weeds, I would burn them all in one fire. ”

Grandpa said: "Haven't you heard of 'wildfires can't be burned, and the spring breeze blows and grows'? In the following spring, weeds will still grow on the riverbank. ”

"Then I will uproot the weeds and cut them to the roots." Li Jiahao said with a straight face.

Grandpa said, "There are so many weeds. In his lifetime, I'm afraid I won't be able to uproot every weed, right? Besides, if you pull out the old grass, new grass will grow. ”

Li Jiahao said indignantly: "I know why there are still evil things in Thrush Village!" Everyone said that there was a powerful Ma Lao Xiucai in Thrush Village, and there could be no evil spirits here. It turns out that you can't bear to deal with the evil spirits and let them grow and develop, so that's why I found here! Everyone thinks that Ma Laoxiu is a righteous and awe-inspiring person, who is incompatible with evil momentum, and is like fire and water. I didn't expect you to be such a cowardly person! ”

Grandpa sighed and said, "This truth doesn't make sense." What is going to be said later is meaningless even if it is said. You won't listen. ”

Li Jiahao's attitude reversed again, and he faced his grandfather with a cold face. "Yes," he said. You don't have to say it. I thought that you and I would be confidants in a thousand glasses, but I didn't expect that it would be more than half a sentence without speculation. You can rest then, I'll go back first. With that, he got up from his chair. Walk towards the gate.

When Li Jiahao had just stepped through the door. Grandpa said confidently: "Since you have learned some Xuanhuang techniques, you should understand the basic principles of soul goodness and evil. There is good and evil in your own soul. The good man saves people and helps the world; The evil one, fame and fortune are also in the pursuit of fame. If you want to cleanse the world of all evil, can you kill the demon in your own heart? ”

Li Jiahao stood outside the threshold, with his back to his father.

Daddy stood up, his body a little weak and swaying slightly. He said, "I keep the evil thing you are talking about, and it is because my life experience tells me to do it. You have 'knowledge', but you can't 'do' enough, I can't explain it to you. The confrontation between you and me is like yesterday under the eaves because of icicles. You believe in the world as you know it, but you don't know that the world won't exist the way you know it. What you think is wrong for what I did is because you didn't experience my life. ”

Li Jiahao tilted his head, as if looking at his grandfather with the rest of his eyes.

"Good and evil, soul and spirit, yin and yang, are all mutually reinforcing. Good doesn't have to be good all the time, and evil doesn't have to be evil forever. Again, they are like balls, colliding with each other, interfering with each other, and finally deviating from their own orbits and reaching different destinations. I can see that you are a kind and upright person, young and vigorous, and fierce. But sometimes, the people who do bad things are not the ones who hide the dirt, but the blind and upright people like you. I hope you don't end up becoming the kind of evil force you want to destroy. Grandpa said earnestly.

Li Jiahao slowly turned his head back, sighed softly, and then raised his feet and left.

As soon as Li Jiahao left, his grandfather walked out of the back room and said worriedly: "Will he listen to you?" ”

"I hope so." Grandpa looked at Li Jiahao's back and said.

The next day, word spread in the village - Li Jiahao left Thrush Village.

Some say he was scared away by evil spirits, some say he has subdued them, some say he has dug up treasure, and some say he returned empty-handed. Accounts differ and opinions vary.

But none of that matters.

Daddy knew why he left.

Grandpa continued to practice the art of soul separation with Xiaomi to prevent Xiaomi's spirit from making major mistakes. In addition, my grandfather carefully maintained the family, and passed on the blood-silk jade bracelet of millet to my grandmother as an heirloom. Later, my grandmother passed it on to my aunt. If it weren't for the quarrel between my aunt and my uncle later, and I broke the blood-colored jade bracelet in a fit of anger, maybe it would have been passed on.

After a few years, my mother reached the age of marriage and married my father.

My grandfather was very opposed to the marriage between my mother and my father, and he thought that my father was too poor and that my mother would suffer when she passed.

In fact, my father used to be a rich family before. Before liberation, Dad's grandfather was a local landowner with 100 acres of fertile land. Later, a few months before the division of the poor middle peasants, my father's grandfather suddenly lost all his family property because of gambling, and my father's grandfather was classified as a poor peasant and was spared from suffering.

It was only after my father and mother got married that my father heard some secrets of his predecessors from the old people of Thrush Village. Some old people said that the reason why my father's grandfather lost all his family property at the right time was because he was guided by a master and prepared in advance to avoid disasters. And the person who pointed out the maze was naturally the famous Ma Lao Xiucai in Thrush Village.

As for why Ma Lao Xiucai instructed his father's grandfather to gamble and lose all his family property, no one knows.

But Dad and Mom guessed that maybe Dad knew that there would be a relationship between him and the big landlord in the future, so he gave him guidance so that he would not be cornered.

Mom and Dad guessed this because Daddy never objected to the two of them being together.

Every time my mother wanted to go to my father's side, my grandfather would stop on the road with a pole to pick up firewood. But when my father saw it, he would say to my grandfather: "The Queen Mother's Milky Way can't stop the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, can you stop it with a firewood bar?" ”

Grandpa knew that his grandfather loved his daughter, so he didn't blame him.

In the end, Dad and Mom finally achieved positive results.

After my father and mother got married, I often went to Thrush Village. In the past, he was afraid to go because his grandfather was against it.

Dad often saw Grandpa and a young woman from another village wandering around the village, asking Mom what was going on in private.

Mom didn't explain it to Dad.

For a long time, Dad thought that Millet was a relative of the Ma family.

Later, when I was born, my grandfather gave me a peach wood talisman. When my mother carried me to Thrush Village for the first time, my father looked at me again and again, hugged me excitedly, and said, "This child will be a pen in the future." ”

I had a relative advantage in composition after I went to school. The Chinese language results were the best among all subjects. Every time my mother saw the score of my Chinese test paper, she would say, "Your grandfather said a long time ago that you are a person with a pen, and you will definitely be a person who sits in the office and writes in the future." ”

Later, I was admitted to an engineering university in Northeast China, majoring in engineering. When Dad remembered his father's words, he said, "Your father is still wrong, it seems that you will have to deal with steel machines in the future, and you will not deal with pens and sticks." "Who would have thought that after I graduated, I would take a few detours and embark on a career related to words.

After my brother was born, my grandfather was distressed: "I'm afraid this child is from Mengjiashan." ”

Before the liberation, Mengjiashan was a well-known gathering place for bandits, who often came out to harass nearby villagers, making people's lives miserable. Daddy meant that my brother would be as domineering and naughty as a bandit.

Sure enough, my younger brother has been naughty and short-tempered since he was a child, and often causes trouble outside, which makes many parents come to my house to complain. When I grew up, my temper and personality still didn't change much.

Sometimes my younger brother made a mistake, and my mother would use my grandfather's words to talk to him: "Your grandfather has already said that you are a bandit from Mengjiashan!" You're trying to kill me! You're going to torture me! ”

When I saw my mother say this about my brother, I would persuade her not to say that after she was angry, ≥ selfish garbage.

The mother was not convinced, and asked, "I am not wrong!" ”

I said that I became like this, and my younger brother became like that, probably because I was psychologically hinted at since I was a child, and it was not necessarily my grandfather's prediction. I'm always being complimented, so I want to behave well and be what adults expect me to be, and I think I'm supposed to be like that. The younger brother was always scolded, he thought that he was really the reincarnation of the bandit of Mengjiashan, so he broke the jar and broke it, did not learn well, and was disobedient. If you praise him and say that he is good-natured, maybe he won't be naughty.

My mother didn't believe me, but she still went her own way, saying the same thing when my brother did something wrong.

When my younger brother turned twenty, he suddenly became much better, and he no longer made trouble as he did when he was a child.

My mother told me that in fact, my grandfather told her that the eldest great-grandson is like the soul of millet, and the younger great-grandson is like the soul of millet. To the soul is to praise, and to the soul is to scold. If you praise the spirit, the spirit will do more evil things. If he hadn't treated his great-grandson harshly, he would probably have done murder and arson before he was twenty years old, and he would never recover.

That's how Daddy himself treats Xiaomi's spirit.

The first time I met Xiaomi's spirit at the gate of my grandfather's house, I saw my grandfather treat a little girl with such a bad attitude, and I really felt that my grandfather had gone too far, and I was upset about Xiaomi's spirit. This is like the compassion I felt when I heard my mother scolding my brother.

I see the world from my point of view, just like that Li Jiahao. I don't have so much life experience to understand why adults do what they do.

When Xiaomi's spirit was imprisoned in the backyard by her father, I saw that my grandfather had a gentle attitude towards her, and I didn't understand it even more.